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Winning Teams Salem's high school and university football teams are real title contenders this year. Follow the games In The Statesman. it I ; The Weather -.Rain today and Sunday with moderate tempera. - tares Max. temp. Friday, S3, mln. 48. River -3.7 feet. South .wind. 3-.-- ElUHTY-KIUHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 29, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 185 'J.--'.-' poundoo 1651 ". ' Bearcats Defeat Loggers 13-0 As FroH Player Scores Twice Larry McKeel Reaches Goal For 2 Scores "Spec" Keene Is Handed 12th Homecoming Win by Bearcats Willamette Scores Come in Second and Fourth Periods By RON G EMM ELL A freshman starting his first varsity football game got a pair of touchdowns, the Willamette student body prexy converted one of 'em and the whole Bearcat squad hoisted "Spec" Keene, whose 13th season was commem orated with a 13-0 homecoming win over the College of Puget Sound, into the dressing rooms. It was Willamette's 12th consec utive homecoming and 26th con secutive Northwest conference victory. ' Coach Keene, who hasn't lost a conference clash since Octouer 13, 1933 when the Crs Loggers did it, probably was as pleased with the football victory as he was with the nifty set of fishing tackle presented him in pre-game cere monies. - McKeel Reaches i Paydirt Twice Larry McKeel, rookie from Ore gon City, was the 'Cat who twice shoved his cleats In Logger pay dirt, going over on reverses from seven and nine yards out, In the second and final quarters, respec tively. Prexy r'eil Shaffer, In at the fullback spot he has vacated because of injuries since the Santa Barbara battle, booted from place ment following the second touch down. But the Loggers yielded to the Bearcat ambitions; grudgingly. The fighting band from Puget 'Sound stopped the Bearcats"-first thrust cold on the two-yard stripe, from whence the local collegians had four whole downs la which to make it. They held for downs a second time In the first half on their 24, and on two occasions ln the final half put up definite 'no' signs on their nine and 17 yard lines. McKeela first sally into pay soil culminated a 38-yard drive that was accomplished in eight plays to open the second quarter. Forced to punt from his one-foot stripe, where Bunny Bennett had - been stooped on the fourth try by the Bearcats to get over from the two-yard mark, Madden's kick was grounded on the CPS 38. Drury, McKeel and McGlyn the latter having replaced Bennett, pounded to the se'-en from where McKeel took a reverse from Drury to romp inside his own left end and across standing Up. Drury's kick from placement wobbled wide. Second Score Comes Late But two minutes of game time were left when McKeel backed across the goal from nine-yards out for the second Bearcat score. This time it was an Intercepted pass that paved the way. Carl Chapman, In for -Bennett, picked off a first-down flip Madden at tempted from his own -10. He took it on the 28, shoestring high, and returned It to the 17. Shaffer was stopped for a two-yard gain at right tackle, and then .McKeel took a reverse through a hole at the same spot to. bounce off the secondary and back over the goal line. Shaffer's boot from place ment was accurate. The Bearcats had eight first downs and 102 yards from scrim mage before they got ;their first touchdown, so stout was the Log' per defense inside "Its own 30 ' Much tougher defensively than offensively, the Invaders got no further than the Willamette 34 at any time and into Willamette territory but twice. For the Loggers Wofford at end and Bertholet at tackle were out standing defensively, while Wof ford and Madden performed well offensively; Madden was respon sible for 23 of the 41 yards gained from .scrimmage by, the Loggers, besides doing all the passing and most of-the kicking. Bunny Bennett-, and Larry Mc Keel divided ground gaining hon ors for the Bearcats,. Bennett get ting 79 and McKeel 75. Bennett turned in runs of 25 and 20 yards around his own right end with hut one play between the two long dashes. uame siaiisucs ana lineups wiu iif.ii i , be found on the sports page. FehVs Suit of $200,000 Is Given Dismissal Order MEDFORD, Oct. 28-jF)-Clr- euit Judge H. D. Norton today or dered dismissal of the $200,000 damage suit of 'Earl 1L Fehl against three county and former county " officers. Fehl, , former Jackson county judge now a state hospital Inmate, charged the trio conspired to "railroadThim " to the state prison for the Jackson county ballot thefts. Chiang Kai-Shek Urges Continued J? stance To Jaoane Chinese Generalissimf Ultimate Victory ir Chinese Over i Japan in Longtime War SHANGHAI, Oct. 28. (AP) From somewhere in the vast interior of China, beyond the lines of Japanese encroach ment, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek today proclaimed con tinued Chinese resistance and expressed hope of "luring" the enemy into western China. The generalissimo's message, emanating from unidenti fied headquarters, was addressedO to the national people's political assembly in session at Chungking,. provisional minese capital now that Hankow is Japanese-occupied, i , It reiterated -Chiang's confi dence in ultimate Chinese victory, said China was prepared for the reverses that have . come In the nearly 16 months of war and as serted Chinese resistance was "becoming Increasingly difficult for the invaders to overcome." Chinese reports of the message said the i generalissimo referred to the military situation thus: "Superficially the Japanese ap pear to have occupied a large por tion of China, but in reality the situation is favorable to. Chinese plans for prolonged resistance. "We inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in the Yangtze TaUey. In desperation they invaded South China, attempt to interrupt our munitions and hoping for a quick decision In. the war. -"But we were prepared for this. Forj years we concentrated on development of West China where bases for operations, are established and where we will prolong resistance until victory is ours, i "We hope to lure the enemy further inland. The farther they come the j sooner, victory . will, he ours."-; :-i - y'v i The message said "the spirit of national solidarity" was increas ingly evident and "this spirit is the foundation of our resistance." Czechs Consider Magyar Demands Hungarians Are Annoyed at "Waste of Time" by Prague BUDAPEST, Oct. "28.--)-Cze- choslovakia ; notified Hungary to night she was giving considera tion to a Hungarian demand for immediate occupation of undis puted areas of the neighboring re public. 1 The Czechoslovak note, the 11th diplomatic exchange between the two governments In their mi nority dispute, said, the Hungar ian military attache at Prague had been called in to discuss technical questions involved In the occupa tion.. - f ; "i i" ' Hungarian officials ' expressed annoyance at the delay In what they called "the fruitless waste of time" by the Prague government in delaying occupation of 3,860 square miles of territory which it already has agreed to hand over. Diplomatic quarters asserted Czechoslovakia was playing for time in order to evacuate valuable equipment from the territory , be fore putting a final stamp of ap proval on! the Hungarian occupa tion. i- . . v.::, ' ;. Hungarian authorities express ed expectations of occupying the undisputed area early next week. They also anticipated the estab lishment of a German-Italian ar bitration board to settle differen ces arising from eight disputed districts, i - " , : Germany Moves Polish Jews Back Into Homeland Region BERLIN, Oct. 28-0?V-Germany acted swiftly today to return sev eral thousand male Polish Jews to their i homeland before the tightening of Polish citizenship laws might block their reentry. (In Warsaw an Informed source said that, "in all, probability"; the German action would be held up and that it apparently had result ed from a misunderstanding" of Poland's new citizenship law re quiring revalidation of Polish passports held abroad.). - In Berlin alone seTej-al hun dred PoUsa Jews were rounded up in the early saornlng.i-E,rom Vien na, Cologne, Braunschweig and other cities came rf ports of new measures i against flws. Authoritative sources said sev eral thousand men were tajcen to the Polish border today and oth er were expected to be ' moved invaders erates Conviction in What's Doing in the Guiipaflp By . RALPH C. CURTIS There's a time for everything, and a Saturday in October Is the time for football. That goes for the radio as well as for other ae tlcities. The . only political broad casts on the schdule are on KGW at 7:30 and on KOIN at 9:30 p.m., and neither has anything to do with middle Willamette valley voters. Likewise, the only im portant meeting related : to poli tics in Salem today is that spon sored by the Social Welfare so ciety at the courthouse at -1:30 p.m., dealing with, pension mat ters. Legislative