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Order in PofUI&mcI ie I Set . A
r 4.
UCC Activity
ration
Demand Voiced
Pooling of Accounts Is
Charged; Merit Basis
Deeme4 Mandatory -
Campbell States Rating
Will Be Retained but
not yet Operative
Spirited criticism of the admin
istration of the Oregon unemploy
ment Insurance act which included
a demand by J. B. Kraus, Port
land attorney, that no refialon in
existing statutes on unemploy
ment compensation be made until
the legislature could conduct a
thoroughgoing inTestlgation of the
nnemployment commission's ac
tivities, featured a hearing Fri
day night on proposed amend
ments to the present statute. The
hearing was held before the house
committee on revision of laws.
"I claim the commission has
misused the trust funds set up
for employers in the act and has
pooled all the reserves," asserted
Kraus.
Rep. A. S. Grant, chairman of
the committee, called Kraus to
order and declared that the com
mittee would listen. only to dis
cussions which dealt with proposed
amendments. "Any investigation
of the unemployment commission's
activities is a matter for the gov
ernor, he said.
"Pooling" Principal
Issue at Hearing
Bone of contention at the hear
ing was the alleged "pooling" of
all unemployment - reserves into
one fund and wiping out of merit
ratings for employers with a good
.record for steady employment of
their wrlrjarav3-r t.sst ' ,
Ralph M on tag, Portland manu
facturer, said the proposed amend
ments would eliminate all benefits
to employers who were careful In
staggering work and would block
All of them in at a virtually uni
form tax of 2.7 per cent.
. Ralph Campbell, attorney for
the ; commission, denied the
charges. : H said the proposed
amendments - would establish a
merit system in which taxes would
range from 1 to 4 per .cent. He
said the existing law "pooled" an
the moneys aa did the industrial
accident commission statute.
"Pooling of the-moneys does not
abandon the merit system for em
ployers payments, said Camp
bell. "The amendments we ask
aid the merit system."
Merit System Not
Operative Tin 1041
; Campbell explained that .the
jnerit system set up in the amend
ments would not be operative-until
July 1, 1941. Until three years
experience has been built up in
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Sprague Approves
!. Valley Committee
' Governor Charles A. Sprague
Friday signed a bill by Sen. Doug
las McKay, Marion county, creat
ing a three-man commission to co
operate with the federal govern
ment In connection with the Wil
lamette Valley project.
The cost of the project was es
timated at approximately I3,
000.000, of which an $11,000,000
appropriation has been recom
mended by federal officials.
' The commission would be ap
pointed by the governor. The bill
carries an appropriation of $18,
000 to defray the expenses of the
eommlssion during the current
blennlum.
Legislative
Sidelights:
: If Oregon's legislators want to
finish their task quickly, nowjhat
pay has stopped, one method is
suggested by an Incident In the
Ohio legislature yesterday. A
member arose during debate and
said: "I observe that the press is
no longer taking notes, so X move
that further debate be dispensed
with. The motion carried. .
Discussing lobbying activities
by pressure gronps Rep. Frank
Hfltoa suggested, in a tails at
the Salem Realty board lunch
eon, that the two houses adopt,
the rules of the Roman Calbolic
cardinals, v who are lmprls
oneor la room until tbejr com
plete ' the elcctkm of a1 pope
with no ontslde Interference. :
Investis
President Robert M. Duncan of
the senate- yesterday appointed
Sens. W. T. Strayer, . George W.
Dunn and F. M. Franciscovkh on
' the per diem committee.
' & fed who admits her age Is
GALE LIKE .. NDS DAMAGE SOUTHERN CALIF.
11
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Strong winds of near gale proportions whipped through Southern California, uprooting trees, felling
telephone lines, and In some spots creating dost storms that stalled aoto traffic This was a scene in
Los Angeles where a huge tree was hurled down upon a house and garage. AP Telemat.
