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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1939)
-f S V. VSJf II l.Ua I J h 1 1 'i I I J,: A V LA 1 1 I I I II V "VVvJl i-V ' III II I I -? I I i I r NA T T I I III I " n I I I I I I . : . j aikiv are muu to do ivw , Basketball players la Salem. Th- Stateamaa -sport- pag -, -tries to keep ap with 'em Cloudy today aad Friday, probable light rains. litUo change la temperatare. Max. temp. Wednesday 4S, mla. SS. River .8 feet NE wlad 1 - 2 -mis' ft- t EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday; Moixiii, Jirruory 23, Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No, 261 ie May Exceed SO W :iLVL(tU.li,lLiL JJ-JILCIL UI II I -H- J U 1111 llr .H i lul full i Issue Certain To Be Pressed mn Initiative " to Be Sought if Present Bill Isn't Adopted, Asserts ' t ":. j l . National Labor Boycott Would Result, Warns Union Spokesman That an Initiative measure to make the closed shop Illegal in Oregon will be pushed by C. C. .Chapman, should the present leg- islatare reject his closed shop bill, was promised by the Multnomah county representative Wednesday night in' a public hearing - at the capitol before the house labor and Industrie, committee. Declaring that the closed shop was antagonistic to American principles of freedom 'and reiter ating time and again that a work er had a right to employment without being required to belong to a union. Chapman himself took most of the hour's time allotted to the bill's proponents to outline his position. "It will be a sad day for Amer ica when we have only one large labor organization In the United States," he declared. "II peace comes It will be the peace 'of death." -Organlted Labor's Past Work Praised Chapman praised the work of -organized labor hi the past, de clared It had assisted employees to obtain better working condi tlona but took the, position that workers shoald nave free election to Join or stay out of. anions. - He praised the CIO 'for ; being the only organization J,tfcsf,-ar able to give some-opposition to the American Federation of Labor. Chapman - denied that he repre :sented any organization or group in presenting his House Bill No, i,l and said his entire purpose was to protect fundamental rights for ' working men. , SavsthaDn - ' Opposition to the bill was ex pressed by a series of speakers, most of whom represented state ' or local labor organisations. D. K. Nlckerson of Portland, president of the state federation of labor, declared labor naa been 'punished enough with theiantl- ; picketing bill and warned against ' further attacks on working . men. Boycott to Kesaif, Kellr Loe Warns r;.Kelly Loe. : editor for "labor, maid the Chapman measure would make collective bargaining Im - oossible. He cited a portion of the report of President Roosevelt's committee which Investigated for eign labor organizations and said leading Industrialists who helped prepare that report1 favored un ionism aad - the t benefits It had arodaeeoV: . V "Organised labor ha" turned down proposals from out-of-state labor groups for a boycott on Ore gon products because of the antl nkketlnr' aet," Loe said. "Pass Ilonse BUI .Ho.' 2 . and a .boycott will be sure to come. The effect of such a boycott .. would be far more Injurious to business and workers la Oregon than all labor disputes have been." Oust - Anderson, secretary of the central labor council In Port land. Introduced a telegram, from Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland General Electric Co.. sarlnr hia organization: had for 2 0 year dealt exclusively with three closed shop onions and bad been: well . satisfied with. Its rela tionships with Its men. Bay GUI Voice ? Grannv Foattiosi Representing the Oregon grange lobby at the session. Ray GUI, - state grange president, declared farmers bad always stood for their rixht to organise coopera tives to Include all producer and - (Turn to page z, column zj juegis Sidelights: 1 f. - Approximately 111 additional lobbyists are likely to descend on the capitol soon It a bill now being considered by the Joint Judiciary committees Is Introduced.' The bill would create- district court; sim ilar to those now in existence in Portland, - throughout the state. 'The 1C0 lobbyists well, they are the lusUces of the peace, whose jobs virtually, if not a t u a 1 1 y , would be abolisbea. l v Jf . L- :."