Vacation Season llany families will leave Boon on Tacatlon trips. Don't get out of touch with jour community's news. Have The Statesman follow you. The Weather Fair tod a 7, Thunwlay partly cloudy; Max. . Trmp. , Tuesday 70, 5Un. 43, river 1.2 feet, rain 0, northwest wind, clear. Lv Sv POUNDDD -1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, June 1, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 56 Ok o n TI UM1 11 XM OveFFKckuen hi senate " i : - S 76 'Ind Charges in Wallace Given Rebuke, Ruling By High Court Same Principle Declared Applied as in Other Stockyards Case' NLRB Is Upheld in Plea to Withdraw Case of Republic Steel WASHINGTON, May Sl.-K Six Justices of the supreme court, with Chief Justice Hughes f.s their spokesman, rebuked Secnv tary Wallace in sharp language today for contending the court 'had been inconsistent In a recent decision. Hughes called the contentions of the secretary of agriculture "unwarranted' His remarks were not addressed directly to Wallace, but were In the form of a cate gorical reply to Solicitor Gen. Robert H. Jackson, who had rep resented Wallace before the court. 1 At Issue was a recent decision of the supreme court invalidating a department of agriculture; order reducing commission fees at -the Kansas City stockyards. The court,' in an April decision also written by Hughes, held that Wallace Issued the order on tha basis of findings by government prosecutors without - giving the livestocks agents reasonable op-, portunity to contest the finding. Wallace used an unprece-, dented method of replying. He wrote a leter to Hughes in which be said, in effect, that the chief justice had reversed himself on a point of procedure approved by the court when the stockyards case. was before It on another oc casion. Jackson stressed this in appealing to the court for a re hearing of the case. Same Rule Decisive, Hughes Kmphasizes Hughes emphatically denied there had been a reversal. "Not only are the two decisions consistent,", he declared, "but the rule announced in our former opinion was applied and was .de cisive of the present appeal. And the government is in no position to claim surprise." . - Hughes was supported in his position by Justices Brandels, Stone, McReynolds. Butler and Roberts. Justice Black, one of President Roosevelt's appointees (Turn to page 2, col. 4) d d i t i c g in the Neua ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 31-(ff)-A 90-pound tarpon with a nasty disposition turned the ta ble on Fisherman S. L. Walker of Fass-a-Grllle. Hooked in the gulf south of here, fishermen said today the big "silver .king" flung Itself aboard Walker's boat and smacked him Into the water with its tail. While Walker floundered in the gulf, Keith Neville, former governor of Nebraska, subdued the sharp-toothed, thrashing tar pon on the boat deck with a ham mer. Walker got a bruised side from the fish. MOBILE, Ala., May 31-(AV Old engine No. 32 of the Mobile & Ohio railroad started herself n and toured out of the yards smack into a street last night without a pilot. The atreet in the wholesale business district was devoid of traffic at the time and about the only damage the veteran "Iron Horse" did before she de- ; railed was to smash down a fence. Trainmen conclnded the en gine's throttle was thrown often; by the force of leaking steam from her boiler. NEW YORK, May 31-(V11 may not be long before an auto mobile driver will swallow a cap sule to help keep him out of mo toring accidents at night. , That procedure was hinted at today in experiments reported on in an article in the Ohio Medical Journal. The capsule is filled with Caro-tene-ln-oli, a potent source of tI t&min A. Vitamin A Improves vi sion in the dark, reducing eye strain and fatigue, two big causes of motor smaihups. ' ' Use of the capsule as a "safe driving machine" was Indicated indirectly by the experimenters: Dr. Ralph C. Wise, eye specialist of Mansfield, O., and Dr. O. H. Sh at tier, of the medical depart ment of the Westingbouse Elec tric company. icteu fpon Mdcketeer Her Slaying Leads to Solutions ! Of Other "Brick Murder" Cases . i v """opoh" .jy . . . jf v. ... - V 2 4 IK i i Mrs. Flarrnce Joluasoil, 84, wlfeof a. Chicago fireman and motber of two children, was beaten to death with a brick, fifth attack-slaying in Chicago In three