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J ;''-r4 .:,vvv VKiW.iii.iv .rCr:-Vvt re X-7.iry rT The OSTGON STATESMAN, Salem, Orerua, Thursday Manilas, January 12, 1939 PAGE TWO v4 i franc? . . . . ; Political Speeches, Retain j lag Kentucky Officials f Admitted Errors j (Continued from pag 1) TTPA .be viewed in, its entirety, li relation to the billion spent, tho millions given ' work relief, the hundred! of thousand of projects, and hundred of ; re pabllcan committee seeking evt dene of poliUcal activity. Is that licht. he said.. he. though the cue of "unjustifiable" po litical activity reported by t hi o senate committee on' campaign etpenditure wero negligible. "Anyone who hnow -how poll tics la ran In the , town and counties of America,? he said, "anyone who knowa how local influence try to Influence pub lic official must know that WPA wag ; coerced. ? la . the main ' the pressurs'has been from the out side upon our people." J Hop kin waa asked t) return tomorrow to present the report of, the WPA's own inTestigatori cb the Kentucky Incident, after which It . was planned that the committee meet In executive ses sion, for action; on- the nomin j Despite the fact that Hopkins, van ' inrown- 'on uto . wkb 'throughout the day, and that much criticism - waa expressed. Members predicted that the Com mittee would recommend that the senate confirm 'the nomina tion. Favorable senate action has been generally forecast. til Pleads aperau I Guilty to Charge I NEW TORK, Jan. ll.-(P) Al bert N. Chaperau, who escapea eastoms inspection of Jewels and Defends Parisian finery on a false claim or diplomatic Immunity, pleaded , guilty today to a smuggling in ... dlctment charging conspiracy with Radio Comedian Jack Benny. His attorney followed the sur-pj-tso more by saying Chaperau. who had a wide acquaintance in Hollywood and on Broadway, would "help the gOYernment" by telling of smuggling activities. 'Assistant US Attorney Joseph li Delaney said later, however, - that Chaperau had not yet done ' se. -; ' . iThe Indictment against Chaper ap and Benny, returned by a fed eral grand Jory yesterday, alleg ed they smuggled, concealed and transported tM" worth of Jew elry. Benny, .who flew here from California to appear before the grand Jury, Indignantly . denied the charges and, after pleading in nocent, was released on $1,000 ball pending trial on Jan. 24. i - : - ii 1 1 " " " Herman Olipliant, Adviser, Dies .' ' (ConUnsed from page 1) ' it six years. The republican gains In the last election had bolstered the aelf-assertlTeness of congress, and President Roosevelt had an nounced In his annual message that he had no new major re forms to propose that now" was the time to "machine down" the social .weapons already forged. .: ' Oliphant came to Washington la March, 1933, in the first wave of professors that the president first enlisted to Inaugurate his Test social programs, n' Phone Inventor's Relative IVlarries ' MIAMI, : Fla., Jan. U-(JP)--Py-Miss Nancy Bell Fairchild, granddaughter of the late Alexan der' Graham' Bell, inventor of the ' telephone, was married .today to Dr.Marston Bates of the Interna tional health diTision, Rockefel ler foundation. ' The ceremony took place under a' huge banyan tree on the Fair child estate in suburban Coconut Grove with Circuit Judge Paul D. Barnes, a friend of the family. officiating. r i , r .. r r Goebbels in Trouble Over Her ' '"r. ' ' ' U3a Baaiwra - :' . ' V ' Hss la beautiful Ilia Baarova, actress-wife of Costar TroeHch, Cerman fw player, who Is tn hiding following reports that friends cf Froelich heat German Propaganda Minister Pan! Goebbels because ts aesily paid a neat deal of attention to FrosUch's wife. A C?r n eaaoanceinent said Goebbels was sick withthj. tsiBki Billings;Hbpeful, Confers With V - -a y - 1 i i . 1 " -' t . - r " i ir?!ir i - ( i-x., - - ' Ton Mooner. act free after 22 yean day parade bombing, promised Warren K. Billings, he would labor for his release. Billings was con Tlcted n connection with the same case.