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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1939)
Late City News Because of Iti press boor, the morning paper Is enabl ed to be first with late ev ening and early morning news occurrences. The Weather , . Pair today and Friday, be coming unsettled Friday. Little change In tempera tare. Max. Temp. Wed. 53, Min. S3. River 11.2 feet. POUNDOQ 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Blorning February 16, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 279 nire Ok ' mm Meat Are ei. m Again r ; Weary Airman Cheats Nature After Crackup Lost Sbokane Pilot Is . Victor of -Grueling Struggle in Snow Alaskan Plane's' Search Is Still Unfruitful; Hunt on Today SPOKANE, Feb. lB-CfffcrJhree days of desperate straggle against hunger, cold and deep snow In J the ragged mountains of north "iAin were described today by v Roy Shreck, Spokane weather pi lot, who made his way to saieu. after crashing on a mountain top early Sunday. ' "I felt like giving up lots of times," he said, "I'm glad I didn't now." Shreck walked nearly 25 miles to a. wood cutter's cabin and then rode 17 miles to Coeur D'Alene this morning. He phoned nis wue the first news that he was saie. "Something certainly guided me out. It wasn't my time. I didn't get even a pin scratch," he said of his crash and struggle 10 saieij, Unknown Powers of Endurance Are Felt "No one knows what he can do until he has to until he is right np against it," he added. "Mv nlane crashed about 500 feet from' the top of a 5000-foot ridee. about 25 miles northeast of Wolfe Lodge. "A load of ice took the ship down. 1 knew where I was." Shreck's feet when he reached Spokane were badly swollen, but after a night's sleep he claimed li was otherwise "OK"- and re fused to go to bed or have doctor.- : , "For three days ana nights walked and straggled through the snowhe aai&V T difln't;iaTiia match, and no food, too snow was always up to my waist and sometimes it was over my head. 1 think It was 50 feet deep where I crashed. ' "My stomach was tied in knots the second day. I didn't have any thing to eat and I couldn't find any water. I tried to eat snow but it tasted like pine needles. "About t v- m. yesterday, I 'found some water. In the bottom of a canyon and dug down through the snow to tL" -' Before he left his plane, Shreck dismantled his radio headset and used the strapafor a screw driver to take out the compass. "That saved my life, he said. Without it I wouldn't be here today. He personally bang to the compass until after he was In his apartment here and his wife took It. One of the worst parts of the experience, he said, was the knowledge that many were search ing for him but couldn't help him. "I knew they were looking for me," he explained. "They flew right over me a dozen times." JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 15-C)-Snow and rain kept navy planes grounded and hampered other search efforts today, as the fourth day ended with no trace of" the Marine Airways plane In which Pilot: Alonio Cope and at least four passengers vanished Sunday. Navy planes from Sitka were expected to Join the hunt tomor row. Improved weather was fore cast for tomorrow's search. Other passengers are E. XL Ek of Seattle, John Cbappell and Earl Clifford, Juneau; George Cham berlain, Anchorage, and probably Jack Lennon, Craig. . .-..: Canadian Miner Killed in Blast TRAIL. B." C Feb. 15-(CP)- One man was killed - and two others Injured In an explosion at the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company's plant in ad joining Tadanac , municipality to night. - Early Legislative Measure Giving City The original bill. House Bill No. I of the 10th session legislative assembly of territorial Oregon, that gave Salem Its charter in 1857 two years before Oregon was admitted to the union, has been unearthed by Historical Rec ords Survey men; In the basement files of the city hall. Introduced Into the house of representatives on December 15, 1867, by Mr. Woodsides of Mar lon county, the bill provided "that the - Inhabitants of 8alem, and their successors within the follow ing, limits, are hereby declared a body politic and corporate. ..." - It set boundaries as: "From the Willamette river, at the south west corner of the late Wm. H. Willson's claim, then east, follow ing the southern-boundary to the southeast corner of said claim, then on a straight line with the east line of said claim extended to th m!321a of Mil creek, then d;a tL.a dliila cf said week to Ex-Legislator On Lost Plane Above, George Chamberlain, for mer Washington legislator, of Seattle, one of the passengers aboard the Marine Airways plane missing on a flight from Ketchikan to Juneau. Six per sons were believed aboard the plane, search for which was handicapped by a snow