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Ba&ketball The climax tff the basket WJI leuoa, the state tomr nament, is here. The tatee man brings ym the toorna Stent news hour ahead, i TheVeather : Clearing today, Thursday fair, normal temperature; Max. Temp, Tuesday 62, IJJn, 4S, river TJI feet, rain JMk iachJ west Wind. EIGHTY-SIXTH TEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesdaj Horning, Blarch 17 1937 'Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No 205 .Em e Ip Bloody TOMS Mi'! in Jr . , . . a (Caff emeu Sixteen Teams To Start Race ForTopHonor List of Contenders Will Be Reduced to Eight By Late Tonight Bellfountain. and Amity Open; Salem's Game Scheduled 8:30 By PAUL. HAUSER All undefeated, as far as state championship play Is concerned. 16 basketball teams from every section of the state today face the ' slaughter and triumph of the eight game first round with which the 18th annual state bas ketball tournament gets under way In the Willamette- gymna sium at 1 o'clock this afternoon. iWhen, about 10:30 tonight, Lincoln and North Bend leave the floor here will be eight less teams out after the golden tro phy which acclaims high school basketball supremacy in- Oregon as the first day takes its heavy toll. . , Bellfountain, defending cham pion . and favorite among the B teams, and Amity, a tournament newcomer, will opent the festiv ities when they meetat 1 o'clock" and from then on, with hardly a pause between games five tilts will be run off in the afternoon and three more at night. 128 Players Are Due to Perform J Nearly all of the eager con testants, 128 basketball7 players and 16 coaches, were in Salem by late last night. North Bend, coming to the tournament for the first time since 1930. was the first to arrive yesterday af ternoon with Klamath Falls coming in ' right on its .heels. La Grande and Astoria were also. yesterday afternoon arrivals and all worked out on the Wil lamette floor before dinner, While most of the coaches were content to quarter their players in hotels Chappie King, Franklin mentor. Indicated that he wanted plenty ' of peace and quiet for his Quakers when he made a last minute request that they be quartered in . an auto camp outside of the city "limits. ' The eight teams which win today will advance another step toward the finals Saturday while the eight losers will drop to the consolation bracket to play for sixth place-until a second defeat ends their tournament careers. No Big Favorites Surprises Likely ' Unique because there is no sure-fire favorite, this year's tournament is expected to be filled with surprises and upsets. Few of the teams admittedly the best have played consistent bas ketball while the consistent Win ( Turn to page 7, col. 7) ' - I ; ' " i ' - Autocracy. Ahead, Bagley's Warning PORTLAND, Ore., March 16-(iT"-Judge George R. Bagley of llillsboro told the Portland Rotary club today "uncontrolled auto cracy" would replace constitution al government uin the United States If the president's supreme court plan succeeds. 1 Judge Bagley said that con gress, in the heat of political de mand, often overlooks that it is the first judge of the constitution ality of its acts. , : Sty Bothers Roosevelt ' WARM SPRINGS, Ga.. March 16-;p)-President Roosevelt was reported : by aides today to be treating a sty on his left eye. They said it was of little consequence and was not Interfering! with his reading of the daily xqail from Washington. ' New Serial Starting on ! Feature Page The Statesman's new ser ial story "Leisure to Repent" by Ursula Parrott, starts to day with the opening Install ment appearing on page 8 alongside the comics. Here tofore for many years the aerial stories have appeared on the editorial page. The change was made to provide a better grouping of fea tures. . s v : - This new novel by the author of "Strangers Slay Kiss" and "Ex-Wife" prom ises to hold exceptional in terest among Statesman readers. FIRST-TIMERS AT ST J HOOP TOURNEY T " ; s, V7 .;-xr f) v ' i I ... ' If1 L..-afcu.y-. -pj,. "iBasfa aaMaissjajsssjwaMBTarMTiaMaMMTlMm -- , -. -:- Mt "artsfi n' ' , f- ,r-. 