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f 1 I ' The Weather Fast Photos f 1 - Partly eloskly today and . .. 8amdy, probable light " showers. Little teuperataro ' change. Max. temp. Friday 4S, mlaw S3. Blrer 8.1 feet. , Sovth wind. Tha Statesman bow re ceives Associated- Prist Telemat service to give Its readers news pictures while they're hot. ' EIGHTY-CICHTII YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 7, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands $c No. 245 MOT)" l V X. J", I I 1 I I I 1" I 1 I t i I V ' . V . . . - - pstiMDnto 1651 : . - - : v- "f ' j - ? , ? 1 If - ' ; - "... - MeMS3-: Costs - 1 V'. :- ' V V f 1 n ... . i' : Magyars i FELIX FRAXKFUltTEIV la shows with Sirs. Frankfurter at their Cambridge, Hawk, home just after receJrlas; word of bis appofait- nent to the US saprene court. "Don't call me Jadge, yet," he qvlp ped. FrtAkfnrter, professor f the Harvard law school, succeeds the late Benjamin N. Cardoaov ( AP Telemat.) .. S . 4 .... Ml ,, iv', .:i r - x "V v i . - .i . :-.-:... x . 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Bneenam ingntj, preaiaent ox toe line. using the same aeea ajt COY tOUS 13. HSLTHS (abore), of Kew llelico, defied court or der and ordered the beadzates a the CHa river Irrigation . Ctches opened. The action was - the outgrowth of a dlsDttte with, the state of Arisona over the ! water. New Mexico state police carried out the governor's xor ders and smashed locks off tho y sates, (AP Telemat). . j : t y 1 . a bitter marital dlspate last ram Hanehwlts Berentlow and his :-v.;.-.f xeiemauj - - ; , GSOHGS rnrLUTS (above), C3, " whose stepfather, James reters, -r 57. of Portland. Ore-, died nn- i Cat mystertons circumstances fa Vlos Angeles, was arrestedh on charges of smspidoa of murder but was absolved of blame by a oroners Jurf,' CAP Telemat). . r ..: : r2achine Guns Used in Fight Near Mtirikacs Firing Ceased After Honrs of Hostility; f ' Between Troops 8 Budapest Protests That Incident Caused by Czech Soldiers . By UWIN J. 8TEINK0PF BUDAPEST, Jan. ,-MVBitter border fighting with : machine rans, an armored ear and : even light artillery fire burst forth to day In the neighborhood of Hun kses, a city of 10,000 whreh Hungary acquired through . the November S partitioning of Cxechoslovakia. . -;. -X '.I,' The Hungarian Intelligence ser vice asserted it bad evidence that Czechoslovak troops . deliberately attacked Maniacs and the tdja eent village of Orosveg, precipi tating hostilities which were re ported to have caused a dozen or more deaths. The fighting had stopped to night, but thousands of Hungarian troops werer moving toward border points. Only troops on active duty were Involved. No reservists had been called to tne colors. - v "in several Hungarian communi ties angry crowds demanding ag gresslve action were dispersed by police. . . . Joint Probe Agreed On Outbreaks ;, Ctecho-Slovakla and Hungary agreed on a Joint Investigation of the clash. This step followed pres entation of a written Hungarian proteit to Minister Plenipotentiary JTrno of the Prague foreign office -togartaa;' "i4Kmo took a conciliatory kHk.ke.-- - - ' (The Cseeho-Slovak version given In Prague was that Hun garian troops and "terrorists" pro voked the clash. Prague reported an Hungarian army officer was killed and that several Csech gen darmes were seriously wounded. :. (The Csecho-Slovak version said the fighting lasted eight hours. It was described as a local Inci dent, and it waa said - a , quick settlement was expected.) Budapest Says Region Invaded The Budapest government pro tested in Prague, charging lta ter ritory had been invaded, and Pre mier Bela Imredl in an address tonight spoke of "the treacherous attack on Munkacs" and warned Csecho-Slovakla to keep "hands off Hungary." 1 ' -; Hungarian reports said fighting was started at . 8:40 a. m. (t:40 p. m. PST Thursday) at Oroszpeg by Czecho-SloTak regulars and Ir regulars and continued through the day but private advices to night said a truce had been ar ranged. .; k '. Hungarians aaid the "Invaders" began shelling Munkacs, striking first a hotel, a motion picture theater and the municipal theater, and In intermittent tire In the afternoon were concentrating on the residential district,' At 4 p. m.. Hungarian military authorities as serted the attackers had been re pulsed. Health Ordinance Aiding The Dalles THE DALLES, Jan. Healtn authorities aaid today health - ordinance approved two years ago had freed The Dalles of food handlers, barbers and beauticians suffering from social diseases and tuberculosis. ' ' Examination of 221 workers In the past two weeks showed only one Infection. There were a nam ber of eases when the law went Into effect. Several persons changed their residences rather than undergo examinations. j i II Duce to Ask Hitler's Aid In Jewish j Refugee Removal LONDON, Jan. e.