--. . .- tit . t t -J. . fr -c 'T---v4fji. a" , ' i f f J J ,. EIGHTy-EIGHTII TEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morninr, January 25, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 260 f ... - J - ' ' .. V : iT ' i I. T sir L'.::'" 'f;. : .y ( v Delayed by Icy gales mad battering sighted from an airplane aa she - the ten snrrlTora of the wrecked halfway between New York and - i -II .I . I - A - Mrs. .George Ingham, one" of the passengers who chmg ton Ute raft tor tea howrs after the flying boat pinnged into the sen and musk, is tag assisted from the rescne shlp lira. J. Cordon Hotkey woo left her hnsband, retams a. wiiow, three persons lost A Telematw EnrriTors f the CaVaUer Cisaster are escorted down the sanrplank - t-t .niror. " whirH effected a-dramatlc rescne at Sea. Its liieboat rwas ipiIJlPd t tie last fcy a hymn, sung by the stout-hearted nr TlTors. AP TeleanaU . ' 4 ? 4 i - ' " - seaa,4he tanker Esso Baytovn la steams Into New Yark harbor with airliner Cavalier, forced down Bermuda during a storm. AP Tel- - j - AP Jelemat. NeirTorlc aboard fh Cavalier with her hasband harlng been one M the ts t! - - w , lurgetits to Barcelona Gate In Speedy Advance Lack of Defense Prompts Predictions Capital Will Fall in Three Days; Army. Within two Miles 2,000,000 Persons Gty Fear for Lives; Loyalist v v Government Moves out , (By The Associated Press.) A Spanish insurirent army on wheels" rolled up from the south to the outskirts of Barcelona last night in a sur prisingly swift dash which made insurgents confident the government's capital would fall within three days, perhaps two. - Within the city, largest in reported losing a calm they had Horrors ot war, ieanui ai tne able to flee to the north. m SSI Trains were stocoed and Miss Perkins ; Asks Hearing Secretary Wants Solon's Impeachment Demand Investigated WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.-ff)-A formal demand in the house for Impeachment of the first woman cabinet member brought from Sec retary of Labor Frances Perkins today a request for "an immediate heartng." V ' In ImDeachment resolution. aimed hot only at Miss Perkins but also at Jam te 4 Heatimav im migration commissioner, and'jQer ard D, 'ReiUy,' Ubor department solicitor, accused the trio of rbigh crimes and misdemeanors' In tail ing to continue deportation pro ceedings against Harry. Bridges, west coast CIO leader. Rep. Thomas (R-NJ) introduced the measure, - which was turned orer to the bouse Judiciary com mittee. , ' . K.: - " Miss Perkins promptly, issued a statement asklnt for the hearing so congress and the public "may be fuUy acquainted with the true facts ot - the deportation- proceed ings in .the Bridges case and the reasons4 why they hare been hsld la abeyance mporarllyJ,i U ?J? Chairman Samners (D-Tex) said iao Judiciary committee' w o a 1 d meet ia a' day or - two to decide what course to Uke on the reso lution, : which: reqnejsts the , com mittee, to submit to the h o a a e "such articles ot impeachment, as the facts may warraat. - In the : background of tho im peachment : action ,waa . a long standing dispute orer the Bridges case between Miss Perkins and the bouse committee on nnAmerican actlTities. Thomas was a member ot that committee.-. - i -.-h He cited testimony before the eommltteO tbat Bridget s waa an alien and a commualst and con tended -the commnnist pany oto eatea - oTerthroir of thi gown- mentl)7 torce and violence.' : t ' - 1, i - OVerchtirdiiiig Is TP1MlllJWDbre.. Jan. l-Uf) -Oreton haa too; maay- cnarenes and some of them snouio pe closed- C' Ai KeUs, Salem? presl- dent of 1 the Oregon vouncu Churches," told Idelerateato a council conrention today. ; i He warned particularly agalaat oTercburchlnr" small cemmani Ues and "c II d as example an Idaho town of ISO which he said ad 28 churches, ue caar ed ; tna?eonBcU should 4 try , b correct the sltnatiott close some churches.'?"?' ':;;'.:;'v'--' ; Rer.i Walter Myera of Eutene was a 1 c it a d preaident of tba counelVfor ,lHI, and Dr. M. A. Mar cy of Portland secretary. Di rectors at 'large Include C." A. KeUs,. Dr. Bruce Baxter, J. F. L'lrich, I JusUce " George, " Rossman ander. O. E. roster of Salem. Rot a D. Harris ot Dallas, Prank Bennett ot Albany and Rev. SV Darlow Johnson f Grants' Pass, formerly ot Salem. Irrigation Tallied IIARRISBTJRO, Ian. t l-ift- Esuthern Willamette valley farm ers .'