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''..1 . .- ; I..:"-, -I -;! ft ;-; i Be W alkouit Deciic)'i - ; - . ; - .' . v j ..- - ... - - . h : ' - Be FCDI First Steps in Group Capitol Task Launched Application for Federal Aid Is Authorized at Joint Gathering ' Governor Opposes Use of Highway Funds Now as All Deemed Needed i Members of the state board of control and of the state capitol reconstruction commission, meet ing Jointly In Salem Monday, sbaped first steps toward carry ing ont the group capitol program authorized by the 1937 legislate session, '"-p-x ' The first move wilt be filing of an application with the federal government far a grant of 45 per cent of the funds required lor the entire building program. Of this amount 18 per cent would be nsed for the acquisition of land. A telegram' from Senator Mc- Nary indicated that It might not be possible to obtain this grant because of a change in the federal procedure. McNary advised Governor Mar tin .that allotments were now be ing made by the PWA on a new basis of meeting labor costs taken from the relief roUs plus 15 per cent, up to a peak of 45 per cent of the total cost. Officials said such an allotment would be of doubtful value In the proposed construction program. "Let's make the application anyway," Governor Charles H. Martin said. "We must keep the record clear." I Board of Control Will Cooperate . r The hoard of control -promised to cooperate with the capitol re construction commission. L The - commission had intended to hold a meeting here Monday afternoon but. a quorum was not la attendance.; The next. meeting will be held in Portland Saturday. Appraisals of two blocks : of property abutting Court street, directly north of the present capi tol site, vary; from $225,000 to 1350,000. The; assessed valuation of this property is $110,000. Governor Martin told members of the capitol reconstruction com mission that he was opposed to any building program which would vabiiH It o 1lv7CTo4rvTi rf ct a t s fef -. voui ma va w p wa aaayM way funds. i "Neither Henry Cabell, chair man of the state highwaycom mission, nor myself were consult ed la connection with the bill providing for ; construction of a state building; out of highway de partment funds," Governor Martin continued. "I am opposed to the Issuance of any more state bonds and will use my Influence to liqui date the bondg now outstanding." Hills Permissive Only Says Walker 1 Ralph E. Moody, assistant at torney general, said he interpreted the legislation to mean that the state eventually should acquire the four blocks of residence prop (Turn to page 2, column 1) Four More House Permi ts Recorded Monday brought permits for four more new houses at the city building department and a day's business representing $11,050 worth of construction. . Permits were issued as follows: , Ernest Schindler, new house at 1355 F-Irmount avenue, $2400; Ross Powell, new house at 8(0 Spruce, $1000; S. Johnson, new house at 1110 North Winter. $4500; J. A. Morley, new house at 490 North 24th, $2850; Marvin Roth, new. garage at 1590 Mission, $100; Lane Morley, repair store at 1701 Center, $150; Edith Bne, repair house at 815 North Winter, $40; St. Paul parish house, re pairs, 554 Chemeketa, $10. Powder Magazine Blast Kills None NORFOLK, ! Va., March 22-(yF) -Exploding with a terrific roar, one of 90 smokeless powder mag azines at the . Nansemond army ordnance depot, near Portsmouth, went off tonight. No one was killed nor injured. Flames shot 200 or more feet m the sky, and could be seen twenty miles away. t Extradition of Gavin From Arizona Sought Governor Martin issued a req uisition Monday on Arizona of ficials for the extradition of Her bert M. Gavin, who is wanted at Dallas, Polk coonty, on a stat utory charge. Sheriff Hooker left last night for Phoenix In quest of the prisoner. - COURT PLAN THREATENS 'DEMO. ' Ij Mrs. Ty flings and Mrs. Asharst) rTT- - ' " . I Co before senate committee 1 , - - 1 . . 1 . - f VV T " ' .y- .-S ;y: . v- ' ', - ! V ..:.;.-;:; i ' W -, fi,i-S.?-. -V: - W'1V,V . , vlf . .. --.