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! Ci'sgoa' Best Ncivs Stories" M!AreTojppeiy..on, t rJhvestifi ations Two ' Elections With Republican tomebacka; Firesj ; Flood and Storms Completion of new f V;; 7 Capitol Also Get Spotlight t 5 .-" - .''" ; ' : " r'OregohVTen Outstanding Ifewg Stories of 1938 -l..-;Labor terrorism investigation. . ' ' ' ' - , 2. 'Governor. Martin' defeat in - republicanism in general elections. . i . I 3. Al E. Rosser convicted. '. fir? i 4. Strikes and jurisdictional disputes. 5. Pilot-Rock flash floods L 6. Bonneville -dam sealock dedication; first deep-water ship 7. :Varney-Guef f roy deaths in .v 8. Ledford murder conviction 9. Weatherfloods, forest fires, worst shipping tie-up in i 10. Completion and occupation of new state capital building. BY TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS - Infant 193$ will hare a straggle ' prorldlng Oregoa -awa; atoTie . ! with' as far-reaching effects or' as i varied an appearance as those i tough old If M. whistled up: J ,; ' ' The major story, strongly at lectins' primary and general elec . jjtiona, was .the state-wide drivi? 'against labor terrorism. It con" tinned- for months,- seeing- more than 100 men taken -Into custody. Nearly 50 men were convicted,, in? : -eluding Al E. Rosser, former see . retary of the Oregon Joint council of A. F. L. Teamsters', unions. Rosser was sentenced to' IX years In. the state penitentiary for com pllcity in the burning of the West Salem: box factory. . Fiery Governor Loses The primary elections saw fiery -Coventor Charles H. Martin, re ' tired army .major-general and moving spirit in the anti-racketeer - campaign,! defeated by Henry L. Hess, democratic attorney and lamberman f ronuLa Grande. The changing tenor of Oregon ' thought and the influence ot the labor racketeer drive were in tnrn i effected In the general election ' when Charles A. Sprague, staunch republican" aid publisher Pt The Salem Statesman, ran np an over whelming majority over Hess to winCthe governorship,: Walter Pierce, 'cbngressman from Eastern Oregon, was the only major elec tive official in the state to with stand the swing away from the ' new desL A'Vi-' -.- . . Many Strikes Felt : Strikes, which saw a bitter Jurisdictional struggle between , the A- 7. L. and C I. 0. for con trol of the Portland sawmill In dustry, were highlighted by the walk-out ot Portland printers , which left the Oregon metropolis ' without a newspaper tor Ave day - -tire days of rumors and public Jitters, - r . Weather la Varied Other stories which interested. t or shocked tho stato, and occas - loanm the nation, included the flash flood jwhlch inundated PUot i?wir with a loaa of . mora than 109,t00 on Jane; 23, dedlcaUonl Of the Bonnevuie seaiocas ana uie voyage of the Charles I Wheeler,' Jr., through two mountain ranges tdTtfio Dalles on July I; convic tion of Mrs. Agnes Joan Ledford. "xr sv IXJna. on April 10 for the poison . slaying' of. her two step daughters; final , completion and official occupation of the new 32, K00.000 capital building on Oc tober 1; weather, always interest ing, with its disastrous floods in the - WlUamette '. valley and on Sauries Island, it forest Cflres; which raged through southewest: ern pregon, and its tie-up ot ship ping at the mourn or tne uoium- ?nJla is r gale on December 1, and rh death In a bUzzard on Mount Hood of Roy varney on March zs. It wasn't until the next day that Russell GueffToy, 29, jVancouver. Wakh ' a second climber, was missed.' His body waa found, froxen, in a second search. Cunimiiigs Vacates ; His Post (Continue from pagts 1) -. you. and know what you have done for them. will-nderstnnd irhat I mean.- 'r Septytnar. the president' praised ta mmgnlflcnt manner la which Cummlags had conducted the Justice department' since, ths : Inception ot the Roosevelt adminl - stration and said he was reserv nig the right to call yon back for frequent consultation and advice,- - "I can only. envy you the com parative freedom from very heavy duties which lies ahead ot you," he wrote Cnmmings. . Persons who say, the president has no Intention ot seeking a third term regarded . this state ment as an indication ta a t he would enjoy returning to private life. Vcltelz Ucn Bat bad; -,. . Accident; Hurt m Hinor VALSET2 Alfrefil'ionea, tflUl- employe here .who ' left for Portland Friday with a compan ion, "escaped, serious injury whan his car turned orer several times on: the Falls. Clty-DaUas road. A broken , i te r 1 a g knuckle was Diamea ror t: s acciaent. , . Vnfay'llcll Cc.