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" The OREGON STATESMAN; Sakxa, : Oregon,- Sunday Morning, April 18, 1937
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Greenwood Is
Demos's Choice
Cosslin Faction Prevails
After Bitter Fight
at Convention
(Conttcoed from pace 1)
there by mugwump politicians
who think that is the way to wlu
republican rotes.
"Bat I can assure yon that af
ter the next election there will
be no mugwump republican! hold
ing political office in Oregon.
In .discussing industrial con
flicts, he balled the Wagner labor
act which guarantees rights of
collectire bargaining as a "new
magna carts, for labor.
The Klamath Falls democrat
said the supreme court decision
upholding the law was "the great
est Tlctory for the masses since
the signing of the Declaration of
Independence. He said workers
used sit-down strikes "only in
protest against repeated Yiolattons
of Industrial liberties which ron
gress has recognized" and brand
ed anti-union legal maneuvers of
employers as "organized and cal
culated and cold-blooded slt-dowc
against federal law."
VanPatten Given
Canada Trip But
Must Wear Tails
Salem's water commissioners
thought they had a good laugh
at the expense of the plant mana
ger, Cuyler VanPatten, at their
meeting Friday night.
VanPatten was Instructed, in
order that he might uphold the
dignity of the youngest municipal
water system in the northwest, to
wear full dress when he appears
at the northwest convention of
the American Water Works asso
ciation at Victoria, B. C. next
month. i
A motion to this effect, out
lining the necessity for preserv
ing the Oregon capital city's "dig
nity." was made by Commissioner
O. A. Olson, In Jesting mood, alter
members of the commission had
expressed qualms over reports
that if they attended the conven
tion banquet at Victoria's leading
hotel they would have to wear
tails."
"I'm going! to be sick about
convention tim e," VanPatten
laughed back, j
Busy
Session For
Council Forecast
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depend whether or not the fire
truck Issue, ordinarily a warm
one, will reach the council at
the night session.
No order for traffic signals will
be Disced Monday night because
not enough time has been spent
in studying bidders' specifications
Mayor V. E. Kuhn said yesterday.
Automobile dealers yesterday
were circulating a petition for
presentation to the council re
questing modification of the ban
on parking cars on parking strips.
. Muncipal court cases against
three dealers for this offense are
now ending.
A resolution changing present
two hour parking zones to one
hour, drafted by City Recorder
Jones and City Attorney Hend
ricks. Drobably will be acted upon
From a special committee head
ed by Mrs. Gertrude T. ixraeu
is expected to come a report on
a morle cencorship bill Inspired.
by the Salem Woman s council.
Two franchise measures, one
for the Orezon Electric railway
and the other for the Portland
General Electric company, are
scheduled to reach this meeting
of the council.
Label League Sets
Election Thursday
Officers of the Salem Union
Label league will be elected at
Thursday night's meeting. April
zz. and the acting president. W.
A. Chambers. Is urging full at
tendance of the league and aux
iliary.
At last Thursday night's meet-
in Herbert Barker was appoint
ed head of a committee to make
plans for an all-labor picnic.
A report of the program com
mittee included among other in
teresting features plans for a study
of the history of organized labor
In the United States.
Mrs. G. S. Erickson outlined
plans for her survey committee
to call upon retail mercnanis in
Salem to obtain Information re
garding union-made merchandise
carried by them. Mrs. Erickson's
group will also have charge of a
-letter-writing contest, promotea
by the league, in which prizes will
be riven for the ten best letters
on "Why I Patronize Stores Dis
playing the Union Shop Card.
Rules of the contest will be an
nounced later.
Howard Cole New.
Head of Endeavor
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Arthur Stanley of Eugene and
Lovina Wilson of Tillamook were
riven third desrree awards, the
hirhest attainments for service,
Prises were- awarded following
a narade of delegates with LOn
coin union taking first place.
Klamath Lake union second. Myr
tle union third and Grande Ronde
Lane. Marion. Yamhill. Polk and
Mount Hood receiving honorable
mention.
WtHn lllebert. Salem, won
f!rt in the oratorical contest. P,
T. Chrlolers. Eugene, took second
nlace and Clark Eni. Philomath.
third.
First Coronation
Rehearsal Today
LONDON. April 17-iVA
make-believe coronation proces
sion complete to the gilded
coach of state will file through
London streets early tomorrow
morning. t
It will be the first of two Im
portant rehearsals for the crown
ing of King George May 1Z.
