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Women's Pages On its society pages The Statesman carries tested re cipes and valuable house bold hints, as well as com' plete news of the social world, i - POUNDBD 1651 The Weather Unsettled with rain today and Monday. Moderate tem peratures. Max. temp. Sat urday 33, min. 44. RlTer 7.8 feet. South winds. fclGHTY-ElGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, December 4, 1938 Prict Sc; Newsstands 5e No. 216 suieiin s - i 1 - Fatland Sure To Get House Speaker Post Lonergan Announces He's out of Race; Duncan Leads Senate Relief Problem Largest ' Facing 1939 Session of . Legislature By RALPH C. CURTIS ."Personal and political prob lems of .the 1939 legislative ses sion were gotten out of the way far in advance of the convening date, January 9, thus making it possible for members to turn their attention to the more substantial matter of legislation. Members of the house have even been assigned seats and that in cludes the speaker's seat. If there remained any doubt during the past week that the rostrum in the new hall of representatives would . tie occupied by Ernest Fatland of Condon, it was removed Saturday when Frank J. Lonergan of Port land announced his withdrawal in Fatland's favor. This was preced ed by a checkup on Lonergan'a part, in which he confirmed Fat land's claims of majority support. Duncan Conceded Senate Presidency Since Senator Robert M. Dun can of Burns has been conceded the senate presidency, the major pre-session issues are out of the way but It would be erroneous to presume that all the pre-ses-,-Eion jockeying has ended. There . are committee assignments to be parceled out, with the more at tractive chairmanships in the house going to Ffitland's original backers and to the rival candi dates who obligingly stepped aside for him. There is less of this sort of thing in the senate 'because of its more permanent personnel. But'1 the members of both houses are ' being canvassed aggressively by candidates for Important clerk ships and jobs on down to that of page and messengei. The rush for these jobs Is all the, more hectic because republicans are in posi tion to obtain them after an eight year famine in so far as the lower bouse is concerned. ' There is no outstanding exter nal reason why the 1939 session should be more "tax-minded" than those that have immediately pre ceded It finance has been a "crit ical" problem for a decade but events are shaping in that direc tion. For one thing, the Interim committee studying taxation prob lems wiU make its report and gain a considerable share of the spot light, and the tax commission's recommendations will also receive close attention. This latter body revealed Saturday that it was studying a' method of consolidat ing the personal income, intangi bles and corporate excise tax laws with a view to closing loop holes, eliminating abuses and simplify ing administration. There is no indication that the interim committee will have any radical financial innovations to propose, but some may be forth coming; even though the session will be minus the Inimitable serv ices of O. Henry Oleen. . 5 And then there are the prob lems of relief and old age assist ance. As for the latter, the 1937 session cut the age limit down to C5 and there are only two liberal izlng proposals still possible. One would raise the minimum of old age assistance to 130, which is now the maximum, and the other would eliminate the non-existent "pauper's oath in so far as the federal law makes that possible, Botha of . these proposals will be made, the legislature may be in a mood to glance often at its hole card. --... - " Pressure Strong ' For Relief Increases . There is going to be tremendous pressure to open the state relief commltte's purse ripper a great deal wider. Multnomah county county has been getting its1 relief problem Into the headlines and the fact that it's becoming & "hard winter" is not the only reason. Commissioner Frank Shull of Multnomah declared Saturday that while his county has 4000 persons on relief who will be getting noth ing beyond food allowances - nothing for rent, fuel and light bills In a couple of months, the state committee ' has 11,500,000 appropriated two years-ago and another half million In sight from liquor funds, but that .these avail able funds are' not being disbursed because Governor Martin wants to leave office "and show a nice bal ance." .". - , Multnomah doesn't want to make this a lone - fight and so, though it doesnV wish anybody bad luck, welcomes reports of similar difficulty elsewhere,, as in Yamhill county. As a matter of fact the state committee Is now bearing 75 per cent of the state wide relief load, because of the . difficulty In Multnomah and a few other counties and carrying the same percentage in all the other . counties. : I Continued on page .1, column I ) Popiui c?4, " attion Estima etii a 32,039 Britain poking France Berlin Order Bans Semites From Streets New Restrictions Place Jews in Dark Ages of Ghetto Edict Forbids Issuance of Drivers' Licenses