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Sunday Sports ; The Sunday sport section , brings to sport fans the im portant Saturday contests more than a day ahead of other coverage. : Weather ' .Fair today and Sunday, warmer, decreasing humil ity; Max. Temp. Friday 71, Win. 01, river 2.2 feet,, rain .25 Inch, W-SW.wind.. POU NDDD. 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, June 12, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 68 v . ..... . ""V . - ? : ! .::.. ., Two Mesciu ed Fmm Moodled Mime in Canada - .-- - - . v ' - -3 . v- - . , : -. , . : . . . . , . - . ' -, " . ' : , -'- - . -. - -. - ' ' - .- 1? jT - . . -. ! - - - -. . . - - . . ... . , , . . . . . , . .. ..... ; ' ' " V V - . .. . , " ' T. " O - - . : - Davey Offers Peace Plan in Steel Dispute Cambria Plant Involved in Strike; Monroe's Troubles Viewed Probe Into Interference With Mails Is Order.ed by Group in Senate COLUMBUS, O.. June H.-flV A seven-point peace plan was of fered by Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio in the widespread steel strike tonight as the Monroe, Mich., city commission requested militia aid in maintaining peace at a tri-state union rally. At Johnstown, Fa., workmen left the vast plant of the Bethle hem Steel corporation's Cambria plant at midnight (E. S. T.) be ginning the strike' called earlier today by the steel workers organ izing committee. There was no disorder at the seven entrances to the' plant. Around each of these from 200 to 300 pickets had gathered. Sheriff Michael J. Boyle an nounced he had appealed to the governor's office at Harrisburg for state police. Davey's proposal to bring peaceful settlement to the. Ohio phase of the bargaining contract battle was announced at a confer ence of union and steel company representatives. Agency for Members Only, is Proposal The plan provided that the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp. sign agreements with the steel work ers organizing committee to rep resent only its membership. T Inland Steel Co.. third indepen dent producer affected by .the Btrike, has no Ohio plants. The governor said no agree ment had been reached and dis cussion had not reached the point where any , reliable predictions could be made. Gov. Frank Murphy of Michi gan announced that he will meet In Detroit tomorrow with Monroe city -officials and C. I. O. leaders to pave the way for a "peaceful" mass meeting at Monroe. The governor called the confer ence upon reaching Detroit from Lansing, the state capital, and learning that the Monroe city commission had adopted a resolu tion "demanding" that he furnish national guardsmen for the meet . In p., Union leaders estimated the strike at the Cambria plant af fected 12.000 workers. Seventy three thousand work ers already were idle in the con troversy over the companies re fusal to , sign bargaining con tracts, the Issues of which rever berated anew today in Washing - ton. and even in Geneva where Edward F; McGrady, labor de partment conciliator, packed for a hasty trip home, presumably -to study the steel situation. Plant at Monroe I Operating Again The Newton Steel Co. at Mon roe, controlled by Republic Steel Corp.. resumed operations under -. the eyes of deputized and armed civilians after a clash on the pick et line. In Washington, the senate post office committee voted a broad preliminary inquiry into charges of Interference with mails in the Ohio strike area and ' of steel companies' conduct. W. W." Howes, assistant ' post master general, vowed his depart ment would not request military force ' to protect "abnormal" de liveries to strike-bound plants of Republic, Yonngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel Corp., the three concerns included in the original strike order May 26. Howes, at the committee meet ing In Washington, said that "no agreements of any kind" bad been made with unions concerning the acceptance or delivery of mail. - With the mail question under examination' by the senate com mittee, a federal district court in Cleveland took under advisement a motion to dismiss the suit of three railroads to restrain pickets from Interfering with shipments in Ohio's Mahoning