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"Weather Unsettled with rain today and Friday, temperature un changed; Max. Temp. Wed nesday 46, Min. 37, rlrer 8-8 feet, rain 1.34 Inches, 8 wind. 37elcome, Cnamps The Statesman joins all Salem la welcoming tb dis trict basketball champions and their rooters to this city for the tournament. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 17, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 304 En for n glsoicl Maneuver Close Battles Mark Opening State Tourney East, Southern Quintets Loom as Favorites in Championship Race B Title Will Be Decided Today; Large Crowds out Despite Rain . YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Amity 42, Adams 30. Chiloquin 32, Thurston 28. University Hi 50, Woodburn 38. Mae Hi 25, Salem 23. Sandy 27, Dallas 24. Baker 31,"Klamath Falls 29. St. Helens 39. Myrtle Point 19 Medford 39, Eugene 34. TODAY'S GAMES Consolation Series 9 a.m. Adams vs. Thurston. 1 6 a.m. Salem ts. .Woodburn. 11 a,m. Dallas vs. Klam. Falls. 2 p.m. Myrtle Point vs. Eugene Championship Flight 3 p.m. Amity vs. Chiloquin. (State "B" Championship) 4 p.m. University Hi vs. Mac HI, 7:30 p.m. Sandy vs. Baker. 8:30 p.m. St. Helens vs. Medfd, By RON G EMM ELL Not a soul was reported to have too acute a case of "sititls" as the curtain .rang down on the first round of t he 1 9 th-annual OSHSAA basketball tourney at 10:54 last night in the Willam ette gymnasium. General concensus of opinion ot the throngs that crowded the place throughout the eight games was that the Baker Bulldogs and Golden Tide from University high f Eugene would eventually scrap It outfor top hoLor, - Climaxing tilts saw St. Helens i land Myrtle ; Point the ' worst j trouncing taken - by -any te"aT5l In the opening round, 39-19,' and Medford withstand a valiant last quarter bid by Eugene to win 3 9-34. - - Not even the eclipsing of the main entrance to Willamette uni versity by the old postof fice build ing, that is, on its way to become a part of the Institution, nor the incessant drizzle that prevailed throughout the day, kept enthu siastic fans from filling the gym nasium. Just about the time the ball went up In the opening tipoff of the first game of the tourney, the old postoffice building nosed Its way almost directly in front cf the university's main entrance. Baker and Klamath Provide Thriller Hardest played game of yester day's eight was the Baker-Klamath Falls whirlwind tussle; toughest loss was that of Salem to McLoughlin, the district 2 ti tllsta the Pioneers plucking the winning points in an overtime, the, only time they were ever in - the lead; easiest win was the St. Helens gallop over Myrtle Point, 39-19. While Coach Eddie Frantz' 'Saints" were to the fore but 5-4 at first quarter's end, they put on the pressure in the second per iod to completely dominate the play and emerge with a 22-6 half time advantage. With Daggett, sparkplug guard. directing the play end driving through the defense either for baskets of his own or for sharp passes to teammates for ultimate baskets, it was Just a breeze for the Saints. Daggett drove four field goals through the hemp and converted once from the keyhole stand to dominate the scoring with 9 - points, despite playing but two- thirds of the, fray. " Demend, lanky Myrtle Point pi voter, was the only district 8 coartster to-hit the hoop consis tently. He hooped three afield and two from the gift mark' for 8 tallies. St. Helens Meets Medford Tonight The Saints, by virtue of their win, walk into the driving Pear pickers from Medford tonight at 7:30. .F: ;.:.';:. - - (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) ; 1 d ditics o. . Z in lhe Newt GALESVILLE, Wis., March lf p-Casca Hudson, whose health -was too frail to permit service In the Civil war,-died today at the age of 98 after outliving every veteran of that war in this area. He died of heart disease. ST. LOUIS, March 16-iJPr-A "bellboy" employed at a down town hotel - for- seven years was discovered to be a woman when examined today by city hospital physicians.' Police Captv Robert Kaiser announced. . Picked up for routine question- ing, the bellboy, 27 years old, gave the name of John Brock. Kaiser said his suspicions were aroused when ha talked with the 'prisoner and he ordered tha hos pital examination, - --- - WVI CHAMPS V"-' W- AW V'. V i Hi The Woodburn Bulldogs, Willamette Valley Interscholastic league champions, went down to defeat be fore one of the strongest teams in the state tournament. University high, 60 to 88, but put up a hard battle and showed why they high at 10 o'clock this morning. Berries Contained r d n JNo Poison, Claims State : Officer Asserts He Ate Some; Mother of Girls Testifies ST. HELENS, Ore., March 16- ()-state Police Sgt, Ray G. How ard testified today in the murder trial of Mrs. Agnes Joan Ledford, 