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PCUNDOO 1651
EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, August 1, 1937
Priet 3c; Newsstands 5
No. 109
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Open Season,
Games
Senate Passes
Wage Measure
Over to House
40-Cent Pay and 40-Hour
Week May Be Set by
. Board, Provided
Shipment of Goods Made
by
Child Labor Would
Be Banned, Voted
"WASHINGTON. July
Admlnistratlon forces pushed the
revised Black-Connery wage and
hour bill through the senate to
day, overcoming defection in
democratic ranks.
A long day of -debate and roll
calls on amendments neared an
end when the senate defeated,
48 to 36, a motion to send me
bill back to the labor committee
for further study.
This move was quickly fol
lowed by another roll call which
passed the bill to the house by
56 to 28 margin.
Twenty two democrats and 14
republicans voted to recommit
the measure, a move which
would have ended its consider
ation for the session. One re
publican and three independents
Joined 45 democrats in defeating
that effort. ?
The measure, one of the major
Hems in President Roosevelt's
legislative program for this year,
was drafted to accomplish tome
of the ends that NRA once
ion eh t to reach.
" It would give to an adminis
trative board power to fix mini
mum wages and maximum hours
for Industries engaged in inter
state commerce. It also would
outlaw child labon in trade cross
ing state lines.
Moro Drastic Bill
Drafted in House-
Th board could not fix a min
imum wage higher than 40 cents
an hour nor a maximum work
week shorter than 40 hours.
A much more drastic bill has
been drafted by the house labor
committee, permitting the pro-
nnspd labor standard board to
fir minimum wages as hlgb as
70 cents an hour and a work
week as low as 35 hours.
Opponents forced more than a
dozen successive roll call votes on
amendments.
Among major amendments
. ,) r a ttin atihat Itnttnn of
BUVIU
the Wheeler-Johnson child labor
out lor u cum iuui jimuoiujij
in the bill.
The Wheeler-Johnson proposal
would prevent shipment of child
labor goods Into a state in viola
tlon of the laws of that state in
addition to barring , such ship
ments from Interstate commerce
Child Labor Age
Limit Set at 10 (
The wage-hour bill contained a
simple prohibition against inter
state shipments. Both measures
-fixed the child labor age limit at
18 and. In the case of hasardous
Industries, at 18 years of age.
Senator Byrnes (D-SC) appeal
ed to the senate to recommit the
bill on the ground it would harm
small business establishments. He
said also It would cut farmers'
profits by making their purchases
more costly. :
Majority Leader Markley (D
Ky), Making his first appeal for
a major administration measure
since his election as floor leader,
told the senate it was "not deal-
ins: WHO COld economic lisures.
but human : prooiems ana soci
problems."
After passing: the wage-hour
bill, the senate voted to begin de
bate on the Wagner housing bill
when It convenes Monday at noon.
Restaurant Operators Turn
Down Union Contract 1 erms
The Salem Restaurant Opera
tors' association last - night an
nounced that final consideration
had been given union contract
proposals made by the culinary
alliance, local No. 452, and they
r had been rejected. Contract ne
gotiations had been in progress
since early June. -. ;
The announcement, of action
4-flken Thursday night, came on
the eve of the deadline, August
1, whieh the alliance recently set
' as the date by which the res
? taurant operators must sign, up
f with the union. - -
The alliance will Immediately
i place association members on the
I unfair list and at a special meet
ing Monday or Tuesday will au
' thorixe picketing of one or more
' of the restaurants, C. A. Cham
' bers, business agent, said when he
learned the . contract had been
denied. " '-:"-'.
Minimum Wage Scale
Set by Operators ;
Coinciding . with the announce
ment that negotiations with the
anion had been dropped, came the
report from Frank Chatas, as
president, that the association ox
W ! -
inf luential miles .ay-
Repudiate Lew' policy
Says Capitol $ bserver
Opposition to Sitdown Strikes and Domineering
Attitude Toward President Is Mentioned;
Recruiting Slows
NEW YORK, July 31. (AP) The New York Herald
Tribune in a special dispatch from its Washington bureau
said tonight, that six influential leaders who collaborated
with John L. Lewis in forming the Committee for Industrial
Organization are on the verge of tacitly repudiating the
Lewis labor politics.
