Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1938)
Softball Season - The season of night soft ball under the lights Is starting. The Statesman sport page provides com plete reports many hoars ahead. The Weather , Generally cloudy Saturday and Sunday with slowly ris ing temperature. Max Temp. Frl. 63. Min. 43. River 1.3 feet. West wind. POUNDQD 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, Jnne 18, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands Sc No. 71 SI W W X) L IG M . L tWfiig:l ill Ira: &0P Congress Ac Audit Reveals I Water Board Gain Is Large Net Gain of $181,384.22 -.. Shown in 1937 Water Commission Studv Report Presented Covers First 29 Months of City Operation The Salem water" department made a net gain of $181,384.22 In its first 29 months. of existence, the water commission learned last night when the, 1937 audit was presented. The balance sheet for the close of the year shows the department had $2,200,000 in bond liabilities, 158.841.51 in current liabilities and above these amounts- surplus and reserves representing the $181,384.22 gain. Of the total gain, $55,772.29 is listed as earned surplus, $94,383.- 03 in labor contributed by the VVPA. shown as donated surplus, $30,727.3 7 In a fund reserved for payment of disputed taxes and $501. S3 in an automobile expense equalization fund. Recommend More Bookkeepers The only major recommenda tion the auditors make is that the bookkeeping staff be enlarged. They cite numerous minor errors, no major ones, and attribute them to the fact that subsidiary ledgers were not balanced with the gen eral ledger control account at any time during the year. .. "The volume of the work Is such that it Is now plausible to expect that the present person nel can manage to find time- to do all the work neceari ahd de sirable." the a adit statement reads. "This comment is not in any way intended as s reflection upon the abilities or industrious ness of the present staff but is meant to call attention to the fact that if the accounts and records are to be maintained properly up-to-date, more help will be re quired. The efficiency of the present staff is considered quite high." The audit urges that the sub sidiary ledgers be balanced with the controls at least once; each month and all errors then located and corrected. A test check of customer's bill ings showed no errors had been made, the audit says. The -department's collection policies and procedure are praised and note taken of the fact that on March 10. 1938, "there remained un collected only $277.69 of the con sumers' accounts receivable at December 31, 1937." , The audit repeats a previous recommendation that a more de tailed property ledger be es tablished. The balance sheet lists assets and liabilities as follows: Assets Current, $66,074.50; bond investments, $71,504.48; fixed capital in service and under construction, $2,244,838.16; de ferred charges and other assets, $57,808.59; total. $2,440,225.73. Liabilities Current. $49, 554.06, and consumers' deposits, $9,287.45; bonded debt, $2,200, 000; surplus and reserves. $181, 384.22; total, $2,440,225.73. . The audit was made by - the secretary of state's division of audits. 0 d d it ios ... in the Netc DORCHESTER, England. June 17-(iiP)-A wisp of hair clipped from the -head of Lord Nelson. Eritain's famed sea dog who coined the slogan "England ex pects every man to do his duty," was sold at auction here today for 11 ($55). The lock was among heirlooms of the family of Masterman Thomas Hardy, Nelson's flag captain. It was clipped from Nelson's head by his beloved Lady Emma Hamilton, the wife of a one-time British ambassador to Naples who caused Nelson and his wife to separate. LOS AXGEI.ES, Jane 17-(P) Leo G o r c e y, 20 year . old "tOHfch" of the films "Dead End" and "Crime School," turned meek today when a municipal Judge sentenced him to five days in Jail for speed ing. He pleaded guilty to going to S3- miles In a 25-mile cone. LONO BEACH. Calif., June 17 p)The Brierly family which ; thought for a while it had trad- ed off Its vacation trip for a i mess ot waffles can take the Is I Journey after all. Uncle Sam made It possible today when he sent Mrs. Ralph A. Brierly a check for $90 in exchange for a handful of ashes. : The ashes were -what was left of i currency of that amount which I . Mrs. Brierly hid under the plate