-They are shown as they were reunited briefly at Folsoaa pris on, where Billings is confined. Mooney (left), had reccired his unconditional pardon from Got. Olson bat a few hours before they met. Gold Output Here Sets new Record SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. ll-(ff) -TheCbureau ot mines announced today that the value of the gold output in Oregon last year was larger than that of any year since production started there In 1852. Charles White Merrill, of the. mineral production division of the bureau here, said the high value of the gold output was at tributable in part to the $J5-a fine-ounce price, compared with the old price of 20.67,- but also said the quantity produced in 1938 exceeded that for any year since 1916. Oregon's 1938 output, 77,100 fine ounces, valued at $2,698, 500, compared with 52,662 ounc es having a value of $1,843,170 lb 1937. Merrill aald the total value of all minerals produced in Oregon last year was z, 777, 557, con trasted with the 1937 figure of S2.005.218. Court Retirement At 70 Is liked WASHINGTON. Jan. 11-tfPV- supreme court Justice Owen J Roberts expressed approval to night of a suggestion by Former Attorney General Homer Cum in in gs for compulsory retirement of federal Judges at the age of 70. Speaking to 1,200 . persons at a banquet honoring Cummings, the 63-year-old Justice said with a chuckle: "I am rather free to advocate that reform, -because the attorney general has suggested that his proposal will not apply to pres ent Justices." Roberts also said he approved Cummings' suggestion that an administrative officer be appoint ed to handle the business affairs of the courts, now In the hands of the Justice department, -so that the Judiciary might be di vorced from the administrative branch of the government, j Coot Bay-Portland Air Service 1$ Suspended MARSHFIELD, Jan. 11-AV Because it tailed to obtain a gov ernment air mail contract, Ore gon Airlines., Int, has suspended Its Coos- Bay-to-Portland plane service, L. W. Brooks,, airline manager, announced today. in vrlaon tn coanectkm with the dditico in the Netcs (By The Associated Press) MOULTRIE, Ga., Jan. 11 Bran dishing a mop handle, Mrs. T. V. Beard, wife of the sheriff of Col quitt county, herded fifteen pris oners upstairs and prevented their escape after fifteen others had fled by using a key fashioned from a cell cot. " Mrs. Beard was alone at the Jail when one group gained freedom yesterday. Heeling the commo tion she grabbed a mop and stopped the second group. Four ot the fugitives had been recaptured today. WASHINGTON. Jan. 11. One very good use for old Congres sional Records, Representative Kean (R-NJ), suggested today, is to turn them Into "firewood. Kean began reading the record' Ing during the service of his fa ther, Hamilton Fish Kean, in the senate from 1928 to 1934. As the years passed, old Records piled up high in his home. "We puzzled what to do with them, then one day we tried throwing them Into the fireplace instead of wood," Kean a a 1 d . "They served fine burned for hours and gave, off plenty of heat." BALTIMORE, Jan. 11 Harry W. Nice," private citizen since 12:09 p.m. today when Herbert R. O'Connor succeeded him as gover nor of Maryland, came home to Baltimore and picked up his mail. The first piece was an advertis ing sample of a headache powder. Nice forwarded it to Governor O'Connor. Trucks on Road As Strike Ended BOSTON, Jan. ll-flP)-Heavily laden trucks hummed along New England highways again tonight as 6,000 trucks and helpers. heeding a plea of Governor Lev- crett Saltonstall, accepted -a com promise wage-hour proposal and ended a week-long atrlke. The socialite governor, whose labor record was assailed in the recent election campaign, was lustily cheered as he helped talk more than a thousand noisy truck drivers Into acceptance ot the compromise terms. Life-Saving Hound WiU Bt Guest of HOnOr at Banquet PHILADELPHIA. Jan, U-CPV- Bugs, . a, I o-pottna, raw-nonaa fox hound,' is to be guest ot non or at a banquet. He saved a man's life. The - dog will - bo swarded, a bronze medal Jan. 24 by the Bea ver Run Hunting and Fishing club. Randall O. Hay, clnb offi cial said today. Recently, rBugs? and Harlan Place, caretaker ot the dub's Pike county preserve, fell through the ice ot the private lake there. The man. thinking at least to save the hound, pushed him to the Ice but I "Bugs" didn't ran home he Jast braced himself, waited until Place canght hold and then pulled him to solid footing. . v Leo Halin Elected : By Wool Growers PENDLETON, Ore.,s Jan. 11- Wy-Th Oregon Wool growers Tuesday elected Leo Hahn of An telope president. Robert Weir, was reelected vice president. Sec retary Walter Bolt will continue tn that of flee until the executive committee to '- bo appointed I makes decision on his office. ' The wool growers passed a re solution opposing further fneu Bum or. taxable lands tn game refuges. They urged that sound practices - ot graxing and game management; ho employed on ex-1 isting- refuges. Waihingtonicn Selected At Ashland nigh Prof ASHLAND. Jaa. ll-4P-Hollls IX - Beaaley of the University of I Washington, was selected speech and social science instructor at Ashland high school today. He I succeeds Marshall Woodell,' pro noted to registrar, at Southern Oregon NormaL. Tom Uooney 1016 San Francisco Preoarednesa Lincoln Banquets To Be Big Events NEW TORK. Jan. ll.