-(ffV-Reliable sources reported tonight that Pre mier Mussolini had agreed en a request from President Roosevelt to ask Chancellor Hitler's aid in getting Jews out of Germany. . ri It was understood that Musso lini, after . seeing . United States Ambassador William Phillips on Jan. S, telephoned Hitler at Berch teigaden. Hitler's reaction- was not disclosed. - --"v V Prime Minister Chamberlain waa laid ; to bars given his sup port to President Roosevelt's pro posals and to have offered to give whatever assistance he csuld dur ing his visit with Mussolini next week. The British premier, it was said, would take full details of the proposals with him on his Jan. Il ls Italian trip. - ? .Ambassador. Phmips was said by a well-informed source to hare Sheriff Hooker Found Innocent of Larceny Of Polk Cbunty Funds Jury Brings in Acquittal Evidence for Five Hours; Results in i v Line With Dallas Feeling DALLAS, Jan. fc Sheriff T.'B. Hooker of Polk county was cleared of charges of larceny of public funds, brought 15 months ago through a grand jury indictment, by the circuit court jury which heard testimony in his trial, conducted Thursday and part of Friday. The jury's verdict of "not qo Petitions Seeking Caiser Retention Bradfield Says no Plans Made to Consider Act on School Head ' i Petitions urging the reappoint ment of Silas Galser as superin tendent of ' the Salem public schools were reported In circula tion yesterday and Intended to be presented to the school board within the near future. Gaiaer's present contract expires June SO. Although Board Chairman E. A. Bradfield declared yesterday he hadbeard of no plana to consider the Galser appointment at next Tuesday night'a regular directors' meetings, there were indications yesterday that a large delegation of men and women who contend Galser la highly qualified for his position and should be retained would attend the session. Opening move in the campaign to keep. Galser In the Salem sys tem was a resolution adopted by the Salem Lions club Thursday ex pressing belief In his ability and urging his retention. ,. Efforts to secure solid support for tho present superintendent are not being directed -at Chairman Bradfield- and" Director Percy . Cupper, who have, frequently dis agreed. With him. r Directors u ar. Barrlck and W. F. Neptune have received several callers in Galser's behalf. Mrs. David Wright hai backed the superintendent con sistently. Death of Peters Is Held Accident Coroner's Jury Absolves Stepson of Blame in Financier's End LOS ANGELES, Jan. The death of James Peters, 57, Portland, Ore., financier, today was termed accidental by a coro ner's Jury whica exonerated his step-son. George Phillips, from any responsibility. Phillips, held on a police book ing of "suspicion of murder," was ordered released when the Jury decided Peters died from injuries suffered In a fall. Speaking quietly and clearly. Phillips, J8, told the fury of mak ing the rounds of Hollywood night spots on Tuesday night in com pany with Peters, Mrs. Peters; his wife, Helen Phillips, and Peters adopted .daughter, Betty, After having several drinks, a family quarrel developed in a parking lot. He said his stepfather hit him on the chin. "Then he grabbed me by the throat." Phillips testified. reached out and pushed him away and me I don't know Just how It happened, but there he was. face down on the ground." Mrs. Peters, who, Phillips said. was the only member of the party that had not been drinking, testi fied briefly. "I did not see any blows struck," she said. "The first knew that he was in trouble was when I saw him lying on the ground." Mrs. Peters said an argument occurred about "Betty having too much to drink." asked that Mussolini support more lentant terms for the emigration of Jawa from German?. l- The suggestion waa understood to have called for modifications of a Jewish emigration plan attrib uted to Dr. HJalmar Schacht, pres ident of the reichsbank and Mus solini; was described as sympa thetic. : r: ' X , I1 Germany's original plan ; was that emigration of - refugees . be financed by making foreign pow ers Increase their purchases of German goodsJJi-'1-- ' This nlan attracted little sym pathy among British and Ameri can officials, but George Rublee, American director of - the .Inter governmental committee on refu gees, was advised to aeeept R es basis tor negotiation Indiseasalng with German officials - in Berlin next-- week.