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1 i t ! Circulation Average Daily and Sunday for March, 1937 ' Distribution 9468 Net Paid 8793 . MEMBER A. B. CL ' Weather - Light ihowwi today and Friday, . temperature tn changed; -Max.-Temp. Wed aeeday.&O, Min. 44, river ZL6 feet, rain .01 Inch, SW wind. POUNDOD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, April 1, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 4 al Miiier Inevitable i ' - ... offi Co S trite - - Meld. State's Policy On Grant Land Leasing Is Hit Carpenter, Director of Grazing, Says Owyhee "Welfare at Issue Stanfield Confers With . Board and Explains, View Upon Deal CORVALLIS, Ore.. March 31- C)-A warning to Oregon tnat leasing of ' state owned lands on the highest -bidder basis puts the K-mt a la nnt nr rpn wirn nauvnu conservation trends was Toicea at the annual banquet of the insti ' tuteof Irrigation agriculture to night by F. R. Carpenter, Colora do stockman and division direc tor of grazing. The practice also threatens sta bility of irrigation projects. Car penter said. He did not refer directly to re cent leasing of eastern Oregon state lands to a private concern. "The type of cover on lands can affect the whole agricultural and economic structure of communi ties," he said. - Owyhee Project's Welfare at Issue "Oregon has a great new Irri gation project at Owyhee. Ninety fire per cent of the watershed is grazing lands, under control of the federal government, the state and private owners. One-eighteenth of the area was granted to the state for school purposes. "If the government and private parties conserve ana protect me cover vegetation on their seven-tppn-plrhteentha and so stop ero sion and silting, it will be imme diate protection for Irrigation ais tricts. f jjj ft .y : "But If the state fails to coop .. rte and lease to the highest Lid- 7 der, regardless of the use or mis use of the land, the whole Pro gram is endangered and excessive erosion from tne state sections - continues to pour into your reser " rolrs. . This la a matter of immediate vrital imnortanm todav in .eastern Oregon, as many who read news papers are already aware. Robert N. Stanfield of Baker, who recently leased about 300, ann arrcs nt state school land In Malheur and Baker counties at an average of 1.5 cents an acre, was In Salem Wednesday contemng with members of the state land hnor1 over trma of bis lease. Stanfield, reports from Ontario stated,, had sub-leased six -sections of the 'scattered lands to other grazing interests at a reputed 10 cents an acre, but he said at the conference that 1 his . bid to the state was the highest and best re ceived after two calls sent out. Stanfield said the company he ronrpspntpil. the Ooeil Heart com pany, did not enter a bid for graz ing land at the first call, but did enter bids at the second call. In commenting upon the issue, He said: "The renting of these lands Is Is all so new that no lessee can hnno nn bo short a notice to uti lize the lands In a manner to en Joy In them more than a fraction al part of their real worth. So my bid was low In comparison to what T believe would be the ' normal rental value of the lands,' but low as It was, it was approximately 106 Tier cent greater than the to tal of an otner oias received, so i was the highest and best bidder. Better Land Leased . By Others, Claims Rnt hafnra m v hid was accent aii I nprmltted the state land board to accept the bids of the others who bid more for a smaii (Turn to Page 2, Col. . 1 ) Fascist Party in Japan Is Planned TOKYO, April l-(Thursday)-(flV-PoHUcal Japan prepared to- U&JT IOr m IXlUaltJA B UAl.Ca tamjiw"- loarllnr tin trt thft reneral Aa -o a' w - election April 30 made mandatory ,r v a. Am t,a rflsenlntlnn Af the hCTuse of representatives yes- As the contest opened it ap iivaI thA main alisnment would be the major parties, Min- . i , f . V selto . ana eseiyuaai, gua iuo government of Premier General Senjuro Hayashl and the power ful army and navy factions whose insistence brought about the dis solution. - TTnvsKhi exnressed con fldence the electorate would aup- .... . . a V. i port him ana vroaicaie au vui- For his support the premier and the military elements behind 1. 