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Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, May 28, 1933
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No. 53
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Tanks Leading
Chinese Drive
Near Railway
Fighting at Lanfeng Is
Bloodiest of Entire
War, Foes Agree
Party of Chiang's Army
Participates; Town's
Capture Disputed
SHANGHAI, May 28 -(Saturday
) -)-Flame-spitting tanks
led a Chinese counteroffensive
that tamed the scattered fighting
along the Lunghai railroad today
into one of the major battles of
the undeclared war.
aoth sides declared the fight
ing at Lanfeng. 28 miles east of
Kaifeng. was as intensive and
bloody as any in more than 10
months of warfare.
Chinese reported several vil
lages razed and more than 1.000
Japanese killed in fighting, that
spread along the railroad almost
to Kweiteh, 59 miles east of Lan
feng.
Japanese themselves said 20
Chinese divisions. Including about
1C0.000 well-equipped soldiers,
were making a stand at Lanfeng
comparable -in scope to the de-
fense of Suchow, which fell Just
a week ago after a fierce month-
long battle.
The Chinese forces were said to
include fresh troops and units
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek's crack central army which
escaped when Suchow fell.
Chinese reported a tank-led col
li rn had recaptured Lanfeng, Im
portant as a key to the defense of
vitay Kaifeng, just south of the
bend of the Yellow river.
Japanese disputed the report
but. admitted their drive inland
toward Hankow, seat of China's
government was "Interrupted'
w-fsd that tanks, had led a. Chinese
. An Increasingly large number.
of modern tanks, some equipped
with flame throwers, have bol
stered the Chinese lines, Japanese
reports said, indicating the de
fense troops' strength is, by no
means spent.
Chinese declared the recapture
of Lanfeng had broken Japan's
pressure on Kaifeng. which the
Japanese must capture to reach
' Cbengchow, junction of the Lung
hai and the important North-
South Peiping-Hankow Railroad.
Carroll Acquitted
On Insanity Qaim
NEW YORK, May 27-(S5Hon-ald
- Carroll, Jr., a thin, bookish
youngster of 16. who shot his 18-year-old
sweetheart to death, was
acquitted of murder tonight.
The boy had testified he killed
Charlotte Matthiesen because,
pregnant and In terror of immin
ent social disgrace, she begged
him to.
The verdict, not guilty by rea
son of Insanity, left his "tragedy
of adolescence," as slain Char
lotte's mother, Mrs. Fred Matthie
sen had called it, still not ended.
County Judge Downs directed
that Donald -be sent to gloomy,
old Bellevue hospital for observa
tion in the psychopathic ward,
saying that if experts there
thought him Insane now, a hear
ing would be held to determine
whether he is to go to a state
institution. .
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in the Fieus
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27-;P)-A
first birthday celebration for
the 135.000,000 Golden Gate
bridge, which hasn't shown any
signs of falling down, was de
layed today because the -fancy,
three-declir natal cake collapsed
right In the middle. .
Directors of the bridge district
and city officials gathered at the
toll house restaurant to cut -the
cake and fete the first anniver
sary of the world's longest sus
pension, bridge. .
But en route from the bakery,
the 18-inch cake had been shaken
into a sorry looking affair. The
luncheon party was delayed near
ly an hour while a substitute. cake
was obtained. t- -
WASHINGTON, May 27-CP)-The
treasury received the follow
ing letter today from a St. Paul,
Minn., resident:.
"I have for some time had an
income from, which no tax has
been paid. To relieve my con
science on this score. I enclose
herewith our $100 bonds. Will
thank you for no further investi
gation." ' Another letter from a San Fran
cisco clergyman, contained .a
check for $630 and a note saying,
"I am acting as an intermediary
to transmit to you the eniussed
as conscience money."
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Shortly after police dispersed pickets of the American Newspaper Guild from In front Of the Duluth,
Minn., News-Herald with tear gas, an agreemen t was reached and employes ended their eight-week
strike. This photo was taken after police fired the first tear gas bomb, opening way for workers
to enter the plant. Some 600 persons were routed by the barrage. The strike was voted April 8
and publication of the News-Herald was discontinued April 8, when the plant was plcketedr-IIN
Caples Is Freed .