to Non-Arvans BERLIN, Dec. 3--Berlin of ficially restricted Jews today with en approach to ghetto conditions. The capital's police chief. Count Wolf Hendrlck von Hell dorf, gave the signal for inaug uration of a Eystem of banned streets, forbidden areas and re stricted living quarters for Ger man Jews which undoubtedly will be followed by other cities. Propaganda Minister Paul Jo seph Goebbels on Nov. 15, five days after the current anti-semi-tic drive started, had pledged there would be no ghetto for Ger man Jews but newspaper head lines observed: "No ghetto but sharpest division." Right to Drive Autos Denied A decree by the chief of all German police, Heinrich Himm ler, withdrew drivers' licenses and automobile and motorcycle permits Immediately from all German Jews. i His order asserted the assass ination of Ernst Vom Rath, sec retary in the German embassy in Paris, by the young Polish Jew 1 Herschel Grynszpan, showed Jews 1 were "undependable and unsuit- ed to keeping or " driving motor ized vehicles." DNB, official news agency, commented "this preventive mea sure against Jewish arrogance gives an expression of the healthy sense of justice of the Geiman people." Public Buildings Made Taboo After Monday, Jews except those of foreign nationality can not enter government buildings in the, Wilhelmstrasse without special permit, nor visit such places as the memorial to the un known soldier, museums, operas, athletic grounds. Window shopping, even, along Kurfuerstendamm, Unter Den Linden, Leipziegerstrasse, Fried richstrasse, the main shopping streets, may soon be forbidden Jews, DNB said. Other represent ative avenues like Tauentzien strasse which once were lined with exclusive, Jewish - owned shope, will be barred to Jews. Jews Barred From Movies , They may not attend the movies or theatres. To enter a forbidden area may mean a 60 fine or six weeks in jail. Helldorf said, "Jews living in or next to the main streets and representative boulevards must expect that in the immediate fu ture the Jewish ban will be ex tended also to these . streets." He further suggested Jews find rooms in central and north-side streets, already inhabited mostly by Jews. He named Kuenz, Linien and Grenadier streets particular ly. To Berlin residents t h e s e names- connote cheap liquor houses, criminals' hideouts, taw dry pawnshops, second hand clothing stores and sqralid tene ments of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. They He in the section known as the "Scheun envlertel" a quarter of squalor and riff-raff. ecretary Asks Forceful Action VISCOUNT HALIFAX Normandie Laid up To Break Walkout 5000 Marine Workers out by Decree as French , Fight Strikes PARIS, Dec. 3-jip)-The "rench government tonight laid Up the liner Normandie and discharged its 3,000. crewmen and other em ployes in a move to break a strike of about 5,000 maritime workers at Le Havre. Louis De Chappedelaine, min ister of merchant marine, order ed discharge of the crew mem bers who engaged in a sympathy strike with 60 of their fellow workers discharged for joining Wednesday's unsuccessful gener al strike. .The government earlier rsqul sitioned the workers, placing them under military control. This drastic step failed to budge the strikers. Two thousand other crewmen of the liners Paris and II de France, which like the Norman die are operated by the "French line. Joined the strike. These workers, 'however, were on leave from their vessels which we 3 being reconditioned. French line officials said the Normandie's operations were sus pended only temporarily while the government sought to arbitrate. Tuxedo Marauder Is Still at Work A burglar, thought by city po lice to be the Bam e who recently relieved one home of a diamond stickpin and tuxedo, and who has kept city officers on the run with similar maraudings over a period of two weeks, entered four more Salem homes last night but took nothing. Homes entered last . night, through back bedroom windows as in each of the previous cases, were: the O. C. McDowel resi dence, 942 D street; a home at 700 Warner; the F. P. Talking ton home at 40 Center; and the Fern Pfohl residence at 700 Stew Hardison Pleads Guilty of Charge PORTLAND, Dec. 3--Hln-ton C. Hardison, a 22-year-old CCC enrollee, pleaded guilty in federal court today to a charge of using the malls in an attempt to extort $10,000 from the mother of Shir ley Temple, juvenile screen star. Federal Judges James A. Fee granted his request that sentence not be passed until Friday, De cember 16. General Motors Demands End Of Walkout at Fisher Plant DETROIT, Dec. 3-P)-Generai Motors Corp. sent a "demand" to the CIO United Automobile Work ers tonight for immediate cancel lation of a strike In Fisher Body plant No. 1 at Flint, Mich., as serting the union had violated Its agreement with the corporation by authorizing the walkout. Failure to obtain an early set tlement of the strike might cause 20,000 General Motors workers to be idle next week. The cancellation demand was contained in a telegram sent by C. E. .Wilson, General Motors vice-president, to Homer Martin, international president of the UAW, f ewhours after Martin had . announced the strike was "duly authorized" and denied that It violated the UAW-GM agreement.'"'