-ncrf V jiw-jcJ Use - our 4l A- bnlt plan. - Get you w Uter supply now. Teke ft months r longer j pay. . - " .- ' - '; . CZlQEi D1FJ- TOANSFER CO. , r::oNE 7i7a Monday and Strikes primary and strong swing to Mount Hood climbing acci at St. Helens, i O ! Fire Cuts off Exit of Score Faint Signals Are Heard by Rescuers; Throngs V. Watch Near Entry (Continued from page 1) The mine cage was coming n; every tew minutes, bringing; oqt rescue workers made ill by gas as k and smoke. Ellsworth Graves, of Fosedal one of the rescue workers, cam up choking and vomiting, alter five hours of fighting the fire and ad I reported: 'The fire Is in bad shape b they're finally- getting some watei on' It. Wa tanned on th telenhnna line', to the men and got an ad- awer that they were all OK. Down there your head Just feels like someone was pounding on 'it an nen you get awful sick." i Graves is a miner employed ii the mine and has a brother, J 41, among the Imprisoned men. ' Harry Dunlap, a Clinton man, came out of the mine and described the situation inside like this: "It's aU lust a lot of fir wit a continual roar and rattle." I ' Dunlap said the rescue worker had succeeded in getting air inui circulation in the mine so as draw the gas and smoke avat from the men and out of the mine! Through the tapped signals, th trapped miners reported the all around them was still good. Ella- worth Graves said. They also re porter killing three mine mulei la order to conserve oxygen. Wheeler Writes Death Confessioii (Continued from page 1) throat or tielng a rope around h neck. He did not recall covering her np with, sacks and soil in this shallow grave In which the body was aucoverea. i He said afterward he took freight train to Seattle and re turned to his old apartment, a 240S Third - avenue, where hi spent December 14. "Then! hummed my way to Vancouver, Wash, where I stayed ' about a week," he told officers. He said he . remained at . Salvation Army headquarters in Vancouver two nights, during which time anoth er man occupying the same room was arrested by Vancouver police. He came to Portland Monday he said, and Immediate ty "hitched" a southbound Osexon Electric train to Harrlsburg, Ore. He said he spent Tuesday night there "as a guest of the police de partment I went Into the station to bum them for a two-bit meal ticket. The chief pnt me to-work cleaning np grass and thistles. He gave nn meal and let me clean np afad sleep In the JalL" vWedaesday no went to Eugene. i , . 1 Oilv; Track Halts Traffic-Over SP .i . - ETJGENE, Ore- Dec. 31 - tJPi vwo passenger trains stalled Ion mountain sidings today while im patient : trainmen, watches fn hands, , watched section crews scrub the rails, m The locomotive of a Southern i Pacific passenger . traia, Friday nigni raisea nead ot hot! oil which; leaked out of - a tender valve and sprayed the rails I for even miles on both sides of the summit between Cascade Summit and Oak Ridge. ; : - . in oxienaug engine lost no traction inasmuch as it doused the rails with on behind its dwn drivers. But the drive wheelsj ot the other two locomotives snnn inetfectnally after; sand supplies were eznavstea. -; The ' trains ' ran onto sidinxs. aection crews were summoned and raua were oe-oued. Railroad officials said; it was the first i de lay to their knowledge from snch a mishap. fj- 2. SAFFRON & KLINE, PROPRIETORS r Love Slugging, 5 ' Pan! Joseph Goebbels beatlag as a "love thief by friends of tne husband of Lida Barova, glam orous Caech star of German movies, snay lead to a break be tween the nasi propaganda min ister and Chancellor Hitler, ad vices from London stated re cently. Reports in Germany persisted that Goebbels, below. ttas been confined to a hospital, suffering from grippe, but ae eordlmg to Ijondota newspapers the number S nasi was carried to the aursiag home after being severely b?atea by associates, of Gvstav Froelich, German actor and husband of the lovely lida. FroeUch at present is in a nasi concentration camp, held by or der- of Goebbels, Jjondon ad vices said. Lida is pictured above as seen in a recent Ger man turn. j First Family Has Quiet New Year s WASHINGTON Dec. Sl.