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i J- i i -- - j -j. "if - r v The . housewife will find ' ! : ft f - nch of Interest la tbe news v --; f society, tested recipes ami Partly cloady. today, rata Taarsday.' Little change 'la teatperatare. Max. temp. -Taenday 45, aita. S3. Hirer la feet. Soath wind. household Ideas la .The Statesman women's "pages dally. , PSUNP3D 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesdaj Morning January .18, 1939 V Price Set Newsstands 5e No. 254 Jie T Retreat icUtility SAN FRMCISCAMIOURN PASSING; OF: HISTORIC FERRIES av- -if J'' f ,V .. - PuM Amendment Is ; Being Drafted , Conference Is Set; Today ! tol Iron out Kinks in Proposed Measure Ralph Moody Employed as Special Counsel ; 3 to Serve House ; Introduction of the amended Public UtlUty District bill, key lasue of the present leglslatlre seesion. Is slated within, the next two or three days, Morton Tomp kins, member of the grange lobby which will actively 4 support the measure, declared Tuesday. Tompkins said a conference would be held here today and would be attended by representa tives of publicly owned utilities! by representatives of the Farmers' , union and by delegates from the grange, all of whom art' expected to support the measure when it : goes to the legislature. "We have a few kinks to iron out before submitting the propos ed bill to the session," Tompkins said. "In the main the bill la drafted and ready for introduc tion. At the conference decision will be reached as to which sen ators and representatives will sponsor the measure." Initial copies of the bill re- vealed that It provided that all in terest and principal on revenue bonds used by a PUD would be i paid for from revenue but the dla- I trict Is left powers to levy general i taxes for payment of operating ex- pense&V The proposed measure al lows the districts to withhold up to five per cent of their gross In- i come , for a paylaent fin lieu ; of j S taxes. The withholding of the tax - offset is not mandatory. i Ienpite Opposition r " : i ' ;j Opposition ' to the hiring ' of Ralph E, Moody, special state prosecutor of the "soon" cases, as legal counsel for the legislature ' ' developed in the bouse Tuesday when : Rep. Vernon Bull (D-La jr Grande) moved to lay on the ta- curing Moody's -services, u s The . motion failed, 48 to 12, but not before Rep. Hannah Mar tin ( R-Salem ) t had . declared in explaining, her vote of "yes" on I the-motion, that "she did not de-l - sire to see the taxpayers' money squandered." -A previous resolution, referred to the resolutions committee, ' al- ?i rected -lhat the attorney-general i furnish the legislator with legal counsel as provided by law. This Is a resolution," said Rep. Martin, "to hire Mr. Ralph - Moody as special counsel at an unknown salary for the duration : of this session. If my memory 1 right, and I think it is, the last session was the. first Oregon leg- lslature that ever felt it neces sary to hire special counsel. Prior to that It had at Its sendees the office of the attorney-general. without cost to the taxpayers of Oregon. Last session we spent $3000 to employ special counsel. I . was elected on an economy plat form and I do not desire to see the taxpayers' money squandered. - Rep. ; Phil Brady . ( D-Portland ) . , who is president of the Portland central labor council, also explain- c . ed his vote of "yes" by saying that in fairness to the resolution em powering the attorney general to ' furnish counsel he favored laying the Moody motion on the table. Compensation Laws Amendment Filed '' t, j - ' Senator Charles '' Childs, Linn . county. Tuesday introduced a bill providing that the state su perlntendent of public instruction shall be elected on a non-partisan basis. Candidates for this 'office now are registered on the ballot under ' oartv deslenatlon A bill in which is incorporated Governor Charles A. Sprague's -proposed j amendments to the state a unemployment compensa tion law, was read for the first and " second " time in the senate. Tuesday and, later referred to the committee' on revision of laws. r A public hearing on the bill will be held .Thursday nlahC Rep. ' Frank J. Lonergan of 'Portland, chairman of the house labor and Industries committee. announced that a public hearing to consider Rep, C C Chapman's bill to abolish the closed shop will be held in the ; eapitol hearing room January SB at 7:30 o'clock. - A bill creating civil service for state employes Is ready for intro duction.' Seneca Fonts.' Portland attorney who la preparing