- "!.;;.V! The . United States department of labor, announced at - Washing ton that James F. Dewey, its ace media tor,-Jiad been sent to Michi gan to seek a settlement of the dispute. A UAW sit-down strike in the Nash-Kelvlnator Corp. plant at Kenosha, Wis., which closed other plants in Racine, Wis.,' and Mil waukee, apparently was settled during the day as the union re pudiated the strike and voted to return to work Monday. The com pany agreed to rescind its order discharging 300 men who partici pated in the demonstration upon the assurance of the UAW- local that members responsible for the strike would be penalized. The sitdowners demanded an increase in the piece-work rate. - ' Striking workmen at the Chrys ler corporation plant at New Castle, InL. will return to their jobs Monday as the result of ne gotiations which ended when Union Automobile Workers" union leaders agreed to prevent eviction of unaffiliated factory employes. Italy's Claims To Tunis Are Blow to Peace Viscount Halifax Orders Strong Actions Taken by Diplomats Drive to Block Fascist Demands May Derail Premier's Visit LONDON, Dec. -0P)-Great Britain backed France today by deciding on diplomatic action to block Italian designs on Tunisia, French African protectorate. ; The fascist challenge to French control of Tunisia has threatened to deliver a final blow to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlaina European appeasement policy, al ready weakened by Germany's anti-Semitic campaign. Halifax Orders Strong Notes The Tunisian development led Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali fax to order immediate strong representations at the Italian foreign office. With vital English and French strategic interests In the Medi terranean involved, Lord Halifax, reliable quarters said, ordered Britain's ambassador to Rome, the Earl of Perth, to take a "firm stand" against Italy's lat est anti-French drive. This drive threatened to wreck Chamberlain's projected visit to Rome. Fist anonunced Monday, the trip was set today for Jan uary 11 to 14. The foreign of fice announced the date, how ever, amid conjecture that "ham berlain might not go at all. There were some who felt the fast-changing - European scene might yet shift enough to force a reconsideration of the visit. Lord Halifax is to accompany the prime minister. Britain Decides To Back France Britain decided on the Rome representations to reinforce the request of the French ambassa dor ' in Rome, Andre Francois Poncet, for an explanation of the Italian clamor over Tunisia. The - foreign office had been Informed officially that France could not tolerate interference in Tunisia or any other terri tory. France meanwhile maintained a tight military and civilian grip on her north African protector ate. Only a month ago French army leaders traveled through Tunisia inspecting defenses and civil authorities have been rout ing out remnants of a secret ra tionalist organization which it was feared Italy might use to weaken French rule. Rome Contends It's Misunderstood Rome contended today that France misunderstood "the new Italy and its natural aspirations" and was using the fascist outcry for Tunisia to sabotage Chmber lain's good-will visit to . Rome. Count Ciano disavowed any of ficial responsibility for the Tu nisia demonstrations. Reliable observers In both London and Paris, however, saw Italy's anti-French drive as an integral part of the totalitarian post-Munich campaign to squeese more concessions out of the democracies. Stockyard Strike Seen Near Finish CHICAGO, Dec. Henry Johnson, assistant national direc tor of the packing house workers' organising committee, a CIO af filiate, announced tonight the 13-day-old Chicago stock yards strike was virtually ended. He said the bargaining commit tee of the union recommended that members of the stock han dlers' local No. B7- return to their jobs Sunday night and Mon day morning, agreeing to accept the written proposal submitted by the Union Stock Yards and Tran sit company: " Johnson added that members of the local .would vote on the pro posal at a meeting tomorrow. - Johnson said the members "in all probability1" will abide hy the committee's recommendation. McCarthy It Sentenced To Die by Cat Jan. 20 PORTLAND, Dec. 3-aVLeroy McCarthy, who killed gasoline station attendant, Floyd Fnelner, on August 10, 1937. in trying to escape after a robbery, was re sentenced today by Circuit Judge John Winter to death January 20 in Oregon's untried : lethal gas chamber. Sentenced more than a year ago eriginally, McCarthy ap pealed to the state supreme court but lost. SCHOOL BUS IMPALED ON TRAIN FENDER 6"" -- , - ' ' . . ' V ' ".V' r' s'SJ v . t . - ' "A . A . sr- f 4 - , v" f V f V: ' HI ll'11' i FiT- " n J !f . Shown above Is a view of the splintered remains ef the school bus in wlilch 23 persons met death at lonely Utah crossing when