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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1938)
The Weather Clear today and Wednes day. Maximum temperature Monday 80, Minimum 52. lUver.8 feet. North wind. EIGIlTY-EKillTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, June 21, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 6c No. 73 hi mm. n ii J POUNDSD 1651 Mrs. Wrlg CiiTOBcr Wiai iii ScIkdoI ... - - , , . . , . .-, . ... . . : 'O - Crews w reckage o Protest Filed As Paper Mill Whips Eagles yn 3-1 but Rule Protest Legal s6 Game Won't Count on Books .Golden Pheasant Does the Unexpected Defeats Wait's 7 to 5 By RON GEMMELL As nearly as anyone can tell the worst beating taken In last fight's Softball sorties on Sweetland was by the same pair of umpires that bore the brunt of last week's pro tested Papermaker-Walt's 14-in-ning donnybrook. For, while Pa permakers to all appearances In 'last night's first spasm handed the. Eagles a 3 to 1 defeat, the - game was protested from the sec ond half of the seventh inning. . Biggest item on the evening's pantaloon parade, outside of the protested game, was the manner in which, the lowly gilded birds. the Golden Pheasants, picked & craw full of Tlctory from Wait's, 7 to S. Reason for last night's protest ed ball game was that, in the last bait of the seventh frame with the 'Makers a bat, a thrown ball that went past Third Baseman Pillette kit the 'Makers' third base coach. While the rules provide for play to ktop at that point -in such cases. Umpires Weisgerber and Elliott allowed runners on third and second to advance. Eagles' Manager Friesen lodged an offi cial protest, and President Maple and Manager Flesher upheld it. When the protested game is re played there will be runners on second and third, two away, John ny Steelbammer at bat and the score 1-0 in favor pf the Paper Makers. Neither rtlp scored in the inning will be allowed. The G. Pheasant flock had a fair-sited audience: clucking with it all the way as it out-hit, out scored and out-foughjt a favored wait s team to annex mat 4-t win. Wait's, by dint of Beard's triple and Adolph's circuit drive, coup led with the only boot Shortstop Forgard made in handling nine chances, scored four runs in the 'second stanza. Their Joy was short-lived, the flamboyant Pheasants coming back in the tLird with a four-run rally of their (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Small, Johnson In Lesion Race Competition developed for next w month's annual Capital post No. 9, American Legion election when - Brazier C. Small, charter member. was nominated last night to run against Arthur Johnson, acting July 4 celebration chairman, for the commandership. Notice of a possible drive to obtain the 1939 state Legion con mention was given. The name of Ray Stumbo was added to those of Don Madison and Al Cole as nominees for sec ond vice-commander of the post. with, George Edwards remaining unopposed for the 'first vice commandership. For adjutant, Fred E. Mangia and Mem Pearce, nominated earlier in the month, remained without new opposition but for the Job of finance officer. Guy Weaver was nominated to run against Fred winiams. Other nominees are: Irl S. McSherry, historian ;;C V. Richardson, chaplain; Fred Jaeger, quartermaster; Al Feilen, serjeant-at-arms r William Bllven, Cart Gabrielson, King Bartlett, Claude McKenney, Walter Zosel, . Harry Holt and Allan G. Carson, newly nominated, and nans not tetter. Glen Porter, Fred Gahls- dorf. O. E. Palmateer, George (Torn to Page 2. Col. 2.) Morgenthau Nails Inflation Rumor WASHINGTON, June . 2 0-;P)-Secretary of 'ie Treasury Jior genthaa sought today to nail ru mors of Impending dollar devalua tion. Flatly denying the reports, Morgenthau Indicated they origi nated with speculators who have bought gold in hope of profit. "I don't know how long people with horse sense will listen to these speculators," the treasury head said. - Contin me Sr(cMjiQ Trctiiti as Bodyi Recovery Balked As. Sleeper Slips Down Into Muddy Creek Bed 31 Known Dead in in Decade but Only 22 of Victims Identified by V MILES' CITY, Mont., June er that railroad officials estimated contained 12 more unre covered victims of the worst American railroad wreck in a decade slipped down tonight Creek and balked recovery hours. 