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PAGE FOURTEETT The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 20, 1937 Earle Orders Plant Vacated Youngstown Is Scene; of Bloody Fighting When Pickets Attacked (Continued From Page 1) man ding officer of the state mili tia, 'said be had received no or deres from Governor Davey re questing; troopa and that his own observers . hi the riot area ad vised there was no immediate need for troops. - The rioting came a few hours after federal mediators an nounced that John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chief, and officials of Re public and the other three inde pendent steel companies involved would meet InT Cleveland Monday in an attempt to find means tor a peaceful settlement. 1 Total or 11 Dead j In Steel Dispute . Previously ten persons had been killed all In a Memorial day riot near the Republic plant in Chicago. Two more casualties were re ported at 11:30 p. m. by Sheriff Elser, who said the rioting was still going at full-pitch with . C. I. O. pickets hidden on the hill overlooking the plant and sniping down on his 'men with rifles and pistol. v The sheriff said the two men were special deputies. , "One of them Is Jack Barrett, He was shot In the hip. I don't know the other's name. He was shot in the eye and chest." Shortly before midnight, Elser rushed a third carload of special deputies to the battleground and mobilized 75 more. He said about 75 deputies were on the scene. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 29.- (fls)-Gov. George H. Earle at Har tlsburg tonight ordered his per sonal representative, Col. A. S. Janeway, to evacuate the Cambria works of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. within two hours. Martial law was declared earlier. Bloody rioting broke out at the Teungstown, O., plant of Republic Steel and at least three persons were taken to hospitals for gun shot wounds. Tear-gas shells and sniping from hills overlooking the battle punctuated the riot. Two armed trucks and 40 sheriff's dep uties rushed to the fierce-raging melee which flared when police fired tear-gas shells to dispell a group of women C. I. O. sympa thizers. In ordering the Cambria evac uation. Governor Earle overrode the bitter protests of Bethlehem's president, Eugene Grace, who had refused to comply with a re quest to shut down the plant. Some 14,000 non-striking work men were reported affected. At Youngstown, John Mayo, dis trict leader of the steel workers' organizing committee, called Gov. Martin L. Davey to ask for troops. He declared the women pickets were sitting "peacefully in front of the plant and police ordered them to move. When they refused to go, the police shot tear-gas in to the group." A charge of men pickets follow ed. Mayo said, and police retreat ed into an underground pass leading into the plant. . WASHINGTON. June 19-yp)-Tbe United States chamber of commerce demanded today a pro hibition on "every form of forco and coercion and intimidation in labor relations.' . George H. Davies, chamber president, outlined the organiza tion's program for the coming year. Already approved by the chamber hoard, the program will be forwarded to 750.000 mem bers throughout the country. - "The chamber," Davis assert ed in a statement, "will consider suggesting amendments to the labor relations act defining labor practices unlawful for employes, employers and all others." - ( At present the act outlaws only "unfair" practices by em ployers. ) "The chamber," Davis added, "stands for outlawing every form f. force and coercion and intim idation in labor relations, for outlawing strikes when brought to coerce the public or public authority, and for public regis tration of all labor organizations and of those who seek to lorm them." ! ; Ixwer Government Cost Also Sought Topping the list of chamber aims was reduction in govern mental expenditures. "The chamber will persist in asking a balanced federal bud get, and a progressive reduction of the National debt," the presi dent declared. - It also "will study the possi bility of gradually liquidating emergency governmental agen cies." : "Relief costs appear entirely out of line with the progress of business recovery, Davis assert ed. As to taxation, the chamber president urged "a complete ov erhauling of the federal tax. structure" to distribute the tax load more equitably. "Elimination, or at least rad ical revision of the corporate surplus tax and the capital gains and loss provisions will be ad vocated," he contained. The Social Security act, Davis asserted, should be revised to eliminate provision, for accumu lating huge reserves and should be placed on a "pay as you go?' basis. Restaurant