candidates will be heard at 2 o'clock. Leaders in the movement emphasize that not only elected precinct delegates, bat anyone - interested is invited to attend and participate in the straw vote. An almost neglected Issue has been that of the proposed new courthouse. The i Salem Realty board, one of the origin al sponsors of this movement, launched plans at - its Friday luncheon to Inform the voters : as to: the details of the pro gram and the need for new courthouse. . Charles A. Sprague, republican nomine? for governor, has com pleted his. tour of the lower Co lumbia, and last night spoke at a well-attended rally in Parkrose, at which he emphasized the duty of citizens to vote. He declared that only through their attention to this matter can there be a truly American system of govern ment, i f Henry Hess, democratic nom inee for governor, speaks tonight at 8 o'clock at the Dallas court house. A caravan from Salem will make the trip to hear him. Hess (Turn to page 2, col. 2) One Man Is IOlled By Toppling Tree BEND, Ore., Oct. 28-;p)-HIgh winds blew .over a dead tree In Brooks Seanlon tin ber 40 miles south of here today and the snag fell Into a group of 20 road work ers, killing one and gravely in juring a second. . . s i : - i The men were' eating' lunch at the time. J ; y -,-t. ;? y. Frank Utley, 21, was the vic tim. Tony Bosrlch, 31, was In critical condition in a local hospi tal. ' .1 j- ..: ,s : The 'roar of the wind was so great, the men did .not. bear, the tree as its trunk split. September Relief Costs I SI . Cents i Each Citizen PORTLAND, Oct. 28(J)-Ev-ery person in Oregon paid 81c in September to support the state's public assistance . program, E. R. Goudy, state relief administrator, said today in a prorata study of costs. ; ..;:. The highest cost was In Clack amas county, $1.03, the lowest in Jefferson, 20c. f within the next few days;; Women relatives said they were .not told whether they would he able to follow their kin. , i ; : f 3 Jews with Polish citizenship have been a constant snag in the anti-semi tic movement in Ger many since ordinary measures failed to reach them as completely as German Jews. The government estimates that 150,000 Poles are living in Ger many, but only a fraction of these are Jews. 4 - ;;. : A new Polish law effective San day irprovides that Poles living abroad must have their passports certified by consular offices or lose their right to reenter Po land. -;; - i The measure was Interpreted In Polish Jewish circles as an at tempt ' to deprive - Polish Jews abroad of their passports. - ' Hacliiro Arita x nir l v. lan Foreign Cliief Moderation Was Counsel of Arita in Previous Cabinet Job Protest Made to France Over Arms Shipments to Chinese TOKYO, Oct. 29.-(Saturday)-(IPy-Former Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who in tire past has counseled moderation t o wa r d China, today was named again to the post in the cabinet of Pre mier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. One of Japan's best known ca reer diplomats, Arita succeeded General Kazushige TJgaki who resigned September 29 after dif fering with army leaders over the empire's policy in China. It was understood his wide ex perience In Chinese affairs was the main reason for his appoint ment today by Konoye, but actual ly Arita will not have a deciding voice In policy In China where Japan's militarists are In control. Protest Made To French The cabinet addition came soon after the government had pro tested yesterday to France against alleged shipments of arms to China, warning of possible conse quences unless the tratfie through French Indo-Chlna stops at once. (In . Paris, the foreign office denied there was any such traf fic and 'expressed surprise Japan should protest again after repre sentations early in the year in which she "was unable to sub stantiate her charges.") A foreign office spokesman at the same time said the govern ment would reply , soon to the United States note of October f insisting " upon maintaining the open door In China. The newspaper Asahi predicted that the government would at tempt "to Induce the United States government correctly to recognize the new far eastern situation" which, it said, had mod ified the nine-power pact system. . The foreign office spokesman agreed the nine-power ' pact "must he modified" and admitted there likely would he many changes affecting foreign settle ments and concessions and pre vious foreign privileges. (Under the nine-power pact of February ' , 1922, the ' United States, Belgium, the British em pire, China, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands and Portugal agreed, among - other things, to use their influence for establish ing and maintaining the principle of equal opportunity for the com merce and industry of all nations In China. (They also agreed to refrain from taking advantage of condi tions In China in order to seek special rights or privileges which would abridge the rights of foreigners.) . Keeping Ocean in Line Is big Task PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 8.