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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1937)
! ' - "- ', - - ' : ' -x r X ) ' "-, -x;' ; j ; : ' - ' t :; ' - : X- XX":'-' ' ; : j ; . 1 f " , Little Merchant . Tour Statesman earrie Cays for the papers he de vers. Prompt payment ta him will assist him fat this baslness venture and will ba) appreciated. 1 ' TTeatlier Unsettled today and Fri day, continued cold; Max. Temp.. Wednesday 51.5, Mln. 41, river 8.4 feet, rain .13 tech. North wind. 4 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 25, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 312 WIS owners 1 . Promises i . 1 : . Will D It I ! i- ; o New Mass Meeting Fails to Bring Final Solution . , ... . Elder Resigns, Students Object and Situation Remains Unchanged Principal Again Target; Contract Previously Offered Him, Word SCIO, March 24 No definite progress toward inducing ScIo high school students to give op their strike and return to classes was apparent following a mass meeting attended by 200 per sons here tonight at which all angles of the school controversy were discussed. Discussion of the problem by parents indicated the majority , sympathized with the students in their demand for the retention of Cecil "Bub" Elder as athletic - coach, but no action was taken. County Superintendent J. M Bennett counselled patience, de claring that Issues of this nature cannot be solved Immediately. He expressed a hope that the stu dents would return. None of the school board members nor teas ers were present. : One of the leaders in the strike , tore up a paper which, another person at the meeting had start ed to "read, said to be an agree ment to return to school tomor row morning. The students did present the following statement: "Assurance that ' thabusiuess men and parents won't go back on a promise made on March 23, 1937. that Cecil 'Bub,' Elder comes hack next year for coach and teacher and. Principal J. II. Tumbleson out for the year 1937 38. They will back us in a strike next fall if they fail to fulfill this promise. That we pet a square deal from the principal for the remainder of this . year. 1937, Is also guaranteed." SCIO. March 24 - (Special) -Scio high school students we're still on strike today, though mo mentarily this afternoon it looked like the most excitement the town has had this winter was all over but the shouting and the boys and girls returning to classes. At midafternoon members of the Scio school board and County School Superintendent J. M. Ben nett of Albany emerged from an all-day conference to announce that Coach Cecil Elder had volun tarily resigned his position and that the other four high school teachers would assume his classes until school is out. Elder was to be paid salary for the remainder of this year. Failure of the school board to rehire Elder, coach here the past three years, was given by hib school students as reason for the strike, called Monday, morning. -: Students Protest, Action Withdrawn Word of Elder's resignation reached main Btreet here almost before the' school board members and the coach walked the two blocks from school to town. And right away an' Impromptu street corner gathering of men and high school boys converged upon Elder. Led by G. L. Flanagan, sr.. the unofficial meeting decided that Elder hould not resign "for if Prof. Tumbleson has been rehired. Elder should be." Elder recalled his resignation, declaring that he wanted. .to do what the students and townspeo ple wanted done. "I will stay, but I want it un-I- (Turn to page 2, coL 3) Easter Egg Show Slated For Saturday There'll be a wild 'scram ble when doors are opened on Saturday morning at 0:30 for .the annual Statesman Capitol theatre egg-matinee, and every youngster will be expected to bring three eggs, one decorated and two fresh, as admission fee to the hig big show. Bill Hagedorn, chief or the Mickey Mouse club Is in charge of the program which Includes' n d g 1 n g colored eggs and awarding prizes for the best entries. Special prizes have been given by leading Salem merchants and they will be presented on the stage. Fresh eggs will be do nated to local charity. Blanager Carl Porter of the Capitol theatre an nounces a full screen -program which includes "Din ky" with Jackie Cooper, Backyard Broadcast, a cartoon and news reel. ngles 7Th 1 luevei i ' - ! School Strike's Central Figure CECIL "BUB" ELDER Eleven States Hit By Wintry Blasts Snow Halls Traffic, Some Communities Isolated; Tornado Kills Two (By The Associated Press) A blustering gale swept snow, hsil, rain, sleet and dust across 11 states yesterday. A tornado! killed two persons in Alabama! while snow-laden winds that attained a velocity of 50 miles an hour spread dam age through the midwest. ' four days after the astronom ical advent of spring, heavy snow halted traffic, snapped commun ication lines- and Isolated com munities behind drifts that rang ed up to six,, feet in the Dako tas and Minnesota. Wire