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t 'i?WL j. intone (jftiiRtini (C fiSX-lfe Baseball Baseball season ' la here. With Coast league openers today. Keep In touch with the diamond sport by read ing The Statesman. Weather Oceaslonal rain today ana Sunday, moderate; Max. Temp. Friday 53, MJn. S8, river 7JS feet, rain .09 inch, southwest wind. POUNDS EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning:, April 3, 1937 Price 3e; Newsstands 5c No. e Final eaicJii VVVM K. iHtlUI- UitMEiNSW .-SSI If II r fu I itt " ; MUNDnEr' 1651 " : ! no SI Down Ml Fcdfc TED mm City's Power High Price on Loganberries Set by Board Minimum of 6 Cents on All : Sales Mandatory; Grades Are Changed . Less Than Half Crop Is Forecast for Season at Meeting Here The Oregon loganberry control board, meeting here yesterday, fixed a 66 cent minimum price on 1937 crop loganberries used lor any and all purposes. This will include Juice, canning, freez ing and all logan deals. The price last year -was 4 cents. The board also made consider? able change In grades and wiped out the old practice of using the tolerance as -a penalty. Evidence late yesterday was that some dealers believe the lo gan control price too stiff, but on the other hand one large plant, Hunt Bros., which had contracted to meet the logan control . board price, would make no kick about meeting the price. Half Crop or Less Present .Estimate "The board considered that ordinarily the 64 cent minimum established would be too high, but due to the short crop and the price of other fruit, the members believe the price established is not out of line," William J. Lin , foot, control board secretary, said after the meeting. . The crop is now estimated at not over 50 per cent of normal, or with a probable 1500 tons to be picked this year. The normal crop is 3000 to 3500 tons. The board, in announcing grades, said the price is for logan berries which are clean, free from insect damage, mold, decay and excessive moisture and of a de gree of ripeness suitable for the purpose for which they are to be used, to be specified at the time of sale by the grower to the seller. In grading, no tolerance will be allowed the grower for berries not clean, free of insect damage, mold, decay or excessive moisture. For logans which do not meet the degree of ripeness, a tolerance of 10 per cent will be allowed the grower and should the percent age below such requirement ex ceed the 10 per cent tolerance al lowed, then only ! the amount above the 10 per cent tolerance shall be deducted, j . Contracts Void If I Lower Price Set ! Contracts which have been written on berries of control board ..members already this season and not cleared through the logan berry control board directors do not mean a thing, Llnfoot de clared after the price had been set. The control board had pre Tlously sent out warnings to this end. i- Some contracts written with a ' 5-cent guarantee and stipulation to meet the control board price are outstanding, and those that have been cleared through the control board and contain the con trol board rider are satisfactory. Some contracts are also out standing with a 5-cent price named, plus any Increase which might come in the buyers mar ket, which may mean everything .or nothing to the grower. A few Independent growers who have not signed with the control board have sold their crop at a straight 6 cents, and over their contracts the control board has no exercise. Rules for Selling . Are Not Changed The same rules for selling as last year will apply: to loganberry control board members again. These provide that the grower find his buyer, the buyer to pay the control board minimum, with a contract in triplicate to be made, at copy for each the grower, buy er and the control board office, with grower and buyer signatures to be followed by signature of the secretary or one of the con trol board's ' directors. Seventy five cents per ton is to be deduct ed and paid by the buyer to the control board for operation ex penses, and the balance will be paid the grower by buyer. All but one member of the con trol board's directors attended the meeting here yesterday when the 1F3T price was fixed. Present were: Frank Hrubets, Salem, president; O. L. Davis, Wood burn Berry Growers' association, rice - president; J. J, Fisher, Gresham, Berry Growers associa tion; George Smith, Stay ton Can ning company; J. H. Hugill. Hub bard Berry Growers association; Carl Laurman, Monmouth; H. G. Rumbaugh, Albany; Earl Horn er, Estacada; William J. Llnfoot, Salem, secretary. Former South Dakotans, Dcjjprihis SDririz'Picture Make YouF ?