. Vacation Soon? White away you don't have to lose touch with home events. Order The. ; St a ten man to follow yew on . your trip; telephone 9101. The Weather Fair today and probably Sunday but becoming cloudy; Max. Temp. Friday 81. Mln. SO. rtver 2.4 feet, northwesterly wind. j . -i : EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, SatnrdaMorning, July 9, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 6c No. 89 TED er. .MgM Cam ITEM are At mm Case ,Ne0 Jury Rosser Action Arguments On Teamster Official ' Sent - Men to Burn Mill Is Claim of Hayter. Defense Stresses Doubt : of Accomplice Story ; Harkins Missins DALLAS, Ore.. July 8-j?)-Tlie arson trial of Altert E. Rosser, 44, former secretary of 'the joint council of AFL teamsters In Ore gon, was near an end tonight. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker predicting the jury . of nine larm iers, a bookkeeper and two women would receire the case tomorrow, 10th day of the trial. Special Prosecutor Oscar Hay ter, Dallas, and Defense Attorney Charles Robison. Portland, pre sented their final arguments to the Jury late today, each speak ing for an hour. Tomorrow morning Defense At torney George Vanderveer, Sett tie, and Special Prosecutor Ralph EiMoody, Salem, will give their final arguments, which will be followed by the court's instruc tions. After that, the jury will be gin deliberations to determine whether Rosser Is guilty of a charge or complicity In burning the non-union Salem box factory last November 20. Tbe defense ended Us case at 11:30 a.m. today , after its. 12th witness testified. The state rested its rebuttal at 2:25 p.m., after whiea argument begin. , -Mrn Sent to Burn Mill Bays Hayter Hayter, speaking softly, said the testimony of the 21 state wit nesses proved that Rosser asked Clarence Adams, former head of the Portland teamster hiring ball who la under a similar arson In dictment, to send three men to Salem to burn the mill. Robison, In. an impassioned speech la which he quoted at length from the bible, said . the state's case rests largely upon the testimony of At N. Banks, former business agent of Salem teamsters who is serving 12 years in prison for'paying $105 to Ernest Carson, John Newlandr and Cecil Moore to burn the plant. The latter three have pleaded guilty. Robison charged that Banks, who refused to implicate Rosser in a confession last February, tes tified against Rosser In the trial 'mo he could get a parole. , - "We are not trying tbe unions." Hayter said, "but only the Improp er use of them. The rackets of an At Capone shrink into insignifi cance when you consider the mil lions of men who might be forced Into a union. Thla is a case of mo mentous Importance as to whether a group ot men may be permitted to pervert an organization to their own wealth and aggrandisement." Prejudice Against : ; Unions Intimated " I "They used to try men in Eng land under, a conspiracy statute for joining a union." Robison - ! " (Turn te page 2, coL 5) ' ; 0 d d i t i oo in the Vet. WASHINGTON. Pa., July ,8.- (-The mercury rose to aw ue highest noint of the year. and : county commissioners mop ped their brows as tney setuea dow to a meeting. Then, as the first order of business, they voted to spend $196 for new blades on county snow plows. 4 BUTLER. taw, Jnly Rosie, a nine-year-old cowy is living the life of Iteilly in cot-tage-tlke barn equipped with gas heaters and tunning water. Roeie's gabled home has a front porch, a kitchen with a sink, an ice box and lawn-like meadow on which she browses. Every day she gets. a bath. Mrs. Jennie Nixon, owner of Rosie, explained she built the ban in the style of a house to - "demonstrate that a bans, does not hare to be an eyesore." PORT WASHINGTON, N. T July l.