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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1938)
- Valley Coverage Correspondents in more than 80 Willamette valley eemmnnltles keep States Bus readers posted on all worthwhile emits In the central valley.. The Weather Partly cloudy, at times unsettled today and Sat urday, cooler, higher hu midity; Max. temp. Thurs day 81, Min. 51, river 2.0 feet, NV wind. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTU YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, May 27, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 52 TY To rike lr rontt v: ft CDcciuifs I Ifrnree ace ! German Ships9 Invasions Add To War Scare One Plane Sighted Over "Munitions Works; 14 Cases Are Cited Great Britain Effort to Speed Peace Program. Blocked by Russia PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, May 26.-'-Ie88linl8ni OTer Peace prospects between Czechoslovakia and her minority of 3.500,000 Germans deepened today with the semi-official report two German bombers crossed the frontier near As, home town of Konrad llenleln, Sudeten German leader. As Is In the western extremity of the country. The Czechoslovak air defense, the semi-official report said, sighted the bombers late in the afternoon 'and sent op two pur suit ships. The Invaders there upon were said to have swung back over German territory. A tour of frontier defenses ex pected to last until Sunday, was started today by F- Machnik, de fense minister. Earlier today a government spokesman reported three border violations by German aircraft yesterday. He said in one case a war plane was sighted over the famous Skoda munitions works at Plzen (Pllsen). llenleln Demands Caane More Gloom Officials at tbe same time were gloomy over a published reitera tion of demands by Henlein for autonomy for his followers. , A government spokesman said the German warplane sighted over the Skoda factory some 5 miles from the German-Czechoslovak border was Identified by observers who were able to dis tinguish Its number. Tbe foreign office already had informed German Minister brnst 'Eisenlohr there nad been 14 In stances of border violation. in volving 34 planes, between .las Thursday and yesterday. LONDON. May 26 CP) Great Britain today sought to speed European appeasement by sett ling the Spanish nwjintc-ventlon question but So let Russia step ped squarely in her path. .At the same time Britain sounded out Germany and Czech oslovakia on the idea of -letting British observers 1 elp calm the Sudeten German furore. - She also promised- to consider dlspatchof an internatUna; com mission to investigate Qsrman Czechoslovak border lrc.dents which have caused war fears to spread through Europe. Russia made it clear to the non intervention subcommittee In Lon don that she would accept no plans for European appeasement which left her out in the cold Other Nations Are Found Agreeable i She alone blocked British plans for a hands-off-Spain agreement expected to open the way for Con summation of the Eastr Anglo- Italian friendship pact, resump tion of French-Italian negotiations for a similar accord and ultimate ly Prime Minister Neville Cham berlaln's coveted four-power (Turn to page 10, col. 6) Dallas Woman Is State Club Chief PENDLETON, Ore., May 26-0!P)-The Oregon Federation of Wom n' Hubs will have as leader for the next year Mrs. Harold D. Pet erson of Dallas, who was elected at the state convention here this afternoon. Other officers are: Mrs. O. C Ranford. Coauille. first vice pres ident; Mrs. Everett Fisher of Al bany, second vlee president; Mrs. Guy McLeod or wnecier, treasur Mr. 3. O. Holt of Euicene. fi na'nclal secretary; Mrs. W. R. Minsinger of Portland, recording ThR convention adjourned this ertning after a dinner at the First Presbyterian church honoring Mrs. A. C. Mcintyre, retiring pres ldent. Bonds of Astoria Handed to Paidus City Manager James Convlll of ABtoria delivered about $700,000 fit Af Astoria bonds to Fred II. Paulus deputy state treasurer yesterday as part of the exchange under ft refinancing program for that city. The remaining portion of the $2, COO. 000 Issue will be de iiTril in Cincinnati. Paulus said It would be about 30 days before the final exchange could be maae. Spending Bill. Doubles For I Copeland Asks JL - Large Amount, Flood Control Items Nearly 26 Million