At -, . $1 Insurance Yon wOl be surprised at the full protection tb dol lar accident Insurance poI try, offered by The State mum to readers, will bring. The Weather Fair, today a ad Wednes day, becoming cloudy Wed aaeday. Little change la temperature. Max. temp. Monday 60, mln. 89. Hirer 4 feet. North wind. PCUNDDO 1651 EICHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, March 21, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands c No. 307 Caroa Maine 4l0 Am ii o Council Takes Turner Paving Bid by County City Will Take Strip I for Salem Street, 1 Pay $150 Cost Airport. Refunding Bond Issue for $25,000 Is Approved Following a bit of debate the city council last night agreed to pungle i up the $150 needed to pare a city-owned portion of the Turner V road project, that last week was the near-cause of a breaking off of negotiations be tween the City of Salem and Marion county in regard to the mnch bandied "bout Turner road trip, j - By motion of Alderman Willis Clark the council decided to ac cent the onnty's olfer to im prove the road and accept it as a city street from the west line of 16th street to Ibe present bird-surfaced paving near 25th street, but will refuse the offer of Lee Eyerly, city airport les see, to i tubs nribe the $160 that threatened to keep the city and county apart. Instead, he city - 111 pay the $150 which Alderm-n CUri told the council it should do in stead of letting an outsider come iu and pay . Its Just bills. To Seek Land for McCoy Avenue Opening - The council adopted a resolu tion.! introduced y -Udermun David O'Hara and Koss Good' man, 'that authorises "ie street committee to negotiate for the acquisition o' sufficient land to open . McCoy avenue ' between Madison and Krlxon streets. The acquisition ,not to cost in ex cess or opw. An ordinance providing for an issue of t25,000 In general ob ligation airport refunding bonds. for sale - or exchange for airport bonds, ;,waapaed. In explain ing the Issue O'Hara, chairman of the ways and., means . commit tee, took the opportunity to In form the conncil that U City of Salem's credit far- better than any othr municipality in Oregon and that thereby Salem city , bonds could be sold at a lower rate of Interest than those of any other city. In the state. Alderman ' S. B. Laughlin in trodueedan ordinance that would - prohibit the hoping of motor vehicle showrooms, and lots for sale of motor-vehicles, open on Sunday. A committee will study -ways and means for an extensive de velopment f the city's old auto n.tV l wa fmflAttA hv the eltv council last night after City En gineer J. H. Davis, together with Chester Nelson, NTA head, and O R. Boatwright, WPA resident engineer, introduced the subject It was Engineer Davis' sug gestion the city use WPA funds already 4 available, matched with around $2 500 in city funds ob tainable from the city bandstand fund, to fill in the park to nor mal flood level with dirt from street grading projects, and to surround the park with a high stone wall u a part of the Shel ten ditch Hood control program. ; Davis' suggestion t r u c k a snag when Alderman David . O' Hara . objected to the diversion of the bandstand fund, accrued through destruction of the stand by capital reconstruction com mission. The late Jowepb A. Al bert donated that bandstand, O'Hara sal, "and I think that If this council rrbitraiily diverts that fund for this program th Cherrians will have a right to feel lighted.' O'Hara suggested money for the program might be taken from the fire tax - fund, provid ing plans for the use of - the some S3 0,0 00 - therein available have not already been made, but Fire Chief Buck Hutton inform ed the ' council that plans , had alieady been drawn for. the erec tion of the east Salem fire sta tion. ; f : - ir?;; ; Mayor W. W. Chadwick ap pointed, on a committee to study ways and means of obtaining the estimated $2000 for the project, the chalrmxn of the street, sew er, park and . ways and means committees, and the chairman of city park commission. Daylight Saving : ; Favored 2 to 1 1 In Chamber Vole r , .if. ..j, I 1 ' '" i?" : -' - r ' ' The large attendance at the Sa lem chamber of commerce Monday noon Toted 2 to 1 in favor of day light saving for .Salem at a straw ballot conducted. . 