PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 16, 1937 Striliers Hold Detroit Plant Caution Against Defying Law Is Expressed By Governor Murphy (Continued from Page 1) America, announced abandonment of the injunction rote plan at a union rally. " . "We did not pat the men in the .plants and we are not going to take them, out, Martin told the meeting. "We are not going to Vote on that question." j - It had been said earlier that the strikers themselves would rote to night upon whether they would comply. with the injunction. ; Governor Murphy concluded a Conference in Lansing with prose cutors from fire iadnstrial coun ties and three state officials by issuing a statement that labor dis putes can be adjusted peaceably and that enforcement agencies are prepared to- prevent defiance of law:-. - The automotive and numerous unrelated strikes in Detroit led to an order by Superintendent Fred Frahm for all city police to go on a 12-hour day, effective tomor row, instead . of the usual eight hour shift, penalty Assessed In Case of Refusal ; Circuit Judge Allan Campbell, acting on petition of the Chrysler corporation against the strikers and officials of the United Auto mobile Workers of America and the Committee for Industrial Or ganization, ordered the men to evacuate the plants by 9 a. m. Wednesday and fixed a penalty of 110.000.000 to be- levied on their "lands, goods and chattels' for failure to comply. "Knowing their- sentiments,' I don't think they'll come out of the plants," Richard T. Franken steen, union organization director and a former employe of Chrys ler's Dodge division, said. He add ed that "the corporation has large-force of strike-breakers waiting to go into action if the men come out. A picket line and old style strike would be danger ous to public safety. It would mean Hots." i The strike and Its effects have left 80,00 Chrysler workers, and I. 400 employes of the .Brlggs Manufacturing Co., body - pro ducers. Idle. Other automotive strikes in progress have affected more than 10,000 employes or me Hudson Motor Car Co. here, some g.tOO Reo Motor Car Co. workers at Lansing. -Mich., and sevftal hundred Bohn aluminum employes la Detroit. Portland Strikes Reported Settled - (Cos tinned from page 1) : 40-hour week, and wage increases of from $5 to $3 a week. Terms of the Goldberg Brothers Bag company settlement, affecting bout ten persons, were not dis closed. The strike has been on for two months. Labor relations board hearing on charges that the Portland branch of Montgomery Ward and company violated the Wagner act la scheduled for Wednesday. Dr. Towns Nylander, regional direc tor for the labor board In Calif or nia, will sit as trial examiner, and 'A. N. Somers, labor board attor ney. will prosecute the case. '. Dr. Nylander arrived today. The charges involve alleged dis crimination by the company against employes for union activ ity. Meanwhile the tense situation in the Columbia district lumber in dustry was unchanged, with local union officials in Seattle on an anknown mission. HOLLYWOOD Today "Born To Dance" ' with Eleanor Powell, James Stewart and Vir- ginla Bruce. Wednesday Double bill, Zane Grey's "Desert Gold" with Larry (Buster) Crabbe and "Killer At Large" with Mary Brian and Russell Hardie. Friday Double bill, Jean Autry in "The Big Show" and "Lady From Nowhere" - , with Mary Astor. STATE Today "P a s s 1 n g of the Third Floor Back." Friday Eastern Circuit Vaudeville plus "The White ; Legion" with Ian Keith. CAPITOL Today Double bill, Joe K. Brown in "Polo Joe" and ? Bob Allen , in "Ranger Courage." Thursday Double bill, Vic- tor Moore In "We're In The Jury" and Pat O'Brien la "China Clipper." - ELSIXORK Today "Maid Of Salem" with Clandette Colbert and Fred MacM array, added at traction all color, "Cinema Circus" with 25 stars. Wednesday Double bill. Ed- ward Arnold In "John 'Meade's Woman" and Ro- land Young in "ine Nan l Who Could W o r k Mlr- ; ' . aclea" and latest Issue of "March Of Time." , Saturday Double bill, Joe E. Brown In "When'a Tour Birthday" and Gordon " - Jones in "China Passage." GRAND Today Grace Moore and Cary Grant in "When Tou'ra In Love." Wednesday Slim Summer vllle and the Jones Family - In "Oft To The Races." Saturday Victor McLaglen in "Nancy Steele Is Missing.