ie Cjft iE&fif ifr Mil in 1 - j "r r I .:: . pounddd, 1651 " " ' Election Friday Mr. Voter, don't forget to st joar ballot at Friday's lection. And remember to have a i Statesman on your doorstep Saturday morning with full election reports. The Weather Fair today and . V'e dnes day, moderate temporal ure; max. temp. Monday CO, mln. 40, -river 3.1 fret, northwest wind, partly cloudy. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, May 17, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 43 lame TED T1 Board : MiMg 1. 1 ii i i 1 Wew Deal Civil W ar Still Mages Here -Imni Wt, I SITDOWN PESTS RELIEF SHORTAGE NmTI;AI1 Governor Hits i at Ickes ? On Dam Issue Cabinet Member Is Sore Because Martin Won Bonneville, Says . Hess Blasts at Foe and Quotes Support Given From Washington PORTLAND, Ore, May 16-0)-Xewly endorsed by -leading new "dealers, Henry Hess, opponent of Governor Charles I. Martin for the democratic; gubernatorial nomination, assailed the governor In a campaign speech tonight as a "reactionary" and champion of big business. j ' t Hess; quoted a jelegram from Korris,who he" described as lead er of the president' deai Hb eral bloc in congress, and a let ter from Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes and declared that "the national administration is with me in this campaign.:" Norris was quoted: 'I am fol lowing your campaign for gover nor with personal! interest. In the great struggle now going on between the progressives and re actionaries across Imaginary par ity lines the i2?-ets of all com mon people are the) same. When Governor Mi; tin was elected I be Leved as did my friends that he would be a true liberal. He has disappointed all those hopes. I T.-.ish you luck and I hope that the farmers of Oregon in particu lar will see clearly how their in terests He with yor success." Ickes was quoted! by Hess: 'V. the real test of prbsressivism to day Is the degree tb which a can didate believes th4t the people should themselves be. permitted to determine whetiher they shall Jiave and how they' shall use pub lic power. And Governor Martin's real stand on this Issue, as I have seen It working out in practical application rather than in lip service on a ticklish political is sue, convinces me that he is at Leart no new dealer." Covernor Charles H. Martin re--:$ asserted his loyalty to President f Roosevelt Monday as new deal leaders at wasnmgton airectea frosty comment on, his candidacy ; for renomlnation at Friday's pri mary election. Interior -Secy. Harold Ickes, Ten. George W. Norris (Ind., Neb.) and Stephen Early, the president's secretary, released .statements indicative the former congressman and retired major ireneral need not look, to the "White House for a helping hand in the closing days of his cam paign against Henry Hess, former state senator from La Grande, r The governor said: ' " "I -look upon"' President Roose velt as my commander-In-cblefT . . . Being one of his earliest champions in congress I have con tinued to gjve him loyal support as governoF'of Oregon. I have sup ported him because I have firm ly believed that he was, and now is, making an honest and earnest endeavor to better the condition of the common man." . "I have had occasion to criti cize the acts of certain incompe tent federal officials," the gover nor said In a press statement. "I Hand back of such criticisms for they were just." ' Hays Republican Beeks Vengeance The governor charged that "this republican cabinet member" Ickes) was "sticking his fin gers into a democratic state pri mary to wreak his vengeance on me." Martin asserted Iekes "fought bitterly and openly" to prevent construction of Bonneville dam and became angry when Martin, then a congressman, and Senator McNary (R, Ore.) when to Presl (Turn. to page 2, col. 1) Woman Is Legion Past Commander A woman was honored along with 11 men at the annual past commanders' meeting of Capital Post No. 9,, American Legion, here last night. She is Jessie Rodman, member of the Salem post, who at one time served as command er of a Legion post in Indianapo- . lis. Ind. She is eligible for Le gion membership by having been Other past commanders present Included Senator Douglas McKay, who presided; O. E. "Mose" Pal- xnateer, present department com mander; Carl "Gabrielson, Robin Day, Dr. B. T. Pound, Irl S. Mc- Sherry, ; Allan O. Carson, Claude McKenney, Dr. V. e. Hockett, King Bartlett and George Aver ett. '- ..v- ,v:" ! "-':T; k f " : v ,r ' ' , .a -N.