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' y STrarel Insonmea " "the travel accident polica Which The Statesmaa issued t subecribera has proved be a wise investment t2 ft number of them. Weather Rain today, Friday nn settled with showers; Max. Temp. Wednesday 59.3, Min. 41, river 1.4 feet, rain .7 inch, southeast eriy winds. FOUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, April 15, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c .Rise MJiame' 1 No. 16 : .. , i : . . ; ,,,- : .. . ......... - ; ; i i . ii ii - . . . i . 1 1 1 1 . aim i!jsiiiser a w Governor Will Lead Group in Power Battle Delegation for Hearing at Washington Seeks Low Rate in N. W. Pierce Introduces Third Bonneville Bill With No Advisory Board PORTLAND. Ore., April 14.-(Jpy-Gor. Charles H. Martin said tonight he would lead a group of Oregonians to Washington, D.C.. to fight for low power rater for Bonneville dam. The delegation will leave here Thursday night to attend a hear ing in Washington April 19 be fore the house rivers and har bors committee. "Industry is needed here more than anything else, and only low power rates for Bonneville will bring It here," Walter W. R. May, manager of j the Portland chamber of commerce, said. Los Angeles interests have re quested an amendment to Bon neville legislation that would es tablish a uniform 1 rate for Bon neville- and Boulder dams and other federal power projects. WASHINGTON, April 14-P)-Rep. Walter M. Pierce ot La Grande, Ore., handed congress today its third Bonneville dam administrative measure. He said he was dissatisfied .with two previous bills introduc ed this session. His measure, he said, would place an administrator in charge. of power generation and distribu tion. He would eliminate the advis ory board provided in the bills by Reps. Martin Smith of Ho quiam. Wash., and Nan Honey man of Portland, Ore., and leave the administrator responsible solely to the power commission and secretary of interior. Advisory Board Not Advisable, Belief "I feel the administrator must be responsible to the secretary of the interior and not to an ad visory board which lacks author ity to administer the dam," he said. "Should an advisory board be set up, administration of the dam might degenerate into pol ities." Smith's bill would give the ad ministrator control over the gi ant Columbia river dam, the pow er house and the fishways, as well as power distribution. The army would control the ship locks. " The Honeyman bill, drafted -by Sens. Homer T. Bone and Lewis D. Schwellenbach of Washington and Frederich Stel wer and Charles McNary of Oregon, gave the administrator control of pow er distribution and left the army in charge of the physical prop erties. Pierce also would extend to 1941 the .period in which 50 per cent of the power would be held for public agencies and cooper atives. Smith's measure, drawn by President Roosevelt's power .policy committee, gave preferen tial treatment until 1939. The Honeyman bill sets the deadline at 1940. Labor Peace Is Sought r PORTLAND. Ore., April 14( Harold Prltchett, president of the federation, of woodworkers, said tonight a meeting of mari time and woodworking nnion offi cials would be held in Tacoma as soon as possible to settle a juris dictional dispute involving 60 boom men there. Shorter Working Hours May Be Roosevelt Proposal Soon WASHINGTON, April H-V?)-Few persons in the capital would be surprised if Mr. Roosevelt, in his relief message next week, proposed curtailment ot govern ment expenditures and advocated limitation of workinr hours in private industry as ' the way to accomplish this. Recent utterances of the pres ident and his chief lieutenants have placed repeated emphasis upon retrenchment. Mr. Roosevelt himself called upon all government . agencies . ' . ..Astnnmlva Canitnr Robinson, the democratic leader, warned legislators a short time previously that increased expen ditures would mean new taxes. Marrlner Eccles, chairman of the federal reserve board, still ear lier advocated balancing of the budget and redaction of the fed eral debt to forestall Inflation. - Almost equal emphasis was placed by administrationleaders this week npon their -desire for Hew legislation fixing maximum hours and minimum wages In in dustry. A well-informed official Packing Young Demos' i Session Charged When l o .... Delegates McLeod and Miss Scjiroeder Elected But Downtown Members Charge Meeting Set at Hour When I Few of Them Are Able to Be Present BEING loyal democrats, none of the members would com pare the situation to the supreme court issue, but never theless, charges of "packing" the meeting were hurled when the Young Democratic club of Marion county convened late Wednesday afternoon to elect delegates to the state con vention at North Bend. . . ; O The meeting was scheduled for Six Persons Hurt, Missouri Tornado Cuts Swath 8 Miles Long and Quarter Mile Wide in Webster County MARSHFIELD, Mo., April 