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4 . i-1 Basketball Basketball, season Is at Band, with Independent, high school and college games starting. The States man sport page always leads. j Weather Cloudy today and Satur day, no change in tempera tnre; Max. Temp. Thursday 51, Min. S3, river 5.5 feet, rain .04 Inch, S-SW wind. EIGHTY -SEV ENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, December; 3, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 215 eamff JQ1M- if araoie . ,;-':"t poundqd 1651 ! 'J--1! y-h BcDmJb 59 Mpp TTTs I if Board Debates Outside Rates On Gty Water Grabfenhorst, Olson Hold Same Charges Made in City Should Apply - ' JL---1 '- - '.- - " - ' Deadlock Results Early Decision Wanted for -7 Turner Applicant The vexing question of what rates to charge new Salem water department customers located out side the city limits kept the water commission In fruitless special session for 3 hours last night. The Issue was finally continued over to the regular meeting to night. ... r With-. Commissioner Doughton absent, the commission dead locked throughout the lengthy discussions. Commissioners E. B. Graben horst and O. A. Olson contended outside customers should be charged no extra rate per cubic foot and at most a minimum charge no 'more Than 30 cents above that existing inside the city. Commissioners E. B. Gabriel and J. M. Hickman, supported by Manager Cuyler VanPatten, held out for a combination of an in creased minimum and a sur charge on the volume fate. Manager VanPatten "urged ear ly determination of the question to enable the city of Turner to complete an application for a WPA project for reconstruction of its water main system. Turner citizens backed by their city of ficials months ago petitioned the water department to serve their community from the Salem-Stay-ton pipeline which skirts the town and several recently have asked that Immediate action be taken by the water commission. .Four Other Water ' i Applications Are in Aside from Turner, applications for only four other connections, all for individual consumers, have been submitted to the commis sion. .The greatest number of con sumers possible to obtain along the supply pipeline rate was esti mated at 75, whose use of water, VanPatten said, "would be very small and yield relatively little revenue to the department." - A proposal to Call a public hear ing and invite prospective out of city consumers to express their views died after Commissioner Rickman had suggested that "we invite Salem people in, too, and see what they have to say about this. The commissioners favoring little or no increase in the outside rate asserted that a rate sur charge would discourage potential new customers from , taking city water. "I believe the citizens of Salem would criticize us for selling wa ter to outside consumers' at the same rate as charged in the city," Manager VanPatten declared. ; "And I don't believe outside cus- (Turn to page 15, col. 1) d d i t i c s . . . . in the News .... PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2-()-Parents of children too shy to make their own dates should arrange a few for the children themselves, the Rev. Roy. Burkhart of Columbus, O., v recommended today. "After that. he said. I "watch their dnst.' t 7 "If a girl doesn't get a date 1 she becomes isolated and de- vrlops an inferiority, complex,?"; ! the Reverend Burkhart told mothers at the- National Teach ing Mission, "Many boys are too shy to make dates. v WASHINGTON, Dec. John Melrin Bonner and Clara Howard, negro children, will be joined together surgically within a few weeks. A Washington surgeon, it was disclosed today, plans the oper ation to restore the girl's skin which was burned badly in a shanty fire in. North Carolina a year ago. ; The surgeon, Dr. Robert E. Moran, will connect the two bo dies by an 18-inch tube of skin extending down one side -of each. They will remain that way, with their blood ; circula tory systems connected, for five weeks. - - Clara, IS, was so badly burned a usual skin grafting operation was considered Insufficient. She and John, 16, are cousins'. CHICAGO, Dec. 2r-JP)-Tts G-men are trying to catch John Law. A bulletin circulated today by the federal bureau of in vestigation 'advised law en 1 orcement agencies to be on the lookout for John Godfrey Law, alias John G. Law, want ed for probation violation at Los Angeles. lowan Arrest On ChargeMed Decade Ago Rival Leaders Confer, Reach No Agreement Further Meetings to Be Held by John L. Lewis and William Green Iore Gang Action Cases Revealed at Inquest, Death of Corcoran WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-(P)-John L. Lewis and William Green, rival leaders of organized labor's civil war, met face to face today and talked peace terms. In prolonged conferences they searched for an agreement to unite Green's AFL and Lewis' CIO. At the conclusion of their Ini tial session Lewis shouted at In teryiewers he and Green had en gaged in general conversation and reached no conclusions. "It was en interesting discus sion," said Green, chewing gum vigorously. Later. in the