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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1938)
1 'rO v"V ii . nir Yr.c The WeatTier Fair today, increasing ' rloudiness Friday, lnoder ate tempcrtn re, mu. temp. Wednettday 60 mJa. 86, river 3.2 feet, south wind, partly cloudy. , Election Returns The Statesman - will have full election returns Friday night as rapidly as the votes are- counted. Watch for fur : ther announcement. POUNDDD 1651 Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, May 19, 1938 Price 3e; Newsstands Se No. 45 alls Before Mo aiDainiese V J A. jump 'VOW UJ Onus - Harboring of Karpis Leads To 7 Arrests Ex - Policie Officials of Hot Springs Among Persons Indicted Gangster's Wife Held at Los Angeles by Agents of FBI LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 18 ;P) Seven persons, three ot them former officials of tLe.. Hot Springy Ark., police department were indicted by a federal grand jury here today on charges of harboring Alvin Karpis. former public enemy No. 1. . Six of them, Including a wom an, were arrested secretly at Hot Springs shortly after luldrighi by FBI agents. The seventh, Connie Morris, 22, described as Karpii gangster, vas arrested FBI agents here announced later the arrest in Los Angeles rtt Uh f.rarA nnlilstpin. f.A tn bo Karpis' wife, on a charged harboring Karpis r.t Hot Sr rings In 1935 and 1936. Was About to Sail for Honolulu ti who answered the arrest, said she was taken Into eu3tody as she prepared to sail for Honolulu, She left Hot Springs, wheie she Mrs. Goldstein, a 32-year-old blonde, was Indicted as "Jewll Laverne Grayson, alias Grace Goldstein, alias Mrs. Ed Parker, alias Mrs. Helen Wood." U. S. DIst. Atty. Fred Isgrig said the six - taken Into custody at Hot Springs were Herbert Herbert '"Dutch" a.kers. former Hot Springs chief of detectives Joseph Wakelin, former Hot Springs police chief:" Cecil Brock, .fnrmpr lint(nant of detectives in charge of the division of Identifi cation at not springs; jonn sto ver, manager of the Hot Springs -municipal airport: Morris Loftls, caretaker for a boat landing near lint Snrln?5 and Mrs. Al C. Dver. owner of the boat landing. Akers also was charged with harboring Thomas Nathan Nor ris, member of the Alfred "Son- Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. Officers Held Involved While on. Dnty - Inspector E. J. Connelley of the FBI, in a formal report to Isgrig, said Akers, Wakelin and Brock were charged with having harbored Karpis while they were on active duty with the Hot Springs police department, from June, 1935, to May, 1936. Akers and Wakelin resigned from the department last year because of ill health. Brock was dismissed by Mayor Leo P. Mc- T .a n ti If n - f n JttmiBrT 1857' Karpis now is serving a life sentence at Alcatraz for the kid naping of William A. Hamm, jr., wealthy St. Paul, Minn., brewer. Norris Is serving sentences total ing 337 years In the Texas ttate penitentiary for murder and armed robbery. Connelley said Akers admitted harboring Norris and other mem bers of the Lamb gang from March 15, 1937, to August 15, 1937. . a - ' . Relief to Utilize Resort for Cases The Marlon county relief com mittee has arranged for the utili zation of all or part of the 22 rooms In the Hubbard mineral springs resort for relief cases, Chairman. E. L. Wieder- an nounced yesterday. A former Sa lem man is operating the place Wieder said the committee was highly pleased at being able to Secure use oi iub resurv b ikiuiics because it has become difficult, to find suitable places where care for persons on relief needing special attention may be obtained. Bedridden Invalid cases will not be sent, to Hubbard, however,N but only relief "clients" who are able at lease in part to care for them selves. The committee has been rent ing Quarters and paying" for food for certain types of clients at old hotels and rooming houses here for several years. Dtigger Is 33rd Goon Conviction PORTLAND, Ore., May 1 -)-The 33rd man to be sentenced in Oregon's drive on labor terrorism drew a nine-month penalty to day for assault and battery com mitted last December 10. The prisoner was Cecil Dugger, AFL teamster, who was convicted of beating drivers ot two automo time in labor disputes. Dugger's lawyer served notice of appeal. NINE DrjZrS HUGE PLANE i m urn. mu i i j. iiwii i u i i tm p t Wtffi i. - ' ' : . i " - - a: ; r.