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Cast Your Ballol Salem school district will lect two directors Monday, Mr. Citizen. Remember to vote. Polls open from 2 to T p. m. at 434 North High street. ' The Weather " Partly clondy Sunda and Monday' with local rtiowers. Xo . temperature change. .Max. Temp. Sat. 62. Min.sO. River 1.1 feet. POUNDDD 1651 Bontn wina. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 19, 193S Price 3c; .Newsstands 5 No. 72 H aroanniese to auers .Raging (Dree - , "ti ' Gown tj Or palpations' Demos Choose E. G. Neal as County Chief DL J. Richards Elected as State Committeeman in hot Session Fireworks Over Seating Eight Committeemen Shadows Election E. G. Neal of Union Hill pre cinct was unanimously elected chairman of the Marlon county democratic central committee and D. J. Richards, of Liberty, won the state committeeman post over Kenneth Bayno after Bayne had received a plurality in the first ballot at the three and one half hour committee session at the courthouse yesterday afternoon. : But election of officers was al most eclipsed by lively fireworks which developed at the outset of the meeting over efforts to carry a protest on the seating of eight elected committeemen "whose seat ing., the dissenters claimed, would violate the corrupt practice act. The eight named' In the writ ten protest, which was signed by Madie L. Lippe, William A. Tay lor, Walter Kennedy and Mrs. S. B. Davidson, -were: Ernest : W. Peterson, J. MVSehon, Glen Sav age, Floyd Utter, A. M. Dalrym pie, Kenneth L. Randall, Adella Shepherd and Willis West. . Say Eight Are Public Officers The protest, brought on the floor by Madie L. Lippe after Re tiring Chairman John Marshall had called for and received adop tion of the report of the creden tials committee, was made on the grounds that the eight committee men named already held public office. A motion that the question be referred to the attorney general was withdrawn and finally the protest was waived aside with the assertion . that any of the eight committeemen present and quali fied might vote. Fifty-eight com mitteemen present were approved (Turn to page 14, col. 1J d d i t i c s ... in the Neus KLAMATH FAILS, Ore., June 1-(JP) Deep-voiced farm ers at the Oregon grange con vention received recognition to day. The convention adopted a resolution calling for a lower pitch for singing the "Star Hpangled Banner" at grange gatherings. SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18- -Mrs. June W. Falcone, 12, was awarded a bachelor or arts de gree yesterday at San Jose col lege commencement exercises. Today, Peter Falcone, cosme tologist, filed suit for divorce, charging her association with "highly educated intellectuals" caused domestic friction. XAHAXT, Mass., June 18-(y!P)-Tlie republican organ pumpers at the Roosevelt-Clark wedding Just couldn't take it. They let the "wind" die down in the ancient hand-pnmper just as the president and Mrs. Roosevelt and others of the nation's first family entered the church. This came from Mrs. Mal colm Lang, wife of the organist. She blamed their momentary hold-out partially on their eagerness to see the president, partially on the heat. - They were dripping wet," said Mrs. Lang. SEDAN, Kas., June lJPy Two Osgae Indian brothers from Oklahoma went riding In an air plane today, and when a forced landing injured one of them, the other,- unhurt, promptly took the plane up for his first solo and wrapped It around a tree. Bill and Logan Cottlngham, of pawhuska. Okla., were; flying south of .Chautauqua, Kan., when the motor died. Bill said he just about had a perfect landing on a highway but struck a power line. While a motorist brought -Bill here with several leg cuts, Logan was left to guard the plane. In a doctor's office BUI heard the drone of a motor, looked out and saw his brother breeze past. Logan beaded for an emergen cy field on a nearby ranch but missed it and came down wltMn 20 feet of the house, with one wing folded around a tree. Logan climbed out with minor cuts. lrartwMfjeP up Is Named on GOP State Committee i 3 GRANT MTJRPHT Heltzel Building Favored. Relief County Committee to Get Proposal Upon new . i - " Location Monday - . Leasing of the Heltzel estate building at 356 North Liberty street, as the new location" for the county relief offices and commis sary will be recommended to the relief committee Monday. J. F. Ulrich. chairman of a housing sub-committee, reported yester day. He worked , r-lth Committee men Roy $. Melson and H. V. Col. ins and Secretary Glenn C. Niles in; making the selection. ' The building owners have agreed to modernize the building, cutting windows in its concrete walls, finishing the interior and installing an automatic heating plant.: Ulrich said. If the structure is leased to the committee, the owners will spend approximately $3000 in making it suitable. All of the offices would be on the single floor, at ground level. The commissary would be located in and reached only from the rear. The present commissary and of fices are located across the alley east in the Chambers building. Publishers Score Oppressive Taxes MEDFORD,Ore., June 1&.