$.esick? j(j$ Toppled telephone and power poles, snow-bound roads and a snowfall of 13 inches ushered in spring In South Dakota. Photo taken in Ab erdeen, 8. D. Five Are Injured In Auto Smashup i ' One Seriously; Collision Head-on Occurs Near Front and Center Five persons were injured when cars driven by Laurence Leasure, route 3, and Willow Helen Gib son, 16, route 2, met in a near head-on collision on Center street, between -Commercial and Front streets, about 10 o'clock last night. I Most seriously Injured was Marjorle Van Dyke, 16, route 3, a passenger, in the light ..delivery truck Miss Gibson was driving west on Center street when the accident occurred. She received severe face lacerations which re quired surgical attention. Miss Gibson received a bad cut on her right knee, j Leasure, t whose car contained five passengers, luckily escaped severe injury when the force of the impact threw him against the steering wheel, shattering it. He had slight scratches on the face and minor chest injuries. Laurel R. Lamb, 991 First street. West Salem, who with Mrs. Lamb was i a passenger in the Leasure sedan, received a lacera tion near the right temple. Mary Ann Leasure, 9, was bruised slightly about the lips. Neither Mrs. Leasure, Mrs. Lamb nor Net tie Juanita j Leasure, 3, were in jured, j Neither car, police said, was going at excessive speed when the accident occurred. The front ends of both cars were badly smashed. The Injured persons were taken to the Salem General hospital for treatment. ' Salem Musicians Cain High Honors PORTLAND, Ore., April 2-(P) Talented Oregon student mu sicians opened two days of var ied : competition here today in the annual ! two-day junior tests sponsored by the Oregon Feder ation of Music clubs. Today's winners Included: Pi ano, four hands, class C. Mar garet Wonderllck and Carolyn Brady of Salem. Violin, class A. Hope Jaqultte, Salem. I Hymns, class A, .Clifford Leon ard, Albany. Governor Declines Ever son - i - - - - - Resignation; Cedar Men Out (By the Associated Press) Oregon's! tangled labor situa tion grew more complex today with the refusal by Governor Charles Martin to accept the resig nation ot Dr. William G. Everson as chairman of the state concilia tion board. ; The governor announced his refusal at Pendleton while on a tour with members of the state highway commission. At Salem, W. L. Gosslin, the governor's ) secretary, said the resignation : had been . received there but had not been released because of the governor's absence. It was revealed in a letter from Everson to Gust Anderson, -secretary of the . Portland central labor council. Everson Answers Anderson's Claims l The council recently asked for Dr. Everson's resignation in a resolution, following criticism by Towne Nylander, labor board con ciliator, to; the etfeet that the chairman had "closely cooperat ed" with the company in the Ore Cos Is Reduced to "-V 4 ... Leases Defended By Ruf us Holman Otherwise Land Would Not Bring in Any Revenue; Price Deemed Fair PORTLAND, April 2-(P)-State Treasurer Rufus C. Holman de fended the leasing of state school lands for the maintenance ot the state school fund in a statement today. Asserting that the approximate ly 600,000 acres granted by the federal government for the sup port of a free public school system would otherwise be used by stock men without cost, Holman said: "As one member of the state land board and a supporter of our public school system I would wel come another Senator Stan field or any other responsible bidder who would make an offer for the re maining 386,000 acres of school lands still nnleased." (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Courthouse Plans To Be Ready Soon Preliminary courthouse draw ings In which little changes are likely to be required should be ready for the Marlon county court's - consideration within not to exceed 10 days. Commissioner Leroy Hewlett reported last night on his return from & conference with architects In Portland. Hewlett spent the day with County Engineer N. C. Hubbs out lining desired floor plan changes to representatives of the two architectural firms hired by the court, Whitehouse & Church and Knighton & Howell. "There