facilities were disrupted over virtually all of South Da kota in what telephone officials termed the wor.t storm in more than a decade. One firm reported 1.300 poles down. Six-foot drifts took form at : Watertown. Huron, Aberdeen, Tiorre and Mitchell were cut off. A ten-inch fall blocked roads at Rapid City. Fif-ty-mile-an-honr gusts eased off to between 30 snd 40 in the Sioux Falls area. Travel was paralyzed and tele phone lines were toppled in parts of minnesotaJ The snow blanket measured a foot at Marshall and Austin, and piled up to two feet at Chatficld. Air 3ervice ceased. Move to Dismiss Ward! Case Fails rOUTLAXD, Ore.. -Marrh 2 4-(P)-Trial of : Montgomery W-rd & Co. on charges of violating the Wagner labor relations act ended here today after four mot'ons for dismissal and exclusion of evidence by company counsel were denied. Clarence G. Young, company attorney, rented his esse without calling any witnesses. To expe dite the trial the narae3 and sub stance of the testimony of '44 witnesses not yet called by the labor board were read Into the record. Dr. Towne Nylander. presiding as trial examiner, indicated he will not announce his decision lor at least a w-eek. The company is accused by 52 former employes of discharging them for union activities In vio lation of the j Wagner act. "in seeking dismissal of the case today. Young contended the act violates the fifth amend nent of the constitution by relieving the respondent of property with out due process of law. and t e seventh amendment because it does not provide trial by Jury. Strike Threat in Puget Sound Area Apparently Ended - SEATTLE. March 24 - (j?5) -Threat of a general strike in the Puget Sound lumber Industry this spring disappeared today when union leaders announced workers had TOted 6 to 1 to temporarily accept an employers compromise wage scale, j ; The lumber and sawmill work ers union had demanded a 10-cent-an-hour horizontal wage In crease; employers offered a comp romise seven j and one-halt cent increase. j Secy. Kenneth Davis of the Paget Sound union division, which extends from Olympia, Wash., to the Canadian I border and from the Cascade mountains to the Pa cific, said the tinion voted "with the understanding that the re maining two and one-half cents and adjustments in upper brackets be negotiated.' I u v - " " '-w w I : ' I ' ' n : ... i.iaA. j A--r 1 Of in Uproari rhs London iarley On Neutrality ' 'l ' si Russian Envoy Contends Italian Violation of Pact Is Flagrant Last Details of United Cordon About Spain Are Agreed Upoh LONDON, March 24-fp)'-An angry clash In which the Italian and Russian members almost came to blows gave the European neu trality committee's long-sought ban on foreign Intervention in Spain an inauspicious send-off to night. In a tumultous meeting, dele gates of the 27 nations compris ing the committee settled the last details of a land and sea cordon around Spain which Europe hopes will Isolate the civil war and help preserve the continent's peace. Appointment of 16 key admin istrators to supervise the inter national patrols left only the last step, the date for the scheme to become fully operative, to be de cided by Admiral M. H. Van Dulm. Dutch general administrator of the arms-and-men embargo, and his aides. Italian Activity Deemed Flagrant The session was thrown into an uproar when Ambassador Ivan Malsky, the soviet member, de clared; "On the Instructions of my gov ernment I have to call the atten tion of the committee to th ever increasing military intervention into Spanish; affairs on the part of the Italian government." Malsky charged 60,000 Italians (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Smallpox Cain in Oregon Reported ! PORTLAND, March 24-JP-A state board of health bulletin warned today1 that smallpox is on the increase in Oregon, and urged general use of vaccination to Pre vent its spread. State physicians reported 85 cases of smallpox in January and 89 cases in February. The bulletin recommended that every child be vaccinated before its first birthday, pointing out that proper methods make the operation painless and bloodless, and makes the subject immune to the disease for seven years. "Every epidemic of smallpox proves that a recent vaccination is' a complete protection," the bulletin said. HUGHES' LETTER DEFENDS HIGH COURT PftMs,lJlC.'' - f "- -' '.-" :' .c ":'. .-.ox. '. : X'X'V-'-' ;-;::-" Xy:-XyX.Xv'v . X''x;x:;XxL:X'X.;X;.v :-:-x-:r": "x':"y :'. '- x 'X':' ;:: VvO: 'x; ':.'''. ' ' ' X.rXvX::;:::.: . ;.X;X:.;" : X;.:.::; ''::x :!;''X;:y"::::;-:-!