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Basketball . Many important . basket ball games are . played each weekend. The: Statesman sport page brings oa full details and scores hoars Ahead. : . Weather Showers today, rain San day Max, Temp. Friday 55, Min. 41, river 3 feet, rain 70 inch, south-south wester ly wind. ' POUNDDD 1651 EIUUTY-SE V ENTH Y EAR v Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 15, 193S Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 252 m Railway aMe OP i - o. - .Drive -f Relief vO Plummer Held After Alleged Forced Entry -. - -h-tT ' ; !. I . t ... . - - ' . - 4 -" - ' Assault and Battery : Are " Charged; Woman Hurt ; ' in Scuffle, Claim Grocery Order Request Denied ; Bail - $500, j Hearing Planned Alvin .B.; Plummer, 42, identi fied with relief and labor organ izations here, was arrested by city police at '2 p. m. yesterday on an assault and battery charge grow ing out of a forced entry he alleg edly made into the county relief offices in the Chambers building, 365 North High street, at 11:30 a. m. He pleaded not guilty in Jus tice court and was held in jail in lieu of 1 500 bail. - , Mae Welch, reception clerk at the relief offices, signed the com plaint against Plummer. , Plummer applied at her win dow for a relief grocery! order and when she refused either to give it or to permit him to see Mrs. Wil liam J. Linfoot. head of the bo- cial workers' division, he scram bled ove the top of the six-foot partition ; separating . the I, offices from the, reception . room, Mrs. Welch said. Woman Braised in Trying to Stop Him Mrs. Welch, who ran ahead and attempted to block PJummer's en try to Mrs, Unf oofs office, j suf fered bruises- about .the left i arm and shoulder 1 wheit,i'hej-aid, Plummer brusbediher roughly aside. i :-:.. .... j: .Sv After Mrs. Linfoot also had de nied the request for a grocery or der, Plummer; left, saying as he went, "111 do more to you next - time than I did this time if you try to keep me out," Mrs. Welch declared. . - - . Chairman E. L. Wleder of the i relief committee yesterday . advis- ! ed the office workers to call police hereafter at first. sign of abusive ; tactics at the ! reception window. . Plummer at one time was prom inently identified with the Work , ers Alliance here. - Recently he ; was elected president of the Can nery Workers local union and last "i Saturday was named president of : the Oregon State Council of can nery and agricultural workers un c ions at a meeting in Portland. Serves Sentence in i Polk County Jail Before coming to Salem last I year. Plummer served a -sentence i In the Polk county jail on a peace . disturbance charge arising from an incident at the Polk county re ; lief office. ' ! . The seriousness of the charge on which Plummer was arraigned early yesterday afternoon, with a maximum bail of $50 and possible fine of 50, was Increased later when District Attorney Lyle J. Page moved under a special stat ute that J udge Miller B. Hayden sit as a committing rather than a trial- magistrate. JThe motion, which will result in & preliminary : hearing Instead of a Jury trial as demanded by Plummer, was al- lowed. The maximum bail possi ble as a result became $500, as fi nally set. 0 dditios , , in the Netct J BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Jan. 14 -iJFfh. H. Hackney, who left a sick bed to flag a train and avert a wreck, asked the train crew for a wave of the hand for his ef forts. . " - ' . , ' ' , Engineer J. A. Griffith said he thought it was just a prank last night when he saw someone wax ing a lantern ahead of the Nor folk - and Western, tracks near Carbo. But he stopped and found a boulder had rolled onto the tracks, twisting them Uke wire, r 'What can the railroad do in return?" Griffith asked. -Why,- you fellows Just re member to wave to me when you pass my house, was the rejoin der. , - ' f 1 :V:::'C-- '-;-.V-;-,-:; NEWARK. .N. J.. Jan. 14-(jp)-An apple today not only failed to keep the ' doctor : away . hut brought an ambulance and a po lice emergency squad to the home of Jimmy Daniels, three. Jimmy took too big a bite. A piece of apple stuck in his throat. His parents called police, (Police . called city hospital. i ! While the ambulance doctor rummaged for an Instrument, Sergeant Stein poked a long fore finger down Jimmy's throat, felt a piece of apple, and pushed it down. . -. - " . - Jimmy gulped, swallowed. smiled and reached for what re gained of the uneaten apple Leads in Pressure For Renewing La bor Peace Effort ft 1 4 David Dnbinsky, head of the powerful International; Ladies Garment Worker's