The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 07, 1937, Page 2, Image 2

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    The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 7,-1937
Bus line Adds
New Tc
mtory
Route . Changes Outlined
- as Ordinance Passed)
s Franchise Granted
(Continued from pace J)
opinion o( Alderman Good
. enough, and upheld by several
other members of the council,
the. city has no legal right to
compel such a . carrier to.carrr
liability insurance, or Its coun
terpart. The new bus ordinance, as
passed by the council last night
provides:
1. Establishing of hours of la
bor for tbe drivers of bosses.
. 2. ProTiding ; for establish
ment of bus routes.
3. Requiring of owners and op
erators to carry liability insur-
" ance, or file a bond In lien there-
of. -. . .."
4. Requiring safety Inspection
of equipment by the. chief of po
Hce. : -
5. Providing for the surrender
and cancellation of bus franchises
granted by ordinance.
6. Repealing' all ordinances in
conflict, except hu franchise or
dinances. 7. Proriding penalties' for vio
lation, of the ordinance."
" A new attempt was, made by. the
council last night to pull its finan
ces Jont of the dilemma into which
- they Were thrown when the state
audit for 1936 reprimanded the
council for overdrawing of accounts-
in excess of budgeted
amounts.. - -
The council last night moved to
have 'the city recorder compile a
list of bills '.that cannot now be
paid and submit them to the city
attorney -with a request for his
opinion as to whether the city is
... authorised to make transfers from
the 'city treasure, based on the
to:ooa anticipated from Marion
counfy' due the city from interest
a ad Tittes on delinquent taxes.
As amended by Alderman Fred
A Williams; and passed by the
ceuheJI. the money when reeeived
f roar the county, will be added to
the general fund and the different
funds will be reimbursed to such
an extent as will bring them with
in the balance of the budget.
i- . Absolution, introduced by Al-
' denean David O'Hara, and passed
by the council, combining funds
that are now. and that may here'
after be credited to the Taxes and
" Lien Foreclosures fund and Prop
erty Sales fund, into a fund to be
known as the Lien Foreclosure
fend.
Impending Legion
Events Announced
Important county and district
American Legion meetings coming
In the next two weeks were an
nounced at last night's session of
Canital post No. 9.
Friday night of this week the
Marion county council will be en
tertained by the Stayton post and
. new officers will be elected. Sam
Yoder of Silverton Is the retiring
president and Harry Wilson of
the same city is secretary.
A - district Legion conference
will be, conducted at McMinnville
Friday, December 17, with C. E.
"Mose" Palmateer, department
commander, of, Salem, in charge.
Work of the Sons of the Ameri
can Legion was stressed last night
t the post meeting and at a fa
ther and son banquet attended
y ISO men .and boys earlier in
the evening. Al Green wait, nation
al Sons committeeman, of Port
land, outlined the 'organization's
program. '
Robert Neal Recovering
From Collision Injuries
SILVERTON Robert Neal la
reported as i recovering satisfac
torily from slight bruises and cuts
received last week, when his bi
cycle collided with an automobile
driven by Miss Marie Bolme on
East Oak street The boy waa
knocked unconscious by the im
pact. Robert is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. L, R. Neal.
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Art , Certificate
No
This Certtificate entitles you to one week's Set
of Four Pictures upon payment of only 39c (46c
if by mail). ' ' -". :.. . . :
-IMPORTANT-
Be sure to order Set No. 1 if yon have that or sub
acqnent acts, order the next numbered Set of Four.
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Offices of the staff charged with conducting the unemployment census
bustled with activity as returns poured into Washington from all
parts of United Slates Here is one of the tabulating machines in
action being watched by officials, left to right. William L. Austin. -director
of the bureau of census; John D. Biggers. director of the
unemployment census, and Malcolm Keriin. administrative assistant
to the secretary of commerce. "
No Objection to
Vote Expressed
(Continued from page 1)
win acclaim for his 'heroic deed,'
does not unduly prolong the na
tural conclusion of the whole af
fair. -
"The Mvrhoiocical moment is
near and we believe when the fev-.
er breaks a settlement will come
and with M a financial collapse of
the IWA (CIO woodworkers' or
ganization).
Ben T. Osborne, executive sec
retary of the Oregon State Feder
ation of Labor and AFL leader.
said "No oolice protection will be
rea ulred" at the Inmah-Poulsen
plant if it should reopen under the
CIO. He said peaceful picketing
would continue, however.
H. B. Duxer. Inman-Poulsen
president, said the governor was
making "a sincere effort to solve
a problem which sooner or later
must be met. -
- r'A majority of the men at the
Inman - Ponlsen plant petitioned
the national labor relations board
for an election." he said. "The
board refused the same. I believe
the governor has shown the way
out for Portland operations."
