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"I The Weather Baseball Major leagnes, Court leagues yon'll find'Sll the cores first la The States- Partly clondr todar. tr. Monday cloudy aad an settled. Max. temp. Saturday 60, mln. 8S. Bala .O. Rives? 1.4 feet. SSW wind. a'e sport pages. , PCUNDDO 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 30, 1939 Prica Ser Newsstands 5c No. SO (flare 1 Spot 0 -L ,4 Chancellor Hitler, suffering from a fold but nevertheless giving the i Impression he was enjoying tilmaelf, is shown as he replied in two-hour, 17-minute speech before the reichstag to President . Roosevelt's peace plea. Behind him is Field Marshal Hermann Goer .- ing, presiding. Hitler conditionally accepted Roosevelt's proposal, V bat scrapped treaties .with Poland and England. This picture was , sent by radio from Berlin to New llrs. Charles A. Lindbergh (left) is shown as she started by antomo- bUe from the French line pier in New York for Englewood, N. : and the ancestral home of the Morrow family after her arrival in New York from France with her sons, ion (center) , , and Land, 23 " months. In the arms of a nurse (right) CoL Lindbergh had bee ' called home to make a survey for the army air corps. AP Tele- mac. , , " , "4" 11 " -'" """" 'W Z - :-.-.-.-y!-.-:-.-T- ; I .: I aa 'p5lj osfr ' - ' . vi mwm Rnitw and other members of the senate foreign reUUoas committee for comments on the speech by Chancellor Hitler in reply to President Roosevelt, peace propolis. Seated at tin, Uble are man (left) and Sen. Hiram W. Johnson (R-Calif). Some f r!T i., tti mt th tnn of Hitler's answer: others called the speech "blustering" and bluffing." AP Telemat. U . a-6MaiMiW,lii rwo trainmen and a track driver met death a ttJSS m --5hIr Tnion Pacific passenger train collided with heavily STehonS irS IteactMeat .Repair crew, are show, dear- I WHIII II in i-. York. J f ; 1 Kpv PlUman (D-Nev), chairman n ' - ' " School Trends Are Discussed v .j i .. ... - 4 V ' At Conference Should Lead Rather Than FoUow Democracy's Advance, Advised Governor, Dr. Almack Arc ; Speakers at College's ; Annual Gathering ; MONMOUTH. April 19 A sag gesiion by Governor Charles A. Spragae that the educational sys tem "ought to lead, ratner man follow the deTelopment of de mocracy, was one of many high lights at the Oregon College of Education's ' . annnal conference here today, in which objectives and methods of education were critically dissected by a number of speakers. - "Education has been called the bulwark of democracy but the public schools hare followed he j program of -democracy rather than preceded it," the governor pointed out. "In medieval tlm universities had fine systems of teaching metaphysics and philos ophy, but they did not teach de mocracy. Germany and japan have a low percentage of . illit eracy but their methods of ed ncatlon have not : taughtdemoc- racy "We are apt to place too much reliance on mere intelligence. Feelings have quite as much in fluence: on decisions as intelli gence . . . There is no kinetic energy in a cyclopaedia.' Fundamentals Make Comeback Says Almack Attacking the problem of ed ncationai trends from a some what similar viewpoint. Dr. John C. Almack. professor of educa- tion at Stanford unverslty, pointed to an apparent nncer- tainty jit present at to objectives and 'after mentioning -4 Herbert Spencer's theory of: cycles, .in ferred that the tendency toward consolidation of the curriculum, observable since 18 5ft, had re versed itself and that the pres ent trend was to differentiation, though he 'admitted there was not full agreement among edu cators on this point. "There Is," he said, "a re turned emphasis on fundamen tals; those subjects long known as basic and fundamental; the three Rs, eshics, morals, art and music which can be traced back 3000 years." The trend toward integration came about, he said. chiefly to meet the needs of in ferlor pupils, and is now being subjected to critical examination It seems probable. Dr. Almack said, that the present high school system: will be converted into a four-year technical institution. differentiating between technical education and the vocational ed ncatlon which is now meeting with opposition from organized labor. He also observed a ten dency to base education upon the needs of the home, to emphasise Individual education rather than social education" w h 1 e h he called an abstraction without content or meaning. In the symposium which- fol lowed Dr. Almack's talk, others participating were Miss Helen Hefferman of California. Dan Jewell of the University of Ore gon, Dr. Ralph Parr of Oregon State college and Rex Putnam. state superintendent of public in- structlon. Dr. John Francis Cra mer, Eugene city superintendent. presided. Economle Puzzle's