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i Miffiifif - New Year's Edition ' Weather : Increasing cloudiness to Say, rain by tonight or San day; Max. Temp. Friday 41 Mia. 31, river 21.3 feet, rain .OS, inch, northerly wind. POUNDDD EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 1, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 240 Biy 19 ailed" Noiily and mm mm a , i i iv a a . a mm.. 1651' ' !! - I .Hopefoliy -4 : 1 f o ; . . Steiwer Seeks Probe, Oregon Mills Boycott Anti-Trust Laws Broken, His Belief; Requests - Action, Cummin gs Ami - Social, Effort to Nullify Federal Law at Least, Claims ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.(JP)- Senator Steiwer (R-Ore) dropped Oregon's labor troubles into the lap of Attorney General Cu minings tonight and demanded action. He charged that tie AFL, by boycotting .- lumber produced by CIO union workers in Portland sawmills, had established a ''sec ondary" boycott Ih violation of anti-trust laws. : ! L Explaining his views that the boycott was of ; a , f secondary" character, he wrote Cummings: "According toall available In- else coercive pressure Npon the consumers of the boycotted Port land pills in order to induce such consumers to withhold or with draw: patronage from such mills through fear of loss or damage to "themselves." , a l .... l .Appropriate Action Steiwer said he was not suggest ing criminal proceedings. "I merely request you to inves tigate the situation ) and then if yon find that the boycott is ih fact a secondary boycott and that con gefraev to brine it about is a con- B piracy iu moaupuiiie 1x1x3 ya-t v ui he commerce among the several states, take1 appropriate action." Steiwer argued that the boycott. wnica lorcea a snuiaown 01 seven large Portland mills when AFL. workers .refused to accept a labor board decision naming the CIO collectlva.; baxdalninr agency.' had n a Hi fled the Wagner labor act. " "The effort to nulMfya federal ) law is contrary to public opinion," ihe wrote. "A purpose by a minor ity of employes to strive a -majority into submission at the very least is anti-social.' Steiwer said an analysis of the Portland situation would show ."how completely" i provisions of the' Wagner act had been nullified. ' "Election have been held," he explained, "in which the result showed a majority favoring identi fication with the CIO. The minor. Ity favored the AFLi The minority by its boycott 'thereupon said n v effect to the majority: 1 " The rights guaranteed to you. Ay" tbe .- law of the United States will be withdrawn and de feated through our influence. We 4 A-n w maiiw 4.ff)it va ttlf Arnnnli. tion " . -! : K 1 PORTLAND. Ore.; Dec. 31-(P)-Leaders in the labor controversy which closed Portland sawmills last August professed surprise to day when advised Sen. Frederick Steiwer's chargef that the boycott applied to CIO lumber by the AFL was a -violation of I federal anti trust laws. ' i "It's not the first time the sen- a tor has been wrong," Ben T, Os bornet secretary of the Oregon state federation of labor and AFL leader, commented, f I think he is. wrong in this just as he has been wrong la other things. As far as 1 know he hasn't tried to get any information from us." . Mayor Joseph K. f Carson, who with. Gov. Charles f- Martin has sought to reopen the closed milla and has criticized actions of the National Labor Relations board in the controversy, thought the "re straint of trade" angle contained possibilities. ; Farm Bill Seems Wrecked, McNary WASHINGTON. Dec. ILHJPh Senator Hatch (D-N Ml said today after conference with agricul ture department officials , that the McNary - Boileau amendment to the farm bill holds 1a possibility of defeating the whole measure. The amendment provides that federal benefit payments shall be withheld from farmers who dirert jnajor crop land to commercial production . ot livestock, poultry or dairy products. Advocates contend it would prevent the government from "subsidising new southern competition against established dairying regions. Senators Hatch, Pope (D-Ida) and McGill (D-Kas) said after their conference "with department officials that the amendment would be "impossible - of admlnis -tratlon. ; . Pipeline Blast Probed ROSEBURG. Dec. 31-OPV-Sher If f 's Deputy Clifford Thornton, in vestigated today a dynamite ex plosion which destroyed a placer pipe line at the Ernest Riddle 'mine near Riddle, Oregon. He estimated damage at tlWO.r - Obscene, Rieder Chosen Horticulture 'Aide to Agent Entomologist Will Work With Agriculturist, Is Announcement Field Scanned l Carefully by Committee Named by County Croups The Marion county court yes terday appointed Robert E. Rie der as assistant county agent. ond county horticultural! inspector to work under the direftion of Har ry L. Riches, county agent. , He will begin work next Monday. ; . The county court, in recom mending the appointment of Mr. Reider, followed the advice of a committee