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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1937)
Sport News American league and Pa dfle Coast leagu races are exceptionally close. Toar ' Snorning newspaper brings to complete" port new tin. V7eatlier ' Fair today and Saturday, 1' tie change la temperature; -ax. Temp. Thursday 71, Mln. SS. river .l "fet. uortb-Bortheast wind. POUNDSD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, Slay 21, 1937 Price 3e; Newsstands 5e No. 47 tammtoai ls VAA ' ' . :..".. ( .. ,- . j Settled IL'oggiinig o : Rebels Attain New Victories Around Bilbao Claim Heavy Casualties Among Defenders; no Truce, Is Edict British Favor Armistice to Remove Volunteer Foreigners in War HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish Frontier, May 20-(J)-Spanish in surgent smashed akead tonight to new conquests along their alowly tightening semi-circle of steel around Bilbao. Gen. Emllio.Mola'a troops con centrated thrust against two points while Insurgent planes bombed the valley of the Nervion river in which the Basque cap ital lies. The ground forces rammed a dent in the government fortifica tions at Munguia, nine miles northeast of Bilbao on the Ber roeo road, and they claimed cap ture of Mount Gondramendi and six Tillages just north of A more bieta, nine miles southeast of the besieged city. The Basques conceded they bad to -modify" their "positions of resistance" at Munguia, where an Italian tank column fought suc cessfully. SOU Reported Left Dead Upon Field The Insurgent report on the capture of Mount Gondramendi said Bilbao's defenders abandon ed 200 dead on the battlefield. Meanwhile Insurgent oratory Indicated the Basques could ex jectno halt In the two-month In surgent advance. C jt. Millan Astray. In the name of the insurgent regime, broadcast a warning that anyono In the insurgent ranks who "pro nounces the word armistice will be considered a traitor." as the insurgent answer to Franco-British efforts to effect a tem porary truce. Only on the Amorebleta front did the government troops make claims "of successful resistance to the advance, of the insurgents. Bilbao commanders said they had tailed one section of Mola's troops a mile northwest of Amor ebleta. VALENCIA. Spain, May 20-JP) -The known death toll in last Saturday's insurgent bombing of Valencia rose- close to 100b to night with the discovery of more bodies under debris. Government authorities declar ed the planes were Italian-made Capronis from the Balearic Is lands of Majorca, where MaJ. Ramon Franco, brother of insur gent Gen. Francisco Franco, is in charge. VITORIA. Spain, May 20-()-Insurgents ironed out a kink in (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Reclamation Bill Passed to Senate WASHINGTON. May 20ifff The west's reclamation program for 1937-38 moved on to the, sen ate today virtually intact as the bouse comoleted action on the in terior department appropriations km ' ' Last minute rejection of a com mittee amendment trimmed the total for reclamation In the bill to 138,981,600, but house leaders predicted the senate would restore Jt to at least the $41,000,000 fig ure recommended by their own appropriations committee. The defeated amendment car ried $750,000 for operating ex penses of the reclamation bureau and also would have reapproprt ated unexpended balances of .ap propriations out of the reclama tion fund for the current fiscal Tear. Projects under construction In a dozen western states will receive funds under the bill as finally passed. Large single items are $13,000,- 000 for Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia river in Washington, and I12.S0O.O0O for California's $170,- 00.000 central valleys project. College's Golden Jubilee . Mt. Angel college is cele brating Ms BOth anniversary with a Golden Jubilee this month. " .' The Sunday : Statesman will feature an article re viewing the history of the college Illustrated with pic .tnres of Its founders and Its early plant. Order extra copies dial 9101. Public Power Program Is La unc he d in Filing Of Co-op Rural Electrification Administration Purr Utilizing of Bonneville Energy, Asc? in Formation of Districts, Declarer ANEW movement in the direction of public ownership of power utilities in