-JP) The Oregon 'Newspaper Publish ers association condemned social security and unemployment taxes today as "oppressive end unrea sonable and asked congress for a "more equitable method of ac complishing the result intended.' "We are convinced they are In a large measure responsible for the business depression," a reso lution said. The taxes, the publishers heldr "definitely discourage business expansion which would create more employment" and the un employment' levy "is unjust and discriminatory to require the em ployer to pay a tax which is for the sole benefit of the employe, and to j which the employe eon tributes nothing." German Secret Police Start Official Drive Against Jews BERLIN, June 1S-JP)-A merci less official campaign against Jews, reinforced by mob , action, was extended to all Germany to day by secVet police orders. Jews: were In panic Foreign consulates were besieged by men and woaen trying despairingly to get permission to go to other countries. In Worms, famed as 'Martin Luther's home. Jews had diffi culty getting food because Gen tiles were afraid to sell It' to them, t Eyewitnesses In Frankfurt said old respectable families . were routed from their beds and taken to police headquarters before dawn. I Police" raids hitherto were con fined to Berlin where they were called officially a drive to "cap ture anti-social and criminal ele ments. - Official estimates of the num ber arrested were lacking, ex cept a report given the Controll ed Press today The first since for Fall Lewis Judson Chairman lor County GOP Grant Murphy Is Chosen State. Committeeman in Quiet Session New Executive Group to Meet First Time at Marion Friday 3 ' Marlon county's republican pre cinct committeemen turned out 83-strong yesterday afternoon to organize quietly and unitedly the central committee which will di rect the forthcoming general elec tion campaign.. They i promptly elected Lewis Judson of Salem Heights, the last biennium's vice chairman, as chairman, and ele vated Grant Murphy. of Stayton, retiring chairman, to the post of state committeeman. Newly appointed, the executive committee will meet at the Mar lon hotel at 8 p.m. next Friday. No dissent was expressed as all offices were filled. by unanimous ballot for single nominees. Mrs. Wright Named r ; Vice-Chairman ' With women committee mem bers participating for the first time under the new legislative act creating the position of commit teewoman in each precinct, the central committee selected Mrs. R. L; Wright, active Pro-America leader, as its vice-chairman. Oth er officers named were: . Congressional com mitteeman. Otto M. Bowman, Salem; secre tary, F. J; Tooze, sr., reelected; treasurer, W. W. , Chad wick, re elected; district nominating com mittemen, Edith McCord of (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Franco's Columns Drive Down Coast HENDAYE, France: (At the Spanish Frontier), June li-JP Spanish insurgents marked the opening of the 24th month of civil warfare today by driving down the Mediterranean ' coast to the gates of Burriana, 32 miles north of Valencia. The day's advance brought in surgent gains to a total of 16, 600 square miles of territory since January 1. Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's legions now control 35 pro vinces. The government has 11 provinces. Four others are i the scene of bitter fighting. Franco controls 131.000 square miles of Spain and the govern ment 4 8,000 square miles, while 16,000 square miles are disputed. Insurgent columns obtained control of a strategic network of roads inland from the coast by capturing the Sierra de La Pedir zas, which, at their eastern ex tremity, are about 10 miles from the Mediterranean. ' - ' No Work, no Relief PORTLAND, June 18.