1 uvi tn thA creation of a 1 u u new national, fascist-inclined par ty. This movement nsteiTtu. mow i tha crnvernment'a , rmv'o nwd of political machinery for obtaining electoral support, . WHERE FIREWORKS BLAST J S -4 ' t .. . - t ; Twenty-one women were killed and ila, P. IM fireworks factory which employed 10O women. Fire which followed the blast razed the stmctnre. i Commonwealth soldiers and . volunteer workers nndertook rescue operations. Photo shows relatives of workejrs as they anxiously watched firemen. A series of recurring minor blast hampered rescue efforts. Igternational Illustrated News photo. Juvenile Bandits Still ion Rampage i t Trio Who Stole Car Here Leave Trail of Crime; School Fugitives OREGON CITY, March Zl-UPi- Search for three youths who es caped from the state training school at Woodburn Monday cen tered near Brightwood at Port land tonight as state police and kralning school of ficlala followed a trail of minor depredations. State ;Policeman W. A. Lewis reported being nearly run down by the boys today while checking cars at Sandy. He said he saw the car approaching at about 80 miles an hour and leaped behind his own car barely in time to save himself after a futile attempt to stop them. ; The three. Bob Franklin, How ard Cook and J. Randall, all of Portland, left the training school in a truck belonging to the insti tution. State police said reports indicated the boys stole a car In Salem Tuesday and later the same day held up a service station at The Dalles and drove away with out paying for gas obtained at Sandy. They were seen In Mll waukie today, where they obtained gas in the same fasbion. After being seen by Lewis the youths are believed to have sep arated. ; Randall and Franklin were reported seen in the woods near Brightwood. Officers believed Cook drove the car to Portland, where it was recovered. That three youths who escaped Tuesday night from the state training school may have escaped from Salem in the car stolen (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Perry Has Cinch On Tilden Series DETROIT,' March I l-iiP)-Fred Perry, of England, clinched his five-match tennis series with Wil liam T. (Big Bill) Tilden, veteran American star, by winning his third victory tonight in straight sets, 8-4, 6-4, -4. Perry had captured their matches at New York and Chica go prior to j Tilden's victory at Pittsburgh last night. The (44- year - old American scored many points on brilliant short drives but a large number of his shots went erratically into the net. j Revising Courthouse Floor ; Plans Is Near Completion County Commissioner Leroy Hewlett yesterday had virtually completed additional revisions in floor plans for the new county courthouse. He will go to Port land Friday to submit the chang es to the architects and urge that definite plans be worked out and brought to the county court next week If possible. Three major variations from the plans tentatively agreed up on with the architects here last Friday have developed through conferences with heads of the rounty j departments, Hewlett said.- 1 , - i . . , : - The outstanding change is the shifting of the offices and work rooms of the county engineer and surveyor from the first to the second floor j and of the county court hearing room from .the third to the second In order that the most closely interrelated de 1 4 r many others seriously injured when Prison Tour Here Is Prescribed as Crime Deterrent ROSEBURG, March tl-VP-A visit to the state penitentiary at Salem was prescribed as a preventative for crime by Cir cuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly today. In postponing sentence on Al Every, accused of forgery. Judge Wimberly ordered him taken on an Immediate tour of the institution . by Sheriff Percy Webb. . "It has been my experience that check writers are hard to discourage from their prac tices," the judge told everyone. "Generally they continue untii they land in the penitentiary. However, in view of the fact that you have a clear record and are recommended as a man of previous good character, I am going to give you a chance. You will be shown what it means to be on the inside of the peniten tiary and then you should know you do not want to go there." Mattson Suspect Entirely Geared TUCUMCARI, N. M., March ll-(P)-The deaprtment of justice dropped unceremoniously today the case of Vera Charlton, held since Saturday in connection with the kidnapping of Charles Matt son, and Sheriff Fred White of Quay county indicated the man would be released shortly. he action came suddenly with the arrival of M. C. Faulkner from the bureau of investigation at El Paso, Tex., to confer with Alex Street, operative from the same bureau. "The department of justice has withdrawn from the case," Sher iff White