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Farm New Harvest time U approach tag and farmers are vitally Interested la crop and mar ket nnr. The Statesman provides fall coverage. - fV ; ' : on Weather lUr today and Tbnrs. day, slightly cooler" today; Max. 1 Temp. Tuesday 01, Mln. 40, river 2.1 feet, worth-northeast wind. POUND3D 1651 EIGI1TY -SEVENTH YEAR - Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, June 2, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 57 TED f mil; aim. rag eimeir V W L - CM UJ I LgfiSW -211 ifl m r - . 1 1 ""II v 1 ( i i r- Germany and Italy to demand J7se o Russian Angle In new Crisis Also Watched Fascist Nations' Return to Neutrality Pact Is Sought by Others Italian Ships Will Halt Soviet Vessels Aiding Leftists, Is Order - LONDON. Jnne l.HGVThe re turn of Germany and Italy to Eu rope's 27-nation neutrality com mittee tonight appeared to hinge upon the committee's decision whether-to use force against Spain in preventing interference with neutral shipping. The two nations withdrew from the committee yesterday lui til they receive guarantees against further incidents such as Spanish government air bombard ment of the German battleship Deutschland and the Italian naval supply ship Barletta. France and Britain suggested safety zones for neutral ship . ping, which both the Insurgent and Madrid-Valencia govern ments appeared willing to con sider. Germany, however, wanted the further step, Informed sources said use of force by the neu trality committee's naval patrol, now seeking by peaceful Inspec tion of transport ships to prevent shipment of arms or munitions to either side in the civil con flict. There were some who believed that creation of a sort of inter national navy to guarantee that Spain will keep the peace at sea might be devised. Britain took what appeared to be a step to reassure Berlin and Rome today by seconding their protests against Spanish govern ment bombardments. British spokesmen, made clear, however.-that while the govern ment deplored attacks such as the Deutschland bombing it by no means condoned Germany's re taliatory bombardment of the Spanish government port of Al xnerla. - v ROME. June 1.-(P-Itallan warships, a highly-informed source- said tonight; are under orders to halt, at sea Russian ships carrying supplies to the Madrid Valencia government. " There were warnings also that Italy will force quick reprisals if any of her warships are molested by the Spanish government fight ing craft. .The Spanish situation develop ed so rapidly that Premier Musso (Turn to Page 2. Col. 8 ) Amelia en Route; Reaches San Juan SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, June 1. (P) Amelia Earhart set her twin - motored silver monoplane down here today, completing the first leg of her proposed "just for fun" flight from west to east around the world's equator. The slim avUrix, accompan ied by her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, landed at 1:30 p. m., E. S. T., at the end of an un eventful 1,033-mile hop from Mi ami. She made the flight in seven hours, 33 minutes. Miss Earhart announced with fingers crossed that she would take off at dawn tomorrow for Paramaribo. Dutch Guiana, on the second leg of her world flight. Bank Records for May Reveal Gains Salem ' bank clearings for May gained nearly a cool three million dollars over cjearing for May. 1938, and wen the second high est since 1930. The figure for last month reached $14,220,996, com pared to SI 1.4 5 7,4 3 6 for the cor responding month a year ago, ac cording to the chamber of com merce figures supplied to the Rabson statistical agency. Debit checks last month were third highest since the peak year Of 1929, tha May clearings from that year being: 1929, $15,784, 273; 1930, $14,789,417; 1931. $11,(95.331: 1932, $8,606,719: 1933. $9,484,305; 1934, $10.- 4,4 7 0; 1935. $12,431,770; 193$. $11,457.43$; 1937. $14,-120.996. Force Bombing of German Battleship Is Basis of new International Fear ; - s "" " ' 1 ' - " -1 : . " ' , : . . , ..