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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1937)
Bant-Assists in Cash Buyer Plan Cooperation With Federal Housing Program, Move of First National Volunteers Search for Bodies of Blast Victims Vidtim of School Blast Is Carried in From Ruins The j First National bank of Portland; -which has pioneered renovizing and building promo tion ia Oregon' for a number of years, jiow announces further. co operation with the federal hous ing administration . by offering mortgage loans for new construction- hom4 'financing and mod ernization 1 under the . new cash buyer plan' recently developed by the banjr to 'extend bank credit to In'aivlduar borrowers at attrac tive rates of 'interest, i Oregon is' undertaking a state wide building program, states C. M.' Gartrell, . assistant. vice president of,' the First National bank, who has just returned to Portland from a series of meet ings with contractors, architects and building material representa tives over the state. - Shortage Jlerc Noted , Commenting on his recent .meetings, with, chamber of com merce organizations, architects, builders and real estate men over the' state, Gartrell illustrated the present need of- a state-wide building program : r "Salem contractors and build ers, at a similar meeting, stated that population had increased during the last few years In ex cess of 4000 people, causing a serious shortage of suitable dwellings. New arrivals in the city are having a difficult time in finding any type of house that frequently the quick construction of a dwelling has to be under taken ant completed by these new arrivals themselves In order to provide them any sort of ade quate shelter. Plans were dis cussed at this meeting for the de velopment of several new sub divisions tn Salem. "Down the Willamette valley. Albany is the center of another ute housing : shortage; tenant able accommodations are far in adequate for evep the present needs of that community'. There ' has been an influx of retired fanners, ac increase in the de mand for homes In town during the school year, and considerable increase in population resulting from the arrival of new families from the middle west and drought districts. . "Two weeks ago 12 of the lead ing building material dealers and contractors of the community met f develop plans for meeting this emergency by promoting the con struction of smaller type homes. Plans for the construction of a new court house were also dis cussed at the meeting. The local building industry urged the im- , meuraie construction oi a new tum v uuunts a cost ui approxi mately 1250,000. At the meet ing it was stated that Albanv had ; a tax reserve nearly adequate to ' mjet the cost of such a structure and K was hoped that federal , plete the program.' ; i Acute at .Newberg In almost as bad plight as to housing conditions, reports Gart ; rell, is Newberg, which has , scarcely a vacant house that Is in tenantable condition. The neigh boring town of McMinnville is tn similar straits and. at a recent meeting of building material deal ers auu contractors irom oota t towns, held at the Newberg branch of the First National hank of Portland, plans were laid for the development of a building program to be worked out In co operatl.n with the FHA in both communities. "In another part of the state." Gartrell added, "Medford has al ready Started a bnildinr nrnrram ' that includes more than $100,000 in new ! home construction now . finrii wav Ar Tied Hnv j.mi1 and an equally extensive remodel ing and building development In the business district of that city. One well-located store and office building is undergoing complete alteration ana modernization that will cost approximately $50,000 Sage of Salem Speculates By D. H. TALMADGE school janitor in the leg. but none struck the teacher. The girl Laid the teacher fussed at her and gave Iter low marks . Grace Moore's next picture will be titled "The Nightingale Comes Home" . . . . There are a few motion pictures which a few folks continue to talk about for weeks afterwards. "Winterset is one of 'em, and, for some reason, these people's interest seems largely centered In Margo. They want to know about her, and If the one they ask hasn't the required answer they expect him to dig It up. Margo's full name Is Margo Maria Marguerita Guadalupe Bolado Castillo, and She was born in Mexico city. Lived in Spain for several years. Came to New York. Entertained in ho tels' and cabarets here and there from one coast to the other. Final ly smashed, in to the movies, and seems to be doing pretty: well for herself . . . The British govern ment has decided to give no pen sion to the late King Edward. Two million a year shot- phwnt Just like that!