the- bill. said Tuesday. ' Three members would serve- on a elvil service commission for six , rear' terms. Exempt' from the bill would be elective officials, offl- clals whose appointments are spe cif led In tha constitution, mem bers of boards and , commissions, employee of the governor's office, inmate help in sUte institutions and unskilled labor. :rv-.f . A Joint resolution to set up an Interim "committee to determine a statewide policy of unemployment ..compensation and oid , age pen- sions for public employes was in - troduced' by Rep. Robert S. Fax- mi ft ? j lies ( m v I If f x s JjJ..v.v- .W -" i j,. .. t mumn. Replaced by speedy internrbaa trains across the San Francisco-Oakland ries are snown making tneir last trip aa commuter-earners, tans ending a service that has been con ducted for nearly 90 years. Below, interior view of the San Francisco terminal, with two la-car streamlined trains which will transport the commuters who msed to patronize the ferries. UN photos. McCarthy's Fate Up to Governor Youth Goes to Death Cell Friday Unless Penalty ' Change Granted The fate of -Leroy Hershel Mc Carthy, youthful slayer, rested to day in the hands of Governor Charles A. Sprague who, his first ten days In office, had before him the first ease of a man sentenced to die In Oregon in the last seven years. Parents of McCarthy came here Tuesday morning to plead with the governor for a life term, In stead of the death penalty, for their son. Governor Sprague an nounced after the hearing that he "would reserve judgment pend. lng further inquiry.' $ - Unless McCarthy's sentence is commuted to life Imprisonment or. unless he is given a reprieve, he will be put to death' Friday (Turn to page X, column 1) L0Q Xsl cltiV s: Despite the publicity tbe new state eapitol has had some Salem residents who are ap parently unfamiliar with Its purpoae. Marie Wadsworth, secretary to Repr Stanhope Pier of Portland, relates the following dialogue which took place when she inquired at sv homo near the eapitol for s' .."Oh, so youre working i the legislature. Where are they meeting this year?" -Why at tbe new state capl- : toL of course .w. ' . . rHmninv that's fanny. ; I ! thought they met a.tbe. aaory." . ; X i uienn waae. wno. urew up nv Townsend initiative -approved br the voters at the Norembet elec tion,' was pleased as punch yes- tCMftv win ' ill .linns .-Biased the Townsend memorial, amend Sidelight ed so that it had tie favor l Solon's Suitcase Swiped, Regained Plus Added Goods I Despite being robbed of bis . suitcase ; and f contents, Repre- ; seataUve John McCourt . was richer by m half-pint can of paint and a screw driver yes terday afternoon.1 "," McCourt's automobile 'was barglaiiaed of his fully packed grip sometime Monday night, either in froneof the state house or down town. The repre sentative from Mnlts om ah county obtained the services of - Carl Charlton, assisUnt chief of city police, about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. By S:80 McCoart had his suitcase back. With nothing missing, pins the paint and screw driver. The owner of a house on Tur ner road had given local police the information that a suitcase had been left In the building sometime Monday night. Here be"11 ? 40th leffislati ve assembly. Wade and his cohorts. 4 Wade was given the courtesy of the house at the request of Rep. Carl Cngdahv . t Louise Palmer Weber,,, veteran ot many ' legislative sessions J in the third house department, .was given the courtesy of the house yesterday. ' Also given the eour- tesy of the house, on motion, of Rep. Frank J. Lonergan, wag a group of young ladies, the com- paritlve . government class from SU Helena Ball in Portland. land. -, usaauuuuuuap t ,..t , , William Elnxig, who was. In and : out- of- the. headlines . in the days -. of the recurrent -Meier Holmaa embrologio, was prowl tnrr the - eapitol-? corridor Tues- Lmj V ; J VaMMe eaajf MWiH Portland.' Elnzlg served as state purchasing agent .for jour years. then became secretary 'aaa man- (Tani to page x, cowan-oj s - Bay bridge, the fiifllo old fer Jinx Holds Grip On new Bay Span New Oakland -SF RaUway Service Delayed ; one 3IanIsKiUed V SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. ll-UPl A Jinx continued to Tide the rails of the new . Oakland-San Francisco train service today, costing the life of one man, se riously injuring another and three times disrupting schedules ever the bay bridge. Frank C. Domianovich, a San Francisco shipping company em ploye, was killed when a Key System Electric train hit his au tomobile. A freak accident involving two trucks, a .trailer and an Inter- urban Electric train resulted in critical Injuries to Cecil Allen, 36-year-old Salinas truck driver, Both accidents happened in Oakland. Both delayed trains from 20 to SO minutes. And lust before the home-go ing commuter rush hour started, a Key train burned out a third rail contact shoe, tying up all trains for 25 minutes. - No trains came Into the terminal tor those. 