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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1937)
Sunday Sports ' The Sunday sports section brings to sports followers tws of Important Saturday contests niore than n - day ahead of other coverage. - . leather x Unsettled with rain to day, showers Monday; Max. Temp. Satnrday 64, Min. M, river 4.0 feet, rain .St inch south-southwest wind. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 20, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 73 ole Airraeii liwes ran ii lira i A1 fey TT 1 tat a JJT School Ballot Monday likely: To Set Record Previous High Ballot ' Is 1926, Set two Years; . Interest Unusual Much Direct Campaignin Done by Friends of Three Aspirants TIME, PLACE AND RULES ' .FOIl SCHOOL, VOTE MONDAY Time Polls open at 2 p.m., close at 7 p.m. place Administration build ing. 4S4 North High street. Voter qualifications Most be citizen of Oregon, 21 years of age or older, resident of ' district at least SO days; nei ther registration nor taxpayer status required in vote for, school director. A record or near reccrd vote nasi Salem school district elec tion ! if the intensity of the un-der-surface campaigns waged In behalf of the trio of candidates Is equaled by citizen response. The names of Dr. L. E. Barrlck. Otto Hoppes and Francis E. Man- ley will appear on the ballot as nominees for the single school board vacancy to be filled. The record Salem school vote. 192$ ballots, was recorded at both the 1935 and 1933 elec tions. Last year only 132S votes were cast. The vote In 1934 was 1372, in 1932 it was 124C and In 1931, 828. The campaign almost wholly has been a personal effort affair, with friends , and supporters of the various candidates by direct contacts seeking to enlist other friends as supporters. t Th nnlv dpflnltp Issue that developed openly at nyr time ' . -- a, . r n nn o ina vn nsirn i in lower charges for use of school meeting places by Townsend clubs, was eliminated June 1 when the citizens' budget com mittee appropriated $500 for the 1937-38 school year Jo enable the district to give the use free of charge of Its auditoriums to bona fide non-profit organiut-. tions, approved by the school board. Candidate Manley has announced that regardless of whether or not be may be elect ed, he has accomplished that goal of the Townsend clubs. While Dr. Barrlck. who" has two-children in the schools and has been active in recreational and parent-teacher organization work, has not been especially ac tive personally in his own behalf, a large number of school patrons have been seeking to make cer tain that his widespread support carries through to the act of vot ing. His only campaign declara tion has been one of promising to enter the directorship open mindedly with the best interests of the schools as a whole at heart. Mr. Manley yesterday denied reports be had considered with drawing from the race and also announced he stood In ' favor of converting - the old high school bailding Into a -city junior col lege or university If it is not tak en over by a religious echool wbich has been considering leas ing the structure. He also said he felt "the same teaching sys tem should be taught throughout the city." Mr. Manley has to children of school age. Mr. Hoppes, who also has chil dren In school, three In number, said he had refused to make any advance decisions as to bis stand on school matters if be should be elected. A school director, he aid, should "completely Investi gate things brought to . his at tention and be absolutely open minded." Hoppes is a past pres ident of the Englewood parent teacher association. Foreign Firms to Testify, Proposed WASHINGTON, June 19.-ypy-Representative Vinson (D-Ky) aid today that the incorporators of more than 100 foreign compan ies might be subpoenaed to testify In the congressional tax-dodging Inquiry. .The Kentuckian, a member of the joint house and senate inves tigating committee, said the aim would be to ferret out any unre ported sources of income., - The treasury contends many -persons who earned their Incomes in this country sent large -funds abroad to escape payment of taxes. Committee hearings were ad.