-(py-The immigration of- fleer cast an eye over a bunch of passengers newly arrived from Bermuda on the ; British flying Where's Frith?" he demand ed. ; "Alexander John Frith la a British subject." ' Frith didn't answer, but his mother, Mrs. Marion Frith, did. She: held up a nine-months-old baby. "This is Alexander John,", she said. He's British: I'm American. I retained my citizenship when I married a Bermudian." Frith and mother were allowed Jo proceed to Detroit lor jlslL. To End Today; Denies That L 'Gent in London9 i 4V , X v I Prince Frederick of Prussia, t grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm, who emphatically de nied that he was tbe "gentle . man in London" whom Count llaugwiti-Re vent low allegedly . wanted to "shoot like a dog." A remark that "I could marry the man who might some day be emperor of Germany," fig ured in the break-up between former Barbara Hutton and her Danish count, it was reported . from London. I1X photo. j Engine Explosion Leaves Five Dead Three, of Train Crew and two Transients Are Mishap Victims , t : ". MISSdULA, Monti, July 8V Searchers picked through scat tered wreckage of a heavy North ern, Pacific freight locomotive ; to night hoping to find the bodies of two of the five persons railroad men said were killed last night when the locomotive exploded. Five others were Injured when the locomotive, pulling a freight at 50 miles an hour eastward from Missoula, exploded near Wil lis, 27 miles east of Missoula,! in western Montana. The blast demolished four freight cars, derailed five others and scattered parts of the loco motive into the Missoula river. The dead: Ernest M. Westin, 54, engineer, Missoula. ' Tiney E. Dunlap, fireman, Mis soula. - ' ; Ernest G. Bedillion, 55, brake man, Missoula. ; Elwin C. Niseu, 21, a tran sient, Missoula. j A 15-year-old boy, riding with a group of 70 transients reported on the train, and known only as Raymond to his associates. He was believed to be from Norfolk, Nebr. Oyer One Milliori Of Tax Collected Marion county collected $1, 121,111.34 in current and delin quent taxes during the first! six months of 1938, Sheriff A.; C. Bark announced yesterday In his semi-annual report as tax collec tor. Of this sum $9(1,068.52 was received on the 1938 tax roll. Total collections for all years represented 71.15 per cent of the current roll only. Actual collec tions of 1938 taxes alone amount ed to 61.01 per cent of the 1938 roll. . ' ! During the halt year the col lector handled $1,147,700.80 which included $26,589.46 car- 1 (Turn to page 2, coL 5) j ! . : . . . ' . : Playgrounds Hold Pet Day; Peruvian Cavies Steal Show ' Three Peruvian caries, a moth er and two babies, stole the show at the dinger playground pet pa rade yesterday, chietty because M and Tounr nresent thereby re ceived their first Introduction to this' animal which looks somewhat like a rabbit, baa long hairj and short ears. ; - ' '"' jrn and Gnrheth Borrego. who took first prize for the most un- nanal exhibit With th t0 OI cavies, report the ,cary babies are bora' with eyes open and teeth ready for business, which latter accounts for their ability to eat vegetables within a few hours af ter their birth. Other criies awarded at the pet parade by the judges, Mrs. Louis Amort. Mrs. Ronald craTen ana Miss Jennie Williams, were:; Best trained, Robert Frederick son; with a Scotty dog; largest, Theodore CoTalt with a St.) Ber nard; best dressed, tie between Juaait Jeem'a do rgpoff Praise Handed Barkley Mild, Kentucky Tall President Claims He Is Neutral ; Also Lauds : Chandler Record Speaks h at Unveiling of Pioneer Monument ; ; Oklahoma Next ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT'S TRAIN ENROUTE TO OKLAHOMA CITY, July 8.-6!PV- President Roosevelt gave his blessings to two new deal sen ators seeking renominations dur- lag the day and tonight stopped a few minutes in the home-town of Senator Logan of Kentucky to laud him. . Stopping first at Marietta, Ohio, on his swing to the Pacific coast, Mr. Roosevelt indorsed Sen. Rob ert Buckley, being opposed for the democratic nomination by. former Got. George White.; Later at Covington, Ky., he had words of praise for Sen. Alben Barkley, senate floor leader, but tempered bis remarks with com pliments for Got. A. B., Chandler, opposing Barkley. : Early in the evening at Louisville , he com mended Senator Barkley's useful ness to tbe nation without men tioning tbe name of Chandler. At Bowling Green, center of Kentucky's famous blue grass re gion, tbe president said Sen M. M. Logan, Kentucky's junior senator, had "stood firm"- last spring, aga!nstdragging the Ju diciary into a political campaign." There were reports then that Logan might resign to accept a position in the" Judiciary, clear ing the way for Chandler's ap pointment to the senate. President Roosevelt again took (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Thieves Operate At U0 Dormitory v EUGENE. July 8.