Willamette Speech
Teams Win Starts
Two Salem Squads Remain
in Regional Debating
Meet in Linf ield
JIcMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 17.-(JFy-Ten
teams still survived In a
regional debate meet at Linf ield
college here today after seven
rounds of competition had been.
completed la division A. T h e y
were College of Idaho, Gooding.
Idaho; College of Puget Sound,
Tacoma; Washington State col
lege; Unl vers i ty of Red lands,
Calif.; Pacific university, Forest
Grove, Ore. (t teams); Willam
ette university, Salem, Ore., (t
teams), and linf ield ( college (2
teams).
In division A for women the
survivors were university of Red
lands and Pasadena college.
In division B: Washington
State, U of Redlands, Linf ield and
Whitman college, Walla Walla,
Wash.
In division C: Lin field (3
teams). Northwest Nazarene col
lege (2 teams), Pasadena college
(2 teams). Whitman, Washington
State, Willamette.
Division D: Whitman, Pacific
university (2 teams), Oregon
State college (2 teams). College of
Puget Sound (2 teams).
Twentr-two colleges and uni
versities of the west had teams en
tered in the meet.
Rep. Dies Declared
Recuperating now
WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. HJPh
Representative Dies (D-Tex), who
underwent an operation this
morning after an acute attack of
appendicitis, was reported .tonight
to be out of danger.
Dr. Elliott M. Campbel, who
performed the operation, said the
Texan probably would be able to
return to his office within two or
three weeks,-
OC Elks Are Fined
OREGON CITY, Feb. 17.-(P-The
Elks temple here pleaded
guilty through two attorneys to
day to possession of three slot
machines and was fined $30 by
Justice of the Peace Paul' C.
Fischer. " .
Here and there behind and in
front of the scenes at the
40th legislative assembly.
Rep. Christina Munroe of Hood
River, who was felicitated upon
her 72nd birthday in a resolution
adopted In the house Friday morn
ing. She was born in Germany,
but eame to the United States at
an early axe. She taught school in
Indian Territory at one time,, but
since ; 1023 has been .managing
large fruit growing ; interests in
Hood River County. 4
- President Bruce Baxter of Wil
lamette university, offered the In
vocation in the senate Friday
morning, Rer. Lynn Wood of Ja
son Lee : Methodist f chureh per
formed a like service la the house.
'--'"The other members may feel
the pinch of payless days, bat
Rep. John SteeUuunmer has It
solved. He officiates at basket
ban games one or two nights
week " :" r-v ' y,
Cost of the junket to Olympla
for that state was only S19.CI,
report filed in the house revealed.
Old Age Aid List
Drops in County
No new clients were added to
the old age assistance rolls In Jan
uary and nine cases were closed,
leaving 1464 on the active list at
the end of the month, according
to the relief office's monthly re
port. Payments for old age as
sistance during the month
amounted to 130,025.77.
The number of applications
pending climbed from 221 on Jan
uary 1 to '240 on January 21.
Corvallis Quintet
Pulps Paper Mill
Score Is 38 to 36 in AAU
Tourney; College Boys
Win 63 to 23
Last Mght's Results
Blain's of Albany 48, St. Paul
23.
Brooks of Salem 43, Sheri
dan 18.
Collegians of Monmouth 83,
Toledo 23.
Corvallla 88, Papermakers 88.
Tonight's Games
Brooks r. Blain's, 7:SO
Corralli v. Monmoath. 8:SO
Only the final fray, between the
Corvallis Ramblers and Salem's
Papermakers, was close as last
night eight teams opened fire be
fore around 250 basketball fans
in Leslie's pavilion.. As a result
of the four games Brooks Clothiers
of Salem will play .Blain's
Clothiers of Albany, and the
Ramblers of Corvallis will play
Charley's Collegians of Monmouth.
The winners wfll be eligible to
enter the state AAU tourney that
starts In Portland February 28.
Though the Ramblers held a
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Med ford High Student
Condition Still Serious
MEDFORD, Feb. 17-tfV-Ralph
Coggins, 17, high school student
injured last Wednesday when his
bicycle crashed Into the rear end
of a parked automobile, was still
unconscious at a hospital today.
