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The Weather Baseball Major laagati, Coast leagueoyou'li find. an the com first In The Etates- . Partly cloaidy today, fad . Thursday. Max. temp. Tuea day 68; min. SO. Rain .0. River 1 foot. WKW wind. i's sport pace. i EIGHTY-NINTH TEAR Salexa, Oregon, Wednesday Honing, May 8, 1939 Price Sc; Newsstands 6e No. 3Z Flo mTo (OiiLJULcOl LlQ . ' : r- UT .11. CDUl i1 . aaa . . SBaaBaVaaBeaaW t- T , -". ""- ( a- , . ..- -.. L r : rrr. : o . J Danzig Dispute To Be Settled In Peace, View Not Worth War, Believed Nazi Opinion; Likely " to Compromise ; Bnt Berlin Press Attack - on Poland ; Conlinnes ; Reply Due Friday (By The Associated Press) . The tree city of Dmnzir, eoTeted by Germany, kept the center , of the European stage today. - ' ' The Impression crew In London that the dispute orer the city be tween Germany and Poland would be settled peacefully, but the eon trolled press In both Germany and Italy continued bitter attacks against Poland. Great Britain and France. A-: ; -, - - Lrfndon diplomats, both British and foreign,; felt Germany Is an- vnilnv in rlsV mdlnr nr (nr Danxig, a Baltic port Uken from Germany after the World war and made a free city under protection of the League of Nations. It lies at the head of the Polish corridor. Is within Poland's customs admin istration and is a sea outlet for much Polish trade. " Poland Held Beady for Coanproxoia - - . In. London it waa beliered Po land is prepared to agree to Joint Polish-German control oi Dansig which would not threaten Polish Independence or the free outlet to It was felt also that Germany is coming around to the belief Brit ain's pledges of support to Poland and Rumania and British conscrip- tion would mean Germany would hare to face a war on two fronts if war- comae at alk Neverthelesa, la "Berlin, dlple matlc onarters saw In press at tacks on Britain and France new nasi, attempt to bring pressure on Poland; The German Press, accused both countries of encouraging Poland tn rents! CermiBT'i "aurzestions" for German control of Danzig, and printing: "thick lies" about can tig. ' : German officials said they would propose nothing more, to the Poles. Now. It was , said, " Pand must come to Germany hat In hand. and German terms will grow less "libertr In; proportion to Polish "resistance to them. . Similar Charges V In Italian Press ' The Italian press said Poland was uncompromising in connection with Danzig, hurling charges, sim ilar to those made by the fascist . press against , CsechosloTakla prior . to the September crisis of last year, DlDlomata in Rome Placed spe cial importance oft the press out-1 burst because heretofore Inewspa- pers hare stressed , Poush-ltallan friendship. In Warsaw,' Foreign Minister Jo- r Kyu una wa tu w lng to -reject flatly German de mands for outright annexation of Danzig and for an extra-territor ial route across the cordldor. 1 Beck . will announce Poland's stand Unr his annual message to parliament Friday , : - The British gorernment was re- ! ported' to be preparing to expel more than SO German naxls from , England as a result of an intAnslre tnTestigatlon into , their actiriUes in England. i- ; r WPA Costs flight Probers Arc Told WASHINGTON. May 1 - (JPi - Testimony thai vvrA construcuon costs in s the New York city area are . far greater , than those "; for projects built under, prirate eon tract was added today to the re cord o the house relief investiga tion. T , ' I . Albert W. Stephens, - construc tion engineer; of the treasury de - partment's procurement ; dlTision. testified a school building erected ' by WPA cost 1782,000, while an "almost Identical" structure, built . privately, cost $441,000:' Labor costs, ,be said; were $44,9 for WPA. .17S,000 for the private contractor.- ' ' : Sterling Asserts , ,mr is JJistant, So Is Recovery PORTLAND, Ore. May t-IJPt-Donald J. Sterling, managing edi tor of the Oregon Journal and new president of the American society -of editors, separated three main views after listening "to a welter of words from the great and near rnt' at Washington. : First, the odds are against Euroueaa war "at the moment' Second, marked business recov ery is not in the immediate pres ent. ; , v.