day the two men had another conference, then re cessed until 8 o'clock tomorrow night without reaching an agree ment. Murray, Harrison x Are Their "Secorids" Lewis was accompanied by white-haired Philip Murray, : a' conciliator of ths CIO. George' M. Harrison, chief of the AFL jtego- tiators in previous peace confer ences, was with Green. The deliberations are certain to go far toward deciding whether organized labor is to end the fac tional strife of recent years and present a united front. The CIO has been fighting for organization of all the workers Jn each mass production industry into one big union, while AFL has been advocating organization along craft lines. Green and Lewis, one-time coal miners who now have a combined following estimated by labor leaders at 7,000,000 work ers, were tight-lipped and appar ently a little grim on their way to the conference room. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 2-(JP)-A milkman's sensational story that George "Bugs" Moran of Chi cago threatened more than a year ago to "bump off" Patrick J. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5.) No Action. Taken On Callison Case EUGENE, Ore. Dec. 2-CP)-Tlu University of Oregon athletic board, slated to discuss the future status of Prince G. Callison as head football coach, took no ac tion on the matter tonight, mem bers said. Callison was the-target of an attack today by a group of stu dents calling themselves the "Can Coach Callison Club"-which, spokesmen said, would boycott collection of student fees If Calli son were reappointed for 1938-33. Alumni officials said there had been few complaints from grad uates. . The Oregon team won two and lost five conference games this fall, finishing ahead of Southern California and UCLA. Labor Peace Parley Closes With no Sign Success Near PORTLAND. Dec. 2(JP)-Ob-servers saw little hope of imme diate settlement in the sawmill dispute here as AFL and CIO rep resentatives ended a three - day peace conference with David Rob inson, attorney as neutral chair-j Six proposals which rival fac tions agreed to submit " to their respective conventions made no mention of the AFL boycott on CIO mill products nor of reopen ing the mills. The suggestions provided for cessation of picketing, hostilities and membership raids by both parties and maintenance of "sta tus quo as presently constituted, with the continuance of the Joint committee with "necessary re sponsibility" for carrying out the agreement. r ' AFL representatives denied the contention of Harold Pritchett, president of the CIO International Woodworkers of America, that the Havana Physician To Test Theory r ivy s 1 f N '' ' ' ;cne of the most heroic experiments is illustrated in this picture of vana, Cuba, who is shown just after he allowed himself to be in oculated with cancer germs. The experiment is intended to prove Dr. Duque's theory that cancer can be contracted by inoculation. Insurance Rating Change Indicated League of Cities Survey Shows Salem Record on Fires Good Evidence that the city of Sa lem deserves a re-rating for fire insurance purposes appears in a report received yesterday from the League of Oregon Cities' bu reau of municipal, research. The Teport shows that al though Salem remains In bottom class,' group six, based on a na tional underwriters grading made years ago, its per capita fire loss among 14 Oregon cities of over 5 0 0 0 population was third lowest in 1935 and fourth lowest in 1936. The 1935 per capita loss was $1.18, as com pared with the lowest, 47 cents for Baker, and the highest, $8.33, for The Dalles. In 1936 the lowest loss per capita was 51 cents, at Oregon City, the f highest was $4.37, at Corvallis, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Convict Transfer Cause 'of Rioting SEATTLE, Dec. 2-(iP)-The Post-Intelligencer tonight quot ed Supt. George W. Roup as saying peace had been restored at the state reformatory after nearly a week's bedlam conse quent to transferring 31 r 1- .g term felons from state's prison to the reformatory at Monroe. It said the disturbances started when the men from Walla Walla objected to being segregated in "fish cells" (quar antine), while being given blood and mental tests and being in troduced to reformatory routine. clause referring to "acts of hos tility" included the boycott The conference also recom mended that AFL and CIO of ficials be memorialized to continue negotiations toward labor peace. Pritchett said the proposals would be submitted "gladly" to the IWA convention opening here Friday. - The Oregon - Washington Joint council of the AFL lumber unions convenes December 10 at Eugene. Morris Jones, speaking for mill employers, said results would de pend npon action taken at the con ventions. "I hope that 'status quo does not refer to the present condition of the down mills," he added. Directors of the IWA voted to day to. send a "peace delegation" to the AFL meeting. ; At Coos Bay, CIO and AF2 leaders were reported to" have agreed in principle to an arbitra (Turn to page 15, col. 2) . Near Detroit Risks His Life Regarding Cancer v in the long battle against cancer