storm. Below, his daughter. Holly Chamberlain, Seattle school girl who anxiously awaited word of her father's fate. AT Telemats. County Taxpayers Pingle up Early Marlon county taxpayers are starting early to make their 1939 contributions to government oper ations. T. J. Brabec, deputy sher iff in charge of tax cellectlons, re ported, yesterday. Receipts over the tax counter at the courthouse totaled $23,091.42 for Tuesday and Wednesday, first two days since the assessor's warrant for the veer's levies was issued. Three hundred sixteen receipts have been issued for $18,852.82 19S9 taxes already and 140 tor S.4S39.52 in 1938 taxes. Faulkner Dies of Accident Injuries LEBANON, Feb. 15-(Special)-Dallas Faulkner, 19, of Lebanon, died here tonight of injuries sut fered in an a automobile accident when the car in which he was rid lng, driven by Richard Duncan o Shedd, overturned last Saturday. Stanley Underlik of Lebanon, also badly Injured, Is recovering, District Attorney Weinrlch said the accident would be Investigat ed. Duncan was booked by the police and then released on his own recognizance. , Charter Found the north line of the late W. H. Willson's claim, thence along said north line to the middle - of the main channel of the Willamette river." , . The bill provided for three wards; . all lying east of Church street to constitute the first ward, all lying north of State street and west of Church street to consti tute the second, and all lying south of State street and west of Church street to constitute the third. It provided for a mayor and six aldermen, a recorder and as sessor, a marshal, to also be ex of ficio collector of taxes, and a treasurer. It set the tax levy at not to exceed one mill per annum.- , Photostatic copies of the bUl have been made and presented to the city recorder and Salem news papers. The men who found the bill are WPA employes, working out of the Portland office, where the historical records survey has Its Oregon headquarters. Ir 0- lrJ ) Ho Vushes !i Through r w v ForArmament One -Sided Vote Favors $376,000,000 to Put Army in Shape $68,000,000 Also Voted for Naval Outposts, Including Guam - WASHINGTON, Feb. It.-VPi- Tne house approved a huge. 378,000,000 segment or the ad ministration's rearmament pro gram today, after a turbulent de bate which produced dramatic warnings that present world con ditlons hold grave dangers for America and charges that the United States is treading the road to war. . By the one-sided vote of 367 to 15, It passed a bill which would add 3,050 war planes to the army air corps, strengthen the defenses of the Panama Canal, increase the enlisted strength of-the army air corps by 24,000 men, and 2,060 officers to the army and enable the army to buy $23,750,000 worth of war material from Am erican industry to educate it in the production of such supplies. The measure now goes to the senate. Guam Plan Removal Is Voted Down A little earlier, the house na val committee approved a bill au thorizing an expenditure of $68,- 000,000 for new naval air bases, including a far away Pacific out post on the island of Guam. A move to strike the Guam base from the measure "was beaten 14 to 5. Senator J ohnson ( R-C a 1 1 f ) , veteran senate advocate of Ameri can isolation, accused the admin istration of conducting Its foreign affairs "clandestine!" and of re senting efforts to obtain facts con cerning the recent sale of military planes to-France. After a long, secret session, the senate military committee an nounced iC would make public to morrow part of the testimony tak en today from high officials con cerning the sales to France. Republicans Join Defense Bandwagon But major interest centered upon the house and Its discussion of defense needs and foreign af fairs. The decision of a republi can caucus to back the defense bill, except on one point, had elim inated virtually all partisan pol itics from the controversy. That one point, however, de veloped a heated dispute. The bill called for the acquisition of the 3.050 planes within two years. The republican viewpoint was that the purchases should be spread over a three-year period, to avoid the obsolescence of a large section of the air corps. The republicans, sticking toge ther mustered votes for the long er period but there were 183 votes for the shorter. Gale Rakes Pendleton PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. tt-m -A windstorm which blew from 41 to 60 miles an hour swept the city early today, shattering some trees and damaging communications. Nearly an inch of rain fell. ELABORATE FUNERAL SERVICES i 1 K' i?r' i. S i 4 1H . Tongue Point Navy Project Hopes Raised ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. Hope that the long fight for es tablishment of a naval base at Tongue Point might be approach ing realization came today to Merle