of growejfs represent ing most of the organized agri cultural interests inf the county. The appointment also had the ap proval of representatives of the f state college extension service, the state department of agricul ture, end was made only after a thorough canvass of "qualified available persons ('capable of bringing maximum service to the horticultural interests of ' the county, it was declared." Mr. Rieder Is a; trained n- tomologist. having v earned his bachelor of science degree under Dr. Don C. Mote of Oregon State college and having practically completed his requirements for a master of science degree in en tomology. Because his training is such as. to enable him to deal ef fectively with the acute horticul-r tural pest and disease problems; the : committee and the cooperat ing agencies selected Mr. Rieder in preference to other applicants, the committee reported to the court.-. Rieder was also strongly re commended by Kenneth Gray, son of Warren Gray, ; Marion, who gained nation-wide recognition In his work last year in developing a method of controlling pea weev il which threatened the pea can ning industry f,the northwest. Field Is Carefully Canvassed, Stated Prior to making its recom mendation to the court, the com mittee canvassed the entire field of applicants and had in mind (Turn to page 2, col. 5) . Horror of Yacht Cruise Described Slayers of Madman Face Murder Charjges but Just Forniality -4 . LOS ANGELES, jpec. 31.-tfP)r Exciting details of murder, piracy. five days of terrorism and near- starvation aboard he luxurious yacht Aatje came tut today for the' first time in stories the suv- vivors told federal authorities. Their stories sounded like some of the stark fiction of Joseph Con rad and Herman Melville. 1 They told how 28-year-old Jack Morgan, charterer bf the yacht, slew the wealthy owner, Dwight L.. Fauldlng, 49, Santa Barbara hotel man. soon alter the cruise started. They related harrowing details of how Morian, apparent ly half mad, a pistol In each side of his belt, beat andf scolded near-. ly everyone else aboard, almost (Turnto page 2, col.' 5) Flood Waters Receding; 21.5 High Mark; Damage Is Heavy i The Willamette I river's flood threat vanished early yesterday as . the stream wavered at the 21.5 foot mark, then began re ceding. By nightfall f'.had drop ped to 20.1 feet. Despite the fact a slight rise in the river was re ported in Eugene, no rise of im portance .was anticipated in Sa lem. ' ! Light rains were- predicted for today by the weather bureau. As i small streams fell back within their banks -rapidly. Coun ty Engineer N. C. k Hubbs an nounced his crews ; would imme diately begin checking up on road and bridge conditions, and mak ing repairs where flood damage i had occurred, one crew was put at work yesterday clearing bad Blides ' on Riverside drive south of Salem, one a short 'distance past Croisan road: and another on the :other side of Roberts school, j washout damage on Pringle road near Pr ingle school also was being attended to. On the North Santiam highway Shows EAR 1938 e vV -I tf&r u :- - . J -J l7 ? ; - 3 - - " V i ' ' - i uri.n.n.. , ,, - -'------tt-ytnrtMriTfT- r" r - -TMfaniiwTrrj"--r-"Ti rrriiirT-WTnrf 1 "-" 1 1 Ui goes the tower on Oregon's new $2,500,000 state capitol, which Is being erected "with the assistance of the Federal Public Works'Ad ministrat ion. This view is taken from the southeast, or State street side of the building, which gives a rear view of the new stractore. Legislative chambers occupy the east and west wings on the aecopd 'main floor (third in the picture, the bottom being the basement Home Building in 1937 39 More Houses, $91,665 Value Increase Shown; Total Permits off While total valuation of build ing construction within Salem's city limits for 1937 fell $637,- 021.35 below the 1936 figure, ac-t cording to statistics revealed by the city building inspector's of fice' yesterday, the construction of new dwellings for the past year exceeded those of. 1936 by 39 In number and $91,665 in val uation indicating - that home making in Salem is on the up trend, . Permits Issued in 1937 num bered 1119 for a total valuation of $1,156,227 while 1060 per mits were issued in 1936 at a valuation of $1,893,246.35.' Two hundred and 84 new buildings, Including structures other than residences, were erected in 1936 at a cost ot $1,719,844.90 as (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Capps Recalls '35 Winter Tough one PORTLAND. Dec. 31-)-WaI-ter Douglas Capps, born at Sa lem 74 years ago, visited Port land and the Willamette for the first time in 52 years today from his home at Drewsey, In northern Harney county. . r In the winter of '85, Capps re counted, the Willamette river was frozen ! over and teams dragged Sleds across to the "Grass and Duck lakes" that were east Port- land. He went to Drewsey that winter. . a county crew, was preparing to push; its way through snow seven mues