- . .-. Gag remem bered from a State theatre vaude ville act: "Two can lireascbeap ly as one. Consider a horse and a sparrow . . . A stuffed beaver adorns the front window at the office of the state banking depart ment. Two boys were overheard discussing ' the - animal's '- identity one day the past week. The" older boy declared definitely the ani mal to be a "mushrat" and the younger boy seemed well enough .satisfied, with. the statement.. As a soft answer turneth away wrath, Iso also doth an Incorrect, answer still curiosity ... Paul Revere was court- xnartialed for cowardice during the revolutionary war. He was still riding rapidly, I reckon, but In-the wrong direction. . . . here are few equal to a myster ious black eye to arouse comment mt m bom a lose vlltv nature. '" 1 Volonteers from nearby oil fields m " - . cr -mm . . t Consolidated school for the bodies of children tvhq were In the building when it was 'destroyed by a terrific explosion. This Soundphoto was transmitted directly to San Francisco over telephone wires. ? r " I. fttefcAMMisssM Scene of the ruin end the milling i - . were killed in Thursday's explosion International Illustrated News Statesman Book Noo! t Reviews o New Books and Literary i; ! . ; ;h News Notes . By CAROLINE C. JERGEN "Xljgeia," the magazine on health, offers some interesting material this month. 1 One of the titles bears the intriguing title, "Nature's G-Men." and Is written by George A. Skinner.' This Is the first of a series of articles on the control of disease. It is written on the premise that "no problems of modern life are more Intricate and difficult than those that Involve the causes of human disease. Another equally Interesting ar ticle which also Involved some de tective work in the writing Is Ar thur J. Cramp's "Some Peculiar Patents." This deals with "traps and contraptions" for; the gullible and Includes not only information on Myer'a "Tapeworm Trap" but also on the "dimple machine" and a "goiter-cure neckless." Many will also be interested In Kovac's "Physical Treatment! of Arthri tis." - . '; i ! ; One thinks of sequels as be longing to fiction, or at least to the huge books of history or refer ences marked "Vol.' If and so on But here we are presented with a delightful garden sequel of the easily understood Tariety. Last spring. Alfred Bate's book "The Gardener's First Year" was greeted as the first adequate book for beginners in gardening, young or eld. "The Gardener's Second Year Is out this month and is be ing greeted with equal enthusi asm by the garden-minded. : Where the first book dealt with annuals.' this one discusses the cultivation of perennials and bulbs. The author goes Into the subject of. soil preparation, de sign, edging, the border, tools to be used, plant propagation, selec tion of varieties, diseases, pests, fertilizers. There Is also an alpha betical catalogue of desirable plants. 'Longman's puts the book out at $1.00. ! Speaking about garden books calls to mind a new type, a recent one by Julian R Meade which has been called "Adam's Profession and Its Conquest by.Kve." It, too, is a Longman publication ($2-50). - Where other garden books go In for cataloguing growing things under their formal Latin titles. this book gives the reader a more friendly description : and a closer relationship ot the 1 garden. It might, to a degree, remind one of Salisbury's "The Living Garden." And while the book is not at all technical. It contains considerable valuable information j The Infor mation and rambling narrative are so combined as to make very pleasant reading: .' . . "Think , of. traveling all night long on a bus to see a flower show only to return with one; small flower on the brain Daphne cne or una. . . Some people call It the garland flower . .- . Likes sunshine and sandy, well-drained soil . . On April -Fool's day there Is the narcissi show . . . On the back ot a program I write the names of varieties I want next year (that is. if the Department ot Agrieul tore isn't paying us not to plant them). The large Nobility with the orange cup Is obligatory . . . and so on. Even those who are not really dirt-gardeners may enjoy reading It, and it does contain suf ficient information to keep the . r . , are pictured as they searched wreckage of the New Liondon, Tex "'XT-'- crowd at New London, Texas, where over-Industrious from feeling they have warted their time. "Death tn the Deep South by Ward Greene (Stackpole Sons. $2.00. 