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PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN. Salexnv Oregonj TicUy Iklorninr, November 19, 1937 Carson Writes . '. . . .. . . -. - Warm Epistle Authority , not Extended ! to Naming Bargaining j Agency, He Avers Bombs Rain Death Upon War-Torn Shanghai J Stars Deny Blessed Event Rumor McKenzie Highway Snow Is Qeared Revision Gains ; ; The McKenxie Pass highway fa now clear of snow and In good con dition, R. H. Baldock, state highv way engineer, reported Thursday Previous reports indicated that the summit was covered with 22 Inches of 'snow. This has . been ret moved. HouseV Takes up Cry but 'Warning Voiced About ' lieed of Revenues ; , .(Continued from page I) our own, state and' city may pro? ;ceed to solve 'this problem-?-; t Carson said it bad been neces sary - to doable the police ' force In Portland- the past week to Mine r iota and lawless acts on the part of . sympathizers of both ur Jon . factions. i, r ! ; "This dispute may not seem of tncch moment to the national labor relations board, but It af fects every" worker In every field In Portland and contiguous ter ritory," he asserted. ' ,"W bare letood aside awaiting action by the board- wllich would beu ef fective bat, as matters stand, everything done by the board's field men has come to exactly nsHght insofar as the lumber Industry is concerned. And now; In tho spirit of cooperation, we feel that the city is entitled to IV right to solve its problem." A U PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. j 18- CflP-Charles W. Hope, regional director of the national labor re lations board, told CIO officials fc? letter today that "if the employer refuses to bargain.! you ave a right to file charges un der our act." j The letter referred to the re quest of the Inman-Poulsen Lum ber company for a labor board election to permit its employes to choose between the AFU:; rnd the CIO. : The company announced plans to hold an el e c t i o n, despite m Mope's refusal of the request on 'the. ground the CIO had already been designated bargaining agency by the board. The' board's 4eeision was based on a com parlson of n b i o n membership lists and payrolls of seven lo cal sawmills which closed fo! ;kwing an AFL boycott. it Inman-Poulsen officials said they had "not replied" to Hope's Statement. ...''', "j Charles Fahy, general council f the labor board, denied in a telegram to CIO leaders here that be had told the national con ference of mayors the board was without Jurisdiction in the Fort land AFLJCIO dispute, ' as he was quoted in a newspaper re- .- - . i .- . - - Bullet Holes in Auto Explained r I (Continued from page 1 ) the Elkhorn road on a hunting .expedition" the night of October I when the'shooting took place. resl was understood to have ex plained that the' reflection of their, own auto lights on headlamps of the Matthews car was mistaken Jot a deer. ' Nine .shots found, their mark on the car. The bullets riddled a spare tire resting- in a fender well and penetrated the body of the automobile and struck the engine block. j: Identification of the rifle from which the shots were fired was tnade at the state police identifi cation bureau here from empty crass tartridges which Game Offi cer Bert Walker picked up at the jscene. .;.:..' Arrested. Plot Against Cardenas (Continued from page II eluded. The arrests were made jin series of raids which started .'late this afternoon. A tbox of (dynamite was said to have been 1 found in one of the- houses Iraided. The report of a suspected plot against . Cardenas life was the 1 first in. the three years he has jheld office. Many of his pre jdecessbra died violently ' the last being- General Alvaro 'Obregon. 