valley. Military Leaders Face Firing Squad MOSCOW, June 12-(Saturday -P-Eight of the highest offi cers of the Soviet array early to day were sentenced to death for treason by the supreme court of the Soviet union.' ' The court's military tribunal, acting swiftly and secretly, first deprived, the eight one marshal . and seven generals of their mil itary ranks. The law permits' no appeal from this judgment, to be execu ted speedily by a firing squad. They were tried on charges of aiding the military establishment of a foreign nation "unfriendly" to Russia. It was announced all lad confessed their guilt. HELD FOR $25,000 RANg ' fppu j : 3 - 1 ; - - j v j MRS. ALICE McDONELL PARSONS !- o Status of Kidnap Case Kept Secret No Confirmation Made-of Reported Contact With Woman's Abductors STONY BROOK, N.Y., June 11 -(JP)- Wealthy relatives of the missing Alice McDonnell Parsons marshaled their resources tonight in a tense game of wits with an unseen adversary the authors of a $25,000 ransom demand. Automobiles wh'ipped in and out of the 28-year-old society ma tron's landscaped poultry farm several times during the day, bent on mysterious errands. Awaiting the outcome of fam ily efforts, a squad of federal agents stood on the sidelines, ready to take active: charge of what Rhea Whitley, head of the bureau of investigation's New York office, definitely termed "a kidnaping." Haggard and red-eyed from a night of sleepless pacing, William H. Parsons announced he was "willing -and anxious to comply with any instructions from th abductors of his wife, who disap peared Wednesday noon after driving away with an unidentified, respectable-looking couple of mid dle age. f . ; (Turn to page 3, col. 5) Airliner Letters Six Months Late PORTLAND. June ll-;P)-Fad-ed letters taken from the wreck age of the' airliner in the moun tains of Utah were received by Steve McPherson, Portland match maker today. The weather destroyed the ad dress on the envelopes and they were returned to the sender with the explanation: "Damage due to air mail in teruption near Salt Lake City, December 15, 1936." Ground Broken Jor Library, Carl Uoney I'laque Unveiled Two ceremonies, one looking toward Willamette university's future expansion and the olhe providing recognition of a leader In its past development, were con ducted on the university camjue Friday afternoon as a part of the commencement week program which reaches Its ' climax - in tne graduation! exercises' to be held this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock U the Elsinore theatre when 88 de grees will be conferred. " In the second of these ceremon ies ground was broken for the new library building, construction ot which will be started soon di rectly east of Eaton hall, when President Bruce . Baxter turned sod with the same spade used by Rev. H. D. Kimball In 1906 tn breaking ground for the KimbaU College of Theology building, now the music hall. Speakers were Randall Kester, president of the senior class, rep resenting the students: Dr. R. M. Gatke, representing the faculty, and R. J- Hendricks, representing i i , St Summer Work on I Schools Planned Funds Left Over in Main Construction Program Will Be Utilized Decision to use a fund of $40. 504.25. left over from construc tion of the Bush, Leslie, and sen ior high schools, to apply finish ing touches this summer on the 'three new plants, was made at a meeting of the city school boarJ held last night. It was revealed at the meeting that $26,475.19 remained of the senior high school appropriation, while $14,028.9$ was placed In a revolving fund after completion of Leslie Junior high and Bush school buildings. Expenditures -to be made dur ing the summer months at the new high school include: equip (Turn to page 3, col. 3) : Nanny Objects to Tax Upon Lipstick WASHINGTON, June ll-(tfV A powder-and-lipstlck bloc re belled today against taxing the things that women put on their faces, but masculine members of congress quickly quashed the re volt. While the house was debating an extension of "nuisance taxes," Rep. Nan Wood Honeyman CD- Ore) stepped to the fore. On be half of Rep. Mary Norton (DNJ), who could ; not be present, she asked repeal of a $15,900,000 tax on cosmetics and toilet prepara tions. . ' J .She read Mrs. Norton's notes, which said repeal would be a "matter of simple justice" to the average American woman to whom cosmetics are a necessity. ! ; But the house turned the re pealer down, 81 to 46. j : the trustees. The place and im portance ot a library . as an ad junct to a university were stressed by the 'first two and Mr. Hen dricks mentioned the historical museum which will be housed In the library, and the appropriate-, ness of this in view . of WiUaiu-' ette's historic significance. Pres ident' Baxter also introduced Miss Ellen Chamberlain, early Willam ette instructor.; ; ; President Doney's . t - ; Farewell Quoted The plaque honoring Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, president iof the university from 1915 to 1934. was unveiled in the first of the two ceremonies, held in the down stairs corridor of Eaton ball. Rev' J. E.'Milligan led the. invocation . Judge James W. Crawford of Portland, representing the alum ni, read Dr. Doney 's farewell state ment to the trustees, .stressing the statement "be who leaves these scenes and things takes but haif himself away." Dean Ft ank (Turn to page 3, coL 7) , Organizing of Workers Here Still Spreads Beauty Operators to Be Unionized;. Likewise Gas Station Men Food Handlers Sign for Blanket Accord, Most Stores Will Join Organized labor's drive to make Salem a 100 per cent union city will extend next week to beauty shop operators, according to pro prietors who met at the chamber of commerce last night to asso ciate themselves for collective bar gaining purposes. Elsewhere on the labor front service station workers were pre paring to organize and their cm ployers, in turn, also were meet ing, the building material bus iness was being "brought lrf line and grocers through the Marion County Food Handlers associa tion were completing their en lishment of merchants. The beauty shop owners decld ed to organize as the Salem Beau ty Shop Owners association and elected as officers, Harvey A. Loveall, president; L. L. Thomas, vice-president, and Vivian I. Fed dern, secretary. - Organize to Deal As Group Stated . "We are organizing to deal a a group with the union," Loveall explained. "We hope to get all of the shops in town into our asso ciation. There are about 31 of them. Twenty were represented at tonight s meting." , Organization of beauty shop workers will get under way here next week, according to Loveall. A recently discussed plan of the barbers union to take in the beau ticians has been dropped and a new, separate local will be form ed, said. , Service station operators had called a meeting for last night but apparently through a misun derstanding not all of the repre sentatives, one each from stations grouped - under the various oil companies, arrived. An organizer for the union which station em ployes will be asked to join was understood to have arrive here Union members interested in the organization of the building material business met here last night with a Portland union rep resentative. The food handlers association expects to have virtually all the (Turn to page 3, coL 1) Late Sports SEATTLE, June 1 l.-(P)-Port land's Beavers ' took a seven- inning windup, 6 to 2, from the Seattle Indians tonight, after losing the first game of a double- header, 10 to 4. The Beavers got 9 hits off two Tribe hurlers in the last game, after Seattle's batters connected for 13 at the expense of three Portland pitchers in the first. Seattle's two s e c o n d-game scores came in - the first when Hunt hit his 19th homer of the season with one on. The Beavers scored three each in the second and three in the seventh. Portland . . 4 8 I Seattle .-10 13 1 Carson, Shealy, Drefs and Cro- nin ; Pickrel and Fernandes. Portland J. 6 9 2 Seattle ... 2 3 Radonits and Cronln; Gregory, Thomas and Fernandes. SACRAMENTO, June ll-VPf- For the third time this week, Sac ramento defeated Oakland by a 4 to 3 score. Tony Freitas got the best of Jack La Rocca'ln the score but the Oakland hurler outpitched the Solon southpaw all the way. Extra base hits accounted for all the" runs. s Oakland .3 , 12 0 Sacramento 4 10 0 La Rocca and Baker; FrelU and Franks.' . SAN FRANCISCO, June U-d -Fay Thomas,' star righthander of .e Loa Angeles Angels' pitching staff, hurled his team to its third straight' victory over the Missions tonight The final score wav 9 to 3.