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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1939)
The Weather Unsettled today end Thursday with occasional rains. Little fhange In tem perature Tuesday Temp:, Max. 57, Mln. 45. Rain .14 in. River 2 feet. SSW wind. Baseball Major leagues. Const lea stum you'll find an the scores first In The States- iB'a sport paes. PCUND3D 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, April 26, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 26 O vecfl. a Tlirestf v. .BrMslk Goes move Caterpillar Mere: Not Difficult, Rieder Advises Lead Arsenic Poison Is Recommended; Spray Details Are Told Dust Sown in 100 Mile Area; Wasco County Is now Menaced Tent caterpillars have hit Mar lon county orchards, with the In festation of serious proportions, Assistant County Agent Robert Rieder reported yesterday. However, the pest is easily con trolled and Rieder urges that ev eryone finding the caterpillar itart control measures in order to pre vent a more serious outbreak next year. "Use three or four pounds of lead arsenic to every 100 gallons of water as a spray to kill the tent caterpillar," the assistant county agent advises. The spray does not kill instantly, bat the pests feed on the leaves so sprayed. - In stone fruits such as cherries, peaches and plums, the arsenic pray often causes Injury after the fruit has set, so to avoid this in jury, simply add two or three pounds of bydrated lime to each 100 gallons of spray, Rieder says. Method Simpler for .....-..i..:v ' Small Infestations In- backyards, where, just a few limbs are Infested, these nay be destroyed by a torch or by cutting out the infested limb and destroy ing it. A few caterpillars found on shrubs may be destroyed with or dinary fly spray or any spray con taining pyrethrum, which will kill as soon as It hits. Rieder points out that the tent caterpillars make their appear ances in cycles, and 'that this is apparently their year to come in quantities !n this area. - THE DALLES, Ore., April 25.- (P)-Clrellng over 100 square miles of the Warm Springs Indian reservation. CCC enrollees contin ned today to sow poison dust in an effort to stop a heavy infesta tion of destructive Mormon crick ets. Menacing the farm lands of i (Turn to page 2, coL t) Deschutes Funds Supported Again WASHINGTON, April 2MV A senate-bouse committee appoint ed to adjust differences between the two chambers completed ac tion today on the multi-million dollar interior department supply .bill for the next fiscal year. - The committee disagreed on several large items added by the senate and declied to submit them to the house and senate for a sep arate vote. .'',: The house conferees accepted senate additions of S (00,000 to the $2,900,000 voted by the house for the national bituminous coal commission, and $500,000 to the $400,000 voted for general recla mation investigation. They also accepted a senate amendment of $400,000 for continuation of con struction on the Deschutes recla mation nro1et In Oregon and a $100,000 addition for the acquisi tion of lands under the Indian reorganisation act. i Exemption Is Proposed WASHINGTON, April 25. -V Whlte collar workers receiving $200 a month or more would be exempted from provisions of the wage-hour law under legislation recommended to the house today b Its labor committee- ' Missing Witness Found : in . f Jury Box After 11 Months A new kind of surprise witness popped up la the,clrcuit court Jury bot yesterday when Joseph E, Law, Salem engineer, discovered the case on which he had been drawn as a Juror involved an au tomobile accident about which he had been wondorin r 'or 11 months and four, attorneys, dis covered that Law was an eye witness they had been searching lor without guccess curing same time. - ' "V : Law was promptly excused front duty and attorneys for both sides rushed down the court room alsit after him; m ' ' - The ease was that of Nellie .E Slack against XL - C. 8tith and n : II Actual Firebugs to For Setting Blaze at West Salem i A J: J I Treasury OfVm Mle Continmng Whether Grand Jury Will Meet Today not Told; Drager Is Called The Marion county grand jury kept a wall of secrecy yesterday around its investigation of the $23,520.41 shortage In the county treasurer's office as the probe went into its second day. Francis E. Marsh, special as sistant attorney general directing the checkup, said he would be at the courthouse today but did not know definitely whether or not the grand Jury would meet. He had indicated Monday there might be some delay in securing certain un named witnesses. Two persons in addition to C. C. Spears, private investigation agent, and Floyd K. Bowers, as sistant supervisor of the state di vision of audits, were seen about the