In Beating Case
Found not Guilty; Defense
Says Grudge of Garner
Accusation Cause
PORTLAND, Ore., May 27-P-A
circuit court jury which de
liberated less than four hours
found Robert F. Caples, Colum
bia river pilot and former mem
ber of the state pilots commis
sion, innocent of a charge of as
sault with a dangerous weapon. .
Caples, arrested in an elaborate
state-wide campaign against al
leged labor terrorists, was "accused
in. connection with the beating
of Captain J. L. Jaeobsen, inde
pendent pilot. -. .i -jt -Jt , ;
In a closing argument. District
Attorney I James : Bain declared
Caples was "dictator of the Co
lumbia river, and had' become
"drunk with power." Caples, Bain
asserted,, had overlooked no op
portunity to keep independent pi
lots, not j members of the AFL
masters, mates and pilots union,
from piloting boats.
Bain accused Caples of being
the higher-up in the beating of
Jaeobsen and Captain L. O. Hos
ford, another pilot, last Septem
ber, j
Former ! Governor Oswald
West and Circuit Judge James P.
Stapleton jled a parade of charac
ter witnesses to testify for the
defense earlier in the day.
Defense Attorney Ash by C.
Dickson asserted Edwin L. Gar
ner, former official of the union,
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Boys and Stolen
Yacht not Found
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 37.-CT-Three
young boys rode
further on the highroad of ad
venture tonight aboard a stolen
yacht with coast guard craft and
merchantmen scouting the seas
for them.
Where the 53-foot diesel
motored sloop "Tlra" and Its
crew Lyle Tara. 17; James Hen
nlnger, 17. and Bill Grace, 16
were headed no one knew. Prob
ably Honolulu, their parents
guessed. I
Nor did anyone know how well
the trim craft was provisioned
but Mrs.) Paul Tara said her son
had been taking provisions to nis
rowboat for several days prior to
his disappearance, apparently ij
preparation for a trip of some
kind. It (was .believed - the other
boys also had been laying in
groceries.
The boys and the sloop. proD-
erty of Lew K. Foote, creamerv
operator,: first were missed Wed
nesday night.
Food Distribution Program
At Relief Center Improved
A new system of foodstuffs dis
tribution to Marion county relief
clients designed to eliminate the
likelihood of partiality being
shown and. to simplify this serv
ice will go into effect next Wed
nesday, Glenn C. Niles, executive
secretary of the relief committee,
announced yesterday.
Permanent commodity cards
entitling the holders to the cus
tomary once a month call on the
relief warehouse for surplus fed
eral commodities are being sent
out to all eligible relief families.
Carrying these cards, the relief
recipients will no longer be forced
to call on the relief case workers
every month to secure food requi
sitions. Instead they will present
their cards directly at the ware
house counter and receive what
ever commodities are on hand.
To prevent recurrence of claims
STRIKE WDS AFTER CLASH
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UP Track Raising
To Give 300 Jobs
; HOOD RIVER, May 27. -JP)-The
Union Pacific railway an
nounced today plans i for a
$1,500,000 project, to raise the
tracks between Cascade Locks and
The Dalles to clear the Columbia
river high water level created by
Bonneville- dam.
The Job will employ about 300
laborers and 60 engineers ind
skilled workers for approximately
two years. ;
Construction has begun on spur
tracks to accommodate three work
trains.
. The chamber of commerce here
has listed vacant houses avail
able for engineers and ' tech
nicians. .
J6ni&-Piekeddor-
Conservation Post
OSC Graduate to Succeed
Dennison as Assistant 4
: County Secretary f ?
The Marion county agricultural
conservation committee, Albert
Girod chairman, has selected Rob
ert Jones, who Monday graduates
from Oregon State college, as as
sistant secretary of the- soil con
servation setup here. - i j
Jones succeeds John Dennison,
who has been working under Sec
retary Harry L, Riches. Dennison
resigned to accept a civil service
appointment as agronomist with
the US engineers in Pennsylvania.
Dennison left last night for that
state. ;. ,' - j -
Jones will assume his duties
here June 1. He has majored in
farm crops at the state college
and has had experience with the
soil conservation program
through supervision work done
the past three summers for the
Benton county soil program. He
is a Benton county young man.
The soil program is carried on
through the office of County Ag
ent Riches. ; ,
Taxpayers Upheld
On Ledfordt Cost
ST. HELENS, May 27-P)-Cir-
cuit judge it. Frank Peters de
nied a demurrer, filed by the
state, to a taxpayers action to en
Join Columbia county from pay
ing witness fees for the trial of
Mrs. Agnes Ledford, convicted of
poisoning a stepdaughter.
