The Oregon statesman., December 21, 1937, Page 1, Image 1

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EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 21, 1937
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No. 230
liable to
Need and VaHe of Willamette Valley
Stressed
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Project
Flood Damage
Dig JLiUCii i car
Board Is Told
Major Catastrophe Here
Possible, Geologist
Says at Hearing
Irrigation Benefits and
General Development
Here Are Sketched
" A picture of a Willamette val
ley greatly enhanced in value by
the engineering -works proposed
under the $56,000,000 valley
project Was drawn vividly by
several scores of speakers at the
rehearing conducted at the Sa
1 e m armory yesterday by the
United States hoard of army en
gineers. The speakers sketched I their
composite story of steadily in
creasing stream damage and fu
ture fears on tbe one hand and
expected benefits on the other
cot only from the angle of flood
control but also from those of
irrigation . development that
would double land values, -elimination
of erosion losses, expan
sion of navigation facilities and
growth of valley industries.
Startling to an audience that
naa aireaay neara grave reports
on the great floods of 1861 and
1890 and dire predictions of
what would happen if they
phould recur was the assertion
of E. T. Hodge, state geologist,
yesterday afternoon that these
were not the Willamette valley's
greatest floods:-'
Kve 18411 Flood "
Is Not Greatest '
Hodge declared definite evi
dence existed that within the
last 125 years there had -been a
flood that exceeded even the
"great" flood of 1861 by 10 feet.
Such a flood now would be
"catastrophic," wiping out mil
lions of dollars in fixed capital,
Hodge said. The Willamette
valley's unique geological setup
makes it possible that a mere
shifting of the wind, bringing
warm rain to melt Show in the
mountain wonld brine about
such a flood.
John E. Cooter. farm place
ment director for the state, said
the Willamette valley, properly
developed, could support twice
its present population. He em
phasized also the value in elim
inating present unemployment of
the proposed project in contrast
to diretrrellef grants which,, he
said, have amounted to as much
as a million dollars in a month.
The frequent floods experienc
ed in the Willamette valley In
the last 50 years have done dam
age estimated at (76.000,000,
with Multnomah county exclud
ed trom the calculations, Gov
ernor Charles H. Martin told the
engineers, in opening the day's
presentations of data.' In pre
venting flood conditions and de
veloping Irrigation facilities the
"Willamette valley project the
governor declared, would make
possible the creation of 25,000
new 40-acre ; larm Homes, ex
ceeding in desirability unirrl-
gated farms of 160 acres.
Over' Ilalf Those
Present Injured
When R. H. Kipp, Willamette
valley advisory board secretary,
called on all farmers whose lands
had been damaged by floods in
the last year, more than one-half
the-4C0 men at the afternoon
season rose in unison to empha
size - the individual tales of
heart-breaking losses of val cable
agricultural lands caused by high
water. ;-'v. . :
Four thousand-acre Grand isl
and, below Salem, is in Imminent
danger of destruction at the
hands of the Bteadlly-encroach-ing
Willamette river, Lynn Gub
ser of McMinnvllle told the en
gineers. He averred but 250
feet of land remained to be, cut
away by the waters before ' the
rivers would tike to its old west
ern channel, spread' over much
of the ' island and , render navi
gation upstream virtually Impos
sible. Gubser estimated the 6,-000-acre
improvement district of
which the island is a part was
wortlT$S00,000, all of which
mlKht be destroyed by floods.
Saving this land and providing
it with Irrigation facilites would
double its value, Gubser said.
Roy Will later presented addi
tional testimony for Grand isl
and. v;'-'. :'VV1
' Speaking especially for the'tr
rieation feature of the : valley
project, Representative t Ronald
Jones, Brooks celery grower and
state Farm union vice-president.
- declared that small farmers with
berries and other specialty crops.
to which the valley conditions
are best adapted, "can't make
go of It without irrigation in the
dry- summer months. ,
Seven hundred thousand acres
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Holman t ints Danger
From Law Breakdown;
Addresses Republicans
Any Officer's Failure to Preserve Peace Spells
Government Failure Says State Treasurer;
Hamilton Says Roosevelt Slipping
PORTLAND, Dec. 20 Speaking tonight before the
Multnomah Republican club, Rufus Holman, state treasurer,
who has been listed as a possible candidate for governor,
made clear his stand on issues of the day and challenged re
publicans and citizens generally to rise for the preservation
of the American form of government.
O Denouncing lawlessness and an-
Order Committing
Fehl to Hospital
Ex-Jackson Judge Held in
Jail as Result of
Insanity Hearing
MEDFORD, Dec. 20-()-Cir-cuit
Judge H. D. Norton signed
and filed an order today com
mitting Earl H. Fehl, former
Jackson county Judge who served
a four-year prison term for bal
lot theft, to the Oregon state
hospital for the insane.
