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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1937)
News That's New Morning newspaper read ers recelTe benefit of .many major news breaks. Sub scribe to The Oregon States man today keep posted on your capital city. V7eather Clearing weather with showers today, Friday gen, erally fair and warmer; Mai. Temp. Wednesday 7 Mia. 56; rain .29 Inch, river 1.7 feet, clondy. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning:, June 17; 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 70 : Cere oil . . : sC ...... .,- (fUp VVjrr vjrv , VVy v - - IIJJIOIW x,- jv f V ft Pipe for 12th Street System Comin Today Early Start1 of; Project to Improve' Pressure Is Now Possible Source of Supply "Line to Be Finished Labor Day Contractor Plans First freight carloads of the 11 00-ton shipment of cast iron pipe for the city's new trunk wa ter main on 12th street will begin arriving this morning from Port land where the material arrived by boat from Alabama earlier this week. Water Manager Cuyler Van Patten announced yesterday. Three hundred thirty tons of the pipe came on the boat this week and 165 tons more will arrive in Portland June 21. . Delivery of the pipe will make a possible immediate start of the task of laying the 12th street main if WPA laborers can be ob tained, the manager said. The trunk line, which, will be fed di rectly from the Salem - Stayton steel , pipeline where it crosses 12th on Rural avenue, is needed to make pressure - for domestic and fire protection v use satisfac tory in the northern end of the city. It will extend to the north city limits, terminating near the Valley Packing company plant. -Pipe to be Stored On 12th Street Block The 12th street piping will be stored on the block at 12tb and Howard streets which has been in use by the American Concrete Sc. Steel pipe company as a -supply yard during fabrication of con - crete pipe lor me saiem-aiayton line. Through an arrangement with the company, the water de partment will pay half th $30 monthly lease charge while the contract continues to use part of the block for office and shop sites and thereafter the city will as sume the full expense. - With the exception of a 1040 foot section over the hill back ul Turner, all of the five miles of "Concrete pipe called for in the Salem-Stayton pipeline has been laid and testing is now virtually completed, . F. F. Jenkins, cm tractor's superintendent, report ed last night. Of the approxi mately 0,000 feet of steel pipe which will complete the line, 20,000 feet, extending from Sa lem eastward, is in place. Luor Day Finish ' Contractor's Goal "We are still shooting at La bor day as the completion date for the line," Jenkins said. "We are laying about 750 feet of steel pipe a day and will run that up to 1000 feet as s o o n as the weather improves." Brewery Fight Is Begun, Teamsters SEATTLE, June 1 6-P)-Dave Beck, International vice-president of the teamsters' union, an nounced today the union would not handle any beer shipped from non-teamster union breweries aft er midnight last night. The ban applies to all California and eastern beer and will extend to several states, he explained. "There will be some" who will charge collusion between north west breweries and ' the team sters' union," he said in a state ment. . - "May we therefore repeat, that 'we will handle the products of any brewery in the United States or Canada that carries the label of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and this label Is available to every brewery In the United States and Canada that ob serves the laws and decisions of the American Federation of La bor and employs our teamsters at the point of manufacture and distribution." The order means that only Washington, Idaho and Oregon beer, bearing the anion label, will be available for sale In the northwest, he said. Judge Fee Issues Phone Case Order . ; PORTLAND, , J one .-')-Federal Judge James Alger. Fee ordered today that the case of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company against N. G. Wallace, Oregon public utilities commis sioner, be submitted on stipula tion of facts in United States dis trict court here. . The suit Is on a question of jurisdiction of the commissioner over acts of the utility cone err. Involving financial dealings with the American Telephone and Telegraph and the Southern Cali fornia Telephone company and , other Institutions. " ' Portland Trio Probing Crash Near Yoncalla rOKTJND, Ore., June le.