-.tJ.,.M-. jflfc...v...y -v.-A.-.J..-..AMMtA f r. .-1....-..f ,r1 ..rfffl.-r-..- f .r-.. .1T. fttfl1(f ,hl-)jrt)(,--i-,-.i.-,-lMyi Yifi;--tyf Lineup of hungry citizens at Cleveland emergency relief depot receiving provided by the ederal burplus Commodities a gency, only supplies available because, or a defic iency in relief funds. Last niglit spokesmen for the people on relief organized a sirdown demonstra tion in the city council chambers'. IIS photo. .. ; I. Blind Girl Takes Charge o Stand Vending Station in Local Postof fice Is Part of Statewide 3Iove Salem's first vending station for the blind created under the provisions of the Randolph Shep herd act was officially cpened at S o'clock yesterday afternoon when Secretary of State Earl Snell made the first purchase- a pack age of "Lifesavers." Miss Maxine Sauter Is in charge of the stand. The Salem stand was made pos sible through the financial assist ance of the Salem Lions club, with Barkley A. Newman, chairman of the ' Lions blind committee, in charge of arrangements.; Assisting also has been! the rehabilitation department of the state vocational education department. O. I. Paul son Is in f barge of the rehabilita tion department, which Is cooper ating with the Oregon blind com mission "in training blind persons in the conduct of the stands. Present also yesterday at the official opening were' Mr. Paul son, Mr. Newman, Linden McCul lough. superintendent of the Ore gon blind commission; Walter Dry, superintendent of the -state blind school and a member of the Lions club; and four members of the Lions auxiliary I-committee which is assisting in the training of Miss Sauter. for catering to the public; Mrs. ll J. Stewart, auxil iary president, Mrs. Jacob Fuhrer, Mrs. Harry Scott and Mrs. Ralph Kletzing. Dr. Carl "Emmons has served with Newman, Dry and (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Student Clash in Mexico Kills One MEXICO CITY, May Slx persons were wounded seri ously today In clashes at the Uni versity of Mexico, where rightist and leftist groups battled with pistols and knives for possession of four buildings. Horaero Gonzales, the student most seriously Injured in the ri oting, died of his injuries tonight. The outbreak was the most re cent development in growing ten tion between f representatives of the country's two extremes of po litical thought. . Several hundred armed mem bers of "socialist youth" groups before dawn seized possession, of (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Labor Here Draws up Slate, ! Denies Partisanship Charge The Salem ' Trades and Labor council's primary etecUon legis lative committee took issue last night with published inferences that it was engaging in partisan politics. . ' "While the council's charter and that of many of the locals says nothing about politics, this question does not enter into a dis cussion of our recommendations," declared Charles W. Crary, labor council president, in a statement he said the legislative committee authorized him to make. "We hare Included candidates -from both major parties," he explained. "Our list of candidates was printed in the Union Labor Bul letin, published by the Union La bel League, for distribution Wed nesday, and whoever obtained a Jit ? If - i n Body of Ketteler Found in Danube; Nazi IreV Victim 1 : : i." VIENNA, May 16-(p)-Police tonight announced recovery from the Danube of the body of Baron Wilhelm von Ketteler, assistant to Pranz von Papen when he was Germany's ambassador to Aus tria before the two nations were merged. ; (: ... .r w ; : The body was taken from "the river near Heinburg, 20 miles south of Vienna, and later iden tified as that, of the Baron who was said to have incurred the dis pleasure of high nazi quarters. Von Ketteler mysteriously dis appeared March 11, the day Ger man troops marched Into Austria. His car was found deserted 1 be fore the German legation the next day. Open Postbffice For West Salem Opening of the West Salem ac commodation branch of the Salem postoffice, scheduled for yester day, was delayed until this morn ing due to failure of all supplies to arrive, Postmaster H. R. Craw ford eaid yesterday. ; L .The West Salem office will be located in the Snapp drugstore opposite the city hall there, and will be in charge