Tha order states the action
was taken on the report of
"three competent and disinter
ested alienists, supported by the
testimony of othar physicians and
laymen, holding Fehl to be in
sane and dangerous to oe at
large."
A Jury disagreed at a, recent
sanity hearings v v
Sbverur Stya I. . Brown said
Fehl would be . guarded in his
county jail cell pending arrival
of attendants to remove him to
the state hospital.
- Fehl was an active figure in
county politics for more than 20
years. After his release from
prison, he filed a number of
civil suits for damages, including
one against Governor Charles
H. Martin for $500,000.
Hoogerhyde Gets
OneY
Jail
ear in
License to Drive Is Lost
for 5 Years; Cost of
Trial Is $514.10
A one-year county jail sentence
was imposed by Circuit Judge
Earl C. Latourette upon Clarence
Hoogerhyde, 22. of Salem, at Ore
gon City yesterday for the hit-run
accident here October 29 which
resulted in the death of Mrs. Fred-
ricka Green and Mrs. Clara
Swafford. The court imposed an
as additional penalty a five-year
suspension of Hoogerhyde's auto
mobile operator s license.
The Jury which last week found
Hdoge'rhyde guilty recommended
leniency. While the charge, pre
ferred by the grand jury, was one
of felony, it was within the court's
discretion to sentence the young
man to the county jail instead of
the penitentiary. i
The Oregon City trial, on a
change of venue from Marion
county, cost this county $514.10
in mileage, meals and fees for jur
ors, .court attaches and witnesses,
according , to a bill received by
County .Clerk U. G. Boyer yester
day from Clackamas county. The
Jury cost was $203.90, reporter's
fee $40, bailiffs pay $24. fees and
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A ra n y G ets A
Punchboard
The report of the airport com
mittee, recommending that a lease
for the Salem municipal airport
be tendered Leo Arany was ac
cepted by the city council last
night without a dissenting vote.
Under the terms of the lease
that will be offered Arany, he wlU
pay the city $$00 for a one year
lease, payable at $150 quarterly
in advance. The terms provide for
the posting of satisfactory bonds
and for half the receipts of all cir
cuses and concessions be turned
over to the city, '
- The council went Into commit
tee of the whole to consider the
proposed amendments to the or
dinance prohibiting punchboards
and games of chance, adopting
such amendments as will legalize
strictly merchandise boards. :
'r.i Adopting the report of the com
mittee of the whole, the punch-
board bill was passed over the dis-
I seating votes f Aldermen E. B.
archy. Treasurer Holman de
clared: ,
"If any federal, state, county
or municipal official, whose duty
it is to preserve the public peace
aud protect law-abiding citizens
in their persons and in the enjoy
ment of their property, falls to
do so, government thereby fails
in its most important function."
He cited the defiance of the
order of a federal court by pickets
at Newport, as an example of the
breakdown of the administration
of law. 1
"We republicans of Oregon,"
said Holman, "must address our
selves to the task of reviving in
the minds of the people, respect
for the rights of others, the obligation-of
the citizen to his gov
ernment and the,- necessity of
obeying the laws. As a party we
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Yamhill County
'p Has Creeper too
90-Foot Slide Spreads to
Moving of House Is
Necessary now
UNIONVALE, Dec- 20 This
Yamhill county farming commun
ity is not going to let California,
Idaho and Molalla " get by with
their front page stories of creep
ing mountains without contribut
ing its legitimate counterpart.
A slide estimated at more than
90 feet since 1912, extends
across about 120 acres of land
on the C. R. Smith farm In the
Baker Creek locality.
In some places the crevice is
four feet deep, and in other
places the loose earth has filled
it up. 1
The greatest worry now is
that a house will have to be
moved to a solid ground loca
tion 90 feet away.
In two years, the fences over
the gap have had 10 splices of
wire inserted.
Dog Victim Won't
Test out Chamber
A dog will not be used in test
ing out the new lethal gas exe
cution chamber, now being in
stalled in the state penitentiary,
Warden James Lewis announced
definitely Monday. 1 i
Lewis said some other means
would be adopted in determin
ing the effectiveness of the cham
ber. i
Protests against using a dog
as the first victim of the cham
b e r continued to arrive here
Monday. t
A number of the writers de
clared they were dog lovers who
would contribute to funds jto
launch a legal proceeding to pre
vent the proposed trial execution.
irpdrt Lease;
Bill Is Passed
Perrine and D. O. Lear,' and Al-
derwoman G. F. Lobdell. The bill
authorizes merchandise boards by
license only. Such license will be
five per cent of the gross selling
price of the boards or a 50-cent
minimum fee. Stamps will be is
sued by the city recorder.
