, Travel Insurance
Many Statesman sabecrib
era hare found Uuit the $1
per year Spent for travel
accident Insurance offered
by this newspaper Is a good
Cloudy today. Wed neday
fIrt little change in humid
ity; Max. Temp. Monday 60,
Mln. 42, river feet, part
ly cloudy, west - southwest
wind.
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ElUUTY-SEVEljlTll YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning May 18, 1937 v.. i i ' Price 3c; Newsstands 5c - ; - No. 44 .
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Negriu Meads Newi iibamsh Government ?soi f:
' j ; -:- : : '.f . i Proposal Also
Control Board
Attitude Gets
Defiant Reply
state r cdcrauoti
to Aid
. in Urbanization
of
Workers,
ated
Notice Sent to pmployes
Here no Uniohs Will
Get Recognition
PORTLAND. MW UT.-VTh
tt ttoard of control's onoositlOB
tn nntnnlutlnii of ata.ta emnlOTes
MA t . . ! A. A 1
mim no uuiervnce io iub ui c-
gon iUt federation tf labor, Ben
T. Osborne, federation secretary,
said tonight. I j
Commenting on (the board's
unanimous rote at Salem today to
instruct all state departmenU to
oppose organization jof their em
ployes, Osborne said:
"As long as the Employes want
-to organize. It makes no differ
ence what action ! the board of
control takes. We'll help them In
their organization fjorts."
The state board! of control
served notice through action tak
en at Us meeting Monday, that
It would not recognize labor or
ganizations In so ft Has state em
ployes are concerned, although
willing to discuss all matters of
wages and hours of jemployment.
Copies of the order 'will be sent
to all departments land Institu
tions, if ,
Governor Martin pointed out
that organisation Of state depart
ment employes might prove seri
ous, provided there were strikes.
He referred particularly to the
atate hishwaj department m
ployes and state police.
State Treasurer' llolman de
clared that while h always had
employed union workers In- hi
private business, lh would not
tolerate organization among hla
.employes. II
"I tm of the opinion that you
are unduly alarmed.'j Secretary of
State Snell said. 3t looks to me
as tbough this is iinkrely a moTe
to demand certain I civil service
privileges of the fegislature."
Snell made it jjplajn that he
would not oppose iprganizatlon of
his employes provided that such
action did not Interfere with the
conduct of state business.
The order to be sent to state
department and institution heads
called attention to la section of
the labor relation abt relative to
public employes, ft reads:
"The term 'em Blower' shall In
clude any person jflnj the Interest
of any employer fdfrectly or in
directly, but shall ndt Include the
irnlted States or in state or po
litical subdivision ftSereof."
The order involving the state
highway commission read:
"The highway ct remission does
not give consideration in the em
ployment, retention or dismissal
of Its employes tot their member
ship in political parties, fraternal
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Power andFlood
Policy Discussed
WASHINGTON May 17 -W5)-presldent
Roosevfltj and advlaers
shaped a comprehensive power
and flood control program at a
White House conference today.
With three cabinet off leers. and
members of his pofr policy com
mission the president went over
the subject, preparatory to send
ing a message ta congress this
week. One subject discussed was
the Idea of setting lip a series of
"llttls TVA's throughout the
country." If
Meantime the leasts, with vir
tually no debate! vpted to direct
a two-edged inqoiry into- "prop
. aganda- by utilities and by ov
ernment Hgencleai The resolution
ordered the federal trade commis
sion to investigate) "alleged ef
forts" of utilities ccjncerns to con
trnl onlnlon nn the -nubile Ts. pri
vate ownership ilsde. An amend
ment also approved required the
commission to iook
into rival act-
lvlties of various
afencles. ' 1
administration
Last of Conete,
Turned out
e Pipe
Plant Here
The last piece: of concrete pips
required for the Salem-Stayton
water supply line ?u turned out
at the American Concrete it Steel
Pipe company's f laat here yester
day morning, av; any anesu 01
schedule. Dlsmaotl
at of the ptpe
whieh have
spinning machined
l.un la oneratioh I
haily since last
rjeftmber was begn at once. They
win ha ahinnediti Orden. Utah,
where the contrtcjor baa anothef
Job, under war.