announced, "and : have advised Charlton be released." The 14-year-old Seattle man's likness to the description of the kidnaper caused the sheriff to apprehend him and call in the department of justice. " At no time were charges filed against Charlton, who submitted to arrest without resistance. Lincoln Widow Dies WASHINGTON, March ll-P) -Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, 90-year-old widow of Abraham Lin coln's son, died at her home in historic Georgetown today. ; partments may be on the same level. This change will bring these offices on one floor with those of the county clerk, recor der, commmissioners, juvenile officer and real estate agent. The next change Is a rear rangement of the half-submerged basement whereby the county health, relief and physician's of fices will be grouped in the east wing with windows looking out on a sunken court. The large west section of the basement will be devoted entirely , to storage and will have no windows. 1 Jurors' Dormitory t May Be Eliminated Hewlett said the plans for a jury dormitory on the fourth floor might be abandoned as an unnecessary expense. , The extent to which the new office arrangements may be car- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) KILLED 21 - J .: M,i.tii aa explosion shattered a Man Building Increase Shown For March Exceeds First Quarter of 1936; Permits For 24 New Homes Listed Residential building in Salem during March, as shown by per mits Issued by the city building inspector, eclipsed not only the previous March but the first three months of 1936. Permits for 24 new -bouses were taken out during the past month with the cost, as shown on the permits, toalling 164,599. Build ing permits for March, 1936, to talled only $28,045 for 13 new houses while the total for the first three months of 1936 was 157,395. S7204 less than for last month alone. Two years ago, in March, 1935, only two permits for new houses were taken out, to talling 11600. Salem's total building expendi ture for last month. Including al terations and repairs as well as new construction, was $124,186. The largest permit Issued during the month was one for the erec tion of a shop building at the new Salem high school at a cost of $34,699. Permits Issued totalled 101. March construction of new houses brought the total of new dwellings for the year to 60, a third of 1936's total of 151 for the year. Burglars Busy at Dallas, Rickreall DALLAS-, March 31. Burglars were busy in the Dallas and Rick reall Tlcinltr Tuesdav nirht. The small outer door of the Dallas postoffice wag jimmied sometime during the night and sacks of out going mall were tampered with. A letter from the local Stand- ard Oil office was opened ' al though it did not contain money. A complete check up is being made at, the postoffice to determ ine whether anything of value is missing. The tnner office was not entered. - Auto rohea vr ati1n f mm the parked cars of two local res idents. The D. V. Price general store at Rickreall was broken Into pre sumably by the same gang and Quantities of bacon, ham. eerers. knives and yither . merchandise were stolen. Police are working on the the ory tnat ail three robberies were committed by the same persons. Sit-Down Issue Is Viewed by Martin LAKEVIEW, March tl-VP)-Governor Charles H. Martin will handle the sit-down strike sit uation If it threatens in Oregon, he said in an address before the Rotary club here today. "I hope and pray they will not come," he said. "The other day Senator Robinson said they are state issues. Thank God for that. I'll solve that situation If It comes. ' The governor visited here with members of the state highway commission on a tour of central Oregon roads. At Bend, this morning, R, H. Baldock. commmission engineer. said an attempt would be made to open the MeKenzIe detour over Santiam pass In May. Senators Hear Heated Debate On Court Plan Justice Roberts Singled Out as "Dictator" of National Policies Dorothy Thompson Heard by Committee ; Fears Eventual Result WASHINGTON, March 3l-fP)-Two administration senators com plained today that power over fundamental economic and social legislation now rests "upon the vacillating judgment and human frailty of a single judge" of the supreme court. . Minton of Indiana, a defender of the Roosevelt court legisla tion, and Schwellenbach o f Washington, friendly but uncom mitted, told the senate that the court's reversal on the issue of minimum wage laws showed As sociate Justice Roberts to hold too