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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1937)
Safe Fourth Her One of ' the - safest and? sanest ways to spend Inde pendence day is to attend the American legion ' eeie ' b ration at the fairgrounds. Weather Partly . cloudy and cooler today and Monday; Max. Temp. Saturday 85, 311a. 52, riTer 1.1 feet, clear, light northerly wind. POUNDOD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, July 4, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands Se No. 85 eaFeiti 0BB ira e waning A EarMaFl Con Legion Fourth Program Will Draw Crowds j Monday Show Will Start j at 9:15; Auto Races - Set in Afternoon Fireworks and Dance at Night Will Wind up big; Annual Event - ttOXDAY'S CELEBRATION PROGRAM, FAIRGROUNDS 9:15 a. w. Children's sports athletics, diaper derby. 10:30 a. nu Dr. Brace Baxter, speaker, patriotic eaer rises, flag raising. . 11:30 a. m. Dr. J. F. Hosch, speaker, patriotic exer cise, music. 1:80 p. in. Trial beats, auto ' races. 7:00 p. bu Band concert, old . time fiddler contest. 8:15 p. nw Vaudeville. 9 : 15 p. rov--Fireworks. 0:30 p. m Carnival dance. Rides, concessions, music all .day. , , .-; ... Salem will become a "ghost elty" today, at least as far as tbo business section is concerned, and with the last tinkle of a cash register last night businessmen ind employes made ready to spend the double holiday of the Fourth In various ways. , : The. city's observance of the 1 Cist anniversary of . Independ ence day will be centered in the giant 15-hour long celebration to be held Monday at the state fair grounds under auspices of Capital post No. 9 of the American Le gion. ' " i Two entrances to the ; fair grounds will be thrown open to the public early in the morning before the first scheduled event at 9:11 and, from that time on, Salem peoplg end valley residents will pour through the -WfTistlles to swell the celebration crowds. Families may avail themselves of the picnic groves for the day, the grounds committee . has stated. Every taste as to what the Fourth's observance should be will be satisfied in the varied schedule of events lined up by the Legion committee in charge. There will be stirring band music, thrill ing auto races, patriotic exercises and speeches, dancing, fireworks, and novelty events such as the diaper derby. Eight rides and con cessions will operate on the mid way. Baxter, Hosch and Kuhn to Speak - I Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of Willamette university, will head an interesting array of speakers which Includes Dr. J. F. Hosch of Bend and Mayor V. E. Kuhn. ! A lineup of diaper derby aspir ants, some with practice, some without, will be at the starting line for that event at 9:15 a.m. The dirt track at the fair grounds will be churned at-2:30 o'clock by the wheels of some of the fastest gas buggies in the northwest, with top-notch drivers such as Jimmie Wllburn, 1935 champion of Portland, Swede Lin skog of Seattle, Lea Anderson and Jimmy Miller, at the wheel.' Four Salem-owned cars will compete, those owned by Charles Wiedick, Dansell Wilson and Claude Wall ing. . "" .'- The "night show at the band stand, with three hours of enter tainment, will be climaxed by the largest fireworks program seen here in some years, preceded by .vaudeville acts, j tiddler's contest and a band, concert, t The ' traif onned Salem high school band will be on the grounds all day, presenting morn ing, afternoon and night concerts of music appropriate tor the na tional holiday. . At 9:10 p.m., a gay finis will be written to the celebration with a dance on the midway at which the carnlvaf spirit will be In or- der. - V - "'' The American Legion's celebra tion this year is in charge of the following commission: Ray Stum- bo, Glen Forter, aimer Harden and Irl McSberry, secretary. a - w " onsibility is Taken by Amelia OAKLAND, Calif., July J-- Amelia Earhart sponsiDiniy if pi. ".sun ueorge jrus. u.t -v. 1 nana, wimj. 1 Possibly toreseemg a iorcea landing in such an isolated spot s the Pacific ocean around How- land island, Putnam quoted Miss Earhart as telling him before she l" . V" vV. .,nn.ti,nrM jun w " "1 know that lf I am lost, you for allowing me to leave on this aa.a 9ia r lr av or 1 nn TIlrnL will be blamed, and everyone con with It vifiiKU us mmm It'a mv resnonsiblltv and gaint alone.