grand jury meeting pi a c e . County Treasurer D. G. Drager was closeted with the Jury during most of the morning. W. I. Staley, business college head and frequent court witness in the role of hand writing expert, at one time waited outside the Jury room. - (Turn to page 2, coL 4) Rival Dispensers Croup Is Formed PORTLAND, Ore., April 25- -A fight in the Oregon Food and Beverage Dispensers association, comprising mainly individuals li censed by the state liquor control commission to sell light wines and beer, has resulted in creation of a rival organization, E. H. Aebl, former association trustee, dis closed tonight. The new group, called Taverns, Inc., was made up principally of former association members who were displeased by a by-laws change creating a three-man gov erning board to be appointed by the president, Thomas Holman. Taverns, Inc., members contended the change resulted in too great a concentration of authority in the board and president. ' - ' Aebl said F. H. Suss, former secretary of the association, bad resigned to Join the new group' John L. WhltC Her husband, EJ- ach M. Black, was added as a plaintiff when a defense plea in abatement based on; the conten tion he was an Interested party was sustained. The trial will con tinue Jit 1 1 1 0 o'clock this after noon. I i - "t rv; I -: V ' Law saw the accident, whleh'oe eurred on the Pacific highway four 'miles south fo Salem last Uit 10. was handed a list of oth er, witnesses by a stranger, and then heard no more about ft un til yesterday's case was being ex plained to tho Jury which was in the process of being selected. The Blacks, who reside la Cali fornia, went by train to vancou Ter. BC, soon after the accident. V ' vr U i 13 i'W -' - t- - - JS," , - t 'A 7 " i - X Pest Prevails Wisht Is - M b C7 Pay Penalty i w'f' ) - Above, left, John Newland; right, Cecil Moore; below, Ernest Car. Three Sentenced, Coon Arson Case Seven Years Penalty for Newland, Carson and Moore, Polk County DALLAS, April 25 P - The tnree. men who fired tne West Sa lem box factory in November, 1937,' were sentenced today by Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker to seven years In the state peniten Mary, despite the plea of Special Prosecutor Ralph E. Moody that two of them bo paroled from the bench. ."- The triov Ernest Carson, John Newland and Cecil Moore, will bo taken to the prison this afternoon. They pleaded guilty 14 months ago. Moody asked for the parole for Carson and Newland because they gave "valuable service" to the state in the trial of Albert E. Ross er, former AFL teamster secre tary lor Oregon who was con- (Turn to page 2, col. S) jLeiserson Named For Labor Board Succeeds D. W. Smith Who Was Opposed by AFL; Agreement Seen .WASHINGTON, April 25.-(S)-In the midst of a congressional campaign to revise the- national labor relations act. President Roosevelt today named William M. Leiserson, economist and stu dent of collective bargaining, for a five-year term on the labor re lations board. Leiserson, now chairman of the national mediation board under the railway labor act, was picked to succeed Donald Wakefield Smith, whose recess reappoint ment last August brought strong opposition from the American Federation of Labor. i The Leiserson appointment drew praise from several senate mem bers and appeared to be accept able to organized labor. The AFL president, William Green, who directed a campaign to block senate confirmation of Smith if the tatter's name were sent up for approval, said: . "The federation will not Inter num to page 2, coL 5) i ATTITUDE OF l ;f.s- 5SsP 5 j T The mature of Xugoslavia's accord With the Rome-lb rlln axis, recently anaounced; Js fa dispute , Bel grade sources indicated ft amounted to eeonoode cooperation only bat Boca aanoaaced it as a diplo snaUc Victory. The map show how taaportaat Yugoslavia la to the yfUj-irg rT'-rrs ta Earopa. North Santiam Booster Group Now Organized Improvement Completion and Later Extension to Coast Sought Flood Control Dam Gets Approval Along With Other Projects Organization of the North San tiam Development league with the immediate objective completion of the North Santiam highway to Bend and ultimate extension by way of Salem to the coast was per fected at a meeting held last night at the Argo hotel, called by the Hollywood club of Salem and a delegation from Stayton. I Representatives were present also from Idanha, Aumsville, Jef ferson. Grand Island and the Sa lem Kiwanis club in all about 35. Roy R. Hewitt, Salem, was elect ed chairman of the permanent or ganization; L. E. Spraker, Stay ton, vice-president; Dr. Lloyd L. Hockett, Salem, secretary; L. H. Wright, Stayton, treasurer; C. E, Haseman, Idanha, and W. H. Hen derson. Salem, executive commit teemen, with this