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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1937)
PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregoo Thursday Morning, April 1, 1937 StateV Lease Is Hit Carpenter. ; Director of V Grazing,' Says Owyhee Welfare at Issue (Continued from page 1) area per acre than ray bid Cor the total area In the two counties. " The sections that were then delet ed from my lease were probably of far more than the average vai- he"bf the entire area. f In- reply to a statement by Sec retary of State Earl Sneil tnat the lease was granted with the Understanding Stanfield would fise it for grazing purposes. and riot for personal commercial pur poses. Stanfield said: "That was not under the terms of the lease. I believe I hare a right to sub-lease some of my lands by charging a fee for tres passing by others. Much of the land I leased is not worth a cent The lease was for. one year un der terms Elmnar 10 inose pro- Tided . under the Taylor grazing act. .Treasurer Rufus C. Holman, who has been the chief figure in realizing returns of state lands for the Irreducible school fund. said the meeting Wednesday would not take any action, but the conference was called to con sider further the policy of the state relative to the school lands. Will Hold Father - In Model's Death (Continued from Page 1) out permit is a felony in New York state), i Gedeon, once questioned and released, was brought back to headquarters yesterday when of ficers turned their fire on his alibi that he was playing at skee- ball until 3 a. m. Easter mor ning. Medical Examiner Gonzales has determined that Byrnes and Mrs. Gedeon were killed around 11 p. m. and lovely Ronnie short ly after 3 a. m. when she re turned from a party. "The "high official" quoted by tne - Times, said a motive had been established and that there was a definite suspect in the ease. Neither the motive nor the suspect's name was divulged. Revising of Floor Plans Near Finish (Continued from page l)s ied out will depend upon how well the architects can adapt them to the smaller perimeter of the building under the plan as revised last week. "There is not an office in the building that will not have twice as much space as now," Hewlett ' aaid. "And we are leaving much vnassigned space to enable the architects to fit the new layout to the wall plan." . Offices of the sheriff, assessor. treasurer, county agent and sup erintendent of schools and the public assembly room have been left on the first floor. The cir cuit and Justice courts, their judges and juries, the district at torney's office and the law li brary will be located on the third . floor, virtually as planned last week. Shelburn Pupils Back to Classes SHELBURN, March 31. Shel burn high school pupils are in school again, having been on a vacation due to Scio high school strike which was settled and stu dents returned to classes Thurs day. The next meeting of the Wes toic club will be held April 1, with Mrs. Will Purdy and Mrs. Kenneth Purdy aa Joint hostesses. The Jolly "500" card club met recently at the home of Mr. and Mm. Frank Sens. The next meet ing will be with Mr. and Mrs. E. S. McCrea of near Oak Creek. A dinner in honor of James Johnston's 76th birthday was held at the family home Sunday with his children and grandchil dren helping him celebrate. ELSIXORE Today Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor la "Person- - al Property" and "Bill Cracks Down" with Grant Withers. GRAND Today Tyrone Power, Loret- ta Young and Don Ameche in "Love Is News." . -Saturday D o a b 1 feature. Richard Arlen In "Secret Valley and Claire Trevor In "Time Out For Romance." Saturday Mid-night matinee only, "Gambling With Souls." . .. BOLLYWOOD Today Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray In "The Bride Comes Home." Friday Doable bill. Bob Steele In "Border Phantom" and "Everything Is Than- dcr" with Constance Ben- nett and Richard Montgomery. STATE Today Edna Forbore "Come : and Get It" with . Frances. Farmer. Friday