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- The Weather Fair today and Saturday with no change in tempera tare and humidity; max. temp. Wednesday 67, niln. 88; river .1 foot; XE wind; partly cloudy. Vacation Season - Many families will leave oon on vacation trip. Donl Ret out of'ourh. with your community's news. IIav-9 The Statesman follow .'on. . ' ' . TVC 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAK Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, June 10, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 64 Jain in eBloocly 9 Si 11 & o 1 $35,000 Home Project Plan Of Local Men Lee Unruh, W. T. Molloy and Grover Hillman Reveal Plan Building to Start Soon on 12 Houses on North Summer Plans for a 535,000 to $40,000 residential investment develop ment skirting the North Summer street homes district were dis closed yesterday by Lee M. Un ruh, Grover W. Hillman, and Wal ter T. Molloy, Salem businessmen. To be known as Whitehall, the project will consist of 12 three and four room houses ultramod-v ernly equipped, Unruh said. They' will be located on the strip of land lying between the two al leys running north and south in block 10, The Oaks addition, bounded by North Capitol, Par rish. North Sammer and D streets. The property consists of five lots purchased from Mrs. F. G. Deckebacb, sr., a month ago, Un ruh revealed. The Deckebach home, on lot 12, was not included In the deal. Jtuilding to Start Soon Construction of the 12 dwell ing units will start in the near fu ture. The plans, being drawn by Clarence Smith, local architect, are now nearing completion. Each of the 12 houses will have a full basement, automatic heat ing system, refrigeration amd other modern equipment, hard wood floors and corresponding in terior finishes. j, "We feel fortunate in securing such an- exceptional, . location for rental houses." Unruh stated, 'Our property la near grade," Jun ior and senior high school and not far from the state offices and business district, yet it is in a fine residential district." Eleanor Holm Is 1 Divorced by Art LOS ANGELES, CALIF., June 3 (P) Swimmer Eleanor Holm, who says she wants to marry Billy Rose, was divorced today by. mu sician Art Jarrett, It was her frequent statements that she prefers the company of impressarlo Rose, and wants to marry him, that broke up their marriage. Jarrett told, the court. UntiL today there were two rea sons why Eleanor cannot marry Rose. The remaining hurdle Is that Rose Is married to Fanny Brice. Fanny has been consist ently noncommittal about the whole thing. Jarrett, an orchestra leader, said the talk about his wife wanting to marrying Rose 'caused me mental anguish"and embarrassment." He said she also embarrassed him by losing her place on the 1936 Olympic awimming for allegedly drinking and that a lost fur coat was another reason he suffered great anguish. 0 dditioo in the Neves NEW YORK, June 9-;p-"Give me a break," urged Frederick Reilly, 40. facing the magistrate ia court today on a. charge of vagrancy. "I'm a very good friend of Judge Rudlch," he added impres- "Really?" said the magistrate. "Would you know him if-you saw him!" "Thirty days. Next time I hope you get a better break -and ap pear before your friend. Magis trate Rudich," said Magistrate Rudlch. , MILLAX, Idaho, June 0-JP)-A steady snow fell here and at the nearby canyon mining town of Burke today after a mini mum temperature of 88. There was more than an inch on the ground. Snow also fell In Fourth of July canyon, route of the east west highway west of Kellogg. ST. LOUIS. June -P)-A pa roled convict told Chief Sheriff's Deputy Arnold Willmann tonight an urge to die in the state's lethal gas chamber, combined with Jeal ous rage, prompted, him to kill a woman and fire a shotgun blast Into a man's chest. Willmann said Robert West, 22, who helped construct the exe cution chamber while a. peniten tiary Inmate, explained "I thought when I was building it that when I got out I would kill somebody so that I would die in it" The woman, Mrs. Vivian David son, was shot to death last night as she sat in a car, and her uncle, James Bnnton of Sacramento, Calif., was seriously wounded when he ran to her aid. - Hoover vV? li Cash Case Is -v With) Arrest of McCall Tells Newsmen "We Have and Rumor Follows Suspects in McCall Continues Doggedly to Deny Participation in Crime Except for Notes and Collecting $10,000 MIAMI, Fla., June 