Men Will Meet on Monday Night , All restaurant operators In the city are invited to attend a meet ing at the Quelle at 8 o'clock Monday night at which perma nent organization of the Salem Restaurant association will be set p, temporary office announced yesterday. Objects of the asso ciation are to better trade condi tions and deal as a unit with labor groups. Quiz Llattson t V.' 0 si Lieutenant Wragr Arrested in Chicago when he was discovered tampering- with an automobile, Bert Madsen, right, was questioned by Lieut- George . Wragg in connection with the kidnaping of 10-year-old Charles Mattson in Seattle last January because of his remarkable re semblance to the sketch of the kidnaper made by the victim's sister. Probe Roosevelt Taxes, Fish Urges GOSHEN, N. Y June 19-P)- Representatlve Fish (R., N. Y.) told the Orange county republi can committee today he would ask the congressional committee studying tax dodging to look into I resident Roosevelt's income tax returns. j "I believe this investigation should not be restricted to just a few individuals selected by the administration," Fish said, "but in all fairness should likewise in clude the president and certain members of the cabinet." He said these "suggestion" would be given .the lnvestteating committee: j "Examine Income tax returns of President Roosevelt, for deduc tions for 'farm losses' and depre ciation on Hyde Park and his Georgia cotton plantation. "Alleged payment of rental on Hyde Park property to Mrs. James Roosevelt by the federal government for maintenance du ring occupation by the president as a summer White House. "Alleged avoidance of Income tax payments by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt for charity. The law provides that payment of taxes can not be evaded by payment to third persons, and permits de ductions from income for charity up to 15 per cent of income, but does not allow entire sums paid tor services (broadcasts, syndicat ed articles, etc.), to be contributed to charity without payment of taxes." I British Consider Shipbuilding Here NEW YORK, June 19-()-The Wall Street Journal said today British shipbuilding interests were reported to be in this coun try for the unprecedented pur pose of arranging to construct vessels In United States ship yards. j These interests, the paper said, have sounded out the Sun Ship building & Drybock Co. infor mally, although no direct nego tiations have taken place. The company, a subsidiary of Sun Oil Co., has J headquarters at Chester. Pa. j English shipyard r are jammed and hex -need for new vessels, particularly tankers, has brought her representatives over seas to Investigate construction possibilities here. While ship building costs, estimated at about twice as high here as In i Eng land's yards, may prove tod great an obstacle to hurdle, it is like ly Great Britain will have to pur chase the steel for her new bot toms from American producers, the paper said. . She does not have enough home-produced steel available for ships, . . , - Should the British find con struction costs l too high here, they might place orders with Netherlands shipbuilders. It was stated. t r Seagulls Help in Fight on Cricket PASCO. June il9-(!p)-The force of 38 men who; are fighting the waves of Mormon crickets surg ing toward Pasco was increased by several hundred today. But the several hundred were seagulls. . s i - The gulls flew from the coast to the Pasco area. They feed on the cricket dally and roost in the sagebrush at night i Faints, not Hurt ...... Lillian Wagner of the Auras vllle district fainted and fell at the foot of the steps at the west entrance of the courthouse' yes- terdav nffpm WIT! 'Kilt AC . A t A .4 f ' " v " 70.rvU ill jury the sheriff's office reported. , . i f . Alter Being given iirst aid, she was able to go on her way, I - " . Oakland Gets Convention DENVER, June 19. --Dele-rates to, the United States Junior chamber of commerce convention selected today I Oakland, Calif., for their 1938 conclave. Kidnap Suspect 5 ' vx ft 'I .-1 v " 0 1 Bert Madsea' Speedy Flight of Russ Plane Noted (Continued From Page 1) f. code and transmission was slow about eight words a minute. ' It was learned the code was sent from Moscow to London, thence to New York and on to San Francisco by some sort of facsimile transmission, the whole operation, taking- only a few hours. The speedy handling was necessary because the code was changed shortly before the flight began. The number code was neces sary because none of the fliers speak English. It enables English-speaking stations to under stand requests ' for weather re ports and . other information. Vartanlon talked by telephone direct with Moscow several times since the flight started, calls be ing routed across the Atlantic and Europe. EDMONTON, Alta..June 19-(JP) Radio beams stabbed into the dark, northern skies tonight in an attempt to reach three soviet air men on a 6000-mile flight from Moscow to San Francisco. 