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Weather Fair today and Saturday, lowly rising temperature; max. temp. Thursday -GO, niin. 43, rlVer 4.5 feet, rain, .09 Inch, bouthwdit wind. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, May 6, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 34 CMMeg OP osrr Little Merchants ' Statesman carriers are toharged for all papers they deliver; i rompt payment to them helps them. La their modest "business! - -.: ' - POUNDno 1651 :r : ' ' . TED Hoover Offers 10-Point Plan I To Aid Nation I lanrprnii Knart Hem.o O D Traveled He Advises " Oklahoma , Group Political Relief Waste, Inflation, Attack on Business Deplored OKLAHOMA CITY. May B.-) Herbert Hoover, declaring the Roosevelt new deal Is heading the nation along "that dangerous road for democracy that led, to disaster In Europe," offered to night a program which he Bald "would at least be a start on a saner and more cheerful road." The fnrtnr nrcisfdent asserted "despite every alibi, this depres sion is the direct result of gov ernmental actions." To "change the national direc tion and get off this dangerous road," he called for 11 "practical steps." - ' These, steps Included an end to "spending, inflation and pump priming," tax revision, a one-third reduction In relief expenditures through decentralization of ad ministration,, a drive to balance the national budget, the same rights for employers and employe before the labor board, and a stop to "Indiscriminate defamations of business and the creation of class bate." Mr. Hoover spoke before ?grass roots" convention of Okla homa republicans. The address was broadcast nationally. Planned Economy" ' Kndi In Fascism 113VU30IU5 UIO WAAS. W Europe, he said "the torch of liberty has been dashed. out" by some sort of fascism "in 14 na- MkvA Kan fin AAA AAA iiuua . vri auva u .usu o-awwvwf-www people they all undertook .. new deals under some title, usually planned economy," - as panaceas to cure economic difficulties. m.A. a. 1 t a V a we nave Deen loiiowing mai dangerous road for democracy that led to disaster In Europe. But those countries were young In freedom and weak in their fidelities to liberty. They were economically lean from war. We are tough in our fidelities. We still have some economic fat on nr national bod v. We still have great powers of resistance.' We have great powers of , recovery right now. "And let me add that there should be improvement from this Immediate situation no matter what - the government does but It will; not' be real recovery with full orj permanent -employment If we continue down this dangerous road. And we are not going down that road without .more fighting free speech.- "In order that the government may give real proof that- It has abandoned this dangerous road to democracy," he continued, "we need to -get down out of cloudy objectives. We need to take some practical steps. This cannot be done by encouraging words, it -must be proved by faith. Faith that ours Is going to continue as a system of free men and private enterprise. "For a start we need to: - "First, reestablish- confidence that there will be no more attacks I (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) 0 d d it ice ... in the Neus t.vk'V, Mm. Mav 5. fV-Gul seppe Sculllo, 20-year-old news boy, had $100 saved up and decided- to bet it on the favorite horse In the feature race at tui lle bought a ticket, using the position number given on a cratch sheet Instead of the-of-licial program. He groaned when he found ne naa a ucsei on .anjr Boy. Instead of the favorite. War IdinlstreL i The ticket seller was. sorry but couldn't help him out. Friends felt badly for him but - they thought, little of Natty Boy's chances and refused to buy the $100 ticket for even $20. So Gui seppe held on.. You guessed It: Natty Boy won and paid $51.40 on a $2 ticket i or more than $2500 on Gulseppe's ', mistakenly, purchased ducat. I WICHITA, Kas., Slay 5V-;p)-George M. Hunt reported - to police today two men hemmed him in the revolving door of -a j bank, picked his pocket of S600. and escaped Into a throng of pedestrians. ' PEIPINO. May S.fVChlna's bargain basement In manpower Is the communist eighth army. Reports from Chinese commun 1st headquarters list this scale of wages: Ordinary soldier, 28 cents a month; lower officers, 50 cents a month: higher officers up to regi me n t a 1 commanders, $1.12 a month; comamnder-ln-chlef, who directs an estimated 300,000 men. $2.09 a