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.JTiS, 'Syy'AV lVL V SWav l L V wVJ V 7 1 1 ' H fl o. UtUe change la temper. 1 ,: egeof sr The SUtesman . : V V TTi V fcsV l J Vll U U LlVJA-K I ' um Southerly ele off L , rrtant bketbll game of - . ; , , g k - , I. . . : ,Vb J f- 4 -f - . ' ;T-.V- VOY.T day 4, inla. 87. River 6.5 f V ElGUTY-ElGHTllJ YEAR : : ; . ' ; Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning Janbary.5, 1939 " V V; ; rPrtets Mtwstftads Se i 7 : ' -No. 243 ' Miglk Conirt YoM Fweclosmufe AcSadmi. Here 1 v&w mLessaue jufemnjea mmmiim Mmmp$mn u$smrs : -1 Hits Dictators AndGtesUS Defense Needs Unity ait Home Declared Essential;- Startling Ideas Arje eking Innovations Ended ; Sees 'Danger in Cnrtaing ;: i - - Spending-tod Fast MESSAGE HIGHUGHT OF . THE DAI' IN J WASHINGTON (By the Associated Press) ... President Kooscvelt, la an sal message to congress, urg es stronger defenses and bints lit non-military action against ; dictators, calls': for continued pending but indicates no new leglsIatlTe experiment will be ' proposed. . V ! Administration supporters term message m great state pa-.' per, critics call It a confession s of ; failure and j attempted to divert attention from domestic ", scene. '- . " j ' . Senator Pittmah (D-Net) ad vocates "moral, financial and .commercial (sanctions against traty Tiolators.1 , Senator King (D-Ctab ) pro pose abolition of WPA and creation of non-partisan re- lief boards. J By RICHARD l I TURNER WASHINGTON Jan. -Py-With Adolf UlUer's chjef envoy an ImpasslTe llattrier, President Roosevelt warned 1 the dictator cations today that America would resist "strident ambition and brute force" in World ' affairs. Addressing a j dramatic Joint session of congress In too house of representatives, .the chief .ex ecutive; .with slow and- deliberate emphasis, asked that that re sistance bo bnlwarkd by In creased , military j preparedness. - A n d equally necessary, he said, was the elimination of class prejudices and Internal ' dlssen ' slorn through ; the abolition of social abuse sd that a nation united in spirit; - mlfht combat all threats of "mllitai j and eco nomic" aggression from abroad. Uetbods Short of , War Held Available 4 ' Moreover, Mr.j1 Roosevelt hint ed immediate steps might be un der . consideration. He asserted "there are many methods short of "war . . . of bringing home to aggressor goverhmeu's the aggre gate sentiments of our own peo ple." I . ,. .; Linking domestic, problems with foreign policy through his plea for national unity, Mr, Roosevelt announced ;that the period of new deal social and economic (Tarn to Page 2, Col. l) . Note Seiit jltaly On Jewish f Issue ROME, Jan. 4-MEVThe Italian I ! government ' disclosed .today that President Roosevelt had sent to Premier Mussolini proposals for a solution of the European, Jewish problem, bnt did, not say what the proposals were. I -'' j r Diplomatlc circles ! said It was crttttrprobable the president's pro posals dealt with the problem of earing for thousands of " Jewish refugees. seeking to escape from the anU-Semitlc; campaigns In It aly, Germany nd other European countries.: Wedtlier Station ; Wanted Klamath KLAMATH FALLS, Jan. i-iJPf -The chamber of commerce, direc tors approved a. .resolution today to apply for a government weath er station here. The Plan was sop ported by Jackson county pear producer who! ship ana store fruic m this area. !. .! v .- The chamber! also endorsed the radio station KOAC struggle to prevent an Arizona station from operating on I the tame wave -length. . j ' l- ;carlet Fever Is Feared, Oakridge OAKRIDQE, j Jan. l.-tDr. B. M. Gardner, cotinty.health officer, asked ! Oakrldge! citizens ! today to "maintain a polfey of Isolation', following the outbreak of .tea new cases of scarlet fever, bringing the total to about 10. -" ' - ; Schools have I been closed and a number i of public meetings an- celled. , . i Allotment Approved WASHINGT6N, Jan. 4.-6!V Senator Charles McNary revealed today the WPA bed approved $51,800 allotment for the mnnl clpal research :-.:ru at t: e Uni versity of Oregba for a state-wide project to revise and codify city wruinaaces sail. iwa FOREST-OF (XT' .V .--. Message Deemed Jingoist, Berlin Contrasted With Peaceful Utterances of Hitler on V New Year Day , j ; , I- i - - 1 : , i BERLIN, Jan. B.