years. Investigation led to the arrest of Robert Nixon, 18, and Eari Hicks, 19, negroes, said by police to have - confessed. Nixon also admitted one other such murder, and was connected by fingerprints to one in California. IIX photo, i Guard Character, OSC Seniors Told Chicago Magazine Editor Sas Mind Depression Is Most Serious CORVALLIS, May 31-(')-Ore-gon State college seniors were cautioned against a depression in character j today In a commence ment address by Joseph Mason Artman of Chicago, editor of the magazine I "Character In Every Day Life. Artman, who ; urged college trained men to enter politics and public service, asserted the ab sence of character was more se rious than the economic recession. (Turn to page 2, col. 4) People on Relief Must Accept Jobs ; f PORTLAND, May 31-;p-The state relief committee said today that all employable persons re ceiving relief had to accept em ployment that the committee felt was suitable. County j relief committees were instructed to determine the num ber of persons on, relief. Some counties,. J. R. Luihn, chairman, said, have succeeded In , putting to work all employable persons who hadj received relief in the winter months. Luihn said i he expected season al work to help reduce the re maining lists. Salmon Run Failure Serious But Bonneville Is Absolved BONNEVILLE. Ore., May .31 (P) Fishermen, white and Indian alike who have lived for genera tions off the king of the rivers the royal Chinook salmon won dered fearfully today whether the world's greatest spring salmon run has vanished from the Colum bia river.! Above Bonneville dam, the gov ernment's $55,000,000 power, navigation and flood control pro ject, the i Indians at picturesque Celilo Falls, scene for ages of na tive fishing, looked at their empty nets and. said, dejectedly, with Sam Starr: . ;" -k "Once we used to catch about six tons a year; last year we did n't do so good; this year there are no fish." . -" Downstream at Astoria, home of one of the west's major fish ing fleets and a $10,000,000 In dustry where the great Columbia spreads seven miles wide, gill netters began racking their tackle and - canneries - curtailed opera Eastern ' 1 -: . . . . -.v. v.: . .- v - v. v. .- v .-. . . - 'fey. " , -j Building Permits Up 33 per Cent '-:-: "': ,fc ' . . I ' I ii .in - , jj , 5 First 5 Months for City Show Rise Over 1937; May Has $113,237 Building activity in Salem has been approximately 33 per cent better for the first five months of this year than It was for .the like period in 1937, figures pro duced by the city building in-, spector's office yesterday show. Last month, with 110 building permits granted, totaling 113, 237, went over the May, 1937, figure by $28,561, assisting ma terially In bringing the five months 1938 total to 1351,125 more than that of 1937. Of last month's total of 110 permits, 19 were for new dwell ings at a valuation of $45,700. New dwelling activity for May, 1937, exceeded, 35 permits being Issued for a valuation of $57,223. It was the total of new con struction, both dwellings ; and (Turn to page 2, col. 2) House Approves Name 'Oregon9 for Boulevard WASHINGTON, May i 31-P)-The house approved Representa tive Nan Wood Honeyman's meas ure today naming a scenic Rock Creek park boulevard after the state of Oregon. The bill went to the Benate. : The two-block street formerly called Oregon was renamed Swann street. tions. The silvery pink horde of fish was played 'out, the - run greatly diminished. From 200 to 500 trollers sought other fishing grounds, i -v; - C . f- i For a long time William L. Finley, noted naturalist, has been predicting the utter destruction of the spring run. People are just be ginning to realize,' he says, that for 40 years the spring run has been falling off. , s x-v Fishermen are catchng Athe salmon farther at sea asSltsads toward the river to spawn, re clamationista are bciiding dams across headwaters of, the Colum bia and thus unwittingly cutting the Chinook from age-old spawn-' lng grounds, and farmers are dig ging Irrigation ditches off head water streams without: screening them so that young fish are per mitted to enter the ditches and die these, says Finley, are the salmon's ever-growing graveyards. One bugaboo he eliminated (Turn to page 2, col. 3) - Slates Truckers Held For Extortion, Federal Count Million Gouged