- . The Call Board ! I Seismograph V, - ft I r-r.-.5 5.-.i--. - . Recorded on the seLimogrsph chart (above) the earthquake, which , recently shook the Saa Francisco bay region, became so intense the needle waa completely thrown off the graph. The seismograph on which the record waa made la on the campus of the University of Calif oral at Berkeley. At m was shaken down, below, and looking through what was her region suffered broken windows shaken to the floor. International Illustrated News Photo. Compromise Upon Court Issue Seen ? (Continued from page 1) been proposed would undoubtedly be received . by the public with favor. These amendments, how ever, do not have, direct relation ship to the increase In the su preme court membership which Is contemplated , by the president's plan. j "The latter Is gaining ground steadily and I believe will be passed by both houses during the present session." j .Norrls submitted two proposals which he hoped but would not predict might furnish material for compromise. They were a con stitutlonal amendment limiting the terms of federal judges to nine years instead of a lifetime, and a bill requiring that at least seven of the high tribunal's nine mem bers concur before an act of con gress can be declared invalid. LaCuardia Swats At Fuehrer Again (Continued from Page 1) the course of his speech: "Adolf Hitler and his imme diate staff of nasi: pathics have become a sort of monster, threat enlng the peace of the world." From his prepared I text Johnson dropped an assertion following next in aequenca that Hitler and his associates menaced peace only a little more than Stalin and his crew of primitives. He also omitted thereafter vir tually all denunciations of Stai n, the soviet and communism which he had made In the orig inal text. I There was., he i asserted, "a paid nazl propaganda in progress here. The- whole mess of dirty intrigue and attempted sednction of American citizenship doesn't yet amount to anything." ' Bootleg Milk Is Hurting, Charged (Continued from page I) milk shed now, despite the fact that boost la feed coats and other production factors seem to war rant, a higher price.! Members of the co-op alleged factory milk Is beinr put in the bottle here Instead of inspected or a grade milk. ; Two Postoffices Finished,' Report WASHIXGTdN. Msrch 18-UP-k -The treasury department . re ported completion j of two pro jects of its emergency construc tion program in Oregon, .with two others under contract March 1. - The completed projects were the ..60,000 postofflce at New berg and a $10,000 postoffke at Oregon City. - r Prelects under ! -construction are a $310,000 postoffiee build ing at Salem and a $126,000 sub station at East Portland. Records Bay Region r . ? , : 7'.; home In Berkeley a brick chimney Mrs. Anne Ostrander la pictured fireplace, Blany stores in the bay and stock from the shelves was Six Convicted in Vote Fraud Case KANSAS CITY, March A federal court 'Jury late today convicted all six defendanta in the third vote fraud conspiracy trial here bringing to 13 the nam ber found guilty of charges grow ing out of the November general election. The defendants, all election officials or democratic party work ers, were charged with conspiracy to disfranchise voters. In two previous trials, seven were convicted of similar charges. Six pleaded nolo contendere and one Jury failed to agree on three others. They were part of a total of 75 indicted by a federal grand jury Investigating the election. Convicted today, were Alice-M. Froeschl and John T. Little, dem ocratlc judges; James F. Maxey, republican -judge; Forest C. Hoi man, democratic, clerk; Joseph Hobdy and Gilbert Stevens, dem ocratlc precinct captains. Mrs. Ruth Hogendorn, repub lican clerk, and Mrs. Lena T. Green, republican judge. Indicted with the others, pleaded no de fense. New Woolen Mill Official Arrives Wilbur F. Berry has arrived from Providence, R. I., and taken the position of superintendent of the Thomas Kay Woolen mills In the production end, succeeding Chester