4 -At 4 p.m. (PST) Edmonton wireless stations began calling the big red and grey monoplane but four hours later had received no reply. Skies were clear over Alberta end- radio transmission was re ported "perfect.' - The big low-wing machine was last heard from at 2:45 p.m (PST) when it asked wireless sta tions to contact it on 64 meters. The message was picked up by the Royal Canadian corps of signals At that time the Russians said they only wanted contact. They had not heard the corps signals although Fort Smith had been try ing constantly to reach the plane. At 12:25 p.m., the corps of signals received a message that the plane was at latitude S4 and lon gitude 124 or about 100 miles south of Fort Norman In the northwest territories. It was be lieved the fliers would follow the Mckenzie river basin into Alberta, crossing Edmonton at about 9 p.m. . " f Long silence surrounding the huge soviet-developed machine led observers here to believe it struck out along the 23 rd parallel longi tude. Going from Fort Simpson to Fort Nelson, B. C and starting down the Fraser valley where it meets the Pacific at Vancouver, b. c. . -f ; - , . i Saving Reported p By State Police The state police department, under Charles P. , Pray, superin tendent, effected a saving of $54,789 during the period .an nard 1, 1935. to December 31, 1936. Pray yesterday Informed State Budget Director Wallace Wharton. ... .; This amount was returned to the various state activities which contribute to the stae police de parment. , -. Of - the funds returned $21, 118.72 went to the state high way commission and 115.038. 76 to the game department. The fish commission received $4. 836.50 and the state fire mar shal 113,804.69. Other state departments and institutions returned , approxi mately $750,000 to. the general fund on January 1. Under the law all unused ap propriations revert to the gen eral fund. Water Department's new Cash Register Kept Busy Although' last week was rather a slack one at the city water de partment's .1 collection windows, 1150 transactions were recorded on a new cash register which wt placed in service last Monday. The oiiice previously had operated withouta, cash register The new machine Witl keen farm rarorda nf the atze and nature of individual transactions and cumulative totals of cash received. It carries separ ate recording keys for three cash iers. . : Second Rest Rlile ; In History Is Run PRINCETON, N. J.. June (A-Arch!e " San Romanl, ' light weight runner from Emporia, Kas., Teachers college, and Don Lash, Indiana university, today furnished . proof " on the cinder track of Palmer stadium that they are ready to carry on the mile running burden when Glenn Cun ningham, decides to ease off. Timed Jointly in 4:07.1 for the second fastest mile ever run, they beat Cnnningham two yards as San Romanl edged out his Hoos- ier rival by the. proverbial whis ker in the feature event ' of Princeton's fourth Invitation meet before 20,000. Officials said ' Lash, pounding down to the tape, turned bis head the slightest bit. That twist pulled him up for a fraction the trac tion by which he was beaten. But San Romanl, Lash and Cnnningham, whose time of 4:07. 4 made this the fastest three-man finish ever recorded, allowed a vote of thanks to Gene Venzke. J Gene "withdrew" after setting a terrific three-quarter mile pace that gave him a lead of 40 yards over Lash when he pulled up at the start fit the final lap. Venzke had been aiming at the world record of 3:00.6 for the three- quarters held by Jules Ladou- megue of France. V . , . A. ( l 1 A X 1 . . i ne missed ib dj eigm-ienms oi a second. Tet, it it hadn't been for Venzke, San Roman! and Lash would not have come near ly so close to Cunningham's world record time of 4:06.7, set on this same track four years ago. Three Farm Units In Yamhill Ready PORTLAND. June 1 S.