-(ffV-The republican leadership of the na tion will assemble here Feb. 13 at a xza-a-piate Lincoln day dinner to celebrate 1938 election gains and dram np enthusiasm for 1940. The National Republican club announced today that possibly 2,- 000 diners would be seated. At least 50 other dinners are scheduled elsewhere, the Lincoln day committee announced. New York county District At torney Thomas E. Dewey will be honorary chairman ot the dinner here. Speakers will include former President Hoover; John D. M. Hamilton, republican national chairman; Glenn Frank, national program committee chairman; and the senate and house minor ity leaders. Senator McNary of Oregon and Representative Mar tin of Massachusetts. Oakland Family's Quarrel Is Fatal OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. IZ.-tf") -An Oakland family quarrel was climaxed last night by the death of Anthony Phillips, 28. who died two hours after he was "admitted to a hospital with a - shotgun charge in bis chest. Police reported that Joseph Peltrone. 55. Phillips' father-in- law, was being held for question ing. Officers said the shooting oc curred at Peltrone's home after the two men had become embroil ed in a fist fight. Rose Phillips, wife of Anthony and a daughter of Peltrone, and her sister, Ange lina, 17, told police Peltrone be came angered when the Philllpses asked Angelina to accompany them to a party. Vfon TIP I fl rrPtVI 1 0 UUUAC1U htCtl In Larceny Case ONTARIO, Ore., Jan. U-ftP- Former US Senator Robert N. Stanfield and his secretary, Kath leen Klvett, yesterday won a di rected verdict of acquittal ot charge ot larceny ot state prop erty. Circuit Judge Charles W. EUla ruled the state had not shown the value of the property. Stanfield was accused of sever lng fixtures from the Grant Wal- Urs ranch, owned by the state Refuses to Permit Operation .V;."i ' : 1 ..' S w Wik12 aasd'tosatsr Derotaj ; " .Harms' refnaed tar oezmii amrmtatlon of his elghyear-old tar's leg an operation which doctors said would nave given bar a allm chance to live WCliam Lewis, a New York park department laborer, sow appeals' in desperation for aa alternative treatment to save her Bf a. The chM Is anfferini from sarcoma.. Physicians cats told Lewis It is Ekely to prove fatal wtthfa a year. - . Sharecropper Plight Viewed Missouri . . Families Still Demonstrate, Protest Against new Plan (Continued" from page 1) Commodities corporation, took steps to proride food and other as sistance to the demonstrating tea- ants.', ,V;' NEW MADRID, Mr., Jan. 11-(ff)-Had(lled tonight around fllck erimr ' roadside " campflrer, hun dreds a soatheaat Missouri shara eropper . families -demonstrating arainst -a low economic itatus- determlnedly faced probable rain or snow, shrinking food supplies and the danger of disease. - - Many of the ragged amy of more than 1,009 men, women and children, most ox them negroes. were Ill-prepared to face the pre dicted Inclement weather, The march to the highway! was called a a protest against the growing morement tn the cotton country to abandon sharecropplng la faror of the employment of day laborers. Leader ot the demon stration contended some landown ers had eTicted their renters to arold aharing crop benefit pay ments with them. 1,15100 WPAers Held Endangered US Mayors Group States That Many Lose Jobs if Fund Is Gut WASHINGTON, Jan. ll-(ffr- The United States conference ot mayors estimated in a statement today that 1,151.300 WPA work ers would lose their Jobs by Jane 80 it congress should slash the emergency relief appropriation from $875,000,000 to 1725, 000.000. The reduced figure was ap proved by a house appropriations aub - committee after President Roosevelt had recommended the larger amount to. carry WPA to the end of the fiscal year. Other estimates ot the num ber ot works who would be dropped ranged from 500,000, a semi-official prediction by persons connected with WPA, to a figure between 600,000 and 1,200,000 forecast by the workers' alliance. Democrats Shift Tactics Meanwhile, democrats handling the big work relief bill In the house changed their tactics in an apparent effort to make repub licans share responsibility for any reduction finally voted. Representative Wood rum (D, Va.), who will be In charge ot the bill In the house, predicted the full committee would approve the reduction. Displeased by the democratic maneuver, republican leaders and appropriations c ommlttee mem bers met and agreed upon strategy of their own. Portland Culinary Union to Parley PORTLAND, Jan. ll-(iP)-Of-ficlals ot Portland culinary