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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1939)
. i , , Balanced New : ' Onljr the local newspaper present balanced i new ' I city, county, Mate, national ' " and foreign- in their right proportion. The Weather Cloudy today and Sunday with rains. Continued cold. Max. Temp. Friday 42, Mln. 87. KlTer S.7 feet. South wind. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Sakm, Oregon, SattmUy Mornlnr February 4, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 2ea mm Prompt Acfeini Looming, ll(Q)FltSLge Counties Seek Lightening of Relief Burden Aid Amounts Inadequate J but Can't Meet Their Share, Contended 7 Deficit Over Million in Biennium Is Forecast ; Remedy Discussed . C o u n 1 1 es of Oregon hare reached the end of their rope aa far ai contributions to the state- relief program U concerned, spokesmen for the Association of Oreron Counties told a sub committee of the Joint ways and means committee yesterday. They asked the legislature to provide some means for the counties to meet their obligations and still take care of the relief burdens. They declared ' inade quate the proposed ,$22,000,009 relief - budget, their , share in which they are .unable to meet. Among plans suggested for re lieving the plight of the counties was enactment of a sales tax or gross . Income : tax, the measure to be referred to vote of the people. ; Over Million Short, Committee Estimate "' The state relief committee es timates the counties will be at least $350,000 short of their re quired contribution for 1939 alone or $1,300,000 for 1939-40. Counties hare been told their budgets will govern relief ex penditures and that relief will be halted when . their funds are exhausted. Judge Earl B. Day of Jackson county, president of the associa tion, told the ' legislators - that counties had budgeted all they could to relief but. that It was iiot enough. "We hare no elas ticity la our budgets," he said. "Our road program has taken the rap. . ' v'v: - v..;-, Day , urged that either the state lakaYer . at : least ninety. ' percent ot the relief load or girt the eountltes. a share In state liquor revenues, at present used .' to defray ' the state's contrlbu- tlons to relief. - H Mnltnomah Connty, In Worst Position County Commissioner Frank L. - , Shall Mnltnomah, estimated that bis bounty with a requirement of $1413.000. - would be About $130,000 short for the 119-40 biennium. v;--' r "v i . "We haTO cut our . costs :- per case to fl.S.88, or to St. S 8 per person on direct relief." Shull said. "Some cases get only $1.50 a ' week and hate no other re sources. This is strictly for emer gency." "'? X y t.':: : County Commissioner C. JL Blgelow, ' Multnomah, - declared that the eonnty relief committee the state committee. . Elmer Goudy, - state administrator, said the supervision .was a federal requirement. - ? "Costs of relief In states where the burden is carried by the state alone Is substantially high er," : Goudy said. When ques--". tioned he declared federal sta t i s 1 1 e s showed administrative costs in Oregon to be lower than in other states. In reply to another question Goudy said that all counties had received equal nronortionn of match-money. - Summer Newell of the East Side taxpayers' association, Port- . land, nrged that If the legisla ture transferred all social se curity to the state the present county contribution should be de ducted from the county- tat base because "the taxpayer Is entitled to some relief too." Postmaster at Newport NEWPORT. 5 Feb , i S-yPh-J. Frank, Peden became acting post master liere February 1, succeed ing Mrs". Madge F. Cook, who re signed because of ill neaitn. , Legislative Sidelights Nonchalant .visitor" in the senate was Philip Jackson, edl tor and publisher of The Oregon . Journal. Jackson sat on the rail adjoining the senate floor and ; listened with' interest to the senate debate on the. optometry bill. His father came down - from Pendleton 80 years ago to take over The Journal when it was laboring in financial dis-j tress.. He bslIt tM property into one of the, most talnable newspapers on the Pacific coast. tMM finaniine. danoer Tonne district attorney from Polk conn - iy. VlSIieu ocnaiwr yesterday ana