28- minutes. Warren Jones to; Pinel Self Dollar For Orer-Parking lie wont have te do it with mirrors because It's merely matter of forfeiting baiL but A. Warren Jones, municipal judge of Salem, wm fa effect fine himself gl" today for overtime parking. . .- It's all a matter involvlns tbe flxless trafXic tickets policy Instituted the first Of the year, which previously" liad already ravht one eitr efilciaLr-'JJi- tajr Inrrector E. C-EashneiX lacl Jciti ai 'the pUIce are cb- .tafnlna warrants of arrest xor just one traffic ticket that faCs . to come in automatically, in stead of waiting forrtwe to ae cainalate. - '- ; 1 . 'V Z - -r JC5l I I ' 'j Ij i County Freed of Suit for $2000 Rath Norris Loses Action for Damages Alleged Due to Roadway DALLAS A verdict for .Mar- ton county was returned - by the circuit court Jury which heard the testimony in the case of Ruth Mil ler Norris against Marion county. a damage action seeking to collect 2000 for injuries sustained in an automobile accident in August, IMS. The case was handed to the jury about 1:15 o'clock Tuesday and the verdict was brought in three hours and 45 minutes later. B. Hatch of Falls City was foreman of the jury. The plaintiff sought to show that the settling of the roadway ever a culvert near the Senator McNary farm was cause of the ac cident, and the defense offered a number of witnesses, in its con tention that the road was traveled regularly without similar mishap. Plaintiff was riding in the car driven by her father, William P. Miller, when the accident hap pened. District Attorney Lyle Page and his deputy, Joe- Felton, appeared for Marlon county: and Oscar Hayter and Roy Hewitt for defendant. . Woodburn Escape Injured by EUGENE, ; Jan. 17. -()-One person was. killed .and lour '1- jured In a wave of automobile ac cidents here yesterday. The crash es also revealed escape from the Woodburn training school of two youths, one 'of them a crash vic tim. ... . . . Danny Anderson, 7, waa killed by an automobile whose driver was blinded by approaching head lights. - Helen. Fanny, 1J, was injured critically when, struck by an auto mobile as she roller-skated in street at Springfield. Delwin Xlntxley and Willard McBee, both of Lowell, and youth named Bowman.' one of the Oregon state training school - es capees, were injured in a-spectac ular crash here. A truck report ed to have oeea stolen from a En gene dairy struck the Klntxley automobile broadside.' Police later captured Claude Campbell,' If, who was with; -Bowman. - UO tfvt School Dean ' . SemedlJcril Arhlter ' , --; r t r - - WASHINGTON -Ian. 71T.HflV Wayne Morse, dean of the tJalver sity ct ' Oregon Taw ; school, was named a member of the board of arbiters tor west, coast maritime activities today by Secretary of Labor Parkfflav1 ' m GuardihsiHome Mlffifr&wlJiriezi Di Executive Other; Officials Houses, Public Utilities Are Being Watched ' '" 1 ' '' 4fr Further , Blasts Occur ; Search Is ' Pressed for Perpetrators LONDON. Jan. 17 Wi Police guards were intensified at public utility properties and homes of public officials, including that of Prime Minister Chamberlain, to day while searchers were conduct ed in three countries for perpetra tors of a series of bombings. Scotland Yard attributed the ex plosions to the illegal Irish repub lican army. 'Ten occurred yester day in London, Manchester, Liver pool, Birmingham, Belfast and other cities. Another today dam aged a power line pylon in Bir mingham. Tonight police removed a bag of dynamite gelignite connected with an alarm clock from an elec tric power pylon at Barton, near Manchester. Power Service Cut by Bomb Public services were partly ais- puted. Police said they believed the blasts were intended to signal ize anger of the IRA, which op poses both the Ireland (Eire) and Northern Ireland (Ulster) govern ments, with British control of ire land. Guards were stationed at Cham- berland's residence at No. 10 Downing street. London, and at dockyards, gas and power plants and other vital spots. A large number of unexplodea bombs were uncovered in Bir mingham. Officials believe they were planted to wreck public serv ices. . ...... : Engineer Kesciied From Rock Burial UP Track Relocation Man Spends Five Honrs Under big Slide HOOD RIVER. Ore.. Jan. 17.