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Foreign Kewk'vO t , The Statesman holds Its wire service open till 2 sjo. Chat SMures readers of Kiting all the fresh Ears pca& news stories every atoning. . Geaerailr tfoudv Ratnr. day, possibly with light , rains. . Sunday unsettled, ; ' . probably with rains. Cooler. I . Max. Temp. Friday 78, Mia. ' S. River 3 feet. SW wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR fealera, Oregon, Saturday Mornia?, April 8, 1939 Pries 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 11 Caeil lib 4W'i r i Revised 7ater Drilling Plan Before Board Guarantee Proposal not Changed but 'Figure on Cost Reduced - Two Inquiries on Supply for Outlying Areas . Are Presented Faced . with a revised proposal by the Sterling Pump company to develop a supplementary well wa ter supply on Stayton island, the Salem water commission last night directed a committee of three to investigate this and oth er well possibilities and make a recommendation . for action at an early date. Chairman I- M. Dough ton assigned Commissioners E. B. ' Grabenhorst, E. B. Gabriel and Van Wleder to the task. The pump ' company, through its Stockton, Calif., office revised its offer submitted earlier in the year as to several specifications but continued its proposal to de velop and, equip up to five wells to produce a minimum total of 4.000,000 gallons of water per day, the elty not to bo bound to pay anything if that volume could not be supplied. Principal change in the offer was a reduction 'in price from slightly , more than 820.000 to fl,50.: Water System Here . Declared 'Outstanding A. B. McLauchlan, Salem rep resentative for the 'pump com pany, said thef irm was convin ced the well supply could be de veloped successfully - and would prove an asset to the system at a great saving from the cost of a filtration plant. -He also quoted for the commission's Interest a personal letter he bad received from . .W. Lnndy, vice-president of the Sterling company .which -said in part: - CnV"?---t'H Jare never run into as sim ple a water supply system as this infiltration system on the (Stay ton) Island and the very econ omy of the delivery of the water to the city mains is astounding to say the least." : Lnndy and members of a Cali fornia well drilling firm Inspect ed the present island Intake sys tem last February. . - ; t Two inquiries about the avail ability of city water to suburban areas south of the city were re ferred to the manager for confer ences. Paul Griebenow and Rob ert Tuttle, commissioners of the newly-formed Vista Heights wa ter district, said they wished to buy water at the city limits and pipe It through a six-inch feeder -main to SO tentative consumers provided they could secure the 'water at a price that would per mit their system to pay for Itself. The other . inquiry ; came from W. H. Grabenhorst and company owner of Candalarla Heights. Dexter Rice Will Quit Came Board Dexter Rice, chairman of the state game commission, will re sign today at the commission's meeting in Portland, it was learn ed authentically Friday at the capltol. Questioned about the re- - port. Governor Charles A. Spragne said It was his understanding that Mr. Rice had expressed a desire to quit his work on the commis sion because of other work." Mr. Rice, , prominent lawyer of Roseburg, was first 'appointed by Governor Charles H. Martin In 193 S and was reappointed Febru ary 25, 4938 when his first term expired. He took the , lead in the organisation s of the commission after Governor Martin had placed all new men thereon." " fililk Production Record Is Broken CHICAGO, April ?H!P-Cher-ry, an eight-year-old Shorthorn cow, set in England -today a new world's record for a year's milk production with a .total output of pounds, or an. average m mm - s oi f quart ooxuea a. aay' . - - The new record was announced 1b Chicago by the A m e r 1 e a n Shorthorn , Breeders', association en receipt of a cablegram from ' Cherry's owners;, reporting this noon's milking at the red. house farm, Ameshury, Wiltshire, Eng bad. Carnation Ormsby butter king. an American Holsteln - Fneslan was the previous record holder, with a production of 38,101 pounds. Pea Vine Ridge Blaze Said out of Control - . McMIXNTTLLB, Ore,, April 7- MPV-A spring slashing tire in the Pea Vine ridge section west of here got out of control today and was being fought tonight by foree of CCC boys. No estimates of the area it covered were avail able. . - - - " . , , Van Winkle's Bemu ,r Overruled in Sui& Ser Validity of Picket law Plea;; That Unions Complaint' Covers too Much Ground Denied hy Judges; Defendants Have Time for Possihle Further Pleadings - ; PORTLAND, Ore.; April 7. (AP) The test of the" con stitutionality, of Oregon's new union control law was nearer today after a three-judge court overruled a demurrer filed on behalf of State's Attorney of the defendants. - Van Winkle argued that . . i i Q Rain Upon T I A Millinery Feared Day Is Dogged by Weather Jinx for Six Years, Due to Repeat That nemisis of the Easter bon net April showers will make Sale m'a Easter church going crowds less colorful tomorrow, if the weatherman's report can be trusted. The forecast Is for rain which may start today. Salem's weather for Easter day has been pursued by a jinx for the past six years, a glance at the rec ord shows. Of those six Easter Sundays, only one that of April 12. 