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Registered? In order to Tote at the primary May 20, citizens mast be registered. Regis tration books 'Will close April 10. . Weather Unsettled with rain today , and Sntnrd'Tt moderate temperature; - Max. Temp. : Thursday 63, Mia. 9, river 4.3 feet, southwesterly wind. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, April 15," 1938 Frict 3e; Newsstands Sc No. lft o President em Says Japan Regime Due o Relief Change By Grand Jury F i v Suggestions Listed In Report Following - Extended Inquiry Lack of Harmony Among Staff Members Cited As one Difficulty The Marion county relief committee, the grand Jury rec . ommended yesterday, in order ' to effect needed changes in the relief set 05, should: 1. Employ a courteous, com petent caseworker qualified to supply "clients" applying at the intake desk with Information obviating the necessity for re peated trips to the. relief office. 2. Secure a business admin istrator "by experience and per sonality capable of managing the office r with efficiency and cooperation of all the . office staff.' . 3. Require , "more equitable distribution of goTernm ent commodities" and reserve to the'social , service division the writing of all requisitions. 4. Direct discontinuance of present practice of having Jan itor . dispense medicines and shift this responsibility- to the county doctor or a licensed druggist. .. .. ."" ' 5. Take immediate . step s, through the county court, to se cure permanent suitable quar ters ror lnnnn ana convalescent patients now being kept in pri vate care ho riles. Capping two months of Investi gations, the Marion county grand' jury yesterday in a report cited four major complaints against the present mode of handling public relief in this county, outlined cer tain causative factors and recom mended five important chances in the setup. The investigation resulted from the publication by The Oregon Statesman February 13 and 15 of editorials written by Charles A. . Sprague. editor and manager, ad vocating such a checkup on relief. The Jury's report in large part urged changes intended to remedy the defects complained of in the editorials. . The Jury found that: 1, "There is a serious lack of harmonious relations on the part of the administrative heads in the county relief office; 2, "Most of the complain' s that have been brought to this body have been due to clients being un able to receive information they desire at the intake desk . . . . solely due to lack of proper execu tive administration . . . ;" 3, "Many persons have been re . ceiving government commodities from the commissary who are not -'Justly entitled to receive such ar ticles, while many others who are (Turn to page 2, col. 1) dditics ... In the News CENTER POINT, It April 14 -;P)-Striking Center Point high school students, who demand the reelection of Principal Alfred Pierce, today carried their fight "to the people. Those who did not maintain the-! vigil at the school,' solicited the support of townspeople, present ing a circular containing their de mands. - , At least 20 boys stayed in the school last night and this morn Ing homo economics class girls went to the building to prepare breakfast. . 5IKXIA, Texas, April 14-(,P) -Or. Marion M. Brown and Dr. C. P. McKenxie explained to a friend the group hospitaliza tion plan recently installed in a hospital here. The friend . liked it. Dr. Brown signed hint ap. ' A few minutes later the friend clutched his aide. Three hours later an appendectomy was performed for 75 cents. . FORT WAYNE, lad., April 14 -(S)-KAfter William Decker's au tomobile struck a car driven by Mrs. Esther Bennett last night. he went to assist occupants of the Bennett machine, which ..had broken Vntility pole end plunged - Into a ditch. - : - '- Decker placed one hand on the Bennett car and was electrocute ed.lt -had -become charged, with jIJOO' yoHi of electricity from a lower line enappea oy tee erasn. Mrs. Bennett and two companions Recommended stepped safely t-om the car. ' ; Mi obiuzin&nill Being Tried on Bombing Charge & : '7 Before a jammed courtroom,' the long-awaited trial of Captain Karl E. Kynette and two aides, charged with implication In the Harry Raymond bombing, got under way In Las Angeles re- . cently. Kynette and Lieuten ants Fred Browne and Roy Al I en, members of the "special ln telligenee" unit, are accused of planting a bomb in Raymond's car. Raymond, a special inves tigator, was nearly killed when the bomb wrecked the car. Above is pictured Kynette leav ing for the trial. IIX photo. Reames to Insist Demo Receive Job Senator Defies Roosevelt Order; Charles Nunn Is First on List MARSHFIELD, April 14-JP)- benator a. E. Reames Informed local democratic leaders today a democrat would be appointed postmaster at Marshfield, even if J. W. Flanagan, actin- post master, must be kept in office until the president s executive or der of July, 1936, Is