farther to reach tne jane tlon, to which point a state crew is clearing the road from the east. . PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. Zl-UP, -Floods which threatened to wash In the new year receded to night as rivers and temperatures dropped. After reaching 21.5 feet at Sa lem and 19 feet. at Portland, the Willamette dropped - to 1 8.3 feet and continued to go down, ; ; Tualatin, flooded when the Tu alatin river i overran its banks, was still partly inundated but the water level dropped a foot. Columbia river flood perils lessened when it started to drop from a crest of 15.8 feet, two feet less than . expected. Lesser streams ,were below danger let-, els with no more trouble antici pated unless heavy rains tell. Slides and water still covered (Turn to page 11, col. 8) Gains Rapped WILL SEE OREGON CAPITOL COMPLETED O ' "Li. Exterior a General Contract to Be Work to Require Most but Officers may During 1937 work on the DUO l JL , steadily. Now the construction work is; entering the final stages. The contract calls for completion of the building y the last of July71938. It is expected, however1 that the build ing will be completed a few weeks in advance of the ontraf t date, barring unforeseen delays. ; Postof fice Makes Cain in Receipts Near $30,0.0fr Jump Over 1936 Figures; Final , Quarter Busiest Matching business to the tempo of the beautiful modern postof fice building which Salem gained! in 1937, .receipts for the postof fice here during the year Just closed shot up virtually $30,000 overthe year 1936, statistics compiled j by Postmaster H. R. Crawford show. The 1937 increase of postal re ceipts over the prevloua year, based on figures up to 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was exactly $29,951.38. ! Every month for 1937 recorded a substantial gain over ine cor responding month of 1936, with the total 1937 receipts $325,883.- 65, as compare to $295,932-27 for 1936. Although during the Christmas holidays the past year, all-time records for letter and card cancel lation . were made and smashed again on three successive days, it was not the quarter ending in De cember that showed tbe greatest gain in postal receipts .the i past year. . . . . ' ' ' a The greatest Quarterly gain j for 1937 over 1936 was made m the three months ending September 30, with this quarter In 1937 showing receipts of $76,279 .19 compared to $59,242.77 for the same period a year ago. December receipts in 1937.1 up to 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. (Turn to page 11 coL 8) i ; Youth Rescuet Man From River, Trapped by Wires GRANTS PASS, Dec. Sl-W)- P. E. Hatch was rescued from the Rogue River by Ivan Neely, 16, afteT he had been trapped In guy wlrea .when a fishing float overturned. Hatch shouted and attracted the youth's attention as he passed on a road. - in Grqiid-' Jury i floor). The governor's offices are in the south central wing on the same floor as the house and senate chambers. On top of the tower go two more circular courses of marble, then the marble base for the heroic statu of the pioneer. The building will be ready for use by the time the next legislature convenes in January 1930. Statesman Staff photo. nBtrucUon Nears End Completed in July ; Art of Remainder of Year Move in Earlier new state capitol progressed O When the contractor, Ross Hammond, : is through with Ids work the artists will install tne mural paintings in the rotunda and at other ; points in the build ing. This will take most of the. remainder of the year, the artists having until December 31, 193$. to complete their work. Use if the building is- assured by the time the next legislature, con venes in January,, 19 3 9. It is pos sible that executive officers mty move into the building in advance of that date. M l 1 As the year ends inspection the capitol reveals that the co pletion of the Jower and setting of the pioneer statue on top fis all that remains to be done. ins'o-; far ' as the j outside appearance goes. ' Inside workmen are busy completing the Vork of plastering.! installing heating ducts, wiringj ana pjumDing. ine travertine marble-is being placed in the lob by of Jthe second floor' In front of the legislative chambers. Par ticularly imposing is the entry to the legislative halls where fluted marble flanks leach side of the doorway. The laying of terrazzo: floors has begun on the basement floorIeveL Also carpenters have (Turn to page 2, col. 2) - , North Santiam Is ; Reopened, County I And State Crews Marion county and the state highway department last night handed eastern and western Ore gon a New Year's gift in the form of a reopened North Santiam highway, from i Salem to Bend. County Engineer N. C. Hubbs reported his: road crew notified him at 6 p.m. that the last seven miles of snow between , Detroit and the new Santiam river bridge had been cleared from the road. State police at bis request later obtained the information from Bend that