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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1937)
Hill" fHllD $) TTTl Pictures "The picture tells the story. Timely and interest ing pictures of Willamette valley events add to The Statesman's appeal. Weather " Unsettled today and Wed nesday, cooler wi(H' higher humidity; Max." Temp. Men day A8.3, 31 in. 46.5, river 2.1 feet, southerly wind. FOUNDCD '1651 EIGHTY -SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, June 8, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. C2 e to 45 -Mm te FarMmi 4 g wins JBai - 1 i F7 JLUILILU -HJUMsQJ'IHL JL' IbZ'KIbi, Wile, Lansing Strike EndLd Harry Bridges Carries Battle To This State Contrary View Citetl at Woodworkers Session About Same Time Labor Victories Claimed in East Over Tussle; Rivalry Spreading (By The Associated Press) The workingmen's holiday at Lansing, Mich., outstanding in yesterday's labor developments, ended with claims o union vic tory last night, and the partici pants "vre ordered to return to work today. Eight pickets whose arrest pro voked the demonstration were freed by the intervention of Gov. Frank Murphy, but not before all automobile plants in Lansing sus pended operations and virtually all downtown stores closed. Union leaders referred to it as a "day of labor victory" and claimed 1200 new members as a result of the holiday. Authorities Insisted, however, that the pick ets stand trial tomorrow. Preslint Roosevelt referred a plea for intervention in the dead locked steel strike to Secretary Perkins and the national labor re lations board yesterday, but the board announced . later it had no basis for action at present. John L. Lewis committee for Industrial organization won addi tional strength in the Pacific maritime industry when the ex ecutive committee of the inland boatmen's union, embracing about 2000 workers, voted to leave the American, Federation of Labor and join the C. I. O. PORTLAND. Ore., June 7 .-OF) Harry Bridges, in an appeal to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific 40,000 strong soun-ed the war cry of the Committee for Industrial Organization on the Pacific coast today against the American Federation of Labor. (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Wrecked Bridge Situation Eved Mayor V. E. Kuhn last night Instructed the council bridge com mittee to investigate conditions at the site of the 21st street and Shelton ditch bridge which col lapsed last winter and recom mend whether it should be re placed or the ruins removed and the stream crossing abandoned. He also asked the sewer commit tee to arrange for repair of a sewer which was broke when the bridge caved in and has never been repaired. . Attention to the two situations was called by Mrs. Gertrude F. Irobdell, council member. She rer ported one boy had recently been taken to a hospital for treatment of .injuries he received in a fall from the broken bridge structure and another had narrowly escaped drowning there. She also said health of children playing along the ditch was being endangered by presence of sewage from the broken pipe. Good Time Convicts Are All Free; Fehl Not Among Them Among the 338' new Oregon laws which became effective Mon day was the "good time" bill af fecting prisoners In the state peni tentiary but, oddly enough, it has so far had no effect on the status of the man whose case started a chain of events resulting in its enactment Earl Fehl, former county judge of Jackson county. All of the prisoners entitled to release under the law up to this time have already been dressed out of the penitentiary. Warden James Lewis said Monday night. The law provides automatic cred its toward release for good behav ior.' j - But Fehl, out on a parole which forbids him to enter Jackson county, was not on the" list of men given unconditional freedom. It was his demand for benefit of the former "good time" policy which resulted in court decisions that the practice was illegal un der the old law; the decisions were followed by a fatal prison riot, and eventually by the enact ment of the new law. Career of Film Star Cut Short :.y. i W f , v JEAN HARLOW Death of Harlow Shocks Film City - i i , Platinum Blonde Popular in Hollywood; Fight ! for Life Fails LOS i ANGELES, June 7-)-Jean Harlow died in a hospital bed today while William Powell, suave actor, who had been her constant companion, ' sat beside the actress mother nearby. . He comforted her as best he could as the famous 26-year-old actress slipped from several hours of unconsciousness into death. Two I blood transfusions were 'given. Dr. E. C. Fishbaugh found her respiration weakening. He called the fire department in halator squad. She was placed in an oxygen tent, but she showed no signs of rallying. After several hours of uncon sciousness; the flicker of life ex pired, at 11:37 o'clock this morn ing. .