-v Third, it U "futile and silly la r:ake books" c a the presiienii&l j" z ! tci c 1 i 3. .... -, ; ..... Panda Tussles Plane's Pilots Necessitating Forced Landing - t Bimbo, playful 70-poond giant Panda cab, which recently wandered mm too MntM compartment ajaye three pilou such a tussle tena, Pa. Bimbo, newly arrlTed gion, landed fa San Francisco aboard the SS President Coolidge and was transferred to a waiting plane beadina for New York and ner- hapa romance for two lonely pandas. The New York soo has a fe snale panda. Keepers said piece of fresh bamboo would have quiet ed the playful animal, oat tnea of oamooow ixx pnoto. . - Gintract Is let. For Island Well Diesel Power Cost to Be Investigated; Summer Rates in Effect Contract for drilling a shallow well on Stayton island, in accord ance with a decision reached at the last regular-meeting, was let by the Salem water commission ' at a special meeting Tuesday night to the R. J. Strasser Drilling com pany of Portland; t I t : The contract calls for a payment of I1C.50 per lineal foot, drilled and , eased - with a. 16-Inch steel casing, for any depth to 60-feet, and 113.50 per foot to a maximum of 120 feet. It is expected that the well will be less than CO feet deep. The commission also author ised: appointment of a committee '(Turn to page z, colurn l) Pot at Mill TTninn aPCr VH1 rAgreement Holds For Anpther Year FORT ANGELES, Wash.,' May 2-P)-John Sherman, internation al vice-president of the brother hood of pulp, sulphite and paper mill workers, said tonight a labor agreement affecting 34 plants in Washington, Oregon and cauior nia had been . extended . another year. . - ' ."' He aald the agreement, signed in ? 1937, waa automatically ex tended when neither operators nor unions requested its reopening be fore the deadline midnight Tues day. The agreement also was un changed last year. Sherman rer ported 12,000 to 13,000 members of his union and the internation al - brotherhood of papermakers. both AFL-af filiated.- work ' under the agreement. - The agreement automatically extended Tuesday affects union employes at the Oregon , Pulp Paper .company: here..--; FUer Killed SAN JOSE, Calif.. May 2-Vr ueuu Frederick Wall, 27, of Los Angeles, , was killed today when an airplane of which ' he was the sole qccupant crashed into a hill sontaeast of san Josa. Protecting American Trade JL-i H I W? , MuruuuMjuruvuct WASHINGTON, May t.-VPf Spokesmen for American.' business interests abroad declared tonight the United States should protect a 31,000.000. eoo-a-year market in China and the Philippines at the risk of war with Japan. If neces sary, and this government should meet Suropean ' competition in South America with gold and "productive", loans.- . .The : appeals , for government leadership, in .organizing, aqd - fi nancing an export unit to deal with China; and for a redistribu tion of this, country's . huge hoard of monetary gold, were voiced at a dinner meeting of representa tives of -American chambers of commerce abroad. . ,-v An ether section ef the annual in New York boand plane and they were forced to land at Pitts- from the CThlma-Tibet border re no one a the airliner had a piece llAaaAUiALO 4..11X1. a-V w Plan Progresses Combine Book Concerns Worth 8 Alillion; new Council Created KANSAS CITY, May t.-UPi- uniung Metnodists reviewed to night the church's book publish lng career which started 160 years ago with 120 pounds borrowed capital and has grown into a $5, 000,000 a year business. Property of the publishing branches of the three uniting church divisions, valued at 3 8, 044,438. will be combined after the formation of a single Meth odist church. - - Publishing houses of the three churches have turned their $10,- 000,000 of profits into pension funds for retired ministers, their widows and orphans.. . . Several major steps toward com plete church unity were taken by the delegates today. . . - . . .They, provided for a church Ju dlclal council or supreme court. of five ministers and four laymen to do nominatea oy tne council oi bishops. . '. - The plan of alloting four bish ops for the first 