utilizing Bonneville dam-energy was launched in Salem Thursday when articles were filed in the state corporation department by the Oregon Cooperative Rural Electrification administration. Purchasing, develop ing and distributing electrical energy are some of the pur- O r-"" outlined in the articles. Memorial Program Plans Announced Abrams to Lead Parade of Veterans"; A. II. Dewey Speaker at Services Colonel Carle Abrams will be grand marshal in charge of events of the annual Memorial day ex ercises a week from Sunday Wil liam Bllven, president of the Fed erated Patriotic societies, . an nounced last night. Memorial J services will open with obesrvances at the G.A.R circle in City View cemetery at 10 o'clock and will include a parade and j Memorial day t exer cises at the : armory. Past Commander of . ) ' lllbbard Post to Speak ' A. H. Dewey, past commander of Hal Hibbard post, Spanish War Veterans, will re the princi pal speaker at the memorial rer vices to be held at the armory at 2 o'clock, following the parade, Bllven said, i . I Among the observances will be the annual memorial for soldiers and sailors j Of the Civil war. Which will 1 1e staged 1 by the Women's Relief corps on . the Marlon-Polk i county bridge oter the Willamette. ' . .. ( .'. . The Federated Patriotic soci eties have arranged, for speakers to take part in Memorial day ob servances at all city schools Fri day preceding Memorial' day. Hiker Questioned Anent Auto Death ' I . ... ROSEBURG, May 20-0P)-Cor-poral Paul Parsons of the state police said t today officers were questioning Sam Rourke, SS, tran sient hitch-hiker, in connection with the death yesterday of Mrs. Alice Stinson. 24, i Yoncalla. Parsons said he was told Eve lyn McCoy, 14, Yoncalla, failed to attend school and borrowed an automobile of a "boy friend" to take Mrs. Stinson for a ride, which ended when the car plunged over an embankment near Boswell Springs. 1 He said' Miss McCoy accused Rourke of forcing his. way into the car and taking the wheel, driv ing it over the embankment. Rourke, however, said he was picked up and never laid his hand on the wheel, accusing the girl of driving and losing control when she leaned over to light a cigaret. Rourke booked on a vagrancy. charge, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 days, officers as serting he may be held as a ma terial witness. SACRAMENTO. May 20-(,!P-Portland took a lead in the cur rent series; by defeating Sacra mento for j the second straight time here tonight, 7 to 4. Like the previous night, the Solons played their whole game in the ninth Inning. They rallied four runs tonight in the final frame and had the bases filled when Verges ended the game with a fly to left. Ad Liska had the Sacs eatix? out of his hand until the la:t frame. An error by Burnett pi: Liska in trouble. The Beavers scored at will on both Solon; hurlers, batting on 13 blows. Portland 7 IS C Sacramento 4 - 9 J Liska and Cronin; Newsome. Seats and Clark. SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 20 () DriTlng Southpaw Wally He bert oft the mound with a three run blast in the first Inning, Seat tle's Indians drubbed the San Diego Padres, 5 to 0, here to night. ' Dick (Kewple) Barrett scored his first, victory over the San Di egans In two seasons, hurling a six-hit masterpiece. He- fanned eight. .. ... Seattle ', .', i 5 10 . 0 San Diego . : 0 2 WESTERN IXTL. LEAGUE Yakima ! 7, Lewiston t. Tacoma ; 1. Wenatchee C Spokane 9, Vancouver 9. Late Sports Papers Her 4 o The prime : object or the cor- poration Is Intended to be to cre ate "an integrated system of co operatives and public utilities districts throughout 1 the state to avail themselves of ! power from Bonneville dam," - according to Herman Lafky, local, attorney. As well as possibly engaging Erectly in the power business the cor poration would promote the form ation of utility districts, t The incorporators include G. W. Thlessen, E. O. Zimmer man, Peter Zimmerman, Albert Strelff, R. W. Hogg and G. W. Potts. Potts is president of the Oregon branch of the Farmers union while Peter Zimmerman formerly served as state senator and at one time was a candidate for governor. , Other purposes of the corpor ation: To conduct surveys of hydro Turn topage 2, col. 6) Bearcats