the bus pulled in front of a speeding freight train "irt"a" heavy1 snow storm. All but the driver of the bos, who was killed, were students at the Jordan high school. Ages ot victims ranged from 13 to 18. Nazi Bigwigs Ask For Relief Funds Street Collections Taken in Glare of Lights by Party Heads BERLIN, Dec. 3-(P)-.With tin cans, flags and brass bands and in the glare of bright lights, nazi chieftains took street collections today in the annual winter relief fund drive. It was an all-Aryan affair. Jews were told to stay home between noon and 8 p.m. on this "day of national solidarity.' , Famous Unter Den Linden was crowded from one end to the oth er with, curious . givers . and on lookers seeking a glimpse of pro paganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goerlng or. Foreign Min ister Joachim Von Ribbentrop who were given the favored places. -'. Brandenburg gate, at one end of Unter Den Linden, was closed to vehicular traffic as brass bands, decorated beer wagons, police and plain citizens swarmed into ' the broad thoroughfare.' J V Much of the collecting was done before the can-rattling was ' done in public The total contributions were expected to exceed those of last year,' when nearly 8,000,000 marks ($3,200,000) were taken In for Germany's needy. : ' Picket Law Faces Labor Crossfire ' PORTLAND, Dec. 3-(;p-Ore-gon's new.anti-picketlng law was between the fire ot the AFL and CIO today. : The CIO appeared ready to line up with the AFL in the fight to have the law invalidated, but AFL leaders, . with their program al ready well mapped and backed by the national organization, seemed little interested in CIO overtures. B. J. McCarty, Seattle, executive-secretary of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) said the west coast CIO officials and attorneys would meet Wed nesday to "bring about a program b: union and solidarity ot 1 all workers against the anti-labor i He said Harry Bridges, west coast CIO director,' Harold Prit chett, Vancouver, " BC, president of the IWA, would be among those attending.' ' . Indian Hurt at Albany " r When Hit by Automobile ALBANY. Ore., Dec. 3-UPV-Ike Washington, Silets Indian,.. suf fered fractures ot both legs when struck by a car here tonight, ;7 State Police ; Sargeant , Ernest Larios said the driver was Elton McDanleL McDaniel said the In dian. ran in front of the car, .. Holmaii to Confer With Martin Over Treasurer's Post THE DALLES, Dec. 3-(P)-Ru-fus Holman, state treasurer and US senator-elect, told the Eastern Oregon Wheat league today he would confer with Governor Mar tin in a "week or 10 days" as to his successor. Holman said he wanted to take "all proper steps" to see that a treasurer was named who would measure up to the state's needs. . He condemned the constant public d e bt. increase, declaring "they don't even talk about bal ancing the budget any more." Husband and Wife Dead After Fight KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 3-P) -A - husband and wife lay dead today, victims of what authorities were told was the climax of a Beries of bitter disputes. Coroner " George H. Alder said Joe N. Kersey, 60, apparently shot and killed. his wife, Clara, 42, and turned a rifle on himself, inflict ing a head wound, from which he died several hours later. - " Although no one saw the shoot ing, Mrs: Maude Jones, mother of Mrs. Kersey, said Kersey came home Friday night and got a rifle. She heard shots and ran outside to find her daughter dead in an automobile and Kersey dying on the ground. Mrs Jones asserted the couple had disagreed for some time al though they appeared friendly on Friday. The mother asserted Ker sey on several occasions had beat en his wife. Wife Slain After CI HP 1 a onoe lossea Awav Farmer Says Loss of His Shoe Made Him Become Murderously Mad, HARRISONBURG, Va., Dec. 3 (jf)-Commonwealth's Atton y D. Wampler Earman of Rocking ham county said Rosser Smith Morris, 59, was held on a charge of murder tonight after the ten aht farmer told a story of slaS ing his wife because he believed she threw away one of his shoes. Mrs. Morris, stabbed twice with a small knife at her' home near Elkton early Friday, died in a hospital here today. The prosecutor said Morris told him that on returning home. wearing boots, Thursday, - t h e Mk federal census ratios was fir it i . . . n . i . . . . ... farmer asked for his shoes. Only one could be- found and a child said Morris' wife had thrown he other away, Earman said Morris told him. After going . to bed, the Com monwealth's attorney quoted the f armer as saying, he got "madder and madder" and the next morn ing,, without speaking to her. struck his wife in the chest and back with ihe knife. lies Strike One Family Twice BRAWLEY, Calif., Dec. S-P) -Mrs. -Robert. Numar, Brawley widow, attended funeral services for her' 8-months-old baby. Re turning home, she found her 2-year-old son Johnny, enveloped in flames as the result of play ing with matches and a kero sene can. He was fatally burn !. 