may be some minor changes but all county offices can be located on the floors decided upon," Hewlett Said. "The arch itects said they would get busy at once drafting the final pre liminary drawings." As soon as the court has adopt ed the preliminary plant, Ue architects will be directed to pre pare as quickly as possible an ap plication for a PWA grant for the project. The court hopes to con fine the total cost including the grant to approximately $400,000. To help insure this amount's not being greatly exceeded the ground area of the new building has been reduced and a basement floor plan added. gon Worsted company labor dis pute. ; , In his letter to Anderson, Ever son said he did not-mind the personal attacks but resented the drawing in ot the Portland coun cil ot churches. He Is pastor ot White Temple. On other labor fronts: ' K. C. Tanner, secretary of the bus drivers' union, said he under stood the national labor relations board would hold a hearing April 19 on the controversy between drivers and the Union Pacific stage system. Oregon ' plywood and "veneer workers watched developments at Longview, where employes of two companies are on strike. There was no strike in the Portland ply wood plants. The Port Orford Cedar company closed its plant today when mill workers walked out over the al leged discharge ot a fireman for union affiliation. The company claimed the discbarge was tor negligence, f From 175 to 20C (Turn to page 2, col. 1) i Settlement Is Reached With Light Company Drop of 8.16 Per Cent Is Agreed Upon, Saving Will Total $1666 Three-Year Contract Is Proposed; Will Be Up Next Council Meet The city council Monday night will receive a street lighting con tract proposal providing for an Immediate ,8.16 per cent reduc tion in power costs and future savings of a greater proportion as a result of a conference yes terday between the lights and electric signs committee and W. M. Hamilton, division manager for the Portland General Electric company. Both Mayor V. E. Kuhn, who sat in on the meeting, and E. B. Perrine, committee chairman, ex pressed themselves with the pow er company. Will Be Virtually One Month's Bill The yearly saving to the city on the present number of street lights in use, under the proposed contract, would be $1666.20 or within a few dollars of the amount of one month's street light bill nnder the old contract, which expired late last year". An additional feature of the new contract. Chairman Perrine pointed out, is that It would run for three years Instead of five as first asked by Hamilton's company. Perrine said the city should be prepared to take ad- van tags of possible lower pow er rates when Bonneville dam generators are started or to op erate its own power system. Mayor Kuhn said the agree ment was especially favorable In that additional street lights could be added at a monthly cost per fixture of $2.25 as against $2.40 under the old contract. The power company had proposed to grant the same rate reduction but only on condition the city install enough additional lights to keep the city's total bill at its present amount. Committeemen F. E. Loose and Edwin C. Goodenough assisted Perrine and Mayor Kuhn in the negotiations. Land Board Plans Study of Problem Advice of men who reside In the regions where the state owns grazing land will be sought by the state land board in its program of consolidating its holdings into large tracts, according to Lewis D. Griffith, clerk of the board. Mr. Griffith has written to chairmen of the several grazing district boards Inviting their cooperation. According to the land board's plan a commission of nine men will be appointed to advise the board on the questions involved. The commission will be appointed as follows: Each of the three members of the board will nom inate one man. Each of six dis tricts where the state owns lands will be invited to nominate three persons, not necessarily livestock producers, and not more than one of them a member of the grazing board; and from this panel of three the land board will .choose one to represent that district on the commission. The present state lands will have to be classified and apprais ed; and then exchanges arranged so as to get the lands consolidated, said Griffith. Salvage Work on Feltre to Start PORTLAND, Ore., April 2-VP) -With the last of the cargo re moved today, salvage operators prepared to move the broken