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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1937)
Disaster Pictures Photographs Of tit Kin denburg disaster, sped across-continent by eonnd photo, are presented on page 8 In .addition to one on this page. 7eather Partly cloudy today, San ' day fair and warmer; Max. temp. Friday 72, Min. 47, river 4.7 feet, rain .CD Inch, oath-southwest wind. EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR s t I Salem,' Oregon, Saturday Morning, May 8, 1937 Price 3c ; Newsstands 5c No. 23 Slid' .las-it I. ess mf . . ..... esssjpf robed Ml 111 . - -L' Mu'iiDBD.: 1651 . k ' ! ... . . " , . I - , ' i j , . . 1-1:- - !.Q ; Canal V01 Be Added, Water Source Setup Island Supply Is Ample for Present but More Will Be Obtained Engineer's Suggestions Backed by Members of Council Committee Unpredictable excavation dif ficulties In the form of excep tionally loose sand and Travel have made a variation in the mode of development of Salem's new water source on Stayton Island advisable, Consulting En gineer Us E. Koon announced last nigbt at a conference with the water commission and the special water construction com mittee of the city council. Engineer Koon recommended j that. Instead of proceeding with Increasingly costly excavation of trenches tor underground Infil tration galleries, a canal can be dug from the upper end of the Island and extended for 3200 feet along and to . one side of the underground pipe i already laid. The result, he said, would be an increased flow of water through the underground gravels Into the perforated infiltration pipe and water of the same qual-4 lty as that of a strictly under ground supply. Sufficient Supply Already Obtained Development operations could be stopped where they are and the city supplied with at least 7,000,000 gallons of water daily, more than ever known to have been consumed here in a day, the engineer explained, hut pro vision should be made to run the Salem-Stayton pipeline at its full 16.000,000 gallon daily ca pacity in case the city finds sale for the surplus water. The meeting was not called for the purpose of formal action but did bring out unanimous ap proval of the engineer's sugges tion from the council committee and of two of the four water commissioners present. umua sua & . unvoouvnvi who took office January 1, ex pressed themselves as dubious of the proposal and Orabenhorst was of the opinion operations should be halted until it was de termined whether or not mora water than was already available might be needed. The engineer estimated the canal would cost not to exceed 110,000 and pointed out that as of May 1 only $52,800 had been spent on the Inflltrstlon galleries. Pipeline Capacity Is Suggested Goal - "Originally I s a t d yon were justified In spending 1150,000 it yon could get away from a filter plan t," Koon explained. "You now have more water than the e 1 1 y consumes but you should have the additional development sufficient to run the pipeline to Salem at capacity In ease the city has opportunity to sell more water." Mr. Koon estimated the canal could be completed In tlx weeks. It would vary In depth up to 11 feet, be SO feet wide on the bot tom and be located on an average of 15 feet away trom the line of the Infiltration system and eight to 10 feet above the pipe levels, which at minimum are five feet below, the lowest known level of the North Santiam river. In reply to numerous questions, the 'engineer declared the canal would make no difference In the quality or purity of the water but admitted It might raise the temp erature slightly In the summer time. As reason for urging com pletion of the project now by digging the canal, he explained that the city had a trained crtw (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Siegmund Recall Group Has Meet i .. Nine persons interested) in the recall of County Judge J. C. Sieg mund attended a meeting of the Recall Siegmund committee at the W.C.T.U. rooms last night. Most of those attending have been actively engaged in circulat ing recall petitions. J. S. Baker, secretary of the Recall club, said that he had met rith a verr favorable response In circulating petitions in the .mailer towns of the county. He estimated that he had about 1000 signatures from outside of Salem. Hubbard, he said, would go al most unanimously for the county Judge's recall while Woodburn and SllTerton would also be strongly represented, on the pet itions. "Wo want to giro Siegmund a vacation," Robert L. Loeb, sec retary of the recall committee, aid in outlining petition-pushing rlans to the group. Veslel Aground Upcfn Sand Spit, Willapa Harbor HOQl'IAM, Wash., May 7 () Two coast guard surf boats