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Newspaper Page TextGideon S. Stolz Dies; in Salem Over 60 Years Last Surviving Charter Member of Seclgwick Post, Grand Army Prominent in Business, 1" Civic Affairs; Was Council Member Gideon S. Stolz. for more than a hall century identified -with the civic and business development of a i e m, - aieaf the family res- ldence at ' 575 -j Court street at V the age of 931 ' years. He camel ? here in 1873 j ; and six years- later founded, the Gideon; Stolz company m a nufacturersj f h v a r nrpn" and oldest mer- stoU cantile firm la this community to be operated under the same own ershin for more than 58 years. He was a Civil war veteran, and was the last ' surviving charter member of Sedgwick Post No. 10, GAR, which was formed here Sep tember 28. 1882, by a group of 43 veterans. Ethan Cowles and Hen ry Stuergnagel, both Salem real dents, who were not charter mem bers, are the sole survivors of the chapter which disbanded In Sep tember, 1936. Stolz was last com mahder of the post, having occu pied that office for three terms, was post quartermaster for many years, and was a past department commander for, the state of Ore gon. - . . . Mr. Stolx was active tip until about two years ago when he last appeared in the ; reviewing-' stand for a Memorial day parade. "When he retired from business in 1920. his son, "Walter T. Stolz, gave up his interests in the Spa restaurant 1 here to direct the Stolz company,! and the father bought the 42-acre 'Rambler" farm in Polk county in which .he maintained an active in terest until recently. In; civic life he was a city councilman begin ning in 1901 and was a strong ad vocate of improvement in the city's - water and sewage system and paving advancement as well as other betterments. Beside his. GAR affiliation, he was a charter, member of the An cient Order of United Workmen, member of Knights of the Macca bees and of the WOW. Funeral services have been set for Thursday at 1:30 p. m. from the chapel of the W. T. RIgdon company with Rev. P. W. Erikson officiating. Honorary pallbearers will be Jack Hughes, U. G. Boyer, D. G. Drager. E. T. Barnes, J. H. Baker and Frank Myers. Active (Turn to page 2, col. 1) High Churchmen Of Russia Facing Serious Charges : MOSCOW, Jan. 10-()-Soviet newspapers indicated today eight nigh ranking Russian orthodox churchmen and numerous priests and nuns had been arrested on charges of fascist espionage, spec ulation and debauchery. The army newspaper "Red ' Star" named Metropolitan Theo phan of Gorky, 270 miles east of Moscow, as the leader of a band of spies, terrorists and saboteurs, which Included two bishops, two nuns and 19 priests. . The Gorky organization; the paper said, recruited members on a large scale and its aim was to assassinate soviet officials, and burn collective farm buildings and factories. A member of the , band was quoted as saying It "took the line of fascist Germany and Hitler in - the hope the' soviet union would be defeated in the coming war, t The archpriest of Gorky was charged with "organizing "sisters of the white kerchief" wtra helped collect information on defense, in dustry. railroads, farms and schools to be sent abroad. Flat Levy of 10 On Homes Sought . PORTLAND, Jan. 10-(JP)- Twenty property owners request ed the Portland realty ooara to dar to aupport circulation of an initiative cetition fixing a flat tax of 110 on real , property as sessed op to $2500. The group also urged repeal of a law granting rebates on tax payments; reenactment or penalty law for non-payment of taxes; re appraisal of all property In the state, and passage of a real estate sales tax. Tsingtao Occupied, no Bloodshed; Strategic Rail Junction Is Goal Americans and Others Return td Their Homes as Rising Suni Banners Are Raised; Japanese Deny any Hangchow Counter-Off ensive SHANGHAI, Jan. 11. (Tuesday) (AP)A renewed Japanese push toward Suchow, strategic rail junction north of Nanking, appeared imminent today following the bloodless occupation of Tsingtao, principal port of rich Shantung pro vince. ; : , j : Without firing a shot, Japanese naval forces occupied -O Ten Persons Share Lindbergh Reward Service Station Man Gets Largest Sum, Finder of Body Is Next TRENTON, N. Jan. lO.-W) rOoT. Harold G. Hoffman today gave nine men and vomfji $22, flOO of New Jersey's $25,000 re ward for capture" of the Lind bergh baby murderer." He re served the remainder - for more than 100 . others and reiterated "his belief the case was not com pletely solved with the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. The Bronx service station man ager, Walter Lyle, now of Eliza beth, N. J., who jotted Haupt mann'a automobile license . num ber on a $10 ..bill-" part of the $50,000 which Col. Charles A. Lindbefgh paid in futile effort to regain his child was awarded $7,500. William J.