14- fPy-At least six persons were se riously injured by a tornado which cut across the north cen tral part of Webster county early tonight. It was the second tornado in that section of the country in two months, j Full extent of the damage was not determined. - At the Houston Dill farm, about 11 miles northeast of here, four persons were injured. They were Dill, who suffered severe head wounds; his wife, Mary, who had head wounds and several broken ribs; two sons, Ed, w.V suffered head wounds and severe arm and hand injuries, and Greer Dill. A nail, carried by a flying board, was driven into Greer's head. m The others injured are Joe Dib ble, farmer, who suffered an arm injury, and Mrs. Walter O'NeL Rock was driven into the arms, shoulder and face of Mrs. O'Nel. The storm cot a swath about a quarter ot a mile wide, and as far as could be determined tonight. about eight miles long. Telephone communication with the neighbor hood was cut off. A Red Cross disaster relief i director paid her last visit here last week, making final checks of the February storm damage and restoration. Tonight's storm first appeared as two -funnels, a few miles east of Marshfleld. The smaller of the two broke up,' while the larger one scraped the earth. i Skunk Thrown in Iowa Statehouse . By Irate Farmer DES MOINES, la., April 14- (iF)-An irate j Warren county pheasant farmer tossed a dead skunk into the west entrance of the Iowa statehouse today and threatened to "throw one into the mlddlo of the senate." A brisk northwest breeze soon filled the statehouse with the skunk's perfume. Shortly after the farmer left he called the senate telephone ex change and asked to talk to a newspaper reporter. "Are you a reporter?" he asked. "Well, I'm a farmer over by Nor walk. .1 raise pheasants. "Your silly senate passed a bill yesterday putting a closed season on skunks in j my county. Last night a skunk! got at my coops and killed eight pheasants and three chickens.' "I killed him this morning. The next time a skunk gets any of my pheasants I'm going to kill him and bring him down and toss him In the middle of the damn sen ate." , .). reported Mr. Roosevelt was not convinced that the supreme court's Wagner act decisions, up holding the government's right to regulate labor relations in a vast sector of j Industry, had as sured that wage and hour legis lation would be upheld.. Now there is widespread spec ulation whether the president may make a direct, or indirect, argument for supreme court Te organizatlon and new , labor leg islation in his message recom mending the relief appropriation for the next fiscal year, begin ning July 1. 1 : Many of the president's advis ors contend . that reducing the hours of work fin private plants would tend to spread employ ment and absorbed thousands of those now on relief. Some other economists . con tend, however,' that new wage and hour legislation would in crease - production costs, boost prices ot manufactured goods, discourage consumption and thereby reduce private employ ment. j : Are Cfj.o 5:15 p. m. and got under way at precisely that time, members said later. Nominations were . heard without delay, the first nominees being George McLeod, president of the organization, and Miss Elise Schroeder, employe in Gov ernor Martin's office. They were placed in nomination by Dr. E. L. Brunk. Stanley Price was nominated by Marvin Headrick and Mrs. Ted Brabec by Avery Thompson.' Thompson then declared that the "skids were greased" and charged further that the situa tion had been the same in some previous meetings. His remarks were obviously aimed at W. L. Gosslin, private secretary to Gov ernor Martin. Thompson charged that the meeting had been called at a (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Long-Short Haul Repeal Is Voted Bill Goes to Senate Which Failed to Act at Last Congress Session " WASHINGTON, April 14-V The house passed today, for the second time in two years the Pet tengill bill designed to give the nation's railroads greater leeway in making rates to compete with water and truck carriers for long distance traffic. The measure would repeal the "long-and-short haul" clause of the interstate commerce act, which prohibits railroads from charging lower rates for a long haul than for a shorter one on the same route in the same direction. The .vote was 268 to 120. Last session the house passed the mea sure by a Tote of 215 to 41, but the senate did not act. Now the legislation goes to the senate again. Passage came after nearly four hours' debate in which proponents contended the measure would place therailroads on an equality with water and truck carriers, which are not governed by the clause. s ; Opponents argued it Vould give the railroads power to destroy the nation's merchant marine and truck lines and to hike rates to intermediate, non - competitive points to make up losses from rate wars. Hoppes Aspirant, School Board Job Otto