the state highway de partment's snow crew had reach ed the same bridge from the east. Travel across the North San tiam route into central Oregan will be permitted as long as the toad can be kept open and- in safe condition.1 Engineer? Hubbs aid no motorist should attempt the trip without chains. Long-Standing Jury 'Retires' Urges Competent Audit in Report j County Court Beats It to Draw Marion county's marathon grand ' jury its seven members had served continuously from September, 1935- closed jits of ficial activities at 7 p. m. last night by bringing In a series of routine indictments and two gen eral reports, one crticizing ques tionable entertainments and the other recommending that the county court employ the state de partment of , audits for the 1938 audits of courthouse offices. The counity court, however, had anticipated! tne gran a jury s ac tion, inr some manner, it was evi dent, for ajja late afternoon ses sion It issued an Order carrying out the forthcoming grand jury recommendtion almost ito the letter. The-tourthouse offices and the Salem justice court will be audited by tjie state department. the outlying I justice courts by J H. Roland and W. "Dickf Rich ardson. , ' " J Courage of Jurcrs j Praised by Jut'ge ; High commendation of the grand jury's long? services was spoken by both Circuit Judge L. H. McMahail and District Attor ney iLyle J.1 Page : at the early New! Year's eve report session The Jury is not being continued Into the January term because the Marion county gambling investi gation is finished and there is no pending business before it, Judge McMahan explained. Foreman J. (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Moorman Indicted Upon Two Forgery Counts; Bail High Wilbur 1 Moorman, : former state highway r department- em ploye, was named on : forgery charges . In . two of six open in dictments returned by the Mar ion county grand Jury late ges terday. This' jury, also handed down one secret indictment and one not true bill as it wound np its business for all time. Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan fixed Moorman's bail at $5000 on each charge npon the recom mendation of District Attorney Lyle J. Page. Moorman has been in the county. Jail since his ar rest here early last, month. ' The two; Moorman indictments were identical in charges but ap plied to two separate time state ments, one for $80.08 made pay able to "James Sanford, timekeep er, September 25, 1937, and" the other for $87.76. made out to E. Tu. Holman. timekeeper, last Oc tober 28. Both statements bore the same of George , Sothman air countersigner. , Witnesses before the . grand jury in the Moorman case were C. II. Armstrong, J. G. .Bromley, Report Public Opinion Only Solution Members Hold Public Officials, Salem Newspapers, Leading Citizens Blamed Evil Cumulative; Starts With Fan Dance, Gets Worse, Indicated The progress of "stag" party entertainments in and near Sa lem from fan dancers to dancers without the fans and finally to obscene motion; pictures, as de scribed recently by The. States man-, was rapped by the Marion county grand Jury last night as it issued Its final report before being dismissed! after 2 years' continuous service to the county. This progression to more and more daring forms of entertain ment "is only natural," the grand Jury pointed out, but added that it was "only what can be expect ed when officials, newspapers, and leading citizens are passive or openly Welcome this type bf enr-ertainment. Turns Issue Over To Public Opinion The only force that can correct the lack of regulation , of such forms of entertainment; is public opinion, the grand jurors declar ed as they called upon "the reli gious and civic leaders of Marlon county to be alert to these condi tions and to insist on strict law enforcement, vigorous prosecu tion of law violation! and honest accountings of events material to our moral standards in the daily newspapers." . . Only fix of the seven Jurors concurred in the report Mary E. NeiUIng, Stay ton, seventh mem ber and clerk, signed as not con curring. Those supporting the re port were J. W. Brasher, fore man; Gertrude F. Lobdell, Leslie Eppers, John F. Manning, .May Pontious and Joseph W. Buller. Complete Report of Jury Released The complete report of the grand Jury on its vice investiga tion is as follows: J ' "To the Honorable L. H. Mc Mahan, Judge of the above-entitled court: "We," the members of the pres ent Marion county grand Jury, (Turn to page 2, col. 3) American Writer Killed at Teruel Spur" Corresponiient Is Victim; Neil of AP Wounded in Leg ST. JEAN-DE-LUZ. France. Jan. l-(Saturday)-(p)-Two war correspondents, one an American, were killed and fid ward J. Neil of the .