rescinded. The order, requiring postal ap pointments on a merit basis, was attacked in congress this week. Charles T. Nunn and W. G Barrow, republicans, were num bers one and two on the civil service commission list of those who qualified for the Marehfield post in the second examination None- qualified I in the first ex amination, 11 was reported nere, Charles T. Nunn, formtr Salem resident, was recently reported as having received the- appoint ment, in a Washington dispatch which now proves to be errone ous. J? t ' ' A, Relief Chairman Tells Views Following Grand Jury Report "V e r y s e nsible, considering everything," , was the comment of E. L. Wieder last night as chair man of the Marion county relief committee, with whose adminis trative offices the grand jury yes terday found fault. Asked by The Statesman to make a statement as to his re ception of the jury's report, Mr. Wieder replied he had "no criticism." - Fulfillment of one of the Jury's chief recommendations, placement of an experienced caseworker at the relief office reception window to answer relief client's inquiries wherever possible has been a goal of the relief committee for some time, the chairman said. The com mittee secured authorisation from the state relief committee more than three, months ago to create such a position. ... " We've been" trying to get a caseworker, at the window but there Just aren't any,"- Mr. Wieder explained. "The regulations are so stringent that we can't -find any to till" the job. r v 7 . " May Fall o P. O- K01W) j Under Fire; Military I n v oking Law Contrary To Agreement Causes Crisis in Cabinet Chinese Column Drawing Near to Shanghai as Victories Spread TOKYO, April 15-(Friday)- (JPy-A serious crisis confronted tne Japanese cabinet today, and there were rumors Premier Prince Fumlmaro Konoye, unable to control warring factions, was preparing to resign. The premier officially was si lent, but reliable sources raid the government was divided on the issue of mobilizing Japan's full military strength in an effort to achieve quick, and complete vie- tory in China. This would entail promulgat-U ing the national mobilization law, giving the government wide pow (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Silverton Theft v Suspects Caught Youths Held in Missoula - Believed Involved in Taking two Cars Two youths identified as fug itives from the state training school near Woodburn will be re turned to Salem early next week from Missoula, Mont., to face charges of car theft. Chief Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Randall an nounced yesterday. He said Sher iff James R. ! Thompson of Mis soula had telegraphed that he had arrested William Shephard and Raymond Abdicb there after the pair had abandoned a car belong ing to Ieroy E. Ferguson of Sil verton and had taken another. Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honeycutt left for Missoula last night. He said the youths had waived extra dition. Officers said arrest of the pair apparently cleared up the succes sive thefts of cars belonging to Dr. R. H. Stewart and Ferguson at Silverton Monday night and also of a revolver from the Stew art machine and of 50 gallons of gasoline from a farmer's private supply. Shephard and Abdich were committed to the training school after being charged with auto theft. Kulm Present at District Meeting LA GRANDE. April U-fi)-Mayor V. E. Kuhn of Salem, pre sident of the League of Oregon Cities, attended today" a district meeting to discuss gasoline taxes, liquor revenue, traffic, highways, budgeting and other municipal problems. 1 ' Twenty-five officials of eastern Oregon cities and Herman Kehrll, Eugene, executive secretary, " at tended. These regulations, providing in part that persons to be classified field and have experience in the as caseworkers must hold college work in addition are set up by. the diplomas in the social service federal government, Mr. Wieder said. i , The chairman admitted that, as complained by the Jury, the pres ent home being maintained for aged nd eo nvalescent relief clients waa unsatisfactory but de clared it was the best It had been possible to arrange under present financial and other conditions. . Mr. Wieder also defended Glenn C. NUes, veteran relief office ac countant and director, as having proven "exceptionally competent" In the handling of the mass of records and reports required - by the state and federal relief ad ministrations. - v v - y..:t ; Reports that some members of the relief committee may resign out of displeasure at the investi gation of work In which their part is one of non-salaried public service were discounted by Mr. Wieder." v- Measure Basis Anglo-Italian Pact's Signing Set Saturday Friendship Agreement to Be Signed; Tension Will be Reduced Span ish Insurgents are Still Advancing on Two Objectives LONDON,. April 14 Great Britain and Italy on Saturday will sign a friendship pact which many see as the first step toward anew line-up to break Adolf Hitler's hold on Europe. The major immediate gain for each country is expected to be the removal of tension in the Medit erranean which, particularly dur ing the Italo-Ethiopian campaign of 1935-36, threatened to cause war between them. Through its long-range opera tion, however, Britain hopes the new agreement gradually will bring Italy back into the orbit of London, and Paris, away from Germany's Influence, thus strengthening Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's band with Hitler. Chamberlain proudly stood in the house of commons today. 