A petition from the Oregon
state employment service, present
ed by Harry Levy, requesting the1
use of the council chambers for an
estimated period of three weeks In
which to register an estimated
4000 unemployed, was ; turned
down by the counciL The vote was
seven to five against the petition.
A resolution, presented by City
Attorney Paul R. Hendricks, au
thorizing the city recorder to draw
warrants upon appropriate funds
for the payment of approved bills
owing by the city of Salem to the
amount of $9,550, In anticipation
of receiving that amount from
Marion county In interest on back
taxes, was adopted by the council
Pickets' Trial
Is Started in
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Federal Court
Advisory Jury Is Asked
to Rule Upon Facts;
Vandalism Noted
Cleveland Labor Chiefs
Indicted; Dearborn
Ruling Upheld
PORTLAND, Dec. 20-JPy-Trial
of Ralph Peoples, CIO or
ganizer, and two others charged
with contempt of conrt for the
alleged vfolation of a federal
court order against picketing at
the Newport docks, opened to
day before Federal .Tudge James
Alger Fee and an advisory jury.
Judge Fee asked the Jury to
decide whether the defendants
knew of the restraining order,
whether they violated its terms.
and whether damage resulted to
the plaintiff, the Waterfront Em
ployers' association. ,
In another case growing out
of the CIO-AFL labor dispute,
Judge Fee took under advise
ment the petition of the Plylock
corporation for a temporary in
junction to restrain the CIO
Plywood and Veneer Workers
local from picketing its St. Johns
plant.
Albert B. Ridge way, special
master in chancery, recommend
ed that the order be granted.
Police received reports of a
number of smashed windows over
the weekend, attributed to labor
troubles. Beer parlors, automo
bile companies an d the home of
an AFL Plylock corporation . em
ploye were involved.
CLEVELAND. Dec. 20.-r-A
grand jury today ' branded four
Cleveland labor. leaders "unprin
cipled racketeers" and charged
them with "exacting tribute" by
threatening to tie up construction
work unless builders met demands
totaling $4,800.
The jury urged the investiga
tion continue and be "vigorously
prosecuted until Cleveland is free
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Stolen Property
Charge Is Added
Habeas Corpus Hearing Is
Put off; California
Officers Waiting
The case of Jack Graves and
Dorsey Rardin, who are in the
county jail facing grand Jury hear
in'ging on vagrancy charges and
California officers seeking their
extradition on burglary charges,
took a new angle yesterday when
a complaint was issued in Stayton
justice court charging them with
receiving and concealing stolen
property. Lieutenant Max Alford
of the state police, who signed the
complaint, alleged that electric
razors found in possesion of tbe
pair were stolen goods.
Hearing on a habeas corpus
writ secured by the two1 young
men's attorney was continued in
definitely yesterday afternoon by
Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan
when he was Informed the attor
ney, Ray Rboten, had been unable
to prepare his case because of ill
ness in his family. The petition
for the writ asserted that the Sil
verton Justice court was without
jurisdiction in handling the Rar
din and Graves cases and that
once it assumed Jurisdiction it
lacked authority to bind the two
over to the grand Jury.
While the local proceedings are
dragging along, two San Diego
county, California, deputy sheriffs
are waiting impatiently for an op
portunity to take custody of Rar
din and Graves on an extradition
order from the governor. They
also have been named defendants
along with state troopers in a
Civil action, set for December 27 in
Salem Justice court, for recovery
of the razors involved in the; Stay
ton complaint, now being held by
state police.
Schrunk Funeral
Scheduled Today
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MONMOUTH, Dec. 20 Full mil
itary honors will be accorded Verd
Schrunk, city marshal of Mon
mouth, for whom funeral ser
vices .will be held Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock at the ' local
Christian church.
The local post of the American
Legion will direct. Rev. WUlard
A. Elkins of Monmouth, state
chaplain of tbe American Legion,
will officiate. Burial will be in
Belcrest Memorial park, Salem.