-;p)-Clients refusing to accept em ployment will be denied relief and removed from the assistance rolls, the Multnomah county relief committee announced today. The group met yesterday with Gov ernor Charles Martin, John E. Cooter, state employment service, and S. B. Hall, county agent. the renewed antl-semitic wave started June 1 -saying two raids in Berlin resulted in the arrests of 460 Jews, of whom 76 were found to be "heavily Incrimin ated," 26 were 'without nation ality," and 61 were foreigners 'without proper papers." Some observers believed, how ever, that raids yesterday and today led to BOO arrests, and that an estimate of 1.000 in Berlin in the last three weeks seemed reas onable. Bsides, 1,000 were esti mated under arrest in the Prov inces. ' . . ' Today's official statement said all those arrested -were "crimin ally suspicious persons" and "no noiitical or other: motives were behind these actions of the op lice, which were conducted in the course of regular checkups." "A number of Jews had to be taken Into protective custody for reasons of personal safety," the statement added. ' . ' Official headquarters insisted (Turn to page 2, coL 4 Governor Benson Seeks Reelection v ' ;;; . ' I , . , t- j Nf I - ; ft - i ' 4 - i J j I ' f 1 XliLJ Governor Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota who seeks renomina tion by the Farmer-Labor party at the polls Monday. The Farmer-La bo rite party, dominant in Minnesota, faces a crisis in this campaign, which has been clouded with new deal issues. Jobless Problem Lasting Says WPA Economic Security Plan Only Way out Sayi Expert Survey WASHINGTON, June The WPA decided today that the unemployment problem Is a last ing one and can be coped with by nothing less than a permanent program of economic security. The relief agency, in a survey, explored the questions of techno logical unemployment, industrial trends, prices and wages, then concluded: "No single program win elim inate the distress resulting from unemployment. An integrated and perfected program of Insurance, public work and public assistance will be necessary. "Under such a program, unem ployment insurance could care for persons who lose their jobs for relatively short periods of time. Persons unemployed for protrac ted periods would receive incomes through work programs. The most important fact is that unemploy ment relief can no longer be re garded as a temporary problem to be treated on an emergency bas is." The WPA experts said the "out moded local xelief of, the pre-in-dustrlal era" was Inadequate to meet the shock of a major depres sion. They blamed the Instability of employment and the presence of some idle labor at all times for the "probable permanence of des titution." The instability of the labor situation. It concluded, "ap pears to be a normal or expected accompaniment of the highly spe cialized economic system." Bombers to Take Mass Trip North SAN DIEGO. Calif., June 18-(jp)-Under command of Rear Adm. Charles A. Blakely, commander of aircraft, scouting force, 48 twin motored long range patrol bomb ers will leave next Saturday on a non-stop flight to Seattle. It will be the greatest number of offshore bombers ever to at tempt a flight in mass formation. The planes will comprise squad rons 7, 9, 11 and 12 of patrol wing 1. After a brief stay at Se attle the four squadrons will oper ate out of Puget Sound to the fleet air base at Sitka, Alaska. They will remain in northern wa ters until August 15, when they will return in a mass flight from Seattle to San Diego. Admiral Blakesly's flagship, the USS Wright, accompanied by the aircraft tender Langley, will sail for Seattle at 9 Monday morning. French Workers Demand More Pay PARIS, June 18--Under threat of a general strike, France's 750,000 government em ployes today gave the govern ment three months In which to meet their demands for higher pay and shorter hours. The powerful public service union, representing the state em ployes, said If the union's de mands by . then are not met, it will, "take extremely energetic action, going so far as cessation of service." Old Proofreader Dies PORTLAND, June 18-i!p)-El-mer E. Roach, 71, veteran proof reader for The Oregonias, died to day. He was formerly employed in the printing trade at Klamath Falls. Keally Pleased On Inspecting State Capitol Architect Who Conceived new State Building . Makes Inspection Says He Is Happy That Building Is so Well " Constructed By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Oregon's new 82,500,000 capl tol building went on inspection yesterday as Francis Keally, archi tect who conceived its combined beauty and utility, arrived here from New York Ciiy to look over the structure preparatory to its official acceptance scheduled, for Tuesday by the state capitol re construction commission. After inspecting the building In the afternoon with Commission Chairman J. A. McLean and Dr. H. H. dinger, Salem member, and Ross B. Hammond, the builder, Mr. Keally pronounced it ready for the state to move in. Moving days t will be the early days in July. ' "I am happy to find so well con structed a building," Mr. Keally commented last night as he took a Statesman reporter on a second inspection visit, on which he studied the effectiveness of the unusual lighting obtained by new methods.