-J : - - . v - Ik . Photo shows three of the nine heed airliner which crashed against a mountainside Monday night only 27 minutes out of Burbank on a ferrying flight to St." Paul, Minn. Left to right, are Llola Totty, Lockheed company secretary; Fred Wbittemore, vice-president in charge of N orthwest Airlines, and Mrs. Carl B. Squier, wife of a Lockheed vice-president in charge of sales. I IX photos. . : : : - - ' ' - ' -,Q ; Mail Plane Will Stop Here Today t ' i :, - : - First Direct Service by Air Offered as Part of Air Mail Week The first air mail ever carried directly from Salem will clear the ground at the Salem airport at 1 o'clock this afternoon in the special flight arranged for valley town in connection with the ob servance! of national air" mail week. . ! A record amount of Salem air mail will go aboard the plane. Postmaster H. R. Crawford de clared last night, as a -large stack of letters, designated for this mailing,' has accumulated at the postoffice .the past few days. Any air mail In the postoffice before noon today will go cn this flight, which connects in Port land at 1:30 o'clock for'thf reg ular eastern service. Postmaster Crawford and Ed gar B. Daugherty, superlnt?ndent of mails, will make the dispatch today for the Salem office Pres ent also as the plane lands will be a greeting committee from the Salem chamber .of commerce. Including Secretary Fred D. Thielsen, Tom Hill, E. H. Blngen heimer and Harry Scott. v- Postmasters and 'officials from surrounding ' towns including: Independence; Stayton and Mon mouth, will be on hind fr the event today, each of these towns to bring air mail to dirpatch on the plane. Air mail from Salem which goes on j the plane today, in addi tion to carrying the cachet, will be designated as "first flight out of Salem," , The new air mail stamp, which went on sale this week, is avail able at the local affice. and may (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Cascade Locks Asks for Power i POIITLAXD, Ore . May 18-i!P)-Bonnevllle - dam officials said to day that Cascade Locks was the first town to make a. positive ef fort to obtain power, : The city council voted to con tract for 100 kilowatt-years of energy..: , - Under a schedule proposed at Washington, D. C, by Adminis trator J. D. Ross, the cost to the municipality would be 117.50 per kilowatt year, assuming a 50 per cent load factor at less than four mills a kilowatt hour, officials said. I ; :- i i .- Congregational Conference r To Close Here Today Noon 4 ''Small things become in God's providence great and life-changing things," Dr. Boynton Merrill of Newton, Mass., told an audi ence gathered for the 19th an nual Congregational conference of Oregon at the Knight Me morial church last night. Dr. Merrill, who is lecturer on worship at Andover Newton Theo logical college and minister of the Second church at Newton, challenged his listeners to trace back their own lives and assured them that they would find some small Incident that changed their whole course of life. Admonishing his audience of the necessity of "keeping" church door i open," Dr. Merrill said, "Lef a let God bring the out-of-doors into our church and let us so l.bor that people will be glad to turn aside and let their souls catch up." Silence, restfulness and clean liness were pointed to as small tbinirs that help to make churches quiet j places of communion. "Si lenc; quiet, peace, rest! How our world needs these things!" he said. "Oh, why don't our churches I "" S .-'t ... r.-.( J -victims of the crash and subsequent IA5 V6AS , , f .-. r 5P ? Map 6hows where missing ; plane hit mountainside and burned. Defense Witness Backs Estabrook Says His Car at Hie Dalles at Time of Alleged Bombing Planning I HILLSBORO, Ore., May 18-vP -J a c k Estabrook's autouobile was at the Dalles during ; the 1935 period when Le was alleged to have used it in preparations for the bombing of a Reck ton store, Jean Adams 17-year-old The Dalles school girl, testified today in Estabrook's trial.1 t Estabrook, former official of the AFL Warehousemen's union, is accused ot participation in the bombing. i M The girl, testifying for the de fense, said. Mrs. : Estabroov,' her son and her sister, were v'altlng at The Dalles during a beer dis pute which assertedly led to the bombing. Her .testimony, taken from a diary, was substantiated by Mrs. Clara McNab, sister of Estabrook's wife, , " Marinoff brewery workers from Portland testified to alleged beat ings and threats in which they claimed Estabrook participated about the time of the bo-nbing. George Retherford testified (Turn to page 2, col. 2) realize it and do something about It." - - i . f i :s Dr. Merrill's address was fol lowed by communion services at which he was assisted by Rev. E. P. Borden. ' .