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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Friday. Morning, July 8; 1938
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Run
Convention of
VFW to Start
Here Saturday
Grand Parade, Exhibition
at Sweetland Field on
Tuesday Highlights
Grand Ball First Night;
Cooties to Dominate
Scenes on Monday !
With Salem's streets and down
town business houses decorated
in the national" colors and em
blems ot the organizations, the
18th annual encampment-of the
Department " of Oregon, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, to be held in
Salem, Jul? 9 to 13, Inclusive,
will be properly launched on Sat
urday, July! 9. - It gives promise
of being" the largest and most
successful meeting in the history
of the state : organization, mem
bers, of the local committee re
port, i '. j' ; -r
The, highlight of the fire days
and nights' convention will be
thj grand parade which will take
place r Tuesday night, July "12,
and which j will be composed ' of
five I dlvisoins, embracing 18
bands, fivto ' drum corps and
other : original musical Units. The
parade will traverse" the main
d wnto-wn i streets, heading at
Marion square and covering up
wards -of 70 t blocks and end at
,jK$gtland . field in a grand re
view before Goverpor Charles H.
Martin, Major General George A.
Wlite "and. other state, military
and patriotic organization of
ficials. Sweetland field offers
the best advantage for viewing
every feature of the bi-; parade.
At 6::45, prior to the review of
the parade will be a Softball game
for the Oregon championship, be
tween a. team representing Fort
land Post 907, VFW and an all
star team sponsored by Marion
post 661 of1 Salem,, foHpwed by
exhibition drills by degree teams
of veterans' posts and auxiliaries
and a troop of soldiers from Van
couver barracks. - '
Fifth Division Is , '
Added to Parade
Because, happily, there was a
considerable excess of entries of
bands, drum corps and other un
iformed marching organizations,
military, patriotic and civic, over
'the most sanguine expectations,
Chairman William H. Rufi of the
parade committee and Colonel
Carlef Abrams, grand marshal,
found It necessary to add a fifth
division to-the grand parade and
Don Madison has been designated
as commander of this new divi
sion Heading the other divisions
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. . in the New
CLIFTON SPRINGS, N. Y.,
July 7.-;P)-EIghteen couples, all
married more than half a century,
gathered here tonight for a din
ner In celebration i of a total of
962 years of married life.
The. 18 couples all are.from this
little, west-central New York Til
lage and its vicinity.
Women's : societies of four
churches Methodist, Roman Ca
thole. Baptist and Episcopal
cooked a dinner of creamed chick
en en biscuit for the . anniversary
party. . . j ,
HAMMOND, Ind July T
(p)Since suffering a chest In-,
jury a year ago, 15-y car-old
Matthew Jesuit emitted a pecu
Jiar whistling sound in hi
sleep. Today his mother noticed
the whistling had stopped. She
investigated. Matthew was dead
of pneumonia.
NEW ORLEANS, July 7.-;P)-Cbeering
'news for foot-eoldiers
was broadcast today by William
F. Washburn, chief associate of
the Gait laboratory of the Univer
sity of Rochester at Rochester,
N.-Y.
En route to address medical
groups in. Fort Worth, Tex., and
California, he said, research had
evolved a ; theory of ,balance In
motion" Which, applied to army
shoes. Increased the speed of
marching men 8 per cent and less
. ened fatigue 10 per cent.
Shoes are now made, he " ex
plained, to fit feet at rest, al
though the real test, comes when a
shoe is used. Studies of foot mo
tions will 'enable more scientific
construction.
. -The -balance in" motion" the
ory, he added shows that when
we think we; are. walking a
straight line we are in reality
moving forward by making a se
ries of figure-eights.
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Softball
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Into Wee
Portland Pup Tent's Drum Corps
Is All Set for ''Cootie Scratch
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Here's one of the drum and bugle corps that will be in Salem July 0 to
13, inclusive, for the annnal state encampment of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. This corps will represent Portland pup tent No. 1,
Military Order of the Cootie and will be prominent in the Cootie
"scratch to be staged Monday.
Aviators Report
ition Safe
Neyills ; Party Seen1 Near
: JLeeJs Ferry; nd ,Ai3"! ."
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Needed, Message j
EL PASO, Tex.. July
The six-member ;NeviIls expedi
tloh, long overdue at Lees Ferry,
Ariz., on its trip down the
treacherous Colorado river, was
reported sighted today by two
coast guard pilots from El; Paso.