Annually in Merchandise Haul Business, Charge Officers and Teamsters' Union Memhers Face Courts, New York NEW YORK, May Zl-(JP)-Com-plaints from seven eastern states that union truckmen here were using gangster methods to gouge millions out of the rich merchandise-hauling industry resulted to day in the indictment of 76 men on federal charges of racketeer ing. Two Indictments returned by a special federal grand jury named eight officers and delegates and 62 members of local No. 807 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers of America and six oth er individuals. Each of the defendants, if con victed, faces a possible sentence of 41 years imprisonment and fines totaling $50,000 each. They were charged with violating the federal anti-racketeering act of 1934, enforced for the first time in New York state, and the Sher man anti-trust act. ' The Indictments alleged the de fendants, using force and threats of violence, extorted $1,000,000 or more annually from the $100, 000, 000-a year busiiness in the trucking of general merchandise and perishable foodstuffs. Flying squadrons of union men, the grand jury charged, met the trucks of out-of-town shippers and truckers at the city limits and compelled them to pay $9.42 apiece for a local 807 driver, whether or not the driver was used or needed. In addition, the indictments al leged, "shakedowns" of from $1, 000 to S100. 000 were demanded from shippers and truck-owners for the privilege of being allowed to operate without Interference. The complaints came from ship ping and trucking companies in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina and Virginia. Decision Delayed On Mooney's Case SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif., May 31-(;P)-Thomas J. Mooney, Informed today that the supreme court of the United 'States bad delayed until November a decision as to whether he was guilty of complicity in the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing of 1916, said he "must be content." "Of course .1 am deeply disap pointed," said Mooney, "but I am grateful for the reason given for the delay." , The high court took the almost unprecedented step of accepting Mooney's case for study on the basis of one typewritten tran script. That one transcript com prises over 13,000 pages and over 6,009 exhibits. The court indi cated the delay was to permit the nine justices to take turns with the lengthy transcript. Hughes Is Always On Majority Side WASHINGTON, M a y Zl-iJFj-Chief Justice Hughes was the only member of the supreme court on the winning side in every case decided this term. Not once did the 7 6-year-old jurist dissent during the term that began last October and ended to day. The court delivered 180 opin ions. Justice McReynolds, former at torney general in the Wilson ad ministration, dissented 28 times, the high -record for the eight months. Justice Black, former Minneso ta lawyer, was runner-up with 21 dissents. Girl's Eye Injured Sustaining a painful ey in Jury while playing with a pair of scissors at her home on 1148 North Commercial, Ira May Speed, 8-year-old daughter el Mr. and Mrs. George Speed, was last night hospitalized at the Salem Deasoness. 300 Killed in Insurgent Air Raid in Spain City of Granollers Said Wrecked; Women and Children Victims British Resentment Over Bombing of Ships Is Growing, Reported GRANOLLERS, Spain, May 31-(jjpj-Rescue workers tonight dug through the bomb-shattered wreckage- of this farm town 16 miles north of Barcelona seeking hundreds of victims of a de vastating insurgent air raid, Ambulance and first aid work ers estimated 3t)5 were killed in the sudden attack and an equal number wounded. . The mayor of Granollers, with a normal population of 9,000, said mostly women and children were killed. Dazed and bandaged res? dents tonight stood in remaining door ways and pointed to bomb scars on the facades of 1 Granollers' buildings. Firemen arid rescue workers worked feverishly in wreckage of the marketplace, the heart of the city, where 'nsurgent tombs blasted to pieces many women and children waiting in line for food rations. Most of the casualties centered in that section. Ten, hours after the morning attack the streets were cleared of wreckage except for huge heaps of stone, glass and mortar. The main street was severely punish ed. One