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VC Mickey Mouse Is baring plenty of trou ble with s gang of bank rob bers. Read how It all cornea out on The Statesman's eomic page, - The Weather Rain today and Friday, little change In tempera tore. Max. Temp. Wednes day 55, lin. 44. River -1.5 feet. South wind. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Saltm, Oregon, Thursday Morning, December 1, 1938 Priet Se; Newsstands 5 No. 213 of trike LDw smaLsmini .ar w ssa - m -. i i i i m a -w m. i a -v'l a a a m a a m . m . Ra A T III III llll II II 1 1 I I I 1 I i. - - '.JCZiSiSXi I "V I I VN 111 rs www w i i r i iumn sn in um PouNDno 1651 Mots Foil Airport Imp County-Stays Barely Inside Relief Budget Re-examination of Cases Ordered; Case Load to ' Rise in December State Share Heavier, : Is Trend; Quota in WPA Jobs Stationary By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Marion county will "make ends meet" in Its relief and social se curities services for 1938 but will hare no margin to spare, ex amination of its December 1 bal ance sheets showed yesterday. A combined balance of $15, 743.73 existed In the funds for general relief, old age assistance, aid to dependent chlldrenand blind assistance. Despite an incipient program of reviewing cases under these classifications to weed out per sons not absolutely eligible to receive aid, the county will be called on by the state relief com mittee to spend virtually all of its remaining money in these funds, County Commissioner Roy S. Melson predicted. December Case Load M ill Be Heavier The December case load will rise, Melson said, with the result that the $12,300.96 contributed by the county in November will be, exceeded this month. Any moderate deficit that may be in curred can be made up f om the $10,000 relief buffer fund cre ated by the budget committee a year ago. Melson pointed out. however, that when this appro priation was included in the 1939 , budget, it was set up on .the basis of the" $10,0 OP not being expended in 1938, but rather carried over as a surplus tor next year's use. The . county court Is worried over the growth of its relief and social security demands in 1939 because applications for public assistance are steadily increasing in number, according to Melson, while it has been found possible to budget not to exceed $4000 more for 1939 than was budget ed for 1938. State - Takes Heavier fchare of Relief Cost Marion county has kept its relief and social security budget ' in balance only through . steady shift to the state relief commit tee of monthly relief costs. Un til last June the state and coun ties shared in general relief costs on a 50-50 basis. The- shift began when Mult nomah and -a few other counties leported their resources - dwind ling to a point below that at which, they could continue to as sume 50 per cent of the general relief costs and still pay their shares, prescribed by law, of the social security programs. To be fair with counties that had made more adequate provision for re lief in their budgets, . the . state committee based its allowances to them on the same ratio to aid given the less fortunate counties. .- - - - - Changed to a 60-40 ratio in mid-summer, the state's contri butions were raised at intervals until last month they were on approximately a 75-25 basis. It the ratio, is increased farther this month.. Marion county "may keep within its budget without resorting to -me iiv.uuw puner fund.- Review of Relief , Cases Is Ordered Seriousness of the relief sit nation was Indicated in a letter received by. the county court yes terday from Elmer Goudy, state relief administrator. Goudy or dered all relief.-and "social se curity cases reinvestigated, ad vised that relief given employ able persons hereafter should be on a temporary, emergency basis only and directed that no new cases ' of old age,- blind or de pendent - children assistance be approved for . monthly payments unless - additional funds were ' made available. The order." as to employables presented ' the court with a crit ical problem at this time because the -district WPA office here has been put on a quota basis, lim ited to employment of 1951 men and women, the number actually , working as of November 1. As a result many . employable per eons whom the county relief com mittee has certified to tne m will not receive Job assignments. Portland Store First . To Sign Clerk Contract PORTLAND, Nov. 30-;P)-Rob- erts Brothers became tne um Portland department store today to sign a union shop agreement with the AFL retail clerks. The contract, affecting about 17.5 em- Dloyes. established a $15 mini mum weekly and -a $150. maxi mum monthly wage and granted ; a week's vacation with pay. HEROINE, SURVIVORS OF AIR -r V i ' v ' M j 1 S& i-rr ; . " M V) ) A2A w i I rims - J -k ol j V " -i-l I it' J : r" ylT yy L I c ' s J ' - ' '-'v -. y ( xl V'V vV '- M . : i, 1 . v 3 aMMtrtaaMMaMaaii-. r rtffl 1111 1 flfTfl I IflTf 'l irrTiri -""T ' " " No Property Tax For States Uses Income Revenue Estimate Is Deemed Sufficient; Aids County Plans Oregon will not levy a proper ty tax for general state purposes in 1939, the state tax commis sion announced here yesterday. With income tax revenues es timated at $5,351,486.83, this source will be sufficient to cover special levies of $1,250,186.01 for higher education and irriga tion district : bond debt and the state levy of $4,101,725.06 with in the six per cent limitation. The two-mill elementary school tax will amount to $1,801,442 This money Is retained by coun ties in which it is collected. Elimination of the state tax automatically cut $25,000 from the Marion county budget for (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Smelt Converge At River's Mouth ASTORIA, Ore., Nov. SOip)- Sea gulls hovering over the Co lumbia river near Ilwaco, .Wash., revealed to fishermen today a massing of smelt for their an nual run upstream. Fishermen netted 650 pounds Monday after their presence in the river was discovered when a netted sturgeon was found full of the fish. . FR Scans Congress Issue f Mdhoney Is WARM SPRINGS Oa., Nov. 3ff -jp)-PresldentRoosevelt revert ed to vacation routine today while he gave preliminary thought to the broad principles of his new T congressional pro gram expected to be discussed here tomorrow -with- Speaker Bankhead. . - ' Except for .Willis Mahoney, democrat recently . defeated . by Rufus Hoi man, republican,- for the senate In Oregon, who called on an vnnamed mission', the president saw ho callers today. . : While congressional leaders have been reluctant to forecast specific recommendations" in the presideat's message, pre-congress discussion has. made It apparent the congress . wlU be asked by the administration to:" ; ; 1. Enact record-b r e a k I n g peace-time defense measures call ing for Increases in army and navy plane strength, and fleet, coast and field fighting arms.': ' 2. Pass new tax legislaUon restoring In some . degree the rovementTby ArmwMinted .MMwywwrjii i. um mi ii , I Upper left, Stewardess Frona Clay, formerly of The Dalles .one of the victims of the airplane crash at Point Reyes, Calif., Tuesday. She made valiant efforts to save passengers before being swept to her death. Below, Captain Charles Stead; right, Isadore R. Edelstein being removed frbm the nearby cliff after he and Captain Stead, only survivors, were rescued. OX photo. Ghost Beams, Blamed in Science Backs up Theory on Plane's Radio Blotting out Beam Which Pilot Needed as Guide to Oakland SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. (AP) A radio "ghost wave" and a barrage of sunspot energy possibly played sin ister parts, scientists said tonight, in the loss of an airliner and five of Its seven occupants in the Pacific yesterday morn ing. Following up the report of United Air Line officials that Four Are Injured As Train Derails OROVILLE, Calif.. Nov. 30-() -Four men were Injured when the locomotive, baggage and mail cars of a Western Pacific passen ger train were derailed and over turned a mile south of Orovllle at 5:15 p. m. today. Two of the injured were train men. The other two were mail clerks. ; Fifty seven passengers escaped without apparent injury. ' The train was the road's Scenic Lim ited No. 2, bound from San Fran cisco to Salt Lake City. : : The most seriously hurt- was Fireman A. E. Sanford of Oro ville, who lost one of his legs. Wif e'g Slayer Executed ', .-' . ft- COLUMBUS, O., Nov.' 30-UP)-Fred Mosley, 47-year-old, Knox county farmer, died in the elec tric chair at Ohio penitentiary tonight for the . slaying of , his wife, Philla. 44. .i.. ... cats made in . undistributed cor poration profits apd capital gains levies made over Mr. Roosevelt's protest by the last congress; re- enacting -some of - tne expiring nuisance taxes, and taxing the income f state employes' sal aries and future' Issue oi bonds now In the tax-exempt class. 3. Continue the present AAA crop ; control act with some - pos sible changes In financing. : . 4. -Amend the social security act to' Increase some benefits and extend others to . social service and other workers not now cov ered " l '' ;.- ... , . .-Possibly revise the neu trality act to give the president greater, discretionary authority in invoking embargoes. -, r 6. Pass railroad rehabilita tion legislation, recommendaUons for which are now being framed by s committee of three railroad and i three rail labor officials named by the president. ' 7. Appropriate ' another large budget for reUet and allied ac tivities. " -;. ... TRAGEDY Sunspots Fatal Crash of "too Good" Reception Oradio reception was too gooa, causing Veteran Pilot Charles B. Stead to become confused over a strange multiplicity of signals, ra dio engineers said there were plenty of technical consfderations to support the unusual theory. The big ship ran into squally weather and off its course en route to Oakland from Medford. Ore. Pilot Stead ran out of fuel while groping to get back on bis course and landed neatly at sea near Point Reyes, 35 miles short of its goal. All hands climbed out on the wings and five of them drowned when . the heavy" surf dashed the craft against the rocky shore. While civil aeronautics author ity officials arrived to begin an official investigation, Dr. L. E. (Turn. to Page 2, Col. 3) November Wetter Than 1937 Month Last month set no rainfall re cords, with its 4.28 inches of precipitation, despite the fact it brought 8.3 times as much rain as fell in Salem in November, 1936, whose . 