Truce Is Refused
By Lumber Union
(Continued from page 1)
lating that picketing would be
continued at the Plylock corpora
tion plant at St. Johns.
The agreement, accepted by the
CIO group with the reservation,
provided that neither AFL nor
XJIO should picket operating mills
and that status quo be maintained.
'! The committee reiterated that
the AFL boycott, on CIO lumber
would be maintained.
I An AFL proposal that CIO
woodworkers return to the feder-
ation was before- the IWA execu
tive committee today. '
The convention voted to submit
to the membership a proposal to
transfer headquarters from Seat
tle to Portland. ' .
An attempt to bar a representa
tive of a eommunist paper was de
feated after an hour and a half of
debate.
Three Sentenced
In Forgery Cases
Continued from page 1 )
sheriff has not disclosed. $10 in
making good on the checks which
the . victim either endorsed .or
touched for after Christy had
promised him the managership of
a real estate agency. ,
Lewis Lester after pleading
guilty to non-support was released
on his own recognizance with sen
tence held in suspension on , the
condition he work and support his
family. . ,: v-
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Republicans Swat
Mileage Measure
(Continued from page 1)
the regular session beginning in
January.
Upon the' assumption similar ac
tion would be taken to provide
"mileage again for the regular
session. Representative Taber (R,
xs. x.) assailed the measure as
throwing the' doors wide onen
without legislative authority" to
permit members of congress to
collect double mileage from the
government, even though they re
main in Washington over the
Christmas recess.
Together with Fish (R. N. YA
and Bacon - (R, N. Y.), Taber
seized the occasion to comment
bitingly upon the special session's
lack of accomplishments to date.
Fish said te "new deal team is
back upon its own one-yard line.
evidently, with no plans, ' or
plays." Bacon asserted It did not
become the house to "adjourn just
before Christmas, having in mind
the thousands tor whom it will be
a sad Christmas.
The Gil Board
CAPITOL
Today Double bill, Fat
O Brlen and Humphrey
Bogart in "San Quentin"
and Bob Steele in "The
Friday State, S acts coast-
rVJ ft ft t voiiilttvnia Anil 0
w v wa m eMv v aaawi , KUU
. IimM Tinnn in "T.lrlnar vn
Love." .
STATE
Today Rochelle Hudson
and Robert Kent in "That
I May Live" and Will Rog-
ers in "Handy Andy."
Thursday E a s t era circuit:
vaudeville. "The Crockett
; Family" and; the Jones.
family in "Big Business."
Saturday noon, kiddy clubi
and preview at night with
Paul Kelly and Judith Al-
len in "It Happened Out
West,"
muvn
Today Double bill, Dolores
V Vial I? In T .
and Smith Ballew in Zaae
Grey'a "Roll Along Cow-
boy."
Wednesday D o u b 1 e ViU.
Mickey Rooney tn "Hoosier
Schoolboy" t and CharleaB
Quidley inThe Game"
That KUls."
Saturday Double bill, spec-
lal o f r. .
- " o w iu , m uuo
Priest" and the Jones fam-
Ily in "Hot Water."
- ' ' "
HOLLYWOOD
Today B 1 n g Crosby," Bob.
Burns and Martha Raye In
Wednesday D o u b 1 e bill.
Mftlt CI I AW nA 1T.n T1. ft
- lor, and Otto Kruger and
Leonora Corbett in t'Liv-
Friday Double ' bill. Buck
wwaM AaAV. aiCB UUU
"Sophie Lang Goes West"
. with Gertrude Michael and
' T .ft rr C-t U. ft
1 ELSIXORE '
1 Today Double bill, Joel Mc-
Crea and Sylvia Sidney in
"Dead End" and "Expen-
alve Husbands" with Bev-
erly Roberts. .
Wednesday D o u b I e MIL
Kay Francis' in "First
Lady" and "Adventurous
End" with John Wayne. .
Saturday Double bill. Sub-
marine D-l with .Tat
O'Brien and "Glamorous
Kis-Tlt " With TTWn Innr ft
Bing Crosby Bob Burns
Martha Raye
"Waikiki Wedding"
"Love tn a Otto Kruger
; Bungalow la
Nan Grey and " ' "Living
Kent Taylor Dancerously
Compulsion in
FarmBiUHit
House Votes 85 to 76 in
Opposition; Quota
Provisions Hit
(Continued from page 1)
cooperating with those allot
ments.
Meanwhile. Senator Schweilen-
i bach . (D-Wash) told the senate
I if it wished to heed Senator Bo
rah (R-Ida) and feed and
clothe the. poor with farm sur
pluses It must prepare for a
public outlay of 18475,224.000
between now and June,. 1939.