1 " A partial count released, before ' the crowd adjourned was nearly 4 to 1, but a complete count pulled the difference down. - - --. -' The chamber will make no fur ther more along the daylight sav ing path, the ballot being taken merely; to sound out sentiment. Manager Fred Thielsen said later In the day. ":" - - - ' iV : There is some expression of opinion here, however, that should Portland adont davllrht saving. Salem and other Oregon cities should do likewise. R.H.Hamilt t Is Victim oj Santiam Fork R. H. Hamilton, 40, of Salem. was drowned and Frank Weddle of Portland narrowly escaped to safety when a . small ferryboat used to reach their gold claim upset in. the swift waters of the Little North fork of the Santiam liver eight miles above Mehama between 7:30 and t o'clock yes terday morning. .Hamilton, unable tp swim, was last seen by Weddle being rolled over and over in white water 100 yards down stream. The accident was caused by a snapping ferry cable, according to Deputy Sheriff B. O. Honeycnt. whom Sheriff Burk sent, to the scene to search for Hamilton's body. The home-made ' boat had been rigged up to the cable only recently, after use of the cable for a swing crossing had been abandoned. E. Coleman, brother-in-law ot Weddle, told the deputy be also would have been In the boat had be not felt ill and decided to re main at their cabin, across the riv er from the -nine. Hamilton, former night fore man at the Oregon Pulp k. Paper company plant here, leaves a wife and small child. Honeycut said the body might not be found for several days. Japanese Battle In new Sectors Invaders Appearing Bent on Fresh Campaign Into Chekiang SHANGHAI, March 21.-(Tues- dJ)-(V Japanese drove Into the. rich and unconquered area south of Hangchow today in what ap peared to be the start of a wide scale offensive in Central Chek iang province. The invaders sent large num bers of troops across the Chlen tang river below, the provincial eapital which nhey captured ' on Christmas eve, 193 7vThey had not been able to advance beybn"STie stream since then. . The ' new sone of operations brought the warfare almost to Shanghai's bac": door and possible was the ' prelude to an attack against Kinwha, headquarters of Chinese defenders south ot the Yangtze. Deeper in the interior Japanese resumed their southward drive through the northwest corner of Kiangsl province. The troops thrust through the Wanyang mountains toward Won ing. Important town on the Sui river midway between the Canton and Nanchang railways. It was believed the campaign foresha dowed a general offensive to the south against Nancbanjr. Chinese reported the repulse of another Japanese effort to shat ter Chinese defenses protecting Kuling, mountain resort where 55 foreigners, including 12 Ameri cans, are isolated. Umpqua Currents Nearly Trap Duo BOSEBURO. March 20 - (ff) -Two Rosebnrg youths were res cued from the swift waters of the flood swollen North Umpqua riv er late Saturday after the current had swept them a half mile through dangerous rapids. The men, Richard Crenshaw, 23, and Gene Jones, 20, hotel em ployes, said their boat overturned after a motor breakdown allowed the craft to drift into swift water. They were pulled out of the stream by fishermen; . Find , Spurs Search OREGON CITY, Ore., March 20.-tf)-Sheriff E. T. Mass today ordered the Tualatin river drag ged neas Hasella as a result of the discovery of the deserted boat of Morris Knutson, C4, crawflsher man of Stafford.- ' - Catholics Honor Bishop of Area, Pledge Centennial Aid Three hundred fifty three Cath olic laymen and priests from the Salem district last nigh, honored the Most Reverend Edward D. Howard, archbishop ot Portland in Oregon,- at a banquet at the Marlon hotel . last night ' and pledged $14,670 toward the two year Catholic centennial expan sion fund nov being ralseu throughout the archdiocese. Ban quet officials announced this dis trict's contribution raised to $31r 179 the aggregate of pledges toward the 1 250,000 goal set by the archbishop. V i v The fund will be expended on a five-point program of lifting parish debt loads, expanding Ca tholic edncaUonal services, as sisting young seminarians, caring for aged and Infirm priests and maintenance ot mission priests, Archbishop Howard' announced. Preservation of the "priceless heritage of faith" handed down from : Fathers - Blanche t - and -Doners, who 100 years ago at SC minates Win. 0. Douglas urt SEC Chief Would Be Youngest Justice Since 1812 Congress Held Certain to Approve; Local