-iavUf'ut. J. P. Good win and Lieut. Comdr. D. A. York, naval officers station ed here, and "apt. James B. Hardie of the V. S. marines, received word today of their appointment to conduct an official inquiry into the air plane crash near Yoncalla last night, in which Uent. Paul S. Jve of the V. S. na val reserve lost his life. Cafe Proprietors Next to Organize Final Meeting Set Monday; Plan, to Deal as Group Regarding Union Organization of the Salem Res taurant association., designed to improve trade conditions and to permit the meal dispensers to act as a body in dealing with labor prbolems, will be completed at a meeting of the Quelle cafe at 8 o'clock next Monday . night, it was disclosed last night follow ing a meeting of a . committee named to study a working agree ment submitted by the culinary alliance Frank Ckattas is. president and R. V. Carlson secretary of a tern porary organization of restaurant men set up at a recent) meeting at which approximately 30 pro prietors were present. Claim Only Five Restaurants Unionized A representative of the restau rant group ; declared but five sandwich shops and - restaurants within the city had signed union contracts. In addition seven lunen counters run in connection with .ard or billiard Darlors had union status, it was said . C. A. Chambers, agent- for the culinary alliance, : recently pre sented a. proposed union contract to the restaurant operators but no , group action accepting or re jecting its .terms has been taken Spanish Fascists Sentenced, Death i - - 14 Condemned by Franco's Court Martial; Life Commutation Seen ST. JEAX-DE-LUZ, France. June lS.--Diplomatlc dis patches from insurgent Spanish territory tonight reported that Manuel Hedilla, former chief o? the fascist party, had been sen tenced to death for conspiracy against Gen. Francisco Franco. Eighty lesser chiefs of the party were tried by court mar tial at the same time, it was re ported, and 14 sentenced to death. 20 to life imprisonment at hard labor and the remainder to be deported to Spanish Guinea. The fascists chiefs of Salaman ca, Burgos. Toledo and the prov ince of Vizcaya were among those condemned to death. Hedilla, who took the leader ship of the fascist . phalangists (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Van Zandt Warns, Pension Demands WENATCHEE. June 16 (ffy Speaking at the official opening here tonight of the annual four day state convention of the Vet erans of f Foreign Wars, James Van Zandt, Altoona. Pa., thrice national, commander, warned that unless the American people pro vided veterans with Jobs that congress would soon be faced with a demand for general pen sions. Van Zandt declared thai "all It needs now is leadership." $5000 Seattle Ransom Calls I Investigated by Federal Men SEATTLE, June 17.-(Thurs-day)-JP)-F e d e r a 1 agents and sheriffs deputies were seeking early today the person or persons who made three telephone calls threatening to abduct one of three children of P. T. . Lee,. Seattle, stage line executive, unless $ 000 was paid. ; An arrest was believed, immin ent after : officers were reported to have traced the last of the three threatening cavils. - Mrs. Lee was called to the' tel ephone early yesterday, Investiga tors disclosed and a - woman's voice said: "I am 'just calling to tell you that -we are going to snatch one of your three kids. "We mean business. It will cost $5,000 if you don't want one of those youngsters of yours to be another Mattson kid. .If we do have to go through with it, it'll cost a lot more. ' - - Asking time to call her hus Str "Appeal MaaetoF.R Two Johnstown Pickets Stahbed in Renewal of Violent Acts - "Back to Work" Talk Is Heard at Detroit as Penalty Rumored WASHINGTON, June 16-()-An appeal that President Roose velt have John L. Lewis with draw a "murderous element' from strike-troubled Johnstown, Pa., brought no immediate com ment from the chief executive today. ' - " i White House officials an knounced that the appeal had been received from Mayor Daniel j J Shields of Johnston. They said it would be referred to the pres ident, and made no further com ment. - i Shields said In his telegram to Mr. Roosevelt that steel strikers had resorted to "the most , das tardly crime in our nation today that of kidnaping." Executive Asked to Discourage Lewis - "Will you not please save our homes by discouraging Mr. John L. Lewis against such. unAmer- icanismsi ' tne mayor aaaea. (By The Associated Press) ' Johnstown. Pa., June 18 Vio lence in which two pickets were stabbed broke temporary Quiet at the strike-bound Cambria works of Bethlehem Steel tonight as President Roosevelt received an appeal from Mayor Daniel J. Shields-to Intervene. - j The Cambria works has been 6trlke-bound since Saturday over refusal of Bethlehem - to sign work contracts. Elsewhere on the long steel strike line in the nation there were restless stirrings over "back-to-work" movements. i 100,000 Men Idle As Contracts Denied , An estimated 100,000 men are Idle over, refusal of the four big independent . steel companies Republic Steel Corp., Youngs- town Sheet & Tube Co., Bethle hem Steel Corp., and Inland Steel to sign labor contracts. Tonight's violence occurred at the Franklin gate of the Cam bria works. . I : An unidentified man was taken to a hospital with a fouMnch gash In his chest near the heart. He was so b a d I y