? M '"' ?' ' -' - According to tenUUva plans the district. Judges would "be elected tor six year terms and receive compenaaUon ranging from 11000 to I Slot a year. They; would Jure oxclusive Jurisdiction in eivfl eases involving not more than 150 and concurrent7 Jurisdiction-- with cir cuit coarU In cases up to $1000; "and la criminal eases where the penalties prescribed do not exceed one yew to JaU or te of?1000. . - Presumably the till 1 would jroTile ttit these Jaristar wo12 Amended Compensation Law Is Rushed . . . . i Social Security Legislature Passes Amendment by Governor Sprague; Certification Must Come by Monday or Unemployed Are dut $6,000,000 A certified copy of the amended unemployment comnen- sation law was sped to the social security board in Washing ton by airmail last night after, the legislature passed Gov. Charles A. Sprague's amendment to persuade the board to certify the Oregon law. The governor advised the . ' ' I1:" IT ,,J lilies uiiuppuscu To Diversion Ban Statement Asserts Group Favors Amendment on Highway Revenues Officials of the cities of Oregon are not opposed to House Joint Resolution 4, which proposes a constitutional amendment to pre vent the diversion of any highway revenues to other uses than the construction or noaintenance of public highways in Oregon, Mayor H. W. Hand of Corvallis and Charles Huggins, former mayor of Salem. "Statements that city officials are fighting this enactment are erroneous tne two leaders in Oregon municipal affairs stated. "We have always been opposed to any diversion of highway funds and all this resolution does Is, to propose that the state vote S con stitutional, amendment ki J.M0 making such diversion impossi ble." Huggins, former president of the League of Oregon Cities, said that organization was not on re cord on the resolution because it had been proposed since the League had met, but declared that the resolution was completely in harmony with the League's pre vious pronouncements. "We have stood for the program of the Na tional Road Users' conference; Huggins said. "That conference is on record against any form of di version as are we."" - Huggins tald that some legisla tors had gained the false Impres sion that allocation of a portion of highway funds to cities for re pair and maintenance or .streets would be . considered diversion. "This is not the case, be said. (Tnrn to page 2, column 7) Fate of WPA Sum With 5-6 Votes WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-4Pr-In the opinion of senate leaders the question whether the senate would sustain President Roosevelt In his request for a work relief appropri ation of $876,000,000 rested to night upon the votes of some five or six members. So close was the expected vote, that both sides, claiming -victory by a narrow margin, nevertheless redoubled their efforts to swing hesitant senators to their wayof thinking. Less than two hours were de voted to debating the subject, the brief discussion producing reiter ated charges of mistakes in the estimates of relief needs submit ted by President Roosevelt and CoL F. C Harrington, head of WPA. Senator Berkley (D-Ky), the majority leader, replied that he had received letters from Harring ton aad the badget bureau "con firming"- the figures presented. Here and there behind and in front of the scenes at the '40th legislative assembly. bate to know something about the law, ,i r. : A number of notables were among those who were accorded the coartesy of the housa yesterday.- Rex Putnam, superintendent of nubile 4 Instruction, was given the honors by Rep. K. w. ium Dar ling, who was also visited by Her man Oliver of Prairie. City, '.soon to become a member of the state highway commission. Seymour Jones and John Cooler both, .for mer speakers' of the house, were on. the floor during yesterday's session. Nan Wood- Honeyman. eoagresswomaa tronv the., third district antn the first of this year. was Introduced . by; Rep. Vernon BulL -. - .