was mironuceu iw the senate.' Spaulding- receivea ma. .,. . Ml 1 .V m mnm nis oapiism i r u u w labor eases In Polk county, head ed by the ease against Al Rosser. He Is a graduate of . the Willam ette university law school and started his legal work with Os car Hayter, dean of the Polk county bar.. , i , The ways and means commit tee hearing on r e 1 1 e f problems ! ' 4. " 1 - I - 1 To Raise Refugee Hit by Bo Of Insurgents -. t 1 nibs Temporary Capital GtV Ut a bead start on(ta i task be K -n. rr I lnT created by slowly rising OI rigueras xargex, I Toll Is Unknown I 100,000 rersons b a 1 d I Crowded Into Town Near Frontier FIGUERA9. Spain (By .courier to French frontier), Feb. 3-iJPf insurgent warplanes dropped bombs anon the 100,000 refugees crowded into this temporary cap-1 ltal of government Spain in fire hours ot steady raids today. First estimates were that ISO were killed and 200 wounded, but the exact toll probably will never be known. (Relief officials reach- be known. (Keller ornciais reacn-i ing the frontier tonight estimated I the casualty total aa at least 500.) Gerona, 22 miles south of here. th of here, I iodw t- was bombed 10 times no estimate of casualties An Houses were destroyed through- OUl r igueras, wnicn uwuiwi um a population of 14,000. Evacuation or Town Appears Underway 7C ..n.,. tn k I "":;:;.T:;;t h,l aionioi. iTOmnt authorities prevented a panic stricken rush .to the French borden similar to me one which came after the fall of Bsrreelona. v Figveras. was so crowded that people spent last night sleeping In doorways and even in .the streets. The bombs could not lall to hit human targets. The first bombing was shortly afternoon. It was the initial at tack on the civilian part of Fig- aeras since it had become a haven for refugees from Barcelona. An hour later the planes came back. Despite the gallant efforts of outnumbered government pur suit planes they sped over the town dropping bombs, whirled about, and came over again lor another attack. Salem Resident's Brother Killed ONTARIO. Calif., Feb. 5-UEV For 77 years, from the time of their birth, Edward and William Shook were inseparable. Their long association ended to day when Edward drove his auto mobile in front of a Union Pacific passenger train. He was killed In stantly. Survivors, beside the brother. are two sisters, Mrs. Edith Mar shall, Erie, 111., and Mrs. Marga ret Marshall, Salem, Ore. Cut Water Rates Hold This Slimmer ; Since everybody's happy over one order of the Salem water de partment reduced summer rates it will be continued until far ther order, the city water com mission, decided last night. The commissioners adopted a resold- Won presented by E.B.t Gabriel citing favorable publie rerponse to the trial low Irrigation rate in - voked last summer and satlstae - tory revenues to the department. Here and there behind and in front of the scenes at the a a a ei aex t t . legislative assemoiy. drew numerous prominent Port - landers. Seen in the . committee room were E. C. Sammons, vice- president and sales manager of the Iron Fireman Co. and Burt Brown Barker, vice-president ot the University of Oregon and a director In the First National bank of Portland. v Ralph Cake, president of the Equitable Savings and Loan asso ciation of Portland, Is In town for a look-see at the session. : cake's arrival' was almost simultaneous l with the nrooosal that . deficiency MndgmenU be abolished In ' nort- .1 1 i . T : w mur vnnuw ' ' . .t . ... The house adopted Friday a' resolution calling for a joins eseloa the afternooa of Febrn- arr 14 to celebrate the 80th t niversarv of Oregon's sdmlasloa . into the nnion oa February 14. ' ' 1850. 'iMysS i-'.'t " The house observed a minute ..ITutb ta Page x, CeL ) (Vater Supply Ohio V alley9 s Streams Rise; 5 Known Dead CINCINNATI, Feb. S.-tfVOhio Talley flood relief authorities worked at ton sneed tonlcht to streams which already had killed nn the heeU of a weather bu reau warning of probable stages . . .1 . . 