-$... J . . . -4 .J--a : J t -r , W ' - Hie Deutschland, German "pocket battleship" which was bombed off the Spanish roast, aUegedly by Spanish government planes, result ing In the new international crisis Involving most of Europe's lead ing nations. -International Illustrated News photo. Barrick Will Run For School Board Petitions, to Be Circulated Starting Today ; Urging of Citizens Heard . Petitions nominating Dr. L. E. Barrick as a candidate for the school directorship to be relin quished by Frank Neer, present chairman, June 21, will go into circulation , today, his friends an nounced yesterday. The election, in which all legal voters residing within the! Salem school district may participate, will be held Mon day, June 21. in the school admin istration building. 434 North High street. , , j ' : . : In. announcing yesterday, that he would accept nomination, . Dr. Barrick yielded to the urgings of many citizens interested in the welfare of the schools. In a formal statement ihe declared he was "not a candidate of any clique or faction" and, if elected. Intended to "administer the affairs of the district to the best of my ability, in the interest of all persons con cerned." " Dr. Barrick is a native of" Mar ion county. Born at Mehama, he has spent most of his life in Sa lem. He was graduated from Sa lem high school in 1912 and from North Pacific Dental . college. Portland, subsequently. He re turned to Salem after practicing in Independence for five years and continued active In the dental pro fession here until a few years aBo when he retired and became associated j with the . Clough-Bar-rick mortuary. He now has two children in the city schools. Nomination of school board candidates ! will close June 14. Salem Swelters With Rest Of Nation; 91 Degrees Here f : ' A new 1937 record high tem perature of 91 degrees accompan ied the advent of June to Salem yesterday as clear skies contin ued over from the Memorial day holidays. The maximum temper ature' was recorded at 3:41 p. m. The previous high was 75 degrees, noted here May 3. ; Slight moderation in temper ature with continued clear wea ther was forecast for today and Thursday. ! The weather bureau prediction tor the coast, was cloud or fog. ! May reversed the Apru rainfall trend by bringing 1.64 Inches of precipitation of .48 Inch less than the month's average. Twenty-one of the 31 days in May passed by without rain. The heaviest single day's precipitation was .91 inch, on May 11. The record May rainfall, 6.23 Inches, occurred in 1895. May, 1920. brought the lightest rainfall noted for that month, .25 inch. (By the Associated Press) Midsummer heat beat down on the nation yesterday (Tuesday I by Ns ml Patrol Paper Mills Wage Accord Is Okehed Ratified by Workers With Vote Over 2-1 ; Means Large Increases (By The Associated Press) Labor developments in the Pa cific northwest last night includ ed:. ;;;.': I ,: -. ": l 1. Pulp and paper mill union ists announced ratification of a new west coast wage increase and working conditions agreement. 2. The Puget sound ferry strike was at an impasse after ship oper ators rejected the inland boat men's union truce proposal. ' 3. Union teamsters at Portland refused to permit longshoremen to negotiate separately with the strike-bound Meier & Frank de partment store. : I i - ,1 Ratification of a pulp and pa per wages and working conditions agreement by a. vote of more than 2 to 1 was announced after a tab ulation of coast union votes, r The pact was signed by John (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Deer Hunters Pick Park 1 In Portland for 'Chase PORTLAND, June l-(yp)-Kid-naping and murder of a deer at the Washington zoo was investi gated today by officers. . ; The deer was killed in the deer run, and taken to the horse barns and butchered, a trail of blood leading the posse to the scene of the murder. The deer was a four-year-old buck. shattering season records and rec ords for the date in many states. Unseasonable heat lay over Ore gon and Washington. . The mercury hit the high nine ties east of the Cascade moun tains. Cooled somewhat by the Pacific ocean, temperatures on the west side of the range reached into the eighties.. . The hottest place In either state was Sunnyside, Wash., in the Yakima valley where 97 was re corded. Yakima was a close sec ond with 95. Portland was high point on the coast at 90. Seattle had 78 at 4:30 p. m., hut an hour later ther mometers showed 82. ; t " Spokane's 87.5 gave that city the hottest June 1 since 1909. At the Grand Coulee dam it was 96. Roseburg had 90. Only . one section ironically enough a large portion of the na tion's dustbowl where floods in stead beset Inhabitants escaped one of the hottest June firsts on weather bureau records. At least eight deaths tb'-ee by (Turn to Pare 2. Col. 4) United States Offers Aid to Settle Tangle Germany and Spain Both Urged to Avoid any 'Hostile Actions Versions of two Nations on Bombing Incident Related to Hull WASHINGTON, June 1 .