1938 has been free of rain. Testerdsy, with a high of 75 degrees, was the warmest dsy of the year thus far, culminating a succession of unusually summer like days for March and April and topping the previous maximum of 74 registered March 18. Getting back to the rain fore cast for Easter, this spring season has been full of rain forecasts which failed to come true. So maybe it can't happen here. s inuiseServices Set " Easter Morn Program Starts, at 5:30: Rev. Robert Hutchinson v : Principal Speaker - The church youth of the city will present their traditional Eas ter sunrise service at Belcrest Me morial park, and If fair weather prevails this hour may bring to hundreds of local folk an oppor tunity not only to attend outdoor Easter worship, but to view the beauties of nature along the southern one of the two routes mapped out for Blossom week, op ening day of which Is Easter. The Belcrest sunrise service ad dress will be given by Rev. Rob ert A. Hutchinson, pastor of the First Congregational church, whose theme will be "Salutation of the Dawn." The order of service, to which everyone is invited, follows: - ,5:30 Transcribed music. 5:45 Orgatron prelude, Phil Barrett, First Presbyterian church. Trumpet duet, Ronald Adams of Calvary Baptist and Warren Blg gerstsif of Jason Lee ME. Group song,' "Christ Arose," W 1 1 m e r Brown, First Evangelical church, leading. Invocation, Rev. J. . (Turn to page 2, column 1) Use of Memorial j For Concert Hit WASHINGTON, April lHFr Senator Ellender (D-La) protest ed on i the senate floor today against permitting Marian Ander son, negro, to - give an outdoor concert Sunday on the grounds of the Lincoln memorial. The Louisiana senator contend ed that Secretary Ickes had seta 'bad precedent" by authorising use of the grounds. , Mayor Backs Blossom Week; Cherrians Sta ft Drill i Work Enlivened by prospects fori an unusually successful Blossom Week, 8alem Cherrians turned out in the greatest number in 20 years tor the first drill practice at the armory last " night,' King Blag Harold Buslck announced. Forty-two marchers and 18 mem bers of the Cherrian dram corps, which will accompany the drill team for the first time this year, worked on . preliminary training under DrtUmaster Lloyd Demarest and Corps Manager H. E. "Dave" Shade.,'-"''"'---:;-''-1 ' Both the marching 'organiza tion, being formed Into close working squads this year, and the dram corps will accompany , the Salem float in the Portland Hose festival parade. Thirty Cherrians are already selling tickets for the Blossom week danee to be held at the armory next Saturday night and additional salesmen wilt go to work early next week, A. A. Gnetfroy, ticket chairman ap pointed by Buslck, reported. Prof its from the dance Will go toward paying for the float. -. , General I. H. Van Winkle, one j: . . . organized labor had tried to cover too much ground in asking a declaratory judgment invalldat- ing the law. The American Federation of Labor, Congress for Industrial Or ganization and Railroad Brother hood asked the judgment on the generalized contention that the law Jeopardized the proper func tions and purposes of a union. The law restricts picketing, labor boycotting, and opens union books to inspection. The defendants eon tend the, test should have a spe cific controversy between employ er and employes for a basis and (Turn to page 2, column 8) Musicians of Six Schools Winners Lebanon Tops alls With 4 First Places; Salem Deadlocks Twice Six high schools band and or chestra units will represent the northwest district meet In the re gional high school band contest in Portland May 12-13," it was de termined in yesterday's day-long contest conducted in the Salem high auditorium and , on Olinger J'i non high; With four first plaees, took the most honors in the-district meet that was entered by 11 high schools' bands and or chestras from the Willamette val ley. The Berryplcker entries took three firsts in the ensembles and a first In the first division, class B band contest. ' Salem high was forced to di vide two first places, tying with Corvallls in the drill contest and (Turn to page 2, column 1) Japanese Shipping Coolies to North TSINAN, China, April 7.