-flP)- Presldent and Mrs. Roosevelt s quiet reception of the new year contrasted tonight with gay cele brations throughout the capital. The i White House program called for a movie after dinner and a i family gathering at mid night in the president's studio. The youngest Roosevelt son, John, and his bride, Anne; Dr. and Mrs. G. B. Eusterman of Rochester, Minn., : and the Eusterman chil dren arrived today to attend. The capital's famous "New Year's flay reception, .traditional for years at the White House, has been abandoned by President Roosevelt, along with the huge breakfast usually given afterward by the secretary of state at the Pan-American Union. Bellingham, Wask Claims First Babe BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 1. (Saadayl-iffWrhis western Wash ington : city laid claim today to having the- first baby bora' in 1S3I on the west coast. ' L EL JosepV hospital attaches reported a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Francis St. Mary at three seconds past midnight. No first 1930 baby was reported by, Salem hospitals this morning. Final old year Infant was a girl born to Mrs. Floyd Corbtn, 2114 aiapie,; at a: 07 p. m -i , Five Greet Year In City Bastille - Five saw the new year ushered In from the cells of the city Jail, or perhaps that s doubtful. Arrested and charged: with drunkenness before midnight were: ; J. H. Cloyd, P. Hogan, Joe Lewis, and two boys from the Chemawa Indian school, being held for authorities there, Memn Lorens and Andrew Foster. ;. apDv 3 Hew Sclcm Dargain House 7; Tlu CrGGI Case Nazi Issue 7 Books Are Moved Into New Lilirar Second Building ofSaii Capitol Group Ready for Qccupancy (Continued from page 1) til books were storeOT in the basef ment, where dampness some times caused their deterioration. and in the attics. Has Added Services Despite Handicaps Although hampered by lack ot space, the library, under thO direction of Miss Harriett Long, n.us pi ine sutie. un oi 1 3 most fruitful activities is i reading courses, whereby the brary will prescribe courses reading in subjects ranging ah widely as beekeeping to short story writing and then provide tne oooks on a regular scneauie. in iu new quarters, ion t sought ' by the library staff, thi library will have on the nrst floor a model school library room in pine trim, a travelling library room,, a mending room, shipping room and- stacks. The depart ment of education will also located on this floor. Entire Second Floor Occupied by Library The second floor will b en Lrely occupied by the library. The main lobby and the pubu catalogue room will be panelec in oak. The General and Ore gon reference rooms, runnini through two floors in helghtt wilt also be oak paneled with robber tile floors, ornamental plaster and ceilings. The Ore gon room contains special Ore gon-material and collections The map and print room will have ' special . metal cases and furniture. The librarian and board's room will : have walls paneled in Lnotty pine with adj jacent offices and reception rooms. "iThere Till bo a cat! logue room, a desk record room and a research and extension; room also on this floor as well as a government room where special reference material for state departments and legislators will be kept. The third floor rill be occu pied by the World War Veterans state aid commission, the bureau of labor and other offices. Dr. Glenn Frank Will . Be Po'rtlmnd Speaker PORTLAND. Dee. Sl.-CAV-Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the re publican party's national program committee and former Unirerslty of Wisconsin president, today ac cepted aa invitation to speak be fore the Oregon Lincoln day baa quet here Monday, Feb. 13. ' 8 4 - ' - ' i . j I- IT " Vif l-'l -1 -II - Trull Announcement l ; . ! jy- '! : ' On January 1st, 1939 I , STANDLEY & FOLEY, Inc. Will Change IU Title to Scellarc & Foley, Inc. We desire to express our Appreciation: for the patron age and loyalty ot ear friends over a period of many I years; We hope' to merit; your continued food will : sad support; JTou have inade , this one of Salem's ' largest agencies. Oar constant aim Is to give .yon DEPENDABLE "INSURANCE- at REASONABLE ' RATES'" K 1 :s 4 ' - v - J : - ' . ' ' f - , c i , v ', Scellars & Office Over tadd & Bosh Jxair-l,-i933 Rebels Claiia Important Supply Route i From French Border 1 .!;,.