The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, May 17, 1938, Page 1, Image 1

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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ?
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Body of Ketteler
Found in Danube;
Nazi IreV Victim
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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.