-F)-While Japanese troops and Chi nese guerillas battle almost every day and night - for supremacy throughout Shantung province, Japanese strategists are partly solving the problem of pacification by shipping an estimated 8,000 Shantung coolies and1 peasants to Manchoukuo dally. Encouragement of mass migra tion by train from Tsinan and by boat from Tslngtao and Chefoo serves the triple purpose of re moving hungry Chinese who might become guerillas recruits, building np friendly feelings by providing employment, and providing - the Japanese-sponsored empire with sorely needed agricultural la borers. Ttco Flifrt Are Killed, A Small Plane Crashes AUBURN, Calif., .April -Garrett Lowell,-manager of the Travelers hotel here, and Win fred Kindopp, a high school stu dent, were burned to death when the small training plane thev were flying today in the Ameri can River canyon struck a high tension line and plunged ' into the mountainside. - v Beauties of the Willamette val ley at blossom time were extolled by Mayor W. W. Chadwlck yes terday in. a proclamation ef Blos som week, which read as follows; t "Whereas la all the world, there la no land so beautiful as the Will amette valley at blossom time, and "Whereas for many years the Cherrians of Salem have made the annual advent of blossoms la this valley a time of moment. Inviting all citizens those who' live here and those from afar to view this pageant of the blooms, now - y ' Therefore, I, W. W. Chadwlck, mayor of Salem, hy authority vest ed la me, do proclaim this week of Sunday, April t, to Saturday, April 15, the annual Blossom week for Salem and Its environs. And I do most heartily urge all persona in every walk of life to lay aside during some portion of this week the cares of the workaday , world and to enjoy and participate in, as the Cherrians may direct, la the observance of this spring festival when nature bedecks our country' side la such lovely array. Germany Says She Will Back Italians' Coup Still Working on Poland to Block Accord ; Move ' r of Duce Defended ' Yugoslavia and Rumania Worried at Possible j Closure of Seas ' : BERLIN, April l-ff)-Germany today warned the western democ racies she was standing behind It aly's Invasion of Albania, leaving the inference that her might would be In readiness it anyone tried to halt her axis partner. The warning, repeated several times by radio, could be interpre ted as a challenge. It was Issued while German di plomacy was exerting pressure on Poland not to sign the mutual de fense agreement conclude din London this week by Prime Minis ter Chamberlain and Colonel Jo seph Beck, Polish foreign minis ter. "Official German quarters re gard news of the landing of Ital ian troops in Durazzo," said a broadcast official statement on Al bania, "as an action within the letter and spirit of the Italio-Albanian friendship treaty of 127 and also as an expression of deep Italian sympathy for the Alban ian people." BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, April T-iffVItaly promised that Yugo slav interests would he respected in effecting the occupation of Al bania, it was stated officially ' to night, hut the government, hever- (Turn to page 2, column 1) Pendergast Held, Income Tax Clase Grand Jury Holds Tax Due on $315,000 Received in Insurance Deal KANSAS CITY, April 7-()-Boss Tom Pendergast, who has played a potent hand in state at times also In national politics 28 years, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of evading income taxes on more than $315,000. Towering high - In the indict ment against the 4 6-year-old lead er of the Kansas City democratic organization was the allegation his Income for 1931 and 1938 In cluded 315,000 paid him in con nection with a 19,600,000 settle ment of Missouri's fire insurance rate controversy. Indicted with Pendergast and accused of receiving $62,000 in the insurance deal was R. E. O'Malley, the state superintendent of insurance who engineered the settlement and later was dis charged by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, bitter democratic foe of Pender gast "No comment," said Pender gast. Requested Tests Explain Tragedy, Is Witness' View -i SEATTLE, April 1 - JP) - The civil aeronautics, authority's air safety board closed Its stratoliner wreck hearing: today, after re ceiving testimony a visiting Dutch air minister official requested two special maneuvers the . night be fore the 33-passenger Boeing built' plane crashed near Alder, Wash., last March 18, killing 10 men. ;r t.' ' . ' George Martin,, Boeing engin eer, told the Investigators A. C. Von Baumhauer, the Dutch offi cial, asked and arrangements were made lor complete stall tests. Also planned was a trial to determine performance when.