-:-: 'o:::":"'?:"x"x: dear Senator T32ttli " t ' ' 1 In retpocet t tfc following , - . ' - ' - my tAt tm - : I'hitt tUnorfttlo Burton K retlcr, Unittd 3ttt 3tnatt First formal statement from a member of the supreme court In answer to the president's plan for revi sion of the tribunal came from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes when be wrote to Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, chairman of the senate Judiciary committee. A portion of his letter In de fense of the court Is shown In this International Illustrated jewa Soundphoto. School i. ' One Hurt in Toledo Taxicab Strike Rioting ; TOLEDO, 6., March 2.V ( Thursday ) (JPf-O n e man was wounded by a shotgun blast and another was slugged early today as vk Icnce broke out in the Tole do taxicab strike. Albert Stark, 31, former Knight . Cab company em ploye. , received a minor flesh wound when a charge of birds hot was fired through the company's gar ago window into a room where Stark and two other, men were seated C. C. Smith, chairman of the committee for Industrial organization unit of the' Knight and Yellow cab drivers strike committee, reported to police he was slugged by a group of men who invaded - the drivers union headquarters. School to Reopen In Disaster TVnvn Other Buildings Utilized; Thorough Check Upon Safety Planned NEW LONDON. Tex., March 24 -(P)-Surviving students and teachers will pick up their class work here Monday after a 10-day interruption caused by the terrific explosion which killed 455 of their schoolmates last week. School board officials today de cided to resume classes In the grammar school and other avail able buildings.' The board voted to rebuild the wrecked school as quickly as pos sible, but did not dwell extendi ves ly on plans for the new structure. W. C. Shaw, graying, shaken superintendent who lost a son in the explosion, was given a vote of confidence after' his return from a conference with . state school authorities in Austin. . Before classes reopen Monday, the board ordered, a thorough check of heating facilities in the buildings to be used must be made. U. S. bureau of mines en (Turn to page 2, col. E) Pinball Measure Filed, Attacking Petition Also In House bill 159, the Martin antl pinball machine bill,, was filed with the secretary of state by Chief Clerk Fred Drager of the house yesterday. Immediately notice of referen dum on the bill was filed and pet itions to obtain signatures to refer it prepared for circulation. The day preceding, notice of referendum was filed against the Carney bill against slot machines. to your inquiries-, I statement with repct - , , - . - ' - , , ttcr5nt ! arprt4 by tt honor to rto4in' enter Strike Nineteen Dead In Fire After Crash of Bus Roller - Skate Troupe Is Virtually Wiped Out Near Salem, 111. 2 of 5 Survivors Likely To Die, Including One Former Oregonian SALEM, lil., March 25- Thursday ) (fl5) The death toU in one of the nation's, greatest motor bus disasters mount d to 19 early today with the death in a hospital here of Ed Mullen, of Portland, Ore. SALEM. 111., March 24-j!p)-A tire blowout burled a private bus against a concrete bridge abutment and turned it into a blazing wreck in which 19 per sons, including a 4-year-old girl were killed today. Only five persons survived ono of the worst disasters In the his tory of motorbus . transportation and two of them were so serious ly injured they may die. The bus, loaded with a pro fessional roller-skating troupe, enroute from St. Louis to Cin cinnati, Or., was going down a slight grade when its right front tire blew out about 50 feet from the bridge on United States high way No. 50, two miles west of here. The heavy machine careened crazily, dug into the soft shoul der of the highway and rammed Into the -bridge- abutment with (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Lebanon Program Given Final Okeh Improvements at Lebanon high school amounting to $8181 have received final approval from WPA at Washington according to James E. Smith, district WPA di rector. Building of a girls' community hall and a bus garage, demolish ing of two old buildings and grading about the school grounds are included in the project which calls for expenditure of $5939 by the federal government and $2,' 242 by the sponsor. Also received yesterday at the local WPA headquarters was ap proval for a $12,418 project at the state school for the deaf. It provides for the construction of a heating tunnel, excavation and the building- of concrete walls and floor under one building and landscaping. Federal funds fur nished amount to $10,245. htvrt ih hczst to ?H iot& wsr& ct ttfa. "v;' . A f Jr New Attack on Child Lab or Is Plan of Borah Amendment Placing Age Limit at 14 Instead Of 18 Advocated Grange Leader and Head Of Princeton Oppose President's Plan WASHINGTON, Mach 24-(;p)-Two senators who contend that the Roosevelt court , revamping legislation Js the wrong way to ap proach social reforms, offered a pair of proposals today to end child labor. ; Senator Borah, (R-Ida) Intro duced a constitutional amendment empowering congress "to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 14 years of age." Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) asked that the child labor problem be attacked by legislation. The Montanan urged that con gress hamper the transportation of goods which are produced by children. Shipments of such goods into states which have anti-child labor laws would be prohibited. Wheeler contended his proposal was supported by the supreme court's decision validating a simi lar measure relating to prison made products. Meantime the senate Judiciary committee continued to accumu late testimony in opposition to the president's proposal to appoint six new justices to the supreme court. Princeton Leader Attacks Proposal Dr. Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton university, and Lou is J. Taber, master of the national grange, condemned the legislation on the respective grounds , that It "violates the spirit of .the consti tution" and that it threatens the "disintegration' of the nation. Excerpts from their testimony: Dodds "He (the i president) has invented a scheme by which he hopes to control the opinions of the court. Stripped of excess verbiage this is what the proposal amounts to. While the undated resignations may not be demand ed In advance, the result will amount to the same thing." Taber "We are opposed to this change Because of the plain im plication that it is Intended to change the interpretation of the constitution by legislative enact ment and executive appointment." Purpose of Borah Amendment Been Borah offered his child labor amendment without comment, but his purpose was obvious. Through out the discussion of ; the presi dent s court plan, administration forces have contended the alterna- (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Hope Waning For Missing Duchess LONDON, March 24-(;P)-End- tng tne second day oi fruitless search for the flying Duchess of Bedford, officials were convinced tonight ' the 71-year-old peeress had been forced down in the North sea somewhere off Lincolnshire. Police took charge of pieces of wood found floating at sea about four miles off the Norfolk coast. These were to be examined to morrow by a firm of airplane mak ers at Norwich to determine whether they are parts of the missing plane. On the slim possibility the plane. in which the intrepid duchess took off Monday, was still afloat, the government radio ordered all shfps in that vicinity to keep a sharp watch. .j Arch Cape Tunnel Through by Today TILLAMOOK. Ore., March 24- 0P Daylight, will . penetrate the 1225-foot tunnel through Arch cape, on the Oregon coast high way, tomorrow." The tunnel bore is 14 by 14 feet. Construction -will be" com pleted by June or early July. SPOKANE. Wash.;- March 24- LEtrln a meet featured by a dem onstration - of Glen Cunningham's famous "kick finish to a half mile' exhibition race, the Univer sity of Idaho swept unofficial first place honors tonight in the Inland . empire's first indoor A. A..TJ. track and field meet. Cun ningham's time was 2:07.7. Norman Bright, national' two- mile champion, won easily in an exhibition mile race. ; - Although no - official team score was kept, Idaho was in front with a 59 unofficial tally, with Washington State second with 34. Whitman counted 22, Montana State university 3, and Linfield 2. .. -x x ' v : Late Sports ! Negotiates to Settle Strike WALTER T. CHRYSLER Driver Will Face i i x- Hit-and-Rnn Case Stafford Is Pursued Over Mile From Scene; Girl Injured by Truck Pursued by police and witness- es for a mile and a half from the spot at Cottage: and State streets wher he struck and seriously injured Nadine Conway, 18. Joe LeRoy Stafford, 22. 1840 Broad way, iwas arrested by city police yesterday on the double charge of hit-and-run driving and driv ing while intoxicated. Stafford, driving a heavy truck partially loaded with - wood, was stqpped by Officer Louis Bur gess i of i the . Salem police and Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honeycutt at 1 13th land Rural streets. His truck j which . witnesses said veer ed j from ide tor side of the read, was pursued from the . scene , of the accident by -two motorists. They saidthat Stafford In his getaway drive up State and then out 12th j was going between 45 and 50 miles an hour. Miss Conway, daughter of D. W. Conway, route 7, was walk (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Motorsliip Blaze is! Under Control Honolulu, March 24.-P)-The motorshlpi Fijian was ready to continue its trip to South Pacific islands tonight after its crew won a fight' with fire In the hold which; forced them temporarily to take to lifeboats end call for assistance! From data supplies by the owners, the coast guard here ex pressed belief the Fijian encoun tered trouble near Aru Atoll in the Marshall group," about 1,800 miles southwest; of Hawaii. TheU coast guard cutter Sho shohe reported ! the Fijian had radioed one Chinese was "very badly injured,"? and asked the Japanese freighter t Kosel Maru if there was a doctor available. Otherwise, the Fijian said. It wouid I continue 'its Journey, pre sumably to Lae, New Guinea, 1,- 500j miles further southwest, the Shoshone reported. Clipper Near End New Zealand Trip i - PAGO PAGO, -American Samoa, Marjch 25 h (Thursday)-()-(Vla Pan! American XAirways Radio ) Thejpan American Clipper, pion eering a commercial airline from California I to New Zealand, land ed hiere today at 5:14 p.m. (11:14 p.mi EST), but one flight re moved I from Its destination. i t : 5 i,x" v 1 ' zL - i : - I i - v? M - . - . f I V I : - y I IX , I Tii)o Bis Meetings in N.Y Hear Court NfcW YORK. March U-!P)-ln two public forums here tonight the president's i proposals to alter the personnel of the United States su preme court were alternately at tacked !andi defended.) - The Economic club of New York celebrated Jits 5 30th . anniversary listening to Sen. Robert E. Burke (D-Neh) and Robert R. Jackson, assistant U. S. attorney general, debate the issueX x h .