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
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No. 43
Ca
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(Jermany
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on
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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