-(P) -Consider , what the U. S, army engineers need to jnake the ocean behave and yoall understand what a simple fellow King Canute was when he commanded the tide to stand still. Here are some items listed in specifications for repairing the Coos Bay north Jetty: 600.000 feet of lumber, 34,000 feet of pil ing, 25,000 tons of rock, 2030 cubic yards of concrete; 19,000 feet of cable, 17,000 pounds of anchor chain, 13,000 pounds of drift bolts, 8300 pounds of strap steel, 6000 pounds of railroad spikes total cost around $750, 000. : 30-Mile Breeze Stirs Woods Fire MEDFORD, Oct. 28-py-A 30 mile wind buffeted Jackson coun ty hllla .today and stirred a mouldering forest fire in the Butte Falls district Into a dan gerous blaze. The Rogue river national for est service sent 100 men to the scene late today.. They were aug mented by SO CCC men. The blaze was described as covering 80 acres of burned over land. Late'Sports ASHLAND, Ore Oct.- lS-JPt-Oregon Normal school ran true to form tonight, defeating Southern Oregon Normal to 0 with an end run by Davies, reserve half, in the closing minutes of a home coming game. Oregon Normal heat Southern Oregon earlier-this sea son. " " ' ' ' - isiviaaejap Death Toll 30 In Huge Blaze .At Marseilles Fire Tvhich Swept Over French City Breaks : up Party Meet f . , 'y - -Daladier Cuts Alliance i With Communists in -. Fiery Speech 1 MARSEILLE, Oct. 29-(Satur-day)-(i9)-A disastrous fire which raged through the center of the Marseille business section for more than 12 hours wag feared today to have claimed at least 30 lives. - Although the known casualty list wen flames were '. brought under control early today - was five dead and 35 injured, a check of those known or believ ed to have infthe large depart ment store where the blaze start ed led to the,, belief that many more were trapped 4y the sud denly spreading flames. As the fire raged, Premier Edouard Daladier suspended meetings here of his rudical so cialist party, at which he warned parliament he would appeal to the nation in new elections should it refuse to support his reforms. The hotel where the premier stayed and several large build ings were destroyed the No aillea hotel and the Nouvelles Galeries de Paris department store among them. High south winds fanned the flames during the evening. Firemen from near by communities were rushed here. Looting broke out and guards threw cordons about the stricken area. ' As the . premier earlier ham mered home his program to the party congress, authorized sourc es In - Paris .said negotiations were , under way with nazl Ger many aimed first at a mutual declaration renouncing war. Daladier . completed his break with the communists by getting the approval of the committee on general policy, to a resolu tion, to be submitted to the radical-socialist convention tomor row, declaring that the commun ist ; party "has . excluded Itself" from the people's front of radical-socialists, socialists and com munists. , ; The resolution proposed re course to elections if financial and economic reforms planned by the government were not ap proved by parliament. Fast-moving developments, at the congress saw the premier, members of his cabinet and members of parliament debate plans in committees for reform of the nations' financial admin istration from top to bottom. Although the premier's attacks were directed against the com munists alone by name, he thun dered against Marxism and so cialists too are Marxists. Hess Aims Blast At Reactionaries PORTLAND, Oct. 28-(S5)-Hen-ry L. Hess charged in a radio speech tonight that "Hoover re actionaries would like to turn Oregon back to control of our state government by vested and privileged Interests." Hess, democratic candidate for governor, asserted "liberal pro gressives throughout the state and nation have been working to restore buying power to the masses of the people. Under Hoover the buying