-Allen of Trenton, negro truck driver whose discov ery of the baby's body in a road side thicket in May. 1932, ended a 72-day search for the infant won '.the.' nejt largest, share, $5,000. ' Others who traced ransom money to Hauptmann' and , wit- nesses against the Bronx carpen- r at nis trial were; included but the executive who granted Haupt mann a reprieve while he sent his own investigators into the case, said: I must reiterate my belief that more than one person was involved in this crime, that the casj has not been completely solved." (Turn to page 2, col. S) Loyalist Attacks Are Turned Back HEXDATE, Ftance At the Spanish Frontier, ; Jan. 10-;PV- Five successive assaults by Span ish government troops on a key position - north of s Teruel were reported to have been turned back today by a withering cross fire of machine-guns. The government captors of the city were trying to protect theextremities of ; their line by taking La Cota hill on the north and La Muela De Teruel to the south. Insurgent advices said neither operation was success ful. Ten thousand f troops partici pated in the assault on La Cota hill, the Insurgents reported. In five waves "the : attackers swept up the hill from which Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's guns dominated the north ern part of the, former Insurg entheld; city as . well as several roads. Franco's men took the posi tion January tl in the big coun ter-ofrenslve that railed to re capture Teruel.! hundreds of engineers since then had worked day and night, digging trenches and machinegun pits. Silver Beaver Award Given Four for Scout Leadership Four men received . the Silver Beaver award At the dinner meet ing of the annual planning con ference of the Cascade Area coun cil. Boy Scouts of America, last night at the Knight Memorial church. The award, which is for outstanding service to boyhood, given by the local council through the national council of Boy Scouts, went to Willis Clark for ten years service, J. Deo McClaln of Albany, 20 years service, Tj A. Windishar, 15 years service and Dr. A. S. Jen sen, retiring president of the coun cil, for 20 years service. The Bea ver award was presented by Cus ter E. Ross. The training certificates pre sented by Willis , Clark were awarded to Robert Day, Arthur Lamka, Leon Jacobson and Don Douris. The acorn bar pins and buttons were presented by Robert Hayes of Portland, deputy region al - executive. The - bar pins were given to Arne Jensen, Sanford Belts, George Rowel!, Hershell York, Charles Smith. Marshall Tsingtao yesterday, 10 days after the city's defenders had fled leav ing acres: of dynamited, burned and looted Japanese buildings. De struction of Japanese properties was estimated at $100,000,000. There was no sign of opposition as 400 marines entered the de fenseless i city after : an 18-mile march. Troopships later entered the harbor and began disembark ing additional marines. Japanese patrols immediately lowered white flags, which had been hoisted before their entry, and raised in their places the ris ing sun banners of Japan. As. soon as the occupation of Tsingtao was completed, Ameri cans and ' other foreigners, who had gathered at the Edgewater hotel outside the anticipated dan ger zone, reported to their homes. (Turn to page . 2, col. 7) Plywood Workers Contract Upheld Prevents Switch to CIO Rules Judge Fee, but : Injunction Denied PORTLAND, Jan. 1 0.-P)-Fed- eral Judge James Alger Fee ruled in - an oral opinion ' today - that a f closed shop cO tract between the M & M Woodworking company and the local union of AFL ply wood workers was a valid instru ment to ' prevent employes from switching affiliation to the CIO and retaining their Jobs. The court denied a company request for an injunction to re strain the CIO from picketing its ply lock plant at St. Johns on the ground the complaint did Vt itemize specific instances of vio lence, made necessary under the Norris-LaGuardia act. Permission for an amended complaint was granted. The plylock plant closed last summer when employes, by a ma jority vote, accepted a CIO char ter. It later reopened with a cur tailed AFL crew, and was pick eted by the CIO.. - Judge Fee ruled the contract was obligatory not only upon the (Turn to page 2, col. 5) 1585 Applicants For Compensation Eighty-six additional claims In Salem yesterday for unemploy ment compensation raised the number of applications for the first seven office days of claim taking to 1585, Manager D. D. Dotson of the state employment office announced last night. The total did not Include 56 regis trations reported made yesterday at the temporary field office at Silverton. The claim office at 365 North High street was a quiet place yesterday in contrast with condi tions on the opening day when 682 registrations were received. Tie next big rush is expected next week when first payments to jobless men and women whose claims have been approved are made. Huntley,' George! DeGraf, Rev. N J. Dels, Daniel Hay, T. O. Russell, Joe Thomas and Robert Nelson who were responsible for organiz ing new troops in the council since September. Acorn buttons were given to 106 scouts who became new scout members this year. Twelve scout troops