--- : Verdict After Mulling guilty" was brought in at 3 :25 ciocx inia anernoon. The ease went to the Jury shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, follow ing Instructions from Judge R. Frank Peters of Hlllsboro. who presided. George Wood of Dallas route one was foreman of the Jury. The lurys Terdiet of not guilty was In line with the general sen timent in Dallas, townspeople generally believing that the sher iff was innocent. Actual testimony in the trial took less than a fuu day, with only three witnesses, Including the defendant, called. An archaic system of bookkeep ing, thrown over last year for a modern method, an dlack of suf ficient help during the taxpaying rush season, were blamed for the seeming book discrepancy in funds.. GO Says Jobless Law Out of Order Social Security Board Is Told Approval Should not Be Given WASHINGTON, Jan. i.-UPy- The CIO told the social security board today the Oregon unemploy ment compensation law should not receive, board. approval until tha atatereeal the labor regula tory Initiative approved ; by the state's voters last November. In a brief filed with the board. Lee Pressman, CIO general coun sel, said restrictions Imposed upon labor unions by the initiative vi olated the board's labor standards, required In all state unemploy ment compensation laws . before they are acceptable to the board. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. t.-VPt- T. Morris Dunne, chairman of the state unemployment compensation commission, said today the com mission would take no steps until the federal social security board at Washington, D. C, closed its hearings on certification of Ore gon's unemployment compensa tion act , Dunne said the hearing was to end Saturday. He asserted the commission had received no Indication the security board would not certify the. law and said he waa not disposed to credit an unnamed "spokesman" for the board quoted In Washing! ton to the effect the law probably would not be certified. Bill Would Affect UmpquaFishermen ROSEBURG, Jan. l.-(Pr-Two bills affecting commercial fish ing on the Umpqua river were prepared today for submission to the state legislature by a central organisation of Douglas, county sportsmen, acting for the county conservation council. ' I One would prohibit net fishing on the river, but would permit sale of the legal catch of salmon taken on troll. The second' would classify steelheads as game fish and ' would ; prohibit their netting and eaie. - Portland Polict t Chief a Condition Reported Same 8 AN FRANCISCO. Jan. C-flrV St, Mary's hospital - attaches re ported today Captain Fred. West. chief of the Portland police traf fic division, was "Just about the same and holding-his own." - The captain haa been In the hospital, for a w e e k suffering from a bilateral maatold Infection and meningitis. ; Late Sports CORVALLIS, Jan. f .- (Special) -Salem's Viking basketeers scored a SO to 2 S No-Name league basket ball win over the Spartans here tonight,' the Vikings forging ahead la, the second half r after being dowa t- at the Intermission. Hand, Spartan forward,' led the firing' with 12, trailed by Gosser andQuaekenbush of the Invaders, with 11 each. - Salem Junior varsity, with Bob MeKee gathering 7 counters, beat the Spartan Bees 'SO-to 24 in a preliminary. Salem 80 ; ' 25 CorvaRls 8ebera I 12 Hand Page 1 r.-'- - Lemon McRas t '' 4 Warren Gosser 11 4 Dehning Quackeobusn 11 . 2 Simmons Subs,, for CorvaUis: Rounds 2, Bates 1.' - i - RebersFront GracKedOp Byjnew Drive Surprise .Offensive v" Gets Stratec Towii for " j. : r Loyal Troops j ; Franco's . Catalonia -Move Halted by Loyalist' ; ; Strength HENDATE. France, (At The Spanish Frontier), Jan. i.UPt- The Spanish government reported tonight that its surprise offensive on the Estremadura front,5 in southwestern Spain, has shattered insurgent , lines and regained stra tegic Valsequillo. The government apparently had succeeded, at least momen tarily, in its objective of halting the insurgent campaign in Cata lonia, which Is directed against Barcelona on the other side of the country. The Estremadura drive was launched to divert the Insurgents from their Catalonlan offensive and today, after hard-won gains during the last IS days, the In surgents reported but little prog ress in the east. Franco Admits Loyalist Strength Dispatches from the headquar ters of Generalissimo Francisco Franco emphasised the strength of the government army and the difficulty of the next phase of op erations. Reports reaching the frontier said the government's whirlwind southwestern i offensive- had cracked the Insurgent front In three places and that the govern ment had recaptured the strate gic communications 'center?. of Valsequillo, where a north-south trunk railroad crosses four "high ways. - j .V, '.