In the waffle Iron against the day vacation time arrived. John and Anne To At Color iid Seaport Town Jigo J if : Ia M i ANNE LINDSAY CLARK Nation's 1st Wed off Youmrest John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark Marry at Nahant With all the Roosevelts i Gathered for Ceremonies NAHANT, Mass., June 17. ( AP) The nation's first family, in one ofLjts rare en masse gatherings, tonight celebrated colorfully the wedding eve of its youngest member, tall ohn Roosevelt, and his bride-to-be,' Anne Lindsay Clark. With the flurry of pre-nuptial events lending an electric air to this normally quiet old town, President Roosevelt stepped in himself to climax the swift round with a formal dinner to the: bridal party aboard his yacht, the Potomac, anchored Just off shore. r i The final scene was splashed with color, as the Potomac, ablaze with lights and guarded by a rak ish navy destroyer, rocked the bridal party in a gentle swell less than 500 yards off the rocky shore of this sea - surrounded town, j (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Idaho High Judge Injured in Crash EAGLE, Idaho, Jnne 17.-JF-Two women suffered fatal injur ies and an Idaho supreme court Justice,' his wife and three other ImAtillaa rnllMail after aVIririin? nn wet pavement here today. Mrs.! John W. Shore. B9, of Boise, wife of the secretary of Ida ho's Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic lodge, was killed out right, and Mrs. Frank Newland, 51. wife of a Boise farmer, died a short time later. Supreme Court Justice James F. Ailshie and Mrs. Ailshie suf fered severe injuries. Judge Ailshie is a graduate of Willamette - university5 college of law. . I ,'"' . Hopmen Meet To Increase Efforts of brewers and hop dealers to Increase the control board for the proposed hop mar keting agreement by two mem bers, one brewer and one eastern grower - dealer were countered with demand by growers that two more growers-at-large be added to the board during yesterday aft eraoon's session of the public hearing now In session here on the marketing agreement. The hearing, in session all day yesterday and last night, will be continued today at the old high school auditorium, with Neil Brooks of Washington, D. C, pre siding for the agricultural adjust ment administration. Bulk of yesterday's testimony dealt with the cost of production and a ! comparison of production costs and price received by grow ers today with the basic period from 1909 to 1914. The testimony IwlU bo used In redrafting the ten Be Wed Today ; f fa s.- v".'. V -.'-J AND JOHN ROOSEVELT Family to O - Three Injured in Crash of Sedan A family of three was severely injured when the heavy sedan in which it was traveling left the Pacific highway in front of the Brook Nook restaurant at Brooks about 11 o'clock last night and crashed atop a four-foot square, 18-inch thick concrete slab in front of the nearby service sta tion. ' .T : :. J j : : The injured, whose home was given as Manitoba, Canada, and extent of the injuries: Frank Sutherland,? fractured ankle; Mrs. Frank Sutherland, severe chest Injuries with possible broken ribs; Carl Sutherland, 18, fractured finger and ' abrasions. (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Papers Quit Publication When Employes Walk out : - I PITTSBURGH, June 14 -(")-Pittsburgh's two afternoon news papers, the Sun -Telegraph (Hearst) and the Press (Scripps Howard), suspended publication today after mechanical depart ment employes refused to pass picket lines thrown about the newspaper buildings by striking office workers. : f Brewer's Try Control Board tative agreement for later referen dum to growers and dealers. , The grower picture was "pre sented by William Walton ot Sa lem, Paul Carpenter, marketing specialist at Oregon State college, James Seavey of Eugene.' Frank Needham of Salem, Paul Wolf of San Francisco, E. Clemens Horst of San Francisco, Joseph Keber of ML Angel and J. E. Smith of St. Paul. ' E. Clemens Horst brought ap plause from the large crowd of growers assembled when he advo cated that no dealer or grower dealer dealing in foreign hops should : be allowed to sit on the control board. i " Many of the growers present apparently regret that the pro posed marketing agreement makes no Provision for minimum or maximum prices of hops and provides for no quotas. . How (Turn to page 6, col. 