Dr. Matias Duque, 68 (left), of Ha' Additional Mail Carrier Ordered John French Will Be 30th on List; November's Total Shows Gain Coincident with announcement that $27,038.23 In postal receipts here for November continued the record of an increase every month this year over the same month last year. Postmaster H. R. Crawford stated that orders have been re ceived allotting the Salem post office one more city carrier and some additional auxiliary help. The carrier order is effective as of January 1, next, and will bring the number of city carriers here rto exactly 30. The senior substi tute city carrier, John French, is in line for the regular post cre ated by this order. - Continued increase In postal receipts means also an increase in the amount of mail handled through this office, and this fact largely explains addition of an other regular carrier. A reorgan ization of routes will be made prior to. the effective date of the order. This addition to the force will permit making two complete trips on every route each day, Post master Crawford stated. For some time it has been impossible to complete the second trips some days on the routes under the pres ent set-up. The November postal receipts were $1034.19 greater than the November, 1936, receipts of $26, 004.04. 4 Albany Man, Wife, ; Die, Heart Attack ALBANY, Dec. 2 E. C. Fisher, Linn county coroner, and Deputy Sheriff Mike Southard were call ed to Foster this afternoon by a message that a double death had occurred in the family of John Meenice. According to the telephone mes sage a son of John Meenice had gone to a field shortly after noon, and there found his father, aged 68, dead. Mrs, Meenice, 42, wife of the dead man, who was report ed to have started to a neighbor's for help, had fallen dead about half a mile from the Meenice home. ' The Meenice farm is located on Write Creek about 'half a mile above Foster. Honeyman Only Oregon Member Voting Aye on Wage -Hour BUI Issue WASHINGTON, Dec 2 The 218 house members, listed by states, who signed a petition to force a house tote on wage-hour legislation included the following Oregon Honeyman. In all, there were 19 demo crats, nine republicans, eight pro W "'I'-'j - - - " " ' s ' ' I ' " -s ' 1 , i4 : 4 - ??Jj gressives, five farmer-laboritea. i Hoskins Admits Identity, Miim On Guilt Issue Sheriff Burk Traces old Case; Man Praised by -Contracting FJrm Embezzlement of $5500 by Former Cashier of Bank Is Alleged Raymond A. Hoskins, former Rodman, la., bank cashier who had been living In the west for 11 years under the assumed name of Harry Sage, was arrested at a North Santiam highway road camp above Detroit last night on an embezzlement charge on which an Indictment was issued In Palo Alto county, Iowa, In 1927. Sheriff A. C. Burk, who made the arrest after three weeks of in vestigation, said Hoskins neither affirmed nor denied guilt of the charge and did not confess to his true identity until the sheriff pro duced a photograph of the man as they neared Salem. "I'm glad it's over," was Hos kln's only comment, other than that he "would walk every step of the way back" if only he would be permitted to return- to Iowa without an officer accompanying him, according to Chief Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Randall, wfio re mained at the courthouse await ing Sheriff Bnrk's return with the prisoner. - Bait Set at f 7500 ' In Justice Court , Hoskins waived extradition. His ball was set by Justice of the Peace Miller B. Hayden at $7500, to coVer the $5500 sum which a statement sent here by Sheriff B. F. Montgomery of the Iowa coun ty alleges Hoskins took from the Farmers Trust and Savings bank of Rodman before he fled that city on May 17, 1926. After leaving his wife and two children behind at Rodman, Hos kins came west and since 1923 had been in the employ of the A. Milne Construction company, Port land, on jobs in Oregon and Cali fornia. He said he had not com municated with his family since the day of his departure. His eon is now 12 and his daughter 17 years old. On 'the North Santiam highway surfacing contract, near where he was arrested, Hoskin had full (Turn to page 15, col. 3) Suspect Held in Theatre Robbery PORTLAND, Dec. 2. -(JP)- De tective Lieutenant T. SchulpiuS said Katherine Sirianni, cashier of the Paramount-theatre, hadldentl fled a man giving the name of Mitchell .Si gen, 25, as the one to whom she turned over $107 in box office receipts earlier tonight. SIgel was arrested at a resi dence on a tip from an undisclosed source. Miss Sirianni "said s the robber presented a printed note reading: "Give me all yonr paper money." He displayed no weapon. Russia Protests Attack on Train MOSCOW, - Dec. 3-(Friday)-(iP)-The soviet government to day announced it bad protested to Poland against an alleged at tack on a Russian train which, it was charged, was set on fire after the crew was locked in one of the cars. ' Tass, official Russian, news agency, said the attack occurred Nov. 29 at the Polish station of Dolginov, east of Wilno, as the train was about to return to the soviet side of the frontier. Villanova Declines EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 2-ff)-Dr. Boh Homan, chairman of the Sun Bowl committee, said tonight Vil lanova had declined an invitation to play In the Sun Bowl football game here New Tear's day. Texas Tech, champion of the Border con ference, hat accepted Most Autos Recovered , PORTLAND, Dec 2-(3VPolicQ burean .auto theft squad batted .980 in the year ending Novem ber's 0, recovered 967 of 975 cars reported stolen, its annual report Bhowa,. ... : ... ...... . Tight Control Of Business Is Borah Scheme O'Mahoney Joint Author of Bill for Licensing all Corporations ''Economic Constitution' Is Title Appended to Sweeping Proposal By KIRKE L. SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-JP)-On the doorstep of a congress still revolving in dizzy circles of un certainty, a proposal that it pack many of its economic, social and i political troubles in a single kit bag has been left by Senators ! Borah, Idaho republican, and O'Mahoney, Wyoming democrat. If their joint bill requiring corporations to take out federal j licenses would do what they claim for it, congress could adopt it and cut its pre-election agenda- to the bone. It might make possible that j early start on 1938 electioneering which many legislators desire. As spokesman for the. team, O'Mahoney told the senate the bill would provide an "economic con stitution" for the nation. He said this was as badly needed as was the political constitution of 1787. It would, he said, stabilize and stimulate commerce, prevent anti trust law violations, de-concentrate economic wealth and power, safeguard Investors, improve wage and hour standards, abolish child labor, guarantee collective bar gaining and end " monopoly. Commerce and Wage Control Incladed It sounds like a large order, but it's all in the Borah-O'Mahoney draft, from an all-embracing stat utory definition of interstate com merce to a new minimum wage setting formula. The Borah-O'Mahoney bill rep resents only wishful thinking by its authors at this stage. But un less Roosevelt leadership effect (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Dairy Subsidy Is Target in House WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-(iF)-A proposal to "keep the government from subsidizing the south 's en trance into the dairy business" won tentative house approval to day despite protests of adminis tration leaders that it would wreck the federal farm program. By a vote of 114 to 95, the chamber adopted a farm bill' amendment by Representative Boileau (P, Wis.) which would withhold federal benefit payments from farmers who planted dairy feeds on land formerly devoted to cotton, corn and wheat. . The note came after Boileau had spent most of two days argu ing that benefit payments to farm ers who turned cotton acreage to dairy production would constitute a federal subsidy for competition against established dairy interests. Democrats supporting the bill declared the amendment would make all benefit payments un der the present soil conservation act and the new legislation un certain. To Extend Airline SEATTLE, Dec. 2-iiP)-North-west Airlines, operating between Seattle and Chicago, will extend the air line into Portland,. Ore., shortly after January 1, Croil Hunter, president and general manager at St. Paul notified A. O. Kinsman, western traffic manager here, tonight. Wage-Hour Measure Is Pried Out, Investigation Refused - By RICHARD L. -TURNER WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-0P-A majority of 1 the house excitedly pried the wage-hour bill from the grasp , of its enemies today and, simultaneously, voted down a proposed Investigation of how the feat was accomplished. - . The last eight of 218 signa tures were scrawled upon a pe tition automatically assuring a vote on the bill which has been trapped in the rules committee since summer by a combination of republicans and southern dem ocrats. '.;; - S . ...j :"Afrl However, anything but smooth sailing was ; in prospect . for the measure. Everyone expected dras tic amendments would be propos ed. ' ; . As passed by the senate and as nrged by the president in his message to the special . session, minimum wages And .maximum hours would be prescribed for va rious 'industries by an Indepen dent five-man hoard. But there was obviously powerful support in congress for substituting a Disrupts Triumphal Procession Through ( InfirnTiiiTii Y.rkT 5000 Japanese Troops March Despite Protest, Scatter When Missile Bursts in Business Area ! Chinese Who Tosses Weapon Leaps to Death; Battle Near Nanking Is i Waged Mostly From Air SHANGHAI, Dec. 3 (Friday) (AP) A bomb explod ed in Nanking" road today as through Shanghai in a victory immediately. The explosion was about department' store. Soldiers ran Three Japanese soldiers were wounded, one seriously. The parade had passed through international settlement side streets along the boundary between the French con cession and the settlement and entered Nanking road without incident. : O Steiner Analyzes . Fehl's Testimony MEDFORD. I Dec. Testi mony of Earl H. Fehl. former Jackson county judge, defendant in