:The pilots, R. W. Fendlay and
J. L. Riggs. reported they had
communicated with the party and
that apparently its members were
well and did not need aid." f .
They sighted the expedition's
boats 20 miles northeast of Lee's
Ferry, v. The pilots reported to
Lieut. ' Perry S. Lyons,: United
States coast guard commander
here. ' " .
.The airmen wrote notes which
were answered by the raising of
hands of the six members of the
party;-
Earlier today, H. "Buzz" Holm-
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Death of Illinois
Girl Under Probe
CENTRALIA, ILL.. July
-The body of slim, attractive
Mary Britton, a bullet wound in
the heart, was found half-clad on
the bedroom floor of a fashion
able home here late today.
I Chief of Police William Kaelin
said the body was discovered by
Elvin Satterlee, an automobile
dealer, and added that Satterlee
had rented the house "several
months ago."
Underneath the body, Kaelin
declared, was a lengthy note
which said in pert "I love you
and you have fell in love with
someone else," and was signed,
Lover Mary." .
"Indications point to suicide,
but thewVs something peculiar,"
Chief Kaelin declared after his
Investigation.
. The "peculiar things Included,
he said, a battered and blood
stained coffee pot in a down
stairs room, a broken lamp, brok
en china closet and other disor
der downstairs." .. . i
Exped
t a -
President Leaves on Jaunt
j Westward; Two Talks Today
UPl
1 WASHINGTON, July 7
President Roosevelt left tonight
on a transcontinental tour In be
half of his unfinished new deal
program and of "liberal" candi
dates for office in the 1938 dem
ocratic primaries,
l The president boarded his spe
cial 10-car train a few minutes be
fore the scheduled departure time
amid applause from a large crowd
which had gathered. In his pock
et was the first of the addresses
he will deliver on the trans-continental
trip.
i Before leaving the White House
he wrote an address he will de
liver tomorrow morning at Mar
ietta, Ohio. f " '
; The train carried "next to the
largest crowd , which ever made a
presidential cross country tour. '
There were 80 people aboard,
including 27 newspapermen "-
Small
Mercy Slayer Is
Also Near Death
Kills Invalid Mother Due
"to Belief She 'Is not
Able to Support
CERRITO, Calif., July 7.
(JPy Apparently in despair over
her failing health, a 49-year-old
woman today shot and killed her
aged and Infirm mother and then
dangerously wounded herself.
The mother, Mrs. Marie Renk
wltz, 76, apparently ? was killed
instantly. Police Chief R. R.
Cheek said. The daughter, Mrs.
Amelia Reinecker, 49, was taken
to a hospital wlfccs she under
went an operation for removal of
a bullet she had fired. Cheek said,
into her head. Surgeons said she
had an even chance for life.
Conscious for a time tonight,
Mrs.: Reinecker answered Ques
tions of Deputy District Attorney
Homer ' Patterson and Investiga
tor Melvln Myatt, who said she
admitted shooting her mother and
herself. (
"Mother was an invalid, and f
was 111 and thought I was about
to become an invalid, too," they
quoted her." j t
Patterson said Mrs. . Reinecker
told him she slew her mother by
firing three bullets at her anHj
then turned the pistol on herseir.
A bullet pierced her head, but
she retained consciousness. Then,
the prosecutor said, she told him
she fired one wild shot, and fum
bled with the pistol, unable to
open it to reload. ;
Edward Reinecker, S3, truck
gardener, found the door locked
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Love Birds Don't
Love Each Other
: KLAMATH FALLS, July 7-P)
Maybe It's the- heat but what
ever the cause ' the ; Moore Park
lovebirds don't love "one another
any more..: ,' -' 1
E. E. Spencer, caretaker, peti
tioned the park board for more
wire to separate them from others
in the' blrdhouse. They've been
fighting from dawn to dusk, he
said. " :!. f
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i Three
times as many aa usually
accompany the president.
- One major addition was made
to his itinerary an addition
which will give him an opportun
ity. If he chooses to use It, to lay
a finger of disapproval on the re
nomination campaign of Senator
George (D-Ga). ? ' ' "
He accepted an invitation of a
delegation of Georgians, Including
Lawrence Camp of Atlanta who ia I
in the race against George, to
speak at Barnesville August 11
"on any subject you may deem of
interest to Georgians."