-'"' - At; Carnegie hall the American labor "party mustered Its trade- union followers to a meeting ad dress by Jackson and two sen- atorsi Robert LaFoIIette ol Wis consin : and Hugo M. Black, of Alabama jail favorable to the changes. X -.- t -Industry Ilopes for Reversal, Charged To! the trade unionists of the. American labor party, who flock ed toitbe president's banner In Its first test of political strength last November.. Senator LaFoIIette as serted that Industry was carrying on a Tbuce sit-down strike against Will Expedite Negotiation in Motors Immediate Evacuation ol Chrysler Plants Is Pledge of Leader Other Encouraging New Brightens Picture as F. R. Proposes Aid (By the Associated Press) . . Promised evacuation of l-OOf sit-down strikers from eight Chry sler plants at Detroit, Mich., and, signing of a tentative agreement to end the 19-day old- cab strike--in Chicago topped developments yesterday (Wednesday) in ts nation's labor disputes. - The promise to clear the Chry Bier plants of strikers came from John I Lewis, head of the com mittee for industrial organisation, after a conference in LansinE, Mich., with Gov. Frank Murphy, Walter P. Chrysler, chairman el the corporation's board and ether representatives of opposing fO tions. Governor Murphy said the labor, leader agreed to instruct officials of the United Automobile Work ers of America to order their men from the factories at once 60 neg otiations toward settlement of the strike could continue. As part of, the agreement, the governor said it was provided that the confer ence would resume today if the plants had been evacuated. Cab Drivers Strike t In Chicago Ended - I At Chicago, Federal Conciliat or J. E. O'Connor announced that representatives of theitriking cab drivers and company officials had -agreed to terminate the walkout. But an attorney for the strikers said the announcement wa "pre-matUTe?,-bei:ause Jtha agreement, had not been approved by ths drivers. - . O'Connor; said the officials the two companies affected by the strike had, said they would grant -the drivers recognition of their newlv formed union and ; wouid consider wage and Wur demands In later negotiations. Meantime. President Roosevelt' arranged to discuss the sit-dowa strike situation with congressional leaders.- "x Senator Robinson; the major ity leader, said a new mediation system might come j up for " con sideration next Saturday at the chief executive's conference wi:hi Robinson, Speaker Bankhead House-Floor Leader Raybura rnd possibly Vice President Garner. If the difficulties in the auto - motive industry have not been resolved by the time Mr. Roo e velt returns from Warm Springs, Ga., for the - week-end : meeting, Robinson stated. It would be de sirable for legislative chief tians to seek a possible remedy. Responsibility Put Up to President - While "sit-down" strategy Vav deolored and defended in t. e house at - Washington, Represent ative Hoffman (R.-Micb. saia In a statement: "Upon the president and hi -advisers now rests the full re sponsibility restoring " the su premacy and upholding the in tegrity of the lawV X Representative Dies (D.rTex. ) said the rules committee would hold a' hearing next week on bis resolution for an investigation of sitting strikes.' The Union Packing Co. hi Jer sey City, N. J.. Initiated a new project-in employer-employe re lations. The management en tered a "partnership' with the 200 workers by promising them monthly "dividends"; scaling up 1 to 15 percent of the profits. New strikes j affecting more (Turn to page 2. coL 5) Issue Debated American labor and: the rights guaranteed to workers by the fed eral govern meet," . X Employers, he said, were refus ing ' to bargain collectively wUh their emnloves an the theorv that Lthe supreme court will invalidate ue wagner taoor relations act. . In -the. labor strife "sweeping across the . country," he declared "we are reaping the whirlwind f violence and ' resentment against (Turn to page 2, coL 7) ALL A D E of TODA V By R. CJ A labor strike's denlorahlo. alike by workers and their boss, for damage unrestorable Is al ways done, with mutual loss: but still It is predictable that each industrial' rupture heals, for It's uncontradlctabie, all parties need their daily meals. -r- 74