Drubbed In Series Opener Spec Uses Sutton,' Beard a Hurlers 'After two - "Aces Are, fleired " WALLA WALLA. May 10-WrV A sizzling homer with two aboard from the bat of Shortstop Ned Stickle knocked the. lid off the opening game or the northwest conference title series here to night as Whitman captured the first leg from Willamette univers ity, western titllst. IS to 0. : Whitman had counted ' , two previous runs but the circuit clout really started the fireworks which turned the' game into a rout. ,: .. .'" Weaver, ace Bearcat mounds man, beaten only once in seven previous starts, lasted less than three Innings and was charged with the defeat. Meanwhile, Jonas, j Whitman twlrler, struck out ten and held the visitors to four hits, not more than one to any batsman. The teams play again tomorrow night, with Gastineaa taking the mound for Willamette i and Schneldmiller pitching for Whit man. Willamette ........... 0 4 C Whitman ..13 11 1 Weaver, Nunnenkamp, Sutton, Beard and Weisgerber; Jonas and Edwards. Humboldt Qaims ! Slice of Oregon ! . a ONTARIO. Ore., May 2Q-(JPy-It looks Uke Humboldt county, Nev.. has upped and chiseled off a piece of southern Oregon. , Residents of McDermitt, tiny border town, reported finding signs along Cowboy. Cottonwood and McDermitt creeks in Malheur county, Ore., reading: "Stream closed to fishing by Humboldt county." Oregon residents said they might demand return of their fishing license money but George K. Aiken, game commissioner, told them not to believe every thing they read. The matter will be taken up with Nevada game officials. 35-PIECE Wmamette watventty S5-pieee tV owren, Whe fees fmilt 99. Workers Begin 500-Foot Bore On Water line Mining Equipment Used Fairmount Part, on Rural Avenue Route Crews Working Three j Shift, 24-Hour Day Plan on Big Job Three-shift, 24-hour operation started yesterday- for the WPA crews which are digging a 500 foot tunnel on Rural avenue through which the city's new water supply pipeline wiU run to Fairmount reservoir. Only five men will work on a shift, elftht hours long, because of the confin ed working Quarters. - The tunnel operation, which will extend' from Fairmount av enue to the new reservoir, took on the aspect of mining as shock proof helmets, : carbide miner's lamps and lanterns were deliver ed yesterday afternoon. Although the tunnel will run through rock. it will be timbered to make the job a safe one, Frank Koehler, water department engineer .in charge of WPA projects, sard. The tunnel will range from 19 to 25 feet below ground surface. i Koehler predicted , the shaft would be completed within two month. Thirty two-foot sections of 27-inch steel pipe will then be welded to form a 500-foot length, which wiU then be lowered into the open trench' at .the head of the operation and hauled into the tunnel on cars which wUl have been in use carrying away ex cavated material. : Water department officials said It had been .. decided boring the tunnel would be less costly and difficult than digging a deep open, trench through the 'rocky groand. Two other units of the Water department's blanket WPA por Ject had been completed yesterday and a third started. Five hundred feet of four-inch water main have been laid through a new subdivis ion on Colombia avenue and 400 feet of two-inch main on Catterlin avenue. A crew yesterday began preparing to lay 400 feet of two inch pipe on Broadway south from Locust street ; Fire Rule Change Made, 0. & C Bill WASHINGTON, May 20-()-Designed to bring fire protection regulations into line with state law, an agreement was reached today whereby the Interior depart ment will amend a proposed ad ministrative measure for the re vested Oregon and California railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay wagon road grant lands of west-: era Oregon. Rufus Poole, interior depart ment assistant solicitor, told the house public lands committee the amendment proposed by a group of private lumber operators was unsatisfactory, Poole, offering a substitute to make uniform state and federal requirements. Rep. James Mott, Salem, Ore., said he would call witnesses to morrow to testify against revenue features of the measure, the con gressman contending the Interior department is seeking too large a share