- jburhed until Tuesday mor&fng, .Treasury .officials were Infracted In the meantime to dig odt names and evidence as lndirtdnal cases of alleged tax avoidance or eva sion are developed from internal revenue records. One: Dead Riithlessuess Of Majorities Deemed Pe f Chief Justice Hujf Fearful but Fails ix. Cite any Example Overthrow of Democracy May Be Result, Says in Amherst Talk .AMHERST. Mass.. June 19. (P)Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes today denounced the "ruthlessness of a temporary ma jority" and the "activities of or ganized minorities," charging the former, "if unchecked" would "eventually lead to the entire overthrow of democratic institu tions. ' I ? The 75-year'-old chief justice, asserting the fundamental needs of democracy ae "moral," did not elaborate on his references to the "temporary majority" or the "or ganized minorities." He declared it would not become him to speak of current Interests. He said he would "leave to the experts" the task of answering questions on current problems. Nor would I he grant an inter view as he left the Amherst cam pus for Providence, R. I., where he will attend the Brown univer sity commencement exercises. Resistance Urged : i' Upon College Men Speaking before 1,380 Amherst alumni, the chief justice ex pressed his opinion of the "ruth lessness of a temporary majority' as he discussed the need for colleges-equipping their' graduates with qualities which would "sup ply the essential resistance to specious appeals of demagogue and the irrational demands of zealots." I It came after he set himself on record - "unwilling" to discuss current Interests and problems. If college men, he asked, are not tolerant, reasonable and intelli gent, who will be? The chief justice said that Turn to Page 14, Col. 7J Beer War Getting Hot in Northwest SEATTLE, June .-(flVDave Beck, international vice-president of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, defied longshoremen woodwork ers and marine unionists today who announced today they would not drink beer bearing teamster union "white" labels. The teamsters, in western con vention here last week, banned all beer bearing ! the brewery workers' "red ; label," on the ground the American Federation of Labor had several times given the teamsters jurisdiction over beer hauling. "They'll j either drink Beck's beer or go a long way for a drink. Beck's press relations of fice asserted. . r PORTLAND, Ore., June 19.- (JP) Richard Leverenz, tavern proprietor, 1 reported the first skirmish here .of the northwest's prospective beer war today. Leverenz i told police a "strong arm" squad entered his beer par lor Friday and dumped brewery workers' red label beer from his kegs. He said the squad returned today and departed upon finding he had refilled with beer bearing the white label of the teamsters union. t limber Workers9 Meet Ends In Row Over "Red" Charges LONG VIEW, June 19.-p)-A meeting of i northwest woodwork ing district councils broke up here late todiy after a dispute over charges by William Hutcheson, International president of the united Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, that communism ex ists In the federation of wood workers' ranks. Approximately- 200 f delegates from sawmill 'and lumber work ers, plywood and veneer workers and shingle weavers unions at tended the meeting. -' Severs! delegates d e m a n e d "proof after Hutcheson de clared ssveral mem b e r s of a Klamath Falls, Ore., local attend ed a communist meeting last Feb ruary before the Long view Feder ation of Woodworkers convention. Calling the meeting out of or der. Hutcheson adjourned It, de claring it "could accomplish noth ing with this row. Supporters of Harold Prltchett, In Strike Riot Sir J. M. Barrie Career at End JAMES M. BARRIE Barrie's Funeral Will Be Thursday Original "Peter Pan" I at Deathbed; Career i Notable, Lengthy LONDON. June 19 - OP) - Sir James .Barrie, world renowned creator of "Peter Pan." died in a London nursing home today with the original Peter Pan at his bedside. , ' ' " r Peter Davies, adopted aon of the 77-year-old author, .watched death come peacefully and quiet ly after a long illness which de veloped into bronchial pneumo nia. It was Davies who inspired the piquant story of the little boy who wouldn't grow up. Death brought a rush of 'trib utes to the shy author whose blend of humor, pathos and whimsical fantasy ranked him among the leading writers of modern times. Funeral services will be held Thursday at Kirriemuir, Scottish village where Barrie waa bora and which he made famous as the setting for a ; "Window In Thrums." A memorial service In London was planned. t Barrie's earliest works, such as "My Lady Nicotine," gained him Immediate recognition. His fame increased with "The LltUe Minister," "The Admirable Crich ton," and "A Kiss for Cinderel la." Last year, after ten i years of inactivity, he wrote "The Boy David," which scored a hit In Scotland and England. ; Mayor Carson of Portland Is Wed PORTLAND, Ore., . June 19.-0F-Portland's most eligible bachelor became a benedict to night when Mayor Joseph K. Car son and Miss Myrtle Cradick were united in ; marriage at : a ceremony attended by more than 2,000 Invited guests. 