35, that he ate without ill effects blackberries from a patch where the defense contended two of her stepdaughters were poisoned. Mrs. Ledford is on trial for the poison death of Ruth, 23, and Is charged in a second indictment with the death of Dorothy, 15, last September. Clyde Watson, owner of a po tato field from which Defense Atty. Glen Metsker asserted poi- son spray was blown to the berry patch, testified he had eaten with out washing a dish of berries from another nearby patch. Howard, who examined the bushes, said they were 130 feet from the southeast corner of the potato field. Mrs. Pearl Turner, Los Ange les, natural mother of the chil dren, said five children were born to her and George Ledford. They were divorced in 1932, after which Ledford agreed to support two of the children in his home. She was followed to the stand by two daughters. Mrs. Thelma Flippin, Los Angeles, testified that she visited the Ledford home about six weeks before death of the girls and noticed Mrs. Ledford was congenial with Dorothy but seemed to resent Ruth. "Letha Ledford, 10, said she once lived at Ledford's with Ruth, whom Mrs. Ledford slapped "more than once." She said Mrs. Ledford was nice to her. Rickman Will Not Run, Water Board J. Mr Rickman, member of the Salem water commission since January 1, 1935, will not be a candidate for reelection, he an nounced last night. I reel i have put m my time," Rickman 3aid. "It is my hope the people will elect a candidate in my place wfta will take an interest from labor's standpoint, as I have . tried to do." - Rickman was elected as a la bor candidate in 1936 for the four-year term expiring next De cember. Both his position and that cf E. B. Gabriel, present chairman, I are to be tilled by the voters In May. Chairman Gabriel and, Van Wieder, former city councilman. are the only declared candidates for the two positions on the com mission to date. Seadlund to Die In Electric Seat CHICAGO, March 16 - (JP) A federal court Jury tonight con demned John Henry Seadlund to die In the -electric chair for the 950.000 ransom kidnaping of Charles S. Ross, Chicago manu facturer. . .The i Jury , answered "yes'1 to the question: "Do you the Jury re commend that the defendant, John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, be punished by death?" The case was given to the. jury at 4:45 p.m. (CST). They reached their verdict at 6:15 p.m. It was announced 20 minutes later af ter Judge John P. Barnes,' attor neys and Seadlund, handcuffed to I two guards, arrived In court. : Counsel for Seadlund Immedi ately moved for a new trial and Judge Barnes set Saturday at 9 a.nw for a hearing on the motion. PLJ:XALEM THIS MORNING had run up such a long record of Benefits Paid to Convicted Goons' v a gtot , PORTLAND, March 1C -Uf)- Jacob Schlaht, acting business agent of local No. 162 of the AFL Teamsters union, testifying before a special master in federal court, said today that the local has paid families of members involved in labor terrorism cases benefits generally amounting to 325 a week. The question was asked Schlaht in a hearing of the United Union Brewers of Walla Walla, Wash., against the Teamsters, the Brew ers seeking an injunction to re strain alleged interference with deliveries. The hearing will be resumed March 28. "Is It true (that benefits are paid) if a man pleads guilty to a crime?" asked John W. Kaste, at torney for the brewers. "It is an act of humanity as we e it," replied Schlaht. "The families are not responsible for their husbands' actions. There fore, we support the families whether the husbands plead guil ty or not." Swanson Opposes Columbia Defense WASHINGTON, March 16-Fr- becretary swanson, writing the senate naval affairs committee. said today that "no additional navai aviation requirements are foreseen at present" and thus ap parently spiked for the immediate future Oregon hopes for a naval base at Tongue Point on the Co lumbia river. - - The secretary, saying that the McNary bill providing for the base was "not in accord with the pro gram of the president," remarked that he was opposed to the bill because the site was "too close to the primary base at Seattle to justify Its selection, even were It capable of economical develop ment." The navy's plans for the west coast provided for only three stra tegic bases, Seattle, Alameda and San Diego, said the secretary. MILLIONS Adolf Hitler, pictured as he arrived la Vienna after his bloodless ' of about a million people forced 1 by bchuschnigg and that a betrayal -was something be would not r league victories. They play Salem Linking of Power Markets Favored Ross Declares Bonneville not Rival of Coulee, Spokane Hearing SPOKANE, March 16-jP)-The power markets of the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams on the Columbia river are one and the same and must be so