-V, Valsequillo. about 100 tulles southwest of Madrid and 10 miles northwest of Cordoba, was loatby the gejnment-ai few months Shortly before midnight dis patches from Madrid said the al most equally ! Important towns of Los Blasques and La Granjuela to the west and south of Valsequil lo were j captured by the govern ment. ' Loyalists Make Great Gains The dispatches also said that since yesterday government troops had recaptured all the territory lost to insurgents in the July cam paign and in addition penetrated several miles behind the Insur gents' summer Jump-off line. The attack swung to the south against Fuente Ore j una, commun ications and manufacturing (Cen ter of a rich mining area. Despite reinforcements rushed by the insurgents, said dispatch es to the . border, the government advance was gathering momen tum and spreading out fan-like along the border of Badajos pro vince. The insurgents two main lines of trenches were reported to be in government hands for a distance of many miles on each aide of Valsequillo. Revolver in Safe I FaUKilliiig Man OREGON CTTT, Jan. I.-WVA shot fired accidentally from a po lice revolver' which allpped ts the floor as he cleaned a safe was fa tal today to E. J. Stanley, -about IS, municipal , building Janitor. The revolver had been placed in the safe. n ' Dotmfotcn Portland Said SwptMf Jtt PinbalU - PORTLAND,, Jan. t.-iJP-TAf trlct Attorney. James R. Bala said today - all - pinball - machines- in downtown Portland had been re moved or . locked, up Police, act lag In compliance-with a federal court ruling and a law passed Ja the November election, said no ar rests were necessary. - ; .;.',- Ildtt Defendant in Action To Recover f . j . . Jay Moltznev' Portland, and Mark' A. : Paulson as taxpayers yesterday filed a suit In circuit court on behalf of the state to re cover 17,10 S.I I their complaint alleged had been unlawfully raid to Earaett XL Goldstein, Portias 1 attorney, for prosecuting tenons charged with violating r the tlae sky law and the building and loan act. - - The coa plaint named Congress man James 7. tlott, as state cor poration commissioner ln 19 31-S, Goldstela anLthe FideUty A Cas ualty company - of New : Jfork, which issued Mott's 125,000 offi cial bond, m defendants. - As corporation ' ' commissioner, Mott believed certain persons were guilty of violating the two acts named and! Induced Governor Ju llus L Meier to request Attorney General L Ut Van Winkle to ap point Ooldatein; a asslstaat .. aV V 'at , i Named as Leader, 01 Water Bureau M. DOUGHTON Doughton Qibsen Water Board Top Veteran Merxiber Succeeds Gabriel- as Chairman -of Commission I. M. Doughton, veteran mem ber of the Salem Water commis sion, was unanimously elected chairman by his fellow commis sioners last night to succeed E. B. Gabriel, who served during the last two years. Doughton waa a member of the board before the city acquired the water system. : The system will benefit rather tiian suffer from construction of the North Santiam . river flood control dam near Detroit, tor which Senator Charles L McNary aspects to seek an appropriation this year, the commission nraS-ad isedbjr its consulting engineer; tt. is. i4.oon.-Tne question was raised by Commissioner E, B. Gra benhbrsa. v.i' u "i 4 ; s i i:s.i "It will; be beneficial, wUl in crease the summer flow of water," Koon Said. "The lake back t the dam -If anything will Improve the (Turn to page 10, coU 2) Grand Jury Probe On Picket Bill up Complaints of Violation of Corrupt Practice taw , ; t Go to Jury j ' Complaints that expenditures made by the Oregon Business council in support of the anti picketing bill at the November election were not reported as re quired by law will be submitted to the Marion county grand Jury tori investigation. District Attor ney Lyle J. Page announced yes terday afternoon. , - $ j We haven't enough Informa tion now to know whether a crime has been committed or not." Page said. J-But the matter will be put before the grand Jury "and witnesses wfll: be called." Oregon state federation of labor executives complained recently to Secretary of SUte Earl Snell that contributors to a $32,000, fund turned over by the council to the Agsoclated Farmers : of Oregon and a 13000 sum given the East ern J Oregon ' Wheat league ' were not identified and contributions not itemised as required by, the corrupt; practices act. 'Attorney General I..H. Van Winkle advised Snell the matter should be called to District Attorney Page's atten tion. Snell delivered exhibits avail able at his of fice to Page.Thars day. ,- - The same day. E, Nlckerson,' secretary Of the federation of la bor, petitioned the circuit court here to compel the filing of names of contributors to the two funds. Slate ; 017,103 torney general la order that the attorney might hare the powers of a district attorney and appear before grand Juries, the complaint asserts. Goldcteih was appointed and drew state pay on Mott's or ders to the smount named in the ccn:rlalnt between June II, 1111, ar 1 :.:irch C, 1923, It Is alleged.'