mot orship Feltre to the Portland dry docks for repairs. The Italian vessel was sunk in the Columbia river near Prescott In a collision with the freighter Edward Luekenbaeh Feb. 17. Elderly Man It Burned To Death at Pilot Rock PILOT ROCK, April 2-(-An-gus Cameron, 29, burned to death today when trapped in the burn ing home of his son, Donald. Mrs. Donald Cameron, her son, Jimmy and her mother. Mrs. Mary Arnburg, escaped the flames. Mrs. Arnburg so narrowly that her hair was scorched. Y m :tion on Pipeline Work Is Threatened Rural Avenue Folk Fear Damage to Shrubbery in Parking Strips Service Outside City Is Considered; Damages Amount Debated Certain residents along Rural avenue are threatening an injunc tion suit to restrain the Salem water department from laying the Salem-Stayton pipeline in the parking strips and damaging trees and shrubbery, It was reported at last night's water commission meeting. The commission discussed the possibilities of litigation and re ceived from City Attorney Paul R. Hendricks an oral opinion to the effect that there were no grounds for an Injunction. To clarify the commission's rights to enter the parking strips, a resolu tion was recommended to the city council declaring the water - de partment's authority In the mat ter. All Reasonable Care Ordered by Board The commissioners declared they wanted every reasonable care taken against damaging improve ments made by abutting property owners. Manager Van Patten re ported the American Concrete & Steel Pipe company, pipeline con tractor, had agreed to dig the pipe (Turn to page 2, col. 1) 400 Participate In Jym Jamboree Mermaids, Neptune, Whale and Octopus Figure in Clever Presentation By MAXINE BUREN Opened by a colorful grand march with over 400 girls of Sa lem high school participating, the annual "Jym Jamboree" attract ed a capacity crowd to the gym last night. Members of the Girls' Letter club, some in black, red and white, others in all white, were followed In the march by the reg ular gym class members dressed in bright blue. The theme of the "Jamboree" was "The Mermaid's Plight" wherein Neptune, slightly indis posed, retired snd the mermaids danced. The queen of the mer maids, Dolores Parker, danced a solo part, with the group of her maidens doing the chorus work. A tap dancing pirate (Agnes Bowne) arrived and with his band of colorfully dressed buc caneers captured the maidens. The shark (Marcelle Herbster) follow ing an acrobatic dance, informed Neptune of their plight, and soon the swordfish arrived to aid in the search. Their dance, attractively (Turn to page 2, col. f) Hearing on Court Bill to End Soon WASHINGTON, April 2-P)-Three witnesses advised the sen ate judiciary committee today that the Roosevelt court organiza tion bill threatened to Impair the Independence of the Judic iary. A fourth asserted the purpose of the bill was "the continuance of the practice of paying out gov ernment checks so that the par ty in power may continue to have the subsidized backing of the nation." The committee, meanwhile, was obviously losing Interest in the unending presentation of views on the MIL Of its eighteen mem bers, six sat through the morn ing session. Four were present when the afternoon meeting be gan, three when It ended. A move to bring the hearings 2 to a close was expected to be made soon by supporters of the bill.- Committee members un friendly to the measure said they would oppose the motion. Late Sports ALBANY. T V Inrfl Before 3000 tennis fmx. RllnvnrtTa Vines swept through Fred Perry nere conignt, 16-14, 3-6, 6-3, to Win the 39th indoor meetlnr ha. tween the two professional court nvais. xne match left Vines with zo victories to Ferry's 19. ST. LOUIS, April 2-A)-John Henry Lewis stretched his St. Louis .winning streak to six straight in two years tonight when he was awarded a technical knock out in the fifth round over Don ald "Red" Barry of Washington, TV C. lnjunc Former Senate Lea der Called J GUS a MOSER Veteran Senator Moser Passes On Served 20 Years, Twice as President; Aided in Highway Program PORTLAND. Ore.. April 1-VP Gus C. Moser,' 6, who served 20 consecutive years In the Ore gon state senate, died at bis home here today. His death Is believed to have resulted from effects of an Influenza and pneumonia at tack last January. Elected to the senate in 1912 as a republican, he held his seat until the democratic landslide in 1932. He was president of the senate In 1917 and 1925, and was a leader In the fight to establish the first state highway commis sion. A resident of Portland for the past 48 years, he has been attor ney for the Port of Portland for the last 20. He was past exalted ruler of Knights of Pythias, and high in the councils of the Shrine. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Croup Organized To Fight Gaming PORTLAND, April 2 Church groups, allied with state and city organizations, prepared for an Intensive anti-gambling campaign today and instructed. E. C. Farnham, secretary of the Portland council ot churches, to appoint a committee with author ity to map a plan of attack. Groups represented Included the grange, parent-teachers asso ciations, state and city councils of churches. Women's Christian Temperance union, the church men's forum, Oregon State Teach ers' association, federation of women's clubs and several private Interests. Passage of the Hannah Martin and Carney bills at the last legis lative session convinced the group that the time was right for a fight on gambling interests In Oregon. Speakers supported Representa tive Martin's . recommendation that action be concentrated first upon pinball and slot machine devices, because they were held accessible to minors. Representa tive Martin attended the meeting. Chamberlain Kin Dies PORTLAND, April 2-()-Mrs. Marguerite Chamberlain Gailher. 47. daughter ot the late George E. Chamberlain, former United States senator and governor of Oregon, died in San Francisco fol lowing an operation. Brake on Prices of Durable Goods Scheme of Roosevelt WASHINGTON. April 2-ff- President Roosevelt struck at mounting prices of durable goods, such as steel and copper, by an nouncing today that public works expenditures will be aimed here after at providing more purchas ing power for consumer goods. He readily acknowledged that this constitutes a reversal ot the public works policy pursued at the outset of his administration. Steel bridges and other heavy projects were favored then to "prime the pump" of the dur able goods industries. . Now, Mr. Roosevelt said at a crowded press conference, prices in those industries are far too high and durable goods produc tion Is Increasing faster than the output ot consumer goods. He contended this Is a danger signal and that public worka money should be spent hereafter on channel dredging, earthen dams and the like to spread pur chasing power. Consumer goods, according to Federal reserve board classifica tions. include such articles as food, products, wearing apparel, tobacco and gasoline. - Kansas City Plant Occupied as Union Protests Long Time Employes Affiliated With J C. L O. Selected For Seasonal Retirement, Leaders Claim Coal Bline Strike Short - Lived; Work to Resume Monday With Accord Reached; New Troubles Seen 1TANSAS CITY, April 2 (AP) Several hundred workers. protesting -what they called discrimination in selection of men to be laid off, closed with a sit-down strike late today in the first blow of the cur rent series of automobile strikes at the Ford organization. The men said they were members of a newly-formed local of the United Automobile Workers of America, the C I. sponsored union which has organized the nationwide cam paign of sit-downs in motor plants. Estimates of the number of men in the plant varied from Q.-pAM- y.pnrt of "more tUa - T mm " ' 600" to a claim of 1400 by Homer vmng reuuons Viewed by Court 150 Miles Requested But County Ha8 Money For Only 30, Asserted The county court has a dif ficult Job ahead In the task of selecting roads to be oUed during the coming summer, a persual ot the 19 normal petitions for such work as on file at the clerk's of fice shows. While the court will be able "to. afford only-SO miles of new oiling at the most, the 19 petitions alone cover roads whose mileage totals more than 150. The problem is heightened by the fact that winter freezes hare done damage to previously oiled roads which must be re paired If the original surfacing is not to be lost. Roads covered by the petitions and the leading petitioners are as follows: Mrs. J. B. Hawthorne, Kelxer school to Chemawa Indian school. Joseph Lebold, from Mt. An-gel-SUverton road to North How ell road, on million dollar high way. J. W. Etxel, Fern Ridge road between Stayton and Sublimity. J. O. Fair, Rosedale-Buena Vista road. Otto Bosch, D street from