treated, J. D. Ross, Bonneville power ad ministrator, said at the public hearing on Bonneville rates here today. "We are worklnr now to as. sure that there -will be no con flict between the rates from the two projects, keeping in mind the navigation and reclamation features of the projects," he said "There will be a new era later when a new power administrator will put these two projects to gether and administer the joint product of the one great pool." Ross assured Charles Hebberd Spokane business man, the Bonne vine commission had tun cog nizance of the reclamation needs at the Grand Coulee project after Hebberd had testified "develop ment of the 1,200,000 acres in the Grand Coulee project is our first Interest. Power is second ary." To Hebberd's fears the Bonne (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Woodsawyers Wlio Quit AFL Rejoin PORTLAND, March lt.-(jpy- Fiity members ot the Wood sawyers' union, who withdrew from the AFL and joined the CIO last summer, reaffiliated with the AFL this week. The central labor council en dorsed a resolution approved by the Coos Bay central labor coun cil to bar Harold J. Pritchett, president of the CIO Internation al -Woodworkers of America, from the United States. The department of labor granted Pritchett, a resident of Vancou ver, B. C, three-month visitor's permit yesterday. CHEER HITLER I the fuehrer to make a speech. Hitler declared b bad beam deterred Severe Storm Causes Havoc Lf Northwest Two Men Reported Lost off Troller; Oregon Rainfall Is Heavy Death Toll in Tornadoes in Midwest Rises to 22 After Checkup PORTLAND, March 16.-P)- Raln and hail, thunder and a roaring March wind drenched western Oregon today, while snow fell in high areas to the. east of the Cascades. Shipping was disrupted at the mouth of the Columbia river when a 64-mile wind whipped the entire width of the bar. Nine ships stood outside and five in side awaiting moderation. The coast guard cutter Onon daga, scheduled to convoy a seal herd north, was unable to leave. Observers said the stormy con dition of the bar, particularly the surge inside, was one or trie worst they had seen. The wind at North Head dropped to 31 miles per hour. Rainfall in the Astoria region was 4.03 lncnes; portiana .u inches; Newport 1.79; Eugene 1.16; Albany 1.35; Salem 1.34, and Roseburg 1.18. Snow fell at La Grande and Klamath Falls. Hail, preceded by thunder and gusty winds, fell heavily but briefly on Portland, only to be succeeded by heavy rains. At Grants Pass, a southbound Southern Pacific train arrived two hours late following a i slide at Dillard. Rain in 14 hours amounted to 1.95 inches. .: The Roseburg-Coos bay high way was closed by torrential (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) Willis E. Mahoney Files for Senate PORTLAND, March 16-P)- Wlllis E. Mahoney, former mayor of Klamath Falls indicted by the Linn county grand jury yester day on a charge of reckless driv ing, announced his candidacy to day for the democratic nomina tion as United States senator. The indictment, which did not mention a fatal accident involv ing Mahoney's automobile on the date, November 28, 1937, he said was returned "on the eve of the close of filing and the primary election." "I was competely exonerated on the scene and by subsequent investigation by the state police and the only two witnesses," Mahoney declared. "I demand an immediate trial, with complete confidence that this cowardly attack will 1 be brushed aside." Martin Win Support in Petitions at Silverton SILVERTON, March 16 More than 300 signatures on petitions supporting Governor Charles H. Martin In his candidacy for re election were obtained here today. Many of the names were those of republicans, it was reported. IN VIENNA conquest of Austria. A huge throng toIerateUX photo Mussolini Says Border Safe; Hitler Summons Reichstag Into Session Speech of II Duce Aimed at QuietingN Fears; Says German Union Natural; Lithuanian-Polish Crisis one Problem for Fuehrer ROME, March l6(AP) Premier Benito Mussolini approved Adolf Hitler's absorption of Austria today, but. warned any invasion of Italian frontiers would mean war. "Our frontiers are sacred !" II Duce shouted in a nation wide broadcast. "We will not discuss them. We will defend them!" " O His words clearly were an ef Two Plead Guilty To Forgery Count Women Say Innocent, 4 Held to Grand Jury and Are in Jail Andrew Sedar, 21, and Dan Zivanich, 22, pleaded guilty and their two women companions, Cleo Zivanich, 25, and Grace Nelson, 22, not guilty in Justice court yes terday to charges of uttering a forged instrument. The young women waived preliminary hear ing and all four were bound over to the grand jury. The quartet was arrested by city police Tuesday night as the culmination of a hunt for the per son who had passed several forged checks at local service stations The