wounded So could not talk. John Babik, 28, was slightly injured. He, too, was stabbed in the chest. i Burgess Michael J. Sewak of Franklin said a negro left a street car near the time office gate to the huge steel mill. He said pick ets attempted - to stop his prog ress through the line; a knife (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) i Body of Country ; , Club Head Found PORTLAND, June 16 (Jpy-O. L. Lutz, director of the Columbia Edgewater Country club, 5 discov ered the lifeless body of Vert W. Stockdale. manager of the club. seated in his automobile in the garage of his parents' "home ! to day. Deputy Coroner Roy Crab tree said death, apparently sui clde, was caused by carbon mon oxide poisoning from the fumes of the motor. Stockdale had - been absent from the club since Tuesday when he left to go downtown to the bank. , ; The fact that Stockdale had closed the garage door and j re entered by a side door indicated suicide, Crabtree said. band, Mrs.- Lee asked the woman to call again. Lee, In turn, noti fied authorities. . ... In a second call, officials said, the request was repeated, and the family warned police should : not be' called. . i ... Federal agents were believed to have listened in on a. third call on a "tapped" line. The children, Palma, 12,; Richard, 10, and Neil, 8.' were jaot mentioned , by name in the messages. . s . : Lee, operating superintendent of the North Coast Stage lines, did not comment except to compli ment authorities for their action. CHICAGO, June 1 6.(P)-Plice Sergt. George Wragg said tonight it appeared Bert Madsen, 31, held at Burnside station for question ing In regard to the kidnap-mur-der of Charles. Mattson, had "an iron-clad alibi." He was charged, however, with tampering with . a parked automobile, Wragg said.- Reply Lacking PROMINENT FIGURES IN CORNERSTONE LAYING TODAY f.tii;. yi ' I I .'in i i ii hi i- ! v , 1 V..VA I I IL TJpper left. Justice George Rossman, master of ceremonies;. middle, mony a year ago this month snowing, from left. Governor Charles IL Martin, Chairman J. A. Mc Lean of the capltol reconstruction commission an d -Francis Keally, New York architect who was one of the designers of the capitoL Governor Martin and Keally will speak today and McLean has been in general charge of arrangements for the ceremony. Upper bight. Judge Lawrence T. Harris of Eu gene, one of the principal speakers. Below,-from left, Archbishop Edward D. Howard Who will pro nounce the benediction; C C Hockley,. PW A director for Oregon who will' speak; Bishop Benjamin JD. DagweU who will lead In the Parsons Grounds Viewed for Grave Officer Says Digging to Resume This Morning ; Contact Rumored STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 16.-6P-Police Lieut. Stacey Wil son said tonight odors he detect ed caused authorities to seek a hidden grave within 2,000 feet of the home of the missing Mrs. Al ice Parsons. Wilson said he "could not be mistaken." The search was halted by darkness, but men armed with shovels and other equipment were ordered to begin a new hunt of the brush-covered area north of the Parsons home at daybreak.' Prosecutor Admits Bare Spots Examined Wilson's announcement follow ed discovery local authorities had been engaged in digging at night fall. Asst. Dist. Atty. Lindsay Henry, who earlier denied a pos sible grave was sought In tne hunt for Mrs. Parsons, admitted more than 1 0 "bare spots had been examined. Federal '.' bureau of : Investiga tion agents did not join in the dig ging tonight, nor did they com ment. , - " . Another flurry came tonight with a report that communication with a kidnaper, had been estab lished by Parsons. . Federal agents (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) , none Ended at Warren WARREN, O r June 16-iiP)-An eight-hour strike of 87 Warren Telephone Co. switchboard oper ators was settled tonight, restor ing service to the 40,000 citizens of this industrial community harassed three weeks by the widespread setel strike. Ralph ilateer. manager, an nounced the company granted per cent of the operators wage increase "demands, ' retroactive to June 1. He said the increase would represent an . additional 12,000 yearly. Some 10,500 telephones in the Warren district, excepting those at police' and fire- stations, hos pitals . and physicians' offices. went dead as the operators, mem bers of International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, ' ar gued their claims for higher wages with the management. Toledo Award Contract For; library Structure .TOLEDO. June 16-P)-A con tract was awarded by the city to day to huild a library at the cor ner of Ash street and- the Cor-vallis-Newport highway Junction. The contract calls for completion of , the project within 60 days. Dr. F. M. Hellwarth donated the site. .: .:. ;:,.' mi l leiepj Si 1L Y-i X i I-' .141 Invocation. -v Beateii? Woman Requests Aid Of "Eternity9' SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 