Chessman, Astoria publish er, and Rep. James Mott (R-Ore) with approval of the house natal committee of a fund of $1,500,000 for revelopment there. The committee's action occurred in connection with its completion of a $68,400,000 bill for new and expanded aviation bases. The mea sure now goes to the house floor for passage. Besides the recommended allo cation for Tongue Point, the bill provides expenditures totaling about $15,000,000 for develop ment of naval aviation facilities at Midway, Wake and Guam isl ands and Pearl harbor In the Pa cific, and various sums for east ern bases. Inclusion of Tongue Point In the bill marked the first time in the nearly 20 years of legislative battle that the project has been a part of a bill recommended to congress for passage. Heretofore, it has been Injected into a com pleted measure as an amendment and as such reached the house floor two years ago, only to be defeated by opposition of the navy department. Rep. Mott, who with Chessman has been a leading figure in the fight for development of the Co lumbia river site, expressed the belief that prospects for favorable congressional action were "bright er than ever" and Chessman re garded the committee's action as "very heartening." Racing Revenues Measure Opposed Only Opponents of Bill Appear to Speak at ' Hearing Here Opponents of a bill to Increase the state's share in racing rev enues from 2 to 4 per cent of the "take" argued before the house judiciary committee last night that the bill would deprive fairs of money, decrease racing revenues and cause unemployment of racing enterprise employes. No one spoke in favor of the bill, introduced by Reps. Frank Hilton (R-Portland) and W. H. Miller (D-G rants Pass). R. H. Cake of the Multnomah Athletic club, Portland, said the Multnomah Kennel club, opera tor of dog races at Multnomah stadium, had conducted Its busi ness "in the highest possible man ner", and had yearly Increased its contribution to state revenues. Rep. H. H. Chlndgren (R-Mol-alla), appearing as president of the State association of fairs, said his organization objected to the bill because it provided no meth od of fund distribution. Under the present law a portion of the funds are distributed directly to state and county fairs. W. J. Crawford, Portland, said the measure would hurt employes of the Multnomah Kennel club, many of whom are college stu dents, young attorneys and young Insurance salesmen. He said wages were the largest expense of the Kennel club. - , ' r 4 ? 4 i r t v This picture, transmitted from Borne to London by telephone and from - London to New York by radio shows the impressive funeral of Pope Flos XI in St. Peter's cathedral Rome. The view above is over the elaborate ceremony inside the historical cathedral. The public was admitted to the cathedral during the-morning for last glimpse at :. the features of the pontiff, but the burial service, held hi the after noon, was limited to dignitaries of church and state. The pope's' body Is la the casket ia the center foregrounds AP Telemat, ; Gales, Floods, Cold, Warmth Nation's Menu Some Deaths . Reported From Freak Weather Antics in East Cold in Midwest, Warm in East Is Rule for Continent (By The Associated Press) A strange mixture of destruc tive winds and threatening tides, of record heat and intense cold, of dense fog, snow and heavy rains, accompanied in some places by summertime thunder and light ning, disturbed the United States Wednesday. Gale-force winds s t r u e k the mid-south first, toppling over houses, trees and power, and tele phone lines and bringing death to two persons in Alabama. They lat er struck New York without warn ing, reaching 65 miles an hour and bringing with them a 20-min-ute cloudburst, and roared on into New England. The winds also caused two deaths in New Jersey. Deaths Reported In Xew York Two brothers were believed drowned at Elmira, NY, when ice, dislodged by the Chemung river's rising water, swept away a tem porary ramp n which they were working. Six others were saved. With an abnormally high tide along the New England coast, es pecially in Rhode Island, officials feared floods in the area damaged in last September's hurricane. State police set up a special patrol. There were flood fears also in the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumber land river valleys and the Red Cross in Kentucky made plans to evacuate lowland ' families should the water rise much higher. ' While easterners perspired in winter coats. - a new cold wave chilled the mid-west, the mercury reaching 49 below zero in Minne sota. Mrs. Sears' Body Located in River Woman Who Disappeared Here December 22 Is Identified, Buried Found by Ferryman Kenneth Snyder and Roy LaFollett In the Willamette river one-half mile above Wheatland ferry yesterday morning, and positively