1 Railroad officials reported 31 0 known dead and 22 of these iden tified at 11 p. m, (MST). Eighteen persons were named as still missing and unaccounted for. I The sleeper was submerged for nearly 36 hours after the Milwau kee railroad's crack . "Olympian train plunged through a flood weakened bridge early Sunday and piled up in Custer Creek's roaring flood torrent 20 feet deep. The sleeper, being Jacked up on blocks in the silt-covered stream bed exposed when the "flash flood" subsided, slid loose late to night and sank back into the mucky creek bottom. -A 24-year-old South Dakota nurse died tonight in Miles City's Holy Rosary hospital after 14 ad ditional bodies were taken from the wreck's twisted debris. The bodies of two unidentified women, recovered from the tour ist sleeper before it slipped back down into the creek bed, were brought to Miles City late tonight. These victims raised the list of known dead to 31. The nurse. Miss Lucile Stumley of Keldron. S. D., was the first of the wreck's victims to die in a hospital.; . , ' All the others were killed out right or trapped in twisted cars submerged in a 20 -foot -deep clou ,d burst floodstream that (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Newj East Salem Station Forecast Ohlins Will Investigate Plan Changes Before Possible Building Construction of a new fire sta tion for east Salem was forecast at the city council meeting .Mon day night when Alderman Ohling, chairman of the fire department committee, was authorized to in vestigate possible changes in the plans used in construction of the two other suburban stations, look ing toward a call for bids at the second council meeting Jn August. Ohling explained that the frame building used as a fire station in east Salem was dilapidated and leaked badly. 11 did not men tion that a recent underwriters' report classed it as a firetrap. The j council was somewhat shocked to learn that without so licitation, it bad been relieved of an expense of $66 a month its former share in operation of the employment office here, now borne entirely by the state em ployment service, according to a letter from Guy V. Lintner, its director. ! Relative to the 'sale of 140 lots acquired by the city through de linquent street - assessment lien foreclosures, a resolution making Rich L, Reimann agent on a com mission basis ; was read but re ferred back to committee with in structions to obtain offers from other real estate dealers. Tl;e pro posal provided for cooperation of other agents with Reimann. but some aldermen felt all should (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) Nationalists Drive Ag: ainst Villarreal HENDAYE, France (at the Spanish Frontier), June 20--Spanish government infantry sought today to drive against the flank of the insurgent forces con trolling Villarreal, 35 miles north of Valencia. The: fighting ss heaviest one, and one-fourth miles northwest of Villarreal. .There the government "Mllicianos" threw up . defenses hastily against insurgent thrusts from the north at the same time as they tried to March east. Tanks, artillery and warplanes In great numbers were used by both sides. Toll Worst Railroad Disaster Rescue Crew 20. (AP) A tourist sleep into the mucky bed of Custer of the bodies for several more f ; Chain Is Bought By N. Director Metropolitan Unit Here to Be Relocated ; Kuznetz Stays as, Manager ; Coincident with the announce ment that Nathan Director of Portland had purchased the Met ropolitan Chain Stores, operating in Salem, Eugene and Portland, came a further announcement Monday that the Salem store would be moved from Liberty street to the former Bishop's lo cation on North Commercial. The opening in the new location is ex pected to be shortly after the Fourth of July. The Liberty street store is to be vacated" by that time. There have been unconfirmed reports that it is to be occupied by the Fred Meyer company. ' . I Mr. Director announced that Nat Kuznetz, also known as "Kay" in this community, would continue to be manager of the Metropolitan chain, with William Lundin local manager. The pres ent store personnel, will be re tained and any additional help re quired will be employed locally. Mr. Director has been in the mercantile business in Oregon for over 30 years, operating chain stores in Oregon and Washington. Reduction of overhead, ; with con sequent saving parsed on to the public, was announced las a pol icy of the new proprietor, with the change of . location mentioned as (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) Three Hotels Sign Union Agreements PORTLAND, June 2 0-;P)-Al though the hotel strike situation here remained unchanged as it affected 11 big downtown hotels, the executive board representing striking unions announced today that three more Portland hotels not members of the Portland Ho tel association had signed agree ments , with the unions. So far eight of the small hostelries have signed. : . . r ' "J The start of arbitration be tween culinary unions and the Portland Restaurant association, scheduled for 2 p. m. today, was postponed until Thursday when hope was revived agreement on contract renewals might be reached without resort to arbitra tion. . i '' s .'