Sa (Turn to page 2, col. 3 ) Tabernacle Fire Laid to Enemies ZION. I1L, Aprfl 2-iPr-Over- seer Wilbur: Glenn Voliva attri buted the spectacular fire that destroyed Shiloh tabernacle and radio station SCBD today to "en emies" Jealous of the success of his passion play. The picturesque pcntltf of the Christian Apostolic church sadly surveyed the smouldering ruins. estimated the ' loss at between $600,000 and $750,000 and de clared: "I haven't the slightest doubt that somebody did It to put the Passion play out of commission. We had two performances last month and they were tremend ously successful. ? The President's announcement was followed Quickly by a sharp break In prices of stocks and some commodities. Steel and cop per led the decline. Manipulating PnMic Works Only Method Mr. Roosevelt gave no Intima tion that he has in mind any ac tion, beyond the direction ot pub lic works expenditures, to con trol the prices he criticized. In this connection. Speaker Bankhead of the house of repre sentatives commented that be did not see how congress "could do anything" about the price situation unless It enacts some price-fLring MIL Which it won't do, I imag ine." he added. Harry L. , Hopkins, the WPA administrator, conferred with the President later in the day about work relief outlays for the fiscal year beginning July 1. He said apon departing that WPA already was carrying oat largely what the president had in mind, basins purchased onfr $14,000,000 I of the $250,600. 000 of steel bought, by the gov ernment last year. Lay- Offi the Ford assembly plant here) A. Kelley, ho identified himsett as a union committeeman. The strike was called at 3:1 p. m. when the second-group ff men to leave the plant for ta week-end received layoff slip with their par envelopes. ' KeUey said, the layoff was ap plied to many employes who had been on the job for from five- to 24 years, while recent employee were being retained. The unio committee of IS met with H. O. Doss, plant manager, and Joseph Bush, superintendent, and asked that seniority ru-s be applied In the selection of m to be laid off. "Both Mr. Doss and Mr. Bush refused to agree, and said they would dismiss the men as they pleased," KeUey said. "Most of the men they laid eft are union men and older In point of service than the non-union men they kept on the payroll. No company officials could W reached for comment, but police patrolling the area said they had been told officials at the plant recently received orders to lay off 350 men. In a season production cut. (By The Associated Press) A contract agreement, affect ing eventually, hundreds of t bos sands of mine workers, wna reached yesterday ,( Friday) and limited to one day a national that down in the soft coal industry. Elsewhere on the labor frest, however, new troubles plagued booming industry. Violence attended arrest t union men In Albert Lea, Minn. The General Motors corporation wrestled with new difficulties la Its Flint, Mich., factories. - Congress found Itself still torn by debate over Industry's prob lems. The house rules committee voted an investigation of the sit down strike method. In the- senate, efforts of some members to avoid discussion served only to precipitate farther argument, but they recessed' for the week-end without voting oa the Issue. Today (Saturday) and tomorrow- are days of rest for miners. Digging will be resumed Monday, however, after four days of idle ness. Thursday was a miners' holi day. . The agreement was reached In New York after about six weeks of negotiations. Smith Bonneville Bill Under Query WASHINGTON. April 2-OF)-Attorney General Camming questioned today legal phases ef the Smith bill which would place i nower distribution at Bonneville dam on the Columbia river be tween Oregon and Washington. In a letter to the house, rivers and harbors committee. Cum mlngs suggested amendment ot the measure, by Rep. Martin Smith ot Hoquiam, Wash., to eliminate provisions giving the administrator authority to ap point his own counsel in any lit igation involving enforcement cf the Bonneville act. He said this phase of the Will is "against government policy. B A L L A D E of TOD Ay "By R- C The thing-that he invented some - four decades ago has enjoyed the 'reputation that it x would always go; and now the , plaudits wait him. likewise plenteous reward. If the sit down strike solution is produc ed by Henry Ford. v