Plaintiffs claimed violation of
a law limiting witnesses called at
the county's expense to five, The
district attorney and : defense
counsel contended the statute was
obsolete. : .
that partiality has been shown as
to Quantity and variety of food
stuffs given out, the relief ad
ministration will set up fixed quo
tas based on the sise of the fam
ily. The commodities will then be
doled out in accordance with these
quotas and the sixe of the family
Involved as shown by its perms
nent order card. , ;
.The system is expected to save
relief clients considerable time
formerly lost in awaiting an op
portunity to see case workers
every month to secure food requi
sitions and to give the latter more
time for other work by relieving
them of the. onerous task of de
termining the terms of the " re
quisitions formerly given each
client eligible for them.
One hundred forty-seven fami
lies representing 581 persons
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Tennessee Battle
Of Ballots Raging
Governor Sets up Police
Force, Orders Seizure
of Election Books '
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 27-
-Gov. Gordon Browning swiftly
set up a special state police force
here today, charging "citizens are
being threatened, assaulted and
intimidated" in this stronghold
of his political enemy, E. Hi
Crump, the Memphis leader.
M. N. Lowry, 39-year-old for
mer railroad special agent, was
named acting chief of the new
unit, created under a 1919 law
never before Invoked. Lowry im
mediately swore in30 to 40 spe-
iajomcera; afia-ilndicatedrd
more mignt be added. - ,
Sheriff Guy Joiner and. Clifford
Davis, Memphis police and fire
commissioner, greeted the an
nouneement of the state police
organization with defiance.
Should these so-called state
police show up in this county car
rying pistols," declared the sher
iff, "I will put every one of them
in Jail."
Crump, for years a dominating
Influence in Tennessee politics,
supported Browning when he was
elected two years ago, Selby coun
ty (Memphis) giving Browning
about 60,000 of 61,000 primary
Totes, but the two later fell out.
Browning Is a candidate for re-
nomination in the August 4 demo
cratic primary and Crump is sap-
porting Prentiss Cooper of Shelby
ville. Browning also ordered his own
county election commissioners to
day to seize control of the election
machinery of Shelby county.
Crickets Advance
In Black Hordes
SHERIDAN. Wvo.. Mar
-Three towns in the heart of the
western cattle country today stag
ed a wild roundup but it was
crickets and not dogies the citi
zens sought to control.
By the millions the black
hordes defied the poison guns of
nastily mobilized relief workers
and marched on Sheridan and
Farkman and Ranchester, north
of here.
The insects climbed a "ring of
steel" that townspeople had erect
ed near Sheridan to turn them
back and keDt on toward town.
Tonight they had reached the
railroad tracks on the north of
the city where they momentarily
were halted.
At Ranchester and Parkman
the cricket lighters poured oil on
irrigation ditches that flanked the
towns on the side from which the
invasion was threatened. Tempos
arily this maneuver halted the
crawling hordes. .
Part of McKenzie
Pass Open Sunday
BEND, May 27 - (ff) W. S.
Hodge, maintenance engineer for
the state highway department, es
timated four days would be re
quired to complete opening the
McKenzie highway by clearing the
big cut east, of the lava beds of
snow. ..,'.
- The Clear Lake detour around
the McKenzie Summit will be
open for. travel Sunday.
Homing Pigeon Rests at
Postoffice in Tillamook
TILLAMOOK, May 27.-6PHA
homing pigeon, possibly partici
pating in national airmail ob
servance, walked into the post
office here. It rested over night
and continued northward.
Three Largest
Firms
to
es
General, Ford, Chrysler
; Accused of Sherman
Law's Violation
Financing Companies Are
: Injured, Is Claim in
- Indiana True Bills
SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 27.
(JP)A federal grand jury returned
indictments here late t od a y
charging three large automobile
companies with conspiracy to vio
late the Sherman anti-trust law:
The Indictments named Gen
eral Motors Corp., Ford Motor
Co., and Chrysler Corp., their af
filiated finance companies and 50
individuals. .
They charged the companies
with conspiring to promote mo-,
nopoly by coercing dealers to fi
nance car sales through the com
panies' own finance firms, Dist.
Atty. James R. Fleming said.