- ; t. t , - - ' Monroe Sweetland. secretary of the Oregon Commonwealth feder ation and a .former r Willamette university .student, is . seen fre quently ' conferring with legisja- (Turn to page X, column i). unaries Huggins, lormer mayor oi n Marshfield declared in a public. PnCATI flTIVlPtQ statement released Wednesday 11 11Z5"11 ViUUwJW.13 off to Board social security board of the legislature's action by telecram. certification Is expected by Fri day and must come by Monday, or the unemployment Insurance commission wUl cease to operate, T. Morris Dunne, . commission chairman, said. Refusal to certify would force employers to pay a double tax and would deprive jobless work ers of $6,000,000 a year in bene fits. The senate passed the bill with but three dissenting votes after voting to concur in the house ac tion deleting the senate's provi sion (hat the anti-picketing law be inoperative in regard to the unemployment law. The house passed the bill unanimously. Voting against the bill were (Turn to page 2, column 3 ) Freedom Is Brief 22-Honr Search Captures Pair .Escaping Guard in s Turner Area Two youiig Inmates who fled from a state penitentiary annex gun gang around 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon were captured and returned to the prison at 6:30. Found on the Tom Webb ranch three miles east of Tur ner, they surrendered without resistance to prison guatds. The pair, Forest Schnacker, 23, serving a two-year term from Sherman county for larceny, and Howard Davison, 19, doing a 10- year stretch from Mu'tnomah county for robbery, disappeared from a guarded crew of prison workers engaged In slashing thick underbrush on a hillside near the pen annex. Schnackers term would have expired June 30. Penitentiary officials said the convicts were . not missed until several minutes after they es caped. Other prisoners in the crew were returned to the peni tentiary. , Clackamas Court To Be Familiar Scene to Frach OREGON CITY, Jan. 25-(fl-Tbe next week is going to be a busy one for George R. Frach of Clackamas. On February 1 he is sched aled for a justice court hearing on a larceny charge. The next day he wUl be tried here on aa habitual criminal charge. Today he pleaded innocent in Justice court to theft of two tires and tubes front a garage. A charge la pending in justice court eat question of stolen property. Finally, federal coart has aa .der advisement a petition for a writ of habeas corpns ia which Frach seeks freedom from a circuit court conviction for the theft of Urea from the forest service at Tlmberline lodge; for which he drew a 10-year sea Late Sports SPOKANE, Jan. ' 25-tfVBffl Ulrich, owner of the Spokane Hawks. Western : International league, said tonight he had sign ed George Windsor,- who pitched last year for the Sllverton, Ore., team that went - to the national semi-pro tournament at Wichita. Ulrica refused to divulge the amount involved la the deal. Windsor's record shows that he was chosen all-star North western college pitcher whlla at Willamette university. all-etate pitcher In the Oregon state tour nament and all-American semir prdf at Wichita, i-V' J ' SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. SS-(ffV rranxie catauna, ixx, san rran dsco, and Kddle Stanley 133, San Francisco, and Eddie Stanley, 133, San Francisco, slugged and wres tled to a six round draw in the main event on "the National hall boxing program here tonight..-. OAKLAND, Calif. .Jan. 1HP)- Mixe Beuolse, lso.New York, for mer featherweight champion, and Al Citrino 131 San Francisco. fought to a ten-round draw here tonight before 3,0 0 0 tmnn, v mm Curtis Cross Dies; Head of Pioneer Firm Business Begun in 1852 Carried on by Three ; in Same Family Native of Salem Active in Civic Affairs for Many Years Here Curtis B. Cross, 51, native of Salem and third member of a pioneer family to carry on a busi ness started In this city in 1862, died Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. In a Portland hospital a here he had been a patient since early in November. President of the Valley Pack ing company since 1927 and un til a year and a half ago pro prietor of a retail meat market In downtown Salem, Mr. Cross also was identified with numer ous civic activities. He was at one time a member of the school board; was a director for 15 years of the TMCA and was later made a director emeritus; was charter member both of the Cherrians and of the Kiwanls club, and active for many years In the chamber of commerce. He was affiliated with the Masonic and Elks lodges Business Started by Grandfather, 1851 The story of the meat pack ing and retail business which Mr. Cross headed goes back to the arrival of his grandfather. Thom as Cross, In Salem In 1852 after crossing the plains by ox team. A native of England who had come to America as a boy. Thom as Cross had been engaged inJ the meat business, la Chicago. and upon arrival here .became Salem's pioneer meat dealer and