were present ed ribbons for the President Jen sen membership award. A. C. Haag was Installed as the new president of the Cascade area council for the ensuing year, mak ing his fifth but not consecutive term as , president. Willis Clark was elected vice-president; Rev, George H. Swift, scout commis sioner; T. A, Windishar, treasur er; James E. Monroe, scout exec utive district chairmen. Dr. B. F Pound, Cherry City, Grant Mar phy, Silver Falls, Fred Johanne- son, Santlam, L. C. Buchner, N Marlon, and Dr. C. E. Coles, Linn. New members elected to the exec utive board with term expiring 1940 are J. Deo McClaln, William (Turn to page 2, col. ) Amendment to Require Ballot On War Denied House Refuses to Order . It out of Committee; Bankhead Opposes Administration Asserts It Would Tie Hands; Mott Is for It WASHINGTON, Jan. lO-OFH The proposed Ludlow amend- cent requiring a popular vote before a declaration of war met defeat today when the house refused, 209. to 188, to take it out of a committee pigeonhole. Jubilant administration men, who conducted an almost nn precedented .fight to keep the measure from the floor, declared the vote killed it, at .least for 1938. Before the vote President Roosevelt wrote Speaker Bant head declaring the amendment "would encourage other nations to believe that they could vio late American rights with Im punity." Tonight Htatn rien&rtment of ficials privately expressed grati fication at the house'a action, taking the position It facilitated tLe executive branch's conduct of foreign affairs. The National Council for Prevention of War declared the fight for the amendment had j jst begun. Would Hamper Foreign Relations The proposed amendment was offered " by Representative Lud low (D-Ind) three years ago. To become effective it would re quire a two-thirds vote of, each branch of congress and jpproval by three-fourths of the states. After It had long been bottled up In the house judiciary com' mi ttee, its. backers ' succeeded re cently in getting 218 names on a petition asking that the com mittee be relieved of it. That petition forced today's vote. Making one of his rare speeches. Speaker Bankhead to day read Mr. Roosevelt s letter, wl.ich said the amendmert would cripple any president in his conduct of our foreign relations." Turn to page 2, col. 6) Austria, Hungary Spurn Rome Pact BUDAPEST, Jan. lO.-UPV-Aus- trla and Hungary stiffened today their opposition to an Italian sug gestion they join the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo anti-communist pact. Foreig'i ministers of three coun tries met privately in a conference expected to consider the recently intensified conflict of fascist and democratic Influences in the Dan ubian valley. Observers believed the meeting might determine the balance of power in southeastern Europe. . On the anti-communism pact as well as several other points, Italy found the two smaller powers re luctant to follow Premier Benito Mussolini's leadership. Hungarians said unofficially part of their objection to joining the Italian-German-Japanese ac cord lay in a suspicion it was di rected not merely at communism but also if indirectly at demo cratic institutions. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria, who accompanied For eign Minister Guido Schmidt to the meeting, said "neither Aus tria nor Hungary have anything to fear from communism." Telford Is Given life for Slaying TACOMA, Jan.-10-Py-Thom-as Telford, 20-year-old Tacoman, after pleading guilty to the -December 16 slaying of his father, William J. Telford, 60, was sent enced to life imprisonment here today by Superior Judge Ernest M. Card. , , . " Remaining a fugitive for a week v after the crime, the youth promptly ' confessed 1 the patri cide to Police Captain Tom B. Ross, Tacoma, one of the offi cers who made the arrest In a shack on the outskirts of the city. - Telford told Ross he shot his father if ter in argument In which the elder man accused him of selling family tools,' Pierce Has Road Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-(jip)-Representatlve Pierce (D-Ore) in troduced a bill today to permit the civilian conservation corps to con struct and Improve non-hard sur face highways where they, are necessary for land development and utilization by Irrigation. Next Envoy to Britain Visits -'-'y. - - - Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the maritime commission and who was recently appointed am bassador to Great Britain by President Roosevelt, Is expected to arrive in Salem at 11 a.m. today to confer with Governor Charles H. Martin. He has been "on the west coast in connection with efforts to prevent cessation of liner service from Pacific ports. UN photo. Art Center Fund Campaign Begins Beaux Arts Ball Will Be Climax; Five Teams of Workers lined up A $2000 fund-raising campaign to be climaxed by a beaux arts masked ball to finance establish merit of a federal art center in Sa lem was started at a meeting of 51 Interested citizens at the TMCA last night. This sum, it was announced, will enable the city to obtain approximately $10,000 in federal funds with which to oper ate the center. Five campaign teams were set up with chairmen as follows: Schools,; Mrs. V.