- 6p)-Walter T. Doran, 25, Union Pacific track relocation project engineer, was rescued tonight from a rock slide 12 miles west of here in which he was imprisoned for five and a half hours. Doran suffered bruises and torn muscles, but no broken bones. He was buried to his neck in the slide, his face less than four inch es from a shallow backwater pond of the Columbia river and two great boulders, each weighing more than a ton, poised only in ches from his head and shoulders. Doran's legs were pinioned by a 250-pound rock. George Bonnell, superintendent of the Morrison-Knudsen Con struction company, and Charles Wester, Union Pacific roadmaster, directed rescuers working with shovels and a power crane from Bonneville. Gresham Woman's Life Ends at 102 GRESHAM, Jan. l7.-flP)-Mrs Hannah Johnson, 102 just Grandma" to scores of affection ate friends died yesterday. Until a year ago she had done her. own scrubbing, cooking, laundering and sewing. . She said "hard work"- was re sponsible for long life. ..: . ; Mrs. Johnson was born in Mis souri. 183 ; At II she eloped and braved the hazards ot cholera.and hostile Indians : on the westward trek with her husband. f Although the Oregon supreme court Tuesday dismissed-the ap peal of Albert Earl Rosser,. for mer secretary ot the AFL team sters union in Oregon,, from his conviction at 12 years prison sen tence for arson in connection with the burning of the West Salem box factory late In 1127, the decision will not become ' final until the supreme court rules upon a peti tion 'for rehearing; walch has been, prepared , by .Roster's attor ney. Charles W. Robinson of Port land. ' - " .ii iThe court ordered new trial tor Hugh Reynolds, former secre tary ot the Eugene teamsters un ion, who was sentenced to a year in Lane county Jail for brcakizg windows in a non-union tatter shop in Eugene.. -1.:': ' Rosser Cled notice ot tr?elto tha supreme court on Xz.&Ait..Z?, approximately, llt dayi , after a Polk- county Jury had, convicted him. This appeal was not- pert ecu I ed , but he later - filed , a second new Will France Apparently Decides to Remain on Sidelines, Lacking British Aid; Italians Irked Again .- . . . Loyalists Occupy Secret Line Better Fortified Than Any Used Earlier; Highways9 Control One Issue While France apparently was deciding to stay clear of the Spanish civil 'war the combatants themselves were be lieved to be squaring off today ernment capital of Barcelona which might decide the 2Vz-year-old conflict. The insurgent advance through Catalonia slowed down O Frankfurter and Murphy Approved Senate Vote Is 78 to 7 Upon Murphy; Small Minority Protests WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-(ff)- The senate confirmed the nomina tion of Frank Murphy to be at torney general today over the bit ter protest of a tiny minority which insisted that as governor of Michigan he had "condoned" the sitdown strike and "set aside the law" on behalf of sitdown strik ers. The vote was 78 to 7. Just previously, the senate ap proved the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the supreme court. This action, which placed an outstanding liberal and stu dent ot the law upon the nation's high tribunal, was . taken without discussion andwitnout. a single negative' vote. - Meanwhile, It became evident that republican senator! were al most a unit In opposing the con firmation of Harry L. Hopkins, former WPA administrator, to be secretary of commerce. Admlnl stratlon leaders were confident. however; that, more than enough democrats were backing the Hop kins appointment to assure a fa vorable vote. British Steamer Reported Ablaze LONDON, Jan. 18. - (Wednes- day)-VTbe British steamer Ul mus, in an SOS picked up by Lloyds early today, said she was in flames near Gibraltar. The message said, "now aban doning ship, boats burned, radio out of action. Any tanker in the vicinity please proceed to Ulmus' position with view to releasing oil for my boat." Cause of the fire was not ex plained. Her position was given as 36:14 north latitude, C--58 west longi tude. - The Ulmus, of 1,733 tons, be longs to Wilson and Harrison, Ltd., of Cardiff, Wales. Oregon's Weather As It Should Be . PORTLAND, Jan. H-ifr-Th weather waa everything it should be for the season today f reel ing temperatures In eastern Ore gon and rain in western, - Glowering : skies tore out the weather bureau's -forecast ot con tinued rain in the western -: por tion with snow in the northeast and the mountains. - - : - - ' Siskiyou Summit's 20 degrees above aero and Lake view's . 