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Women's Pages -t , Women readers will find, inch of Interest la the news ' of social doings, means and household Items , oa - The Statesman women's pages.' Hie Weather 1 Bain today and Monday, ' normal tempera tore; Max. "Temp. 8atarday 40, Mia. 41, rate .04 inch, river 4.9 feet. NVV EIGHTY-EIGHTH TEAR Salexa, Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 12, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 27 7 A TPt Mem; aft M(Di(D e " ' -' pcundod 1651 : '"r S , . M nil Irked. Hi Meyer Major Issues ' Attention This Week Fight on PUD Measures Due To Break Soon Pay Period for Members . Near End so Session v Will Be Speeded p Relief Principal Puzzle for Finance Experts; Tax Measures in By SHELDON F. SACKETT The forthcoming week will see the end of the 40-day period for "Oregon's legislators and a conse quent speedup of the sessions to get the 90 men and women home before their funds run out. Nearly .everybody In Oregon except-legislators Is under a maximum-hours and minimum wage law and two or three weeks work ' without pay from the employer would bring a fine or imprison ment from any ordinary mortal Vk . it- . f a . uui ins sovereign voters 01 urs gon hare decreed that only $3 daily shall be paid their law makers and this runs out 40 days from the start of the session so It's hard work and no pay for 10 days to a fortnight's overtime taaV Dob Aatfma.aa that V 40th session will continue at least three more weeks with adjourn ment by March 4. While the big legislative tangles remain to 2e untwisted, the pic ture of the session Is clearing and another week will bring, decision on several ; of X the 'major - prob lems. The long-delayed J'DDv bills r fA'na'rntr throe r hxA urtM of committee hearingspublic and executive, .with the Bonneville - authorities trying to persuade the lawmakers to enact a statute which will permit private sale of revenue bonds. The proposal la certain to be vigorously fought Oreron ' retaining ' an - nnsavorv memory of its $12,000,000 ven ture into irrigation district proj ects. Bondholders were generously hl unMit tha tlmA tit tha neat depression and were gen erally glad to settle on refinanc ing nlaiu nrtfl in t tnrnirh Km which paid only 14 to 25 cents oa the dollar. The state guaranteed the Interest for tbe initial years - and Issued bonds to do it, bonds which will not be paid off for nearly 20 more years. Some Legislation on Subject Certain The session Is certain to enact some PUD legislation because the present law is admittedly unwork able and the agitation for public ownership In some quarters Is too - strong to permit the Bonneville authority to wait two more years before, being able to deal with up state PUD districts. Prevailing legislative sentiment is to safe guard PUD district setups with rigid restriction on the amount of bonds Issued, the manner of their Issuance and the use of the taxing power by the utility districts, . Senator ; Dean Walker, ' who heads the ways and means com' mittee, says tbe joint committees will be ready by the end of next week to turn In the appropriation bills but will probably delay until a few days before the session ends. Governor Martin's budget left out some items the legislature will provide for but some slashes have been made on routine Items to keen the aggregate appropriations within the budget total. The $22,000,000 relief request recommended by the outgoing administration-are the only; major unsolved t problems before the ways a means committee. The ' committee has been holding back - its recommendation on the relief matter to see what the legislature ' proposd to do in the way of extra taxes. The counties of the state are Insistent they cannot pay the 11,000,0(1? alloted to them as their share of the 112 Ml 49 load. Senator Ellis has a bill before the session to mark up liquors 10 per cent more on the selling price. The liquor commission thinks the bill will not produce the $ 1.800, 000 revenue Ellis estimates be cause it will be affected by. .the "economic law of diminishing re turns. The commission would pre fer to be Instructed to get more money from liquor sales but to have a free hand In determining what is an economic markup. The perennial sales tax measure Is be-fni-o tha houses closed over as a gross Income tax. ' It will not be approved in this writer s opinion. Revised Income Tax - ' .' Measure Appears , The revised state . income ... tax bill made Its appearance late in the week Exemptions on single a nniM in S70O Annual Income: on married men they' go M W W.W...'