SEEING EYE" PROGRAM GETS BOOST
Some of the local people who are interested in the "Seeing Eye program of the Salem 20-SO club,
in connection with which Richard Halliburton's lecture at the Leslie anditorium at 8 o'clock tonight
Is being sponsor M by the service organization. Discussing the bUl recently passed by congress to per-
snit "Seeing Eye? dogs to accompany their owners on trains, the group ceaght by the camera in
cludes, front left, Harold Pruitt, Mrs. George Moorbead, President Brace Baxter of Willamette nnl
rersity and C. 8. "Pat" Emmons, president of the 20-30 club. The dab's share of tonight's lecture
proceeds win help to send blind Salem girl to the Seeing Eye institute to receive one of the guide
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Windsor to Name
Date of Wedding
Announcement due Today ;
Squabble Oyer Guest
List Is Reported
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MONTS, France, May
The Duke of Windsor is ready to
announce tomorrow the date for
his marriage to Wallis Warfleld.
Herman tu Rogers of New
Tork, spokesman for the ex-king
and Mrs. , Warfleld, said today
the long-awaited announcement
will be made at 2:30 p.m. (8:30
a.m., E.S.T.). -
It was expected that Rogers
also would reveal where the wed
ding will be held and whether
members of f the- British royal
family will attend, and perhaps,
the duke's and Mrs. Warfleld'
plans for their honeymoon. .
His wish to have his youngest
brother, the Duke of Kent, as
best man was said to have irked
the govornment of Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin which con
tended the royal family should
not be represented at the wed
ding, i
King George VI Is believed to
be supporting his brother's view
point, but from the London Ex
press came a prediction that the
monarch would : not extend of-
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Playground Committee
Will Plan for 'Season
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R. S. Keene, , chairman of the
city playground committee, an
nounced last. night that the com
mittee will meet next Monday to
organize the playground set-up
for this summer. i
Vernon Gllmore. physical educa
tion director of Salem high, will
again be In charge of the play
ground system, i i .
Application for Federal Aid
On Library Bu tiding Favored
PORTLAND, May 17-(-The
state capitol reconstruction com
mission today "approved applica
tions for a grant of $450,000 from
the federal government for a state
library building, to be free from
the new restriction which would
provide the money be used only j
for relief labor, i ' 4
The commission ignored the
new regulation on the ground
that the money was allotsd to
Oregon two years ago, before the
ruling went into effect, being left
over after the cost of the new cap
Hoi building was set by the leg
islature Other action by the commission
Included:
Acceptance of the tax commis
sion's appraisal of the four blocks
adjoining the capitol.
A request that Attorney Gen
eral Van Winkle assign his as
sistant. Ralph Moody, to under
take negotiations with the prop
erty owners tor the purchase of
Pioneer Statue
Depicts Youth,
" A r t i s t Asserts
PORTLAND, May 17-(ff)
-Critics , who - ridiculed the
beardless Oregon pioneer
which will inrmoBHt Ore
gon's new capitol, were an
swered today by Its designer,
who explained that the pio
neer was just a young fellow
not old enough to shave.
In a letter to the state
capitol commission, Ulric H.
Ellerhnsen, New Tork sculp
tor, also answered charges ;
that the pioneer's axe looked :
like the chopper carried by
a boy scout.
He explained that' feat
ures of the model, 10 H in-,
ches high, appear distorted :
when viewed at eye-level,
but that when the statue Is
viewed from the ground 100
feet below and 800 feet from
the eye, the axe will look
like a real pioneer's wood
cutting tool.
Youth Sentenced
To 3 Years Flits
MEDFORD, Ore., May, 17-iP)-Elmer
H a a b, IS, Ashland, en
route from the courtroom, where
be had been sentenced for burg
lary to an Indeterminate term of
three years In the state prison, to
the county Jail, escaped shortly
before noon today. , ;
Following sentence, Haab was
led back to the county jail with
two other prisoners by Sheriff
8yd I. Brown. Haab suddenly
broke and ran down the court
house stairs. Sheriff Brown was
unable to give chase without leav
ing his other two prisoners nn
attended, r r:; ' - ; ..'
the land, the commission to pay
his salary during his services. ,
i Appointment of a committee to
meet with the highway commis
sion to study the development,
design and location of additional
capitol structures, j
Rejection, for the present, of a
proposal for a competition in. the
state for library building designs.