23 were the lowest readings re ported. . . - notice of appeal which the court held was tiled too late. ."Under the settled: law of this state this court has no alternative except to cum us tne appeal and It Is so ordered," Chief Justice Rand, wrote. '' :v '- - '-'. . Justice Leak wrote the decision ordering a new trial for Reynolds. The supreme court ruled -that the testimony of accomplices John Newland, Cecil Moore and Ernest Carson .was not corroborated, and Reynolds ' was convicted without sufficient evidence. - - "This court." Justice La s k wrote, . "does not pretend td . be unaware of tie recent reign of crime and terror" in Oregon insti gate 1 by lawless labor lesder . "But tie immediate Question with wtica live to deal Is the sufficiency cf the evidence in the case at hand After a painstaking examination of the record before us and consideration of the con tentions of the. state and the con- -; (Tarn to page 2, column Paris Intervene for a battle outside the gov slightly yesterday, insurgents re porting they had to clean up poc kets formed by the swift advances made since opening ot the offen sive. Decern her 23. The decisive battle, if it Is fought, probably would be tor con trol of highways fanning out west ward 35 miles from Barcelona, and for the capital itself. The government has withdrawn Its forces to a secret defense line which It says is the strongest yet built In the civil war. The French government appar ently decided it would not Inter vene. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet said France would not aid the Spanish government unless Britain did, and Britain consid ered the risk of a European war too great. France and Britain, said Bon net, were trying to find a way te end Italian and Germain aid to the Spanish insurgents without risk ing war. As the French Atlantic fleet was made ready to pall from Brest at, dawn today for manearers in the Mediterranean In the area :ich has figured In the Italian iVti-French campaign, Italian vet erans started a movement to re turn French 'World war medals, and the fascist press launched fresh Invectives against France. Italy Helps Germany In Balkan Intrigue Italy turned to help Gar many line, up Balkan countries on the side of the Rome-Berlin axis. For eign Minister Count Clano left for Yugoslavia on a trip Intended to eliminate the last vestige of French Influence in southeastern Europe. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, of China, proposed before the League ot Nations council in Geneva that an international "coordination committee" ot both league and non-league states be formed to unify action against Japan la the far eastern war. The proposal was designed to coordinate the actions of the Unit ed States, a non-league state, with those of Britain, France and Rus sia. The eyes of Geneva diplomats turned to Washington tor indi cation of the American govern ment's attitude. Peek's Bad Boy Is tailed at Age 77 MILWAUKEE. Jan. 17-GPW The man who as a lad made April Fool's day stunts an every- aay occurrence and thereby furnished ' the - Inspiration for "Peck's Bad Boy," died at his Milwaukee home today. mo was Edward J. Watson, 77, until his retirement in March, 1828, a paving inspector for the stieet construction - department He had been ill two months. Touag Edward Watson, bora In ' Adams county, Wisconsin, In 1881, came to Milwaukee as a boy and got a Job as a telegraph messenger. He thought up pranks simple little things, some of them, like putting salt in the su gar which kept his parents on -edge, and George W. Peck put them down on paper. Peck, once - governor- of Wis consin and mayor of Milwaukee. was the editor of the old wee Vw ' rublleatloa. Peek's Sun. f -stories of "Peck . Ba KJ made tbe ex-farm boy nations, famous. , l StetePema l PORTLAND, lre., Jan." llHJPt . -J. F. TJlrich " ot Salem wae elected president of the Oregoa --. State Democratic club tonight Other ffleers:'-,-.',' :,:- i. Judge OT D. Eby, Oregon City; vice-president first congressijaal district; Robert Bradford, La Grande. ; vice-president ' - second . district; M. -R. Jamleson, Port ' land, S tiee-presldenty third dhv trtct; Amanda J. Hart, ' - Oak Grove, secretary; Dr. Archie X. ' Higgs, Portland, treasurer; C C . Paine,' Astoria,' Jess Warrington, . Portland, - trustees. . x --i , , - hW. T.. Lee. Klamath Falls, XT- carry-over, trustee. taU a-Portl4nd). V,