A. Page, who resigned recently to take a position in Co- lumblaville, Mich. Berry has had 22 years of ex perience In woolen and worsted mills in New England where the greatest number of looms are lo cated. His last position was with Joseph Hall & Sons at Norwich, Conn., where he waa superintend ent and designer. Prior to that he was overseer of wearing for the Peacedale mills at Peacedale, R. I. He also served for a time as superintendent of a worsted mill at Lewlston, Maine. Berry is a graduate of the Low ell Textile Institute . at Lowell, Mass. George P. Powers Called By Death George P. Powers. Shaw 1 rnlt- grower, paased away at the age of 79 at a local hosoital Snndav ftr being ill for about two months. Mr. Powers was not married anrf lived alone near Shaw. He had two prune orchards there. Interment will ba In Pnnun where he has a nenhew ud thi-M nieces. 1 "BORN TO DANCBT m m r mm inn - - - - - , "Killer at Large" -Tl ) Zane Grey's "Desert Gold" J Earthquake Strip of Willson ; Park Given State (Continued from page 1) to 7'rote to accept a resolution in troduced by Edwin C. Goodenough arbitrarily reducing, the city's street lighting payments to the Portland General Electric com pany for the next four months to 90 per cent of the bills for the corresponding month a year ago. Goodenough, whose other power resolution, providing for negotia tion ot a new franchise, was ta bled and then rereferred to com mittee, declared a contract offered by the company waa unsatisfac tory. ! : The 'power company's proposal, as placed In the hands ot the council utilities committee, is to reduce the rate per street light by approximately 10 per cent on con dition that 61 more corner lamps are Installed, bringing ; the total number to 720. The city's month ly electric bill would remain at its present level with i the extra 61 street lights In service. Preparing for the city's new traffle system in the business dis trict, the council passed resolu tions permitting the Oregon Mo tor stages to load along the south side ot State street. Immediately west of Commercial street, all of their city busses which previously stopped in front ot the United States National bank on the west side of Commercial with the one exception of the South Commer cial line. The South Commercial bus will continue to stop In front of the bank. . Objections from Aldermen Fred A. Williams and Evans failed to defeat a resolution setting up ma chinery for operation ot the Floyd B. McMullen first aid car. which will be equipped for use in about 30 days. The resolution places the car and its crew under the su pervision of the council fire de partment committee, creates two new cItII service positions, those of first aid officer with Junior captains' salary rating and pro vides that the car shaU be man ned in two dally shifts with a first aid officer and one firemen on each. Slaying Is Based Upon Tribal Laws . SPOKANE, Wash., March 15 (AVBaptiste Andrew, ageing Col vllle Indian, sat behind the tars of a Jail today, perplexed be cause the white man's law de mands his death because he slew a. tribesman he Insists stole his wife. He admitted. Deputy U. S Marshal Elwyn Daniels said, that he shot John Joseph dead with a 70-year-old -buffalo gun after the wife, mother of his four children, went ,to lire with Jo seph on a neighboring allotment on the ColviUe reservation. Through an Interpreter, the 64-year-old Andrew let the mar shal know he was ' following a custom old among the Colvilles when the white man brought his law to the upper Columbia river country. If another man, tribes man or not, that law wag, took property that belonged to anoth er, whether it be a pony, a fish basket, or a wife, death was the penalty. Young Democrats ; To Convene, Coos NORTH BEND, Ore., March 15 (Jpy- Mrs. John Boettiger. daughter of President Roosevelt and wife of the publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will address the convention of Oregon Young Democrats here neze month. - : Howard Latourette. national committeeman, and Willis Ma- honey, former mayor of Klam ath' Falls are also scheduled to speak. - Walter Tooze of Oswego vis ited here In the interests