for Valley; Channel Unit 8 Million Detroit Dam $2,665,000 on List; Locks to Be Included, Belief The Willamette valley f would receiva more thn twice the In itial flood I control appropriation hoped for if a proposal made In Washington, DC, yesterday by Senator Copeland ID-NY) should be granted! by congress, St n a tor Douglas McKay, chairman of the valley project committee, indicat ed last night. Appropriations a g g r e gating 125,927,000 for river channel improvements and construction of the seven storage dams called for in the Willamette vallty pro ject plans would be Included In a 3325,000,000 allocation, pro Posed by Copeland as an amend ment to the emergency lending spending bill, the Associated Press said, ' The greatest initial sum that has been hoped for is 312,000.- 000, Chairman McKay stated. Proposed unit . llocations for the Willamette valley under the heading of. flood control, in . the Copeland amendment arer Willamette, river, chantel im provements, 18 000.000, .which McKay said do ibtless included tbe $2,500,000 recommended by the US army- engineers for large, modern navigation locks at Ore gon City, j Detroit I resertir and dam, North fork. ; Santiam river, $2.- 865.000. i Sweet Home ; reservoiT and dam. South fork, Santiam, 35, 336,000. 1 Fern Ridge reservoir an-5 dam, Long Tom; river, Benton county. $986,000. I Quarts -creek reservoir. . ana dam. McKenzie river, ?4,0.3,- C00. 1 Lookout Point reservon and (Turn.to page 10, col. 1) R. W. Clarke Quits Dairy Co-op Post R. W. Clarke, In charge of the Salem office of the Dairy Co operative association for the past seven years, has resigned this post and has been succeeded by F. C. Klaus, field man out of the Port land office of the Dairy Co-op and a former resident of Salem. Clarke, active in formation of the cooperative association In 1929, has resigned his position to devote his full time to his large dairy and fruit farm In the Polk county hills west of Salem. Klaus, son of the late Phillip W. Klaus, was graduated from Salem high school in 1920. He is a graduate of Oregon State col lege, majoring in dairy produc tion and manufacturing. He has worked In creameries in Oregon and Minnesota and was also as sociated for a period with the Portland city health department as inspector. Mr. and Mrs. Klaus have moved from Portland to 1394 N. Sum mer street here. Mrs. Klaus, re called as Laura Lois Phipps, is a graduate of Willamette university. Lilienthal Charges Morgan Sabotaged Test Sail of TV A ! i i i WASHINGTON?, May 26 VP) Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, deposed chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority, . impiasively beard himself accused today of having tried to "obstruct and sabotage" the government' onuct of a law suit upon whose outcome the very! life of TVA depended. His accuser, David E. Lilien thal, youthful director f the power agency, laid this clarge before the congressional TVA in vestigating committee. Llllrnthal also entered a vehement denial of misfeasance, dishonesty and mismanagement charges, lodged against him yesterday by Dr. Morgan. T Referring to a suit brcught by 18 private utilities to test the constitutionality of TVA. Lilienthal said: The documented record of Ar thur Morgan's conduct- in this matter is discreditable." Iv Is a I fecord which sngg-ists that he was Early : Work on I ?$ ; - , ' . Yorfj? Children 'ageant a t Salem Indian School i C ' ' V ;,vfV' vV? K Even the youngest children at the Indian school are found among the cast of 200 students .who present the pageant of Indian life and customs for the last time tonight as for instance this couple In t elaborate buckskin and beaded regalia. Rebel Air Bases BomBed, Claimed Loyal Fliers Mopping up on Cetlillo Airdromes; ' Workers May Arm M SA? LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, May 26-(P)-Gen. Alredo Lezama reported today federal filers methodically were clipping the wings of former Gen. Saturnino Cedillo and his rebels. f General Lezama, head : of the government aviation detachment operating against tbe Cedilllstas, said air bases and gasoline sup plies were being destroyed one by one. 