Sunday Sports - s. 7er.ther , - -. ' Fab? today, Monday cloudy and' eooler, .higher, humid ity;' Max.".-Temp. ..Saturday 73, Blin. 89, river 7.5 feet, partly cloudy, north-north east' wind. ' . - Saturday Is a big day la the; sport world,, and tbe t Suaday paper is the medium j that brings you early re porta on all of these major i events. EIGHTT-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, i Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 16, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 43 Ca SICK (Jermany Down ;k(Q) on : -.-V i: ' V-,. "-'rp.i " . ' V Vice Crusades Carried on by Federal G-Men Six 1 Northwest Arrests Revealed as Part of National Campaign Mann Act Cited; Hoover Directs Raid Made by Baltimore Agents I PORTLAND. Ore.. Kay 15.-(P) -G-meif took into custody two more persons today In an effort to break p in alleged rice ring tn the Pacific northwest of which Seattle Is declared to be the oper ating: base. William Rickard. U. S. deputy marshal, arrested Fred W. Beck er, 7 0, Portland rooming house operator, on a complaint from Seattle He was -ordered held un der $5,000 bond by U. S. Commis sioner Kenneth Frazer. At Walla Walla G-men took In to custody Lucille Bowers, 18, and she was ordered held under IS.OOOfbond, pending removal to Seattle! The arrests followed three oth ers Thursday when Spencer Crawford, William L. Meyers and Albert I Stetson were taken into custody. They refused to wave re moval bearing and were placed in the county JaU. BALTIMORE, May 15.-P)-Thirty-jive federal agents, led by J Edgir Hoover, chief of the fed eral bureau of investigation, ar rested 24 men and women tonight In a series of vice raids here. ? With; Baltimore police cooper ating, jthe agents swooped- down without warning on a number of alleged! disorderly houses. They closed t eight of them and took their occupants to the ( federal building for Questioning.' "Thai raids in Baltimore are part of Jthe department of Justice's countrywide investigation of the white slave traffic," Hoover said. "Othr raids have been con ducted 1 recently In Connecticut, New Tork. Miami and other cities in Florida. "I cannot reveal the other cen ters whjch will receive our atten tion, tot tbe obvious reason that such a revelation would defeat tbe puroses of the campaign." SEATfTLE, May lS.VP)-Te& ral bureau of investigation agents' held six persons, indicted en a wfite slave conspiracy charge, in Jail tonight at Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Walla Walla, Wash. Jeff 'fierce, Seattle negro, tbe last arrested, was seized at Taco ma. Wash., and brought to Seat tle. R. C. puran, agent in charge of the Seattle F. B. I. office, said Pierce's arrest completed the list of persons indicted for allegedly transporting a 16-year-old girl be tween Washington and Oregon In violations of the Mann act. She was held here as a material wit ness. It Honors Split by College Classes . CORVALLIS, May 15 -IPf- It was even-Stephen for the sopho mores and freshmen on Oregon State college campy today. The sedond-year men won the dry land? tug of war but the frosh reaped revenge by taking the bag Tfcsb. Ten we3l-muscled sophomores out-pulled the freshmen in 10 minutes, ; the event being staged on the athletic field after college officials taled that the water softened banks of the mill race were hazardous. . Several) unscheduled melees marring tie Interclass rivalry as the yearlings tossed their green hate and gibbons Into a bonfire were stopped only after the bat tling students were drenched witn tire hoses. 4- Hote I Strike at St. Louis Ended STr LOUIS, May l-(Sundayt-()-Settlement of a one-day strike which had paralyzed business in a number . of St. Louis' leading downtown . hotels was announced early today by William F. Victor, president of the St. Louis Hotel association. - Victor 4eid terms of the agree ment called for a closed shop and provided that the anions be recog nized as the sole bargaining agency for an employes. Pickets were or dered withdrawn Immediately. ; Cat, Rat Fraternize j OREGON CITY, Ore, May 15 -(AMrs. F. . D. Duncan had cause to ' iwonder today what kind of a at ber Maltese pet was after she saw it and a bis friendly rat eating out of the same food Van. So cidl Sec u To Be Decided Mo ay; Occasion Held E? chal Constitutionality of Three Phases "to Be Tested; " old age' Pension Provision, Unemployment I Insurance, State Cooperative Laws WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP) The supreme court met in secret conference today to prepare for a session Mon day which may produce an epochal opinion on constitu