much power. Schwellenbach called it the 'power of a Mussol ini." Senator Wheeler, (D-Mont.,). a foe of the President's bill, Laid its proponets regretted the lat est supreme court decision be cause it destroyed some of their arguments for "packing' the xourt. Statesman, Writer. Heard By Committee Meanwhile, the senate Judic iary committee was receiving tes timony against the legislation, which would empower the Pres ident to increase the member ship of the court unless Justices past seventy retire. Dorothy Thompson, columnist, and Prof. Edwin Borchard of the Yale un iversity law school were the wit nesses. , Miss Thompson objected to the measure as the possible forerun (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Will Hold Father In Model's Death Charge Not Revealed But Solution of Case by Today Promised NEW YORK, April l-(Thurs-day) UP) Gay Ronnie Gedeon's eccentric father told' again and again early today how he found the pretty model's battered body in her east 6th street apartment as police relentlessly hammered hour after hour at his alibi for the Saturday night before Easter. The New York Times Quoted' "a high police official" that "Ge deon will be arrested on a formal charge" today and that "under no circumstances will he be re leased." - 9-wmi There was no Inkling of what the "formal charge" police might be considering against Gedeon, who reported to police headquar ters last Sunday afternoon that he had found his daughter, his wife, Mary, and Frank Byrnes, a roomer, slain in his estranged wife's apartment. The Times said a pistol had been found hidden in Gedeon's upholstery shop. (Possession of a pistol wlth (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) Sit-Down Starts At Fisher Plant . PONTIAC, Mich.. March ll- Workers on the evening and night shifts at the Fisher body plant here began a sit-down strike tonight. Police were guarding the gates. The strike was reported to have been in protest against the alleged discharge of members of the Unit ed Automobile Workers of Amer ica, with which the corporation signed an agreement following the widespread. General Motors strikew Late Sports ' PORTLAND, Ore., March 31-(,ip-Dean Detton, 24, Salt Lake claimant of the world's heavy weight wrestling championship, used his pet toe hold to pin Sin dor Szabo, 212-pound challenger from Hungary, two out of three falls here tonight. The Red Shadow, 220. of Port land, took the call over Jim Clark. 220, of Boston, winning the first fall with a back-breaker, and the second on a fouL , ' - OAKLAND, Calif.. March 31 -OTV-Marty Simmons, 169, Sagi naw, Mich., outpointed Emilio Martlnea. 176, Denver; in a 10 round main event here tonight. Charley Belanger, 187, Winni peg, Can., knocked down Frankle Hammer, 175, Oakland , four times in the seventh round of the semi-final, but received only a draw at the end of 10 rounds. Steel Pine Water System Is Being f abricated in Portland Deliveries Late This Month Pipe Laying Well Along; House Plans Depend Upon Weather THE way for early completion of the Salem-Stayton water pipeline cleared this week with the start of steel pipe mak ing at the Steel Tank and Pipe company plant in Port land, Water Manager Cuyler VanPatten reported last night. F. F. Jenkins, superintendent for the American Concrete & Steel Pipe company, has notified the water department that sieet pipe aenveries are expected o to start late this month. Construction of the approxi mately 11-mile long steel section of the water supply line probab ly will begin from the west end of the project, on Rural avenue at Fairmount reservoir. Jenkins' concern, which Is well along with laying the nearly six miles of concrete pipe from Stayton west ward, also will lay the steel pipe. Delivery of steel pipe original ly was scheduled for early Jan nary, but the maritime strike de layed shipment of plate from the Atlantic seaboard to the fabricat ing plant in Portland. The steel pipe will be 36 in ches in diameter for most of its (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Half Hour Parking Enforcement Soon New Signs Will Be Placed and Then Rules Put in Effect, Announced That Salem's 30-mlnute park ing ordinance, which has been ly ing dormant since its passage, will go into active operation within the next week was forecast when the state highway department be gan yesterday to prepare for the placing of standardised parking signs along downtown streets. Holes for the Iron sign posts will be drilled in pavements today and the highway