RAFT MAY BE
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This raft, picked up in the San Francisco Bay by fishermen, may prove
caped federal prisoners from Alcatrax Island. Tbe men, Ralph Roe
dits, made their getaway under cloak of a heavy fog. "Whether the 'escaped desperadoes took their
- hancesj in the water or were aided by outsiders could not be ascertained. Visibility ' was extremely
Ipoor at the time of tbe aensatfonal break. " Since the men worted in a machine shop, they may have
engineered this raft to aid their
and George Page of the an Jtranclsco police, are shown examining
Bus Loading Zone
Changes Ratified
Highway Commission Asks
City Pay Half Cost of
Undercrossing Light
A resolution adopted by the
city council last night provides
for the abandonment of certain
bus loading zones and the reaer
vation or extension of others. Re
routing of bus lines was cited as
the reason for the loading zone
changes. Zones that will be aban
doned are: southeast corner of
State and Commercial; southwest
corner of Liberty and State;
southwest corner of High and
State; and 30 feet of the present
60 feet at the northwest corner
of State and Commercial.
New reserves Include: 30 addi
tional, feet on the northeast cor
ner of State and Commercial; 60
additional feet on the northwest
corner of State and Commercial;
30 additional feet on the south
west corner of Court and Liberty;
and 60 feet on the southwest cor
ner of Court and High.
Petitions for street lights at
the intersections of South Liberty
and Trade streets, and South Lib
erty at d Bellevue streets were re
ferred to the committee on lights.
A communication from thesOre
gon state highway commission,
asking the city to pay half the
lighting bill on the north Salem
undercrossing and advising the
city that half of the lights there
wouldi be turned out if . the city
did not take care of the expense,
was tabled. Alderman E. B. Per.
rine, chairman of the lights and
electric signs committee, said
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Downtown Blaze
Loss Is $25,000
. .
Fire, of unknown origin but ap
parently starting at the rear of the
main floor, 'caused damage to
stocks and building of the Metro
politan store, 148 North Liberty,
amounting to an estimated $25,
000 Sunday afternoon. Nat Kus-
netz, store . manager, estimated
damage to the stockist $20,000
and building damage has been es
timated at around $.000.
Flames did not get outside of
the building hut smoke density
was a barrier to firemeh. Much of
the damage Was caused by water.
the use of which was necessary
because of the location of the
building. s - " ' ,
- Simon Director of Portland was
owner of the store and the build
ing, is owned by the P. H. D'Arcy
estate. - : ' :: ' ,
Manager Kuznetx indicated that
he did not think the store would
be open for business this week.
CLUE IN ALCATRAZ ESCAPE
break for freedom, authorities said. Inspectors John Engler (left)
Salem Youtk Dies
Of Crash Injuries
WOODLAND, Calif., Dec. 20.-(P)-Injuries
suffered when he
was struck by a truck on a high
way near here Saturday were fa
tal today to Glenn Elerich, 18, of
1337 Market street, Salem, Ore.
Elerich was hitch; hiking from
the Monterey CCC camp to Salem
for the holidays. The body -.as
held awaiting word from his
parents.
Authorities, attributing the ac
cident to poor visibility" caused by
fog, held the driver blameless.
Project Approval
Urged at Banquet
PORTLAND, Dec. 2l-()
Governor Charles Martin and
Mayor Joseph K. Carson renewed
pleas for quick approval of the
Willamette valley project, prev
iously expressed at a hearing In
Salem at a banquet honoring
members of the board of army
engineers here tonight.
Describing the ? development
of the Columbia river 'as the re
sult of a partnership between
the federal agency and the dis
trict, the governor urged con
tinuation of the cooperation in
the Willamette valley.
He declared the proposed
flood control, navigation, irriga
tion and power development to
be of prime economic and social
importance. .
Mayor Carson asserted the im
provement of farm lands in the
area would result in better so
cial security than could' be pro
vided by any other , means.
Sudden Activity of Pacific
Fleet Vessels Unexplained
SAN DIEGO, Calit, Dec. 20.-(A)-Nine
destroyers steamed from
port here tonight for San Pedro,
under forced draft, land mysteri
ous orders which local naval offic
ials said they were unable to com
ment upon.
Crews of the vessels were, in
the large part, on holiday leave
and the members wore ordered
back to "hip late this afternoon.
Shore patrol officers made an
nouncements In theatres and
other amusement places, directing
naval personnel of the ships to
return. Many were left behind.
High officers in the second de
stroyer flotilla said the o r d e r s
were a surprise hero and t hat
they did not know why the ships
were ordered out. Both squadrons
involved In the order were sched
uled . for cruises to foreign ports
early next year. . ::l-:-V
Unofficial naval sources said
at 7 p. ml t h a t five aircraft
valuable clue to the two es
and Theodore. Cole, Oklahoma ban
the raft. IIN photo.
Three Injured in
Head-on Smashup
Mr. and Mrs. A". Winslow
of Jefferson Are in
Local Hospital
A head-on automobile collision
that occurred five miles south of
Salem on the fog-bound Pacific
highway about 10 o'clock last
night, put Mr.' and Mrs. Arthur
William Winslow in the Deacon
ess hospital and severely injured
Roy J. Burnett, jr., whose father
operates tbe Roy Burnett Motor
Co. in Portland.