Friend Pleased WASHINGTON, March KHJP William 0. Douglas, whose Hora tio Alger career carried him np the ladder from the status of farm band and struggling student to the post ot chief regulator of WaU street, was nominated for the supreme court today by Presi dent Roosevelt. Just past 40 years of age, the chairman of the securities com mission will become. If confirmed, the youngest supreme court Jus tice since Joseph Story of Massa chusetts took his seat on the tri bunal in 1811 at the age of 12. Westers Senators Approve NominaUoa There was no doubt tonight on Capitol hlU that he would be con firmed with ease. Many senators hastened to express their approv al. The hardest thing said about Douglas was that he was not a western resident. That section is now unrepresented in the court and there had been demands that this situation be corrected. While there was a bit of dis appointment among some western senators, they for the most part indicated approval ot the choice. In fact. Senator MeNary of Ore gon, the republican floor leader. called the appointment "excel lent' and said he was "confident that confirmation will be given without any undue delay ot ob jection." New Dealers Claim Victory in Choice . The appointment was rated a .vietoryVfor the rianer ericle" of aMrre'iggressive new dealers. RvtiLJ--ia addition.- victory tor men of such viewpoint as Sen ator Borah; (R. Ida.), who has differed with the new deal on many questions. To Borah, in fact, was entrust ed an Important phase of the pre liminary work some weeks ago. (Turn to page 2, column 1) Unions' Attorney To File Demurrer i Affidavit of Prejudice Is Also Due in Picketing Law Case Here . An affidavit of prejudice against Judge L. G. LeweUing and a demurrer will be filed in cir cuit court this morning in the anti-picketing law injunction suit of Beutler-Quistad Lumber com pany against the Salem carpen ters' and building laborers' unions and their officers, according to Edwin C. Goodenaugh, attorney. The affidavit, it is understood, will automatically cause postpone ment of a bearing docketed for this morning on the plaintiff's application for a preliminary in junction. The lumber company in its re cent injunction complaint assert ed the unions had interferred with its business by placing it on the "unfair list" and ordering union labor not to handle its products despite the fact no labor dispute existed. A temporary restraining order was issued. Salem unions will resist "this and any other injunction suits that may come up here," Good enough declared, ' although all sections of the anti-picketing act are expected to be passed upon in. the declaratory judgment pro ceeding instituted by labor organi sations in Portland. The latter action Is to be heard before three 2 (Turn to page 2, column 4) Paul -conducted the first masses in the Pacific northwest, is -the inspiration for the expansion drive, the archbishop said. Ob servances of the centennial will bo conducted May t, and 11 at ' Vancouver, Wash., Portland and" St. Paul, respectively S. Archbishop Howard personally pledged $2500 toward the local district's share In the fund, the laymen were told by Reverend Martin W. .Doherty, Estacada pastor. Sameal Dolaa announced that nriests' of the 22 relishes la the district would match this sum. - v . Pledges by parishes were as follows:: ' " if - ' Tillamook, $150; Stay ton. $275; Grand Ronde, $100; St, Loots. $100; Ocean Lake,. $200; Sheridan, $100; , Shaw. $200; Dallas, $350; Lebanon, $100 Jordan. $175; ML Angel, $1800; Wood burn, $1025; Scotts Mills, $100; Albany, $400: St. Paul, (Tarn to page J, column 4) rivnu To High Co TEN DEAD Massssassaa i ai ssws.o '!"" -' J ' - ' I W', ' J t i 't Si v' , -x , 1 r,' t . ,-,-. - - -.ft i . - . Tern aviation experts including two la the terrific crash of the half -million dollar Boeing Stratolimer ta the mountain foothills Bear Alder, southeastern Pierce coanty, Wash, Saturday. The S3 passenger plane, first ot a fleet of ten, left o Jews FeelQamp In new NazQrod i 1 ' Newspaper Demands They Uepay f und ltobicl';j Autos Are Seized PRAGUE, March 20. -(if) -An antl-semitic campaign was under way today in Slovakia and in this newly-acquired portion of Great er Germany with confiscation of Jews' automobiles and published demands for a forced loan from Jews. The general staff of the Hlinka guards (Slovak storm troops) seised Jewish-owned