George has opposed the admin
istration on numerous occasions,
. The Georgia speech will be
made after Mr. Roosevelt has
completed his awing across the
nation and has taken a leisurely
cruise down the Pacific coast.
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utiles
Innini
In two Gaines
26 of them Rrove Zeros
on Scoreboard; Rally
Follows Midnight "
Waits Win in 18, Paper
Team in 12 Frames;
Most Fans Stay-
By RON GEMMELL
Rons on Sweetland last night
and this morning were as scarce
as benevolence between China
and Japan as Wait's and the
Papermakers set a new record
by battling through 17 scoreless
frames in he nightcap before
Walt's garnered three unearned
runs in the first of the 18th to
beat the 'Makers 3-0, topping the
Preceding issue In which 20-30
went down 2-1 before the Eagles
in 12 .cantos. All ! together 26
scoreless innings were played in
the two games.
None of the season's record
crowd asked for their individual
dimes back this' morning, the
biggest share of them sitting un
til 12:45 before the last Paper
maker was out in the final half
of the 18th frame.
The night had ceased and a
new day was breaking before
Walt's was able to push across
their three unearned tallies.
George Scales, the night's lead
ing hitter with three for seven,
poked a blooper double Into left
field to score Kitchen from sec
ond to break the deadlock. Kit
chen had been put on the key
stone on Dick's : bad throw to
first, the only ;miscue he com
mitted in handling nine assists
and making four putouts.
Scales scored on Girod's bingle
to left, after Roth had grounded
ontt and McCaffery's Single
across second scored Girod.
Counter-Rally 1 -. . '
Started But Fails tw
. With Jimmy Nicholson; who
made the most scintillating shoe
string catch of the current sea
son on Beard's line drive to cen
ter In the 13th, singling to begin
the last half f the 18th, cus
tomers held their breath. But,
Roth forced the. next three to
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Maritime Labor
Botird Appointed
WASHINGTON, July 7 JP)
President Roosevelt assigned to
two labor experts and a union
leader today the task 'of solving
the troublesome maritime labor
problem.
To the recently created mari
time labor board the president
appointed: ,
Robert W. Bruere, author and
educator, of New York. He once
served with NRA as chairman of
the cotton textile Industrial rela
tions board. He will be chair
man, j
Louis Bloch of California, who
has served as labor adviser to the
maritime commission.
Claud E. Seehorn of Denver,
Colo., vice president of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen
and enginemen.
The board will try to' Induce
employers and employes to set
tle disputes in conference, and
will be a medium to which both
sides may resort it they desire.
There will be no compulsory me
diation. ; i ,
Kidnaper McCall
Is Refused Delay
TALLAHASSEE. Fla., July 7.
-iiI))-Franklln Pierce McCall. 21-year-old
kidnaper of Jimmy Cash,
a youngster he had often played
with, was refused! respite from
death today by the state pardon
board.
His family, however, authorized
Defense Attorney GA. Avrietl
to prepare an appeal to the state
supreme court. This would have
the effect of Indefinitely postpon
ing McCall's electrocution, which
otherwise could be carried out as
early as the week of July 18 un
der Florida's legal requirements.
Avriett said his plea would be
based on a contention that, under
the "Lindbergh law," death could
not be - impased upon his client
without a jury trial. McCall was
sentenced by a judge before whom
he pleaded guilty to a kidnaping
charge. -.
Ball Required
Initial
ive
Measures Are
In Under Wire
Four Amendments, Three
Referendum Issues to '
Appear on Ballot
Liquor Regulation, two
Townsend Plain Bills
f Are on Petitions
Six' Initiative measures, four
constitutional amendments, one
referred bill and two referendum
measures will appear on the bal
lot at the general election next
November, provided the initiative
petitions are valid. The time for
tiling completed petitions expired
at 6 p: m. Thursday.
Preliminary peitions for 24
measures and amendments were
filed" but most or them were not
completed.
. Inltative measures follow:
'- Providing for the purification
of the waters of -rivers, streams,
lakes, watersheds and coastal area
of Oregon, establishing a sanitary
authority for administration, and
setting up regulations for ellmi
other wastes, riled by the stream
purification league of Oregon.
, For the regulation of picket
ing and boycottln definin a labor
dispute and fixing penalties for
violation. A labor dispute under
this.meajsure is defined as a bona
fide controversy between employ
er and employes reardin .wages,
working" hours of working condi
tions. This bill was sponsored
by the Associated Farmers of Ore
on and other rural organizations
and is directed at labor unions.