identified by rings and wearing apparel, the remains of Mrs. Ethel Sears, West Salem woman who disappeared from her auto camp home the af ternoon of December 22, were buried in McMInnviUe at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Polk County Sheriff Walter B. Gerth, veteran riverman who had twice run the river in search of the body, was notified shortly be fore noon that a body had been found. It .was not taken from the river until the arrival of Gerth, accompanied by the deceased woman'a husband, Henry C Sears. (Turn to page 2, col, 1) MARK FINAL RITES FOR POPE Ail Intcre On new Utility Setup Exemptions Intangibles Strong Opposition From low. Income Groups Causes Shift in Program; Committee Hears Pleas for Gross Income Tax for Relief Faced by strong opposition from persons with low in come, the house taxation and revenue committee late Wednes day night abandoned its program of lowering income tax ex emptions to $700 for single persons and $1200 for married persons. Instead the committee agreed to leave the exemp tions at the present scale of $800 for single individuals and SI 500 for persons married. O To offset the reduction in tax es occasioned by elimination of the flat eight per cent tax on In come from intangibles, the com mittee decided to Impose a flat three per cent surtax on income from intangibles in addition to putting intangibles Income into the regular income tax brackets. The result would be to recap ture much of the loss from aban donment of the flat tax on intan gibles Income. Persons receiving intangibles income and paying taxes in the higher state income tax brackets would pay seven per cent income tax plus a three per cent surtax on intangibles income, instead of the flat eight per cent intangibles income tax now pre vailing. The committee tentatively agreed to approve a reduction In corporate real property offset tax es to 50 per cent. The present ex (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Homage Continues Over Pius' Tomb Visitors Pour Into Church as Plans Go Forward for Elections VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15.-P)-Continued homage to Pope Pius XI was paid by sorrowing visitors to his tomb beneath St. Peter's to day while interest quickened in preparations for the election of his successor. Cardinals already here said their conclave would begin as soon as aU princes of the church arrived In Rome, but in any case nat later than March 1, even If some cardinals were still absent. The exact date, they said, would remain indefinite until the arrival of the last cardinal or March 1. (Indications were that the last of the cardinals would reach Rome Feb. 28. They are expected to be Santiago Luis Cardinal Co pello of Buenos Aires and Sebas tlano Cardinal Meme of Rio de Janeiro, now aboard the liner Neptunla, and William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, sailing from New York Wednesday with the expectation of transferring to the Neptunla at Gibraltar. The Italian line said that by omitting a call at Algiers the Neptunla would reach Naples a day ahead of schedule, allowing the cardinals to reach Rome February 2 s.) 4 "5 it 9 - J f sts United Unchanged, Surtax up Bar Examination Method Assailed More Chances to Pass, Public Access to Papers Wanted Backers of a measure to change the form of the state bar exam inations told the house judiciary committee last night that candi dates for the bar should be given unlimited chances for examina tion, that a basic passing stand ard should be established and that examination papers should be public records. Walter Kennerson, Portland, charged that the present bar ex amination board, chosen by the supreme court from nominations of the state bar association, is "just a closed shop proposition." He said that 7ft per eent ef bar ap- plicaatsr wertriiccssft ttttt $0 out that last year only z per cent passed the examination. The bill was Introduced by Rep. C. C. Chapman (R-Portland), who told the committee he had been informed that there was "a con spiracy to keep graduates of cer tain schools from practising law." It would substitute a board of seven circuit court judges for the present board. Thome Hammond, Salem, who said he had twice failed the bar (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Rebuilding Board To End April 1 Commission to Terminate Services as Capitol Vork Nears End The state capltol reconstruction commission will pass out of exis tence April 1, under an agreement reached at a meeting of the senate capitol reconstruction committee Wednesday. The original bill introduced earlier in the legislative session provided for termination of the commission In August. ' The only state construction now In progress here.Ia the central heating plant - " H; H, Olinger, Salem, a member of the commission. Informed- leg