power was taken from the people; banks were failing, farmers, home own ers and businessmen were losing their property-through foreclos ure. . i "Through the work of Roose velt and liberal thinking citi zens, these conditions have been remedied." . - Bonnefyille Rates Praised by Norris i Portland; ore., Oct 28. -The office of Bonneville dam ad ministrator, J. D.'Ross, said today Senator George W. Norris had praised as "exceedingly attractive"- proposed rates . for Bonner ville electrical power. - - Norris, Nebraska, known as the "father of the TVA," declared In a 'telegram to Ross, "these rates ought to make the entire project one of the greatest successes in the country." - : Congressman John E. Rankin, Mississippi, also telegraphed that "this is the best schedule I have seen proposed. It is even better than that of the -TVA." . Sprague Appeals For Interest iri Political System P O RTL AN rT, Oct. 28P) Cbarles A. Sprague -pleaded at a Parkrose rally tonight for partici pation of all citizens in political affairs, i -, .. ;;r3 .' " ' The 'republican gubernatorial candidate declared "our system of government works best- when all citizens take part. I urge that everyone study the Issues to be de cided, analyse the candidates and the programs they represent and then vote their convictions"- Italy Moves 12,000 Into Areas GENOA, Oct. 28 -&)- Twelve thousand three hundred and sev enty men, women and children took their quarters tonight ' on nine vessels to sail at noon . to morrow for Libya in one ' of the largest mass migrations for col onization in modern times. . In all, about . 20,000 will sail from Genoa, Naples ; and ' Syra cuse." . -1' ' "' - -. The Genoa number had been increased since the color-ists left their homes. - Two of the - more than 60 expectant mothers bore children while trains were bridg ing them from inland villages of northern Italy. , Genoa furnished a festive, re ception and farewell today.. for the emigrant peasant families. Tonight, they were getting, ac quainted with ' their shipboard accommodations and' with each other. ' ' , ' f They will be neighbors on homesteads a 1 o n g the coastal reaches of the north-African col ony which has been decreed an integral part of Italy. 'Each family already had its homestead allotted and each col onist wore a card and a bit of ribbon indicating his destination and the name of the village from which he had come. Utilities Prepare Defense Program New Equipment Will Aid Government Defense Policies WASHINGTON, Oct. 28-JP) Amid a display of friendliness which left the capital guessing, the Roosevelt administration and 14 large utilities announced to day a far-reaching program to strengthen national defense and stimulate industry by expanding private power facilities. - Utilities executives pledged themselves to place Immediate orders for equipment to add seme 1,330,000 horsepower to existing generating capacity. They estimated that the "first stage," alone, of the expansion program, would mean an outlay of $2,000,000,000 in the next two years.T. . , This, they said, would double the recent annual rate of capital expenditures by the industry. The government's share in the undertaking the first1 concrete development from President Roo sevelt's restudy of national de fense needs will be to extend aid where needed in refinancing securities through the recon struction finance corporation. Whether this display of co operation might lead to a truce in the fierce struggle which the administration and pome utilities have waged in the courts, in congress and elsewhere, was not stated. Delay in Schedule Averts Rail Crash KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., Oct, 28 A brief delay in a passen ger train schedule may nave pre vented a wreck on the Southern Pacific main line two miles north of here today. ' A freight pulled into a siding to let northbound train Mo. 20 go by. Train, crew members noticed an odd obstacle on top of an outer rail on a nearby curve and inves tigated. The devise, made of tin and a short steel bar moulded into a hook at one end, was so affixed that a train wheel would be forced upward and off the flange when It. struck the contrivance. , Railroad - police ; arrested i a youth .who had been a patient in the Oregon feeble-minded insti tute. They said the lad admitted putting the impediment on the rail. . Libya W illam ette Cen ten nia li Plans Outlined Before Alum n i Bpdy ; Plans for Willamette ' univer sity's : centennial observance in February, 1942, were outlined by President Bruce R. Baxter at the alumni - banquet' which was a Friday night feature of the uni versity's homecoming program. , To a group of old grads. many from distant parts of Oregon, Dr. Baxter revealed that the ten' tative plans included a national radio : broadcast , and events in which alumni . would have a prominent part. At least - three important, publications. Dr James T. Matthews' autobiogra phy, former President - Carl . 