month. Food and clothing are fur DAD'SF l,''l,t 'w 'f A s O k. & go ' J k X v t t - I V A . i? v ' f Cute infants, but they add considerably to Peter Romero's problem of balancing the budget. There, are eight older children -In the family and Richard, Ronald and Raymond, reading from the left, bring . the total to 11. Romero, resident of Oakley, Calif., will have to make his WPA check stretch a bit farther. UN photo. j Labor Refuses to Endorse R. Hewitt But Suggestion of Split . in Hess Support as Result Denied Refusal of the state federa tion of labor to endorse Roy R Hewitt of Salem for supreme court justice was viewed In some quarters Thursday as the possible starting point for a rift between the federation and the Common wealth Federation which are both supporting (Henry tHess of La Grande for the democratic nomi nation for governor, . but mem bers of the Commonwealth group which will hold Its convention here Saturday declared there was no prospect of a dispute of suffi cient gravity to Influence their agreement upon the governor ship election. The Salem Trades and .Labor council had asked the stf te fed eTStlon to support - Hewitt who is opposing Chief Justice Henry J. Bean. ; The federation replied that it would refuse to do so because Hewitt was sponsored by the Commonwealth Federation, and added that :t would endorse Justice Bean. j j The state labor federation has consistently refused to ally itself in any way with Commonwealth and has hitherto described it as the "back door to the CIO " Loans to Assist Rails Predicted WASHINGTON, May S.-(JP) Qulck senate passage of emer gency financial aid for the rail roads Is In nrosDect. Chairman Wagner (D-NY) of the senate banking committee said tonight. - He told retorters he anticipated no opposition to . legislation ap proved by i his committee today. That legislation would authorize the Reconstruction Finance cor no rat ion to 1. Make loans to the railroads for the purchase of equipment. such loans to be secured by tne eauinment ! Itself. - 2. Make loans to the carriers for maintenance, on condition that 75 ner cent of the amount advanced would be used to re employ maintenance workers laid off between last September 1 and May l tnis year. Wagner Act Repeal Favored By j C of C; WASHINGTON, May 5-JP)-Tbe chamber of commerce of the Unit ed States urged repeal of the Wagner labor relations act today and asked that "management and labor work together without re course to' the federal govern ment." j ' These resolutions were passed by the private organization of business men toward the close of an annual convention notable for speeches asserting a need for co operation between employer and employe. During the convenUon. delegates attention was attracted byan American Federation of La bor manifesto, couched in concil iatory terms, and calling for capital-labor teamwork. Whatever the effect of this pronouncement, the relaUona be tween tha CIO and many of the delegates to the chamber conven tion continued hostile. A speech by William Knudsen, president of General Motors, attacking the na WPA; ADD J, TOTAL IS 11 -jgwwrofW" evnu.-.hsat Man GiveiivClioice Would Retain Dog Rather Than Wife SALEM, Mass., May 5HP) Asked by his wife's counsel to -choose between her and his German shepherd dog, John F. Spencer, 63-year-old retired let- ; ter carrier, today chose the dog. : "The way things stand right now," Spencer : testified at a probate court hearing in which Mrs. Spencer sued for separate support, "111 choose the dog." "He's 'a good -animal and I like him, I like my wife, too. But In a different way." - , Mrs. Spencer, charging cruel ' and abusive treatment, pleaded i that she should not be forced to share her husband's affections with the 13-year-old animal. ; Mrs. Spencer,- 51, has been' married for three years to Spencer, who has owned the animal 13 years. Judge John V. Phelan re- served decision. Snake in Auto Is Cause for Haste SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 5.-iJP) When a snake reared Its head from nnder the dashboard of her car at a busy downtown corner today, Mrs. W. H. Perry took one look, let out a whoop of dismay and " stepped heavily on the throttle. I y She drove pell-mell down the street, one eye on the snake and one on traffic. The snake stared back unblinkingly. - She i finally parked and jumped out, scream ing. "' ' - . I.