TrooDS. royal coachmen, police
officials and military bands will
be in the" "preview." which will be
staged to determine Just how
long the actual procession will
require to pass.
'"he colorful uniforms of coro
nation day will 'be missing, and
most of London will be asleep.
The procession will get under way
promptly at 6:30 a. m. Police
with stop-watches and notebooks
will check its i progress.
Coronation officials said they
were not disturbed by the labor-
ite Lord Marley's advice to Amer
icans, to stay away from the May
ceremonies or: be "generally ex
ploited and overcharged." One
said "'no one takes him serious
ly." Lord Marley made his "warn
ing" at San Francisco.
Water Records in
Good Shape, Held
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and one shown by the private
water company, and 9171.14 item
listed as money due the city gen
eral fund.
Consumer accounts and compu
tation of monthly water bills
were found by test checks to be
apparently correct and $5351.76
In consumers' deposits to secure
payment of water bolls were ac
counted for in the records with
the exception of. an apparent er
ror of $30.57.
The report shows the depart
ment to be carrying $351.42 in
uncollected consumers bills for
the audit period and recom
mends that some provision j be
made for bad debts.
The water commission is ad
vised by the auditors to Invest
idle funds now drawing 1.2. per
cent interest. As of December
31. 1936. the department had an
$870,222.74 cash balance of
which $350 was cash on hand.
$831,482.74 cash on deposit and
$38,390 cash in the hands of
fiscal agents for payment of bond
interest. '
The condensed financial state
ment shows the water system Ao
have $2,241,402.44 in assets. $2.
185.376.29. In liabilities of which
$2,100,000 are in water bonds,
and a surplus of $56,027.15.
Operating revenues for the 17
months period amounted to
$259,066.19 and net Income af
ter debt service of $58,090.69.
Reckless Driving
Charge Preferred
Wayne Dunliam, 404 North
Church street, was arrested on
charges of reckless driving and
causing a wreck, by Officer Wins
low at State and Cottage streets,
shortly before midnight last night.
The other machine involved in
the collision was - operated by
Thelma Amort, 748 Sou, th High
street. There were no injuries
caused in the crash. Dunliam was
released on $15 bail, and will ap
pear in court Monday to make
his plea.
Real Estate Men
Plan State Meet
Woman Arrested
As Bandits9 Aide
Soviet Order For
Steel Not Fffled
Camera Men Fail
To Attain Permit
BERLIN. April 1 7-JP)-ronT
young non-razi photographers
looked around for other trades
today after "flunking" the pro
paganda ministry's test of whe
ther news camera would be sate
intheir hands. I ?
In the Nazi regime a press pho
tographer is regarded as a cus
todian and purveyor of cultural
goods. t
One of the men failed because
he could not answer in detail the
third of these i questions:
1. Give a brief digest of the
contents of Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler's autobiography, "Mein
Kampf." i
2. Define "system parties." (the
political parties of the republican
"system" or regime.)
3. Enumerate what prominent
Germans were arrayed against
Hitler in November. 1923, when
he made his abortive "beer
putsch." .
iPermitsiOut For
Two New Houses
Permits to erect two new dwel
lings, at a combined cost of over
$4000. were issued at the city
building Inspector's office yester
day. I
A $3000 one-story .dwelling
and garage will be built by
George I. Johnston at 1970 North
Church street.! A one story res
idence to be (located at 1464
Gregson street, will be built by
Norman Smith at a cost of $1075.
Otber permits for altering and
repairing are those Issued to Mrs,
J. S. Graham, to repair a two
story dwelling at 461 South
High. $40; Pacific First Federal
Savings and Loan, to reroof a
private garage at 1240 Center,
$47: W. A. Saunders, alter one-
story house (porch) at 495 North
23rd street: and to J. L. Uble-
man. alter one-sjory shoe shine
shop at 147 Nortn mgn. at
cost of $20. i
Power Loan Is Available
TILLAMOOK. April 11 -(JP)-
The rural electrification admin
istration will loan $65,000 with
which to construct a new power
line., officials I of the Nehalem
Valley Cooperative association
learned today. The proposed line
will serve 27$ customers over
57-mile area. !
MOSCOW. April 17-GP)-Soviet
Russia's purchases of materials
for warships ran into difficulties
today because, she learned, some
steel manufacturers are too busy
filling domestic orders to bother
with foreign ones.