1 The ceremony was read by the Rev. William G. Everson at the White Temple. ; ! ; Crowds waiting outside ! broke into a cheer as the couple left the church, and a WPA band struck up a medey of military marches. ; Mr. and Mrs. Carson left Im mediately afterward for the 'Ore gon coast, exact destination un known.. ' president of the Woodworkers Federation, considered holding a separate session later tonight. ) Previously Prltchett had urged the unions to affiliate with the committee for industrial organiza tion, declaring the woodworking industry. Is "tired of taxation without representation" under the American Federation of Labor, i PORTLAND, Ore., July 19. (jF Operators of four Portland shingle mills closed their plants today and said they would keep them idle until the shingle wear ers' union withdrew a demand for a wage increase of four cents a square. - '' -'. J- 5 The closed plants are - the Al bina, Mongrain, Portland and East St, John's shingle compan ies. . W. M. Cox of the Albina plant said the wage demands violated an agreement signed April : 1, (Turn to Page 14, Col. 8) 3S v 1 ' 1 's I Y v f? 1 Earle Orders Evacuation of Cambria Plant Youngstown Is Scene of Bloody Fighting When Pickets Attacked Legislation to Prohibit Force and Coercion Is Demand of C. of C. YOUNGSTOWN. O., June 1?.- (P) At least one man was killed and five injured tonight In a fiercely-fought battle between po lice apd striking workers of the Republic Steel Corp. plant. The dead man was John Bogo- vich. who carried a picket card of the steel workers organizing com mittee. . The identified Injured were: Thomas Osraby, 15, bullet wound in the head. Ed Salt, photographer for the Youngstown Vindicator, shot In both legs and the right arm. . The riot occurred when women C. L O. sympathizers, police said, were ordered off company prop erty. They refused to leave and C. L O. officials said police fired tear gas Into their ranks. Screaming, they gave way and scores of strikers rushed the- po lice, forcing them into a rail road underpass. . Bullets spattered down from surrounding hills. Strikers Demand -Troops' Protection C. I. O. leaders put In a frantic call for Gov. Martin L. Davey for state troops. v . ,, .- -v-"v. The governor, reported at his home in Kent, O., could 'not be Immediately reached. The Republic plant, shut down since the strike started May 26, is one mile east of the city. Until tonight only a small picket force was maintained there. Pickets not actually engaged in theafighting formed lines across the roads east and west of the plant, blocking the highway, po lice said, In an apparent attempt to prevent the running In of re inforcements. '. A second police line beyond the picket defense line detoured all traffic away f r o m the riot zone. Adjutant General .Marx, com (Turn to Page 14, CoL 1) Alton Baker Head Of State Editors LA GRANDE. June 19 -UPV- Oregon newspaper publishers, at the final business session of the Golden Jubilee convention of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers as sociation, elected Alton F. Baker of Eugene president, succeeding Hugh McGilvra of Forest Grove. Other officers are Lare E. Bla dlne, McMlnnville, rice-president, and Henry N. Fowler, Bend, re elected treasurer.. New directors were named as follows: District 1, Merle E. Chessman, Astoria; district 2, Earl Richardson, Dallas; district 3, Harry W. Fredericks, Leb anon; district 4, C. J. Gillette, Lake view; district 5, Ben Llftln, The Dalles; district 6, Harold M. Flnlay, La Grande. Dean Eric W. Allen of the University of' Oregon school of journalism will be ex-otficlo member of the board. A resolution authorized the appointment of a committee of five to confer with Robert Mount, manager of the Northwest News paper Publishers association, and formulate recommendations for the association's future policy regarding labor relations. Traffic Light in Downtown Window A sample traffic light unit of the type to be set up at six down town Intersections soon was set up and placed in operation yes terday in the 246 State street window of the Bosler Electric company, contractor in charge ot the system Installation. .Harley Bosler, proprietor. Indicated the t Ifohta vnnM V.A Van nn 1lan1aV I for; some time to enable people interested to view them. The units consist of a vertical row of eight-Inch lenses, green, yellow and red, in ascending or der, mounted on cast aluminum frames and equipped with hoods of the same material. - A control unit of a slightly different type than will be used by the city is being used to operate the lights, with Its mechanisms uncovered so they may be seen by passers- Bilbao Seizure By Insurgents Decisive Move Santander to Surrender ;by Telephone"" View of Fascist Heads , Eightr Bridges Blown up Before Asturians Quit Basque Stronghold (By The Associated Press) V- Bilbao,- hitherto invincible to siege, fell to the