-()-Secretary Hall disclosed today that he had urged both Germany and the Spanish loyalist govern ment, in effect, to refrain from going to war with each other. His pleas, made to the ambassa dors of each nation in separate Interviews, expressed the hope of the U. S. that their governments would be able to adjust their dif ference peaceably. It was the first direct move by the U. S. to prevent a major In ternational war as a result of the Spanish attack on a German cruiser and the German bombard ment of the port of Almeria. To Hans Dieckhoff, the Ger man ambassador, the secretary outlined this government's ear nest hope for the preservation of peace throughout the world. He said it preaches and urges peace on every government at all times. He expressed his own hope that Germany might find a means for a peaceable adjustment- of the Al meria ' incident. ' - Dieckhoff thereupon gave the secretary his government's ver sion of the incident. Hull also conveyed similar hopes for peace to Fernando de Los RIos. the Spanish ambassa (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Bright Meteor Is Noted by Bradley The brightest meteor noted here in several months was re ported last night by B. L. "Buck" Bradley, local amateur astrono mer. Red-tinted, it drifted acros? the northern sky from east to west and left a plume of light trailing befalad that remained vis ible for several seconds, "'s At the time Bradley was In his garden observatory adjusting a new six-inch reflector telescope which he has set up on a new graduated; screw-controlled mounting which was constructed by students in the Salem high school machine shop. The ma chinists' class will build a sim ilar mechanism next -year to use with a school telescope, the eight inch mirror for which- Bradley contributed. ; Bradley announced he would resume his summer open house schedule tonight and the public would be welcome to visit his observatory and view the stars and planets through his tele scopes - each Wednesday night from 9 to 11 p. m. The Bradley home may be reached by driving south on South Commercial street past the city limits to Waldo ave nue, there turning east to the last house on the avenue. Governor Speaks, Chemawa Pageant Tribal dancesT featured the sec ond and closing night of the In dian festival at Chemawa held in connection with the commence ment exercises. Gov. Charles H. Martin made a brief address, praising the Institution for Its off ering of sound academic and vo cational training to Indians. He paid high tribute to Chief Joseph of the Nes Perce tribe, whom he had met at Vancouver when be first came west as an army officer. Chiefs of eight tribes in the northwest were introduced by Charles Larson who acted as mas ter of ceremonies for the pagean try. War dances, round dances, and rabbit dances were perform ed. Then there were group and solo dances. The largest delegation was from Warm Springs. In the contests Leslie Charlie of Chemawa was first for best costume among men and Dorothy Jones of Chemawa among wom en. Curtis Brown of Warm Springs was first for small boys. Music was furnished by the WPA band of Portland at the opening of the program. A large crowd filled all available space around the grassy arena. High er For This Year Minimum of $27.50 More Than Double That of Previous Season Control r Board Declares ! Crop Short, Market - Good at Present Members of the Oregon Prune Control Board,' Inc., emerged from an all-day session here yes terday with announcement that the uniform minimum price on fresh Italian prunes for canning or barreling for their members will be $32.50 per ton for prunes 16 to the pound and larger. For prunes smaller than 16 to the pound, the minimum price set was $27.50. This returns the deal to the old size classification. ., Minimum prices for the 1937 crop are based not on any grade system, in contrast to last year's basis, but - are on "orchard run prunes, with rotten,' decayed and unmerchantable prunes out," the board decreed. Confer With Buyers Before Decision The price was announced fol lowing a conference with buyers of fresh prunes, the joint discus sion lasting until nearly 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The