The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, July 29, 1938, Page 2, Image 2

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    The OREGON STATESilAN, Salecs. Oregon, .Friday BIarnln& July 29, 1935;
JReace Efforts Gaining on . A
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Disarmament
v Hopes Higher
Friendly Turn in British
';rid German Relations ,
'i - : CiVes Peace Hope '
i" : By J. C. STARK
tOXDON. July 28.-()-Effort
to rid Europe of her chief men"
7 aces to peace were raining ground
--- today Just 24 yean after the
first world war declaration.
- There were brighter prospects
for' a halt la the feTerlsh rearm
. ament race.
x . Today as-. In 1914 Austria
Hungary, backed by Germany,
launched, a war ' on Serbia that
. brought on the general conflict
Britain and Germany are the key
powers in the European situation.
i A friendly turn in the relations
o't these two powers bolstered Eu-
- ropean statesmen's hopes of
averting a repetition of events of
24 years ago.
Britain's move to mediate the
Czechoslovak minority quarrel
with German consent promised
to. lead to broader political talks
kyfcnccu " I wu Wife yuifClB,
.'" ! Air Pact Seen
An air pact, limiting armament
la this field upon which both na
tions have been concentrating.
was believed in some quarters to j
M nign on-tne. agenda or these
negotiations.
' Such was hinted by Prime Min
ister Chamberlain himself , when
ha praised the British-German na
val, agreement in parliament Tues
day and called it proof that the
tfc countries could reach an un
demanding ' ' vital problems.
Reports that Capt. Frits Wied
nann. ; Adolf Hitler's adjutant,
was returning to London this
' weekend to resume talks with
Foreign Secretary Viscount Hal
ifax he started July 11 to a belief
In-tsbme quarters that he was corn
lag to discuss prospects for an air
- pact
? ! Britain Still Arming
'Britain - gave new evidence.
however, that her present vast re
armament program will not slacken-
until threatening Spanish civil
war and Czechoslovak problems
are fearer a solution. '
Leslie Hore-Belisha, war secre
tary, promised faster promotions
aSd other features to attract more
mew into the army he is revolu
tionizing.
Throngs See Suicide Plunge From 17th Floor
Deliberating 11 hoars on narrow window ledze 17 stories above the street. John YV. MCmi-a- ?
ly planned to death as thousands of New Yorkers jammed streets and nearby buildings. Mrs. Kather-
- . v. a ... .. . , j mem. iuviu ir j w icr9uiiue nvr urointT irom leaping 10 ueatn. While
the grotesque drama was taking place peanut and ice cream Tenders reaped harvest among the thous
ands of spectators. Even a bookie was taking bets on whether Warde would jump. Warde was de-
hcrioru as a rrustratea playboy who never. In business or social life, could feel he had succeeded' la
j i oeen
?IIe announced lower retire me it I week.
ages, and. higher retirement pay,
estimated to cost an additional
' Employers Expect
Loading of Craft
PORTLAND,! Ore., July 28-p)
-Waterfront Employers associa
tion spokesmen . today" said tbey
"expected to see 2,500,000 boards
reet or lumber from the west Ore
gon Lumber company loaded on
the schooner W. R. Chamberlin,
jr., Friday morning.
They den led J however, the em
ployers had issued an "ultima
tum" to CIO longshoremen who
refused to pass a CIO lumber
workers' picket line.
I The lumber union picketed the
yards and dock after the company
recognized the AFL. The ship has
oeen ilea up lor more than 'a
1
d d i t i o o
... in the Nete
n.lOO.OOO annually in first years! T I?-
ofr the plan's operation and in- LlCVlIie HjXtOlTerS
Handed Sentences
crease to an, extra 13,000,000
year, over zo to 25 years.
Immediate effect of the chan
ges.; which are in line with the
foreign . secretary's policy of in
jecting more young blood into the
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.. 'July
28.-(p)-Werner Fred Luck, 23.
Seaman Bit Hazy
About Fish Rule;
army command, will be the pro-l and John Penn, 18. convicted of
mouon oi more man z.ooo offi-1 attempting to extort money from
Cers August 1. I Murrar LevIlieJ vnr ontPTirr1 in
prison today by Judge Frank H.