.considered a - plan . today to diTert . IIcKensie rlrir waters above Ca Coburg bridge through lluiiy creek to irrigate leveral ttoasani3 .acres 'of land in the Ilarriiburg and Coburg districts. Frank Iiropt, fanner, estimated the initial cost at IS an acre In , addition to an annual assessment of SO cent an acre for: main tenance. ..--.i-iJii.r- Roll up in Spain's Largest Spain, 2,000,000 people were maintained through previous J 11 7 X A. .aV La prospect mey nugni, now w there were few motor vehicles qt""'1-'' to carry the refugees away from the ranee io oomos and shells. Bombings in the last three' days and nights had taken an estimated toU ot nearly 600 dead and wounded. The southern army advanced to within, a mile and a half of Bar celona's center after capturing the government airdrome at Prat de Llobregat almost without firing a shot. It was expected to. halt in the .suburbs -and wait for rein forcements from other directions. Reports to the French frontier Indicated lack ot ammunition might be the explanation for fail are of the defending troops to make a stand. According to military experts in Paris, fall of Barcelona would probably mean faU ot aU Cata lonia, comprising Spain's principal industrial regions, within a. lew ! The government left Barcelona daring -the day tor an undisclosed destination in the north, probably Gerona, about 15 miles from the French border, or Flgueras, 20 miles north of Gerona. The United States cruiser Oma ha arrived off Caldetas, Spain, 20 (Tarn to Page t. Col. 8.) Subsidy for Flax roup Nearby Growers Ask for t State Official' Aid on : Action, now Immediate , consideration by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace of a prbpofeal bf Senator Charles I McNary to subsidise the Ore gon flax industry, was urged by a delegation ot fcMt. Angel and Clackamas - county . flax growers here Tuesday.-x r " The flax growers asked Gover nor Charles A. Sprague, Secre tary of State-Earl Snell and State Treasurer Walter E. Pearson to send telegrami to the federal offi cials stressing the necessity tor immediate action. -- "The proposed subsidy Is bad ly needed to stimulate planting of flax fibre in Oregon," a resolution adopted by the flax growers read. The flax growers also requested a- fargef ' acreage" for the year 1 1 S 9. It was pointed out that op eration of the several flax plants would be on -the same basis as in ItSI, and that any surplus flax would be taken over by the state. ; : .1 Oregorfs Weather 11 Menu Is Variti i PORTtJLND. Ore Jan. Fog, rain, snow and freestng tem perature set' the course ot Ore gon's weather, east and west o the Cascade mountains today. ; :c Shipping and airline schedules were delayed by fog In the Colum bia river area. Lakeview reported the lowest minimum 'temperature i degreesin ; Oregon and Burnt was close. behind with; 1 desiees. ". r '-; v3;4?-:r': Shower in the northwest, light snow in the-mountains and little change in temperature were pre dicted for tonight and Wednesday. Loa . readings included Baker 10 .degrees. Bend 10 Brookings 14, Hood River 21. Uedford It, Pendleton S3. Portland S5, Rose burg . 1 0, : l;-lyou Summit 22, Newport If . a-J Norm. Bend.lt.' $10,000 U fevered for J. : . VcUey Project Agency ' "The Joint way and means committee decided Tuesday to re port out 1 favorably the bill of Senator Douglas- McKay (R-Sa lem) .appropriating 118.000 for the creation of a -Willamette val ley project - commissioa to. o operate with, federal agencie in connection with - the proposed WiUametU .YaUey project. Pushed by G T Hold Bitter Debate On W A Needs Economy Forces Attack Administration list of Relief Needs Close Vote Is Certain on Move to Slash FDR's Request WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-V Senate economy advocates de nounced administration figures on relief needs as inaccurate today at the helgbt of a bitter, slashing debate on raising or reducing WPA appropriations. The contro versy was made the more intense by the acknowledied fact that a close vote was expected. From the administration side came a warning by Senator Mc- Kellar (D, Tenn.) that if a pro posed cut of $150,000,000 is car ried through, three-fourths of those entitled to relief will be de prived ot it by June. The issue was whether $875, 000,000 requested by President Roosevelt to finance WPA from February 7 to. June 30, should be appropriated, or whether the sum shoufil be $725,000,000, voted by the house and approved by the senate's appropriations commit tee. To this reduction the senate committee added an amendment forbidding more than a five per cent reduction in relief rolls dur ing the "cold weather months" (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7.) Friends of