building was gashed in half. The fronts of other struc tures were pitted with steel. LONDON, May 3 l-()-Britaln's growing resentment at the .Span ish insurgent bombing of British ships in .government ports was (Turn to page 2, col. 3) FDR Shelves Try On Reorganization WASHINGTON, May 3 1-0P)-With President Roosevelt' con sent, his legislative lieutenants pigeon-holed a government reor ganization bill today un-.;i the next congressional session. Chairman Byrnes (D-SC) and Acting Chairman Warren (D NC) of the senato and- house re organization committees said in a Joint statement: "No etforf will be made to pass the reorganization bill at this session." The announcement, officially quashing talk of reviving the bill, definitely ended one of the bit terest rows of the session, smooth ed the way toward adjournment, and confirmed a major rebuff the administration suffered last April 8 at the hands of legislators. On that date the house by a vote of 204 to 196, sent the re organization bill back to a spe cial committee. For a timt that was believed to be the end of the measure, but more recently there had been reports the controversy would be reopened. Boy of 12 Helps In Kidnaper Case BUFFALO,Wyo., May Zl.-iff -The net federal agents had spread for James E. Merrltt, 26-year-old suspect in the kidnap ransom of an Ohio farmer, miht have struck a snag had it not been for the resourcefulness of 12J-year-old Billy Gibbs, son of a Buffalo dude rancher. Aware that Merritt was sought, the ranch boy crawled ' from a window when Merritt appeared at the ranch house Sunday, and ran a mile into Buffalo to notify Sheriff M. H. Tisdale. Paul .Gibbs, the boy's uncle, kept Merritt engaged in conver sation until the sheriff arrived. R. D.. Brown, agent In charge of the federal ptfreau of investi gation at Denver, said Billy proved himself a "worthy junior G-man.". ' - Labor Relations Measure Blocked TRENTON, N. J.. May 31.--Hundreds of pickets who marched on the state capitol tonight suc ceeded In blocking assembly ac tion on the Foran labor relations bill which would ban sit-down and stay-In strikes. ,,' Shouting demands that Sen. Arthur Foran's proposal be killed in favor of another measure pat terned after tf e Wagner act, the pickets converged on the capitol as assemblymen convened. Assembly leaders hastily con ferred with labor officials, called a public hearing Monday on the bill and adjourned nntil then. . Hundred Planes Battle Over Hankow and Both Sides Claim Advantage Japanese Say 20 of Defenders' Ships Shot Downj Chinese Claim Raiders Beaten off With Loss - of 15; Ground Forces Deadlocked Again I '- : SHANGHAI, June 1 (Wednesday) (AP) Both Chi nese and Japanese claimed victory today in one of the great est air battles of the war in which more than 100 planes fought high over Hankow. A Japanese naval communique declared 30 Japanese planes raided Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's capital and shot down 20 Chinese planes whlleO only one of their own failed to return. ' China's aviation headquarters, however, declared 54 Japanese planes attempted the raid but were beaten off with a loss of 15 planes. Disputing Japanese re ports that the Hankow airfield was heavily bombed, Chinese de clared the Japanese were prevent ed from carrying out the raid. While Japanese planes ' struck at Hankow and Canton, ground forces of both armies apparently were deadlocked again in the vi cinity of Lanfeng, along the Lung- hat railroad in central China. Severe fighting was reported among the mudywalled villages between the Lunghai and the Yel low river with Chinese troops still (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Water Rates for Summer Reduced Drop One-Third Amount Over 3750 Gallons, Is Notice to Users Printed notices that mrmer water rates had .been reduced were being mailed out to custom ers yesterday by the Salem water commission. The- notices state that for water billed in thf four month period, Juae to September, a rate reduction of 33 per cent is in effect for all water used in excess of 37E0 gallons per month. "The first 3730 gallont cost you SI. 55," the notice explains. "For all in excess of this amount you pay at the rate of only five cents per 750 gallons." As an example the notice points out that "if your water. b:U was $3 for the month of June last year, the same amount of water used in June this year w'l cost you only $2.52, u saving of 16 per cent ; . . based on inside the city rate." The notice urges the commis sion's customers to use more wa ter. .Handy printed rate cards, list summer and rsular, domestic and commercial, city and suburb an schedules also have betn ob tained by the commission. Heating Plant Aid For1 State Sought The state board of control Tuesday approved an application of the . state capitol reconstruc tion commission for a federal grant of approximately . 