Eastern circuit van- devills on the stags plus screen attraction. CAPITOL Today - Double bill, Rl cardo Cortes in "Her Hus- band Lies" and "Gold Dig- trs on 937" with Dick PowelL . Policy The Call Board"! Levf(is With Aides After Chrysler 'I . i V -A i Ed Hn When John 1 Lewis, chairman of the GLO, left the state capltol building at Lansing. Mich., after reaching a truce in conference with Walter Chrys ler and Got. Frank Murphy, ha was accompanied Steel Pipe Being Made For System (Continued from Page 1) length, one-quarter inch thick. dipped in a hot asphaltlc bath wrapped with an asnhalt-imnrec- nated felt to protect it against cnemical actum underground. Open House Plaas Depend On Weather The water department still plans to hold open house at the new reservoir at Rural avenue and Jobn street Satnrdav after. noon and Sunday, Van Patten said. The public visitation days Will ' not b noMtnonerf nnlMi heavy rains make ground condi tions oveny muddy. Visitors will be shown through the control house in which are located the two electrically-driven centrlfnral nnmna which ann- Dlv the new hilltnn wat or tanlr automatic pressure recording de vices ana a maze or valves to control the water flow In and out of the two reservoir iMtlom Citizens who wish to do so will be taken inside the east section of the covered reservoir for a last view before water is turned in. The west section la now fnll and. In service.! Norman Davis to Favor Arms Meet (Continued from Page 1) would resume Anglo-American talks looking toward reciprocal lowering of tariffs. PARIS. March 31- Jn-nnnrt that Norman H. Davis, American ambassador at large, mav tr to advance the prospects of arms limitation and or lowering Inter national trade barrier v fav orably received by French offi cials ana newspapers tonight. ROME. March 91 tj- definitely has discarded every im mediate hope for disarmament, informed sources said tonight. Three Are Killed By Monoxide Gas PORTLAND. ! Ore.. March 31-W)-The bodies of Mrs. Lola M. Diack, 35, and her two sons Ar chie. 3, and Samuel Jr., three months, were found In the garage at their borne here today. Deputy Coroner Gideon Snook said death was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. The bodies were found by a power company employe who heard a car motor running in the closed garage, j John S. Baiiiek Makes Improvement to House Purchase at Gervais GERVAIS. March 31 John S. Banick Is Improving the property he recently bought north of town by installing ja bathroom and F. H. Cannard a 40-acre Improved pumping system. O. T. Wadsworth has sold for property east of Concomly to An ton Rents of the Wheatland Ferry district, who will move to It In the near future. The place has been unoccupied since last fall. Methodists to Sponsor Boy Scout Troop Which Legion Post Gives Up 8ILVERTON. March 31. The Boy Scouts who have been spon sored at Silverton by the Ameri can Legion post will hereafter be sponsored by a committee from the Methodist church. A new scoot master will be selected and new plans made. The committee In charge con sists MLB. Alfred. Dr. R Moore Stewart. Harold Davia, Qulnton Isley and F. E. Sylvester. COMING SUNDAY JJf-S 1 f I John I Lewis Acting Governor Splits Wood and Injures His Eye Appearing at the state office building Wednesday wearing dark glasses and unable to read, Frank M. Franclscovlch of As toria, president of the senate, naa some explaining to ao. "While I have been president of the senate I have never had any trouble with my eyes," Fran clscovlch said, "but lust as loon as I became governor for a few days last week things began to nappen. The senator said that while splitting wood last Friday a splinter pierced his right eye-ball. He will retain the sight of his eye and he expected complete re covery. As president of the senate Franclscovlch becomes acting governor when Governor Martin leaves the state. The governor was at Bremerton. Washington over Easter. Senators Debate High Court Issue (Continued from page 1) ner of a dictatorship, not