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'rlsl 'All the News' The Weather m Fair today and Friday, warmer Thursday afternoon. Max. temp. Wednesday 63. : Mia. 82. River 8.9 feet, Wind north. ... - Foreign, national, a state v and local newt the local newspaper seeks to preaeat all four and in the right proportions. PCUND20 . 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon,- Thin&zy Morning, April 6, 1939 Prlct 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 9 -" aJliaii n 01 Occuit Three Vetoes Are Recorded; One M left Firemen's Pension Fund Source Is Dangerous Precedent, View District Attorneys Pay Increase, Local Option - Bills Disapproved Three legislative enactments - were vetoed late yesterday ! Governor Charles A. Sprague and when the day was ended only one measure of the 674 bills passed by the 40th legis lative assembly remained '" for gubernatorial decision. That bill authorizes, the creation of soil 'erosion districts and will be dis posed ot today. . . Measures the governor dis approved were the enactment authorizing . cities to levy up to 3 per cent on . Insurance pre miums in order to proviae pen sion funds tor firemen., a salary Increase bill for district attor neys and a bill to increase to Su per cent the number of slg- ; natures required to validate peti tions for a local option election. ' The firemen's pension bill, in troduced by Senator Dorothy Lee of Multnomah county, was a substitute for a measure which would have called for an addi tional state-collected tax on lire insurance premiums to be paid out for firemen's pensions. The vetoed measure authorized the levy by separate cities ot such a tax. Th money would have been earmarked in the cities levying the tax; for a firemen s . pension fund. " ! Earmarking Sources Of Taxation Opposed . : -.. The s aovernor .-- said he - was loathe , to reject the - appeals ot firemen Jor whose effective wort - he had high gararHiiTU he explained, was based on a "rather . serious . danger if we . start earmarking specific 'sources for the payment of pensions of specific groups. ;-'- " i "The firemen feel they can Justly tax Insurance companies tor a pension fund. What class of well-feathered geese may other groups pluck, such groups as the police, waterworks em ployes, city hall workers, street and park employes and county ' and state workers? This soon would become a game of tag with some of the less . lucky groups losing- out." ' -District Attorneys Mast Wait, I eclares: In refusing to approve salary Increases for district attorneys the governor said that he real ized . the salaries of district at torneys - la Oregon were modest but the incomes of citizens were also below the average of many other states. "When there is a rising level of general prosperity then salary increases such as this bill con templates for district attorneys should .b In order,' the gover nor declared. . ? The so-called local option bill, vetoed by the governor, raised the present requirement that 10 per cent of the voters sign a petition for a local option elec tion to a requirement that 30 per cent request- such a vote. The governor declared that the - increase In. percentage was un duly high - and would ' tend to make it difficult to obtain a free expression of citizens on the question .of local option. ; Legislator's Life I Panned by Grant BAKER, April S-P-Rep. A. E. Grant, a democrat announced to day he was 'through' as a law maker and claimed the legislature would still be In session if its crit- les had to take the place ot sen ators and representatives. 1 - : He said he resented "criticism and abuse because after trying to - perform the necessary functions of , a legislator he had to dig: Into his . own rocket to -pay for the "priv ilege" of remaining- at Salem 2 C days without compensation after the constitutional limit of 40 days. ' . He accused Salem merchants of increasing- prices before the legis lature convened and reducing them after adjournment. Grant, addressing- a civic clab, complimented Governor ' Charles A. Sprague as a man of "great . courage. Two Are Injured In Traffic .Crash ' lfr. and lira. Richard C. Chur ' chlU, 15 North Slst street, were Injured Ixst night when the ear In which they were riding collld ' - ed with a truck at High and Un ": Ion-streets. . ,.. . . .. . The Churchllls were treated for bruises and severe cuts by attend ants of the Salem first aid car. The Churchill machine was pushed ;-v into av telephone pole by the 1m- gact xiiii tha trncie ---- " , Favors Change - Neutrality Lp HENRY L. STIMSON Elephant Blocks Portland Traffic Mona Gets two Tickets as She Fails to Stop for Red Light PORTLAND, April g.