-.. ,, .yy :- i'- I-- wi i. V r ' -- vr; iv Vt il . ; V? Senator Connally 1 1 Senator Plttroaa j: ft Fear of a Democratic party spUt over the president's plan for revision of the supreme court gave lm : pet us to a moTemesit for a compromise settleme nt of the dispute. When Attorney General Cum : mlngs appeared before the senate Judiciary com mlttee In defense of the plan, Mrs. Billiard Ty dings, wife of Maryland's senator, and Mrs. Henry As hurst, wife of Arizona's senator, top, were -among the spectators. One of the Impromptu debates on the floor of the committee session was between Senator Tom Connally, left, below, of Texas, opponent of the plan, and Senator Key Plttman .of Nevada, who favors Roosevelt's reorganization p rogram. Attack on Pinball Bill Opens Today Referendum Petitions to Go Out Measure Will Be Filed, Forecast PORTLAND, March t2-(py-Walter L. Tooze, attorney for a group of merchants, said a ref erendum will get under . way Tuesday against the Martin and Carney bills passed by the leg islature at its recent session, pro riding for destruction of slot and pinball machines. Application for a ballot title will be filed with the eretary of state at Salem, he said. Tooze said that he had warn ed Sheriff A. C; Burke Marlon (Turn to page-2, column 2) Claim Violation, Suspend Loading i SAN PEDRO, Calif., March 22. -(Py Suspension of ship loading and unloading at the Los Angeles- Long Beach harbor, effective to morrow morning, was announced tonight by the Waterfront Em ployers association. The order for closing of the port was. the answer of the as sociation to the re-establishment today of pickets around the freighter Lancaster. i The association, after an execu tive session, , Issued the following statement: . "In view of the repetition of the violation of the agreement dated February 4,1937, made between various Waterfront Em ployers associations and the In ternational .Longshoremen's as sociation at : the conclusion of a 99-day strike, we hare nd alterna tive but to suspend ship loading and unloading operations until such time as the controversy over the refusal of the longshoremen to pass through a picket line es tablished by other marine anions around the steamer Lancaster can be adjusted I In accordance with the agreement." ! Gas Escaping Under Another Texas School, NEW LONDON, Tex., March 22. JPj A military inquiry into the London school explosion which killed 455 children and teachers ended late today with the formal opinion of Dr. E. P. Schoch, ex plosions expert, that accumulated gas under' the basement floor caused the blast. Martial law, in effect; since a few hours after last Thursday's disaster, was lifted from the com munity immediately after the close of the hearing. . Gas Without Cost ; ; . Is Apparent Cause Evidence presented in the three days of the inquiry included testi mony that the oil-wealthy school had connected' Its gas line to a waste gas earrler, , without the formal consent of the owning com pany, and that beating system plans were ; changed when the school was built, for reasons of economy. ; i 1 -. Dr. Schoch said he had con cluded definitely the explosion was not In the walls. He earlier had advanced the theory that' the hol Way Cleared for Local Linen Mill To Get RFC Loan With the adjustment of the claim of the state flax industry against the Salem linen mills which was completed yesterday at a; session of the ; state board of controrthe final step was accom plished in the reorganization of the linen mills so it can obtain an RFC loan for additional working capital. L. C. McLeod, mill mana ger, and E. F. Slade of the RFC attended the board of control meeting. The mill has operated for sev eral years under handicaps due to previous financial difficulties. With this reorganization under section 77b the mill will receive $60,000 In a loan from the RFC under which it can expand Its op erations. The reorganization is regarded as a constructive step to enable the company to develop the business along Imes which in recent years have proven profit able. Wagner Law Case Hearing Goes On PORTLAND, March . ti-(py-Three of the 62 former employ ees acusing . Montgomery Ward & Co., of violating the Wagner Labor Relations Act, testified at the National Labor board hear ing today that pay raises fol lowed the first indications pf unionization In the plant here. ; Arthur N. Morey, one of the witnesses, told of receiving two increases of ten cents an j hour within less than two weeks. He testified that a plant-executive, in attempting to discour age the union, charged that HaT lng the 52 complainants, ) was "one of 7,000" men 1 registered by. officials ; as having radical tendencies, and that the ware housemen's branch of the I. L. A., which the 62 men had Join" ed, was also "radical." The complaint alleges that the 62 were discharged - for union activity and af illation. - Engineer Says low tile walls might hp .come saturated. : . . ' ' "All indications point - ubit ably to an explosion under "the floor," Dr. Schoch said in n nouncing his conclusion. v John Dial, 15, high school stu dent, had testified the explosion occurred Immediately ; after his manual training teaeher threw a light switch. 