.. . W T " down from .the - present rate of S1S00 to a new. base of lizoo Intangibles tax Income is merged with other income and a flat 2 per cent sur-tax added- Hera - is (Turn t rasa a cot J Two Accidents Are Reported Hit-Run Cases Two alleged hit-and-run acci dents, one In Salem and the other on the Salem-Dallas highway In Polk county, engaged the atten tion of Salem city and state police Saturday night. Arrests were made in each case. The more spectacular accident occurred on the Salem-Dallas road, a short distance east of the Inde pendence junction, when an au tomobile in which Lloyd Tocum of Dallas was a passenger was in volved in a collision with a truck which, state police said, did not stop. Yocum was brought to the Salem Deaconess hospital where it was reported that his In juries, which included a head in jury, were not critical. While state police were investi gating and a wrecker was pulling the wrecked car out, two arrests on charges of reckless driving were made. Clayton Alvin Kimble of Liberty was arrested after his ear had struck one parked near the wreck, and Frank Melton Wat son of Dallas was arrested when his car struck the wrecked ma chine. In the Salem case, Alex John Shierman was arrested for al legedly striking Henry Hendrick son at Center and Liberty streets about 7 p. m., causing a com pound fracture of Hendrickson's leg. Hendrickson was also taken to the Deaconess hospital. Shierman was captured by a service station attendant who saw the accident. ' - ' State police had made an arrest la the Polk .county eases.bnt, tha arresting officer apparently had taken the man to Dallas and his name was not available. Bombing Renewed Over Rugby Game Explosions Occur Aboard Steamer Bearing Fans Across Irish Sea LONDON, Feb. 1 l-iPolice took special precautions against terrorists today at the England Ireland Rugby match at Twicken ham following explosion of incen diary bombs aboard the steamer St David, as it brought 1000 pas sengers, mostly Rugby fans, across the Irish sea. j Three bombs were set off in the third class saloon, but caused only trilling damage. On arrival of the boat train at Paddington station Scotland Yard men took six men and a woman to a police station for question as part . of tbe campaign to curb bombing terrorism laid to the out lawed Irish republican army. At Twickenham, London su burb, detectives searched the stands for bombs before the game and required all persons carrying bags or parcels to submit to in spection, (Ireland won the game, to In London, river police arrested two men after receiving a report that terrorists were plotting to dynamite London bridge over the Thames. " Skegness police investigated the third fire in three weeks' at a Seaside vacation camp where damage was estimated at 1200,-000. Lincoln Day Speakers Blast New Deal; G. Frank on Slate By the Associated Press) ' Rnublican sneakers told tha rnnntrr list nizht that It VU adrift with a "broken down new deal party and a bewildered president": The -proper course, mey sug Maff : In aneaehea nrenared for a national series of Lincoln birth day dinners, was .to return their party to power in the 1940 elec tion. ' - - Because Lincoln's birthday an niversary fell on Sunday this year, the annual republican observances were divided. RaJUes will be held in many other cities ; tomorrow night - --v.??- " ,". At last night's dinners tho gen eral ; keynote was a contention that the administration's policies had failed at home and a ques tioning of its course in foreign affairs. ' 1 . ' Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, speaking at an Akron. Ohio, rally, said the best descrip tion of "the economics of the Roosevelt administration" was given years ago by Lincoln: v 'Ton are united in your de termination to break with the past but yon are utterly divided among Will Get Gusty Chinook Heavy Damage Velocity 62 at Times; Trees, Power Poles Topple, Portland Shipping Halted at Bar of Columbia; Freeze Banished Rapidly PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11-P) -A Chinook wind, after banishing sub-freezing temperatures from Oregon, got out of hand tonight, toppling trees and power lines and crashing signs here. The prevailing wind reached a sustained velocity of 45 miles an hour, but gusts were recorded up to 62 miles. A flag pole atop the eight-story Multnomah hotel was blown down, wrecking two parked automobiles. All power was off In large sections of Portland. The gusty gale, bearing rain, melted nearly five inches of -now from Portland streets as if by magic. Astoria Reports Seventy-Mile Gale Astoria reported a 70-mile southwest gale had replaced a 45 mile southeast blow, halting shipping at the Columbia river bar. Three ships were inside, waiting for a break in tbe weath er. Wind forced four Inches of water over the Oregon Coast highway at Tillamook bay. . In" Portland, where" the mer cury hit a low of 14, tho ther mometer soared near the SO-dfe gree mark. Appreciation hit a high at Burns where six -below weather changed into 32 above. Fog mixed with smoke laid such a pall over Pendleton that airline traffic was halted over night Snowbound southern Oregon saw Ice melt from the Pacific highway north of Ashland and the Grants Pass-to-Californla sec tion of the Redwood route. One way traffic into Crater lake, where more than 130 Inches of snow was measured, was expected Sunday. The slide-blocked Columbia riv er highway was penetrated by road crews for the first time to day and reopened to traffic after having been closed since Tuesday when hundreds of tons of dirt and rock cascaded off a cliff. All other routes were experiencing about normal traveling conditions, the time of the