group empow ered to select three other commit teemen. No Provision For Power. Explained "Contrary to opinion whlch'apri parenuy kept s Salem chamber of commerce delegation away from this meeting, the committee which drew up the proposal for organis ation does not nrge Inclusion of any electric power provision in the plans. We are looking for means of getting a road across in stead of looking for a fight,' A. M. Church, temporary secre tary, informed the group. : The organization proposes com pletion of the highway for approx imately a 13-mile stretch this way from Detroit; construction of the North Santiam dam as authorized In the Willamette Valley flood control project; extension of irri gation in the valley; and encour agement of home and factory building in the district. "Some of the first money for the Willamette basin project will be expended on the North Santiam highway," R. H. Kipp, secretary- 1 (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Request Receiver For Hearst Firm WILMINGTON, Del., April 25- (JP-V3 district court was asked today, to appoint a receiver for Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., the holding-operating com pany for many of the Hearst news papers in the United States. The suit was filed by - three stockholders who charged neglect. mismanagement and waste. The plaintiffs were Mary 8. Lankford and Iola J. Harter of Washington, and Everett L. Mler of Chicago. The complaint asked that a re ceiver "take possession of all the monies, assets and properties" and conserve them pending final set tlement. The bill asked also an ac counting by company officers. YUGOSLAVIA IS Holdup S itaged 10D On High Street Bold Bandit Takes Only Currency; Excellent Description Given Woman in Store Admits Scare but Tries to Stall for Time A bold robbery, staged at 8:35 o'clock Tuesday night at May- belle's Candy shop. South High and Ferry streets, left Salem po lice with only meager clues this morning to find the robber. Ten dollars in bills were taken by the robber who entered the shop and told Mrs. Marion Sloan, sole employe at night to "give me your money." Mrs. Sloan, affrighted by the small revolver which the robber pointed at her, walked slowly to wards the cash register. When she rang it open, the robber point ed at the bills and told her to hand them over. She complied. Mrs. Sloan was then ordered to go into the kitchen in the rear of the store. The robber backed to the door and started west on Ferry street. He warned Mrs. Sloan to stay in the kitchen. She started out Into the candy shop, saw the intruder on the side walk. He tapped the window with his gun and motioned her back into the kitchen. Calls Police Whea Car Speeds Away Mrs. Sloan told police last night that she stayed there until she heard a car start up and speed down Ferry street. Then she took the telephone and called the po lice station. Visibly - shaken by the expert once, Mrs. Sloan told details to , .(Turn to page 2, col. 4) - Shortage of Coal Becoming Serious Critical Stage Within 2 Weeks Is Predicted as Deadlock Continues WASHINGTON, April 25 -(ff)-Chalrman Percy Tetlow of the coal commission estimated today that the dwindling supply of soft coal would reach the critical stage, forerunner of a national emergen cy, if the soft coal wage negotia tions remained deadlocked for an other two weeks. Tetlow pointed out in an inter view that current production In the states outside the Appalachian field was only about 2,000,000 tons weekly, as against a normal consumption demand of 7,000,000 a week. Normal production, geared to keep pace with consumption, has been about 7,000,000 tons a week. The shutdown of operations in the Appalachian field pending the negotiation of a new contract between-the operators and tho Unit ed Mine Workers, has halted pro- - (Turn to page 2. eoL I) Uiiiaoitnsi All Need Revision BERUN, April iness Is good for Herman Wilhelm lors. v Field Marshal Ooering's tal- The No. S nasi lost so much weight during a vacation In Italy that aU bis uniforms have to be taken In at the seams. Ho has a lot of them. - - : IMPORTANT U. S. S. R.. FASCIST STATW U -FRONT - uc At Candy Sb To Assume new Education Post CHARLES A. HOWARD Howard President, Education College Succeeds Churchill Who Is Partly Retiring; Year Budget Is Adopted EUGENE. April 2.5. () - The state board of higher education named Dr. C. A. Howard, presi dent of Eastern Oregon college of education, to the presidency of Oregon college of education today and adopted a budget of 1 3,1 63, 399 for the coming year. Dr. Howard, state superinten dent of public instruction tor 10 years, will succeed J. A. Churchill, who has reached retirement age. Churchill will remain at Mon mouth as president emeritus and perform various staff