union, affiliated with the CIO; who recently insisted pub licly for reopening of peace. jiegotiations between the CIO and the AFX. In answer to John It. ewis statements regarding Dnbinsky's 'looking back," the union "official declared i American laboring masses re hungering for peace wisecracking, will not be denied Gift line Tosses Defeat Orange 38 j to j 32; Oregon State! Leads in Field Goals EUGENE, Ore., Jan.! Um- The tall, fast-stepping hoopsters of the University of Oregon tri umphed, 38 to 32. over a des perate crew of Beavers from Ore gon State college tonight. " .The Staters narrowed a 13-12 deficit with a last-period rally, but failed to close the gap. ... Carrying a decided underdog status' to the floor of their tra ditional rivals, at Eugene, the Beavers resorted to ring-round- the-rosy strategy, to slow : down (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Several Democratic Candidacies ! Told PORTLAND, Jan. 14-(ff)-Dem-ocratie candidacies announced at a meeting of Multnomah County precinct commltteeme"n ; yesterday included: ; I - i Judge Ashby C; Dickson, for mer state senator, 'for reelection. . . State Representative George Iriede for reelectioh. f State Senator Delmore Lessard, for district attorney. " --' Gilbert Hamaker, attorney, for congress. . . . r: -- '-f -State Representative Jack Wag ner, for jcounty! commissioner, City commissioner, secretary of state or congressJ i State Representative Delbert Norton, for reelection or for dis trict attorney. Reorganization Webf oots Win by Setup Proposed at Meeting A tax setup reorganisation In Oregon, - rather than - seeking out new or additional! sources if rev enue, was advanced at Friday's meeting of the interim ' commit tee on state and? local revenues as a long step toward solving the financial problems - which now face the state and counties. - The ., commission - was created at the last legislative assembly and will continue its meeting here today. Two j meetings were held previously. A- : ; Most of Friday'a session was devoted to a discussion of finan cial affairs by county judges and relief administration officers. Virtually aU of the c o n t y judges agreed that mandatory tax. levies by the counties, under state enactments, had' - played havoc with, their financial set ups. - ' L .... . County Commissioner - Frank Schmll .of Multnomah county de clared that in case all- of the mandatory Ut lertas ' were con- rmer on John ewis V 4! and u p jtr. Khstanding $lr. Lewis; such peace for lotag.'lrr photo.1 Hearing on Knopf Will Case at End Taken Under Advisement; Eight Heirs Opposing Hospital Bequest '; -; Circuit Judge! L. G. Lewelling late Friday afternoon' took under advisement the suit of eight heirs to break the wilt oNthe late Gus- taf Knopf, former Southern Pa cific section hand who left all of a J10, 548. 64 estate to Salem Deaconess hospital. Attorneys for petitioners and proponents of the will will both submit briefs be fore the court reaches Its deci sion. ' ; j ' : ; ' .' :V The heirs petitioning to have the will set aside called to the stand for testimony Sister Anna Duerksen, head nurse of the hos pital; Fred Knopf, brother of de cedent: Mr. and Mrs. Bart Fits gerald. Mrs.' Mary Williams, Ar thur Knox, W.j I. Staley, Oscar Knopf, nephew of decedent; and Olga Oftiesby. Witnesses' for the proponents Included A. E. Schir- man, local attorney who drew and witnessed the will; Ronald Glo ver, Dr. J. H. Garnjobst, Linn C. Smfeh, R. Heine, Sister Anna Duerksen and J. H. Nickerson. All of the estate excent a 1100 .US treasury bond was in cash. A claim for ? 10 05 filed by Ida B Mund for board, lodeine and serv ices she asserts she gave the dece dent has been disallowed bv F. F. Wedel, the executor, it vras stated in court. i ...: r-:' The Dumorted will actnallv in law was no will, Attorney Glenn Jack of Oregon Cltv. for tha heirs asserted. He declared Attorney Schirman and Sister Anna,' who (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) of Taxation tlnued It would not be long un til some of the counties would be compelled to curtail a number of their activities. . Frank . SeTers, deputy district attorney of Mult nomah- county, corroberated Schull'a statements h ; - Levies in school districts also were criticised by . the - county judges. Some officials, expressed the opinion that the county school unit system ? was the solution of this problem. Figures were pro duced to show that in y some school districts. the tax levy was high while in l other districts it was extremely low. ' . - - f i County Judge Day of Medf ord said a large number of . county and municipal ! officials thought they should have a larger share of the gasoline tax revenues but they did not want to . interfere with the .state . highway depart ment's program, v. .' Day declared that he personal ly favored a sales tax but that .