-JP-A drive of state and city police against a ware of crime here in which cit izens have been burglarized of considerable property was inten sified today after the discovery that thieves h a d invaded the men's dormitory at the university and escaped with $100 worth of cash, clothing and f other, belong ings of summer students. Two youthful automobile thieves were captured Thursday night. Chief of Police Carl Berg man said, adding that the young sters whose names were withheld because of their ages had confess ed to three thefts. Police also have arrested Lee Koch and Fred Mey ers, and .Bergman said 14 burglar ies had been cleared up by their confessions. ' ' , 200 Russ Planes Delivered, China HONGKONG. July 8. UPi A fleet of fully 200 soviet Russian warplanes for China was reported today by a reliable source, to be in the process of delivery for service In the Chinese-Japanese war. This source asserted ; some of the aircraft already had been flown to Hankow, provisional Chi nese capital, while others were be ing assembled and tested at points in eastern. Turkestan,; near the western border of Mongolia. Peggy Franti dog "Patsy"; smallest, Darwin Bliss on 10 min nows; prettiest, Dorothy Ann Zer ran with a Toy Spitz. Pet day at Leslie yesterday pro duced 72 entries, with man's best friend, tbe dog, by far tbe most popular. : Four prize-winning en tries were dogs, the best-trained, ugliest, prettiest and best-dressed. The pet parade was under the direction of Rachel Yocom, girls supervisor at Leslie. Her pro gram was followed by a kinder garten program, under the super vision of Mrs. Katherine McGin nis and Miss Ruby Moorehead. To Marshall Smith went the award for the best trained pet, a dog; Allan Carson copped the "ugliest" award with his water dog; Barbara Pearson, the pret tiest, with a dog; Jerome Johns, the most unusual, with a turtle; Bod Thompson, the smallest, with a fly; Marrln Strode, the largest, ? ITurn to page 2, coL 1). Old Appraisal May Figure in Condemnation Two Estimates Made in 1935 iQfit Mention; Banfield Heard Trial to Resume Monday When State to Rest; Fee Issue Decided Two three-year-old appraisals made of the Patton property being sought by the state capitol reconstruction commission en tered the commission's condem nation suit shortly before ad journment was taken late yester day afternoon until 9 a. m. Mon day. . . "Which appraisal?" asked Commissioner T. H. Banfield, when questioned under cross ex amination whether the $32,000 offered the two women owners of the Patton property was greater or less than the commis sion's appraisal. k "There were several," Banfield explained. Says Appraisal Made For Legislature The witness then stated that the offer was less than ah ap praisal made by the state tax com mission but said, when asked concerning an appraisad made, for .the legislature in 1935. that there was no other appraisal of record. .But the legislative appraisal, he added under further questioning by John H. Carson, one of the defense counsel, was "about the same" as the commissioner's offer. Carson then demanded that both appraisals be produced, say ing later that cross examination would - be concluded with their presentation.,. , J J. M. Devers, assistant "attorney general, declared yesterday was the first time he had ever heard of the legislature's appraisal. Banfield testified that he of fered a proportionately Tower price for the Patton than for the adjoining Kay property because the latter waa "a better ! location for an apartment house or hotel, with a vista off across the park rather than a Tiew only of cold, bare building walls." Before Banfield took the stand for the last time, Judge L. H. McMahan called counsel ' into chambers to ascertain whether or not it was Intended by the state to show that . the capitol commis sion had endeavored to offer Mrs. Patton and Mrs. Charlton "fair and Just compensation." .If not, he said, the state bad no case because it was required by the constitution not merely to get the property for the lowest price it could secure but for a just amount after reasonable negotia tion. When Banfield returned to the stand he testified that he con sidered $32,000 "a fair market price and Just compensation" and asserted "no other consideration ever entered in." Admit Testimony On Other Offers Early In the day the defense won a Tital point in Its case when after nearly two hours of argument bejween . counsel - In . (Turn to page 2, col. 1) German Sentence Appeal Announced PORTLAND. July 8 .