- Cut. Report . i i HENDATE, Franco (At the Spanish Frontier), Dec Slj-flp)-Spanlsh, Insurgents announced two fresh successes today in the ninth New Victories 1 day of their drive against Barce- lona, the government capital. f. I The Insurgents,' estimated at more - than 100.000 troops, . re ported they had cut in two places; the strategic Lerida-Seo"De TJrgel highway- leading to the . French border after heavy fighting' north- eapt ot the. Balaguer hrldgehead. ' Insurgent Generalissimo Fran- clscb ' Franco's headquarters at . Irun also announced .the occupa tion of,, the village of-Cubells, seven miles southwest of Artesa t and on a mats highway leading Into that so-caued rgateway to Catalonia. i I f Seek to Isolate Capital . j The Immediate objecttrs of the campaign .appeared, to be to. cut off I Barcelona . communications with the French frontier. I The Insurgents ' possessed or had; Under heavy artlUery fire SI mUCs ot the 'Vital Lerida-Seo De Urgel route, which is part of the main road from Zaragoza to the frontier town of PUlgeerda in the Pyrenees mountains. Loss of the highway would leave government forces only one main route connecting with France one i .which skirts the Mediterranean coast. Forces , operating .in the Cama rasa sector between Balaguer and the- crossroads town of Artesa, also cut the highway, border dis patches from the insurgents stated. ; Artesas Fall Said Near Artesa was said to be hard pressed and flanking movements made Its fall "only a question of time," an insurgent report said From Artesa the Insurgents would gain . a principal route northeast through the Pyrenees to the iron tier which is a Barcelona life-line for supplies. Government ' dispatches said. however, that counter-attacks yesterday against the center of the Insurgent army definitely had slowed the offensive. The, government asserted that losses among Franco's crack Ara- gon and Navarrese , troops were unusually heavy, with , some units decimated." Sub-Stratosphere Plane Is Tested; 107-Foot Winged fraft Does Its Stuff for Seattle Residents SEATTLE, Dec. 31 - UP) - The world's first plane designed for flying in the sub-stratosphere, the new jBoemg airsiouner, maae 42-minute first test flight in the xaiu urer iuw area louay sua ri- ill. . . .1 . M lot Edmund T. Allen reported it nnrfArmAi ,,oim iva hlw ..I Sa a.va wvu auiuu The big ship, with a wingspread of 107 feet, three Inches, climbed to 4000 feet, the ceiling and limit of risibility from the earth, and cruised between here, Tacoma and Everett Speed was held down to 17S miles an hour. Pilot Likes Handling "The control and stability and the way it bandied were very nice. Allen said. With him on the hop were Earl Ferguson, co-pilot, Julius Barr, Harry West and Arthur Gay lord, as engineers and osbervers. I Boeing officials who watched the take-off, made after a short ! run on Boeing field, and the land ing were satisfied with the per formance. The 33-passenger ship, built to fly at altitudes of 20,000 feet. lifted twice from the ground on taxiing tests yesterday, a day af ter it left the factory, and was off the ground briefly three times this forenoon In more tests. The test flight was made this afternoon. No more tests are planned until next week. 'The supercharging i equipment for high. altitude flights will be installed later.. New Trial Move Lost; by Philips LA GRANDE, Ore., Dec. 31-0P) -Motion tor a new trial for Jesse Philips, convicted of aecond-de-l gree murder two weeks ago, was denied today by Circuit Jndge J. W. Knowles. It was his last official act as I circuit Judge. He leaves the bench after 30 years. Folev. Inc. 0 Bank' ' .Telephone 5876 Russ Spy Suspects Arraigned ... ' 1 i, ' ..... tl T - i 4 4. . Pictured as they were arraigned ia A(08 angeies recenuy are. uaus oaucn. Jen, ma wnimi uwu. Boriet spy swspects arrested est charges of transmitting secret naval lnteUlgence department doewments to Bassia. Gorisi and Salich are also accused of pilfering certain information aeld by the United States regarding Japanese military plsjuu US photo. New Year Gets Noisy Greeting i Italy Calmer, Spaniards Fight Grimly on While Nazis Hail Cains - r " (Continued from page 1) went boom on the down beat. Jostling, horn-tooting '"tens of thousands Jammed, .Times Square at midnight; night, clubs, . theatre and hotels were packed, and be tween evening and dawn, about a million ' merry-makers , spent up wards, of an estimated $15,000. 