Hoop Parade ; la on and since all bas ketball .games are played at , night, the morning paper la always first with the results. WUNDDO 1651 The Weather . Cloudy today and Thurs day, considerable alley fogs. Xo change in temper atnre. Max, Temp. Tnesday 55, Mln. 4. RlTer 10.9 ft. South wind. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, December 7, 1938 Prict Sc; Newsstands 5c No. 28 ; it Pay-as-You-Co Plan Favored For Rearming . . .. i -; - ... -h ; ' ; President Hopes Policy C IVIay Not Necessitate Tax- Increase Will Not Link His Plans for Defense Increase With Recovery WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-iJP-A - pay-as-you-go p o I i cy for the forthcoming vast armaments pro gram was laid, down - today by President Roosevelt, but he indi cated a hope this might not ne cessitate and increase in the fed eral tax burden. He said, in answer to a question at a press conference, that he favored the pay-as-you-go policy even if it meant increased taxa tion, but qutekly added that be cause certain government expend itures are self-liquidating, the to tal tax revenue may not have to be increased. Tax Increases Slay JJe Avoided Stephen Early, presidential sec retary, said afterward that tax in creases for defense might be avoided through "budgetary ad justments." The president disclosed that when he makes his recommenda tions to congress to reinforce land, sea and air defenses, he will not link them with attempts to stimulate business , and employ ment through pump-priming. Na tional defense i3 national defense and nothing else, he commented crisply. The chief executive shed new light on his plans shortly after his return Trom a two week stay at Warm Springs, Ga. Earlier he had reviewed European develop ments with three of his key am bassadors and Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state. At the subsequent meeting with newsmen he gave no explanation of the subjects touched on. . , FDR Comments . ' At Length Tanned and smiling, Mr. Roose velt commented at length on the defense program. After declar ing t. ha t he did not know yet whether n attempt should be made to meet part of the cost by ' taxes, he added that it was a long and difficult subject, which was being studied. In some countries, he noted, expenditures were segregated into three classes, as follows: . 1. Governmental running ex penses. 2. Expenditrres for absolutely self-liquidating projects, such as Boulder dam. . 3. A type of expenditure which so Increases national income as to bring In a return of the money over a period of years. As a general thing, the presi dent reiterated, national defense is not self-liquidating. The chief executive appeared to take issue with some of his ad visers in expressing doubt that this country lags technically In development of defenses. Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war, and some other officials have stated recently that this country's preeminence in aviation is threatened. Daladier Wins Victory In 1st T' of Policy In Deo '' With Labor 5 18 Miners Killed In Train Tragedy Important Co 0 e of Finances Approves Plans by 26-13 Navy Crews Sail Aboard Liner Paris for New York PARIS, Dec 6 (AP) The Daladier government won a clear-cut victory over socialist and communist opposition today in the first parliamentary committee test of its firm policy in dealing with strikes. The important finance committee of the chamber of deputies voted approval, 26 to 18, of the government's fight O against the strikes, in which it has employed military requisition, discharge and arrest against the strikers. The vote, in which the radical socialists fellow members of the premier's party and the conser vative groups stood solidly behind the premier, was interpreted to mean he would have a firm ma jority when parliament convenes in full session Thursday. Reinforced by this political support, the government proceed ed relentlessly in Its drive to end strikes which arose in protest against Daladier'a decree laws in creasing taxation and extending the legal period of labor beyond the 4 0-hour week. Navy crews went aboard the liner Paris at Le Havre, replacing striking sailors. The navy men sailed the vessel out of the har bor tonight and will pick up pas sengers tomorrow at Cherbourg. Le Havre is the normal sailing port for the Paris. Plans were made to man other strike-bound vessels., similarly in the event this first sailing from the disrupted port failed to break the shipping strike. Work Train Breaks Loose, Crashes