600,000 members of each; Jurisdiction of the new church and one additional bishop for each; 600,000 additional mem bersun a Jurisdiction was ap proved. '"A: Board "of "Temperance ' with offices in Washington was estab lished, i , c-y - . ' -; i '"The church voted to urge: its ministers not to smoke or chew tobacco but-refrained from follow ing: the northern church provision making such abstinence manda tory. Bpwron's Council ... i. . J . L Purge Succeeding , LOS ANGELES, May 1 - -Scattered - returns from , today's city general election showed two of the three councilmen opposed by Los Angeles, ''reform" mayor. Fletcher. Bowron, - were trailing their opponents tonight. - ' Of three other councilmen Nop- posed by the mayor, two were de-1 tested at the primary election and j one won, garnering enough "votes to avert a run-off. j i ' A J mJK meeting of . the chamber of com merce of the United States : con centrated today on a prime domes- frt laaM :;iav mvI m4 r aAraijl v a which . the xhamber Js certain to arse iaiacui.e. cuuzrcasjunuiac-i tion ' in a resolution slater this week. This section " heard Matthew Woll, vice-president of .the Ameri can Federation of Labor, and Dr. Harold J. Moulton. president of the Brookings Institution, a pri vate research organization, advo cate thorough revision of the fed eral tax- structure . to encourage private investment. In a ' speech prepared -for de livery tonight, C II.' French, vice president of, the Chinese-Ameri- XTnrn to page 2, coL 2 Jt May Longi ess Stay to Guard US l ? - .I-; ifu 't NotHng Else Is Able to Do It Says Johnson; Fears Fatal Step I Dictatorship Here Held Inentable ; Uutcome S . of Participation : WASHINGTON, May S-pV-A demand that congress stay in ae alon to guard the nation' from, b ins "eased' or "driven" into war waa made in the senate today in reply to a move tor June adjourn ment. t ' 1 :(' ij-r- i- It came from Senator. Johnson (R. Calif.), a veteran exponent of American isolation and a critic of administration foreign policy. "It Is the congress, with all its faults and shortcomings, and the senate with all its sine of omis sion and commission, that wUl keep us out' of war, and no other person or individual, no matter who he nay be, will do It," the Calif ornlansaaid to a tense and solemn tone. " ' "We ' must be on guard every minute of the day and every min ute of the night in order that we do not participate in a war in which we are not concerned In order that we not be eased or driven Into it. Would Be End of This Gorernment "For the people of the United States," he concluded, as f auery- ltes burst in to-lively applause. "let's keep out of war." Senator Connelly (D, Tex.) em' phaslzed Johnson's appeal with i statement, as soon as the ovation subsided, that he foresaw no im mediate prospect of war in Eu rope, but:. "There may he a war, and the United States has no business in that war. Nobody: but the con gress of the united States can determine whether ; we will be in that war or not." V. - "The consequences of a war to this country are such that tremble to think of them," jonn- son shouted.' "If we once embark upon this mad adventure this great government of ours will be gone, gone, gone.? If, he said, the; United States should go to war to destroy ''these two dictators," referring to Hit ler and Mussolini, the result will be a dictator for America Itself." Bankhead Proposal -Buried in Committee Johnson's demand was evoked by a proposal from Senator Bank head that, regardless of the status (Turn to page 2, column 5) Greyhound Strike Vote Count Is On SAN FRANCISCO, May Officials of the brotherhood of railway trainmen said tonight sev eral days would be required to conclude counting of a strike vote among drivers of the Pacific Grey hound lines from as far south as El Paso, Texas, north to Portland, Ore., and east to Salt' Lake City. The union has demanded 5 rec ognition as collective bargaining agent for the bus drivers under a national labor board ruling last month. ' i - :. The company-refused this rec ognition, claiming It had made a prior contract with the AFL amal gamated . association of street, electric railway and motor coach employes.. The company said legal counsel had Informed it the NLRB order In favor of the Independent union . was "erroneous and in valid." - 4 T s ur ii nous Ciit 1730 in State Washington; liaV i jhupwa decrease of 1730. in WPA roll In Oregon this month as compared to April has been ordered by relief officlala.'