year considered. CCC Men Rescue Miner in Storm MEDFORD, Feb. ll-(ff)-John C. Chaney, a miner of the Kings mountain district, near the Jackson-Josephine county line, was found exhausted Thursday after noon, in a blinding snowstorm, by CCC enrollees, and carried to safety and medical care. Chaney was brought to a hospital here Saturday, by Dr. E. H. Porter, CCC physician. Chaney collapsed while en route to Rogue River after food sup plies, after battling a blizzard for 12 miles, Dr. Porter said. Cheney's wife is alone in, the Isolated cabin. CCC enrollees Sat urday hiked to within two miles of the home, where they learned Mrs. Chaney Is safe, but her food supply Is low. yourselves as to where yon are going."" ' " Bridges asserted that the new deal - "in . its . panic," has tried "every crackpot scheme, .every wlll-of-the-wisp Idea that Its so cialistic experimenters - could de vise." ' ' Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, In a Cincinnati speech, criticized the administration's spending policies. - "The present condition of the country is eloquent testimony to the complete fallacy of the theory that a people can spend Itself into prosperity," he said. : PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. UHJft -A speech revealing emergence of a " new, . liberal . republican party program was expected, here Mon day . by - northwest republicans eagerly awaiting arrival of Dr. Glenn Frank from Chicago. Dr. Frank, former president of the University of Wisconsin an! present republican national pro gram committee chairman, ' will arrive tomorrow for conferences before the Lincoln's birthday speech oa Monday. His talk will be broadcast nationally. Breeze Causes Arrests Made In Conspiracy Case, Hungary Involved Plot to Murder Carol's Vice-Premier as Revenge Move Report 60 Are Held Not Confirmed; Plotters Foiled by PoHce BUCHAREST, Feb. ll-m-k pojice communique late tonight disclosed that several young iron guardists had been arrested for participation In an unsuccessful conspiracy to assassinate King Carol's new vice-premier, Armand Calinescu. It was said they had plotted to avenge the death of their leader, Cornelius Zelea Codreanu, shot last November 30 in what was described as an attempt to escape prison. (A dispatch from Budapest, based on private advices filtering through Rumanian censorship, said the Rumanian government appeared to have embarked on a finish fight with the terroristic, fascist-inclined iron guard, long outlawed in Rumania. Report 60 Arrested Is Not Confirmed (Private reports said police, un covering and crushing an anti government plot, had arrested 60 army officers, including several generals. This particular report lacked official confirmation from Bucharest.) Some of the prisoners, aged 20 to 26, were captured after a pis tol battle last Wednesday In which police surrounded a Bucharest house serving as-Iron guard head quarters. The prisoners, described as con fessed Iron guard conspirators, plotted to kill Calinescu Jan. f. the communique said.- That was the day King Carol traditionally participates In the picturesque! eermosy9known as "thwAlesstnr or the waters "' In "the blessing of the waters' the king and his ministers march to the Dlmbovita river. The king tosses a wooden cross into the water and the citizens scramble for it, the retriever returning it to the monarch. The confessions were said to have disclosed that elaborate po lice measures to protect Carol on that day outwitted bombers and sharpshooters who hoped to launch an assault along the line of march. France Protests Hainan's Seizure PARIS, Feb. 11 - (ff) - The French government, in close co operation with Britain, demanded today that Japan explain her seiz ure of the Chinese island of Hai nan flanking French and British empire lifelines. French sources declared the occupation of Hainan was a vio lation of repeated promises made by , Japan to the two democra cies. Diplomats said Britain prob ably would present a separate but identical demand as a result of conversations between French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps. The occupation began Friday, Oriental time Thursday, Euro pean time and diplomatic sourc es contended it was too timely to be a coincidence, coming as Bri tain and France were trying to prevent Germany and Italy from gaining too strong a foothold in Spain. 10 of Cavemen Set . to Contest Gleeman Claims GRANTS PASS, Feb. U-CP)- Brlmful of confidence. Chief Big horn W. W. Lightner selected 10 of his most barrel-chested tribes men to go to Eugene next Mon day afternoon, there to compete with the Eugene gleemen in a saber-tooth tiger calling contest By roars which they claim would bring any tiger running. the famed cavemen hope' to shout Into silence a legislature that chose the gleemen instead of the cavemen as official state repre sentatives at the Golden Gate ex position. -p.