-(Thursday)-UPi - President ; Roosevelt's mes sage to congress calling attention to tne challenge to American de mocracy from abroad was con trasted wjth thd "spirit of peace" in Chancellor Adolf Hitler's New Tear's statement today by sources with close connections in the Ger man foreign office. This source said the American president's assertions "can be re garded as an example of those ag gressive methods which . theoretic ally Roosevelt himself today con demns." j : I It was, Added that the address could be traced back to "domestic difficulties to which the Roose velt regime has led the United States." ' ! ' - . - "It is i doubted here that the president will succeed in leading a clear - thinking American people into foreign political adventure," this source declared.' . , "What was expected" was the first press reaction to President Roosevelt's message. The Berlin Lokal Anieigers comment was headed, "In the tracks of Wilson." "Roosevelt alters neither the domestic nor foreign political line which he has followed for about a year,? the Lokal Anzeiger said. He sticks to an imperial pol (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) i. 1 1 '- 1 Storm Covert Santianf t , PoV; May Be Kept Open 'The North San t lam highway was shrouded In a heavy snow storu above Detroit yesterday af ternoon but County Commissioner Roy S. Melson predicted the road would be kept open to travel. The state" highway' department's big rotary : anowplow waa expected to operate ) all nlght, followed by smaller plows, to keep up with the storm; County Engineer N. C Hubbs said. ' Ships Finally PORTLXnd, Ore.. Jan. 4-ff)-Whole gala storm warnings still flapped along the northwest coast tonight and the barometer remained low as another gale apparently headed for this sec tion, already weary from a four day storm that took four Uvea and left the Oregon-Washington littoral strewn . with smashed docks, j broken! seawalls, splint ered : cottages and - flooded roads and streets. , 1 - Southwesterly winds shifted to the southeast and reached i al force : on the ! coast again' after winds of the last storm, 'which reached aa S 0-mile volocltyr sub sided Monday night. , , -, Damage from the earlier storm was widespread. Repal crews In Erltlsh Columbia cleared - high ways and restored, telegraph systems-after the heaviest rain and wind storm In years bowled over Vancouver . Island.' Jv--,;;;,r : U - A house was blown from its foundation In Seattle; at Empire. Oregon; K a freak gust turned : a beach . horn , completely around HANDS RAISED AS 76TH CONGRESS SWORN; IN 'A i 1 " :t 4 J 4 jot Compensation Act Ruliiig Waits stlu Oregon Participant I in Program, at aaltuigton Office WASHINGTON, J an, 4-(A)-The social security board dis closed tonight it was i awaiting further evidence before deciding whether Oregon's unemployment compensation act conformed with federal statutes. , . j . -1 .Until a decision Is , reached, said George Bigge, a member of the board, certification of, the Oregon act for 1939 would be withheld, but the state could continue to participate In the federal program. ' - Certification, was vlthheld af ter labor unions contended a- re cently adopted "anti-plcketing" law had in effect amended the state unemployment, act and ren dered it Inoperative under the federal social security program. Union attorneys said at re cent hearings that they - were fearful certification of the Ore gon act would start an "epidem ic" of state laws regulating pick eting and charged authors of the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4 Cabinet Complete TOKYO, Jan. fri(Thur day )-Baron KUehiros - Hlranama, fascist-inclined president . of the prevy' council and premier-designate succeeding the comparative liberal Prince Fumimaro Kohoye, today 'completed bis cabinet with five new minister. ' Isht Watarl, minister ' of fi nance; Chaj! Jtfachida, minister of agriculture, - and .Toneio . Maeda. minister "of Iran ways, were the only new member of the govern ment Lto-the list prepared- by the 7 S-y ear-old Japanese nationalist whose powerful, behind-the-scenes backers yesterday thrust aside the retiring premier for a more auth oritarian form of government on its foundation. At least SO kummer cottages and homes were pounded to pieces y wind and abnormally high sur along the Oregon coast. :.r The ocean, goaded by the winds, crawled up over the land and left plies of logs and dlrft- wood on roads and streets, flood ed several town and nigh ways from Puget Sound to the SUki- yons. - !"0 J 4 i-ar,f ,' : Beach slopes werj . washed down at Seaside - cadX Cannon Beach. Oregon, creating new dan sere under the lash of another tale..,: r:':' :-:r Cutler City, DeLa. Taft and Neleeott - on . the. Oregon coast, Raymond, ; Aberdeen and;: Ho QUlam, -Wash-, all . retorted flood conditions. - .Almost SO boats that rode at anchor for a 'day or longer Inside end off the! Columbia river while the ocean frothed . t the bar, ware able; to set la and ; obt to day; as the water on the bar subsided tot several hourai Bar bound ships at other ports; were u C-s - S : able to reach ports or get to tea. Tf t' IT', I A foeat ef bands rose In the house .., congress was sworn In. Tuesday by Speaker William J. Bankbead. Upper pictare taken from the gallery la the rear of the house, shows ; Bankbead on the rostrum as the Speaker Bankbead addresses the President Roosevelt spoke on Oldest Native of Oregon 1$ Called MISSOULA, Mont, . Jan. 4-OP) rMrs. Mary Ellen . Dawson, 84, and according to the records of the Oregon Historical society, the oldest living native Oregonian, died today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Marion Batler, of Drummond. . . - Mrs. Dawson wu bora near Albany, Ore., December 10, 18S2, end pioneered In the four, north western states. With her hueband and three . children through the . Indian she? went troubles In the Walla WaUa district In the From a piece of red flannel; a pillow case and a bluo dress she made the Am erica a flag for the first Fourth of July celebra tion at Pend Orielle camp, now Bayview, Idaho, two days after President; Garfield wsi shot. Besides the daughter at Drum- cond, survivors -include a son, W. E, Dawson, Seattle. Stork Arrives on r Date as Assigned GRANTS PASS, Jaa. 4-(ff)i Sidney 8. Smith,! reporter, left here a year ago to Join the staff ot a newspaper at The Dalles, and hi mother, also , a news worker, Jotted this memorandum in the assignment book: "Dec ?1 Write Sid and ask about thetwina!3 i It was Just a - guess with the frtorkv of course, but this . week she" received the - announcement of a . grandson's blrt' --the date was December -i. . "Well, I was half -right," she commented. v. i of representatives as 'the ? 6th house took the oath. Lower picture. session from the rostrum, where Wednesday. AF. Telemats. . Deny Radio Plea - r For Grants Paiss GRANTS - PASS, Jan t-iffV- The federal communications com mission denied lhe application ot the Oregon Broadcasting System, Inc., today to establish a radio station nere. - . The notice said .Walter ; I. Bead,' president, had been ' prev iously 'denied an application and regulation - prevented ,, refiling within six. oatlia,vr.V.t-1.:'n The commission has not acted on ' the application - submitted by A. E. Voorhies, president of the Southern Oregon j. Broadcasting company. , ' v -- , - . lit ier victim Of Train Wreck NELSON. B. C, Jan. 4.-ff)-A small rocksllde on the Kootenai lake link of the Canadian Pacific railway 40 miles east of here de railed the engine and four cars of westbound . freight , killing the engineer : and Injuring two train men. : v. ; "4t L. ,tkl Engineer Arthur' Bolt, 47, waa killed - apparently - Instantly-- when his engine struck the slide, plun ged from the! rails and down , an emoancment, turning oven -i Charles McDonald, 44, fireman was scalded and Carl Larson, 51 brakeman, wa slightly Injured. VifolCrsgKDiw PORTLAND. "Jan. 4.-tfV-Port- land's u second,- traffic -fatality I of the year occurred last night with the death of Frank Cashing, 21 of Vancouver,' Wash. ' Hi skull waa fractured la' a collision Mon day. ',-1- ; - r - S t. ' ; I f? . K i , . ! ft v- i I v b 4vj A , V.J , , r- 171 ' Engine Artesa Taken As Insurgents on Attaert CrosB. Stream n Pontoons, - Wade r Gains 6ri Several Other Fronts Aire' Claimed r HENDATE, France. (at. the Spanlst frontier) Jan. 4-(ff)-The Spanish Insurgent command to night officially announced the capture of Artesa, "Gateway to Catalonia" 65 miles northwest of Barcelona. - Fall of the city was claimed by insurgent dispatches from Burgos, nsurgent military headquarters. 24 hours before, but was flatly contradicted today by the govern ment command. Insurgents did not reiterate the claim until tonight, when the of ficial communique asserted the textile town fell before attacks of two insurgent columns which crossed 'the. Segre river on pon toons and waded through fields flooded by diversion of water from the Urgel canal. 