'it mr'-,3tt"-' ' ' A' " "1r ' j VTiiii ii M The Milwaukie high school basketball team which comes to the state basketball tournament for the first time in history. It will play Franklin of Portland at 8 o'clock this afternoon, third game of the tour nament. Back row, from left. Coach Norville May, J. Yofihitoml, J. Watts, G. Howe, B. Otto, W. Ber ner, F. Schnld, D. Miller, Manager K. Van Gordon. Lower row, B. Watts, B. Countryman, D. Swan, G. Miller and T. Abel. Young Democrats Favor Court Plan Objection to Snap Action Voiced But Unanimous Vote Is Recorded Over protests of some members that the resolution was being rushed the ,Young i Democratic f'ub of Marion county last night went on record approving the pre sident's proposed change of the supreme court. Twice voted on, the resolution was adopted unani mously each time. - The meeting was held at the Marlon hotel. After being read, the resolution endorsing the change was quickly adopted without discussion. After the vote, Avery Thompson took the floor to oppose the rushing of the resolution. He pointed out that many democrats in congress were not in accord with the president on the question and that he believ ed the club- should take time to study the situation. I The objection to the immediate adopticn threw the meeting into a general discussion of new deal policies, during which at least a dozen members rose to their feet to defend the change or oppose the rushing of the endorsement, though no member spoke directly against it. W. L. Gosslin supported the memorial's adoption. After the discussion had been (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Tacoma Selection Displeasing Here i PORTLAND, Ore., March 16 (4s) Disappointment felt by Ore gon aeronautical officials over se lection by the army of Tacoma as northwest air base site, was voiced by Harry K. Coffey, governor of the National Aeronautical associa tion for Oregon. He said the chamber of com merce committee interested In bringing the base to the Columbia river district would hold a special meeting this week to discuss the action. 1 "We must smoke out whether it is the fact the army's general staff actually prefers Tacoma. which we sincerely doubt, or whether politi cal pressure was exerted upon It," Coffey said. ' Stray er, Burch, Named on State Three members of the govern ing board of the newly created Oregon department of geology and mineral industries were-appointed Tuesday by Governor Charles H. Martin. : " He named Senator W. H. Stray er of Baker. Albert Burch of Med ford and E. B. MacNaughton of Portland. ' - I '.: Legislators May Serve Is Ruling L Selection of Senator Strayer was announced shortly after At torney General Van Winkle had written an opinion that a mem ber of the legislature which cre ated the board could be named. Burch is nationally known mining engineer, a director of the American institute of mining and metallurgical ' engineers. : MacNaughton is president of the First National bank of Port land, & civil engineer and a grad uate of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology., Attorney General Van Winkle ruled that the five fair commis Tourney ar w Pressure Applied On Court Scheme Rush Holt Claims WASHINGTON, March 16-J)-Senator Rush D. Holt, democrat, West Virginia, charged today President Roosevelt considers re organization of the supreme court "necessary because that body must be made to goose-step with the president.". Holt, opponent of any change In the court, added in a national radio address: "The federal administration with its powerful force, patronage and prestige. Is working day in and day out to drive congressmen and senators into line behind the proposal. "The postmaster general has let it be known that punishment to. tne independent and reward to the follower will follow the vote on this proposal." Edward Now Off British Payroll , i j LONDON, March 16-(iiP)-Ed-ward of England, a $2,000,000 a year man in 1936, is off t the payroll and will get no pension from the British government. Instead, the abdicated mon arch k wist depend upon the royal family for any probable allow ance from home, it became ap parent tonight with submission of the civil list message to par liament. The message from his brother successor. King George VI. made no mention of Edward, duke of Windsor, but It did return to commons the hereditary j reve nues from the ducky of Corn wall. These formerly went to Edward, now living In Austria. Drainage Dittrict Debt Cancellation t Sought WASHINGTON, March 1-CT- Biils Introduced today included the following by representatives: Pierce ID-Ore.) To cancel a balance the Klamath drainage dis trict of Klamath county. Ore., has not paid the government under a contract and to assess the balance against unentered public lands of the district. MacNaughton Mining Board sioners