000. This performance was duplicat ed, in varying degrees, in cities nd """eta all over the civilixed world Up the Hudson river, in the "big house" at Sing Sing prison. Warden E. Lawes permitted 2712 prisoners to welcome the new year, at midnight w 1 1 h cheers, singing and music The prison band played la the corridors, and the convicts were allowed to rat- Ue the cell doors and call out the year when they will be eligible tor release. Full Gale Warnings up At Mouth of Columbia PORTLAND. Dec. S1-4P)-A fn ma. hin. in with .! iirHr mt the mouth of th Colam- hi. river and alonr th Wanhlnr- I - . . ' m ton coast, the federal weather hn- reau warned today. Whole gale E. Phillips Oppenheim writes of glamorous romance, thrilling adven K ture and grim, world-shaking intrigue in the highest diplomatic circles yKm w 1,11 : : M M U Envoy Axtraordihdm In the omnipresent shadow of qdck-strjktog fjpfpenneim unfolds a startling, ba&ing tale of mystery and : adventure in which the diplomats and dictators of Europe , . strive desperately to keep their eonntries from the destruc- tive chaos of a second World War. In a breath-taking series ; ,-' of perilous exploits, the Envoy Extraordinary brings to a halt; ' the devious machinaticss of thess who pnt power ubore pesce. . : Oppenheim reveals a new' chapter in international double- dealing In the chancellories of the Continent Be cure to read ; thislatestthiineroyanautiicTW The Oregon Statesman 7" -f 't ' VJat-i ' '.. before Federal Jndge Ralph Jeaney: warnings were put! up at T today. Southeast storm warnings fluttered along the Oregon coast to the south. Rain was forecast tor tonight and Sunday, with snow in the mountains, i Five Persons Die In Maffi RUM FORD, Me.; Dee. 31-AV Flve persons perished tonight la a' fire that burned the Falls View hotel to the ground. Sam HeLaughlin, clerk in the hotel, said he was "certain" five persons lost their lives as the three-story wooden building was leveled.' ' j The list of dead furnished by McLaughlin: Mrs. Vivian JIaells, about 3 ft, wife of Peter Maelia,' owner of the 30-room hotel. I Their three children, Virginia, 9, Mildred, 10, and Georgia S. Russ Rogers, about 45, of Up per Dam who was living at the hotel. ' ' ,r i Firemen from Mexico and Rum- ford battled the blase. Damage was estimated unofficially at $10,- ooo. Albany Teacherg Hurt In Santiam Car Crath ALBANY". Dec. 11-CThree school teachers suffered minor in juries last night when their car crashed into -two boulders on the North Santiam high war east of Detroit. They were .Lucille Mur phy, Instructor la Port la a d schools, Donna GUI and George Gentemann, Albany teachers. A NEW tinuary.aa in:; : ; Historic Art " Now on Walls Morals Qpturc S p i ri t r-o Early Oregon and . .Correct in Detail ( Con tinned from page 1) background 'otrlrUasiv.hul--yest. they, were there too, , But the somber-looktn...Iadians a thr right.are sTmborio-wemlnd-ers ot the fateTthal was in. store for the Whitman party. 1 .Great Wagon Traisj."-;.' ' . From the sam . secona xioor Tleirpolnt wt aow scan the last of ; the large jnarab,Schwars t representaUosi . of . the "Great Wagon Train V.of, 184S.-a. The scene is thi 'last encampment,", some .miles ' above .the -present ': slto .'ot Portland. It; was a spot where the - travelers rested and sought'! laformatlon - abont the land ; they had Jreached.- There : it a sort of : evening tuncll, such as was often held aa the covered . agon pIoaerA' baited Xor ' the night. . - V V, i? It would have been possible for Schwars to depici individual Snembers1 ot - this : Immigration. , there were plenty of portraits at hand. . But he wanted to repref Sent S00 people, the ancestors of many present Oregonians; so he did not Include any ! actual persons. His material was obtain; ed mostly from the recollections of Jesse Applegate. ' ; J i The smaller muials are en tirely symbolical and self-explanatory, -though it might, be 'men tioned that an actual scene In the Hood River valley Is shown in the one erempllfyin; the fruit and grain industries. " ) ' ' I There wlir be 4wocrmore muV ralsrrlFaulkner Is preparUss the one-for the house chamber, de plcting the. historic Champoeg scene; and Sehwarx the one in the senate chamber, representing' the. bringing of the news of statehood to Salem. ' 1-J L Just a final word about the artists; they are ' unassuming, pheasant, conscientious men ho have done painstaking work; with a high regard for Oregon's heritage of history ahd spirit, who through their outstanding craftsmanship have transferred -' that spirit to canvas as It has never ? been done before. What more can we ask T . Hunting Parties Are Entertained RICKRIALL Mr. . and Mrs. Herman Amos entertained the members of the deer and elk hunt ing parties and. their families at their home Wednesday evening. Moving pictures taken by R. F. . Grolbert daring the . trips were ' shown to the group.' Present, vers Mr. and Mrs. Ora Lantz. Frances Lantz, Jean Oake. Mr. and Mrs, R. F. Grolbert, Patsy Walker, Jim Grolbert, Jess and Elbert RagsdaleMrs. Llllle Lar kin, John Larkln, Claude Larkih, Floyd Larkin and the hosts. Re freshments wers served at a late hour. t " . . - I DAILY SERIAL death, E. Phillips