8everal Villages Also Are Captured The villages of Monsonls, di rectly west of. Artesa, and Mar- cobau, ot the south, also fell into insurgent hands, the communique reported. In the southern sector, near Aspa, the village of Castel Dasens also was reported In the hands of insurgents, : (Barcelona dispatches said ,40 persons h were killed and 30 wounded, at Tarragona, aeapor t . i r . - when Franco's airmen rained. Domos on. two xeiugee iaaen rail way trains.) . On the center of the C 5-mile front in western Catalonia, south of Artesa, troops described by In surgents as "Italo-Spanlsh" were reported to have occupied Castell- dans, five miles southwest of Bor Jas Blancas. Southern Storms Leave Five Dead Cyclones Hit W. Tennessee Killing 2; School Boa Upset, All Escape (By The Associated Press) Tornado winds cut new paths of destruction in the south Wednes-2 day, bringing to five the number ot deaths from high winds and causing additional d a m a g e to wreckage left in Louisiana by a tornado Tuesday. Cyclonic winds whirled over part of West Tennessee, killing two persons and Injuring more than 25. Two person were killed at Montgomery, La., 'in Tuesday night's storm. i A disturbance along the Gulf coast sent small craft to shelter tonight. High winds struck several west Tennessee towns flattening homes and stores and overturning' auto mobile. : Mrs. Cecil - Wilson- waa kiped at Badgerton when k bey home; collapsed and her four year bid, daughter waa injured ' fatally.' Buenou, . jtomoe y uus, ;,f a. (Turn to Page J, CoL 4) Goal jjnve Auditor Is First asxi SheriffHooketTriatOpens DALLAS, Jaa. : 4 SelecUon of a Jury to hear the charges of iari against Sheriff T. B. Hooker and testimony of .the. first witness, Floyd C. "Bowers who made the audit of the sheiif fa books, car ried the trial along at a rood part today, and gave the outlook that the case would be In the handi of the Jurors sometime Friday. I The jury waa completed by mid afternoon, with tour womea and eight men chosen, with only three of the IS from the last regular jury panel and nine from the spe cial venire recently drawn for this trial. - ? ! ; . v .; ; Judge R. Frank Peters of Hills boro I hearing the case, and at torneys are iOscar Hay ter of Dal las for thai defendant and- Frand T. Wade, assistant attorney gen eral, representing the state as prosecutor. ; -" ' , i Bowers, the first state witness and only witness called Wednes day, told of making a preliminary audit Ot the sheriirs book cover ing the period: from July, 1S2T, to September, 1117, and then of making a mora complete ' audit. which z wa:. eompleted ' this fall. with Darls Hoffman and John Go- , plerud assisting; -v. - Capitol Design i Aide Passes on CARL F. GOULD . Noted Architect Called by Peath Carl F. Gould Plays Large Part in Designing of Oregon Capitol : SEATTLE, Jan. 4.-ff)-Carl F. Gould, 65, nationally known arc hi tect, died today ot a complication of diseases after several months' illness.'" J . Gould, member of a ploc eer I New.yYoikfamBy joJL a; Harvard graduate,; designed or assuted in design of many northwest public buildings, of state capitals la Wis consin, Oregon and Washington, and helped, lay out the plan for San Francisco' city. Carl F. Gould was employed as advisor to the state capitol recon struction commission in connec tion with the competition whereby the1 capitol architects Were . selec ted, and played, a large part in determining what the design should be, as he prepared - the specifications and worked out the floor space requirements to guide the architects. Grange's Program For Session Told Fortified Wine Ban, Power and Transportation Law f Amendments Sought . A three-point legislative pro gram j has been prepared by the state grange, Morton Tompkins, grange overseer, said Wednesday. . The program Includes: j . 1. Making It unlawful to sell fortified i wines. : 2. Amending the peoples' util ity district law to provide for the Issuance of revenue bonds, and to make districts pay a fair share of ' (.''Amending the transportation law, partlcalarly with reference to track i legislation. .The grange ta working- with other farm organ isation on the concrete propos- Sheriff Hooker cooperated wit I e audltoya, Bowers said. The witness stated also that the audit he mad did not agree in ail ease with audits made la pre via a a years of the same books - Bowers testified the preilmta ary report of the auditors showed $2012.20 nnaceounted, and that some of this waa repaid by Sheriff Hooker when called to hla atten tion. , Under cross examination, Bow ers stated that the same account ing system has. been used la the sheriff's 'office tor : many years and that, the system 1 very ' ar chaic lie said under the system complete cash control was ver j difficult. - The testimony will he resumed at 9 :30 o'clock Thursday morning j'The Jury selected to bear, the charges includes: ' Carey' L. COson,' Amity; 11. J. O'Donnell, Independence; Louisa U. Windsor. West Salem, all from the regular panel; George Woods, Dallas route one, Lillian u. Hiide brand. independence: Frederics atuller, Balem route one; Darrell Bird. Dallas: i lta B. Ashby. Dal las; SU D. Blgelow, Independence route one: Nellie Hathaway, - aa- ley; w( v. tester, Kicareaii; una i Fred Cody, Monmouth. - ''.