insanity proceedings, will ie the basis for expert testimony by Dr. R. Lee Steiner, Salem, alien ist and former Oregon State hos pital superintendent, the court agreed today.: Fehl refused to be examined by Dr. Steiner, but defense counsel agreed to allow the alienist to testify on observations made while Fehl was on the wit ness stand. ! Testimony iof Deputy District Attorney George W. Neilson on asserted actions, accusations and activities of the ex-jurist fol lowed introduction today of a pamphlet,. "Black Political. Plot Exposed," alleged to have been written hyf Fehl while serving a four-year penitentiary term for ballot theft, i Three Portland alienists who recently examined Fehl declared he suffered from ' 1 aranola and needed institutional care. Mining Congress Hits Wagner Act WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-(P)-The American mining congress criti cized the Wagner labor relations act today. "The interests of the consum ing public, of employes, employ ers and of capital are mutual and can be served best through the fullest measure of mutual cooper ation," said a resolution adopted at the congress annual conven tion. "The Wagner labor relations act, without question, has demon strated its unworkable character and its impracticability : as a means to this, end." Sitdown strikes and "assump tion of leadership - of American labor by aliens" were disapproved. Albany Student Hurt ALBANY, Dec. 2-VAl Stromqulst, Alfiany college stu dent was severely burned when a college Bawdust furnace he was attending hackiired.' Tos pital attendants said he would recover. one-man administrator In the la bor department.' Numerous other changes and controversies also were in pros pect, including a proposal the law itself stipulate in exact figures what minimum wages and maxi mum .hours should be, instead of leaving that subject within lim itations to the board. To beat down! a satiric republi can effort to obtain an investiga tion fit the manner in which the signatures ' vers ; secured, - the house postponed for a half hour its discussion of the - pending crop : control hill and then pro ceeded to take that; measure up for amendment, r . ; -a. . , By a vote ;of 114 to 95 it adopted an amendment by Repre sentative Boileaa (P-Wis) ; under which soil conservation benefit payments wonld be denied to farmers 'who, after retiring land from corn, wheat, and, cotton pro duction, devoted ; it to dairying. . '.The senate received " from mi nority leader McNary (R-Ore) a , (Turn to page IS, coL 5) . 5000 Japanese troops marched parade. The parade scattered " one block from the Winp; On in all directions. f Police said the bomb was thrown by a patriotically inspired ended his own life by jumping Chinese. j After the bomb was thrown he from thej'oof of the New World Amusement building where, early in the Chinese-Japanese .conflict; hundreds were killed by bombs.') One British citizen was struck by a bomb fragment and slightly injured. Japanese troops restored order quickly. One detachment i sur rounded the district, bayonets gleaming, while the rest of the parade reformed its ranks and continued down Nanking road. Hundreds of Japanese troops were passing the Sincere and Wing On department stores, whew ' hundreds were killed.' by projec-i tiles shortly after Shanghai war fare broke out, just as the bomb, was thrown. : The "victory parade" was held despite protests-of Ameri can and other foreign officials and municipal authorities who held the demonstration provided opportunity for a possible ! fate ful Incident. ? . Tanks and armored cars es corted the stocky little Nippon- 4 L. A A 4. 1 . f ese iuruu5u ine Eememeni wnne warplanes flew overhead. Officially, the parade was de scribed as a "transfer of troops from Jessfield to Hongkew, (From the west of the. Interna tional settlement to its eastern part). . -t -; Japanese officials and officers, however, said the procession was V 11 - . T sjmuuiic oi Japanese conquests in China and of Japan's might' Early today British troops on guard duty at Jessfield, on the border of the western defense sector, where the parade en tered the foreign area. I removed barbed wire barricades under direction of Major-General A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, commanding British troops here. ,!-."; When the parade passed the outpost, a British squad turned out and i presented arms in ac cordance j with military courtesy. British, Chinese and Sikh po lice lined the route of march and -police patrol cars were sta ttoned at intervals to guard against possible incidents. ' The parade took SO minutes to pass a given point. "!"-. On the westward-moving bat tlefront "between Shanghai and Nanking the war was fought mnntlv In tha -Ir" immm (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4. B ALIA D E of TODAy By R. a The Japanese insisted that they had to celebrate by march ing through the neutral tone in battle-scarred Shanghai; and some will hold suspicions that they plotted to create ' another bloody ""'incident" and guess the; reason why, - 1 ys buys ana uses CREEPS I WAO I Q7 Shoppinq V Days Left,