- - If the cavemen win, they -win indeed do some shouting tor there are SO gleemen to the cavemen's 10. "All people know already legis lature always wrong, grunted Bighorn In his most dire manner. Oregon City interurban Car Bits, Kills Walker OREGON CTTT, Feb. i U-W)- Obscured from the motorman's views until the car was within: a tew feet of him. an unidentified man between Sf and 40. years of ago was kmed Friday night by an lnternrban car as he tried to walk - aeroas a" trestle near Mll- waukla. CATHOLIC WORLD MOURNS - sr V i t .":V. '-f .v - .."'"'-- 1 : Upper picture, the body of Pope Pins XI being borne to the Sistine chapel, to lie in state beneath the famous frescoes of Michelangelo. Yesterday a similar procession occurred when the body was re moved to the Basilica of St. Peter's, where the first of nine funeral services will be held today. Below, with the high dome of St Peter's looming as a background, priests read the black-bordered announcements of the Pope's death. AP Telemat photos trans mitted by telephone and radio Five Men Injured In Speeder Crash EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 11 HJPf Flve men were injured, one seri ously, late this afternoon when a Southern Pacific track crew speed er crashed bead-on into a locomo tive which was standing idle on the mainline tracks of the Cascade line east of Oakridge. While Southern Pacific officials refused to confirm reports of the accident doctors at a Eugene hos pital (Sacred Heart) who treated the Injured men said they had been told the speeder was running west towards Oakridge from Cres cent and ran into the engine after running through a tunnel filled with smoke. Mont serionalv lnlured was Dan Qulgley, of Tigard, who suffered head and face injuries as well as possible Internal hurts. Others brought hero for hospital treat ment were Robert Culbertson, ad dress unknown ; Peter Thornton, WllsonvUle; Nels Hoheim, Eu gene; and a Mr. Mathewson, ad dress also unknown. Pendleton's Stow ; To Run Four Days PENDLETON, Feb. ll-Re-establlshment of the ; Pendleton round-up as a four-day instead of a three-day show was announced today by the board of directors, who set tho dates for the annual spectacle as Sept 12-16. : , ; t The roundup was . a four-day show, prior to 192s and the de cision to restore the longer pro gram came after directors had re viewed tho large number of con testants and tho need for speed ing up events to end them by i pjn daily. The opening day will ,bo at bargain rates. ... XV IF from Rome toAew xork. Wings Fold up; Flier Is Killed TREKA, Calif., Feb. 11-flP)-Elmer Scott, 26-year-old govern ment clerk at Mare Island feu to his death In the cabin section of his small airplane after the wings of the craft had folded in mid-air near here this afternoon. Scott and his wife and baby had arrived from Vallejo to visit over the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Scott of Treka, and his brother, Boh. He was flying a small plane be longing to his brother and had started a dive near the airport at Montague, near here, when the wings folded. f v r , - -, Valencia Is new Franco Goal As Loyalists , Refuse to Quit prBPTflTIAM. Franca (near the Spanish frontier), Feb. ll.-ifiy- Tne gpanisn insurgents couuuvr im nf n&talonia. turned their military might today against Va lencia as peace efforts in the span- I ah efvll war marked time and the government stuck to its refusal to surrender. ? --. '!.?'' ' Seven ministers flew from Tnnen ta loin Government Pre mier Joan Negrin, who' was re ported from Alicante, Spain, to have quarrelled with military commanders in the bare fourth of the country hia troops still hold.? Negrin scarcely had time to re organize his administration in the Central Spanish tone before insur gents again began air raids on Va lencia; the government's key port At least 20 persons were killed and 40 Injured in firs air raids be lieved to have been made from the Italian-controlled air base on the island of Mallorea.. off Spain's Mediterranean coast' v FOR PIUS XI 1 $ Body of Pope In St. Peter's Pontifical Requiem Mass Scheduled Wednesday, Portland Cathedral VATICAN CITY, Feb. 11-JP)-Pope Pius XI, a tiny figure in the vast still basilica Of 8 1 Peter, the apostle, lay In death -tonight in the chipel of the Sacrament, light-, od by 24 candles and watched by four noble guards. His body had been borne from the Sistine chapel to St. Peter's with rich, medieval ceremony on the very day he had expected to address the Italian bishops on the 10th anniversary of the Lateran accord, the pact between the church and Italian state which gave him the name of "The Pope of the Conciliation." The removal of his bier from the Sistine chapel on the shoul ders of eight attendants followed the first general congregation of the cardinals, the princes of the church, in preparation for the conclave which will elect the next pontiff. Thirty one of the 62 cardinals attended the session, held while prince and peasant were passing by the pontiffs body in the Sistine chapel. The conclave probably will be convened Feb. 28, the last day by Pope Pius own order on which it may be held, to give American and other foreign cardinals the great est possible time to reach the Vat ican. Bishops Given Text of Planned Address As the cardinals met, the Ital ian bishops who had been sum moned by the people to hear him speak - on the anniversary