of Jer sie W. Snapp, clerk. : f The mail deliveries in West Salem will continue to be handled direct from the Salem office as in the past, the branch oft'ee be ing Installed as an accommoda tion to residents there and to handle stamps, money or dels and other postal business as well as to receive parcels, letters and other mail. , Sliding Scale Is Opposed by Union EUGENE, May 16-;P)-The ex ecutive committee of the AFL Oregon - Washington council of lumber and sawmill workers, meeting here Sunday expressed opposition to the sliding scale wage policy in the. Willamette valley area. Members asserted that employ ers reduced wage scales when business decreased but only par tlally restored the cuts when or ders improved. copy in advance did so without our authority," Crary continued. "The labor council Itself has no official publication." Crary- objected to "Intimations that this slate was drawn up by a minority group" because, he faid, the committee responsible for it consists of the chairman of each of the 36 union locals to gether with the five members of the standing legislative commit tee. All legislative candidates, said Crary, were sent letters to determine their stands on labor matters and "the meetings of the committee were open to all can didates wishing to appear before It'.' . ; . The Label league's paper, Crary pointed out, did not dlrcpt (Turn to page 2. coL 2)-L, i M 1.-5 i i V - rations of potatoes and cabbage Striker Has NLRB Protection, Ruling Supreme Court Holds He Is Still an Employe; TVA Review Near , WASHINGTON, May The supreme court decided by a 7 to 0 vote today that a workman who goes on strike Is still an employe of his company within the meaning of the labor rela. tlons act and therefore is entitled to the protection of that act. In so ruling, the court upheld an order of the national labor board instructing the Mackay Ra dio & Telegraph company to rein state in its San Francisco office five strikers who, the board said, had not been taken back because they had been active in. a labor union. : Justice Cardozo and Reed did not participate in the case. ' The supreme court also agreed today to review litigation chal lenging constitutionality of the Tennessee valley authority's pow er activities. Eighteen private utilities joined In the appeal after a three-judge federal court In eastern Tennes see ruled that they had "no im munity from lawful competition i (Turn to page 2, col. 3) . Gillespie Counsel Asks for Hearing i HILLSBORO. May 16 - (JP) -Counsel for Ray Gillespie, who was absent from circuit court Sat urday when he was sentenced to three months In the county jail on an assault and battery charge, asked that a hearing be granted before Gillespie's bail of J 2 50 be declared forfeited. Edward Greeley and Wallace Webster, accused with Gillespie, were sentenced to four and three months respectively. i Gillespie, former president of the Seaside local of the sawmill and timber workers, union, was paroled from a three-year prison sentence which followed a plea of guilty to participation in a fatal labor day riot at Seaside in 1935. Last week he asked that the plea be changed to innocent. His par ole was revoked following his sentence here. May Use Lines of Electric Railway " To Deliver Power PORTLANP, May Charles E. : Carey, principal con struction engineer of the Bonne ville dam project, said today that engineers were considering feasi bility of purchasing or leasing transmission lines of the Oregon Electric railway through the Will amette valley from Portland to Eugene to hasten delivery of power. - Carey said nse "of the power lines might save months In bring ing power, to Willamette valley cities and rural districts. He de clared Eugene was delaying con struction of a steam plant to see if Bonneville power could be pur chased more cheaply and sooner. Carey, said the surrey was re quested by , Administrator J. D. Ross, with a -view to quickly pro viding power for- Clackamas, Marion, Polk, Linn and Lans counties. New Bids Upon City Electric Plant Ordered Power Company to Make Better Offer, Stated by one Alderman Additional Benefits Are Argued by Read Urging Action by Council Despite the plea of H." B. Read, owner and operator -of radio sta tion KSLM, that -the city council last night take a vote on his pro posals for the rental or purchase of the city's hydro-electric plant before