-- ; ' Los Angeles . . . . . . v . ..915 2 Missions ............ .3 .70 - Thomas and Collins; Hermann, Fleming and Outen. 7' SAN FRANCISCO. June 11-WP -Fred Apostoli of San Francisco, generally ranged as the outstand ing challenger for J the middle whight boxing title punched out a 10-roond decision over Dale Sparr. former navy champion, here tonight. , .... ., WESTERS LTU LEAGUE Yakima 5, Tacoma 4 (11 in nings). ....... . Wenatchee 9, Spokane 4. 1 1 : : .1 .... . FLORAL REPLICA OF CAPITOL IN PARADE ISTQ CO T J' I r'i i v O , Ij. :fe::.:::..i:i...::::.:i!V.:::-:-':. . S'vW " I .;vA vs-yV :v: :: : : . : : -:..:- ; ' ; .-. :-. i Ey..v. Xy. (. ...... ...-............v...v....W'(.v '4. .".v- '..V.-.w v. 'T- ."T" ...... , :v.-:v: " . .:.;- ..vXy: xf.-.. .. : . -v. L -a - , - - -vmv , , J. - w- , , , -,, v - - - " - , ' - - s - s , - , Salem's Festival Entries Parade ; Here Today; High Honors Attained Salem High Band Is Ranked Second Cherrian Marchers Equa That Achievement in Festival Parade PORTLAND, Ore., June U-(JP) Flower gardens of the mythical Kingdom of Rosaria 'rolled through the streets of Portland in , a magic procession today at the annual Rose festival. ; Twenty-two thousand persons jammed the Multnomah civic sta dium to watch the rolling won derland pass out into the city streets where thousands upon thousands of spectators viewed the bloom-decked floats. It was Portland's 29th annual floral parade and it extended (Turn to page 3, col. S) Contract Revised On Water Service Commission Offers Abrams Different Terms Upon Outside Delivery A new contract proposal to fur nish . water to Carle Abrams Capitola subdivision north of Sa lem was adopted by the city water commission at a ' special meeting last night. The commission offers to supply Abrams' private system with any surplus water available under the same rates and regula tions as exist inside the city. The .agreement reserves : the right of - the city or of Abrams to cancel the contract after it has been. in effect for one year by giving 120 days' notice. The statement contained in a previous suggested contract that the agree ment shall be considered a tem porary one is stricken-out ;Look tng . to future extension - of the city limits,-. the agreement- stipu lates that the commission shall not be obliged to take over or purchase Abrams' system should Capitola be taken into the city. Commissioner O. A. Olson, (Turn to page 3,col. 8) Swimming Pools Well Patronized , On Opening Day Leslie and dinger swimming pools - opened" yesterday to vthe public '.and 737 swimmers wero reported 1 to' have used the two pools between 11 a. m. and .8 p.' m. Leslie had 367 whilei O tin ge r pool attendants counted 370 swimmers; The pools wilr be open' the. same hours today, while Sun day .hours- are ( from noon-: .until 8 p. m. - " - . j , The playgrounds . w e r e tnot much in use - under the ; cloudy skies,- but I unorganized -basebaU games - were slaved. ;aad .- the Statesman-Legion baseball school held its regular classes.." t Monday, .drama classes - under the WPA recreation prdgram will open. In f Leslie junior high school. Mrs.-' Ramona French will conducfclasSes from l,to-1 pv m. Monday -through Friday: Mrs. Ro mona Reasoner will bold "drama classes at Pariish from 9:30 to 11:30 a. m. and 1 to 2 p. m. Mon day through Friday. Any person wishing to enter - these classes may do so by registering at either ; of the schools. Verne Gilmore, playground director, has an nounced. 