9 (AP) Police drove ahead with the Jimmy Cash kidnaping investigation today, not satisfied the case had been solved by the arrest of Franklin Pierce Mc Call, finding of the boy's body and recovery of $10,000 ran som money. - ; . i i, G-Man Chief J. Edgar Hoover made this plain to news- 1 : -Omen today when he said, cryptic Expect Roosevelt To Boost Barkley President Arranges Transcontinental Stump Tour for WASHINGTON, June 9-JPy-President Roosevelt arranged to day for a transcontinental stump ing tour during which he is ex pected to fight for his program snd put in some kind words for certain democratic senators up for renomination. One speech will be given at Covington,! Ky. It would be a complete surprise to all political strategists ( here if the president failed to include in that address some words of praise for Senator Barkley, senate leader. Barkley Is in a hot fight for re nomination, . his opponent being Gov. A. B. Chandler. As early as last January, the president boost ed Barkley In a letter read at a testimonial dinner in Louisville. White House officials announc ed that If conditions permitted the chief executive would leave here July 7 to speak in Marietta, Ohio, at the 150th anniversary celebration of the northwest ter ritory. r The tentative schedule from then on includes stop in Tennes see, probably at Memphis for some remarks about TVA; at Ok lahoma City, and Fort Worth, Texas, thence the president will travel to the coast, probably mak ing some stops en route. One speech may be made in Colorado. Columbia Forest .i , , Fire Is Fought VANCOUVER. WASH., June 9 -OT-Six hundred and forty-three CCC workers late today were hold ing the Randle fire, on the edge of the Columbia national forest, to an area of about 500 acres. Supervisor K. P. Cecil reported by radio. A heavy tangle, of brush, debris and snags made control of the blaze difficult, but rangers ex pected to surround it tonight. The fire was partly corralled by fire lines this afternoon and pumps were used on the worst spots. Heavy humidity, light clouds and no wind were aiding the fire fight ers tonight, but predictions were not so good for tomorrow's weath er. I Chickejis Hatched at Seattle Hate Accent SEATTLE, June 9-(;p)-The scene of this story was laid in England, and hatched in Seattle. Fifty Buff Orpington chickens, who left Kent, England, still in the egg, were rushed to the Un ited States on the Queen Mary and flown to a. Seattle incubator. They were hatched this week with an English accent "PIP- PIP!" Daylight Snatch Perpetrated As Cavedivellers Grab Woman ' Shrill screams of a lady in dis tress shrieked out over State street yesterday afternoon but no Lochlnvar hacked his way through a watching throng to rescue the lady fair from the clutches of a milling mob of furred and feath ered Cavemen. While ; a hundred placid passers-by looked on, the neolithic stalwarts. In private life sober cit izens of Grants Pass, snatched the green-garbed woman from the sidewalk, fought over her and then auctioned her off to the highest bidder. She went to Chief Big Horn for 150 deerskins and was promptly bundled into an automobile. Having added anoth er woman to their steadily grow ing harem, the CaTemen proceed ed to Portland." where they will Sure That Concluded Kidnaper or one of Them That two Other G-Men's Custody Writing of Ransom 1 ally, "we have the kidnaper or one of them," and added "the in vestigation will actively con tinue." r This announcement was follow ed by a rumor that two other sus pects already were in custody : in federal bureau of investigation of fices here but Hoover declined comment on this report. Hoover reiterated that McCall, 21-year-old truck driver and min ister's son, had admitted writing three ransom notes and collecting the 510,000 paid by James Bailey Cash, sr., in a futile effort to save the life of his five-year-old only child. f But the FBI chief Indicated (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Police Defendants In Damage Action False Arrest Complaint Names 4 State Men and Constable' Four state policemen J and a Clackamas county constable were named as principal defendants in a $60,300 damage suit for al leged false arrest and automobile conversion in a complaint filed in circuit court here yesterday on behalf of W. B. Herron as plaintiff. . i The complaint indentified Her ron only as "a reputable citizen of Multnomah