automobiles and trucks in Slovakia and placed them at the disposal ot guards men. Only where urgent need could be shown were exemptions made. The newspaper Prazsky List, known for its anti-semitlsm, de manded that Jews be made to pay 10.000.000 crowns ($300,000) "because they have robbed the Czech people tor 20 years." It declared "Czechs were forced to work for Jews while they lived in luxury and the Czech people (Turn to page 2, column 3) State Employment Chief Designated Stoll to Act as Director Until Permanent Alan Is Selected Here m L. C. Stoll, training supervisor for the unemployment compensa tion commission, Monday was ap pointed acting director of the Ore gon employment service, the com mission announced. He succeeds Guy V. Lintner, who resigned re cently. . - v A permanent appointment awaits action by the UCC and the governor uuder the provisions ot a bill approved during me clos ing hours of the legislative ses sion. Stoll will assume his new du ties March 22 and will direct transfer before April- a of the ad ministrative offices f the em ployment service from the old postotfice building In Portland to the central headquarters of the commission In Salem." , :: Transfer , of the administrative offices will not affect the Port land employment office. : Ivor Hanson, chief of the ben efits and service : section, denied rumors that he wsa a candidate for administrator, t ' Labor Council Urges , - Appointment oj Allen , . For ryrs'- Position - . . - 1 i -i PORTLAND. Ore., March 20.- VPy-A resolution asking the board of county commissioners to ap point S. Eugene r Allen as state senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death last ; week of Sea. George Eayrs , (D-Portland) was adopted today- by the ' Portland central labor cuncn. ; : AUen. a democrat. Is president of the Portland Office Employes' union, .and was recently i named editor of the Oregon Labor Press. official ATL publication. . IN STRATOLINER'S CRASH NEAR 7 tt' V Netherlands' representatives died , o US Air Officials Withhold Comment on Crash InqUiry . SEATTLE. March 20 AP) Ten federal aviation of- llmls conducted-an al Way - I i i , i a . sxxaioiiiier oisasxer nere toaay theories on what may have caused the plane crash that took 10 lives last Saturday. At Seattle, Boeing Aircraft company said work on nine 1600 Cons Rebel At Quentin Fare California Prison Inmates Go Supperless to Bed Without Disorder SAN QURNTIN, Calif., March 20 UPl Sixteen hundred San Quentin convicts rebelled against the prison menu and went supperless to their cells to night after refusing to eat the evening meal. There was no dis order. It was the second hunger strike at ' the prison this year. Four thousand of the prison's E-,300 Inmates participated in a four-day demonstration against the San Quentin tare early last month. "It seems to be part of the same old gang," said Harnett Huse, secretary to Warden Court Smith. Prison officials-had hint ot Impending trouble at noon today when some of the convicts in the mess hall complained of the main dish, chili concarne, and yelled: "We want more meat we want more meat!" All the convicts went to their duties after the noon meal, how ever, and there was no diffl- (TurU to page 2, column 2) Anti-Vice Drive Held Ineffective PORTLAND, March .20 - flP) -Bishop Benjamin D. Dagwell. Episcopal bishop , ot Oregon, told the chamber of commerce today that a police drive agatnst vice had been ineffective in closing houses, of ill repute and gambling dens. ,':-: .HW'-ftvsf -. - "All a person has to do to learn the truth la to drive by these plsees, the bishop sal d." "The fronts are still there, the build ings still occupied. I will believe these places are closed up when I see property 'vacated. They are not doing that yet Wife Is not Held ; , In Stabbing Case PORTLAND. March 1 m -Mrs: Barbara 'Gray. 21, held for questioning (While police searched tor her husband, Joe Gray, on a charge of murder, was released to day, Detective - Sergeant Bill Browne said. , Gray was sought in connection with the death of Charles How ard. I $. foUowlng a stabbing af fray In a hotel, Browne said. He added that 2 Mrs. Gray was unable to give officers ahy informations :, .1 -, Mr- - Boeing Field at Boom and went into I bly fell off. Photo shows shattered nose after ship planged Into mane I of stamps ta ravine. Note the air speed indicator, just to right of