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"Weekend Sports The "most Important porta events occur on Sat nrdny. Tlte Sunday . aport section brings yon the news n day ahead of other cover age. The Weather .Partly cloudy today and . Monday, normal - tempera ture; Max. Temp, fcatnr dy 6, Mia. 62.. rivet 2-7 feet, rain .01 Inch, west erljr wind. kv POUNDDD 1651 ElUilTY-EHJilTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 29, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands Sc No. 54 .Peace OBe i di IrLiUn fotc lm MtfMeSM gMees Memorial Day .Observance m City Arranged Only one Civil War Vet Is Expected to Ride in Monday Parade Events Today, Monday to Honor Departed; Dr.' Riley Is Speaker Salem todav will turn back once more to honor the nation's de fenders as the Federated Patriot ic Societies' two-day memorial ob- prvance ODens. This morning patriotic organ izations will attend special serv ices at the American Lutheran church in a body, at the invitation of Rev. P. V. Eriksen. pastor. In the afternoon Boy Scouts under direction of the Women's Kelief corps will place flowers on the graves of GAR and WKC mem bers. Flags will be set up on. the crave thla CTenlnZ. Tho memorial observance prop- er will start at 10 a.m. Aionaay with ceremonies at the GAR cir cle in City View cemetery con ducted by the WRC, with allied groups assisting, and followed by similar rites at the American Le gion circle. After a dinner at the Argo ho tel, the WRC at 1 o'clock Mon day will conduct services on the Salem-West Salem bridge bon er of members of the navy and marine's who have gone beyond, l'arade and Armory Exercise Arranged The Memorial day parade will move from Marion square at 2 p. m. Monday in five sections, with five bands, under the command of Col. Carle Abranis, grand mar shal.; The line of march will be south on Commercial, to State, east to Liberty, north io Court, test to High, south to the War Mothers monument for ceremon ies, west on State to Liberty. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Accord Is Likely On Cannery Wage SEATTLE. May 28 (JP) Ne gotiators in the dispute between fruit and vegetable cannei and the Washington state council of cannery workers r.nnounced to night completion of a proposed contract which w'll be submitted to Individual unions for action by next Thursday night. William S. Cahill, secretary of the Associated Producers and Packers. Inc., and O. I. Williams, secretary of the cannery workers council, said terms of the con tract Included: -Wages of 40 cents an hour minimum for women an? 50 cents for men, an increase of 2H cents over the scale origin ally proposed by packers for this season. 0 dditics . . . in the News WASHINGTON, May 28 -Representative Havenner (D, Cal.) made congressional history today even If he did not establish a precedent he turned back to the government 11200 allowed him for traveling expenses. The Californlan said he did not . feel Justified In keeping the money. He received a similar amount for traveling to and from the spe cial session of congress last De cember and, although he went home for Christmas, he said he had enough of the money left to get home after this session. - Members of congress receive a travel allowance of 20 cents a mile. Some contend this leaves them Min the red" because they have to bring their families with them. WATHEXA, Kaa May 28-(p)-lired prices dropped to one-half cent a loaf In a bakers' price war today. One grocer quit handling bread and placed a plate of pennies on a counter for the benefit of customers who wished to bay from his com petitors. ATHENS, Ga., May 27 - (J) -Pretty "Jerrr" Rivers. 17-year-old daughter of Georgia!s gover nor, asserted tonight with a toss of her head she wouldn't let politics interfere with her friend ship with lS-year-old Jack Mang "ham of Bremen. They've been "keeping com pany" since last fall. Today Maug ham's father. J. J. Mangham, an nounced he'd run for governor and criticised the Rivers admini stration. Tonight Rivers an nounced for reelection. "It won't make any difference as far as I'm concerned and I hope it won't as far as Jack's concerned," said Miss Rivers, a University of Georgia student. US Ear -7 - DamLJe not Extensive Large Crowd Gathers as Firemen by Speedy Work Save Prime Building; Blaze Starts in Fish Market; Fighting Difficult Ghosts of early Oregon legislators probably took wing with the smoke that poured from the old Oregon legislative hall at South Commercial and Ferry streets shortly before 7 o'clock last night, fire catching in the ceiling of