-' t ' Frank Cesaro, 24, ran out of the store and corraled the rep- rtile. It was a gopher snake, a four-footer, , i Woman Acquitted ; In Honor Slaying SEATTLE, May 5-UPV-Mrs Marlene Collier was acquitted by a superior court jury late today of a second degree murder charge in connection with the? "honor slaying" of Fred Anrooney, Ren- ton Junction tavern operator. Mrs. Collier had testified,; she slew Anrooney with a shotgun after he broke into her bedroom at the tavern last August 1. ; Martin Critical tional labor relations board and the CIO drew a reply today from Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), who accused the motor manufacturer of a "sudden ap parent love for craft unions" mo tivated by a knowledge of "the ef ficiency and effectiveness with which the industrial union oper ates." - The CIO goes In for industrial unions, taking In all workers in a plant or industry, while the AFL contains many ; unions organized along craft lines. . ' Before the chamber adjourned tonight It reejected George H. Da vis, Kansas City grain man, to be Us sresident. 1 Speeches accusing the labor board of partiality culminated in the passage of the resolution ad- vocsllng repeal of the Wagner Hbr. that failing, its amend -y ft to protect workers against tTurn to Page 13, Col. 1) Farmers Union to Operate Cannery Co-op Will Be Restricted to Members; Plans Are not Full Revealed The Farmers Union Packing company, - a cooperative agency restricted to m e m b e r a of the Farmers Educational and Co operative Union of America, has ben formed- here. - according to articles of association filed at the county clerk's office yester day. . . ' - The association's purposes ' In clude the promotion of unity and enterprise among growers in pro ducing, handling snd marketing fruits, vegetables and other land products and - the establishment of quality standards. The arti cles empower the association to engage in buying, selling, pack ing, processing, canning of prod uce and handling by-produrts of agriculture. The company has no capital stock. The membership fee la 12. Incorporators are Ralph R Dent. E. G. Clark. H. S. Keefer, (Turn to Page 13, Col. 1) Troller Wrecked By Storm, DePoe NEWPORT. Ore., May S-JF)-The- troller Pacific was wrecked today on the rocks of Depoe bay and the fishing tender Unga was disabled by a heavy off-shore storm. 4 i A coast guard power boat. which went to the aid of the wal lowing craft off Taquina bay. convoyed the Pacific to the point where it went on the rocks. The Unga, with gear damaged, was tied to a whistler buoy three miles off Taquina bay. : '. .No estimate of damage to the Pacific, which H. B. Cooper and his son were bringing here from Coos bay, was made. Observers said young Cooper was swept overboard when the boat struck the rocks, but managed to re gain the deck. Would Curb Guard Use, Labor Strife WASHINGTON, May 5 (JP) - Representative Coffee (D-Wash) introduced two bills today to pre vent what he called "the unwar ranted utility" of national guard organizations in labor disputes. : Under penalty of being depriv ed of federal aid for their nation al guard organizations, the gov ernors of the states would be pro hibited from sending troops to strike areas unless the local au thorities had requested such ac tion and public hearings had been held. Senator McNary (R-Ore) Intro duced a bill to change Daniel Road, N. ; W., here to "Oregon avenue." Former Governor ' Of Canada Called LONDON, May 6-(Thursday)-(JP) The duke of Devonshire, for mer . governor general or uanaaa. former secretary for the colonies, and former civil loard of the ad miralty, died at 6 a.m.. today. Nearly 70, he had been in 111 health for some time. Death oc curred at his Derbyshire home. Caths worth house in Baslow. II Duce Show German Rule His Sea Power Evident Comradeship of Dictators Impresses " Naples Observer No Coolness Manifest in Conversations; " 'Axis" Discussion Denied NAPLES; Maj . 5-(P)-Reichs- fuehrer Hitler and, Premier Mus sllni, standing on the bridge of an Italian battleship, exchanged flews today that may indicate the future course of their nazi-fascist partnership. They talked aboard the Conte dl Cavbur while Italy's massed naval power showed the fuehrer that Rome, whose ancient galley ships once made, ill others trem ble on the seas, again could bid for dominance on the Mediterran ean. -.'