top price fixed for the con trol board members this year Is almost double the average of $17 per ton received last year. The prices ranged differently op sizes last year, with $20 the top on 12 or larger prunes, $17.50. for 13-15's; $15 for 15-17's; and $12 for 17 's or smaller. Prospect of a much smaller crop than last year, small carry over of last year's heavy pack of canned prunes and fact that can ners have already made offers way above the last year's green prune price, were among factors creating the $32.50 and $27.50 prices on prunes this year. Small Carryover Being Withheld In a statement Issued follow ing; the meeting at the Marios hotel yesterday. Board Manager A. M. Chapman and . directors said: - r "Directors representing all dis tricts were present at the meeting and some of them came instruct ed by growers in their districts as to grower ideas of values for the 1937 crop. ... "A report on crop conditions, confirmed early reports-that the crop In Oregon Is in excellent condition, with the small carry (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) itol Ceremony Plans Take Shape Members of the state capltol commission in -Salem yesterday announced that ' plans are going forward for the laying of the cor nerstone of the jnew capltol ; on June 17. Justice George Rossman of the state supreme court will be the presiding officer for the event. The addresses for the oc casion will be delivered by Gov. Charles H. Martin, Judge Law rence' Harris of Eugene, C. C. Hockley, state director of PWA, Portland. ; v The cornerstone ceremony will be in charge of the grand lodge of Oregon of the Masonic order. Grand Master Peters of Hillsboro will lay the stone, using the trow el which T. McF. Patton used in 1873 ' when the . cornerstone . of the old capltol was laid. , Band music and singing by Wil lamette Gleemen will be featured on the program. Under consideration now is the question of what materials to. put in the sealed box which goes into the cornerstone. Some current material will go In, perhaps some of the material from the. old cor nerstone. (-:'.' . - ' - .I' ' . Late Sports SAN FRANCISCO, June l.-ffj -Sacramento Jumped on Sam Gib son when he weakened In late In nings and made a runaway of an otherwise good game, . winning, 12 to 5, tonight from San Fran cisco. .... , .- ' Sacramento ......12 12 2 'San Francisco ..... 5 11 1 Schmidt, Seats and Franks. Cooper;- Gibson, Sheehan and Monzo. . LOS ANGELES. June 1.-jP-Los Angeles overcame a five-run lead to defeat Oakland in a coast league baseball game here to night, 11 to 8. Oakland ' ..... 8 17 8 Los Angeles J..........ll 1 6 2 La Rocea, Haid, Bomham and Baker; Lieber, Berry and Collins. On Prunes Set Cap Movie Strike are Into Theatrical Union 2500. Workers to Return Today After Month-Long Tie-Up Largely;. Over Jurisdictional Issue; : - Increased Pay Received, Announced . HOLLWOOD, Calif., June 1 (AP) The motion picture strike ended tonight and 2500 men prepared to return to work in. the studios tomorrow, following announce ment of an agreement by which the painters union becomes absorbed with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. ' ' i . . Bandit Caught a m Alter oiaying Suspect in G-Man Death Nahhed by Chief Who Notes Small Clue GALLUP. N. M., June l.-P)-Guy E. Osborne, 24-year-old fugi tive wanted for the slaying of Truett E. Rowe, department of Justice agent, was captured with out resistance tonight a few hours after the agent was shot and killed. Kelsey Presley, Gallup police chief, and Leslie Maboney, Gallup policeman, made the arrest as Os borne attempted to ride a horse past them, masquerading as a cowboy. The arrest was made not far from the scene of the shoot ing. The fugitive was taken to the McKlnley county Jail and held under heavy guard. . The officers were leaving the home of John Wesley Osborne, brother- of the fugitive, Presley said, when they noticed a rider driving a small bunch of cattle to ward the Osborne home. - "That wouldn't be him coming this way." Presley said he told his companions, and started to drive away. As the rider drew nearer, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Congress to Face Tax Dodger Issue Presidential Message Is Signal- for Measure to Curb Evaders WASHINGTON, June 1 -(").