KO AC Strengthen lines Added $500 Is Voted to Oppose KOVa Use of PORTLAND, Jan. 24-P-The siaie Boara ox nigner eaucauon appropriated an additional $500 today to oppose the application ot radio station KOT, Phoenix, Art to use the tame wave, length as station KOAC, the . state-owned broadcasting enterprise at Oregon State college. -, . - L. : R. : Brelthaupt "-of Oregon State college Was formally named the state's representative in the atrtfgglew.Tha allotment brought to $1500 the amount assigned to conduct the" dispute. E. C. Banunons, chairman of the finance committee, reported a favorable bond market had made it possible or the board to issue its own bonds and sell them pri vately rather than turning them over to the PWA for loans on building projects. The District Attorneys'- associ ation asked continuation of a crime detection laboratory at the University of Oregon medical school, the Aero club of Portland recommended application for a pilot training , unit, at the state college and the . Farmers' - union urged forceful action to protect KOAC. The . board- granted an in definite leave of absence for John J. Landabury, dean of the University of Oregon ai hool of music. The basis for the leave as not revealed.. ' Quakes in Chile Said Fatal to Six SANTIAGO,' Chile, Jan. 25-i) -A series of - earthqnakes short ly before midnights rocked1 this capital and ,a large - section of central: Chile - and earrr today communication i were; disrupted with the large cities of Concep tion and - Talca. - (Buenoe Aire dispatches said temblor were f e i t in . the , Andean provinces. Mendoaa and." Baa'. Juao, which adjoin Chile.) . ., h First reports from, provincial areas gave 4 six. dead' - i - There were no casualtie here. . Both . -the nary and govern ment along, with, : private t radio stations w r trying tc reach Concepcloaw a "eity f , 77,000 population more than' 100 miles south ' Of Eantiara' and ' m . iha Pacific, ' ' .. -:: ::y- Talca, .- tnUnd . city - of 4 1.0 1 1 midway between ' Santiago " and Concepeiou. likewise could not be reached v I 1 - - - - , -.. 3-" O Radio irlista; to Demand Contracts JJEW YORK, Jan. 14--Mr. Emily.- .Holt i national axeeatfra secretary of the American Feder- Senators auon or radio artlstsv announced today "there - la ; no alternative but to striked If Individual radio programs refused to sign contracts with the AFRA.' i .- , Contract were Mat ; by AFRA advertising' agencies handling commercial radio .prograsi with the suggestion that they ta Uri "immediately.' .. .... . " i . , - -"."i -x i Co Bens For Final Action House Deletes ; References to Senate Amendments Are Eliminated Despite Lonergan's Fight . I Portland Member Holds Definite Statement May Be Required Final action on Governor SpragUe's amendment to the un employment compensation act to insure certification ot the law by the social security- board next week became a special order of business for the house this morn ing at 10:20 o'clock as the lower body Sped through preliminaries Tuesday. Thee house put the bill through first and second readings Tuesday morning and in the afternoon adopted the report of its revision of laws committee that it pass without the senate amendments. The committee report was adopt ed after a motion by Rep. Frank J. Lbnergan (R, Portland) to make lit a special order of busi ness tor this morning, to give members more time to study the deletion of senate amendments, failed! 33 to 25. Thinks Reference May Be Necessary Lonergan, who objected -to the haste -with which the house com mitted considered the bill,' said he believed the senate committee amendment, which expressly de clares that the anti-nicketinsr law ahould' aot '&ffect th vunemploy- mentact, snouia oe given more eonsldration. Reference to i the antl-picketlng law was deleted by the house committee. . : VIfthe anti-plcketing law does not affect the unemployment com- 7 (Turn to Page 1, Col. 1.) auperint s Decision School Board to Take up Gliser Tennre Later; 1 50 Petitiont in With one member absent, the Salem school board . last night gave no consideration - to the superfntendency .question, raised by . the presentation ot 11 . peti tions at the first January -meeting requesting that Silas Gaiser be retained in that position. The directors ; will I be j called together to take up : the matter "when they are ready Chair man 1 W. ' F. Neptune said after the' meeting. When that may; be,' he said he waa unable to- predict. Nineteen aditional .