department ex pect to have all the signs placed within three days. Eighty-five signs will be Installed. The signs, conforming . to a standard adopted by the highway department, will be rectangular and 12 by 18 Inches in size. They are white with green lettering. Start Enforcement When Signs Placed - Mayor V. E. Kuhn said yester day that enforcement of the park ing ordinance would become ac tive as soon as all signs are plac ed. The new law is expected to cause some confusion among Sa lem drivers accustomed to parking for an hour's time. As soon as the weather is suit able ths highway department will begin changing parking stalls on downtown streets from the pres (Tura to Page 2, CoL 8) Violence Feature Of Newsboys War SEATTLE, March ll-ff)-Re-porters were ordered out of the labor temple here tonight during a central labor council session at which, police said, numerous fist fights broke out in corridors and stairways. One person was in jured. The fighting apparently was over the current newsboys' union war, in which a "rank and file" faction was restrained by a court, order from picketing newsstands. Before reporters left, they said, the meeting was in an uproar with members of the maritime federation charging that team sters were using "beef squad" tac tics. Violence broke out in the news boys war tonight, sending five men to hospitals and causing the arrest of two members' of the teamsters' union. Norman Davis May Negotiate For New Disarmament Meet LONDON, March 31 HJPr A Norman H. Davis, American am bassador at large, reached Lon don today, there were authorita tive indications President Roose velt may employ him to feel out the possibility of a new move toward disarmament. Although Mr. Davis immediate mission is to head the United States delegation at the interna tional sugar conference, the Bru tish press emphasized the signif icance of his arrival in connection with larger questions of world peace and economic cooperation. .- A member of Mr. Davis suite said some of the newspapers con jectures were "not far fetched."; America's Peace Policy to Be Stated 1 An authoritative source said that although the ambassador os tensibly is here only to talk sug for Citv's Indicated; Concrete Reservoir Open Extenninate Foes Is Stalin Demand "Enemies of Workers" to Receive; No Mercy Is ! Leader's Decree MOSCOW, April l-(Thursday) -.Tjf-Joseph Stalin's demand for "merciless" extermination of all Bolshevist enemies was served on the national early today. He made the demand in a speech, published this morning, delivered March K in the Kremlin at the closing session of a plenum of the central committee of the communist party. Observers regarded the speech as of greatest significance because, they said,' the secretary of the central committee made perfectly cleat that after a decade of strug gling with "Trotskyism," he now was determined to wipe out com pletely all soviet opposition. His statement on that point was interpreted aa in the nature of an ultimatum to the party. - He said: "I think it is clear-that the present wreckers and diverslon Ists no matter whether they have masked themselves nnder the flag of Trotskyism or Bukharinlsm have lost their Influence in the workers' movement and have be come simply an unprincipled and idealless band of - professional wreckers, dlrerslonlsts, spies and murderers. . "It is quite clear these gentle men should be destroyed, exterm lnated mercilessly as enemies of the working class and enemies of our country. "This is clear and does not de mand further interpretation." Socialist Troops Continue Advance -(0op7rlglte4, 1937. y Associated Frcssl The s Madrid-Valencia j govern ment claimed rapid progress in a drive on the original seat of the insurgent regime, Burgos; a railroad town capitulated to the follow-up thrust of victorious government troops on the south ern front, insurgent planes rain ed death on morning ' worship pers In DuTango. These things and others made up another day of war in Spain yesterday. The drone of bombing planes suddenly blanketed the intona tions of priests in yesterday mor ning's masses at Durango in the Biscay region of northwest Spain, then came the roar of exploding bombs, j Scores were killed or wound ed, most of them in the "church es. ; ' - Three other towns In the same sector, I El Orrlo. Ochoandiano and TJbidea - also were damaged in similar onslaughts, while a general Insurgent land offensive along: the entire Biscayan front about Oviedo was reported hurl ed back