Into Wall a I Mile-a-Minutc SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Dec. 6 -(Canadian Press)-A string of 26 cars carrying 230 miners to work in a coal mine north of here were precipitated downgrade for a mile and a quarter today when the haulage cable snapped, and 18 of the men were killed. The train crashed into the shaft wall at a mile a minute speed. Thirty-one of the miners were in a hospital tonight with critical injuries and a score of others had minor hurts. The accident occurred in the Princess colliery of the Nova Sco tia Steel and Coal company at Sydney mines. When the train, called a "man rake," broke loose from the cable and began to move faster down the 10 per cent grade of the almost two mile long shaft some aboard leap ed to safety. , Others who leaped were hurt or killed. The shaft is only 11 feet in diameter, and' many who jumped from the plunging cars hit the walls and were thrown back un der the wheels of the train. Others were decapitated by the low, jagged roof of the shaft. There were many still in the cars when the train piled into a heap against r wall in its final crash. Rescue workers had dif ficulty extricating bodies from from the wreckage. Davey Turns Red When He's Lauded NEW YORK, Dec. 6-CP)-Little Davey O'Brien, the pigskin passer from Texas Christian university, who never gets flustered. on a football field, blushed furiously tonfght when he had to stand op before' a crowd of 1,200 New Yorkers .and receive the John Ileisman memorial award as "the outstanding football player of the year . The crowd of notables, ranging from Postmaster General James J. Farley and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia down to half-forgotten "old blues" who Used to play foot ball themselves, jsacked the gym nasium of the Downtown Athletic club for the dinner and presen tation. - The trophy was presented to O'Brien, by Walter P. Hol combe, club president. CIO Leaders Map Labor Law Fight PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. -(JF)- Most of the CIO's high-ranking Pacific coast officers were in or cn route' to Portland tonight to plan an attack on Oregon's anti picketing law. A CIO meeting -on the labor regulation measure will be held Wednesday. . , Among those scheduled td at tend were Harry Bridges, Harold rrltchett. CIO leaders of water front and lumber workers, re- fcpectively, Aubrey Grossman and Panl Coughlin, CIO attorneys. The American Federation of La bor had already started a cam paign to test the measure in Hitler Is Burglar To Mann Children PORTLAND, Dec. 6-(;P)-Erika and Dr. Klaus Mann, children of Thomas Mann, the distinguished author, could find little difference today between Adolf Hitler and a burglar. "You propose a 'treaty to a burglar that if he will go away you'll never call the police," said Miss Mann in an Interview, "but he returns and steals everything he can carry away that's Hitler." "Treaties with a burglar like Hitler amount to nothing," Dr. Mann remarked. "The moment things become serious everyone tries to do what he wants to do regardless of treaties." They predicted Hitler would attempt to take land from Russia, try to destroy, France and keep many' Jews in Germany as host ages. " Their father, who formerly lived at Munich, was forced to quit Germany. Body of Lost Hunter Located Near Neicport NEWPORT, Dec. 6-P)-T h e body of Edward Roberts, 55, was discovered in the woods ! alf a mile from Newport today by searchers. He had been missing since Saturday when he left on a hunt ing trip. The county coroner said his death was accidental. Gandhi Says Jews Should Sit Tight Hindu Leader Criticises Plan of Sending Jews to Palestine BOMBAY, Dec. 6-(iiP)-Mohan-das K. Gandhi, the Indian nation alist leader, said today that Ger man Jews should insist on staying in Germany and criticized the plan of making Palestine a na tional home for Jews. He wrote in his weekly news paper that "if ever there could be a justifiable war in the name of humanity, a war against Ger many to prevent the wanton per secution of a whole race would be completely justified " However, he added: "If I were a Jew and were born in Germany and earned my live lihood there, I would claim Ger many as my home, even as the taUest gentile may, and challenge him to shoot me or cast me Into a dungeon. I would refuse to be expelled or to submit to discrimi nating treatment ... "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English and it is wrong and inhuman to impose Jews on the Arabs." " Burglar Balances Books After Cash Fund 'Disbursed' PORTLAND, Dec. 6-ff)-Jlrs. J. p. Hamilton, Portland, treasurer of Roseway commun ity church, posted an entry of $18.70 in the church ledger, then placed ledger, the 18.70 and $36.50 of ber own money in a box. A burglar broke in later, took all the money and thoughtfully erased the entry. Bonneville Dam Line to Reach Salem in Year Ross Assistant Informs kJiLILiJ. 