1 - .1 M A els from Huntington, W. Va., to Cairo, 111., at the month of the Ohio rlTer, the gorernors of Ken tucky and West Virginia prepared to prerent the widespread suffer ing, death, and property damage that resulted from the record flood of two years ago. Disaster relief committees, or ganised in numerous river cities following the 1937 flood, met to map out programs n tne water should start flowing through the streets. No one was alarmed but all were getting prepared. . . ArnhflSSflQOF ASKS XlAlXUtiaoauui JTkOXUS w-m w-i f Kome to Explain Light Wanted on Fascist Press Attacks Upon US President (By the Associated Press) The United States ambassador to Rome asked Italy for an ex- of rlcdami : fascist prea. attacks on President Roosevelt yesterday at almost the same time the president was denounc ing as a "deliberate . lie1 - state ments on which the attacks were based. - ' , - ; At the other end ot the Rome- Berlin axis Mr. Roosevelt's de nial so surprised nasi officials that they kept silent pending some word from Adolf Hitler who alone determines German foreign policy. The nasi press had followed tne same line as the fascists in lam basting the American chief exe cutive. In Washington the president, denying statements attributed to him that the United States fron tier was the river Rhine, asserted the American foreign policy still rested upon unchanged, historic foundations. Both Paris and London main tained official silence. Apart from the furor over the United States foreign policy, British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax cou pled a disarmament suggestion to Hitler with a warning that Britain swiftly was "resuming its ancient strength." I. G. Angelis Gets Term in Prison PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. l-UPr- I. G. Ankelis, Portland attorney, was sentenced to a year and a day da laAw wsjfl a44UlAn l nix months in a federal road camp toaay oy r eaerai juage Claude .McColloch. Ankelis was convicted recently lot hiding and conspiring to hide Anthony Garguflo, later convicted of kidnapping at Spokane. Judge " - McColloch - sentenced jean Miller, hotel owner, charged I jointly with Ankelis. to three 1 months in jail, suspended on con ldltlon ahe pay a $500 fine. She 1 was convicted only of harboring I Garguilo, the court ruling out the conspiracy charge. PALO alto. Calif..' Feb. (PV-The University of California t Los Angeles kept Its record o: not winning a southern division Pacific coast conference ' basket ball game this season intact to night by losing to Stanford uni versity 5s to 44 In the opener of a two game series. I Stanford led at half time, 23 to 17. , BASKETBALL SCORES ': (Catholle Tournament) St. Mary's Medford 22, MU An gel g . . St. Mary's (The Dalles y 22. St John's (Mnwaukle) 14. SU Stephens ; l Portland ) 12, J SUr-of-the-Sea (Astoria) 29 . High School . Hnisboro S4, Tigard 27. Gresham 22, Canby 2S ' " . Sandy 28, Parkrose 27. "- St. Helens 22, CUUkanie 21. : HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. Feb 2- 6P)-Babe Breese, 141, Manhattan, Kas closing wltlt a fast finish. outpointed Jack - (KM) . Berg, 144 H, of England, la a 10-round bout in I the Hollywood 7 stadium tonight. . - Sport : :JJ Si Firm Would Drill Stayton Island Source "Water or No Pay" Offer Put Before City Commission Is Bids to Be Opened on new Settling Basin February O A Possibility of adding to Salem's water supply by developing wells at the Stayton island source was revived last night when the city water commission received a "wa- ter-or-no-pay" proposal from the Sterling Pump corporation of Stockton. Calif. The offer was made a special order of business for the February 17 meeting. To assure the city of a clear, palatable water supply during the coming summer regardless of well developments, the commission called for bids to be opened on February 24 for a concrete set tling and screening basin to be nsed In conjunction with the pres ent underground supply. Its cost was estimated at 215,000 lnclud lng a type of construction to which filtration plant units could be added in future years. Should last night's well bid be accepted and the project prove successful, the heavy investment entailed by a filtration plant would be forestalled Indefinitely, It was explained. The proposal came Independently of R. E. Koon, consulting engineer for the commission ' 4,000,000 Gallon Day - Promised Or o Fay The pump company offered, in brief, to drill and equip not more than five wells for a flat charge. payable only If 