The last named action came af
ter a spirited debate when a neg
ative rote by the chairman broke
a 4 to 4 deadlock.
The commission withheld the
flfure arrived at by the tax body
on the proposed site, pending
negotiations for purchase of .the
land by Moody. Commissioner T.
Harry Banfield Indicated he might
not be satisfied with the amount
named.
The group voted to raise the
salaries of , two of its employes,
Alton J. Bassett, secretary, and
Allan Tolle, clerk of the works,
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Inter-Union Eight
Settlement Looms
Big Store Employes Will
Meet; new Industrial j
" Union Is Launched N J
PORTLAND. May 17.-ff)-The
first step towards - prospective
peace In the I fight between the
Teamsters union and the Inter
national Longshoremen's associa
tion involving jurisdiction j over
warehousemen employed by the
Meier 4b Frank department store,
followed closely on the second
bloody battle between leaders of
the rival groups here today. j
A resolution for a meeting of
representatives of all union em
ployes of the company Tuesday
morning was passed unanimously
at the regular meeting of the
Portland Central Labor council
tonight. I
Principals !n today's fracas
were Al Rosser, secretary of the
Portland Teamsters' local, and M.
J, "Moose" Norbeck, former pu
gilist, now business agent for the
Portland branch of the I.L.A.
The battle followed an argu
ment 'on the fourth floor of the
labor temple and developed into
a free-for-all In which clubs were
alleged to have been swung. Both
men appeared later with heads
bandaged, i - " . , .
- The resolution for a peace par
ley followed the expression by dis
interested delegates at tonight's
council meeting that the inter
union warfare was a "disgrace to
the labor movement.'
Peace also appeared nearer in
the dispute between the I.L.A.
and the Coos -Bay Lumber com
pany at Marshfield, where I.L.A.
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Seventy Dead in
Boiler Explosion
HONGKONG, May ll-VPi-St'
enty Japanese emlgranU were
killed tonight by a boiler explo
sion aboard a Japanese launch.
Eighteen persons were sent to
hospitals. Twenty were missing.
The blast occurred as the launch
ahoved off from Queens pier to
return the sight-seeing emlgranU
to their ship, the Rio de Janiero
Maru. The Japanese were: bound
for South America. -
Parts of bodies fell a Quarter
mile away; some landed en root
tops, some on the veranda oi me
Hongkong club.
A number of Chinese In small
boats were believed also to have
died from the force of the explo
sion but the reports were not con
firmed. So terrific was the blast that
many first thought It an earth
quake. The launch, owned by the
steamship company Osaka Shosen
Kalsba, disappeared with the ex
plosion, the superstructure blown
to blU and the bull sinking In a
few seconds.
A part of the pier crumbled,
but other parts of the waterfront
escaped damage.
The Rio de Janiero Mara art
rived today from Japan.
United Leftist
Front Is Hope
HlnnewReginii3
Coordinated Program "of
; !War Action Included
' . in Latest Setup
Caballero Is Unable to
Obtain Accord; Foes
May Be Mollified
VALENCIA, Spain, May XT-ifl5)
Dr. Juan Negrln formed a new
"Win the War" Spanish govern
ment tonight. ,
Negrln, 48-year-old physician
and a socialist, heads Spain's
sixth wartime government as pre
mier. ' :.
Negrln also will serve as min
ister of finance. -
The number of seats in the
new cabinet was reduced from
nineteen to nine. All ministers
represent the popular front. The
CNT trades union which had four
posts in the old cabinet was left
out after refusal to participate.
The new cabinet groups the
ministries of war, navy and air
into a single unit in line with
demands from communists and
other factions as a means of co
ordinating all armed; powers, ot
the Spanish government for
BIg Push to victory over in
surgents.
President Azana asked Negrln
to form a new government when
Francisco Largo Caballero, vet
eran leader of Spanish socialism.
-gave up the task of reorganising
his ministry. Largo Caballero's
government resigned Saturday.
t Negrln, who was Largo Cabal
lero-'s treasury minister, declared
he would seek' the support of all
parties opposed to the fascist in
surgents. His predecessor ; had
been unable to gain that support.