tionality of the administration's social security legislation. This is the major controversy among the 28 cases await ing decision before the justices adjourn for the summer early Gosslin's Auto Impounded for Double Parking PORTLAND, May 15-(yP) W. L. Gosslin, Governor, Charles H. Martin's private secretary, was a pedestrian bere today and not, by choice. He double parked bis automobile and when be returned it was gone. Patrolmen! Potter and Taylor said they ticketed the rar and finally had it towed to the police' garage. Goss lln obtained Its release later In the day. I Industrial Union Backed. Corvallis r- Two Oregon Disputes Are Near Settlement but Third in Deadlock CORVALLIS,; May lB--Em-nloves of the CoxvaUis Lumber company approved the ;f new In dustrial Employes i union organ ized to replace the Four-L in the lumber. Industry. The Four-L Is inoperative! under the Wagner act. .-: ' . ; ' ' . Of ficrs e 1 e e t e d were Paul Rassmussen, chairman; Fred Beck, vice chairman, and Ted Huntley, secretary. The confer ence committee included J. H. Dunn. Tom Rvan. Louis Schmidt. Herman Myers and Ray Robin son. I PORTLAND, Ore.. May -Signs of peace appeared today on two labor fronts but a major dispute on a third, the Jurisdic tional fight for control of ware housemen at Meier & Frank, the (Turn to page 2, column 2) . Gassaway Career Closed by Death WASHINGTON, ' May 15.-UP)- Capitol Hill heard with sadness today that! the one-time cowboy congressman, Percy L. Gassaway, was dead. i. . : Singularly, the congressional friends of the picturesque Okla- homan and he had dozens of them asked one another the same question a subject that Gassaway often talked about: "How did he die?" With a touch of the poet about him old Gas, as he called him self would often tell his friends in Washington that the way he wanted to go was riding the range against a western sunset. Gassaway didn't die that way. He was stricken at S a. m. to day in his ranch home near Coal- gate, Okla.i and death came while a motored ambulance was taking him to the hospital at Ada. He was 51. j Court Bill Factions Square. Away for Contest in Senate WASHINGTON, May 15.-iirV The administration's "no com promise" edict on the Roosevelt court bill ( was the signal today for opposing forces to square away for a senate battle that may go down as one of the historic de bates of all times, or may sud denly be dissolved by a surprise development. Leaders of the opposition quick ly accepted the challenge of ad ministration leaders, vrho de clared "the battle will go on" for the bill submitted by President Roosevelt more than three months ago. Die-Hard Opponents Of Plan Pleased The unyielding "die-hards" among the opponents expressed gratification that the Issue would be drawn on the nn-modified bill. But from the moderates who had hoped tor a compromise settle ment, came a defiant statement that they: might withdraw their offers and "lick" the administra tion on a "atralght-outrote.' , . This warning was issued by rit y Cgfis j next montn. us outcome may nave an Important bearing on Presi dent Roosevelt's proposal to re organize the tribunal. At stake In the litigation are: 1. Constitutionality of the old age pension provisions of the fed eral act under which employers and employes are taxed to pro vide benefit for the workers when they reach 6 S. A total of 26,610,- 000 employes and 2,700,000 em ployers are paying the assess ment. 1 George P. Davis of Waltham, Mass., challenged the pension sys tem in a suit to prevent the Edi son Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, of which he is a stock holder, from paying the levy. The Circuit court at Boston held the legislation unconstitutional. 2. The unemployment insur ance provisions of the federal act under which employers of eight or more persons are taxed to pro vide benefits for the Jobless. They may deduct 90 per cent of the as sessment provided It Is paid into a state unemployment compensa tion fund approved by tbe federal social security board. This part of the act was at tacked by the Chas. C. Steward Machine Co. of Alabama. The cir cuit court at New Orleans upheld the legislation. ; 3. Constitutionality of 1 a w s (Turn to page 2, column 1) i t : T ; . -.y-- ;. Quiet Meeting of Council Forecast No Action on Filling Post of Jack Dancy Planned ; Says Acting Mayor - . . i y 5 1 No action is likely te be taken at Monday night's city council meeting to fill the third position left recant by the sudden death of Alderman W. H. "Jack" Dancy, Acting Mayor Merrill D. Ohllng said yesterday. Ohling said he felt it proper deference to