!' i A FL Threatens Boycotting Oregon Associated Farmers TILLAMOOK, Ore., ! June 20.-(jJPV-ThrejU of a boycott by or ganized labor against the associa ted farmers of Oregon was voiced today by Ben T. Osborne, , execu tive secretary of the Oregon state federation of labor, in his annual report to the 36th convention of the federation. Later two resolutions asking a boycott - were submitted to the convention. . " - - Elsewhere In his report Os borne opined that with the two major parties almost even in reg istered Toting strength, labor wields a "balance of power" with which "it can carry contests which are state-wide'. i . Osborne sounded a war-cry against the associated farmers because of its "reprehensible atti tude toward labor." He charged that interference with organiza tional activities was i "especially pernicious" at The Dalles and Hood River where, he said, as sociation members were demand- Mounts Hen Slaughter - - : C - Ordinance Has Poultry Butcheringx Will Be Permitted in Only Industrial Zones Appointment of Koehler Sewer Engineer Given Approval . as The much-discussed poultry slaughter ordinance, restricting this activity to an industrial zone and a distance of 150 feet from property in any other zone unless 75 per cent of the property own ers will permit it, or in zone 3 with similar permission was passed by the city council Monday night by a vote of 9 to 4 with Al dermen Goodman, Marshall, O' Hara and Williams opposing. Before the vote Alderman Wil liams spoke against the ordin ance on the ground that it might result in removal to some other nearby city -of an industry hand! ing 2 Vx million pounds of turkeys annually and employing a consid erable amount of local labor. He objected to any argument for the ordinance on the basis of health regulation in view of information that uninspected meats were be ing sold in Salem, and promised that he would have more to say on this subject-later. , - - Alderman Evans, speaking for the ordinance, said it was not go- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5.) French Deal Blow To National Spain Line up With Britain and Italy in Efforts to End Civil War LONDON, June T.-US-Ytixlc dealt a sharp blow to government Spain today as she fell Into step with Great Britain and Italy in efforts to end the civil war. The French government was re ported In Paris to have decided to . send a diplomatic mission to the Spanish insurgent regime fol lowing sealing of the frontier against aid to Barcelona. This came on the eve of a meet Ing of the subcommittee of the international "hands - of f Spain committee where Britain will make a supreme effort to start evacuation of foreign fighters from Spain and where the ques tion of mediation in the civil war will be raised. a bpamsn government source (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Estabrook's Second Trial Is Starting at HilUboro HILLSBORO, June 20-P)-The second trial of Jack Estabrdok, former official of the AFL Ware housemen's union, ended its first day today without complete se lection of a Jury. A first jury nanel. drawn to hear charges of participating in a bombing attempt at a Rock ton store in 1935, . was exhausted. A previous trial ended with a "Jury unable to reach a decision. ing that merchants discharge union officers. He charged ; that "misguided farmers who have taken member ship in the. .associated farmers and who are cooperating with the anti-union associated employers are unwittingly aiding .their own enemies V Osborne praised a Joint com mittee of the state grange and state labor federation and urged its continuance to "defeat the present attempt to divide the two great producing groups." As to labor's present strategic political position, he warned that it represenst both a great op portunity and great repsonsibility. Of the recent primary election, Osborne