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OTi OIlEGCtti STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Moraine, June V 1938
Demo Internal
Crisis Looming
Primaries and Lawmaking
Both Playing Part in
Political Drama'
Br KIRKE L. SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, May 31-)-
Step by step the democratic party
that in 1936 swept the nation. on
a scale never before recorded in
American political history is mov
ing toward an internal crisis in
1940 no less dramatic than the
policy rift in republican ranks in
1912 that ended 16 years of re
publican sway in Washington.
State by state, the slow-mov
ing and ponderous political ma
marie s is sorting out the cast
for the big 19 1. show. And
item by item, bill- by bi?i. mes
sage by message, President Rcose-
Telt la-writing th-j lines and pre
paring the issues around which
the drama will turn.
That ti Hotti t Twpf nnil wpl-
eomes a party showdown then on
the social and economic policies
that make up the new deal is in
dicated by every step he has
taken or countenanced in the way
ot administration intervention in
state primaries.
1940 Is Real Goal
l V n r mnnDii anmlnixiralinn
political aides from harnvony-
minded Postmaster General Fart
ley ilown to the most bittei new
deal advocate of lie-hard combat
with party foes hate been dis
missing the 193 3 campaigning as
merely a prelude to 1940
There can be s-nall doubt that,
for those in the inner new deal
circles, the Inajor interest In the
1938 contests lies in 1940 por-
gists undoubtedly take for great
er interest in what the primary
may mean in connection with the
oew deal's possession of the party
machinery than in its effect on
the holding of the present num
ber of congressional seats.
While they ira iot disposed
to risk loss of working majori
ties the fact remains thai the
top-heavy,' discord-inviting ma
jorities in both house and sen
ate hare proved In fact an em
barrassment more than an aid to
presidential leadership.
Rale or Ruin, Aim
'- Without question, a consider
able loss of seats to the republic
ans would cau3e , few regrtts at
the White House if it could ex
ercise some form of selection re
garding the democrats kept in of
fice.. , And so far as senatorial
primaries are concerned, a rmcesa
of administration-selection is ob
viously at work, and as obvious
ly is increasing the bitterness of
the Party strife. It is helping
long materially toward a 1940
party crisis.
Whatever parallels the.-f may
be between the liberal-conserva-tive
republican break-up of 1912
and the possible democrat!.: split
of 1940, President Roosevelt has
distinct advantage over hi dis
tant kinsman, Theodore Roose
velt, who led his Bull Moose fol
lowers out of a republican na--tional
convention to form the
progressive party. Repillican
old guard organizations con
trolled that convention through
federal and sufficient slate pow
er to "steam roi'.er it into re
nomination of President Tart-
It Is already clear that the
administration is playing in this
year's democratic primari? for
194 0 convention control to make
the anti-new dea'ers take the
walk, if there Is to be a bolt.
Behind the scenes of every demo
cratic primary contest to date
that is the real .-take." direct or
Indirect. It tenis to make con
trol of the 1940 democratic con
vention and of the party, or
ganization more Important in
some new dealer eyes thai, net
democratic gains or losses in con
gressional or state elections next
November. :
uean trooamcn is iriven
Recognition cs Actor
Word has been received In Sa
lem that Dean Goodman, Jr., of
Salem, a student at the University
of Washington, has been selected
s one of the three best actors in
the dramatic department of that
Institution. Mr. Goodman was
graduated from Salem high school
la 1937 and this is the first time
a freshman student has been ac
corded that .honor.
Scene of Police
V.
Fist fights, flying stones and swinging clubs took a heavy toll among
police and pickets at Rockiord, 111., when the former attempted to
treak up an assembly of strikers posted before the J. I. Case plant.
Appeals from the mayor and sheriff to disperse were Ignored by the
pickets and a pitched battle ensued on the bridge leading1 to the
. jvLa&t which has been closed because of the labor dispute for several
. . " weeks,-' .' ..i
Tanimany Leader Under Arrest
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Arrested on charges brought by District Attorney Thomas Dewey
that he was "fixer" for a huge lottery ring In New Tork, James J.
Hines, Tammany Hall chieftain, center, was released on $20,000 bail
when he appeared In court, above, with his attorney. Dewey said
that Hines received from 5500 to $1,000 a week for protecting ths
ring, jeputedly headed by James (Dixie) Davis.
Hundred Aviators
En
BattL
gage
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counter-attacking ; to break the
Japanese drive westward i toward
Hankow. j
Chinese pursuit planes, Chi
ang's air officials euid, knew in
advance of the approach of Ja
pan's . air raiders and hovered
hawklike above Hankow waiting.