-UPr- Walter A. Duffy, regional direc tor of the resettlement adminis tration, announced today comple tion of the first three of 70 new farm units being established in Yamhill. Washington and Polk counties. Six more are scheduled for com pletion by July 1 and a total of 45 ; will be ready for occupancy by August 15, Duffy said. Three hundred men are em ployed in the construction. .The first units were described as ! typical dairy and, diversified farming set-ups located south west of McMlnnville. ! "Most of the units under con struction include an average of 50 acres of developed land of the better valley soil types, Duffy ex plained, "with a modern house with two bedrooms, a drilled well, a gothlc or gambrel roofed barn for ten cows and 40 tons of hay and a small poultry house. "The 10-cow dairy herds will be supplemented by diversified cash crops. About 20 units will have poultry as the basic in come." The project, one of the first to ! be completed in the United States, Is intended as a demon stration of planned resettlement of farm families from poor and sub-marginal lands to productive farms in established agricultural communities. Labor. Convention l At Gods Bay Soon l MARSHFIELD, June l-jsy-Delegates began arriving today for the 35 th annual ' convention of the Oregon state federation of labor to be held here next week. Hotel and auto camp reserva tions were air taken a week ago and lists of private homes are now offered. More than 300 dele gates and numerous visitors are expected to attend the sessions, i Outside the' federation's pro gram, but declared to be a signal for action which may make the convention place a battle ground for the struggle between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L., will be the rally of the woodworkers of southwestern Oregon at the ar mory Sunday. Harold Pritchett, head of the Northwest Wood working federation, will discuss the C. I. O. movement at" the rally. " r - ; - r The state council'ot carpenter with about SO delegates will hold a business meeting Sunday,, in ad vance of the convention. On Sun day, also, the state session for barbers will begin. These two groups annually hold their con ventions at the meeting place of the state federation. , Sunshine Awaited To Aid in Search SALT LAKE CITY, June 19-P)-It's up to sun and rain to uncover the broken bodies of five men and two women who met sudden death last december when a skyliner rocketed into a Utah mountain peak at 200 miles an hour. ; Searchers left the hunt there tonight abandoning efforts in fear of avalanches and after all Indications were that the bodies maye be scattered over a half mile of snow-burled mountain slope south of here. The Western Air E x n r a a transport, Salt Lake-bound from Los Angeles, crashed last - Dec. 15. it HOW into A thAnaanri pieces. Most of it catapulted on over me peas:, was strewn down a 1.000-foot cliff and deep Into 40 feet of snow at the base. The decision to riv nn search was reached after v the piane s ... battered cabin,- ,which caugm on a ledge 350 feet down the Cliff. Yielded nn hrvloo TV - . " AMI. bottom was found to hnv iun ripped out completely In- the smasnup. f Yakima Pippins Win YAKIMA, June It - - The Yakima. Ptnnfn avannd a-- mi t-J a Western International league se ries with Tacoma I tn l on a wet field. . " Fliers Safe; End 12-Hbur Silence (Continued From Page 1) they had picked eps speed great ly and were within 2600 miles of their goal. ' At the last i previous official report, 3:20 a. m. (E. S. T.) they were only 320 miles, south of the pole. The Canadian report showed they had covered about 1400 miles, passing - through ene of the, great unexplored stretches of the Arctic, in the 12 hour, 5 min ute period of silence. - "Overjoyed," said Consul Gen eral -Gregory L Gokhman after hours of map checking, clock watching and denying t a deluge of reports concerning the plane. Weather Generally - j ": Favorable on 'Route The Canadian agency said the Russian ship was flying at the 4400-foot elevation, that the ra dio channel was "clear" and that they soon would be in direct con nection with Edmonton or Fort Smith, 535 miles north of Ed monton. Weather conditions were re ported favorable although skies were cloudy along some portions of , the route. The temperature was comfortably above freezing. On the basis of the 1:40 p. m. report, the fliers ' had covered more than 4000 miles and had been out of Moscow 44 hours, 40 minutes. ' , . Canadian signalmen said they were making about 125 miles an hour. Maintaining that speed, they -would arrive in Oakland, Calif., across San Francisco bay from here, tomorrow. - House Vote Again - KJ Backs Leon Blum 'Continued from Page 1) passed a bill of its own making. He can now take his demand to the senate tomorrow. Immediate downfall . of . the cabinet because of the senate at tack .was averted by the premier's strategy in refraining from stak ing "confidence in the govern ment" on his bill. The defeat therefore did not compel his res ignation. The senate : substitute bill would specifically deny the cab inet power to establish exchange control, change the gold value o' the franc or In any way inter fere with free dealing in gold, foreign exchange and securities. , Blum insists the cabinet must be given the right to act by de cree to meet an expected 1937 deficit of $1,760,000,000, to pro tect the franc and government credit. These sweeping powers were asked until July 31. CU. FT. CAPACITY- with thrilling PROOF of ALL 5 BASIC SERVICES FOR COMPLETE HOME REFRIGERATION GREATER ICE-ABILITY Ends "CubeStruetrle" and "Ice-Famine"! Nc Instant Cube-Release in mil ice-crays. Automatic Tray Release. More pounds of ice. . . fastec SEE THE PROOFI GREATER STORAGE-ABILITY Ends Crowding. 