-n-De fense counsel announced plans for an appeal of the conviction and sentence of Fred W. German, for mer head of a large real estate company, who was ordered today by circuit court to serve a two- year term for larceny by embezzle ment. German, whose son. Frank al ready had been sentenced to five years, was convicted of taking $300 from Valdemar Flenstead In 1935 when money paid by John Danlelson to apply on a mortgage was not turned over to Flenstead. The defense contended that the father had no knowledge of the transaction and that the son hand led it. A plea for leniency was denied, the court saying that the com pany had : taken some $30,000 from 23 persons. McCall May Die Week of July 25 TALLAHASSEE. Fla.. July 8. -iP-GoT. Fred P. Cone signed a death warrant today calling for electrocution of Franklin Pierce McCall the week of -July 25 for the kidnaping of f ire year - old Jimmy Cash, Jr., of Princeton Fla. Superintendent L. F. Chapman of the state prison at Raiford will determine which day of the week wIU be confessed kidnaper's last. Executions usually are hell on Monday g, . THEIR TEST i , . . . . . Emerging from a 83-day "retreat" in Mammoth' Cave, Ky., Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman (left) and Bruce Richards recenUy declared tbe world looked "sflvery" and "different." During the S3 days they were in the "apartment" on "Audubon avenue," on the main passage way of the cave's recesses, they sought tooidjust themselves to a 28 hour day instead of the usual 24. Richardson did but Dr. Kleitman could ' not. The experiment, was another in a series of long-range study of the "why and how" of sleep, con ducted by the University of Chicago since 1022. The apartment was furnished with beds high on stilts . to ward off dampness. Both men wore woolen hoods because the cave is extremely cold. Accept Mediation Of Chaco Dispute Bolivia and Paraguay Are Agreed on all 'Basic Points, Reported BUENOS AIRES,. July . 9.-0F)-Boltvia. and Paraguay early today initialed an agreement to submit their 100-year-old quarrel over the Gran Chaco to arbitration. The accord was accepted ' at 2:50 a. m., after a three and a half hour session of the Chaco peace conference at the palace of the foreign office. It was initialed by Bolivian Foreign Minisl v Eduardo Dies Demedina, Paraguayan Foreign Minister Cecilio Baez and dele- gates representing Argentina, Brazil, Chile.; Peru, Uruguay and the United States. The two countries, which fought a three-year war over the Gran Chaco and have been un able to agree , upon peace terms since the 1935 armistice, were said by neutral sources to have reached an understanding on all basic points. - . ,Veterans Arriving For big Gathering Entertainment features w 11 1 dominate today's activities as the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 18th department convention opens in Salem. Registration will ret un der way on the courthouse lawn, out meanwhile . the : carnival . on Church street nearby will be run ning and tonight at 6 o'clock the "dugout" in the basement of Crystal Gardens will open. There will be a dance, open to the gen eral public, there starting at 9 o'clock... Merchants were warned. Friday by the Salem Bnsineaa Men'a league that some persons were of fering "Welcome, VFW" placards for sale to businessmen without the sanction of the veterans' or ganization. ' - -. ' ' - . ,.' Punchboard Probe Promise of Mayor PORTLAND, July SH-Prom-lca of an investigation into charges of two - mothers that punchboaros were running pro miscuously in the city and that policemen had told them the law against the boards could not be enforced came today from Mayor Joseph K. Carson. , . . The mothers had protested the punchboards to the council. The mayor said he intended to see that anti-gambling laws were enforced with all others and that while complete enforcement might not be possible, "we shall do the best we can." , . ; Late Sports LOS -ANGELES, July .JP) Second night game: ' Portland : .S - 8 1 Hollywood ' : 4 " 1 Radonita . and Cronin; Bolen and Brenzel. OAKLAND, Calif., July S.-iS3) -Second night game: Los Angeles -!l.0 4 0 Oakland 1 5 1 Lleber and Sueme; Joyce and onxoy. OF 28-H OUR DAY INDECISIVE . ; xv v - ; M j - V- 1 s-."i:)r: Gvil Marriages And Divorce Are Decreed, Austria BERLIN, July $.