Coyne, who described their crime
as "despicable, low down and das
tardly." He said his only regret
was that he could not Impose a
heavier sentence.
Judge Coyne sentenced them to
serve from thren - vpum and nlno
THE DALLES. Julv ti(SAAt I mnntht tn. on .t
uub seaman wun the Tleef months. The two young men
now in Portland was a little wrote ransom notes to Levine
niy as to. wnetner. the Columbia I whose 12-year-old son Peter was
was i iresn or sau water. 1 kidnaped and slain
.ne mougnc sau water fishing
regulations applied on the river
and went fishing near here with- Pnyflonrl Pvvctrrvc
out a license and landed in Justice OTliailU IISIOIIIS
c5udge h. c. Meredith took a Grabs Opium Tins
mvuv iow vi m -ui&iier ana
suspended a 5 fine on provision
the sailor .Robert Blackmer Har
ris of the rss MacDonough, buy (day 400 this of smoking opium
ureuse. i vaiuea at ssu.ouo to sinnnnn
had been sslrr- aboard the Nor
wegian motorship Granville here
Fisk said the opium tins, sealed
in burlap covered containers, were
linked together with 100 feet of
rope, apparently ready to-be
M.MlWWVtirw r ... uTcivwiu waere i tgauci
M.Mttm, UIC, JUIT i I Knot ariu. J .t.V. .1. -
Pqwell notified the state relief
SPRINGFIELD, I1L, July 28
(Jf) Illinois . highway police are
brushing up on their mathematics
so they can measure the speed of
automobiles by a new formula de
signed to eliminate perjury from
motorists' stories after the
crash.
The formula involves the car's
rate of deceleration, its weight,
braking effort and the skid re
sistance of the roadway.
AH yon hare to do, Cheif Wal
ter Williams explained, is to dou
hie the .length of the skid mark,
multiply It by the rate of decelera
tion and take the square root of
the result.
ROME, July 28 -(VP)- The
stage, the movies, and music
were ordered today to observe
new fascist customs' through
which an attempt to transform
Italian life Is being made.
The ministry of popular cul-tnre-
in a new decree ordered
that the fascist salute be sub
stituted for the handshake in
stage and - screen . productions
and tha orchestra conductors
at open air concerts and op
eras wear the ximmer -. dress
uniform of the fascist party. .
PORTLAND, July 28.-Up-Cus-
toms collector ; Fred Fisk said to-
Yamhill May Cut
Relief iLxpenses i
committee today that Yamhill
ounty tax collections were so low
the county would have to cut re
lief expenditures 25 percent.
Judge Powell, said, only. 1352.-j
mad been paid' on rolls otl
MT9.017.
Fishery Official Dier
ASTORIA. July 2S-(V-0car
A. , Wlrkkala, Columbia River
Packers' association "vice ' presi
dent, died at his homo here to
day after a heart attack.
Lmdscapiiig Bids
Opening August 12
Bids for landscaping i the new
state capitol i grounds . will be
opened in Portland August 12, It
was announced yesterday.
The work, for which 112.500
has been set aside, will Include
grading, top-soiling, fertilizing
ana planting of the lawn.
, The job will be auperviaed by
ueorge utten. landscape ; engineer
lor the state highway department.
'Pirates? Get Church Sentences
- 1 ' :
" "h reform school sentence s appended, three youthful pfrates of
Santa Crux, Cal were released on probation with the following
provision: 1. That they go to church Sunday until they ar 21;
2. that they abstain from liquor and tobacco; 3. that they report to
r probation officers monthly; .4. that they make no public appear
ances or have photographs taken without authorisation; 8. that
they learn the Ten Commandments and bo prepared to recite them
from memory to officers. Photo shows, left to right, Lew Foote,
owner of the yacht; James llenniger, 17; Ljle Tara, 17; William
xuc lami ooya jook me yacnt Tlra from Santa Crux
harbor, seeking adventure on the high aeas. They were arrested
in. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, when they put la fcr provisions.
MIAMI, Fla., July 28-t-A
woman charged her dentist with
assault and battery today after an
incident that had police scratch
ing their heads.