-(VPa- trolman C. S. Schad was poundine. his beat today looking for illegal parkers, jaywalkers or other of traders against the statutes of the city or the orders of the police commission, when he walked right smack, into an elephant. The elephant was seated right smack In the middle of the inter section at southwest Sixth avenue and Morrison street, . f j " All four streets entering the in tersection were jammed with buss es, streetcars, autos and pedes trians. Patrolman Schad saw at a glance that practically every traf fic rule in the book was being pulverised. - Patrolman Schad approached warily from the stern and de manded, pointing at the recum bent pachyderm, "who owns that?" 1 A man hovering at the edge of the elephant said it belonged to the circus, its name was Mona, and that it had been taken down with spring fever. At this throbbing juncture Po lice Inspector Leon V. Jenkins ar rived and looked things over. "Come, come, Schad, he said "The department can't tolerate a thing like this. Get him out ot here. "It's a her," said the unhappy Schad, "name of Mona." "I don't care what it is" re torted Jenkins seizing the ele- nhant's tall and heaving lustily. Mona flapped her cabbage-leaf (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1.) Eretwhile Bandit Discovered Slain : CHELSEA. Okhv, April" .- -A 240-pound one-time ' member of the Irish O'Malley , gang, - a band of mid western bank rob bers, was found shot; to death today, his body crumpled in a creek bed near herei - The body ot the , former : In dian desperado, Jack Miller, 40. was identified by Police Chief Fred Hall. - MUler was ' given immunity from prosecution : when be .ap peared as r government witness against other , members of the gang whep they were tried for the robbery of two Okemab, Okla., banks Dec 22, 1034. Inheritance Tax Huge JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April ( -(y-County Judge J. Ollie Ed munds said tonight he naa signed orders authorizing the Alfred L DuPont estate to pay federal and state inheritance tax claims total ing I1M50.351.42. Salem One of In Fire Risk. Often 'scolded. as A bid fire risk, Salem has just received, a new, black nark, a listing - as one of "twelve cities (in the United States) among" those with worst risks of conflagrations.". An - exhaustive -discussion -.of tires. fire - prevention' and pre vention agencies , in : Fortune magazine gives Oregon's capital city ithls highly unfavorable rating. . An " accompanying "lire danger map" depicts a burning house labeled "Salem," one of but three such tire risky cities on the Pacific coast. The other two are Seattle and. San Fran cisco. r:. Z-i Salem desenret its black mark, according to the National Fire Protection association, , because: ' 1. It bs a iasdequata ; fire flejBtrtaitEt, -. - s v 'is1 w A i v - " ' i L ft - C ' r ' - x 11 I C A- . r - t ?iimson Urges Economic Curb On Aggressors Argument on ; Neutrality Amendment Under Way, Senate Committee Borah-Johnson View Put Forth in : Opposing - further Powers WASHINGTON, AprU Henry L. Stlmson, former republi can secretary of state, demanded today that the United States, for its own protection, reserve the right to name and boycott the ag gressor in a foreign war. - ."It I saw a dangerous situation approaching- step by step," he a serted, sharply rapping his knuck les on the table of the senate for eign relations committee, "I wouldn't wait until It killed off the last nation that stood between us and safety before taking eco nomic action." Stlmson, with this statement, opened what many expect to prove the session's bitterest congres sional battle, a fight already turn ing upon the question whether the neutrality act should be so amend ed that the president will have wide discreiton in formulating this nation's policy toward a foreign conflict. Stlmson argued that he should. The present act, he said, had built up abroad the false psychology that Americans were Insensible to cruelty and aggression and too timid to wish their government to make decisions which might be necessary to their future Interest. The law, he said, "had encouraged aggression by nations which have rejected the traditional code of national behavior. ' v To correct the situation, he sug gested that most of the neutrality law be repealed, and that instead the president, in the case of a war which threatens American Inter ests, -be empowered to name the aggressor and stop commerce with the country named. Senator Borah (R-Idaho) and (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1.) Nazi CMeftainin Argentina Is Held Threat to Involve Nation in War Is One Charge Following Probe - BUENOS AIRES, April f -(Thursday) HJP- Federal Judge Miguel Jantus formally arraigned Alfred Mueller, chief agent In Ar gentina of the German nasi party. today on a charge ot threatening the sovereignty of Argentina and threatening to involve the nation In war. :;;:T' Mueller was arraigned after It hours of questioning in an Inves tigation ordered by President Ro berto Ortiz. " . The arraignment was the first definite court action after En rique Juerges, a disaffected nasi. in a letter to President Ortls on March 10 charged German polit ical agents with plotting to annex Patagonia, the southern Up of Argentina.- The Argentine government ex tended investigation - into other provinces of the republic today af ter a series of raids in Buenos Aires in ; which, officials said, matfy documents recording nasi party activities were seized "for examination." Bay Ocean Yiewed By Federal Party TILLAMOOK. Ore.. April 5 (P) -Bay Ocean spit, badly eroded by recent storms, was ,-urveyed to day by members of the 1 federal shore protection board and state Ofclcals. , r - - -; - i Federal aid to repair the dam age and guard against further de struction has been asked. Worst Cities Writer's View 2. It ha many wooden shingle roofs. ..-. 8. Its building construction Is poor from a fire safety, stand point. - - "la aQ fairness to the cblack- labeled dties," the jortune wri ter explains, "it should be' under stood that under certain condi tions a conflagration could con ceivably occur ' la almost ' any city, town, or village In the US. The dues marked on the - map are simrry among those where NFPA (National Fire Prevention association ) : Considers that neg ligence has . made the danger more acute." . . "But if fir strikes an aCIanee with certain factors of wind and humidity i the writer warns, "then almost anything can hap- ?n.. and; jerjr cztea doeaV , Elected Again Amidst Crisis -I ALBERT LEBRUN Lebrun Reelected For Second Term Evidence of Solidarity Is Starred by Shouts of Extreme Leftists VERSAILLES, AprU 5-UPV-A tumultuous national assembly to day elected President Albert Le brun to a second seven-year term despite opposition ot leftists struggling against the semi-dic tatorial Daladier government. ' Premier Daladier 's campaign to make the election a demonstra tion of national unity during the present European tension fell short of the mark when violent socialist and communist uproar greeted the result. Shouts ot "Re sign! resign! followed announce ment of Lebrun's selection. Jules Jeanneney, president of the senate'and presiding officer of the national assembly the senate and the chamber of deputies had to close the meeting because of the uproar without giving the complete official list of the votes. With no serious rivals, 67-year-old Lebrun received 606 ot the 910 votes cast, the remainder be ing distributed among party fav orites. Selection of Lebrun, who had expressed a personal prefer ence to retire, broke a half-century tradition ot one-term presi dents. The only other president ever re-elected,' Jules Grevy, resigned in 1887 in the second year ot his second term. The election safely behind. Da (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8.) Nazis Astonished At Polish Accord BERLIN, April S-VThe Ger man foreign office mouthpiece, Deutsche Diplomatisch-Polltische Korrespondenz, expressed "aston ishment" x today that alleged threats of German aggression against Poland could form the basis for conversations Polish For eign Minister Joseph Beck is hav ing In London. At the same time the controlled press,-exceeding even its previous abuse of the democracies, . at tacked last night's statement of Earl Stanhope, first lord of the British admiralty, as a "deliber ate provocation' made to Increase tension, to further Britain's alms to eneircle Germany to impress Poland with British preparedness. Angleworms Diet, Sub for Goldfish At State College C0RVALLI3. Ore.. April S.