by counter-attacking gov ernment troops. ar with experts of other nations next week he may also. In talks with more highly placed states men, find time to re-emphasize the three basic points of Ameri can foreign policy: Peace, dis armament and international eco nomic cooperation. While in London it is known Mr. Davis Intends to confer with Ramsay MacDonald, lord presi dent of the coundl and former prime minister; Walter; Runci man, president of the British board of trade, who recently vis ited Washington and talked with administration leaders, and Wil liam Ormsby-Gore, secretary for the colonies. An American traveling with tne ambassador said Mr. Davis would "take ! up where Mr. Runctman left off in Washington" that i. . - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Old Contracts easNeVv 400,000 to Quit Work on Friday If Agreement Not Reached Then Most Demands Dropped hy. Union; Operators Talk With Lewis (By the Associated Press) A strike of 300,000 soft coz.1 miners- appeared -almost Inevita ble yesterday when negotiators representing the Unltid Mice workers and operators failed to agree on a wage and hour con tract to replace one which ex pired at midnight. John L. Lewis, president of the Miners' union, announced after the joint conference recessed in New .York that the miners would not work Friday unless they were notified a new contract had been signed. Today Is a miners holi dayJohn L. Lewis day em which the workers celebrate the inauguration of the eight-hour ay in the mines. Most of Demands Reported Dropped The conference recessed until 4 p.m. today so - a subcommittee could continue efforts to break a deadlock on the wage issue. Ear lier it was reported the union had dropped-all of its previous de mands except for wage increases, time and one-half for overtime and the right to ask changes in the new contract on 30 days no tice. Some of the demands were rejected by several . large group of operators at today's' final ses sion. " - Lewis advised operators to ar range with the union's district officers for maintenance men to keep the mines free of water atd In repair. He said it might be tic possible to notify some local unions today if a settlement was reached. While the unionists . dickered with the owners' representative in New York, fresh disputes prompted WPA workers, clerks, hotel employes and truck driv ers to leave their jobs. Employers' Tactics Blamed by Wagner Oratory - anent the cause aad cure of "sltdown" strikes echoed again in the halls of congress. Senator Wagner (D-NY) declared they had 'been "provoked by the long-standing ruthless tactice of a few great corporations." He pictured the. national labor rela tions act a law he wrote as the instrument for settling dipaie if the federal government had the power and determination to en force it on a nationwide scale. Bst corporations, he added, had "hamstrung" It- with court in JuneUons. A walkout of 1200 truck driv ers and helpers demanding high er wages tied up more than 4t fuel companies in the greater Boston area. . Gov. Frank Murphy of Michi gan announced he would "orees day and night" for solution of the strike at the Chrysler Motor Corp., when Chairman Walter P. Chrysler and Lewis resume sched uled parleys at Lansing tomorrow. At Flint, meanwhile, a strike forced suspension of service at the 300-room Hotel Durant, where a state convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution was in session. . Four more shops shut their doors in a clerks' strike at Ak ron, O., bringing to 14 the num ber of "five to a dollar" store closed by the dispute. - Six Gonvicted of Criminal Neglect NEW KORK. March ll-TV Slx men were convicted of crim inal negligence tonight in con nection with the death of It workmen in the collapse of a new Bronx apartment house lac June 1. Defendants included two Brorx officials. Michael C. E. Thleda. plans examiner of the B area a of Buildings, and Albert F. Hei ne, Inspector of masonry for the bureau. Others were Louis Stin berg, owner of the building; his son. Max. Harry B. Rutkln. ar chitect, and Vincent Valentine, masonry contractor. B A L L A D E of TODAy By R. C Before you venture out of doors your coattaila you had best inspect, take notice of the calendar and be forewarned what to expect: for it's the pranksters holiday when trust ing souls are held fair prey; ''look ere yon leap" on April first must be your never-falling rule, for If you slip you're sure to hear a raucous, merry "April Fool!" Expir i. Terms Argued