the Salem Fish & Poultry market in the northernmost part of the hall and spreading upward along the floor of the Commercial ; . -o hotel. Hearing Upon Hop Agreement Is Set June 17, old High School; Control Board Plan Is Revealed in Part I SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (&) Public hearings on the pro posed marketing agreement and order for i growers of heps in Oregon, Washington and Cali fornia were announced here to day by the I AAA. The hearings will open at 9:30 June 14 at Santa Roa. Other meetings will be held June 17. in the old senior high school auditorium) at Salem, Ore., and June 20 in Yakiuia, Wash The triple-A j announcement stated hop growers have been faced with a erlous surpluus problem inj recent "ears, and that more than. 85 per cent of the growers In the jvest coast states have requested the hearii gs. The proposed marketing con trol would set up a control board of 13 , members and alternates, composed of two grower-members from each f-tate, one grower-dealer member living in the producing area, two dealer mem bers, three brewer-member and one member who is neither grow er, dealer nor brewer. - , A growers' allocation commit tee of : six j grownr .members and one grower dealer of the control board would fix allotments. There would be also advisory commit tees of 12 grower-members in all three states. Officials Facing Technical Arrest SOUTH BEND. Ind., May 28-(,!P)-Dist. Atty. James R. Fleming said today officials of the Gen eral Motors corporation, Ford Mo tor Co. and Chrysler corporation would be taken Into "nominal cus tody" on grand Jury Indictments charging them with conspiracy to violate the Sherman antl-trust law. j ? Individuals and companies named in the Indictments, re turned late yesterday, will begin posting bonds with Judge Thom as W. Slick Tuesday, Fleming said. : i The Indictments charge coer cion of dealers and discrimina tion against independent finance firms in operation by the the three manufacturers of their own fi nance concerns. The maximum penalty for vio lation of the anti-trust law is one year's imprisonment or a $5000 fine, or both. Diphtheria Spreads at Klamath; One Is Dead l ' : KLAMATH FALLS, May 28-(JPy-A. sudden outbreak of diph theria which has already caused one death resulted In rnshing of an emergency supply of serum here today In an army plane from Vancouver, Wash., barracks. Ma jor Burrows piloted the ship, which replaced a depleted local supply of medicine. - Wieder and Windishar Will Drop Relief Committee Jobs Marlon j county is losing the services of its two oldest citizen relief committee members In point cf service, Chairman E. I Wieder and T. A. Wrindishar. It became known for punll-atlon yesterday.! Both committeemen early in the week submitted their resignations to Got. Charles H. Martin., j The governor's office declined to comment on the resignations or to Indicate what had been done toward selecting sncccspors. Both men were appoint d by Got. Julius Mater, Winder as chairman ! four years ago. and Windishar earlier in the Meier administration, when the first semi-official relief comn-lttees were being set np throughout the state. Mr. Wieder yesterday said advice of ! his physician was the principal 'reason for his rr sign ing. Windishar, who has taken Menaces y.pitol" Here; In earlier Oregon days nsed as the state's law-making chambers, but now housing a feed store, cigar store, shoe repair shop and a fish market downstairs, with the upstairs given over to a hos telry, the building, described by firemen as a veritable firetrap, was saved only by quick action of the Salem fire department. 1 Two. pumpers, with lines out to each, and the aerial ladder truck that the department hastily brought into play, soon had better than 500 people gathered along South Commercial- street. Firemen, - including Fire Chief Buck Hutton, who, being off shift (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) ; Berry Pool Sold At Higher Figure 60 Tons to Be Packed at Woodburn; Warehouse in South Burns WOODBURN, May 28 ; The Woodburn Fruit Growers Cooper ative today sold lis Marshall strawberry . pool, estimated ; at about 60 tons, to a California packing company. The price was 5 cents a pound. pl.ua a 2 per cent carrying charge.,,.,.. , -- The cooperative also leased its barrelling equipment to the Cali fornia eompany, which will pack the berries here. Pending actual signing of the contract which was made orally by telephone, the company's iden tity was not revealed by officers of the co-op. The price indicates a lift in the