Solution Stressed Miss Hefferman emphasized the challenge of the economic problem of distribution, quoting references to the effect that if the United States used aU its re sources, there would be a suffi ciency for every citizen and each family could have an Income of 15,000 a year. Dean Jewell, recalling that he earned his living tor some years as an inspector charged with de- (Turn to Page Z, CoL, 1) Sunday Beit Denied; Parking Meters up Rumors that he Intended to an 1 thor city ordinance that would close all beer dispensing business places in Salem on Sundays were vehemently denied by Alderman SL B. Langhlin yesterday. Alderman Langhlin -said: I have no plans to attempt to close anything, and do not even know what the existing city laws are in regard to beer parlors. He ac companied his dealal with the statement that ha was not the au thor of the bill, passed by the council two weeks ago. that closes motor vehicle show rooms and ear lots on Sundays, but had intro duced it by request. - , Up for consideration at Mon day night's session of the city council will be passage or rejec tion of the parking meter ordin ance, which is echeduled for third and final reading. ' Introduced some months ago by the special traffic committee, and teowa to carrx lh andorsementg "Law and Order" Issue JBeat State In 1938, Fiery Ex-Governor, Speaking at Young Democratic vnvcnuon, oays rroper xiennite ASTORIA. Ore., April party "forgot the issue in the aer ana we people oi uregon gave our yany proper recuse, former Governor Charles H. state convention of young democrats tonight The fiery retired army major-general accused his audi- O Weather Forced Soviets to Land Motors Go Perfectly but Compass Freezes, out of Oxygen Supply NEW YORK, April Preesing 61 the plane's radio com- I pass and exhaustion of the fliers' oxvcen suonly caused the two Soviet airmen en route from Mos cow to New York to decide on a forced landing on Mlscou Island off New Brunswick, Canada, So viet officials said tonight. Constantino Oumansky, charge d'affaires of the Soviet embassy at Washington, announced at flight headauarters here that these reasons were given by Brig. Gen. Vladimir KokkinakL the pilot, in a telephone conversation with him. General Kokklnakl called Oumansky from the Mlscou island lighthouse. The charge d'affaires reported the pilot said he "did not feel badly and that the doctor sent from New York by plane found he seemed to have only a alight contusion of one rib." His radio operator-navigator, Major Mikhail Gordienko, was unhurt. I ,"He saidthat flying between! Labrador and St. Lawrence bay he met complete overcast np to 17,- 000 feet and climbed to this level," Oumansky said. "He had continuous strong winds. The tem perature at that time was minus 48 degrees centigrade (minus 65.4 fahrenheit). "The radio compass was frozen and the oxygen supply was ex hausted and in spite of the fact the motors were performing per fectly and he still had 900 kilo grams of gasoline, he considered it unadvisable to continue and de cided to land." Pacific Highway Meet Comes Here Important Session of new Association Is Slated Friday in Capital EUGENE. April 29.-AIr-Salem will play host to the newly organ ized Oregon Pacific Highway as sociation Friday night when the group will gather for a most im portant meeting. Carl Rynearson. manager, announced rrom nis e.u aene headauarters tonight. Two men, both with years of ex perience as managers of highly successful tourist and travel or ganization, entitling them to speak with authority on problems common to most highway associa tions, will appear on the program Mr. Rynearson said. Clyde Edmondson, general man ager of the Redwood Empire as sociation, and Tom L. Stanley manager of the Shasta-Cascade 2 Wonderland association, h both accepted Invitations to speak he revealed. "From all indications," the manager said,. "this will be the largest and best meeting of the as sociation yet held. Reservations are coming to our Eugene office from all sections of the state ana we anticipate a highly successful meeting." The session will open with a (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Closing of Mayor W. W. Chadwick and Police Chief Frank MInto, it is ex pected the ordinance will pass. i Passage of the measure does not necessarily mean Salem will Im mediately procure parking meters. as the ordinance is but an enabling act that clears the legal way for their Installation when and if the council decides to procure them. "We can't lose anything by glv- lng them a trial,' said Chief Mlnto last week, "and X would sincerely like to see the city experiment the meters would be a distinct boon to hIs department, besides being a needed means of revenue for the city.' He pointed out that meters would allow his . depart