- "It has been an excel lent Job." Believe Citizens . WiU Be Pleased : As the frieze panels, in. the two legislative halls and f h e numer ous, varied other reminders of Oregon's background, life and in dustries were viewed, Mr. Keally commented that he believed the people of t h e state would find pleasing the manner in which the commonwealth's history had been worked out symbolically. "We utilized Oregon history as (Turn to page 2, coL 4) Smallpox Breaks Forth at Bandon V BANDON, June 18-p)Ban-don, wiped out by a forest fire with heavy loss of life and prop erty less than two years ago, feared another calamity today a small pox epidemic. Dr. C. L. Coyle, health di rector, reported six persons were stricken and a number of other bore definite syymptoms of small pox. He ordered 36 persons Quar antined, r . The physician said the majori ty of cases had occurred in emer gency shelters erected by the WPA after the fire. One family, he reported, had been exposed to the disease a wek ago at Harrisburg. . In som instances living con ditions were crowded. Several families were using conynon bath room and laundry facilities. A number of the men in the quar antined' group have been working in the city's two lumber mills. . Dr. Coyle said vaccinations since yesterday had been so nu merous he had lost count. He Urged acounty-wide innocnlation to prevent further outbreaks. Four Youths Die In Train Crash WYACONDA, Mo., June -& -Four joyriding high school stu dents were Instantly killed late tonight when their automobile was struck by a streamlined San ta Fe train. The dead were: George Evans Litts, . Quincy, in. Maxine Elam, Wyaconda. Charles Calvert, Wyaconda. Rosalie Van Stander, Fort Mad son, la. The locomotive was traveling at full speed, witnesses said', ex plaining that It does not ordin arily stop in Wyaconda, a village of 500. It struck the automobile at a crossing on the edge of town, and hurled It 300 feet through the air, throwing the bodies of the victims' from the crumpled light sedan. v V The engineer, whose name was not learned, stopped his train at the local station and helped townsmen move the four bodies to a local funeral home, witness es .stated. Senator Copeland Funeral Tuesday SUFFERN, N. T., June lS-OPi-The body of US Sen. Royal S. Copeland. who died yesterday in Washington, lay in state tonight in the living room of the rambling white farmhouse that once was his retreat b e t w e e n congressional sessions. . Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon. : Heated Campaign Ends When School . Election ' Polls Open Tomorrow Mrs. Wright, Cupper, Manley and Harland Seek v Election to two new Record Intensive campaifjning; for piring this week in Salem will election day, rolls around a stream of voters that may estab lish a new record for numbers will flow toward the single polling place, the school administration building at 434 North High street. Intend to Speed Benefit Payment Agricultural Department Says Aid Needed by Many Farmers WASHINGTON, June 18-;P)-The agriculture department in tends to hasten benefit payments to farmers whose income has fallen so far they are in need of help. Department officials said today that quick action was needed. They reported a drop in tho de mand for farm products, coup led with lower farm prices than at any time in the last four years. About 8775,000,000 will be available for farmers who com piled with this year's crop con trol program. Ordinarily, the money, would be paid several months after the' crop season is over, but the plight of the farm er forces a deviation from that policy this year.". - A new. technique is being in troduced this vyear to reduce the lag between the time the crop is planted and the payment is made. Airplanes will take pictures of firms to determine how much has been planted in crops on which payments are made. This Is much quicker, officials- said, than the old land surveying method. Payments to wheat, cotton, to bacco, corn and general crop farmers who comply