The socialists would not ga on
In a government which did not
have communist backing: the left
republicans supported the com
munist demand for a stronger
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Nenana Inundated
By Alaskan Flood
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska. May 17-
Ofy-Floods swept Fort Yukon on
the Yukon river and Nenana on
the Tanana river today, sending
torrents at least four feet deep
through 'Fort Yukon and 14 feet
deep through Nenana, radiophone
reports received hers stated to
night, i i
The water was reported to be
dropping slightly at Fort Yukon
150 miles northeast ot here, and
most of the danger to be past at
Nenana, 50 miles southwest of
Fairbanks.
At Fairbanks, the Chena river
was within Its banks after causing
heavy damage last week.
Late Sports
PULLMAN, Wash., May 17-(ff)
-Overcoming a 6-0 disadvantage,
the University of Oregon baseball
team defeated Washington State,
8 to 9, In 10 innings here today
and took the northern division
conference lead from the Cougars.
The winning tallies came on a
three-bagger by Cliff McLean aft
er tenth-inning singles by Gordon
and Smith.
Oregon J ................'..-8 - 12 2
W. S. C. ..... 11 0
Hardy, Marshall, Sayles and
McLean, Thomas; Sienko and
Eastman,'
MOSCOW, Idaho, May 17H?V
Oregon State' defeated the Uni
versity ot Idaho, 8 to 6, Cere to
day in a battle between the con
ference tall-enders which pro
duced 21 hits and nine errors.
Earl Conkllng, O. 8. C. right
fielder, hit one ot the longest
home runs ever seen on McLean
field In the first inning to score
two runs ahead ot him. AH the
winners runs came In four-run
sprees in the first and fourth.
O. 8. C. : 8 1 10 , I
Idaho ; . S I It
Fenger and Soller; Hansen,
Gregory, Broad head and Baldwin.
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J NEW YORK, May 17-OVEd-ward
C. Smith, 71. horse racing
official familiar to followers ot
the sport throughout the nation,
died of coronary thrombosis today
at his hotel apartment in Jamaica.
RICHMOND, Va., May 17-A-Bucky"
Jones, diminutive Uni
versity ot Richmond righthander,
today pitched his third no-hlt
game of the 1927 season as his
team defeated Virginia Military
institute 12 to 0, to win the state
college championship.
Stick tix Guns
'No Compromise' Verdict
61 Roosevelt-Farley '
! 4 Otter SideV Also
Tribunal Upholds State
! Chain Store Tax That ;
; Huey Long Wrote
. WASHINGTON. May 17. HJPf
Senate foes of the Roosevelt court
reorganization bill! responded to
the administration's. 'no compro
mise" edict with an answering
challenge today. !j j
. Fourteen democratic opponents
of the bill held the first sizeable
c a u c n 9 of the three-month-old
controversy and agreed that they,
too, would oppose all amendments
and fight the battle out on the
lines laid down by the president.
. The ' bill would I authorize the
president to appoint1 six new mem
bers to. the supreme1 court. Com
promise offers, spurned by him,
generally hare centered upon an
Increase of two. ( ! 1
A fifteenth senator who par
ticipated In today's meeting -Hatch
of New Mexico, himself the
author of a compromise proposal
said as he left that, while he
would Tote for his t own amend
ment, his ballot would be cast
against all others.jji
: Among the fourteen others,
however, feeling ran so strongly,
as the result of the announcement
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Don Baylor Hurt
In Fall at Hotel
Drops From Second Story
Window, Fractured
Skull Suffered
Dr. F. Don Baylor, osteopath,
received a fractured skull last
night when he tell from a second
story window in the! Salem hotel
onto a paved alley! 25 feet below.
Baylor, who had been staying
at; the Salem hotel since May 8,
was found unconscious In the al
ley between Ferry! and State
streets In back of the hotel by
Joe Davis of Woodburn and Carl
Lott Of the Cosy Lunch on Ferry
street, The two men had walked
np the alley to jget their car,
parked behind the! hotel, and dis
covered Baylor when they drove
out. : . : M : .
The accident : apparently oc
curred sometime shortly after 10
o'clock. ' 1 lh :
I Baylor was rushed by, ambu
lance to the Deaconess hospital.
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Bumpy Ride Ends
In Gty j Bastille
i 1 :
Arthur Ekln, address unknown,
ended a brief but bumpy ride yes
terday afternoon by winding up
In the city jail. I i
. He was arrested by city police
on a charge of driving while un
der the Influence i of Intoxicating
liquor after - he had, according
to! police, driven his car through
a : workmen's barricade, down 50
feet ot. Oregon Electric track.
against a street light pole and
into a pile ot planking.