- A. Douglas; women, Mrs. w. M. Hamilton; statehouse, Dr. P. -O. Riley; men, Otto K. Paulus, and fifth, Mrs. J. M. Devers and Mrs. Elsa Ebsen, co-chairmen. Selection of team members will be completed today. Dr. Burt Brown Barker," vice- president of the University of Ore gon and federal art project super visor for i Oregon, will be here Thursday to discuss art center plans with an advisory committee of men. i Financial. Chairman C. A. Kells hopes to complete the drive within two weeks. February 11 was tentatively set as the date for the beaux arts ball, a public costume affair with' spe cial entertainment to be arranged. Two Army Fliers Victims of Crash GRAND VIEW, Tex.; Jan. 10- vP) An army airplane from Barks dale field nose-dived into heavy timber near here tonight killing its two occupants. The dead: Lieut Frank Thompson, Co lumbus, O., pilot. W. T. Mathews, a non-commis sioned officer. - H. Hunt, city marshal of Grand' view, said the crash occurred about 7:30 p. m. He said t bodies were identified with diffi culty. The plane did not burn, he said. .... . . Officials of Barksdale field said at Shreveport ,' Thompson and Matthews took off from Barksdale tor Randolph field Saturday and cleared . from Randolph at 5:15 p. m. today. - , They we're headed for Barks dale field by way of Hensley field Dallas. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Jan. 10 -flVSol Levinson, . 1S4, Denver, punched out a close 10-round de cision - here . tonight oter. Ted Garcia, 135, also of Colorado. VANCOUVER, Jan. 10.-P)- Portland Buckarros rammed in two second period goals tonight to defeat the league-leading Van couver Lions 3-1 and strengthen their hold on third place in the standings of the Pacific coast hockey league. '": Late Sports Declaration of War Imminent, Is Tokyo View Would Raise new Issues in Washington Over Neutrality Act Britain Will Oppose any Change in Settlement Control, Contends TOKYO, Jan. 10 -UP)- Japan's highest military and government officials today were summoned be fore Emperor Hir'ohito for the first imperial conference since 1914 to map the future course of the undeclared war against China. The powerful home minister, Adm. Nobumasa Suyetsugu, was reported by Tokyo newspapers to be insisting on a formal declara tion of war at tomorrow's meeting in the Emperor's presence. Press reports said the home minister also insisted on with drawal of recognition of the Chi nese government against which Japan has waged warfare for vir tually six months. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 A formal Japanese declaration of of war against China may force the Roosevelt administration to invoke the neutrality act against both countries. Diplomatic authorities said to night that, if Japan declared war formally, it would become "diffi cult" for President Roosevelt longer to avoid clamping an abso lute ban on shipments of arms and ammunition to the belligerents. The neutrality law, enacted last year, requires the president to im pose such an embargo when he finds a state of war exists. Thus far he has refrained from such a finding and both Japan and China have been able to buy war mater ial In this - county, though the president did not permit it to be shipped on government-owned ves sels. Only Spain, torn by civil war fare, is barred entirely at pres ent from buying war Implements in the United States; If he invokes the act against China and Japan, the president will face another decision whether to require them, to buy other materials, such as oil and copper, on a "cash and carry" basis. "Cash and carry" means pay ( Turn to page 2, col. 8) John Helzer Gets 6 Months, Parole After pleading gilty, John Helzer was sentenced to six months in the county Jail .and paroled to his attorney, Law rence Brown, when he appeared yesterday afternoon before Cir cuit Judge L. H. McMahan on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. A condition of the pa role was that he repay A. E. Ol son for chickens taken last No vember 23. Glen H. Beals, Dean Niccolson and Harry Palesen, three youths charged with breaking Into a barn belonging to Henry Werner December 15 with intent to steal clover seed, also' pleaded guilty yesterday in circuit court. Their cases were continued for sentence for SO days. Two of Those Missing on Board Navy Bomber Which Disappeared i i TJeut, T. E. Carpenter, left, and Avlbtlon Cadet Philip O. Browning, -two of the seven men missing along with the navy bombing patrol plane "somewhere on the Pacific." The plane la unreported since last Wednesday UN photo. Ship From Shattered on Peak In Montana Wilds Nick Mamer of Spokane, Pioneer of Northwest Transport Flying, Dies With Ranchers in Isolated Bridger Region , See Tragedy, Unahle to Effect : Rescue Because of Flames BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 10. (AP) A Northwest