Two Pension Bills
Up Before Voters
. Authorizing the directing the
state legislature to apply to con
ras for a convention to propose
the philosophy and principles , of
(Turn no page 2, Column 4)
Shanghai Quieter
' After Outbreaks
Settlement Leaders Make
Protest of Japanese
Soldiers' Patrol
SHANGHAI. July 8-(Friday)-
Japanese soldiers and plain
clothesmen withdrew from the in
ternational settlement today eas
ing a situation already made tense
by an outbreak of anti-Japanese
terrorism.
International settlement auth
orities made sharp protests when
Japanese soldiers appeared on
Nanking road and began patroll
ing close to British Seaforth High
landers on emergency duty after
the outbreak inaugurating the
first anniversary of the war yes
terday. ' i
Another detachment of armed
Japanese in civilian clothes bold
ly took posts on Avenue Edward
VII, bordering the settlement and
the French concession.: They
stopped and searched numerous
Chinese suspected of terrorist ac
tivities. . ,
Settlement police and military
units continued a patrol, unpre
cedented for its strictness, In an
effort to suppress gunmen and
bomb throwers who yesterday
killed four and wounded fire
persons.
Nearly 1000 "Chinese were
(Turn to page 16, col. 4) '
Sawmill Reopens
On AFL Contract
PORTLAND, Ore., July 7-flV
West Oregon, the Portland saw
mill Involved for months in the
AFL-CIO Jurisdictional fight, re
opened peacefully under an AFL
union-shop agreement today de
spite : CIO ' pickets and a sound
truck which verbally assailed the
workers as they filed into the
plant.. ' - -
The mill signed an AFL agree
ment Wednesday giving the fed?
eratlon exclusive bargaining
rights. The CIO, pointing to the
labor relation board's certifica
tion of It as bargainer, sent out
banner carriers whose sign pro
claimed the plant unfair.
CIO longshore workers said
they would not handle the AFL
produced lumber but AFL leaders
opined - the longshoremen would
live up to the terms of their con
tract with waterfront employers.
Known. Death List
At Kobe now 311
1 TOKYO, July 7. (if) - Known
deaths in the flood surged through
Kobe yesterday were placed at
211 tonight by police.
Jn addition, 1,200 persons were
Injured and more than 400 were
missing.
' PoUce estimated the damage at
100,000,000 yea 2. 000.000).
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Summer- Band Concerts
Open Tonigh t; Marion
Square Will Be Scene
Municipal Band Conducted by Stoudenmeyer Again;
Location Changed Because of Work Around
Willson Park and New Capitol
The 26-piece Salem band
mer concert series tonight at 8 o'clock at Marion square,
starting at 8 o'clock and continuing until 9 :30 o'clock.
Concerts will be held-each week on Tuesday and Friday
nights. The change from Willson park to Marion Square is -being
made this season due to construction work ill progress
fl 1 f "" T
rOllCe UlllCer IS
Dropped by Chief
William R. New Declared
; Incompetent; Active
Over Eight Years
Charging Inefficiency and In
competency over a period of years
in "a number of ways, the most
serious of which has been the use
of liquor off as well as on duty,"
City Police Chief Frank Minto
Wednesday served William R.
New, who lacks three months of
having Completed nine years on
the city police force, with papers,
officially discharging him from
civil service of the city of Salem.
The charges filed yesterday
with City Recorder A. Warren
Jones, secretary ot the civil serv
ice board, cite New's most recent
violation of civil service rules as
occurring Tuesday night of this
week. At that time, according to
Minto's charges, it was reported
to him New was under the influ
ence of liquor end conducting
himself In a disorderly manner.
Chief Minto lists three explicit
charges: 1. Intemperance; 2. Pre
judicial conduct; and 3. Conduct
unbecoming an officer of the city
while on duty.
.- New started as a night patrol
man on a downtown beat in Oc
tober, 192. Serving in that ca
pacity for a. number of years, he
was later mdved to. the area com
prising Yew Park and the SP
passenger station, and more re
cently was given a daytime down
town beat.
Chief Minto's discharge Is final
unless New elects to demand a
hearing from the civil service
board.