- petition, bearing 54t signatures, in Gais er's support were filed with the board 1 last night to bring the to tal number of signer in' hi fav or to 5 0 2. Names of ministers, business -men, civic leaders, pro fessloaal people and . housewives headed the; petition, which, de clared; Galser's administration of the schools "efficient, progress ive and eatisfsctory." ... Business transacted by the board was of a -routine nature. Purchase of 41 fire extinguishers . v" (Turn to Page 1, Col. 2); t- 1 VP s: If tny niember -of, th legisla ture spends a dull evening in a hotel room tonight, it's nobody's fault but his own. There are plen ty of placet to go and event to at tend. Passing over the hearing oh the closed shop bill .which may be over In time tor some OthSa activ ities, and not trying to mehtlon them all, the suggestion include: 1. For republicans, the meeting ot the Young Republican club at the Marion hotel. S pjn..-l. . .. . 2. For all members, the Salem grange's benefit dinner and social evening at the new Grange home on east D street, half a mile north east, of the state hospital, from ;3I to 8..MIght take this in. -before the htariug. A.'Ar Geer, grange maater, extend the invitation.- .'. ; ':etJ. i . ; On Thursday night the members are .invited to be guests of . the Elks; those who belong to the or der, tor the brief lodge session at 1 o'clock? the others for the spe cial entertainment at I o'clock. ? r Rep. E. WTJmbeTllng, of rrairie -City . became, a grand father for the second time Sat terday. The repTesentatrre. who has been - awaiting the pleased event with some anxiety, was Ppetinglaw endency SMpped Legislat Sidelight auioii Proposed Bill Oh Excise Tax Is Announced A fairly - complete picture ot proposed tax changes which will be placed before the, legislature was available, on Tuesday . follow ing announcement ot the general nature of a bill designed to in crease the revenues of the cor porate excise tax. Already introduced in the house are bills proposing to eliminate the intangibles tax, which would result In the taxing of Invested wealth' income on the same bas is as other Income, and to broad en the base of the income tax. The corporate excise tax bill is calculated to produce an addition al $475,000, which together with the anticipated increase from the broadened income tax of $900, 000, would make up tor the loss resulting from change in the (Turo ta page 1, col. 6) Cavalier Mishap Gets British Eye Air Ministry Investigates Crash; Incident Has Mystery Cloak NEW YORK, Jan. 24-ffV-The British air. ministry tonight began an investigation into the myster ious power-failure crash of the 19 ton Imperial Airways Dying boat Cavalier, with the loss ot three lives at sea, as the captain ot the lost plane said "definitely" the tragedy was not caused by icing. "The. Cavalier was equipped to combat ice.". , said ". 11-year-old Capt. M. Rowland Aid erson, who waa rescued with nmt-other ur- "At no time did f have the lightest fear of ice formation either on the wings or clogging the carburetors. I have flown through tar worse conditions. The whole thing is a mystery to me." Without elaboration, under strict orders not to discuss tech nical phases of the disaster, Radio Engineer Patrick Chapman cryp tically .- suggested seme ' strange !unseen force may, have played the role of destroyer. i . "Just before I sent out the SOS, he said, I saw a dirty patch ahead and I started getting static We had been flying in cold, clear skies." . ... - : ' "It was not normal static, such as you get on your radio.. It waa a terrific rush an outburst of stat ic that created quite a charge in the plane. . f ' . Pacluiig Company Lost at Newberg ' NEWBERG, Ore., Jan. H-Cfp) -Fire of Unknown origin, tonight destroyed the H. S. Gile company packing plant here, burning 200 ton of dried prune and about 100 ton ot walnut. . :'v: . The building and equipment were valued at $4000 but no es timate of the value of the content, aaid to have been covered bf In surance, was made. : Portland Baby Victim JORTLAND, Jan. 24-(P)-SP-plng under bed covers, Bar bars, six-months-old ; daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Charles Demuth, smoth ered td death early today, -Here and there behind and in' - front of the scenes at the ' 40th Icffislative assembly. ; , relieved wlien b ,roerved,a .telegram informing him P that a son had been bom to his dangh- , , ter, Mrs. Roland . Bradford of .Prairie City.. The proud grandV. fither said he had bet Roy Keating, former bonse employe; .who became a father last week, that he would be the first to receive congratulations but lost. .the bet. ( r.