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Features fa addition to regular ews. The Statesman carries dally cartoons and other features for its readers. 3 Pttllf siMitt PQUNDDD 16SI The Weather Unsettled, , cloudy today and Sunday. Normal i tem peratures. Max. temp. Fri day 60, mtn. SO. River 5.6 feet. NE wind. , EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, December 10, 1938 Price Sc; Newsstands 5c No. 221 Tighten Relief Strictures as Shortage Seen Body Votes That no new Grants Be Made Until Load Lightened Explained County .Would Deplete Funds Before ' Close of 1939 ' y Facing a potential shortage in funds for 19 39; the Marion county relief committee ' yesterday de creed that as of December 1 no more grants should be made to new applicants for old age as sistance or aid to dependent chil dren and ' direct relief given to employable persons; should be re stricted to emergency aw. - ine status at unemolovable persons on the general assistance rolls was not changed. ...... The curtailment1 program will continue "as lone as 1 1 m 1 1 a d funds, heavy case; loads and the delay in WPA assignments make such action necessary ," the writ ten committee order said. - Request Approved of Bndeet i - " The commltteel also requested the state relief committee to ap prove the county's January gener al assistance, or direct relief, bud get at 110,550, approximately the amount asked for last January dui S550 more than allotted for the current month, i Of this sum $9200 is set up for resident and 113 50 for non-resident assistance With nn Inpreaae in load, thi county would run; out of, old age assistance iunas oeiore ine ciose nf 1939. M. E. Holcomb. county relief administrator, said in ex- nlainlna the committee a order The 1938 fund has lasted through the year only because the aaaea burden created by the reduction in age limit to 85 years built up gradually following last January 1 when it went into effect. Aid To Be Given in F.mereeucies - As to Unemployed persons who are able to work, the committee will step In only when food is needed to prevent starvation or in other emergencies such as a threat or eviction for non-payment ol rent, Administrator Holcomb nointed oat. The committee order emphasized that , T emergency as- sistance would not be limited to food alone. . : . Immediate reinvestigation of all active old age assistance and aid to dependent .children cases also was ordered to determine present needs. The investigations may lead to decreases or discontinu ance in grants but not to in creases, j The comnfittee directed its staff to take particular pains to ascertain ;the ability 01 relatives to assist and the development of hitherto unused 1 resources." It also asked for closer working re lationships between staff mem bers andi clients "than has been possible in the past, in order to help the recipients to become self sustaining sooner than they might otherwise The relief office will continue to accent applications for old age assistance and aid to dependent children but will place inem on waiting lists along with those al ready accepted but not acted noon. When funds become suffi cient to warrant adding -to the county's case load, the waiting ap plications wlll.be investigated "in order on the basis of length of time the . application has been nendina- but with due regard for apparent ! need." No further re quests for i transfers into Marion county will be approved for pay . ment. i i . Applications for certification to the WPA will continue to be ac ceDted by the relief office and cer tifications made for applicants found eligible, as in the past. Pickets on March On Underpass Job KLAMATH FALLS, Tec. .9-(fly-The -first labor dispute, here since passage of Oregon's anti picketing law saw pickets placed on the Esplanade underpass pro ject today." ' The $18,000 PWA-alded Job was continued with a fresh crew . of laborers obtained .through the Oregon state employment office C. D. Long, business agent of the building and trades council . AFL. said workers - were called off the Job because two non-un ton truck drivers were employed He declared the strike was legal . because all members of the 21 man crew; except the two drlv ers. agreed to walk out. G. L Stebbins, contractor, de clared the men were bound by contract 1 to refrain from striking on any public work financed by the United States. Japanese to Denounce Nine-Power Pact Soon In Wake of Conquests Reported Full Statement of Japanese View Given American and British Ambassadors b Foreign Minister Arita v- '"' - - - : ' J4 "" TOKYO, Dec. 9. (AP) Actual denir' Oof the nine-power treaty, already pronounced ob? the Jap