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Cranes ' Child . . Pic&ke t . Imue -!' (&F(0wieg Consolidation, Tax Equalizing Bills in Shape Districts May -Vote to Reject Consolidation '. ; Under Proyision. f Kansas Legislative Plan . to Be Introduced in Bill Today Amended Tenions ot the two admlniatratlon measures designed ! to reortanlxe and eonsolldata i school districts and to- equalise -school taxes were scheduled to be .reported out to the Oregon house .'of representatlTes today from Its ;admlnitration and reorganlaatlon committee. i i - s i- ' r - Amendment of the consolidation bill to eliminate its compulsory ' features will , include,' committee members said, a prorlsion permit ting districts to rdlToree" them . selres from the consolidation re quirements ' bj : so rotlng at aa 'election called on petition of 10 . per cent of the district yoters. ..No Recommendation' on Equalization Bill ? The school tax equalization bill will come from the committee without recommendation. , The committee amended it to permit din trie ta - tn nartleinatA In th equalisation program on a basis of contributions. iThe bill provides that, school - funds, be pooled by - counties land, distributed to dis tricts on'fc bisls of aTerage'dally , attendance, f . - -' Under ' the reorganization bill county committees would 4raw up recommendations for district con solidations, which, would have to be approved by -the state depart ment of public lnstructIoB1 Dis tricts obiecting tothe reorfanlas tlon yould elect to withdraw .' ; gapertntemdent Putmana T; " Praises Bill's Alma , 4 Eex . Putnam, state superinten dent of J public instruction, said the bills "were the most signifi cant education bills that have been presented In many yean." He add ed that the bills would go far in (Turn to Page 2, CoU X ) - NLRB Loses Stay In M&M Matter . SAN FRANCISCO, -March 1-lCP)-Tbe national Jabor relations .board today lost another round before the US circuit cort in the labor case involving the M and M Woodworking company ? of Portland, Ore., i The" court denied the, board's petition for a stay of the clr-uit court order Issued Feb. 17 which reversed an NLRB order voiding an AFL ' closed '' shop : contract with the company. The - board ' had asked the court for a stay until May 17 pending the tiling of a petition with - the supremo court for1 a .writ- of review, v 1 Hit-Kun Motorisf Kills Boy of 5 HOOD - RIVER, March l.-tfEV State Dolice and sheriTf's denuties hunted for a hit-and-run driver - who killed lire-year-old Victor J. Zuber on the ML Hood Loop high way a mile east of here today. The child . was found dead by his grandmother, Mrs. Beauregard, who went to hunt for him. His mother. Mrs. A. Jones, was teach , tng school at Odell at the time of the accident. - ' ' ' ' ' Legislative Sidelights: Legislators" and state ofticials will see themselves somewhat as Others tee them after imbibing of vitriol, at tonight's thlrd house"? - session scheduled for the armory rather, than the legislative halls, perhaps on the theory that such ribald proceedings Jiave no place in the sacred chambers. A complete summary of what is going to transpire would rob .the affair of its sest; suffice it to in dicate the nature of the earicatur izatlort by mentioning that Jack E&kla will represent ex-Governor .Martin. Cortis. D. Stringer win . portray Governor Charles A. Epragne, Rep. John Steelhanuner ill be "Pinky1 Gosslia in a "re turn engagement and Rep. Harry 'Wiley will be depicted by Lot:a Palmer Weber. T s e ott ia the armory starts tt 'J V ii.. The lower flacr li heir-; reserved for laTlted r-2Ce.l I c! : rartnTsci s ct i . - - k . . THRti , KILLED A Northern Pacific locomotive Is Pacific freight train near Pasco, : killed, only fatalities of the crash OX photo. BarnoIsMade ist No z Surrender ; in : Sight ; .. Franco Asks Italy to i Withdraw 5 ' By' the Associated Presi -i French v Foreign . M t n Vi t e r Georges Bonnett told the forelen affairs committee of: the chamber of deputies yesterday that Nation alist General Frcnco ' had asked Premier Mussolini '. to r withdraw his troops xronv fipaln. t Bonnet' said that while certain Italian circles were trying to pro long warfare in Spain to keep Ital ian troops there, Britain; and