- Dynamite is Hurled at'i Train Soviet's Drive On State Foe Hits Churches Many Among 'Liquidated9 Are Members ; All of Denominations Hit 131 v Executions Counted by Paper and More Under Arrest MOSCOW, July 3.-flVThe so viet union's drive against enemies of the state today turned strongly against the church Protestant, Catholic and Russian orthodox alike. Official newspapers published warnings that churches were in league with fascism and capital ism, preparing imperialist wars and masking spies and wreckers under clerical garb. They declared many, persons recently "liquida ted" which usually means exe cuted had church affiliations. and disclosed that others had been "condemned. Churchmen were declared to have figured in spy plots for Ger many, Japan. Poland and Estonia, and to have operated in the far east as well as near the union's western frontiers. The newspaper Pacific Star of Khabarovsk,. Siberia, recently dis closed there had been 111 execu tions of alleged spies and wreck ers in the Russian far east in re cent months. The "condemned' clergymen, it said, had been spies who "concealed behind priests' robes, actively prepared plots against officials of the state and the communist party. ' Leonid Zakovsky, chief of se cret police in the Leningrad area, who yesterday disclosed the ar rests of at least 120 alleged spies (Turn to page 10, eoL I) , Seattle Paper Is Gosed by Strike All Editions Published on Saturday but Pickets Wfll Halt Monday J SEATTLE, July 1-UB-A news service, United - Press, started moving equipment from the Seat tle Star plant late today after SO Star employes, members of the American Newspape r Guild, struck in a jurisdictional dispute between the Guild and the Team sters union.. ' i-... ;; Guild officers said they had ad vised the news service to move because they could not guarantee its employes safe passage through picket lines. The Star published an editions today, despite tne walkout and a picket line of about SO persons. It used a skele ton news staff of non-guild mem bers and the three printers who were in the building when the picket line was formed. -The strike occurred during the printers' -lunch period. Although only 19 circulation employes were involved in the or iginal dispute, the Star manage- (Tum to page 10, col 7) 2935 Marketing Act Ruled Invalid by PORTLAND. July 9-WV-The Multnomah circuit court held the Oregon agricultural marketing act unconstitutional in an oninion aanaea aown today by Judge Ja- coo manner, state Agricultural Director Solon T. White and At torney General I. H. Van Winkle. named defendants, announced an ppai to the supreme court may In declaring fi& vaIi Ti 2" decr that White be en- I jumea irom exercising anv of the 1 wwers vesiea in him by terms qi the act. Kansler held . delegated lerialattv. administration officials ntr.r 1 the state of Oregoh ia m.i - aukuui ii w nv In v'. "ul0ir na no I wun otflcial dut ti n ecuuve depart- ler ruled. The lZZJL . aaeu- I sir ia innnln(a4 i The sun WMlrouiht iV the i Orernn Cmama.. . . . u m - mi uiui w Msnttr a I association. Mt A-.., "urer I Creamery. Albany Creamer ZL -T wmtry - Nmr Steel Mill &mp Of final 0 W-. ;:-.( 'v r -vr- it - ' vv-; Arrested In connection with an alleged plot to blow up part of the Republic Steel company plant at Warren, On these ; three men are held under $25,- l 000 bond. They are, from; top, George Bnndas, John Borawiec and Arthur Scott. Scott accused Gua BaU, C.LO. organizer, of directing the alleged ' conspir- ;. acy. .. i Taxation Bills Favored WASHINGTON, Jply 3.-(a)-House leaders predicted - today there would be little opposition to enactment of legislation at this session to plug "loopholes" in the tax laws through which the treasury says the government is losing millions of dollars in revenue, j.' - : ; j . Judge Kansler soclatlon. Ideal Dairy company, Oregon City Creamery company, Sandy Creamery, mc : wrvau reamery, inc., ana me Airuu Creamery and Poultry company. The act empowered the . agri cultural director to establish pric es. Plaintiffs stated the act naa created a condition of dooDt ana uncertainty among the memDers of the creamery associations and others engaged in the industry. Teatimnnv showed the plaintiff companies processed and distrib uted annually 75 per cent or tne nutter in Oreron about 22,000,- 000 pounds in a $13,000,000 busi ness. . ; Oreron arrlcaltural interests will not suffer any detrimental