duties. How ard, at the La Grande institution for two years, was graduated from Oregon State college and former ly served as principal of Eugene high school and superintendent of schools at Marshfield. President Churchill, who began bis career as superintendent of Baker schools in 1891, was state superintendent of public lnstruc tlon for 13 years and president of Southern Oregon college of edu cation for six. The operating cost budget was assigned as follows: University of Oregon $916,847; Oregon State college 11,283,779; medical school $329,297; Oregon College of Education $170,189; Southern Oregon college of Edu cation $84,701; Eastern Oregon (Turn to page 2, col. S) 6th Arrest Made In Poison Probe PHILADELPHIA, April 2- ( Wednesday) HJP)- Assistant Dis trict Attorney Vincent P. McDev- itt announced early today the ar rest of a sixth person in a wide spread poison for Insurance ring. McDevitt said Mrs. Josephine Romaldo, 41, admitted she killed her husband 20 years ago and col lected 17,000 of his insurance. The arrest came a few hours af ter the district attorney had an nounced "startling developments' In an investigation of the ring which- operated in four states. Four slaying previously had been attributed to the syndicate. District Attorney Charles F. Kelley announced three, or four mors arrests would be made with in the next few days. - - 3 , "Since yesterday there have been a number of startling devel opments, he said. "Just how many deaths are Involved we do not know for sure, but the number has been augmented considerably. "Some of the real brains of tho ring are still at large, although we have some of the brains in custo dy." Acid Thrown Upon German Soldiers PRAGUE, April IfHflVOfn- clal news agency dispatches from Pilsen today reported SO attacks on German soldiers in which acid was thrown on them by unidenti fied persons. The, attacks were, said to have occurred on streets wen crowded with pedestrians. German author ities In the region, which formerly was a part of Czecho-Slorakia, ar rested 60 "Marxists' of Czech na tionality and 50 Jss in retalia tion. ' Flight Is Postponed MOSCOW, April 2 .-( Wednes day )-) A. magnetic storm over Finland and unfavorable weather conditions farther west caused postponement early today of a so view Moscow-to-the-worids fair flight. AUerbury Convicted . CANON CITY," Colov April 25 -P)-Dr. Raymond L. Atterberry was convicted of second degree marde r today for strangling his S 1-year old wife to death last De cember 21 . - U: - .'.-.-... ''ggggjgjlC Hope of Softening Reply From Hitter Is Apparently Vain Return of Ambassador Was to Convey This Information, Admitted in London Semi-Officially "Silly" to Hope Nazis May Be Swayed By This Move, Press View There; England's Budget Rocketed (By The Associated Press) . Great Britain was reported to have decided Tuesday upon conscription compulsory military service for more than 1,000,000 men between the ages of 18 and 21. Although the British government hoped this dramatie preparedness move would soften whatever words Chancellor Hitler is arranging to speak in his reichstag address Friday, the German press promptly retorted it would make "no im pression on the reichsfuehrer." Semi-official circles in London acknowledged the sudden return of the British ambassador to Berlin was to convey to Hitler news of the decision, which Reorganization Is Outlined by FDR Three new Agencies Would Consolidate Many of Present Bureaus WASHINGTON, April 25.-(5)-Asserting that at a time of "ruth less" attack on democracy It is necessary to - keep democracy's tools up to date, President Roose velt submitted to congress today a plan for a major reorganisation of powerful federal agencies. The plan calls for the establish ment Of three new agencies, with present, relief activities to be cofl solldated under one, lending activ ities under another and social se curity functions under the third. In addition, the budget bureau and some other agencies are to be transferred to the White House. Mr. Roosevelt informed congress that the aim of this ''reorganisa tion plan No. 1" was to "improve the administrative management of the republic" and to save some 115,000,000 to 120,000,000. At a press conference later in the day, he announced two more plans would be forthcoming at this session of congress ... one dealing with inter-departmental transfers and mergers, and the other with changes within depart ments. The latter will combine all law enforcement agencies of the treasury. Unless both branches of con gress specifically disapprove, the plan will become : effective CO days hence. Under the reorgani sation act, no changes in the president's proposals can be made and congress has only the alter natives of approving, or vetoing, the