Nikolai Bogomoloff, soviet
trade delegate to Great Britain,
returned to Moscow with tha
news that British firms are
swamped'handllng huge orders
for that nation's rearmament program.
United States circles here heard
that Amtorg, Russian trading
corporation, was unable to renew
a steel order with one company
in the U. S. because of heavy dom
estic demands. The company was
said to hare offered a premium
to be released from delivering a
previous order.
The soviet commissariat of de
fense declined to comment on
state department announcement In
Washington that two American
firms had asked permission to
fill orders for battleship materials.
Kelty Resigns as
Rum Control Aide
; PORTLAND, April 17-P)-The
board of directors of the Oregon
association' of real estate boards
at a meeting here laid plans tor
a state-wide meeting of real estate
brokers here June 3. E. A. Miller,
Salem, state chairman, presided
at the meeting.
A nroeram of tax reielf for real
property will be considered at the
meeting which is planned to Im
mediately precede the northwest
regional convention of the na
tional association of real estate
boards.
. Suggested revision of the state
license law for .real estate will
also' be on the program and the
gathering will discuss plans for
a drive to increase the member
ship of the state association. Mil
ler asserted.
Out-of-town officers present at
the meeting included C. II. Mur
phy, Albany, second vice presidet;
Lowell Williamson, La Grande;
J. F. Ulrich. and Miller, both of
Salem.
Cream Inspectors
Given Instruction
JOLIET. III.. April 17-(-Police
Capt. Ernest Overbey said
tonight a woman giving her name
as Miss Sarah Ann, Robinson, 38.
had been detained by police fcr
questioning about the New York
gunmen who ; were captured in
Nebraska last night after shooting
an agent of the federal bureau of
Investigation in the postof f ice at
Topeka. Kas.. yesterday.
Captain Overbey said Miss Rob
inson admitted knowing the pair.
Robert Suhay and Alfred Power.
Expensively dressed, but with
only 65 cents in her. purse, police
seized Miss Robinson, for question
ing. '
Asked if she knew Suhay and
Power,- she told Overbey:
"Ther are nice fellows.
She 'told the captain, he said,
that she did not know they were
bank, robbers and they had al
ways treated me swell."
"Sometimes they sent me on
ahead to rent a house."- the cap
tain quoted her as saying, "and
then I just stayed on as a kind of
a mother to them.
o'clock meeting Tuesday morning,
will hear Mrs. George R. K. Moor-
head discuss . Tuberculosis . In
Marlon County. Mrs. : Moor
head, executive secretary of the
Marion county public health as
sociatIon,wiIl also snow the edu
cational film, "Behind the Shad
ows. : i,: ,..;.; ? .V' "".
The Breakfast club, at" a brief
business session, will discuss
plans for an "on to Spokane"
party, and also , for the annual
convention of Breakfast clubbers
at Spokane June 15 to 18.
The Salem club expects to
reach a membership of 40 short
ly, thereby entitling it to a rep
resentation of four delegates at
the annual convention. Miss Vel
ma Strain Is president of the
local group, and Miss Lena Blum,
secretary. v-:
CORVALUS, April 17 -iFf
Preparatory to a three-weeks'
schedule of dairy schools
throughout the state, a special
training period for new depart
ment of agriculture Inspectors ap
pointed under the new compul
sory cream grading program In
Oregon has been in progress at
Oregon State college this week.
Schools and examinations will
be conducted. Including practical
demonstrations of the operations
of the new law requiring pur
chase of cream and milk by
grade and definite branding of
batter by A, B and C grade
markings.
Four Arrests Made on
Various Charges; City
Court Has Three Cases
PORTLAND, April 17 (jSV-Wil- Ed Hayes was booked by the
Ham T. Hedlund will "take over Police last night on a a r n n a
part of the duties" of Eugene S.
Kelty, assistant state liquor ad
mlnistrator who resigned, Arthur
K. McMahan, Albany, chairman
of the state liquor control com
mission, sa id today.
Kelty handed in his resignation
after serving two years as assist
ant administrator. He has been
supervisor of the license and reve
nue division and in charge of the
law enforcement and Inspection
activities of the commission.
Hedlund has been appointed
head of the license and revenue
department.
Kelty said he was resigning to
"enter other fields." He was un
derstood to have accepted employ
ment with an eastern liquor firm.
Journal Tasks to
Close on Monday
. Revision of the senate and
house Journals of the last legis
lative session will be completed
Monday.
