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y if- rf 1 1 ,j Circulation Average Dally and Sonday lor April, 1087 Distribution 912S Net Paid 8731 lIEMDEn A. B. CV. rfi Fartly cloudy . today aail Saturday, tempt at ura nn changed; Max. Temp. Thurs day 72, Sim, C3, river 7-8 fret, cloudy, south-southwest wind. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Homing;, May 14, 1937 Price 3e; NeirssUn&s Se No. 41 Minn il by Mm fflJlMMFS Nr ""fT 'is I I I I I X l , 1 I ' X ... I I '"V 1 - : . 1 -.:.-.!..:-.. ..-.: . TTx T1T1 State Can Not Contract With Union, Warns Organizing oi Employes Prompts Statement From Governor Wagner Act Specifically Exempts all! Political Bodies Pointed out Stat employes 'are privileged to Join labor unions or any oth er legitimate organizations but. Governor Charles H. Martin em phasized in a statement issued Thursday night, the- state cannot and will not enter Into collective bargaining with labor unions or their representatives The statement was Issued alter the governor had that the program the 3000 state heard reports of unionizing fomnloye. sn Bounced in labor l!leadera state ments quoted In The Statesman earlier this week, was already un der way. Km Discrimination IoHlble, Declared "Public money 1 4 used for the payment of the. services of state employes' and it mandatory that no persons be 'discriminate 1 gainst for not belonging to a union or given preference be cause of membership," the gov ernor continued. jj Governor Martin said the only privilege that woulj be accorded state employes in Joining a un ion organization mbuld be that of paying dues and en toying whatever fraternal j satisfactions rise therefrom. 1 1 "Since an effort (a being made to incorporate a ij number of groups of state employes into la bor union organizations tt is timely that a definite expression of administrative policy be made regarding such activities," Gov ernor Martin declared. The governor said that mem bership in subversive organisa tions which have tpr their pur pose destruction f American Ideals and institutions would not be tolerated. No Objection to Joining;, Explained "It is no concern ot the state government whether; Its employes Join any labor union or any po litical movement so long as mem bership does not impair the em ployes' eff iciency from the stand point of service to j the public.' Governor Martin said. "Employes of thej state are In fact servants of the public and get their livelihood! from public funds. Service to the public Is of paramount importance. Hence any organization wprk that in ttrferes with this ptibllc seivice, especially In times Of emergency when public servant! must labor without regard to hours, is against the public gdod. The state is sovereign both under the constitution of the United States and bf the consti tution of the state itself. No group can threaten or forcefully inter fere with operation 'jot the state government unless it is willing to assume the responsibility of rev olution. The state cannot and will not Idly permit such! a situation, because It Is charged .with the duty of maintaining itself for the (Turn to Page 3,Col. 1.) Learn Boy Jpcout Saved Bailey 'Lad Delbert Bailey, ll who was eerlously burned In a gasoline ex plosion at his home April 30, owes his life to Herman W albert, a Boy Scout, Delberfs father, John J. Bailey of 645ij South ISth street, said yesterday. Walbert baa been sought by ijbe Injured boy's parents as the man who smothered the flame with his coat and left before his Identity had been learned, j Young Delbert Is recovering satisfactorily at Deaconess hos pital. He waa burned when. In playing about a barn, he lit a snatch and looked Into an empty go-gallon oil drum. An explosion followed and the boy's clothing caught fire. "Walbert who with Walter Nicodemus waa passing by. ran to his assistance. Walbert, with hia parents, had come to Eaiem iwu uj vi . wu. Montrose, Mo. Their intend to make their home here. Tame Duck! Lacks Liking Forj Water ASTORIA. May 13 -v'MMa-rlne," a wild duck tamed and reared by sailors at the Young's bay naval radio station, not only has no liking for water as most of it kind but can not even swim. ... H! After a number of Unsuccessful wlmmiag experiments the sail ers gave un and found a dry spot for their strange peti It thrives ca dry land. Transatlantic Fliers Make Gh Progress on Return From Ik jpe Dick Merrill, right, and his co-pilot. Jack Lambie, were reported early this