France- were trying to bring an early end to hostilities and with this view were trying to persuade Premier , Juan Negrin'i j? republi can government to surrender. . This government, however,: gave no indications of being ready to do this. In Madrid an official com munique - waa Issued following long cabinet meeting stating that Diego Martinet Barrio, president of the republican cortes, or parlia ment, had. assumed his duties -as head of the government, replac ing President Manuel Azana, who resigned and went' into retirement in France.. - . In Burgos, the nationalist cap ital, . Generalissimo Franco kep his troops ready for quick action near Madrid. : , US Cruiser Will Carry Ashes of iu an . w . r -rf : 'MIAMIj F I a ., iMareh 1-VP)-, President Roosevelt cast aside dinlomatie differences with Ja pan for the time being today and ordered a heavy cruiser preparea to take the ashes of Hirosl Sal- to. former Japanese ambassador to the ' United - 8tates, . back ; to the far east. ;.' -..t ;- Officials In Washington, -where the popular little diplomat - died last Sunday, said this would ! be the first time such honors had been paid a former ambassador, although It was the customs hen Incumbent foreign envoys - died at their posts. . " . Here and there behind and In . front of the scenes at the .40 th lesrislative assembly tiles; the balcony will be open to the general pnbllc, probably with an overflow on the main floor after the special .gnesta accommodated. f "Calls. of the senate had to be invoked freauentlvTDn Wednesday, with I onr or five members usually absent. t They were .not out star gazing; several important commit tee meetlnrs were going on simul- taneously'witb the senate session. The bout met for only a tew min utes, iti, members also devoting the remaining Wednesday after noon BOUrS W CBUIUlin w w m Notable visitori Tnesday and Wednesday included Joe Stadel man of The Dalles, brother of the senator; W. M, Tngmani editor of the Eugene Register-Guard; Har ry Idleman of PorUand. member shin chairman of the state repub lican crranlxitlon; Carls A. Lela- ivcW of Clataon - county who haa served Is ' the oast In both Loyal tn:cs ct til lilatsrt. -s IN TRAIN WRECK' NEAR PASCO shown tn the ditch with Its wheels ap Monday night. The engineer and Newly-Dug Grave GhouLsh Mystery On College Lawn Willamette nnlversity had Its own ghoulish mystery Wednesday- freshly dag grave on the.; campas lawn, directly In front of the main administra tion building. . v . . i. r --' President Brace Btxt r w n nt particularly worried, however it waa Jnst another pre-Freshman Glee stunt," - - The 'crave was reallstle emoafjh. It coasiated of the fresh mound of dirt, flowers ; and tombstone. But the epitaph gave It away. - . . . , It read: "Here lies the sen ior eliat, started first but tin Ished last born September. 103S, idled March 4, 1089. ' Freshman Glee Is Saturday night, March 4, so seniors were lacllacd to accuse a rival class of the prank. Kills One At Oregon Gtv OREGON CITY. Ore., March 1 -WPV-One .man was killed and four others injured here tonight in a collision between cars driv en by Otto Blischke, 23, Oregon! City, and Charles "Stone, - 47, Beaver Creek. f - Donald Mltchel, 19, : riding with Blischke,' lost bis life and Francis Scott, 18, third occupant; was injured. George; Hale. it; Oregon City,2 riding with Stone, was also Injured - aa - were both drivers, according to City rolled man' Lawrence Hopp. - , . , ,e PORTLAND. Ore' March: -1-(AyLower. Columbia Junior, eol; lege ot Liongview upset the fav ored Portland- university ' quin tet, .47-40, here tonight- in the feature game- of the -collegiate division ot the Oregon AAU tour nament. . .! . "-j-'-.s . . - Pacific 'university won ' from the Southern ; Oregon ', Normal five,' 44-37. 7' .J'K Willamette had a struggle downing Albany in a third game, 4943. Anton scored 18 points. The ; City. ; Dairy of Portland eliminated Ingle Drug of jUhland 44-43, in the Independent: divi sion of the tournament where second ground gamee were played tonight. Bradford Clothes " of Portland npset the. favored Sig nal OUers, 53-43. Astoria long shoremen waUoped St. , Helens, : Slount Angel dropped the- lait of the collegiate games of - the evening to Oregon Normal In bristling battle, 43-4u i ; Pacific t Packards, : defending cnamp among .the independents. neat Aiuitnomah AC, 68 to 33. EUGENE. Orei March '1H5- uBiTersiiy: nign or cugene el inch ed the southern division, district 7, championship tonight by defeat ing St. Utry's of Eugene. 