Spanish insur gents Saturday in the 12th month of the civil war. ;, Three months of resistance to Generalissimo Francisco Franco's war machine crumbled after a ter rific 9-day final offensive shat tered the Basque capital's "iron ring" defenses. Franco's legions marched Into the capital without a shot being fired. Days before, the Basque au tonomous government fled from the city, leaving a defense com mittee of four to direct the last stand. l Asturian dynamiters blew up eight bridges over the Nervion river leading into Bilbao as Fran co's troops, poised on the. city's outskirts, received the order to advance. A battalion, of Basque militiamen then forced the As turians to the outer edges of the capital and hoisted the white flag. Santander Listed As Next Objective Capture of Bilbao, momentous to Spain both In military and In ternational political significance, (Turn to Page 14, CoL 7) Traffic Issue Is lacing City Dacls Revision may Be Voted on Monday if Resolution Prepared in Time Salem's downtown traffic regu lations are expected to be revised at Monday night's council meet ing if the special traffic commit tee Is able to prepare the neces sary resolutions in time. The re visions would Include Increasing the parking time limit from SO to 45 minutes and eliminating par allel parking In all but one or two blocks where the streets are too narrow to permit operation of four lanes of traffic and 30- degree angle parking at the same time. . The committee's compromise plan has the approval of Mayor V. E. Kuhn, the executive an nounced yesterday. It was devel oped after strong business protest developed over both the half hour (Turn to Page 14, Col. T) ' "IRON LUNG" TOURIST REACHES U. S. swyyy-"!'.! "in"'"1" fA -' - :? - turn ".AN FRANCISCO, June 1 9, py-Sqaada of white-clad longshoremen, nurses and medical attendants transferred Frederick B. Snite, Jr 26, . infantile paralyblx victim, from the liner President Coolldgo to a Chicago-bound pnllnian car today for the last lap of 1U 12,000-mile Journey from China In an "iron lung." lav leas than three minutes the stricken youth was moved from the ponderous machine which sustained his life on a transpacific voyage and placed biw in a portable respirator on the pull man. Cheerful despite 447 days of "iron lung existence, Snite expressed a wish to see the liner which had brought him 7.0O0 miles from Shanghai to San Francisco. Nurses rigged up mirror arrangement which gave him a glimpse of the ship Just before the puUman moved away for connections with the Chicago train. . R ussians IS Jear Vancouver Islet, May-Lack Fuel to A chieveGoaE Fliers Report Safety After 12 Frequent Long Periods Concern of Public Which, Keeps Close Watch on Progress of Unprecedented Flight CAN FRANCISCO, June 1&(AP) Soviet Russia's fly- O frig heroes" emerged from spot and raced southward tonight on the last half of Dolar flight from Moscow to At 5:45 p. m. (E. S. T.), A 11UUSC T UlC rlJiaill Backs Leon Blum Senate Rejects Demand of Premier for Unusual Emergency Powers PARIS, June 19.-(ff)-The chamber of deputies tonight voted for the second time to give Pre mier Leon Blum full powers to rehabilitate French finances by decree, throwing back, to the sen ate a fight which some political quarters thought might develop into a' life or death issue for his government. The upper house earlier re jected 188 to 72 the bill em bodying the emergency powers de manded by the premier, the op position charging they were dic tatorial. - - Premier Blum took up the challengeand. returning with his original demand to the chamber, received a second "avowal of sup port in a late night session 346 to 248. The senate had rejected the premier's proposals and instead passed a substitute bill substan tially trimming the powers he contemplated. , - It was necessary for the cham ber to readopt the bill because the senate had killed It and (Turn to Page 16, Col. 5) Republicans Will Elect on Tuesday Election of officers will be the principal Item or business at the annual meeting of the Marion County Republican club, sched uled for Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Marlon hoteL , Dr.' P. O. Riley has been pres ident of the club during the past year; Harold Pruit, secretary, and Ernest A. Miller, treasurer. A. J. Montgomery, Fred Schwab, jr., and Mrs. Elisabeth Glatt have been vice-presidents. - -Hour Silence Between. Messages Add to the silence of an Arctic blind through the Canadian wilds their 6000-mile nonstop trans- San Irancisco. when the plane was reported ?approacnmg jsamonton, it asxea I connecting stations to broadcast on S4 meters. Previously it had been using 2 C meters. Then more than four hours of silence elapsed. Soviet listeners concluded the plane's radio transmitter was fall lng to function as It approached the northern border of Alberta. They said the three fliers had "complained", of trouble with their short wave apparatus, with which they were both sending and receiving. Unheard from for- mOre than 12 hours, their wireless : signals were picked up first today by the Royal Canadian Signal corps which reported them about 100 miles south of Fort Norman Northwest Territory, at 3 : 2 S p m. (E. S. T.). They said all was well. At 1:40 p. m. the Canadian agency said they were believed to be over the confluence of the MeKensle and Llard rivers, 980 miles northeast of Edmonton. The second .report Indicated (Turn to Page 15, Col. 5) Two Held After Death of Infant SEATTLE, June 19.