-Associated Press was wounded yesterday in Spain when a shell struck their automobile during the battle for Teruel. V The dead American was Identi fied as Bradish Galllard Johnson, Jr., about 26 years old, who went to Spain as a representative of the Magazines "Spur" and ."News Week.1 f His family, prominent socially in the United States and France, (Turn to page 2, col. 5) C. C. Seeley, Carl Smith, George Sothman, W. S. Hodge and State Police Lieutenant Max Alf ord. Moorman Was" arrested after it had been announced he had con fessed to having obtained a con siderable sum of highway depart ment money - by . the method of forging time statements and then cashing ' them. Last Wednesday R. H. Baldock, state highway en- jElneer, announced shortages to taling over $3000 had been found running hack for nearly the 11 years in which Moorman was in the department's employ." - . Ernest . nealr SUverton . man who was sentenced in "Stayton Justice court oa property de struction charts - last " November only .to. be released on an order from that court permitting him to change his plea to not guilty, was indicted by 'the grand jury on a charge of shooting a gun on a publie highway.; He is alleged to have fired a .32 calibre rifle on the Elkhorn road above Me hama last October 4. Two hunt ing companions paid fines for tbe - (Turn to page 11, col. ) r ' .. r- ' rf. ,. .- ; Orderly Here; Many Parties Are Attended Apprehension Is Marked Even Amidst Gaiety " in Some Nations War Machines' Rumbling ; not Interrupted in f China and Spain i The noisiest but among ; the most orderly crowds in' recent years saluted the advent of Nine-) teen Thirty-Eight, the new year," in downtown Salem last night as elsewhere"; throughout the city at parties and in family, groups tbe event was also beting celebrated. Tooting automjobile horns set up a deafeniiig dip a quarter hour before' and after jhe zero hour of the change of years. They see Hi ed to wish well Ito a prosperous ' passing year along with giving that young man 193S a rousing hopeful greeting. . . . . -a Cifcy police commented that dis orders were unheard of last night. But two arrests tor drunkenness were listedrt The lafeperson arrested In 1937, at p.m., was Ralph; M. BudloL1549 Oak street, charged wickless driving. Tbe arresting oilers. Patrolmen Hir-: old Deacon and Claude Litchfield, said Budlong, blinded by frost on his windshield, drove onto the parking at Summer and' Jettersoa streets and continued along on the lawn for 50 feet. , -"-: . Jerry H. Wickman, no addrfss given, was booked on a charge ef driving with four in the front seat, and Robert Q. Quamme, 1979 Warner, on a charge of violating the basic tfaffic rule. Charges ot drunkenness were, booked agaluet Walter J. Bid well, no address giv en, and John .Simons, Salem. ' (By The Associated Press) A troubled world saw the old year die last night .with few re grets, and hopefully hailed the dawn of 1938. - Apprehension was an under tone o the New Year's eve gayety of many nations. While . bells pealed 193 7's passing p the war machines foiled on in Spain. and China, and .vast plans for In creased armaments were j Under way in a number. of other, coun- -tries. , - Millions all over the wrld,, however, forgot their cares forW few brief hours and gayly toasted the new year. , - . Many others went reverently to . night church services) Glimpses around tbe world: First to greet the new year was , New Zealand, because of its time " zone. . ;' - , President Roosevelt welcomed . 1933 quietly at his own fireside. . A new social-pace for New Year's eve in tbe capital was set by Mrs. ' -Edward B. McLean, owner of tie Hope diamond, who gave a brjil liant party. 1 -j .Bells clanged, whistles blew and reveling crowds, joined in tbe midnight bedlam -progressively across the United States as the; (Turn to nage 2, col. 4) j Building Supplies Group Ordered to Quit Price Fixing WASHINGTON, Dec 31.VP)-i taounced tonight that It had order ed a nationwide building material supply association to atop price- -fixing and other . practices tending to increase costs to consumers. ; ! The effort to' hammer down prices comes at a time when the .-s Roosevelt administration is pre paring a campaign to stimulate home construction through lower . -3 costs, and when administration men are declaring that "excess- ive" prices helped cansed the ec-' , onomie -slumn. ' However, the investigation oa which the trade commission based its order tonight was conducted , before the other two developments crystallized. The rder direeted the National Fedration of Build ers " Supply associations and Its i -dealer members to cease "unlaw ful" practices which have tended to suppress competition. ;j , ! B ALLADE o TO D A y By R. C. Ring out wild bells', to the wild tky, the bid year's dying, let him die (at New Year's dawn you must -be gay so through the year you'll feel that way) I ring out the old, ring in the new. ring oujLtbJIse, ring in tho- true (It's custoinwr to ,be glad but still the old yr wasn't bad) ; ring ' out old shapes! of foul disease, ring in . a thousand years of peace (we've met life's problems ap to date, grant ns much for '38 ).