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Mickey Mouse
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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