-Cfft -The goldfish gobblers have a first cousin at Oregon State col lege In Marion Salisbury, sopho more from Burns, Ore., who today ate 139 live angleworms on a IS bet and claimed the angleworm eating; championship ot the United . Salisbury took down IS. Mr. juicy ones on the first gulp and Inhaled tie other 17 ca the sec ond. f.f&'SS"' ' i:", - The stadant, who planned to ear worms at a college rally dance and was prevented front doing so, ate bis writhing repast before several witnesses." He ; said " the worm tasted like bitter potato,. ' : PORTLAND. "Pre April tv-Cffj -Dismay struck deep la the heart ot Mrs. E. V. Klngsley, Portland- today. After reading the disturb ing story about easterners who ate goldfish alive she discovered that It pet goldfish had .bees stolen Iron) her can, -.v . " " Relief Fispure- To Remain as ' Set1 by House Senate Committee Puts It at $100,000,000 After Conference . Compromise Also Looms Upon Farm Measure if FDR Willing WASHINGTON, April Administratlon forces and econo my advocates in the senate joined today in a compromise agreement to support an emergency relief ap propriation ot 1100,000,600. bill providing this amount 150.000,000 less than President Roosevelt had requested was ap proved unanimously by the sen ate appropriations committee aft er a series of cloakroom discus sions. The senate is scheduled to take it up tomorrow with approv al apparently assured since most democratic and republican mem bers have agreed to vote for it. The $100,000,000 figure al ready has been approved by the house. It is designed to supple ment an emergency appropriation of $725,000,000 appropriated by congress to carry WPA through the fiscal year ending June 30. Administration lieutenants in the senate worked to obtain a compromise of $126,000, but Senator Adams (D-Colo.) and Other economy advocates re jected that figure. Among the democrats, only Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) voiced a demand for the full $150,- 000,000 appropriation. Pepper said he would seek o increase the measure to that figure on the senate floor. WASHINGTON, AprU l.(JPi Congresslonal groups displayed a willingness today to do some "hoss trading" with the admin istration , on . farm legislation. Both senate and house ' lead ers said they would go . along with the present crop control program, opposing any changes unwanted by the administration, if from $300,000,000 to $400, 000,000 additional funds were provided for Its activities. , President Roosevelt has pub licly opposed Increasing govern ment outlays for farmers unless congress took steps to obtain the revenue to finance them. However, senators who have conferred recently with Secre tary of Agriculture Wallace said he preferred additional expendi tures to attempts to revamp the present program. Sage Rats Eat up Telephone Cables BAKER, Ore., AprU t.-Ph The constant interference on the telephone and ' teletype circuits between the airport and the city limits was getting the engi neers of the Pacific Telephone ft Telegraph company down. They searched, checked and rechecked and still they couldn't find the cause. When they final ly discovered it, they felt even worse. The trouble turned out to be sage rats which, following the line of least resistance, had bur rowed alongside the 25,227 feet ot rubber-covered wire, laid 14 inches underground, and every now and then stopped to take a bite out ot the line. Moisture completed the dam age and engineers said the en tire line would have to be re laid. This time they'll put in a wire that no rat will care to chew. Outside Bladder ) Operation Waits SAN FRANCISCO, AprU 6.-( a. aeeision to wait at least a year before making an effort to remedy the deformity of an Oregon baby, born with it bladder outside its body, was announced here tonight by Dr. C. A. Haines of Ashland Ore. . t r ,- Doctor Haines, who attended the birth ot the baby girl in Ash land last Saturday, made the an nouncement after a long di cus- sion with, a prominent San Fran cisco plastic surgeon about a pos sible aurgical operation on the child. - .-. .-, WESTMORELAND, Calif?, April Is-VPf-Scren persons were killed tonight la a collision be tween a speeding automobile and heavy truck and trailer, IS miles west of Westmoreland, -in Imperial county, a. f . Killed :- were George A. Kerr, Marshall R." Null, I D. Hurley. Mrs. Estelle Heary, all of , West moreland t H. R. Whitman, 17, of Winslow. " Arts., Reuben Lo pes of Westmoreland and i Mrs Lena, llenr JT'lllsaa. ; , Tiny Jrrepares jor JUej Britain Draws Ring-Tighter Around Hitler Accord With Poland now More Complete; Scare Story "Explained Albania Crisis Watched Closely; Rumanian Question Viewed LONDON, April 5-()-Prln Minister Chamberlain staved off a political crisis at home tonight and carried still further measures to throw an "anti-aggression ring around Germany. British officials watched close ly reports of an impending mllt- iary occupation ot aiwuus bj It aly. They admitted the possibility Italy might be working in har mony with Berlin in a new axis stroke designed to thwart Britain's "halt Hitler" plans. An overnight war fright creat ed by a speech by Earl Stanhope, first lord of the admiralty, indicat ing that the British navy on Tues day took emergency precautions against air raids, was dissipated In parliament by an apology and an explanation. A request by Chamberlain that the speech be suppressed, parlia mentary discussion and a subse quent announcement that ''the speech may now be published" overshadowed for the moment the British-Polish negotiations tor a defensive alliance. Mutul Def ens "," ; I . Pact Effective Polish quarters said tonight the British-Polish mutual defense al (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5.) Railroad's ChielF Lauds G. H. Martin PORTLAND, April 5.