un ions today announced some 3000 restaurant employes would meet Friday to consider a compromise proposal of restaurant owners. The union voted down a five per cent wage cut Jointly agreed upon by an employer-union com zrittee. The owners answered with a threat that a 10 per cent cut would go into effect UeAiy unless the unions took some wage adjustment action. The union contract specifies the restaurant owners could ask a wage reduction when business fell off. They asserted business was oft 15 per cent last year. School Head Retained LA GRANDE, Jan. ll-P-The contract of La Grande School Su perintendent Arnold Gralapp, was renewed today, for two years. He cams hero from Longview, Wash. Benny Indited :w..l'.4..VJl A ' J Jack Benny (above), radio comedian, aervoasly puffed a cigar and , gesticulated with his bands during his appearance before a federal grand jury In New York, where he was Indicted ets barces of trans portation, possession and smuggling of 9210O worth of Jewelry. Bo pleaded not guilty and was ordered held la S10OO bafl. Benny's in- dlctment came within two hours stand. AP Telemat. Dyer Extradition Med of Sprague Missouri officers Wednesday requested Governor Charles A. Sprague to grant the extradition of Mrs. Ollie Dyer,, Pinoviile, Mo., where she is wanted on a charge of slaying her mother In 1933. Mrs. Dyer now resides at Klamath Falls. Governor Sprague said he would hold an extradition hear ing as soon as requisition paper arrive. Ex-Governor Charles H. Mar tin refused to grant the extra dition two weeks ago because of errors in the paper received from the Missouri officers. The defendant's attorney re cently appealed to the state su premo court from an order of Circuit Judge Edward B. Ash Lurst of Klamath county dismiss ing a writ ot habeas corpus. Pastors to Plan McKibben's Visit A arvwlal Rlm Ifintatorisl as sociation committee will meet this noon at the TMCA to lay plans for entertaining Dc. Frank MeKibben, bead of the depart ment of education at Northwest ern university, who will speak In Salem January 23. MeKlhhen la a. recornized lead er in weekdav religions educa tion, a program being considered by the local ministerial associ ation for next year, The committee meetlna today is composed of Rev. Dean Poln- dexter. Rev. uuy unn, nev. j. E. Campbell, Mrs. F. B. Wienes. Dr. F. E. Brown, Rev. Irving Fox and C. A. Kells. Mooney's Health Rated Excellent SAN FRANCISCO. Jan, ll.-ffln Tom Mooney was pronounced "apparently in excellent physical condition for a man of his age" tonight after the first day of a reneral medical checkup he sought la order to determine how rood are hi prospect to live zi more years. He is 66. Mooney repeatedly has stated his intention to determine his phy sical capacities la connection with mapping his own plan to work tor labor unity. Cascade .TiuineFs Supervisor Dead 8EAT TLE, Jan. 11 -()- Friends received word today ot the fuaeral at St. Paul tomorrow ot Andrew Gibson, TO, last surviv ing official who supervised build ins the Northern Pacific's stam pede tunnel through the Cascades. He was the railroad's assistant en gineer from 1888 to 1902 and la ter held other high posts. He died Monday -at the company's St. Paul: hospital.. A son, George. Ya kima, and two daughters, Marie and Isabella, both St. Paul, sur vive. Debtor Shoots 3, i Then Kills Self PITTSBURGH, Jan. 11 - (ff) - Facing loss of his sutomobUa be cause ot past' duo rent on. his house. Dr. Charles C Stanton, CO, aa sys and ear, specialist, shot a constable and two' real estate agents tonight sad killed himself. i Constable 'Bailey IC - Schaef er and the agents, James Croast and John L. Schaef er, were wounded tn the garage ot the doctor's homo in nearby .Ingomar. The Nonstable was hit la the abdomen, the oth ers only slightly hurt. . "11 Oregon State Enrollment For Winter Term 4330 CORVALLXS, Jan. :ll-V-Ore- gon state cones - registration soared to 4329 tor the winter term today, indicating tho final fall, total of 440 will be ap proached wnea. au late registra tion Is completed, E. , B Lemon. registrar, said. . for Smuggling s r after ho had - taken the witness File Argument on Pinballs for Fun PORTLAND, Jan. 11 -Arguments were filed with Federal Judge James A. Fee today on the status of pinball machines not op erated for profit. The district at torney asserted the machines came under the stateantl-gambling ban no matter how they were used and the Western Distributers' Inc., ar gued counter. Judge Fee recently dissolved a temporary order restraining city and county officials from seising the company's machines. Frazier Gearing Land for Potatoes PRATUM Everett Fraxier la clearing