(Turn to Page 2, Col. ) Scene Finance, Labor LeadersStudy Nation's Needs John Lewis and Partner in Morgan Firm Among Roosevelt Guests Testimony at Prohe of .Unemployment Still Being Presented t WASHINGTON. Jan. 14-tfV Leaders of government. Industry, finance and labor joined hands today In a common search for some means of bringing the cur rent business slump to an abrupt and mutually welcome end. r Shortly after; noon, the office of President Roosevelt was the scene of an unusual spectacle. Gathered there were the chief ex- exutive, Thomas W. LaMont, sen ior .Morgan partner, Owen D. Young of General Electric. Charles W. Taussig of American Molasses, A. A, Berle, a former administration advisor, and John L. Lewis and Philip Murray Of the CIO.: ! For an hour and a quarter they talked of the business situation, and of ways to Improve it. When the president's visitors emerged from the White House It was the labor leader, Lewis, who was their spokesman to reporters. 'We attended this conference with the president," he said while the industrialists stood about nodding agreement , "and discussed with him the gravity of the existing economic and In dustrial situation in the country. j, 'i;hi! group bad, ifcutl ome pre minary discussions and wer Impressed with the desirability, if at all possible, of working out with the president and the ad ministration some definite pro gram of action by government, business and labor. "The discussions will be con tinued at the president's discre tion." The newsmen peppered the group with Questions, but beyond an additional j statement from Lewis that the conferences cover ed a wide range and "endeavored to deal, with the realities of the situation," they received no am plification. - Amc ng the questions asked, an Important one was whether the group presented a specific propos al to the president. This one Lewis and his colleagues declined to an swer... - j I WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-ffV-A banker end-an industrial j leader told the senate unemployment committee today that government (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Blockadp Runner Is Believed Lost VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. li-iff)-Wreckage found on the rocky vest coast of Vancouver island Indica ted tonight the freighter Hal Da. which left Seattle' October ' 24 with 27 aboard, may have gone down enroute to Hongkong. A-lifebuoy and a splintered oar, both marked j "Hai Da," were found by a lightkeeper at Cirman ah, 60 miles northwest of Victoria. The merchants exchange at Se attle reported the Hai Da, carry ing a Norwegian master, F. C. Norvick, and a Chinese crew, .was last heard from between Novem ber 2 6 - and December 4, asking "have you any message for us?" The vessel, loaded with B.000 tons of sulphur, refused to disclose its position,' possibly because; of re ports she was attempting to run a Japanese blockade. - i ' The Hal Da, formerly the Bur geo Star, had a radio installed and minor repairs made in Seattle. Her registry was changed from Chi nese to British before she (sailed. Patients to Enter Roseburg Hospital ROSEBURO. Jan. 14-ff)-Colo-nel E. F. Tandy,' manager of the US veterans' administration hos pital here;, said, today 1 4 1 neuro psyehiatrle patients would arrive Monday to occupy the remodeled plant. t . A like group was expected Tues day, with 25 more arriving Thurs day and Fridayrespectively. All will be -from Americans Lake, Wash; V r-K-K-M u Colonel Tandy said 8 veter ans would be transferred from the state mental hospital at Salem and 20 from Pendleton later in the month. : . He estimated 150 veterans suf fering "from nervous and mental disorders would be at the hospital jr March 1. . Holdin Firms Must Go Says FR Statement Bombshell Is Tossed by k President; Involves ! Major Companies Banking Combines Hit as "Well as Industrial, 1 Utility Groups WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-)- President. .Roosevelt startled the business world today .with an em phatic call - for the aholition j of holding companies in all lines of industry and finance. He told his semi-weekly press conference in unmistakable terms that -his ultimate aim was the elimination of such concerns, not only among the power utilities, as now partially provided by law, but in banking and other business and