- one outer en gine was stopped and the rudder not moved to compensate for loss of power on one side, v : Previous - testimony Indicated the plane ' was. .undergoing stall tests, before she faU. Von Baum hauer and another Dutch repre sentative,';" P. 1 Guilonard, were among the victim. Oppose Liquor, Tobacco- SALT. LAKE i CITT. April 7 (A. high authority of the .Latter-Day Saints church announced today a church-wide educational program designed to: check the use of liquor and tobacco tmong Mormons. U - , y Sp 8ACRAMENTO, April Sacramento went: to its seventn consecutive, defeat here tonight, as Los Angeles clinched the aeries in straight heats by winning S-to 3. The Solans haven't won a game this year. " - Los Angeles . , : S 17 - t Sacramento ... .3 5 1 Stlne and r Collies; Kelleher. Smith, Berg and Crilk. ' Ddminain of My Romme-BtBrlih Axis Britain Won't Take Effective I Action, Belief Coup Planned With Help of Goering on Visit to Italy, Is View But Italian Envoy Says Occupation Will Be Only Temporary LONDON, April T.-iSVBrltlsh officials feared tonight that It aly's invasion of Albania was a first step in a new Rome-Berlin plan to dominate the Balkans and smash Britain's projected grand alliance against aggression. Foreign office officials said Italy had reassured Britain' two days ago that she had no wish to change the status qua in Albania, and tonight, although there was no official announcement. It was believed the foreign office had in structed its ambassador in Rome, the Earl of Perth, to make a vig orous formal protest to Italy. Both the Anglo-Italian gentle men's agreement of 1937 and the Anglo-Italian agreement of 1938 pledged the parties to preserva tion of the status quo in the Med iterranean area. No Effective Steps Expected In London Nevertheless, it was generally accepted that even if Premier Mussolini forces Albania hack in to a Roman empire after an ab sence o store than 2,000 years, Britain-will do nothing effective to stop It. . . . " . : The Italian embassy In London issued a statement today saying that Italian troops would be with drawn; from Albania fas soon as the- recent disturbances are ter minated," and that occupation of the country was only temporary. In London diplomatic circles it (Turn to page 2, column 4) Washington Eyes Europe Situation Kellogg Pact Protest Is Possible) no Economic Moves Anticipated WASHINGTON. April The administration weighed to night a series of actions that may be taken In consequence of Italy's invasion of Albania. Secretary Hull kept in elose touch by telephone with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., and conferred with his chief ad visers and with the Albanian min ister, Falk Konltza. Americans In the Tirana, Al bania, region are safe and are gathered at the American legation, American Minister Hugh G. Grant eabled Hull. The secretary said he did . not believe the number , of Americans in the danger areas was sufficiently large to warrant send-J ing American warships to Albania: There are 223 Americans in all Albania, the state department cal culated. ' " ' ' "' The-administration . faced deci sions on. these points: ' 1. Whether . Mussolini's inva sion constituted a violation of the Kellogg anti-war pact. : . (Turn to page 2, column 1) 5fpf ; - TS?7Ls fir"""' "V3 ' 0 flow Italy woald control the Adrlatlo sea if permitted to seize Albania, via's only ewtlet would be across Greece and the permanence of that outlet would be in doubt, email . t arrow points to the Saajak of Alexandretta la Syria, which Turkey has hinted she might occupy as the - price for keeping the Dardanelles (large arrow) pern to British-French' fleets as a -route to aid R- mania or Itussia iii case of vnuv HX ServlceJ 1 - - I v. , . , o-. --? f fit.' ,'':-v :1 ,: I ' " : " '. 1 -j". " '-;"V Perhaps It Was Dopey Who Said English Guns Had Been Manned Earl Stanhope, first lord ef the admiralty. Is shown as he made the startling statement that because of the critical International situa tion, British anti-aircraft guns were being manned. The speech wee made aboard the aircraft carrier Royal Ark, which had been decorated with pictures of the seven dwarfs ef the Snow White story, and Dopey's head appears behind 8tanhope. The picture was t by raoio from London to Albanian Tribes Battle -Foe; Women Will Help -3 t 1 Outnumbered and Helpless Against Heavy Guns, They Repulse Landing Parties but Three or Four Towns Seized by Invaders By CHARLES H. GUPTILL TIRANA, Albania, April 7. (AP) Hardy Albanian tribesman fought desperately tonight to stem an Italian in vasion backed up by bombing planes and naval guns. While the losing battle was in progress the nation awaited Premier Mussolini's reply to a peace overture by King Zog. The government torn between the resistance of its own primitive people and the reallsa-O tion that such a fight could not last long against the might of fascist Italy fled to the moun tain hamlet of Elbaaan. There, only 2S miles south of Tirana, Zog awaited the answer to the bid for peace which would leave him some measure of honor. Tirana Itself Is readily accessible to Italian motoriied equipment, but Elbasan can be reached -only over steep, easily-defended moun tain roads. The government's move was an nounced in a radio broadcast. In the same-broadcast, Former Pre mier Mehdl ; Frasheri proclaimed that Albanian women as weU as men were determined to resist the