anese press, will be by new Chinese gover J 6- established under Japanese protection in the wake of tr o ,nese army conquests, it is understood in Tokyo. . .. ' - This, it is felt here, probably will be tiie final step in O welding Japan, her puppet-state of Manchoukuo, and the Japanese occupied areas of China Into .. a solid politico-economic unit put ting into effec. Japan's new policy of -Asit for the Asiatics.' i. The nine-power treaty, . signed by China and Japan and seven western powers the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and "the Netherlands pledges the signa tories among other things "to use their influence for the purpose of effectually establishing and main taining the principle of equal op portunity for the commerce and industry of all nations throughout the territory of China." But this principle that of the "open door" for trade in China cow has vanished. In the view of Tokyo. A. full statement of the Japanese view was given yester day, it is reported in authoritative quarters, by F o r e I g n Minister Machlro Arita to the American and British ambassadors, Joseph C. Grew and Sir Robert Leslie Craigle. - .-: ; - ' Arita's expositions, frank and full, were said to have contained such phrases as "henceforth, you will be permitted," and "you 'will not be permitted in connection with the privileges western na tions may enjoy In conducting commerce in China. Death SIdps Trio ... In Unusual Crasl ST HELENS. Dec. 9JPV-Threa enlisted men from Vancouver bar racks escaped death today when their automobile crashed Into an electric light pole guy wire, over turned and came to rest right side - up on the front porcn 01 the u. Howard home here. 1 ' a nillar on the norch was torn Off. The three men, Ralph Mooers, 19, driver, R. T. ArreU, 20, and A. D. Corns tock,. 18, escaped without serious Injury. Capitol Body Will DropPatton Case Decision After Kimmel's Explanation of Case Is Given Group The capitol reconstruction com mission voted Friday, subject to the approval of the state board of control, to abandon Its appeal of the Jury's award vof 145,600 as the condemnation price of the Patton property, now , a portion of the enlarged state capitol grounds. Th commission's decision was made following an explanation ot the status of the case ty Rex Kimmell, assistant attorney gen eral assigned to , the commission as its legal counsel. He said Hal D. Patton before his death had offered to sell the property to the state for a much smaller sum. Tne commission s original offer was approximately $15,000. Kimmell explained that the judgment order entered by Cir cuit Judge L. H. McMahan was not sufficient as a basis for r.p peal, but the judge denied his request for a second order and was upheld by the supreme court in denying the writ of mandamus asked by Kimmell. He mentioned that the order had been prepared by 3: M. . Devers. assistant at torney general who had conduct ed the commission's case. While he was seeking the writ of mandamus, the time for fil ing a bill of exceptions on appeal lapsed,' Kimmell added, so that he 1 now has no recourse other than to move to dismiss the ap peal "with prejudice." The Patton heirs -have already received $15,000. Reckless Autoist Held After Crash Sixteen School Children Injured as Bus Swung Into Phone Pole TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 9-UP) An automobile-school bus crash which injured 16 students re sulted late today in the arrest of Ralph Hermanson, 24, on a charge of driving his automobile after having his driver's license suspended. State patrolmen blamed Her- manspn for: streaking out sud denly from a side road, forcing the two-ton bus off the highway forth of Tacoma and overturn ing it against a utility pole. " None of the students were In jured critically, although Ul were taken to hospitals. The bus driver, Wilbert Krebs, was pin ned j to - his seat. Freed by res cuers, he hobbled about on an injured leg - helping the Injured pupils and ; refusing to go to a hospital until the last of his charges had been safely removed from the wreck, f Hermanson was , taken I to Se attle, 7 after a check of records showed his operator's license was suspended for six months August 25 and, he was fined $100 on his conviction for reckless driv ing. There were 48 pupils in the bus, enronte to the Federal Way school on the Tacoma-Seattle high way about midway between the two cities. The, bus (was splin tered in the crash, and a rain of broken glass showered the stu dents. ' Injuries Prove Fatal -i KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 9 -Injuries suffered when he was struck by a CCC truck a week ago were