industrial fields. Wall street frankly was amazed. Experts on corporation finance were quick to say that more than half the companies whose securities are widely held are holding companies, in some degree at least. . Of the latter, they said, many actually are operating companies owning outright control of sub sidiaries, and thus differ from the I pyramided type of holding company to which Mr. Roosevelt has objected in the past in the utilities field. So complex was the question posed by the president, in fact, that many financial men said they thought there might be qualifica tions which. Mr. Roosevelt had not mentioned at his press con ference. Four Firms Control , Big Banking Interest Regarding the president's Crit icism of balding companies in the banking field, and his attack upon "remote controV' , of local banks, they estimated that four compan (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Ickes, Lundberg Book Under Fire "60 Families" Is Thrown - ;t'" ' ; on Senate Floor by : Southern Solon WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-P)-Some southern senators fighting the antl-lynching bill turned their attack upon Secretary Ickes to day and repeatedly hurled to the senate floor a book he had used In his recent speeches against con centrated wealth. r j Senator Bailey (D-NC) called the secretary a "renegade repub lican" and described as "garbage1 the book the' secretary had. men tioned Ferdinand Lundberg's "America's 80 families." i With a gesture of anger and disgust. Bailey threw a copy of the volume into a nearby aisle. While other senators turned quickly to see what had happened. Senator Thomas (D-Okla) picked np the book and started to lay it on his desk. Senator Smith (D-SC) i (Turn to Page 2. Col. 3) Typos Turn Down Wage-Hour Offer PORTLAND, Jan. 14-AP)-Pub- Hshers of three Portland newspa pers announced tonight that mem bers of Multnomah typographical union No. 58 rejected 4two pro posals submitted by employers in hope of ending a dispute upon wages and hours. I The first proposal. In essence, included a renewed contract for 18 months at a wage scale of 1 9 per day and $9.50 per night for seven and a half hours work. With conciliation or arbitration .of wages and hours only at the end of six months. The vote was. Ill for and 133 against. v I" v The second proposal called for a one-year contract and immediate arbitration of a wage scale of not less than LI 4 per hour for day work and 31.20? for night work, nor above 31.374 per day and $1.42 per night. This was re jected; (4 for and 1(1 against. ' . Further negotiations wiU be entered by ( both sides, . although the nature of them was not dis closed. Chancellor Hunter Witt , ' Take Reaidence ct OSC i CORVALUS, Jan. 14- An office at Oregon State college will be maintained by ; Dr. . Frederick M. Hunter, . chancellor . of higher education, until February . 9 to al low better acquaintance with stu dents, faculty and work. Dr. and Mrs. Hunter, whose permanent residence Is at Eugene, will live here temporarily. Georges Bonnei Seeks To Form Government; French Crisis Serious Two Others Refuse Difficult Task; Strikes Still Spread, Foreign Affairs Add to Problems; Will Give Lebrun Answer Today PARIS, Jan. 14 (AP) Georges Bonnet, diplomat and financial expert, tonight tried to pull together the shattered remnants of the people's front and form a new government to solve the labor ind economic problems that forced Camille Chautemps out of. office. ; ; j - Bonnet, finance minister in Chautemps' cabinet and like Vets' Building to Be Started Soon Arrangements Are Nearly Complete, Mt. Angel v Memorial Hall Construction of the new veter ans' memorial hall at Mt. Angel will be started early next week un der a contract virtually complet ed yesterday by the county court, if plans discussed ajt a conference with school and American Legion representatives from that com munity can be carried out without delay. . The building - will cost slightly less than $6000 and will be erected by Hugh Range, con tractor. ! . The conference yesterday, in which District Attorney -Xyle J. Page and Architect Lyle P. Barth olomew participated, was primar ily to discuss minor changes to be made in plans and specifications. The contract price before these changes was $5999. 