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- ' ' i i ' ' 1 : 1 ' ffifliiliiili Art Appreciation : The 48 , famous puintiage ffered by The ftt esnxan re bring purchased by an ever-increasing number 1 of this paper's readers. Weather Cloudy today and Sunday, oiiibly showers; Max. Temp. Friday SO,' Blin. 42, river 14.5 feet, rain .10 inch, south wind. pouNono 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, November 27, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands Se No. 210 n n w - Most- Accepts Af LP v Obscene Show Charge Probed By Grand Jury Nude Dances and Movies Allegedly Immoral Said Presented Large Crowd at Recent Program in Armory, Objectors Assert Approximately nude stage per formances and allegedly obscene motion picture shows, reportedly presented to male Salem audi ences within the last few weeks, hare come under the questioning eye of the Marion county grand jury within the last week . and neither the Jurors nor the public have - heard the last of them, in formation gleaned from reliable sources yesterday' Indicated. Whether or not the grand Jury - will divulge any of. its findings . when It reconvenes Monday ..could " not, of course, be officially ascer tained. Grand Jury Hears y' Many Witnesses - , But It is knows . that a large number of witnesses were called before the grand jury at Its sit tings within the last week. It Is understood many of them were called to testify regarding the na ture of certain- shows, one pro-' duced more or less openly at the Salem armory and others present ed both within the city and at one or more outlying halls. The armory show drew a re ported audience of more than 400 men at $1.50 a head. They .saw five . reels of motion pictures al leged by objectors tot the perform ances to have portrayed consider able nudity and no, little amount of immoral goings-on. . Relatively a side: attraction was a floor show in whichseven young women are said to have Imitated the well-knpwn, Gypsy Lee Rose disrobing act, Only they didn't -flee into the wings of .the stage as the last garment ; fluttered away. Showers of coins from the audience called for greater ex tremes of so-called art dancing. - The hrmory audience, if report be right, learned that another such show might be expected in about two months if the authorities did not g-ow particular in the mean time. Such shows have been trav eling a circuit which has' included several Willamette valley cities, it is understood, and have been produced every two months in Portland with outside patrons re ceiving advance notice to keep -the dates open. . j ; Strip Tease Acts "Pi- At Silverton Cited j . i" . The grand jury is not believed ; to be as ' much perturbed at the dancing girl shows not infrequent ly arranged for club stages in Sa lem, Silverton and other eounty communities, as at motion pic . tures such as are reported to have been shown at the armory. Not a (Turn to Page 2, Col. J.) 0 d d i t i c s ... In the Neus CHICAGO, Not. 26-P)-A cou ple of bewildered cows were led down the world's most expensive cow path today while MQ0 as tonished spectators gaped. . , The cattle were herded through a passageway ten feet wide and 177 feet lone aid valued at $177,000 beneath a 22-story sky scraper on Monroei street in the heart of the LoonJ . - 1 , The anachronism was part of a pageant incident! to, the dedi cation of a Ublet setting forth: "Historic cow path. This"area way is reserved forever as cow path by terms of the deed of Willard Jones in 1844," Jones bought the land In 1833. He sold most of it eleven years later but reserved the right to the, lane he used in leading his livestock to a pasture wbere the towering board of trade building now. stands.' The nar ' row strip has been preserved In succeeding deeds. ' " . CHICAGO, ; Nor. 2HVA belligerent Boston " Terrier vrafrjjered -out Into Wester . avenue today and challenged -all comers, t "' The first to cross his path was a street car. The dog gamely held his ground. The trolley Jerked to halt. Passengers ' found the. pup under tbe front trucks. They tried to move him with broom sticks.- He remained adam ant. A wrecking car arrived. The front of the trolley was jacked up. Head bloody, but unbowed, the Boston trotted off, look big for another pushover. ; WASHINGTON,. Not. " 26-tfl5)-Scots, look to your bagpipe! A Scotch . company Inquired at the commerce department today about, opportunities - for buying American saxophones for sale in Scotland. Section 'Down Tons of Earth Crash; Nobody Known Injured Three Water Bureau Men Narrowly Miss Harm at Base of Hill Million Tons, Estimate of Debris; Portion " of Road Wrecked LOS ANGELES. Not. 2-)-A 350-foot section of Elyslan ParW moving hill roared down Buena Vista peak late tonight and surrounded several buildings on the opposite side of .River sde Drive. A section . of the boulevard -was covered with boulders and. debris. Police said, as far as they were able to learn, no one was ' in jured. Lights in the Immediate neighborhood were : extinguished for several minutes before p6wer lines broken by the slide were restored. A bakery on the boulevard was reported completely surrounded by debris but was not demol ished. . 