1 The closing sensation was pro vided by Gordon C Hawley, cIef engineer of the state fire insurance department, who strode Into the hearing and announced escaping gas had been found under another nearby school "only a few hours ago." 'I . "A test a few hours ago at the Carlisle school near here showed gas was escaping ; underneath the place at the rate of 720 cubic feet a day," Hawley said. Safety Codes for ! State Held Needed ! "In my opinion this tragedy would not have happened if cer tain regulatory measures had been (Turn to page 2. column 6) y URTY SPLIT School Strike at Scio Is Continued Some 7th and 8th Graders Also Out; Rehiring of Teachers Demanded SCIO, March 22 Scio high school's student strike, called to protest the school board's failure to retain the athletic coach, Cecil Elder, was still "going strong" tonight and had spread to the upper grades of the grammar school. Some of the 7th and fth grade pupils refused to attend classes this afternoon because their teacher, Winfield Johnson, had not been tendered a contract for next year. j None of the high school stu dents, numbering approximately 100, attended classes today. In stead they paraded the streets, displaying a banner that read: "We want Elder." ; The students had heard the school board directors would not rehire Elder, who has been here three years. No Announcement of Board's Attitude Actually," the board has made no announcement of its Inten tions, nor has a successor to El der been named. The board has ofered contracts to only part of the teachers, this including W. S. Snyder and Miss (Turn to page 2, column 1) McNary Protests Roosevelt Choice For Marine Board ! WASHINGTON, March 22-(P)-Mlnorlty Leader Charles L. Mc Nary of Oregon said in the senate today President Roosevelt's fail ure to include a member from the Pacific coast on the new maritime commission was "unfair." His criticism was on a resolu tion by Majority Leader Robinson to exempt Joseph P. Kennedy of New York, the president's choice for chairman, from a provision of the maritime act which would dis qualify him from membership on the board. "In the appointment of fire commissioners of the maritime commission," McNary said, "not a member proposed comes from the Pacific coast, which has the long est coastline of any section of the country. 1 "I recall when the maritime commission was created, Instead of placing in the measure the geo graphical description which was formerly found in acts of a sim ilar nature, the statement was made that the president would deal fairly with each section of the country." Olympic Range Is ) Seen at Portland PORTLAND, Ore. March 12-()-Through some atmospheric nhpnnmenon. Portland saw the mountains of the Olympic penin sula Sunday. The peaks of Hood, Adams, St. Helens ana Kainier were also risible as the setting sun cut through low-lying haze. Old timers said It was the first such instance on record here, Hughes Claims More Justices Aren't Needed Would Retard High Court i "Work, View; Silent on Question of Policy Ex-Justice Clarke Avers President's Proposal T Is Constitutional WASHINGTON, March 22-UP) -Chief Justice Hughes bluntly de clared today that to increase the membership of the supreme court would "Impair" its efficiency. His words, read to the senate Judiciary committee, had scarcely been digested by those who heard them when John H. Clarke, only living retired member of the court, declared In a radio speech that President' Roosevelt s court reorganization proposal was "clearly constitutional." Neither of the two venerable jurists passed judgment on the policies Involved -In the plan. Hughes confined himself to the mechanics of court procedure, as serting the tribunal was not be hind in its work and could func tion more efficiently without ad dition of new members. Confines Remarks To Legal Question Clarke, who retired from the court in 1922, confined himself to the "naked legal