market, since 4'i cents has been about the top quotation, f h i SACRAMENTO, May 2&-JF)-Six million cans of fruit end veg etables, Including a large ship ment destined for the i United States navy, was almost totally destroyed late this afternoon when flames swept the main ware house of the Bercut-Richards packing plant, one of the nation's largest. ; . . j ; Company officials valued the warehouse's stock at 11,500,000. Fire chief M. S. Dumphy said he was doubtful if any of the stock could be saved, but that firemen had confined the flames from spreading to the remainder of the plant. - - 1 (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Ocean Vessels to Reach The Dalles PORTLAND, May 28 (JP) The first " ocean-going vessel will pass through Bonneviil dam locks into the Middle Columbia river July 9. George Stadelman of The Dal les, executive vice president of the Mid-Columbia Bonneville dedication committee, paid the McCormick steamer Charles L. Wheeler Jr. would make the voy age on that date and participate in the dedication ' ceremoa'M. ; The event will mark the j es tablishment of the , farthest : in land port on the west const at The Dalles, 200 miles from the sea. . . , : a prominent part in financial campaigns for the Boy Scouts. Red Cross and osher, similar or ganizations, had for some time felt that the ' -elief committee work was taking more of ' his time than he could affo;d to give. - 1 : ! The relief organization has ef fected In large part the ir com mendations which the grax.-d Jury made. It has revised Its office organization to reduce delay - In handling cases, has as of Juno 1 greatly improved Its system of has secured promise f rem the state - relief committee of addi tional staff members, and has arranged for new, excellent ac comodations for many of it care cases, at the Hubbard Mineral Springs! sanatorium. The , relief com mil tee -consists of thef three county tmirt mem bers add four citizens, of whom J. F. Ulrich and George W. Potts are the two remaining.- , . Negro Admits Brick Slaying; Others Traced Nixon, Held in Chicago, Also Implicated in Murder in West Was Near Scene of Last Mystery Death, Says Other Is Guilty - CHICAGO. May 28-tP)-ChIef of Detectives John L. Sullivan said tonight a phlegmatic 18-year-old negro, Robert Nixon, alias Thomas Crosby, had confessed slaying one woman and was im plicated in the slaylngs oi two otner women ana a tin. Sullivan announced after hours of questioning that Nixon admit ted he was the "mirror killer" of Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, 24. brunette night club hostess who was fatally beaten in her ho tel room on June 29, 1936. Nixon admitted, Sullivan said. that he and another negro. Earl Hicks, 19, were in the south side apartment where Mrs. Florence Johnson, 34, a city fireman's wife, was beaten to death early yester day. Sullivan said Nixon and Hicks each blamed the other for the fatal Johnson slugging. Fingerprints link Him With LA Slaying The detective chief added that Los Angeles police telephoned him to" say Nixon's fingerprints, rushed "to the west coast i today, corresponded with those .found at the scene in Los Angeles where Mrs. Edna Worden and 'her daughter, Marguerits, 12, were slain April 4, 1937. Detectives questioned Nixon In tensively about another killing, of Anne Kuchta, a nurse fatally beaten In her room at the Chicago hospital Aug. 20, 1937. The Castle, Johnson and Kuch ta slayings, as well as the Los An geles deaths were almost identical in nature a night prowler stole Into sleeping rooms and slugged his victims to death with a brick, Investigators in all the cases had attributed the brutal crimes to sex delinquents. Chief Sullivan said that despite the fingerprint identification Nix on denied the Los Angeles kill ings and more than a dozen at tacks on women there about which he was questioned. The chief said Nixon related that he and his friend. Hicks, set out to burglarize the Johnson apartment and that Mrs. Johnson was slugged "because she scream ed." He said Nixon denied slay ing Miss Kuchta but talked free ly about the Castle crime. Precincts Headed By Commonwealth . PORTLAND, May 28-)-Mon-roe Sweetland, executive secretary of the Oregon Commonwealth fed eration, said today the organiza tion had elected at least 200 pre cinct committeemen to the Mult nomah county democratic central committee. He predicted the total would be Increased when write-in Totes were announced In precincts where no candidates filed. The maximum membership Is 876. "I . . . think that our one-third voting strength will be solid and perhaps will have greater numer ical effect than appears because we will get our people out to cen tral committee meetings," Sweet land said. Potato Marketing : Hearings Are Set I CORVALLIS, May 2S.