(::; She died of cerebral oedena (swelling of the brain). Her death came as a shock to Hollywood's celebrities. Word of her death spread rap Idly. Some studios stopped pro duction on some sets for a fgw minutes of silence. The actress had so often been the life of gay Hollywood parties. Despite the tragedies of her life, she sought to make others happy by a vigorous, lively display of personality and charm. Regardless of her histrionic abilities, whether, a great actress or otherwise, she was known to all as a "good scout" a cheerful and industrious worker, a friend to many. 100th Permit Is Also No. 10.000 R. L. Forster hit the zeroes yesterday when he took out a per mit for the erection of a $2700 one-story dwelling at 1685 Mad ison street. It was not only the 100th dwel ling permit issued this year but also the 10,000th building permit since building records have been kept by the city. Dwelling permits total 102, ac cording to building office figures, but they include two permits for small temporary dwellings. That i Fehl's case, either as to release under the good time law or his request for permission to enter Jackson county to defend civil rights in a case now pending, is receiving official consideration was indicated when an opinion was handed down by Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle Mon day at the request of W. L. Goss lin, member of the parole board. The opinion said the governor had authority to pardon a peni tentiary prisoner at any time but he cannot grant a parole until the prisoner has served his minimum sentence as provided by statute. Van Winkle held further: The statute does not direct the parole board to investigate cases ot inmates serving definite sen tences who have served prior sen tences for crime, nor is it made the duty of the board to report or recommend to the governor for parole the cases of any prisoner who at the tim3 of his conviction had hero previously convicted of a cr'"i The board is not required (Turn to page 2, coL 3) 6-O Governor Hits Back at State Grange Leader No Truck Bill Vetoed Is Martin's Statement; Asks Retraction Gill Opposed Roosevelt Court Plan, Suggests Substitute Therefor Demand for retraction of a statement reported to have been made by Ray W. Gill, state grange master, that Governor Charles H. Martin had vetoed a truck bill of particular benefit to farmers, was made by the governor in a tele gram sent to Gill Monday night. The governor's wire, objecting to Gill's remarks at The Dalles, read in part: "I am tired of having my po guilty of having made such an erroneous declaration. Such a statement is not true. I vetoed no truck bills at the. last legislature and if you have ; been correctly quoted by the newspapers I de mand that you retract your state ment in the same public manner in which you made it; " ,1am tired of having my po sition with reference to the farm era of this state misrepresented. As you well know I- approved senate bills 246 and 349, chapters 317 and 366, Oregon laws, 1937, which materially aid our farm ers in matters of hauling." THE DALLES, June l-(JFj- Ray W. Gill. Portland, master of the Oregon Grange, today opposed President Roosevelt's plan for re modeling the United States su preme court in a 30-page report to the 64th session which marked the opening of a five-day meet ing. ' ! - The leader of the farm fratern ity also lashed out at some ot the policies of Governor Martin, at tacked corporate interests for their parts in tax. transportation (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Weekend Fatality List Sets Record (By the Associated Press) With 14 persons known dead and two missing, Oregon's week end death list established the year's record today. Automobiles claimed six lives, five persons drowned, one man died beneath a falling timber, another was fatal ly crushed when a tractor over turned and one committed sui cide. ' ' i i i The toll: Automobiles-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dexter of Umatilla, their 21-year-old daughter, - Kathleen, and four-year-old son, Ivan; Mrs. J. U. Leonard of Kent, Sherman county; Harry Clyatt of Portland. Drownings Wesley Ebert, 19, Forest Grove; Howard Cadwala der, 9, Medford; Morton Olson, Marshfield; Fred Palo. 30, As toria; Herbert S. Falk, 26 Port land.. :;"! Missing Ben Torrey, 17, Red Bluff, Calif., believed lost in the Willamette river near Oregon City; Kenneth Edwards, 8, Cor vallis, feared drowned in the Mary's' river. t Basil Chandler, Baker, was fa tally injured when a tractor over turned at the site of the M. L. Goodman logging operations in the Lookout section near Baker. Alexander Geiling. 