the late alderman to delay action regard ing the vacancy. Advocates of restoration of one hour parking and of universal head-in parking in the business district will have to wait another three weeks for possible council consideration of their petitions, according to Van WIeder and Ross Goodman of the special traffic committee. They wish to ; await the return of Mayor V. E. Kuhn (Turn to page 2, column 3) , Sherman County j Has Branch Bank MORO, May lST-The First National Bank of Portland op ened a Sherman county branch today with Lloyd Henna gin. for merly of Wasco, and W. Ray Blake, formerly of Grass Valley, as manager and assistant, respec tively, giving the county Its first local banking facilities s 1 n e e 1932. ' . ' An enthusiastic reception came from Moro business men, who banked nearly $200,000 and gave officials of tbe bank a dinner.: Senator MeCarran (D-Nev), who recently swuna the balance nf fh senate Judiciary committee against the proposal for six new supreme court justices by an nouncing his onnositlon. tint wn had been fighting for a compro mise or two, "Perhaps those of us who had been inclined to Interna nm. promise with the hope that we might go on with the legitimate business of the conrresa and the country will r be inclined to withdraw our fposals," McCar ran said in a r 4ement. "This, it 4 f V from reports emanating fii Wo t e r day's White House illVnces, would be more In kt "-ith the at titude of the ot nrfcV "If. as It appl ?,Ltbere to be no willingness to compromise It might be the attitude of thece who are against "the administra tion plan to offer n(j compromise, but instead to bring, the issue to a straight-out-vote and we're got them licked." Unions Launch Drive Against Five Holdouts Attack . on i Independents of Steel Industry to Be Started Sole Bargaining Rights Demanded, Result of - Initial Success (By The Associated Press) Union leaders gave the signal yesterday (Saturdya) for a deter mined drive on five large inde pendent steel producers for- recog-. nition of committee for Industrial organization units as sole collec tive bargaining agents. Meeting In a strategy confer ence at Pittsburgh, the delegates voted authority to Philip Murray chairman of the steel workers organizing ' committee, to call strikes It necessary to gain their demands. j Murray, still Jubilant over what he called "complete victory" in the 36-hour strike of 27,000 em ployes of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., said some "very defi nite announcement" concerning each of the firms represented in the union parley could be expect ed within ten days. Sole Bargaining Rights Demanded They 'were the Bethlehem Steel Corp, . Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Inland Steel Co., and the Crucible Steel Co. of America, whose em ployes total nearly 200,000. After the Jones and Laughlin strike, In which agreement was reached on an election to decide whether" the SWOC would repre sent all the corporation's em ployes, Murray announced the new goal In dealing with independents would be for sole collective bar gaining rightav 71.; The union k already has con tracts with United States Steel Corp., giant of the industry; giv ing it the right to represent its membership. Orertures for contracts already hare been made by the union to the larger Independent producers. Employes at eight SL ' Louis hotels struck In-support of a de mand for recognition of five un ions and a closed shop agreement. Union leaders estimated 2000 workers struck, and threatened to spread the walkout to 21 more hostel ries next week if demands wera Ignored. ; ; " The struggle between the Am erican Federation of Labor and (Turn to page 2, column 1) Two Women Hurt, Silver Lake Fire BEND, May 15-(fl3)-Two wo men, Mrs. Edward Lundy and her daughter, Thelma Harris, suffer ed burns about the arms and face today from a fire which destroyed the 30-year-old Chrlsman hotel at Silver lake. An overheated flat iron Igniting cleaning fluid was blamed for the blaze, which start ed in the kitchen, Mrs. Lundy, op erator of the hotel, and her daugh ter were burned trying to save be longings. They were brought to a hospital here, and will recover. Handicapped by lack of water, volunteer fireman saw the city eared only by a change of wind after several houses had caught fire from flaming embers. The hotel owners are Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Chrlsman, Portland. Two Are Drowned As Auto Plunges EVERETT,! May 15-(P)-Two men in an automobile plunged orer an embankment and drowned today In foaming rapids of the north fork of the Skykomlsh river at Index. The body of Barney Turley, about 40, Quinalt 1 and an em ploye of a Hoquiam shingle mill was recovered shortly after the accident. Residents of Index found the body of his companion, Walter Holmes, 27, Index quarry worker, tonight on a sand bar 1000 yards down the river , from where the car went In. h Late Sports "-FOREST GROVE. Ore., May 15 -(iTy-The Oregon Normal school track team took a dual meet from Pacific university here today 73 to 58. The Wolrea grabbed both first and second places In seren events and won the relay. . 