Physicians said the youth's con
dltion was serious. "
Girl's Eye Injured
Hiss Audrey Shay, 1030 Sag
inaw, suffered a cut on the eye
when she fell and broke her
glasses about 11 o'clock Friday
night The first aid ear was called.
Another run was made by the first
aid car to the Mellow Moon skat
ing rink where Howard Boock had
suuerea a oroaen arm. He was
taken to the Deaconess hospital.
H&Rnn Case Reported
; . Police were searching early this
morning for an alleged hit-and-
run driver who figured la a col
lision with Edgar Nafxiger, Salem
route 0, on Court street near Cap
itol, Ho one was reported Injured.
Late Sp
RE RKEL.KT. f5alif-.r FebJ Hs
(&)-Callforn!a defeated the VnU
erslty of California at Los An
geles in a conference basketball
game here tonight, 54 to 32.
. , in .
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17wflV
Universlty of Southern California
rallied In the last four minutes
of play to defeat Stanford's bas
ketball team here tonight,'
California Storm
Toll Three Lives
$500,000 Minimum Dam
age Figure Also Is Set
in Howling Gale
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17.-MV
Southern California counted a toll
of three lives and property dam
age of at least 1500,000 tonight
from a three-day, windstorm, i
As the shrieking gale died down,
a survey showed citrus groves
hardest hit, thousands of urban
trees toppled, 2,700 telephones
out of order, and losses from num
erous tires exceeding $80,000.
sixteen buildings were damaged
or destroyed by a blase brought
under control In Pasadena early
today by II fire companies. Bat
talion Chief Russell Stone said It
started from an electrical short
circuit, possibly caused by the
high winds. He estimated the loss
at $15,000.-
A sudden shift in the wind saved
many other buildings being men
seed by the flames, but it was
Pasadena's most disastrous fire in
IB years.
Losses to the citrus industry
ran into many thousands of dol
lars, with SO per cent of the fruit
in some naval orange groves being
blown to the ground. Much fruit
remaining on the trees were
bruised.
Portland Magazine Sold
PORTLAND, Feb. 17-P)-Sid
nel Bartley, published and editor
of the Analyst, official Masonic
lodge publication for 11 years,, an
nounced today he had purchased
the Spectator, Portland news magazine.
ShreckTightsHiswayThwugh t
Snow to SaietyFoMwing Crash
Boy EireckC EpokJuae,17aslu weather obeervatioa pflot, who
log for three days after beginning a rovtine fight, Is sboww with
y lira, Ehreck, who Is holding tlie compass the (Hot removed from his
: plane" after the crash in the snowcorered northerm Idaho mosm-
tains, and sued It to guide him In bis 5-mHe straggle througli deep
snow, lie was rru-Lr jeiemat, - . .;: ; .
Shoots at Son
Charge Misses
Frank Hughson, 69, and
Robert Aerni Found
Dead Upon Farm
Mental Trouble Blamed;
Resident of District
Over Fifty Years
ALBANY, Feb. 1 7. -(Special )
Frank H. Hughson, 9, farmer of
the North Albany community in
Benton county for 50 years, killed
himself with a shotgun in his
farm yard tonight after firing two
blasts at his son, Chester Hugh
son. When officers arrived to in
vestigate they found that earlier
tonight, the elder Hughson had
shot and killed Robert Aerni, 19,
a farm hand on the place. Mem
bers of the family said Hughson
was out of his mind due to illness
of long standing.
State Policeman Curtis Cham
bers, called shortly after 6 o'clock,
was told that the elder Hughson,
who had been complaining about
the house during the day concern
ing young Aerni who had been
hired by his wife, left the house
about the time Aerni came in from
work in the field. Mrs. Hughson
heard two shots shortly afterward
but thought little of it.
About 6 o'clock Chester Hugh
son came to the farmhouse from
the adjoining place. Noticing milk
buckets on the porch indicating
the milking had not been begun,
he went to the barn. Inside, his
father fired at him twice with his
shotgun at close range but missed.