tattled through heavy seas tonight to aid the steam schooner Trinidad of San Francilco, with about 35 men aboard, where it pound ed on G sand spit three miles ontsidc Willapa Harbor. The f 21 0 - foot ! wooden schooner, loaded with lum ber foe San Francisco and commanded by Capt. I. Hel lesto, grounded on Worth Spit a the north i entrance of the tarbor during a high wind ffnd heavy rain. Flares shooting np through i the stormy night gave caat guardsmen their first knowledge the ship was in d 1st ttss as it had no radio. ....Surf? ! boats left North Cove, finside Willapa Har bor, mhtl the Westport sta tion at-tiraj s Harbor to help the Trinidad. A eCf-mlle wind and high w a v e'i ' swept along the southwt WaHliIiigton roast at the-itlme the surf boats pat oui. l , Gale Fells Trees Damaging 2 Autos . I i Wind Reaches Velocity of 31 RBles per Hour or More; Rain Comes Broken! off by heavy wind, a section o a tree toppled ' yester day and damaged a car parked at the cdb at Front Vnd Center streets. , j :i - - Deflected by a wire which It struck in? falling, the tree caused-! only smaf) damage, to the parked car, TherJI . were several dents In the hoodgand a limb pierced the roof. 1 1 : . ;. ... ,j Anotheg tree fell without caus ing damage at Winter and Market streets. j : Highest wind velocity recorded at the afeport yesterday was SI miles per hour but the velocity may have; reached a higher point between observations. The velocity was overt 20 miles per hour all afternoons : . ir i SILVEItTON, May 7 Two trees created to the ground during the windtstorm here today, and as luck wfuld have it, Arthur Nel son's autdraoblle, parked on a re sidence dSstrict street was under both of tjiem and was damaged extensively. This was the only Instance If outstanding damage from the frtorm. Lights were out here for fa fw minutes on two occasions.! ' MackjWins Three Points for Salem 8EATT.E, May 7-WVTbe Uni versity ct' Washington's men's swimming! team and the Washing ton Athlejie club's women's nata tors won Il)eir respective competi tions in tie northwest invitational swimming! tournament held in the Wl A. C.lpool tonight. The V. lot W. swimmers gleaned 24 point! to lead In the men's division. .The Crystal Swimming club, Seaftle, was second with 17 points, add the W. A. C, and Portland Central Y, M. C. A. tied for third irith 14. ; " Other finishers were V, A. S. C, IS points.! Aberdeen Y. M. C. A., C; Tacoma Y M. C. A. 4, Salem Y. M. C. -A. S add Multnomah A. C. 1. 8 I - Forbes! Mack was the only one of ' Salem's entrants to place In the swi owning tournament at Se attle Friday. He won second place in the Its-yard breast stroke, in which Cfne Caddy of University of Washington set a new record of 1 mlnutej 9.8 seconds. Logging Camps to Resume on Motiday; Coos Dockmen Picket PORTLAND, Ore.. May 7-UPV- Unions aad operators signed an agreement this afternoon ending a lumber Industry controversy bringing idleness to approximate ly 1S,000 workers. Logging' camps will resume operation i In the Columbia river district Monday. Sawmills will open as iapldly as logs are avail able. Charlea W. Hope, regional di rector fog the national labor rela tions . board, announced the ap pointment ! of John F. Gelsler, Westport Ore., as "cxar of the Portland hiring hall. The hiring hall, controlled by the state under the Grafi-Marsh pact, has been one of U stumbling blocks to an agreement.' ; . ; " -v :" - Differences between the lum ber and sawmill workers union and the Columbia Basin Loggers association will be submitted to an arbitration board. The 'board, composed of three representatives from esch group and Father First Mr Floot1,? iitrol Project Made Incorporation Launched, Ditmars 'Bend District on River, Fairfield Rip-Rapping . There Held Urgent; Group Take Responsibility Actual flood control develop ment along the Willamette river came closer to realization yester day with the filing of articles of incorporation for the first local district to be formed nnder the enabling act passed by the 19S7 legislature. The articles, filed at the court bouse here, were for the Dltmars Bend District Improvement com pany, which will sponsor a $115. 