-ffy-Federal AAA headquarters an nounced in a telegram to Oregon State college extension officials today public hearings on proposed potato marketing agreements . af fecting Oregon and 16 other states would be held in Klamath Falls June 15 and in Redmond Jane 17. ' The proposed agreement, which follows the general outline of those in force in other states last season, provides a flexible plan, adjustable to local situations. Diamond Lake Route to Crater Lake Park Open GRANTS PASS. May 28-;P)-High way officials said today that the Diamond lake route to Crater lake is open to one-way traffic over a 17-mile stretch with two way traffic from the Crater lake highway to Muir creek, a 10-mlle connecting stretch. There are no overnight accommodations at the lake yet. " .. . , BORDER BARRICADED IN CZECH CRISIS Clzi "'" J Killing of two German farmers by police near the German-Czechoslovakian border at Fer, an incident which precipitated a grave International crisis, resulted in impromptu barricades being erected. Farm cards compose vtbe barricade shown in the picture. Europe has been fearing an outbreak which would precipitate general war, more seriously in the past week than previously, but the tension was eased - materially Saturday. . - j Oppose Dictation Is Landon9s Plea Practical Liberals Should Rally to Republicans' Banner, Declares NIAGARA FALLS. NY, May 28 (Py Former Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas called on the republi can party tonight to resolve to "free this country from all op pressive dictation," whether by government, industry, finance or labor. Addressing the annual New -Jotk ' stte Young Republican clubs convention, Landon declar ed the republican party, equally with the democratic . party, "de rives from Thomas Jefferson, the individualist; the decentralist, the opponent of oppression, and the enemy of omnipotent planning." "The republican party must re member that Jefferson fought not only government oppression, but all economic oppression as well," he said. : Calling his speech "the oppor tunity of Uhe republican party," the 1936 republican standard bearer declared that the party might attract "practical liberals" by opposing oppression. The party, he continued, "must resolve to free this country from all oppressive dictation, whether by bureaucratic officials or finan cier, whether by industrialist or by labor leaders, whether by pub lic money or by private money, whether by the forceof the mili tia or by the force of the mob. "If the republican party Can take so broad and 'honest a view of its' mission," he continued, "It will last through a multitude of years. It will stand as a bulwark egainst hitherto unknown oppres sion in America. It will be of im measurable service in time of need." He continued: "I don't want to see the pendulum swing back to the dominant rampant individual Ism of old. Neither do I want to see it swing toward the complete elimination of individualism with the destruction of all the previous freedom that makes democracy. ; "None of ns wants to see eoci (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Three. Personi on g Seaplane VANCOUVER, B. C, May 28-(CP)-Ships in the Georgia strait were asked tonight to look for a big yellow seaplane, missing with three men and one woman aboard on' a routine flight from' Vancou ver to the little mining town of Zeballoa on ; Vancouver .island's west coast. ."o x The Canadian government sta tion at Estevan, Vanvouver is land, wirelessed all ships to look for the missing Ginger Coote air ways machine in the vicinity of Texada island where a fisherman reported seeing four flares be tween 11 p.m. and midnight last night. v ' ; The plane, piloted by Len Waa gen, was missing 36 hours, aboard, the machine were Mrs. George Nicholson, wife of the dep uty mining recorder and postmas ter at Zeballos, Charles R. Ram sey of Vancouver, and H. Boyd of Stevenston, B.C. i Ttcelve Patients Rescued ; In Agency Hospital Fire KLAMATH FALLS, May 28 (7P) Twelve patients were rescued from the Klamath agency hospi tal today when fire broke oat about 1 a. m., and swept swiftly through the kitchen and one end of the building, causing damage of 1000 before it was controlled. ,1 4: t f- t l ':-v.vwssfr'.'