-Congress levelled the double bar rels of publicity and legislation tonight at wealthy persons whom President Roosevelt accused of dodging taxes. - . Soon after Mr. Roosevelt de manded "evil practices" ": be stopped, the senate adopted a res olution for an Investigation. Lead ers said the inquiry would lay the facts before the public and furnish the basis for laws to cir cumvent - the "clever -little schemes" by which tax payments are avoided. . The measure, establishing a Joint committee of 'six senators and six members of the house to conduct the inquiry, . was intro duced in the house as well,, with favorable action there . expected iff a day or so. .. - -.- . In his message, President Roo sevelt Included a letter from Sec retary MorgenthaU relating, some of the methods of the alleged tax dodgers numerous personal cor porations, incorporation of yachts, racing stables and the like. ' ' " Congress, as well as the presi dent, was plainly Indignant. From every action came quick state ments of sympathy with the chief executive's purpose and of deter (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Tension Grows, Front; "Red" (By the Associated Press) - A multiplicity of events yester day heightened tension along the steel strike front. Nearly a thousand policemen were mobilized for duty . in the vicinity . of the Republic Steel corporation's south Chicago plant In response to reports steel work ers organizing committee leaders planned a new march on the mill, operating with 1400 workers in defiance of the strike ealL Disclosure that one of the five men killed in Sunday's bloody riot near the plant was a communist stirred the opening session of a coroner's Inquest. The state's attorney's office at Chicago announced an Investiga tion of "outside agitation" of strike violence would be made. John L. Lewis, chairman of the committee for industrial organi zation, termed the riot deaths "planned murder. Republic offi cials replied that his statement was preposterous.' Strike pickets prepared for an extended siege in Ohio's Mahon Ended as -s? The painters, major unit oi tne federated motion picture crafts. walked out of the studios a month ago today. . . "They are admitted to the studio-union basic agreement under closed shop conditions and with a 10 per cent salary increase," said the statement issued by George E. Browne, interpational president of the I. A. T. S. E. His announcement m a d e no mention of the other .unions, such as the -welders, iron-workers and molders, which are members of the F. M. P. C, and went out on strike with the painters. The "statement announcing the development was Issued by BrOwne, William Bioff, local head of the I. A. ' T. S. E., Joe Clark, International vice-president of the painters' union, and ' Edward H. Fitzgerald, federal labor concili ator. - "The ' studio strike situation reached an amicable solution yes terday," the statement read. "Cdn (Turn to Page Col. 4) Dr. R. Ivan Lovell To Teaclf History Succeeds Lyman White at Willamette; Notable Record Reviewed Appointment of Dr. R. Ivan Lovell as head of the history de partment at Willamette univer sity for the' coming school year was announced Tuesday by Presi dent Bruce R. Baxter. Dr. Lovell, who : comes here from the University of North Da kota, will replace Dr. Lyman C. White. The latter will continue his studies on international peace in Switzerland next year. The newest addition to the fac ulty has an impressive scholastic record. He has been an instruc tor at the University o'f Michigan, Boston university, Harvard unl (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Committee Is to Draff Power Bill WASHINGTON, June l.(P) The - house rivers and harbors committee undertook - today to write administrative, legislation for the Bonneville power and nav igation project' On the Columbia river, guided by ' four proposed measures and testimony taken at lengthy hearings. ' All measures provide for a res ervation of 50 per cent of the power for a period varying from 1 to 3 years for public bodies and cooperatives. All leave final say as to rates In the, hands of the power commission. . - Chairman Joseph Mansfield (D-Tex.) of the committee indi cated it would be some time be fore .the group would have the measure ready for house consid eration. Legislation must be en acted this session as power pro duction starts late in the year. Steel Strike Influence Seen ing valley, where 32,000 steel workers were idle. Snipers plant, also operated behind picket lines. A telephone cable to Republic's