750 rip-rapping project on Dlt mars bend in the the Fairfield district 16.16 miles north of Sa lem. mi United States army engineers recently offered 4 the project If local sponsorship would be pro vided and declared Dltmars bend was in the greatest need of bank protection of any section of tho river course. The Dltmars Improvement dis trict membership represents 4SS.8 acres of land, according to the incorporation papers. First di rectors are Merrill B. Lucn, Thomas A. Dltmars and Carl Fran cis. The only other members are Edith C. Lucas, Laura Ditmars and Ell M. Francis. The district's share of the pro ject will -consist of. providing right of way, indemnifying the United States against construc tion damages and agreeing to maintain the completed works. Moody to Confer On Capitol Group Conditions of U. S. Grant to Be Discussed With i Hockley of PWA Today Assistant Attorney Gen eral Ralph E. Moody will confer in Portland with C. C. Hockley, state PWA director, regarding the PWA grant for new buildings In the state capltol group. Gov. Mar tin, while In Washington, secured the approval of the president and Secretary Ickes to an allotment of $450,000 on a $1,000,000 pro ject. The condition of the grant is that It Is not a definite commit ment for the full ; amount, but wUl be paid out to reimburse the state for wages for relief labor on the job, with allowance of IS per cent for overhead. There Is no restriction in the federal grant to one building. 1 This represents a change from the present capltol grant; and Moody will eonfer with Hockley to see If the new grant cannot be obtained under the former condi tions, as an extension of the or (TUrn to page 2, coL 1) CorvaUis Man Is , Victim of Crash LONGVIEW, May 7(-Quy Cole, SO, Cbrvallis, Ore., was killed tonight in an automobile accident on the Pacific highway two miles north of Woodland. Coroner Shirley R. Marsh and Sheriff H. T. O'Brien, who In vestigated, said Cole's automobile crashed head-on into a truest trav eling in the opposite direction. Cole's body was brought to Kelso. V 1 .George Thompson of Portland, neutral member, will have SO days to complete a formal agree ment. .."-"", Hope did not disclose i other terms of the settlement but it is understood It Includes a 10 per cent wage Increase with a 7H cents an hour minimum retro active, to March 22. Total of Idle Men Reached 13,000 5 The dispute which began In March when lumber employers met union demands for a general 1 0-cents-an-hour wage Increase with an offer of a 10 per eent boost and a minimum Increase of 7 cents an hour, reached a cli max two weeks ago when logging operators closed their camps and brought idleness to 6009 . em ployes. Employers said the action was in protest against scattered strikes, "sympathy- walkouts and "slow-down" tactics by the union. . (Turn to oara 2. col- 3 k FIRST DRAWING OF PROPOSED prr t-- ;.,-jgBan . trans;, .r. sasaarxs: Here i the first perspective drawing of Marlon county's proposed new courthouse aa it will appear from corner of High and Court streets. Designed by ; Whitehouse A Chorch and Knighton A Howell, asso ciates, the county court's architects, the building Is Intended 1 strapliclty of line and marble exterior to harmonize with new Sa lem postofflce and new state capltol. Not shown In the photo, a Rebels Launch Bilbao Attack Planes, Heavy Guns Used in Assault, on Last Line of Defense (Copyrichtes, l3t, ly Attoclstes Prt) Spanish Insurgent troops ham mered at Bilbao's last line of de fense last night with planes and heavy artillery as! Basque defend ers fought desperately to hold an Iron ring of trenches with 30,000 mn. 1 ! Insurgent j Infantrymen In band-to-hand combat with bayo net and hand grenades swept tne Basques from the heights of Mount Sollube, base of their de tense lines about 11 miles from Bilbao. j Insurgent' commanders said 200 Basques were killed as In surgent planes rained tons of bombs on their lines and Tillages near Bilbao. The Basques said they were ready for a "last stand" defense of Bilbao. Yesterday 2,806 re fugees, mostly children, were evacuated from I tba city to France, and : several thousand others were to follow them, i i: An anarchlBt rebellion, which was reported to have cost more than 400 lives with hundreds in jured, continued 1 1n Barcelona. Tha ravolt spread to towns and villages, with anarchists battling troops sent by the Spanish gov ernment at Valencia to restore order. : -j Government planes bombarded the insurgent-held city of Zara gosa. More than 76 perscus bare been killed there in two days, insurgents said. " . Madrid mapped a new offen sive against insurgents spread about the city. Gen. Jose Miaja, commander of the capital's de fense forces, : said government troops were In shape to repel any insurgent ; attack. Several Injured In Bus Accident ALBANY, May ! 