1936) and "We Are Not Alone' by James Hilton (Little, Brown Sc. Co. 1937. $2.00) are not unalike In theme. In both, men were puto to death for crimes they did not do. Someone said of the former, that such a thing could happen only In America where mob hys teria rules the "trial of a cen tury." But "We Are Not Alone" Is an English novel, and the "little doctor" could no more have com mitted a murder than could the quiet professor in "Death In the South." Both were found guilty of murder 2y jury. That Robert Hale was killed by a mob before the state could mete out its "Jus tice" has no bearing on the real purpose of the story. 1 "Death in the Deep South" Is, however, written with more ser iousness, more bitterness, and lacks entirely the whimsicality found in Mr. Hilton's novel. In the American novel, readers are led to believe that some of the of ficials who were responsible for Hale's sentence, had a suspicion that he was Innocent, but for po litical reasons "could not afford to Investigate their suspicions. ' In the English story officials certainly were given aft opportun ity to believe Doctor Newcome was innocent of the murder, had they wished to believe it. But one feels that it is a lack of cleverness. rather than cruel cleverness, that keeps them from realising their error. ' . Both stories are strong pleas- whether intentional or accidental on the part of the author against capital punishment on cir enmstantial evidence. Both stor ies leave the readers so indignant that they are apt to miss the more subtle implications, particularly In the Hilton story. Recalling our own savage thoughts and speech of war - ridden - twenty-years-ago. we should be able to understand the callousness of the people- of Hilton's novel. After all. Lent, who was implicated with the little doctor, was German. There are many in our own country, I feel sure, can look back with some em barrassment on persecutions of their own German neighbors. Briefly, the characters In "We Are Not Alone" Include the "Lit tie Doctor," David Newcome, who thought it no worse to have his son know the truth that he died by order of the state than to have him told the lie that his fa ther had died in the battlefield "You see," he explained his point. "I don't think I could ever kill anybody. How could I. spend so many years fighting for life and then fight against it And who said ot death, "it Isn't the worst we have to face only the last.' There are Jessica, his wife, a lean, prim, daughter of a rural dean; Gerald, their son, a nervous boy who invented the most ingen ious lies. : i , And LenI, the poor dancer whom David tried to help and whom he didn't realize he loved until he was condemned to die and it was too late. Jessica's - growing jealousy ot 'Ah 1 455 school children and teachers Soundphoto. Lent, Leni's German nationality in a time when that crime was enough in itself, and Jessica's death nnder circumstances resem bling murder, lead to the dismay ing end. - It was only in the epi logue, when Gerald had grown to manhood, that the truth of the case was learned. In "Death In the Deep Sooth, Mary Clay, a school girl, was murdered la the school during a nair-nollday on the southern "Memorial day." While Redwine, a negro janitor pictured with an "obscene magazine upon which he had crudely drawn immoral lines' was the llkelles suspect, it seemed more politically expedient for the district attorney not to ally him self with "any fool" who "can ride to glory on helpless niggers rnd crooked cops." So instead he picked Robert Hale, white and northern and teaching in the school where the girl was killed. and said "you take the circum stantial evidence In the c a s o which the law says is as good as direct evidence all the single is olated facts and weave them to gether, and they make a rope, a cable that binds Robert Hale to the commission of this crime." Although the reader feels Rob ert Hale is innocent. It Is curious to watch how circumstantial evi dence can be made to look as if Hale must hare committed the crime even In face of the fact that "when It comes to alibis, or lack of them, the murder could be charged to a thousand citizens la the community as justifiably as to uaie." THE END Over 2600 Signed For Soil Program "Over 2600 Marlon county farmers are particlDatlnr in the 1937 soil conservation program. New signers now total 1209 in addition to the 1400 that were in last year's program," Harry L. Riches, county agricultural agent, statea yesterday. Of the 227.295 acres of crop land In the county, 159,189 acres are Included in the 1937 nroeram. This represents 70 per cent of me crop land in the county. Last year's