- t ) Dr. Merrill will again address the conference at 9:30 this morn ing. His topic, stressing ? Import ance of a program for children, will be "The Art of "Worship." Another highlight of Wednes day's conference program was the address of Rev. Loyal Lincoln Wirt, D.D., on "Facing the Fu ture in a' Changing World,", at the Congregational clubdlnnar held last night. . ; Tracing the development from the tallow dip to the. electric light bulb. Dr. Wirt said that the development In illumination of the last 75 years over the previous 10,000 years was i phenomenal, but asked: "Will the ratio con tinue and if so, with what re sult?" In the old days, the church had as weapons of defense against evil, the revival. Today the church has Immeasurably greater prob (Turn to page 1, coL 5) ' $OUIOU 7 CITY , MTM U KM .3 1 5- u ' OC6TAST - CRASHES t 4 ' " destruction by fire of giant Lock 2000 View new Chamber Rooms Modern Furniture, Wall Finisbes Are Centers of Visitor Interest Its old red leather arm chairs gone to a bourne from which there is no return, its former speckled and mottled walls and ceilings gone to a better land, Sa lem's streamlined chamber of commerce took a fancy bow last night. There were no mourners for the departed. The chamber of com merce that used to be was not given a passing thought as men and women marveled at the trans formation which has made those former musty .halls a show place. f Over 2000. persons attended - the open nouse. , The chamber rooms are new from office to kitchen. Even the knotty pine furniture in the lounge is undupllcated. - It's the first shipment from the new fur niture factory at Bend. Met by uniformed Cherrians and members ot the chamber b'oard of directors, the several hundred visitors were escorted through the series of rooms or left to explore and admire by themselves. Cheerlness and light were the motif. The old dark paneling was replaced by natural color wood all the product of Oregon forests. There was more illumination in the chamber of commerce than ever before. ' Most of the marveling was at the comfortable lounge, even to its fireless fireplace (a flashing red light did the trick). At the sides of the large center room, formerly inhabited by a pair of dilapidated billiard tables, were commercial displays of Ore gon products in niches designed for the purpose. Off this room are the small conference rooms.; Agriculture had Its place through the courtesy of the Sa (Turn to page 2, coL 1) Cunningham Head NW Sewage Group SPOKANE, May 18.-P)-John W. Cunningham, of Portland, was elected president today of the Pa cific Northwest Sewage associa tion, which held its annual meet lng as an advance session of the Pacific northwest section of re gional - meeting of the - American Water Works association.' i W. P. Hughes, Lewiston, was elected first vice-president; Dr. D. .Charlton, Portland, second vice-president, and Fred Merry field, Corvallis, secretary-treasurer. ; : President Cunningham, a con sulting engineer, told the associa tion "there Is an awful lot of guess work In handling different kinds of waste. Each has its own problems." Kiddle Named to Succeed Brother LA GRANDE, May 18-(j!p)-Courts of Union and Wallowa counties on the first ballot chose Lyle Kiddle today to serve as state senator from the joint dls trle in succession to his brother. Clyde, who was named May 5 to the position of supervisor for Ore gon ot the Federal Crop Insur ance corporation. Lyle will- serve until the No vember election, when the voters ot the two counties will elect a senator, who wUl serve until 1939, when Clyde's term would have expired. Fire Toll now 35 ATLANTA, May 18-i-In the debris ' of the fire-wrecked Term inal hotel, workmen sighted two additional bodies late today bringing the death list to 35. V ' - ; - ' ; Big Airliner Wrecked Near Field, Found Nine Occupants Burned ' in Resulting Iire on Mountainside Investigators Weighing ord Pilot Told to Fly Near Ground : LOS ANGELES ' Calif , May 18 VP)-Only 30 miles aw. y from Its starting point at Union Alr terminal, Burbank, a big fi.li liner crashed Into a mountainside Mon day, .' exploded and burned to death its'' nine occupants. , . Shrouded. by a dense. fog for 40 hours, the wreckage was dis covered today and the charred bodies carried out of the moun tains by stretcher bearers. Had Been in Air Only 27 Minutes . J The Clock on the transport's instrument board showed the hands pointed at 2:07 o clock (PST). , This fixed the time of the crash just 27 minutes after the plane, left the airport. It also Indicated the pilot, Sid Wil ley, apparently was lost in the fog and was circling or cutting back on the course, for the big ship was capable of 250 miles an hour. Investigators tonight considered a report the pllothad attempted to fulfill terms of an Insurance underwriter's contract by keeping the big transport within sight of ground at all times on its de livery flight to Las Vegas, Nev. Lockheed President Keeps Silence Robert E. Gross, president of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., manufacturer of the plane, re fused to discuss the report.' He said the company would issr.e no statement until after the federal bureau of air commerce haa com pleted Its Investigation. ; 5 . A commercial transport, start ing its regular run at approxi mately the same time, flew above the cloud banks nd experienced no difficulty. The terrific Impact and the ex plosion dislodged both motors and the propellers, shreddtd the fuselage, and scattered the bodies and personal effects along a 1.-OCO-foot trail. A path 60 feet wide and .200 feet long was burned away as the plane cut (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Storm, Floods Strike Midwest MINNKAFOLIS. May 18. Bridges were washed out, rail road, tracks left dangling in mid air and highways were damage! today by torrential rains which began last night and spread over Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. At Hastings, Minn., where the storm, which continued early to day, apparently did the most dam age, the Milwaukee and Burling ton railroads' main lines were washed out and city streets and basements were flooded. Rainfall at Hastings measured 3.47 inches. . ; ' Railroad tracks Were, left' sus pended, with telegraph poles dangling from a network ot wires as the swirling waters gouged out a 30-foot embankment. I At Jordan residents used boats as -waters from Sand creek! ma rooned 10 homes. The Mississippi river was at flood stage at! Red Wing, Minn., and slowly rising tonight. ' ;.; ' -. , i.v Man, 52, Senses Light First Time MEMPHIS, Tenn., May Light made an impression today upon Richard L. Willis, 52, for the first time since birth. ' A surgeon flashed a strong light , before his left eye, uncov ered of its bandages," and after a life of blindness, the - Nashville, Tenn., man exclaimed: "My goodness, what a bright light!" It was a "ery good sign." the physician said a sign" that indi cated Willis might some day see. There is no possibility of giving sight to the right eye ' : Two weeks ago Willis under went a corneal transplant in a Memphis eye clinic tacking to his eye a portion of the "eye window" from the useless eye of a .woman. Pro-America Protests ' BILLINGS, Mont, May 18-CT) -Officers and directors of Na tional Pro-America, an organiza tion of republican women, attack ed proposed reductions in appro priations for the federal bureau ot investigation at the conclusion of their one-d7 meeting today. Demand on TV A May Be Granted v.- ? n - J f nw ii iwrnm iiiiiiwfii isniuiTri nirtMr sw ji atxta&mwoti&rc.'o&ta WASHINGTON, May 18-(;P)-TVA strongly indicated tonight that it would yield to the de mand of its ousted chairman. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan (above), for access to its files. Morgan sought to examine the files in preparing data to support his charges of malfeasance against the agency's remaining direc tors. Doctor Morgan's demand wag lodged earlier in the day with the joint congressional committee established to inves tigate TV A and get at the bot tom of the charges and counter-charges that have passed between Doctor Morgan on one side and LiHenthal and Dr. Ilarcourt A. Morgan, the new TVA chairman, on the other. Rehabilitation's Scope Outlined Optimist to Shame Says Speaker Rehabilitation clients over the country are better representatives of the optimist club than the op timist himself, for they put to shame In their Inspiration to oth ers and their viewpoint on life many physical normal persons, Frank J. Clayton, regional agent of the national vocational reha bilitation setup, told 150 trainees and visitors gathered at the Ore gon Rehabilitation association an nual banquet, held last night in the seulor high school dining room. Clayton sketched briefly the rehabilitation work in the coun try and in Oregon. The work was started in 1920, and from that time until June, 1937, 98,429 persons were rehabilitated; that is. actually placed in vocational pursuits suitable to their disabil ity. At present, 40,000 Persons are in training through the re habilitation service, which in Ore gon is carried on through the to cational education department with cooperation of the industrial accident commission. In this region last year, 1945 cases were rehabilitated, and in Oregon alone last year, 96 cases were rehabilitated at an average cost of 275 per case. Clayton pointed out that anyone of em ployable age who has an employ ment handicap has an opportun ity to become a trainee in the service. Present at the banquet, over which President Gale Herbst of the Salem chapter presided, were members from Portland, Eugene (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Candidates Take to Radio In Last Minute Vote Pleas A number of radio talks by candidates aire scheduled for to day and tonight to wind up the Campaign. On station KSLM, Salem, R. JT. Hendricks, candidate for re publican nomination for gover nor, will speak at 1:43 p.m.i Charles A. Sprague, seeking the same office, at 7 p.m.; Edith Green on behalf of Governor Martin at 7:15; Ronald E. Jones, for state senator, at 0:15; Leroy Hewlett, for coun ty commissioner, at 0:20 "nd Governor Martin at 0:30. . The KOIN. Portland, schedule shows Carl Donaugh, democrat ic candidate for US senator, speaking at O p.m. and Gover nor Blartin at 0:45. sir. Hendricks will speak ov er KEX, Portland, at 7 pan. i PORTLAND, Ore., May 1 Immediate action to build up sub stantial industries and prevent ex haustion of timber resources was urged by Charles A. Sprague, Sa lem publisher and . candidate for "the republican gubernatorial nom ination, in a radio speech tonight. Otherwise, Sprague asserted. Fierce South Fight Still in Chinese Resistance Is Stubborn but Invaders Rushing Reinforcements and Say Success Is Certain Victory Will Give Over Juncture North-South SHANGHAI, May 19. (Thursday) (AP) Japanese reported officially today that they had occupied all the stra tegic city of Suchow except the southern section where a fierce struggle was going on. A Japanese communique said both sides were rushing reinforcements to troe contested area. Furious hand-to-hand fighting was said to be going on in the city's streets after tremendous assault forces fought their way through a hail of stubborn Chinese fire. Japanese officers declared they expected to have com plete control within a few hours of the juncture of the Lunghai railway and the north-south Tientsin-Pukow line which China has defended bitter-1 ly tnrougn more man tnree weea of heaviest fighting. - Japanese assault troops launched their first attack early today against the walls of . bitterly-defended Suchow, Junction of China's vital central railways, Japanese dispatches reported. Artillery Plays Large Part in Attack . The opening attack came at the southeast corner of the west wall after long hours of heavy blasting by Japanese artillery mounted on Pa wangshan mountain command ing the besieged city. Japanese reported almost a dozen separate forces were en circling, the city for a concerted thrust against the 'Walls. Assault forces had dashed, up Pawangshan late yesterday under cover of artillery fire and dug. In only two miles from Suchow wait ing daylight to begin the attack. (Official Japanese dispatches to Tokyo said the west walls of Suchow were captured at 4 p. m. Wednesday, PST.) Wide advances both east and west of Suchow were claimed si