soon established the first pack ing plant here. During the Civil war he had large contracts to supply meats to the Union army. and he later became the owner of extensive acreage in and near Salem. He relinquished control of the business in 1884 to his eon, Edwin C. Cross, father of Curtis who was born here April IS, 1887. Curtis B. Cross became a half- owner of he business in 1907 and it continued under the name of E. C. Cross it Son until 1912 when, his father health becom ing poor, Curtis acquired fun control. His father died in 1921 The original Cross market wae in the block njw occupied by the Valley Motor company but was moved later to Commercial stret and in 18 S 4 to State street. It was located on Liberty street (Turn to page 2, column 2) Rumania Terrorist Plot Is Uncovered BUCHAREST, Jan. 25-(ff)-Ru-manian police tonight uncovered a plot of terrorists to destroy many public buildings by a simultaneous attack with flame throwers and authorities said they believed rem nants of the illegal naxi-incllned iron guard were back of it Announcing, the arrest of an officer of the chemical section of the Rumanian army who. later was reported to have committed suicide and the roundup of 25 oth er persons, police said they had In their possession 21 of the unique flame throwing devices which had been collected for the attack. PURSUIT PLANE DIVES AT 575 V - 4 VV' 1 : I A Cnrtiss IIavvi T3,"a rat plane. tially exceeded all known speed acrgQiag testa at tha IWfaia, V. Cam!aii7aits Final Assault By Insurgents Barcelona Radio Station ' Send4 out Defiance t4 Besiegers Franco Force, Fights Way Into. City, Waits for Reinforcements . (By the Associated Press) An insurgent . force fought its way into the southern section of Barcelona yesterday and halted there to await- reinforcements from the west and northwest be fore ' attempting, a "knockout blow" to the Spanish government capltaL . The bomb-wnd shell-torn city was - virtually surrounded, with its 2.000,000 inhabitants trapped. but despite this a defiant declara tion was broadcast over the Bar celona radio that the capital "win be defended Inch by inch, -street by street and house by house.' The population throughout t .e day dodged insurgent shells and bombs,- and ; intermittently re ceived a shower-of leaflets urging surrender to avoid "useless blood shed.". Americans Escape Unharmed Via Warships . Americans fleeing the Barce lona area got a final taste of war time danger as insurgent bombs br about them at Caldetas, 20 miles north, of Barcelona, where 20 American refugees were evac uated aboard the United States eruiser Omaha and the destroyer Badger. ..The Americans escaped un harmed, although bombs from In surgent planes struck only ioo feet away. CERBERE. France, Jan. IS-On -Successfully running a gauntlet of almost, incessant Insurgent, aer ial bombartment, 398 foreign vol (Turn t pag 2, column J) Chamber Miisicale Charms Audience Kneisel Alden 'Turner's Group Plays Before big Group Here By MAXINE BUREN Something quite different in musical fare was offered to a large Salem audience- last night when the Kneisel-Alden-Turner group presented a program of chamber music at Leslie auditor ium. The program was one of the four under the sponsorship of the Salem community concert series. Chamber music is one of .the highest forms of musical presen tation, .and at last night's concert three distinctly good musicians ap peared. All showed excellence as soloists. For. their opening group, the three played three movements em the trio In Q major No. 1 Haydn, beginning with "An dante." then playing "Poco Adagio CantabUe" with Its solemn melo dy, and "Ronda AU 'Ongarese, lively carefree, music of the gyp sies. The last group on the program, also for the string trio, was made up of four selections of typically beautiful chamber music. Beetho ven's '"Andante," stately and har monious, was followed by Men delssohn's "Scherzo," "Poeme Ro mantlque" by Fourdraln and the gay "Sailor's Dance" from the Russian ballet, "The Red Poppy." "Londonderry Air" was the en core. The sonorous, tones of the -(Turn to page 2, column 7) one of ICO Iein2eonsriTtcted for records' vithtjv tree dive of more JC- CorOsa plaat. Zaa plan Is shown la XZit AF Telemat. . r Hitler Aide oh Pacific Coast Liberal groups oa the Pacific coast are asking the government not to accept the appointment oi Captain Flits Wiedemann, above, as Germany's consul gen- : era! at San Francisco. He is re- ' garded as one of Adolf Hitler's closest political advisors. I1N photo. ToElkhorn Road Hasty Repairs by Hauling Interests Insufficient, Road Stays Closed Hurry-up repairs made to Elk horn road by log and piling truck operators have not been sufficient to protect It against farther dam age, County Commissioner Jim Smith" reported last night after in specting tha road! la."