program included 17,323 acres. i Checks to farmers in last vear p-ogran now amount to over $TO,000 to 704 farmers. Aa soon as additional checks arrive, noti fication win be sent to the own ers. Riches said. Hayesville Shows j Population Gain HAYESVILLE, March 20 In the entertainment performed by Professor Turtle at the school house recently the school netted $4.90 which is to be used for playground equipment. I Hayesville school, has the larg est enrollment in its history, Bel va Welcherel raised the number atending to 101. The prospects are that It will continue to grow as three new homes are sow being erected on the plot known as "Reimann's Gardens. ; Charles Andresen Is remodel ing" the tennant house on the Peter Andresen' property, f Mrs. Pete Andresen expects to move into the house about the first of April. . Oae of the child victims of explosion teachers, is shown being carried from the crumbling masonry ana built." Internatiomal Illustrated News Photo. How Does Your Garden Grow? Spring Treatment for Filbert Tree Blight Given i and Many Flower Queries Answered By LILLIE L. MADSEN npiHE following information Is X giren in answer to questions received: Spraying for filbert tree blight Is said to be most effec tual If done In autumn before leaves have fall en and before ; the first neavy rains. However, a bordeaux treat ment applied in spring when the leaf buds are in the early green- tin stage of de velopment has t- MOMa been proved of some value, in caring for the filbert blight all infected areas must be removed. Special effort should be made to cut all diseased tissues away. Un less one follows this procedure some ot the bacteria will remain in the tissues bordering the cank- erj, where they will reinfect the tissues and produce new cankers. Blighted twigs should be re moved several inches from the discolored margins. Considerable blight Is said to be traceable to contaminated tools. To -prevent this all tools should be sterilized. , For Sterilizing Tools A solution c recommended for this consists of one part by weight of bichloride of mercury, one part by weight of cyanide of mercury. 500 parts by weight ot water. To make one gallon dissolve lft one- half aram tablets of bichloride ot mercurr and 16 one-half gram tablets of cyanide of mercury in one gallon of water. These tab lets may be obtained at most drug stores. The solution should be kent in a glass container as it is corrosive and loses Its germicidal properties after coming in con tact with metal. Also it is a dead ly poison. Painting Tree Wounds Where wonuds have been made by pruning, .allow the cuts to dry out two or three weeks, and then saint with an oil made from raw linseed oil stirred into a prepared bordeaux mixture nntll a smooth preparation the consistency of house paint is formed. This paint is good for all tree wounds, pro vided it is not applied to a newly cut place. Cacti Adaptable Here : There are several cacti which will withstand winter weather no colder than ours. It is not the cold that we have which would destroy most cacti but the over dose of rain during; tne winter months. The cactus needs well- drained soil and this cannot be stressed too heavily. Over-water lag and too much attention will soon kill the hardiest of cacti Sand or gravelly soil is best suited to them. Oregon has a native cactus of Its own. On the hills of Clarno a cerise blooming cactus forms large mats. Among the hardy cac ti are those from Montana, Wy oming, Utah and Nevada. Some of these are suitable for rock gardens. Cultivate Peony Carefully Great care must be taken in working around peonies not to damage the new shots. It shoots are broken oft after the main stem breaks through the sheath that particular shoot is dead for the year. In r. 3 of young plants. with but -the one shoot, the en tire plant often dies completely. Shallow cultivation should be given about the peony. But do be careful not to Injure the plants. A small application ot bone meal. t perphosphate or a good, bal anced fertilizer may be worked This is Planting Time Glad Bulbs 20c dos. up Rhododendrons .' IT Varieties rf . Grafted V-0 up Hybrid Rhododendrons With Flow- er.Buds V up LET l& FIGURE ON ' - ( CALL 3458 i Open Sunday 10 Until 8 : ' ' THE ONLY COMPLETE STOCK OF NURSERY STOCK IX THIS TERRITORY State Street Across From Court Mouse which tore apart the London Consolidated school. New London, Texas, killing 600 to-TOO pupus a Into the soil several inches away from the plant. Do not use fer tilizers rich in nitrogen. About Growing Hepaticas Hepaticas will grow in the Willamette valley if given proper piotection both