county, Oregon," whose arrest on April 29 and sub sequent fingerprinting caused him "humiliation." Principal defendants are Charles P. Pray as superintendent of state police; State Troopers Richard Secantl, Fred E. Wescott and Ed ward C. Snow, and Constable Leon ard A. Maple of the third Clackmas county district. Bonders Allowed 1 As Defendants The court granted the plantlff permission to include the surities, foreign corporations, for Supt. Pray and the constable as defend ants. They are the Continental Casualty company, Indiana, and National Surety corporation. New York, respectively. , The complaint Includes charges the "goon" tatics were used upon Herron by Segt. Snow, who it al leges threatened him "with phys ical Injury and other violence In event plaintiff would not confess to having a , stolen car in his possession." ; Herron, the complaint recites, was stopped by Officer Secantl on the East Side Pacific highway between Oregon City and Port (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) : Umpqua Improvement in Rivers and Harbors Bill WASHINGTON, June 9-JP)-Improvement of the Umpqua riv er, costing $273,000, and surveys of Tillamook and Coos bay and Hungry harbor areas were in cluded on the omnibus rivers and harbors bill. The bill makes no provision for appropriations. ,lt merely approves construction as funds become available, j . " ; participate in the rose festival. : Dehorned and bef urred, the Cavemen Invaded Salem shortly after 4:30 o'clock, rending the nsual peaceful calm by the shrill horn tootings of their strangely anachronistic automobiles. Cave men stood on the running hoards and threatened unwary pedestri ans with huge calabash clubs and joints of raw meat, useful both as weapon and provender, while scantily skinned Cave women graced the fenders.' f ; Leading the party of 20 men and five women were Chief Big Horn W. J. Moyer and Queen Min ita Morrison. And if it isn't giv ing away a clan secret, the woman kidnaped here was Mrs. Lloyd Morrison, 1090 Rnral Avenue, mother of the Caveman queen. Dixie Senators Winning Fight For Lower Pay t Threat to Scuttle Wage Bill By Filibuster 1 Wins Reopening Early Adjournment Likely in Face of Controversy not WASHINGTON. June 9-(P)- Eighteen southern, senators ap peared to be getting results tonight In their fight to establish lower wage minima for the south than the north.. " Their tatic threat to talk the wage-hour bill to death unless It permitted differentials forced a senate-house conference commit tee to reopen the whole mlniumum wage question. Later Senator Ellender (D. La.) said the conferees had "vir tually accepted" certain sugges tions of the southerners. He. ac knowledged, however, that no rote had been taken. Before today's ultimatum from Dixie, 11 of the 14 conferees had approved a formula under, which wages in Interstate commerce would be fixed, without excep tions, at 25 cents the first year and 30 cents the second year. 11 Had Agreed on Boards These conferees had agreed that from the third to the seventh year, inclusive, the scale would be fixed for each Industry, separately, be tween 30 and 40 cents, upon rec ommendation of special boards. After the seventh year, a general 40-cent rate would be required, ex cepting in which such a rate would clearly cause disemploy ment. The wage-hour controversy clouded prospects for an 'early adjournment of congress. Senator Barkley of Kentucky,. the demo cratel senate leader, predicted the legislators would go home "about Tuesday," but this forecast was contingent upon some wage-hour formula satisfactory to the south ern senators being worked out. landing-Spending Bill Unsettled The adjournment outlook was complicated further by differences over the $3,724,000,000 lendlng- spending bill. Representatives of the house and senate met for the first " time to try to adjust the differences between the bill as it passed the two branches. One of them reported it might "take some time to reach an agreement." Progress was made, however, on another item of' the administra tion's program for this session. The senate approved and sent to the house a resolution providing for an investigation of monopolistic practices in business and industry. Other developments in congress included: The house unseated Representa tive Jenks (R.-NH) and put In his place Alphonse Roy, democrat, . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Kidnap Project Seen in England OXFORD, England, June 9 (JP)r A retired army major told a court today of the scheme of a corseted criminal to seize Vis count Nuffield, millionaire auto mobile manufacturer, for $500, 000 ransom: and perhaps drown him at sea. Maj. Arthur G. F. , Ramsden, a former Royal, artilleryman, testified against John Bruce Thornton, 50, charged as author of ab old plan which had as its elements a rented yacht the Pi errette, threats of torture1 with surgical Instruments and an 1 ar ray of disguises. . ing Ramsden to help him abduct Thornton, charged with inclt Lord Nuffield, was arrested May 24 through teh combined efforts of Ramsden, Scotland Yard, and Nuffield himself. The court heard today that Thornton at the time of his ar rest carried two revolvers and a kidnap : note and was gasping Inside tightly-laced corsets which were a part of his disguise of a red wig, false moustache,, arti ficial eyebrows and gold teeth. Threatened Baker ' Walkout Averted PORTLAND, ' June t JP)- A threatened strike In Portland bak eries was averted today when op erators reconsidered a demand that bakers work 40 Instead of 3 6 hours per week. E. M. Stadel, secretary 'of the Oregon Bakers association, said bakers' and bakery salesmen's union contracts were renewed at last year's figures. Union officials said a walkout had been set for tomorrow, fol lowing a strike of Sea ttle bakers at midnight yesterday. Slaying Act Suit Relief Board Eyes six new Office Sites Subcommittee to Study Locations, Report Back on Tuesday Separation of - Offices ,and Commissary Is Deemed Likely ! The Marion county relief com mittee will hold a special meet Ing early next week, probably Tuesday, to select a new loca"on for Its staff offices and commis sary, Chairman J. F. Ulrich of a special committee assigned to find a new site, announced last night. Coanty Commissioner Roy S. Melson is serving with Ulrich Notice, from its landlord to va cate the Chambers building, oc cupied for the last four years, by July 1 was recently banded the relief committee. The sub-committee let it be known that six locations had been under consideration, with two ap parently now eliminated. They include: Ground floor of Fraternal temple, 447 Center street; the Heltzel building, 356 North Lib erty, yhich the owners offer to remodel; the part of the Moore building, 235 North High, occu pied by the' Arthur H. Moore bi cycle shop;, quarters In the new Bligh building -occupied by the state treasurer's office, at 142 South High; the Vick building. 280 South High, end a sixth whose identity was not disclosed. Chairman Ulrich said the Vick (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Senate Approval Given Flood Bill WASHINGTON, June 9-(JP)-A $375,000,000 flood control bill whiqh sharply restricts the army engineers' authority over electric power policy received the senate s stamp or approval today. . The omnibus measure, previous ly passed In different form by the house, now goes to a confer ence committee. It authorizes the construction of projects during the next five years. Senator Norris (Ind-Neb) and Senator Barkley (D-Ky), major ity leader, succeeded in attaching an amendment depriving the army engineers of authority to de termine whether hydro-electric fa cilities should ze installed in flood control dams. This authority was transferred to the federal power commission. . Norris declared the engineers had too f much power. Senator Copeland (D-NY) opposed the amendment. ' ' Another amendment adopted would vest In the federal govern ment full title to flood control dams. Seattle Bakeries' Strike Near End SEATTLE, June 9-yp)-Ed Ha geni secretary of the bakery workers union whose strike closed 45 bakeries last midnight, said late today . two' bakeries, employing 15 men, signed an agreement today and would re sume operations immediately. He said the , agreement was signed independently of the Em ployers' association. Bakers said unless the strike la settled, stores supplies will be exhausted by tomorrow or Saturday, as the closed estab lishments provided 95 per cent of Seattle's 200,000 daily loaves. Only one-man shops were Op erating at Everett and Belling ham where bakers also walked out today. , :. The' strike followed employ ers rejection of union demands for 'wage increases. Volcano Ceases 8 Day Eruption LEGASPI. P. I., June 10-(Friday) -(ilP)-May on volcano subsided today after spewing a3hes over the