50, Port land, died of stab wounds which Deputy Coroner C. E. ; Shea said were self inflicted. Fall From Auto Is Fatal, Dalles Boy Death resulting from a frac tured skull received In a fall from a moving automobile claimed Richard Hermens, 8 year old son of Mr, and Mrs. E. A. Hermens of The Dalles at the Salem General hospital yesterday. The. boy, who fell j from : the family automobile on the Pacific highway near Woodburn yestei day morning, died at 3:30 yester day afternoon. The Hermers with their five children and Mrs. Hermen's moth er were returning from a week end trip to Saiem and Mc.Miun ville when the boy, believed to have turned the latch of the car door so that it flew open; fell to the highway. The car was travel ing at about 40 miles per hour when the accident happened. i)iist Storm in Yakima Valley Prov es Severe Three Seriously Injured as Gale Covers Large -Washington Area Hops and Other Crops in Region Much Damaged; Communication Cut (By The Associated Press) Dust -and rain rode a gale through the Yakima valley late yesterday afternoon, leaving three persons seriously injured, bouses wrecked, trees blown down, dis rupted power and communication and extensive crop damage. The storm broke over the area about 4 p.m. and was followed by a near cloudburst in some dis tricts. From Cle Elum on the north to Pasco and Kennewick on the south, the wind ranged with dense clouds of dust. Yakima, Prosser and the Kennewick-Pasco dis tricts were hardest, hit. Prelim inary estimates "ot damage ran into thousands of dollars. Dust clouds blotted out the sky at Pasco and Kennewick and re duced visibility to a few feet. Falling trees struck three houses at Pasco, two fires broke out, lights went out and telephones were disrupted, forms on four new one-story buildings were blown out of line and roofs were torn off houses. Wind and dust swept over Wal la Walla and broke a few trees. The wind rose about 2:30 p. m. and the dust rolled in about 5 p. m. Hop growers near Yakima re ported the wind was so strong that " heads . were ' blown off th&" vines, and in some instances the vines themselves were destroyed. The west side of Yakima was without power early in the eve ning, and service wires and sec ondary lines were down in the Terrace Heights and Wenas dis tricts. Telephone service between Yak ima and Seattle and Yakima and Pasco was disrupted and about 50 lines were out of commfssion in Yakima, affecting hundreds of connections. The state patrol temporarily closed the lower valley highway, but reopened it after a time. Traf fic from Toppenish Into Yakima was routed through Wapato. Control of Fires Soon Is Expected (By the Associated Press) . Blessed with lower tempera tures, rising humidity and the prospects of . rain, Oregon wit nessed the retreat of savage for est fires tonight. Hundreds of fire fighters, call ed out earlle rthan usual, either had flazes checked or under con trol. The costly fire at Scappoose swept over 5000 acres of second growth timber. It would have been ready to cut in another 10 years. . - Favorable weather conditions prompted State Forester John W. Ferguson to predict the early con trol of the Valsetz blaze. The fire destroyed 1500 acres of timber on th Cobbs-Mitchell logging opera tion. The situation remained unsafe in the Siskiyou national forest, according to Supervisor O. E. Mitchell. A high fog reduced the hazards. Foresters could not lo cate a blaze reported on the lower Illinois river. Portion of One Body Found In Tragedy Plane Wreckage ALPINE, Utah, Jane 7-P)t Discovery of a shin bone, first part of any human form to be found among the remnants of a smashed airliner in which seven persons died, was announced to night. Not far away was a shoe. The tragic find, along with word part of the battered cabin had been sighted, raised hope for finding tomorrow some bodies of the five men and two women who died In the mountain crash last December 15. The wreckage was discovered only yesterday. - On the other hand, however, fear was voiced by some that identification might be possible only with .the greatest difficulty, if at all. The 10-passenger plane was shattered into countless pieces and so, today's discovery indi cated, may have been the bodies of some or all of the travelers who rode it out of Los Angeles Three Sisters , Area Is Kept In Wild State PORTLAND, June 7-JP) C. J. Back, regional fores ter, said today the chief of the United States forest ser vice department the Three Sisters