checks were signed with and made out to the fictitious names of Antone Melich and Steve Strel kh, respectively, police charged. Police suspicions were aroused by the fact that both names appeared to be the same handwriting. Sedar was identified by police as the one who passed the checks and Zivanich as the man who wrote them. The ZiVanlches .said they were man and wife and lired at Oak River, Ida., while Sedar and Grace Nelson were from Spo kane, Wash. Farley Mogan, state police sergeant, said he had located seven new inner tubes in the Hayesville district which he linked with the forgery utterance cases. Sedar as an excuse for cash ing the checks bought inner tubes. Noneof the four prisoners was able to post the 1 350 bail required by Judge Miller B. Hayden. Father Detained, Attempted Kidnap NASSAU, Bahamas, March 16 -Ky-Police records showed For rester Scott, Philadelphia attor ney, and two fliers were detained today in connection with an at tempted airplane abduction of Scott's two daughters. The girls, Eva, six, and Zoe, three, are here with hie divorced wife, now Mrs. Harry Clarke Bo- den. Scott and the pilots, Stanley Boynton of Philadelphia and P B. Miller of Miami Beach, were booked for Investigation. The girls' nurse said they were playing In a park on the water front when two men drove up in a taxicab and attempted to seize them. The nurse and spectators who were watching a yacht race Intervened. Legion May Take Over Falls Camp For Boys' "State" SILVERTON, March 16 Plans of the Oregon American Legion to take over the Silver Falls CCC camp in case It is vacated by the government, and operate It as i Beaver boy state" were an nounced here tonight by George L. Ranch of Portland. The announcement was made at a Silverton chamber of com merce dinner at which the or-, ganization's new rooms in the Legard ft Adams building. Tom Anderson, president of the cham ber, presided.' James Stevens, manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion and author of the Pail Ban yan stories, and C. M. Gartrell of the First National bank were the speakers, both discussing phases ot the new federal housing loans. 'Hitch Auto Thief Strikes, Corvallis CORVALLIS, March 16.-(ff-A thief who abandoned a stolen automobile When it ran out of gasoline and stole another was reported today by Sheriff W, M. Harper. : - Harper said an automobile stolen from F. P. Powell of Toledo- was recovered near Philo math. The : gasoline tank was empty. Another automobile was stolen at Philomath and aban doned at Independence. . . fort to stifle the anxiety of the Italian people, with Austria now only a province of Germany and the nazi frontier at the Brenner pass. Throughout Italy millions gath ered around radios and loud speakers to hear "II Duce's assur ances that Italy's borders were in violable and that Anschluss was no menace. "First of all Italy, this Italy, does not allow itself to be easily impressed," he declared. "This Italy has a firm will, a firm spirit. It marches straight ahead." Mussolini . defended Italy's ac quiescence to the annexation ot Austria as consistent with her past policy of defending Austria's independence. But, he declared, it would have been "an historical (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Wooden Bridge on Santiam Coes out MEHAMA. March 16. For the first time ia several years snow fell in Mehama during March. There was about an inch of snow on the ground this morning but it was melting fast. This snow was in part respon sible for the wooden bridge, at the old Crabtree mill above Tay lor's, going: down the river. This bridge has been closed to cars for some time past, but the school children used it to'cross to meet the school bus, and the men at the mill used it to go to their work. This morning the children were Just putting on their coats to cross and go to school when they heard the timbers tearing loose. Another man had just crossed it about a half hour before. They all Just narrowly missed being oh the bridge. There is another road into the mill by way of the Taylor ranch, so people are not stranded. Parts of the timbers floated down the river, possibly past Mehama, and other parts are scattered along above here. Vote Is Delayed On Bureaus Bill WASHINGTON. March 16.-UP) Supporters of the administra tion's reorganization bill backed away from a test vote today on a proposed amendment restricting the president's power to shake up boards and bureaus. The amendment was offered by Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.), a critic of the bill. A vote had been expected today, but backers of the bill prolonged debate until the senate adjourned. To many observers this Indi cated a close division of sentiment on the issue. Wheeler declared sarcastically that proponents of .the measure were "filibustering" against their own bill. However, Senator Bark ley of Kentucky, democratic lead er, said the vote was delayed be cause the proponents had not had time to answer criticisms by the opposition. Boycott Refused By Marine Union - PORTLAND, March 4 i.