Charges' against the three mo
tor companies were contained in
three separate Indictments. These
alleged the district attorney said,
that the companies conspired to
ward "stifling and interfering
with Interstate commerce for pro
motion of monopoly" and that
their action caused "irreparable
damage" to small automobile fi
nance companies.
One indictment was against tha
General Motors Co., the. General
Motors Sales Corp., the General
Motors Acceptance Corp., and 19
individuals, including Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr., and William S. Knul
sen. Another named the Ford Motor
Co., the Universal Credit Corp..
and its divisions, and Edsel Ford
and 12 other individuals.
A third was against the Chrys
ler Corp., the Chrysler Sales
Corp., the Dodge Brothers Co.,
me jjesoto Motor vorp.; me Ply
mouth Motor Corp., and the Com
v; (Turn to page 2, col. 1) "
Last ; of Pipeline
Cases Nears End
Progress In the settlement of
the last of the disagreements over
right-of-way damans alonsr the
Salem-Stayton water supply pipe
line was reported at last night's
water commission. A special com
mittee consisting of Commission
ers E. B. Grabenhorst and O. A.
Olson said they hoped to be able
to announce next week that com
plete releases based on final pay
ments to be agreed upon soon had
been secured from five members
of the Porter family in the Aums
ville district. '
The Porters and C. F. Hein,
relative by marriage, chose to ac
cept right-of-way-easement con
tracts leaving settlement for dam
age from rock left along the line
until after completion of the pro
ject .whereas a majority of prop
erty owners preferred an . alter
nate course of settling in advance.
Little other business was trans
acted at the brief special meet
ing. The commission ordered that
all customers be notified that the
new summer reduced rates were
in effect. .
Churches Council
Declared Radical
MILWAUKEE, May 27 - VP) -Dr.
Frank J. Norria. i
National Fundamentalist conven
tion, assailed the Federal Coun
cil of Churches of Christ in Amer
ica today as commnntatii nt
modern tatic.
The Detroit and Fort Worth
minister uttered his denunciation
while the Northern Bantist con
vention was In session in a near
by hall.; The Northern Baptists
are affiliated with the federal
council.;
"This council la a large radi
cal pacifist organization. It prob
acy represents 20,000.000 Pro
testants in the United Ktato Hn
its leadership consists of a small.
radical group -which dictates its
policies.
"I saw with sit own cve offi
cials of the federal council of
churches promote the sitdown
striae last year in Michigan and
this sitdown strike is the princi
pal cause of the d resent denres-
sion. -.' .
Kenneth Caisse Given -
Scabbard, Blade Avcard
CORVALUS. May 27-UPVKen-
neth Caisse, Salem, received in
fantry ana Scabbard and Blade
awards at Governor Charles H.
Martin's review of the ROTC at
Oregon State college.
C. E. Stelnke. Salem, received
the Scabbard and Blade award
Germa
Attacks
Peace I
Only one new Incident
Student Rally Postponed, Also Parliament
Session due to Question of Demands
BERLIN, May 27 (AP)
press today ceased abruptly to
and western ; democracies ..'it
sympathies.
The lull in the war-like talk was said in official quarters
to be due to Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's firm determination
to preserve peace in spite of "pro -
vocations" by the Czechoslovaks.
Among these "provocations"
were the defense preparations of
last week and alleged border vio
lations by military, airplanes. ;
The only new Incident reported
today was in Kaplice (Kaplitr),
north of Linz, where an Austrian
German farmer allegedly was ill
treated by Czechoslovak soldiers
because he could not produce his
Identity card.
It. was announced a rally
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On Shelton Ditch
City Officials Object to
Hit-and-Miss Method of
Flood Control
. The county court yesterday re
ceived a proposal from a delega
tlon of Salem city officials that
it join in , the employment of an
experienced' drainage engineer to
survey the Shelton ditch situation
and make recommendations as to
a solution of the recurring win
ter .flooding profblem It his . ere-.
ated. . jMtri.vi--.' - " -
Mayor V. " E., Kuhn told ' the
court he believed it foolish for
the city to continue hit-and-miss
operations along the ditch and
said a real solution to the prob
lem should be sought. He ex
pressed the opinion that the first
improvement needed was design
and construction of a permanent
diversion works at the head of
Shelton ditch, which starts from
Mill creek southeast of the peni
tentiary. . Court members indicated they
were inclined to agree with - the
city and both groups decided the
state should be asked to join in
the selection and hiring of an
engineer. The state maintains a
diversion dam on Mill creek to
take water through its peniten
tiary -power plant.