question" of con stitutionality and asserted the pro posal "Is plainly within the pow ers granted to the congress." Clarke -spoke from San Diego, Calif. Fifteen minutes later. Sec retary Wallace told a farm bureau audience at Richmond, Va., the president's proposal was a "sim ple and effective" method of as suring progress of national wel fare. He said recent decisions of the supreme court blocked at tempts of the Roosevelt adminis tration to erect "necessary safe guards for agriculture and indus try." Hughes' statement, to which Associate Justices Van Devanter and Brandels agreed, was entered in the hearings of the senate Ju diciary committee by 'Senator Wheeler (D., Mont,), the first witness to appear in opposition to the bin. Opposition senators had long (Turn to page 2, column 6) Warrant Debt of District Reduced The Salem school district's ef fective warrant indebtedness has been cut to below the $100,000 mark despite the fact that In re cent months $67,000 has been paid on two bank nofes aggregat ing $100,000 which were due May 1, it was reported at School Clerk W. H. Burghardt's office yester day. . The district's actual warrant debt, $127,009.28, is offset by $31,235.62 In Polk and Marlon county non-high school district warrants being held as Invest ments. The local warrants draw hut 4 per cent Interest as against 6 per cent paid by the non-high school district Issues.. - It anticipated taxes are received by the Salem district, the $33,000 remaining due on the note may be redeemed without resorting to a - refunding Issue as has been necessary In other years.' Receiving $19,974.90 in 1931 taxes In the last two years, Burghardt was able to pay off a $13,325 note which had been given local bank to obtain funds with which to meet bond obliga tions and $1800 was turned over to the county treasurer on anoth er bond issue. The oldest of the 1390 district warrants outstanding was Issued November 30, 1936. Ogden's Students Strike for Prexy OGDEN, Utah. March 22-(flV Ogden high, school students went on strike today and, encouraged by Mayor Harmen W. Peery, pro claimed they wouldn't call it off until Student Body President Homer Olden and Vice President Mary Flster are reinstated. The mayor, of Utah's second largest city, confronted by a shout ing throng at city ball, took one and then bellowed: : "Go to it, students!" Almost the entire student body walked out after assembly this morning demanding the dismissal of Principal A. M. Merrill and the reinstatement of their two officers. Merrill suspended Olsen and Miss Flster last week after they threatened to call a student strike when refused permission to send the school band to Salt Lake City for a state high school tournament Diver Lives After Drop At S.F.; Spine Injured Ray Woods, Once Amateur Champion, Fails to Make Jack-Knife Complete; Wile Says It's Record; Jumped Twice Off Brooklyn Span, N. Y. SAN FRANCISCO, March 22 (AP)l-Rajr Woods, 30-year-old professional diver from St. Louts, Mo., dived from the San -rrancisco-Uakiana bridge into pan jfrancisco bay to day and was rescued alive but suffering from an apparently fractured spine. P i His wife claimed the leap of approximately 186 feet had Envoys of Bandon Ask Federal Help Changes in Disaster Law May Help, Mott Says; Other Means Eyed WASHINGTON, March 22-flP)-Mayor Gilbert Gable and Publish er L. D. Felsheim of Bandon, Ore., conferred today with the Oregon congressional delegation before asking the government for $460, 000 with which to reconstruct the public works of their fire-ridden community. " Felsheim said he hoped some precedent would be found upon which to base a request for an outright grant as the city, de stroyed by a forest fire last fall, has no property with which to secure a loan. Gable said he was optimistic. Change In Law May Make it Possible Rep. James Mott, Salem, Ore., said he was doubtful a precedent (Turn to pge 2. column 7) Ickes Hits Bonneville Views WASHINGTON. March 22-(flsr-Secretary Ickes took issue today with a war department recommen dation that It be given control of the physical properties of the huge Bonneville dam across the Columbia river between Oregon and Washington. In a letter to the house rivers and harbors committee he endors ed a pending measure which would place control of the dam, power house, flshways and power in the hands of n administrator. Only the locks would remain un der the