fatal today to Jeremiah V. Sullivan, 77. Roosevelt Seeks Battle on Spies President to Ask Money to Enable Agencies to Fight Espionage WASHINGTON, Dec 9-WrV- Presiden Roosevelt indicated . to- uay mac a war on ioreign spies, to he waged without Betting an army of secret police upon the American people, was included among his proposals to bulwark the national defense. The chief executive sajid he would ask congress for funds to enable existing agencies to meet a situation which he declared was by no means ended by the sen tencing of four persons in New York on espionage charges. Secret police are not needed to watch the American people, Mr. Roosevelt told his press confer ence, but more funds should be available for a closer watch ot the secret police of other nations op erating In this country. Both the army and navy advise against creation of a new agency to oombat spies, informed persons disclosed.; j These persons cited the odium attached in this country to activi ties of soviet Russia's Ogpu and nasi Germany's Gestapo. Mr. Roosevelt mentioned the former today in disclosing he had turned thumbs down on the idea of creating an - American central counter-espionage group. Card Is too Late To Avert Tragedy SAN JOSE, Calif.. Dec. 9. A post card from Walker Mason inviting his wife and son to spend unristmas with. him arrived today at the home where the two died yesterday rather than ; spend the nonaays separated from: Mason. Coroner C. C. SDaldinsr said Ma sob used endearing terms and bis card snowed no Indication of the estrangement about which his 28 year-old wife wrote before shoot ing their 14 -year-old son and her self. The card was mailed In San Bernardino vesterdav m o r n 1 nr about! the same time the bodies were round. " Spalding said Mason would ar rive tomorrow from San Rprnarit ino to claim the bodies. He was lo cated through a friend. Martin States Labor Chiefs Rapped for Back Income Tax PORTLAND,' Ore., Dec. S.-iflV Governor Charles H. Martin told delegates to 1 the Oregon district attorneys and sheriffs associations today that 19 labor unionists some of whom were taken in the Oregon terrorist roundup had been forced to pay state -income tax on "unre ported 'gravy' Income." . Among them, he said., was Al Rosser, convicted of participation in ah arson plot. The governor asserted that a prominent north west labor leader, whom he named, wrote ar check for more than $2000 to discharge Rosser's tax bill. "When the papers of Rosser were examined . we discovered there were 1 of t h e s e nsion I gangsters getting some of the gravy," the governor said. "This money ... did not show in the Income tax records and when the 'tax officers - went to them there was no fuss. They just reached in their pockets and dag up the checks and - paid for the gravy thtj had gotten." Among tnose xorced to pay were several unionists who did not figure In the goon roundup, Mar tin said hut declined to reveal the number. " The governor called attention to the fact that Rosser, former head of AFL teamsters in Oregon had an income of $220,000 for a single year, a report by Ralph Moody, special prosecutor In the terrorist drive, showed. Arab Leaders Ready to War To Aid French Arab Council Sends Word to French Heads of Its Loyalty . Larse Forces of Police Guard Against Fresh Outbreaks TUNIS. Tunisia,- Dec. HJP)r Arab chieftains ot Tunisia pro claimed their readiness today to fight for France, If necessary, to beat off any Italian attempt to seize this strategic North Afxi can territory. "Tunisians are ready to defend to the last man the integrity of their land and respect for treaties which unite them to France," Ahmed Chenick, vice-president of the Tunisian section of the Arab grand council, declared in an in terview. "To confuse Tunisia with Ethi opia or the Sudetenland Is a bad error of psychology." Assurances Sent French Chiefs He said the Tunisian section of the Arab grand council, the name of more than 2,000,000 natives, had sent assurances to French Resident-General Erick Labonne of their loyalty and desire "to live as free men under the aegis of France." Similar messages came from the other Arab organizations. Imposing forces of French po lice, mobile guards and troops re mained on watch to check any new outbreaks like yesterday's rival demonstrations of French and Italian sympathizers but the day, a Moslem day of worship, passed in tense quiet. Mobile guard reinforcements were the only fresh forces brought in and they numbered only a few hundred, but a strong army of oc cupation spread throughout the protectorate was considered able to cope with any difficulties. Men .Under Arms Kept Secret The exact