said the defeat of Gov ernor Martin was of "first mag nitude, not only for labor-but for all the forces of sane govern ment." It was cause for gratifica tion, he continued, that both ma jor parties had selected men of (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Nod Ltouncu US Diplomatic Relation With Nazis Strained Four Diplomatic Notes Unanswered by Nazi Government 18 Rounded up in First Intensive Spy Net ' Since World War WASHINGTON, June X0-JPi- Relations between the United States and Germany are as bad as at any time since the World war and are giving cause for concern on both sides of the wa ter. . . .' : . Public speeches of mutual re crimination, a series of sharp diplomatic notes and a pro nounced lack of cooperation in dicate the tenseness between the two nations. The United States bas ad dressed four diplomatic commun ications to Germany in less than two months. Germany's resent ment is expressed by the fact that she has answered none. Three of the communications dealt with Austria's debts. There was a note April 6, an "aide me moire" May 16 and a note June 9. But America's demand for a quick answer has, up to now, been ignored. Note Protests -Registration On May 11 the United States sent a note to Berlin protesting against the enforced registration of the property of American Jews in Germany. This registration decree was widely interpreted as a preliminary to expropriation. The feeling of Secretary Hull toward Germany can be seen In the yery fact that three com munications were sent on the subject of Austrian debts. Aus tria's obligations to "the United States government and American citizens amount to only $64,000,- 000, a comparatively small sum. and of this total, more than half has been bought back' by Aus trians. But Secretary Hull Is seeking to drive home a principle. The American note emphasized that, under international law, a na tion which absorbs another should take the burdens with the benefits. ., Germany also was mentioned or Included by implication in two recent state department pro nouncements Secretary Hull's admonition to Germany and Czechoslovakia that they were (Turn to Page 2, Col. .7.) Kennedy Disavows Presidential Hope NEW YORK,, June 30-(iZP)-The United ; States' plain-spoken am bassador to the court of St. James, Joseph P. Kennedy,, today dis avowed any 1940 presidential as pirations and said if he- had his eye on another Job it would be a "breach of faith" with Presi dent Roosevelt, "I enlisted under Franklin D Roosevelt in 1932 to do whatever job he wanted me, to do," Kenne dy-said on the liner Queen Mary as she came up the harbor. "There are many problems at home and abroad and. 1 happen to be busy now at one abroad' Kennedy said if there were any plans for a financial readjustment between the United States and Great Britain, be did not know of it and that. he did not see. what good devaluation would do either country. He admitted bis report on eco nomic conditions to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull would not be particularly cheerful, but said he would have to learn more about conditions here before be could say whether he was "bullish" or "bearish." Maine GOP Names Governor Barrows . PORTLAND, Me., June 20-P)-Maine republicans, voicing their preferences ma primary marked by a light vote, today renominated Got. Lewis O. Barrows and , the state's three rejubllcan US repre sentatives. Barrows and Reps. James C. Oliver, in the first district, and Clyde H. Smith, in the second, easily outdistanced : opposition. Returns from more than two thirds of the state showed Bar rows far ahead of liberal State Sen. Roy L. Fernald, who attack ed the chief executive's first ad ministration as the most costly Maine bas ever known. National Issues were lacking in the primar ies, and no US senatorial posts were to be filled. : Former Gov. Louis J. Brann, unopposed democratic candidate for a third term, will face Bar rows in the September election. Leader in School Election Vote As Citizens r MRS. DAVID Japan Marks out ANo Man's Land' Japanese Forces Retreat From Flooded Honan Battle Zone TOKYO, June ' 20-JP)-Japan marked out today a vast "no man's, land" for foreigners in China where she warned war operations probably" would be ex tended. -- j.