'I "Pilots are drawing a circle around rebel airdromes," he said, ''and soon will wipe out the last of them." f J , Military sources at the same time asserted the .rebellion was "no longer a military but merely a police problem." They said it (Turn to page 2, col. 5) : Decision on Tax Bill Is i Due Soon WASHINGTON, T'ay 25 UPy A White House announcement that President Roosevelt w ould disclose his decision on the tax revision bill in an address to morrow at an Arthurdale, i W. Va.,resettlement project set an assortment of rcmors circulat ing around the :apitol today. ; Some legislators said tbev had heard talk of a veto, other that Mr. Roosevelt would let the bill become law without signing it. still others that he would sign the measure but take occasion to assail Its treatment of undis tributed corporate profits and capital gains. seeking to find a way to secure a judicial decision against ' his own agency. It is a record of tampering with prospect! wit nesses for the government, and of obstructing .nd haissing counsel and witnesses In the very heat of a crucial constitutional case." Lilienthal, moreover, asked the committee to investigate whether or not Morgan 'did se cretly attempt to conceal evi dence" of vital importance to TVA In the celebrated Berry marble claims case. f The committee adjourned to night for an indefinite per'od af ter a two-day ?eslon, in which Dr. Arthur Morgan made his charges against Lilienthal and Dr. Harcourt Morgan, now chair man of TVA. and the latter two made their denials and crunter charges. 4 . ' This morning Harcourt !Mor (Turn to page 2, coL J ) Participate in 117 LlTitW,' v . Potts Again Head Of Fanners Union Ronald Jones and S. Holt Also Retain Offices; Monmouth Chosen SHERIDAN, Ore., May 26-y!P) -John Vesecky, Salina, Kan., na tional president of the Farmers' Union, told - 400 delegates to a state convention last night , that the only excuse for any farm or ganization was to serve its mem bers. Vesecky said objectives of the farmers' cooperative group were education, legislation end cooper ation. The national organization has 100,000 members, and 10 per cent of all funds are set aside for Jun ior education, Vesecky said. The legislative goal he outlined as cost of production for products. The cooperative goal was to re turn a larger percentage of the consumer's dollar to the pocket of the producer, who now gets, Vesecky said, 43 per cent. K. V. Garrod, Saratoga, Calif., president of the California, or ganization and member of the state agriculture board, related accomplishments of the coopera tive movement there. ; M. Hammlck, Salem, discussed hospitalization under socialized medicine. George W. Potts, Jefferson, end Ronald Jones, Brooks, were re elected president and vice-presi dent, respectively. Potts is start ing his sixth term. S. B. Holt. Sa lem, was - unanimously selected : (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Lad Takes Pains To Start Fire in County Jail Here How a 15-year-old county Jail prisoner started a fire in the ground floor corridor of the courthouse Wednesday was dis closed by officers yesterday and confirmed at the sheriff's office. Being held In the woman's cell, outside the main jail, pend ing a hearing on a charge of being a delinquent minor, the boy, Don Colyer, 15, of Wood burn, tied a match to a long stick, lighted It and shoved it against a corridor shelf on which writing paper and other supplies for prisoners are kept. The blaze was quickly dis covered and extinguished before serious damage resulted. Colyer is scheduled to have a hearing on the delinquency charge In juvenile court at 10 a. m. Saturday while Orval Wil son, 23, is awaiting grand Jury , Investigation of a charge of contributing to Colyer's alleged delinquency by giving him In- toxlcatlng liquor. Wilson waived preliminary hearing in Wood burn justice court and was ' ordered held for the grand Jury in default of f 500 bail. Sum Project . r ; Tribes Gather i For big Show, Indian School Pageant I Is Highlight of Celehration; Notable Exhibits on Hand Portland Day Arranged; Baby Show Is Today; Repeat Program v Four hundred fifty. Indians from every tribe in the Northwest and Northern California Overflow ed visitors' accommodation quar ters at the Salem Indian school campus at Chemawa last, night for the opening of the three-day cele bration and homecoming marking the 58th anniversary v of the school. The tribal visitors here last night surpassed the entire registration last year and , their Indian tepees,, pitched at one edg of the