---'v'-'y Speaker Objects To WPA Mention In Class Slogan FORT COLLINS, Colo., May 28 (JP) Exception to the ac tion of the McClave, Colo., high school In publishing in the commencement Issue of its paper the banner head.ine, "WPA, Here We Come,' was taken by State Senator James R. Miller of Fort Collins, in a commencement address at the Haverly rural high school. "The statement used in a commencement publication is unfortunate," Miller said. 'It is unfortunate because it makes . burlesque . of the commence ment season -which, even In a . materialistic age, - should be permitted . to retain at least a vestige of hope and idealism. It is unfair because It nakes the WPA the eymbol of de spair and defeat, when as a matter of fact, despite its de fects, it is the only salvation of several millions of our peo ple at this time." Lewis Lubers, editor of "The Maverick" at McClave high school, turned out the gradu ation edition with this blight red headline: "McClave to Graduate 12 WPA, Here We Come!" Laundry Owners Elect MEDFORD, May 28.-(JP)-V7. C. Westaway, Portland, was elected president of the Oregon State Laundry Owners association at the closing session of their annual convention here today. Other officers named were: Irving Farrls, Klamath Falls, vice-president;' Duane C. Law rence, : Portland, secretary, re elected; iJack Weiss, The Dalles, treasurer; C. C. Stelnel, Corvallis. sergeant-at-arms; S. W, Law rence, Portland, advisory , board member national association. Executive committee: Wlllam ette valley district, Richard Khoe fel, Oregon City; Portland dis trict, George H. Rawllnson. Port land: eastern Oregon district, Don Robinson, Pendleton; southern Oregon district Glen Fabrick, Medford. Cambling Bill Defeated PORTLAND, May 28-7p)-Com-pletlon of the ; official count in the Portland city election last week revealed today that an anti- gambling ordinance sponsored by City Commissioner J. E. Bennett was defeated, 40.614 to 28.287. Westaway Hu 11 Rem inds Eu rope, Pea eel Pact Entered 10 Years Ago WASHINGTON, May lS-(Jpy-The United States government tried to keep central Enropean powers from each other's throats today by reminding them' that they had given their solemn word nearly 10 years ago to refrain from war. While Europe awaited anxious ly the outcome of Sudeten Ger mans" demands for autonomous powers in Czechoslovakia, Secre tary of State Hall called a spe cial press conference to exert this government's moral influence for a peaceful settlement. He said: ... "With reference to the criUcal situation Involving countries in central Europe, X desire to say that the government of the Unit ed States has been following re cent developments with close and anxious attention. 'Nearly . 10 years ago the goT ernment of the United States Steady Cains Are Made by Chinese Lanfeng Center of Major Fighting; Hold Ford of Yellow River SHANGHAI, May 29-(Sunday)- () Chinese made steady gains toady in their central front coun tei-of tensive which has developed into .one of the heaviest engage ments of the undeclared war. -Major fighting centered about Ciinese brought one of the rare Japanese admissions of defeat. Besides taking Lanfeng, key to China's ancient capital, Kalfeng, on the Lnnghai railway, Chinese reported they had captured Lo wang, eight miles west of Lan feng. ' Chinese also said they held strategic Yellow river fords at Menghsien, 120 miles still far ther to the west. North of the river, Japanese were said to have abandoned Wenhsien. (At Peiping a Japanese spokes man said reinforcements were on their : way to the Lanfeng sector from the north, southeast and east. He said Japanese had aban doned Lanfeng voluntarily as part of their necessary strategy.) Japanese told of one success capture of the city of Keiteh a new- base for intensification of the Japanese drive westward toward Chengchow, Jnnct'on of the . Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow railways. . . The Chinese central front gains came as Canton rescue workers counted 1500 casualties in scuth China's most severe air bombard ment. Reports from Canton sa'd the dead in yesterday's air raids were estimated officially at 600 and the injured at 900. Horning Forester For Grant Lands WASHINGTON, May iS-JP)-Appointment of Walter H. Horn ing as acting forester nnder the general land office on the 2. 500,000 acres of Oregon and Cali fornia and the Coos Bay wagon road grant lands was announced today. ., t'. -; :v; . , . Horning will establish head quarters in Portland about June 1 and will be in charge of con servation of the lands. He has been with the national park ser vice since. 