0. Doney's . biography and Dr. Rob-' ert M. Gatke's history of the university,, are . to.. be . ready "by. that time, the president -said. Discussing the Improvements on the campus since last home coming Dr 5 Baxter , mentioned the- new library building, the law building, remodeling of which is being, started following completion of repairs, and .the University House, the president's residence.- He explained the plan for, additional buildlrgs, . con struction of which. Is in the in definite . f u t u r e but some of which may be built by 1940; a science building- westot Waller hall and a chapel on 'the-site of the; present science building, a James W: Lewis , Called by Death WARDEN LEWIS Ricliberg Advises Wagner Revision Former NRA Chief Points to Railway Labor Act; as Ideal Plan WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S-JF President Roosevelt heard .from Donald R. Richberg today that the Wagner Labor act should be revamped to end "industrial war fare." The former NRA administrator and one time attorney for rail way upions was a luncheon guest at the White House. He said after ward that he had discussed Op eration of the labor law with the chief executive and had suggest ed that it should give "security and certainty" to Industrial man agement, "I am very sympathetic with the Wagner act," Richberg de clared, "but I think it should be revised so as to bring in more mediation' and cooperation. , We can't have any - permanent im provement unless we can get the machinery to iron out industrial conflicts without ' continual war fare." - - - ,. He said the. railway labor act, which provides a means of medi ating rail labor, disputes and re quires deadlocked, disputants to maintain existing conditions . for so dava after the nresident an- J points a board to determine the tacts, - seemea tne iaeai way io end industrial strife. Mr. Roosevelt had disclosed "at his press conference earlier . to day that the board he appointed under this act on September 27, in an effort to avert a threatened strike of approximately l.XIOO.OOO rail workers against a proposed 15 per cent wage reduction, would file its report with him at 9:30 a.m. PST tomorrow. Jobs for College Grads on Upswing PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 28.-JP) The Montana - graduating class that adopted the slogan " WPA here we come" viewed the future in a darker light than was neces sary, t : It was disclosed here today by the Northwestern National Life Insurance company that place ment of 1938 college graduates in jobs throughout the nation soared far above expectations.,- : Fifty-three of 84 major univer sities and colleges placed 60 per cent of June's sheepskin recipi ents, 37 placed 90 to 100 per cent. Oregon State college's school of engineering reported placement of 90 per cent, U. of Oregon's school of business administration 75 per cent. Dust Chokes Klamath KLAMATH FALLS Oct. 2 8 iP) Klamath Falls residents choked and prayedfor rain today as a 30-mile south wind whipped up dust clouds from the nearby dry lake bed and blew them over the city. classroom building, racing west on the' present site of Kimball hall,' -completing- a "quadrangle of liberal arts," and a boys dor mitory facing . 12th street. Achievements mentioned . In cluded the final recognition of the law department's standardi zation and the coming of. Mu Phi Epsilon, music honorary fra ternity. , ., . .-j-. Other, speakers .included Hen ry Frantz, homecoming mana ger; Bill HaUP editor of the Col legian, and . Miss Faye Sparks, alumni secretary. John L. Gary, president of the alumni a&sociar tion, presided. Several numbers were ' played . by the university string trio.- ";" . ' . . ..- . - Inspection of the new library building, was an event . for the alumni - following the' football game and before the dance, which was held in the gymna sium, the first authorized dance ever held on the campus. The freshmen ' won the annual bag rush,, between halves of the loot ball game. .