primitive area, com prising 191,108 acres of scenic wilderness, for per manent preservation in its natural state: This area, to be kept for ever wild, helps complete a carefully planned pattern for the McKenzie-Deschutes region, one of Oregon's out standing playgrounds, said Bnrk. The forest service offi cials pointed out that the spectacular snow peaks, one of them called the "Bete Xoire (Black Beast) of the Cascades", possess aU of the rugged grandeur of true Alps while at their base are flower-jeweled meadows, volcan ic cones, extensive lava flows, some 36 lakes and giaciers. An abundance of wild life is found in the re gion. The Three Sisters area ex tends 44 miles along the Cascade summit, threaded only by trails and unspoiled by civilization. It Is just south of the McKenzie Pass highway, 30 miles west of Bend and The; Dalles-California highway. Nominations Made For Legion Heads Porter and H. Hofstetter up for Commander; to Vote on July 5 Glenn Porter and Hans Hof stetter were nominated for the commandership of Capitol post, No. 9, American Legion, at the post's regular bi-weekly meetin? last nightv . -' .There may be further nomina tions for the commandership and other post offices when the post meets again June 21. Elections will be held July 5. Other nominees are: First vice - commander. Art Johnson; 2nd vice-commander, George Edwards; adjutant, Mem Pearce; finance officer, Leo Page; historian. Irl McSherry; chaplain, C. V. Richardson; quartermaster, Fred Jaeger; gergeant-at-arms, Al Fielen. William Bliven, who declined nomination as adjutant after sev eral years service in that capacity, was nominated for the cemetery fund committee. Nominated for the executive committee, for which five will be chosen, were Willam Bliven, Ray Bassett, Earl Andresen, V. E. Hockett, famas Cooke and Don McLeod. Visits of National Chief Is Thursday George Averett, , as past com mander, and the new commander, will be automatically delegates to the state convention. Nominated for other delegates and alternates were Irl McSherry, William Bliv en, Art Johnson, George Edwards, King Bartlett, Claude McKinney, V. E. Hockett, Hans Hofstetter, Don McLeod, Doug McKay, Kay Bassett and O. E. Palmateer. That more than a thousand Legionnaires and their wives will travel to Salem from western and southern Oregon Thursday to greet the. national commander of the American Legion, Harry W. Colmery of Topeka, Kansas, was the prediction of committee beads reporting on entertainment plans. National Commander Colmery is expected to arrive in Oregon today from Boise and address a mass meeting at Pendleton to night. From there he will go to Seattle for a big meeting tomoi row night and will return to Ore gon by air Thursday morning. He will visit the United States Vet erans -hospital on Marquam hill (Turn to page 2, col. 2) last December 15 and disappeared in a Utah storm. "Fragments of flesh were cling ing to the bone." said M. G. Wenger, postofflce department in spectors "The bone, about four Inches long, showed the lines of a fracture. It was wedged be tween rocks." He estimated 90 per cent of the heavy cargo of Christmas mail would be recovered, but added "letters probably will . be found every now ani then for six months or so.". The broken cabin was Been high on a mountain ledge, far down the sheer granite face ot the prec ipice above which the skyliner smashed, by E. L. Mansfield, oper ator of a nearby power planL Earlier, he and Frank East man, Salt Lake field manager for Western Air Express, owner of the transport, recovered the In strument panel, described as "fair ly intact." Amelia Makes Safe Crossing Over Atlantic Little Over 13 Hours in Trip From Brazil to Senegal Capital No Explanation for Her Stopping There; Dakar Goal Was Reported DAKAR, French Senegal, June l-JPy Amelia Earhart, enroute around the world on a flight "just for fun," took the south Atlantic ocean In her strike today. The woman who double-dared the north Atlantic in 1928 and 1932 crossed the south Atlantic from Natal, Brazil, to St. Louis, capital of Senegal, in approxi mately 13 hours and 19 minutes, She landed in St. Louis, .1(3 miles from here, at 7:35 p. m Greenwich mean time (2:35 p, m., E. S. T.). . There was no Immediate ex planation of her landing in St, Louis, northeast of here along the west coast of Africa, instead of at Dakar, her scheduled objective. The slim, 38-year-old flier, ac companied by her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, left Parnamirio airport. Natal, at 1:16 a. m., eastern standard time. She headed over the ocean In a light rain and more than four hours later flashed a message by radio that "everything is going fine." Today's flight carried her ap proximately 1900 miles. Miss Earhart left the U. S. June 1 when Bhe flew her big, twin- nig tore d monoplane from Miami, Fla., to San Juan, Puerto, Rico. Hearing on Truck Permit Launched S. P. Affiliates' Plea for Expansion Is Opposed by Other Interests A hearing which truck opera tors consider to be the most im portant affecting their operations in the history of transportation regulation In Oregon got under way- before the Oregon public utilities commissioner Monday. The point at issue is the applica tion of Pacific Motor Transport and Pacific Motor Trucking com panies, subsidiaries of the South ern Pacific railroad, for additional trucking permits. - Spokesmen for these Interests said that the purpose was to co ordinate rail and , truck service. Testimony in support of the ap plication occupied most of Mon day. Attorneys for the opposing truckmen, headed by Arthur K. McMahan of Albany, J. M. Hick son of Portland and William Ellis of Salem, moved early in the pro ceedings that the application be dismissed on the ground that both the applicant and the nature of the permit asked are not in keep ing with the Oregon law. Com missioner N. G. Wallace took the motion under advisement, but or dered that the hearing proceed. Truckmen said they would build their case on the contention that Oregon has limited railroad mileage which does not constitute a complete transportation system, and that granting the permit to the Pacific companies would mean many small communities would be left without adequate transportation.' The hearing is expected to con tinue for several days. Rural Bus Line's Franchise Fought The Oregon Motor Stages, Inc., as operator of the city bus lines, protested formally to the city council last night passage of an ordinance granting a franchise to Vernon D. Leek, proprietor of the Four Corners-Salem Heights line, which serves city customers on Commercial, State and Center streets. . In a letter to the council, R. W. Lemmon, president of Oregon Mo tor Stages, asserted there was no need for the service proposed by Leek under franchise and declared his own company stood ready to extend its service when the vol ume of business justified such a move. , .. Leek has been operating with out a franchise but following his recent conviction in municipal court on a charge of lacking city permission to operate the ordi nance granting him right to use the streets was introduced. His case is now on appeal to circuit court. - - Permission to extend service from 19th street to the city lim its, on Market street was granted Oregon Motor Stages earlier in last night's session. Wants to Quit University Job I 'I V in If ;'' - r a i - rY f j f J (A"t X DR. C. V. BOYER Boyer Resigns as University Chief Failing Health Quoted as Reason; Board to Take up Question Today PORTLAND, Ore., June 7-JP)-Dr. Clarence V. Boyer, president of the University of Oregon, sub mitted his resignation to the state board of higher education today, the Oregonlan reported in a copyrighted story. The educator and head of the Eugene institution gave failing health as the reason for his ac tion. . Board members, not disposed to accept the resignation as final, will - consider it at their formal session tomorrow. It was learned by the Qregonian that Dr. Boyt submitted his ; resignation to Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter last week. - "Dr.- Boyer 's request was a complete surprise to us," said Wlllard L. Marks, president of the state board. - "Neither I, nor any member ot the board to my knowledge, view the request with aught but sad ness. We do not want to see any change at the state university's administrative set up." "Any action of mine will be an nounced by the board of higher education - itself which alone has the authority to speak," Dr. Boy er commented. "I have nothing to say. I cannot be quoted." Assault Charge Is Denied by Wagner Neal Thomas Wagner, 32, New port, was directed to face - pre liminary hearing in Stayton jus tice court June 21 on a charge of assault while armed with a dan gerous weapon after he had plead ed not guilty there yesterday be fore Judge Walter H. Bell. He was charged specifically with as sault with a knife upon Eugene Dalton, private prosecutor. Wag ner, in Stayton and before Dis trict Attorney Lyle.J. Page later In Salem vehemently denied hav ing used a knife. Dalton. was taken to the Stay- ton hospital late Saturday night, a knife wound in the abdomen, following an altercation at the Custer Johnson place near Aums ville. State police said Dalton In terrupted a domestic disagree ment between Mr. and Mrs. Wag ner. . - Warner