'About 100 feet of Riverside Drive was carried away by the slide, which engineers estimated included about 1,000,000 tons of debris. The boulevard was cov ered to a depth of five,-feet for some35 - feet and - the - debris overflowed Into the. led of the Los Angeles river beyond it. At places the side was more than 40 feet deep. -' Engineers said inspection un der powerful searchlights indi cated the avalanche -dropped from a point about halfway be tween the base of the hills and Its summit. Three workmen of the bureau of water and power who were renalring a broken water main Lat the base narrowly escaped. The slide, which renewed fears that some 4,000,000 tons of the hill's face, which had been slipping gradually for more than a month, would fall, - was pre ceded by ominous rumblings earlier In the day and an - addi tional drop of 14 - Inches downward and 13 Inches out ward.'. A 2 4-Inch, main carrying wa ter to B u e n a Vista reservoir broke under the, strain and sent a miniature torrent rolling down across Riverside Drive into the Los Angeles-river until the flow was cut off. f-:v Torce Is being ' exerted In a new direction, southeasterly," said Dr. John P.'Buwalda, Cali fornia Institute of Technology geologist, pointing to abnckling expansion ; joint in the Dayton avenue bridge. . "If the -land moves further In this new direction, It may wreck the bridge." WPA Worker Confesses He's Wanted on Charge , PORTLAND, Not. 2 MVAr thur J. Parson; 32, a WPA work er, became ; the police depart ment's third confession" volun teer when he walked Into headquarters and said he was wanted at . Mt. Vernon, Wash., on contempt of court and forg ery charges arising from a child support case. Washington au thorities were notified.:. Farm Bill Held Russia; Changes Agreed on WASHINGTON, Not. 2-fl)-Bi-partiBan charges that the sen ate farm bill was "worse than anything In, Rnssia" and that It threatened to "accentuate the de pression" led sponsors to agree to day tQ modify certain provisions. - It appeared likely the first move would - be . to ; revise the section imposing a $100 fine on farmers tailing to make reports in con nection with proposed marketing quotas. Senator Pope ( D, Idaho ) , co- author of the bill, agreed to jii change after hearing criticism by Minority Leader McNary (R, Ore.) and other members of both par ties. I don't know whether yon would find anything : in Rnssia worse than this provision,! de clared Senator Barke (D, Neb.), Senator .Vandenberg (B, Mich.) 'of Moving MM Moors -Acv88'Mv v a . w 0 Sitd V" ,rs Leave Fisher Plant At Behest of Union President V Following a dramatic appeal byT6oiner 'ItartiJi " president f j the United AntomobOe Workers, 800 employes f the Fisher Body Co., at Pontlac, Mkb., ended their wildcat sitdowu strike and evacuated the plant pending further negotiations between union and company officials. Martin's action was taken to check criticism of the UAW for allowing unauthorized strikes. More than 14,000 workers were tied up by the sitdown strike. ; i " Santiam Highway Will Remain Open Traffic to Be Permitted on Blountain Crossing Till . Snow Prevents The eounty court - yesterday postponed Its previously ordered closing ! of ' the North Santiam highway above Detroit. Instead traffic will be permitted to use the low altitude route to central Oregon as long as snow conditions do, not make the road Impassable. The decision was reached af ter Road Patrolman" J. F. Bewley had reported that conditions were not dangerous over .' the . North Santiam pass at present and that snow was . being " kept cleared away by the state highway de partment. -. Arrangements were made for the state crew, to notify Bewley at Detroit -when closing becomes Imperative at the upper end of the road and' for Bewley likewise to give notice when snow becomes too -heavy to move from the Detroit terminus. The court ordered Bewley to keep close watch on the highway below Detroit and to attempt to clear away snow as' rapidly as it falls. He said the' road-between Detroit and Mill City was In good shape with the state high way. de partment maintaining the section from Detroit to Niagara. A' bad slide : that occurred . at Sardine creek has been cleared away suf ficiently to permit one-way traf fic to move. . Worse Than contended it would not be fair to penalize a farmer -who: made incorrect or incomplete reports due to a misunderstanding of the bill's provisions. -y i; - -I don't think it's fair to the farmer to comprehend that which I doubt 90 out of 9 S senators com prehend at the present-moment, he said. : r:--' tPope declared the. penalty sec tion would be fairly easy for farm ers to understand, but gaveassur ance if there were any real doubt about It he would join In urging safeguards for farmers "innocent ily" in error, Senator Connally (D. Tex.) lik ened the. senate to a doctor trying to cure farm Ills. This brought from McNary the retort: ' "There Is one big ; difference. When a ; patient -doesn't' behave yon put him In a hospital. When It's a farmer, you put him In jaiL" ' t V? Beck Is Cited on Contempt Charge Teamster Chief Persists in Blocking Sale of Beer, Complained TACOMA, Nov. 2-3H"ave Beck,; of Seattle, organizer for the International Teamsters' un ion and best-known Pacific northwest labor leader, . was or dered today to show cause Dec. 23 why. he should not be held in contempt, of ; the United States district court here. ;- Judge E. E. - Cushman Issued the : order after receiving affi davits alleging Beck and two Taconia Teamsters' union leaders had j disobeyed a court restrain ing order and outlining conver sations alleged to show, they had no intention of obeying it. M. D. Bar ash, Seattle office manager for the General Brew ing ; corporation, of California, and :W. A. Benton, representing a Tacoma distributor for the concern,' filed the affidavits, asking compensatory ' damages and $2,000 attorney fees. The two charged they" were (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1.) River Goes Higher But Then Recedes Fed by high country rains, the Willamette river accroached . the 15-foot level here yesterday af ternoon after having been sta tionary Thursday but - towara midnight it began receding for the; secondtime thia, week. From the 13.8-foot mark Thurs day, the river, reached 14.3 feet vesterdav morninr. close "to .1 feet in the afternoon : and re turned to the 14.6-foot point at 10:30" n. m. '" .Renewal of rain showers is forecast for today bv the weath- er bureau with no change in temperature. Only inch of rain was recorded here yester day. ' " S -: . V. 1 - - - : - $ -"- Small streams which had run high, throughout the county were wHh - few exceptions back within . their banks yesterday. Pudding river, , howerer, stifl kept the " lower Salera-Slrrerton highway closed at the bridge. - '-i MHMVHHMWHMHVMMMMvMSv "...1 ") Football Game Receipts Escane Yeges at Bend BEND, Not.; 2 S-i-Tho Bend high school safe Was blasted last night br burglars In: search ;of Thanksgiving football receipts, previously deposited In. a bank. They got 37. .-' Business Help Moves Listed By Roosevelt Tax Revision Is First of Five Points; Housing, ; Buying Proposed , Would Curtail Building of Roads1 as Part of Economy Program . "WASHINGTON, Not. U-(JPh President Roosevelt announced to day a five-point program tor. end ing the business slump, Including -to. the. gratification of a tre mendous bloc in ' congress tax revision as soon as a bill can be prepared. In addition, he listed at his press conference: .The stimulation of a boom In large-scale house building, on which he said he would send a message to congress Monday. . Curtailment of government ex penditures for road building, on which he promised a message Tuesday obviously part of the general campaign for a balanced budget. The immediate purchase of some $245,000,000 worth off gov ernment supplies, which ordinarily would be acquired gradually over the next six months. A continuation of his series of conferences with public utility ex ecutives, in the hope of promot ing a utility construction program; which is lagging far below nor mal. :... The American Federation of Labor Issued an analysis of the economic situation, terming the present trend a "temporary check" and suggesting a program which would include: no pay cuts, the stimulation of production in the heavy industries, and the pro motion of business confidence. While the president's statement on taxes. encouraged the congres sional movement for tax revision at the special session, there ob viously remained many doubts it could be accomplished. Chairman Vinson (D, Ky.) of the house subcommittee on taxes, was uncertain legislation could be prepared In time, ; although ex pressing eagerness to go ahead as quickly as possible. ' Amateur Hour Program Spoiled hy Explosion MOLLALA, Not. , 2-fl)-An amateur hour program staged "by a Parent-Teachers group liter ally blew up when - a 10-gallon can of boiling coffee exploded; seriously scalding Elton Newman and burning several others. Late Sports MINNEAPOLIS, Ifeor. 2H"3V John Henry Lewis, world's light heavyweight champion, scored a tour-round . technical knockout victory over Salvatore Ruggirello, Los Angefes, here to night." . . V .. ? . Referee Jack McDowell stopped the fight after , Ruggirello had gone down five times. It was a non-title bout. The negro champion weighed 183 pounds, Ruggirello 207: ( ST. , LOUISi : Not. 26-(ff)-Everett Marshall -held his claim in'' several states to the heavy weight wrestling . crown tonight when he defeated Danno : O'Ma honey of Ireland, in 29 raO min utes 'of a one-fall 1 title match. Marshall weighed 223, O'Ma Honey 225. v CAMDEN, N. J., Not.. 2 Dorothy Forbes, Camden ( swim ming star, bettered the, world's record for the 100 meter, back stroke tonight. . " .-" Swimming , a short . 