crack 'in fuselage, which was thrown out of the liner's cockpit. US photo. investition intwtiaCoeini i a. fit t- u : . i cut wiuioeia any comments ori 0 sister ships representing an invest ment of several million dollars. continued as usual without alter ation of structural plans. The wrecked stratoliner. covered by insurance, cost about $500,000. Investigators were confronted with the possibility souvenir hunt ers may have carried away brok en parts which might have helped establish the crash cause. Boeing's own investigation board worked along side the civil aeronautics authority officials. A close inspection of the left ohtboard motor, found several hundred feet away from the main wreckage, revealed the engine had all three propeller blades attach ed, eliminating a broken-blade theory as the accident cause. The motor, one of four, and part of the left wing and tall as sembly fell from the plane in the air, witnesses said. Bits of bright (Turn to page 2, column 2) Britain Promised Aid if Attacked OTTAWA, Ont, March 10. ( Canadian Press)-Prlme Minister W. L. MacKensie King today indi cated Canada would go to Brit ain's aid in the event she were threatened by aggression, but did not commit himself in any other kind of conflict. . "I have no doubt what the deci sion ot the Canadian people and parliament would be, the prime minister told the house of com mons in bitterly condemning Ger many's coup in Czechoslovakia. "We would regard it as an act ot aggression menacing freedom in an parts of the British common! wealth." ' - I US Note Protests to Nazi, Legation in WASHINGTON, March 20-(p)-The United States, in a note to Germany, refused tonight to rec ognize Hitler's coup in Czechoslo vakia, -.w-w . Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, sent the note to the Ger man embassy a few hours after ordering the American legation in Prague closed. He called back to Washington Wilbur J. Carr, the American . minister to Csecho-Slo-akla.axi'y&W" Contents ot the document win be made public tomorrow. 'It was understood the American note was In the spirit cf Welles em phatic statement last . Friday In which, he referred to, Germany's absorption ot Czeeho-Slovakiaa territor ; as "temporary.? j .,. Chairman Bland (L-Va.) of the house mer bant marine committee Introduced a bill to carry ont the war - department's recommenda tion that congress- authorize ex pendltnre of f277.OOQ.000 for strengthening the defense of the Panama canal. TACOllA V. if a spin after part of the taU Motorist Decries Police Xar Pace Driver of Colliding Auto " -SaysWll Sne City for Car Damages Contending that City Patrol man Lou Bnrgesa was traveling $0 miles per hour when his city automobile struck and did eonsid erable damage to his machine R O. Jeff era last night through an attorney informed the city coun cil he would name the city and Officer yargess defendants in suit for damages If the city did not settle within 10 days. Jeffers was involved in a three way auto crash March 11, at the Intersection of Church and Center streets, when Officer Burgess was answering a call. Given to the street committee were recommendations by the zoning commission that A street be changed to a continuation of North Liberty and the westerly most of two Grant streets be changed to Roosevelt, as original ly Intended. It was also recommended by the coning commission that High street li designated as such clear through. Instead of branching into Broadway. Alderman O'Hara further recommended that Liber ty street be changed to Broadway in its en'irety.- Following a public hearing the council passed an ordinance that changes the southerly 121 feet of the easterly 19$ feet of block one. Roberts - addition, from -.a . class two residential-to a class 'three business sone. The change was made to .allow for a tea room. (Turn to page 2, column 3) William S. Swing Dies; Was Mayor of Oswego PORTLAND,' Ore.. March 20.