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1 N STAT! PAGE TWO Oil Lease Men Face Charges Nearly' two Million Said Collected by Firms . v in. Washington Continued from page 1) royalty payments to Call Matth ews.. Ephrata abstractor, and own era of the. property, when and if oil was discovered. ' .Theses leases, it is alleged, were then turned over to the. newly organised aevelopment-rompany, a Washington' corporation, which gave a $65,000 note in payment and In turn sold, them jto the Peo - pies Gas and Oil corporation for a J 65.600 pote. The government - alleges neither of the. notes was ever paid. The Peoples Gas and Oil company was then hired to sell the leases, which were sub divided and sold, . according to the indictment, for from J 10 to $35 an acre. !. -vvv' : These lease sales, it is further alleged, resulted to gross income f ;near!yS2, 000.000 to the sale company prior to Jnne 1. 1937. when the officers embarked on a new plan, whereby lease-holders, or those who; had - traded, their leases -for stock in the develon nient company, were' to be given an opportunity to buy 92,500.000 worth of "participated certifl- b rates,"-proceeds of which, were supposedly to be used in further development of the company. . JMvidrads, lrge Salaries An Paid The government charged most of 'the money collected was dis sipated; $150,000 being paid out in dividends : to stockholders of the Peoples Gas and Oil company, whose- securities were never of fered to the public, and other .amounts 'going for large salaries. The frand charges included al legations that the companies lit . eratare claimed leases were held adjacent to the profitable Rattle snake Hills district, whereas no such leases were held, and charges tflat the company claimed to have found - oil : bearing gas in the : Frenchman hills operations when " nothing had been found. . The People's Gas and Oil com pany did not operate inOregon, said J.- H. Hazlett. corporation commissioner, last nig-ht. Other - organisations selling blocks of land in Harney county for oil speculation came- under sharp ' criticism by the commis sioner recently. Federal agencies are reported as having these con cerns under scrutiny. , - Stable System Said Goal (Continued fromhage 1) been! caustic critic I m a n y Roosevelt iol idea- Class, seated behind the presi dent with . high, government offi cials, smiled broadly. Throughout Mr. Roosevelt's talk ran a re-statement of a gen eral objective, described today in these words: To &in for all of our people the greatest attainable measure of economic well being, the larg est degree of economic security and stability.' ..... Mchorter Assigned WASHINGTON, Oct. ZD. -')-The federal .power commission named Roger B. McWhorter. chief of its engineering bureau, as . It representative on. the Bonne- Tilhr advisory hoard. The Call Board ' - - : GKAXD i':;: Today Warner Baxter, Lor- : etta Young and Virginia Bruce in -Wife, Doctor - and Nurse." n . 1:15, Jr21, 5:28, 7:557 t-A2. Satarday "Charlie Chan on. . Broadway with, Warner ' . Oland. .X: STATE ' Today "Last Train' From v'Hadrid witk Dorothy La- mour. Lew Ayres and Kar " efr Mocler aad lour bt&" f'.acu vaudeville starring AInex GrahamV 'HOLLYWOOD . ; T o d a y Double bill. May ftobson ' in ""Woman In Distress" . and "Rhythm ; ; fn the Clouds' with WarC5 j ren Hull and Patricia El- lis. . Triday Double MIL. "Reck- : less Ranger" with Bob Al- ' lea and ri Cover the War" " with John Wayne. - ." ELSOORE Today Double hfll. Ed- ward Arnold in -Easr LIv- Ing" and "Escape by Night" with an star cast. 2 CAPTTOXt ' : " Today 'Scat Don ble bilL John'n v Davis 4n "Over the GoT ani Gene Antry In , "Bootsvand Saddles." TrrrTTTr'Tf Perfecting 14 rt Gertificate I .; -No) 4 . .. . , ; ;This Certificate and five others, all differently numbered, entitle you to yjne week's Set of Four . Pictures upon payment of only 30c (46c if by : wail). - - - . , - -IMPOnTAXT- 11 i Be sure to order Set Xo. 1 -tf jom have that or sub' sequent sets, order the next numbered Set of Four. Bodies of 19 Recovered From Wrecked Airliner la ssassassjiti i i sssfiTT'sTBriTTW T-rTMwr-rrm- - -11 ' ir ' - w 'VT --:-:----fiw ---r --, :?.';-,.',- (;- - ! - , , - '-;- V ., r - , - I . , , . - , f""T-'. ' - . - - s , . . -. . 