8) : Son - I- - Muddy Waters Continue Flow Through Cliina 1500 More Towns in Path . of Raging Flood in Honan Province Japanese Engineers Say i More Than 700,000 Flood Refugees SHANGHAI, June 18-(Satur-day)-(P)-M u d d y Yellow river waters, sweeping across the heart of densely-populated Honan prov ince threatened today to engulf 1,500 more villages and hamlets. More than 2,000 communities anl countless farms already have been evacuated. Japanese army , engineers estimated there are j now 700,000 Chinese refugees from the flood. Heavy rains continued and j several additional widening ! streams were reported swirling j southward from their normal beds, threatening to widen great- ! ly the. 500 square mile-flood-' wrecked area. With flood damage increasing and with little prospect of im mediate relief, the homeless refu gees faced imminent dangers of starvation and death from . chol era,, typhoid and small-pox, dis eases which often spread rapidly in the wake of flood." - Japanese staff officers at Kai feng said the task of stemming the flood appeared hopeless as approiimately 90 per cent of the great Yellow river's water surged through quarter-mile gaps and rushed southeastward from the Chengchow-Kalf eng region to Chowkiakow, 100 miles away. The engineers pointed out the Yellow river had not yet reached the-usual summer peak and sai&j there were trowing possibilities the flood may continue and pos (Turn to page 2, col. 1) ' Chiropractors Go Into Main Action Heavy Work of Coriclave Set Today; Hewitt Dinner Speaker Forty chiropractic physicians were registered yesterday at head quarters at the Marion hotel as the annual three-day convention, of the Oregon Association of Chiropractic Physicians opened. The number attending is expect ed to reach 100 before the ses sions close Sunday. Today's program embraces the bulk of the business of the con vention with nine specialized dis cussions by recognized chiroprac tic authorities scheduled, begin ning at 9 a.m. Judge Ashley C. Dickson will speak at the lunch eon meeting on "Legislation," while at 6:30 the delegates will be entertained at a banquet, which will be followed by' danc ing. The Barbara Barnes school of dancing will offer entertain ment in the form of a floor show at the banquet. The ladies' auxiliary members yesterday were conducted on a tour of state institutions. This afternoon at 1 o'clock a luncheon and program is arranged for them at the hotel, while Sunday members will attend a tea at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. (Turn to page 2, col. 2) ( Further Flights Of Plane Delayed SEATTLE. June 17-JP)-FnT-ther test flights of the new 74 passenger Pan American Clipper will be postponed, C. L. Eguedt, president of the Boeing Airplane Co., announced late today, pend ing modifications to perfect handling on the water. He said one Is to change the rudder position to give maximum control during slow speed water maneuvering; replacing the pres ent single rudder with twin rud ders operating In the propellors' slipstream. The other change consists of modifying the angle and span of the Clipper's hydrostabillzers the sponsors which ride the ; wa ter during taxiing. Egtvedt said new parts to ac complish the modifications are In production and will be applied to the sister ships still under con struction. Meantime engineers are continuing dally taxiing tests of the first Clipper on Lake Washington. Japan Rejects Protest TOKYO, Jane ' 18 ( Saturday ) -(P)-Japan rejected today a pro test by Soviet Russia against bombings of Canton by Japanese warplanes. and countered with a reiteration of her demands that Russia stop sending planes and pilots to China. Kenneth Iriviri Injured When Truck Hits Train Given Poor Chances . of Living After Driving Car Under Logging Train Standing on Tracks , - r at Crossing -Near Aurasville AUMSVILLE, June 17 Smashing under empty cars of a logging train standing on the railroad crossing here about 9 o'clock last night, a Gideon Stolz bottling company truck from Salem, driven by W. Kenneth Irwin, knocked two cars off the track and scattered bottles all over the highway. 