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The posters entered had taken high positions at the spring 4-H show here in May. : In the health poster division Richard Bland placed first, Billy Cole second, Lowell Sayre third. Walter Colvin fourth and Wilma Marsh fifth. Bland's poster also took second prize among all types of posters. Every county in the state was reprejented this year for the firbt time at the summer school, Hard ing sid. Marion county, with 102 boys and girls enrolled, stood fourth. Only other counties ex ceeding the local delegation in size were Multnomah, Lane and Klamath. A number of crop and livestock Judging events and. In August, the county -4-H club picnic, will be held between now and state fair time. Newberg Festival Held Despite Rain NEWBERG, June 19-(jP)-Queen Betty I refused to abdicate in fa vor of old Jupe Pluvius and New berg held Its scheduled berry fes tival today despite continued rain. The berrian drill team made a concession to the weather in aban doning their formal white garb in favor of rubber boots, slickers and umbrellas in the parade this morning, and the scheduled base ball game and fireworks were called off. Queen Betty Ferrell and her princesses, Fleta Stretch and Mar garet Meyer, were guests of hon or at a tea given by the wives of the Berrians this afternoon. A festival ball tonight climaxes the festival. BONK fr Salem9 Largest Electrical Appliance Dealers Bilbao Seizure Is Believed Decisive (Continued From Pags 1) was hardly effected until Insur gents talked of Santander, 45 miles to the west, as the - next objective. . - - They predicted that with Bilbao fallen, Santander would surren der "by telephone." '. In the south, northwest of Ma drid at Aravaca, government and insurgent ' troops . clashed in the heaviest fighting on the Madrid front in weeks.- At Valencia, Indaledo Prieto, minister of defense, denounced as "absolutely false" German charges that Spanish government subma rines had tried twice to torpedo the German light cruiser Leipzig off the Algerian coast. Prieto said all government sub marines were in port on June 15 and 18, the dates on which Ger many charged torpedoes were fired at the Leipzig. In London, representatives of France, Italy and Great Britain agreed to consult their govern ments on Germany's demand for retaliation for the submarine at tacks. Traffic. Issue Is Facing City Dads (Continued from Page 1) parking , limit and the parallel parking. - The council also will have be fore it the disputed petition of Wallace Bonesteele for a change of zone at the southeast corner of 12th and Court streets to per mit him to build a public garage there and may consider an ordin ance intended to Grant Vernon D. Leek a franchise for his Liberty-Four-Corners bus- line's use of the city streets. -Although there were reports Alderman VanWIeder might re sign Monday night, authoritative sources said -yesterday that Wel der would not drop his council po sition at present but might do so later. Weider has served as chair man of the important street com mittee and as a member of the special water construction - com mittee. 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Charles Evans Hughes, 3rd, will be graduated from Brown univer sity on the same day Henry Hughes leaves Amherst. Timber Workers' Meeting Stormy (Continued irom page 1) granting an increase of three cents a square, and that the union had been informed the plant could not pay higher wages and remain in operation. PORTLAND. Ore., June 19.-(JP) -Officers of the American Radio Telegraphists' association, affilia ted with the committee for Indus trial organization, announced to1 day plans to extend the C. I. O. drive into all communications sys tems in the Pacific northwest. Lon Rone, northwest district organizer, referring to a report that the association of Western Union ..employes, in convention here, planned to revise its consti tution in accordance with the Wagner act. said: "Reprinting their constitution will not get . wage Increases and working conditions for the poor est paid of all skilled workers the employes of the communica tions industry." A local of the C. I. 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