of the funds which now are going to the counties in lieu of taxes once paid by the Oregon and . California railroad and the Coos Bay Wagon Road company. The Interior department would receive 25 per cent of the revenue from timber and land sales for administrative purposes. Alike amount would go to the treasury after eight years to reimburse it for a deficit incurred In payment of taxes which totaled more than the revenue. Counties .would re ceive the other SO per cent. WILLAMETTE BAND IN CONCERT student hand, which wCl present a Cie fr-aalautioa & bcth xmhers and Large Slice of -Mountain FaUs In Yellowstone UVTXGSTON. Mont., May 20 (-Cracking loose with a low roar," one section of rambling Mount Livingston slid into the swoUen Yellow, atone river today, causing fears It 8 might dam the stream and overflow sur rounding lands. J i Residents, attracted by the noise, said a rbnuk of clay and rock "as big as a; city-Week broke away with out warning and thundered a hundred yards down the mountainside to the stream. Other slides followed. Honrs : later the slides were continuing but with only a fraction of their orig inal Intensity. Although the mountain Is only half a mile from the city limits of Livingston, no homes are In danger. Coun ty Commissioner Dan Allen said. ital Benefits By Will of Dancy YWCA.' Also Remembered by Civic Leader; Value of Estate $20,000 The Salem General hospital, a sister, Mrs. Adelaide M. Eberlin, and two sister-in-laws, Mrs. Jes sie Jones and Mabel S. Creighton, are the main beneficiaries under the will of the late W. H. Dancy which was admitted to probate in an order signed yesterday. Dancy died last week In Spokane as a result of injuries sustained In an automobUe accident. Jessie Creighton Jones was named ex ecntrix. The estate was valued at 110,000 In real property and S10,- eoo in personal. . The wHl directs that the home property tt III North Liberty treat chat be sold and the pro ceed divided one-fourth to Jes sie C. Jones, one-fourth to Mabel S. Creighton and one-half to Mrs. Eberlin. 1 - f The Salem hospital, of which the deceased was a trustee, is bequeathed all of t h e common stock of the Columbia River Paper company in the estate and is di rected to establish a memorial to Mollie C. Dancy, deceased wife oi tne former alderman. In addition to the memorial be quest, the hospital is made the legatee of the residue of the estate after all other specific bequests have been distributed. Funds in the Ladd and Bush bank are to be divided one-fourth to Jessie C. Jones, one-fourth tn Mabel S. Creighton and one-half to Adelaide M. Eberlin. Funds In the United States National bank are to be distributed between Mrs. Jones and Miss Creighton as is (Turn to page 2, coL 8) Jury Not Wanted, Canyonville Case ROSEBURG. May 20 Leonard Hopkins, Canyonville barber indicted for assault and battery in connection with the death April 17 of his four-year-old daughter, Barbara Irene, be came the first man In the his tory of Douglas county to elect to have his case' tried before a Judge rather than a Jury. His attorney fued a notice say ing "the public mind has been inflamed by rumors and public ity," making It difficult to obtain an unprejudiced Jury. District Attorney J. v. Long said he has received many let ters, mostly from mothers, urg ing vigorous prosecution. The child's step-mother. Cor delia Hopkins, pleaded guilty to Involuntary manslaughter, ad mitting in her plea , that she struck the child over the head with a table knife, physicians re porting the blows caused a hem orrhage which resulted in death. concert fa Waller hall at St 15 ecl?tk ejuaUtg ef JCT-J V-l rlt irr.r Hosp Robinson Gets Chief Mention For Court Job Possibility Is Mentioned on Floor of Senate; Question Raised No Definite Indications of Future of Packing Demand Apparent WASHINGTON, May ZQJP) Colleagues continued today to boom Senator Robinson of Ar kansas, the democratic I senate leader, for the supreme court va cancy to be created by the retire ment of Associate Justice Van Devanter. " The possibility of Robinson's appointment was .mentioned for the first time in senate debate with Senator. Clark (D., Mo.) re marking that "we all hope he wUI be transfered to another body but- will "be sorry to lose'; him In some