in winter and summer. They, like the cacti, suf fer more from poor drainage, and in . the case of hepaticas, from lack of water in the summer than from cold in the winter. Planting must be arranged so that pools of water do not stand about the plants all winter long. Rocks, stragetically placed, will do much to care for extra water in the winter and retain moisture-in the summer. Dressings of rotted wood and leaf mold should be . given the hepatica beds once a year. Top Dressing for Lawns Several requests for top dress ing for lawns have reached me again this week. Here is a top dressing considered very good for spring application: For average soils use two parts of good soil and one part ot pulverised peat moss, or for heavy clay soils one I-art good soil, one part sand and one part pulverized peat moss. Take one yard of this compost and to It add 10 to 15 pounds of ammonium sulphate. 25 pounds of bon ernes! and 50 pounds of cottonseed meal. Mix all of. this thoroughly and pass it through a half-inch mesh screen - to make it fine. This square yard of compost with its additions ot plant foods will top dress 3000 to 6000 square feet of lawn. It should be scattered as evenly as possible, lightly raked In and well watered. Low places in the lawn can gradually be filled up with the compost, and the grass will grow right up through it. An inch or an inch and a half will iyt be too much after the grass Is growing well in the spring. Clean Garden Thoroughly . Over and over again last sum mer, and the summers before that, readers have been writing to me about their hollyhocks, del phlnlums and phloy, asking what to do with them, as they were badly infected with rust. At that time of the year it is entirely too late to make much of a showing. Cleaning in the garden must be done as thoroughly in the spring as house- cleaning. Hunt around every clump of the plants men tioned and take up every old dead or partly dead leaf." Don't leave a particle of leaf on .the ground. Then start at once spraying the crowns of the plants and the soil about then with bordeaux. It is not at all too early to start. Soak them thoroughly and the ground two feet all around them. The spraying ' must .be kept up throughout the season. Whenever a leaf drops off daring the sum mer rush out. grab it and burn It at once. Treat it as If It were carrying smallpox gems. For that is about what' It amounts to as far as your garden is con cerned. - " - Daisy Bed BrCJlant Barbertown daisy is the Trans vaal daisy or Gerbera Jameson!. A niassed bed forms a brilliant sight. They will grow here It one can secure the plants and set them out. They can also bo grown from seed but the seed must be started very early. The plant. while listed as a perennial, is apt to winter-kill unless given some protestlon. Climbing roses are rank grow ers and must have liberal sup plies ot food if they are to thrive and keep growing year In and rear out. Well rotted manure dug In around them and liberal ap plications ot liquid manure wil Rose. Bushes 100 Varieties Salem grown TIZ fl 5c . 35c Shade and flowering r trees Primroses - Delphin iums, etc. YOUR PLANTING JOB 1., twisted steel ox wnat naa one oeen . i ! aid in keeping them growing and blooming, properly. Also they must be sprayed after the fashion ot bush rosea. I j Soot from1 coal ; fires does have fertilizing value due to its-nitro gen content and also to its traces of potash and phosphoric acid. It has a quality of clearing up the Cvlors of flowers and making dark red roses even a better dark red. it also nas some value as an w- sc ticide In! the soil, helping to keep It free from wlreworms. maggots and cutworms. They also make the foliage; of plants grow a darker, richer ; green. Under no - circumstances put animal fertilizer about 'your Iris beds. I refer to the bearded irises. Farmhand Needing Skill Savs Gooter The day of the plain, everyday farmhand who j knows how to hitch the team, feed the pigs and PORTLAND LADY AFRAID SHE WOULD , ' !' : ! I : . - LAUDS YAN Mrs. Francis,' of S. E. Har ney St., ) Suffered 7 Years Witti Stomach Gas, Bloat and ! Awful Rheu matic Pains Couldn't Raise) Arms Had Dix zy Spells,' Sick nead aches -Relieved by Van Tage! -She Says: "It Worked Wonders!" Another Amaxlng Instance ot relief from Long-Suffering came to light here a tew days ago in a statement about VAN-TAG E, re ceived from Mrs; E. G. Francis, of 6031 6.1 E. Harney, Portland. VAN-TAG B is (the Remarkable New Compound of Nature's Roots and. Herbs "Sfud Other Splendid Medicinal Agents which has re- centlr created ueh a sensation here in Salem and which is being introduced to crowds dally by a Special Van-Tage representative, known a The .VAN-TAG K Man. at 170 K. Liberty Street. Mrs. Francis has lived in Oregon for 40 rears. Her husband is a Prom Inent Construction Foreman and they both .have a - great -number ot friends and acquaintances throughout this vicinity. Read her statement below and find out how she got felessed Relief from her suffering; ri - j ; -- . ' -f St . I' . 