-it : a r! i- - In setting! a national enroll ment Of 2,100,000. or 200.000 un der AorlL the WPA fixed a furare of 15,350 for Oregon against 17,- 030 in Apm. The national enrollment was es timated by WPA to be lOO.oeo leu than.it .would have been for May if congress had appropriated the lull amount asked; b'y Presi dent Roosevelt 1875,000,000. The appropriation .was, f or i f 3Z3.00Q,- ooo.-, . Portland Tnif flC Deaths FaU -OK ; : PORTLAND May MTraflic deaths dropped la April in Port land but the total for the 'year re mained. "aboTe that of the .first four months of 193 J, Captain William C Epps, bead ot the po lice traffic bureau, said, v . - ' - There were only three fatalities last month compared to five dur ing April of 1933 but since Jan nary 1 there have been 20 traffic deaths compared to 1ft a year ago. From War iTiay Weds Millions Dies Penniless Mrsv Maryon Cooper Hewitt, BO, who died penmlleaa and alone in a one-room gttm aotic apart- thoagh - oat of her five xoar of her hasDaads mfllfaai aires. ' Upper had been picture waa taken several years ago, lower oae recently. She was the mother of Ann Cooper Hewitt, whose salt involving her steriliiaosv was prominent in therHew m few y photoa. .; I . At Least 16 Dead In JapanV Quake TOKYO, May 2-ff)-A police survey disclosed today 1,600 dwel lings were destroyed or damaged and at least If persons were killed by earthquakes and ensuing fire and floods in villages. 300 miles north of Tokyo Monday. The number of missing persons remained undetermined. The en tire population of Akita Prefec ture huddled together in open spaces as . recurrent shocks brought new landslides - and top pled weakened walls. Troops pa trolled the streets of the damaged villages. Nearly 100 doctors and nurses were sent to attend the. in jured, believed; to number several hundred. -' 1 One report described the Oga peninsula as In a "state of com plete devastation." -, - k , Seismologists said ' the euake was the strongest In northern Ja pan in 26 years. . Smith Criticized or Counsel WASHINGTON, May 2.-MV-JO- seph A. Padway, - counsel for - the American Federation of Labor,' charged today Edwin S. Smith, a member of 4be national labor -re lations board, "is definitely a .pro ponent or ; the CIO industrial un- lons.""' - - - - Padway testified before the sen ate labor' committee In support of amendment! Xo the Wagner act proposed by the AFL. . ::We charge unequivocally and without reservation that Board Member Edwin Smith is definitely proponent of the CIO- Industrial unions, and has endeavored " to utilize the power of the board to recruit membership for the CIO I He has fostered decrees which will give to the CIO advantage over the American Federation of Labor." rii'ii:i:::r Albany Woman Etcape$ 'gA$SPATrain UiU Car f ALBANY, Ore- May 2-WVMrs. C C. Curry ot Albany escaped with' minor injuries tonight when a; Southern - Paclfie . train struek he rear of her car at a grade crossing near here. " . i The car was badly damaged. Siato Sports! . . DAT.LaS The Dragons evened their aeries; at 1-1, with the Salem high Vikings 7 In a seven-inning encounter under" the light here Friday night.' winning t to l.N Coach Adams'- team scored in every Inning but the .third -end fltth. whila Pinch Hitter ;Evans' fifth-frame double.' scoring Pan ther, brought Salem's-only tally. Hoes hit four-for-Iour toff Dallas and ' Barnick three-for-three for Dallas . . ' ,. '8 1 Kroeker and 1L Peters;. Patter son. Lacey tzi. Panther, MiDMaHaBta4'nd Sggm v BvLab 'Double Cross'; Eigh iiiruisumuug i Is new Charge Wives of Victims Claim They Were Advised to Take Some Potion Eliminating Witnesses la Apparent Purpose; 13 now in Custody PHILADELPHIA, May 2.