Study Picket Ordinance
1 PORTLAND, Ore., July 7.-(P)-Legal
advisors have been Instruct-
ed to. investigate me picaei li
censing ordinance approved by the
Pendleton city council, Ben T, Os
borne, State Labor Federation
secretary; revealed today.
Bulletin
HELENA, Mont., July S
'( Friday) -(P) The Northern
Pacific railroad offices here
aid early .today a freight en
gine was. wrecked near Willis,
29 miles east of Missoula,
about 11 p.m., last night.
v No details of the accident
were available here. . At Mis
soula. Coroner Gay Stncky re
ceived a report "several tran
sients' were killed la the acci
dent, and that Engineer Ernest
M. Westin, Fireman E. T. Dnn
.lap, and Brakeman W; Ernest
Bedilllon were missing. .
. Two ambulances carrying
doctors and nones Immediate
ly left Missoula for the scene.
'Wrecking crews were die
patched from Helena and Mian
soula with flares to assist res
cue work. . ,
The first reports stated the
a engine "blew up" and the first
nine ears left the tracks.
Pation Place Condemnation
Testimony Set This Morn ing
Opening testimony will be pre
sented at t o'clock this morning
to the circuit court jury selected
yesterday to hear the state capltol
reconstruction commission's suit
to condemn the Patton property,
located at the northwest corner of
Court and Summer streets, to se
cure land needed for the widen
ing and developing of the ap
proach to the new capitoL -
Aa completed early yesterday
afternoon, the jury of six: men
and six women was taken for an
hour-long Inspection of 'the Pat
ton house. Opening statements
were made by the state and the
defense before adjournment time.
The state will offer testimony
to support its contention the
property Is worth not more than
$32,000, the sum offered Edith
Louise Patton and Luella M.
Charlton, owners of undivided
one-half interests, J. M. Devers.
assistant attorney general, told
will present the first of its sum
C along Court street which reduces
I the parking space,
H. M. Stoudenmeyer
Is again
conductor for the band, which has
been the official band at the slate
fair for a number of years and
wblch is considered one ot the
finest bands In the northwest
Glenn Burrlght Is manager.
. Program for the opening con
cert follows:
March, "Glory of the Gridiron"
. Alford
Overture, "Merry Wives of .
Windsor" Nicola!
Waltz, "Blue Danube" Strauss
Popular!
(a) "Whistle While You '
Work" : Churchill
(b) "TI-Pi-Tin" . Grever
(c) "Helgh-Ho" Churchill
Comic opera, "Rose of Alger
ia" . Herbert
A Rhythm Novelty, "The Toy
Trumpet" - .....Scott
Grand Selection, "Tannhau-
ser" . ..... .Wagner
Danse de Ballet, "Badinage"
Herbert
March, "GIppsland" ;LIthgow
Finale -- -
Popular numbers will be Inter
spersed through the program
time permitting.-
Five - Alarm Fire
Held Incendiary
Nine Firemen Are Injured
; Fighting Blaze; big
SP Warehouse
SAN FRANCISCO, July T.(JPi
-A spVctacuIar- five -alarm fire
which Fire Marshal Frank M.
Kelly said evidently was the work
of an arsonist destroyed a huge
Southern Pacific warehouse here
tonight. Nine firemen were In
jured fighting the blaze.
Estimates ot the damage ran
ged as high as $295,000.
' The fire was the third conflag
ration In the San Francisco bay
area In as many days, and Kelly
said "that can't be -a coincidence."
The marshal said he had found
evidence the4 blaze had been set
deliberately In oil-soaked waste.
The block-long shed was occu
pied by the Overland Freight
Transfer company and the bana
na importing firm ot A. Levy and
J. Zentner.
Fire Chief Charles Brennan, di
recting his firemen, narrowly es
caped injury,: or death when a
trolley pole caught fire and fell
to the street beside him. - !
None of the, 'Injured firemen
was hurt seriously.
i
nsurgent Bulls
Seized by Enemy
.MADRID, July 7. (P) Three
Insurgent bulls went but to graze
on no man's land today and
wound up in a government slaugh
ter house.
The unsuspecting animals nib
bled their way right through an
opening hastily made by govern-
ment : sentries In their barbed
wire entanglements outside Ma
drid. ici . ' "
An extra Vatlon , of fresh meat
went to the company holding the
.sector. . " ; , i
the Jury. He said the defendants
were asking $(2,$05.C0.