1 In Continual Misery With Gassy Bloat! Tha first thing I want to do la this "testimonial.: says Mrs. Francis. 1"s to let everyone know this Is tlU "Whole Truth In every respect ah'a I will verify it to any one. I haid been in great pain for 7 years due to my upset stomacn and torturing -I rheumatic pains. My stomach finally got so badly npset thkt everything I tnea 10 eat would turn Into gas and bloat Inside of t me and I was always In such misery that I never knew what It was to; sit down and eat a hearty fineal like a normal per son. My fseals caused such dread ful suffering all through me that I was almost afraid to try to eat. and roanf-times I THOUGHT MY INSIDE&l WERE GOING TO BURST! got if earful rheumatic oalns In my back and across my thouldersf and in my arms. My arms golso stiff and sore and oainful Ithat I Couldn't Raise Them. Itfseemed like my whole system was filled and poisoned with this rheumatic affliction. I had dlzfjl spells and sick head aches all: the time! ; Van-lge Relieved Her. . Painful Suffering! - I tried a lot of medicines and expensive treatments, but got no real relief Then a friend advised mo to get Van-Tage and I was surprised to find It cost so little. I began taking it. and Right From The Start? I. Noticed Marked Im provement Now I am on my fourth battle - and I feel like I --i-saew3fi-THikB- uw lBionimj ' - - - - ' sow the. grain but can't run a tractor or operate other power machinery is waning rapidly, in th. opinion ot John E. Cooter ot Salem, who as farm placement director for the Oregon employ ment service travels widely over the state. , '-"Farm laborers are more and more being called on, to hare spe cial skills." Cootersaid yesterday. "Just a farmhand' won't do any more, f ore and more tractors are being operated on - farms; hop growers, for instance, too, are call ing for men who know all about special ways ot training vines, how to dust against pests. Or chardists want handlmen who can do a good job ot spraying as well as pruning and cultivating. The employment service,. Coot er said, is now classifying its or ders ftfr farm labor as carefully as the calls for building workers, for example.' Farmers are becom ing more particular - about the abilities and skills ot the men they hire. Accompanying the changing agricultural labor picture is an Increasing trend in farm wages. Cooter stated. BURST! NOW ' ' ' - - . . - TAGE RELIEF MRS. E. G. FRANCIS, Popular Portland Lady, Says: I Am Now on My Fourth Bottle of VAJM-TAGE and I Feel as Though I Never Had a Sick Day ia My" Life! never had a sick day in my life! I have a great appetite and eat my meals with relish and my food agrees with me and X have no suffering-' afterward. So much gas and bloat has been cleared from my system that I no longer suffer from dizzy spells or sick head aches. Van-Tage worked wonders with my rheumatic pains and I have been so relieved that those agonizing old pains have disap peared. I can new raise my arms over my head without difficulty and my back and shoulders feel fine. Van-Tage Is - the greatest thing of the kind that ever eame here! I never saw anything that acted so well' and I am glad to give this statement' endorsing fi to suffering people ! Over 20,000,000 Bottles Great Fgrmula Sold ! - Bear this In mind, that Is: This Great Formula has been ted by the Sale of Over 30.000.000 Bottles! So. if you are a victim ot sluggish, irregular bowels, inac tive liver;" swollen, gaseous stom ach; sluggish kidneys; cr awful rheumatic or neurltic pains, when due to contaminated system (mis the sluggish action of these or gans, get Van-Tage! It acts as a carminative, laxative, cholagogu and diuretic, and daily pecp'e write us of Blessed Relief derived from its use. And another thin -due to. the Immense volume In which it sells. The Price of Van Tage Is Reasonable. So get this Great Medicine TODAY and start taking it! , A Special Van-Tage Represen tative, known as The VAN-TAGE Man, Is now at 170 N. Liberty Street., i Salem, daily meeting crowds of people and introducing and explaining, this Remarkable Compound., - On Sale at Fred Meyer Toiletry & Remedy Shop 170 N. Liberty St. ' J .. .... . . V r v ....... , . . . ; ::.'.' ! i : -