by President Roosevelt, but i . successor, and drew an analogy between the legislation and events in Kuronean cnuntriAS leading to the abolition of de mocracy. Prof. Borchard contended the bill, while "within the letter of the Constitution." -wan "in a broader sense unconstitutional" because in the minds of many, it Is calculated to make the su preme court subservient to the executive." During the day. Senator Norrl- (Ind-Neb.) visited the White House and said later that his position on the court bill was unchanged, that be favored nth- er methods of approaching the problem, but that he would "vote for the plan" If ha "can't get anything better." Half Hour Parking Enforcement Soon (Continued from page 1) ent 45-derree ane-la tn !n.HAvi-. angle. Parallel parking strips will do painted on State street from Commercial to Church, on Liberty street from Court to Chemeketa and on High street from Ferry to Center. Parallel narklnr. a vat Am tn which most Salem motorists are unaccustomed, may provide ; a problem at first. Under the high way department's nlan is tn. n feet are allowed for each parked car. Girls Plan to Carry Four Phases of 4-H Club Work ORCHARD HEIGHTS Anrit t The recently reorganized 4-H girls' work has been divided into four groups: gardening, flower culture, sewing and cooking. With their leader. Mrs. Myrtle Clarke, thev meet on Ttrn day night at the Popcorn and Mountain View schools alternate ly. Later In the year, they plan Boy Scouts Meet WOODBUBV. r..K - coy Scouts met t vir. .-- ton Junior high school Monday for their regular business meet ing. Reports were made of the scout hikh which the rtoop took Saturday to Monitor and back. Af ter the business mHn bers adjourned to the high school H,M',7lH) The Bride Comes 'Lawless Laad Home' I TWO FEATURES ? In ; Thunder "Border with ' Phantom" Constance Bennett 1 SM Strike Truce Wyndham Mortimer by three of his aide, ail rice presidents of the CL I. O.. left to right, an unidentified union -leader Ed Han, Lewis, himself, and Wyndham Mortt-i mer juvenile Bandits Still on Rampage (Continued from page 1) Tuesday night from Xlnn Martin, 2085 North Commercial, was when the wood truck in which they escaped from the training school was found by city police yesterday in the 1800 block on iMortn cnurcn street. The three escapees were Edwin Franklin. 17, Roy Randall, IT, ana Howard cook, 17. Franklin, one of the state nenl tentiary prisoners paroled to the training scnooi, was sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary from Clackamas county on a charge of robbery while armed after halding no a caa station at Canbv last November IS. With another boy he had one wild night In which their flight In a stolen car finally ended : among the tomb stones or the Masonic cemetery in Albany after a chase through the Albany business district by state Jfonceman Walter Winters. Valley Project's Importance Told CORVALLIS. Marrh 91-OVT1.. proposed Willamette vallev 1t1- opment would mean added pros perity to uregon agriculture and kindred industries, and would protect the vallev arainar nnnA losses that might run Into mil lions. Col. Thomas M. Robins of the United States army engineers told the institute nf f Tri fffltlnn si e rlculture here today. under plans to be submitted to congress by the war department seven reservoirs with a storage ca pacity of 1. 3S8.000 would be constructed to partially control and regulate 45 per cent of the drainage area In the valley uuio oaiern. "By Imnounritnr a .... - O UUHUg tne nigh seannn fnr 1. ln low water, floods would be controlled, much nMds irnganon would be made avail able, navigation would be encour aged and stream pollution reduc ed, Robins said. Some reser roirs would also bo suitable for power development, he added. Portland Taxicab Firm Is Picketed PORTLAND, Ore.. March II-W-Servlce station nnlon pickets tied up a local cab company today, appearing at noon outside a gar age where tha taxi company main tains headquarters. cn of tho union said the drivers refused to pass tha