The son ran and called the state
- WnenM)f fJcer Chambers . ar
rived, it was nearly an hour before1
either body was found. Hughson
evidently had dragged Aerni's
body behind a shed and covered it
with boards, then had gone be
hind the milk house and shot him
self fatally, falling behind the
watering trough In a place where
his body was concealed.
Young Aerni, whose parents
live on route S, Albany, had
worked at the Hughson place tor
a number of months.
Hudson D. White
Is on Way Here
ENTERPRISE, FEB. 17.-V
Sherlff A. B. Miller left today for
Salem with Hudson Dodd White,
who pleaded guilty to three
charges of sodomy and was sen
tenced to 30 years in prison.
. A former school teacher, White
was Indicted for offenses against
two little girls and a boy.
. Find Forester's Body
EUGENE, , Feb. 17 - (P) - The
body of Tom Lewis, 24, Siuslaw
national forest employe who was
drowned Jan. 2, was recovered
today,. He lost his. life when his
boat swamped In the swift current.
::
With Shotgun,
Spanish Peace
On Any Terms
Loyalists' President
Insisting Resistance
Useless, Report
Is
Rome Authorities Aver
Shootings Near Duce
'Act of Madman9
(By The Associated Press)
A demand that his government
make peace on any terms was re
ported laid down yesterday (Fri
day) by President Manuel Azana
of Government Spain.
Azana, who conferred in Paris
with his foreign minister, Julio
Alvares Del Yayo.'was represent
ed by an aide as insisting further
resistance to the nationalists "is
vain."
At Burgos, Nationalist General
issimo Franco's capital, Britain
and France actively were rushing
negotiations to end the Spanish
conflict.
Alvares Del Vayo was believed
awaiting outcome of the Burgos
consultations before flying back
to Madrid to convey Azana's de
mands to government military
leaders.
A sensational stemming from
the war occurred in Brussels when
nine Spanish nationalist sympa
trizers seized the Spanish consul
ate in a surprise night raid, only
to be ejected by police.
US Asks Japan
To Explain Late Act
International developments In
the war in the Orient centered on
the action of the- United States
in asking Japan for an explana
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William () Douglas
Talked for Bench
White House Sounding out
Sentiment Upon Choice
of Ex-Westerner
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-(ff-
lnere were aumoritative reports
today that the White House Is
sounding out sentiment In the sen
ate on the possible appointment
of William O. Douglas to the su
preme court.
One well-informed senator said
he had substantial reasons to be
lieve that Douglas, chairman of
the securities and exchange com
mission, now tops the list of those
being considered by the president
for appointment to the place va
cated by the retirement of Asso
ciate Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
This senator said that the ques
tion of establishing Douglas as a
westerner and thus satisfying the
demands of some senators that a
western man be appointed to the
court was playing a large part In
maneuvers behind the scenes.
When President Roosevelt sent
up the nomination of douglas to
be a member of the securities and
exchange commission on January
IS, 1938, he designated him as
"William O. Douglas of Connec
ticut." Douglas, who Is 41 years old,
has a western and middlswestern
background, -however. He wss
born in Maine, Minn., and later
moved 'farther ' west, attending
Whitman college at Walla Walla,
Wash., and teaching school at
Yakima, Wash. v
K0Y Still Seeks
KOACs Waye Use
CORVALLIS, Feb. 17.-ffHre-gon
State college officials said to
day' KOY, Arizona radio station,
apparently would continue its ef
fort to gain a license granting use
of the KOAC station's frequency.
r Notification was received that
KOY officials had filed a petition
asking the federal communica
tions commission to reverse its
recent decision granting KOAC a
rehearing. .
The college, to .protect " the
KOAC regional channel, filed an
application to Increase the power
of the station to 5000 watts. L. R
Brelthaupt, 'emergency represen
tative of the : college and state
board of higher education, said
that if , Oregon did not develop
KOAC, the federal: communica
tions eommlssion might grant the
facility . to - some other station.