of his campaign for the presidency of the organization. C. C. Carlson of Portland, present president, Is a candidate for re-election. Pius to Bless Throngs VATICAN CITY. March Pope Plus XI plans to bless Eas ter Sunday throngs from the log gia of St. ePter's. The pontiff ap-; parently was unaffected by his brief prostration Sunday. limn yominim' Utter, Treece Resign No Statements; Irvine' 39-Year Educational Work Also Ended (Continued from Page 1) Utter was turning In his resigna tion. He said he had taken no personal interest in the parole bills. ' j. " Irvine Praised for Extended Service " B. F. Irrlne," who sent In 'his letter, declining reappointment nearly, two weeks after his term bad expired, wrote: "I regret exceedingly to say that multiplying duties and the obligation to the public as a Jour nalist to remain tree from all outside Influences seem to impel me to decline reappointment in that field of wonderful and sacred aerrlces the education of oar youth fo- life and ; citizenship, Irvine wrote. - In reply, : Governor : Martin wrote a letter to Irrlne In which he stated that he was "deeply conscious ot the loss that higher education, and all allied Interests ot the state, will sustain in your retirement as a member of that Important body. "On the basis of your serrice to higher education in this state. a record unparalleled by any tir ing person, yon hare abundant right to retire with honors.' No successor to Irrlne been appointed. . Other appointments expected soon are members of the new min ing board and the new board to manage the adult blind trades school in. Portland. Big Gtizensliip Gass Up Today Preliminary hearings on nat uralization applications of between SO and 60 persons Is to be held at the courthouse today. T. J. Griffith, associate division direc tor ot naturalization, will conduct the hearings. - - Most of the cases will probably concern women who lost citlxen ship by marriage to aliens during the period from March 2, 1907 to September 22, 1922. Under a new federal statute, a simplified procedure for the restoration of citisenship papers has been estab lished. As there has been a dual Inter pretation placed upon the new law. the naturalization office haa hand led all of details of the work which Is ordinarily taken care of by the county clerk's office so that office is not Informed upon the procedure for today. Flight of Amelia Is Delayed Again OAKLAND. Calif., March 15- (JF) Stormy weather, the bane of fliers everywhere, caused a sec ond postponement today In the start of Amelia Earhart'a pro jected 27,000-mile world-girdling flight. Between 500 and 600 miles westward, directly on the 2400 mile route to Honolulu, centered the same storm area that caused a delay in the flight yesterday. E. H. Bowie, U. S. weather bu reau official, said the depression area was moving westward, "very. rery slowly," while winds prob acy varying from 35 to 50 miles per hour howled in Its center. The same storm area caused postponement of the flight ot the Pan American seaplane Hawaii Clipper for Honolulu enroute to Manila, and the start of a surrey plane for Australasia. Turrpa Case Set Week From Today PORTLAND. Ore., March 15.-(iP)-Federal Judge James Alger Fee postponed until March 23 hearing on Injunction proceedings of Captain Isaac Turrpa, Colum bia river pilot, against the federal marine inspection bureau. ' Judge Fee Issued a temporary order last week restraining the board from proceeding with trial of Turrpa on charges growing out of sinking of the Italian motor ship Feltre in a collision with the Edward Luckenbach February 17. Turrpa waa pilot on the Feltre. Curb on Kite Flying h Aim of Ordinance Bill An ordinance aimed to halt kite flying accidents- Involving power lines was offered the city council last night. A result of three recent kite-power line accidents, the bill would forbid flying of a kite so that any part of It came within 50 feet of a power line and would prohibit use of wire or metal bound kite strings. The measure provides for a. 225 fine. Grange Official Dies SEATTLE. March 15.-ffV-Fred W. Lewis. 