-VMen who took former Governor Charles Martin to heart when he waged his straight - from - the shoulder crusades for law and order In Ore gon haven't forgotten him in re tirement. The president of the Minneapo lis and St, Louis Railroad com pany dispensed with a routine in terview in a hurry today to recall the ex-governor's political wars. "General' Martin, in my opin ion, is a great American," said L. C. Sprague. "He may not be an astute politician but he is an hon est, forthright gentleman. The country needs more like him. In squelching labor racketeering in Oregon, he won commendation from the better class ot citizens in other parts of the land. Water District Is ; Created by Votes Residents of the proposed Vista Heights water district south of Salem voted 100 to S in favor ot incorporation at the special elec tion held yesterday under pro visions ot the state law. The three men nominated for district commissioners, William . R. New myer. Robert Tattle and Paul Grlebenow, were elected. The district will serve approxi mately 150 families from a water system which, according to ten tative plans, will be supplied from the Salem city system. The dis trict starts tat the Ohmsrt tracts and takes in parts of Ben Lomond adjacent, Smith Fruit Farms No. 2, the Tuttle tract, Ewald farmst the Stlckels property and Hansen. Ten Million To Get Com! BERLIN. April 5.-(ffyt-Ten -mil-1 lion German boys and girls -will become part of the nail eompnl sory : training; school, the Hitler Youth organisation, on Chancellor HlUer's ' tOth birthday anniver sary April 20. -Naxl leaders' thus strengthened their bold on the nation's youth today .. by " decreeing eompulsory membership for all between "10 and IS years in the organisation, which gives Instruction in naxl principles and pre-milltary train ing. . ; - r- - . Eight million already are volun tary members, so the new Increase will be about 2,000,000, excepting those "physically and morally un fit and those whose parents rec ognise Poland ' or Denmark " as their, homeland. . The training from a tender age will be on the same basis aa the labor service and military train a v Adriatic Proud Father In Tough Spot KING ZOG Demurrers Fail, Picket Law Case One Legal Point Remains Before Issue May Be Heard on Merits PORTLAND, Ore., April 5.- A three-judge court overruled demurrers today against organ ised labor's action to test the va lidity of Oregon's labor-control act. , Judges Robert Tucker. of .Prt- and? James TV Brand, ot Marsh ield and "Arthur D. Hay of Lake view decided against the protest of defendant county, city and state officials the - court lacked jurisdiction and that labor's com plaint did not name a specific controversy. The judges, however, withheld judgment whether a justifiable controversy existed under declara tory judgment law. The American Federation of Labor, railroad brotherhood and the congress tor industrial organisation bad asked for a declaratory judgment. . Chris Boesen, labor counsel, said a union, to perform Its duty, was compelled to do things for bidden by law and the statute was a constant threat to labor rather than a controversy involving a single specific case. Japanese Extend Border Eastward SHANGHAI, April f.-()-J aneee reported today that their forces ' had struck overland and through the air In a broadening campaign to extend the conquered area of central China. A column based onWunlng, In northwestern Klangsl provtncf waa said to have crossed the Slao river and driven 10 miles along the 180-mile route to Changsha Hunan province capital 200 mile south of Hankow and next major Japanese objective. Cbangsha also was subjected to an air raid. ' ' One hundred miles northwest of Hankow., however; Chinese re ported their troops had eounter attacked Japanese at Chungslane and occupied a portion of thst town1, which lies along the Han river. . -'- Pan Brnmmitt Dies KANSAS CrTT, April 5HyP)-Dr. Das B. Brammitt, 71f editor of the Christian Advocate and wide ly known Methodlsf church lead er, died here today. . . 