invasion: (There Is a women's de tachment in the Albanian army.) Shortly before mldnighi Alban ia's vigilantes and gendarmes still were fighting the invaders with nnstemmed' ' determination and some success . Behind these rugged hlllmen stood their women. Inflamed and all but Indomitable. " "There are 44.000,000 Italians against 1,000,000 Albanians," said (Turn to page 2, column 3) ; Italy Controls Adriatic if Grab Works: Malkan - mJ new xorhv- AP Telemat, Marsh and Court Hold Parley Here Members of the Marion county court were closeted with Frauds E. Marsh, assistant attorney gen eral, and a representative of the state division of audits, for more than two hours yesterday after noon. Matters pertaining to Marsh's investigation of the coun ty treasurer's office were dis cussed. - Facts produced by the investi gation, which has been proceeding Intensively, though quietly, for more than a month, are to be presented to a new grand jury in the ' near future, according to Marsh's present plans. j Ranch Hand Is Killed ST. JOHN, Wash.,' April. Alvin Harwood, ,.- 22-year-old ranch . hand, was dragged o death tonight by a runaway work horse that he had' been leading to water. is shown, tn this map. InirneW Area Feared; Zog to Blame, Is Propaganda From Invaders King Flees; Took Money Sent by Iuly, Says One Radio Speech Plot to Get Italian Aid t Against Yugoslavia : i Also Is Charged ROME, April 8.-(Saturday)-(PV-Itallan troops were reported officially today to be advancing steadily toward th AlbanlAB - capital of Tirana in an invasion ine zascist press declared was the answer of Italy and GermanY ta attempts to "encircle" them. The troops, which landed at four coastal cities under cover of warship guns and 400 warplanea yesterday, were said to be within IS miles of Tirana. Independent reports said there were destruc tive bombardments of Albanian towns and heavy fighting, hut of ficial statements did not confirm them. King Zog and his government fled from Tirana to Elbasan, mountain stronghold 25 mUes to the south, and the Albanian mon arch was said to have sent to Premier Mussolini a plea which appeared to be one of almost full surrender. Italian Legation Said Bombarded - A S tetania (Italian official news agency X' dispabth . from f Tirana early todays said widespread gun fire broke . out in the Albanian eapftal after the government left. The ahooOng was reported espec ially Intense in the vicinity of the ; Italian legation, where the Italian minister, his staff, and several Italian residents were "arm and ready to defend themselves."! Automobiles bearing aui the treasure that could be nacki int them were renorted to hav left Tirana for, Elbasan yesterday. Another official dispatch said Zog had opened the Isils and lt criminals loose. At Bari. on the Italian ent on. posits Durazzo, the former Alban ian Prefect of Durazzo. Ifrf KhodelL made a radio addren ap pealing to Albanians not to ffer iurtner resistance to Italian troops. Says Zoc Pocketed Faads Seat by Italy tie ottered an explanation for Italy's action, saying that -King Zor had Docketed a Una nart aff the money Italy had poured into Albania for development of the country and had even taken mon ey contributed abroad for the re lief of the Albanian poor. , He described Zog and his fam ily as "Vampires vrevinr on a dia gramed people." He declared Pre mier Mussolini "was the "real friend of the Albanian people" and would keen hie word to malntata Albania as a united and lndepen- aent country. - .. , ! . It was understood that Zog had offered to end Albanian resiatABea and permit an Italian protectorate iwr Aioania 10 oe estaousned pro vided his country were permitted -to retain a measure of lndnn. dence. . Foreign Minister" Count Gala- - azzo dano had a long talk with the Earl of Perth, British ambas sador, and with the Ynroala mia. . ister. " ; ... . . i: Count Ciano was renortaWt in have told Lord Perth that King &og was to blame lor Italy's ac tion. Zog waa.. nlctnred tm tha press as bavin tried to ret Ital ian help to attack Yugoslavia. ims On Air Numerous M -- - . : : v ' ' ..... NEW TORRV April T-iy-8ta-tions of the radio networks are -opening early again on Sunday to broadcast from the Vatkaa the first Eaater ktiiAilMUa . k h.. new pope, Pius XII. "he time Pa- cuic standard) is z a.m., on mbs ; and 2 ajn. on NBC and CBS. -At the conclusion of the Vati can transmission, the chains flan to pick up sunrise services la va- ' rious parts of the country from 1 ajn to around 10 o'clock. There will be at least a dozen earn hroadcaata. . ,r ; Fruit Crops Southwest - : Suffer Due to Frosts ; ' ' - ' " " " KANSAS; CrTY, April ' 7-(JP- i Frnlt eropi ' throughout the -southwest suffered; killing frosts -last night. - c ' In' southeastern" Kansas,- 6e- bastian Hahn. former .president of the. state horticulture sode'y, . ssid apricots, peaches,' plums and . some varieties of early . apple . -were , killed. .. . . - " k''