85, or 15 cents less than. the amount appropria ted In the 1938 county buget for the project. ; i Joseph . -Keber jresterday rep resented the Mt. Angel school board, donor of the Bite, and Jo seph Wachter the American Le gion. For school purposes a new gymnasium will be constructed by WPA labor near and in conform ity as to style with the veterans' hall. The veterans' building will be 30 by 60 feet in size and will be fullyeomplete under the present contract. It will have a large audi torium, capable of being divided off by folding doors into separate meeting rooms for the Legion post and auxiliary; a ' coat room and lobby, and a basement containing a kitchen, dining room, furnace rooms and rest rooms. Radio Utilized to Find Complainant In Hit-Run Affair Thr rough instantaneous cooper ation with the city police depart ment, radio station KSLM was in strumental in finding the women whom witnesses allege a car driv en by Thomas A. Murphy, local contractor, hit while running through a red light on High and Court streets early; last night. Witnesses who saw the accident took down the license number of the car and Informed police. Mur phy was shortly i arrested and booked on a- hit-and-run charge, and his companion, S. E. Taylor, a Seattle CCC worker, held as a witness. -. . Not knowing who it was Mur phy was alleged to have hit, city police called Harry B. Read, man ager of KSLM, and asked him to broadcast ; for the ii person struck while crossing the High and Court streets intersection! Four minutes after the broadcast 'went out. Lil lian Kayser, bookkeeper for Bone steele's Sales and Service; notified police that she was the woman. She stated the cart hit her on the hip, knocking her down as it sped on by without stopping. . Retirement Act Injunction Given Pending Miller Suit Immediate enforcement by the Salem school board of the state teacher retirement act as to Ed ward A. Miller, Grant school prin cipal; was forbidden In a tempo rary injunction order issued yes terday by Circuit Judge . L. O. Lewelling with the consent of at torneys for both' Miller and the board. The act would require the board. on February 1 to retire all faculty v members - who have reached the ago of 15 years. Five in addition to Miller would be affected here.' A complaint in Intervention In which Salem and Portland teach ers who prefer to see the law en forced is expected to be filed soon, it was indicated in a telephone call to the court from an attorney named Venice. Attorney Skulason, representing . Miller , hero and teachers in the same classlfica- .tlon in another suit In Portland, -Ohim a radical-socialist, promised to give Pres. Albert Lebrun- his answer tomorrow to the presi dent's invitation that he form a new ministry. Bonnet said tonight he would begin interviews tomorrow in his effort to set np a cabinet to suc ceed the Chautemps government which resigned early today. The men he mentioned he would see all' are former premiers Leon Blum; president of the chamber of . deputies Edouard Herriot; Edouard Daladier, min ister of national defense in the Chautemps cabinet; Sen. Joseph Caillaux; Albert Sarraut and Jo seph Paul-Boncour. Bonnet added: "I have an ap pointment at 12:30 p. m. (7:30 a. m. EST) tomorrow with the president of the republic." He declined to answer ques tions on whether he was main taining a stand against exchange - (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Dalrymple Given Backing for Job Mrs. English, A, Thompson i Mentioned as Possible. Legislative Entries 7 A. M. Dalrymple,' Marion coun ty member of the state demo cratic central committee, was proposed . by the county demo cratic society last night for, ap pointment to the position of col lector of customs for the Oregon district, which was left vacant by the death last week of Mil ton Miller. A committee headed by Floyd Bilyeu drafted a tele gram to Postmaster General James A Farley to this effect, over the signature of A v e r p Thompson, society president. Thompson's name was urged by Kenneth L. Randall at the meeting? as a candidate for the state legislative nomination at the coming primaries as also was the name of Mrs. Euphrosina English. Thompson commented thai he might be a candidate but was making no announcements. Mrs. English said if she did run for the nomination she would go out to win. ' In the address of the evening, Rex Putnam, state superinten dent of public Instruction, de clared that education and schools would save the country from fas cism, communism and naslsm. "Fascism," Putnam said, "is caused by the desperation of the rich man; communism is caused by the desperation of the poor man." The Marion county Jefferson club, at a meeting earlier In the evening, voted to hold a Jeffer son day dinner here April 13, Earl I Sears Trial , To Be Postponed a PORTLAND, Jan. 14-(ffV-TrIal of Earl Sears, 29, alleged, sock bandit," on a charge of assault with intent to kill was postponed indefinitely today pendiflg ap pointment of a defensettorney. , . . Sears was indicted for. the al leged . shooting of State Patrol man Ira Warren on Nevember 23. said'he would not object to inter vention The. local ease is expected to be decided on the basis of com plaint and demurrer to ft with Judge Lewelling indicating - he will give the attorneys adequate time to prepare briefs and memo randa and also an oral hearing If desired. The chief questions in the action appear to be whether or not the retirement law Is void under the state and federal con stitutions. ' r'ij -.'''