4,000,000 gallons of water per day were produced. The commission would at its op tion pay for a lesser quantity produced or a slightly smaller proportionate sum .. per million gallons for any greater quantity of water developed. The commissioners withheld the prices quoted, at the request of A. W. Lundy, vice-president of the Sterling corporation, as a protection against other operators who might offer to bid on a sim ilar plan. The official was accom panied at the meeting by A. B. McLauchlan, local agent, Fred Hosie, Sterling engineer, and Ray and Clyde VanMeter of Malin, Calif., well drillers. McLauchlan said hope for se curing heavily producing wells on the island was revived by the dis covery of an 1852 federal survey or's map which disclosed that the two favorable test wells, of the eight recently drilled there, lay In the old course of the North San tlam river. The stream has since divided, forming the Island owned by this city. Borah Convalescing WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-UP)-Sen- ator Borah, 73-year-old Idaho re publican was reported by physi cians today to be convalescing rapidly from an attack of grippe. Borah, now in emergency hospital, is expected to return to his cap itol office next week. 3,500 SAN QUENTIN INMATES a .;t- 1 1 s s 7 s , -i H 4 Althonaii Wardew Coart Smith of fcrta for the removal of corned beef hash from the prison mean, the inmates contlaaed their hunger strike aad were kept la their cells. This aerial view or the prison, shows hundreds at prisoners la ' the yard aa the strike began aad they refased to cat priaoa Xar-AP TelexaatH SteiwertoBe Buried Monday Military Rites Native of Marion County Constantly in Public Service 30 Years HI Since 1936 Campaign "When He Was Keynoter ' at GOP Convention WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -JPt- Frederick Stelwer, Oregon's for mer soldler-feenator, will be burled Monday In Arlington National cemetery, Va., with full military honors. The tall, broad-shouldered Ore- gonlan died early today In his tth year, following an 1 1 1 n e s s contracted shortly after the 126 republican national convention and which caused him to resign from the senate early In 1IJI. The funeral services will be held at :20 a.m., PST, in the tiny chapel at Fort Myer. Dr. Zebar ney Phillips, chaplain of the Unit ed States senate, will officiate. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. l-OPH A public career which began 20 years ago as a deputy district at torney at Pendleton was recalled with the death at Washington to day of Former Senator Frederick Stelwer. Born on a 2000-acra ranch In the Willamette valley near Salem, the senator was elected to the sen ate in 1121 While a Umatilla coun ty resident. He was reelected in 19 S3 and announced he would not be a candidate for further public service from his fort land law of fice on October 23, 1937. He re signed: at Washington the follow ing January. Stelwer entered Oregon State college at the age of 15. He was graduated in mechanical engineer (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Concert Monday Second Event of Season; Support Is Urged in Talks to Clubs Salem's greatest musical asset, the Philharmonic Symphony or chestra, Edouard Hurllmann con ductor, will present its second concert of this season next Mon day night, February S, at the new high school auditorium. During the past week an active campaign by speakers at service clnbs and various local groups urging continued Interest In the orchestra's promotion has been conducted. In the coming concert the or chestra will give a novel program with emphasis on solo features by members of the orchestra, a quar tette of French h o r n s , a violin solo with harp accompaniment, and other Incidental solos by the clarinet, flute and saxophone. Astoria Fisherman Dies, But Provides for Pet ASTORIA, Feb. 3-(ff)-Fluffy tne cat win get milk and liver and have a roof to get under when she wishes one, although her master, Albert Knudsen, 74, fishermen, Is dead. Knudsen left $75 to the eat to be spent at the rate of $2.50 a month for her "care and main tenance." Ran Oucntia miaaa said Imi had !hUha Former Senator For Oregon Dies FREDERICK STEIWER Mooney Marriage Rupture Revealed Tom Denies Divorce-Asked but Says there'll Be no Reconciliation SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 3.