4, Marching Cherrians and Near Top, Floral Replica of Capitol Gets Much Attention in Portland Showing OALEM'S float which captured the attention. of all specta i3 tors at the Portland rose will be paraded on the streets here this morning at 11 o'clock to give all Salem residents an opportunity to see the entry, King Bing A. A. Gueffroy of the Cherrians informed the Statesman by telephone Salem's marching and playing aggregation in the rose parade took higher honors than the Cherrian-sponsored float, which bears a replica in white and red peonies of the new capitol. The. Cherrians carried second place for marching bodies and the Salem high school band was also awarded second place for high school bands participating. All Cherrians hire been re quested to march in the Salem parade this morning, and should meet in regulation uniform at the armory before 11 o'clock this morning, and all members of the high school band, directed by Gordon FInlay, are requested to meet at the same time and place to participate in the parade. . Nearly 200 Salem persons went to Portland yesterday morning on the Cherrian special, which the Cherrians underwrote for a guar antee of 150 travelers, and many other Salem groups m a a e tne trip by automobile. ; Corvallis Group Ousts Organizer CORVALLIS, June Corvallis clerks and other em ployes ' meeting here last - night for the purpose of organizing un der the Industrial Employes un ion," recently formed to replace the- Four-L organization, resent ed remark's made by Tom Lenhart, labor, organizer from Portland, and refused to permit him to con tinue a talk opposing the l.E.U. The Corvallis workers said they wished no interference from out side Interests and declared they intend to affiliate - with sawmill workers in . the Industrial - Em ployes union.- Investigate Roosevelt Tax 0; Return? Rep. WASHINGTON, - June I The house heard Representative Fish (D-NY)" suggest today that congressional investigators of al leged - tax dodgers, scrutinize President Roosevelt's income tax return.-: - - - - " "He said' he had information from a "reliable authority" that Mr. Roosevelt, had deducted losses on' his "so-called , farm at Hyde Park' New York. In reality, he said, it "is not a farm, but a pa latial residence." -? y ... V Fish represents the district in which the president lives. -.- His assertion virtually coincid ed with the president's signing of a measure creating a senate-house committee' to inquire into tax .dodging by the wealthy and meth ods of stopping up revenue loop holes. .The house 'meantime plunged into strenuous debate on a resolution to continue "nuis ance" taxes and - 3-cent postage for two more years. Late la ' the day he house adopted the measure by a vote announced as 229 to 95. - A final republican attempt to High School Band Ranked festival floral parade yesterday. from Portland late yesterday. O Grange and Labor Gill Policy Prevails Spite of Opposition . From Hood River in THE DALLES, June 11-JP)- Af ter a lively discussion of the question, the Oregon Grange con vention voted today to continue the farm-labor coalition at the 'next legislature. The program would join the forces of labor and agriculture to advance their inter ests with legislators. - ! 1 The delegates approved a pol icy wof "friendly cooperation" af ter the adoption of a resolution endorsing the efforts of the grange's.: committee at the 1937 legislative 'session to combat anti labor bills. '. A portion of -the report of Ray Gill, state grange master; dealing with farmer-labor relations, was adopted by the convention as a policy. Gill declared .that the exe cutive committee of the grange had realized in affiliating with labor in the fight against the anti labor bills that if "a labor organ ization could be thus destroyed by legislative act, other organizations which-fought the program of big business. would be next attacked." The maritime shipping, tie-up, which ' presumably provoked - the bills. Gill said, was really the work ot the ship owners. Some of the grange master's statements were challenged by Hood River dele gates from whose section the bills camev. ..'--"-; -."v.. x ne resolution passed, over whelmingly when put to a' vote. however. . ' ii (Turn to page 3, col. 2) JFish Proposes force a return . to 2-cent - postage lost on a voice vote. - v . ; . : The. house howled down a de mand, by Representative O'Con nell (D-Mont) that the import tax on copper " and copper concen trates be lifted from 4 to 9 cents a pound., "... . s . .' ' .The . house rejected 81 to 4( an .amendment to repeal a tax on cosmetics and toilet prepara tions and smothered,. 