campus, presented an ef fective note in the celebration pic ture. '- ' . . ; v Y . . ; Highlight of the opening night was the pageant of Indian life and customs, presented in realistic set ting with the giant trees of the campus forming a perfect back ground for the colorful portrayal by 200 Indian youths clad in their native regalia. , i Tiny Indian Boys Get Biggest Hand Principal characters in the well executed pageant, features of which are special dances and songs, are taken by Roy Track, Forrest Norton, ' Frank Bolton, Dorothy Jones, James Gerard and Venue Ingawanup. But the mem bers of the cast who stole the affection of last night's 2000 spec tators "were the youngest bucks in the Indian school two boys of scarcely more than 5. Today has been designated as Portland day at Chemawa, and a large delegation from i that . city is expected to view the exhibits and en joy the o t h e r program events,' including a repetition of the pageant. '. . . . The largest array of Indian ex hibits ever assembled west of the Cascades will greet the campus visitors today, with - more than 123,000 worth of Indian clothing. bead work, weavlngr basketry and many articles more than 100 years old, sent especially for. the cele bration by the Umatilla. Warm Springs and Yakima tribes. The exhibits of each of these tribes (Turn to page 2, col. 1) O'Connell Denied Guard Protection JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 26. -JP)-A. rally of 200 persons ire'pre-j senting various New Jersey groups unanimously adopted to night a motion to "keep-Jerry O'Connell the, hell out' of here." The offerer of the:mot!on was unidentified at a meeting in the Jersey City armory at which Col. Hugh A. Kelly, secretary to Gov. A. Harry Moore, "presided. Tbe Hudson county committee for labor defense and civil rights, sponsor of a, meeting at Pershing field tomorrow night with Repre sentative O'Connell (D-Mont.) as the main speaker, earlier had called upon Governor Moore for national guard protection The governor's secretary asked Adj. Gen. William A. HIggins, who attended the rally, whether Moore could fulfill the request for na tional guard protection. Hlgglns said troops could be sent to Jer sey City only if asked by "duly constituted authorities of Jersey Control Is Urged On Pudding River Adoption of ' a flood control program for 'Pudding' river, which runs most of its course in Marion county, was ' urged as . a road-savin g ; necessity by County Engineer N. C. Hubbs at a hear ing conducted at Woodburn yes terday by US army engineers. In a report made at the request of the county court, Hubbs declared the river's flood waters struck 12 important connty or market roads and did damage to them annually. "On some of these roads un less much more substantial and extensive work Is done than has heretofore been carried on, it may be impossible to maintain : the Vi urn 10 page i, toi. t) Japan Cabinet Shaken up to Aid War Plans Hirota Removed, Foreign Office With General Ugaki Installed Araki Heads Education; Rivals Both Included to Unite Factions TOKYO, May 26 (Rj A dras tic cabinet shakeup today gave Japan a government designed for sterner prosecution of the unde clared war against China. . ' The" reorganization placed two powerful retired generals and one of Japan's greatest financiers in tbe cabinet and was expected to give the government a tighter rein-on the army. - ; , The new ministers were: Foreign affairs Gen. . azus hlge Ugaki, former war rr-leister and governor-general of Korea, succeeding Kokl Hirota, accused of "weakness." Education General Baron Sa doa Araki, another ex-war min ister, who has preached the ne cessity of some day fighting So viet Russia. , Finance Selhin Ikeda. fcrmeT directing head of the vast Mitsui interests and more recently gov ernor of the Bank of Japan. ; Marquis Kiochi Kldo, who was replaced by General Araki as min ister of . education, .remained in the cabinet. in'the' newly created post of minister of public welfare. They were installed by Emperor Hirohlto tonight. Khfnli Toshino minister of com merce and Industry, also resigned. It was believed Ikeda would, as sume his post, combining under nun head all economic and finan cial activities of the government In support or tne army. . Inclusion of both TJsrakl and Araki, long bitter opponents In struggles for army leadership, was believed