1 Irwin was taken to the Salem General hospital by the Salem Taxi ambulance. Buffering with fractures of the pelvis, arms and legs and' multiple cuts and abrasions about the face and body. It is believed by witnesses that Irwin never saw the' train, the crossing presenting an almost en tirely "blind" spot to approaching motorists. The highway takes an abrupt rise' to cross the tracks, with visibility almost nil. , More than an hour ensued from the time Irwin's truck crashed the train and wreckers were able to extricate the remnants of the al most, completely demolished ma chine. Attendants at the Salem Gen eral hospital said late last night that Irwin's condition was grave. He resides at 146 North 24th street. . Contempt Charge Laid Upon Hague "Talking out of Court" Is Laid to, Jersey Mayor by CIO Counsel NEWARK, N. J., June 17-(ip)-Mayor' Frank Hague of Jer sey City was charged with con tempt of the United States dis trict court today by Morris L. Ernst, counsel for "thenCIO and American Civil Liberties union in their "free speech" injunction suit against him. At the accuser's suggestion. Judge William Clark withheld his ruling pending the filing of supporting affidavits and a brief. The contempt charge was made because Hague, at a hastily-called press conference during the noon recess, made an attack on Ernst he was forbidden to make on the witness stand. ' -....- The ; vice chairman ot tne na-J tlonal democratic committee, banging his fist on an ante-room table, shouted Ernst was responsi ble for stopping a New York, legislative committee from Inves tigating radical influences in the public ; schools of that state. - As soon as court -reconvened, E r n s t previously accused by. "Hague' of instigating a ClO-com-munist plot to seize control of the United States, and subjected to continual personal attacks by Hague's counsel asked Judge Clark to hold Hague in contempt for talking out of court. PGE Bid on Plant Is Recommended Sale of the city water depart ment's 125 kilowatt hydroelectric plant to 'the Portland General Electric company for $12,000 cash was recommended to the city council by the water commission last night after terms of an ac companying lease of water rights were modified. The revisions made the power company defi nitely responsible for maintenance of. and any damages arising frem the mill stream from its head near Stay ton to its mouth at South Commercial street. The commission also Instructed Manager Cuyler VanPatten to find suitable Investments for the $12,000, which will go' into the water bond sinking fund. ' Members of the commission de clared they believed an exception ally satisfactory deal had been struck for the city in the sale. The only other business trans acted was the appointment of Commissioners I. M. Doughton, O. A. Olson and E. B. Gabriel as a committee to receive bids on two replacement trucks. . Late Sports LOS ANGELES, June 17-(JPh San Francisco won both games of a doubleheader from- Holly wood tonightr 14 to 4 and 4 to 2. The Seals took an early lead In both games and held it through out. Two homers accounted for five of the San Francisco runs In the first contest. Second game, (seven Innings): San Francisco .4 7 2 Hollywood 2 V 0 SUits and Sprlns; Babich and Breniel. SILVERTON. June 17 Sher wood, taking advantage of eight Tualatin errors, edged out -a 7 to 6 victory here tonight in a rag gedly i played Oregon semi-pro" tournament preliminary. . Sherwood ..........7 10 S Tualatin ............ 10 8 Brown and Johnson; Melcher and Simpson; C - Senator Copeland Dies in Capitol Nationally Known Writer on Health Problems j Was Aged 69 WASHINGTON, June 17-P)-Senator Royal S. Copeland, New York democrat, died at 7:45 o'clock tonight of "a general circulatory collapse complicated by a kidney ailment." He was 69 years old. Mrs. Copeland, two physicians and two nurses were . with him when the end came in his suite in the Shoreham hotel. Dr. Harry M. Kaufman, one of, the attending physicians, said the Illness may have been brought on by overwork toward the end of the congressional session, but added, that "the senator hasn't really been well In a long time." Hie senator was nationally known for his writings and broadcasts on health problems as well as for his activities in Washington. For the past year Copeland had been especially active. He made an unsuccessful bid for the New York mayoralty,; last fall, and during the congressional ses sion just ended spent much time on maritime labor questions. Once, he almost got into a fist fight when Senator McKellar (D-Tenn.) lunged at him during debate on an army bill. Copeland was a member of the senate group of democrats who frequently disagreed with Roosevelt policy. ! Copeland was the second mem ber of the 75th congress to die within a day after the historic session ended. Rep. AUard H. Gasque (D-SC), succumbed this morning. 