51 Inches was the least on record. The month's to tal was 1.9 Inches below the mean averager Heaviest rains of the month oc curred early, with .54 inch on the first, 1.04 on the third, .4$ on the fourth, .44 - on the ninth, .55 on the 10th and .41 on the 17th Only 11 days passed without pre cipitation being recorded. "... The heaviest November . rain fall on record, 16.59 Inches, oc curred in 186, . with 1897 at 11.67 inches and last year at 11.13. Tough Customer In Klamath Jail 4 KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Nov. 3 0 (jP)-Fred Roybal, 30, was sent to the hospital after Dr. George Adler .sald be slashed, bis wrists and throat with a razor blade. then swallowed the blade. The next thing hospital atten dants saw was Roybal trudging down a corridor dragging after him his bed to which he had been chained. They called police. Roy bal is in Jail now. f Large Outlays Held Probable At Local Field 18 Additional Acres of Land Held Necessary to Meet Standard Half Million Expense to Government Is Seen if Choice Made Possibility that Salem's muni cipal airport may be converted in to a secondary army flying field, entailing a half million dollars worth of development, was divul ged here yesterday. Army Engineer Paul Morris, representing the office of Arthur Ayers, airport engineer in charge of this region, San Francisco, re cently made a detailed survey of the local airport. While making his Intensive sur rey, with the assistance of the Sa lem city engineering department and WPA engineers from the local office, Morris let drop the infor mation that he had specific orders for all possible information on the Salem airport. While Morris was collecting like data from all airports of this sec tor, he made it known to local of ficials that the army engineering division was particularly interest ed In the Salem port. Designation by -Congress Likely It is believed here that should the army engineer's report be fa vorable, the United States con gress may, when it convenes desig nate the Salem port as one of those expected to be chosen for the derelopment of the army air corps under the newly adopted national aexense program, i - Morris told local officials the city would have to buy 18 addi tional acres to go with the present 240.Z2 . acres already owned, to bring the airport up to army stan dards. The $500,000 expenditure Mor ris estimated for the development- would Include a mile-long con crete runway, taxi aorons. air drome faciUtles, removal of a ditch now running through the airport grounds, placing of all power lines on or adjacent to the airport under ground and various other Improvements. Building Permits Gain in November Values Exceed Those for Same Month' in 1937, Number Smaller Despite a low issue of but 66 building permits last month as compared to the 74 issued in No vember, 1937, last month's total valuation of $38,965 was three times greater than that of the $12,772 valuation placed on No vember, 1937,'s building activity in Salem. New dwelling . permits last month totaled 10, with a $30,050 valuation, as compared to the 1937. November figure of nine new dwellings totaling $6519 in vorth. Twenty-four permits for new construction were Issued last month, valuing in the aggregate $31,325. In Nov., 1937, 18 new construction permits totaled $7449. . Repair permits last month were 42 for $7640. The 56 re pair permits Issued In Nov. of 1937 totaled but, $5323. Yesterday's Issue included 'per mits to: R. M. Lockenour, to re- roof and repair a- dwelling at 1810 Waller, $100; and C. W Giles, to erect a 1H -story dwell ing and garage at 530 North 22d, $1000. Stock Shipments To Yards Stopped CHICAGO. N o v. 30-P)-RIl roads placed an embargo on ship ments of livestock to the strike bound market at the Chicago stock yards today. ' The action was announced by E. L. Kemp, representative of the rail lines at the yards, at the end of the 10 th day of a dispute that has baited normal operations at the trade center. The embargo was requested by the commission men through their organization, the Chicago live stock, exchange. The commission men, who have been forced to feed and water the stock shipped here by country clients, have urged producers to withhold ship ments until striking CIO handlers and the Union Stock Yards com pany compose their differences. . Glaser Guilty But Glemency Urged by Jury Sentencing