war department. The bill was introduced by Rep. Martin Smith of Hoqulam, Wash. Ickes told the committee the Smith measure "is feasible and wUl help attain the goal of a wide distribution of the benefits of this project and I favor the enact ment of the proposed bin." Informed' sources say a new Bonneville bill, embodying - sug gestions of the president but con taining many ideas of the Pacific northwest delegation , probably will be introduced in both houses this week. . . Dike at North Slough : In Coot County Sought In BUI By Rep. Mott WASHINGTON, March ttP) BiUs introduced today - Included the following by representatives: : Mott (R-Ore.) -Authorising constriction of a dam and dike by the state of Oregon to prevent the flow of tidal waters In North Slough, Coos county. Ore., to re claim land for farming. Maguire Flays Resolution A vigorous challenge to the wis dom of the president's policy for the alteration in the character of the supreme court was rolced by Robert F. Maguire of Portland In an address at a eltisens mass meeting at the high school last night. At the conclusion of his ad dress a resolution was adopted protesting the plan In the interest of the liberties of the citizens. Copies will be sent to the presi dent and to members of the Ore gon delegation In the congress. Mr. Maguire called the court issue the most Important and fundamental question which has faced the American people since the civil war, "because It Involves a fundamental c h a n g in our theory of government. - That theory, as he phrased It, was the principle that by the written con stitution the people put restraints upon political parties and upon the divisions of government under which minorities could be assured of definite right and privileges. Any change in the constitution should be made, he said, not by the action of congress or the Army psetja world record for height. jti was we urst ume any man hadf. leaped from the great, trans bay, bridge. ! " Woods rode out on the bridge in a, truck, climbed out as it slowed down i near the railing, threw oft a robe, : shouted, to a launch below containing his wife, hist mother and newspaper report ers! and cameramen, and leaped. He jumped; backward, doubled to. do a! jack-knife dive, but was scarcely able to straighten out. He hit the j water doubled over. His chest was padded and on his head was a leather helmet. . Persons in ; the boat quickly hauled him aboard when he re appeared at, the water's surface. Bay bridge; officials previously had' refused permission to Woods (Turn to page 2, column 3) - ' Planning Started Fc r Blossom Day Committees Are Named By i 1 Chemans ; to Attend j Portland Festival The Salem Cherrians last night e.t their monthly meeting accepted an i Invitation to attend the Port land Rose festival June 11 and voted unanimously to enter a float representative of the capital city in ;the rose parade. King Bing; A. A. Guef froy nanied a committee to raise funds fdrj the ! float consisting of W. M. Hamilton, chairman, and as sub chairmen, George I. Arbuckle, Harold iBusick, James M. Clark, Dewey L. Grelner, Dr. G. E. Prime and T. A.. WIndlshar. Five mem bers will be assigned to work un der each of the sub-chairmen. The Cherrians chief also an nounced committees for Blossom day; as follows: - Route E. I H. Blngenheimer, chilrman, C. -IE. Wilson and Dr. A. LA. IKeene; reception Keith Brown. chairman, Grant Day and Breyman Boise; floral William Schlitt, j chairman, Donald Decke bach and Deryl Myers. The date for Blossom day win depend I upon the weather within the; next few weeks. .King Blng; Gneffroy declared lnj regard to the rose parade float that It was up to the citi zens of Salem to support the Cherrians In order that a worth while entry might be obtained. Scjlma Man Killed When Car Hurtles - GRANTS PASS. Ore.. March 12- (-rlrving E. Davidson, 46, of Selr ma was instantly killed when the ear fwhlch he was driving skidded onj a slippery pavement on the Redwood highway west of here today. - ; j - :; - . ; George W. Bolby, a passenger, reported to be severely injured, was taken to a Josephine hospital. , Davidson was thrown 40 feet down an embankment. (knlrt Plan9 n Against Passed executive, but by constitutional amendment; and the president's proposal to alter the supreme court was in effect to obtain a reversal of the Interpretation of the i constitution given by the courts. . fThe