number ot men un der arms was kept a military se cret, although the army is known to number about 15 peacetime regiments, or 45,000, including natives. Police and mobile guards pro- teeiad, the Italian nonaulata here. tne offices ot the fascist newspa per lnione, the Italian Aerial and Navigation company, and the It alian library and bank. Mounted and motorized police patrolled all main roads and searched all automobiles and trucks entering the city. Conditions along the 300-odd mile frontier between Tunisia and Italy's Libya were reported offi cially to be normal. If there was any unusual activity in manning of the "African Maginot line" or fortifications and pillboxes along the border, it was a closely guard ed military secret. Characteristic gesture of loyal ty to France was the sending of a telegram to Labonne by the muni cipal council and the War Veter ans' association of Moknine, stat ing "the Moslem population Is ready to shed its last drop of blood to maintain the absolute in tegrity of the French empire." French To Da Bepii ladier - - ties Vote Backing s Domestic Plans YOUTH CONFESSES MURDER OF BEAUTY AW". -Ai.-as :Zy&fVp?Wi!tmK&:: J-WW -. ::r ... ,.y .... T ,. - ; ; 1 - t r-' - s -- v- 5 - I f v 4 "T- s ' '....V ." fc ,,1 ' x:?;:Wv;.'. 4 - - . V " ;- ' I i i 7 J j .,, ,-. T.-. -fciin.i Rodney Greig, 21, railroad clerk, who readily confessed to the mystery murder of beautiful Leon a Vlnght in remote region of the Oakland, Cal., foothills. Greig declared he did not know why he killed the attractive beauty operator saying, "I jast did It, that's all." The girl's body was discovered In the hills by a mushroom picker. She had four stab wounds in her throat and on her breast. Photo shows at left Greig and at right the slam girl, Leona Mnght. (UN.) Philippine Deaths From Typhoon 56 Days Must Elapse Before Full Count of Costs Is RevealedT MANILA, Dec 3-(P)-Over crip pled communications came reports today of 56 deaths, scores of thou sands of homeless and uncounted injured in the path of the vicious typhoon which swept the central Philippines and whirled away over .China sea yesterday. Days must elapse before the full extent of the disaster can be known. The tropical hurricane tore down wires and Wrecked roads in fifteen provinces as it passed in a zigzag course 100 to 250 miles south of Manila. .12,000 Homeless Relief workers counted 12,000 homeless in one district of Samar Island alone. v - Deaths, mainly due to falling trees, drowning, smothering in winds of. nnmeasurable intensity, probably will mount with reports from areas still Isolated. " Albay, Sorsogon and Samar pro vinces were hit hardest. Appre hension -was keen for Sorsogon which still had not reported the extent of Its loss. Both coastwise and deepwater shipping apparently escaped heavy damage because of ample warn ings of the storm.' Students Injured i In Bus-Car Crash McMINNVlLLE, Dec. H2P Three McMinnville high- school students and a bus driver were injured and several others shaken up when a school bus and a car driven by A. S. Hubbard of Top penish, Wash., collided near here late today. . : . . . - Sara Price, 51.' driver; Curtis Kennedy, . George . Warmington, Lafayette, and Grace Ward, Carl ton, were the most seriously in Two More Killers Die in Gas House San Quentin Chamber Is Better Operated for Second Test SAN QUENTIN, Calif.. Dec. 9- iPi-k ."more'vhuihane'f execution In San Quentin 's new gas chamber snuffed out the lives of two more murderous Folsom prison convicts today. Improved operation of the chamber killed Wesley Eudy and Fred Barnes more quickly than it did their companions in an attempted prison break, Albert Kessel and Robert Cannon, whose execution a week ago was the first "death by gas" in California. A fifth convict convicted of murdering Warden Clarence Lar- kln in the attempted Folsom break two years ago will go into the gas chamber alone next Fri day. He is Ed Davis, leader of the break, whose confession of an $11,000 robbery may free a man he says is innocent from the Oklahoma penitentiary. Barnes, nervous- but' smiling, died in 10 minutes. Grim 34-year-old Eudy, six years youngsr than his companion, lived two minutes longer. It took 12 min utes for Cannon to die and 15 minutes for Kessell. Death was sped today by the annarent eagerness of the con victs to meet their Inescapable death, and to the creation of a partial vacuum in the gas chamber. Hoover Returns To Capital City WASHINGTON. Dec. S.H?V Herbert Hoover, scientist, re turned to Washington today to help the Carnegie institution be gin its new era of scientific re search. He uttered a fervent "thank goodness" that his visit was