41-23. The championship, carries nal- ineauon xor tne state tournament at Salem. University high is the second teasf to ualJ fy MedXord clinching the district S place two weeks ago. SEATTLE. March . l-dV-Van-eouver gained third place in - the PadSo Coast league hockey stand ings tonight, by smothering the Seattle Seahawks, T to S, la a one- ::5as;' m " - e' 5 Late Sports i tHX yt?R -"w' rtnt.nf' c3 7 after It had crashed into a Union firemen of this locomotive were Wine Bill Argued At Public Hearing Retaliation by ! California Held Unlikely; dobs Bill Also Aired Arguments for and against the farmers' . vrae bill i which passed the house . recently - after recoot sideration, - were . presented at a nubile hearing before the senate alcoholic traffic committee Wed nesday night. i I ' '-, To arguments by "E. B. Pouey and R. J. Mclsaao representing Hood River apple ' growers, that California would enforce an ti-d la- criminatory legislation to the de triment of Oregon fruits. Rep. Lyle D. Thomas of Polk county re torted that California "would not commit economic suicide Just to spite Oregon, j Ml George Potts, state president of the Farmers Union, painted ' a dark picture of the fruit-growing industry in' the Willamette valley (Turn to Page !, Col. 4) THE DEATH These eranhle rictnrea show the .M. iu..nniis,aii i i n n m .-::::,.. .. ;. v: ' ' (!:-.:. -flf sy v . - " x ' ' , v wia the Karth German Lloyd! freiter Wierard la a Ccsse tos and choprj sea off the Kew Jersey - coast. At top crew members who were once rescued and returned to the vessel Li efforts to salvase her, ; are ahowat aa they palled away from the atoktof ship. Below, the rwnl goee down. Zhee pictnres i.Wtrct tit Lew TCT5 pail Cardinals Meet To Vote Upon Pontiff Today 62 Members of College T Present to Begin rl Election Duties .1" . ' ' : f .- . J' r Speculation Points to riaming of - racelli, Papal Secretaiy . . ' By EDWARD KENNEDY VATICAN CITY, March l-(JPh- The college of cardinals went sol emnly and ceremoniously Into se cret conclave today to choose a new pope, the 262nd occupant of the chair of Peter. For the first time in many years ihe entire membership, of the col lege, now numbering 62, was pres ent' tor the opening of the con clave which will begin voting to morrow on a new ' spiritual head of 331.500,000 Catholics. Ask Divine Guidance, Pear Sermon at Mass . At a morning mass the cardi nals prayed for guidance ot the Holy Ghost and heard a sermon exhorting, them to choose aa a "successor to a peace-loving Plus XI a man who might lead the world' back to . Christian pre cepts" despite present-day "social disorders and. hatred among na tions." ' - At nightfall, Prince Ludovjco Chlgll-Albani, hereditary ' marshal of the meeting, turned the keys of two big locks on-the outer door of the Vatican wine in which the cardinals and their attendants were housed. - - ?v : Cloud of Smoke 1 1 ; ? To Herald Selection ' Two other locks on the inner door- clicked a , moment : later as Eogento ' Cardinal Pacelli, the eamerlengev completed the sealing of the gathering 'Which will re main in its prison" until a cloud of white smoke from the chimney of the Slstlne chapel announces the selection of a new pope.' - Although all ( cardinals were within the conclave prefect, Fran cesco Cardinal Marchettl-Selvaf- giani and Tommaso Cardinal Bog giano were prevented by ailments from attending opening ceremo nies. They remained in their cells, but were expected to go to the Slstlne chapel for voting tomor row. . . J.-:," ; , -;- ;-. Speculation on a likely choice , (Turn to Page 2, CoL t) ' OF A SHIP; ALL ON BOARD SAFE sfnhins of the American frelrhter &nta,QcJLX az2zl eM. 200 Japanese Held Victims. Arsenal Blast 10 .Known jDead, Scores Missing; M500 Osaka . T Homes Destroyed 472 " on Injury lists $ Powder, Is Ignited ; " by. Carelessness - - OSAKA. Japan. March 2.