'who was ; assassinated in 1S2S just after he had been elected rpresident a second time. Italian Freighter Sinks After Blast BREST, France, Nov. li-(JP) The Italian freighter Boccaccio sank in the English channel 20 miles southeast of here- today within an hour after violent ex plosions occurred aboard. The 3,037-ton vessel, carrying munitions, was en route from f Hamburg, to Insurgent Spain' and f thence to Italy. . One member of the creworas lost. The- others were rescued after they had taken to life- boats. . . LEARN TO FLY! Low Cost Terms Salem Flying Service SAI.RM AIRPORT PiKne 6561 Art Certificate No This Certtif icate entitles you to one week's Set of Four Pictures upon payment of only 39c (46c if by mail).. -nrrORT A XT- Be sure to order Set So. I If yo have that or sub sequent sets, order the next numbered Set of Four. l;- ', '7i Flames follow air raids . J y . . ' 1 Death and destruction reigned in w here billowing clouds of smoke Fire-Gazing Crowd Scatters Quickly; Dynamite Flaming ROBINSON, 111., Nov. 18-(P)-An oil company's trudk jolted to a sudden stop In the business district today. Tongues of flame licked up -among tan array of 'boxes. A crowQ gathered quickly. ;- "Boy, what a fire," cried a spectator, "What's in them boxes?Y - "Dynamite," shcuted the swift-moling driver. The ; audience retreated pell neU. ! The' 'fire department ex tinguished the blaze. The cargo was made up of 24 cases of dynamite to be used in oil tests. CIO Man Accuses -Teamster "Goons" SEATTLE. Nov. 18-(jP)-TesU- mony he and some fellow McKes-son-Stewart-Holmes e m p i o y e s were "pushed out of the plant" by teamster representatives was offered today by a member, of the CI O-af filiated warehousemen's un ion 'at a national labor relations board hearing. The teamsters and longshore men are engaged in a jurisdiction-; al dispute over five Seattle ware- honses. - -, Everett W. Hope, who described himself as a "McKesson employe until last Wednesday," told of his exit from the McKesson plant and laid the blame at the door of "Dave Beck's goons." -Beck, teamster leader, said ear lier today his union signed a la bor agreement with the West Coast Wholesale Drug company, one of the five plants involved in the jurisdictional dispute. Other plants with AFL. agreements are McKesson and the Blumauer Frank Drug company. Filibuster Fails j To Get Speech of j Barkley Included - . WASHINGTON, Nov. 18-(F-Backers of the anti-lynchtng blU won a test in the senate today. - They blocked, 42-25, an effort by southern senators ' to shift a part of the burden of their fili buster to the shoulders of the sen ate reading clerk. The vote came when Senator Pepper (D, Fla.) proposed that an address delivered by Majority Leader Barkley (D, Ky.) on his recent European trip be read to the chamber. Senator M in ton (D, rnd.) objected. So did Barkley. , When the result - was an nounced, Barkley told the cham ber, "that's one vote this session in which I was able to command a majority." Jetty Bids Are Opened PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 18P) T he Columbia Construction company submitted the low bid of .$1,179483 for reconstrnctlon of the Columbia river entrance north, jetty. Captain S. L. Da mon, U. S. district engineer, said today. . 7. Slide Delays Trains SPOKANE, Nov. 18-0P)-A rock slide at Pocono, Idaho, delayed mainline operations of the Mil waukee railroad tour and one-half hours tonight. Pocono Is 23 miles east of SU Maries., , Carole Lombard 111 j HOLLYWOOD. Calif., Nov. 18 -(-Carole. Lombard, screen star, was under care of a physician to day at her home, after she was stricken with a severe cold at her StadiO. - ' . - ,.. " " : 29 stricken Shanghai and leaping names in the distance sentry post that Oxford Student's Life Is Described Stringent Curfew Rule Is Enforced ; Slingshots Sometimes in Use . Students at Oxford university, England, whose first college was founded in 847, are not permitted to bear arms other than bows and arrows but they occasionally re sort surreptitiously to the use of slingshots to break out quadran gle lighis for amusement. Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, professor of social science at Willamette uni versity, told members of the Sa lem Lions club yesterday in an address on "Oxford Ways." Dr. Thompson recently concluded a year's study at the famed old I institution. ! ; Walls more securely protected ' from climbers than those at Ore-! gon's penitentiary surround each of the 23 colleges at Oxford and serve to help enforce stringent curfew regulations, the professor related as he touched on humor ous rather than serious sides' of Oxford life. The gates close at 9 p. m., he said, and - cumulative fines are imposed hour by hour until midnight on late comers. Students remaining away alter midnight are fined J 2 5 the first time, summarily expelled for a second offense. Ant off Discouraged Motoring is discouraged by reg ulations requiring student cars to be kept in licensed garages, where they must be before 1 p. m. and after 11 p. m. each day. The rules forbid a student's going more than 50 miles away from Ms college. A large majority of the students ride bicycles. " ! Other rules forbid eating or dancing' in unlicensed places, sit ting In the cheap seats at ther tres, mixing with crowds, being at any time without the scholastic gown and playing marbles on the library steps. Dr. Thompson said. j To enforce the regulations, the proctor has a crew, of five as sistants commonly known as "bull dogs" who spy on students and re port infractions. Bank President Dies i I ASTORIA, Nov. 18-tiPV-S. S. Gordon, 88, president of the As toria branch. First National bank, died today after an illness of two months. The Call Board HOLLYWOOD Today Clark Gib) and -Jean Harlow In "Sara- tora" with f.innel Rarrr. more, ; Frank Morgan and Una Merkel. Friday Doable bill. Buck Jones in "Left Handed Law" and "Bulldog Drum mond at Bay" with John Lodge and Dorothy Mac kaill. STATE Today Eastern circuit vaudeville and "Step Live- ly Jeeves" with Arthur Treacher. - ELSIXORE Today Double bill. Spencer Tra- 1 a n T .11 1jk ln fn "Big City" and "The West- land Case with Treston - Foster. . Saturday (Single bill) Wfl- Ham Powell and Myrna Loy in "Double Wedding." '. extra " added attraction. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy In "Necking Party." . CAPITOL T o d a y Double bill. Pat O'Brien and Joan Blondell In ''Back, in Circulation"' and - Charles Starrett In "Old Wyoming Trail." ': GRAND Today Tyrone Power, Lor etta Young, Stuart Erwin and Claire Trevor in "Sec ond Honeymoon." indicated to the above Japanese bombing plants had scored a bit. Winner of Nobel Prize Sees Peace Prospects Bright NEW YORK, Nor. 18-UP)- Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, awarded the 1937 Nobel peace prize, said t o n i g h t "I don't think there's any great danger of an" immediate world war."! "The most effective step that could be. taken for the further ance of world peace," he added, is furtherance of the League of Nations." Honors came doubly today to the tall, silver-haired peer who has been a principal leader for the League of Nations since the death of Woodrow Wilson. He received an honorary LL.D. from Columbia university, and ten minutes earlier, while clad In cap and gown, received news of the peace prize award. Aid for Business Is Bankhead Plea WASHINGTON. Nov. 18. -(JPY- Speaker Bankhead indicated to night congress , would tackle the task of stimulating industries which . would absorb the jobless. 'Appealing In a radio broadcast for support of the current unem ployment census, the house,, leader said congress must have Informa tion on the training' and-experience of those who want work and cannot find it. !He stressed the need for plac ing the unemployed In private jobs as a means of ending "exces sive" expenditures for relief. "An analysis of . the factors which have thrown our govern ment revenues out of balance with our income," Bankhead said. points definitely to our excessive continued expenditure for relief and publicly created work." Bankhead's statement was the first official Indication of the use congress may make of the unem ployment census. ; 4 British Industry Asks Trade Pact ! LONDON, Nov. 18-()-British industry tonight endorsed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's announcement to the house of commons that negotiations were contemplated for an Anglo-Amer ican trade treaty. Champions of preferential trade among units of the empire were disposed to make necessary sacrifices because of the wider o- lltical possibilities that might re- uu irom an economic link-up of .DKiisn speaaing countries, j British industry generally ex pected to profit under the reel. procal trade agreement- although opposition was thought likely irom xarmera it the negotiations tend to make worse their already ouraenea position. Wright Trial Is Set To Start December 6 ; liLdsm uAuK, Calif Nov. i 18 CVPaul A. Wright, 88, former airport manager, was held today ior inai on cnarges that he mur dered his wife, evelyn.