non political, and highly praised the accomplishments of Dr. John C. Merriam, who retires as president of the institution Dec. 31, and Dr. Vannevar Bush of the Massachus sets Institute of Technology, the new president. , ., , Mr. Hoover, who has been a member of the institution board of trustees for seven' years and usually attends Its ' meetings. smilingly declined to discuss - the recent congressional . elections. the budget, the., Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru, or oth er political questions. Early Miisic Prof Succumbs to A - PORTLAND, Dec 9 -(- Wil liam Herr Boyer, 77, Portland public schools music supervisor for nearly 25 years, died here yes terday. ; . s-,, - . r; Boyer began directing and or ganizing choral societies when he came here SO years ago from his native Ohio. He was professor of music at the university of Oregon extension division for 21 years; - t A number of his book! are wide ly used in school 'work. - - - - : McDonald Is Held MentaUy Balanced LOS ANGELES, Dec. MffV- Charles E. McDonald, held by a. jury today to be sane when he shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Emita Krueger of Kansas City, will be sentenced Monday. He faces a one to ten year penalty on last week's conviction. The charge was assault . with .Intent to commit murder. , . - Today's verdict; made no ap parent Impression on the 29- year-old electrician. McDonald contended his mind was cracked when he shot Mrs. Krueger in HollyWood boulevard last August. He alleged she broke up his hoine through an unnatural affection for his wife. -4- Probe Into Death Of Charred Body Officers Believed to Be Questioning Suspect in Mystery LONGVIEW, ilec. 9-(JPOm-cials here tonight awaited results of investigations being conducted in Seattle and Olympia into the mysterious death of Ed Killian, 62, whose charred' body was found on a pile of smoldering logs along the highway north of Castle Rock early yesterday. Pros. Shirley R. Marsh, Sgt. A. B. Little of the state patrol and Sheriff's Deputy Ray Schiewe had not returned early tonight from a clue-hunting trip ion which, they left yesterday afternoon. Officers here said they believed the three were questioning a sus pect taken into custody at Seattle yesterday by . state patrolmen in connection with Killian's death. The suspect was said to be the driver of a truckf which swerved and left the highway Tuesday evening . at the point where Kil lian's body was fdund. Officers advanced one theory that Killian might have been struck and knocked from the highway onto the! logs. They said a 3 inch cut was found In Kil lian's scalp, but it was not serious enough to hare caused death: An antopsy is being delayed until Marsh's return. ! Fiery Session Gives Decrees Justice's Denials Presented Jurors Testimony Reveals how Crime First Denied, Then Admitted . How Tom Justice, 30, first or ally denjed then .later twice -admitted he struck Ruth Cole with a stick of wood and robbed her on North 12th street last June 13 was told In testimony presented yes terday to the circuit court Jury before which he is on trial for the alleged assault. The defense protested introduc tion of his confession, made be fore the court reporter, but after more than two hours of argument before Judge L. H. McMahan In chambers it was admitted under a stipulation recognizing certain de fense objections. " ' Because of the delay yesterday, the trial may last into a night session tonight. The court room will be required for another case Monday. v Witnesses put on the stand by the state Included Ruth Cole, Ed ward Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Doty, Mrs. May Caldwell, Officers Claude M. Litchfield, George Ed wards and Louis Burgess, Elva Nickers, Thomas E. Cole and Mrs. Benton Stafford. Maybe He Studies Detective Tricks EUGENE, Dec. 9-JP)-Dr. S. L. Peterson, Eugene dentist who had Just pleaded guilty to ob taining money under false pre tenses by passing a bad check, failed in an alleged attempt to escape, today' by throwing re d pepper Into the eyes of a sher iff's deputy. : Nelson F. Whipps, sheriffs deputy; . caught Peterson and re turned him after a brief struggle, although he -was temporarily blinded by the spice. - The ; incident occurred while Sbipps was returning Peterson to his cell in the Jail. Full Approval Vote of Confidence la Also Support of Firm Foreign Stand v Vote Believed to Sound Death Knell for Party of Leon Blum PARIS, D8c lO.