circles there was dis cussion whether Robinson could sit in Judgment next year on the constitutionality of legislation which he helped put through con gress this year. r Senator Pittman (D., Nev.) said there was ample precedent for that. In dne Instance, he add ed, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase voted to declare unconstitutional a bill which he had charyyloned vigorously as secretary of the treasury.! There was still much specula tion though no definite decision on the; future of President Roosevelt's court revamping bUl. Deep feellrs over the court is sue flared into the open in an Interstate I commerce committee hearing on -child labor legisla Uon. Chairman Wheeler (D., Mont.), a leading opponent of the bUI, dashed repeatedly with L. E. Oliver, vice president of labor's non-partisan league. U . i "The league has -been trying to get six new Judges for the su preme court so you can get what ever kind of labor legislation yon want, said the chairman. Oliver replied the objective of the league In backing the presi dent's bill was to bring about a court which would "more nearly conform" to modern trends. Wheeler said the league had been sending . agents Into states (Tun to page, i, col. S) Fire Takes Third t Philippines Town A i - MANILA. May 2 O-CTV-The latest of three recent conflagrations to devastate Philippine towns roar ed through Paracale, 150 miles east of here, today. . At least two persons were burned to death and an unascer tained number of i others were In jured. Cooling ruins may dis close other dead.) Flames driven I by high winds raged uncontrolled for four hours. Two hundred flimsy trop ical buildings were destroyed and 2,000 persons made homeless. The. hotel section of the min ing town of 10.000 population was reduced to ruins. The prop erty loss was estimated from S250.000 to S350.000. Looting began as residents fled from burning homes, . but soldiers of the Philippine army quickly suppressed it. Bust of Governor For Capitol, Plan PORTLAND. Ore., May 20-P) ' C. Alnsworth, chairman of a committee to raise funds to place a bust of Governor Martin in the new state capltol bunding, said contributions had been received from 25 of the state's 36 coun ties. Subscriptions ranging from II to $5 are being received rrom Portland citizens. TONIGHT tpmSht ender direction of Xlalph - .. Jurisdictional Row Grows Bitter f in ish Fight A head Portland Labors Council Will Follow out Green's Dictum; Defiance Is Hurled by Longshore Leaders Hiring Hall to Remain Neutral but Compulsory . Arbitration Clause Left out, Loggers' Accord PORTLAND, May 20 (AP) Settlement of the dispute between. Columbia basin logging operators and union em ployes dropped a spot of oil on labor's troubled; waters here today. ' A finish fight in the row between the longshoremen's and teamsters unions for control of inland warehousemen loomed as the Portland Central Labor council acted to en force the dictum of William M. Green, head of the American Federation of Labor; that warehouse locals refusing to recog nize teamster jurisdiction be ousted. Elimination of a compulsory arbitration clause was among the concessions gained by union loggers in the arbi- Pittsburgh Labor Vote Is Watched Largest Industrial Ballot in U. S. History Holds Key to Union Move PITTSBURGH. May 21-iJP)-Joseph Tinko, Sub regional director for Che steel workers' , organizing- committee at AU auippa. told the Associated Press early today 17 of 23 poll- : ing places In that plant anowea an ' unofficial vote of two ' to oae for the anion in the Jones Nand Laughllm Steel eorporatkm election. Tiako said the figures were 0089 for the John L. Lewis union and 8233 against; . . (Br the Associated Press) The manufacturing world watched Pittsburgh last night for Indications of possible turns In the drive to unionise the giant steel Industry. , ' An election, largest Industrial ballot In the nation's history, de termined whether the steel work ers organising committee would be the collective bargaining agency for all of the Jones & Langhlin corporation's employes. Voting began at 6 a.m. and end ed at midnight.