The work . was under the di
rection of the bouse and senate
desk clerks and the presiding of
ficers of the two legislative
branches.
The clerks were allowed 140
days after the legislature adjourn
ed to complete the revision and
file their reports with the state
department. s
charge; H. R. Embry for making
a left hand turn into alley; An
thony J. Sunzeri, failing to stop:
and E. Hyland of Eugene and
Grover R. Betzer, violation of
basic rule.
! Municipal court cases yester
day included:
R.-L. Pendergraft, drunk, fin
ed $10. Serving time out In jail.
; L. H. Moore, drunk, bail for
feited $10.
Joe H. Broy, falling to stop,
fined $2.50.
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The Salem Credit Women's
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Ughting Pacific
Highway Favored
Lighting the Pacific highway
from Portland to Salem and the
Columbia rirer highway from
Portland to The Dalles Is being
advocated by J. M. Derera, attor
ney for the state highway com
mission. Electricity necessary for
the innovation would be obtained
from Bonneville. -
Lights recently were installed
at Intersections on the Portland
Oregon City super highway" and
these will be siren a trial. A
number of tragic deaths have oc
curred on this highway recently
Devers said a number of heavy
traveled highways In the east
were now lighted and that the In
novation has proved satisfactory.
The entire cost of lighting the
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borne by the state highway com
mission unless arrangements
could be made with the cities and
counties to contribute.
AUTO
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You save more than time, coming to us
for an Auto Loan. Our Loans are ar
ranged on the lowest terms obtainable.
See us before you finance the purchase
of your new automobile, or used one,
not over three years old.
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SALEM'S ONLY HOME-OWNED BANK
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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WHAT WOULD
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CALL IT...
A CONTEST
FOR EVERYONE!
See Details Below!
We're stumped .for a name for this splendid new addition and need your.help!
Suggest a suitable name and you may win a substantial prize. It costs you noth
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1st Prize CASH $25
2nd Prize Credit $25
3rd Prize Credit $15
4th Prize Credit $10
5th Prize Credit $10
6th Prize Credit $10
7th Prize Credit $5
8th Prize Credit $5
9th Prize Credit $5
10th Prize Credit $5
11th Prize Credit $5
12th PrizeCredit $5
Contest Rules:
Kame Is to consist of aot
more than two words.
All mames submitted most
be in by 5 P. M. Thursday,
April 22nd.
Address Contest Committee,
care of Marcos J. Aschlm and
K. W. Thomas, 260 ST. High,
or Carle Abrams, 411 Masonic
Big.
. Announcement of award will
be at the Addition at 11 A. M.,
Saturday, April 24th.
- Owners, salesmen. Judge,
and their families are excluded
from the contest.
In case more than one entry
contains the winning name, the
first entry received will be
awarded first prize.
There are no strings
tached to this contest and no
obligation. Successful contest
ants will simply be rewarded
for tbeir effort and talent.
Credit prise means credit on
tbe purchase price of a lot, and
may apply on down payment or
on later payment, .
Only one prize credit may be
nsed on one lot.
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Here is the reduced map of
the beautiful tract we are
about to offer to the public
and which we give you an
opportunity to name. It
borders the Pacific High
way and extends through
and borders on the Salem
SUverton Highway. This
property is divided into 123
divisions ranging down
ward from one-third of an
acre to a large building lot.
It is entered from the south
through a beautiful' oak
grove at the Beechler man
sion and you go out of it
through a fine orchard,
mostly English walnuts.
Drive out some fine day and
get filled" with ita beauty
and get the inspiration that
may suggest the name.
All City
Conveniences I
Water at your property
line.
Electricity, tele phone
and gas at city prices.
In Salem School District.
No city Inconveniences.
No city taxes.
No city assessments.-
. No city building or oth
er city restrictions.
No red tape or municipal
interference. v.
All city advantages and
oil country freedom.
In the city and out of it.
In the trend of the city's
growth.
A chance to immortalize yourself by naming this beautiful addition which means so. much to this
city now and will mean more as we grow in popu Iation. Drive out and get filled with the beauty of
this tract of land which is soon to be the homes of prosperous and happy people and this name you
suggest will stick to the addition and appear in all the maps of this section of the city. It will go
down to posterity.
260 Ni High St.
ASCHIM & THOMAS
1 SALES MANAGERS.
Telephone 3311
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