Canton, Ohio, plant was cut. ' Both sides went into court. A C. I. O. attorney filed on behalf of a . Republic stockholder, a peti tion for an injunction to prevent the 'firm from using funds "for strike breaking purposes." ; Republic attorneys filed 20 af fidavits, at Buffalo, N. T.. where the company also Is operating a plant, charging Intimidation of loyal workers. With more than 40,000 steel workers Idle, the operating rate in .the Industry was reported to have fallen nearly 14 per cent last week. : - New troubles threatened in De troit and - Pontiae, Mich., wearied by last winter's automobile strikes. United Automobile workers offi cials announced a "rent strike" in Pontiae. and said similar action, directed against alleged "unfair" rentals, would be taken in De troit. : ' Earaarlringls Rejected Upon Final Passage Compromise However Is Reported as Pledge Given Opponents President Agrees to Put Large Sum Into Flood Control, Revealed Although no officials were available for comment late last night' when the house of rep . resentatives passed the work relief bill, it was believed here that trms, of -the compromise would enhance the prospect Of, a ' 'favorable arrangement in connection with the Oregon capltol project, . especially in view, of the mention of PWA projeets the government had "a moral obligation'' to complete. WASHINGTON, June l-iJPf-Embattled administration leaders crushed a house revolt aimed at earmarking more than one-third of the 81,500,000,000 work-relief bill tonight and passed the meas ure along to the senate. Acting Speaker Vinson (D., Ky.) announced shortly before midnight that tabulation of the roll call showed 323 for the huge bill and 44 against. ! Working many hours overtime most of them dinnerless and weary house members stripped i ruin toe 0111 amendments wnicn would have set aside 8505,000, 000 of the total for PWA under takings, highway construction, flood control and kindred pro jects. These amendments, previously voted, would have tied tha presi dent's hands, restricting his free dom to allot the money to such work relief projects as he deemed advisable. The house also defeated an amendment previously approved whiii ould have cut 82000 from the S12.000 salary of HarrrL. Hopkins, workers progress admin istrator. The vote to restore the 812.000 figure was 272 to 96. ' Move to Turn Relief To States Beaten Final passage of the big fund for relief for next fiscal year came after rejection, 298 to 78, of an attempt by Representative Bacon (R., - N. Y.) to turn the relief problem back to the states and limit t he federal . government's participation to financial contri butions. , Fighting for reversal ef . the votes on the earmarking amend ments. Majority Leader, Raybura (D-Tex) contended they would force more than 630.000 worker off the WPA rolls. The adminis tration's argument was that If the funds were earmarked for projects requiring - much mate- .1. 1 iV... 1 Jt . . . pay for, the jobless. The Texan stared oft final acr Hon on the measure last Thurs day and spent the Interim tn con- velt and leaders' of the coalition, which had forced adoption of the amendments. He succeeded in ef fecting a compromise with ' the factions which . had earmarked 1300.000,000 for PWA and 855, 000,000 for flood control and (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Eastern Officers May See Suspect COUDERSPORT. Pa., June 1-(iT")-potter county authorities to day considered the possibility of going to Salem, Oregon, te check the identity of a prisoner answer ing the description of William Meyers, charged with a double slaying near Coudersport in 1921. Salem police who arrested the man said the prisoner denied the slaylngs and that he apparently was about 38 years old. The Coud ersport Meyers was 38 at the time he disappeared. Meyers, a former seaman, was charged with shooting Archie Carlin, 45, and Mark Brown, 28, farmers, while they were attempt ing to defend his wife from his attack. Potter county authorities said the fugitive they sought was of light complexion. He was about tire feet, seven inches, tall. J A L L A D E i of TOD Af By R. a The war drums sound amid the scars of world's last bloody holocaust; dictators loudly swear by Mars, and fearsome challenges are tossed; but may be they're not quite so mad as they . appear from outward signs; they know, perhaps, that war is bad but feel they must rehearse their lines.