When the Invaders appeared,
they 'said,' the Chinese planes
dived and scattered the Japanese
squadrons, engaging them in
thrilling dogfights, part of which
could be seen from the city be-,
low. " i
Chinese .,declared they , shot
down 12 Japanese planes, losing
only two themselves, and then
pursued the invaders, shooting
down three more near Kiukiang.
Martin Write-ins
High, Multnomah
- PORTLAND, May 31-(;P)-The
official Multnomah county guber
natorial election returns showed
1526 write-in republican votes for
Governor Charles H. Martin, com
pared. with 189 for his victorious
opponent, Henry L. Hess-
The democratic! vote was Hess
26,516; Martin 18,335, and O.
Henry Oleen 2443, for a total of
47,34 4 votes of 89,497 registered.
The republican vote: Charles
A, Sprague 23,341; Sam H.Brown
7471; Clarence RJWagoner 4776;
Henry M. Hanzen 3293; J. W.
Morton 1373; Charles L. Paine
1249; M. S. Shrock 924, and R. J.
Hendricks" 883, for a total of 43,
315 votes of 82,430 registered.
Building Permits
Up 33 per Cent
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commercial buildings, that raised
last month's total over the $100,
000 mark. There were 3 6 new con
struction permits issued, with a
valuation of$97,670. Threeuild
ings contributed $20,500 of this
amount: the Salem Steel & Sup
ply company's $12,500 warehouse,
the $3000 boat house being. erect
ed by W, L. Ham and. the $5000
store .building that Is nnder con
struction for Dwight Lear.
- Picket Clash
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Salmon Run Lack
Declared Serious
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Bonneville dam. "The fish are
getting .by Bonneville," he said.
"The government did good work
in the $7,000,000 spent there for
fish ladders by which the salmon
pass the dam through a series of
lifts and waterfalls."
Contrarily, one of the greatest
obstacles is gigantic Grand Coulee
dam farther upstream and so high
that no fish can be laddered be
yond it to the natural spawning
grounds that lie above.
Efforts are being made to trap
salmon at Rock Island dam, be
low Grand Coulee, and spawn
them artificially , in nearby
streams. Finley doubts the success
of thi3 the changing of habits
rooted in antiquity. The salmon
can't be taken at Bonneville be
cause, being too' far from their
spawning period, they will fight
and damage their eggs. I J
Besides compulsory ditch
screening and less commercial
fishing, a solution, says Finley,
may be to block plans to dam the
Willamette, great Columbia tri
butary, and permit fish normally
running to Columbia headwaters
to turn to the Willamette's.
300 Arc Killed in j
Insurgents' Raid
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fanned still further today by the
sinking of the British, freighter
Penthames in Valencia's harbor. ;
The Laborite Daily Herald, in
an editorial entitled "free run for
Piracy,", declared the British gov
ernment "simply must take effec
tive action."
The paper sharply criticized
Prime Minister Neville Cnamber"
lain's "deplorable failure to re
peat his firm anti-piracy stand
taken at the international confer
ence at Nyon, Switzerland, In
September, 1937, when European
powers reached an agreement to
stamp out piracy in the Mediter
ranean." Fine for Failure to Have
Car Inspected More Than
Its Value, Holts Claims
PORTLAND.. Ore., May 31-(P)
Glenn O. Holts, hailed into traf
fic court for failure to-have Lis
automobile inspected, protested
a $3 fine was too heavy because
he had sold the car.
"Just deduct the $3 from the
money you got for the car," Mu
nicipal Judge Julius Cohn said. :
"But I only got $2," Holts de
clared. He served one day In jail.
Graduate Nurses Open
31st Convention Today
KLAMATH FALLS, May 31-(-Approximately
100 del gates
headed by President Jane V.
Doyle will open he 31st annual
convention of the Oregon Grad
uate Nurses association here to
morrow. ; Mrs. Alma H. S-H'-tt of
New York, director of the Ameri
can Nurses association headquar
ters, will be the principal speak
er. " ' I-::'.-
Thomas E. Epplett Dies;
One Daughter in Satem
PORTLAND, May 31.-(AV
Thomaa E. Epplett, 79, retired
farmer known as the "Sage of Es
tacada Lake Park," died at his
home there yesterday.
Surviving were two sons and
two daughters. Including Wini
fred Epplett ot Salem.
Boy Rescues Aunt j
GRANT 3 PASS, May
Heroic Billy. Andrews, 13, swam
the Chetco river ravids to rescue
his aunt, Mrs. H. D. Rerrnson,
who had been trapped nnder an
upset boat.