KOAC Is 'the- Only .education sta
tion .with license to operate full
time on a regional 'cleared chan-
WAftiidPoA
PORTLAND. Feb. liflV
Tnree-year-oia jimmy hiu savea
his ' life : today .when he . trotted
around the ' house' saying "nasty.
nasty . KUfJ. -i'- f--::v
His " guardians, ' Mr. and "Mrs.
a .Cv Hunslker, Investigated and
found that Jimmy had swallowed
a : poisonous disinfectant. ; They
promptly gave rst aio. now 41m
,107 t of dangerv
Two American
Cardinals Will
ROME, Feb. 17 - () - Dennis
Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop
of Philadelphia, and George Card
inal .Mundeleln, Archbishop of
Chicago, are expected to arrive
here tomorrow night, the first
American cardinals ever to com
plete a trans-Atlantic crossing In
time to vote In the election of a
pope.
The only time heretofore that
an American cardinal balloted on
a new pope was in 1914 when the
Iste John Cardinal Farley of New
York happened to be in Switzer
land and reached Rome in time
to participate in the election of
Pope Benedict XV.
United States embassy officials
tonight completed arrangements
to receive the prelates.
It announced that Consul Gen
eral Thomas Bowman would greet
them when they arrive at Naples
on the liner Rex and that Edward
L. Reed, counsellor, and Samuel
Reber, second secretary of the
embassy, would be at the station
to welcome them in Rome. Bishop
Ralph Hayes, rector of the North
American college in Rome, also
was expected to be at the station.
Townsend Backed
By Mott, Angell
Latter Congressman Says
Pension Better Than
Social Security
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-jP)-The
Townsend old-age pension
flan was supported at a house
ways and means committee ses
sion yesterday by Oregon's repub
lican congressmen, Homer Angell
of Portland and James Mott of Sa
lem. While Dr. Francis E. Townsend
sat nearby attentive to witnesses
supporting his philosophies. Con
gressman Mott asserted he saw
little , necessity for - creating the
special fund .prdrided fot Jn the
welrtre bill to handle payments
under the proposed transactions
tax.
Representative Crowther (R
New York) asserted he had been
a d t 1 s e d Townsend supporters
the measure passed without
change.
"I have heard that." Mott re
plied "I've also heard they want
200 a moath, not $150 or 9199,
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Roosevelt Okehed
Showing of Ship
Army Men's Protest Oyer
Display for French
Overridden, Report
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-i?V-As
a result of the senate military
committee's long - standing and
still-continuing row over secret
proceedings, a transcript of testi
mony tsken in its investigation of
the sale of war planes to France
was made public today, revealing
that:
President Roosevelt, at a White
House conference, personally gave
instructions that a newly devel
oped warplane be demonstrated
for a French military mission.
He did so over the protest of
the war department, and of Ma.
Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the
army air corps.
The aeronautical board of, the
army and navy, established to con
trol the demonstration or sale of
military planes to foreigners, was
not consulted.
The French mission apparently
had prior knowledge of the plane
in question, a light bomber, built
by the Douglas Aircraft company.
Arnold was assured that the
sale of such planes to the French
would not be permitted to delay
the pending administration plane
building program.
No military secrets were dl
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Solons Decline
And Force
The legislature Friday ended
Its 40-day pay period but resisted
a movement' to adjourn' sine die
and to force Governor Charles-A.
Sprague to call a special session
tor which the members would be
paid. Senator- Lyman A. - Ross,
after futile efforts to get It sign
ers for ' his resolution caUing for
adjournment-by m!dnigbt Friday,
did not Introduce the resolution."