-(P) -Mr; and Mrs. Cyril Algeo were held for the coroner late today after Dr. Gale E. Wilson, county autop sy surgeon, said a postmortem ex amination showed - a new - born baby boy -had met, death from rag being stuffed in its throat. The Infant was found early to day In- a shopping bag resting on a second floor fire escape landing on the apartment house where the Algeos live. Harlan S. Callahan, chief dep uty coroner, said Mrs. Algeo told him the baby died at birth, last night, and that her husband was unaware of the. birth and death. She was sent to a hospital - after questioning. Algeo, 28, said he heard his wife scream last night but did not know the reason. He Is an nn employed sailor. His .wife is the daughter of a reUred Tacoma sea captain. - i Speedy Flight Being Made as U.S. Is Neared Weather Conditions Ar$ Causing no Trouble, Messages Indicate Landing Before Reaching San Francisco May Be Necessary, Hinted SEATTLE June aO-VThe Russian transpolar plane, re porting Jt was flying In clouds and heavy weather, requested at 12:53 a.m. (PST) today that the air commerce station at Bl lingham. Wash., start transmit ting so it could get radio bear ings. Cant. Paul S. Edwards of the signal corps here telephoned the Bellingham station, WBJU, asked it to comply. SEATTLE, June-( Sunday )-(?P) The - soviet trans-polar fliers, speeding 100 miles an hour downy the British Columbia coast, mes saged just after midnight they might have to land for lack of fuel before reaching their San Francis co goal. The plane, at 12:02 p. in., ra dioed the San. Francisco signal corps station: - "Your radio without number received. The height is 4.000 me tres (about 13.000 feet). 'Will make landing in the morning. It will not have e n o u g h fuel 4o reach San Francisco will land at one of the airdromes between Se attle and San Francisco. At 11:25 p. m. (PST) the plane had given its location as 50 miles west of the north tip of Vancou ver island. -The message, sent from the plane to the army signal corps station at San Francisco, was translated to read: I receive vou " well. Mr osU tlon is 50 miles west of the north tip ot Vancouver island. Give weather report immediately Seattle to San Francisco." . It was signed "Retet," the call letters for the plane. The location given was about 300' miles from -Seattle, or about 1,130 to San Francisco. With the fliers traveling about 100 miles an hour, indications were they might reach Seattle"" about 2:30 a. m. (PST). The last previous reported po sition was over Queen Charlotte Islands, but several requests for weather Information were re ceived in the meantime. At 8:45 p. m. (PST), the ship reported it was going over the Queen Charlotte Islands and ''everything was going well." the signal corps said. The -rest et the message was not decipherable. " The Queen Charlotte islands are about 500 to 600 miles north of Seattle, or. be ween 1,600 and 1,200; from San Francisco.' At 11:30 p.m. (PST) the Se attle array signal corps heard the plane messaging the signal corps station at the presidio, San Fran cisco. The message merely ask ed for latest weather reports. All messages were in number (Turn to Page 14, Col. 3) Report of Forced Landing Is Error VANC6UVER. B. C June IS. -(VThe Canadian National Rail way Telegraph tonight said a re port -ney. naa received that the RusHan trans-polar plane had been forced down on the northern tip of Queen Charlotte Island was erroneous. The telerranh office In-VinAn. ver, after saying the information was "authentic." checked it and found it incorrect. The office said the information was from the . Royal Canadian corps of signals In Edmonton. At t ie same time the signal corns announced . the plane was flying ever Queen Charlotte islands and 7a$ au right." , , A L L A D E of TO DA V ; By R. C. . - At Taft today the sun may shine to light up all . true red heads; but if It rains on tresses, dyed, there'll be some red-faced deadheads. Convinced that all his read ers are in need of relaxation, the Ballade man . on Monday will commence a week's vaca tion.