multaneously by the Japanese (Turn to page 2, col. 5) US Flier Tells Of Jap Threats Questioned at '" Yokohama for Part in Aiding Defense Chinese ltfl SEATTLE, May 18-(P)-1-fiwyn Gibbon, 27, former army fli'i and Sacramento, Calif., newspaper man, told reporters tonijit on his arrival from the Orient that Japanese secret police constantly threatened him with' death for his activities with China's air force. Gibbon was returning tc the U. S: aboard . the liner Empress of Asia when removed from the ship at Yokohama by Javanese officials. The: Incident caused International complications. , "The Japanese were merciless in their grilling and they kept repeating their threats. I was questioned on one occaslcn for 15 hours straight,7' be said. 4 They showed me article 81, section of their criminal code (Turn to page 2, col. 4 V counties that have relied on tim ber taxes will find themselves without funds. "Oregon's great power resour ces must be utilized as fast as possible," Sprague said. "Electric energy is needed to power new Industries." He also urged increased atten tion to the tourist trade and fav ored "all sound efforts to make the farmer's position secure." PORTLAND, Ore., May UHyPr Henry L. Hess, Governor Charles H. Martin's opponent for the democratic gubernatorial nomina tion in the primary electloo Fri day, declared in a radio ar.dres tonight that Martin was reac tionary, anti-new deal and antl Roosevelt. J "Positive evidence of tihis fact is that the national administra tion has repudiated him ad now are urging the democrats of Ore gon to nominate me on May 20th as the democratic candidate for governor," Hess said. Hess asserted that the Hart in headquarters had insinuated he would pardon convicted laboi ter rorists it he became governor. (Turn to page 2, coL 1) for Section Is Progress Nipponese Control of Liinghai and Railway Lines Solons Probe Ohio Relief Committee Seeking to Determine Cause of Cleveland Costa CLEVELAND, May 18.-(JT)-Eleven Mo legislators began taking Cleveland's relief machin ery apart today. -They sought to find what brought the system to the brink of a smsshup, left -many needy without relief and finally drew a crowd to city hall to sit for hours under a cloud of cigarette smoke In quiet resentment. The legislative committee, after watching the spectacle in city nail briefly, dug into the city's fiaaa cial and relief files, visited relief stations and interviewed clients. "We want to know why it costs more per case to handle relief here than In any other county it the state," said Rep. Samuel A. Anderson. Twenty special Investigators and a staff of statisticians and examiners assisted the committee. One examiner, Daniel McGowan, said "We have found a srreat many people who are not entitled to relief who are on the rolls." CHICAGO. May ls.-frV-The doors of -all Chicago's relief sta tions were closed tonight. "All service, except medical -are and the distribution of emergen: rations, was suspended. General assistance, halted be cause the city's relief administra tion exhausted Its funds, cannot be resumed until the state fur nishes financial aid possibly a week hence or perhaps not until June 1, ' Protesting pickets gathered . at six stations. Some carried signs reading: "Soak the rich and feed the poor" and "Don't starve, fight." Glumly they read placards setting forth: "Closed until further notice. Service restricted to emergency medical "care (If needed, tele phone) and surplus commod ities." Some 170.000 persons received their regular checks for May be fore the treasury was empty. Wheeler Turns Vote on Guffcy WASHINGTON, May ls-UP)-Senator Wheeler -(D-Mont) had this to say about the ' resi-lt of the Pennsylvania primary: "After the licking the Guffey ticket got fn Pe -nsylvama, I doubt If Senator Gnffey w'll try to read any more western sena tors out ot the party ia the future." Guffey, democratic senator from Pennsylvania, created a furor in the senate last year by denouncing in a radio (peecb democrats who had opposed Pres ident Roosevelt's supreme court bill. Mayor Carson Father PORTLAND, May lS.HF) Mayor and Mrs. Joseph K. Car son, Jr., became the parents today of a six-pound, seven-ounce eirl born at Emanuel hospital. The child will be named Joan Cradle Carson. ' Mother and daughter were progressing satisfactorily.