-4JP)-A new statute was announced today re quiring civil marriage ceremonies in. Austrian Germany where here tofore church, marriages alone has been sufficient. . The statute, which, becomes ef fective August 1,.-aluo introduced a law for divorce to counter the indissolubility of Roman Catholic marriages hitherto effective in former Austria. The grounds for divorce include consistent refusal of a husband or wife to produce children, adul tery and serious Immoral conduct. Lumbermen Happy At Mills Opening ASTORIA, July 8-(-Lumber workers here beard cheering news today of plans by three companies to resume operations at three points, although one will shut down another camp .or a three month period. j' . The Crossett-Western ' opera tions at Wauna, the O'Brien work here and the Crown-Willamette's Lewis ft Clark camp near Sea side will reopen Monday after be ing closed down by slack mar kets. The Big Creek operation of Crossett-Western will, ' however, be shut down fo three months next week because of Inability to move logs. - . The Lewis & .Clark camp will run at j60 per cent of capacity while the other two will be on a double pace schedule to reduce large inrentories. Rogers in Wrong, , Is Wrong Rogers ALBANY, July 8 - UP - The wrong J. H. Rogers got the right J. H. Rogers' check and so an El- mlra man found his way to court charged with forgery. The state said the Elmira J. H. Rogers cashed $103.13 check In 1936. It was made out to J. H. Rogers but it was not intended for the Elmira man, who pleaded guilty and was paroled to bis lawyer on condition he make restitution. First Ocean Vessel Heading Up Columbia PORTLAND, . July Z.-P)-Tbe swift current of the Columbia rlT er, rushing to the sea through Its magnificent gorge above here, sprayed from tbe prow of a Tea sel strange to its apper waters as tbe 300-foot Charles L. Wheeler, fr.. churned her way today to ward Bonneville dam, the govern ment's new $51,000,000 navig Uon, flood' control' and power structure. V- For the first time since that bold spirit, Capt. Robert Gray, nosed the prow of the ship after which the river was named, the Columbia, up the stream in 1792 as Its discoverer, an ocean -Teasel waa taming the wild current of the Columbia. 8 Close : behind the 3,800 -ton freighter slipped a trim, gray bodyguard, ready on an instant to rush to any emergency that the tricky current of the riTer might create, ght was the coast guard Protest Idleness Arranged by CIO Quit Work Briefly Due to Employers' Refusal,. Renew Contract SAN FRANCISCO. July 8-flJ Four thousand San Francisco CiO longshoremen will hold a stop- work mass meeting tomorrow at 1 p.m., to consider action on the-refusal ' of waterfront employers to re-execute existing longshore con tracts in the name ot the CIO In ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union. ILWU officials called the meet ing after employers had declined to substitute tbe name of the ILWU for that of the AFL Inter national Longshoremen's associa tion in present agreements, which expire . September SO. - Tbe CIO group recently was 'certified as the bargaining agent for Pacific coast longshoremen by the nation al labor relations board. 'The employers are seeking ne gotiations for an entirely new con tract. . Union, leaders said about 0 ships in San Francisco harbor would be affected. The longshore men ( expect to go back to work when - the meeting ends. New Orleans Raid Nets 80 CIO Men NEW ORLEANS, July 8 (JP) New Orleans police answered threats of CIO violence against raiding officers today by arresting 80 or more persons at labor head quarters. ' . After 70 persons were taken In a raid yesterday Matthew Braniff, CIO counsel, advised his clients to bar meeting bouse doors and re sist with "force of arms", police who did not have : search war rants. -. ,;-.. George Reyer, police superin tendent, who says New Orleans Is no place for "CIO communists and reds." declared: '"I would like to hare Braniff, their attorney, to be the man to offer resistance with force and arms, and not the poor unfortun ate people he is trying to mis lead." to The Dalles cutter Onondaga, whose master. Lt. Commander Frank lilgbee, re garded the history-making Toy age as no weekend adventure. - The Wheeler was due at Bon neville dam at 7 p. m., having left Vancouver, Wash., at neon. At Bonneville she will enter tht world's highest single-lift sealock. which will boost her some 80 feet to the level of the Bonneville lake, as that section of the river behind the dam has been named.. 