20-yard course In the - YMCA pool, the former, Camden high school star and national v 100-yard , Indoor women's AAU backstroke cham pion covered the' 100 yards In 1:20.2 to -better the record of 1:22.3 set by Eleanor Holm Jarrett in . Jacksonville, Fla., seven years ago. COLUMBUSr O., Not. 27-(Sat-urday)-5VBranch Rickey, gen eral manager of ' the St.11 Louis Cardinal baseball -club, v said early today he knew ."nothing at all? about the reported trade of Joe fDneky Med wick to the New York Giants to exchange for Mel Ott. Hal Schumacher and Gus Mancuso.-. - Japanese Take Firm Controla Shanghai Area Communications Will Be Supervised Including International Area Question . of Censorship not Clear but Likely Under Nippon View : SHANGHAI, Not. 27-(Satur-day) - (JP) Japan seized control today of all Chinese communica tions facilities in the Shanghai area, in which most of China's means of communicating witti the outside world hitherto have been concentrated. . To., da this Japanese represen tatives entered the international settlement . to assume charge of postoffices, cable and radio ad ministrations and broadcasting stations hitherto operated by the Chinese government. Whether this meant establish ment of Japanese censorship was not immediately clear. It was feared serious International com plications might arise It Japanese tried to control operations of for eign cable and radio companies. (Such control, however, would be a logical result of Japan's contention she falls heir to all Chinese communications rights in the Shanghai area. The foreign companies, including the Ameri can Commercial Pacific cable (Radio Corporation of America) and Mackay Radio, British east ern extension and Danish Great Northern Cable companies, by contracts with the Chinese gov ernment, agreed to receive out going messages only ; from the Chinese cable and radio adminis trations and to suhmit to Chinese censorship). j Japanese army units seized ferry properties on the Whang- poo' river belonging .to the extin guished Chinese city government and - Japanese ' Indicated they would appoint their own apprais ers and examiners to extend Jap anese Influence in the customs service at Shanghai, j i (Shanghai dispatches, however, did not indicate the Japanese had assumed any functions of the Shanghai municipal council, the body which administers the Inter- national settlement.) . 1 . - Assessor Objects To Salary Slash HOOD RIVER, Not. 2.-(PH George Knox, Hood River county, assessor who refused to make the 1938 levy until the state tax com mission investigated 9 his wife's $200 annual salary cut -and a $100 slash in his travel expense, was answered by the budget conw mlttee today. ' " - - Y -Members said his wife, a depi uty In his office, received a salary- cut because the work was only part-time. Knox, they. saw, naa taken a flat sum of $300 annually in . advance for . travel: expenses and, so far as It could learn, had not Itemized expenditures. Knox charged the committee had a per sonal grudge. Wild Bullet Puts Hunter -In Hospital at JNewport t NEWPORT, Not. 28-:-Snot. In the- left forearm i while duck hunting at South Beach, Frank V. Fogarty, 18, assistant airway ob aerrer, spent Thanksgiving In a hospital..;... ,'....- , - ;- "z Hinted Intimidation Denied By Culinary Alliance Leader Coincident with his organiza tion's decision to arbitrate its dif ferences with Salem : restaurants. C. A. Chambers, business agent of the local Culinary Alliance,' issued a statement Friday in which he denied 'the union was responsible for alleged intimidation of. restaur rant; workers and for destruction of property." .. ... ' ';:'vf . On the other hand. Chambers asserted the employers had intim idated their employes in some In stances and, he averred, violated provisions of the Wagner labor re lations act.--. ':-'77f-'t:-' ' 'y-.&si,. The AF, of h unions have beea largely responsible for , keeping the CIO, a radical element,"; out of Salem, Chambers also main tained, - . "t-. " I' " 'T" " Chambers complete statement read as follows: i "We have heard rumors of var ious kinds, read statements is tar ious newspapers of intimidations, destruction of property tc by the union In Salem until we feel It is time for ns to try; and correct some of the misstatements so far that have been Issued by the res taurants irho are being, picketed by the Culinary workers of Salem. But Will Insist on - Closed Shop Settlement Factor Executive Board of Alliance Given Authority to Act; Will Select one Arbiter for Committee v Restaurant Employes Will Be Queried on Wage Issue, Is Understanding Third Truck Line now Involved The Salem Culinary alliance authorized its executive : board last night, to start arbitratioii of its controversy with 28 local restaurant operators as proposed Wednesday by State Labor Commissioner C. the authority to agree to such terms of arbitration as it may see fit and to name the alliance member of the three-man arbitration "board.; The decision came after extended discussion of the coin missioner's plan at a regular meeting of alliance members. The executive board which will represent the workers cen- sists of D. S. McCarroll, alliance president; John Meusch, Leslie Lind, Paul Liphart and, Laura Moody. In accepting arbitration in the dispute the alliance main tains it has with the restaurant employers, terms announced O Industrial Union Offers Solution Vote on Return to Work Is Suggested ; Port of Coos Is Reopened PORTLAND,1 Nov. 20-)-The Industrial Employes' Union, Inc., charged In a national labor re lations - board aompJalnt .with be ing a company union, proposed a ' solution today in the CIO AFL dispute which has closed Portland sawmills for 104 days. Asserting that neither the CIO nor the AFL appeared will ing to abandon its tight in the interests of the workers, A. D. Chisholm, I E U president, pro posed that mill employes vote on whether they desire to return to work; Instead of on union representation. 