picket line. The announced reason for the picketing was the : alleged dis charge by the garage of an em ploye for Joining tho new service station union. Labish Program Delayed There will be no program at tho Lake Labish school tomorrow night as originally scheduled. The affair has been postponed for one week to April 9 . Last Day Today! "COME AND GET IP JOEL MeCREA FRANCES FARMER FRIDAY - SATURDAY 4 Acts Vaudeville -Plus "DOXT TURN 'EM LOOSE" ASK US ABOUT INSURANCE! If you have an insurance ques tion. If you -want an insurance policy explained, a rat checked, or any other Insur ance service Just contact oar service department. SERICE IS YOURS FOR THE . ASKING Insurance Department Hawkins & Roberts, Inc. Insurance In All Its Branches. Including Life Caardlan Bide Pbosw 4iO mm Whooping Cough Is On Wane Now MONMOUTH. April 1 Whoop ing cough patients here are all much Improved, bat a few per sons were seriously sick. Th In fant son . of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reeves Is recovering, after a long siege. Frank Robinson, 65, who says ho never was sick In ' his lifetime before, has been suffer lng since January from effects of an attack of whooping cough. Ho was In bed nearly five weeks nf that tuna, and at present is able to bo out of doors In good weather. Glenn Robinson, who has been attending a diesel school of en gineering In San Francisco, com pleted his work last week and Is at homo for a visit. Clyde Davis. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira A. Davis, Monmouth, also completed a course In tho same school earl ier In the year. Mrs. van Pollan. a long tun resident of Monmouth, was mar ried recently to J. M. Chappell. also of Monmouth. They ' havo moved to Corvallls where Camp bell baa property Interest. Temperance Talk, Pictures Offered MARION. March 11 Un n W Stacer. a Tenreaant.ti nf th Marlon county , W.C.T.U.. visited tne Marion school Thursday, giv ing a lecture and ihnwin m iidu Illustrating the effects of alcohol A . m - - on tne Biinu Dooy. Th Ladles Sewing club enter tainment Saturday night was greeted with a full house, and door receipts were very satisfac tory. Miss Madel Kappauf was awarded tha club unfit. t. w plays "Aunt Adeline" and "The uw wore well enacted and much enjoyed. A daneo followed. Bethel Only One-Room School in County That Has Part in Broadcast BETHEL. March Jl Bethel Is the only one-room school that was selected to provide a number on the 4-H club program broad cast from Corvallls Monday night. Twelv schools took part. Tho Bethel 4-H club 'rhythm band played "Black Hawk" waits with Jean Haln at the piano. Mrs. Car malita Weddle accompanied the group. Cars were provided by Cass A. Nichols. Arthur Weddle, Mrs. J. A. Haln, Mrs. W. L. Creech. Annual Parent-Teacher Mothers and Daughters Banquet Will Be May 5 SILVERTON, March 11 Tha annual Parent-Teachers uanria. tion mother and daughter banquet naa oeen set for May 5. Mrs. Leo Hasklns Is In charge of arrange- menis. Committees annointiwf nnA Mrs. Hasklns Include: program. Mrs. Tom A. Anderson tlrV. sales. Mrs. H. R. Irish; reception. Mrs. Earl Adam finwm 7.n. Hutton. Here's another big i- hit that's twice as vrfJXT7?,r. funny as -"My Man !-- Godfrey"!!; ' ' L j tho lovdlaff and r f - X, thrill -match: of the IJL vj'.;1;;.'y I AND 8ND-HIT ' . ' ea t ' "BILL CRACKS-DOWN" site WITH j GRANT' WITHERS jT 25 i" TODAY - FRL - SAT. f SA " J 2 BIG. HITS I ( rVlfpl Gangland ttrikea at - J - I IU a big-time gambler I "vt A thrill sensation I , t ' v sZ' of the Big 2 hit y ..aif . ! Auto Workers? - .V' If - ' sVi n - , , , t ..y - . r MSSaMSBBHaSBaBaaBBSSaSaSBSBSaBSasaSBSBBBBBBSSSSSBSSMSSaSKBBBSfc jMarttai stddreaainr Principal speaker at tho giant naa meeting- of unionists la Cadinao square. Detroit. Homer & Martin, president of th United Antotno-. hOe Workers of America, la seen directing- his remarks to offlrtals of th city and state, to manufacturers and union workers. PoUc estimated tho crowd at sAOOO. but union loaders said about 250.000 Alurnnae