74. secretary or the Washington state grange for 29 years, died here today after an illness of two and a half months. He was a charter member, of the PS MSEM id A .Tonight and Wed. 2 FEATURES JOE. E. BROWN v - in. ,., "POLO JOE" And Hit No. 2 - BOB ALLEN "Ranger Courage' Tanker Rammed - - ; - . , 1 ; I f - yi: - V ' : : 7 ; ft - - , ; ; JVA I : I The tanker This dramatic photo of the stricken tanker,' Frank, H. Buck, was taken & few momenta after H was rammed la k tog" off San Fran cisco by the liner President CooUdge. Although the tanker was badly damaged, it remained afloat and waa towed to port after its crew of 36 had been aared. The liner, .carrying L200 passengers, was forced to turn back for repairs.: - " 21 Women Killed In Manila Blast MANILA, March lt-(Tuesday) (dp) A new tire hasard. punc tuated . by sharp explosions, hin dered rescuers attempting to re cover additional bodies in a Chi nese fireworks factory catastrophe that already has claimed the lives of 21 women. , Sixteen women are in hospitals suffering from injuries, and the condition of four is critical, au thorities said. - More than 100 women" were working in the plant yesterday when an unexplained powder ex plosion shattered part of the plant and started a fire which got quickly out of control. - Authorities feared .additional bodiea might be- found in - the smoking ruins, but rescue work ers, halted until daylight, were hampered by a renewed blase and a series of minor blazes. An accurate check of the miss ing persons was. not Immediately possible, authorities said. It waa esmated between 20 and 50 of the factory workers were still unaccounted for. i Knife Brawl Has Police Attention CORVALLIS. Ore., March 15-(JPy-Stere Fetcko, about 45, mem ber ot a tCC unit north of here, was n the Vancouver, Wash., barracks hospital with a knife wound received In a street brawl here. Hollis Hoop, also a CCC en rollee, was held in the county jail on an assault charge. Hospital attendants said Fetcko's wound was not serious. Murder Denied By Jacksonville Man MEDFORD. Ore., March 15-OPl -William J. Fields, 65. of Jack sonville entered a plea of Inno cent today to a second degree murder charge involving the death of M. M. Mow, 40, of Ash land, February 6. Fields was Indicated by a Jack son county grand Jury. . Bond waa set at 12,500. Queen Mother of Rumania Seriously III But Poison Rumor Officially Denied BUCHAREST, March 15-iSV vtueen uotner Marie or Rumania tonight was officially reported suffering from complications fol lowing an attack of grippe. The-statement aald the queen mother was being kept on a strict diet and obliged to "remain per fectly quiet." It made no mention of foreign reports ahe had been poisoned, which evoked prompt and emphatic official denials.. - I riiiiiijii.a- Mii I Kndoraed and Sponsored by the ftalem A. A. TJ. W. It Starts Today I : - One of the Great Pictures of AH Time!- Jerome K. Jerome's Great Play Now on the Screen! by Liner in Fog 7! A Frank IL Back Insurgpt Attack On Madrid Heavy MADRID J 1 March 15 -(iP) In 8urgent artillery battered down town Madrid-today with one of the heaviest bombardments of the war. j ! The "barrage started about noon and lasted through the. day light hours4jf I During ttte shelling, three In surgent plaies appeared over the city and propped propaganda leaflets. A 1 squadron of govern ment pursuit' planes put them to flight. - -1 War ministry ,. communiques said all fronts near Madrid were relatively qieU I. Both sides took advantage ?bf bad weather to prepare neirj offensives. (Insurgent dispatches, report ing General Francisco Franco planned -to Coordinate attacks on the Jarama and Guadalajara fronts to close in on Madrid sim ultaneously! from two " directions. said his Xorf es had gained ground in both sectors.) , i Hi-Y lcks Hosts For Guest Teams i- The Hl-t j club, high school Y.M.C.A. organization, yesterday selected a group of its members to act as .official hosts to .visiting teams contesting the state bas ketball toufn'ament. Those selected were: Ashland, Dick Smith j ! Athena, Ed Bishop; Astoria. JerV Cottew; BeUfoun Uin, Bill .aughlin; Chiloquin, Jim Leedy; Eugene, Kirk Bell: Franklin. Frank Page; Klamath FaUs, Orval Cooley; Lincoln, Wil son Maynard; LaGrande, BUI Smith; McMinn vllle, Dick Cham bers; Milwaukee. Amos John; Me Loughlin, Jack Hansell; North Bend, BiU jParker. . -fH p 1- . Allocation fdr Baridon - M - Rehabilitation Sought : i ' .. BANDONjiloreU March 15.