16 (JP) 'Morey Levenson, city prosecutor, received a letter today addressed to the "prose cution eternity, Santago, CaL" Levenson said it. was from a woman who complained her ' hus'band beat her regularly. . June Rain Record Broken, Portland Wednesday's Precipitation Bests All of 1934-35; Salem Has .29 Inch PORTLAND, June 16 -Wl-Jupe Pluvlus wept more copious ly on Portland during the 24 hours ending at 5 p.m. today than during the entire months of June 1934 and 1935 combined, an official measurement of .43 of an inch being recorded here. Damage- to the cherry "crop was reported at The Dalles, where heavy rain caused fruit to split. The Willamette valley crop was believed not sufficiently de veloped to suffer injury. Telephone lines were down in Pine - Valley, near Baker, as a result of i a severe storm this morning. ' - : r From Halfway came reports of hall stones as large as marbles that tore down- trees,. . smashed windows and damaged a church building. - ; Farmers in Klamath county com - (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6.) , Russian .Whites' Head Is Suicide MOSCOW, June 16 -(S3)- The suicide of . the president of the White Russian Soviet republic, hundreds of arrests and the re moval of hundreds of thousands from communist party rolls were announced, by the government to day as the greatest political purge in ' Soviet Russia's, history went forward. ,, ;' . The government , said Alexan der G. Chervlakoff, 45-year-old head of the westernmost of the Soviet union's eleven republics, killed himself for family reasons. But his death followed closely his denunciation in communist party meeting, the arrest, of 45 of. his colleagues for treason Mid the execution of the. former com mander . of the White Russian gsrrlson. '. - Late Sports ; Western International league scores Wednesday: At Yakima, doubleheader: Spo kane. 7. 3.: Yakima, 1, 1. . Vancouver-Wenatchee, post poned, wet grounds. i A scene at the ground breaking cere Digger Turns up Tusk of Mammoth "D" Street Sewer Job Is &t of Find; Clark Verifies as Curio A fragment of tusk from one of the gigantic prehistoric mam moths that roamed this section long ago was turned up yester day by a gas shovel working on he new D street storm sewer in east Salem. - r Harold Eckstein, the shovel operator, was attracted from his cab by the gleaming white piece measuring 27 inches in length and three in thickness. He climbed into the deep ditch and brought it out. Professor Identifies Prehistoric Bore 1 r Professor Herman Clark of Willamette university was called, and he at once Identified the find as the last tract of the elephant like mammoth that lay down and . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5.) 200 Pickers Needed to Save Large Berry Crop PORTLAND, June 16-()-The federal employment service said today that from 200 to 250 pick ers were urgently needed to save the large berry crops , in the Gresham and. Banks districts. Prospects for the crop were ex cellent until heavy rains caused hundreds of pickers to . leave their: jobs, the bureau-said. ; . They Plan to A O7 .4 ' 1 "v i I Capitol . Conerstone Laying SB BaasiVAlaV U Vllt 1 a Alt iuuiv.ti- sauu aa - w vvvu 17 the cornerstone laying for the old capitol October 8, 1873, include the following who today and for whom special seating arrangements have been made : .: '. .' C. D. Ma theny, 414 Norway, Sifverton. J. G. Matheny, 414 Norway, Silverton. David H. Looney, Jefferson. m : Mrs. Frances Cornell, 260 Mission. Mrs. Ida Babcock, 749 North CommerciaL Mrs. Abbie Farrar, 1438 North Cottage. Mrs. Owen D. Hutton, 695 Court. Mrs. Charles Weller, 150 West Luther. Mrs. -G..W.'BeI& 150; West Luther. : Miss Ellen Chamberlain, 150 West Luther. , J. D. McCully, Palton apartments. . ' Jessie Thornton Crossan, 877 Oak. r Ruth E..Fayre, 1365 Chemeketa. r J. N. Williamson, 1230 Oxford. Mrs. Carrie Beechler, 895 North Front. C. L. Parmenter, 809 North Commercial. 1 - Mrs. Elizabeth T. Adair, 368 North Liberty. Thomas W. Brunk, route 3, box 444. , Frank Cornett, 508 North 19th. : Ben Colbath, 160 South Commercial. . . W. H. Humphreys, Stayton. u Dr. Maurice Skiff, Breitenbush.; George Dodge, Elgin. ." J Cornerstone's Contents Told Capitol Historical Data, State Documents and Seals Designated : ., PORTLAND, June ls--The corner stone of the ' new state capitol building will preserve for posterity a cross section of pres ent day life and activities In the state and historical data, a list of the articles, to be enclosed," re leased here today, revealed. - The container wu sealed in the presence of Ernest C. Dal ton, T. H. Banfield and E. B. Mc Naughton. in preparation tor the ceremonies at Salem tomorrow. . A list of the articles, released by Alton . Bassett of tb,e capitol reconstruction .'- commission, in-. eluded?