Answering a terse radio mes
sage, .Disturbance - woman
screaming," Policemen J. F. Burk
hart and R. C. Groover rushed to
the office of Dr. Justin G. Hol
land, dentist. . ,
There they found Mrs. Blanch's
Bailey In hysterics. - She com
plained the dentist had taken out
her teeth. Puzzled, the policemen
telephoned headquarters for in
structions and Capt. Virgil Math
Is told them, to bring in everyone
involved. . ; I
After questioning the dentist
and his wife, and Mrs. Bailey and
her brother, Mathis said this
what happened: !
: "Dr. Holland gave Mrs. Bailey
an estimate of 847 for a lower
plate, repairs to upper bridge-
work, and other items. She paid
him $2 5. and was to pay the re
maining 122 when the work was
finished.' ' :
Mathis' said that when the Job
was done Mrs. Bailey started to
walk out and when the dentist
asked her for the 822 she said she
had paid hint la fulL The dentist.
Mathis said, took her by the arm,
led her back to the chair and re
moved $22 "worth of dental work
despite her screams and protests.
Mrs, Bailey, claiming she had
been scratched on a shoulder, ob
tained the assault and battery
warrant. The dentist was fined
25 and costs In municipal court.
Cooks'.Union Asks
Benefits Hearing
PORTLAND July-2 8 -LPV- The
state unemployment commission
yesterday was asked by the cul
inary union's executive council to
grant immediate hearings on the
applications . of striking r hotel
workers for benefits.
Union spokesmen, who said ap
plications - had been returned.
asked permission to present evi
dence why their members should
get assistance. ' The union called
a strike at IS hotels in June but
the hotels remained ia operation
with other labor, s .
Indians' Fishinir
Sites Loss Eyed
THE DALLES. July Z8.-fJPV-
Indians who have lost their fish
ing sites because of "the "high wa
ter in the Columbia created by
Bonneville dam have a "Just
claim for damages, O. L. Bab-
cock, superintendent of the Uma
tilla reservation declared.
"Every tributary where the
ndians used to fish should come
under investigation." by the
United States government so that
treaties with the Indians can be
preserved to the letter, he said.
Five-Year-01d Boy
Dies From Injury
INDEPENDENCE, July 2-Jpi
-Gerald Wheeler. 6-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Wheeler.
inaeDenaenc dit in th& s, m
hospital at noon ThnmliT
ne was struck by an automobile
near his horn last nlrht
State police said they had not
yet received the name of the
person driving the automobile
l-i-i . . .
wuita ran over me noy.
This Is the second time within
a year that tragedy has struck the
Wheeler family. A son and daugh
ter were drowned in the Willam
ette river near Independence, on
August 9, 1937, when Richard
Lee Wheeler, 15, lost his life in
a tutile attempt to save Mildred
Fay Wheeler. 17.
The Wheeler family came to
Oregon from Oklahoma last year.
Blow From Driver
Results in Death
LAKE CHARLES, La., July 28
(JPy-An accidental blow from a
KOlf Club in the, bandii nf hr
husband during play on the
municipal rolf course caused' the
death today of Mrs. W. G. Cald
well. Jr.. Wif nf an nffirlal f
the Louisiana state employment
service.
Mrs. Caldwell was standing
behind her husband finndi mm
he raised the club to play and
the club-head struck her near
the left temple. She never re
gained consciousness.
:ir Logger Killed
MYRTLE POINT, Ore., July 28
0P)-Oren P. Solomon, 25, Elk
ton, was killed by a rolling log
at the Sykes and McNair logging
camp near here today.
Soviets Purging
Siberian Forces
Aim to , Spoil Japanese
Sabotage EfforU Is
; Claim of Press
' Moscow. July , 28-cavr h e
Siberian newspaper, Pacific Ocean
Star, tells of a ."great purge" in
the Soviet Russian far east to
frustrate what the newspaper
terms Japan's efforts "to destroy
oar strength from the Inside.'
, "In the past few months a
greet purge was carried o,n, and
it still continues,' the newspaper
says. N "The bolshevlsU of Pri
morsk province will smoke from
their holes all spies, wreckers
and terrorists to the last man."
The newspaper, published at
Khabarovsk, near the scene of
recent border incidents between
red soldiers and detachments of
the Japanese army of occupa
tion in Manchoukuo, says the
purge was started "on the init
iative" of Joseph. Stalin, secre
tary general of the Russian com
munist party.