-OP-Gllbert Cable, mayor, and L. D. FeUheim. publisher, will seek -a federal allocation of $300,000 to finance rehabilitation of the town of- Bandon; i destroyed by forest fire last fa'RV ) They arejje:n route to Washing ton. -. I i . . . Preferring Local Labor . On Pipeline. Plea Made The city! council received a re quest from! the Salem Trades and Labor council last night to make certain that jsalem labor is given first preference on the water sup ply pipeline: contract and that un ion wages prevail. The matter was referred, tol the special com mittee whih Is I investigating em ployment conditions on the pipe line nrnltrfi! I mr - LAST? iTT3IES TODAY TSTOMORROW MASTER OF EVERYT::."3 ...CutLOYQ tDWAXD AtNOlDV 4 LlsllHnDr - sio. BAMCtorr 1 i Building Program : To Get Attention Joint Meeting of Control -Board, Capitol Group I Is Planned Soon A Joint meeting ot the state board of control and the capitol reconstruction commission will be held at as early date to consider the group capitol program author ized by the 1937 legislature. It was indicated when the board ot control . discussed . the matter briefly Monday. . The program Includes purchase, . at an outside cost of 9300,000, all or part of the four blocks to the .north ot the capitol site and the construction of one or more buildings, at a cost ot $550,000. The buildings must Include library facilities. The capitol reconstruc tion commission is given the re sponsibility of handling the pro gram, with the approval of the board of controL- Pnrchase Discussed . With respect to the purchase or construction ot an office building in Portland, which was left to the board of control. It was indi cated that Portland property owners Interested will be given notice when the. Issue is to be con sidered, probably next month. A revised program for tn tuberculosis hospital at The Dalles was approved for application for PWA funds. Under the -new pro gram, construction of an addition al pavilion, completion of the nurse's home, and construction of a physician's cottage, in addition to a heating -plant .and laundry would be provided. , The legislature appropriated 951,400 for the heating plant and 153,400 for an addition to house 50 more patients at the hospital. Elaine Postpones j Her Divorce Suit HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Marca-15-iT)-Lore alone, aays ; Elaine Jacobs Barrymore, Is a thread too thin to bear, the weight ot marriage. ' "Consequently, 1 don't know what to do now. John .wants te come back to me. He thinks we can begin over again. I'm not sure about that. But I can't ge ahead until all the Issues are straight in my own mind." For this reason, the dark. 21-year-old Brooklyn- beauty ex plained, - she has postponed her divorce. s i Last IVIiniite Tax j XiUBU S-E VWBC1CU WASHINGTON, Msrch l$-Jpy-The greatest throngs of income tax payers since 1924 jammed fed eral collection offices today, fil ing an estimated three million re turns and raising treasury hopes that government income tax may match outgo during the rest of this fiscal year.- - Today's rush Is expected te boost the total of March returna to about ,000,000. Treasury of ficials said the heavy rolume of returns indicated that their 5840, 000,000 estimate of tax collec tions this month would be born" out. . Colgaartl Slaying ; Case Is Scanned EUGENE, Ore.. March IS-jpy-The case of El win Sr Brown, 23, Elmlra, charged with the slaying of Peter P. Colgaard, Elmira storekeeper, will come before the Lane county grand jury -thir week. . ' L urown was returned to the Lane county jail from an unre pealed place of incarceration. Sheriff C. A.. Swarts said. i Levee Location Topic i Portland, March 15-(.ip)-The Dalles port officials and Union Pacific - railroad representatives will participate in a hearing March 23 at The Dalles to de termine the location of a levee on the Columbia rirer. . TT..N..' 4 -' TWO FEATURES r - ..aam. m n m t ufrM 1