countryside In an eruption which began eight days ago. . Some refugees began returning to villages near the mountain's base, convinced their 11 t e s no longer were in danger. l Bombshell in Wagner Charging Conspiracy Slaying oi Coal Miner Centers Interest on Harlan Labor Trial U Y-' "iff J- t Charles L. Dawson, left, and Brian McMahan, rival counsels In the trial at London, Ky., of 69 individuals and 22 corporations charged with conspiring to prevent Harlan county coal miners, from organ izing. The government, represented by McMahan, assistant United States attorney general, hope to establish a broad principle of law which will put teeth into the Wagner labor relations act. Dawson,, former federal judge, heads the defense. Slaying last night of a subpoenaed witness intensified Interest in the trial. Hotel Functions Nearly Restored Non-Union Workers Come to Replace 2000 Union Strikers PORTLAND,' June 9-(;P)-Ser-vice, disrupted last - night, was restored to near normal In eight major Portland hotels today as non-union workers flocked to take the places of nearly 2000 striking employes. .Hotel operators and union rep resentatives, who called the strike to force recognition of the five unions involved after hotel men demanded a city-wide vote to determine the bargaining agency, conferred with Ernest P. Marsh, department of labor con ciliator, but no progress was re ported. More Apply Than Needed More applicants than hotels could accomodate answered news paper advertisements for help, Gunther Krause, attorney for the hotel association, said. In some cases, old employes were not asked to return. In oth ers,, the strikers were told they were welcome back if they 'tore (Turn to Page 10, Col. 3) Determined Men Battle Hoppers SPRINGER. N. M.. June Armed with the weapons of science, determined men were en trenched in the Rocky Mountain and deep southwest area tonight for a last-ditch battle against de vouring insect hordes. - ' Early reports indicated that they were winaing tnelr fight, as mechanical poison-spreaders, , fire throwing pressure burners, and oil sprays dealt increasing mortality to the armies of grasshoppers and black mormon crickets. Tn the case of the Krasshoppers, however, the result of the battle win not he known until the day. expectedly shortly, when the In sects cease crawling ana nopping, and take wing for more speedy migration. When that time comes, poison ing efforts will be ineffectual, and unless their numbers have been sharply reduced previously, the himerv. 'hoDoen will devour mil lions of dollars worth of farm crops and range grass. Soldiers to Pick up K it Bag And Depart to Camp Clatsop Salem's citizen soldier boys will pack their kit bags Monday and depart by special train Tuesday morning for the annual Oregon national guard encampment at Camp Clatsop, their unit com manders announced yesterday. Both Company B, 162nd Infan try, with three officers and 60 men, and Headquarters battery, 249th coast artillery, with two of ficers and 44 men, will send full strength contingents. For Capt. II. G. Maison this is his 10th year in command of the infantry company but for Capt. Charles Unruh, it is his first, Un ruh early this month succeeded Capt. Arthur B. Bates, who after seven and one half years at the head of Headquarters battery, has Mother and Four Children Dnnvned Boat Swamped 3000 Feet - From Shore on Bay Near Umpqua . ROSEBURG, Ore., June 9-ff)-A young mother and four chil dren, the oldest 9, were drowned today when their 14-foot fish ing boat swamped 300 feet from shore in turbulent Winchester Bay. -The dead: Mrs, Edna Huntsman, 27, Bumtwoods, Ore. Elvin Huntsman, 9, Burnt woods. Virginia Huntsman, 8, Burnt-woods,- Coda Huntsman, 2, Burnt- woods. Joyce Grove. Peritieo, 4, Cottage Rescued were Coda M. Pen tico, father of Joyce, his two daughters', Verna L. and Evelyn, and -J. A. Huntsman, sole surviv or, of his family, On Return From Camp The two families, old friends who had vacationed at Winches ter Bay for a number of seasons, were returning in the boat from a camping trip to a cove a few miles down the coast when the tragedy occurred. Their cars were (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Lindberghs Move To Lonely Islet PENVENAN, France, June 9 (Jpy Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are settling down in their new home on remote II llec Island off the coast of Brit tany. After quilting