2000 Persons Witness Rites As Sally Clark Speaks Vows BOSTON, Dec. 3-(Jp)-As 2,000 persons half of them uninvit ed watched "an impressive cere mony, pretty Sally Poor Clark, sister of Mrs. John A. Roosevelt, and ' wealthy George X. McLana han, 21, of New York, were mar ried' today In fashionable ' Em manuel church. . The 18-year-old second daugh ter, of Mrs. F. Haven Clark, gowned in a flowing white vel vet dress, quietly pronounced her marital vows in the 20-minute. single ring. Episcopal ceremony. At its close, the bride and grodia knelt .for blessing, and then swept down the aisle to" the door. Mrs. Clark had invited 1,000 guests to the high-noon wedding. Also, she announced the door of the church would not be locked while her daughter was being wed and - approximately 1,000 more, men and women swarmed Into the building. As Mr; and Mrs. McLanahan left the church, .there was a brief swirl of confusion in which a spectator grabbed : the bouquet of one of ..the , bridesmaids. The newly-wedded couple, however, sped v away unharmed to a -ception at the home of Sally's aunt,' Mrs. Gedrge Clymer. a " They planned to leave by trln f or ' New York after, the r ::ep tion.. Thence they will r go to California and to Hawaii for a honeymoon. ' ' . ; The brtde's " elder sister, tl. e former Anne Clark, led the wed ding, procession at matron of honor.- Last June, when Anae and the. president's youngest son,' John, .were: married at I'a hant. : JSally : Clark was her sta ter's maid of honor. John Roose velt headed the ushers today. Annual Survey Indicates but 706 Increase Rate of Growth Declines From Pace of 1935-37, Estimate Shows Slackening of Migration,, Completion of Capitol Are Reasons By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Salem, population 32,039. The capital city of Oregon has attained that size, The Oregon Statesman's third annual popu lation survey indicated yester- day. The survey does not represent an exact count but the indices on which, it is based have been found to be reasonably accurate when compared with carefully made, independent estimates. The city's rate of growth de--clined noticeably in the last "12 months from the pace it set ia 1935-37 but could not be said to bo approaching a stopping point. Construction of new homes in creased In volume, the city's housing shortage continued and business expansions grew An number. Drouth Migration Is Slackening Slackening of, migration from drouth states to Oregon and com pletion of the state capitol and city school building programs, which brought many workmen and their families to Salem, prob ably account for the fact that ia 1938 the city's population in creased by only 2.25 per cent as . against 4.4 per cent in 1937. It was estimated at 31,333 a year ago. . The Statesman survey indi cated the city had gained 70C residents since November, 1937 5773 or 21.97 per cent since 1930 when the United States census bureau reported a popula tion of 26,26 for Salem. School Census Aids Estimate Principal bases for the popula tion estimate were, as in 19.3 and 1937, the city school census, the number of active water, ser vices and the number of elecfie. power connections. Two of thes decreased in rate of yearly gain; the rate of increase in the num ber of water services remained virtually unchanged. - " School population, which ia the 1910, 1920 and 1930 federal census years maintained a fairly close ratio to city population ia general, increased but 1.45 per cent in 1938, or from 8045 t- 8162 children between 4 and IS years of age. Inclusive. If this population followed the school census trend exactly, Fa-iT-lem today could be listed as a" city ot 32,628 inhabitants. This figure seems slightly high in view of the fact that by the 1910-20- 30 school to federal census ra tios combined, the city's popula tion would now be 31,701 per sons, Just 1 per cent below tbe number to which The Statesman survey points. Near-uniformity of the school pointed out by W. M. Hamilton, division manager for .the Fort- land , General Electric company. By the index of the 1930 to 193 increase in his company's ser vice connections, Salem's popu lation would be 32,350 today. Lowest estimate of population derived from the survey was 31,239 persons, indicated by ac tive city water services. The wa ter department added--197 ser vice connections during 1938. an increase of 2.67 per cent in com parison with 2.69 per cent '1 1937. Britain Transport Merger Predicted LONDON. Dec 4-(Sanday)-W) -The Sunday Chronicle said today Britain's rail, road and air trans port services would be coordi nated into one vast utility com pany. Sir John Reith, chairman of im perial airways, the newspaper said, would become head of the merger 'involving a capital of K.250.000.000. . - The Chronicle said one reasoa for the coordination was the gov ernment's campaign to bolster na tional defense and that another was to eliminate . price - cutting competition between railroad serv-' ices. , More days to BUY and USE CHRISTMAS SEALS . PROTECT V YOUR HOME They educate people about ymp) terns ef tuberculosis In erdtr thatVi medical aid majr be. sought early ? 18