ment ase of four of the five men who are now kept busy checking parked cars, and that with their installation he would probably be able to grant his force an eight- hour working day instead of the JJujra to rage 2, CoL l . . ' Democrats Martin Says irany was wven ny v oxers 29 (AP) The democratic 1938 election was law and or Martin told the eighth annual enoe of not seeing the issue. The people of Oregon eren Toted this labor regulation bill to head off gangsters and racket eers," he added, charging that Oregon's electorate was "afraid of the party that stood behind 124 indicted men, 77 of which went to the penitentiary. Martin challenged the party to bar those "who would enter your 1 houses with knires and runs, and pleaded for party unity to elim inate trouble-makers and radicals. Since 1934 we are making a normally republican state Into a democratic one," he said, "but we stubbed our toes. The general damned "self-start ing politicians and opportunists and pleaded for a return to "char acter and principle" in public af fairs. His speech topped an uneasy banquet, stung by pointed Jibes at Oregon democrats made by Phil lip Gallagher, Washington state treasurer, who termed Oregon a conservative state "although the majority party proffered alleg- (Turn to Page 2, Col. I) New Dock Dispute At San Francisco Workers Charm "Snips" in " ! " SeiTOC fcMorse Asked to Come South SAN FRANCISCO, April 19- GP)-A new San Francisco water front dispute, involving charges employes were hiring "labor spies," brought CIO longshore men and their employers close to an open breach today. The employers denied the un ion charges and telegraphed a request to the official port arbi trator to come here from Orefon Monday to seek a solution in or der that "a needless interruption of commerce be avoided." Harry Bridges, district pres ident of the longshoremen, said the employers walked out of a meeting of the labor relations committee when the union tried to introduce into the minutes a statement that hiring of labor spies by employers was a viola tion of the working agreements. By their behavior, virtually amounting to suspension of ail relationships with the longshore union, the employers are rapid ly endangering San Francisco waterfront peace," Bridges as serted. EUGENE, April 2l-(ffV-Wayne L. Morse, dean of the Oregon law school and official arbiter for Pacific coast waterfront dis putes, said tonight he had de ceived a bid to go to San Fran cisco to conduct a labor hearing. University duties and a slicht uiness, ne said, will not sennit him to leave Eugene before Wed nesday night He knew no de. talis of the reported, breach be tween the employers and work ers. Methodists Unity Is Accomplished KANSAS CITY. April 29.-MV Unificatlon of the Methodist church was called an "accom plished fact" today by a majority of bisnops of the three hitherto separate branches. Their opinion wss announced by BIsbop G. Bromley Oxnam. of 'Omaha, as the prelates prepared to act jointly In a consecration service tomorrow. ' The ceremony will Install as bishops of the united church Dr. James H. Straughn, of Baltimore. and Dr. John Calvin Broomfleld. of Pittsburgh, elected this week as me iirst Disnops in tne 111-year history of the Methodist Protes- JtfittMr ----- : .-c- VViMM VMHSV4H . " ----- Watching the service more colorful than those previously held by the Methodist Episcopal church and Methodist .Episcopal church, south will be the 900 delegates who this week began working out a system of government for the new church. Mountain Climber Die Near' Spot , of Hut Albert's Death - - ) - BRUSSELS, April 29.-UPY- Countess Sybllle de Liederkerke, 21, and her brother. Count Phil - lip, Belgian society leaders," fell Ivanla, Maine and -Vermont.- See to their death while mountain I tlons of Indiana and Illinois In the climbing tonight n e a r the spot j where King Albert I died la a fall in is. Labor Trouble Plagues State On 3 Fronts njjb Calls Rehearings a8 Vote Challenged at Lumber Mills Board Also Asked to End Fish Dispute; Ship Picketed PORTLAND, Ore., April 29-(flJ) -On waterfront, fishing, dock and sawmill, labor troubles plagued Oregon anew tonight. Foremost of the disputes was an Inconclusive election yesterday at three of four sawmills, where the afl. and cio are battling for representation of employes In bargaining with their bosses. Because Of Votes Challenged at three mills, the national labor re- lations board, which supervised me elections, xounu iv to start new hearings today. The men challenged were described as supervisors rather than workers, Results will not be known lor sev eral days and may force new elec tlons, The AFL won conclusively at the B. F. Johnson mill but trailed at the Eastern A Western and Jones mill, by . mall margin. while