7-P)-Twenty-flve passengers on a north-bound Pacific Greyhound stage were shaken and several reported cuts and bruises following an accident on the slippery pavement near Millersburg, five miles north of here today. The ; stage plunged into a ditch and collided with a telephone pole after going Into a skid. - Dr. Leroy Henry, Colorado, suf fered cuts from broken glass and William ; Schumacher, the driver, suffered a bruised head when, he was thrown against the wind shield which shattered from the impact. Rev. Blilligan to Address : Seniors Rev. James E. Milligan, pastor of the First Methodist church, has accepted an Invitation to preach the baccalaureate ermon to the more than 450 graduating seniors ct Salem high. Miss Carmelite Barqnlst, senior class advisor, an nounced yesterday. . The baccalaureate services will be held In the new auditorium at Leslie Junior high school Sunday nicht. May 30. at S o'clock. , "wj-.t,l0 ;unit r ! r H ' n', ej ' Establishing 'Minimum Labor Conditions9 Aim Four-Point' Program for Betterment Is i Cited by v Secretary Perkins; Better j Arbitration and Sharing Financial Information, Points TYASHINGTON, Iay 7 (AP) Secretary Perkins said W today that legislation to establish "minimum working conditions" for labor Is point number one in the Roose velt administration's labor program!. Hie statement was made to Senator Pope (D Ida.) in a radio discussion recorded for broadcast from Idaho stations oon Monday evening, May 10. Durbin Holsteins Bring Good Price $225 Paid for Two, Total Is $7160 for Average of $95.47 a Head Seventy-five head of purebred Holestelns sold for $7160 or an average of $95.47 per head. In cluding calves, at the Frank W. Durbin auction held at his Mead ow Lawn dairy farm yesterday. Cows averaged $112.86 at the sale, though only two went over the $200 figure, these going at $215 s a o h. The highest price cows went to John Gosser of Van couver, Wash., and Lindow Bro thers of Washington county. The top price paid for balls was $155, the 1986 state fair grand champion, an animal free ly declared, worth $1000. going to M. C. Cunningham of Clarke county. Wash. for $155. Although the Durbin herd at (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Two Escape When Airplane Crashes IIOLBROOK, Arit.; May T-(ffV An army transport plane, carry ing three occupants, crashed near Clay Springs, 4$ miles south of here, today, and was destroyed by tire. Lleuts. Cullen and Jones and Corporal Walsh, occupants of the plane, escaped Injury, advices reaching , here said, by leaping from the plane aa it grounded in the rorch, mountainous country, Late Sports SAN FRANCISCO, May Gene Llllard, fireball hurler for the San Francisco Seals, 'yielded only three hit as he hurled his club to a 10 to 2 victory over the San Diego Padres here tonight; San Diego ...... 2 2 4 San Francisco ....10 10 1 " Salvo, Shellenback and Detore; Llllard and WoodalL OAKLAND, Calif., May 7-ff)-Oakland broke Sacramento's win ning streak by taking the first game of thelr double header here Oonight, g to 1, but the Senators came back to win the seven-Inning second game 1 to 0. Sacramento M1 i ' f Oakland .........S 11 2 Seats and Cooper; Bonn am and Baker. Sacramento ......I C 0 Oakland 0 2 2 Freltaa and Clark; Brener, Hald ' and Rabnondl. . NEW COURTHOUSE IN SALEH . i " - . 1 1 . narrower section will extent eastward from the center of the unit de picted. The building' will have three full floors devoted to off ice and court, room use, a fourth floor consisting of jail. Jury quarters and court room ceiling space, largely obscured from view by main wall parapet, and a full basement with outside windows in east wing for daylight lighting of additional offices. Replying to Pope's assertion that the administration "is de veloping a fine program" in the interest of wage earners, the la bor secretary said: ' "I agree with you senator, and think j the following points will cover it: - j 1 ' 1. The protection of the great mass of workers by legislation on minimum working conditions. ' "2. Protection and promotion by legal enactment and machin ery of the right to organize and bargain collectively . . . "3. jUtllltaUon of effective techniques of conciliation and mediation to ease the strain of collective bargaining ... "4. Provision for workers and employers alike of economic and financial Information relating to Industries where collective bar gaining la under way." (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Fire-Seared Hindenburg Blast Victim Is Helped to Ambulance ' 1 1 1 ' - " """""" """-"- '" m A survivor of the Klndenbnrg explosion and fire la shown being help ed to walk: to aa ambulance by navy men. Most of his clothing was burned off In the lire. International Illustrated News photo. t ;. , i? ;' I :-!:. izz 1 Talk Financing Of Courthouse To Be . Possible Despite new PWA Regulation Is Hewlett View - Tightening of PWA grant, reg ulations will not mean that con struction of a new Marion county courthouse may be. Jeopardized, County Commissioner Leroy Hew lett declared yesterday. The county court plans 'and hopes to obtain a PWA 45 per cent