was 'hrnneht fn iha county jail here yesterday when ne was unaoie to post zoo ban. Zone Changes Warmly at Council Meeting Two zone change hearings that consumed nearly two hours' time developed at times into neighbor hood "row" status at last night's city council meeting. Mostly hotly debated by the citizenry was a proposal to change property along the north side of Ferry street formerly operated by Ben Taylor as a bathing beach from residential to unrestricted business classification. An ordin ance to effect the change was later tabled indefinitely. The council referred : to com mittee a bill for the other change, which would permit Wallace Bonesteele to erect a service and storage garage at the southwest corner of 12 th and Court streets. Opponents of. the zone change on Ferry streets, extending from 20th to 21st streets, asserted Taylor was-preparing to erect a type of three-room apartment cabins that would bring undesir able tenants to the neighborhood. Their attorney, Dwight Lear, pre sented remonstrance petitions bearing 24 names and statements ot 19 others that they were with Some Parallel Lanes Also to Go, Suggested Committee Tells Views; Clifford Daue Named to Fill Vacancy Park Board Given Powet to Make Improvement in Old Auto Camp The city council's special traf fic committee yielded last night before the shower of petitions protesting 30-minute and parallel parking in the business district and recommended, a compromise plan consisting of a 45-minute time limit and elimination of par allel parking where the streets are 62 feet or more In width. Chairman Ross Goodman said the committee's proposal was tbe result of surveys conducted by the police department. The sur vey of available parking space, he stated, showed that except during the 5 to 6 p.m. rush hours, from four t cxavisotnslsltwaao-4 from four to six vacant stallJ were to be found in virtually ev ery downtown block under tbe 30-minute limit plan as now la effect. ! State and Part of High Affected The change from parallel park ing to the 30-degree angle ar rangement in use on wider streets will apply to State street and part of High street. Parallel parking will be done away with wherever the street affected is wide enough to permit both angle parking and operation of four traffic lanes, under the committee's plan. No action was taken by tbe council other than to receive tbe committee' recommendation. Indicating the committee plan might be opposed Mayor V. E. Kuhn declared to tbe council tTiat in no city during his recent trip to southern California did ha find any kind of parking other than parallel in effect on main thoroughfares. f i "I want you to think that over," the mayor added. A separate report by the spc cial -committee, recommended pas sage of a bill repealing old park ing limits. Further Petitions Before Aldermen Sixteen new petitions carrying mnra than 7AA a f am ittiva. izens protesting the present park ing system in the business dis trict were filed with the council last night. u : Setting a meeting time record of four hours, the aldermen elect ed Clifford O. Daue as third ward member to succeed the late W. IL Dnucy, renewed the dispute over water commissioners' sate of goods to the city, arranged for im provement of the old municipal auto camp and passed over a mass routine business in an effort to adjourn by mldnlght.- Daue, South Commercial street pharmacist, won out over Chand ler P. Brown, only other nominee for the council vacancy, by an ' to 6 vote.' He will be seated June 21. The council tabled an opinion by City Attorney Paul Hendricks regarding legality of sales made to the city by businesses conduct ed by Water Commissioners I. M. Doughton and E. B. Gabriel but ordered paid bills to those firms already Incurred by the city. State Law Cited on Transactions Issue -- Hendricks' opinion held that while no city ordinance of char ter provision related to such sales (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Are Debated drawing their names from a peti tion circulated by Taylor. - The elderly owner of the land in question demanded to know how it. came to be assumed be would have undesirable tenants. "I am going to have a desirable place," Taylor declared. "If the (Turn to page 2, col. 2) A L L ADC of TO DAy By IL a ' A fellow made a speech about the beauties of old Mexico and someone sitting nearby chal lenged me to find a rhyme; that country Is magnifico, its skies as 1 n e as indigo, each town has its presidio, you never see an Eskimo, or anyone punc tilio, but : many braggadocio; this thing Is getting silly so to stop the whole InbrogUo I'll go consult a medico; there isn't, any rhyme. .