-s , ' Mayor W. rAi Weddle of Staytbn was amoag those given the cour tesy of the house yesterday.' . He was a guest of. Rep. George Dun can,' whose home is fin Stayton. Also introduced was Andy Zim merman of Sublimity v '. Captain Clawnce E. Ash of Astoria,: one : of 'several sentatlves who were enei papermen, looked Uke a dty ed itor as he sat at bis desk yester Tday. The captain.' who Is m qnal - ifjed pilot as well as an ex-Jonr-nallst, was' wearing the green yeahade long associated with those denlirns of th dty room. - It took a lot : of pinning and probing to do it hut Rep. Klmber ling, who ' introduced J inny (Turn to Page 1, CoL 1.) ; .Bill Dine Today raws Throng; Code's No Price - Fixing, Claims Board Spokesman; Says Th Hearing u Merits Argued ) Regulation Needed . Consumer's Interest Is Ignored, Argument of Repeal Sponsors Pros and cons of the state bak ery code were debated Tuesday night before 500 persons who at tended a committee hearing at the statehouse. The gathering, held In the basement room for hearings, drew an audience from all parts of the state, an audience which filled every foot of stand ing room and overflowed into the halls. E. M. Stadel, executive secre tary of the board, took the lead in defending the bakery code, de claring emphatically that the bak ery board had not fixed prices oa bread. The senate Judiciary committee conducted the hearing. The bill to abolish the board was intro duced by Senators Rex Ellis of Umatilla county and L. H. Wip perman of Josephine county. Xerer Fixed Price, Spokesman Asserts "The bakery board has never fixed a price," Stadel declared. "All that the board asks is that bakers -file their- price schedule.' There Is no uniform, price ot bread In Oregon, . " - 1 SUdeL aaid that ; prior - tortha ' creation ex tne stats Datery board the baking industry was la a pre carious condition' and was honey combed , with unfair, trade prac tices 's' " . ' ."As a 'result of, this, situation bread was , manufactured , of in-', terior' ingredients and wt' expen-' tve-even at eight cents a loaf,". -. Stadel continued., , ., - ( . Senator . Ellis - asked why - the, bakery business was a favored. In- J dustry. in., Oregon. "Why should. the state, not go into the. laundry . business, Ellis Inquired. , Says Consumers 1 '- ?. Interest Ignored : r . i Ellis charged that the. bakery board, ruled .with an. iron hand and apparently had not -taken hun gry stomachs into consideration. ' He also alleged that stool-pigeon tactics had been used, in jntcnf ,' lag the sanitary.' regulations and. said that bakers could be. fined a maximum of $500 for certain vio- " latum. r . '.. -Vr Senator Lew Wallace asked why. a It-ounce lost of bread was' re- tailed in Ontario, eastern .Oregon. at 10 cent while the same weight loaf could be purchased across the river in Idaho at eight cents. Stadel replied that there probably was a difference In the quality of tie bread.'"' :.t&.-M.m- . Stadel was asked by t Senator: Wipperman if any Oregon bakery' had refused to deliver bread-to a reUUerwho had cut prices,. The reply was ,no. -;. r s The financial aspect of the bak ing industry was discussed by Sam - V. Fletcher, ' Portland - bakery- em- ploye. He said that prior t en- actment of the bakery board law the baking Industry was-on the threshold of bankruptcy: "The In dustry is now on a sound fins-' ' . clal basis and manufscturers.are' ':' able to meet ' their payroll,". Fletcher declared.' - ' Fletcher aaid the consumption ot bread had Increased materially, since the bakery board waa cre ated which indicated that the con- -sumert were satisfied. He stressed the Increased use of raw materials - "". and .' employment ;' of - additloaal worker. ".'-'"'-:'. , ' ' : Atlantic Stonns Pass Peat . LONDON, Jan. 14 --Gale which had: whipped; the .Atlantic into a; frenzy of mouataiaous wave ; yesterday and f, Sunday " causing at least It vassals to send, oat SOS signals, moderated today. . A dosen . ship reached Fal-i mouth during the day after a ter rific battering in the storms.' lead-, lag to hope. that others, some of -them unreported since sending out distress calls, would ' be- able, to proceed unaided as the gales sub-. ided. V,..' ' r."' ,-r.-.- - V ' -. -' . Lloyds, , Which Vreceived 603 call from 11 ship yesterday, re-, ported three of them were mak-' lag tor. their home porta, - . . .MTie Veather , Oenerally lair today and i Tharsday, . becoming, cloudy ThKTsday. Little chaaae: in ? temperatnre.:, Biax. : .Temp,' Tne. 44, Min. S3. JUvet 1.1 feet,'Botht wind.r Fury -1 '5' ; s' i rj;