and three mining board members were not designated as officers and that their positions were not lucrative, the points in volved in the law prohibiting ap pointment of legislators to posts they had helped create. t : Van Winkle said, however, that In both Instances the commission ers and board members would hare sovereign power in entering into contracts and expending funds, and administrative . func tion. This, he held, was in con flict with the constitutional ban against an individual participating In more than one branch of gov ernment - legislative, executive, including the administrative, and the Judicial. ; i ; ' Acceptance by a legislator of a position on the fair commission or mining board, would mean auto matic relinquishment of the office first held. In this case a seat in the legislature. He added that only legislature could declare the seat .vacant. The legislature Ignored such Ineligibility thia session Opens Data on Firemen, Police Requested Civil Service Board Asks Monthly Reports on Rule Violations The Salem civil service : com mission Is preparing to take a more active part in sapervising the conduct of the police and fire departments, it was disclosed yes terday by A. A. Gueffroy, chair man. In line with the new pro gram, the chairman revealed the commission has notified Chief of Police Frank A. Minto and Fire Chiet Harry R. Hutton that here after they will be required to re port monthly to the commission regarding the conduct of their men. ' This monthly report under the commission's orders must list ev ery violation of civil service reg nlatlons by any civil service em ploye observed during the report ing period. In event no infringe ments of mles are noted, the chiefs are to make a report to that effect. Either type of report must be signed by the chief making the report, the commission has de creed. "The purpose of this request,1 the commission's letters to the chiefs states, "is to have a record of the conduct of each member of the civil service so. that in event charges are filed hereafter against any employe, a past record of vio lations of any regulations will be had by the commission." Parole Reform Is Association Plea ; PORTLAND, Ore., March 16. (VCln:uIt Judge Robert Tucker said legislative financial support was needed to make Oregon's sys tem of rehabilitating law breakers effective. He addressed the 13th annual meeting of the Oregon Prison as sociation here today. "In 1931 the legislature enact ed a splendid act for probation and suspension of sentences,' Judge Tucker said, "but the dif flculty is that money hasn't been provided to obtain trained parole and probation officers." "The time Is coming when there will be sufficient funds to carry out the ideas in Oregon of the pa role and probation system now be ing launched by the federal gov ernment," he said. He said well paid parole and probation officers were essential. "It costs $250 per capital to maintain the prison," he declared, "but it costs only $17.50 per cap ita to sustain the probation sys tem." Klamath's Tiinber Cut Sets Record : KLAMATH FALLS, Ore March 16 (JP)-A chamber of commerce survey showed a timber cut of 634.316.S7S board feet in 1936 broke aU previous records in Klamath county. The estimated value of $13, 316.373, however, was under the 1928 figure by nearly $4,000,000. Anti-Veil Law Passed TIRANA, March U-iffV-Parlla-ment passed today the first of Al banian King'Zog's projected social reforms, a law against women wearing veils. Today Court Member Tells View on National Issue McReynolds Claims Good Sportsmanship Means Accepting Verdict Frequent Anti-New Deal Vote Says Always Has His Oath in Mind WASHINGTON. March 16-UP) Justice McReynolds of the su preme court told a small frater nity audience tonight that the "evidence of good sportsmanship" was to accept the outcome of a "fair tribunal." For the first time since Pres ident Roosevelt submitted his proposal to reorganize the court, a member of that body expressed some of his own views on the re lationship of the court to the government. McReynolds, speaking extem poraneously at a banquet of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, declared: "I have taken an oath to do justice to the best of my ability, to do justice to rich and poor alike. That obligation I try not to forget. Big Men and Little Both Given Justice "I try to protect the back woodsman in the hills of Geor gia as well as the man of .wealth in a mansion on Fifth avenue. And I have the same obligation to the man in the mansion on Fifth P avenue as to the humblest man in. any wala o life." . - He was repeatedly Interrupted during his speech by applause. "Courts only decide things that are submitted to them." the jus tice continued in his rather high pitched voice, "and only things that are in dispute come before them. "Thousands and thousands of things come before them that "are settled to the general satis faction. If. things come that are not settled to the satisfaction of (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Miller and Green Favor Court Plan WASHINGTON, March. 