1 'Tomorrow, tbe Wheeler steams on to The Dalles, 90 miles from here, where she dlschagres a-1.-5 00-ton cargo and, unless mishap Interferes, will complete the first navigation of the upper Columbia by a modern ocean-going TesesL At the helm of the Wheeler to day was Capt. Arthur Riggs, the first man ; ever to - take a river steamer into the upper. Columbia a feat he accomplished more-than 20 years ago, thus establishing a river traffic carried on ever since. I Over 100 Sp ot Blazes Fought In Northwest Willamette Forest lias six but Most ' Halted . With Aid of Rain Klamath Situation Held !Worst; "Sleepers" Are Principal , Danger PORTLAND, Ore., July 8-)-s A thunder storm, breaking's heat wave in many sections of the state, sent Jagged prongs of light ning Into many of tbe state's for ests last night, creating more tbaa half a hundred spot fires. The most serious blazes appear- . ed to "be in Klamath county. In other sections tpa fires were, for ' the .most part, readily controlled. Reports at Klamath Falls said a grass fire in the Isolated Squaw Point region on the west side of upper Klamath lake threatened a valuable timber stand, while an other blaze In the'Bly, section 10. miles east of Klamath Falls was burning in a logged-over area. Sixteen spot fires broke out In tbe Willamette national forest but rainfall totaling .21 of an inch aided fire-fighters. In the forests Of Jackson county, 13 fires were reported. Hailstones as big as eggs fell in the mountain sections but no orchards were harmed. Of ficials of tbe Cascade section of the Umpqua national forest re ported 14 fires, all of which were controlled. Sleeper Fires Principal Worry Forest officials generally z pressed concern over the fact that lightning sometimes sets sleeper fires, which do not break out ac tively for as long as two wetks and then spread seriously, .... Late today a crew ot 30 men was rushed to a cut-over area eev en miles east of Holley in tbe up per Callapoola valley, where a fire bad started in several acres af standing timber. The blaze also was believed to have been tbe re sult of lightning. ' Thirteen fires were set by tie bolts in tbe Mount Hood national forest and one, in tbe forks of Badger creek in the Dufur dis trict, had reached proportions suf ficient to cause concern. By The Associated Press Three Pacific northwest states Washington, Oregon and Idaho last night battled- more tkan 100 spot fires caused by electrical storms which in many Instances shattered long dry, hot spells. (The situation by states: . Washington- Forest fire situa tion "extremely critical" In state lands, with fD, to 60 fires, many of them smarted by Thursday night's electrical storm rang tag eastward from the Cascades. - Oregon More than 60 spot fires started after a lightning and thunder storm broke heat wave, especially in the southern part ot j the state. Idaho A devastating ball, rais and electric storm cut a wid swath across tbe Lewlston-Clark-ston district before noon yester day, damaging ' ripe crops and breaking a beat wave which tent temperatures to 101 degrees Thursday. A barn was fired by a lightning bolt near Genesee. Bonneville Power Delivery Looming PORTLAND, Ore., July 8-(v?V The first- Bonneville dam power sale will be completed Saturday night when J. D. Ross, dam ad ministrator, gives the signal te open the line to Cascade Locks, Ore. Simultaneously dam power will flow into municipal lines ot North Bonneville, located at the dam side on- the Washington aide of the Columbia. Jhe two towns will become tbe first users . of electrical energy from the big turbines. -Ross will deliver bis signal from a banquet table at Cascade Locks and an ' operator, atop a power tower at, the dam, will throw a switch closing the cir cuits. . Scholarship Goes To Chinese Youth PORTLAND, Ore., July 8-V Good luck has tramped on tbe heels of adversity for Henry Gong, 17, Portland Chinese student. Deportation threatened him last week but Wednesday after a hearing be was Informed deporta- tion would not be pressed. Today Albany college, Portland, awarded him a scholarship in its pre-medics course. The joutb, who graduated with honors from Lincoln high school, accepted tfce scholarship and took a step toward realization of his ambition ' to study medicine.