considering further bids from the Portland General Elec tric company or other bidders,, the city governing body decided to ask for new bids on, the plant, . The council's utilities1 commit tee recommended that procedure, with Chairman L, F. LeGarie stat ing the committee felt it would be the fair way of handling, the situation, inasmuch as "the city had at one time accepted the PGE's bid only to renege on it when Read made the city a much better proposal after the original bids had been opened and made public. Alderman LeGarie said that he was in receipt of a new bid from PGE, that was even more, favor able to the city than was Read's, but that the power company had decided to withhold presentation of it to the council, upon the util ities committee's recommenda tion. Immediate Vote I Asked by Read "" . - "I ask you gentlemen to take a vote on my proposition before considering any other bids," said Read, "because I have something to offer, other than the cash set tlement, that the Portland Gener (Turn to page 2, col. 4) . Republican Meet Set for Spokane PORTLAND, Ore., May 16-() David W; Eccles, chairman of district No; 7, republican program committee, said today a meeting to select a -new chairman would be held at Spokane Saturday. The district is comprised of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon tana and Alaska. . Lowell C. Paget, Portlapd, who represented Eccles at a Chicago national meeting, si'ad one of the principal problems to be discussed would be "the gathering of opin ions of the rank and file republi can voters in this district on basic matters, such as- decentralization of government, free enterprise and governmental relationships be tween labor, business and the farmer." . r Eccles said last week he would resign because of the pressure of personal business. 1 Dugger Convicted Of Assault Count PORTLAND. Ore., May 16-) A' circuit court Jury ' convicted Cecil Dugger, former union team ster, on two counts of assault and battery today. ' - Dugger, arrested In a drive against alleged labor, terrorists, was charged with assaulting two employes of a local automobile company. j He wfll appear before Judge Jacob Kanzler for sentence Wed nesday. HILLSBORO, Orel, May 16-OP) -Selection of a jury for the trial of Jack Esta brook, former busi ness agent of the warehousemen's division of the AFL Teamsters' union at Portland, was completed this afternoon, i n ; - Esta brook was charged with malicious destruction of property in connection with bombing of a grocery store at Rockton in May, 1935. i ' J f ' -. Two Rescued as Speedboat Upsets GRANTS PASS. MT lHPh Ray McQully, auto 'camp owner, and his daughter, Eleanor, were rescued by unidentified fishermen after being swept down 'the Rogue river for half a mile while clinging to their overturned speed boat Sunday. The craft ran, aground on a rock after being swept over the wreck of an old dam Farley Action Draws Fire in vania Both Sides .Resentful of Compromise Proposal by-Party Leader Battle to Culminate in Primary Today; GOP Chief Sarcastic v PHILADELPHIA. May -The democratic party's high com mand stepped into Pennsylvania's new deal factional war today in an election-eve move for harmony. From both sides came reports decrying "interference" in the state fight, f National Chairman . James A. Farley, fearful", that wounds of the slashing campaign would hurt the party's chances in tlie Novem ber general election, proposed a fusion slate of one major candi date from each of the . opposing factions. One upshot was new emphasis cast upon the role of Labor Leader John L. Lewis, whose political power receives a test in tomor row's primary balloting. Farley made his plea in a state ment from New York. The "only solution," he said, is to nominate ClO-backed Thom as Kennedy for governor and Gov. George H. Earle for senator. They head , opposing slates. The battle for party supremacy in the state, Farley added, "imperils the suc cess of the democratic party in the November election." Would Sacrifice One on Each Side , Farley's proposal. In effect, was to sacrifice Philadelphia's Mayor S. Davis Wilson, running for the (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Relief Situation Serious. 