-V The collapse of Tom and Rena Mooney's 27 year -old marriage was revealed today withy her charge that the labor leader had demanded a divorce, and his re tort that enemies had deliberate ly publicized the separation to dis credit him. Mooney, pardoned last month after 22 years in prison tor the 19 it Preparedness parade bomb ing, admitted the domestic rup ture, but denied be had demand ed his wife divorce him. Mrs. Mooney, who said ahe fought for her husband's freedom all during his Imprisonment, said she would oppose, a divorce be cause "we're been through tea much to think of it." " "There will be no reconcilia tion;" declared Mooney, who blip terly attacked what he said were newspaper and other Inimical fac tions Involved In revelation of his domestic troubles. Mrs. Mooney told newspaper men her husband had demanded a divorce as soon as he got out of San Quentln penitentiary. Klamath Man Dies In Own Gas Cell KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Feb. 3. (JP) A home-made gas c h a m -ber ended the life of Wlndser L. Richards, 60, auto repair shop operator, last night. Richards was found dead In the bedroom of his suburban home by his brother, Edward, who ignored a warning sign on the door: "Death keep out." On a table at the side of the bed was a nearly empty carton of potassium cyanide tablets. On the floor below was a crockery pot containing add. ' . Richards had been dead more than an hour when he waa found. Coroner George H. Adler said. Contents of two notes found In the house were not revealed, but Sheriff Lloyd Low said he was In clined to believe 01 health might have been the motive for the ap parent suicide. PROTEST. FOOD aeamleaeo! tm demasds of S500 r ,- - ' . , . .-r.-.-.i .;.--:..... .v -...VAV. .'. f'V - &rand JUTX tO Get - . - Case Soon; Larger Discrepancy Found "Rolling" of Large Items at Year End J Concealed Condition Says Report Supplementing First Audit Amounts Close to $1000 Added Each" ot Recent Years to Total; Cash Disbursement Dates Changed "Immediate action will be taken," District Attorney Lyle J. Page promised yesterday afternoon when state auditors filed their supplementary report enlarging on their previous disclosure that a shortage existed in the office of the Marion county treasurer. The new report raised to $23,534.23 the aggregate alleged shortage, declared $18,554.78 of the discrepancy between cash and fund balances existed December 31, 1932, beginning of the period covered by the audit, and itemized additional shortages discovered for each year to an including 1938. Attempts to conceal the shortages by "manipulated or rolled" bookkeeping entries and alter "paid" dates on treasury checks was evidenced by records O - ' District 1 ttorneyeipage, who 'NeWDrV BtlA Wif C had been In consultation with J the auditors most of the week,! A U1- 2.,-.AJ said the grand jury would be con- ATt DOtil iniUTCd vened next week. He will decide on his coarse of action before, that time. Officials Deny They Know Where Honey Went j Both Treasurer D. G. Drager. and his former deputy. W. T. Richardson, continued to main-' tain they did not know where the money had gone and Drager, a county official reported, asserted he had not known any discrepancy existed In his accounts. Richard- aoa was discharged soon after the original audit was filed last No- vember. While first book discrepancies occurred in the office aa long ago a lilt; jlha auditor? (Tarn to-Page z, CoL . J- Rain or Snow Is Billed for State i Tabor told the Investigating pa PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3-(AV Hce officer that visibility was las Despite a warm sun here today, paired by extremely heavy rain the federal weather bureau pre- d the approach of another car. dieted rain and snow for Oregon Mr. and Mrs. Newbry were walk tonight and tomorrow, giving the if across Center street whea Urn to groundhog prognostications rnck by the car which was tura- of yesterday. Klamath Falls, the Columbia River highway eastward from Crown Point and the Siskiyou summit received snow today which hampered but tailed to halt traf fic Other roads were open and .In good winter driving