with soil-building- practices under the ,500,000,000 soil conservation program should start in the fall, officials said. Payments of 825,000,000 (Turn to page 2, col. 1) to W. K. Irwin Dies As Crash Result Injuries sustained when a truck he was driving piled into empty flat cars of a logging train on the Aumsville railroad crossing Fri day night proved fatal to W. Ken neth Irwin, Gideon Stolz bottling company employe who lived at 146 North 24th street. Irwin suc cumbed to his injuries at 5:40 yesterday morning, in the Salem General hospital. Irwin is survived by his widow, Mrs. Agnes R. Irwin of Salem; mother, Mrs. Blanche McCleery of Salem and brother, Robert Irwin of Oakland, Calif. Funeral' serv ices will be from Clough-Barrlck chapel Tuesday, June 21, at 10:30 a.m. interment ueicrest Memorial park. Rev. Mr. Gross of the Evan gelical Lutheran church will offi ciate. State Federation Convenes Monday TILLAMOOK, June 18-;p)-Ben T. Osborne, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, will discuss his organization's policies and ac tivities when the annual conven tion opens here Monday. Tillamook labor officials com pleted plans today to entertain ap proximately 300 delegates. Clar ence Coe of the chamber of com merce will present an address of welcome. John Forgets But He Probably Has by now NAH ANT. Mass.. June 18-Up)- Mr. and Mrs. John Roosevelt, for the moment at least the nation's top-ranking newlyweds, tonight slipped away for an unannounced destination after a society wed ding that combined solemnity and smiles, noise, color and pomp. The president and Mrs. Roose velt helped their youngest son and the new Anne Clark Roosevelt make good their "escape" from this sea - surrounded island, thronged for the day with thou sands of the curious. The bride and groom started their journey by automobile, with a police escort discouraging pur suit. Heading northward, they hinted by their actions that a pri vate home In New Hampshire, or Campobello, the Roosevelt sum mer home in New, Brunswick, might be their destination. A sea Vacant Posts With . Vote Expected two school directorships ex cease tonight and as Monday, o Last year's election, won by Dr. L. E. Barrick, set an ail-time' rec- ord of 2122 ballots cast. The polls Monday, will be open from 2 to 7- p. m. and not, as often misunderstood bp .many vot ers, during the entire day as at other elections. Would-be voters need not be registered; to be qualified to cast ballots tomorrow they must, however, be citizens of Oregon, residents of the dis trict 30 days and at least 21 years of age. They are not required to be property owners. The ballot will carry the names of two present directors, Mrs. Da vid (Fay) Wright and Percy A. Cupper, and of Francis E. Manley, who is seeking to gain the place he missed in his first race a year ago. Mrs. Wright Is concluding her second three-year term and Cupper his first on the board, Intensity of a campaign carried on late last week in behalf of (Turn to page 2, col. 6) CCC Youth Faces Stabbing Charge Arrested .After , Reporting to District Attorney; . Kafner Is Injured William Rutherford, 22-year- old CCC enrollee if rom Alabama, was arrested by Sheriff's officers here yesterday on i charge InvolV' ing the stabbing of John Kafner, about 50, at a dance hall near the Silver Falls CCC camp last Wed nesday night. . . Sought by officers Friday night. Rutherford turned up at the dis trict attorney's office yesterday for an unexplained reason. When arrested on a charge of assault while a r m e d. with a dangerous weapon, he denied any part in the stabbing or that he had possessed the five-inch pocket knife with .which Kagher -was severely in jured la the back. Ball was set at J7E0 In Stay ton justice court. - The sheriff's office said other CCC recruits declared they ha taken the knife from Rutherford' person. Minnesota Party Faces State Vote MINNEAPOLIS, June 18-)-Minnesota's political faction, the farmer-Labor party, faces the cli max of a campaign Involving tacit new . deal support and the most bitter internal war of Its 20-year history in Monday's state election. Arrayed in opposition for the party's gubernatorial nomination are Gov. Elmer A. Benson, with state convention endorsement, and Hjalmar Petersen, state rail road and warehouse commission er, and outspoken critic of what he terms the "Farmer-Labor in side machine. Benson, self-styled radical and portege of the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson, Is an open supporter, of Rooseveltlan . spending policies. Petersen