16.-(i!p) Justin Miller, a mild mannered rormer college proiessor, took a schoolroom pointer in hand today and gave the senate judiciary committee a lesson on the ave rage age of supreme court justices and its relationship to the fre quency of decisions invalidating acts of congress. Some members of the class un hesitatingly talked back. In fact they heatedly disputed his prlnci pal point, supported by a huge chart with big jagged black lines. that a "very direct relationship exists and that when the average age is high, as it is today, such de cisions become increasingly nu merous. The committee, conducting hear lngs on the Roosevelt court re organization bill, heard Miller after receiving from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, a vigorous defense of the bill as makingtor an "enlightened Judiciary- "Labor," he said, "is quite will ing to take its chance with the supreme court in its determina tion of constitutional questions which vitally affect the lives and happiness of the workers if the court is constantly re-made and re-constructed with men who come from close association with their fellow-men, as recommend ed by the president." Indict Brown For Colgaard Slaying EUGENE, March 16-UPY-The Lane county grand jury indicted Elwin S. Brown for' the murder of Peter Colgaard,' aged Elmlra merchant, and set next Monday morning as thedate for entering plea, after conducting an all-day investigation today. Brown was lodged in the Lane county jail after being brought back from Corvallls There he was taken for "safe keeping." District Attorney L. L. Ray said he con fessed to the assault which re sulted in Colgard's death. Dr. H. B. Myers Dies PORTLAND, Ore., March 16- (iJpy-Funeral services will be held here Friday for Dr. Harold Bunce Myers, 50, assistant dean of the University of Oregon Medical school, who died today of a heart Federal Funds For Buildings Here Provided PWA Release Upon Basis Of 45 Per Cent Made McNary Declares Library, Highway Office Building Mentioned; State Act Noted WASHINGTON, March 16-iip- Senator Charles McNary of Ore gon said today the public works administration had released funds for 45 per cent of the construc tion cost of a library and highway building at Salem, Ore. "It is up to the state to Put up the rest of the money," McNary- said. . The state legislature has already authorized appropriations of $1,- 050,000 for library and office buildings. Of this amount $550, 000 is for "a building or buildings including facilities . for the state library" and $500,000 for a high way department office building. Under the conditions .of PWA grants $450,000 additional would be obtained from the federal gov ernment for the first project and an additional $410,000 for the highway office building project. The state ..also appropriated $300,000 for land. Whether a fed eral grant will be made for site purchase is not disclosed in the dispatch from Washington, but at the time of the 1935 special ses- (Turn to page' 2, col. 2 ) Mooney Loser in Legislative Move Senate Declines by 35 to 5 Vote to Concur With " House Resolution SACRAMENTO, March 16-UV Thomas J. Mooney's 21-year-old fight for exoneration of the San Francisco Preparedness day pa rade bombing in 1916 went down to a new defeat today. The senate by a rote of 34 to 5 refused to pass an assembly resolution asserting his Inno cence and ordering his release from San Quentln prison. The ballot was taken with two special policemen patrolling the senate gallery which for more than two hours had listened in tense silence to arguments for and against the proposal to free Mooney. A few minutes before debate was closed, Senator William F. Knowland, .Oakland, who led the opposition, climaxed his argu ment by reading the roll of the dead in the explosion for which (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Lowering