islators that there was no valid reason why the body should be continued any longer. Big Order Given , Chamber Manager It Ft ed D. Thlelsen. chamber i'-oX , commerce manager, took -all requests literally well. If he did, pe would have to: "send ail lnrormauon you hare on the state of Oregon, and If possible a sample: That was yesterday's biggest request and came from a southern Oregon school girl. Legislative Sidelights: With all dne respect to the framers . of the . bfll which W o a I d set Oregon's primary election on the 'first Wednes day after the first Monday fn September, and with fall ap probation of the general prin ciple r involved, - - this column cannot bat believe that - it woold. be a poor day to bold an election ia Salem. It would be Salem day at the state fair. . -l Now ' that the several - truck loads of white marble compris ing that record express shipment from White Plains, NT, Jtave been delivered at the front en trance to the eapitol, it appears evident that Sculptor Leo Fried lander la going to f In i si. : the sculpting .. right there where Sa lem's, house-moving and construc tion i experts : can watch hlm in view of Oregon's Ubual spring weather. It la to be hoped that Follows lines OfBiirkeBiU But no Repeal Safeguards Are Imposed -Upon Bond Issuance! BidsMandr Tax Optional; Districts Required to Charge Adequate Rates A united front for new PUD legislation was presented to the senate railroads and utilities com mittee Wednesday night by advo cates of public ownership of pow er distribution lines in Oregon. Headed by Ray Gill, master of the Oregon grange, the power pro ponents declared they favored amendment of the existing PUD law, rather than the enactment of an entirely new stature as pro posed by Senator Lyman Ross in Senate bill 261. The new measure, following in the main Senate bill 265 present ed by Sen. W. E. Burke amends but does not repeal existing PUD statutes. Gill said that approval ' of the existing law by . the state supreme court lead public utility ownership forces to agree that it was wiser to amend the existing law than to enact a new measure which would be subjected to court test. Both Types of Bonds . , , , Still Permissible Sailenrreatures'Sl for Senate bill 265. as discnssed Wednesday night at a three-hour public hearing, include: 1. Issuance of revenue bonds is authorised but PUD districts re- . serve the right to issue general . obligation securities. 2. The Initial issue of revenue bonds"and all Issues of general ob ligation bonds must be approved by a majority vote In the district. S. Sale of bonds must be pub licly made, after sealed bids are called for. Bonds cannot be sold for a longer term than SO years and not more than six per cent in terest on the par value can .be paid. 1 4. PUD districts are required under the substitute act to charge . rates sufficient to pay interest, principal and operation expenses on the district. 5. Payment of an offset tax In lien of existing taxes paid by pri vate utilities "is left optional as provided in Senate bill 262. If m majority of voters favor such a payment, six per cent of the gross Income of the PUD district is to be distributed ratably to tax levy ing bodies in the district. Sen. Burke Is expected to Intro (Turn to page 2, col, 6) Salary Increases And Auditor Voted Two bills affecting Marion-coun ty won approval in the state sen ate Wednesday. One provides for a county auditor to pass on all claims and to conduct an annual audit of the various county of fices. The second measures would increase county salaries aa fol-. lows: County judge from SIS 01. to $2409, the treasurer I r o m 11500 to I1S00, clerk from SISOO to $2400, sheriff from $2000 to $2400, assessor from $1800 to $2400, school superintendent from $1600 to $1800 and county com missioners from $5 a day to $1800 a year, The county auditor would pass on all claims and audit the books and accounts of the various coun ty offices annually. Bcn and there behind and in front of the scenes at the 40th legislative assembly. the sculptor has arranged for a canopy, : , v . ' .The Associated' Press Is rep , resented, at the legislative ses sion by three PaulsHarvey, c Baaser and StnrgeS. That is. fJttlni, for St, Paul Is gener... ally regarded as the .tint news -correspondent In history. " 'Forty four years ago Charles . F. Tigard; for whose father -the town of Tigard was named, serv- -ed la the Oregon house of rep- - resenUUrev Mr. Tigard was ex- ' tended the courtesies of tLe sen ate Wednesdays In -addition, to- - serving in the 189$ session, he was also a member of the house , v In 1811. Sen. W E. Burke of -Yamhill , county and Sen. George W. Dunn of Jackson were fellow- -v representatives with Tigard In -. Dunn ; returned in 1887, then both stayed out of the, leg- - 1 (Turn to page 2, cot I it 7) . y7