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Wallace Given
Rebuke, Court
Same Principle Declared
Applied as in Other
'."'; Stockyards Case
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to the court, dissentde without
stating his reasons. (He had also
dissented from the decision criti
cized by Wallace.) Justice Reed,
the former solicitor general and
President Roosevelt's other ap
pointee, did not participate. Like
wise, Justice Cardozo, who Is III,
took no part in consideration of
the case. ; .
Leaves Way Open
Wallace Contends
Secretary Wallace said In a
statement tonight . that today s
opinion by the supreme court left
the I way open for further pro
ceedings to determine what shall
be done with $700,000 in com
mission fees impounded in the
courts during the litigation.
In that respect he called the
opinion "a highly important vic
tory for the government."
Concerning the supreme court's
denial that it had reversed itseif,
Wallace said it used "involved
reasoning, which both the farmers
and the livestock commission men
will find it difficult to follow."
After today's session, the court
adjourned for the summer. It will
reassemble on the first Monday
In October.
The high tribunal, In a 5 to 2
decision, also decided today that
the labor relations board wai
within its legal rights In asking
the circuit court of appeals of
Philadelphia for permission to
withdraw an order directing the
Republic Steel corporation to re
instate 5,000 striking employes.
The circuit court had refused to
permit withdrawal.
Guard Character,
OSC Seniors Told
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He criticized the attitude that con
victions were "out of fashion"
and -described tolerance as "ex
alted beyond reason."
The editor attacked an econom
ic system which pitted industry
and labor against each other,
"both to get as much as possible
and give as little as possible."
Willard L. Marks, president of
the board of higher education,
encouraged a spirit of hopeful
ness and helpfulness to combat
"defeatism rampant in the
world."
The following honorary degrees
were conferred:
J. C. Stevens of Portland, de
signer of hydro-electric plants at
Eugene and Hood River, a doctor
of engineering degree.
Thornton T. Munger, forest ex
periment station at Portland, the
degree of doctor of science.
Dr. E. J. Krause, head of the
department of botany at the Uni
versity of Chicago and former
head of the Oregon State college
department of horticulture, a de
gree of doctor of science.
President George W. Peavy con
ferred 586 degrees, including five
doctors of philosophy, the larg
est number at an y commence
ment ceremony here.
Sharp Earthquake
Causes no Damage
LOS ANGELE3, May Sl-fjP)-An
earthquake, centered approxi
mately 50 miles southeast of the
Carnegie seismological laboiatory
in Pasadena at a point some
where in the Santa Ana moun
tains rocked sleeping southern
Calif ornians awake, at 12:35 a.m.
today.
Although it was the most se
vere earth movement since the
big qnake of five years -ago, no
damage was reported.
Dike Breaks and
Big Area Floods
BONNE RS FERRY, Idaho. May
Zl.-(jpy-While the flood situation
remained little changed here, a
break in a dike and the flooding
of. 3,000 acres near Creston B. C,
across the border, was reported
tonight as the Kootenai river re
mained at peak level.
Authorities said the Canadian
break might ease the situation In
Idaho, where water has backed
up from Canada's Kootenay lake.
General Motors Deemed
I Violator of Wagner Act
i INDIANAPOLIS. May 31-JPfA
national labor relations board re
port here today held the General
Motors corporation bad violated
the Wagner Labor act by discour
aging union organization, foster
ing; a company union and using
labor spies at its Delco-Remy
parts plant at Anderson, Ind.
Slayer Aged 22 Executed
! MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 1
( Wednesday) Py Twenty - two-year-old
John Dee Smith was put
to death in Indiana's electric chair
here early today for the holdup
killing of Arlie H. Foster, Fort
Wayne restaurant owner.
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Following their arrival in New York, above, on a round-the-world
honeymoon trip, Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of the former
German kaiser, and his bride. Grand Duchess Kyra, daughter of ths
pretender to the, non-existent Russian throne, were guests of Presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt at their Hyde Park home.
The Call Board
ELSIXORE
Today "The Adventures of
Robin Hood" with Eiioi
Flynn and Olivia DeHavil-
land all in technicolor.
Friday Double bill, Bot by
Breen in "Hawaii Calls"
with Ned Sparks and
"Dinner at -ha Kits" with
Annabella. ' '
CAPITOL
Today Double bill, "Mystery
House" with Dick Purcell
and Clark Gable and Jean
Harlow in "Saratoga."