1L-1L JIVCiiiiVULQiLJiiL Jf. ; , . -; -", - o TED Italians Shout Demands Anew After Protest . ... .. . Blackshirts Demonstrate Meeting Here Project Crying "Tunisia and Engineers Busy Urges Support of Bills to Simplify Process.; of Districting Power from Bonneville dam generators will reach Salem within the next year under pres ent plans for transmission line construction, Frank Fitts, pub lic relations assistant to J. p. Ross, dam administrator, predict ed here last night. Project engineers are now on location in Marion county seek ing possible routes for the dou ble high tension line the Bonne ville administration has planned to serve the valley as far south as Eugene. The line, to consist' of two 110,000-volt circuits, proba tly will follow the Oregon Elec tric railway right of way except where the terrain does not per mit, Fitts said. Contracts For Line To Be Let Soon Coincident with Fitts an nouncement came a statement from Mr. Ross in Seattle last night that the Vancouver-Eugene transmission line would be in cluded among 26 contracts for work totaling $7,000,000 to be let within the next 60 days. Here to address a public meet ing called by the Hollywood Com munity club, Fitts told his audi ence at the Quelle that "to get Bonneville power you have got to own a distribution system." Pow er will be sold at wholesale only from the transmission lines. The rate as previously disclosed, he pointed out, will be $17.50 per kilowatt year. Urges Support Of New Bills Declaring that "there scarce ly a private power company In the United States that won't sell out if you offer them a fair price," Fitts urged his listeners to sup port bills to be Introduced in the coming legislature to simplify the procedure for creating public utility districts and to enable them to issue revenue securities in place of general obligation bonds. Administrator Ross favors pub lic districts' buying existing pri vate power distribution systems at a reasonable, fair price and such a price is only "a matter of horse trading," Fitts said. He maintained outright purchase of present facilities was preferable fto either condemnation or dupli cation. Fitts advised groups contem pliting forming a power district to consult with Administrator Ross staff In Portland "before you spend a lot of money." Weather Man Testifies Hop Of Crash Plane Was Unwise . OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 6-(P-A federal hearing into the forced ocean landing of a United Air Lines plane, resulting in death for five persons, received testimony today from a weather man that it was thought unwise for the plane to proceed on Its night flight from Medford, Ore. . W. E. May, airlines meteorolo gist at Oakland airport, said he saw a message from Thomas P. Van Sceiver, company dispatcher at the airport, advising, the Med ford agent that the flight should be held up there. The plane alighted on the ocean off Pt. Reyes, 3 5 miles northwest of; San Francisco before dawn Not. 29, after its fuel supply was exhausted. Capt. Charles Stead, pilot, and Isadore Edelstein, a pas senger, were the only survivors among four passengers and a crew of three. In a deposition submitted today to Fred Glass, chief examiner con ducting the hearing for the air safety board of the civil aeronau tics authority, ;Verne D. Steeves, junior meteorologist at the US weather office at Oakland airport, said both he and Van Sceiver thought the plane should halt at Medford. '' t " - ' . . However, Steves said that he later told Van Sceiver , that "the wind was not as strong at Sacra mento as at Oakland." Testimony showed, that Van Sceiver, after checking the weath er further, cleared the plane from Medford to Sacramento Instead of to Oakland where the wind, was strong. 