The remainder of Devers' state
ment was a recitation of the cre
ation of the capltol commission
and of Its having received. supple
mentary powers to erect a state
library and an office building and
for the purpose to acquire by
purchase or condemnation all or
part of blocks 12, S3, 84 and 85,
original plat of Salem. The Pat
ton corner, ICS by 15S feet In
size. is a part of block 13.
The defense will contend the
property Is reasonably worth in
excess of $10,000, John H. Car
son," representing Mrs. Charlton,
announced to the jury. Custer E.
Ross, attorney for Mrs. Patton.
made no statement. .
The Patton house was built In
1870 by E. N. Cooke, great grand
father of Mrs. Charlton, at a cost
of $35,000, Carson recalled. He
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TrialMayEnd
By Tonight or
Next Forenoon
Defendant Last Witness
for Defense; State's
Rehuttal Today
Roy Hewitt, Ben Oshorne4
Heard; Banks Called
in Surprise Move
DALLAS. Ore., July 7-(A")-Albert
Earl Kosser, 4 4-year-old for
mer secretary of the joint council
of AFL teamsters In Oregon, took
the stand In his own defense to
day to deny that he was guilty of
arson In connection with the
burning ot the Salem box factory
last November,
The tall, baldiah defendant an
swered "No, sir," to virtuslly ev
ery question that Derense Attor
ney Gearge Vanderveer of Boat
tie asked, Rosser also denying
that he' bad heard of the factory
before the fire.
Rosser waa calm during his
hour on the stand, his divorced
wife, Kathleen Itossej-, and his
present wife each listening In
tently from their seats In the
crowded courtroom. He will re
sume the stand tomorrow morn
ing 'for further cross-examination,
after which defense attor
neys said they would close their
ease.
The state then may call rebut
tal witnesses, which will be fol
lowed by closing arguments to .
the jury of nine farmers, a book
keeper and two women.
May Reach Jury
Tonight Xr .Saturday
Attorneys said the case, prob
ably would go to the jilry tomor
row night or Saturday morning.
Rosser denied the testimony uf
Al N. Banks, former secretary of.
the Salem teamsters who Is serv
ing 12 years for hiring three men
to burn the mill, who testified
that Rosser told him burning the
mill "was the right thing to do."
On cross .examination Bonner
denied thai Dave Beck, Seattle,
teamster leader for 11 western
states, attended a Joint council
meeting la Portland September
30 which was held to rplnit
Rosser as council secretarv. A mo
ment later Rosser admitted Berk
ws present. Kosser explained
that Beck asked him to call the
meeting because there was some
question about auditing Itosser's
books.
Vanderveer clashed during
cross examination with Oscar
Hayter, associate in the prosecu
tion. The Seattle attorney AexJ
manded that the court charge
(Tnrn to page 16, col. 3)
Lien Foreclosure
Action Is Upheld
The first definite effort to at
tack a Salem city Ben forccloft
nre by pleading laches and the
statute of limitations was up
set yesterday when Circuit Judse
L. Q. Leweiling overruled a de
murrer entered by James and
Jennie Imlah to a foreclosure ac
tion instituted against tbern. In
addition to asserting Insufficient
facts in the complaint, the de
murrer Contended the action was
not started within the time lim
ited by law and that plaintiff
city had been .negligent In as
serting Us right.
The defendants will now bars
an opportunity to file an answer.
to the complaint, which demand
ed judgment for $759.83 princi
pal and interest on an assessment
levied In 1908 for the paving of
North Commercial street from
Trade to Center- streets.
The property Involved Is that
occupied by the old YMCA build
ing at the northeast corner of
Commercial and Chemeketa
streets. No interest has been paid
on the assessment since 1920,
the city contends.
Strikers Advised
To Resist Arrest
L
NE' WORLEANS. July 7-7'-
CIO strikers were Instructed by
their attorney late today to I6ck
themselves In their meeting
places and resist with "force ana
arms" police attempts to enter
without a search or seizure war
rant. The instructions of the attorn-
nejr, Matthew S. Braniff, followed
a raid on CIO headquarters by
police who arrested. 71 persons.
George Reyer, superintend nt
of. police, said, tho"e arreMed
were plotting violence In the
strike called against the Yellow
Cab company.
The i men were charred with
disturbing the peace.
Earlier in the day the Ameri
can Federation of Labor ob
tained a court order prohibiting, -
CIO pickets from molesting AFL
drivers in a drayage strike