- - - - -. -. -: Teas and . dinners sponsored by fraternities and sororities are scheduled for today, - with the presentation of "First Lady," an nual homecoming play, In Leslie auditorium at .8 p.m.. the final event. ' Warden Lewis Dies Suddenly At Age of 70 Prison Official Brought Oregon Penitentiary , National Fame Funeral Services to Be : 10:30 Mondays Passing ' Mourned by Many -Death yesterday terminated the services of James W.. Lewis, 70, as warden of the Oregon state ; penitentiary, a position la which he brought national rec ognition .to his state and earned 4 by his fair dealing with his pris oners the sobriquet of "Square Deal Jim." Not in perfect health for soma years, Lewis was stricken with a cold 10 days ago but until Wednesday when his heart weak ened, he was not believed is serious condition. He kept, in close touch with operations cl the prison until a few hours be fore his death, which- came shortly before 4 a.m. yesterday. Funeral Services Monday Funeral services for Warden Lewis will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday from the W. T. Rigdon chapel with Dr. W. C. Kantner officiating. Interment will be in City View cemetery. - Lewis is survived by his wife, Winnie A. Lewis; his mother. Martha Lewis of Portland, and three sisters. Mrs. Florence Wil son of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Ethel McCoy and Mrs. Ann Klein of Portland. ' The. Oregon penitentiary un der - Lewis', supervision became recognized as one of the out standing, institutions of its kind in . the United . States, deopite prison . quarters that at times were severely overcrowded. The convicts . themselves nicknamed the warden "Square Deal Jim," because, they said, he always kept : his promises. ; A .federal commission, on a recent visit to Salem, referred to the Oregon prison as a model of orderliness. Lewis v&s praised for his discipline. Was Once Salem Police Member Warden Lewis was born In Benton county, near Corvallis. Most of his life had -been spent " served as & member of the Sa lem police department and af terward was deputy sheriff of Marion county. He served in the latter capacity for several years. In 1919, when Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, then superintendent cf the Oregon state hospital, was drafted by Governor Ben W. Ol cott to reorganize the state pen itentiary, Lewis was appointed deputy wardenw He previously had served as a deputy under Warden Louis H. Compton. Steiner returned to the state hospital on May 1, 1922, where upon Lewis was appointed war den of the prison by Governor Olcott. He served in this capaci ty until January 15, 1923, when he was released by Governor Walter Pierce, who succeeded Olcott. - On April 11927, Governor I. L. Patterson appointed Henry W. Myers superintendent of the pris on and Lewis as warden. Myers left the penitentiary in 1931 and Lewis was in full charge of the institution since that time. Improvement Made At Prison During Lewis' administration a number of substantial Improve ments were completed at the prison, including a new admin istration building and cell block. Farming operations also were expanded. - Lewis was a member of the Elks and Masonic Jodges. His widow survives, - The state hoard of control will select : Lewis' successor. Members of the board are Governor Char les H. Martin, Secretary of State Earl Snell and State Treasurer Rufus C Holman. The name of Gene Halley, for many years deputy warden at the prison, has been mentioned prominently in .unu i it. 14 T. , u i'rv. Mo ment.' . " Governor Martin said no ac tion would be taken by the board .until after Lewis' funeral. Halley declared Friday that most of the convicts expressed regrets when they learned that Warden Lewis had died. One life-termer said: " "There was never a more hind or efficient warden of the Ore gon prison than Jim Lewis. Halley said this convict had been an Inmate of the prison for mere than 25 years. Ship Rams Bridge In Portland Port . PORTLAND, Ore., Oct, 2i.i A ship rammed a bridge asd a. fire threatened the Irving dock section of the Portland water front today. "The Norwegian motoiri!? Hoegh Carrier, apparently f allies to answer her rudder as she at tempted to go under the Steel bridge draw, rammed a tower up right. The bridge was closed to automobile traffic and trains were rerouted. The ship sustained little damage.' Firemen fought the Irving dock lire for six hours. Fire Investiga tor J. E. Brooks and WTilllam Goers estimated the damage at 825.000 -