$bmpany with County engineer w. C. Habbs. "Unless they repair the road and keep hauling gravel. It will have to remain closed to heavy hauling," Smith declared. "The road Is in bad shape still." Commissioner Smith, who with Hubbs win report their findings to the eouaty court this morning. predicted it would be "a good while yet before the road can be opened." The court last week closed the road, which runs up the Little North fork of the Santiani river from Mehama, to heavy trucking after Engineer Hubbs had report ed its newly-improved surface badly damaged. The closure brought several delegaUOni of log ging and sawmill operators to the courthouse in protest. They agreed Saturday to attempt to repair the damage. Smith said that in addition to the damaged surface, he found a bad slide had cut into the road at a narrow point about six miles above Mehama Italy Calls Army AndWarnsFrarrce ROME, Jan. 25-(ff-Italy start ed calling up army reservists to day for training in modem war fare and voiced a hew warning to France against sending troops in to Spanish territory. ? f A "first quota" of 60,000 men of the class of 1901, now SS years old; . was ordered to - report tor duty February 1. This first ' con- 'i-.-f.-:- -w;v ''! - 0 s ; - . :.:: ;t I""' " f ' il V I , X 7 v ' 4 BSSBsssnaasBssaasaassssavBsssssssaasaaaBSBasuasssisasasasMnsnauvme Damag Reported Ungent represented slightly less'iinnm Mh. lh??A ""L?.1 M"mvtf 4 i How many additional men would be called up was not disclosed. MILES PER A V tit Preach am craiueat, "sabetan Cum C73 miles per hoar while Ua- ' ) - : Estimates Run High As 15,00)0; Chilian M eporied in Flames Destruction Extends From Santiago to Valdivia, 450 Stiles South; Dead Buried in Trenches Unconfirmed Reports List 2000 Dead in Concepcion, With Damage in Dozen Other Communities (By The Associated Press.) The magnitude of the terrific earthquake that wrecked populous cities along more than 450 miles of the western South American coast increased hourly last night as airplane surveys indicated mounting thousands of dead nd injured. The stricken area stretched through Chile from north of Santiago, the capital, to Valdivia, far to the south. . With communications disrupted, the latest reports came from pilots who scanned the ruined cities from the air. A Pan-American-Grace Airlines pilot advised his Lima, Peru, headquarters 4000 persons were dead at Chilian, 220 miles south of Santiago, and that the city was in flames. He said the dead were being buried in trenches in the streets. Another aviator, who landed ato- Chillan, reported 5000 persons i perished snd 10,000 were Injured, many fatally. The National Airline, at Santia go, whose pilot also flew over Chilian, placed the dead at 15,000. Other unconfirmed reports list ed 2,000 killed in Concepcion, 250 miles south of Santiago, and widespread damage was unoffic ially reported from more than a dosen other towns and cities. The earthquake appeared like ly to develop Into one of the major disasters of histcry. Re ports indicated it might be sev eral days 'before an ' accurate check could be made of the dead. Cauquehes, . a city of (.500 population, noted fcr,Jts jnlneral springs, 200 miles south of San tiago, was officially . reported largely "destroyed. Its Inhabitants were camping in the streets, but the number of casualties was not known. The newspaper El Imparclal, In Santiago, said 19,000 were dead. A fleet of army trucks left for the zone after other par ties of doctors, nurses and relief workers had been rushed south. The shocks spread panic through a 400-mlle strip aloag the Chilean coast and eastward 76 miles across the country. The first of the series of quakes was felt In Santiago at 11:35 p.m. No damage was done here. In other cities the shocks lasted more than a 'minute. The mayor, of Concepcion mes saged the government: "Situa tion most serious as a result of the earthquake. Unable to state number of casualties but many hundreds, probably thousands. Require food and medical aid. Desperately Urgent." Lover of Garlic Ostracised From School by Edict ; OREGON CITY, Jan. IS-iAV Whether Arthur Klttleson, Jr., goes to school tomorrow remains to be seen but so far as his dad is concerned "there better .be no further tales about his garlic breath.