morning as making; good progress with favorable conditions on their return flight from London. They flew to England In 20 hour, 84 miantes with pictures of the Iflndenbnrg disaster and are bringing back coronation pictures. Photo taken Jnst before they took off on the eastward trip. International Illustrated News photo. , --. I O Fist Fight Waged By Union Leaders Toledo Mill Workers Vote for Industrial Union by Lcrge Margin PORTLAND, Ore., May 13-AV Officlals of the rival longshore and teamsters unions staged an Impromptu fistic set-to In the Labor temple here today as a ser ies of brawls marked the juris dictional dispute revolving around Meier & Frank eoxupanj ware- hccrcmcn Bystanders separated' G.R. Robertson, Factfle coast district representative of the international longshoremen's arseclation, a n'd Jack SchUht. business agent for the teamsters' union, after an. ex change of blows following an ar gument over a reference to Schlaht in a handbill j circulated by the local I.L.A. I Two I.L.A. pickets at the Meier A Frank store reported they were attacked by two men during the day. Neither was seriously injur ed. I Harry Goss. I.L.A. attorney, re quested a police permit to carry a pistol, asserting he had received threats over the telephone, and Turn to Page 2. Col. 7.) Mou Files Bill Upon Bonneville WASHINGTON, May 13 H&y Representative James W. Mott of Oregon lined up in opposition to congressman Walter Pierce to day when he added another bill to the pile of Bonneville daru leg islation. Mott's plan would give control of the dam to United States army engineers and would provide for an administrator ap pointed by the war department to &ell and distribute power. Pierce's measure, which has the support of . Secretary Ickes, would give engineers Jurisdiction over locks and fishways only. Measures Introduced by Repre sentative Nan Wood Honeyman of Oregon and Martin Smith of Washington would permit the en gineers to operate the plant bat would reserve switchboard con trol for an administrator to be selected by Secretary Ickes. ' Bank Night Citations Filed; Moody to A ns wer in 10 Days Renewal of action In the suit ot Carl A. Porter, manager of the two Warner Bros, theatres here, to prevent the attorney general's office from Interfering with the operaUon of bank night came yes terday In the form of the plaint iffs memorandum and citations of legal opinion, tiled In circuit court. I Ralph E. Moody, assistant at torney general, announced he would file his answer to the mem orandum within ten days and the plaintiff would have an addition al ten days In which to submit a reply. The case will then go to Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling for a decision. I ' i Defends Bank Night t Claims Not Lottery . The bank night plan la defend ed in the memorandum brief as not constituting a lottery and as being not a scheme to swell thea tre attendance but only a feature to attract attention to the spon soring theatres. To combat O il , s 1 J, ;t ; I 7 Ocean Fliers Say Progress Speedy 1200 Miles out, Merrill Reports; Instrument Frying Necessary NEW YORK. May 1 4-i!p)-DIck Merrill, more than 1,200 miles out of Liverpool, broadcast at 13:05 a.m., (EST) today that he was "flying on instruments at 3,000 feet, all okay." ; J ' The message, vocal nstead of in the telegraph code which Mer rill and his companion. Jack Lambie, used on Monday's east ward flight from Floyd Bennett Field to London, was picked up by listeners at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here. It Indicated he had struck the band of "soup" which forecast ers had predicted for his north Atlantic Great Circle route. An hour earlier. Merrill, seek ing his fourth successful trans Atlantic flight, had reported he was 800 miles out of Ireland "and everything going fine." ; Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, gen eral manager of Eastern Air lines, who spent the night with other friends and associates of Merrill and his co-pilot. Jack Lambie, listening for reports from them, estimated the fliers' midnight position report placed them 1,100 miles from Liverpool and indicated an average speed of 140 miles an hour for that distance. If they continued at that rate, Rickenbacker said, they should be able to reach New York with out danger of fuel shortage, ar riving at around 1 p.m. E.S.T. Salem Girls Get Jobs at Newport TOLEDO. May 13-;p)-Cunty Superintendent A. M. Cannon said Earl Wittaker, present Wheeler