Profits Tax Latest Move WASHINGTON. March 16-JP- The chamber of commerce of the United States Intensified its drive for revision of the undis tributed profits tax today with an appeal to trade associations for information on its effects. In a form letter prepared for circulation among trade associa tion members, the chamber ask ed whether the levy had forced abandonment of plans for ex pansion, prevented creation of "prudent reserves" or caused other corporate difficulties. Court Issue 'Interest Shown if ! V . As Crowd Hears Debate Here, Pros and cons of the president's proposed change of the supreme court were covered last night In a debate at the high school aud itorium before a crowd of 200 persons. The event was sponsored by the WPA class In "Problems ol Democracy." Roy R, Hewitt, sup ported the change and Harold Pruitt took the negative ;ot the argument. Earl LItwiller, county WPA education supervisor, pre sided. Charging the supreme court with being "nine gods on a mahog any roost." Hewitt declared the court to be the' agents of concen trated wealth and rested interests. He declared that previous, presi dents had the opportunity of ap pointing members of the court but that Roosevelt had appointed none. Should Allow P. R. To ADDoint a Few "As a matter or xair piay wouldn't It be right to allow him to appoint a few?" Hewitt asked. "President Roosevelt had a mandate from the people to carry is i ' T Hotel Strike In Detroit Is Soon Settled ? By the Associated Press Quick settlement of strikes re sulted in the reopening of four bg" Detroit hotels last night. I Gov. Frank Murphy of Michi gan, who intervened after the Bbok-Cadillac. D e t r o i t-Leland. Fbrt Shelby and Sutler hotels had been temporarily closed to new patrons. announced the termin ation, of the short stalemate. . Police I guards had been posted earlier alter a shot was fired in a s4rjmmage at the Book-Cadillac. Tjiey reported 3 0 men, led by a waiters and waitresses union or ganizer, forced, their way Into the hostelry )jy overpowering two pa trolmen and a hotel guard whose pistol discharged into the floor during the tussle. The object of tiier invasion was organization of a "iiidownr- strike. I Meanwhile, 5,000 strikers held eight big! Chrysler Motor corpora tion plants in Detroit for the ninth dy. Undjer the' terms of a circuit court injunction they must leave tse: property by 9 a. m.. Eastern 1 I (Turn to page 7. coi. 8) 1 Noted Statesman is r t J n ii i iUi Dntain Laiiea Austin . Chamberlain's I Death Sudden; Author I of Locarno Pact ft I I LONDON, March 1 6.-VSir j AVstin Chamberlain, famous statesman.! son of a famous statesman and "father" of the now " torn Locarno treaty, died I tdriight unexpectedly of a heart attack in his west end London home. He was 73 years old. Reader . of the conservative elder, statesmen In the House of Commons, he was -chancellor of exchequer twice, secretary of state fori foreign -alf airs, and sec-rftary-of state for India and a nl ember of the war cabinet. j He was the elder son of Jo seph Chamberlain, himself a distinguished British statesman, and a. half brother of Neville Chamberlain, present chancellor of j the exchequer., I it was1 said of him that he was op of the few men in British public life who "lived down the disadvantages of being the son of a famous man." 4 His death occurred shortly af-tfr- 6 p.m. (1 p.m., E.S.T.) as he apparently was recovering from a! slight attack or lumbago which had forced him to forego social engagements the past few days. Attendance Huge At Scoiit Reunion Ii. ji ' Attendance of 450 marked the first "campers' reunion" of the Cascade I Area council of Boy Sjouts held in ' connection with a court of honor here Tuesday night. I Twenty-four troops of the coun cil' were ' represented - with troop 35 of Brownsville winning recog nition for having come the long est distance and troop 13 of Sa Sem winning the big cake, 'prise for the highest percentage of ticket sales. I Robert Simon of troop. S and John Adams of troop 8 received the star rank. Justice Harry Belt presided at the court: of honor, other members of which were L. C.iBuchner of Woodburn, Dr. B. F.i Pound of Salem and Judge P. F." Nutting of Albany. .. llindenburg on Way LfrANKFORT-ON-MAIN. March 16 (a-The Zeppelin Hindenburg took off 'tonight for South Ameri ca, on the first cruise of the 1937 trans-Atlantic season. dut his program at the last elec tion," he said. "The opponents or the plan1 are