of Trio Set Friday; Prosecution and Jury Praised 20-Year Sentence Faced by Voss and Johanna Hofmann, Belief NEW YORK, Nov. 30-)-Ger- man-born Erich Glaser, 28, a for mer US arnry air corps private was convicted late today with a recommendation for clemency of conspiracy to steal American military secrets. The same fed eral court jury convicted two other German spies last midnight without recommendation. Those facing the possible maxi mum of 20 years in prison under the US code concerning espionage are Johanna Hofmann, 26, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, and Otto Hermann Voss, 39, a former airplane mechanic. Sentencing will be at 2 p. m. Friday by Federal Judge John C. Knox. After Glaser's belated convic tion the judge praised the govern ment's prosecution staff for hav ing had "the courage to divulge what it ad learned." Judge Knox also praised the jury, which convicted Frauleln Hofmann and Voss after only 4 hours, 25 minutes of deliberation on seven weeks of trial testimony and resumed Glaser's case this morning. Glaser was accused of supplying the army's "Z-signal" code for airplanes approaching a landing field to Guenther Gustav Rum rich, US army deserter, who plead ed guilty, testified for the govern ment and now also awaits sent ence. Wage-Hour Chief Asks Compliance Avoidance Will Result in More Drastic Law Is Andrews' Warning PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 30-6P) Administrator. Elmer F. Andrews told more than 1000 employers and workers today that circum vention of the wage' and hour act may have a boomerang effect.' The soft-spoken, administrator told" an audience made up primar ily of lumbermen that "one of the objectives of congress was to put more people back to work by lim iting the work week, and if this expectation is defeated by what ever means there may be a de mand for more drastic measures." He asserted business was get ting better "all around. "This is a chance to put more men to work," he said. "If this chance Is not taken, if the extra work Is consumed by longer hours (Turjx to Page 2, Col. 2) Husband Suicide After Killing 2 BOSTON, Not. 30-WVAfter failing to effect a reconciliation with his wife, John St. Angelo, 35, of Providence, today killed the young woman and her moth er, wounded two others and then ended his own life with the last bullet in his still smoking pistol Acting Superintendent of Po lice John M. Anderson said St Angelo first shot his wife, Flor ence, 28, then killed his mother- in-law, Mrs. Carmella Conte, 65, when she sought to intervene. His other victims also were shot, Anderson said, when they attempted to interfere. Profit Sharing Says John Lewis at Hearing WASHINGTON, Nov. 30-(-l John L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO, called profit-sharing pro grams a "snare and a delusion'; today 'when he testified before the senate committee studying the use and ' possible extension of such systems in American in dustry. Labor, Lewis said, does not like them because they have been put forward too frequently as a substitute for . genuine- coUective bargaining. The workingman, the witness added, ; wants his pay each week 1 without "waiting for it, and resents "paternalistic gen-' eroity.V'-.- --' V- Beyond that, the bushy-haired union executive said: -. "The perfect system - of profit sharing would not-avail the man who is going to be displaced next month. Production Is com ing - back, but we , are not . re employing men in the old ratio and we won't.! Today, he continued, there are still ' as many unemployed as I 1933. rafter all these years of Disorder Reported In Eight Cities as Daladier Wins out Several Injured; Parliament's Okch on "Economic IMobilization" Plan Is now Sought by Premier Labor Leader Virtually Concedes Hig Cause Lost; Military Orders Used to Counteract Strike Move PARIS, Nov. 30 (AP) Labor disorders broke out in eight French cities tonight after Premier Edouard Daladier , had smashed a nation-wide general strike with the threat of armed force and by military law. , At Toulouse three police inspeptors and the mayor of the city were injured in clashes between strikers and police. Large groups of workers paraded through the main streets of the city, smashing windows of stores and auto mobiles. Mobile guards charged the restoring order. At Clermont -Ferrand groups of strikers smashed store m Tai . i liny r lane Makes Continental Hon Load Heavier Than Ship; Johnny Jones Arrives With Fuel to Spare NEW YORK, Nov. 30-(jP)- Curly-haired Johnny Jones, for mer Broadway "hoofer," com pleted in 30 hours, 47 minutes to day the first non-stop transcon tinental flight in the lightest air plane made. The 25-year-old Van Nuys, Calif., airplane salesman landed his 800-pound one-seater at Roo sevelt -4elY-dt 1:1? p. m. (PPT) with no apologies for flying the 2,785 miles the right, way. He did admit to one miscalcu lation. "I couldn't find Roosevelt field at first." he said. Nearing