Ekln, police reported, drove
through a barricade where an
Oregon Electric section crew was
working at Broadway and Madi
son streets and Vent down the
tracks merrily until the car ended
up against the pile of planking.
The railway tracks ! leave Broad
way and cut across lots at Madi
son street. ;. r f
Sa le to
Water
Br Board Members at Issue
i
The city council last night held
up payment of two'. water bond
fund bills at the Instance of Al
derman David O'Hara pending re
ceipt of an opinion from City At
torney Paul R. Hendricks as to the
legality ot a water commissioner's
selling goods to the city for use
In connection with the water de
partment; !
The two bills,
listed on ths
routine schedule ot accounts cay
able, were In the amounts of
2272.18 tor Gabriel Powder
Supply company, and 8157.05 for
Dough ton Hardware.
"There have been other bills
ot this nature paid so why wasn't
this question raised a long time
agof" Alderman ; Walter Fuhrar
inquired.' : . j:i! f '
'We shouldn't pay any more ot
them until we find out about this,"
O'Hara replied. "There's consid
erable question end serious talk
around the streets about transac
tions of members of the commis
sion." ' ui l-'i: -
O'Hara averred ! he was not
George IF. Hug
Dies; Former
School Chief
George W. Hug, who was Sa
lem's superintendent of school
for 15 years until his retirement
in 1835, passed
away at Port
land General
hospital - Mon
day., Death fol
lowed -' a major
surgical (y opera
tion of ten days
ago. , ' . T ;
A ' native of
Oregon, Mrj Hug
was a prominent
figure in educa
tion in the 'state
and northwest.
Born at ; Sum- U
merviiie m ! tnis George w. Hag
state in 1884, he attended pri
mary schools In Union county.
He received a degree at the Uni
versity of Oregon in 1907, then
entered post-graduate work at
the Unlvers ties Of California and
Michigan....'
'His first work In his profes
Uon f was si principal of Eugene
high school from 1907 to 1914.
He then was advanced to the
post! ot superintendent of Mc
Mlnnvllle'a school system, which
position he held until 1919 when
he-came to; Salem on an appoint
ment as , superintendent here.
When he retired he was a mem
ber of the state board for voca
tional education, and In 1936
acted as superintendent . of a
WPA boys'; transient camp. In
state and northwest . educational
executive capacities Mr. Hug was
president of Northwestern Asso
ciation of Secondary and Higher
school from 1928 to 1932. . a
member of; the Oregon ' State
Teachers association from 1928
to 1934, and a, member of the
Oregon textbook Commission from
1920 to 1928. He had some re
nown as a writer on educational
topics for periodicals. ,
Until he i was overtaken by ill
ness recently he was a represent
ative for the Chicago book pub
lishing firm of Benjamin H. San
born & Co. He was marriea in
1910 to Miss -Gladys MacKenzln
of Portland, who survives him
Three childrent are . also living,
George Wallace Robert MacKen-
zle and Ann . Kathleen Hug.
At the University of Oregon he
was affiliated with Beta Theta PI
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Council to Attend
Funeral ;of Dancy
Resolution Cites Service
of Veteran Alderman;
Meeting 1 Brief
Salem's. 13 aldermen last night
briefed their meeting out of re
spect to their late 14th member,
W. -It. "Jack" Dancy, adopted a
resolution expressing regret over
his death In Spokane, Wash., last
Friday, and adjourned to meet at
the Clou gh-Barrick chapel at
1:30 o'clock this afternoon, to at
tend his funeral.
The resolution, citing thst Mr,
Dancy had "answered the last roll
call," declared ithat; "his depar
ture leaves a vacancy in the civic
and political life of the city of
Salem that cannot be filled, and
the council lot one of Its able
and Influential members; an able
colleague In every righteous cause
and a bitter . antagonist of any
movement he deemed Inimical to
the morals, rights, and welfare
ot Salem' and its citizens . . ."
"Because of his generous, kind
ly character, and his readiness to
befriend all .citizens, as well as
his friends," the resolution con
tinned. "Alderman Dancy held
the sincere respect of all mem
bers ot the council . . .