'WESTERN DfTTL. LEAGCR Vancouver 12, 6; Lewiston 2, 3. Spokane 17 Wenatchee 2. Yakima 13, Tacoma 19. Globe Trotter j Comes Tuesday P"&SBlSS4fc' I Richard Halliburton, world trav eler and author, who will speak at the Leslie auditorium Tues day night at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Salem Twenty Thiry club for the benefit of the club's "Seeing Eye' pro- Four Men Killed, Derrick Collap se One More May Die; Sudden Crash Imperils Other Railroad Workrnen . . BELLING HAM, Wash., May 15 -)- Four bridge work rs plummeted to a horrible death and a fifth was critically injured when a bridge derrick of the Chi cago, Milwaukee,' St. Paul & Pa cific railroad toppled from a 50 foot trestle at Maple Falls, near here, late this afternoon. The dead: Leslie" Titus, 4T." Falls City, derrick engineer. ' William Worstman, Sumas. t- 'Otto-Johnson, 2 1, Seattle. . Bill Burr fell, Spokane.' The injured is William Deck- erU 53, of Belllngham. He is in a ' local hospital with a possible spinal fracture and other unde termined injuries. His condition it critical, t Several others, members of the crew which was driving piling in connection with repairs being made to the railroad trestle, nar rowly escaped a like fate. Titus, Worstman, Johnson and Deckert were on the derrick when it suddenly toppled from the car trucks on the trestle and plunged fifty feet into the rarine. Burrell, who had been at work guiding the piling under the tres tle, was caught unawares in the death trap as thirty tons of steel hurtled down upon him. He was decapitated. - Titus, fatally burned about the face and body by steam escaping from broken pipes on the boiler, died 40 minutes after workmen had dragged him clear of the wreckage of steel and timber. Worstman was flung clear of the wreckage as the derrick plunged. He was killed instantly. New Program for Farm Aid Looming ,. i -'.'- WASHINGTON, May 15 H?3) Farm leaders said today they would offer congress a broad new federal farm program early next week - that i will eliminate farm benefit payments if It operates as expected.. "The . gorernment wouldun't have to pay a cent to farmers if this plan works perfectly," Ed ward S. O'NeaL president of the American Farm Bureau federa tion, said. : He explained the proposed "Ag ricultural Adjustment Act of 1937" Is shaped to give farmers a "parity' price" and stabilize supplies so this price is main tained. ' 4. ' . Secretary Wallace, H. R, TqI ley, AAA chief, and ' numerous other administration leaders met with O'Neal and other farm or ganization i representatives for several hours during the day. O'Neal said the plan combined features of the "old Triple-A pro gram and the ever-normal gran ary." He said details would be public when the farm leaders here "Ironed out some minor dif ferences of opinion on details. Second Wage Increase - Given, Klamath Mills Klamath Falls, May 15 H?r The second general wage Increase of the year will be paid out to some S.OOO employes of the lum ber industry here June 1; their pay checks going up an average of 10 per cent. A similar in crease was made In January 'and February. The second increase will add 11.000.000 to annual payrolls, bringing the total of wages paid to an estimated $11, 000,000 for the year. Wagner Tells Oregon Labor Martin Wrong Misleading to Use Act's : Terms to Discourage Organizing, Says Author of Law Explains Reason of Excluding Puhlic Employes . PORTLAND, Ore., May 1Z.