2 Cities Cleveland Clients Stage Sitdown; all Cash Aid Ended in Chicago ( CLEVELAND, May le--A iltdow n demonstration which leaders said would continue until "drastic action is taken by the state legislature in the Cleveland relief situation" was organized in city council chambers tonight, r More than 1,000 relief clients and members of other groups at tended a council session at which a fetop-gap appropriation of $80,- 000 was passed for relief financ ing, but the sitdown demonstra tion which followed the meeting did not include the entire crowd. Leaders organized the crowd into committee to supply food and other necessities, and said about 150 sit downers would re main in the hall and be relieved later by a similar number. CHICAGO, May 1 6-(;p)-Some 91,000 persons, cut off the relief check list when funds approached exhaustion, looked forward re luctantly todight to a diet of beans, flee, potatoes and flour. "I can do. nothing 'more. stated Leo M. Lyons, executive secretary of the Illinois emerg (Turn to paga 2, col. 3) Fire West of Hillsboro Believed Under Control HILLSBORO, May 16.-()-A fire , which endangered several cabins, several hundred cords of wood and considerable fallen tim ber in the Mountaindale Logging company holdings 13 miles west of here was believed well under control today. It was the season's first forest fire In this vicinity. Only a few acres were burned. Hotel In fer no Toll of 27, ATLANTA, May l.-(P-A pre dawn fire that turned the 30-year-old Terminal hotel into a flaming horror in 10 minutes killed 27 persons and left a score more missing or injured today. Engineers estimated It might be two days before the wreckage was cleared and the full toll de termined. The hotel register - was lost. - The blaxe broke out in the base ment of the five-story brick and frame building about a. m., when most - of its guests . wer asleep. Flames and smoke .shot skyward and in a moment every floor was ablaze. Home to many railroad men, the SI and up a day hotel was situated opposite the terminal station on Spring street, in down town Atlanta. Several were killed in leaping from the flaming building. The fire choked off fire escapes rennsvl Feared Grashed in Canyon Upon First From Fi I rip Being Flown From Plant to St. Paul; two Officials of Airline : and Other Employes on Trip Area East of Burbank Designated-as Possible Tragedy Scene Forest Employes Report LOS ANGELES, May 16. (AP) The sheriffs office here reported tonight a new 10-passenger plane, being flown from the factory here to St.. Paul, Minn., with! nine persons aboard, was missing between here and Las Vegas, Nev. The sheriff's report said the plane left Union air ter minal at Burbank at 1:40 p. m. (PST) and failed to report into Las Vegas, its first scheduled stop. It said the plane was to be placed in the service of Northwest Airlines. The Lockheed Aircraft .company, manufacturers of the plane, said the following were aboard : . j Fred Whittemore, vice-president of Northwest Airlines. Henry Salsbury, Northwest Airlines official, his wife -Cnr w children.! Milk Control Act Upheld, Lewelling Local Pooling Order Also Approved in Case of Savage and Fox Constitutionality of the Oregon milk control act and of a Salem market pooling order issued by the board created under the act were sustained by Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling 'hera-yesterday in an opinion on the suit of W. E. Savage and Bruce Fox against Governor Martin and this board. Attorney for the plaintiffs said the case would be appealed. Major constitutional questions Involved we're, decided earlier by the same court in the action, of the milk board against L. R. Oldenburg, Judge Lewelling's opinion held. Because the market for milk, a basic Commodity, was in a demoralized condition, .the legislature was within its police power In enacting the milk bill and making the amendments adopted in 1935,. the opinion ds clded. ' .. The , order attacked in the suit was one bringing grade . A producer-distributors in the Saleia milk shed into the pool already applying to grade B milk. The court declared -that the plaintiffs should not come complaining of payments they were required to make into the pool while they Lor at least producers In general were benefitting from the act and the pooling order. . "The court believes it Is com : (Turn to page 2, col. 2)' Two Boys Drown In Sawmill Pond DETROIT, M ay 16-Tiagedy struck this community Sunday afternoon when Allen an J Ed win, 9 and 12 year old sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wing were drowned in the Mitchell mi'J pond while fishing. Allen fell Into the pon and Edwin, though unable to wim, jumped in after him and s third brother, Lloyd, Jr., went home for their father. The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m.