1 .. ' , Max C. Henne, UAL station manager at Medford, testified that the plane's orgiinal flight schedule was from - Seattle via Portland, Medford and Sacramen to to Oakland, but at Medford, where the plane waited nearly an hour while the weather was checked, the ship was' cleared for Sacramento. Anna Hahn's Hope Of Escape Passes COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 6 - (JP) -Ohio's governor today blasted Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn's hope of escaping the electric chair tomor row night. "I have decided not to inter vene," Gov. Martin L. Davey an nounced. "There are no grounds upon which I could Intervene." "Oh, my God!" Mrs. Hahn ex claimed. "I didn't think he would do that to me." A ,few minutes later her 12-year-bld son Oscar came to her Ohio penitentiary cell to visit the convicted killer of Jacob Wagner, 78-year-old gardener. She embraced the boy and both cried. Preparations got under way in the prison for the first electrocu tion of a woman in Ohio's history. Wagner was one of four elder ly Germans blonde Mrs. Hahn was accused of killing for their money. Corsica" Fascist Party Chieftain Tells Crowd Italy to Go to Tunis ROME, Dec. 6 - (JP) - Fascists met French protests against their Tunisian claims today with noisy demonstrations In which they shouted their demands anew. Blackshirts and university stu dents marched through the streets of Rome, Genoa and Turin shout ing "Tunisia and Corsica for Italy." The count of Turin, cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele, became entangled in a Milan crowd which watched young fascists parading to the cry of "Tunisia." Recogniz ed and cheered by the crowd, he made a brief speech expressing sympathy with the demonstrators. Fascist Bigwig Eggs on Crowd In Rome, the demonstration reached its climax when provincial fascist party secretary Andrew Ippolito answered a crowd's cry of "Tunisia" by declaring: "There is no need of talking of Tunisia we will go there." Several hundred students agi tating In support of Italian claims to French-controlled territory, were turned back by police before they reached the French embassy ij. Rome. Regular infantry troops reinforced the police guard. In other cities French consul ates were the scenes of demon strations. Italian newspapers gave great prominence to Berlin declarations thet the Rome-Berlin axis remain ed as strong as steel despite Ger many's good neighbor agreement with France. Territory Which Italy Is Asking And France Determined to Retain Big German Plane Plummets in Bay MANILA, Dec. 6 - (JP) - Luck rode with six men aboard the big German Condor plane which sank in Manila bay today without loss of life after flying 1863 miles fiom Tokyo. Three of the plane's four mo tors failed after the craft was over the bay and it was brought down within 200 feet of shore near the village of Rosario, 20 miles from Manila, about 4 p. m. (3 a. m.. Eastern standard time). A broken gasoline line was blamed by Capt. Alfred Henke for the motor trouble. The Condor, once known as the "Brandenburg," made a round trip from Berlin to New York last August carrying four of the five crew men who were aboard on today's flight. Henke com manded on both voyages. The flight to Tokyo was to re turn the visit of a Japanese plane to Germany in April last year. Lady Socks Felon, Who Hurries Away FromThere Quick PORTLAND, Dec. -(JP)-To thugs won encounters on Portland streets but a third fled in terror when a woman socked him twice with "everything I bad." : Harry De Blasio, service sta 1 1 o n attendant, remarked "I've seen you somewhere before" when an unshaven stick-up man forced him to open a cash register. "Yoa have," the thug replied. "Well this will make yoa forget." He struck De Blasio with a re volver and knocked him uncon scions. A wallet and f 85 were gone when the operator revived. A purse-snatcher fractured Dor othy Ford's Jaw and ran away with $20. When a robber muttered "stick 'em up," Miss Elizabeth Lupfer began throwing punches. The man fled. Famous Reporter Marks 30 on Life WASHINGTON, Dec. , S-(JP)-The life story of Paul Y. Ander son as dramatic as any the noted reporter ever wrote ended today with coroner's verdict of "suicide by sleeping tablets." Anderson, 45, had been a Wash ington correspondent for, 15 years. He joined the Washington staff of the St. Louis Star-Times this year, after 24 years with the Post Dispatch. He had won the Pul itzer prize for his reporting and long was one of the highest paid newspaper men in Washington. He was found, unconscious, In his home here by a maid and died shortly after he was taken to a hospital early today. Friends said he was subject to periods of des pondency and that he had been depressed In recent "weeks. Anderson won wide renown for his accounts of senate investiga tions, but many of his greatest reportorial adventures concerned crime. Seek 'Personality' In State Scenery THE DALLES, Dec. -(,!P-Gre- gon and Washington will reap greater tourist . trade -" benefits from the San Francisco world's fair next year if they will provide "personality scenery" to match the northwest's natural' attractions, the - Mid-Columbia chamber - of commerce suggested today. Z The chamber, holding its an nual . meeting at the Columbia Gorge hotel tomorrow, will con sider resolutions asking the states to establish a nniformed guide service and continue the regularly distributed publicity material. - ZsrJsrri v . ."""".