-" - - Klttleson was banished from the Carus school, about six miles complained that ha was eaUag garlic His father brought him to the -county superintendent's of fice and announced that he in tended to keep the boy home permanently. . . . Whlla there the father had. his son blow a healthy breath in the superintendent's face to demon strata that. Arthur was not af flicted today, at least, by the po tent onion, 7 SUvertonM Setting Law SIL.VKHTOI, Jaa. 25 There are a lot of surprises la store for a mayoress, says Hajcr Zctta Schlador of fbuverton, admitting at the sama time that bating her house mistaken for a g&xabling house was the biggest surprise she has had so' tar. - -"A glass ,too much or some thing ' was . probably; responsitls for the man's error,1 but I - am glad he made it for ttttTped me off,". Mrs. Schlador continued. The tip-off resulted in official Investigation which brought Lyls J. Page, district f attorney, and Sheriff A. C. Burk to SilverUa Wednesday.' Whna investigations have been carried on, no arrests have as yet been f made, i r : "But we have only started,, Mrs. Schlador added.; 'f.'.rr.'.T' jThe affair" began late Saturday night "when Mayor Schlador "an swered a call at her front door. "Does the mayor of Sllverton lira here, was the , question. ' Relief Committee Caught in Pinch Diminishing Funds, Rising Needs for Aid Being Felt in County The pinch between scant re lief funds and sharply Increasing needs for aid In Marion county brought the county relief com mittee into special session Tues day, it was disclosed today. lack of WPA - Jobs or other. sources- of Income has;? eft a large, iambes . of famiUaa onabla to supply themselves with the) bare necessities of food, fuel'and living quarters aud the carefully budgeted direct relief funds available are scarcely adequate to assist them, the committee) was advised by M. E. Holcemb. county relief administrator, in a report oa a special survey of the situation. The survey disclosed that the county has 258 families who ara suffering from "real dietary do- -ficlencles" such as are endan gering their health, Holcomb-teld the committee. It was reported last night by Rev. George H. Swift, chairman. Eighty-teven ef these families moved here front other states and have since lost their .right to relief in their aesna communities; the remainder ara regular Marlon county residents. Another 82 families. Rev. Swift ' said, are facing eviction trosa their homes for non-payment of rent. Increasing' requirements tar old age assistance and telief had already given rise to the fear that the county's relief budget -would not last out the new year. It barely balanced last year. The committee, whose expendi tures are supervised by the state relief committee, was unable to announce definite arrangements to care for the acute cases re ported by the administrator, Rev; v Swift, reported, but "Is using every possible means to relievo the situation that has devel oped. . Fire Thought SetJ In Lumber Yards I VANCOUVER, i Wash.,? Jaau- tt -T)-Vancouver firemen expressed belief that a fire that destroyed the Copeland lumber yard hero tonight with a loss of 115.009, was of incendiary, origin. . They said the flameS spread over piles of grew lumber before they could connect their, haaea, They said they v believed gasoHae had been scattered orer the prent ises. : -.--.;" After Gamblers She explained that aha waa taa mayor. . "Where's , the - poker . game?" was the next question. "Poker garnet" Mrs. Schlador questioned,' bewildered. , "Yeah, fVas loldthit there'd be cards at the ' mayrt house and anyone could' sit ra. There k as to be plenty of money, the can answered. ,' - :Theres ' eeTtainr3rno'paker gamo going on here,! said lira. Schlador as she closed, tha door. Bat she and Mr. Scalador own. other houses ? ia . town so the matter bothered Mayoi hchlader, She .called a eoaierenco of her two police officers. Chief Omar Halverson, and second i officer, " Harry Wheeler. Ensuing tnvesti gaUon" revealed thst "gangs" had ' . beenrgoinr to private homes for poker, games, i . J Both -local ,aadr eouaty officers stated : Wednesday at Silvertea . .. (Turn to page 2, column ) , . .'