- She requested foreigners to evacuate the zone reaching from the coast into the very heart of the war-and-flood-stricfcen na tion. The western limit of the "no man's land" she charted is a line running 1,000 miles north from Peihai (Pakhoi), on the Gulf of Tong-King close to French Jndo-Chlna, to Sian, cap ital of Shensi province. The northern limit is the Yel low river on a line extending al most 700 miles northeast to the coast from Sian. 4 Even this outlined area may not cover the Japanese opera tions, it was announced, and all foreigners were advised to com municate their whereabouts im mediately to the Japanese. (In a similar action taken February 3, the- Japanese re quested Americans and other foreigners to leave an area ex tending from the Yangtze river on the south to a line running from the coast of southern Shan tung province to Taiyuan, Shan si province capital, on the north. (The United States government in a straightforward note denied Japan's right to urge the for eigners to leave, upheld the lat ter's right to remain in the area if they desired and declared Jap an would be held responsible for (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) Men Return to Work At Smallpox Subsides BANDON, June 20-JP)-BelteT-ing the danger of a smallpox epi demic has passed in Bandon, Coos County Health Officer Dr. C. L. Coyle Sunday authorized return to work of men who have been vac cinated. . , . v Death Claims Over Weekend and Monday (By the Associated Press) " .Auto accidents, drownings, falls, homicides and a suicide claimed 17 lives in Oregon over the weekend and Monday. -Mrs. Gladys E. Dahlstrom, 38-year-old Minnesota mother, fatal ly slashed the throats and wrists of a 4-year-old daughter and an eight-month-old son. then opened a gas jet asphyxiating herself and another two-year-old son in an auto cabin. Margaret Rogers, 16, Portland, was struck by a car on the Inter state bridge across the Columbia river. She died enroute to a hos pital. Clyde Anderson, 11, Wish ram, Wash., was thrown from the rear seat of his father's ear near Arlington. His skull was frac tured. .The car ; collided with a truck. . . - Homer Bushby, Jr., 18, fell Into an Irrigation canal spillway near Vale and drowned. Lester Roth, 11, stepped into a deep hole while wading in Oak creek near Albany and drowned. Julius Lil jeblad, 15, drowned in the Sandy river while attending a picnic. Peter E. Johnson, 72, Warren, was killed in an automobile colli sion on the lower Columbia high way west of Rainier. He died at a Cast Record Ballot J WRIGHT New State House tance Laying of Cornerstone for new Library Structure Is Also Scheduled Oregon today officially will ac quire a new $2,500,000 marble capitol to till the place of the structure destroyed by fire three years ago and also will lay jthe cornerstone for its new $1,600,- uoo combined state of nee and 11 brary building. - After accepting the new capitol this morning from the Ross B. Hammond company, builder, the state capitol reconstruction com mission will assist other state ofs f icials in : laying jthe cornerstone of the new library, whose rein forced concrete skeleton now rises as second unit -of a future capitol group along. North Sum mer street. ., ; The cornerstone laying ceremo nies ,will be simple. Governor (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6.) Motorcycle Rider Injured in Crash A 'motorcycle-automobile colli sion ' about 4 . o'clock "yesterday afternoon three miles west of Mill City on the Stayton-Detroit high way put Ernest W. Anderson, 26, of Mill City, In the Stayton hospi tal with the upper part of the left side of his face caved in, possible skull fracture, compound frac tures of the left; leg and severe lacerations about the left arm and head. State Patrolman, Emahiser, who Investigated the collision, be lieved Anderson to be In a pre carious condition. Anderson, who was riding the motorcycle, collided with an auto mobile . driven by Mrs. E. W Greene, Mill City. Mrs. . Greene was driving In the opposite direc tion from Anderson. Officer Ema- biser said Anderson evidently lost control of " his 'cycle on a curve and crashed into the left front wheel of the Greene machine. Mrs. Greene was .uninjured and neither vehicle was damaged ex tensively. 