------- V --iiw M - y; : vv...v... :":.m..v--.'.-,v;.v.v,-.v. - v .' .v.. fcl Savoy, Corsica and Tunisia, depicted in black on the map, now held by France, are the disputed areas which Italy declares should be ceaea to her. Anti-Italian demonstrators in Tunisia and on the Island of Corsica impelled Premier Edonard Daladier of France to adopt rigid military precautions to preserve order. (UN) "Picketed" Padre Given Scio Offer Rev. Gloeggler of Scio Advises Former Pupil to Join Him VULCAN, Mich., Dec. 6.-(JP)- The Rev. Simon BorkowskI, be leaguered by friends who protest ed his transfer, was offered a place "for life" today at a former instructor's parish in Oregon. The Invitation arrived as a strike at the St. Barbara's Cath olic church entered its 17 th week. Pickets patrolled the rectory to prevent Father Simon's accepting a transfer to St. Jordan college, Menominee, Mich. The Rev. Ludger Gloeggler of Scio, Ore., who taught Father Si mon at Salvatoriam Seminary in Wisconsin, advised him to come to the west coast. The priest, however, said he would tell Fa ther Ludger the. same thing he had told his superiors that it was physically impossible for him to leave the parish house. The final admonition to report to the college was Issued Novem ber 21 and as a result. Father Si mon faced expulsion from the or der. . - Major Roads Open Throughout State PORTLAND, Dec. (JP)-AU ma jor Oregon highways were open today, at least one for the first time since last week's storms. Plows ! whisked off rain-softened snow from the McKenzie Pass between Eugene and Bend. The route was blocked Friday. Virtually all snow was gone from the Wapinitia cutoff. One way traffic was ordered around a slide on the coast highway south of Gold Beach. Charlton Winner In Police Exams Detective Gains Rating of Assistant Chief After Tests Carl E. Charlton was last night certified by the Salem civil serv ice as Salem's new assistant chief of police, the certlficatioa being to Police Chief Frank Minto, who is bound by the action to appoint Charlton to' the. new position. The position carries with it a salary of $1980 per year, set by the city council. . Charlton, plainclothes detec tive, was high both in the writ ten examination conducted last Friday and in the oral tests given last night by the commission wijh the assistance of Sgt. DatfE. Jewell of the Portland police ile rartment. Charlton scored an ag gregate of 93.25 points, 10 higher than the nearest of his eight com petitors. Officer George. Edwards. Appointed to the Salem police department in March, 1929, Charl ton lacks' four months of having served 10 years. Sgt. Jewell last, night came in for high commendation on the manner in which he conducted the examinations from Commissioners Brazier Small, Arthur H. Moore and A. A. Gneffroy. Priaulx Acquires Paper at Eugene EUGENE, Dec. 6-UP)-Bidding at a receiver's sale, Arthur Pri aulx, Chiloquin weekly publisher and former republican state chair man, bought the assets of the Eu gene News today for $1000. Cir cuit Judge G. F.' Skipworth ap proved the transfer after Priaulx agreed to pay employes $1400 in back wages." The newspaper is a daily in the morning field. AFL Claims Portland Wood Workers Have Deserted CIO PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6.-P) -The American. Federation of La bor claimed ; today that so many Portland lumber workers had de serted the CIO and rejoined the AFL that the federation should be designated to bargain for them. . The -claim was made to NLRB Trial Examiner Thomas Kennedy, Los Angeles, who began a review of AFL petitions. The' specif ie case being heard covered workers of the Jones Lumber company, hut similar eases will follow cov ering five other plants.