Alderman Fred A Wiiliams,
chairman of the city council sew
erage and drainage committee,
and i Alderman E. B. Perrlne,
chairman of the street committee,
also attended the conference.
Cells at Prison
Here Said 'Worst'
PORTLAND, May 27 -(A?)-Dr.
Phillip A. Parsons of Eugene, cit
ing a need of prison reform in
Oregon at a civic club meeting to
day, described cell blocks at the
state prison at Salem as among
the worst in the United States.
. The prison, he asserted, con
tained 30 more prisoners than its
supposed maximum capacity and
many cells designed for but one
inmate contained two or three.
He urged that advocates of
prison reform organize to go be
fore the next session of the legis
lature to demand desired action.
Survey
Proposed
President Allows lax Bill
To Become Law; Won't Sign
ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN
EN ROUTE TO HYDE PARK,
May 27-(r-PresIdent Roosevelt
let the new tax bill become a law
ithout his signature tonight.
adopting this unusual procedure
as a means of calling "the definite
attention of the American people"
to what he considered twa vital
defects.' . --"...-;
The measure, he said, may re
store "certain forms of tax avoid
ance, because . it retains but a
remnant of the old tax on profits
which corporations hold In their
treasuries instead of disbursing as
dividends upon which stockhold
ers must pay income tax.
And, secondly, he asserted. It
"actually abandons' the principle
of dividing the cost of government
among those best able to pay. He
said. that under the capital gains
section the tax rate Is the same
whether the increase in personal
wealth be $5,000 or 1500,000.
Congress, he said, should "un
dertake a broader program of im
proving the federal tax system" at
its next session. -
h Press Ceases
slJpbh Czechs;
MovesMutual
Occurs; Sudeten German's
As if by order, the German
blast against Czechoslovakia
accused of pro-Czechoslovak
O
Troops on Trail
Of Rebel Cedillo
Leader's Airplane Forced
Down; Flight Caused by
Surprise Attack
. SAN LUIS POTOSI. Mexico
May, 2 l.-JPy-Federal government
aviators today forced down an
airplane carrying Rebel Gen,
Saturnino Cedillo, who fled with
five followers.
.'Troops virtually surrounded
the site of the forced landing, at
Estanzuela, about nine miles
northwest of here.
" Cedillo and hta followers
jumped from the 'plane and fled
Into thick brush.
Reports reached San Luis
Potosl that the rebel chieftain had
been jeaptured. but they were not
coniirmea oinciaiiy. in lleelng
Cedillo left behind five suitcases,
Federal troops under Gen. Lu
cas Gonzales set out immediately
to trail the fugitives. -
Cedillo, rightist foe of Presi
dent Lazaro Cardenas radical
Mexico-for-Mexicans program, was
said to have made a hurried take
off when a federal force surprised
him and a band of hia followers
in the rugged Huasteca hill coun
try of San Luis Potosi state. '
. Twelve federal airplanes start
ed in , pursuit from San Luis
Potosl," and when news of the
forced landing was received here
Infantrymen were sent out in
trucks.
Tribal Dances to
End Celebration
Stands were well, filled for the
second night of the Indian cele
bration at Chemawa last night.
ins aiiair closes tonignt witn a
program of tribal dances and
award of prizes. Sunday morning
at 11 the commencement exer
cises will be held in the chapel
with James Arenson, of Washing
ton, D. C, supervisor in Industrial
training in the bureau of Indian
affairs, as speaker.
For the Friday night program
music was furnished by the band
of West Linn high school. A brief
talk on the work of the school
at Chemawa in relating the In
dian youth to the white man's
culture was made by C A.
Sprague. Mr. Arenson brought the
greetings of Indian Commissioner
John Collier. The pageant first
presented Thursday night. was re
peated.
Midget Car Racer Hurt
PORTLAND, May 27-W)-Inter.
nal. injuries were suffered last
night by Jack' Spaulding, midget
automobile racer, when his car
overturned on the Jantzen beach
speedway. Hospital attaches said
his condition was not serious.
But, meanwhile, he declared
that the bill before him contained
features which were of such value
that he found it Impossible to veto
the measure.