1935 and previously engaged . In logging work - in French forests. . . signed at Paris a treaty (the Kel-logg-Briand pact) providing for the renunciation of war as an In strument of national policy. . "There are now parties to that treaty no less than 63 countries. In that treaty the contracting par ties agree that 'the settlement or solution of all dispute or conflicts oi whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise' among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.' That pledge is no less binding now than when It was entered into. It Is binding upon aU of the parties. "We can not shut our eyes to the fact 'that any outbreak of hostilities anywhere' in the world injects into world affairs a fac tor of general disturbance that ultimate consequence of which no man can foresee and is liable to inflict upon all nations incalcula ,(Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Resume Talks Over Sudeten : is' Status Premier Hodza and two Delegates of German Party Conferring Precautions Against any Incidents in Election Today Are Taken PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, May 28.HLffHCzech08lovakiaB pro-naxl German minority and the govern ment suddenly resumed negotia tions today. The. surprise conference created general optimism on the eve of municipal elections. The republic tonight was bright with hope of an eventual under standing over the autonomy ds- mands of her 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans, backed by Germany la their troublous dealings with the Praha government. This was in sharp contrast to the mood of exactly one week ago when the country felt on the verge of war over the Sudetem problem and attendant disorders. Today's parley between 'Pre mier Milan-Hodza and two Sude ten Germans actually made some progress toward the goal of a workable compromise between the Sudeten German demands and the government's insistence upon se curity for the Czechoslovakian The progress was relatively small, the chief result of tha meeting being an agreement to convene regularly from now ea and really settle down to the busi ness of negotiating a permanent peace. But after the many disappoint ments of the oast, the mere fact the peace parleys were resumed, and the prospect of their actually continuing, made the weekend much brighter! ' Today's conferees. Premier Hodza for the government an! Ernst Kundt and Franz Peters, members of parliament, for tb Sudeten Germans, discussed bringing back to a normal status the German-Czechoslovak border, where thousands of Czechoslovak troops are on duty In connection with the election. " Tomorrow's-balloting In 2.7461 communities 700 of them prn- dominently G e r m a n was the center jot popular Interest. It will be the second of a series of three municipal elections. Last Sunday 1,500 communities voted, and. on June 12. 5,760 will, go to tho polls, 7,000,000 citizens voting la all. - With troops already occupying iub uui uci uiauicis ill wnicn ins majority of German communities are found, new measures to insure against political clashes during tha Vrvtlnir nnsatat 1 o I shifting of contingents of gen darmes from one section to an other. . Newspapers as an additional precaution published the official warning: "In order to avoid acci dents and misfortune, the public is requested not to approach mili tary objects'or military sentries." ;ents lake Puerto Escandon HENDAYE. France (At the Spanish frontier). May 28 HTH Insurgent troops fighting down the highway from Teruel to Sa gunto today reported the capture of Puerto Escandon, key to the Valencia coast.' ; ' Puerto Escandon was described as . "the last important govern ment defense' on the Teruel-Sa-gun to-Val?ncta highway. The government pressed Its as sault today against the insurgent front in Lerlda province at a hea vy cost of lives.- Insurgents reported only en company out of a government division-escaped death when' wave after wave of infantrymen sought to torm the defenses of TTemp, hydroelectric power .center 42 miles north of the provincial cap ital of Lerida. ' Marshfield Quake' Is Reported Light V BERKELEY, Calif.. May 28-(P)-Seismpgraphs in widely-scattered parts of the nation includ ing. Berkeley, Seattle, Pasadena and Washington, D. C. recorded earth shocks apparently from the Ticinity of Marshfield. Ore., early today but reports from that city indicated-there was no damage. The shock was felt at Marsh field at 2:15 a. m. Houses vi brated slightly. - Prof. Perry Byerly, University of California seismologist, said "a good-sized "earthquake" - lasted about 45 .minutes, beginning at 2:14:30 a. m Naz w insure