- r U-l" ! s ------ Huge Tax Sale Proceeding is 1100 Properties Figure in! Case; Lewelling Verdict Affirmed Technical Errors Noted Including Failure to J?ro-Rate all Cost Marion county's biggest blank et tax! foreclosure action, common ly referred to as the Highstoae case, Was declared Invalid In a de cision j hanfled down by the state supreme court , yesterday. The high icourt affirmed the decision . of Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelllng in the case of Guy H. Smith vs. Oscar I and Hannah Carlson la whlchl title to foreclosed property bought from the county was eees tioned. ' Approximately 1100 parcel of property were listed in the High stone j foreclosure decree secured by the connty in 1935. Many were sold to the highest bidders but further sales were ordered discon tinued after Judge Lewelllng had given-his opinion in the Smith- Carlson case in mid-1937. ' Concludes Cost Not Property Pro-rated The supreme court agreed with Judge Lewelling's conclusions that costs of the county's blanket suit were not pro-rated properly among the numerous defendants and certain other technicalities not observed. The court sustained the defendant Carlsons' counter claim to quiet their title to the land bought from the county by Smith but required that Smith be repaid the approximately he paid the county,- with; Interest. The property is a large farm wortn approximately ysuvo loca ted east of Sllverton. : S ' Status ot the title ot other prep-. erties taken for- taxes in jthe High stone case and subsequently sold by the county was clouded by yes terday's decision although a re cently-enacted statute bars ' orig inal owners from attacking valid ity or tax uties . aiter two years. This statute, never tested In the courts, may be unconstitutional. some attorneys feel. Argument Motion -By Rosser Denied In another decision yesterday the supremo court denied the mo tion of Al E. Rosser for an oral argument on the state's motion to dismiss his appeal from a lZ-year .prison sentence for burning the West Salem box factory. The court, however ha not passed on the state's motion ta dismiss, which was based on the State's contention that Rosser lost his right to appeal because he did not file the transcript of hi trial at Dallas within the. re quired time. Rosser, former sec retary of Oregon AFL teamsters, is now In Jail at Dallas. Other,, decisions yesterday In cluded: Walter and Edith Smith, appel lants, vs. Enterprise Irrigation dis trict. Appeal from Klamath county.- 8uit to enjoin district from levying further taxes against prop erty. Opinion by Justice Kelly. Judge Edward B. Ashurst, rever sed and remanded. v 8am Abrams. appellant, vs. ex ecutors' of the estate of . G. Rushlight, deceased. Appeal from Multnomah county. Suit Involving ownership of personal property. Oplnionf by Justice Bailey, Judge Robert Tuckert affirmed.; . r Bonne rti Power Contract Signed t By Cascade Lories POKTLAND, JanV 4.-ff)-a-cad Lock '.Joined 'the list -of firsts"; today-when ft signed a e r tract to become a regular eleo trio power company of the hug edei a l Bonneville dam project. .r . The Oregon community wia re- -celva 2 0C kilowatt years ot power ( tor 20 years. J. Dv Ross, Bonne- vllle administrator said that- the : iown would pay 117.10 per kilo watt year for primary energy and $14.69 ; If it constructed ltawa iraaaraissioa line to the dam. . The contract, revealed the for lowing r prospective terms : sponc which energy-will be resold for residential 'purposes: - Firsts 0. k 1 1 o w a I t-hours a month, 2u rcests ?er kwh; next -ISOtTS c i next' 160, 1 cent; next 1700, U cent; excess of 2.-. 000,': 4 - cent; minimum. moatblf '" bill 10 cents per meter. . r v Child Severely. Scalded r" , ' Pulling fan off Stove MONMOUTH, Jan. 4 Caro' Jean, 11-months-old daughter ot , Mr, and Mr. H. Morris, was badly scalded tbere . Wednesday airbt when she polled a pan tt boiling rice from j the - store." She wa taken to the Salem General hosnl tal i.i 1; 3. j, i,- . ; .. i .'-K V . Ruled Livalid 1