17 in State Longview, Wash., hospital. Mrs. Elizabeth . Crocker, 26, Medford, suffered, fatal injuries early Sunday morning when the car driven by her husband, Her- vey Crocker, collided - with one driven by Melvln' J. Harper, Cen tral Point,' two -miles; north of here. Charles Smith, 18, Eugene, died of internal injuries suffered when he was burled from a car driven by his sister as it rolled over on a-turn west of Eugene. George W. Harts, 51, carpenter, died at Klamath Falls when he suffered fatal injuries in a jump from a trailer. He made the jump. when menaced by a spirited A fall from a cherry tree Satnr day proved fatal to A. E. Thom, 43, Portland. He died in a hos pital a few hours later. Gene Stevens, . logging truck driver, and his wife, died Monday afternoon when his machine went through an Evans Creek bridge seven miles upstream from Rogue river. His borne was thought to be in Rogue River. . Theodore Valk, 63, died late today Jn a Klamath Falls hospital from injuries suffered when be was struck by a car a few miles north of here early Sunday. , Accep Today n Two Directors To Same Posts Writeins for Harland Fall Short of Election but Make Him Third Vote Is Record as 2273 Cast Ballots for : School Board The electors yesterday re turned Mrs. David Wright and Percy A. Cupper to their posi tions - on the Salem school board and at the same time gave Roy Harland a - wrlteln, though third place, vote equalled by few regularly nominated can didates at past elections. The final eount reported at 11:30 p. m. by Otto Hoppes, election board chairman, was: ... Mrs. Wright, 1206. Cupper, 1162. - Harland, written in, 1003. Francis. E. Manley, 547. Ballots- on which no cross 'was written before Harland's name were thrown out, it was under stood, but a reliable source said that had those Votes been count ed, he still would have run slightly behind Cupper. Possi bility - existed that a recheck might be asked because it bad ' been discovered that the attor- ney general had ruled in 1932 that the "X" is not necessary before the name of a writeia candidate. 2273 Votes Cast For Record The heated campaign that de veloped between backers of Cap per on one -side and of Mrs. WrighVand Harland on the other brought out a new record of 2273 votes. At the 1937 ejec tion 2122 ballots wera . cast and earlier records were 1926 bal lots each in 1935 and 1933. Mrs. Wright, now to enter ber third three-year term as a di rector, led throughout the bal lot counting, while Harland beaded Cupper early but lost ground slowly toward the last. Cupper has served one term. The only votes written in aside from those for Harland were one each for Walter B. Minier, former director; one Burton, and John Doe. Eight ballots were thrown out because three candidates had been voted 5or and several because they were unmarked. The school district closed its 1937-38 fiscal year with $12, 386.01 cash in the treasury. Clerk W. H. Burghardt reported at the annual school meeting last night. The only taxpayer present aside from school officials was a re porter, whom the board mad chairman of the meeting. The clerk's report further showed the district received $515,181.24, Including $11, 499.42 after the books were closed, during the year, and paid out $502,79 5.23. The late re ceipts Included $10,726.93 ; ia taxes. . The district closed its year with $681,500 in bonds outstand ing, a decrease of $5000, and a warrants out. ' A special report listed receipts of the new high school cafeteria at $7120.21 . and expenses at $6454.38. for a profit of $665.83 for the year. " Relief Staff to ; Move by July 15 The Marlon county relief com mittee yesterday voted to move into the Heltzel estate building at 356 North Liberty street under rental and modernization terms offered by the owners. The trans fer of the relief offices was planned to take place by July 15 and. of the commissary, soon thereafter. Remodeling plans include a re moval of the marquee in front r the building and -replacing of its present glass . doors with wood panels six feet high,, topped by windows, opening of large. win dows on each side of the struc ture, partitioning off of' at least 10 rooms finished similar to those in the market building now being occupied by the state utilities de partment and installation of a heating system. . . Planning to use the front CO feet of the 43-foot wide building for' Its offices and reception rooms, the committee allocated out of the $160 a moith total rent $110 for that div's.on, leav ing $50 a month to l-a charged to the commissary located in the rear 4 0 feet. Illegal Fishing not Found GRANTS PASS, June 30.--State police have been 'unable to find any trace of a wide-scale Voters Ketur illegal netting of salmon on tlie ! Ro.rue river. Governor Charles II. f. j Martin advised C. R. Brundage of l Grants Pass.