-iS1)- C. w. Atkin, secretary or Colum bia River Council No. 3, Maritime Federation of the Pacific, said today a CIO lumber workers. pro posal tor a retaliatory, boycott on AFL lumber products had been tabled. ' . Action taken yesterday approv ing retaliatory steps . was recon sidered. .i,:- v-v".-,; '.- - - Meantime, Kenneth Melntosh, president of , the West Oregon Lumber company, issued a letter to the CIO plant committee and other employes warning they had to lift an AFL boycott or the mill wonld close. " Backstroke Record Set TRENTON, N. J, March 16.-()-Dlck Hough, captain-elect of the Princeton university swim ming team, clipped three and four-tenths seconds off his world's record for the 100-yard breast stroke tonight in a , New Jersey amateur athletic , union meet, v The new-mark 4a 1:04.2, Halifax Warns Against Attack On Czech Land Nations Plan to Defend Africa Route; Won't Take Hand, Spain Insurgents Blast Caspe but Meet Resistance Upon Some Fronts LONDON. March 16.-(;p-Brit-ain today thrust the issue of peace in Europe squarely before Reichs fuehrer Adolf Hitler. She and France particularly were active in a sudden wave of war fears that involved most countries of Europe. There was a crisis in the Span ish situation, tension between Po land and Lithuania, fresh alarm in Czechoslovakia, while in Italy Premier Benito Mussolini declared Germany was right in taking Austria. Foreign Secy. Viscount Halifax, in a vigorous statement in the house of lords, called on Germany to respect assurances to Czecho slovakia that Austro-German union was not aimed at her. A Polish-Lithuanian border in cident suddenly added new danger in a situation already tense over Germany's next move In central Europe and the growing possibil ity of Italo-German domination In Spain through a victory of the insurgents in the 20-month-old civil war. France, alarmed by the pres ence ot Italians and Germans in Spain, appealed to Britain for joint action to seek a i Spanish armistice and won a British prom ise of concerted n aT a I action should French communications with North Africa be threatened. The price of the pledge was continued French non-interven '"A tion In the Spanish conflict Excited by the possibility of a German moTe against ber ally, Czechoslovakia, France also , had sought British aid in event of action by Hitler to "liberate" the- 3,500,000 Germans in the war- created republic. Soviet Russia reaffirmed her pledge of armed aid to Czecho slovakia, her ally as well, in case of aggression. . PARIS, March 16 -()- Great Britain promised France naval aid tonight If,Italian and German forces In Spain menaced France's North African communications. In return. Premier Leon Blum told his cabinet France would maintain non - intervention in Spain. By this decision, France kept her border with government Spain shut to men and munitions' and dropped her plans for an imme diate effort with Britain to nego tiate a Spanish truce. That the Spanish government appeared to have stopped the in surgents' drive toward the Medi terranean, at least temporarily, also was cited as enabling France to keep her frontier shut. HENDAYE, France, at the Spanish Frontier, March 16-(JP)-Insurgent field artillery blasted Caspe Into ruins today in an ef fort to dislodge government troops menacing the left flank ot the in surgent army marching toward the sea. While trying to drive this stub born, government force northward . Tt . , nuusa luts iiuiu utcr, lue insur gents ranged widely through their 3000 square miles of newly-conquered territory, mopping up straggling government units and reestablishing lines of communi cation. Gen. Francisco Franco's fast moving troops, which in less than a week penetrated more than 60 miles into government territory east of the old Zaragoza-Teruel line, seized control of the impor tant Montalban-Alcanlz highway and sent advance parties through the San Just mountains south east of Montalban. ' 1 Early Income Tax Parents Record WASHINGTON, March 1 .-() -Record-breaking income tax col lections brightened -the federal budget picture tonight. The' treasury : announced that the unprecedented su ot 1615, 947.718 was collided in the first IS days of March, an increase of 18 per -cent over the similar pe riod last year. ' : If this rate of payment Is maintained to the end of the fis cal year, the treasury win -wind up with about 1170,000,000 more income tax money thav was pre dicted in President Roosevelt's January estimates. This surplus would provide, officials intimat ed, a badly needed offset against the probable failure ot , excise taxes and customs duties to meet estimates. "-- v-..v,V --;''-:-