- (Thursday)-)-A death toll of unknown proportions waa taken by an army arsenal explosion at suburban Hlrakata which spread fire and destruction through a wide residential area Wednesday, the war . office In Tokyo an nounced this afternoon. ' . 'Police said probably 200 per sons were blown to ' bits and burned to death. The war office said only ten were known dead but that scores were mlBsing and that it was im possible to set the death toll definitely because many victims apparently had been incinerated. The war office said 472. per sons were Injured. It added lhat 800 houses were destroyed by the spreading ex plosions and fires and 100 dam aged, leavingi 8,313 persons homeless. ( . t It was announced that a work er's carlessness caused powder i to catch fire and set oft munitions blasts. Disaster Is Tnparalled In Island's Industry The disaster, unprecedented for its type in Japan's industrial history, occurred at 3:20 p. m. yesterday (10:20 p. m. PST, Tuesday). y Windows were broken for miles aronnd by the force of the blasts, telephone and telegraph wires were thrown down, and railway .and street car service had to be suspended.- - . V Because of the hour of the ex plosion . it. was believed a major ity of the killed and-injured were women and children. Osaka is 'Japan's Chicago, second largest city, of the' Islands, and la 330 miles west ot Tokyo. 1 : 1 , $167,000 Embezzlement Charged Bank Cashier SAN FRANCISCO, March ' 1 (ANat J. L. Pleper, in charge of the FBI office here, said Er nest Emmerich, cashier ot the Mechanic's Bank of Richmond, Calif., was in custody on a charge' of embezzling .. $167.00 from. the bankwfi ia.il..4 LCIlan 13 tcsrs after conialoa ir-. 1 t - - f Iriieihaiional Japanese (yeniment, City Council, Dockmen, Ship Lines Involved; NLRB May Be Draped in Harry Bridges Is Today to Confer ; ; .Unions in ASTORlk, Ore March 1 crusade, a local incidentfhen it ened to create a far-flung issue today over the transportation of vast piles of American scrapiron to Japanese munition makers for transformation into weapons for war in China, r v The dispute, tying tip the freighters Norway Maru here : ' and the Xostis at Marshfield, involved the longshoremen, the Japanese government, the city council, the school board, junk merchants, shipping companies and stretched put toward the .. national labor relations board. - . O Goering Asserts 5 Goak 100,000,000 1 Population in Nation, More Planes Are Main Points -BERLIN, March l-Jpy-Tte prediction that we ahan use aU our power to increase our pres ent 80,000,000 population to 100.000,000" was made today by Air Minister Field Marshal Her mann -JWUhelm Goering. V ' In an address before nasi mili tary, naval, political' and 7 party leaders the No. z nasi asserted that. Germany was one of 'the greatest powers the' world -had ever known and-that-the -German soldier was the best of alL . ; . TM declared that : the '.physical strengths or the 100,00(U)BO Ger mans of the future "shall , be eueh as'to withstand all fatigues and hardships they may W caU-1 ed upon to bear. Young 'men will stream la double and three fold numbers into barracks. We Intend to use every one ot them." ... He demanded more and more war planes, continuous prepar edness and harder work. ' ' i The necessity for this activity ho aald . was brought about ; by other : powers which, he said, were "seised by the armament fever. . : Fcunii Hand Held For Slaying Two 7 EDIXBURG. Ind., March 1-m A 30-year-old farm hand was held tonight as the confessed slay er of Panl Brand and bis wife in their, farm ' home near here last midnight -a' crime disclosed at dawa 'today -when 12-year-old Gloria Ann Brand, after huddling terrified with two youngsrehil- dren for six houjMrWn Aon bors totA$rfr-r:--T: '. Th e-f arm Jiand, Clifford Red mond, was arrested in a poolroom at Ramsey, IlLtcnd confessed shortly afterward, Ramsey Chief ot Police Frank Finning said, that he killed the Brands. He offered no explanation, chief . Finning said, except that he was. drunk. ' Lavvmaker Session Uds Postal Trade 4Jf in a. , ' t. J A normal increase in business plus additional expenditure as re sult of the legislative session, com bined to put February . receipt of the Salem poatofllce I42I7.S2 ahead of the corresponding month In 192 S, Postmaster H. R. Craw ford announced yesterday.':: : ; , The income tor tbe month Just passed