-JP) -Sen. Robert F. Wagner of New York, author of the national la bor relations act which bears his name, said in a telegram today to David C. Epps, president of the Oregon branch of j the American Federation of state, county and municipal employes, that any at tempt to tise the act to prevent union organization! among state and gorernment employes Is a complete misrepresentation of Its terms. ! ' The message followed a state ment by Gov. Charles H. Martin that the state would not bargain collectively with union organiza tions and that the only privilege which would be) accorded state employes who Joined a union would that of paying: dues. -Ben T. Osborne, executive sec retary of the Oregon State Fed eration of Labor, I charged Martin with "either drawing on his Imag ination or tryingj to mislead the public - It M "There is absolutely nothing in the act which seeks to prevent or discourage state or city employes from organizing In labor unions," Senator Wagner wired Epps. "This should show; the people of Oregon the type of mental gi ant they hare ruling them," Epps said ion receiving the message. "Governor Martin may pretend to know more about the Wagner act than Sen. Robert F.! Wagner, but I believe the majority of the peo ple will think otherwise.". The New York senator laid the Wagner act excluded state work ers and government only because the industrial relationships had always been regarded as a district problem. - U I . . : '. Caballero Seeks . j; : ! 1 - ' . To Form Cabinet Valencia Where; Loyalist Regime Centers, Scene 7 erf Aerial Bomhing (By The Associated Press) Stern, J gray-haired Francisco Largo Caballero j undertook last night to form a new "win the war"! Spanish government- ' . His second cabinet of the civ il war fell yesterday morning; four ! hours later 1 he : again was intrusted with the task of ministry-making. 'i I !"- The government crisis was trac ed to the anarchist revolt in Cat alonia, still not entirely sup pressed. . : 'ill- - Largo Caballero,) extreme so cialist, however, said he would try to form a new administration with I the same political elements as tbe old-socialists, ; left repub licans, communists and anarcho syndicalists. ! ! - While the premier: worked in Valencia, the government's tem porary capital twai j bombed by a fleet of insurgent! airplanes. sev eral ' persons were reported wounded. . 1 1 One bomb exploded In front of the British embassy! critically In juring the embassy's Spanish cooki and wounding j slightly a doorman. Window . were shat tered as were those of a passing streetcar, in which! several pas sengers were injured.; In north Spain, F insurgents (Turn to page! 2,1 column 1) Quest ipri of Accepting XI. S.; A id on Library Building Up PORTLAND, Cff.J May 15-(yP- Whether It Is financially sound for the state to accept the $460r 000 federal grant for nse in con struction of the new library building in Salem is a question that will be considered by the state capltol reconstruction com-' mission when it meets here Mon day.:. , y- :; j -k:y,. The commission ! must take into consideration that federal gifts are now governed by new: regulations which prorlde that the govern ment will pay the wages, of relief labor on a project, plus a bonus of 35 per cent of such labor ex penditures. None of the federal money may be spent for materials and other costs. y Some favored refusal of the gift when the legislature was con sidering the matter on the ground that nse of . unemployed labor would increase the project cost. t The commission points oat that Publicity Drive on Church A Iso Made; Thousand Arrested Priests and lay Brothers Held Upon "Immorality' Charges Baled on - Money Transactions, Claim Church Members Consider Campaign as ; Part of "German God" Move of v General Erich Ludendorff ? BERLIN, May 15 (AP) The closing of a Catholic boys' seminary in Heiligenstadt by nazi state police was in terpreted in some quarters today as the opening of a police campaign against Catholic educational Institutions throughout Germany. -i I Catholic circles were particularly aroused tlecause the Gestapo action coincided with nation-wide publicity given trials of. priests and lay brothers on charges of immorality and because of official recognition of Gen.Eriiph, Luden dorff 's pagan "German god" movement. , Pipe Plant Ends Its Job Tuesday To Be Dismantled, Though Site Still to Be Used as Storage Depot v the concrete pipe manufactur ing plant - set!: up at, 12th and Howard streets last winter to sup ply material tor a section of the Salem-Stayton city water' supply line, will close down Tuesday, its task done, according to F. F. Jen kins, superintendent for Ameri can -Concrete A Steel Pipe ' com pany. Laying of the last of tbe concrete section xt the pipeline will be finished in about 30 days. The pipeline contractor; how ever, will retain its location on the 12th and Howard street block as a storage depot until the $647, 985 project Is completed, next fall. Jenkins hopes to see the last of the 10-mile steel section : of . the pipeline laid by Labor day, The concrete pipe plant will be dismantled as r soon as . the' last section required on the local pro ject is made and will be shipped to Ogden, Utah, where his com pany