-.'Is-V-. J District Attorney Lyle J. Page, representing the school hoard, said he would require consider able time to draft his briefs be cause of the amount of law in volved. ' .The only school administration representatives at the injunction hearing were Superintendent Silas Gaiser and Directors L. E. Bar- rick and Mrs. David Wright. Chinese Are in Retreat After Battle Once Recapture ; City : ini Surnrise Attack ITnon. T Nippon Invaders - '-. Chiang Musters Strong Force for Defense of " Vital Railway SHANGHAI, Jan. 15.-(Satur-day)-(;P)-Japanese announced to day their forces in Shantung pro vince had driven through strate gic Tsining southward toward the Lunghai railway and had occu pied Tangchiakuo. They said' the Chinese 29th army which had defended TtLning was retreating toward .Klnshaa, 27 miles to the south. Chinese press dispatches con ceded .the Japanese were in pos session of Tsining which was re- virtually destroyed by gunfire. Earlier a reinforced - Chinese army, fighting savagely to stave off Japanese conquest of the na tion's . bread basket, was reported . today to have recaptured strategic Tsining by storm. Surprise Attack Is . ' : i Temporary Success ). Chinese dispatches said the Jap anese captors of the southern Shantung province city were tak en by surprise by a furious counter-attack over the frosen surface of the historic grand canal and driven three miles from the cltv. The tide of battle in the great agricultural region of central Chi na apparently still was in the balance as the Japanese claimed slow but steady advances toward the Vital Lunghai railway despite determined resistance of a Chi nese army estimated at 409,060. Independent reports indicated Gener alissl m o ;r ' Chiang-KalSh e k, in - personal command of the Lunghai front, was concentrat ing his utmost strength along the railroad. . Two Japanese columns . were closing on strategic Suchow like relentless pincers from the north and south. -Many Jfew Recruits Thrown into Action The Chinese have been recruit ing new troops in the central provinces at a hectic pace and were reported to have enrolled 750,000 in the past six weeks. These men, with only the scan tiest training, are being put into action against the tone 111,611 trained Japanese troops in south ern Shantung and northern KU angsu provinces. . . ' ' The northern - and southern Japanese columns were 110 miles the center of the Chinese resis tance. ; Tsining has changed hand time and again in the fighting ef the last few days. In the far northwest, reports through Chinese channel said, 40,000 outer Mongolian troops had moved into position along the border of Suiyuan province, which fell to the Japanese in the early months of the war. Mae West Radio Skit Condemned WASHINGTON, Jan.: 14-ZP)-Mae West's recent "Adam and Eve radio skit drew formal con demnation today from the federal" communications commission, f ' The commission said the fea ture ; by . Miss ' West and Don Ameche, andthe dialogue between the actress , and , Charlie McCar thy, Edgar Bergen's dummy, "were far below even thO mini mum standards which should con trol the selection and production of broadcast programs.? Chairman Frank R- McNInch wrote Lenox R. Lobr, president of National Broadcasting Com pany, Inc., that "in view of your recognition " of the objectionable character of the program In ques tion and of your assurance that greater care and caution will be exercised In the future, the com mission has decided to take no further action at this time than the writing of this letter In con demnation." Rainfall Heavy Again PORTLAND, Jan. 14-V-RIt-ers and creeks swelled today aa lAlx inches t of : rain fell in 24 hours.-Snow on Mount Hoed vet melted by the downpour, - ALL A D LT - J T f r A m. m Ey IL C In business and In politics men play peculiar games; wne reading of their bitter strife, don't swallow all yon see; in statements to the papers they . may call each other names, hut if in private they confer, the chance is they'll agree. Fierce