Administration leaders an.
parently had nominated the west
erner to match the oratorical
fury Borah unleashed last Fri
day. At that time the "Lion of
Idaho" denounced crop control
i as "national suicide'' and railed
on the 'government to "spend a
billion dollars in buying excess
produce for the needy.
"The slum dweller In Mew
York doesn't want a bale of cot
i ton, he wants a shirt and the
poor southerner doesn t want a
sack of corn, he wants nork
I chops," Schwellen bach said.
Eckerlen Charged
With Liquor Sale
(Continued from page 1)
mixers and soft drinks and 35
packages of cigarettes.
The complaint charges Eckerlen
with unlawfully and wilfully oc
cupying and maintaining the Ma
rlon club "where alcoholic liquor,
a more particular description of
which is to the complainant un
known, was and is sold, manufac
tured, bartered and given away in
violation of the' law, in that the
said alcoholic liquor was end is
not sold, manufactured, bartered
or given away by a person licensed
so to do under Chapter 17, gen
eral law of Oregon, 1933, and the
said defendant did then and there
unlawfully and wilfully permit
and procure divers persons, whose
names at this time are unknown
to the complainant, to resort
thereat for the purpose of drink
ing alcoholic beverages in viola
tion of the law, whereby said . . .
place known as Marion club . . .
kept and used became a common
nuisance to the annoyance and
disturbance of the public peace
and decency."
The charge. against Eckerlen's
fonr employes is one of assisting
in the maintenance of the alleged
nuisance, described. Both com
plaints were issued Saturday. .
Five in 2 Planes
Lost in Typhoon
MANILA, Dec. 7-(Tuesday)-(VP
Five aviators and passengers,
including the Philippine army
chief of staff and a United
States army flier, were reported
missing over 24 hours today in !
ruggea territory butieted by the
islands third typhoon of the
season.
.It. was feared two army planes,
one in which MaJ. Gen. Paulino
Santos, chief of staff, was rid
ing from Cebu to Manila, had
crashed either in mountainous
Tayabas province, on the Pa
cific aide of Luzon island, or
had been driven seaward by the
tremendous gale.
MaJ. Gen. Basllo Valdes, as
sistant chief of staff, said that
in addition to the transport
plane in which Santos was rid
ing, a bombing plane carrying
two officers was missing, j
Bilbo Asks Mike
To Hear McNary
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - (Jf) -
senator Bilbo, who sits In the rear
row, asked the senate today to
go modern by installing an am
plifying system with a microphone.
on every desk.
The Mississippi democrat said
he "had never been able to hear
what the republican leader
what's his name McNary is
trying to say."
Starts Tomorrow
Her finest, happiest hit!"!
A new deal in fun and
frolic ...
Kay Francis
in
"First Lady"
with
Preston Foster
Anita Louise
Walter Connolly
Directed by
. Stanley Logan
' Music by Max Stelner
A Warner Bros. Picture
And 2nd Hit
"ADVENTURES
END"
With John Wayne
Last Times today j
-AND
. "ExpensiTC : -
Hnsbands"
. with
Patric Knowles
Beverly Roberta ' I
Directed by ' i
Bobby Connolly 4
Warner Bros. Picture
Ordinance to Ban ;
Turks' Slaughter,
Facing Aldermen
(Continued from pace 1
mercialand Front streets. to
the city's . ground . on : ,Water
street, was defeated. . ; Ohling'a
motion, he said," grew out of
the -insistence of - people resid
ing in the Marion Square, neigh
borhood that something be done
in regard to the eyesore made
by the l string " of wood trucks
that stand in that region almost
continuously. rj v,,-.- , ." ( .
AH- matter pertaining o the
rental of the Salem municipal
airport was referred to the air
tort committee. Included in it
was an endorsement of the pres
ent airport lessee; Lee TJ. Eyer-
ly, by the Cherrians; a petition
expressing faith in. Eyerly by 12
prominent business men; an en
dorsement of Eyerly signed by
the directors of the chamber" of
commerce, 'Business Men's league
and the Salem Cherrians; and
a statement, from . the Oregon
state -board of aeronautics,
impersonally telling what Eyerly
has done -for aviation tn Salem,
and the board a recommenda
tions. ". .."'.
Bellingham News
Strike Is at End
BELLINGHAM. Dec. 6.-JF)
The . American . Newspaper guild
strike at the Bellingham Evening
News was settled today and
pickets, who had been on duty
for three days since resumption
of publication after the plant had
been closed for six months, with
drawn.
Both S. N. Harrison, publisher,
and George HIpkoe, president of
the guild's Bellingham chapter,
said terms of the settlement
called for a 10 per cent blanket
wage Increase for employes of
the editorial, business and cir
culation departments.
The- guild was not recognized
as a sole bargaining agency un
der the terms of the settlement.