N. Hoppes, mentioned Tues day as a probable Salem school board candidate, announced last night that he had decided def initely to run for the director ship which will be left vacant in June by the expiration of Chair man Frank Neer's term. "I feel some ot ; us younger, men should take an Interest s in the schools," Hoppes said. "I do not wish to be thought criticiz ing the present board members; I think we who have children in school should have a part in their direction and, anyway, we are the ones who will be paying the bills the longest." Hoppes declared he had no specific platform but was Inter ested in a business administra tion. He was president ot the Englewood parent-teacher asso ciation last year and has been In business in Salem for 20 years, , Salem Jail Must Be in Best Class Ray Doaa, transient who claims he has been in every Jail on the Pacific coast, must have taken fancy to the Salem calaboose. -Doan came back to the Balem Jail last night after being ar rested on a charge of drunken ness. He was found sleeping in a hall In the Barr apartments. He was arrested Tuesday night on charges of . being drunk ad vagrancy after he and another transient were found sleeping in a garage belonging : to Herbert Lange, II CO Broadway, and giv en a ten day suspended sentence in municipal court on condition that he leave town. Commons Vote Upholds Stand Taken by Eden Withholding Protection ; at Bilbao Endorsed After Long Fight New Accusations Hurled Among Nations Over Troops in Spain (By The Associated Press) The British government's poli cy on withholding protection from British merchantmen entering the Spanish Basque port ot Bilbao was endorsed by the house of com mons last night after a seven hour debate. Opposition spokesmen charged the cabinet with "running up the white flag" to help Spanish insur gents "starve out women and chil dren." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden calmly replied: "In my view, an act of cow ardice would be if, in order to score some cheap success, he (the foreign secretary) was to run risks of damaging peace which were not justified by the situation." The house then defeated by 345 votes to 130 a laborite motion of censure. France Accused of Sending In Troops France was accused anew in Italy of sending troops to Spain. Virginio Gayda, writing in II Glornale d'ltalia, alleged that 250 Algerian militiamen left Tanglers March 7 with Spanish passports. landed at MarseiUe and then went to the Spanish government front. "Between March 17 and 18 there also left tor French ports and Spain another 1000 comba tants," Gayda wrote. In Spain, the day marked the sixth anniversary ot the establish ment of the Spanish republic. "Insurgent shells screamed into streets where Aleala Zamora, who became president, once traveled to proclaim the birth of the new government. There was no celebration yes terday. Insurgent officers said prisoners told them the Spanish govern ment had hoped to observe the anniversary with a smashing vic tory on the Madrid front. But Insurgent machine gun ners, they said, had brought fail ure to the government's offensive designed to break through the siege lines west and northwest ot the capital. Rock Throwing Charged CORVALLIS, April 14-UFV- Fred C. Miller, a transient, was held for action by federal authori ties today on a charge of throw ing rocks through a window of the federal building here. Local officers were uncertain whether robbery was the motive. Seattle Woman Domesticates Wildcat; Keeps It in at Night - ' V; . . . V - V. . Mrs. Ethel Palmer of Seattle is pictured with her pet wildcat. Sonny Soy, which she domesticated and trained an til he is as docile as an ordinary boose Mtabby. The woman says she would rather put eat her alarm clock than put Sonny Boy out for the night, because she Is afraid he would have the advantage over the regular members of the back fence brigade. Sonny Boy is 10 months old and weighs 23 pounds. International Illustrated News photo. Fails to Reach Spain War Zone V.- ... ''"V Joe Dallct of Cleveland was lead er of a band of American vol unteers arrested at the French frontier as they sought to cross into Spain to join the Loyalist forces. He is pictured giving the clenched fist salute of the Popular Front. Graduation to Be In New Structure Decision to Hold Exercise There Finally Reached; - Over 400 in Class " Salem high's class of 19S7, over 400 strong, will have the honor of being the first class to graduate from the new high school build ing. Principal Fred D. Wolfe an nounced yesterday. Members of this year's senior class have been eager to hold their commencement exercises from the auditorium of the new building since construction was first started but have had no defi nite assurance that they would be awarded the honor until Wolf's announcement yesterday. The decision to make the new high school scene of this year's commencement exercises also gave last year's graduating class the distinction of being the last to re ceive Its diplomas in the Elslnore theater, where exercises have been hold for a number of years. Largest Class to Receive Diplomas s Over 400 boys and girls, larg est class ever to graduate from Salem high, will go through the f (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1.) 