of the Lateran accord were given the contents of his Intended address. ' The first of nine funeral serv ices will be held tomorrow in St Peter's, where burial will .take place Wednesday. Senator Staples Makes Recovery From Illness PORTLAND, Feb. llP)-fJea-ator I. D. Staples, Tillamook, was making satisfactory progress to day at a hospital, where he was confined earlier in the week for rest and observation. The 1,235-ton British freighter Lucky was partly sunk by a direct hit while unloading supplies. - Negrin presided at a cabinet meeting with all but three of his ministers, reassembled after their dispersal in Franco when Insur g e n t Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance to Catalonia's frontier with Franco put the gov ernment to flight. , - Reports reaching the border from Allcantu said that Negrin. backed by his. Influential foreign minister. JuUo Alvarez Del Vayo, had differed with military lead ers. Whether the reported tW was. over peace negotiations or plans to continue the war was not apparent however. - ? K Despite Franco's refusal to con sider anything except unconoiuon al surrender, Negrin still Insisted that Spain's freedom from foreign influence. - a plebiscite - to deter mine her future government and clemency 1 for government' sup porters bo conditions for peace. i " " t 1 ' j " 's ma, i ii hi Amount Lopped Off TVA Fund Severest Blow Republicans Keeping on Hand for Ballots on Important Issues Attendance, Also Liberal Bloc Revival Topics for 2 Conclaves WASHINGTON, Feb. ll.-CPV- Jittery over the showing of repub licans In the new congress, house democrats have called, two meet ings for next week to talk things over and see what can be done about consolidating their forces. Republicans, still far outnum bered despite their gains at the polls last November, have been do ing a better Job of keeping their members on the house floor, par ticularly at times when important votes were coming up. Democratic leaders have been worrying a bit about that. Conse quently, tbey have arranged for a conference of all house democrats Tuesday. .Speaker Bankhead said it would not be a formal caucus and that "we are just going to talk the situation over." Absent Demos Could Have Reversed Result One bartf sticking In the sides of the democrats Is the 159 to 122 vote by which the house decided to lop 17,203,000 from an appro priation for the Tennessee valley authority and halt part of its dam construction program. Democrats who failed to show up for the vote could have re versed the result In contrast to democratic absences, republican party supporters were handy all the time the Independent offices appropriation bill, which includes TVA funds, was in the amendment stage. The other democratic meeting. scheduled for Monday night has some appearances of an attempt to revive the old house "liberal bloc" and inject transfusions C new Hood. , -. One recipient of an Invitation said only "new dealers' were be ing asked and that the purpose of the parley seemed to be to take seme preliminary steps to ward setting up an informal or ganisation to work for new deal legislation. . Bonneville Power All Taken, Claim 215,542. Kilowatts Spoken for, Only 86,400 to ' Deliver, Stated PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. ll-(flV Reservation of 215,542 kilowatts of power from Bonneville dam, "considerably more elect ricity than will be available from tbe dam In the next two years," has been made by public utility dis tricts and cities of the northwest the Bonneville administrator said today. Of Washington's 25 county wide districts, 22 have reserved 202,431 kilowatts, while Oregon has asked for the balance of 13, 111, the Tillamook and Wickiup districts taking 2,576 and seven cities reserving 1,535. Although no specific reservation has been (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Chinese Pirates Hit British Ship SHANGHAI, Feb. 12.-(Sundayl -P)-ODe Chinese was killed, and . 10 others were reported to have Jumped into the Tangtxe river and drowned today when, the British coastal ship Alexandria was attacked twice by the same band of pirates. Five ether Chinese were wound- . ed In the attacks, the, latest of rapidly increasing acts of piracy in China's Japanese - controlled waters."' Tho Alexandria rammed and sank one of the two Junks used by tho pirates. The other, escaped when the British gunboat Gnat approached. ' few hours later the pirates r (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Real DAR Member Dies at Age 8? GIBSOX da, ' Feb. -t.lI.-0Pj-Mrs. Mary Fool Newsome. whose ' father fought in the colonial anas ' during the 'American revolution, ' died at her home tonight after a llngering Alness, She was 1 years Old.- -.W-W:; p;,' W y;w-; -.- The Daughters of "the Ameri can Revolution recently listed her ' as one of tho last three surviving "real" daughters of the struggle In which the nation gained , its v independencow'.-.;'-; - Her father, Henry Pool,': who lived to . bo .101 : years old; ' was to years old at the time of her birth. . She was the daughter of. the Revolutionary . soldier's third , .wife. ... - .- "r',:v;