reached $29,026.74. com pared to $24.759 .21 in February, 1IJ8. h-lU- .u,. Germany ScKoolBoiMmo , But Desire Settlement Soon '- The majority faction on the Sa lem school board yesterday look ed back on Tuesday night's public hearing, on the superintendency question with mixed reaction but agreed that the directors should eUSeutsLthe situation and. attempt to "settiejt one way or the other." soon and dojt in an open meeting. .;, None ot the three directors who voted at an executive session last week against renewing Superintendent- SUas ' Galscr's - contract would express an opinion as to the effect of Tuesday night's hear ing, at whieb speaker principally urged either retention ot , Galser or, at least, deferral of action on the superintendeney anltl af ter the June school election. . r "I thongbt" it was a very nice meeting although I thought those jic;le shouldn't have aterru;ted Make Case Due at Astoria With Heads of Aiatter (AP) A Chinese chUdren'a started six days a&ro, threat while longshoremen refased to pass the protest line. 21 carloads of scrap rusted In the rain, col lecting S4 a Say per car demur rage charge. , ' j : About a score of, Chinese chtv- -dred, most of them, the song and daughtera ot cannery workers, skipped school last week to pick-' et. This week they picketed at- . ter. breakfast and leftjrken the ; school bells rang, y Women and youngsters who hare graduated kept the lines folai-gfitll tbe oth ers were dltmusted from classea in the kfternodn. i . ' r - -Dock workers Refuse . To Pass lines -v : . Although the Chinese Insisted the actlonf was merely a protest, . longshoremen recognised it as a ' formal 'picket llne."s ' - s' K. rajishama,- representative of the Japanese consul at ' Portland, asked the citycQuaetr and tbe port eoauslaslea to clear the dock but when this failed he demanded the school board require . the young sters to attend classes, Sanroel j Bv Weinsteln, federal longshore arblter.anferred with labor representatives to determine ' if the children constituted a picket line. When longshof e leaders said they would defy orders to. send them through the line; shippers asserted they would ask the Wa- . terfront Employers association to close the port. The action" Would affect five leaser shipping points in the Astoria district. , It war reported unofficially a local three-man group represent ing the NLRB would discuss the . tie-UD. :f ;, 'N"i' ' ABERDEEN, March l-WJ-Han. J ry Bridges, Pacific Coast Long shore union head said tonight he will go to Astoria tomorrow tel." confer with union heads there con cerning the postponed loading of the Norway Maru. He did not say what recommendation ; he would make on the controversy , i Speaking before fOO longshore men and tlmberworkers. Bridges, charged that shfp owners - had threatened to close the port of As toria unless -loading ot scrap Iron aboard the Norway Maru is start- e trrged passage ot an'embar- goonwar materials to aggressor national Suburban London Rocked by Blast ". ' ' LONDON,"' Jiarch ' 2-(Thur- -day)-(1)-A tefriflc explosion Jax suburban ; Sfonebridge ; park dam- aged an aqueduct supporting the urana v n ion canai eariy i May and police began an investtga ; tlon on the theory it was a re newal of violence 1 by ; the out lawed Irlsh republican ' army,' There were no casualties tromj tbe ' explosion which -ccurred at 2:20 . jn. and. which' was beard miles'; away." f r- ... Police f:: establUhed a cord a about' the area "where t-eary blocks ! of concrete, . were' torn loose. '1 , the . speakers, Chairman W.- F. Keptune commented. ; "Ot course, -itome ; ot the people there were high "strung and 'some of the speakers v, went ' a .little 'farther than they should bare But J waa very well aatlafled.T..-.-.vr-'i - Chairman Nejitune expressed a belief the Galser Question, "should be CerficJ: very aoon,'? although be had not hd time, he said, to discuss the matter witn the other -dlrectcrs.-s v '..r , -. want w work in harmony With eTeryone." Neptune added, v Commending the address ot : Jadse ' George Hossman, who spoke tor a group advocating the . delay la action until after ' the ' comlrr election, E. A. Eradfleld sail te : "enjoyed" tie hcarte. There la 'no doubt," r. he eaid-, t (Trra to Pare 2, CcL ) -