- and his best friend, John Klmmel. Z, inme executive, when he found mem embracing la his home. Trial was set Tor December S In superior court. i . i IN PERSON TODAY 1 Wild .WM'T Tnose --trrfi , To on ? A On the Screen (Contlnned from page 1) : senate agriculture committee an nounced an agreement upon an ever-normal granary bill," fash ioned after the administration pat tern, except more compulsory crop control: may be imposed for cotton.- j , j A house .subcommittee decided to propose marketing quotas for wheat, jsubject to a referendum of the farmers Involved, and a 30 cent processing tax. The full com mittee on agriculture, however, remained widely divided. Leaders hope as soon as a farm bill Is perfected j by either com mittee, the present period of con fusion and delay will be mitigated. The senate is ready to shelve the lynching dispute j and the house to abandon its rambling discus sions ' Whenever the crop control measure Is brought in. In addition, the house has pend ing a petition intended, to free the wage and hour bill, also on the administration program, from the grasp of the rules committee and bring it up for debate. A total of 218 signatures are necessary. Some 125 legislators had signed today) Discussion of Lynch Bill Interrupted In the senate. Bailey (D, N. C), talking against the anti-lynching bill, asserted the undistributed profits! tax could be repealed with out the necessity of Imposing a sales tax or broadening the basis of the income tax. But, to obtain repeal he said he would be "wil ling tj go to one, or the other," and wbuld "vote for both in order to balance the budget." Harrison; said he knew of "only two sources of compensating rev enue If some present taxes were removed, alsales tax, or a lowering of income tax exemptions. As a substitute for the undistributed profits tax; however, he produced a third course. "If we change the undistributed profits tax," he said, "we may in crease! the normal tax on corpora tions and raise a sufficient amount of money." Harrison made plain he was not In favor of any increase in the tax load. ! Senator Borah (R, Ida.) asked if there was any present idea of imposing a sales tax. . "None in the world so far as I know," Harrison replied. . ents Are Heavy, Salem (Continued from page 1) , blv iuroo below this before Thanksgiving. Pekar declares he expects to see the volume handled by his company tor the Thanksgiving trade, doubled for the Christmas trade, shipments for which win start; about December 1 and last through the month- The outlook for the December market is -bright, he says, add ing that of - course a good deal depends on the consumption of turkeys at Thanksgiving time. If no appreciable "carryover occurs. the December ! demand will oe strofig and the price level win probably be maintained. Grange to Oppose Plan (Continued from page 1), not face unmindful that they have to grangers back home, insisted the door be left open for cotton and1 tobacco, and won out. The grange' convention put Its foot! down firmly on enactment of the r Black-Connery wages and hours bill. Declaring reciprocal -trade agreements in. a measure- have traded the American market for agricultural products to foreign countries for a market for indus try the grange demanded Ameri can markets be reserved for the American farm. v rr he tut ara ess kj ce tnx MTTtr- I. 5 . mm And -Second - Feature .With . . John ; Lodge; t Dorothy aiacaauj, victor Jory sad . . Claud Allister , i . - i ' - - , . .