1 New Storm Is Due; Highway Still Flooded Corvallis River Reading 16 Feet, Snows Are Melting Rapidly Rainfall Records Topple in Portland; Service by Rail Impeded PORTLAND. April Tbe state police reported to night flood waters over both the east and wvst Pacific high. ways soath of Albany and Oor- vallla bad Isolated Eugene from motor vehicle traffic from the north. PORTLAND, Ore. April 14 (Ty-Flood daner continued and a rivers continued yesterday to rise, to give lowland, traffic moved with difficulty in farmers cause to prepare for high water and to send motor many sections of western Oregon ists on detours around flooded highways. the third day. Th Willamette river was 18 feet above 4ow water stage at Corvallis tonight, with a 20 foot crest expected by Friday The crest stood at 13 feet at Eugene and was rising at the rate ol four Inches an hour this after noon. The Rogue river dropped three feet at Grants Pass, where the skies cleared this afternoon. A warm south wind raised the mer cury 18 degrees at Medford, and the effect of fast melting snows was feared. Scores ot piers used UV DOIUIUU AlBUCiuiCU VfiC vsag ried away by the ravaging Rogue. Rivers In Tillamook county continued to run hank full as the storm continued there today. Astoria reported 6:32 inches of rain in 60 hours. The road between Eugene and Monroe was closed today when the LongTom river flowed over bridge at Monroe. Junction City was cut off. from the north: Water flowed over the Pacific highway in other places, slowing traffic, and slides made one-way traffic necessary on numerous routes. Falling rocks created a men ace on the Columbia RJver high way. - I Logging roads on the coast (Turn to Page 1, CoL 7.) Council Will Scan Water Main Plans An Indication of the future ex tent of Improvements to Salem's water distribution system will be given by the size of bids at to night's adjourned council meeting on cast iron or steel pipe and valves for the cross-town 12th street arterial main. Water de partment officials know that pipe prices have risen sharply but will be interested to ascertain Just how high they have gone under com petitive bidding conditions. The council also may receive a recommendation from the fire de partment committee for accept ance of one of the bids submitted last week on fire trucks. Action on traff 1c signal bids, received last week, will be delayed until the regular meeting Monday night. . . - .' It was possible the council to night also might receive a com mittee report on an ordinance re- TOking long-standing power com pany franchises and opening the way for arranging for a new franchise. Three Are Killed In Mexican Clash ORIZABA, Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 14 UP) Three workmen were killed today and five wound ed In a clash between rival sup porters of the regional confedera tion of Mexican workers (CROM) and the confederation of workers of Mexico (CTM). A general strike, -virtually para lyzing Industry here, was called by the CROM which charged the CTM with starting the fighting. One of the workmen was killed as he fled into the home of John Harrison. British vice-consul In Orizaba, and - proprietor of the Mirafaente textiles factory. It had been reported - at first that Harrison himself was killed as he ran into his home; near the factory, for shelter when the shooting started, but it was learned later the reports referred to the workman who was mistak en for the British consular offi cial. . Home" Hospital Sought PORTLAND, April 14.-C!P- Trustees of the Children's Farm tt .i...t fn niA I v I fnnds for the construction of an I UaU Ia ttnlr wttA VtAirkA9 lints. I pital, declared to be urgently 1 needed. 1 A 11 F erries A c ros s Crest May be Near 20-Foot Peak Deemed Probable With Rate of Advance Decreasing and Santiam Stationary; Additional Rain Conies During Day; One Silvertoh Road Blocked, Among Others OWOLLEN by what is believed the greatest April rainfall M'i'nv.ft im 1 T a. ; J ton 1 "" ii mouiciic a"cjr uoa yesterday as the nyer climbed a P m. luesaay to 1.4 leet at midnight last night. New reports of roads being blocked in yesterday afternoon. Hope that the weather I . . i "Mk cAaiujr nwu oi6c iui oucm, migut jjruve cur- Quest of Seelert Continues Futile fot Found at Hiding Place on Highway; Ryan Not Former Salem Alan SEATTLE; April 1 4-(ff)-Seat- tle detectives returned from a hurried and heavily-armed sortie tonight and reported they searched a house on a . Tacoma-Seattle highway but found no evidences that Walter Seelert, charged with the first degree murder of a Lew- Is county sheriff's deputy, had