-and the bodies were not recovered until 4 p.m. The bpys are nrvlved by the parents, two sisters a id one brother. Funeral arrangements have not been completed as yet. Takes Known Others Missing and stairs a few seconds after it caught. , ' . William Oscar Webster, a Co lumbus, Ga railroad engineer, jumped from a fourth-floor win dow. His body tumbled across the street. He was dead, when res cuers reached hjm. One victim was found dead on a second floor ledge .of the hotel court, where he had struck in a leap for safety. Some were burned to death and others suffocated. Many of the bodies were horribly mangled In the collapse of floors and steM work, v ; Firemen told of . finding . one group, apparently a family. A woman was dead in a rocking chair, a little girl knelt by the bed and a man and a little boy lay stretched across it.' Firemen said they were Investi gating a theory a heating system boiler . ex p 1 o s 1 o n might have caused the fire. ictory After Mrs. Carl Squler, wife of a Lockheed official..' Wid .Wllley. Lockheed test pilot. In charge of the plane. "A Miss Dingle, Northwest Air lines employe. -Miss Lola Tottey. i Lockheed , officials expressed a bene I tne piane possioiy was down In the rugged Mint canyon area to the east of Burbank. They said forest service employes on Mount Gleason, some' 15 miles from the airport, reported they heard a plane at 2 p. m., frying above the clouds at an estimated altitude of 9,000 feet. . That would place the plane on Its course and at the usual flying aiuiuae. ai mat ume ibb weamer a . a. M.m a il a a . - In the Mint canyon area was foggy, wih broken clouds from 2,000 feet to six: or eight thou sand feet. At the same time the weather on the desert to the east ward on the course to Las Vegas was clear. ' Lockheed officials theorized that the pilet migjht have descend ed through thejjclouds to check his course by familiar landmarks, and' crashed against a mountain peak. .. ! Although the plane was equip ped with a twp-way radio the pilot had not "planned ' to report his progress at regular Intervals, but had Intended to keep in visual contact with the earth until be reached Daggett, Calif. At that point he planned to follow the radio beam at an altitude of 9,000 feet. Pilot L. D. Carlson of Western Air Express, who took oYf " on a regularly scheduled flight from Union air terminal shortly before the missing plane departed, said he kept In radio contact with Pilot Willey and last heard from him when Wllley was in the viclnlty-of the north end of Mint canyon. A searching party. Including nearly two dozen airplanes of the sheriff's aero squadron and avail able, airline ships, prepared to leave, at down to search for the missing plane. " Permission Voted "Fnr Strut's TTcr The city council last night ten dered W. L. Ilaln revokable per mission to utilize - the western 49 feet of Water street to con struct the building authorized by his recent lease of the city prop erty on the river bank adjacent to Water street. There, being a 66-foot jog 1a Water street at the point In ques tion, when Haln began plans for the construction of the building that is called for in the term of his' lease with the city, he found there was not room on the city's property without utilization of a part of the street right-of-way. As it was the opinion of the committee, and city attorney that the street would not be openel for a great many years. If ever, and. that the building could be mAv.d a , , I rv A 11.1m granted-permission to start con struction at once. Written remonstrances were presented to the council last night from the local WCTU and Wom en's Home- Missionary society, voicing disapproval of a currently rumored plan of the council to license a" hotel that was to be used ar a. place of prostitution. Police Committee Chairman Ross Coal man 'Informed the council that (Turn to-page 2, col. 4) "Vote" Legion Urges Capitol " post No." 9, American Legion, last night officially urged all citizens to vote at I nday's elections. In a resolution to that effect, the legionnaires d dared it each citizen's duty to cast his ballot.