4 - - - - - - " -, ' . -1 . , . - f - V'- - V, ' J- - i 1 - . . - ' ;- L': -. . i ' , f-'-f.( " .'r- -v, " . - I J V- --4 :V'-:: Above, pictare (akea from the air of Chalk Peak near the Wyoming-Utah border Sudsy. Bight wing was broken off, folded back ana lay parallel with the fuselage. The left wing was sheared off. Lower picture shows tho tail, all that muhH iatart. The bodies of the IB victims were taken to Evanatoa. Wro. mortaaries. Their deaths made It the most costly Belligerent Right Demands Dropped (Continued from page 1) surgenta and the government la Spain. The subcommittee will meet tomorrow afternoon to estab lish this point definitely. 2. A committee will go to Spain to report on the numbers of vol unteers and a system tor their evacuation. 3. Complete evacuation to be undertaken. 4. An independent authority, probably the nonintervention com mittee, to decide the moment when belligerent rights should be granted. British officials asserted An thony Eden. British foreign secre tary, pinned down the Italian am bassador to this procedure by pointed Qaestloa to which be re ceived an affirmative reply. Damage by Rains In East Is Heavy ' (By The Associated Press) Heavy flood damage was re ported yesterday in the wake of dousing: rains across the eastern' halt of the nation. ; Some i sources estimated , the losses, concentrated in southern Virginia and northern. North Caro lina, might reach several million dollars. " - - Swollen streams washed out bridges and lowland crops and ia andated. portions- ot several Vir ginia . communities. One drowning ' was recorded seat Buckhorn, Va A 24-hour downpour sent moun- taia streams oa a rampage in North Carolina. FFA Meet Honors v Cloverdale Youth ' KANSAS CITY, Oct. Robert Stalts of Cloverdale high 9 4 bcoui mua veriia tiermaaa ot 'Myrtle Poiat wera the anlv rtr. i .n rocationai agn- uilBre VJ1 wardg Uoa or the ruture Farmers of America. . , v The awards, signifying super iority ta improved farming, norm ally go to less than 100 youths, ' The Oregon delegation was the largest from among the 11 western states... w P3! fe5 cf wreckage of tho "JlainUne-, air crash ever to ocrar ia the TJaited States. II3T photos. Double Features Deemed Harmful To Film Industry PORTLAND, Oct. 2H5V"Those movie fans who deplore the dou ble feature epidemic have the sympathy of nearly every theatre operator, Ed Knykendall, presi dent of the Motion Pictures Thea tre Owners of America, declared here today. He predicted that the "curse would soon be lifted and that fewer and better pictures, enjoy ing longer runs, would become the rule. We deplore the doable feature system and realize it Is bad for the show business," he said. "The original idea was to offset the competition of a theatre with a stage .show, hut it has spread lfke aa inOuensa epidemic and now almost every operator' has to present the double-barrelled program." Japanese Advance Denied by Chinese (Contiaued from page 1 that Japanese were withdrawing In Shantung province, the eastern route of their aouthward , drive. Chinese reports from Shantung aid Gen. Han Fn-Chu's provlncla.1 forces have retaken lost positions near Teehow on the Ttentaln-Pu- kow railroad without heavy fight tog. . Bible, Only Gain Of Auto Looters . EUGENE, OcL 20-Py-The ten commandments and one. in par ticular, "TOoa shalt not steal" must hare been brought abruptly to the notice of the person or per soas who broke into a parked auto here last night, ' The machine was parked to front ot the local Christian church. ThJevea took a brief ease frost the car and must hare been surprised, police officials said, to find nothing more than a Bible inside. t Iron Lung Drive Is Nearihg Goal EUGENE. Oct, 20-VEugene's iron lung drive fund reached a high .of 12328 today, with' over $ 400 additional in pledgee still to be collected. The mark drive of ficials hope, to reach Is 13000. An iron lung, artificial respira tor used in treating infantile par sly is cases, was purchased some weeks ago by the Eugene commit tee and - is ready for shipment from the east, drive officials said today.. - : . . , Sparkling , ' witty drama M 4.. 9 Ti OREGON STATESMAN, Salemv airlJaer whkh crashed on the side Stocks Clinib as Trends Reversed ; (Continued from page 1 ) srday, and $3.40 above yesterday the largest gain since the 14. 10 advance In the averages on March 15, 1933. After appraising the rapid re covery tn the stock market y ester day, brokers, bankers and indus trialists Quickly advanced the be lief the wate of fear, which spread over the exchange Monday and early Tuesday, had disappear ed. After such a selling wave ex perienced in recent days, the opin ion was general that prices were attractive to many buyers. It was reported considerable in stitutional baying; waa put through that Is, corporations buying their own- stock. Courthouse Issue Will Be Outlined Plans to inform Marioa county voters ot the aatwre of the court house construction program to he voted oa at the November 2 spe cial election . were aiseusaea at a clvie leaders' committee meeting here last night. Under the name of the Marioa County Courthouse committee, the group will arrange to have the four questions oa. the special ballot explained to the general public The " first of the four ballot tuestions is on authorizing the county court to baud the new courthouse. The other three pro vide means tor financing the pro gram over a six-year period. Truce Announced, Strike ore TAMPA, llju Oct. 2l-(Tbnrs- day)-(AVvV S. Townaend, south ern representative or the. interna tional longshoremen's union, said a truce would - become effective "some time today which will r turn tCV striking longshoremen to their jobs la souSieaatern sea ports, ! . The truce.' will end temporarily a - aix-dar-otd water froat strike pending Tfnal negotiations .for its settlement. LEARN TO FLY! $1.00 7eLIw p.'. Salem Fljin Service fiALEM AIRPORT . Phono 6561 - :m:ii:ki:i MOf hi J 1UU him ri Slay Robsoxt "Rhythm im the Clonds, - Jbwjtiv: ;vVarre Hall Patricia Ellis ' "Woman h' .Distress Added 'n & Cartoon TWO BIG FEATTRE3 T Cover the War" with John' Wayne Bob Allen : , la . "Reckless Ranger Oregon, Thursday Morning, October 21, 1937 State Medical Session Opens Address of Dr. Bauer at Serrice Club Luncheon, Is Highlight Today (Continued from page 1) meeting at the Marion. Dr. Bauer win sneak before the state so ciety auxiliary at 1 p.m. today and at the convention banquet at 6:30 p.m- Friday.'-" Dr. Lester Heynoia yragsxeai, professftr of aurgery at the Uni versity of Chicago, another of the guest speakers, will give talks at and 7:30 p.m. today. The third guest speaker. Dr. Fuller Albright, Associate, in med icine. Harvard university medical school, will also speak at 2 o'clock this afternoon. . On the first of a series of tours of state institutions, the visiting doctors will Inspect the state pen itentiary at 1:30 p.m. today. The convention will last until p.m. Saturday, with discussion gronps meeting every nour throughout each day. Dr W. w. Baum .or Salem is general chairman on convention arrangements. Parley Invitation Studied at Tokyo TOKYO, Oct, 21-(Thursday) 6PV-Jspan today received a formal invitation to the nine-power treaty conference in Brussels October 30 called to seek solution of the Chi nese-Japanese conflict. , Foreign office sources disclosed conferences have been in progress to determine Japan's attitude toward the invitation. It was said Foreign Minister Kokl Hirato had discussed the matter with the Italian ambassador. (A foreign office spokesman Oc tober 17 said that Japan had re ceived an "informal conference bid. Press and -other Japanese opin Ion has been divided on whether Japan should participate in the meeting.) Reliable sources asserted Japan would be unable to accept the in vitation. Opposition Looms ForFR Program ALBANY, Oct. 20-(vR-Con gTessmaa James W. Mott, address ing the chamber of commerce here today, predicted that the ad ministration program would meet opposition in the special session of congress as, effective as that which stopped the supreme court bill at the recent regular session. The court bill, administrative reorganisation, and wages and hours legislation unless re-written all will be in for tongh sled ding if they come before the spe cial session, Mott asserted. The major debate, he predict ed, wUl be over the crop control measure, in view ot what he said was the agricultural committee's determination to write its bill. own Fish Scooped up in Drained Canal BEND. Oct. lO-iAVSeoree of men, women and children scooped fish from irrigation canals today in response to an appeal from state gsme officials for central Oregon residents to aid in salvag ing the fish facing death ia rap idly drying pools. Charles A. Loekwood, assistant state game snperrisor, said the fish foand their way from the Deschutes river Into a big lrrlxa tlon ditch near Bend, the entrance of the canal being improperly screened. I"?Fl (nilTfT" TODAY : 25 HITS 5 : , . " - - yjsM ' i . ' . .' ' i e j ' - j j Ifsreallv ' y' ' zwomkiM irbat a Sables rr f - u f Coat can do to a gizll , i RAY HILL AND ' lfMl I ' ' . And 2nd Big Hit . 0 ,'r, I 'in)I0T0US jj i . !; .,- aomance.. - 3 I jbl i :p rT: t I $A hi M ; -'-- 4 iff ; I Egg With Three , Yolks Is Found; Also two in one LYONS Freak eggs produced by the hens of a White Leghorn flock at the J. H. Johnston farm are a - new experience of Mrs. Johnston, who has never found such peculiar eggs In her 30 years of poultry raising. One extra large egg, 8 by 6 inches, contained three normal size yolks. Another egg, not so large, contained a yolk of' normal slse and also a soft shell egg somewhat under size. . . Water Resources Will Be Surveyed State Planning Board ; to Gather Data on West Columbia Basin PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. -Ormond R. Bean, chairman of the Oregon state planning board, announced today appointment of sub-committee of the Pacific Northwest regional basin commit tee to compile data on the use and conservation of water re sources of the Columbia basin west of the Cascades. Oregon members Include C. E. Stricklin, state engineer; -O. Arn- splger, secretary of the Medford irrigation district; John Cunning ham, Portland civil engineer; Carl E. Green, sanitary engineer for the Btate board of health; Grace Kent Magruder, Clatska- nie; C. A. Mockmore, head of the department of civil engineering ot Oregon State college, and W. L. Powers, OSC soil scientist. Representatives of federal agencies include Major Theron D. Weaver, US engineers departH ment; H. J. Andrews, US forest service; G. H. Can field, CS geo logical survey; W. A. Rockie, US soil conservation service; J. A. Craig, US bureau of fisheries, and B. E. Stoutmeyer, US bureau of reclamation. Grocers Feted by Bakers of Salem More than 200 grocers of Sa lem and vicinity were guests of the several baking companies in this city at a reception Wednes day night in the recreation room at the Cherry City bakery. Motion pictures of special in terest to grocers were exhibited and other entertainment was pro vided. Later a buffet luncheon was enjoyed. Rainbow at Night Seen at Columbia THE DALLES, Oct, 20. -P)- Rainbows by moonlight present ed a unique and spectacular vista for nocturnal travellers of the Columbia river gorge last night. Full moon shining through i thin cloud celling threw wide circles of light vying with the autumn leaves in color. Adding to the effect, the river reflected the haes b a e k against the canyon walls. Today, Fit & Sat. TWO SMASH PEATTJBES And 2nd GENE AUTRY IN "BOOTS AND SADDLES 2 a iwss nun awtri jcsssLMxnt Grange Elects Fart as Chief Courthouse , Is Discussed . but.no Action Taken; . Ross Is Endorsed (Continued from page 1) al nlotS in the Si'verton; Hills area.. ' Short talks were msde by M. C. Glover. Clackamas county; G. H Bailey, Washington county?. Sam Brown, Gervals; and Herman Laf- ky. Salem. A short skit by Union Hill grange on CookIng Prunes, enlivened the early afternoon ses sion. . . - -'"'--v ' " Pomona, vwilt meet " at Turner the -third Wednesday in January. and the next grange council will be held at Turner' December 8, following the state grange confer ence at Fairfield December 3. Five candidates were obligated in the fifth degree: Mrs. Leona Henderson. Ankenv: Mrs. Marion Fischer, Union Hill; Mrs. Carrie ownsend. Union Hill; Mrs. Lettie Barker. Macleav: Mrs. Gertrude Anderson. SUverton HU1. . No discussion developed on the grange floor over the recent se cret caucus aimed at overthrow of the GUI power in the state grange. Erection Ordered At Inman-Poulsen PORTLAND, Oct. 2 0-tiP)-Of f 1- eials ot the Inman-Poulson Lum ber company plant, currently picketed by both AFL and CIO unions, said today it would hold an election among its employes with a view of reopening "in the very near future." The plant, whicm ceased saw ing last month as a result of a boycott and picketing by the AFL, saw a walkout yesterday of the few remaining CIO workmen, when CIO officials charged the STACK SHOWS 2:40 - T:20 - 9:20 MATIXEK 15c EVEXKXG yr Featuring hlliinez' I THE BLONDE f' I VENUS j V in her sensational Y "Butterfly Dance" V "Milady's Masqae if 25c m - afi loro',y xjumoBT 5 fWfMli, THAT TELEPHONE you hire ' r ' do$r fno1 nearer lored ones, -4i ) wIer optwrtunlr, more business, -', jfVA'- ' - more pleasure, rreater conreo- " -- - . ; i yours. May we tell you more about i Telephone Serrice for your home? A postal card or a call any telephooe will bring our representaure. , tee pmihs teief :::e c:d mEcra c:-?ii3i 740 State St. V ' Telephone 3101 company planned to resume' oper ations under the afl. "We plan to open with our own men, whichever way they may choose to Tote," Harold C Howes company secretary, said. George Brown; vice-president of the CIO sawmill union, said a CIO plant meeting would be held tomorrow night to consider the company's proposal.- Industrial Arts Teachers Gather ;. Teachers of industrial art and vocational agriculture as well as school principals and board mem bers from nearby points met at the new Salem senior high school last night as the Willamette ValUy Vocational association beld its first meeting of the fall with lui) present. . Following a banquet In the cafeteria, the group toured the new building and shop. Roy Fos ter, new instructor at Parrish jun ior high, spoke on "Recent Dt--velopments in Industrial Art," and Superintendent Silas Gaieer of the Salem schoois on "The Place of Practical Arts in Modern School Curriculum. The next meeting of the group will be December 2 at Eugene. C. A. Guderian of Salem-is president. and Maurice Bullard. Salem, sec retary of the association. Breakfast Club's Session at Quelle "Frosty" Olson announced last night that the Breakfast club would congregate tomorrow morning after a week's carry over. The scene of the" booster club's activities will this week shift to the Quelle restaurant ai the Marion hotel Is full np for the balance of this week. Tf the Whittier team arrives In Silem in time, which is likely, it is hoped to have Coach Newman in attendance at tomorrow morn ing's festivities. 5 Unusual Acs 5 KASTEKX CIRCUIT VAUDEVILLE , THE 3 ROCKETS Hurrlcaao hoofers hot frosa the laeart of Harlesa. -3- MCKEY CARROLL Hlslstare mlmicer of faiaoae stars. -4- -5-JohaayDove Kddie Snyde The skating Kite club skamp. Joy-boy. ON THE SCREEN OUT OF WAR-TORN STAIN comes the STRANGEST LOVE STORY erer told! Lew Ay era ience than you probably realize,.. . - . ) m. M tmnam f9 ..V.. U 1J. a i i a i A a., is rw