high jschool coach, will direct ath letics at Toledo high school next year. Lawrence Rakes, at present principal at Silets, will be princi pal at Newport " high : school. Eleanor Trimble and Hortense Taylor, both of Salem, will teach home economics . and supervise music, , respectively. . A new principal will also be named at Waldport high school. LMoody's contention that the con- slderaUon required to make hank night legally a lottery does not exist, the brief contains a finan cial statement purporting to show that direct expenses Incidental to operaUon of the bank night con sumed on the occasion cited all but 115.48 of the Increase In box office receipts attributed to bank night. The brief states further thaj, tangible advertising outlays are not Included In . the listed .expense items which left this bal ance. - As further defense of bank night, the plainUtt's attorneys as sert that any benefit accruing to the operator has no bearing on the quesUon of lottery. Court rul ings are cited In an effort te bol ster this assertion. , The bank night case arose after Moody had Issued a notice he In tended to stop the two theatres weekly feature. Manager Porter filed suit to prevent such action. (Turn to Page 13, CoL 8.) Strike Spread Through Steel Industry Seen Second Plant's I Workers Go out ; Four Others Said Inevitable Violence Which Results in Tear Gas Use; no Peace Trend yet PITTSBURGH, May 13 -(flV Chalrman Philip Murray of the steel workers organizing commit tee said tonight strikes were "in evltable" at four of the coun trv'a largest independent steel nrodncers "because of their con tinned Insistence hot to sign an agreement with the union." . i Murray, named the Republic Steel Corp.. Youngstown Sheet ft Tube Co., Bethlehem Steel Corp. and the Crucible steel Co. oi America. Together they employ 178.000 men. i He made bis strike threat a few minutes before resuming a conference with Chairman H. E. Lewis of the Jones ft Laughlln Steel corporation In an effort to end the walkout of the company's plants, affecting 37,000 workers. While picket lines shut down the vast Jones ft Laughlln mills In Pittsburgh and Allqulppa. Pa., local union leaders called out their men at the Pittsburgh Steel company's plant in Monessen and Allenport, Pa. I Violence Reported i At Allqnlppa Mill Approximately 5.900 men are employed In the two mills. While Federal Labor Concil iator James F. Dewey conferred with Murray and H. E. Lewis in a peace move, violence was re ported among the picket ranks at Allqulppa. f ! ' Police threw tear gas into a i S (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) I i , . ;t i . . ' ; Edward's Demand Raises new Issue LONDON, May !18-W)-Former King Edward's demand that Wal 11s Warfleld become "her royal highness" when she marries him was said tonight to have caused a dispute with the ; government that may endanger his hope of returning some day to England. The government, was willing that Mrs. Warfietd be known as the Duchess of Windsor. But.it drew the line at the three little words which would rank her with the Duchess of Kent and the Duchesa of Gloucester, wives of Edward and King George's young er brothers. There were reports also that some members of the royal fam ily opposed the designation. Ed ward was said to be Insistent on the title of "her royal highness, the Duchess of Windsor." A source close to the govern ment revealed the cause of the struggle while the empire sought to forget the previous crisis of Edward's abdication In adulation of the newly-crowned George and his Scottish Queen Elizabeth. : Thousands danced tonight at the coronation costume ball in the Royal Albert Hall In Kensington. King George and his queen were hosts at another: brilliant state banquet in Buckingham Palace. Manslaughter Is Denied, Roesner KLAMATH FALLS, May 13-Cn -Jack Roesner today pleaded in nocent to a manslaughter charge. He is held, along with his step father and mother. In connection with the fatal, shooting of Jesse Emert, a neighbor, in an alleged quarrel over chickens. . Circuit Judge E. B. Ashurst said he would set the trial for sometime in June. Blast Injury Critical BEND, May IS-iflVMrs. clar ence Adams, . Bend, , was in the hospital today with severe burns, the result of lan explosion of a basin of cleaning fluid. Physicians pronounced her condlUon critical. Late Sports SACRAMENTO. May H-iffV Tiny Chaplin was too big for the Solons tonight and San Diego took: the measure of the league leaders 5 to 0 on the burly righthander's f-hlt pitching. It was San Diego's first win of the series. ' Eaa piego ...........5 1 Sacramento ........... 