. Hitler, a good-weather, sailor himself, saw one of the greatest and most powerful fleets of fight ing ships ever assembled in Med iterranean waters in full action. Guns thundered; submarines rose and dived In the beautiful blue waters of Naples bay; war vessels of all sizes went through daring movements; torpedo boats darted in and out of smoke screen shrouds; a phantom, crewless ship, moved In the fleet guided by radio from another ves sel. ; Assurances Given, Is General Belief . But it was the display of inti mate comradeship ' between the, twodictators that impressed ob servers. " ' Belief spread that Hitler suc cessfully had repeated his assur ances that he would forego the Germen-spe .ing Italian Tyrol in h!'-relentless march, toward - In clusion of all Germans In a great er Germany.' ! It was believed also that the fuehrer spent some time explain ing in detail why he felt forced txurn to rage 13, uol ij George V Warned Kaiser; Revealed LONDON, May E(j!p-Publlca tion today of secret documents of the British foreign office dis closed that King George V warn ed Germany two years before the World war that Great Britain would aid France and Russia against attack. The manuscripts disclosed a letter the late King George wrote to Sir Edward Grey, then the British foreign secretary, in De cember, 1912. - Jt informed Sir Edward that the king had told Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the Ger man Kaiser, that "in ta.s event of Germany and Austria going to war wua nunia auu muvw Great B-r 1 1 a i n "undoubtedly would aid the attacked nations. This was among hundreds - of documents included in the tenth (Turn to Page t. Col. 1) - Normal Student Sees First City PORTLAND, May 5. (P) Wayne Jordan, 19, Oregon Nor mal school student, saw his first city today, but he knew what ll was all about. He arrived here with an applied psychology class from his school. "It was something like I ex pected,", he confided: "I have seen pictures of the big buildings, so knew what ,they were like, but the heavy traffic and crowds on the sidewalk certainly surprised me. a Jordan, born at Kalispel. Mont. has lived most of his life on an Oregon farm. And he'd rather- not lire in a city because of "too much noise. ; Late Sports SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 5 Pi Little , , Dominic Dallestandro's double, scoring Spencer Harris in the ninth, gave the San Diego Padres a 9 to $ victory over Oakland here tonight end em abled them to. sweep the three game series. ; The Padres moved into a third place tie with Sacramento and Los Angeles, one game out of first place. Oakland : . . .. ...8 San Dlceo . . . . . .... ,13 . Van Fleet, Kyle (6) Moore (6) Sheehan (7). ind Conroy: Salvo, Ward (7), Chaplin (7) .and Hogan, Detore. WESTERN IXTL .'LEAGUE Vancouver 5, Wenatcl ee 3. : Yakima fi, Taoma 7 (11 In njngs) i Spokane , BelUngham I. Steamer at Picketed to ! Tacoma Port's Reshipment There Prevented; Oner Vessel Arrives At Blocked Port While Officials Seek to rl End Deadlock, "Washington Conference - . SJSATji Lis, May 5. Af Pabo of the McCormick Steamship Co., iwas picketed late todayfand the Sailors Union of the Pacific took off -11 members of the deck crew to prevent moving of "hot cargo," Port CaptJ John C. Lass said The vessel had cargo aboard intended ior Tacoma. bince Willamette's May Festi Full Program to Be Held Todays Visitors From 1 Hish! Schools Here . ! , , . .kllr i i A full two-day program will usher in May weekend at Willam ette university today with several important : events calendared tor the May festivities. A large num ber 'of high school graduates from all over the! state will arrive on the campus late this afternoon to be entertained for fhe weekend by, university students. - Queen Irma I who Is Irma Oeh- ler in private life, and her prin cesses, Mary Jeannette Sargent and i Alice j Speck, will make their fjrstj appearance at the all school dance tonight at the armory with Maurie Binford's orchestra from the University of Oregon playing for the event. .. This afternoon the main event is the track meet at Oltnger field. Living organizations will enter tain their ; guests this afternoon and acquaint them with i the campus, j-j jl Arthur Gallon, who is manager of May weekend, and hts commit tees have -worked hard to make this May day celebration the big gest and best in several years. Queen Irmafl will be crowned .at elaborate I coronation ceremonies on the campus in front of Waller hall Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. jtilJ . I , Saturday morning at 10 o'clock formal dedication of the univer sity library will take place ; with Dr. Lawrence Zlllman the main speaker. In the evening the junior class