the vote at the Portland mill was a tie, 79-79. Vote, at the Eastern ft Western, Jones and Portland were challenged. Back of t)i wtinnB lav a dlsDute be tween the unions dating from 1937 wnen tne ivlkb onguuuiy gave jurisdiction to the CIO. Astoria Fish Industry Disputes as Season Opens From the Astoria fishing docks came a request to me nutm w take a hand in a price disagree ment between fishermen and pack ers. Packers proposed prices oil 12c a pound for river-caught sal mon while the, fishermen want 13c. The stalemate thfeatenedto run into the season opening Mon day and fishermen asked the NLRB to determine it the packers could nay more. Loading of the freighter yer- mar at Portland with a shipment from a Carlton mill In dispute with CIO woodworkers was again halted when pickets blocked long shoremen. Ship agents threatened to invoke the state union-control (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) Salem's Bidding Boom Is Unabated New Dwellings in April Total 19, Are Worth $53,495 Valuation Salem's building boom contin ued unabated last month, with IS 3,4 9 5 worth of new dwellings given permits bringing the total new dwelling construction tor March and Anril of this year to 41 In number and 1124.000 in valuation." Nineteen new dwelling permits were written by the city building inspector's office last month, the aggregate valuation of which was nearly 50 per cent greater man the S3 6.6 2 5 worth of new dwell lags permitted in April of 1938. In all, 91 permits with an aggre gate valuation of 969,259 were written last month, six less permits and 313.616 in value less than the 91 permits, valued at 192,875, which were Issued in April 1918. PORTLAND. April 29-(ff)- Building permits in April totaled 9735.730. more than 9100,000 above March and about 1250,000 greater than those of a year ago. Bank clearings, showing a less sensational rise, reached I123, 145.308. about $5,000,000 above a year ago. Other monthly business figures available today showed flour shipments at 196,176 barrels, or 90,000 above March, lumber of 12,045,930 feet, a decrease of nearly 11,000,000 and wheat shlp- ments of 1,911,888 bushels, slightly off from March. Paf1fU Fans Anlv lBCllO JP UllS JOly I i tc 1 TT V AlteCteU Here DV I Daylight Saving NEW YORK, April 29.-UPM More than .30.000,000 people set their clocks one hour ahead to nightor should have to con form with daylight saving time, effective at 2 a. m. tomorrow, in all or parts of 15 states. It will continue until Sunday. September 24, it 2 s. m. rii vrtlt ha vt.tw'l. nhun. ance of "fast time" in New Jer- 1 ser, Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire and Rhode Island, and vir- I tually state-wide observance ! in 1 Connecticut, -New Tork, Pennsyl- I vicinity of Chicago and parts of I Michigan,, Idaho, Georgia aad i Delaware will Join in. Free City Next Unon Hitle Versailles Breakup Poland Speeds Defense on Borders; Drafts Firm Answer Against Losing Corridor to Sea Two big Camps Strengthen Positions; Mussolini Bolsters Military; Gafencn, Bonnet, "Agree" (By The Associated Press) Danzisr appeared on the European horizon today to be next ukejy post-war score tagged by Adolf Hitler for .fflpT,t. r f.jT, A XJm A t. , v.- iwis ucumcu iucuiu a ucuuuv,wuuu xiiuay vx turn non-aggression treaty with Poland eliminated contractual restraints against proceedings to bring the free city on the Raltfe h-V hnma tn the r rh - it" btv vea wm ww twm Hitler long ago declared void the Versailles treaty which amputated from Germany the 754-square mile Danzig area whose 400,000 population predominantly is German. Poland, however, must be by Berlin against either Danzig -v . i AllOtIier W 011(1 S Fair Open Today New York Welcomes Navy, Crowds; President on Radio at 10:30 NEW YORK, "April 29 -()- Stirred by the arrival Of 28 ves sels of the US navy's Atlantic squadron, the biggest city in the nation prepared tonight for the opening ef the biggest exposition the nation -and the world has ever seen, the New York world's fair. Although thousands of visitors poured into town from all parts of the country the city s tradi tional throng was not noticeably augmented, but flags and bunting. full hotels and a festive air pres aged the debut which fair officials expect, will draw a million people to the 2160,000,000 international extravaganza. The fleet dominated the day before activities, attracting thou sands to the waterfront as the vessels steame'd majestically . up the bay, beginning in the early morning, to anchor in the Hudson river. A hundred newspaper publish ers and advertising executives, here this week for the American Newpaper Publishers association's annual conclave, were guests of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Sweet Shop Yegg Strikes Portland Unsuccessful Try Staffed by Man Who Answers Descriptions Here PORTLAND, April 29.