has kept - mum on the new deal question, but indirectly sided against the president when he criticized the recent ouster of Victor Christgau, state WPA ad ministrator. V to Kiss Bride trip, with Canada a. point of em barkation, probably will follow. "Gee; I'm glad it's all over." John breathed to Anne as they rushed for their automobile, short ly after 4:3 p.m.. (EDT). . John and Anne could look back tonight on a marriage performed without the slightest slip. In the dusk of the 107-year-old Union church here, contracting with the bright noonday sunshine outside, the young couple moved through the solemnities of the Episcopal single-ring ceremony in just six minutes. In looking back upon the day as a whole, expert witnesses of many a wedding event were almost at loss to find a flaw. But there was one. . . John forgot to kiss the bride at least he forgot while at the altar d Japanese Lose nam u un lami In Flood Path Troops Desert Territory Newly Won as Flood's Danger Increases While Thousands Perisk Deluge Aids Chinese Military Scheme SHANGHAI, June 19.-(Sun-dayy(P)chlna's mighty Yellow river,' overflowing Its banks with increasing fury, forced the Jap anese armies on the north central front to retreat today. . .invading forces which had been almost at the gates of Cheng chow, Important Honan province railway Junction, in a powerful westward drive along the Lung hai "railway, were compelled to abandon newly-won territory and head back eastward. The "no man's land" created by the. great flood was -widening steadily under, continuing rains. 1 Japanese military activities else where along the Lunghal were stalemated by ' the devastating surge of wild water. Although China paid a terrific price in casualties and flooded farmlands, she obtained from na ture beneficial military results she was Unable to win by arms. Delay Increases War Cost t Every day's delay in the Jap anese invasion Is seen as a mea sure of victory for the Chinese by Increasing the already stag gering cost of the war to Japan. (Experts In Tokyo recently esti mated the Chinese war was cost ing Japan f 5.000,000 a day.) The fl ood, spreading, over 1,600,000 square miles of Chinese villages and ' farms, Nevertheless has been costly to China. Japan ese army officials stated 700,000 Chinese havs been driven from their homes, jalthough some neu tral observer! said this figure was high. H Japanese estimates that 50,000 Chinese have died in the floods also were scaled down by some missionary and other neutral ob servers. 'Yesterday the Japanese said an additional 200,000 more Chinese were trapped beyond hope of rescue. The flood, surging, southeast ward from the river's banks near Chengchow,j was reported to have passed Chowkiakow, more than 100 miles away, and to be head ing into Anwhel province. More Br Itepor New breaks were reported to day7 on the north bank of the river near Menghsien and Wenh- slen, 60 and 40 mil ei east of Chengchow, respectively, with the .angry waters spreading over the countryside as far as Tsinyang, 20 miles to the north. With retreat of the Japanese from the Chengchow region, the Chinese were reported to be op erating the Lunghal railway again west of Chengchow, enabling un impeded Chinese military move ments behind the protective flood screen. With the entire Chinese flood- control system seriously damaged by the rushing waters, Chinese conservation officials were fear ful that the usual high water of early August might bring one of of the f worst inundations of China's flood-studded history. They pointed out that the flood waters were pouring into tribu taries of the Hwai river, in south ern Honan. The Hwal then flows eastward ; into Anwhel province and into Lake Hungtze, which in turn is connected with the Grand canal and through it with the Yangtze, China's second great river. i S (Turn Jto page 2, col. 8) Japanese Planes Boirih US Mission PEIPING, China, June 18-V Rellable advices received here to day said two Japanese . planet bombed the American Southern Baptist mission at Plngtu, in east ern Shantung province, last Fri day killingan undetermined num ber of Chinese women and chil dren. ' The seten Americans attached to the mission were said to have escaped unhurt. A, ton of high explosive bombi were reported dumped on the mis sion. Box Company Destroyed KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. June 18-(ii!P)-The Crater Lake Box & Lumber company at Sprague Riv er Indian reservation was de stroyed -this afternoon by fire. A quantity of lumber in the miU.1, yard also was consumed.