play,;! VStage Door" will be given and Sunday night "St. Ge-1 celia Mass will be presented by the philharmonic choir at the First Methodist church. Wagoner Pledges Law Enforcement Settlement ef labor disputes lei fore instead of after ; strikes tajke place was; Advocated by Clarerce R. Wagoner, candidate for repub lican nomination for governor, in an address at the Labor last night.! ' Charging that "more political bunkum surrounds the labor Sit nation than any other issue," Wagoner declared the problem was simply one ; of Impartial law enforcement. If elected, he said, he would confer with employes and employers verging on strike troubles, demand that they "cotoe clean," tell their troubles and et him attempt to iron out the diffi culty. - - -' . .... , , Wagoner denounced the state : (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) I Loss of Citizenship by , : Foreign Vote Proposed WASHINGTON, May 5-jP)-The senate voted today to take away citizenship from Americans who vote in foreign elections or pleb iscites. The measure now goes to the house for action on senate amendments. . ; f. r - - i vitvUpemng I j j Four Slayings now Blamed Upon Mayer by His Mother SEATTLE, May 5-;P-After a SO 0-mile cross-state automobile ride from the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, Mrs. Mary Elea nor Smith arrived in rur'dy of authorities tonight to reenart the hammer slaying ten years ago of James : Eugene Bassett The 72-year-pld woman.; who was to have been released from the, prison next Monday,; was given a leave of absence to come here after she "purged her soul" by confessing to-a state patrol man posing as a clergyman that she .also helped dispose of the bodies of two other men and a woman. The slayer In each ease, she confessed, was ler - :3-yar-old gimlet-eyed son. Decasto Earl Mayer who told her she "must be crazy" todays when he con fronted her in person for t the first time In nearly two years. While Prosecntor B." Gray War. ner conferred with his aids over SefattlerJs Reinforce are i rne steamer romt san tonight. " ocloslng of the Tacoma port, the AFL-af filiated Internat ion a I Longshoremen's association and several maritime unions have branded alj, 1 cargo intended for reshipment to Tacoma as- "hot." TACOMA, May B.-(p)-Silence of the port of-Tacoma was broken today by the arrival of a single ship the ore-carrier -Silverwave while Washington, D. C; con ferences attempted to break the deadlock of water commerce here. The Silverwave . required ho longshoremen to unload and : therefore lnimedlately began dis charging cargo. The pnly'ibther ship in the har bor was the Shepard . freighter Timber Rush, -picketed still by the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. Longshoremen's refusal to pass the pickets caused closing of the port by waterfront employers last Saturday. . .' ; -Jin Washington, T. A. Steven son, manager of the chamber of , (Turn to Page 13, Col. 2) Ohio Farmer Says Trio HILLSBORO, O., May 5-()-Harley Spruance, wealthy 65-year-old farmer, reported to Sheriff Howard Dunseltb today that a-man and two women had kidnaped1 him and made him pay 13.000. i Spruance filed charge of kid naping and extortion . . against Dorothy Hllderbrand, .17, his housekeeper for the pat two years; her sister. Mrs. Edna Merritt, 22,v his former house keeper; and Mrs. Merrltt's hus band, James, 25. They were sought tonight in Cincinnati. - Spruance, a widower, told the sheriff the three came - to his farm home Tuesday night and de manded the money. He said; Mer ritt covered . him with a gun while the two women tied him to a chair and Merritt hit him on the head with the gun He remained adamant, he de clared,, and they put bim into his own automobile and drove In to western Indiana, telll tg him they planned to take him to Wyoming and torture him until he gave them $3,000. ! He 'said he finally agreed to pay and they returned here Wed nesday and made out a note for I3.0JD0. He, then wrote a check for- the amount, ae said., and ac companied them to thi- bank to cash it. French Freighter Damaged by Bomb j VALENCIA, Spain, May 5.-P) 4-The French freighter DJem was hit today during a raid by insur gent bombers flying so high they were almost Invisible. Fire broke out on the ship hut port firemen quickly, brought it under control. The Djem's crew led to the safety of a reinforced concrete refuge on the dock. ) The planes completed their systematic bombardment of the f arbor and flew on to raid the u bur ban towns of Cajaroja and Silla, on the main road to All- ante.