grant under favorable condi tions. Hewlett said, but It has authority under the Deschutes county legislative enabling act to spread a courthouse levy over; a sufficient period of years that the tax in any one year would not be burdensome, i Hewlett vouchsafed the opinion the financing could be arranged satisfactorily regardless of whether or not federal aid were obtained. - I The court's architects, White- house & Church and Knighton Howell of Portland, have com pleted the first perspective draw ing of the proposed new county building and are expected to come to Salem either today or early next week with the final prelim inary plajis. On these plans will be based an application for the PWA grant, i The design of the new court house Is Intended to harmonise In line and finish with the new state (Turn to page 2, Col. 3) -v- .1. 11 i ill in 1 ii i ijIjW1" " " ''" CaptXelimann Death Is 33rd, Mystery Bias! Eckener Lists Possible ' Explanations; Source ' of Spark Unknown U; S. to Loosen Rule on. ' Helium Sale; Various Agencies to Probe LAKEHURST. N. J.. May 7 (AV'Capt. Erust Lehmann, stocky little veteran master of Zeppe lins, Joined 32 ether victims of the Hindenburg - holocaust la death tonight, even as federal authorities set out to establish if sabotage caused the fatal plunge of the great dirigible. Before he died, Lehmann, who skippered the Hindenburg on her pioneering passenger trips here a year ago, echoed the views of the parade of aeronautical experts who have looked over the grot esque wreckage strewn over the U. S.: naval air station landing field. u, "I can't understand it." he said. I can't understand It." With the ngly reports of sa botage refusing to be downed, two authorities. Dr. Hugo Ecs ener, head of the Zeppelin com pany, and Senator Copeland (D-NY), chairman of the senate commerce committee, were on record as saying this possibility of sabotage should be exhaustive ly Investigated. ,, ' v The latest death toll of last night's flaming disaster released by the Zeppelin company placed the known victims at 33. The roll named 11 passengers, 21 members of the crew, ' and one spectator as dead. Commerce Department '. To Conduct! Probe , r The department of" commerce took over complete charge of an Inquiry; already . well advanced Informally: Participating offi cials will be representatives - cf the ' German government. Cope land's 'committee, the U..S. Navy and the State of New jersey Public hearings will . begin Mon day. . .:.,.. .- Captain Lehmann, who flew Zeppelin raiders in the World war and was master of the Hia denburg on Its ten trans-Atlantic voyages last year, died of burns and Injuries at 4:55 p. m. (EST) more than 12 hours after he stumbled dazed from the flame-ridden airship, ills pro tege, Capt. Max Pruss, who took over command for that fatal first voyage here this year,-was still In critical condition from burns. , About an hour before Leh mann's death, his friend, Comdr. Charles : E. Rosendahl, hero of mandant at Lakehurst naval base where the dirigible's skelton lay, broadcast a report of the disaster to the German nation. Helium Gas Would " Prevent It, Asserts ' MIn Judging this disaster." be said, "It must be remembered that the Hindenburg was lost tnrounh fire. The ship had successfully completed her west-bound cross ing over the North Atlantic, was under normal control in every respect and was making a normal landing." "Whatever may hare been the orialn." . he continued, "th Jam of, the Hindenburg can be attrib uted only to one basic cause, namely, that r of fire. Had this ship been Inflated with the non inflammable non-explosive helium -gas, such as is used In our Am erican airships, such a catastrophe would have been Impossible. Earlier In the day, the senate military affairs committee ap proved a bill which would liberal ise commercial sale and expert ct non-Inflammable helium, of wbla the United States has a monopoly. Dr. Eckener, heading a German Inquiry commission ordered to America by the ; Hitler forern ment, Indicated the famous Graf Zeppelin, now operating to South America, may be grounded until Germany obtains helium. Germany, appalled by the lose of its $3,000,000 sky monarch regarded aa the crowning achieve ment of years of successful dirig ible construction sent Its own investigators hurrying across the Atlantic. . (Turn to page 2, col. 1) 7)) AX LADE r.i of TOD A On Salem streets I tried a hustling throng, unlike the in dolent folic of years ago, and buttonholing" one who sped along, I asked what made the people hurry so. "That's easy," he snapped out and did not stop; -We've found it costs a dollar If we lag; each citizen's kept always on 'the hop, for otherwise we get a parking tag-.