7-v ing, .which boys win go "through consecutively. German boys, will be obliged to serve eight years in the Hitler Youth, then six month In the labor service on farms, or government; 'work projects and two years in the army. I . After leaving, the army. , men are enlisted . in reserve units and in one ot the naxl party's many affiliated: organizations. , Almost from the cradle to the grave, they are under state tutelage. k ' . - Ia 1151 there war 1,014.000 boys and 4,4t.O0O girls in oil Oermaay and Austria between-If and IS rearav a- Trv'i , Hitler decreed that every child must present himself to Hitler Youth leaders before March IS of the year be, completes his tenth year, with service to begin the fol lowing April 20. - Failure to enroll is punishable by a prison term, a money tine or botbirr : . r y - . Qulsory Training Country ense To Move Soon Yugoslavia Is Informed of Plans to Occupy for Protection Nationalist Feeling Due to Birth of Heir Is Strong, Tirana TIRANA, Albania, April S.-(A)-Albanian authorities said to night that they had taken "suitable military precautions" to maintain the tiny kingdom's Independence. (In Belgrade, capital of neigh boring Yugoslavia, reliable quar ters heard reports Wednesday night that Italy had Informed Yugoslavia of her Intention te occupy Albania and place .her under Italian protection. It was reported Italy intended to begin occupation during the night.) King Zog and his cabinet sat up late tonight studying Italian Diana for atrenrtheninr & 9 a. year defensive alliance Italy and AiDania signed in 1927. Foreigners here, learning that Italians were leaving Albania ia large numbers, expressed consid erable concern over the immedi ate situation. ' Would Resent Any Italian Domination An heir to the throne was born this morning., to Queen Geraldlne. ind this w ai4 immediately , by the. -country1 simpie unaDitants as an occatloa for : a tremendous - wave of f in tense nationalism. "We are a small country, but proud of our independence," was a representative comment, "We are determined to preserve it at. all costs." The , Italian proprietor of Ti rana's leading notel and hfs Italian staff left the country after closing the building. , As the cabinet studied the Italian proposals, the belief spread that they exceeded any concessions Albania was pre pared to make, and that tbe military precautions were taken on. this account. Albania, a wild and undevel oped, country of 10,629 square miles and a population of one million, has been independent since- 1912. Previous to that it- had been for four and a half centuries under-Turkish rale. It lies directly across the Adriatic sea from Italy. Rome Reports Troops Ready ROME, April S.-iavintenee negotiations between Italy and Albania were reported tonight ea reports spread through Roma that Italian troops were ready to , occupy VAlbanla at aay mo ment. . ; . . Expectations of an Imminent Italian move In the Adriatic wero heightened by a conference at Innsbruck, Germany, bet weea General Alberto i Pariana, -hief of Italy- general staff, and Col Gen. Wllhelm Keltel. 4 chief of the high command of the Ger man armed forces. Though foreign circles heard an Important announcement might - be made before morning, t! ere ; was no official 'confirma tion of any Impending action against mountainous Albania across the Adriatic. Parian! Formerly -Avler to Albania Special importance waa' at tached . to the Italian-German military talks because of Pari ani's connections with Albania. - He not only is the commander of the Italian army as under see- retary of war, but formerly wae chief military " adviser to the Albanian army. - (In Berlin U was announced Parlanl and Keltel weald confer again tomorrow - at 'Innsbruck. I ' Gen. Zef . Sereggla, the new Albanian minister, to Italy, flew back to Rome after a hasty trip to Albania. . w.y u Usually . reliable sources said he conferred Immediately with Forelan Minister Count Galeasxe"" Clano, ?. presumably on proposed "strengthening of the Italian AlbanUn. alliance which Itallare aay King Zog has requested. : TOree Newspaper Attacked' . MEXICO; CITT. April; lrjfV Workers: erying "dowa. wlth, fas- cisml tonight stoned windows in . the plants ot. three Mexleo City newspapers." , " Tht plants Attacked were those of the Newspapers Excelsior, No-, vedades and Universal Police die-' persed the mob. i " - Last night workers stoned the . Spanish casino, a downtown social dub of Spaniards in- Mexico sym- Y patbetic to nationalist Spain -