ef fects as the result of Judge Kans- ler's decision holdins the 1935 state marketing law unconstltn tional. Solon T. White, state di rector of agriculture, declared Saturday. White said the marketing law was enacted, at the special 1935 legislative session after the prev t -' ij ' . r- 1 ,0UI 'Ute mrketin J tTum to page 10, coL 1) Ohio Governor Sends TrooDS To Cleveland Violence Feared Tuesday When Republic Plants Are Opened There Mass Meetings to Show Strength of Strike Movement Slated . JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio an ounced tonight that national guard troops would be ordered to Cleveland for the scheduled re opening Tuesday of four Repub lic Steel Corp., plants while strike leaders in the 7 -state steel strike area called four mass meetings for a "show of strength" tomor row. State police t h r e w a heavy guard around Bethlehem Steel corporation's Cambria wyrks to night after the arrest of a former steel worker for allegedly hurling dynamite at a freight train leav ing the plant. . Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton and Sheriff Martin L. O' Donnell appealed to Governor Davey for state troops upon Re public's announcement of reop ening Tuesday morning. "Violence and disorder are cer tain unless proper steps are tak en to prevent it,". their, request said. . :T . The United Labor Congress, an organisation of C.I.O. union locals, demanded late today that Mayor Burton refrain from "sending police or requesting troops to break the strike." Republic's four Clevland plants have been closed since the start of the strike against Republic, Toungstown Sheet, ft Tube Co., and Inland 8teel Corp., over a month ago. The strike spread to Bethlehem later. Captain Clark Immediately strengthened police guards around all water supplies, pipe lines and railroad . property in the area. Two other men were taken Into custody for questioning. ' Captain Clark said Layton as serted he had been approached by two men who asked him to, do . them , "a favor,' Instructing him where to find the dynamite to throw at the-train. C W. Jones, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, recently asked rail road officials to declare "unsafe" the area traveled by trains in the strike sone. CI. O. strike leaders, faced by back-to-work movements throughout the seven-state steel strike area, called four "show strength" mass meetings for to morrow. The rallies were announced for Johnstown, Toungstown, Warren and Canton, O., where national guardsmen have enforced peace during the last week. James Mark, S. W. O. C. strike lieutenant, continued to assert 40,000 miners from the coal fields of western Pennsylvania come to Johnstown to hear an address by Philip Murray, Sr W. O. C. chairman. : State police said a . cheek-up showed only scattered handfuls (Turn to page 10, coL 7) Commerce Planes To Span Atlantic RrtTWOOD. Newfonnd land. July S-iflPfr-Two deep-hulled fly ing , DoatS ot oungaiow propor tions were groomed tonight to span the north Atlantic and link tne oia woria wna ute new va Monday by commercial air trans port. ' J " On a lake cupped by the flats of Newfoundland an American airplane, the Pan American Clip per III, rode at anchor, ready for the 1900-mile night to Foynes, Ireland. She arrived late today from Manhasset bay. Long Island, aft er a flight of 1073 miles. At Southampton, ' England, awaiting more favorable weather conditions on the Irish eoasVthe British Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia was manned for the Jnitial leg of her westward voyage, to Foynes, probably to morrow. ... . . When the Clipper, with a ton nage approximately half that of Christopher Columbus , sailship Nina, comes to rest at , th .mouth of the River Shannon, Europe will have its first glimpse of an Ameri can commercial flyin , Silverton and Sellwood Win -; y-i - -V' ,-, . ... Opening Game Silver Falls Conqueror of Woodburn in Duel of Burch, Fallin New; j Field Is . Dedicated ; Crowd of 3000 There 1" for Ceremonies SILVERTON. July 3 (Special) Silverton fans went home hap py from the opening night of the state semi-pro tournament here after seeing the home town Silver Falls i Timber company team de feat its natural rival, Woodburn, 5 to "2 in a' pitcher's battle be tween Don Burch and Woodburn's Lee Fallin. Sellwood defeated Molalla 10 to 1 in the opener after the , 3 000 spectators had seen the field dedi cated and named McGinnls field in honor of W. L. McGinnls, man ager the Silver Falls ball club. Mayor W. H. Moffett of Silver ton; cracked out a clean single over second base off L. H. Greg ory's delivery to open the tourna ment event which will last for two weeks,; Don! Burch, Silverton's veteran hurler, had his customary first in ning trouble as one run scored but (Turn to page 10, col. 5) Britain to Insist i ts Rearming for That Reason Is Warning; Freedom ; of Sea one Issne LONDON, July' 3.(P)-Brltish leader reminded a tense Europe today! that ' Britain ; is rearming to compel respect for her rights and interests'; and that violation of the territorial integrity ' of Spain or free access to the Medi terranean, included in those in terests, would not be tolerated. Prime Minister . Chamberlain and Foreign' Secretary Eden spoke to garden party audiences of their constituents, but 'their hearers believed they were ad dressing also the leader of Italy and Germany, Chamberlajn, at Birmingham, declared one jot his chief alms Is to make Britain so strong "that nobody dare treat her with any thing but respect." . Eden, at CougMon, In War wickshire, gave warning that Britain Is determined "to main tain the territorial Integrity of Spain ! and t e e p the Mediter ranean open, as a main arterial road.;i " f''j " ; Eden declared Britain has the support of both parties in Spain In her efforts to maintain the Integrity ot that country. Declaring the civil war was the outcome- "of a prolonged period of weak government," he added: "In those troubled wat- i era foreign elements of various unas nave naa tneir iair snare of fishing. Intervention has not been on one; side alone, and has not been limited to the period after the war.". Both speeches were interpret ed as leaving little doubt Britain would : maintain a firm stand against yesterday's; Italo-German (Turn to page 10, coL 6) - Teamster Strike PHILADELPHIA, July Trucking in the Philadelphia Camden area returned to normal quickly today after the American Federation of Labor abandoned a teamsters' holiday for an elec tion ; in a jurisdictional dispute with the committee for Industrial organization over the city's bak ery truck drivers, w;! vv, The holiday caused a 15-hour tie-up during which several trucks were overturned. Three morning newspapers suspended publication after early editions to avoid vio lence, if, I -i (n : : ; ' ' . -; - Mayor; S. Davis WUson forced the issue of an j election after an all-night 'conference between the union groups by j threatening the use of police, firemen, volunteers, and park guards to assure the movement of foodstuffs.' 5 The holiday was called yester day by the teamsters' joint coun cil No. S3, A. F. of L., to protest what it termed an "invasion! of the teamsters' movement" by the CV I. O. Union officers said more than 29,000 trucks were affected. Late Sports WESTERN JSTJm LEAGUE Vancouver 4, Tacoma 1. Takima 6, Wenatchee 1. ? fpokane II, Lewiston C. Rish Respected Fighting Planes F rom Lexington Will Join )f Flier; Japan Army Still Keeping on Alert Evacuation of Russians in Amur Vicinity Slated; . Public Relieved ' , TOKYO, July 3-5VJPn's army in Manchuria, while hail ing the prospective peaceful set tlement of the crisis on the, river Amur, remained alert today to see that Soviet promises to evacuate the trouble sone are carried, out. Dispatches fn-i Hslnking, Jap anese military hedquarters on the continent, quoted army leaders as warning that further "Illegal acts" sgainst the territory of Mancbou kuo, Japan's protectorate, would not be tolerated. ; Evacuation of Soviet troops and about 20 Soviet river' gunboats from the region of Sennufu and Bolshoi, disputed islands in the Amur, was promised by Moscow to begin this afternoon. It was ex pected to end for the time being Russo-Japanese tension that reached its height Wednesday when Japanese artillery sank one Russian gun'? at, caused another to be beached and a third to flee. The Moscow pledge was given after the Japanese ambassador had assured the Soviet govern ment there were no Japanese or Manchoukuo warcraft in the) dis puted reach ot the Amur, border ot Manchoukuo and Siberia Some Japanese leaders' insisted Russia must give adequate guar antees against . a repetition of Wednesday's clash, 1 which arose over difficulties as to I whether the river boundary runs and( over possession of the islands, j 1 However, most of Japan greet ed the lifting ot tension withTman ifestltations ot relief. tj HU- J - De jValera Nears ty in Dail DUBLIN, July 4-(Sunday)-P)-With fl seats yet to be filled, Pres. Kamon de Valera. early to day needed to win only 20 to gain an absolute parliamentary major ity in the Free State's election. He al;r) appeared to be winning his fight for a new constitution which would cut his country's last ties with Great Britain. At 2:30 a.m., 322,919 votes had been reported in favor of the new charter and 264,688 against it., De Valera's flanna fall party had won BO of the 138 seats in the dall (parliament). Former Pres. William T. Cosgrave's party 3 0, labor ten and independents seven. ! - y AH cabinet ministers were re elected to the dalL - Wicklow constituency voted against the proposed new consti tution, as did one Dublin and two Sligo constituencies, while the vote in several others was close. Boy Gravely Hurt In Hopping Train ALBANY, i July 3.-H)-Paul, 13, son of Rev. and Mrs. Alan H. Banks, fell from a Southern Pacific freight train here today and - had his left leg severed above the knee. "Sorry, IH never do it again, the lad told trainmen as they took him to! a hospital.- He said he tried to! board the freight "Just for fun." Majori Blotter Advertising Staged Here, Told in Court l- How a dozen' or so Salem business men lost money on a blotter advertising scheme short,; ly before the last legislative ses sion was disclosed at a circuit court ' trial yesterday, afternoon In which O.j H.' Stapp, who had lain in jail fsinca December. 31, 1936. was ruled by-Judge L. H. McMahan to! be not guUty of a charge of obtaining money by false - pretenses. SUpp was charged specifically with i givingj a forged 147.60 check to Sol; Taylor in exchange for a watchi and $10 in cash. Reference to the blotter - deal was injected!' by District Attor ney Lyle J.j Page.. : Collected Bleney - ; l No Blotters jPrinteo! ! According! to Stapp, he Joined with a man - named Fisher in a scheme to sell merchants adver tising space on blotters to be passed among- the legislators.: He admitted 20 had been collected from about 13 business -men; Page asserted at least $35 was taken in. 1 The .. blotters were never printed nor the money re- Radio Clues Doubled Naval Air Service Facilities - to Be Utflized; Plane First Sent Is Forced Back by Snow, Sleet Doubt Gist on SOS Signals Reported Heard From Missing Aviatrix; - Itasca Continuing Quest ABOARD V. S. COAST GUARD CUTTER ITASCA, Rowland Island, July S.-(JP)-The Coast Guard Cutter Itasca returned to Howland tonight after an unsuccessful 83-hour search for the missing plane of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred J. Xoonan. ... During the period between 10:37 a. m. Friday and 8 p. m. tonight (8:07 p. m. Friday and 2:S0 a. m. Sunday EST) the cut ter covered 8,240 square miles of water north and northeast ef Howland island. The. search extended more than 100 miles away from the atoll. - , The search will be resumed at daylight tomorrow morning, working northwest of the island. Later the Cutter will search an area 200 miles westward. HONOLULU, July 3 (AP) The navy tonight reinforced the f altering hunt for Amelia Earhart with the power ful aircraft carrier Lexington and 54 fighting planes in the face of discouraging prospects. The Lexington was ordered to fuel to capacity and leave San Diego tomorrow for a 4400-mile run to Howland island and take up the quest. During a day of slowly ebbing hope, a long-range navy . r O plane left Honolulu for a 1500- 7 ..iJ D . T Spreading in U.S. Trend to Safety on July Fourth : Is Observed (By The Associated Press) Let's, make it safe and sane. That was ; the watchword in scores of cities today as officials strove to forestall death and in Jury In the annual Independence day celebration. They sought to .keep dangerous fireworks from inexpert hands by law and police ; vigilance. They sponsored supervised displays in public parks and stadia. . During the double holiday on July 4 and 5 last year, the na tion counted 346 fatalities. Elev en of them ' were, attributed to fireworks, 208 to traffic acci dents, '90 to drowning and the remainder to sundry other causes. Sale of pyrotechnics this year has been prohibited in St. Paul, Cleveland, Chicago, Des Moines, Central Falls and