'shortly before it adjourned until April 26 for the taster vacation, and told the legislators negotia tions with Italy virtually had been concluded. In Rome, Premier Benito Mus solini went over the draft agree ment with British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. H END AYE, France (At the Spanish Frontier), April H(JPt Spanish insurgents tonight whip ped ; the ends of their 16 0-mlle eastern Spanish front toward the Mediterranean on the south and Andorra on the north. General Miguel Aranda's troops drove from San Mateo into the little Castellon village of La Jana, only nine miles by air from the sea and 14 miles by cign fay from coastal Vinaroz. Far in the north, amid snow covered mountain slopes, insurg ents took control of the village of Tor, three miles from where Andorras western frontier with Spain strikes tho French border. Mrs. E. J. Harding Just Century Old Still Enjoys Life Though in Woodburn Hospital During Past Year GERVAIS. April 14 Mrs. E. J. Harding received visitors at the Woodburn hospital this after noon on the occasion of her 100th birthday anniversary. A number of friends called and reported Mrs. Harding to be in her usual jovial mood and seemingly enjoy ing the occasion. She received a large number of bouquets of carnations and roses, pots and baskets of Easter lilies and other flowers from Portland. Salem, Woodburn and Gervais friends. She has been in the Woodburn hospital for a year bat is not ill . Eleanor Purdy was born April 14, 1838, at Klark's Post Office, Coshocton county, Ohio, now Blomville, and left Ohio 91 years ago today to come to Oregon with her parents. The wagon train in (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Dam Power Rate Meetings Slated WASHINGTON, Aprfl H-VF-The Federal Power commission said today Bonneville Adminis trator J. D. Ross and an ad visory board would open a series of meetings at Portland April 18 to establish power rate sched ules for the project. The schedules, when approved, will be announced here through the commission. The advisory board consists of F. A. Banks of the reclamation service, H. E. Selby of tie farm section, Col. Thomas M. Robins, former division engineer in the northwest, and Roger n. Me Whorter, member of the fed eral power commission. - Nisqually Tugged Off Clatsop Spit - ASTORIA, April 14-fjJV-The tugs v Iroquois 'and Tyee today freed the barge Nilqually which went aground on Clatsop Spit nearly three weks ago. - The starboard bulwarks of the barge were damaged and the hull punctured. She will be towed to Portland for repairs. ' CAPITOL AWAITS STATUE OF PIONEER Scheduled for occupancy by July 1, Oregon's new capitol building stands completed as to its exterior ex cept for the placing of the huge bronze pioneer statue which will surmount the central tower. Sculp tors are at work on granite groans for the main entrance. Landscaping work will begin as soon as construction debris is removed Associated Press photo. Capitol Approach Change Gets Attention Drake Is Indicted On Larceny Count Clark Anderson Absolved in Companion Case on . Money Collection The Marion county grand Jury! Tnursaay aiternoen returned a true bill Indictment charging June Drake, Silverton photog rapher, with larceny of old pa per money valued at more than $35. Before being dismissed on call, the Jury also reported out a not true bill clearing Clark Ander son, of Silverton, of a charge of larceny of $1100 1 a dwelling. The two men had been charged in Justice court with larceny of articles from tha home of the late Frank Coffman in Silver ton and both were bound over to the grand Jury. The indictment against Drake listed 122 pieces of currency, largely of Confederate issue and ranging in face value from five cents to $1000 each. The col lection is stated by the indict ment to have been the property of Art Coffman and Elizabeth Hathaway, the latter the mother of Frank Coffman. Witnesses called In tho Drake Investigation included Maude Van Valkenberg, Ed Amo, B. G. Honeycut. Al DeRyke, Robert B McKee, Clayton Smith, Nate Kim sey, Ernest Eckman, Walter E. Parrlsh, G. D. Ah ander, Max Alford, Fred Loske and Blanche Ferguson. Good Friday Will Be Observed Here More Churches Announce Programs; Several to Offer Communion Good Friday services, addition al to those reported yesterday, scheduled for