The resolution was ordered
spread upon the council minutes
and a copy sent to surviving rela
tives. --,
Department
"making an assertion here that
these bills are illegal but there Is a
serious question about their le
gality . .
ftaggests Inquiry
Before More Kales -
Alderman Van Wieder suggest
ed that the two bills in question
be paid since . the materials had
been delivered but "before any
more bills are contracted, there
be written opinion by the city
attorney." "
O'Hara pointed out3 he was not
moving to disallow the bills but
only to submit them to the city
attorney for an opinion.
After the meeting. City Attor
ney Paul R. Hendricks announced
he had already given the water
commission bis oral opinion to
the effect that "the only thing
mentioned" In the charter is that
members of the council can not
contract with the city."
Hendricks added, relative to a
state law regulating public policy
in the matter of contracts, that
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Charges Heard
Voting Handled Entirely
byiDemo Leaders, Is
' , Woman's Claim
Republicans Are Allowed
Only 37; Officials'
' Credentials Torn
KANSAS CITY, May ll-UPi-K
slight, blue-eyed woman who
served as a Republican judge in
the November 3 election testified
at Kansas City's seventh vote
fraud conspiracy today that lntim
idation by democratic officials be
gan even before the polls opened.
, Miss Hallie Spetry. one of the
government's star witnesses. In
formed a federal court jury that a
democratic precinct captain, Rob
ert Strobm, told her hie party
was going to-put this thing over"
and that she could "make it easy
or hard" for herself. V
George Arnold, a demoeratle
judge, pleaded guilty to a charge
of conspiring to defraud voters
as the trial opened today. Judge
Albert L. Reeves deferred sen
tencing him until his four cod e
fendants have been tried.
It was at 5:45 a. m.," before
the polling place for the seventh
precinct ot the 12 th ward opened.
Mtss sperry said, that Strohm de
livered his order.
A few minutes later, she testi
fied, Strohm demanded to see the
credentials (that she and other re
publican polls workers bore.
He took mine from my hand."
she said, "tore it up and and threw
It on the floor. He told Ellis and "
Abschier (two other republicans)
their credentials were no good.
He said they'd have to get proper .
credentials, and ordered them out.
They left." - - .
"What next do you recall?"
Maurice M. MHlian,..U S. . dla- .
trlct! attorney, asked. .
"About 8:30 o'clock." Miss
Sperry replied, "Strohm called to
Roy Best, who was In charge of
the ballots and the ballot boxes. .
Strohm said he wanted 58 blank
ballots." '
Both She and Best protested.
Miss Sperry said, but Strohm and
Thomas Audiey, another defend
ant. oQk. the ballots upstairs. La
ter they returned and put the
ballots in the; box, she said, and
forced ..her - to check the names
from the poll books.
Later in the day Ralph Ellis,
the evicted republican, returned,
but . Miss Sperry said that when
the polls closed at 7 p.. m. and '
it was time to count the ballots
Strohm called four men and again
had him put out.
"Three of the men took hold,,
of him," she said. "They shoved
him through the door. In a mo
ment I heard tbe sound of blows,
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Charges Delayed,
Portland Slaying
PORTLAND. May 17 - (F) - No
action will be taken in the fatal
shooting here Sunday of David
Greely Harvey pending a verdict
by a coroner's Jury, investigating
officers Indicated tonight.
The date for the Inquest has
not been set.
Harvey, 88, a carpenter, met
his death in the home of his
father-in-law, Paul Hammel.
where his wife and four children
were alleged to have taken refuge
following a family quarrel.
Detectives William Browne and
John Golts who Investigated said
they were told Harvey was shot
in the chest and struck over the
h e a d by Robert Hammel, 29,
brother ot Mrs. Harvey, after Har
vey had crashed In the front door
after being refused admittance,
and had struck the elder Hammel.
Installation of Traffic
-Lights May De Delayed
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Installation of Salem's new
traffic signals msy require six
months' time Instead of three, ac
cording to terms of a resolution
passed by the council last night.
The resolution grants the Bosler
Electric company 90 days' addi
tional time for tbe job because
of strike-occasioned delays la
manufacture ot the equipment.
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Folks who work around the
statehouse and the public in
stitutions will be told that
they're at liberty to reach their
own solutions of tbe question
as to whether they should join
some labor guild.' but it won't
make an)' difference In how the
Jobs are filled.