-The results, to be announced today, were generally regarded as holding the key to the future course of the S.W.O.U., particularly In reference to five other large Independent steel pro ducers employing nearly 20 0;0 00 persons. . - The . S.W.O.C., an affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Or- (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Mules Get Raise In Pay and WPA Men Want it too ODESSA; . Wash.; May 20-&P)- Because their pay was not raised along with t that of mules em ployed on the same job, a WPA crew conducted a short-lived strike here. . The pay for mule teams used on a flood control and creek-bank rip-rapping Job was boosted from S2.60 a day to S3.50. The men demanded an Increase, but it was refused. A dozen men walked off the Job. WPA officials from Davenport were called to ''arbitrate." The men decided to return to work without recognition of their de mands. Supervisor Myers said. infantry to Make Camp At Albany on Tuesday ALBANY, May 2 O-CffV-Troops of the 30th TJ. S. infantry, en route back to California from Maneuvers at Fort Lewis, Wash., win camp at Bryant . park here next week, giving a band concert Tuesday. . The contingent Includes 61 offi cers, 13 00 men and 155 motor vehicles. ' Odd Fellows Elect PORTLAND, Ore., May 1 0-!p)-Judge Howard K. Zimmerman, Astoria, was unanimously, elected grand master of the grand lodge of Oregon; I. O. O. F., at the dose of the lodge's 82nd annual session. Dr. A. H. Nelson, MeMlnnville, was elected grand treasurer. With Otration award announced today by a seven-man board. The new agreement substituted a provision ! permitting strikes when media-; (' tion machinery has faUed to set tie disputes, but in not less than seven days after formal notice of such failure. I The unions were designated as sole bargaining agency for em ployes of signatory operators, and the neutral hiring hall was re tained with John Gelsler replae- -ing Charles Gram, state labor commissioner, as director. Hope's Wage Accord Proposal Adopted ':. - -' Tha 'wage proposal made pre- vlously by Charles W. Hope, re gional director for the national - -labor relations board, was adopt ed, providing for a 10 per cent wage Increase with a minimum boost ef 7 cents an hour. The union agreed to recognize no Jurisdictional dispute. ' The work week was set at five days and 40 hours, with no "make up" . on Saturday. Truck drivers , will work a 48-hour week with a maximum of 10 hours la any 24 and be psid on an hourly . scale regardless of truck owner- ' ship. Employer operated cookhouses will be operated on a cost en I, basis. - j Father George Thompson ef Madeleine parish who presided over board meetings as - neutral arbiter, commented that, "the unions are opposed tn principle to compulsory arbitration and their' complaints against the ex isting aH'angements seem to hav met Justification in fact. However,- they are not opposed to voluntary mediation and arbitra tion, and I feel confident that they will willingly avail them selves' of this rational means of adjudicating Important issues. Workers Striving j . For Peace, Asserts 1 J - , "Private consultation with un ion leaders directly Involved in these proceedings leads me to believe they are earnestly striving to promote discipline and order ly acnon among me memDers 01 their various organizations." Father Thompson said he had requested at the outset that the official representatives of the two parties to the dispute make ev ery effort to reach settlements without relying' on his personal Judgment as neutral arbiter. "It is a satisfaction to say." he added, "that the request wa willingly complied with and that (Turn to page 1, coL 1) , Wolves, Badgers , Split two Games FOREST .. GROVE. Ore., May 20 -(ilV Pacific university and Oregon Normal school divided a double baseball bill here today. Pacific winning the opener, 6 to 4, and losing to the Wolves in the second game, to 2. ' Oregon Normal ...... .4 f S Pacific .5 2 Bonkowskl and Lewis; Dier- leckx and Gearin. Oregon Normal ....... t S 2- Pactflc .............. t S 2 Moehler and Lewis; Itless and Petrasso. 75 A L L A D E olT..DAy By R. a ? The boys'engaged la digglaj trench for Salem's mountain water line are now required to lower sights and tunnel in Just like a mine; they're speeding op the pipeline Job and maybe by September first pure water from the Santlam will bull's tn to quench our thirst.