7 He said the CIO was "impo tent" in its efforts to man the mills, and that the AFL did not hare control of the men but was preventing resumption of oper ations by a boycott, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3.). Second Seagoing -' Ferry Is Making , 'r Progress, Storm astoria; ore.i not. 2i.ht- Defepite. a falling barometer and water shipped In swells off Cape Blanco, the ferry Golden State continued up the Oregon coast to night In tow of the ,tug Commis sioner. -" i . - - ' The terry, pne of six purchased at San Francisco by the , Paget Sound Navigation company, will not enter the Columbia river for repairs unless a. storm arises, the coast guard said. Now of f Taqulna bay, the 240-foot boat, will pass the Columbia 1 bar In the morning. t Superstructure of the -Golden Bear, first to be towed north, is being rased at North - Bend, the result of buffeting oft Cape Blan co two weeks ago; when a tow line parted. ; As business 'representative of the Culinary Alliance A Beverage Dis pensers of Salem, I Wish to em phatically say that none of -our members has ever destroyed any property at any time or used in timidation on non-union persons. We have met the employers time after time and have talked to their help at various, times outside of their working hours. " ' ' ' , "Tht attitude of the employes seems to be that if the employer airna an acreement thev Will Join the union, but they are afraid to Join before i because they are afraid of losing their jobs. Some of them have told me .that, they have been Instructed not to join the union nor to talk to a union organizer, However,' some of them have been to see me and, have ex plained the -position " they- are in. My advice was that they stay on the lob and sav nothing until the employer had signed an agree ment, so tnat tney wouia not run the risk t losing worfc w V -- "It would look to me as If these tactics are a bit of Intimidation on th part of certain' employers, warning the. employes that if they (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1.) , , as one . . ( H. Gram. This board wilkhave W ednesday that the operators must; agree to contract under a closed shop agreement for wages, hourf and Vorking conditions to be e'atablished by the board ef ar bitration still apply, C. A. Cham bers, business representative. In dicated after last night's meeting. The closed shop requirement," Chambers declared, would hot dis- criminate against present 4 em- .' ployes of the restaurants Involved, As provided in contracts discussed and i rejected hythe -operators-Jn -'. the summer" and 'early fall, the employes would be given a brief period in which to join the union, he explained. r Employes Will Be Interviewed, Plan ' Union leaders understand that the Cram committee would inter view restaurant employes as well as operators as to their beliefs concerning proper wages and working conditions and as to un ion affiliation. ' Ai N. "Al" Banks, teamster , business agent, who attended the, meeting, declared he approved of the arbitration: plan and had dis cussed it with' - Commissioner Gram.- :' "' 7 7 No other moves were made la the controversy yesterday as far as could be ascertained. For the 1 operators, Frank H. Chatas, presl- dent, said the entire matter had been left up .to Mr. Gram with the understanding he would con tact union representatives and re port back. There were no new re ports of deliveries of goods- past 1 picket lines. - y I A; third truck line may soon be drawn into the delivery dispute. Chatas said a consignment of mer- . chandise from Portland had been made via ' other than the Silver '. Wheel iMotpr : Freight, 7. Inc., and , thef Willamette Valley Transfer company, firms that were Involved ' In this week's delivery situation. No lactlon was taken with, regard to alleged failures of the Southern Pacific, company to make deliv eries, but Chatas said such action against ' that concern and also " against an unnamed truck . line wast under consideration. B A L LAD E of TOD Ay By R. C LA hundred million tons of earth - broke loose from LA's creeping hill another demon stration of Dame Nature's ec centricity. ' no humans' hap pened on the spot,' that mon-. atrous avalanche to kill which rouses our suspicion that they staged it for publicity. KDiiys ana uses . Christmas Seals kJHJL, 1CRELJINCS MCA' Pays Left,