0 f 1 Chaplin and Detore; Klinger, Seats, Sclnsoth and Franks. WESTERN IXT-L. LEAGUE Spokane 7, Yakima I. Tacoma 3. 8, Lewlstoa 3, t. Halliburton to Travel Pacific In Junk, Plans MKDFORD, Ore., May IS -UP) Richard Halliburton, i author and world traveler, ! bow aspires to be the first to cross the Pacific In a Chinese Junk. . He said he planned to lo i cate a suitable boat In China and sail It bark to the world fair fa San Francisco. I want to find one with all the color and atmos phere, with dragon eyes, m Chinese family, pigs and ev erything," he explained. Halliburton will speak at ; the Leslie auditorium here next Tuesday night under the sponsorship of the Sa lem Twenty-Thirty club. Fairbanks Floods, 4 Residents Fleeing Water Inundates Streets, Buildings; Film Party Stranded on Island FAIRBANKS, Alaska. May 13 -tP)-Many residents fled their homes tonight as flood waters of the Chena and Tanana rivers spread over the city. Water a foot deep flowed through the principal thorough fare, flooding hotels, churches and a hospital. Sidewalks made of wood float ed away In the rising water. Water rose to the second story of the Catholic church. The Alaska railroad's station was also flooded. lee Jams along the Chena. river broke, but an airplane pilot re ported the biggest Jam at the confluence of the Chena and Tan ana river near here was still hold ing. . The pilot reported he saw two men atop an Isolated cabin 14 miles east of here. A Hollywood motion picture company was stranded on an isl and In the Chena. I Twelv? members of, . Director Norman : Dawn's production party were stranded on the island after crossing the river to film ice scenes for Republic Pictures Corp. Their boat was swept away. Jack Weatherwax, animal trainer for the company, dived into the ice-choked waters of the river, successfully swam to the Richardson highway on the oppo site side and ran to Fairbanks for aid. Union of Bourbon' Workers to Figbt ; Patronage Battle WASHINGTON, May 13 (ff) The national union for collect ive bargaining for democratic workers reared its head today growled at ."petty party chief ains," and served noUce that from now on patronage dis pensers will have to deal with the boys' who hustle the rotes. The NUCBDW's aim, its leaders said, will be to gain more consideraUon for lowly party workers who labor in the heat of election campaigns and then are often forgotten when the Jobs are doled out. Walter L. Williams, a for-' mer Philadelphian who admits the union "waa my Idea," said it will be what the name im plies a union with dues-paying members, local units all over the country, organizers, and, he hopes, affiliation with the Committee for Industrial Organization or the American Federation of Labor. The purpose, said Williams, is "to get for these little party workers a greater voice in all party policies and other matters which obviously would include a greater vole in so-called party patronage." Qackamas WPA . Dispute Settled PORTLAND, May 13 --(ff) A strike of WPA workers on the Eagle Fern park project In Clack amas ended isr its second day when the state agreed today to pay wages due the men for fight ing a forest fire on private prop erty last November. . : E. J. Griffith, state WPA ad ministrator, said the men were '.'the unfortunate victims of a mis understanding between two gov ernmental agencies, each of which expected the other to pay the men " .- Pedestrian Hurt Russell Hagy. 117 ts North Commercial street, reported to police last night that a Mr. Et fenberger, 411 Front street, was slightly injured when he became confused and stepped back la front of Hagy's car at Center and Front streets. 1 ----- . ; ' : ; -, Economy Fight Has Spotlight In Washington Senate Lops 60 Millions off Soil Conservation Funds for Farmers President's Relief Fund Program Wins out in House Committee WASHINGTON, May 13--Ad ministration forces no sooner checked a revolt in the bouse against President Roosevelt's 500,000,000 relief request today than they ran into a senate vote lopping 860.000,000 off the fund he approved for sou conservation payments to farmers. ; ' The relief request won approv al of the .powerful bouse appro priations committee, 23 ; to 14, despite a subcommittee's recom mendation It be cut to a flat 81,000,000,000 tor economy's sake. -.