to indicate an effort to (Turn to page 10, col. 8) Car Thief Wrecks One, Steals Again A veritable Slippery Dan of a car thief who made off with a Salem machine yesterday fore noon only to wreck it in Polk county, and escape a pursuing of ficer, repeated the process at Cor vallis last night with an Independ ence machine o m 1 1 1 i n g the crash. Spotted in Corvallis at 8:30 driving a sedan stolen from R. M. Stapleton at - Independence at 7:45. the slippery one ducked around the corner at' 12th and Van Buren streets when he saw State Trooper Glen MacDonald whirl his patrol car about and come after him. When MacDon ald reached the corner he found the Stapleton car parked,' empty. As he had done earlier In the day near the Mitoma hop yard, Sergeant Farley Mogan last night routed out available officers for a search at Corvallis . and posted lookouts also at Albany but no further trace of the phantom thief was found. . - . MacDonald said the man's de scription tallied exactly with that given of him by Salem 'street painters who saw him drive away from the armory at 11:10 a.m. in a car belonging to Reed Row land. This was the car he aban doned when it struck the Mitoma hop yard gate post half an hour later. Valuation Is Set Upon Bonneville Flow Lands PORTLAND. Ore., May 26-iJP) -A federal court Jury set the value today of 30 acres of land needed by the government for Bonneville dam flowage rights at 128,000. Owners of the property involved were Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Button of Hood River connty and others. 6 'Sa lent Bargain Days'9 to Be Today and Saturday in City 'Salem Bargain Days" today and Saturday two great days devoted to a buying carnival sponsored by the Salem Mer chants association in which each merchant will offer a real, genu ine, special bargain in addition to many other fine bargains were heralded by a parade in which the Cherrians and tie Sa lem high school band partici pated last night. A committee headed by W. E. Holts, of Sears Roebuck Co., chairman, and assisted by Stan ley Keith of Millers department store and Ed war i Bissell of J. C Penney company, Daniel Hay, Maxine Harp, and Millicebt Ste vens, of the executive stff of the Merchants association, is in charge ef the program , making Rubber Workers in Akron Battle With Police; 60 Injured Chain of Pickets Forms to Keep out Night Crew; Trouble Starts as They Advance on Officers Fifty Injured at Detroit When Brass Company Plant Workers Attacked; Tear Gas Used as Muskogee AKRON, O., May 27. (Friday) (AP) With tear gas and flailing; clubs, police cleared a crowd of 4,000 United Rubber" Workers and sympathizers early today from a two-block-lono; stretch of Market street, at the gates of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co's. vast plant No. 1. The rubbers workers, a CIO union, had called a strike at Goodyear's Akron plants two hours earlier, declaring it "got" nowhere" in negotiations last night with the company over various claimed grievances. . Pickets formed a two-deep chain two blocks long to prevent the midnight shift of workers from going to their jobs. Police were keeping the gates open so that the shifts Steel Men Listen To Hugh Johnson fuotes President Business Will Have to Come on ' Knees Next Time NEW YORK, May ll-VPy-One thousand ' leaders of the Ameri can steel industry accepted with apparent cordiality an admoni tion from Gen. Hugh S. Johnson tonight that the industry "must sell itself to the American peo ple." The former NRA chief address ed the annual banquet of the Am erican Iron, and Steel institute at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. - Business and industry, he said, "haven't any choice at all of go ing back to unregulated economic freedom, under futile anti-trust laws. It can't be done. The change of popular opinion in this country toward governmental regulation has followed a great surge of pop ular opinion everywhere. The best you can expect is .regulated free dom like all the rest of the folks." Johnson recommended a "mid dle course" and the acceptance of. collective bargaining as a genu ine representative of American sentiment." He urged that steel prices be lowered. As an illustration of the trend and force of public opinion in re (Turn to page 2, col. 4 ) - Double Liability Is Waived by US ' WASHINGTON, May 26-r-President Roosevelt signed today a bill authorizing the Federal De posit Insurance Corp., to waive its claims for assessments against the stockholders of insured banks which fail. . , ' The legilatlon is of Interest principally in1 13 states where what is. known as double liablK ity is imposed by constitution or statute. Banking officials said the, new law was intended to make it eas ier for state banks to sell stock to strengthen their capital struc tures, and to put insured state banks on a parity with national banks, from which congress' re moved double liability In 1935. Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and West Virginia Impose double liability in their constitutions and Montana and Vermont impose It by statute. : arrangements for Salem Lsrgain Days. - The Salem Merchants associ ation is sponsoring this Bargain Days program as a part of their program to instil confidence and more confidence in. acco.oance with a national pro irzm to stim ulate business, better times, in creased employment, mor pay rolls, and above all confidence in business. . Wonderful special buy In every - conceivable line , of mer chandise are being offered Many stores are employing extra . help to take care jf the caracity crowds that are expected to swing into this program of bulLg to stimulate confidence and a return to better times. . (Turn to page 10, coL 7) , O might change. Shortly after midnight the hu man chain advanced upon the approximately 75 policemen at the gates. "Clean 'em out'" a police lieu tenant cried? The policemen advanced on the crowd with tear gas and tillles. At least 10 of the crowd went down under (he club attack. The remainder of the crowd broke under the tear-gas onslaught and fled with eyes streaming, - Ambulances ru3hed to the vi cinity, and. the city hospital sent out a call for extra nurses - and internes. - - A minor ' skirmish had" oc curred shortly before midnight, when the company moved trucks out of the company's plants No. 2 and 3, nearby, under -police protection. - - A Goodyear spokesman said: "What has happened tonight was not the result of any failure of the company to take part in negotiations. Negotiations wH be resumed at any time." From 25 to 30 persons were hospitalized. Some of them were unconscious - or otherwise in a serious condition. Sixty persons in all were reported injured. The injured Jncluded stveral women and girls. DETROIT, May 26 (JP) More than 60 persons were injurtd to day when 175 police clashed with several hundred ClO-afrillated unionists at the American Brass Co., plant. - At least 11 policemen were in-" jured, and the United Automobile Workers union, whose president, Homer Martin, Issued a call for this afternoon's demonstration, said, that "about 50 UAW mem bers" were Injured. -Fighting spread over several blocks In the vicinity. Trouble broke, out when the afternoon shift left the plant. The workers were met by a crowd of unionists, estimated by observers at 600. The fighting lasted nearly half an? hour. Many were treated at the scene by neighborhood doc tors. Others were rushed either to hospitals - or to . the first aid station maintained by the UAW. MUSKOGEE. Okla.. May 27 ( Friday) -Trouble broke out early today at the refinery of the Pure Oil Co., here after a strike ws called last night by the Oil Work ers union, and 40 pickets took up places before the gates. Police used tear gas in assisting members of the -night shift to go on duty. f Two persons were reported injured..- . Three men, two of them Inter national .representatives of the union, were arrested and booked for investigation. The strike cause was reported to involve a seniority question. May Close Truce On Cannery Wage SEATTLE, May 26 CP) West ern Washington fruit and vege table canners announced tonight they would discontinue th. exist ing wage truce with vunerr un ions May 31. " "That puts us right back where we were a month ago," the As sociated Producers and Parkers, Inc., representing about 20 can ning plants, said. The truce was . arranged by Governor Martin. - Negotiations were broken off about a month ago after f ackers posted notices of a f ive-cEt-an-hour wage cut to 76 cents for women and 4.71s cents for men. ; The governor h proposal, fix ing a 40 cent scale for women and 60 for men cannery workers as a compromise, was voted down yesterday by nnloa workeis. .