73 to 89, an amendment .for .'repealing the tax on sporting .goods. . .. .." - -: After- criticizing- - some of the nuisance levies. Fish suddenly diverted, to the question of ax asioaur-CAh':-'---- ' ' V'.'. '.' : "Let me say to members of the ways and . means committee- democrats and republicans allker". he said, "that if they pro pose to plug up these holes and stop tax evasions and. tax avoid ance, that there art other in come taxpayers whose Income you should also look Into. . ft . have not myself seen the income tax returns of the presi dent of the United States and I . (Turn to page 3, col. ) . i Continue Harmony Pumps Worked At High Speed For ten Hours Three Others Trapped in Workings, two Known Dead, Announced Five Escape When Water : Rushes in; Dramatic Scenes Described NANAIMO. B.C., June ll-&y-Tired rescue workers brought Louis Pognello and John Sennl to hospital here tonight after tbey had been taken from their 10 hour underground , tomb in the flooded workings of Beban mine at nearby Excursion., . Pognello was able to walk Into the tiny building in this Vancou ver island mining center. Seninl was carried to his bed by his res cuers. Two of their three companions caught in the sudden inflow of an estimated 40,000 gallons of water that flooded a quarter ot the mine Nelson Shepherd ad Joe Carr were known to be dead. Believed beneath the imprison ing water was .Joe Shepherd,' young rope-riderr only six months married, who was trapped when the wall of the mine caved in shortly after noon today. Extention, B.C., June ll-(py-Two men in a ?ad-end coal raise slope with the bodies ot two dead companions cried hysterically to night to rescue workers less than 100 feet away. The two, Louis Pognello and John Seninl, imprisoned in an up ward branch of a V-shaped tun nel in the small Beban mine here, . and shut off from their would-be rescuers by 20 feet of water; -roaid -be heard shouting for help while 50-odd pump men sought to draiu " the water from the workings. The dead men with them were Nelson Shepherd and Joe Carr. Believed beneath the ImnrlHon- ing water was Joe Shepherd, young rope rider married six months, trapped when the wall of the mine caved in shortlv afi.-r noon today. - Tony Seninl brother of Ana tst the trapped men. waited at tka mine head 300 feet from the two survivors. He was on the outer slope of the tunnel when th . ter blasted in. "There was a stron? meii nt stale air when the wall crumbled." he said. "It was like sulphur, only stronger." He, with four others, hrnk tnr r the slope head when th rushed in. Those who escaped wun mm wre Alex (Webster, Jos Wilson, mine manager. T.nm a cr. ry, 18, and Joe Foster. UT. Li. GiOVando Was reajlw s go Into the mine when the emer gency pump, tossing out 12,090 gallons an hour, makes it peasl- um ior me rescue crew to reach the entombed men. Union , Considers 00 Affiliation PORTLAND. n t.... u WhThe Maritime Federation of the Pacific bolted the doors of its convention hall todav. t n a strict censorship on press re leases : ana prepared . to prorate rotes for a ballot on a proposed referendum to armta Committee for Industrial Organ ization. ' A newlv annoln t a1 nr,n Mm- niittee said the . convention or- nered a message dispatched to rresiaent Roosevelt urging him to take immediate atena t hat an alleged invasion of American xisning ngnu on Bristol hay. Aiasaa. Dy tne Japanese. Pacific coast fiahermen "robbed of their livelihood by in vasion of 26 large Cshing boats and manv smaller ohm." th mm. sage said. Americans are prohlb- nea.rrom. nshing the waters in dlsDUte.' it continued, nntil ih season opens on June 28. It as serted the fish run will be de pleted in five years if Japanese fishermen continued to ooerata. ' Another message went to Gov. Frank 'Murphy or Michigan. It requested- him not to interfere with thm f! I O. effort ,to nrrin. Ise-the steel industry at Von roe ntil operators agree to negotiate. ALL A D C at TO D A y " By : R, C. ' ' The crop of bachelors aea- demic will be ; Increased by scores today "and like, a sudden epidemic they'll hustle forth upon their way to test upon the world their learning; the world should duly be impressed but for a while we fear, their earn- Ing capacity may bs depressed.