- The committee's action came within a day of the president's scheduled return from! a gulf va cation, and the day after Charles West, under secretary jot the in terior and frequent emissary or the chief executive, had paid a visit to yis rebelling house, ni-rartisan Uloe Seeks Deeper Cut While leaders rejoiced at balk ing the bi-partisan house bloc which wants to carry economy deeper into relief than the presi dent proposed, the senate ap proved without debate a $60,000,- 000 cut in the 8500,000000 fund sought by the administration for soil conservation payments to farmers. i Secretary Wallace had said yes terday the reduction! probably would cut 10 to 15 per cent from the payments Individual farmers otherwise would receive. House leaders agreed to call (Turn to Page' 13, Col. 3.) See Dictatorship Upon Reservation KLAMATH FALLS, I May 18-(yp)-Six members of the tribal council charged in a publio state ment that Klamath reservation Indians "felt the sting of dictator ship" during the regime of Wade Crawford, formerly superintend ent. . ; -j ' - They said It was In answer to the statement Issued by Crawford a week ago after his dismissal by Secretary of the Interior Har old Ickes, in which Crawford con tended he had always had the support of the tribal council. Asserting that they regarded It as their duty to function in the best Interests of the reservation, they-added:". ' !. ; (. . "We do not construe this busi ness relationship as approving Crawford's tenure of office." The six Indians said that since Crawford took office there had been sweeping changes In the personnel of the hospital, fores try department and in the office force. ; "Many Indians were so discour aged they did not visit the agency office except when absolutely neccessary. Indians have had to have their attorneys in order to transact business before the 'kan garoo court' we have had for three years," the statement said. - ; I- : .. Billiard Room Robbed : i CORVALUS, May 13-(ff-Bur-glars obtained- approximately 3100 In the robbery of a billiard room here and an undetermined amount was taken from pin ball machines, the proprietor reported to police. It was the second rob bery of Its kind this week. Insurgents Within 5 Miles Of Bilbao; Muriguia Shelled GUERNICA Spain, May 13-C&V The Bilbao-bound northern in surgent army rolled ahead over a 18-mlle battlefront today and pushed to within five miles .of the besieged Basque capital at some points. . 1 i Warplanes paved the way. Insurgents seised - the heights north and Just east of : the town of Mungula, which lias seven miles north of Bilbao, i Insurgent artillery and aircraft barrassed the militiamen as they Hed Into that town. Then gunners began to shell Mungula. The insurgent Una, starting north of Mungula, was strung southeastward across Mount BIs cargi almost to Larrabezua five miles east of Bilbao and than along the edge of Amorebieta, which is eight miles east of Bil bao and slightly south. , BILBAO. Spain. May lS-CAV Tbe town of Mungula shook with Death Tntt Indicated; English Admiralty Probing Only Three Bodies Recovered, Search to Resume, in Morning; Destroyer Hunter Damaged by Sudden Blast Cruising off Spanish Coast; Earlier ! Reports Say German-Bftilt Sub . had Torpedoed Vessel LONDON, May 14- (Friday)- (AP) A floating mine laid during: the Spanish civil war was understood today to have been definitely established as the cause of the blast which rocked the British destroyer Hunter with a loss of at least three lives. - - The British admiralty launched an investigation to de termine who laid the mine and fix responsibility for what observers believed would be a stern protest. Dispatches from Gibraltar said the destroyer was steam ing; off Almeria, on the southern coast of Spain, outside ter- Playgrounds Will Open, Early June Program Will Be Similar to Last Year; Federal Help Is Available Salem's playgroond system wtU be in readiness for opening by June 11, Vernon GUmore, play ground director, 'said last night; Although detailed plana of op eration nava : not yet been for mulated the playgrounds vill fol low much the same schedule as last year. Gilmore said. There will be help available from WPA and Increased funds from the city. Work of preparing- the play-, grounds for opening is now under way. The swimming pools at Les; lie and dinger playgrounds are being cleaned and considerable painting wilt be done. A number of benches and other equipment for the grounds have been