(Diplomatic exchanges be
tween Moscow and Tokyo in a
renewed dispute, over the Siber-lan-Manchoukuoan
border were
marked by Russian rejection of
a Japanese protest that Soviet
soldiers had, occupied Manchou-j
kuoan soil, near Changkufeng on!
July 11. Japan 'since has taken
a conciliatory attitude. 4
Ring Lardner Son
Wounded in, Spa in
BARCELONA, July 28
James P. Lardner, 24-j-ear-old son
of the late Ring Lardner, was re
ported today as among the wound
ed on the Ebro river front.
A courier dispatch 'from the
front said he was hit in the back
by fragments of a bomb. His con
dition was described as "not ser
ious." He was in the Gandesa area
fighting tor government forces.
He gave up newspaper work in
April to enlist.
Advertising Need
To Revive Selling
SAN FRANCISCO," July 2&-JP)
-John M. Palmer, advertising
specialist, advised furniture re
tailers today to keep at their ad
vertising to revive sales.
"The common sense of retail
advertising." the spokesman for
j. waiter Thompson co., adver
tising firm said, "Is not so much
how yon tell your message as the
regularity with which you tell
It." He gave his views to the
merchants, manufacturers and
buyers who attend the western
furniture institute meeting here.
Federation Made
By German Jews
BERLIN, July 28-4P-German
Jews today formed a united front
in an effort to deal more effec
tively with the problem of emi
gration from nasi Germanv.
Formation of a federation nf
Jews to constitute their official
representation in dealiags with
the government was announced In
the weekly Central Vereln Zei-
tung, organ of German Jewry.
Education Board
. ApprovesJursery
CORVALLIS, July 2
Construction of a new nursery
school on the Oregon State col
lege campus was approved by the
state board of higher education
today. The- new plant will be
opened in time for the fall term
and will replace Co veil House, a
remodeled '" residence that has
been operated by the school of
home economics for the past 11
years. The cost, to be met from
student building fee- funds, will
Cot exceed 110,000.
Soldiers Rescued
From Canon Ledge
MARFA. Tex.. July" 28-7PU.
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iwo soiaiers marooned on a can
yon ledge over the flooding wa
ters of the Rio Grande were res
cued late today and were en route
.back to Fort D. A. Russell here
tonight.
Col. Robert Lewis. In char pa nf
a party of 20, which effected the
rescue, telephoned the fort the
men were brought up safely from
me percn in late afternoon. They
were expected here about mid
night .
. Late today plans had been laid
to use a block and tsrVl in ra.
cue the pair. Sergeant Clyde Ry-
oerg and Private Clarency Hen
sen, who had remained on the
ledge in dangerous Santa Helena
canyon five days. . .
Elam J. Anderson
Departs Linfield
McMINNVILLE. Ore..' Julr 2
-(P)-Dr. Elam J. Anderson, retir
ing presiaeni 01 Ldniieia college,
ended ' six years of tenure today
when he left for Redlands. Calif..
where he will become president of
the University of Redlands. .
Dr. William G. Everson, soldier-pastor
of a Portland church,
has been named his successor.
Says Wage Cut Need
NEW YORK. July ItmiRn.
gene G. Grace, president of Beth-
lenem steel corp., said today
there must be a reduction of la
bor cost or an fnra nf nrirn
if the steel industry was to make
money.
Aid Goes to 7565
Poor Farm Homes
PORTLAND, July 28-iP)-A to
tal of 7565 families In Oregon
have received assistance- through
the government's efforts to raise
the living standard of low-income
and handicapped farmers. --!
Clifford L.-Smith, state direc
tor of the farm security adminis
tration, revealed today that the
administration loaned $2,708,159
to 3139 farmers for livestock, ma
chinery, feed, seed and coopera
tive facilities during the year end-'
lng July l.Xpan (collections came
to 57fi,50. More than 88 per
cent of the xaaturities were met
promptly and 274 loans were paid
in full. ...
The farm debt service adjusted
the indebtedness of 545 families
from 82.189.086 to $1,332,287 by
consolidations, refinancing and
time extension.
; Correspondent Leaves
ROME,. July 28 -(Pau! Cre
mona, . correspondent for the
Christian Science Monitor, de
parted for France tonight In com
pliance, with a government order
eight days ago for hjm to leave
Italy.
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