Salem churches to day include: Good Friday will be observed in the Jason Lee church. North Winter an Jefferson streets, to night at 7:30. The senior choir under the direction of Prof. Clark will sing "It Was for Me" by Frlsby-Stickles. Rev. Lynn A. Wood will preach a short sermon on "The Meaning (Turn to page 2, coL 3) ton ijets Woman Governor SPOKANE, Wash., April 14-(AV-Gov. Clarence D. Martin left here tonight enroute to Washing ton, D. C, where he said he would confer with federal officials about state business. ;? ;The governor's trip makes a woman governor pro tern of the state for ; the first time since it was formed. Lieut. Got. Victor A. Meyers, being reported in Califor nia, and Secretary of State Belle Reeves, being next in line of suc cession. rT".-. "r v ? -'. .: Reports circulated on the coast that Meyers s weald t return to Washington and call a special ses sion of the legislature to discuss relief as soon as the governor left were ."poohed by, Martin; who said he had his own "work to do and eant be worried about other tains. ' -.I' 1X7 1 vasningi of Tivo State Boards Dividing Summer Street With Sunken Garden to be Placed Between Driveways, Widening of Court Street Planned; Fight Made for Road Fund The proposal to alter Court develop a more attractive approach to the new capitol re ceived extensive consideration from the-: state highway com mission and the capitol reconstruction commission in a joint meeting in Salem Thursday. The cost of widening Summer street under the "plan which calls tor a sunken garden O - - between the two driveways was estimated at $24,000. This work would be done under the capitol commission's supervision while the widening of Court street, es timated at $15,000. would be di rected by the highway commis sion. It was indicated that if pre liminary details can be worked out, a call for bid may be adver tised June 2. Oregon's delegation in congress will be asked to fight any curtail ment of federal road funds, the highway commission decided at its separate meeting. R. II. Bal dock, state highway engineer, was authorized to send such a tele gram1 to Washington. Congress authorized an expen diture of approximately $200,- 000. 000 in road funds for the 1939 fiscal year, beginning July 1, but the house appropriations committee recently indicated that the amount would be reduced 50 per cent. The state a congressional dele- gation also will be asked to aid in obtaining an additional feder al appropriation of $100,000,000 in connection with the 1938 road construction program.' Baldock told members of the commission that Multnomah has received $1,000,000 in WPA funds for road construction and he feared the federal government might decide to construct high ways with relief labor instead of through federal aid system. "I don't think there is any (Turn to page 2, coL 2) Bonneville Dam Pool F alls a Test Made BONNEVILLE, April Water level fell in the Bonneville dam pool today as engineers test ed generating equipment. The river at Vancouver will be raised two feet by Saturday aS the pool is lowered from 8.7 to 52.5. Lint tied Rate Intrastate ' Authority to tile intrastate freight rate tariffs embodying in creases of from 5 to 10 per., cent, with certain restrictions, was granted in an order 'Issued Thursday by N. G. Wallace state v. 1 1 1 1 1 y commissioner. He ex plained that - the increases c per mitted.' conformed in a general way to those granted br the In terstate commerce commission re cently for interstate shipments. The carriers had petitioned for - an Increase of 15 per cent in intrastate freight rates but this, was refused. . r 1 The Oregon order restricts In creases on logs, posts; piling, bark, fuel and pulp wood, saw dust and hogged Mel to but five per cent an d the , increase on agricultural pulverized UTierock to the extent Of prohibiting in creases being-made in excess of IS -per cent on rates ..which were f and Summer streets so as to Hop Control Plan Drafted by Group Signing of Bill Allowing Marketing Agreement Is Heralded Here Associated Press dispatches yesterday that President Roose velt had signed the bill which will include hops among the commodi ties to which farm marketing a g r e ements apply, anticipated following earlier word that the two branches of congress . had passed the bill, brought final ju bilation to hop growers and deal ers who have been working many months to that end. Under the bill, hops will be in cluded as a marketing agreement perlod onl concession to the growers' original plans was made early this year following a conference of growers, dealers and brewifers in San Francisco. Passage of the act through con gress was watched closely by C. W. Paulus of Salem, who has just returned from Washington where he spent more than two months in the Interest of this movement which leaders feel will be the sal vation of the hop industry. PORTLAND, April 14--Hop Growers of Oregon, Washington and California, meeting here to day, discussed formation of an organization to direct the Market ing Control Act. C. W. Paulus, of Salem, and M. J. Newhpuse of Oakland, Cali..f who attended discussions of the act in Washington, D. C., said It would stabalize prices through limitation of tonnage. - A series of meetings will be (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Increase on Allowed effective prior to December 20. 