con structed during the winter by NYA workers. A meeting of the city recrea tional committee, headed by Coach R. S. Keene of. Willamette, will probably be held early next week. Young Denis Back Ickes Power Plan PORTLAND, May 13 -The Young Democratic club of Multnomah county adopted a res olution, Introduced by Represen tative Ellis Barnes, favoring the president's plan . for administra tion of Bonneville dam as Indi cated by Secretary Harold Ickes. Civil authority, use of public lines wherever r possible and - a blanket rate on: the power with in transmitter areas was advo cated in the resolution. . . Land Grant Case Coming up Today WASHINGTON, i May U-UPh Witnesses in the hearing on the Oregon and. California grant lands to he held by the house pub- lie lands committee tomorrow will include Sari Day. Jackson county judge; Victor Moses, Corvallis postmaster; George Gerllnger, Willamette Taller lumberman, and District Attorney O. Gordon of Douglas county. the explosions of insurgent bombs today while Gen. Emlllo Mola'a army moved' closer to refugee jammed Bilbao : from north and east. The air attacks on Mungula, only seven miles north of Bilbao, threatened to make the town a second Guernica, government re ports said. i Basque authorities reported a German pilot who (admitted par ticipating in bombing, Guernica had been captured. . The airman, said to be Joachim Hans.Wandel, 33, was quoted as declaring he was recruited in Ber lin February 23, the day after the International agreement banning foreign volunteers went into ef fect. Germany subscribed to that accord. MADRID, May 13 -CD-Residents of the U. 8. embassy took stock of fast-dwindling food supplies to (Turn to Page 13, Col. 2.) . nf Nina ' ontoriai waters. In mid-afternoon when a .shattering explosion ripped open her bow as she struck, the mine. . j Reports 'from Almeria Indicated a final check would show nine members of the crew of the ves sel, on duty as a unit of the inter national non-intervention patrol, had been killed and 30 injured. Only three bodies had been re covered when darkness last night forced rescue workers to halt their search aboard the vessel which- was towed to a mole la a e Aimeria aamor. : v VALENCIA, Spain, May 1S-(;T) Thren a llnra war. VnnwK tour were missing and more thaa a score injured aboard the Brit ish destroyer Hunter today oft the south ; Spanish coast when, Spanish sources said, the -vessel either struck a mine or was tor pedoed. The vessel, t unit of the' Inter national sea patrol around Spain, was disabled by an explosion at o. p.m. tv;jn a.m. 1L..0.1.) she cruised between four and five miles off the Mediterranean port of Almeria. The ministry of marine hi an official statement announcing tha launching of an investigation to morrow gave no causes for the uisuicr, uuv reuui, oiuciai span ish government news agency, as serted: ! "Two versions circulate In Al meria. "The less authorized Is that the vessel struck a mine whiles pairouiug me coast. - "The most consistent accounts say the disaster was caused by a torpedo launched by a German submarine." ! : - Duyyumug iu i&uer .ineory, the-agency said, was the fact tha Hunter's bow showed g a p I n ej holes on both port and starboard. Indicating a missile passed through tha vessel. (It presumed the German sub marine" meant a German-built submarine In the hands of Span ish Insurgents.) , Spanish government vessels (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2.) oes to ace Federal Charceo United States Commissioner Ken neth Fraser ordered three negroes, charged with conspiracy ta -violate tha Mann act. held under bond of 325,000 each.' ' Tha defendants, Albert Stetson. 48, Spencer A. Crawford, 43, and William L. Meyers, SI, were ar rested here on the request ef fed eral authorities in Seattle, Frazer said, j ; Tha charges Involve tha allcg.l transportation of a 1 3-year-old white girl from Washington ta Oregon last September. Recorder Jonet Robbed - O $44, Portland Hotel PORTLAND. May 13-CD-Clty Recorder A. W. Jones of Salemf today reported to police the ls of $44 from his clothes as he slept In an unlocked room at a loal hoteL AL LA DC of TOD Aw . By R. a ' The coronation's past al ready, the new king's on his throne Installed; the limelight turns to brother Eddie and what his duchess will be called $ the strike news lsnt too ex citing, we can't tell what they 're striving for; the headline wouldn't look inviting if it wasn't for the Spanish war. '