- ()-WUliam S. Ewing, 81, mayor ot Oswego, Ore., died today of a heart attack. He was a native of Salem. His wife, a son and daughter survive. Prague Closed The cIvQ aeronautics authority asaea congress ror a S7.300.000 appropriation to train civilian air pilots. Vladimir S. Hurban. the Czech minister,' returned from Chicago wnere no conferred with Eduard Benes, ex-president ot Czecho slovakia, and said ba would "sit tight as Czech minister until the United ; States recognized the le gitimacy f-f Germany's oceu nation of his country. He indicted this might never be. Welles endorsed the new neu trality bill introduced, by Senator Pittman . (D-Nev.) , It would per mit eaah and carry? sale of mu nitions to warring nations. Secretary Morgentha said . be had no tear; of inflation as a re sult of an influx of gold, sent to his country by Europeans nervous over the tease situation there. He declined to reply, to a Question whether 4he treasury was consid ering seizing Czech gold in this country tor payment of C s e c b debts.. Czarist Russia Emblem Floats Above Capita White Russians Reported Seeking Hitler Aid to Take Ukraine Other Nations Line up tor Concerted Drive .4 to "Halt Hitler" TJNGVAR. Hnnrarv. March 9a -tflVThe flag of czarist Russia was hoisted today over this capi tal of Carpatho-Ukraine; annexed oy Hungary and granted political autonomy after the break-nn of Czechoslovakia. Groups of white Russian offi cers, wearing czarist uniforms. gathered before the posters on which the Hnngarian government announced autonomy. Tne posters were nrlnted both In Russian and Hungarian lan guages. Sub-Carpathian Russia fPnr. patho-Ukraine) can be exnected actively to fight Bolshevism," said one Hungarian official. They hope thev mav ha chance to help free their oppressed oromers in Ukraine proper." Hungary has adhered to thm antl-com intern pact with Ger many, Italy and Japan and It waa explained that the autonomous government here would of course take an aetive part Grand Dake Vladimir Discount plot Reports turana Duke Vladimir, 21-year-old pretender to the throne of the Russias, was reported in London newspapers last December to have a place in Hitler's plans for the soviet Ukraine. (These published renorts aM ardent white Russians planned to gain Hitler's support for an upaet- iws oi communist rule in the sov iet Ukraine. ' (The grand duke, ho waver, re fused to take these reports seri ously. He visited Berlin December a -out said he did not see Hitler.) (By The Associated Press.) A "halt Hitler" moTi gained momentum uneasy Europe. yesterday fas A common front headed by BrtUln, Prance and soviet Una. sia, and possibly including Ruma nia, xuraey,-Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Poland was r.r,i. ed a virtual certainty. The line-up against the Ger man fuehrer's expansion aims was expected to take the form either of an international conference or an anti-aggression declaration. itussia was said to have pro posed an international eonhwnM of democractie powers to draft a common policy. Reliable Quarters said Britain made a counter-Dronnaai f- . three-power declaration in which me omer states might Join. In the midst of all the talk. President LeBrnn of Fr... signed Premier Daladler's rim ' "dictatorial" decrees to bolster the nation's armed might. Chief among the decrees wera those providing the addition of between 150.000 and zoo noo servists to the army, a new north Arrican force. Immediate Increase f officers and non-commissioned a boost from- 4S to 60 hours the KT work wee to ,de,en- An early German-Memel union was foreseen-in Berlin following a conference between the nasi "2-L,tnlnl foreign ministers. The Mel diet, or Landtag, meets Saturday, and the expectation in Berlin was , that the dominant nasls la that bodr would pave the k way for another Hitler coup by r.taln5 tt cr "hck to the relch,",, ;'t ' Germany meanwhUe - e ailed home her ambassador to France, countering Prance's action last week in summoning her envoy to Berlin. . Oil Expropriation . Parley Hits Snag MPC0 CTTT. March 20.-v Donald Rlchberg. attorney fores Propriated foreign oil companiee. aid tonight that "practical dtfri culties and, obstacles" bad devel oped in efforts, to reach a seu) ment with the Mexican . govern ment, j ' Because of the nnexpected de velopments, Rlchberg said in a statement it fseemed to me for tunate" Utat engagemeau eon reining other matters "compel me to return to Washington." , , He exnlainej tLia expreesion by saying the trip .would afford hint ma opportunity to discuss the wiin those - "most deeply eeroed.-? r .- .?. , ... eon SkUeri Back Broken J;'r. 1 In mMu. flood ; PORTLAND' March 20 - ()- , Fifteen persons were Injured in skiing aceidents on Mount Hood 8unday. Most seriously hurt was Francis Cooper. Portland, whose r back was ' broken when he fell whUe skiing "at nigfi speed. . - -