1927. : , 1 The increases on wheat! mov ing from eastern Oregon produc tion points to Portland : range from one half to tne cent per 100 pounds or from thfe. to six mills . per bushel. - Wallace Said. The increase on logs ranges from 75 cents to $1.25 per ; car : or from 12 to 2 cents per -thousand feet board measurement. ' The Increase in rattle ranges from $3.75 to $6.25 per car or from IS to 30 cents per animal. c Under : the " Orsgon' order the carriers are permitted to publish and ,file. tariffs contain ir the new rates on. not lese than five days notice to ' the. public" and the .commissioner, ; ; - Hearing on the application for intrastate freight rate : increases -war held here two weeks ago. - Freight o ' Spending Plan Said Aimed to Avoid Dangers FDR Carries Appeal to Nation After Sending Congress Message Dicta torship Result of Weakness, Confusion He Says on Radio WASHINGTON, April 14-(flV President Roosevelt recommended his new anti-depression spending and lending program to the na tion tonight with a statement that government action had be come imperative, that "govern ment cannot afford to wait until it has lost the power to act." From unemployment, insecur ity, "government weakners" and "government confusion" grew the dictatorships of other lands, he said in a radio "fireside chat." The administration has waited for business itself to end the current recession, he asserted, and can wait no longer. His address followed the dis patch of a special message to congress proposing a "pump priming" program Involving a turnover of more than $ 6,5 00, 000.000, as follows: About $4,500,000,000 to be lent or spent for relief and pub lic works and to provide capital for business; and $2450,000,009 to be added to the lendable funds of the banks by cashing $1,400,- 000,000 of sterilized gold and . making a $750,090,000 reduction . in bank reserve requirements. Nation Can Afford To Buy Security Such a program will "cost something" he said, but "we are a rich nation and can afford to pay for security and prosperity without having to sacrifice our , liberties Into the bargain." He described - the government pro gram as a "trlggef to set off private activity," 3. -. - Calling again for enactment of legislation to 'place limits on wages and hours, he restated the objectives of the New Deal em ployment, security, reasonable profits and' safety for savings. To abandon this goal would be "to miss the tide and perhaps miss the port," he said, adding: "I propose to sail ahead." Both the message and the speech were moderately but em phatically worded. They display ed little evidence of any personal feeling over his recent reverses in congress, but Washington's sharp political ears were quick to note the manner in which Mr. Roosevelt turned the dictator ship argument recently aimed at him to his own account, "In recommending this proj. gram," he said, "I am thinking? not only of the immediate eco nomic needs of the people of the nation, but also of their perronal . liberties the most precious pos-v session of all Americans. I am thinking of our democracy and (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Lisle Foree Asks For Further Time DALLAS. Ore., April 14-ffl)-IJsle Foree, former president of the AFL teamsters local at Salem, indicted on a charge of arson la connection with a West Salem hot factory fire last October, asked additional time to enter A plea when he was arraigned In circuit court today. Foree is at liberty on f $.000 bond. . At Portland, sentencing of Wil liam O'Connell, former business agent of the local AFL garage union, was postponed until Tues day. ' 1 - . . . 7 O'Connell pleaded guilty yester day to one of seven indictments charging him with Spraying des tructive chemicals on automobiles. He . previously : pleaded Innocent to all counts. Cheap Power May Be Nullif ied,-Says PORTLAND, April 1 4 - W -John C. Fischer, chief counsel for the Bonneville dam administra tion, asserted in a radio address that possibility Qplow power rate from the project could be ' de stroyed by expensive distribution. He said some distribution methods, either private or public, accounted . for seven-eighths ' of nine-tenths the cost of electricity . He said improvements In city street righting systems would re ' duce automobile accidents. ' ; - . 7 Joe Nance Endorsed . , PORTLAND. April 14.HJV Multnomah eOunty , Young Demo- . crais, by, 21-24 vole, endorsed Joe Nance of Portland over Bofe . Cronln. of, Tillamook for the state , presidency. -. j