155.000, for construction of a central heat ing plant for the state capitol group of buildings. . The site, to be located a short distance from the state capitol grounds, would be purchased by the state. Officials said the state already had received several of fers of a site varying In price from 15000 to $20,000. The cost of the proposed heat ing plant was estimated at $125, 000, provided the present heating plant Is scrapped. Action on the grant was expect ed prior to September 1, members of the capitol reconstruction com mission said. Two Arson Charges Dropped; Foree and Rosser Cases Set DALLAS, May. 3 0 Arson charges against two Salem Team ster union members were dis missed and that against a third. Lisle B. Foree, was 'set for trial June 21, by Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker here today. The court also docketed the ar son charge against Al E. Rossen, former chieftain of Oregon and southwest Washington teamsters, for trial here Jane 27. ! ' Arson indictments against Lou is Charles Har kins, business agent of local 324 of the teamsters, with headquarters in Salem, and War- die Earl Graham, member of the local, were dismissed for Insuffi cient evidence on the motion of DIst. Atty Bruce Spaulding and Asst. Special Prosecutor Oscar Hayter. . The three Salem men were in dicted in a surprise report by the Ransom Paid but Boy not Returned Crowd Assembled Around Cash Home Dispersed ; , May Begin Search PRINCETON, F!a., May 31-() -Several hundred persons who had assembled here to aearch for kidnaped James Baily Cash, jr., dispersed tonight upon request of the federal bureau of Investiga tion and the parents of the five-year-old child. It was feared a demonstration would frighten the abductors who took the pajama-clad boy from his father's apartment house on the Mlami.'Xv West highway Sat urday, Cash reported he paid, early today, the $10,000 ransom demanded. . . The crowd was told to be ready at daybreak if called upon to be gin a search of the flat surround ing farming country known as the Redlands. W. P. Cash, uncle of James, Jr., sUd there was hope of making an other contact with the kidnapers icnigni. . . . - - . Neighbors were divided In opin ions, as to whether a search should bo made immediately. Some said such a move might serve as a death warrant for the jtow-head-ed, blue-eyed "Skeegie.j as be is popularly known. Others believed the boy may have been released to wander in the vicinity.- $35,000 Fire Hits Coburg Buildings CO BURG. May 31-(P)-A $35, 000 fire destroyed four business structures and the Odd Fellows ball here today. . Fire fighters, unable to swing Into .action because of an in adequate water supply, stood by almost helplessly while the flames engulfed nearly a lock. A brisk wind carried sparks - from the store buildings to the lodft hall. Sparks also threatened t. num ber of residences. The fire, the second major blaze here in 20 years, burned the postoffice but the mell was rescued. Contents of other build ings were lost. . The flames broke out on the second floor of the -Walter E Dmry general store. Instiga tors were unable tc establish the cause. ' New Trial Sought By Agnes Ledford ST. HELENS; Ore.; Mar 31.- t?)