three acres ot stump land, using a tractor instead of a stump puller. Frazier, who la i extensive potato grower, will no doubt plant this new field to pota toes. He is specializing in White Rose. The late Jacob Hauffer, whoso funeral waa held here Friday, was among the first members of the local Mennonlte church and a loyal supporter ever since. A large number ot folks attended the funeral. A county and district Sunday school poster contest will take place between now and state fair tlmo next falL The final Judging will take place at the fair Sunday school, booth. Upper Columbia's Fish Laws Upheld THE DALLES. Jan. 11-Up) - Resolutions opposing; change in existing commercial fishing laws and the right of the state fish commission to shift commercial season dates were passed today by the Upper River Fishermen's association. The association com pleted plans to combat proposed legislative attempts to close the upper Columbia to commercial salmon fishing. Half of UO Student Reported Holding Jobt EUGENE, Jan. ll-OPV-A total ot IT 69 students at the Univer sity of Oregon, or more than halt .the student body, had full or part- time Jobs during the fall semester. Janet M. .Smith, employment sec retary: said today. - THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TVpFTO - . A Jh'ki .si; JIMS.'. call. answer 't "i y 7 miles aside,! pots ! twp people '&ce - to -' face," so eronornicaUj; so easily as modern - Long Distance service, A good rale in busi nest offices: Jirst cf ati9 try the teiephone. McKesson-Robbins Case not Closed E Yen More Shocking Finds Hinted by Officials as Ledgers Eyed NEW YORK. Jan. 11-tfVThe possibility that new -sad even more shocking revelations would be made soon in the McKesson and Bobbins case was held out tonight - aa government officials examined, the secret correspon dence ot the late F. Donald Cos- ter-Musica and the personal led gers ' he kept through the years of his $11,000,000 defalcations. The papers and books, con taining numerous entries In Co-ter-Musica's handwriting and the names of persons not yet men tioned in the Investigation of-his colossal fraud, were found hid den in an old shed outside the McKesson and Bobbins plant In Fairfield, Conn. , Tried to Destroy Documents : Postal inspectors, on the Job since Coster-Muslca't suicide fol lowing his exposure as an ex ccnvlct ones Involved in a million-dollar swindle, turned up the documents. There were two bales, wrapped in brown paper, and an attempt evidently had been made to destroy them. As sistant US Attorney Gregory F. Noonan said. Meanwhile, two of Coster-Mu-sica's three brothers, seized on a charge of violating the securi ties act ot 1934 in connection with the filing of false financial statements with tho New Tork stock exchange and tho securi ties and exchange commission, were released in ball from fed eral custody but arrested on state Indictments. Local Area Sends Chinese.Bandages A second shipment of bandages. numbering more than 2000 rolls which have been provided largely by women'a organisations in the Salem area, will leave here aoon for Inhabitants of war-torn China, Richard Adlard who Is sponsoring the work said yesterday. 1 bip ment will be directed to Hong Kong, from where it will be trans ferred inland. Adlard aaya a letter he received last week from a former school mate In Llgnan unlverc at Can ton states that the Lignah campus is housing 7000 refugees; and that a small group ot Chinese waa picked from the campus and tak en to a nearby village to be mowed down with machine guns. Delmer Ferguson Heads Youth Unit FALLS CITY- New officers elected for tho year by the Ep worth league of the Methodist church are: President, Delmer Ferguson; vice-presidents, Ruth Taylor, Rob ert Hylton, Roy Gardner and Florence Donkln; secretary-treasurer, James Inmaa; sergeant, En gene Ross. , The Epworta league will have a party and social gathering In tho IOOF hall Friday night after the Airlie-Falls City basketball game. Singing Class Is Opened by Yoder SILVERTON HILLS Paul Yo der has opened a free singing class in the Silverton Hills community hall with the first class held Sun day morning at 10 a. m. Tho classes will be held, the second and fourth Sundaya and are open to both the older and the young. Everyone is Invited. Sir Knatch b ull-Huges'ten British Envoy to Turkey LONDON, Jan. 11 - () -Sir' Hughe Knatchbun-Hugessen. for mer ambassador to China who waa -seriously Injured by Japanese ma-' chine gun thro from airplanes near : Shanghai tq August, 193T, was appointed British envoy to Turkey ' today. . Nothing gets there . so quickly as a telephone - Nothing brings back an fast,; Nothing., sweeps . 4