condition, al though several were covered with packed snow. Burns and Siskiyou summit had the lowest temperatures of points reporting to the federal weather bureau. They were tied at J 8 degrees above tero. Other low readings: Baker 20, Bend 26, Brookings 38, Hood River 20, Lakeview 22. Medford 32. New port 38, Pendleton 30 and Rose burg 36. Coos Flying Qub Asks US Subsidy MARSHFIELD, Feb. 3-(qp)-The federal government was asked by the Coos Bay Aero club, amateur aviators' association, today to ini tiate a subsidy for student pilots. Payment of 350 to any student pilot completing his solo test and an additional $50 when 10 hours flying time waa recorded was sug gested. The club asserted the plan would make available an Increas ing supply of war-time aviators. Ross9 PUD Bills Held Best By Legislative Support . for PUD bills intro duced by Senator Lyman Ross of Hnisboro was voiced Friday by legislative committees of the grange, the Farmers' anion, and the Bonneville federation of Ore gon. In -a formal statement," the three groups .declared that the Ross ' measures "incorporate .the best features ot laws now opera tive in other states.? . v-rtnrfnr tha rfav . Aathm Charles A. Sprague had Indicated :' that , he would not take aay part la the PUD discussions unless the 1 legislative . committees before . ' whom the three pending measures ?.are to be heard fall to arrive at aa agreement on a satisfactotry bill. In that event the governor indi cated be. might use his office to smooth oat a bill , which t woald provide - for. the Issuance "of rev enue bonds protected by satisfac tory safeguards for citizens of the district where the PUD district .was formed. - -, -1 j ' The formal sUtement Of the Knocked Down by Auto, Go to Hospital but Hurts not Deemed Serious Rep. Earl T. Newbry, leglsla- tor from Ashland, and Mrs. New bry were Injured early Friday night when they were knocked down by an automobile driven by Leonard Tabor, 754 South Com- mercial. a college student, at the Intersection ot Capitol and Center i streets. The representative ana his wife were first taken to their Salem residence, W North ,Cap- hy the'flrsLId, crew tUie Deacea - Mrs. Newbry's lnjariea were the more serious,. Including a back Injury and a slight fracture, ef the sacrum. Rep. Newbry suffered abrasions of the cheek, right knee and light thigh. , lng west from Capitol. Two Boys in Boat Object of Search- VICTORIA, B. C, Feb. '-AO-Searchers hunted on sea and land today for two boys who have re mained unreported since Wednes day when they set out in a small gasboat from Cape Scott, northern tip of Vancouver Island, for Scott Island, five miles distant. British Columbia police head quarters here learned of the . search today In a wireless mes sage from Constable W. Lock Wood, stationed at Port Alice. . The report gave the last name of the missing boys as Frederick son, but did not disclose their first names or ages. It was presumed tbey were brothers. All boats In the vicinity had Joined the search, police said. Flying Policewoman Is Commissioned, Portland PORTLAND, Feb. 3-;rVPort-land's first flying policewoman was commissioned today by the police department. She Is Bessie Gale Halladay, recently appointed a member ot the National Aero Policewomen's association. . m Utees bill Indicated that this measure la eorporated ' the best features ot laws now operative - in other states. :.V :'.c ,: The decision to support the Ross bills was said to hare been reached following a series of con ferences Involving those interest ed In power legislation. The off tea of the state hydro-electrle com mission also was consulted v ' J' : The statement said that Governor- Charles A. Sprague and the state treasurer's office were ad vised ' and their opinions as to safeguarding -the sale' of reran ua certificates were accepted. , A power legislative committee was appointed,-consisting of Peter Zimmerman, YamhilL member of the state grange and farmers ua lon executive committees; Harley Libby, Jefferson., member of - the state farmer' - legislative 'commit tee; , C. A; - Schooling.; Junction City, member of the Oregon atata grange legislative committee, and J L. Stelnbachi Tillamook, secre- Ury at the TUlamook -People's' atiUty district. -- a - . k .