Association's - Card Party Greeted br Big Crowd, $lu Angel MT. ANGEL, March SL The card party sponsored by the local members of the alumna associa tion of Mt. Angel Academy and Normal, given In the academy auditorium Tuesday night, tw a a wen attended. TwentT-six tablse were In nlav. IE brldre and 11 MS0O". Tha hfrh score honors In bridge were won by Mrs. Emll Bochsler, first, and Mrs. Susanna Beyer, second. First prise In '500' went to J. M. Brock. haus. and the second to MUs Mar ia Flerchlnger. Stanley Dud a re ceived tne draw prize. Lunch was served by Miss Theresa Dehler. cnairman. Mrs. J. A. Kaiser and Mrs. Paul Schwab, assisted some or tne Normal students. Betty Jane Proctor, Stewardess on United Air Lines, Is Visitor WOODBURN. March S1WU Bettr Jane Proctor, dinrhiw nf Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Proctor. Is vis iting for a few davs at th hnma of her parents after a month-s va canon as stewardess of the unit ed Air Lines dnrlnr wfclrfc Hm, she visited In many parts of the unuea states. She visited rela tives in Peoria. 111.. rnnnjMt over In Chlcaao. New VnrV Angeles. San Francisco and other uauiornia dues and spent some time in the state of WuUnrtMi After her visit her with h parents sue win return tn ki, nt. lea as stewardeaa. Chiei at Big Rally there, Horn Retiring as Jraper's JIanager EUGENE, March Sl-r&V-RIch- ard C Horn, one of the founders of th Eugene News, said today he had withdrawn entirely from Its management and will return t once to Portland to take up nis real estate business there. Sheldon F. Sackett. Marshfleld Publisher, who aeanlred th iu. per in January announced last week he waa withdrawing from active management , and that di rection would be assumed by Horn. No announcement of Horn's successor was made today. ; MIDNITE 11:30 P. T WPS THE Lta OFF TKF VUTTF ' I All (I RIPS THE LT3 OFF SLATE RACKET AND EXPOSES FOt THE FIRST TIUE THIS SINtSTFJI CEMACE TO CCSE IVERMADI MSMEMCE. - indispensable Econoaie JForeo Whaterer is worth owning is worth pro tecring, and the best protectioa Is injur ancc for your life, your home, youx auto mobile everything you possess.- t Check your own protectioa "needj wftH your insurance representative. He" will ac cept the responsibiiity of providing the best protectioa possible for you oa most - economical terms. ' - . Our Trust Service provides another vital protective measureThe Life Insurance Trust which afeguards proceeds from iifej Insurance policies. Inquire. Vfell gladly give you details. -. ' "i ' ' v . ' ' -" Resources Over 120 Millions D. W. Eyre, Masuicer - t -. , : Salem (LTnlted States 101 Ranch Owner Gives Up Battle PONCA CITY. Okla., March 31 (7 Broke and weary from years of fighting to retain his "inland empire" of 101,000 acres, CoL Zaek Miller surrendered the his toric 101 ranch white house to creditors today. "He just didn't have money to keep up' the fight." said Sid White cowboy attorney who aid ed Miller In a long legal struggle. The ranch once was the home of the famous 101 wild west ahow. Miller told friends when he turned over tho white house ranch headquarters to U. ' S. Deputy Marshal Roy Hopper that he was "heading for Oklahoma City to see about a Job with tho state board of affairs. Pipeline Program Detail Discussed The city water construction committee - probably will request the city council Monday night to authorize the water commission to handle negotiations in connec tion with tree and shrubbery dam ages which will result from laying a SO-lnch pipeline from Fair mount reservoir along Rural ave nue to South 12th street. Mayor V. K. Kuhn aald yesterday. Tho water department Is now prepar ing to undertake the project. While the parking strips In which the main will be laid are city property, city officials plaa to give some consideration to abutting owners who hare planted trees and shrubs that may be dam aged in the operation. TMi CAYEST MEWS PAPS ft COMEDY DftAMA OFTHCSASO CHOV sat. M. ONLY THE VHTTF L. C Smith, AaeC Ugr. . . Oirancli National EanTi J Seat8 H IUIW