writers of the constitution recognised the division of the powers of government into three branches and set np an independ ent judiciary, secure in tenure of office. They had had experience with the loss of liberties when the king had swallowed np the court and '. the legislature as English kinds had done; so they made the kcourts 'free from such Inter ference.! t Real Liberals WIH Oppose, j Declares ft speak not as a conservative but ias . a liberal, one who was a liberal when that word was ab horrent to many. I say the more liberal yon are the more you must be against this plan. If history repeats t itself,; after the recent record in Italy and Germany, where will the rights of liberals I (Turn to page 2, column 4) MassMeetin Set for Today By Auto Union Lack of Permit ; Doesn't Worry Leaders; "Not Bluffing" Is Word ' Charge Chrysler Chief With Holding Back on Espionage Evidence DETROIT, March 22-)-The United Automobile , Workers de ferred a decision on a general automotive strike in Detroit to night, but at the same time as serted "we are not bluffing in this -matter." The union this afternoon charg- that tha flit-valor Horn. vhAM eight plants here are held by sit down strikers, had "deliberately withheld" evidence la "contempt nous disregard of a senate com mittee subpoena." The evidence, the union claim ed, concerned blacklisting of -ployees for union , activities and espionage, matters that Senator Robert M. La Follette's special committee on civil liberties is in vestigating. B. E. Hutchinson," chairman of the Chrysler finance committee, denied the charge and countered with an allegation that "the DAW appears to have added the crimes of breaking and entering and burglary to their already Il legal seizure of our plants." Police, continuing their raids on sit-down strikers in the face of a UAW threat of a general automotive strike ejected 25 men rfom a printing plant and 19 per sons from, a city welfare office today. ; Homer Martin, DAW president who issued the ultimatum of a general strike, to be called today , unless police desisted in their campaign against smaller Btruck plants, said a d'ecislon 'probably would not be reached- tonight-' To suggestions that the union was "bluffing, he replied the "General Motors thought we were bluffing and Chrysler thought we were bluffing. We are not bluffing in this matter, either." n Outwardly, the UAW officials were concentrating on plans for a huge mass meeting to be held tomorrow night- at Cadillac square -despite the city council's refusal of a permits . Ed Hall, second vice-president of the union, said: "We don't give a whoop about the permit l we'll be there anyway." Martin said between 100,000 and 20e. 000 would participate, to "show labor's strength" and to demand that the nolice "Bton strike breaking brutality. Martin, commenting on the possibility of a general automo tive strike, -said: "If we declare a general strike, It will be a gen eral strike." ' -That was In reply to a ques tion as to whether union mem-' hers working In General Motors plant under a peace agreement signed recently would be includ ed. . - - - " Catholics Renew Fight for Rights ; (By The Associated Press). . The Catholic church has re-. Be wed In Germany her bitter con-, fliet with - modern-day . govern, menta for the right to control re ligious Instruction of her youth. , - Tt la m famtlfav tlioma tn tfla a . tag . Pope Pius XI, weakened by long iHness and approaching his 80th birthday. In recent years he has fought the same fight against fascist Italy, socialist Inclined Mexico, communist Russia and. more recently against socialist Spain. Summoning his strength now ta combat Relchsfuehrer Adolf Hit ler, the Pope issued an encyclical message which was read Sunday in German Catholic churches. Anyone who attempts to replace God, the pontiff warned, would bo known as "a senseless 'prophet of absurdity." Vatican sources said he meant Hitler and the nazlideo- logic precept that God reveals Himself at great Intervals to a chosen people, that Germany is so chosen because -of the character of her leader, and that to follow him Is to serve God. A L LA D E o TODAy By R. C Some risk their necks in long, high dives to win a gap ing world's acclaim: some take. no chances with their lives, ma.na.ta ta win lastlne fs - , some ail abroad to join . beneath an alien flag rj some stay at right, it takes all k a world.