been there. " They had been informed See lert, wounded in the eye by buck shot, was en route here for surgi cal treatment and was hiding at the house. Claud Ryan, Seelert's co-de fendant in the slaying ot Deputy Seth R Jackson, 58, and wound ing of Deputy J. D. Compton, was arrested at Orting, near Tacoma, last night and was taken to Che halis, Lewis county seat, late to day. A belief entertained here Wed nesday that Claude Ryan, held in Chehalls in the Jackson murder case, might have been a former Salem man proved erroneous last night when Tacoma officials said Ryan's record showed he was a native of Washington and con tained no reference to troubles which a man of similar name had in Salem. The man referred to in reports here spelled his first name 'Claude" and was a native of Sa lem. MoUoy President Bakery Ljngineers PORTLAND. April 14-PV- George Lc Baker, representing Co lumbia Empire - Industries, Inc., urged northwest bakers at their annual j session here to utilize home products "if they are as good as others. W. T. Molloy of Salem was re elected president of the Oregon branch of the American Society of Bakery engineers. Politics Booming on Campus With Petition Petitions for student body of ficers of the associated students of Willamette university are be ing circulated with the deadline this noon. There are more cand idates for the respective offices than there has been for several years. Nominees for the presidency ot the student body are Bill Mc- Adam, Mel Viken and Raipn Gustafson. McAdams is from Palmdale. Calif., and has been on the football squad for three years and is now resident of the -w club. He has been Interested in forenslcs for two years and has a leading part in the Junior play Mrs. Moonlight," Viken na Gustafson are both from Port land. Viken Is now second nee nresident of the student body Gustafson has been presiaeni oi his class.' Freshman Glee man . . ager ana a memoer oi Viken and McAdam are independ- ent men ana uusiaison her of . Kanna Gamma Rho. Taj hot Bennett, a Junior In tne. Jaw school, ana a memoer oi u cApcrienceu since ioao, creeKa from its 13.1 foot level here by racing waters began cominir bureau's forecast of a : 20-foot i rect heightened last nfght. The I river rose at the rate of .13 foot I per -hour during the evening as against .23 per hour Tuesday night and upstream from Eugene came the word that it had dropped .4 foot at 8 p. m. from the 5 p. m. reading of 13.9 feet, The Santiam river at Jefferson remained virtually stationary throughout the day at 13 feet, the telephone operator there reported at 9 p. m. No flood problem was likely unless that stream should start rising suddenly. Nearly Halt Inch Of Rain Wednesday Thirty-seven hundredths of an inch ot rain was added between 7' a. m. and S p. m. yesterday to the storm precipitation which began in earnest Monday. This week's rainfall has brought the total for the month to 5.68 inches. The next "wettest April, from avail able records, appears to have been 0.12 inches in 1896. The mean average for the month is 2.68; last year only 1.13 inches was recorded. . Only the north Salem-Silverton-highway was blocked off because of high water yesterday. County Engineer N. C. Hubba reported last night. The old south; or Brush creek, road was open.' Pudding river, cause of this overflow, also (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1.) .; Salem's Debaters Invited, Illinoi; Salem-high's debate team has received the honor of being In vited to represent Oregon in the national speech tournament tor high schools to be held; in Jack sonville, Illinois, May 3 to 7. Se lection - of the Salem team came largely as a result of Its showing in the state, contest held at Lin field college. : Bill Thomas,' Salem high stu dent body president, received a special invitation to participate in the extemporaneous speech contest. Thomas last y ear woa state : extempore . speaking con tests at -both Llnfield and Wil lamette tournaments! The National Forensic league, which sponsors the national tour nament, is the largest organisa tion devoted to forenslcs in the United States. It has chapters in 36 states. . An effort is being made to raise funds to send the Salem team to the Illinois tournament. Deadline Near nis team is another probable candidate for president. For first vice president, Mar garet Hauser and Irma Oehler, both of Salem, and Norma Fuller ot Portland axe candidates. Miss Hauser has been active in W.A.A. and Y.W. work, baa been on the Wallulah staff and is a member of Delta Phi sorority. Miss Oehler has held a class office, is proas (Turn to page 2, col. 5) B A L LAD of TOD A; By R. a E Some "weeks ago our sympa thy was tendered to those east ern folk when raindrops had them "all at sea;" we realized it was no Joke; now lowland dwellers here may learn, as oar own peaceful . river fills, Just what it means; well miss our turn, and breathe a prayer, Thank God for hills." .