- '-' ':, The CIO was previously desig nated ' as bargainer - for employes of four of the six plants, among them the Jones mill. James Whal Ion, president" of the AFL saw mill, Union No. 2877 irhich. com prised: he Jones workers, said the CIO membership swung back to the federation , last February. The action, he continued, was taken, to lift an AFL boycott and enable the mill to run" after five and one-half months of idleness. AFL application cards signed by Jones workers early this year were identified by .William Wedel, AFL sawmill official. These- he said proved. the men wanted the AFL to represent them;: . - The CIO objected to the unwill ingness of the board attorneys Thomas P. Graham jr., and Pat rick H. Walker, to examine the background of the dispute and as serted it was "gagged." The ob jection, one of several ' tart ex changes between- attorneys, fol lowed a- P r o t e t by the board attorneys to question Ben Ander son, CIO counsel, asked ; Wedel The board lawyers said the Ques tions delved Into material- already settled by stipulation. Anderson charged sawmill op erators had encouraged worker; to .reaffiliatevwith the AFL- by "unfair labor methods." Trial Examiner Kennedy asked hoard attorneys to supply eri denee the NLRB had approved the employers stipulation to cease alleged unfair practices. Colony Claims Not Immediate In Nazi Plans Pledge Formally Buries old Enmity. Assures Rhine Border Ribbentrop Understood to Have Assured Tbat Colonies Safe " PARIS, Dec. 6.-(;P)-Nazi Ger many gave France a signed pact of friendship today and sealed it with a promise of at least a tem porary respite from territorial claims. The promise embraced France's colonial possessions as well as her frontier on the'-Rhine. Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany and Georges Bonnet of France put their signatures to a three-point accord formally burying ancient enmities, which pledged good neighbor relations, recognise the existing Rhine frontier, and called for consultation on all problems " except those dealing with "particular relations with third powers." Colony Demands Not Pressing In conversations following the ceremony, it was learned from -quarters close to the foreign min istry, Ribbentrop also gave Bon net assurances Germany would not Immediately press any claim for return of her colonies lost t France under mandates after the world war. The colonial question was the most Important among many dis cussed by the diplomats In a gen eral conversation. The German foreign minister said to have maintained Ger many's "theoretical claims" for return of her colonies, but to hav pointed out that the reich ha made no formal demands and did not intend to do so for the time being. A similar attitude was under stood to have been taken towar4 the recent Italian clamor for rec ognition of her "Interests and as pirations" in French Tunisia and Corsica. Spanish War Is Reviewed The foreign ministers also re viewed the problem of the Span ish civil war in their talks, and the possibilities of developing mu tual trade, but no definite deci sions were reached. Germany's immediate goal wa understood to be Improvement cf her standing with France at time when her relations with Great Britain and the United States have grown strained, as result of recent anti-Jewish meas ures. ' i The " third powers" whose rela tions with Germany and France were the basis of the paot reser vation on consultation were not specified officially. It was gener ally accepted, however, that for Germany the phrase meant Italy anrfor France,-Britain. Just before the French an4 German foreign ministers signed the so-called "war. renunciation pact, the chamber of deputies fi nance, committee earmarked th equivalent of about $686,000,00 for France's , army and navy in a provisional approval 5af 1939 bud get requests an Increase of $280,000,000 OTer 193S. - s- Yugoslav .Regent Visits in Paris PARIS. Dec. 6.-PHP rise Paul of Yugoslavia came to Paris today on a visit overshadowed by that of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany. - Prince Paul, regent of a coun try long friendly to France, ar rived unobtrusively by train from London. He will be received by Foreign Minister Georgia Bonnet at the ' foreign office tomorrow forenoon, and then will be.luach eoi guest of President Albert Le brun at the Elysee palace. Although a strong--guard of Scotland. Yard detectives saw aim off fromsLondon this morning, a spokesman at the yard denied he had cut abort his London visit be cause of a reported warning that Croatin terrorists were enrout from New York to "get" him. " More days to BUY and USE CHRISTMAS V SEALS " PROTECT ? YOUR HOME They urge the public to have ptrV die health examinations. 16 .v.