2 Major Parties Lay Plans Today COP and Demos to Select Committee Heads at Today's Meeting j Marion county's two major par ties will be organiged through their central committees today in preparation for the general elec tion campaigns. The republican committee will meet at 3 p.m. at the Marion hotel and not at the courthouse as pre viously scheduled. At 2 p.m. the democratic j com mittee will assemble at the court house for its session. Candidacies for republican com mittee positions were reported yesterday as narrowed down to non-contest status.. Mentioned were Louis Judson for chairman, succeeding Grant Murphy, who is proposed for state committeeman; Mrs. R. L. Wright for vice-chairman, George' Jackson for execn: tlve. committee chairman, F. J. Tooze, sr., for secretary, and Otto M. Bowman for congressional committeeman. No name was heard for the treasureship. Outlook for the democratic committee was less peaceful as the names of Dr. Paul Fehlen of Stayton and Kenneth Bayne were talked, for the chairmanship now held by John Marshall. The pres I (Tnrn to page 2, col. S) Grange Seeking Protection Against Labor Organization i KLAMATIf FALLS, Ore., June 17-(p)-Th Oregon State grange's 65th annual convention, fighting against time before adjournment, ended a bitter debate tonight by adopting a labor relations com mittee report advocating protec tion for agriculture against the intrusion of organized labor. Action followed a three-hour debate. The grangers' bill of rights, in essence, asserted: . The right of the farmer to market his own produce at any hour or place without Interfer ence; right of the farmer to transport commodities of the farm, either by himself or any member of his -family or farm employe, without Interference; right to grow, pick, pack or har vest any crops by bis own family without the products being la beled unfair; - right to slaughter any meats for market with as Army Major Held For Wiie Slayingi ? Major John It. Brooke, an infantry-instructor at Fort Benning, ia. and formerly with the ROTC at Oregon State, Is In jail at Columbus, Ga charged with the murder of his wife, foand beaten to death at their home. Major Brooke is accused by the government of slaying her with a golf clnb. Arraigned, Ala jor Brooke pleaded not guilty. Project Boosters Happy at Results Jubilant to Learn That State Contribution Only Million By STEPHEN C. MERGLER . Willamette valley project boost ers jubilance at inclusion of their entire program in the omnibus bill adopted a few hours before congress adjourned increased yes terday as the word came from Washington that the state's share in the cost would' be only $1,000, 0C0. .The bill originally charged $18,000,000 to the state. "This bill is certainly a step ahead," Senator Douglas McKay, valley project chairman, declared last night. "The $1,000,000 cost fs a price that Oregon can afford to pay. As first set up, the pro ject was prohibitive." ' Since the omnibus flood control bill supplied no money, but only made authorizations, the valley project' executive committee's next task is to seek a share of the funds provided in general appro priation measures to permit an (Turn to page 5, col. 6) Insurgent Armies Resume Advances HENDAYE, Fiance ( At the Spanish Frontier), June 17.-i5J)-Insurgent dispatches said tonight Gen. Francisco Franco's eastern armies had smashed .Spanish gov ernment re'sis ence along the Mijares river and resumed a gen eral advance toward Valencia, 35 miles rto the, south. . ' , MADRID, June : 17.