. The plalntlffa aver . "all the sums.. . . so paid Upon the orders cf the corporation commissioner . . are in excess of the amounts and for other and different pur poses than in authorized by law. - .In addition to recovery of the $ 1 7,1 0 J.t , the plalntlffa asked that they be allowed $5000 attor ney fees tor prosecuting the ac tion. The complaint listed Goldstein- 4b Galton, Portland legal firm, as" attorneys for the plala tiff. Court attaches said tha de fendant Goldstein was not con nected with the firm. v a . - r 1 - - L Plan Formulas OfGi iving out House Group Talks WitH : WPA Had on Need of Appropriation ' Roosevelt Reveals Movt Being Made to Probe Nazi Violations -I THE DAT IN WASHINGTON ; ... (By The Associated Press) Senate) movement grows for tighter, congressional control over relief spending. House committee questions CoL F. C. Harrington, WPA admtniatra ' tor, on need for f875,000,00e supplemental appropriation. : . President Roosevelt discloses t Justice department la investl gating possible law violations by nasi and communist orgs" iaations. Chairman Dies (D Tex) says administration is at last taking "serioas attitade" toward diaclosures by boat committee on unAmcricaa ae tivtties. Barry Hopkins, mew secretary of commerce, announces he has conferred with some business leaders and will talk witit oth ers before formulating policies of his department. Senate committees call hear tngs tomorrow on nominations of Felix Frankfurter to be a Justice of the supreme court. WASHINGTON, Jan. t-ff)-Pow-erful ; members of congress made plain today that they mean to tighten congressional control over relief spending by laying dowaaa iron-clad formula for the distribu tion of funds to the states.. - While a house committee ques tioned WPA Administrator F. C Harrington closely about the need for a proposed $S75,ooo,eoe ap propriation to last until July i members of the senate unemploy ment committee agreed Informally td attempt to e a r m a r k fatura funds so that there "would be ne "discrimination" as' betweea states. ; :f::- Three members of ' this latter committee, Senator Clark (D-Mo), Murray (D-Mont) and Hatch (D KM); said they favored putting a distribution formula in the emer gency appropriation . bill; if one could be worked out In time. Frabe Lawiaking ', ; by astAsaerlpaas - , '-' While these committees strug gled with the relief problem, de velopments elsewhere in' the cap ital Included a disclosure by Pres ident Roosevelt, that the Justice department la Investigating possi ble law violations by nasi, com munist and other organizations.- Chairman Dies (D-Tex) of the house committee on unAmerican activities bad contended such croups should be prosecuted for. failure to register with the stats department as agents for foreign principals. -:! Dies promptly hailed the pres Ident's disclosure as marking a change, on the part of the admin istration, from an attitude- of rio Relief Moneys tcule to one of seriousness towara his committee's findings. Harry Hopkins, whose appoint- -ment as secretary of commerce was criticized by some because he has bad no experience In business, told his first press conference ta his new office that he, was con sulting: business leaders, b e fere formulating department policies. , I Hopkins said he bad talked with W. Averell Harriman,. chairman of the department's business ad visory: council, and would tenter . with others. Committee to Mull: ' r." ..... ' . Hopkins Xamlng , ' ' Chairman Bailey 1D-NC) called a meeting of the senate commerca committee for Monday' to consider Hopkins' nomination. A senate Ja-diclary-sub-commlttee agreed to begin hearings tomorrow on the nomination of Felix Frankfurter to be a Justice' of. the supreme court s. k . c Both house and senate were ta recess today. - . -,- . :' If immediate changes are mads In the methods of administering relief, it will be against President Roosevelt's advice, -vt . ,h a la his request tor the emergen- , cy fund yesterday,. President , Roosevelt observed that congress j might want to change the method 1 of distributing relief, but urged that this not be done until , the appropriations bill - for the new fiscal year is considered later, AlthoBr1!. ti embers of. the sen-: ate co- 3 r--ted out that there! ! f rr : j was only in the dlseusslv.-; tonie said they telisved c : nr.:tee COU Id agree on a aaendment In ; time to Insert ft In the emergency, bllL" '---'-V:v :'-o:-vv..?' .;-.- ;:-;!'-;': ni v Chairman Byrnes '(D-SC) said the committee would meet a eat week to go over individual sag-.- " gestlons. Senator Clark said some such formula as Is used for the dlstrfbutloa of federal highway -funds might be worked out Head funds are .distribute ae- -cordiag to highway mileage, pop- -ulatlon and area. It was suggest ed that aeed might be substituted for mileage In evolving a similar formula fat relief.. . ;. . . -I