has another contract, Jen kins said: Approximately 3500 sec tions of reinforced concrete pipe, eight feet long and 38 Inches In diameter, bare been turned out here. " : - . y Jenkins predicted his steel pipe laying crews would be outside the city by the end of this week. Weld ing of Joints has. been finished on the line between Falrmonnt and High streets and backfilling of trenches begun. ' y Anti-Jew Rioting In Poland Spread WARSAW, May 15-4rVBomb-lng of a Jewish building in War saw and rioting. against Jews in Grabow, , Lobz province, 'today marked the spread of anti-sem-ltie disorders In Poland in spite of nation-wide police precautions. A bomb exploded at the en trance of the Jewish community building in the capital, damaging the building but causing no cas ualties.. ' -. A . . ... -. : yy. ' A mob that collected In Gra bow, after a .Jewish , shopkeeper had knifed a. Gentile competitor, beat all Jews It could find and smashed 250 windows In Jewish homes. , Frightened Jews barred their houses until the riot - sub sided. ' now the situation Is even: worse because "relief" labor and not "unemployed labor mast be used. "Relief" worker means one who has been certified aa dependent upon relief for his existence.' Many skilled craftsmen temporarily oat of empolyment were found in the "unemployed" group, bat there are few skilled men in the "relief" group.:'; -'. j - v In riew of these technicalities the capltol commission mast 'de cide whether it would be cheaper to turn down the gorernment of fer and proceed without federal aid, sana red tape- "':, '. ,' Oregon's formal application for a federal grant of 1459,000, to assist In the construction of a new state office building or buUd Ings, has been drafted by Ralph K. irnodr. ajufitant attorney Cen tral, and will be submitted to the (Turn to page 2, column 3) O The : lielligenstadt seminary. where secondary school youths prepared for later priesthood training, was shut today because, the police said, of "wretched mor al conditions prevailing among youthful Inmates." L - " Whether any of the f indents or i priests had been arrested was not made known. j: More than 1000 la brothers and "numerous" priests' through out the reich are od trial or awaiting trial on charges of Im proper conduct, official German, figures disclosed. There have been 53 recent convictions, j 'Catholic attorneys have stated that information for theinazl "im morality" prosecutions was taken from Catholic archives 'seized by police ; during . earlier trials rot monks -and nuns accused of vio lating money transfer restrictions. , These records, they said, show that many of the-"immorality" defendants already hare been punished by the church itself. Catholics are particularly Indig nant because the trials frequently concern priests already unfrocked Or lay brothers already expelled from their brotherhoods. They protest, also, that accounts of the trials, widely publicized Jn tbe government - dominated f Fga mil Tin effort tn ilin . "volve isolated cases. Fairbanks Flood To Rise Further FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15-(Jf)-Flooded Fairbanks, alternate ly cheered and dismayed as Uhe Tanana and Chena rivers dropped and rose, emphasized precautions against disease tonight as surveys indicated no - immediate relief from the Inundation. - Mayor E. B. Collins warned against nse of domestic water without boiling; and offered tree inoculations against typhoid. There was an ample supply of ser um, .j . ' Flood waters rose 4H Inches early' today, then dropped an Inch but another rise was forecast when the temperature climbed to 39 degrees above. Reports were received, however, that the Tan ana river at Big Delta, 90 miles above Fairbanks, dropped seven inches last night due to cooler weather there. Mussolini Urges Self - Sufficiency ROME, May 15--Italy will make herself economically .self auffic!t even if shejiss to work "25 hours a day," Premier Benito Mussolini proclaimed today. lie called this program a guar antee of -peace and surety of "the life, the future and the power" of the Italian people. The hard-Jawed premier laid down his dictum before cheering members of the corporative guild, which includes representatives of all phases of fascist life, at their annual meeting in the Julius Cae sar hall of the old capltol build ing. ;- i A L LA D E of TODA V The governor of Oregon is doubtless not a diplomat;- be always says Just w h a t he thinks, and sometimes needless ly, at that; but in the army long ago, be learned by stick ing out his neck, that he could 1 tak e It, with a smile, when iner peopie gave am