Friday Double bill. Lit-
tie Miss rhoroughbied"
with John Lltel and Ann
Sheridan and "Law oi the
Underworld'' with Chester
Morris. - -
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Today "International Settle
ment" and "Of Human
Hearts."
Friday "Borrowing Trou
ble" with the Jones Fam
ily. HOLLYWOOD
Today Double bill, Preston
Foster and Whitney
Bourne in "Double
Danger" and "Thrill , of
a Lifetime" with Yacht
lub boys and Judy C?no
va. Friday Double bill, ' The
Three Mesiuiteers" in
"Call the Mesquite rs"
and' "Everybody's Dping
It" with Preston , Fetter
and Sally JEilers.
GRAND Today Double bill. Smith
Ballew and Lou Gehrig in
"Rawhide" and "City Girl"
1 with Ricardo Cortez and
Phyllis Brooks. ,
Saturday Return ensge-
ment. Will Rogers in "Life
Begins at , 40." i
Indiana Farm CirL
Spelling Champion
WASHINGTON, May il-JP)-A
knack for remembering how
words look oh a page and her
mother's careful tutoring won the
national spelling title today for
12-year-old Marian Richardson, a
shy Indiana farm lass ' with long
blonde curls.
"Pronunciation" was the word
which won her the title after Jean
I. Pierce, 13, ot Kenmore, N. Y.,
spelled it "pronounciation."
81st Birthday Is
Observed by Pope
i CASTE L GANDOLFO, May 31.
-yp)-The papal court gathered In
a parish church tonight for a
solemn te deum to render thanks
to God for preserving for another
year the health of Pope Pius XI
who celebrated his 81st birthday
today.
The pope himself did not at
tend the service which was held
outside his summer villa. The an
niversary found him in compara
tively good health.
Ask $23,700,000 Dam
WASHINGTON, May 31
Congressman Walter M. Pierce
Introduced a measure toduy re
questing $23,700,000 for a navi
gation dam at Umatilla rapids on
the Columbia river.
liLUJLVA nun
Betty Grable, Judy fanova,
Dorothy Lamour, Larry Crabbe
ind Ben Bine.
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Coos County Suit
Verdict Modified
Plaintiff Logging Concern
Must Pay $2060 for
Right-of-Way
The state supreme court Taes
day modified a decree of Circuit
Judge James T. Brand, Coos
county, In a suit brought by the
Coos Bay Logging company
against Hugh Barclay and -Mabel
Barclay, appellants, and Walter
L. Buzzard, defendant. Involving
condemnation of a right of way
for a logging railroad.-
The lower court held for the
plaintiff and defendants appealed
to the supreme court." The opinion
was written by Justice Bean.
Justice Beam held that the
'plaintiff was entitled to judgment
condemning the right of way upon
payment of $2060 damages, the
amount found by a Jury in the
lower court, without any deduc
tion because of certain reserva
tions.
Reservations approved by the
supreme court authorize the de
fendants to construct grade cross
ings and lay water pipes across.
the right of way, for the purpose
of , carrying on agricultural and
logging operations. f
The Coos County circuit court
was directed t? enter a judgment
in compliance with the -modifications.
The supreme court approved
the application of Frederic A.
Fischer, Portland,, for permission
to practice law in Oregon perma
nently. He previously . practiced
law in Massachusetts.
Patronage Scrap
Brings Threat to
Call out Troops
PHOENIX, Ariz., May 31-P)-Gov.
R. C. Stanford checked a
threatened purge of administra
tion appointees' from the: state
highway department payroll to
day by issuing verbal orders for
the "Arizona national guard to
take over the department tomor
row. Just as he was ready to sign a
written order for mobilization of
100 troops, however, the highway
commissioners capitulated to his
demands and sent him a written
agreement that no dismissals
would be made for the present..
The governor placed the formal
call in his desk without his sig
nature. ,
"I will use It tomorrow if the
highway department doesn't live
up to Its agreement," he said.
Cherrians Broadcast
About 40 Cherrians will go to
Portland tonight to 1 broadcast
over radio station KEX m con
nection with: the Rose Festival.
The program will be on t.e air
from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. They
will also stage an inform J pa
rade and call upon the offices of
two Portland newspapers.
Baseball's
Idol Become
a Slagging
Cowboy .
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Planetarium Has
Sun Image Inside
Not Picture but 25-Foot
Reflection Done With
Mirrors, Telescope
NEW YORK, May 31.-()-The
sun will come indoors tomorrow
for the first time.