using a program of fear to defeat it." Hewitt charged that the .press was controlled by Interests op posing the plan and that the true facts were not being presented to the people, i i "The mandate. Pruitt said in Opposing the plan, "was not to change the supreme court by this method bnt by the submission of a constitutional amendment as Roosevelt promised in his plat form, j- t :He may find that It will be quicker to amend the constitution than to attempt to force It through an unwilling congress." I 'Pointing to ' the developments that ledi to dictatorship in Ger many, Pruitt declared: hIt is not what President Roose velt will do. We will not always 1 bare him. It Is the dangerous Im plications that follow, of letting the bars down for the men who piay take his place. Democracy is for the protection of the minority M well as the majority," I i 1 I BliimV Regime Tottering; Or More Slain 300 Sent to Hospital as Leftists Attack Meet Jt Social rarty -r Higb Official Is Among j i Wounded; Premier Is Shaken By Events PARIS. March 17 - (Wednes-day)-ip)-Bloody rioting which was feared to have cost at least six lives in a Paris suburb and sent nearly 300 injured persona to hospitals early today threaten ed a break in the government of Premier Leon Blum. Conjmunlst masses fought their rightist political foes, government guardi and police in the workers' stronghold of Clichy, Just outside the gites of Paris, in a deadly battle which began last night and early this morning. ended It Was the worst rioting the cap ital has seen since the "bloody Tuesday" of Feb. 6. 1934. and ob server is said they believed the fate of the popular front government of Pre mier Blum was in the bal ance. f Hos pital authorities said four, civilians and two policemen were dead. Seek to Prevent Viewing of Movie1 i - The rioting flared forth follow ing the attempt of thousands of leftist to prevent members of the French social party (formerly the crolx defeu) from holding a meet ing l4 a Clichy motion picture theatrja to view a picture named -attlk" - -. j Several women were among the wounded. . Th -communists declared"they were Rattling" to prevent "invasion of their town by the De la Roc- o.uists" Six to seven thousand took part in the demonstration. (Colonel Francois1 de la Rocquev outstanding leader of the militant right, jis chief of the French social party (called "Croix de Feu." The ium fOTernmeni oraerea u eis kandnjent a few days after the popular front came into power. Ik was Iqter revived in the form of a political party of the right.) Smaller Outbreaks . - Occnrf at Asnieres A second social party meeting - at' Asaieres, just across the rivet Seine I from Clichy, provoked a smaller counter-demonstration ky about 10 00 communists. The; rioting was not ended un til about 3000 police, mobile guards- and mounted republican guards had been called out. Ambng those wounded was An dre Blumel, chief of the Blunf cabinet's - secretariat, who was struck by bullets In one arm an 4 leg when he went with other hign officials to Clichy to attempt ta quell (the disorder. After an eper ation 'he was reported to be in "satisfactory condition." 1 Premier Leon Blumrpale aaL apparently much shaken, and Ma dame I Blum, weeping brokenly, drove! home early today after a two-hour visit with Blumel and otheriwounded at the hospital. 1 Tax Receipts On Final Day Heavy Tax receipts" Monday, the last day for payment without penalty, were (the most extensive yet ex perienced during the year, T. J. Brab4c, in charge of tax collec tions said yesterday. -Total re ceipts for the day were $94,843 of which $87,725 was 1937 tax pay ment. - - " i Thbugh the staff of the collec tion department was busy waiting on customers all day Monday, lax payers were not forced to wait long for service. Yesterday the clerks were checking over mail receipts which were mailed Monday. Brabee said that fchere was at least a "bushel basket" of mail payments that had not yet been tabulated. The biggest payment received yesterday came from the Portland second largest taxpayer In the Genefal Electric company, the second largest taxpayer in the county. Its check was for $57,218. The company alio mailed a check for $1000 to cover taxes of the Molalla Electric company. - 7 AL LADE of TODAy By R. a Young cagemen who to cham pionships aspire, we wish you luck, and offer this reflection; thosfch you may win, there's al ways some goal higher, and if you lose, it's no cause for de7 M Jectloa,