-WV-A nervous robber who tried to hold up a candy store in the downtown district here on Broadway be tween Washington and Alder streets fled in fright about 3 p. m when an employe he ordered Into a back room called police. Order ing two girls to "stick 'em up. the man forced them into the room, then ordered one to return and open the cash register. The other started to call police and customer came. In. About; that time, the robber decided It would be a good time to get out. He got no loot. The robbery attempt. Identical with the successful robberies of the Anderson and Maybelle eandy shops here, was made by a man whose description tallied almost exactly, according to a Portland police radio broadcast picked up by local police. r, s. Local police, eheeking the 'morgue," found one picture that one of the women held np here said could possibly be the man. Washington State Marriages 014- Year PORTLAND. April It.PV-Par- ent-teacher groups, school authori ties and Juvenile officials demand ed today that" Washington do something about " preventing 'mar. riages . of Oregon children who skip across borders to wed under Washington's get-quick license law.- The marriages of three 14-year- old school girls brought the pro tests to a head, officials criticizing the "ease" with which they ob tained licenses.- f r j v a Dr. Letls C. Martin, director of child study and special education in Portland schools, said the girls were not accompanied by their parents aad that no efforts were made to verify the ages they gave, Believed r's " reckoned with in any move or the Polish corridor, which gives Warsaw an outlet to the sea by way of the free city. The Polish government was re ported preparing a firm answer to Hitler's demands regarding Danzig and the corridor. New defense precautions were ordered by Poland, whose borders with Germany already were guarded by a majority of the 1,- 300,000 men she has under arms. The opposing Berlin-Rome and London-Paris camps, meanwhile, kept up feverish efforts to strengthen their respective posi tions. Premier Mussolini announced further expansion of his army la what fascists considered a counter move against the British-French railiance. I Hitler, watching closely 1 for world reaction to his renunciation of the Polish accord and the 193S naval treaty with Britain, found time to seek further consolidation of friendship with Hungary, Ger many's closest collaborator In cen tral Europe. Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu left Paris and headed for Rome after conferences which brought French expressions of gratification concerning Ru mania's role in the alignment of European powers. Gafencu and French Foreign Minister Bonnet found themselves in "perfect accord," but there was no indication whether the Ruman ian envoy had agreed or even been asked to accept the London-Paris proposal for Soviet Russian aid to Rumania in case of war. Britain concentrated her week end diplomatic activity on smooth ing the way for Russia's early en try into the French-British bloc A eablnet session Monday will review Hitler's reichstag speech, which London officials declared left the old world's difficulties Just about where they were. In Washington Senator Norris (lnd.. Neb.) gave his support to a proposal to revise the United States neutrality act to permit the sale of arms to belligerents on a "cash and carry" basis. This section of the present neu trality law, which requires that belligerent i nations pay cash for supplies obtained from this coun try and transport them In foreign ships, expires at midnight Mon day. ! Petrillo Pledges To TeU Murders PHILADELPHIA, April 23-( -Herman Petrillo, doomed to the electric ehalr for the poison mur der of Ferdinand Alfonsl, told de tectives today he knows of 21 1 murders committed to collect in surance. W. .. . They said he promised the de tails by Monday. Meanwhile additional precau tions were taken to guard a con fessed woman principal tn the plot who twice attempted suicide while shouting "witches" were chasing her.--.; - 1 : .,;.-v - Olds Decried He said steps were being taken to annul the licenses. Two" of the girls were ! disappointed ' to find out that marriage did not exempt them from the compulsory school -attendance law. v ..-; On June 7, Washington will re ulre a three-day notice as Oregon does but for the present licenses may be obtained for the asking. . 4 '.Judge Donald E.Long of the court of- domestic r elattons, charged the Vancouver, Wash., - . marriage license bureau which issued the permits with "engaging In a very bad practice aad said -witnesses who testified one girlap was io years oia wouia oe prosv cnted If they could be found. big tha track of the WTnwagc.--: