Art Appreciation ITnndreds of sets of fam ous paintings; - are being purchased by Statesman readers under the national art apreciation committee plan. !: - ' " ! 1 1 ' " Weather ; Cloudy and unsettled to day, partly cloudy Saturday; ' Max. Temp. Thursday 65, Jlinv40, river : -1.8 feet, . . light southerly wind. pcundod 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon; Friday Morning, November 5, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 191. ! ! Mediate 1110 J aranes V ill a. v iv;.y .KMer m ----- i K ., .... - - v j ; . j Labor Protest Doesn't Alter Windsor Plans Bedaux: Says Withdrawal Offer lis Rejected hy Britain's Ex-King CIO Agrees With AFL in Deploring Association With Industrialist NEW YORK. Not. 4WV-The Duke of Windsor'splan.ta tail rot tho United States Saturday, with his American-born wife apparent ly remained intact tonight despite labor protests against their Am erican guide, Charles E. Bedaux, and his offer to withdraw. Bedaux; said on his arrival here from Washington that so far asha knew the duke and duchess would pail from JCherbourg as scheduled. - A spokesman for the duke's formally jaccredlted public" rela tions representative nere saia ne knew of no change in the couple's niant for; a 37-dav tour of the United States to study housing. I Bedaux said that after the BaHl- Imore federation of labor passed a resolution disapproving his labor ("stretch out" system he had tele- pnonea ine au&e vuu uuu j withdraw as guiae, out mat in. duke had '"positively and definite ly waived; aside" the suggestion. In Paris the Windsors attended a tareweu umner given y u. o Ambassador William C.) Bullitt . t . , TT An associate of the duke said later there was no change In plans. Earlier In the day, Paris em bassy attaches visaed the Wind sors diplomatic passports. WASHINGTON. Nov, An official of the CTO joined leaders of the AFL tonight " in "denlorine" the duke of Wind eor'a choice of Charles E. Be daux, an Industrial engineer, as the irulde for his forthcoming nrvM of American "labor and housing conditions. Francis J. Gorman, president of the United Textile Workers, issued a! statement "reminding the nuke and duchess "tneir guide! made his money from the (Turn-to Page z, uoi. ) : Door riot Shut on Jlott's Candidacy For Senate ! Post MEDFORD. Nov. 4-MP)-Tbe Mail-Tribune quoted Congressman James W. Mott today as saying be had hot considered and was not considering an attempt to gain the United States senatorial nom ination. "It Is not Impossible, however, that I shall be a candidate for the republican nomination. That will depend on future eircum stances and developments," the quotation added,, ddi tics ... in the New IJXCOLK. Xeb- Nov. -John lK. Selleck, business m.mror of athletics : at the University, of Nebraska, , w received todav i a check f or $2.50 from It. HVi Welling ton of Chardon, Neb., a Rra uate of the school, for "en joyment of the Indiana foot halt wAme.H Wellington said he beard the game by radio and figured it was worth -' f2L50 even thnnrh h didn't OCCIVT stadiamTseat. . .: j -" i LAWRENCE. Kas., Not. 4-M3) -Housewives win be pleased to hear, that potatoes are, going eyeless ! "'" - II. O. 'Werner, professorl horticulture at the University of Nebraska . and a , judge at - Kan- sas v annual potato v ahow ; here, said, the trend today la , toward growing potatoes with a; smooth, unblemished surface. - . Prises were going tonight to exhibitors ,bo , grew them 'bnnd.,:' ; li IJIFAlTrtTE, Tenau. Nov. 4 -qn-roi chasers heard a new one today 'about the fox that chased tit farmer; John Wisdom said he heard " noise in his henhouse and ; -went to rout the marauder. A; fox. It turned out to ' be, - bit him on the beel. Wisdom fled. The ' fox f oUowed, chnslns; hlra Into the bouse and biting blm five times more enroute, said Wisdom. He- finally killed it with poker. The farmer Is taking the Pasteur treatment. BALTIMORE, Nov. 4-P)- JohnnT Thompson's cross coun try eoach at Polytechnic high told him to keep nis neaa quwb when running upgrade. ; - i Johnny did and hit a lamp lost. - Phytlclans closed the wound with three stitches ' SEATTLE PLANE CRASH TAKES 7 1 Loan-Subsidy Has' Committee Favor Would Mean Stabilizin, Without Discouraging Exports, Asserted j ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-rfV- Leaders in the powerful house committee on agriculture i said today they would favor a; new loan-subsidy program to ; "re- captuie the world market': for American farm products, i It is intended, they sald.1 that future loans on commodities be made at fieures eauivaleot to the world nrices of the commodl ties! The difference between that and domestic price level would he made up in subsidies paid to farmers from processing taxes, plus- benefits for "conserving soil." , ' . , ! In the past, loans have i been made higher than world prices, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Dock Men Refuse To Handle Cargo MARSHFIELD. Ore.. Nov. 4.- (ff)-CIO longshoremen refused to day to load timber from the Smith Wood Products company plant and walked off the Norweiglan motor shin Helgoy. CIO members picketed the dock where the questioned lumber was delivered by AFL mill employes Longshoremen met to discuss claim that their agreement re quired that cargo placed beneath loading rear be handled. Police dispersed an assemblage of . 200 - persons, and arrested I Howard Hyde, charged with hav ing struck an AFL teamster. A CIO leader urged ia group through a loudspeaker from the sidelines, to "remain orderly." i'iuirsiBr-v.4WtaM sjL saMttish st uciiiMii .kb J 'I 1 X ;- in Beck Defies Labor Board in ! Threat to Close Warehouses SEATTLE. Nov. 4-(iiP)-Dave ! Beck: threatened today to close five Seattle warehouses employ ing 260 men, Vinless the national labor relations board cancels a hearing Monday on a CIO-Team-ster jurisdictional dispute. , ,The plants. three wholesale drug companies, a bag 'company and a'kalsomlne" plant, reopened only recently under a truce sign ed by Beck and Harry Bridges, west coast longshore leader. ; The longshoremen's and ware housemen's union . (CIO) has asked the labor board to hear a petition Monday that it be named the collective bargaining agency for the warehousemen. "I didn't want to sign a truce agreement with Bridges," Beck told Interviewers whom he had called in. "I knew be wouldn't keep his word. But the business men of Seattle pleaded with us. 7. 56 . i 6- -at i '"h r . r 4 ,,7 i a Above, left, Uent. Henry Bell Twohy of Spokane; below. Machinist's Slate Matthew McCroddan, from Florida; two of the five victims of the crash which followed collision of two navy planes above Boeing field at Seattle. Right, two of the victims are seen lying; on stretch ers beside the wreckage of the death.- UN photos. Labor Delegates Revise Objective Agreement on Industries to Have Each Type of Union, Goal Today WASHINGTON, Not. i-(JP)-Peace committees of the AFL and CIO agreed today to reach the heart of their, controversy tomor row . with . a . discussion ; of which industries should have craft en Ions and which industrial. The committees met for more than three hours toda"y and, by laying aside, but by no means abandoning, the .conflicting peace proposals they advanced last' week, managed to make a fresh start upon their task of restor- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Live Protoplasm Is Declared Myth PHILADELPHIA, Nov. A-UPt- One of the main .concepts of sci ence, the "living protoplasm" which for nearly 100 years has been thought the source of lire, was declared to have no real ex istence today. Instead, a group of America's foremost scientists showed, "pro toplasm" Is made of numerous. commonplace particles, visible by up to date methods. Not one of these particles is alive. ' - The new viewpoints were given at a symposium on biophysics held at the University of Pennsylvania under joint auspices of the Amer ican institute of Physics and the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Founda tion for Medical Physics. . J.D. Ross to Talk In Portland Soon PORTLAND, Nov. 4-CAVRlch ard L. Neuberger, Portland writer, said tonight J. D. Ross, Bonneville dam administrator, would address Washington residents ' interested In formation of public power dis tricts at Vancouver, November IS Ross Is scheduled to speak at a mass meeting In Portland Novem ber 12. j r ; : :R He will pass through here Sat urday en route from Washington D. C, to Seattle. , . v. . ' ; We had closed the plants over nine. months and the men were walking the streets. "Knowing Bridges would, never keep' his word, I had the workers of aU five plants sign a supple mental agreementprovlding that if the International Longshore men s association should go CIO, nevertheless the jurisdictional decision- of the AFL would be obeyed. And It the decision of the (AFL) executive council was' not reversed, the men Immediately would make Application, for mem bership in the teamsters union The truce was signed In June before the recent Denver-conven tion of the' AFL. The" convention ruled in favor of the local AFL warehousemen. . Hugh Bradsnaw, CIO ware housemen's business agent here said the truce agreement no long' V (Turn to Page 2, COL 2) HEAVY TOLL X .1' bomber in which they plunged to ij Canada to Mexico Record Is Broken Fuller Makes It in 'Four Hours and 55 Minutes to Agua Caliente SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 4-(P) -"I've had enough now for avhfie," Frank Fuller, Jr San Francisco speed pilot, remarked hereltonlght ai Jfi stepped from his . rim low-winged monoplane aftexg j. smashing i-i the 1208-mile Vancouver, B. - C.-Agua Caliente, Mex&o, non-stop flight record by 34 minutes. Despite fighting head winds from! Canada to Reno, Fuller 1931 Bendix trophy winner, made the ?S three-flag flight in four hours and fifty-four minutes. The record was five hours and twen ty-elght minutes, .set July 3, 1935i, by Earl Ortman, Los An geles pilot. i Flying a Seversky monoplane similar to the army pursuit type plane, Fuller roared from tho Vancouver airport at 12:37 p. m. asnd circled the Agua Caliente airpert at 5:31. He was "checked in jy William Van Dusen, San Diego official of ;the National Aeronautical association, and flew; to San. Diego, where tonight he was honored by a reception by fehe junior chamber of com merce. Fuller did not attempt to land at Agua Caliente because the airport was considered too small for iso speedy a craft. - - J. : ; Commodity Price Drop Is Speeded NEW YORK. Nov. 4.-P)-The deflationary trend lncommodiues was quickened today with further redactions In the prices of copper and i lead, while the stock marxei moved irregularly. From a peak price of 17 cents in the speculative boom last spring the f! steady - decline In domestic copper reached 11. cents, a pound today with a quarter-cent price cut by the American smeit Ingjft Ref into g company. This company and tne at. josepn ieaa company announced the second re-' dnction of $5 a ton In two days in lead, making the price at East St." Louis 4.85 cents a, pound. The highest price for; lead last spring wasii 7.75 cents, a pound.. A closing ralTy; In t h e stock market found little sustained bay ing support, iut allowed some is sues to close higher. United States Steel was up 12, cents at 157.37 and Bethlehem was up 75 cents at 1504 Chrysler gained 27 cents at 70.25 while J. I. Case was up 75. cents at 97. i ' 1 - Paraguay Revolt v Casualties Heavy ASUNCION, Paraguay, Nov. 4- (AVFIghting . at - Conception, 13 a miles ' north of here, resulted in more than 100 casualties. It was officially announced today. Loyal troopa yesterday van quitted- a rebellions regiment there after army .members at temsted a military uprising In a move to establish a dictatorship. Prominent Artist Dies ? PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 4.-WPV Huth- Breckenridge. 7. well known artist, died today a few minutes after he had called on his physician. Coffey Starts Serving Three Year Sentence U at Prison Gate While Search la Being Made; Reveals Attitude Further Clemency Pleas Indicated; 'out Over Year After Trial Dropping ' efforts to obtain a bench parole, Orey G. Coffey, for mer. Salem policeman, reported at the gates of the state peniten tiary yesterday ; afternoon , and upon the arrival of Sheriff A. C, Bark with commitment papers was received into the Institution at 2:40 p. m. He faced a three- year sentence for having accepted a bribe ! ' Sheriff Burk and his men went In search of Coffey shortly be fore noon after the, supreme court mandate affirming - the circuit court judgment against the ex officer had been received by County Clerk U. G. Boyer. Cof- ley'a whereabouts were" not ascer tained until bis attorney tele phoned the sheriff that his prison er ; was waiting for him ;. at the prison gates. "I'm ready to take it on the chin and make the best of it,' Coffey commented as 'he entered the prison office! "I'm going to do it the easy way and take my chances on getting out. before my full term ends.": Wears old , Clothes Through Foresight f Knowing that his civilian cloth ing would be discarded, Coffey wore old garments on his trip inside : the , tron gates black trousers, blue sweater and shirt, black tie and no hat. ! s -- Application fori a pardon will be ' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1). Decision on COP Meeting Due Soon CHICAGO, Nov. 4-P)-A pro jected mid-term republican con ventionadvocated by former president Hoover but ' termed inopportune by Alt M. Landon was debated by members of the national committee tonight amid Indications of a definite decision would be deferred. . National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton expressed belief com mitteemen and committeewomen who came here to vote on . the proposal tomorrow would select a policy committee to report to the full committee later. Increasing opposition to the plan culminated In a letter from Landon defining his attitude for the firsti time. , ; f "I do j not believe this is n opportune time for even the kind of convention I have outlined," the titular leader of the party wrote to Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts. "But I must repeat that as far as I am con cerned, if we are to have a con vention, there must be no limi tation on its scope of action and Its personnel must come from precinct - caucuses or primaries. Reciprocal Trade Policies Defended CLEVELAND. Nov... 4-(fln-Dr Henry F. Grady; tariff commis sion vice-chairman, pictured i the reciprocal" trade, agreements' to night as : applying a check upon the world's totalitarian states. - .' At the same time Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Braxillaii ambassador to the United! States, said "Braiil will stop its commerce .with Ger many, if the United States will stop tier b&meree - wftb, lGer- traders concern over -the extent of Brazilian-German business. In volving the loss of some Ameri can-markets. ' 4 ":---vf-: : -Dr.' Grady, former college of commerce dean of University of California, was" on 'the program of the foregin trade council's din ner at its national convention here. ;-ri;:;:4 f'vfp" 4-::: The Hull program attempts not only to Increase, the volume of world trade,'?, be said. "It alms to neutralise the marked trend in " recent rears of countries to throw off the established econom ic and political rales of the game and establish their own rules of economle and political conduct.' Carpenter Badly Burned In Fire Blamed Upon Cat . PORTLAND, Nov. i-ity-A. R. Hiskson, carpenter, suffered third degree burns on arm when he fought a fire in hie heme. , The cat overturned an oil lamp. : , Enters Prison In Bribe Case i A 7 OREY G. COFFEY Defects in I Plane Denied by Of ficer Allen Refutes: Statement Smaller Ship's Wing off Before Crash SEATTLE, Nov. ! 4 -JJPfo Lieut Comdr. D. C. Allen said today no mechanical ! defect contributed to the crash of two navy planes yes terday witiich took five lives. Commander Allen, head of pa trol squadron 19, to which Avia tion Chief Machinist's Mate JD, Goodsell,! pilot of the smaller of the two wrecked planes, is attach ed, said In an official statement both planes were traveling right side up and' fully i tinder contro when they! came together 3500 feet above Boeing field. He issued his comment in reply to a statement by Chief Coroner's Deputy Harlan SJ ' Callahan In which Callahan quoted both Good sell and his companion, H. S. Bow man, navy messenger from Alex andria,-La.L as saying they were flying upside down and that their plane, lost one of Its wings before the collision. ; '! ; --.- "Both! ships turned over after they came together, but they were ngnt side up venen they nit; Commander Allen said. "And neither plane! lost a wing until after the crash, i ' Comdr. Arthur I W. Radford who, as commanding officer of the Sand Paint naval air station - is senior member of the naval board of Inquiry, declined to reveal what uoodseira and Bowman's test! mony today had been, explaining the report i would be confidential and made directly to the secretary of the navy, ill v Funds Sought for Control of Midge . KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. Nov. 4-(flV-The Midge- a little guy with a tough recordmay cost the government $20,000. - . The Oregon experiment station will propose an appropriation for a two-year control program to the national resources committee at San Francisco tomorrow. The tiny Oy, numerous in the Upper". Klamath lake area, is cred ited with damage to dairying, lumbering,! land , development, recreational resources, t o u r i s t trade,' hunting and fishing. Change in: Oregon City ' Locki to Mean Saving Through Log Rafting OREGON CITY, Not. Revislon of the Oregon Cltjr Jocks to : permit : rafting tt logs down the Willamette river would pave two dollars per 1000 feet for tide water sawmills, R. -E. HIckson federal engnieer, said. ; I : The proposed Willamette ley, development -'project wou. provjde, for .the. thange. Tr(Ma Fatality List Grows r I; :Her$; Rebo I With the automobile death toll In- the Salem vicinity already standing at six for tne past ten days, grave fear that it, would be increased to seven was seen last night following reports that Mrs. Clara- Swafford, patient In the Salem , General i hospital, v. was "very low. . . k " - Mrs. gwafford was one of the victims of . the hit-and-run driver who crashed into the three elder ly women : at the 1 intersection of 17th end State streets the night of October' 30 almost' Instantly killing Mrs.! Fredericka Green, sending Mrs. Swafford to the hos pital with a broken pelvis and severe shock and; badly bruising Mrs. Alma.: Howe: v-:r - With t the death of Clmton Rebo, 17, of Aumsville, as a re sult of ' an automobile -'collision that took place shortly after mid night just -west of the peniten Both Nations Have Feelers out; Seeti A&ogicaljArbiter; Friendship :.6f Germany for Botli Has! , Recognition; Fuehrer to Accept; Only if Compliance Assured Brussels Conference Difficulty in Representation on S Committee for Negotiations BERLIN, Nov. 4 (AP) A trustworthy source close o the reich chancellory -reported tonight that Chancellor. Adolf Hitler expected to become the umpire in the Chinese Japanese conflict. j -.. k i . Unofficial feelers put out to the German government by both Japanese and Chihese, he said, have convinced Hitler hat mediation by him would rowned with success. .-' ' , '' He asserted tBat informal offers' conveyed partly hrough Oskar ITrautmann, German ambassador to China, bid partly through Japanese, Xhe chancellor then commissioned: Joachim von Ribben- O Japanese Position Difficult to Hold "'"--1 ' : ' Attack Loosens Hold Upon South Bank! of Creek; Gain Is Claimed ? SHANGHAI, Nbv. 5-(Friday)- (P)-The precarious Japanese foot hold on the south bank of Soo chow creek became" almost un tenable . today under the laihTng fury of a heavllyLreenforcedfan-! nese attack. -i'r-T:: After a day and"nlght of bitter fighting the Japanese claimed to have established a 1000-yird-long position on the south bank. A sur very of the front) line last night showed the Japanese were holding a sector ;near ; Rubicon village where they had driven a narrow wedge into the phinese position about three miles; west of Shang-j hat. ..:--:' ' '' i Foreign naval Observers reportr ed heavy concentrations, of Japa nese warships in; the Whangpoo river with 42 meii-of-war between Shanghai and Wcjosuhg and some 40 more near the mouth of the river. . ' . ; -I ; . i t They, expressed belief the Japa nese intended to make a landing in the Pootung industrial area, just across the Whangpoo from Shanghai's bund. 1 . ' During yesterday, thousands of fresh Chinese troOps moved up to the battlefront stretching north (Turn to Page t, Col. 8) Return of Mural To Artist, Threat ! WASHINGTON, Nov. i-JP)r The treasury threatened today to peel j Rockwell ( Kent's Puerto Rican-Eskimo mural. from ' a nostoffice department wall and return It to . the artist as "un satisfactory." . ;-- ;: " Officials were? angry over re- norta that Kent would aue If the treasury altered an inscripi tlon without