program as a whole. Estimates (Turn to page 2, coi. 4) Keech to Handle Tax Foreclosures Edwin Keech, attorney who conducted Marion .county's 'first major tax "foreclosure program men years ago, will be retained formally in the near future to pro secute a new group of foreclos ures. County " Judge " J.' C Sleg mund said yesterday. The county court and District Attorney Lyle J. Page were reported by Judge Siegmund '7 to have agreed on Keech'a appointment as a deputy district attorney for this purpose. ; A large number of properties became subject last year to tas foreclosure after, installments on old levies had lapsed but action toward the " county's acquiring them was postponed. - District Attorney Page said he anticipated Institution of foreclos ure actions soon. Strain Upon School Budget Due to City Growth?Is Seen The 1939-40 Salem school dis trict budget will have little room for new . or . extended appropria tions, WV H. Burghardt, business manager, advised the school board last night, . The normal increase in teach ers' salaries, under the salary schedale, will Just about take up tho allowable 6 per cent increase in the budget, Murghardt report ed. i An increase of approximately $16,000 In. tho current expense tax Is permitted under tho C per cent constitutional limitation. The rou tine salary increases will require at least $12,000 of that amount, Burghardt indicated "The board has not yet named - !ts itlxens budget committee for tho year. - ; . Lookiaa to tho approaching was made after reported prompt- ins from both France and Russia. However, Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Important Berlin news paper, said "it would be silly te believe that the German govern ment could be surprised" by con scription "or be dissuaded from its course by warnings or threats." The British envoy. Sir Nevile Henderson, cooled his heels la Berlin, failing to get an inter view with Foreign Minister Joa chim von Ribbentrop. Britain's conscription decisloa was expected to strengthen the French-British alliance and smooth the way for Russia's en trance, with Turkey probably fol lowing. Britain took one other great step yesterday in preparation for trouble. The fv vernment an nounced the largest peace-time budget in British history, with half of it to be spent on the armed forces and civilian defense. It was a budget of 1,320,000,- 000 ($6,177,600,000), with tho defense cost set at nearly 630. 000,000 ($2,948,400,000). To provide this huge sum, the government announced new taxes on automobiles, tobacco, sugar, and unexposed film, and Increased levies on estates and Incomes of more than 2,000 (about 19,200). The French government pressed a campaign against foreign propa ganda, announcing rigid press con trol laws to check it. President Roosevelt - signed a bill authorising the navy's share v of the. special emergency defense plan, a 161,800,000 program for construction of naval air bases in a far-flung chain from Alaska to Puerto Rico. . . Meanwhile, the United Statee senate passed and sent to him for approval a 1508,789,824 appropri ation tor army defense activities la the fiscal year beginning July1 1. 1 The ' senate foreign relatione committee postponed .its final de cision on ' the hotly-debated neu trality issue, agreeing to Continue open hearings on neutrality legis lation until May 6. . , . Property Sold to Radio Protpiietor Outright sale of North " ' Front street property north of Union to H. B. 'Read, proprietor 1 of ' radio station KSLM, was authorised in a probate court ' order eecured yes terday by Floyd M. and Harley O. White, executors of the Daniel A. White estate. .Read is to pay 82, 602.42 cash, the unpaid balance under a contract he made with tho late Daniel A. White, rather than continue to make small monthly., payments, the order states. The property - involved consists of lot and the north 12 feet ot lot 4 in block 18, located on the west side ot North Front street. II la the site of the new KSLM sta tion to be put fa operation hi th near future. . 7 playgrbund season, Tern Gilmore, playground superintendent, sug gested substitution of city water for creek water to supply the O lin ger swimming pool. He also men tioned a need for refinlshing the surfaces -f both Ollnger and Les lie pools to eliminate a p e e I i n g paint problem. Both matters were taken under advisement. 1 The board continued for fur , ther investigation complaints over use of the senior high school cafe teria for banquets by non-student groups. r Resignation ot Wade H. ArstllL Leslie junior high school instruc tor, to take a' better position opea May 1, was accepted. . The directors adjourned early to an executive session at which an- , other candidate for the supertn tendency waa interviewed.