Honolulu Team . Is Hot
BREMERTON, Wash., Dec. C
-JP)A lightning - fast McKinley
high school team from Honolulu
ran away from Bremerton high
school before 4,000 fans tonight,
winning handily, 44 to 7.
A Gatoliae Advertisemeat
Reading Time to Seconds
STANDARD MASiLINE
IS AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE
May
orality
Going
To Dogs, Oaimed
Kuhn Irked Orer Problems
of Canine Populace;
Shakeup Hinted
Dogged by Salem , citizenry
who persist in coming to him
with grievance over the stray
dog epidemic within the city,
and the inactivity of the city
dog-catcher, . Mayor: V. ' E. Kuhn
in an address to the city coun
cil Monday night said, "in fact.
I tn getting .dog-minded."
Mayor Kuhn asked the conn
cil for either a new dog ordi
nance, or for it to direct the
police chief to put the dog-
catcher to work or get a new
one. " He told the councn that
he. spent from, an hour to two
hoars dally answering queries
concerning dogs. The council
voted to give the mayor power
io hire and fire the dog-catrher
Authority was also riven May
or Kuhn to communicate with,
and to obtain from the Oregon
Electric Railway Co., an exact
statement of the improvements
the company ; intends to make
on and abutting Front street,
before the council considers the
company's application for fran-
chisement.
Mayor Kuhn presented a let
ter written to him by Charles
A. Hart, an attorney for the
railway company. In which it
agreed to make improvements tn
the tracks and pavement In and
adjacent to Front street. Both
Mayor Kuhn and the council ex
pressed themselves "aa desirous
of a more complete statement
hence the authorization given
the mayor to negotiate with .the
company.
Nurses' Home at
Hospital Ablaze
Reports from the nurse's home
of the , Oregon State hospital last
night indicated that tire which
broke out in there about 6:45 last
night, and did between $500 and
$600 damages, was extinguished
with apparatus within the build
ing. '
The fire, which was thought to
have been caused by defective wir
ing, smarted while the nurses with
patients were attending a show in
the chapel of the main building.
Standard Gasoline
is unsurpassed
More motorists of the Pacific
West use Standard Gasoline
than any other gasoline
Standard Service
is nationally
Need more be said
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
1879.. ." :"" ' " ; :; 1927
Policeman Leaves
Daughter in Jail
SEATTLE. Dec. t-UPl-Rath
Simpson, 28; former University of
Oregon co-ed. went to the King
county jail for SO days today be
cause her policeman lamer re
fused to make good a cnecK sue
forged. ' : v
Detective Lieut. ' Frank H.
Borneman testified hit fatherr a
veteran Portland police oinvr,
had previously made good her bad
checks, but this time decided the
law should take its "course. ,
Oakdale Women
To Meet Dec. 9
OAKDALE Mrs. Eu banks
and son Harold of Idaho- hare
been guests at the J. H. WiJght
home several days.
Mr. and Mrs. John Larson and
sens Henry and Victor joined in
a family reunion Sunday at 'the
honw.. of their .daughters. Mrs.
Laura Christenson of Amity.
The ladies of the Oakdale elub
will hold their Vegular monthly
meeting at the home of Mrs
Eddie Cochran. December .9
Mr. Farrar is able, to take a
tew steps after being confined
to his bed for four months as
the result of a fall.
Building Addition
For High School
MILL CITY The high school
addition is progressing rapidly
and will be finished soon after
January 1.
The junior prom has been post
poned until nex semester so that
it can oe neia m ue new recrea
tional hall.
Football letters have been
awarded to Joseph Wachter, John
B. Herron, Ralph Allen, Bill Rich
arda, Martin Jepsen ' and Leslie
Brown.
LEARN TO FLY!
Low Cost Terms
Salem Flying Service
SALEM AIRPORT
Phone 6561
famous
Hunton Purehases
A. T. Dale Farm
LeRoy Estemon Leaves for
North Dakota to Visit
Parental Home
SCOTTS MILLS LeRoy Esten-
son left Wednesday for North Da
kota to visit with his parents, Le
Roy has been living in and near
Scetts Mills for the past two years.
A. T. Dale has sold his farm to
Mr. and Mrs. George Hunton. Dale
plans to move into the rooms ad-
oinJng the paint shop downtown.
Recovering From Pneumonia
The small daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton is recovering from a
severe attack of pneumonia.
The. four one-act plays which
were to have been presented Fri
day, have been postponed till a
later date, due to the smallpox
epidemic.
Mrs. Ethel Herigstad enter
tained the Walnut Hill club Fri
day. The afternoon was spent do
ing; hand work, after which the
hostess served a delicious lunch.
Low Temperature
General in State
PORTLAND, Dec. 6-(i!P)-Jack
Frost depressed the mercury in
many points of Oregon and fog
blanketed -wide areas west of the
Cascades today.
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