Providence, R. L, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville, Ten n., Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Omahaand the Dis trict of Columbia. : Seattle- and Spokane both prohibit the sale and use. ' - r ; ' - Their use has been . outlawed in Atlanta, Little Rock, Milwau kee, San Francisco, Oakland, Co lumbia, S. C, eight. Iowa. towns, many communities in Arizona, North Carolina, and West Vir ginia and In the vicinity of Okla homa City's oil wells. A New Jersey law bans fire works of all kinds except in li censed displays. i "Dangerous" "explosives were nned In Los Angeles. Purchase by private individuals was charred by Michigan, law. (The slie of the 'crackers was prescribed by regulation In Massa chusetts, Wisconsin, r Texas, , Lin coln, Nebr., New Orleans and Jacksonville, Fla." (Turn to page 10, col. t) o , turned,, as far as Stapp knows. he said Stapp also enlightened ; the court and officers concerning an effort New York authorities had made and then dropped to, have him returned there. He and a brother, he said, some time ago accepted $500 from a gold mine stock promoter at Buffalo, N. Y., tot sell s t O c k In California, where they had a wide acquaint ance. They went to California with the $500,' he said, but made no ' effort to sell any stock. 1 was familiar with that mine, in Colorado and I knew it was no good," Stapp said. I'm a University of Michigan graduate - and. I have studied mineralogy and geology." ', When questioned as to whether or not' he had ever before "been in trouble, , Stapp at first answered In the negative but later admitted' he had been ar rested in Los Angeles on sus picion but had been released after 72 hours. Explaining the Los Angeles Incident In detail , , (Turn to page 10, coL t) ' Carrier in Quest mile dash to the scene; but . got caught in a snow, sleet and light ning storm high above the earth as it approached the. equitoria! region and was forced to turn back. The coast guard cutter Itasca carried on the search alone la the Howland region where Miss - Earhart and her navigator, Fred J. - Noonan, , presumably cam down yesterday a few miles short of their tiny goaL - ; By mid-afternoon ft reported it had scanned 3000 square miles el ocean without having sighted or. heard from the missing fliers. Recurring reports of SOS calls; being heard from the helpless Earhart plane raised the hope of relatives and friends but some) of the leaders in the search ex- pressed Increasing pessimism over the possibilities of suecess. Officials Skeptical About Radio Calls Confusion and overlapping re " ports ot distress calls made tt dif ficult to sift them 'down to defin Ite Information but authoritieg were openly skeptical about some of them. radio signals from the Itasca her self. -A Although the weather in the vi cinity of Howland island was re ported in no wise unusual, word ' of the high altitude storm caused naval authorities here to dispatch - tuur euriuco vessels aiong tne route of the returning rescue plane to guide It to a safe landing.- , - -A- -. .-- , The Itasca, which had tempor arily abandoned the hunt and re- . turned to Howland island to serve as a base for larger operations, immeaiateiy oegan combing the area about Howland Island where (Turn to page 10, col. I) i .....' , Bonneville Bills To Get Attention PORTLAND, July 3-(-Ben-nerllle legislation was expected to get under way the coming week in the senate and possibly hi the house, the Oregon ian Washington bureau r dispatched-, tonight. - The bureau stated , Chairman' Mansfield of the rivers and har- bors committee Is seeking a rule ty which the house bill can come to the floor for debate. , i, --The senate commerce commit tee has practically agreed on the senate Bonneville bill, the dis patch stated. This measure was written by, the Oregon and Wash ington senators after conferences covering many weeks. ' ' Both house and senate bills provide for a civil administrator. Tre Oregonian representative stat ed rumors, persist that Secretary of Interior Ickes has J. D. Ross, manager of the Seattle municipal power plant, In mind for tho Job. ALL A DE o f TO D A V By R. a 7 . , Twas . July xourtn, some three life-spans ago . the col onies decided they would throw off despot's rule apd form this nation grand; and so in quite our customary way well. cele brate on Independence Day, the . birthday of a free and happy , land. . ' J