Air lines transport plane crashed high on a snow-covered peak in the Bridger mountains, 14 miles northeast of here, late today, carrying to their deaths 10 persons ljged as being aboard. Two ranchers, cutting wood on the rugged mountain slope, said they saw the plane burst into flames as it hit the ground. " The flames prevented them from making any attempt to rescue or extricate the plane's passengers or crew, the ranchers, C. A. Larson and Glenn White, said. Sheriff Lovitt I. Westlake of Bozeman, who led a party on bobsled to the crash scene, said he counted nine bodies. He said they were charred beyond recognition. Northwest Drop Indictment Against Kellaher Insufficient Evidence Is Reason Given; Banks Case Involved -The 36-montha old indictment charging Dan Kellaher, former state parole officer, with agree ing to accept a bribe, - was dis missed by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan yesterday afternoon upon the application of District Attorney Lyle J. Page. The court order recited that it appeared "there is insufficient evidence to prove upon a rea sonable doubt that the defend ant is guilty of the crime charged ..." Kellaher was charged specific ally with having contracted while he was parole officer to assist in securing a parole for L. A. Banks, former Medford editor serving a life sentence for the slaying of a Jackson county of ficer. The alleged, contract pro vided for a $50,000 payment if the parole were obtained. Charges in the Kellaher case were aired at ' a hearing in the fall of 1935 on application of Banks for a parole. The reputed contract, dated May 16, 1935, (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Paper Mill Here To Reopen Today The Oregon Pulp & Paper com pany plant here will reopen today with full crews, it was announced Monday. The plant has been idle since the day before Christmas. This was the third two weeks shutdown .this winter. Officials of the company were not able to an nounce yesterday how steady op eration would be In the immedi ate future. Seattle Passengers OAirlines officials reported eight passengers and a crew of two were aboard. The fuselage of the plane was burned into a twisted mass of steel. Sheriff Westlake said the plane appeared to have plunged? nose first into the mountainside la a small clearing. Northwest Airlines .officials in Sts Paul said the plane was pilot ed by - Nick Mamer, pilot. ' aad F. W. West, co-pilot, both of Spo-" kane. - ' They. listed as passengers:""" " fi i Inrfortnn SnnVnia Wo.Vi D. McKay, .Hudson's - Bay . Co Winnipeg, Canada. Lloyd Levin, 33, Detroit, Mich. Walter Ton, postal Inspector, St. Paul, Minn. W. E. Borgenheimer, Basia, Mont. - Al H. Croonquist, Billings, Mon tana state traffic manager for Northwest Airlines. Ted Anderson, St. Paul, me chanic in the St. Paul shops of Northwest Airlines. . I. E. Stevenson, of Seattle. ' A blizzard was raging when tK sheriff's party reached the wreckage-after trudging over two milea of snow-choked roads. The wings of the plane, the sheriff said, were not torn off, and the nose was not burled, but appeared to have been snapped off by impact with the frozen ground. Three bodies had been tossed, or fell, out of the fuselage, and the others were thrown to the forward part of the airliner. The wreckage was not scat tered over the mountainside to any extent. Gallatin County Coroner How ard Nelson left for the scene, but was reported . to have beea Sheriff Westlake said snow was drifting over the wreckage. Roads previously passable, were blocked, and county highway of ficials s.aid efforts to open them by snowplow would not be made until an attempt was begun to bring out the bodies. Because of the storm. Sheriff Westlake came out from the iso lated crash scene with his party and said no attempt would be made to return until morning. The plane, a new i4-passenger Lockheed Zephyr, was flying from Seattle to Chicago, via Minneapolis. It had been ground ed a short time at ' Butte be cause of bad weather and tham took off for Billings. The territory where , the plane plunged lies in a rugged area of the Gallatin national forest, lined with deep canyons and . high mountains. It is heavily forested. A few scattered ranches are located In the forest. Roads hare been - closed by deep snow for. about a month. . SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. lO-CP) -Pilot Kick Mamer, Spokane's best known flier, was known to fliers of the Pacific northwest as the 'father" of the northern transcontinental route on which he crashed in a Northwest Air lines transport plane today. . He made the first round-trip ; (Turn to page 2, coL 5) A L L A D E of TO DAy By R. C ' ' When diplomats sit 'round the council table, they often find the game calls for a bluff; at poker Yankees always have been able but it's felt their skill would scarcely be enough, -if laws required any war sug gestion to be put before the ' people for a vote; whate'er they , said there'd always be a qucs ' tion as to what concrete antho- . rlty they'd .uote.