-Mrs. Agnes Joan Ledford. convicted of murder in the poison death of her stepdaughter, Ruth, 13, filed motion for a new trial in circuit court today. Mrs. Ledford, who was sen tenced to life imprisonment, al leged through her attorney that there had been errors In law and insufficient evidence to warrant her conviction. She asserted the jury acted in "passion and preju dice." Polk county , grand Jury April 5. All three have been et liberty on bail, with Foree remaining under $5000 bail at present. The arson charges grew out of the destruction of the Salem Box ft . Manufacturing company plant and damaging of the Copeland yards, both in West Salem, by firs last November. Harkins declared here yester day he felt the two indictment dismissals removed another cloud from his organization, which he said has regained complete con trol of its affairs and is now oper ating on a democratic basis. The union is expected to assist in the defense of Foree, who was Its president until late last Jan uary when its election was held. Edwin C. Goodenougb of Salem is expected to be one of the de fense attorneys. NEC Declared Political but Fund Is Voted Wheeler Says Officials Meddling, -Harmful to Democratic Cause 50 Million Granted for Relief; Vandenherg " Says too Little WASHINGTON, May 31.-(n-With a shout of angry determina tion, administration forces in the senate increased funds for ths national emergency council to day despite protests by democratic critics that the agency was actual ly a political organization. Senator Wheeler (D-Mojit.l told the senate that the NEC, set up by the president to co ordinate work of all federal emer gency agencies in the states, had participated chiefly in politics "in my state." Senator Clark (D-Mo.) added that the agenry's only purpose was, "political." Majority Leader Barkley ( D Ky.) and half a dozen other ad ministration men sharply denied this." By a resounding voice vote, they and their supporters awarded the agency $850,000, an increase of $600,000 over the sura voti by the house. Wheeler centered senate atten tion on the Iowa democratic pri mary onco more by. charging that an NEC official, 1. T. Jones, was trying "to stab Guy Gillette in the back." I'arty is Damaged : Declared Wheeler The Montanan said Jones, along with Harry Hopkins and other White House advisors, was sup porting Representative Wearl (D-Ia.), primary opponent of Senaior Gillette, the democratic incumbent. Wheeler said a "certain littli group" was doing "the president a disservice, and the democratic party a disservice" by trying to Influence state political affairs. "It ought to be stopped or the democratic party Is going to ht defeated," the Montanan warned his colleagues. He said that if "some of theno pseudo politicians have their way" in Iowa and Gillette is defeated by Wearin "you can bet all the ta in China that Iowa will go re publican." President Roosevelt, at his press conference, declined to com ment on Hopkins' apparent back ing of Wearin in the Iowa race, saying any answer would be mis interpreted. He added that in the future he would refuse to answer similar questions either from candidates or the press. WASHIfCTON. Mit 31-flv- The senate voted today to make i&u.ooo.ooo of WPA funds avail able for direct relief in event of emergency, but reiecterf a posal by Senator Vandenberg (R- Aiicn.i that the amount be in creased to $150,000,000. The emerrencv cash wonlii hm set aside from the proposed WPA appropriation or $1,425,000,000 provided In the $3,000,000,000 lending-spending bill. (Direct relief, which consists of outright grants of money and is sometimes called the "dole, differs from the WPA policy of providing relief through Jobs. The WPA policy now Is to leave the task of direct relief for nnemnlov- ables to states and other political subdivisions.) Vandenberr said the nlirht of the larger industrial cities was a "clear indication" that more di-. rect relief would be necessarv to supplement the existing system. inclusion or even $50,000,000. Vandenberg said . - constituted "recognition that the relief -ft rnl-" lem may become too large to be nan a lea by work relief alone." Senator Byrnes fD-SC oh- jected to Vandenbera-'s nronosal. saying It would be a departure irom wrA policy. Fireman Pay Dividend PORTLAND, May Sl.--The Iron Fireman company said quar terly dividend checks of 30 cents a share would be paid tomorrow to stockholders of record Marrh 10. The regular 138 dividend totaled $1.20 a share. Columnist Takes 3-Montli8 Leave Dorothy Thompson, popu lar columnist whoe writing have appeared regularly in The Statesman in the last two years, la taking a thre months' vaca tion. Her column which ap peared Taesday morning wa. the last to appear until Keptem- Mark Sullivan's column, also devoted to national and world affairs, will appear on The Statesman's editorial page three days a week while Mine Thomp son la on ber vacation.