- --Vi - :rt---. Added Popeye Cartoon, News and : Episode 10 of : f - "Jnngle 3imn ; r , I C03IING SUNDAY r . TKTYFCJtGCT Turkey Shipm Compulsory li)iUJW, r rf UWj I ESCAfATISt - i"1 'ii:::i.;:,;,l;l:,:l':rTialj:irrr7B. r, . j PtckPowenJ;! ; Joan Blondell Arriving in Cleveland to appear at the automobile-show, above, Dick PowelL accompanied by his wif e Joan BlondelL denied reports that they were expecting a blessed event, a rumor which made the rounds when Joan laid off work temporarily, j The blonde siren Is not mak ing" personal appearance but came along to help Dick celebrate his birthday, Nov. 14.. Ruling Made Upon Fee for Transfer Contestants in probate matters who avail themselves of a 1937 Oregon law permitting transfers of such cases to circuit court can not be required to pay the f 10.80 fe prescribed for appeals from probate, or county, to circuit courts. Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle ruled in an opinion given yesterday at the request of Coun ty Clerk UL G. Boyer. The transfer provided for in the new act Is not an appeal from a Judgment, the act merely gives the higher. court probate powers and the probate court records and Journals involved need not be duplicated in the circuit court records, the opinion held. Four such, proceedings have been instituted in Marion county since the act went into effect last June. Clerk Boyer said he had not collected the questioned fees but had agreed with attorneys in these cases that the fees were to be paid if upheld by the attorney general. Polices Get Taste - Of O wn Mellicine INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. IS-WFV- Patrolman John O'Brien couldn't handle an inebriated prisoner in a patrol wagon today, called upon Driver Ray Johnson for help.' Johnson . left the wheel, hopped through the rear door, helped quell .the pugnacious prisoner. Just then a gust of wind biew the door shut and the outside - lock snapped, For so minutes O Brien ana Johnson yelled for help. - - , Finally a pedestrian stopped and, although skeptical ; of O'Brien's plea to "open the door. we're policemen," agreed to tele phone headquarters. He did an& a squad car came to the rescue, . i-V Plant Importation Order Is Pending Formal order eliminating the quantity limitation affecting im ports of nursery stock, plants and plant products will not be Issued until a series of hearings have been held throughout the United States, Frank McKennon, chief off the plant divwion of the state ag ricultural department, declared Thursday. , ; .McKennon ' returned here last! night where he attended a meeting of the national plant board, com posed of the four regional quaran tine boards. - McKennon said the nursery bus iness had expanded by leaps and bounds during the past few years. based, on reports presented at the conference. Every Time They Ring T Tomorrow It's Good rVAMkiMrr " Today and Saturday ' TWO BIG HITS SSy ff9w Tw9 - AND 2ND HIT -Charles Starrett In THE OLD WYOMING TRAIL" Mi'-; V - Ik , . vj'' -v. v -'. .......- A ' N Marvel of th o-- RCA f'MAGIC VOICE" SOUND Starts Saturday Mr. and Mrs.. "Thin Man" (having spent a delightful honeymoon) now Invite ou to their wedding ... v. v t5 Mum ilo ADDED ATTRACTION; i RADIO'S SENSATION in "NECKING! PARTY Last! Times Today Spencer Preston Tracy" Luise Rainer in . "Big City" Foster 'in: !" "The I Westland Case'! "Bv 19M ana tnittc wfll aathsrttr oa Pator TMoJa. No t . fths...swtetMCtlpmwBlMarrM.- -but TODAY, round town 4 miles in 5 arc Stop and Go . VNX STOP can waste enough gasoline to drive Ys mile! Stop and (o la the costliest? kind of driving you do! WhlletrafScauthoritiespIan the Qty of Tomorrow," SheU engineers ha v t developed a fuel, Super-Shell, to meet today's driving problem , j ' Automotive engineers use the term "motor-digestible" to describe Super-Shell, be cause at all motor speeds It is converted so quickly, so com pletely into power. ' - Regular use of Super-Shefl j reduces driving costs. A Shell dealer la near you. K, i t - i "redsts HQIttllll KQ. CCD0CS Lacal Mk wfll txmw tm am wf Local SxtmM Ji wlte kr the in -il-inT-T f frwt if aiWndka aad ft nl can. IVU aa4 trck omt wM be toeMe awtldtwia. , SuPEFtrSllELL