-: -,:- '-- . Copies of three Portland news papers and other representative state publications: contemporary newspaper clippings; the Oregon blue book; letters and records of the capitol reconstruction com mission ; reports of the Oregon state board of control and of state departments. . . State, University Seals Given Place " The state seal of Oregon; a scroll; an opinion of the state supreme court, handed down June 15, 1937; PWA record! of accomplishment; member snip cards in patriotic and. civic or ganizations; letterhead bearing historical data of Jefferson coun ty; program of 60th commence ment nrosrram or university ui OreKon. .'historical data and the lintvpriiitv seal: Pictures and relics of the old capitol building, including wood (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3.) i ' ' ' Capitol Ceremony To Bring Masons PORTLAND June 16.-J)-Tne second day's session of the grand Masonic lodge, meeting here will close early tomorrow to accommo date the auto caravan which leaves for Sale"m Bhortly after noon. The caravan will include the 350 delegates who will par ticipate in laying the Cornerstone of the new state capitoL R. Frank Peters, grand master of the grand lodge, will preside at the - ceremony, assisted by grand lodge officers. Peters opened todays meeting with at reception to past grand masters, district : deputy grand masters and- grand represent tlves. , tteh d Secon d also plan to attend the exercises Historic Event To Bring Huge Crowd to City Parade in Which Masons Will Have Major Part Scheduled at 1:30 Program at Capitol Set Promptly at 2 P. M.; All in Readiness By RALPH C. CURTIS A large, shining block of while marble with the simple inscrip tion "1937" stood last, nlgbt'onl the platform which had' been' erected at the northeast corner of that; gigantic concrete and steel framework - which when completed will be Oregon's rap itol, awaiting the ceremonies at 2 o'clock this afternoon in which, this stone, a symbol of the hum an factor in the building's con struction and-a connecting link in Oregon history, will be fastened-Into place while as ntany Oregon citizens look on as can pack, themselves into the space which commands a view of the momentous scene. Fashioned in concrete Just in side the corner post-of the cap itol is .the small vault which, when the stone is fastened into place,- will be securely sealed with its mementoes of the occa sion and of life In Oregon la, this ''modern day articles' which will be curios of the great est interest when, it may be, the - box is reopened a century or more hence. Salem to Take on Carnival Appearance Today great crowds of peqple ill . converge upon the scene. where yesterday there were only workmen. . preparing - tho speak er' platform or proceeding with, the regular construction work en the capitol. In addition to the Masonic grand lodge delegation. numerous .other groups and Indi viduals will come, and Salem hours before the hour for the ceremonies will take on a carni val appearance. Not all of the scenes and events of the day are predictable, for it was evident yesterday that a n u m b e r of groups attending planned in var ious ways to make their presence noticeable. ; ' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 17) tires not Strike Breakers INDIANAPOLIS, June ie-tfpy-Harry W, Comery, national com mander of the American Legion, asserted in a statement . here to night the Legion "Is not a strike breaking organization." He declared the Legion's policy "always has been, and still re mains, one of strict neutrality." . "As an organization. It has never arrogated to itself police authority, or any other authority which is reserved to officials un der our democratic form of gov ernment," he "said, "and if there have been : Isolated violations of this" sound American principle they are to be deplored. "Any citizen may be deputized for police duty in an emergency; they may volunteer their service for such duty. " VLegionnalres are not excep tions to this provision. But when Legionnaires are so deputized, either voluntarily or by effect of law, it must be clearly understood that they are thus serving in their capacity as 'citizens, and not be cause they are Legionnaires.' Oregon Relief to Undergo big Cut WASHINGTON. June 1 Senator LaFolIette ; (Pro-Wis) told the senate today he had been informed . federal relief rolls would be cut 427,359 by July IS if the proposed relief appropria tion of SI. 500,000,000 is ap proved by congress. Here is how the cut would be apportioned according to LaFoll ette's' figures: Oregon, May 8, employaieni, 14.930; July 16 quota, 11,190; estimated cut, 5,740. 5) ALL A D C rjvovTODAA 9 . By R. a - Why should we dedicate a cornerstone would not our handsome statehouse be com plete unless with ceremony we enthrone this symbol In which past and future meet? When other blocks of marble rise above) this one, though inci dental to the whole, will sym bolise the capltol we'll love y a proof that such a buildiBg has a soul. 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