1 O Those named by the news
Valley Scheme Is
Opposed, Waltons
Project Delay Urged Until
Survey Made; Censure
of Martin Tabled
McMINNVILLE, July 31-)-The
Isaac Walton league in con
vention here today took the coun
sel of Irvine E. Vining of 'Ashland
and tabled a formal censure of
the state game commission and
governor Martin for "lack of in
terest." The criticism was presented by
Chester McCarty when he said
it was-apparent that no members
of the commission nor the execu
tive were in attendance at the
league's convention.
Vining, a former of the game
commission, urged moderation in
the protest and Matt F. Corrlgan,
retiring president of the league
and also former member of the
commission, suggested no action
be taken. The criticism included
the declaration that the governor
and the commission were playing
politics with the conservation in
terests. William P. Davidson of Port
land was elected new president of
the league. Ed Keitzer of Cottage
Grove was re-elected vice-president
and Harlan Wood of Tilla
mook was named secretary-treasurer.
The Waltonians passed a reso
lution opposing the Willamette
ralley flood control project until
the federal bureau of fisheries
had made a survey into the prob
able damage to fish life from the
dams.
American Pilots
May Join Chinese
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July
31-(i5,)-The Times said tonight
it had learned that 182 American
pilots and aviation mechanics
were planning to sail from here
soon to man combat planes in
China.
The newspaper quoted Russell
L. Hearn. soldier of fortune, as
denying knowledge of any re
cruiting here but saying:
"There are lots of boys who
have been training as pilots and
who would like to be stunt fliers
in the movies, but who are out
of work.
"If Americans wish to go to
China and then enlist, there's
nothing to stop them."
Baxters Car Overturns
Bui Couple not Injured
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Bax
ter, returning to Salem after
two weeks In Los Angeles, es
caped serious Injury when their
car overturned- south of Salem
yesterday morning. Except for
being shaken' up, neither Dr.
Baxter nor Mrs. Baxter was hurt-
operators had established a min
imum wage scale of Its own that
approximated the union pay levels
in effect the past year. Chatas
declined to disclose the minimum
wage figures but Indicated the
new scale represented an Increase
of as much as 20 per cent la nu
merous cases, outside of the larger
eating houses.
In a notification to Chambers,
Chatas stated that the union pro
posals had received "earnest con
sideration" by all member opera
tors and they had decided they
were "unable to fit these pro
posals Into the conduct of - our
business without seriously Impair
ing the service which is so essen
tial to our business or without
raising prices to such an extent
that we-would be faced with a
serious loss of patronage."
The primary reason for rejec
tion of the union, contract, Chatas
declared, was that "It came from
the union and not from our em
ployes, who had nothing to say
about it." He gave as a secondary
reason what he represented as a
union requirement that the em
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A 1 1
up, Paper Claims
paper as differing with Lewis on
such CIO strategems as the sit
down strike, in particular, are:
bidney Hillman, president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America.
Charles P. Howard, president
of the International Typographi
cal union. '
Francis Gorman, head of the
United Textile Workers.
David Dubinsky. president of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers union.
Harvey C. Gremmlng. president
of the oil field, gas well and re
finery workers.
Max Zaristky, president of the
cap and millinery department of
the United Hatters, Cap and Mill
inery Workers' International
union.
Another reason for the reDorted
disaffection, according to the
Herald Tribune, was the "domi
neering attitude" toward the
Roosevelt administration which
the powerful CIO sub-leaders see
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Insurgent Revolt
Gaimed, Granada
But Rebels Counter With
Story of Government
Troops' Surrender
H E N D A Y E, Franco-Spanish
Border, July Sl.-fpj-The Spanish
government asserted today re
volts had broken out at four points
in insurgent-held territory.
The reports brought emphatic
denials from the headquarters of
Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Government communiques de
clared outbreaks occurred at the
old southern city of Granada, on
the Santander front in the north
and at the southern coastal cities
of Malaga and Motril.
Said the Insurgents:
Two thousand government
soldiers surrendered near Espiel,
in southern Cordoba nrovince.
while Franco's troops In eastern
Spain crossed the border of Cuen
ca province in their march south
ward toward the Madrid-Valencia
highway, the link between the old
and new seats of government.
Government sources gave these
accounts of the Granada revolt:
Spanish Insurgent soldiers in
Granada rebelled when they were
told to move out of their barracks
to make place for Italians fight
ing for Franco and when Italian
officers were placed in high posi
tions. Bombs were loosed within
the city to crush the uprising.
Relief Trucks to
Have no Priority
PORTLAND, July 31-GPWNo
priority will be given relief owner-
operators of trucks on WPA pro
jects, the Portland Oregonian re
ported tonight in a dispatch from
Washington. The work will rotate.
The ultimatum was given Col.
F. C. Harrington, assistant WPA
administrator, to Senator Charles
L. McNary.
Harrington said the practice of
giving all truck work to those on
relief led to abuses in many lo
calities, and the new regulations
opening the work to both relief
and non-relief workers should be
given a trial.
The official stated the old sys
tem never was intended to allow
a relief client to purchase equip
ment for that purpose and to
build up an equity as a result of
this employment.
Pritchett Thinks
' Boycott Unlikely
HOQU1AM, Wash., July 31-
-Harold Pritchett, president of
the new CIO International wood'
workers of America, today an
swered a challenge of A. J W.
Mulr, Pacific Coast Carpenters
and .Joiners leader that carpen
ters would not handle one stick
of CIO lumber, by saying that
"the International Woodworkers
do not believe , that carpenters
intend to boycott themselves out
of a Job."
Pritchett gained entry Into the
United States from Canada on a
border permit today, j
Agreement on
Surplus Hops
Ratified Here
Half Million Payment Is
Provided, Diversion
: of 34's and Older
$7 per Bale to Be Paid
Growers, Announced
as Board Meets
improvement in the western
hop market to be brought about
by wiping out an old surplus ap
peared likely through the approv
al yesterday by the Pacific Coast
Hop Stabilization corporation
board of a proposed agreement
with the agricultural adjustment
administration.
The agreement has been approv
ed iin Washington and it went into
effect with yesterday's ratifica
tion by the board here, directors
said.
The new agreement provides
1U1 IUO U1TC1B1UU 1 1 V til Ulcnuif,
channels of approximately 75,-
000 bales of hops, which, grown
in 1934 and prior years, had
hung over the hop market and
worked a depressive effect on
prices. Most of the surplus hops
hafe been signed up by the star
billzatlon corporation.
These hops, the directors ex
plained, will now be rendered un
fit for brewing purposes and, in
accordance with the agricultural
adjustment act, will be diverted
from the normal channels or
trade.
Payment of 9)7 per
Bale Due Growers
Growers in return will receive
7- per bale, less costs of diver
sion. The directors estimated
this would mean a distribution to
growers holding these hops of ap
proximately one-half million dol
lari. Ratification of yesterday
agreement was believed to have
effected one of the stabilization
board's two main objectives. The
other is enactment by congress of
legislation, now pending, to ob-
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Shite Celebrates
Birthday in Lung
(CHICAGO. July 81-0iP)-Fred
Smte, jr., celebrated his 27th
birthday today as a "very cheer
ful" prisoner in the "iron lung"
which has kept him alive for 16
months.
The only guests, in addition to
members of the family, were the
Chinese nurses who accompanied
young Suite on his long journey
frem Peiping, China. The youth,
then 25, was stricken with in
fantile paralysis while on a va
cation trip in the orient.
Paralysed from the neck down
and encased in a large barrel
shaped machine which helps him
breathe, young Snite reads by
having the book placed on a glass
over his head and looking straight
toward the ceiling.
Earmers to Seek
Labor Showdown
THE DALLES, Ore., July 31-()-Wasco
county wheat and
fruit growers set Thursday sb
the time they "will hare it out"
wjth union organizers, accused
by growers of attempting to im
pose drastic restrictions on farm
truck operation.
J A resolution adopted by 150
of! the irate workers of the soil
here stated that the farmers
wuld "meet force with force"
and refuse to tolerate any med
dling by unions among workers
supported by farm industry. They
will appear at the ; scheduled
mjeetjng In a body.
jLusk to Assume Duties
PORTLAND, July 31-P)-Jadge
Hall Lusk, recently ap
pointed to the state supreme
court bench to succeed the late
Jtstlce J. U. Campbell, said he
wjcmld take over his new duties
next week. He win finish his
work on the circuit bench here
Monday.
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Japanese Troops
Move Southward
Extend Control Over big
Area Outside Peiping
and Tientsin Zone
TIENTSIN, July 31 iP The
Japanese army announced today
its airforce had carried battle
against the Chinese farther south
ward with the bombing of troop
concentrations at Paotingfu, 85
miles southwest of Peiping.
The bombing of Paotingfu car
ried the zone of hostilities well
beyond the Peiping-Tientsin area,
over which the Japanese claimed
to have established almost com
plete military domination.
Japanese army spoksmen said
their troops controlled all of Ho-
peh province north of a line from
Tangku on the seacoast, running
through Tientsin and thence gen
erally following the railway west
northwest to beyond Peiping.
Japanese units were reported
in control of part of the Peiping-
Sulyuan railway, outlet for Mon
golia and China's northwest.
Japanese Infantry, having ap-
turedthe important railway town
of Changsientlen, 15 mUes from
Peiping on the west bank of the
Tungting river, were reported to
have advanced seven miles fur
ther to Liangsiang.
The conquests of the last few
days have placed the Japanese
army astride of China's two main
north-south railways and In eon
trol of a section' of the Peiping
Sulyuan link with the northwest.
New Precincts in
County Probable
Several Marion county pre
cincts probably will be divided
following the contemplated No
vember 2 county courthouse
election, County Clerk U. O.
Boyer said yesterday. The
clerk's election staff plans be
tween November and the May,
1938, primaries to study all
large precincts in the county and
In instances found advisable, to
split them so as to lighten the
load on the election boards.
Among the precincts being
considered for possible division
are Salem Nos. 1, 2 and 14,
Fairgrounds, Englewood, and one
or two or the four silverton
precincts.
The law requires the breaking
up of precincts having more
than 500 registered voters, Boy
er stated. In some counties a
maximum of 250 has been set
up locally.
At present Marlon county has
77 precincts.
McKalip Chosen
For Rooks Coach
At Oregon State
CORVALLIS. July 3.1.-(ffV
rercy Locey, director of athletics
at Oregon State college, an
nounced tonight the appointment
of William W. "Wild Bill" Mc
Kalip as coach of freshman sports
at the college.
McKalip has been a profession
al football player for five years.
He was formerly star end for Ore
gon State and captain of the
eleven. He graduated in 1931.
For a time he was assistant to
Dutch Clark, head coaeh at the
Colorado School of Mines.
BY MAIL IX OREGON
Monthly .SO
Six months 2.50
One year 8.00
AMERICANS IN CHINA EASED,
f'.rr cr r
V
pill
J
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Above, the American legation In
Peiping, center of the Sino
Japanse war tone; below, Col.
John Mareton, in command of
the IT. S. marines at Peiping.
TJX photos.
Police of Seattle
Disperse Pickets
SEATTLE, July Sl.-D-Police
called by Mayor John F. Dore to
day dispersed picket lines in two
Seattle strikes.
Patrolmen first moved against
the CIO fur workers' union and
arrested 20 pickets and sympathi
zers who Were charged with dis
orderly conduct. Ball was set at
$25 each.
Squads later broke up a dem
onstration at the Seattle Star
plant where newspaper guild
members are on strike. The group
left quieUy after charging a
"lockout" by the Star manage
ment, j
Gordon Stein, International
vice-president of the CIO fur
workers affiliate, which is en
gaged in a dispute with the AFL
over jurisdiction of fur shop em
ployes, charged Mayor Dore and
the AFL were "trying to demoral
ize the strike."
Physician Killed
At Church Altar
EL CENTRO, Calif., July 31.
W) Before the horrified eyes of
65 members of the congregation,
Fred W. Simmons, 40, prominent
El Centro hatchery owner, shot
and killed himself today at the
altar of the Seventh Day Advent
lst church here.
Simmons did the shooting with
a .30-30 rifle, just after the Ad
ventists' Sabbath church services
ended.
The bodies dropped near a
placard which read: "The law of
God."
Police Sgt. Ceorge Bucklin said
investigating officers reported
Simmons frequently had expressed
dissatisfaction with the church
and at his wife's conduct with cer
tain members of the congregation.
Mrs. Simmons saw the shootings.
Members of the congregation
told officers they had been un
aware of any personal enmity be
tween Simmons and Dr. Webster.
Dr. Brady Added, 7
College Faculty
CORVALLIS, July Jl-ff)-Dr.
James J. Brady will be assistant
professor of physics at Oregon
State college thenext term. He
has held a similar position with
the St. Louis university.
.Brady Is a graduate of Reed
college of Portland and later add
ed degrees at Indiana and Cali
fornia universities.
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Tension Eases at
Peiping Legation
Americans There Allowed
to Leave; Corvallis
Folk in Vicinity
CORVALLIS, July Zl-(JP)-Fears
for the safety of Dr. and
Mrs. Raymond D. Jameson,
known to be in the Peiping area,
was expressed here In Oregon
State college faculty circles.
Dr. Jameson is the son of Mrs.
Kate W. Jameson, dean of wom
en. No direct word has been
received from the couple.
Other persons known to be In
the area, now the scene of the
Japanese-Chinese conflict, are
Letty Warrington, Corvallis. and
Betty Chandler, Eugene, co-eds
who went to China as exchange
students. They were scheduled
to leave there late in the sum
mer. PEIPING, Augil(Sunday)
(ffWThe United states 'embassy
today" permitted Americans to
quit the ' international legation
quarter where they sought sanc
tuary when Sino-Japanese out
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Silverton Postal
Building Favored
When government funds for
federal buildings are allocated a
new postofflce structure at Silver
ton will be given careful consid
eration, Senator Charles L. Mc
Nary telegraphed Governor
Charles H. Martin on Saturday.
McNary said he had presented
the required data to the federal
procurement department and had
requested that the Silverton proj
ect be included In the federal al
locations. "I understand that the procure
ment division is withholding final
consideration of the Silverton
postofflce project until such time
as the allocations for federal
buildings are made," McNary's
telegram read.
Governor Martin recently sent
a lengthy telegram to Senator
McNary urging the latter to in
quire into the status of the Sil
verton project.
New Era Project
Bid Call Dropped
PORTLAND, July 31.-(P)-The
United States engineers an
nounced cancellation of their call
for bids on the opening of 46,000
cubic yards of material from the
New Era bar in the Willamette
river above Oregon City.
The reason given for the action
was the lateness of the season.
Bids were to have been opened
August 3.
Ross Hits Back at Critics;
Declares Attack Premature
SEAVIEW, Wash., July 31-(ff)
-J. D. Ross of Seattle, prominent
ly mentioned, as probable admin
istrator of Bonneville dam power,
answered his critics here tonight,
declaring that "those who attack
me happen to be those who do
not want a good administration,
or they wouldn't attack me ahead
of time without cause.
Speaking before the nine-county
democratic league of south
western Washington, Ross said
that no Bonneville power bill had
passed the senate and that, there
fore, there la no administrator.
"All this attack on me Is pre
mature and unwarranted. For me
to answer the questions would be
totally presumptive." . . .
. Ross was referring to Inquiries
sent him by Mayor Joseph Carson
of Portland asking him his stand
on Bonneville rates and whether
he would favor a cheaper rate for
Portland over Seattle because of
the dam's proximity to the Ore
gon city. I
Continuing, he said: "I am ap
preciating the criticism - raised
against me as It arouses the en
Injunctions to
Be Called off
Says Attorney
Appeals From Rulings of
Crawford not Filed;
Stipulation Cited
New Cases Also May Be
Quashed to Permit
Prosecutions
uo yiuuau buu waruie uuarq
business will be thrown wide open
this week for prosecution fey law
enforcement officers throughout
Oregon, Ralph E. Moody, assist
ant attorney general, predicted
yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Moody, as special prosecu
tor of gambling cases for Marion
county, announced that Monday
morning he expected to secur
dismissal of the supreme court ap
peal of J. H. Campbell and N. J.
Arnold, pinball game owners,
from the decision handed down in
Portland last February by Circuit
Judge Crawford. The Multnomah
county judge ruled, on an equity
suit, that the game boards were
lotteries and gambling devices
and therefore were prohibited by
the state constitution and state
law.
Following up a renewed war
against the marble board busi
ness, Prosecutor Moody announc
ed that on Tuesday be. would go
before Circuit Judge L. G. Lev
elling here and demand that in
junctions recently obtained by Ar
nold, Campbell, John A. Moore
o A Tn)in Pi.!(, In .tm1, .rt rAfl -
auvi tfvuu v .14 Dim iiai vavo,
be : dissolved. Demurrers to the
five separate actions, contending
that the court of equity was with
out jurisdiction and had no power
to grant the relief prayed for, .
were mailed yesterday for filing
in circuit court Monday morning.
Other Injunctions "
"When these injunctions are
dismissed. Injunctions In other
counties may be dismissed and it
the district attorneys want to act,
they may stop these machines in
every county in the state," the
prosecutor declared. '
The imnendinsr dismissal of the
combined Arnold and Campbell
cases on appeal. Moody disclosed,
was provided for in stipulations
which both mm signed early last
June, in exchange for an exten
sion of time to complete their ap
peal. The stipulations provided
that If the appellants tailed ttf
file their appeal briefs by Juna
10, making a supreme court hear
ing possible "before vacation time,
the matter would be left in abey
ance until August 1. On that date,
the stipulations further specified
either the appellants would move
for dismissal of their appeal or
the state would have the right to
do so without notifying them.
"They did not perfect their ap- "
peal nor file their brief," Moody
said. "They did agree that if the
matter were permitted to be con
tinued to August 1 without court
action, they would remove their
machines and cease to operate In
Marlon county within three days
after the case was dismissed."
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B
A L L A D E
of TODAV
By R. C.
With federal help the pro
ducers of hops will get rid of
some burdensome holdover
crops, then hope to cash in on
the ones they raise new, with
out much assistance from
downy mildew.
thusiasm of my friends and the
curiosity of others."
No One Must Get
Edge, He Asserts
Urging the cooperation of all
classes seeking cheap power for
home and industry the manager
of the Seattle Municipal Light and
Power system declared:
"No one must get the edge on
the other or the project will be
a failure. If Portland can get
lower rates, bless them. My
opinion is that BonnevUle should
cost the .same to every type of
business, the farm and the
home." -
Turning to criticisms hurled
at him by Oregon's Governor,
Martin, Ross declared that in
1933 Governor Martin said that
"power our government develops
is not Intended to force -down
rates of existing power compa
nies. - It is to develop our great
chemical growth."
s Answering the governor about
his stand on reduced rates, Rosa
said "Uncle Sam is ready to give
you reduced rates. I know tbe
temper of the administration to-
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