-JP)-Insur-gent warplanes killed 35 persons and wounded 75 today in -raids on Valencia and Alicante. Six tri-motored bombers' at tacked Alicante before dawn. They were kept from the center of the city -by anti-aircraft bat teries and launched their cargoes on the outskirts. - sistance of neighbors . or family without being branded unfair; right of poultry producers to market their own poultry . and slaughter and prepare same for market, with assistance of neigh bors, without intereference r fear of being classified as un fair. At the same time, the granger! provided that any differences be tween farmers and laborers should be settled by "fair, con structive conferences." Thet adopted committee report declared unyielding opposition to any action compelling farmers and their families to become af filiated with any labor organiza tion in order to avoid being ham pered in operations, The report also recommended an inalterable stand against vio lence in any form and recom (Turn to page 2, col. 1) it " :v" - I.. McNary Joins In Censurin istration Say Duty of Legislators to Remain in. Session to Remedy Evils , Assert Warnings Against Dangers of New Deal Policy Ignored v ; -fl-- : : : WASHINGTON, June 17 -(TP)-Republican leaders denounced congress today for adjourning .while the country was la the throes of "a severe. economic cri sis," and" accused administration leaders of determined efforts to "change the American - form of government." Senate Republican Leader Mc Nary, of Oregon, and Representa tive Snell of New York, the house minority leader, issued a Joint statement declaring the first duty of "the national legislature should have been to remain in session "and adopt measures to alleviate the paralysis of business."- , Asserting proposals of the house and senate republicans and their warnings of the "dangers inher ent in ' many new deal -policies" had been either "ignored or ridl- "It is. with the keenest regret and aversion that we now witness a bitter-.fulfillment of the warn ings we have issued. The planned Roosevelt recovery has, as we warned, become the Roosevelt de pression." . The minority leaders charged that the increase in unemploy- m ant in mstrA than . 17 AAA M u ft persons and the "tailspJn" st farm, commodity and security nriua roan 1 f rA J' - - - - - fallacious policies and inefficient administration of the new deal." "These results could have been avoided," they said, "had the new deal accepted the remedial mea sures proposed, especially during the last 8 months, by the repub licans, of the house and senate. . "Instead the time of this con gress, has been dissipated in de termined efforts by administra tion leaders to change the Ameri can form of government through supreme court packing and . so called governmental reorganiza tion schemes. Stubbornly the president J and his advisers have refused to admit the error of their poicies even as the house of (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Federal Agencies Prepare Spending WASHINGTON, June 17-037 Administration aides busily tuned up the gigantic federal spending machine today for the distributioa of the billions appropriated by the departing congress, j At -the Public Works adminis tration, officials said they were ready to allot projects, totalling $500,000,000 as quickly as Pres ident Roosevelt signs the $3,753, 000.000 lending-spending bill. The Works Progress admlnis- uanuu na - uttuyicu nim ar rangements for increasing the re lief rolls from their present level of something more than 2,600,000 to an estimated peak of 3,100, 000, to be reached during the win ter months. These and other agencies in volved. In the lending-spending drive to stimulate recovery had been making their arrangements for weeks, throughout the period that the bill was under considera tion In congress. They explam that to be most effective In allev iating the business recession, the money must be distributed with reasonable" haste. When Mr.' Roosevelt would sign the bill was unknown. Not only this measure, but a' big folder ot other completed legislation await ed his attention, including the wage-hour bill. He Intends to re turn to Washington next Friday, but meanwhile can sign the mea sures at his home in Hyde Park, where he will spend most of aext week. Wandering Bruin Is Bagged Upon Klamath Street KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.. June 17LTV-PoIice went bear hunting in style tonight, shooting a 250- pound wild brown bear from a tree at Eighth and Jefferson streets, a scant four blocks from the heart ot the business district. The bear, shot through the shoulders, dropped Into the back of a waiting pickup truck. Before taking to a tree, the an imal had been pursued tor seven blocks through a thickly popula ted residential s e c t i o n while frightened citizens watched. Po lice surmised the bear had wan dered .into town through the thickly wooded .Moore park from the Cascades.