It will shine in the man-mad'j
sky at Hayden planetarium a
blazing disc 25 feet wide, so big
that sunspots which now appear
as small black dots will look like
volcano craters. r
It will not be a picture, but the
sun itself, reflected through a
set of-mirrors and a telescope de
signed and built for the occasion.
"We actually bring the sun tn
doors, and thus make It possible
for thousands of people to see
the sun," said Prof. William H.
Barton, jr., Hayden's executlre
curator. . .
Few Have "Seen Sun'
"Very few people have seen the
sun itself only its light."
Old Sol's personal appearance
will feature the planetarium day
time shows on each clear day in
June. The mirrors will go into
action at 3 p. m., catching the
solar image through an opening
in the planetarium domel and
throwing It through magnifying
lenses to the indoor sky.
June was chosen for the unique
demonstration because of the sun
spot cycle which is approaching
its maximum.- I
Sunspots at Height
"The sun Is a fascinating sight
at any time," Professor Barton
explained, "but It ought to be
particularly interesting now,
"Sun spots are really solar cy
clones of, enormous proportions.
Due to the distance between us
and the sun, these solar hurri
canes appear as mere black spots
to the eye and on photographic
plates. However, through the sys
tem of high magnification Just In
stalled In the Hayden planetar
ium, we can glre close-ups of sun
spots." .
Davis Dies; Noted
Mountain Climber
CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON, N.
Y., May 31.-;p)-Brig. Gen. Mil
ton Fennimore Davis, 73, presi
dent of the New York military
academy and noted as a mountain
climber, died today after an ill
ness of several months. He had
been associated with the academy
since 109.
General Davis was one of the
first explorers of the Grand can
yon. He also made the first ascent
of1 the 12.000-foot peak in the
high Sierras which later was
named Mt. Davis in his honor.
In 1897, he made a record ascent
ofMt. Popocatepetl In Mexico. Ho
was also known as a big game
hunter from Alaska to Mexico.
" He was "born in Manterville,
Minn., attended the University ot
Oregon- and was appointed to
West Point in 1886, graduating
wtth honors.
Bound Druggist
Wounds Holdup
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PORTLAND. May 31-(p)-F. C.
Bi-yant, drugstore operator, freed
himself from tape binding last
night and shot Harold B. Lewis,
25. of Oakville. Wash. Lewis,
wounded in the chest, was
charged with assault with Intent
tof rob.
j Captain ot Detectives J. J.
Keegan said Bryant broke the
tape In a rear room while Lewis
was in the front of the store
attempting to divert the attention
of a Chinese customer who had
interrupted the alleged assault.
Neal Creek Region Fire
Fought by Large Crete s
HOOD RIVER, May 3 l.-(JFy-Rapidly.
spreading through slash
ings, a fire in the Neal creek re
gion brought out more than SO
CCC enrollees today and a hur
ried call for equipment from Her
man creek. The fire was in the
heart of the Hood River valley
and near green timber and
ranches. Forest service officials
said they expected to control It
before morning. -
Baker Is Safely Ahead
In Typographical Vote
INDIANAPOLIS, May, 3 1 -(-Woodruff
Randolph ' of "Chicago,
secretary-treasurer or tne inter
national . Typographical union,
said today unofficial returns from
682 ot the 850 locals In the May
25 election showed for president:
Claude M. Baker of San Francis
co, 35.154. and Charles P. How
ard of Chicago, 21,946.
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Latest outbreak in the troubled
labor situation In Minneapolis re
sulted In murder charges , being
lodged against Arnold Johnson,
30, accused of having slain Wil
liam S. Brown, president of the
General Driver union. No. 544.
as he sat in his parked car.
Columbia Crest
Friday Forecast
PORTLAND. May 31-;P)-Th
government weather bureau pre
dicted today" the Columbia river,
swollen by the snow run-off in
major tributaries, would begin to
recede Friday.
Backwater Into the Willamette
rirer has flooded lowland sections
and wharves without damage.
Dock operators removed equip
ment before the high stage.
A decline In virtually all tri
butaries eliminated the danger of
a serious flood. The fall in the
Snake river will offset rises in
lesser streams, the weather bu
reau said. - ...
The Willamette river probably
will reach 21 feet, three feet
above flood stage, before It drops.
A peak of about 21.6 feet was pre
dicted at Vancouver, Wash.
Railroads9 Income Cut
Still Further, Shotcn
WASHINGTON. May Sl-(;p)-The
Association of American Rail
roads reported today that class
one railroads had a net operating
Income of $9,236,818 in April,
compared with $48,357,723 in
April. 1937, and $60,882,332 in
April, 1930.
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