first paying him the full $3,000 he asked for the pic tare.; - : f .v- "If he la going to be unpleas ant, we-may have to return the paintin g and - get back the $ 1 ,- S50 we nald him on account.", an official said. : !; The Inscription, interpreted aa Eskimo appeal for a rebellion n Puerto Rico, nas atirrea cru- cism. , . " ' Is Sixth Victim tiary on the 4 -corners .highway Wednesday, fatalities for Marion and Polk counties. by auto acci dents since October 25 have1 al ready mounted to a total of six. Rebo suffered a several jugular vein when the car he was a pas senger in, driven, by Robert Pert ry, was struck from behind by a machine driveff by William Ostby of Dayton.Both cars, according to a state police report, ' were moving through a heavy fog at a 20 or 25-miles;per hour rate of peed. when the Perry car loomed up ahead. Before he could stop. said Ostby In the report, he had struck the rear - of the car with sufficient force to throw Rebo's head into the windshield. He was rushed to , the Salem General hos pital by ambulance but died shortly after arrival from loss of blood. . . - 'j- ." ' - (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Runs Into Minor; be not only welcome but " :11 J ! '. .. ::. ':!!"' reached Hitler early last night trop, German . ambassador ! ' to Great Britain, to hurry to Rome to conclude an Italian-German- Japanese: pact against the tem- , munist international. It was stat ed, and return almost Immediate ly to pave the way for mediation.! (The German embassy in Rome said an ItaJian-German-Japanese pact agalnat communism would be signed Saturday In the Italian capital. Von' Ribbentrop left Bert lin for Rome Thursday:) ,1 The source close to the chan cellory added in substance: - niuer, ji was nnaersooa, woma accept the role of umpire only if he. had definite assurances from both sides in the far eastern con- xiici mat nis runugs wouia oe accepted. ' : ., ' '; : ; v Far-going assurances along that '. line from the Japanese were said; to be in his hands already. . , He expected from the Chinese a similar readiness, , Germany regards herself as a natural mediator as German gen- erajs trained Chinese troops and. in part, are still active in China while at the same time Germany is tied to Japan by close bonds : of friendship. , L -.: :,: .; ; . r BRUSSELS, Nov. 4 - (JP) 1 The . con?ore6e' on the ChineseJapa-. nete esiiflict ..ran Into discord to night it attempted to get down to the tsk of appointing a com mittee to induce the oriental na-! tions to get together in peace Ulks, .!". I;;.. yj It had decided ! earlier to ap point the committee with a dou ble mandate-i to extend good of fices to Japan and China for the restoration of peace and to reply to Japan's refusal of an i Invita tion to attend the conference here. Great Britain and the United States backed the idea of restrict ing the committee to representa-. tives of themselves or a three-nation group on w h 1 c b Belgium would be represented. t. France and.' Italy then' decided they must have a place, where upon Russia also put in a bid; ' , Idea of Compact Tribunal Defeated " 1 fThese moves were Interpreted . as defeating the original idea of .(Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Opulent Reliefer-1 - x ay o ilea v j x iuc NORTH PLAINFIELD, N. J.. Nov. 4-)-William F. Beck, -year-old wanderer who begged a meal and police lodgings while bis. ragged clothing held $90 and bask books showing $25,12 deposits. was lined $S0 as a "lesson"! to-. , L j. Jt J J A charge. , ' "..'".;..." . .Recorder Charles A, Reid, Jr.,. lectured him sharply for "preying;, on the good offices of the borough by accepting lodging and mis rep-, resenting himself. ; Robbery Charge Faced r PORTLAND, Nov. 4-(-Police held Frank F. Fry. 40, tonight r,n an' open charge for tilted States postal authorities as a suspect in the robbery of a postofflce at Al derwood Manor. Wash., about 10 months ago. B ALL AD E of TODA y By R. C, ' Hitler, whom Popeye'd call a "dlctapator," may try the role of warfare's mediator; he's .fit ted tor the job of arbitrator, but, fearing I'm a poor prog nostlcator, IH just withhold my judgment until later, lest I be branded a prevaricator. " ' - ' I MIMLILIII II II I