- The president picked an unus
ual forum, for his remarks on the
complicated subject. They were
mada today in an address to the
graduating class of the high
school at the federal subslstance
homesteads, Arthurdale, W. Va.
In his speech, Mr. Roosevelt
said:
"You will see the difficulty In
which your - president has been
placed. . : :
Thls tax bill continues fea
tures that ought to become law,
but it contains several undesir
able features, especially the ones
I have just been talking about. -
"If I sign the bill ... many peo
ple will think I approve the aban
donment of an Important princi
ple of American taxation. It I vt
to the bill it will prevent many of
the desirable features of it from
going into effect. .
Says Brutally
Handled; Chief
Denies Charge
Congressman Is Scared,
. Welcomes Protection
of Officers, Held
But Montanan Declares
Crowd Was for Him ;
Several Injured
JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 27-()-Rep.
Jerry O'Connell, (D
Mont), bitter foe of Mayor Frank
Hague, made a brief appearance
at Pershing field tonight but was
whisked away by police before he
could deliver a prepared speech
assailing the state democratic
leader. .
. Taken by automobile to a po
lice station two blocks from the
stadium, he was closeted for a few
minutes with high police offi
cials and then taken to the Jour
nal Square station of the Hudson
and Manhattan railroad.
From there he took a train to
Newark to visit New Jersey CIO
Director J. Carney before return
ing to Washington. Earlier O'
Connell said he planned to leave
Washington June 2 for Butte,
Mont.
While in Newark he unleashed
a verbal blast at Jersey City po
lice officials, charging he was
"handled very brutally." Direc
tor of Public Safety Daniel Casey
of Jersey City, in a statement,
quickly denied the charge.
"We're taking his home," said
Casey as he left the Central Ave.
station with O'Connell. "He want
ed to go home. He's perfectly sat
isfied. He says the police treated
him fine."
CIO Member Found
In Dazed Condition
Later, spokesmen for the com
mittee sponsoring O'Connell's ap
pearance said Sam Macrl, sub-regional
CIO director for New Jer
sey, was found "in a dazed condi
tion" "at Pershing field "by CIO '
members. ,
The Montana democrat had
planned to defy the city ordinance
prohibiting public speeches and
meetings without permits., He ap
peared at police-guarded Persh
ing field shortly after 7 p. m,
(EST). A crowd estimated by po
lice at between 10,000 and 15,000
were there and some Quick'y
recognized him. -
Some yelled to him to make
his speech.- Others shouted "kill
him," "throw hlna out." The
erowd surged toward him and
fists flew. Police rushed in.
grabbed O'Connell Tind sped him
to a waiting car. It was all over
in a few moments.- -fV
Asked later If tnrnne had hit
him, O'Connell said, "Nope, not
a souL"
Says Congressman
Was JIuoh Pleased
Capt. William V. McLaurhlin.
commanding officer of the nre-
cinct where O'Connell was taken,
said the congressman "was very
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Hop Meeting Set .
Here June 17-18
FORTLAND. Mav 27fmC. v.
Paulus. secretary of the n rrenn.
Californla-WashJnbton hop grow
ers committee, said today hear
ings on a nroDOsed marVptin
agreement and order regulating r
me crop would be held at Santa
Rosa. Calif.. June 14-1 K- at sa.
lem, Ore., June 17-1 8-and at Yak
ima, Wash., June 20.
The proposed program would
b administered thrnnch mn.
tror" committee consisting of two
growers from each state. on
grower-dealer, two dealers, three
brewers and a 13th mem hoi tn ha
chosen by the remaining membert
ox me committee.
Expenses of oDeratinn innH h
borne by each handler on the ba
sis of his share of the total linns
shipped. ;
Portland's Trade
Has Slight Fall
PORTLAND, May 27.-UP-A
further slight drop in retail trade
for the week was reported tod.'y
by Dun's review. .
Men's -clothing sales were 12
per cent under the previous wek
while women's wear retained for
mer status. Farm equipment.
leading the machinery and equip
ment fields, was .13 per cent un
der last year. Automobile sala
remained 5 per cent under 193 7.
There was little Improvement
in unemployment.
$70,000 Dormitory Plan
For St. Helen's School
PORTLAND, May 27-;T-The
Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, Epis
copal Bishop, said a 170,000 dor
mitory would be constructed at
St. Helen's hall, denomlnationa.'
school for girls.