Long Barn, their Kentish home in England -for two and one-half years, they crossed the English channel yes terday to the northwest coast of France. Residents along the coast said the colonel, his wife, and their two' sons, - Jon and Land, were Installed on the Rocky Isle they purchased last April. The fey Penvenan residents who saw Che famous couple pass through here yesterday said they had not appeared today and it was believed they were putting their home in order. advanced to the position of plans and training officer on the staff of Col. Clifton M. Irwin, regimen tal commander. Men of . both units will spend much of Monday at the armory and will reassemble there at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday for breakfast. The infantrymen will board a special train at the Southern Pacific de pot and the battery will take an other at 8:45. An advance guard of 21 men and four officers, including Capt. Bates and Lt. M. J. Melchior of Salem, will leave for camp Satur day morning to set up the artil lery camping equipment at Camp Clatsop. The batteries will travel to Ft. Stevens by truck each day (Tarn to rage 10, Col. 5) Two Brothers Suspected in Union Slaying - Report Another Witness Kidnaped as L a b o r Trial Gains Heat Murdered Miner Formei Mineworkers' Union Local President LONDON, Ky., . June 9-OP)-The slaying of a union coal miner who was under subpoena to tes tify, for the government in the Harlan labor trial here and the reported kidnaping of another who had already testified added "bombshell"- sensations to the case tonight. Chief Deputy Sheriff C. N. Nolan in nearby Harlan county said Leslie Smithers, 30, former president of the Yancey, Ky., local of the United Mine Work ers of America, was shot to death late today in a fight at Gulstoa, Kentucky. Nolan said two brothers, Ver lln Fee, 29, and Clyde Fee, 27, were jailed at Harlan, Ky., in connection with the case. " Smithers had been subpoenaed as a government witness in the trial in which 66 Harlan county coal corporations, individuals and present or former peace of ficers are charged with conspir acy to violate the Wagner act. George Titler, international representative of theUMWA, said tonight at Harlan that John Isom. a union organizer, who testified for the government, reported he had been forced Into an automo (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Flying Laboratory Lands in Guinea SAN FRANCISCO, June 9-WV Richard Archbold and five com panions landed their $250,000 flying laboratory In far-away New Guinea today to join scientists of the. American Museum of Natural History for two years of research among the head-hunting savages of the back, country. News of their safe arrival af ter a three-lap, 8,600-mile tri from San Diego, Calif., from Arch-, bold via Pan-American Airways. The men landed on Humboldt bay. New Guinea, at 1:11 p.-m.. Pa cific standard time, after circllnt for - an hour awaiting Friday'i dawn. They left San Diego last Thurs day; stopping at Honolulu ane Wake Island en route. 'The lasl 2,300 miles from Wake Island took 13 hours and 28 minutes. The six men in the plane Cuba meaning "Sudden Storm," will traverse jungles and rugged moun tains in an attempt to bring back rare specimens of bird and animal . life from the area surrounding Lake Habbena, 12,500 feet abov sea level. Lane Ponders big Back School Tax EUGENE, June 9-(yP)-How U raise $88,000, which the statt supreme court has ordered paid to four Lane county school dis tricts was the question asked ol the state tax commission today b District Attorney L. L. Ray. The amount represents the to tal delinquency .in the state ele mentary school levy for several years back,, less the amount of state tax money the county can raise this year. . - The court supported the school districts' claim to the full amount of the state levy. The county of ficials had contended that the 4i-lcta were entitled only to the amount collected. In his plea for advice, Ray pointed out that the only appar ent way the county can raise the additional money Is by special levy. He said an increased levy would put .the county above the six per cent limitation law. Gettysburg Veteran, 101, To Attend Meet There . LEBANON, Ore., June 9-(;P)-Joe Alley, 101, one of the nation's oldest Civil War veterans, made preparations today to attend the GAR encampment at Gettysburg-, Pa. Alley participated in the his toric batlle. ...