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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1937)
Valley Coyerage i Correspondents In 80 AVil lamette valley communities provide The statesman with vp-to-the-mlnute news of the entire . district. Weather Partly cloudy today land Friday,' becoming unsettled; Max. Temp. Wednesday 73, SI In. 50, river .0 foot, south southwest wind. FOUNDED 1651 ElUilTY SEVENTH -YEAH Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning:, October 21, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 178 o TO SLTt (D) TfOOPS to 'I W Grange Elects Fair as Chief; Issues Tallied Courthouse Is Discussed but no Action Taken ; Ross Ts Endorsed Put Horticultural Work County Agent's in Hands Is Advice Marlon county Pomona grange fn sion all day Wednesday at Stayton. Indulged in a general discussion of the proposed -new courthouse for the county and the special election slated November 2, but made no official endorse ment either for or against the building. " Three resolutions came before the rroun. - including one which would askv that mountain roads made by the CCCs, inasmuch as "they were constructed at govern mmnt prnpTiRfl. be thrown open to the public .This measure evoked much discussion, but was imauy placed on the table. Pomona expressed sat isf action ' with appointment of J. D. Ross as administrator of Bonneville and pledged support to him In his work. Want Horticulture In Agent's Office The third resolution, addressed to the county court, put Pomona grange on record as endorsing the movement to have the county hor ticultural office placed under sup ervision of the county agent. Members" of the resolutions com mittee were Ralph -Dent, Red Hills, .C. T. White, Turner, and L. . Townsend, Salem. Chief Interest of theday cea ' tered in the biennial elections, which occupied most of the after- noon and resulted as follows: Master. J. O. Farr, Ankeny ; ov erseer, JO.Darby, Union -Hill: lecturer, Mrs. D. B.' Kleihege. Chemawa grange; Stewart, Roy ' Rice, Roberts; assistant stewart, Winnie Tate, Union Hill ; chap lain. Sarah Maulding. Silverton Hills; treasurer. Rex Hartley, An keny; secretary." Mrs. L. O. Had ley, Silverton .Hills; gate keeper. H. E, Martin, Macleay; lady as sistant Stewart, Mrs. Winnie .Tate; Ceres, Mrs. .Reba Edwards, Roberts: Pomona. Mrs' Roy Rice: Flora, Yvonne -Murray. Silverton Hills; executive committee, Sam . Brown, chairman, W. E. Savage, Chemawa; Ralph Dent, Red Hills. Honor IsPaId To 8. H. Van Trump Fourteen of the 16 subordinate granges were represented. Dur ing the morning session, the char- - - ter was draped for the late S. H. -Van Trump and appropriate cere mony conducted, including solo by Rex Hartley. Reports from the agricultural committee made by Chairman . Harry L. Riches, and Oscar Loe recounted that at Talbot and Ml Aneel lftV varieties of hybrid corn are be In a: rroWh to determine corn "best suited to this section; v" and that. 22 varieties of grasses are being watched in experiment- : (Torn to Pagev2, Col. 7 aps two McMINNVILLE, Oct. 2d -V Logging accidents in this vicinity claimed two lives today. Arthur Kibbee, Portland, em ployed by the Wells and Allen Logging company as a tree taller, died in a local hospital or Injuries suffered when struck by a falling tree near Yamhill. " " Marion Groshong, 35, also of Portland, was killed at the Flora Logging company camp near Carl ton when struck by a falling snag while operating a bulldozer. 0 dditics : . . . in the Neus TITONKA. la., Oct KHJPflt really did "hurt , mother most when Mrs. Will Schutjer spanked her four-year-old daughter, Patty, When Mrs. Schutjer turned Tattv over : her knee, the - child held a can opener behind her Mrs. SchutJer's hand was severe ly lacerated on the Jagged point. HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 20 -(IV Enriaue Gonzales. Mexican, com plained at his deportation hear ins today about his food in jaai. Gonzales is a glass eater with' a show troupe. SHERIDAN, Wyo. , Patrolman Walter brave man. Oct. 10-VP) Coker Is The blotter at police headquar Loggin ters .today bore the following: "Name Mrs. Walter Coker. - "Charge Improper parking. "Arresting of fleer W a 1 1 e Coker." Stocks Leap Market Trend Re$i$)se: Confidence Buying Orders Unprecedented S" Brokers : Believe Wave of Fear Dispell .nd Traders Rust in With Hope of Obtaining Bargains NEW YORK, Oct 20 (AP) The psychology of fear was swept out of Wall street today by the biggest stock mar ket advance since the first days of trading after the banking holiday in March, 1933. A buying power which gained new force over night, after yesterday's closing surge upward, carried prices of Labor Is Opposed To Extra Session Transactions Tax Merely Sales Levy Disguised Says Ben Osborne PORTLAND. Oca. 20-6P)-Ben T. Osborne, secretary of the Ore gon State Federation of Labor, called upon tbe 425 affiliated un ions today to oppose efforts to have a special session of the legis lature called to enact a transac tions tax to provide old-age pen- vision funds. Osborne requested that in the event the session is called, the un ionists communicate with legisla tors in a campaign of opposition to the proposed legislation. "Do not be deceived," he said in a letter to local unions, and cen tral and department councils. "A sales tax by any other name is just as odious as it it were called a sales tax." The letter asserted that propo sal of the transactions tax as a means of paying pensions was a subterfuge to cover the real pur pose of relieving ''large property owners and to prevent the imposi tion of heavier income taxes upon the large incomes." The letter recalled that sales tax proposals had been defeated in the state on three previous oc cations. Governor Charles Martin was expected to announce a decision next week on petitions, bearing 86,000 signatures, presented by Townsend organizations and urg ing the special session. School District Question Settled PORTLAND, Oct. 20-ifpV-L. J. Baker, Portland-school district of fice manager, relented today and said the three yonng members of the Torrey family can finish the semester in the district schools. The Torrey residence Is on the Clackamas county line, and a pre vious ruling held that the child ren could attend school in Mult nomah county if they left by the front door, but were legal respon slbilities t of Clackamas county when they left by the back door. Then Baker,' discovering that the parents vote in Milwaukee and pay more taxes in Clackamas county, considered ousting the children -""from the Multnomah county schools which they attend. . . - -- 3113 Enrolled at UO, Break Record EUGENE, . Oct. 20-63VA new all-time fall-term enrollment peak at the University of Oregon, with 3113 students registered, was re ported today by C. L. Constance, assistant registrar. , - Tbe previous high mark of 3095 came in 1930. . - Co-eds were outnumbered this fall by men students, 1944 to 1169. Industrial Union Is Refused y Dism issal, Coercion Charge PORTLAND, Ore., Oct KHJPh Trial Examiner Harry Hazel de nied a motion 'to dismiss charges of "company "unionism", against the Industrial- Employes' Union, Inc., at a national labor relations board hearing here today. Nicholas Jaureguy, attorney for the IEU, moved dismissal of the charges against that organization on the ground the trial was "a direct" effort to cripple the IEU with expense because it has low dues and no assessments. He also contended there were no - charges against the IEU In the complaint, but merely a state ment it had been coerced. - ' "If there has been coercion, we want It removed, but we deny there has. been," Jaureguy said. The complaint names Potlatch Forests, Inc., of Lewlston, Ida.; the McGoldrick Lumber company. Upward in Is Ffored a try w w leading shares up $1 to $7, with occasional advances of consider- ably more and virtually wiped out the losses suffered in the panicky selling of Monday and early Tues day. Not even sporadic profit sell ing deterred the day's rally, which was the most sustained that "the street" has witnessed for some weeks. Whereas Monday and Tuesday, trading opened with a heavy ac cumulation of selling orders, the opposite was true today and the ticker tape frequently was behind on the upswing instead of on the down. ine Associated Press average of 60 stocks on the "big board" was $48 JO. only 20 cents under the closing average of last Sat (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) President Urges Crop Loan Limit 60 Cents Asked Upon Corn to Bolster Price but Chief Is Dubious WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 OP) president Roosevelt, informed persons said tonight, has caution ed farm leaders against pushing crop loans to a point where the drain on federal revenues be comes too great. Certain of the leaders called on him today to ask 60-cents-a-bush-el loans on corn to improve prices While there was no word as to whether their plea would be granted, . Mr. Roosevelt was un derstood to have raised the ques tion whether the budget would permit wide extension of loans at this time. However, Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace subsequently told a press conference, a government loan on this year's large corn crop should be exceedingly desir able." He declined to . say what loan rate he favored but conceded that a corn loan of about 46 cents a bushel would be comparable to the government's 9-cent-a-pound loan on this year's cotfon crop. Request for the corn loans was made by Edward A. O'Neal, pres ident of the American Farm bu reau federation. . Barge Navigation Association's Aim WALLA WALLA. Oct. 20-("-Complete slack water development ot the Columbia and Snake rivers for boat and barge navigation from The Dalles to Lewlston was adopted here this afternoon as the program for the coming year of the Inland Empire Waterways association. .The action was taken at the final session of the group's fourth annual meeting.- Officers and directors elected include: - ; ; , Oregon LaDru Barnum, The Dalles, pice president for Oregon; Bert Johnson, lone; C. L. Sweek, Pendleton, and H. L. Eddena, The Dalles, directors. , Spokane; the C. D. Johnson Lura ber company, Toledo, Ore., and the Willamette Valley : Lumber Operators association, Portland, as respondents ta addition to the IEU. ; Examiner Hazel, over the ob jection of the respondents, grant ed Ben rAnderson, representative of the International Woodworkers ot , America, a CIO organization, permission to intervene and make presentations during the hearing. Anderson's petition asserted mat a number of workers em- ployed by the three defendant companies desired to affiliate with the CIO but feared : "economic pressure." yij,- ' z ; !.f'v,;V j "In other words, said C D. Randall, counsel for the McGol drick company, "the counsel Is not here to protect any interest he has, but trying to develop an interest to protect" . Oil Lease Men Face Charges, Federal Court Nearly two Million Said Collected by Firms in Washington L- If and When" Royalties Said Only Payment to Property's Owner TACOMA, Wash., Oct 20-tf")- Eleven former officers and sales men for the Peoples Gas and Oil Co., and associated companies, were indicted by a federal district court grand Jury here today for mall fraud, violation of tbe fed' eral securities act and conspiracy. Ten counts ot mail fraud, two of securities act violation and one of conspiracy were returned against each of the defendants. The com plaint Involved business of the Peoples Gas and Oil Co., the Peo nies Gas and Oil Development Co., the Peoples Gas and Oil Corpora tion and the Peoples Drilling Co., by which it was claimed the de fendants have collected more than $1,881,000 from Washington rest dents. Joshua F. Simons, former presi dent ot the first named company, headed the list of defendants, along with his brother, Milton Simons; his partner, William Markowitz. former general sales manager for all the convpanies; Samuel Markowitz; H. Harry Meyers, former vice president of the development company;. Wil liam H. Broome, president of the development company; Louis Roth, owner ot a Los Angeles wo men's clothing sotre; and Marshall B. Fisher of Spokane, C. R. Sto ' well, Isadore B. Taub and Pat Robbins, all salesmen. Only Payment Is Royalty Promise The voluminous i n d I c t ment charged Meyers and" Browne some three or four years ago obtained leases on a large tract of land in the Frenchman Hills district of eastern Washington, between Ephrata and Spokane, giving in payment only their promises ot (Turn to Page" 2, Col. 1) Witness Tells of Airliner's Crash - SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 20-(ff) -A mountaineer, only eyewitness to America's worst airplane dis aster, told today a vivid story of a transport pilot nying blindly through a mountain blizzard, then terrific crash which killed 19 persons. 1 Height Profitt, youthful resi dent of northeastern Utah's track less wilderness where he traps wild animals and works at a saw mill, said he saw the ill-fated United Air Lines 21-passenger, westbound plane barely miss tow ering pines in his backyard, Sun day, night, watched the crarts lights vanish in the storm, then heard it plough into a granite ridge.; Even .as Profitt related his story, bereaved ' relatives visited a small mortuary In southwestern Wyoming's Evanston, . identified and claimed the broken bodies. A countv-SDonsored investiga tion of the accident, conducted by Joseph Hopkins, coroner of Sum- mitt county. Utah, in which the crash occurred, brought an offi cial verdict that "death was by accident" , " V Further and more Intensive in vestigations and bearings will be. held later. Body of Hospital Patient Is Found GRANTS PASS, Oct 20-GPY- The Regno river yielded today the body of Mrs. G. W. Gross, 82, who vanished from the county hospi tal here between midnight and 1 a.m. ' '-, ." '"," . Her absence was discovered by a night nurse, 'who said a pillow had been arranged to make it ap pear Mrs. Gross was in her bed. Hospital 'attendants said she had been ill for some time and appeared to be despondent Pinball Machines In Eugene Fewer EUGENE, Oct. 20-I)-Rumors that pinball machines were being shipped into Eugene from other communities -where their opera tion is banned were dispelled to day when a check of city records revealed less machines had been licensed for . the last ouarter tax period than at any -other time this year. Eugene has 138 licensed ma chines -now in operation. Estimat ed revenue to the city from pin ball licenses is $8000 a year. " Two Victims 'of Plane i .Vi' 1 Above, Miss Leah Derr, 23, stew . ardess; below, William Pitt, newsreel editor, who were among the 19 victims of this week's air disaster on the Utah Wyoming border. Pitt, ironic ally, was engaged In making a picture designed to demonstrate the safety of transcontinental flying. UN photos. . Snapshot-Hunting Tourist Startles Canadian Mountie REGINA, Sask., Oct 20-(CP)-"I want a mountie," shrieked a woman as she dived from a Flor-ida-lieensed automobile down town Wednesday, grasping the .arm ot startled Constable H. E. P. Mann of : the ' Royal Canadian ' mounted police headquarters staff. "Shoot" she ; cried, to further startle the uniformed officer. The advice was to her husband, who was busy getting his camera Into action before the constable could grasp the meaning of the "hold up." - "Bye, bye." ehirpefr the lady rushing for the car. "We've been hunting for days for a mountie for a picture for our trip. I hope your wue won't mind ll you have a wife." .- , Constable ilann hopes his wife won't mind either. 3 new Paralysis Cases Are Found . PORTLAND, Oct. 10-(fls)-The state department of health week ly bulletin. Issued today, report ed three new. cases ot Infantile paralysis. . Chicken pox was the most prev alent communicable disease with 5 S new cases, followed : by pneu monia with 2$ and scarlet fever with 25. Frank StebingerDles : Self-Inflicted ? Wounds SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct 20-ff)-Frank Stebinger, . E5, prominent Portland, Ore., lumberman, died tonight . in a ' local . hospital from self-inflicted scissors stab wounds in a suicide try Tuesday, accord ing to Dave Gershon, deputy cor oner. - , ' i ' - a - h State Medical Session Opens; 200 to Attend ' mm iiim Address of Dr. Bauer at Service Club Luncheon , Is Highlight Today Dr. Charles E. Sears of Portland to Preside at 3-Day Meeting More than 200 physicians and surgeons from all corners of Ore gon will assemble at the Marion hotel today for opening sessions of the three-day 63 rd annual ses sion of the Oregon State Medical society. Preliminary sessions of the so ciety's house of delegates, consist ing of representatives from the county societies, were held yes terday. The house will continue its meetings in executive session throughout the convention to dis cuss problems of publie relations and medical economics confront ing the profession. Members of the woman's auxil lary will hold their meetings at the First Presbyterian church with Mrs. Hugh A. Dowd of Salem greeting the visiting women -and Mrs. Burton Myers of Salem re porting on registration at this morning's session. Following registration at the Marlon at 9 o'clock this morning the medical men will attend tech nical discussion meetings with Dr. Charles E. Sears, Portland, state president, presiding In one con vention hall and Dr. J. C. Vande- vert, -Bend, first vice president in the other. Among the speakers and discussion leaders today will be Dr. Vera W. Miller and Dr. Ed ward A. Lebold of Salem and Dr Frederick D. Strieker, state health officer. Dr. Bauer to Speak At Luncheon Today At noon today Dr. William Wal do Bauer, director of the bureau of health and public Instruction of the American Medical associa tion, will address members of Sa lem service clubs at a luncheon (Turn to Page 2, Col. S) Beer War now on California Front HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 20-(P)-Members of the International Teamsters' union switched the main front of their beer trucking "war" to California from the Northwest and pledged support to renewed organization drives in various crafts as their two-day western conference ended today. By speech and resolution, the AFL teamsters from 11 western states and British Columbia also reaffirmed a finish fight against the CIO, especially for control of inland warehousemen. The teamsters voted to hold their next conference in San Fran cisco next March, definite date to be set later. Chairman Dave Beck of Seat tle, teamsters' international vice president, defended the' union against hints ot "racketeering." He ' declared the union's books are open to any responsible party' seeking facts in the public In terest rf ' - Beck also declared for loyalty to contracts with employers, and opposition to unfair trade prac tices, harmful either to employer or public Henry Dimbat is Hurt In Auto Accident Here Henry Dimbat, who resides on route 7, broke his nose in an auto mobile accident last night. He received emergency treatment In a local doctor's office and then went to the Salem General hos pital ' where the broken member was set Perfecting Stable Financial System Goal Says Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Oct 20. -JP)-Federal of Heals who wield potent powers over the stocks market heard from President Roosevelt today that the government must perfect and coordinate its mech anisms for building a firm. Pros perity, free trom violent swings into booms and depressions. The resident delivered a brief address at dedicatory ceremonies for the new federal reserve build-J lnr. Too-ranking financial offi cials, legislators and private bank ers were among the audience. ' The stock market which re gained today some ot the ground lost in recent steep plunges, drew no direct mention from Mr. Roose velt. Neither did he refer to asser tions by ' some business leaders that government policies were re sponsible for. the market downturns- Belligerent Rights Demand Is Delayed A nd Crisis A voided Removal of Volunteers Will Be Upon lty Basis Agreement at Complete . Evacuation Is Goal; Italy Envoys Are Pinned Down by Eden to Approval of Procedure LONDON, Oct 20 (AP) Europe's fascist-nazi front broke a dangerous deadlock tonight over the presence of for eign soldiers in Spain and agreed to a scheme through tbe nonintervention committee for getting them home. Count Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador, faced with what his antagonists described as a "stiffening attitude" by gret Britain and France, accepted British proposals for evacuat ing the foreign volunteers rather than precipitate a crisis. The action, supported by German agreement, took place in the session of the nine-power subcommittee of the 27-na-tion "Hands off Spain" body. It delayed indefinitely both complete withdrawal of the O volunteers, and the granting of f i J I Japanese nuvaiicc Denied by Chinese 200 of Invaders Declared Wiped out; Munitions Blown up in North . SHANGHAI. Oct. 21 - (Thurs day - (JF) Chinese disputed to dav JaDanese reports that Japan ese infantry slowly was advancing along the entire 25-mile front north of Shanghai. Chinese declared their forces counter attacking, had Isolated and wiped out 200 Japanese at one point. In north China, Chinese report ed advances both on the Pieping- Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow rail roads. They said their planes bombed the railroad" station" at Plngyuan, In Shantung proyince. and destroyed a huge store of Japanese munitions. A dispatch from Pelping, how ever, said a Japanese force oc cupied the south bank of the Tsingschang river, 14 miles north ot Changtehfu on the Pelping Hankow railroad in northern Ho nan province. Japanese acknowledged their campaign 4n Shansi province, north of Honan, is.belng obstruct ed by difficult terrain and stiffer resistance than the Chinese had put up before. A spokesman scoffed at reports (Turn to Page 2, oU3) Crawford Denies FeM Motion That Moody Be Barred PORTLAND, Oct 20-(J)-Clr-cult Judges James Crawford de nied today the motion of Earl H. Fehl, former Jackson county Judge, : that "the state attorney general be barred from acting for Governor Charles Martin In Fehl's 1548,000 damage suit against the governor. Judge Crawford held that the governor's actions Involving good time credit alleged to have been due -Fehl when the . latter was an inmate ot the state prison, the basis of the suit were per formed in his official capacity and it was the duty of the attorney general to represent the gover nor in the case. Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody is appearing for Governor Martin in the suit : The nation's : monetary and credit machinery, the; president said, "must be steadily perfected and coordinated with all other- in struments of government, to pro mote the most productive utilisa tion of our human and material resources. "Only in that way, he continu ed, "can we hope to achieve and maintain an. enduring prosperity. free from, the disastrous extremes of booms and depressions. . "Only in that way can our eco nomic system and our democratic institutions endure, hand in hand." The president drew a burst of applause when he traced enact ment oi the federal reserve act In 1913 to the "statesmanship of President Wilson" and thevcour ageous leadership" of Sen. Carter Glass, Virginia democrat who has - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) at First, Is Conference belligerent rights to the warring parties in Spain, It also facilitated adoption of a formula which will enable Great Britain and France, as well as Italy and Germany, to stave off any showdown on the critical Spanish problem which, informed sources said, none wanted to face now. Tbe proposals for withdrawing the volunteers originally were ad vanced by the British last July and a split occurred soon after over whether evacuations or the question . of belligerent rights should be discussed first. ' Complete Withdrawal ' ,r ' To Be Goal Later ' ' v'-' With their acceptance now by Italy and Germany, informed sources envisaged the procedure as follows: 1. Withdrawals toA begin prob ably in equal numbers from among foreigners fighting with the lri- (Tvm to Page 2, Col. 2) Martin to Attend Waterworks Fete Governor Charles H. Martin will attend the Salem waterworks' celebration at Falrmount reser voir the afternoon of Saturday, October 30. his private secretary, W. L. Gosslin, notified the com mittee planning the affair yester day. Other members of the state board of control, Senator Charles L. McNary and Congress man James W. Mott also have been in vited to attend the celebration, which will mark the turning of the new Stayton Island water into the city reservoir and mains for the first time. Invitations to mayors and wa ter department officials of 21 Oregon cities will be placed in the mails by the committee today. Board of Control Studies 23 Sites PORTLAND, Oct 20-(P)-The state board of control,. .meeting here idday,-considered a total of 23 offers ot sites for the pro posed state office building in Portland. The board revealed that Roes & Marks, Inc., nad modified a previous offer of property on Southwest Madison street, across from the city hall, to include erec tion of a building on the site. Tbe plan provides for payment of I $175,000 for the property, 100 by zoo reet, wun a buuamg to cost $525,000 to $550,000. t .. r Air-Conditioning Firm Has Polar Explorer, as " fyne of Chief Officer DALLAS, Oct 20-(PhAdraJral Richard E. Byrtf, polar explorer, has been elected chairman of the board of the Byrd Perfection-alre corporation, which manufactures air-conditioning -units. ; His cousin, D. Harold Byrd of Dallas, Is president -The explorer was not present at the meeting. B ALL A D E of TOD A y By r. a The medical fraternity to-lay Is Salem's guest; our pleasure at their presence ur warm greeting will attest, and If these wise physicians left at home their kits and pills, it's by way ot recognition Salem has no special ills.