the city, Jones said he swooped down over Bendix air port In New Jersey and dropped a note asking the location of Roosevelt field. They sent up a plana and he was escorted the last few miles. Jones had loaded his plane : about one-third the size of Doug las Corrigan's plane with 146 gallons of fuel and had enough when he landed to fly another four hours. It carried a load of about 1,000 pounds, making ; the gross weight . a . . ' Storm Hampering Coastal Shipping MARSHFIELD, 'Ore., Nov. 30 -(P)-Small craft hovered along the Oregon coast today awaiting favorable crossing weather to reach safe harbors and one large freighter left the Columbia river without being able to drop its Pilot. . Captain Michael Nolan was a reluctant passenger aboard the Norwegian motorship Margarethe Bakke enroute to San Francisco. After taking the - Bakke, only ship to brave the bar's swells and a' 50-mile gale, out of the river, the pilot schooner was un able to go out to pick Nolan up. The crab fishing boat New Riv er, reported in distress last night, was located four miles off Coos Bay. The craft, operated by V. H. Rapp of Winchester Bay, was not In need of assistance and a shore party -and the coast guard boat Pulaski withdrew :. from a search. ' . Is Delusion experimentation." ... 'There is only one answer, and that is to give the adult popula tion willing to work a share in the work remaining to be done." Another witness was F. J. Moss, president; of tne American Sash and Door company of Kan sas City, Mo., who said that, be tween 1931 and 1936 corpor ations paid $18,000,000,000 in taxes against 'net profits of only $9,000,000,000. rrhe net result of this," he added, "was the confiscation of $9,000,000,000 of capital. And all the time business was being lambasted from all sides.' ' - His firm, he said, had had profit sharing system since 1919 but for the last nine years there had been no profits to share. His plan is that six per cent of net profits be set aside to cover the risks which capital runs and the remainder .be divided, between stockholders and labor in : pro portion to the relation each bears to the cost of running the buai- , nesa. . -... crowd several times before windows and attempted to 6eize the general commanding troops tuarding the city. He brandished his revolver and escaped in an automobile. The disorders broke out as workers left their jobs after en forced working hours. The general strike, by which organized labor sought to tie up France for one day "in protest against the government's econom ic program, was the first big chal lenge to Daladier's' regime. This disposed of, the premier turned to a campaign for parlia mentary approval of his decrees which imposed new taxes and sus pended the 40-hour week. "Economic mobilization" was decreed in the "national inter est," the -government Baid in ex planation of its 19 39 budget de mands The full text of an ex planatory note was made public today. "During the whole (three-year) plan," the note said, "the French must understand they are in a state of economic mobilization." Daladier broadcast his thanks to French workers tonight for disregarding the general strike order. Renewa of Respect For Law Is Hailed He said today would remaia. -"an historic date" in French his tory because it was marked by a renewal of "respect for law and respect fpr order" throughout the nation. . He declared the general strike order had met "total defeat" and emphasised his government would continue its efforts to Improve tho national position aomesiicauy as well as internationally. The 24-hour strike call was met head-on by gruff, tight-lipped Daladier. Within a few hours the movement had crumpled andt there were only isolated partial strikes in some private industries, dock workers' strikes in some ports and a few street car strikes. Thousands of public service workers were requisitioned under their military service obligations ' to continue at their appointed posts. Mobile guards, police and in many cases army units super vised industry and services. Few requisitioned- workers chose to risk the drastic military - punish- . . JE..V.J1. 1 Leon Jouhaux, heavy-jo'wied. tuft-bearded leader of the General Confederation of Labor, issued an ImpUed concession of defeat. Par liamentary supporters of Dala dier called it a labor fiasco and a great triumph for the premier. There was little disorder. About 500 arrests were made in Paris and several dozen elsewhere is France. Building Permits Soar at Portland PORTLAND, Nov. 3 0-(-N-vember -construction, boosted by . a sharp increase In the number ef dwellings, was estimated at $30 560 today compared with $99. 549 a year ago. For the Bame period Portland bank clearings declined from $130,162,684 to $123,345. 9$5. To date clearings were f 1, 344,260,140 compared with $1. 523,911,099 in 1937. j Mora days to BUY and USE CHRISTMAS SEALS " PROTECT YOUR HOME . They teach that prevention ef tubes euleels la better than cure. 21