The session was getting into
fun swing as the week drew to a
close with observers agreeing that
two more; weeks would bring the
session to an end. Hereafter none
of the. members will receive, a S3
daily compensation. V " -,
Progress in solving the Vexing
problem of handling greater relief
demands la 1939 and 194t without-
additional' taxes was seen
when the house taxation and reve
nue committee asked Robert Boyd,
state liquor commission attorney,
to draft a substitute measure for
the bin of Senator Sex EUis which
Arrive Tonight
Court Decides
M&MMillnot
Unfair to CIO
Board Ruling That AFL
Contract Was Void
Is Overruled
Former AFL Members
Charged Closed Shop
Discriminatory
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.-C)
-The U. S. circuit court today set
aside a national labor relations
board order which had declared
void a closed shop contract be
tween the AFL and the M and M
Woodworking company of Port
land, Ore.
The court, in a two to one de
cision, held that charges of com
pany discrimination against the
CIO local 102. International
Woodworkers of America, were
not supported by the evidence.
The suit grew out of a labor
dispute in which 4 SO members ot
the AFL local 2531, United
Brotherhood of Carpenters snd
Joiners, assertedly withdrew from
the organization Sept. 12, 1937,
and affiliated with the CIO.
Following an NLRB hearing
kof CIO charges that the company
had violated the labor act by re
stricting employment to AFL
unionists, the board directed the
company to discharge certain
members of the AFL and employ
CIO men who were awarded back
pay.
AFL Closed Shop
Contract Held Legal
The circuit court decision said
the company had acted in com
pliance with its closed shop con
tract with the AFL, which was
legal, and therefore had not dis
criminated against the CIO.
The company pointed out In its
petition to the court that the AFL
closed shop contract was made jn
February, 1 9 3 6, a ad - bad Hve
months to remain in effect wfcea"
the 4 SO AFL members withdrew
to the CIO In September, 1937.
Justices Curtis D. Wilbur and
Clifton Mathews said in the ma
jority opinion that the withdrawal
of the union as a whole was not
legal because 39 members did not
withdraw, and the by-laws of the
AFL nnion stated a local union
cannot withdraw as long as It
members in good standing object.
PORTLAND, Ore Feb. 17-P)
-Tom . Malarky, MAM Wood
working company official, said to
night the plant had been operat
ing since April 11, 1938, with 27
employes, 80 per cent of whosa
are affiliated with the CIO and
the remaining 20 with the AFL.
"We can't say what our . posi
tion will be until we read the
decision," Malarky stated in com
menting on a U. S. circuit court
order- setting aside a national la
bor relations board ruling voiding
a closed shop contract between
the company and AFL.
Father, 7 Children
Are Fire Victims
MANASSAS, Va., Feb. 17.-P)-A
father and seven ot his children
burned to death . tonight when
their home, at Greenwich, .five
miles from here, was dstroyd by
fire tonight.;-, . x .
Ed Hansborough, 40 a carpen
ter, perished with- his five daugh
ters and two sons in an attempt
to rescue them from the flames.
The dead were Harriet. Molly,
Beulah, Lena, Ef fie. Buddy
Sam. Harriet, the eldest, was 12.
Mrs. Hansborough, who was sit
ting downstairs with her husband
reading when the couple became
aware of the blaze, carried her 2-year-old
boy, John, from the flam
ing home. The father first rushed
out of the house for help, but re
turned Immediately to aid the
children asleep upstairs.'
to Adjourn
Special Session
would have Increased llq a or prices
X9 per cent.
i- Boyd objected i to the act bei
cause "an artificial 'measure to
raise Uquor-- prices is not good '
merchandising." At the same time .
he Indicated -he 'thought the com-;
mission could raise more, money
for; relief if it was left free to
manipulate prices 'So. 'the law: of.-
guusaonr marai .w o a i a on -cancel
out; la , the gross receipts- "
obtained the higher prices
charged, v,'
- if extra revenues were secured,
fVrtWl ' ttftMAt tar Asirt tfiaa efa
mwhs- imv wtuvw eaeauk'- alb v
therefrom assumed a larger share ;
of' the cost of .relief, counties -might
be able to carry; on their
relief : burdens from present
sources fot two more years,
r The PUD legislation Which has
moved slowly in 4his session, was -1
further complicated Fridar whea .
Edward Wist of Stsppoose said
he would sponsor - a bill - which
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