-(Saturday)-(P)-The. chamber of deputies to day voted confidence in Premier Edouard Daladier by 315 to 241. approving his decree laws and strike-smashing methods. j The vote came after an unr roarious session in which the pre mier had sought parliamentary support for a stiff stand against Italian-colonial e x p a nsion at French expense. By the vote the premier ob tained the chamber's approval ef his methods of governing France, which many of his enemies had called dictatorial. Decree Power Next on Slate ' Whether rightists, on whom he relied for support in the early morning vote, would back the premier when he asks for decree powers to continue his "strong man" government remained a po litical question in the chamber. There was little doubt, however, that Daladier had gone far In this first vote, in which socialists and communists stood solidly against him. In his plea for support Daladier had declared .that "the integrity of France depends first on the French" and added that only through strength could Franee protect her territory. Warns Nation Xeeds Strength His words were a warning that the nation had to be strong at borne to defend her colonial em pire successfully-This, warning was delivered against-the back- ial Italian clamor for Tunisia and other French holdings. Twice during the debate Edouard Herriot, president ot the chamber, put on his hat cere moniously and stalked out, there by suspending the session. Frequently, while Herriot furi ously rang his bell and banged the rostrum for order, leftist and rightist deputies stood before blm screaming insults at each other. At one point the chamber forgot political differences for a momen to nowi in aeugntea laugnter a comment by Leftist Deput; Xavier Vallat on Italy's ambitiot:. at France's expense. They Got a. Boot Out Of This "Just because Italy is shape iike a boot," he said, "it does n mean that France is shaped tc receive a kick." The vote was accepted In the chamber as marking the official death of the leftist people's front which ruled France under the Leon Blum government after the 1936 elections and was more or less active in power until Daladier took office last April 10. v The premier clearly had swung Lis government as well as his own radical socialist party a former member of the people's front with socialists and communists into the rightist ranks. ' State Facing Possible Loss Federal Social Security Of ; PORTLAND, Dec t.-(P)-Ore-50n faced the possibility today of losing federal social security aid because ot a new; law regulating picketing and defining labor dis putes. I T. Morris Dunne, chairman ot the Oregon unemployment com pensation commission, and Ralph II. Campbell of the" attorney general's office, will represent the' state at the social' security, board's hearing on 'confirmation of the Oregon law Dec 119 In' Washing ton. - . - The hearing was ordered after officials of the congress for in dustrial organ itationr charged that the anti-plcketing bill' amended the unemployment insurance law to the extent that It he latter statute is no longer-uniform with provi sions of the social security act. ! Dunne,' who will leave for the national capital Saturday, said he and other- members of the com' mission felt the state unemploy ment compensation law still was in conformity with the national act and the question of the inter moot point in the controversy. was purely a legal one. ' Lee Pressman, attorney for the CIO, contended the Oregon nn employment compensation law. which conformed with the federal ttatute, had been amended In ef tect by passage of the anti-picket- ing bill.'. Pressman, asserted the utate law forced unemployed per sona to take Jobs vacated by strikers, in violation of the federal law. ;. If '.the , Oregon , law . should . be dlsapproted, ' employers In the state ' would be required to pay both state and federal social se curity levies. The 90 per cent offset now given under the f edera law. would be. discontinued. ' Sunday Qosingon May Be Ruled out PORTLAND, Dec. 9-WVPre sure from grocers and unemploy ed union members appeared to. day to be near forcing S nda; and holiday closing of union gro cery, stores from the Portlan, scene. t The situation will be discussed at a meeting of the grocer? clerks union next , "uesday Meantime, one chain , store hel several departments open . 1 s.. Snnday. , r; Some - union members, hot . working only three or four dav. a weex, iaror eunaay opening.. The agitation followed close.: a California supreme court de ' cision ruling out Sunday closing" forced by unions... . '"' ; The practice went Into effect here with, the signing of the first union contracts on May of last year, and holiday, closing on No vember 1, 1937. 1 3 More days to EUYxtndUSE 71 J ,.'' SEALS . . PROTECT ' tour HOME They emphaslxs that tvery esse et !l tubsreulests comes from another. e H(iTM 1