Mr. Winslow, 31, sustained in
ternal Jn juries, the extent of
which were not learned last night,
and a broken arm.
Mrs. Winslow, 31, who is said
to be a teacher in the Jefterson
school, was cut severely by the
broken glass about her face and
hands.
- Roy Burnett, 21, .sustained a
fractured nose and severe cuts and
bruises on his knees and chest.
Burnett, a junior at the Uni
versity of Oregon, said he was re
turning to his home at 3718 N. E.
33rd Ave., Portland, from Eugene.
On his own side of the highway
when the accident happened, ac
cording to his testimony, a car
approaching him from the north
temporarily stopped . to get Its
bearings In the fog and the Win
slow machine whipped around
back of the stopped car to hit
Burnett's machine almost head
on. The motor In the Winslow ma
chine was knocked entirely out of
the car, and was lying alongside
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scouting force squadrons. Includ
ing three squadrons of heavy
patrol planes, had been ordered
to report to North Island pre
pared for night to an unnamed
destination! . Aircraft officials
ashore answered all questions
with the brief comment, "no in
formation." .
SAN PEDRO, Calif..' Dec. 20
fp)rhe navy high command de
clined tonight to comment on
sudden transfer of nine destroy
ers here from San Diego, and
stand-by orders issued to four
squadrons . of navy patrol sea
planes at North Island,
A - fleet spokesman said Nmly
that "no specific action is antici
pated . .". ,-. - v-- ; , '
. Adin. Arthur J. Hepburn, commander-in-chief
of tho United
States fleet, called a conference
of his subordinate flag officers
aboard his flagship' Pennsylvania.
British Vessel
Is Blocked By
Boom in River .
flankow Kegion rJecomes
Dangerous, Civilians
May Be Evacuated
fanese Official Files
Denials; Ci-ilians
Pledged bv Hull
SHANGHAI, Dec. 21.-(Tue-
day)-(j!P)-Three hundred Ameri
can and British women and child
ren attempting to flee war threats
in central China today were turn
ed back by a military boom
structing passage down the Yang
tze river.
The refugee - laden British
steamer Woosung was unable to
pass a new obstruction at Matung,
more than 100 miles up the Yang
tze from Nanking, and turned
back toward war - menaced Han
kow. Foreign officials in Hankow,
one of China's three temporary
capitals, were attempting to ar
range evacuation of the refugees
on an international train to Can
ton, southern metropolis, before
Japan's war machine launches an
expected attack in central China.
The British cruiser Capetown,
part of the Woosung's convoy, was
able, however, to clear the river
boom and reach Wuhn.
Tt was not known whether the
cruiser . could pass other military
obstruction- in the Yangtze, in
cluding the partly destroyed boom
at Klangyin, blocking passage :to
Shanghai. "
The cruiser has been bottled n
in the Yangtze for months by the
Chinese-Japanese war.
Embassy Prepares
To Leave Hankow
Hankow dispatches Sunday said
the United States embassy was
preparing for its own evacuation
and that of ZOO of its nationals,
from Hankow in view of the Jap
anese armies' advance up tho
Yangtze valley toward that provi
sional capital of China.
Hankow is about 600 miles by
river from Shanghai and 400 mile
aDove PianKing. me iormer cap
ital, captured by the Japanese a
.week ago.
Gen. Iwane Matsui, command
ing Japanese forces in the Yang
tze valley, announced the advance
into the interior would be contin
ued shortly unless the' Chinese
ceased all resistance. He said Jap
anese troops were resting now but
soon would begin new drives iate
Anghei and Chekiang provinces.
SHANGHAI. Dec. 20-()-Tho
Japanese army today denied it bad
attacked the United States gun
boat Panay, flatly contradicting
official American reports Japan
ese troops had machine-gunned
the sinking warship after it ,had
been bombed by naval planes.
At almost the same time Maj.
Gen. Kumakichl Harada issued
the army statement in Shanghai,
a foreign office spokesman in To
kyo reversed the government's
previous stand and admitted Jap
anese army craft on the Yangtze
river had fired on the Panay.
The report of General Harada.
Japanese military attache, de
nied virtually, every"; statemeat
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A L LAD C
of TODAy
By R. C
A set of dams! to ease tbe
flow of Cascade stream at
freshet time would surely aero
this valley grow and pay to
workmen many a dime; the
present problem's simply how
to show those army engineers
they ought to start the project
now, not wait for ten or twen
ty years.-;;.:: . ; . : '
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