- . - Casualties apparently were few -whether to prefer charges based on hei confessions, Mrs. Smith arrived in custoday " of Deputy Prosecutor John M. Schermer and Detective Chief-Ernest loris. and was lodged in the city Jail for" the night, Schermer and ?oris said they probably would take her tomor row to the wooded .area between Cathcart and Bo. hell, about 12 miles north of here,-wehre, she confessed she and her son hid portions of JBassett's body and threw his teeth oat of Basrett's own car at intervals along tha road in September of 192S. William Cole, chief of the state patrol, at Olympla, reye:l-d ex cerpts from the confessional let ters - given - Patrol Sei geant Joe McCauley and intercepted letters she sent her son, listing the other victims as; Ole Larsen of Larson, Anacon da, Mont., one of Mayer's several (Turn to Page 13, Col. 3) Kidnaped by Second Major Victory Looms At Szechuclien Flying Column Cuts off Tancheng; Capture of - Trucks is Claimed Deadlock Soon Forecast While Japanese Deny Any Ground Lost , SHANGHAI, May 6-(Friday)-(ZP)-Chinese, jubilant in hopes of a second major, victory on the Shantung front, reported their le gions today were continuing to sweepback Japan's front lines. Thrusting through the center, the Chinese said they, were ap proaching Szechuchen, 18 mils north of Pihsien, in southern Shantung prbvince. Only a week ago Japanese were threatening Pihsien. On the right Jwing, Chinese said a flying column had skirted Tan cheng and -had established Itself north of the city, cutting Japan ese communications.. Tanchehg had marked the southernmost advance of the Jap anese toward the Lunghal rail way, 15 miles away. Now, Chi- nese said it is surrounded and a Chinese army has recaptured Ma towchen, a . walled town four miles to the northwest- -Capture of Food Trucks la Claimed On the Lini-Tancheng highway, along which the Japanese offen sive thundered southward two weeks! ago, Chinese asserted they had captured 100 Japanese trucks carrying food and ajnmunition and had destroyed 20. Chinese reported more than 2, 000 Japanese had been killed within the past two days. Their own losses, however, were believ ed 'to 'be much higher since they were charging against superior artillery. - Neutral observers expressed the Tlew that the situation again was becoming deadlocked. Japanese, breaking a silence of several days, denied the Chinese had taken the offensive. They acknowledged, however, they had no actual accounts-of recent Shantung fight ing. , Order Vacated in Ford Labor Case COVINGTON, Ky May a-CGV The National Labor Relations Board won the right today to va cate its order against , the Ford Motor Co. and thus regain Juris diction of the case for elimina tion of issues as to validity of its procedure.. By unanimous decision, the sixth U. S. circuit court of ap peals granted the. board's re quest. , Philip" G. Phillips, ninth re gional NLRB director, termed the action a ."complete -victory," but added "the battle is Just begin, nlng. We certainly don't expect the - Ford counsel to tare this lying down.', Almost Immediately, Frederick H. Wood, chief Ford counsel, tele phoned the court from New York and in a dictated statement urged that it "weigh carefully portions of a previous Ford petition seek ing to prevent withdrawal of the record. Church College Is Declared Bulwark PORTLAND, Ore., May 5-(P) Dean Frederick E." Bolton of the University of Washington told the Association of Independent Col leges of. Oregon today that "the church college has been pivotal in the upbuilding of democracy and was -never so much needed as to day in the preservation of that democracy." -V"" World problems demanding im mediate solution are social and moral and do not depend alone upon technical skill,' the educator said. . He suggested government con tributions1 help support private colleges as a solution to ever crowded conditions. in state schools. Dr. John F. Dobbs, president of Pacific university. Forest Grove, was named president of the asso ciation; Dr. Bruce Baxter, Wil lamette university president, be came vice-president, and J. Ken neth Riley, Lin field college, secretary-treasurer. RuLinoff in Hospital ' BATTLE CREEK, Mich., May 5-(A3)Davld Rubinoff, the violin ist, entered Battle Creek sani tarium today for treatment Dr. Walter Martin sald Rubinoff is suffering from appendicitis but that he believed an operation would not be necessary. j'