-UP- The Record said it had learned to night from authorities investigat ing a murder-f or-insurance plot that the ringleaders tried to mur der women whose husbands were poisoned to collect their life In surance. r '' . Two of five women now ander arrest In the deaths of their hus bands, the Record said, have ad (Turn to page z, column ) Girls Committed Institution Companioni i of Deserters Allegedly Involved in Holdup face Court PORTLAND. Ore, May t.JFt- A ouest of marriage and adven tare led today to the state indus trial school at Salem for three 17- year-old San Francisco high school girls who would have won diplomas next month. Circuit Judge Donald E- Long committed the; girls, accused of accompanying three alleged San Francisco army presidio deserters on a three-state flight; until they were 21 unless they were paroled or transferred i to a California-institution. He said he would recom mend the transfer if their eon duct was satisfactory' The girls, Edna Mailspin, CI one Alyea and Jewell Smith, were serious and their faces showed signs of worry as they; listened in tently to the proceedings. The girls were arrested at Boise. Idaho, with Edward Klaus, 21,' Vera Jensen, 20, and Donald Bailey, .27, who pleaded Innocent to assault and robbery charges when they were returned to Port land. The men were accused - of automobile theft, staging- gun fights with officers, and holding five persona captive while they "partled''at a home here. Bailey was wounded in the shoulder: Probation officers revealed Miss Alyea had planned to marry Klaus and Miss Mailspin to marry Jen sen. , i i i '; Portland's Mayor Leads Vice Fight PORTLAND,' May 2.-(ffy-The ministers and the grand Jury put Mayor Joseph K.. Carson in the driver's seat today in Portland's anti-vice campaign, j r The Ministerial association en dorsed the jury's recommendation to reform control measures and keep vice within the "pale ot de cency. ' r : r - -A letter dratted by Bishop Ben jamin D. Dagwell of the Episcopal church asked the mayor to follow the Jury's advice by naming a cit izens committee, which would have-access to police information, to assist in regulating prostitution and gambling. The committee, the letter continued, would : aid the city in providing, a clean adminis tration. - p V:.;, " t ' i 'i -,, Frdnk Wahh, Mooney'$ r Legal Aide; U Called . NEW YORK. May t-WV-Frank P. Walsh, 74, noted labor lawyer who fought for many years tor the release of Tom Mooney, collapsed In the street outside the supreme court .: building, in Foley, square today and died -of a heart attack. " ' Walsh " has been ' chairman . of the New York state power author ity for the last eight years. S.'-5 Negroes ) Flock Despite K , j, MIAMI, i Fla., , May ,l-(ff-Ne-groes.i Ignoring warnings Issued during a spectacular demonstra tion by paradera in K Kluz Klan regalia, cast a record vote today fa a city primary: election. r ' ' I City Clerk Frank J. Kelly said negroes-voted at R to l-greater ratio than j ever before at one Urge- precinct where . separate: poll books' and - balloting t machines were Installed to avert ; possible disorders, i Kelly; said more than B00t negro votes were east at that precinct alone and estimated. the previous record for a city election as "scarcely more than 150." : v Police- Chief H. i Leslie, Qulgg, who i answered the negro citizens service, league, through Kelly yes terday that there would be no dls- , crfier, dlrjersei a raridly-erowlrs i Mines Slate Reopening; Police Converse on Scene Governor "Officially9' Refuses More Protection; 2 Officers Reported Beaten by 'Flying Squadron9 45 Alines in Washington Due to dose Tonight in Sympathetic Strike but Eastern Owners Make new Offer HARLAN, Ky., May 2 (AP) Despite the sUtement of Gov. A, B. Chandler that he state highway officers here to pected to resume work tomorrow or Thursday, 25 men were en route here tonight. ,1 ( - v: -r. Major W. E. Hansen, of Lexington, director of the high way patrol, said he had been instructed "on high authority" to have the men here by daybreak. Three more arrived early tonight to augment the 12 already on duty. Capt. Carl Norman, in charge of the detail in the Harlan coal fields, said he had received several requests for patrol' service at the mines of the eight coal companies, planning - Maritime Pickets Will Wear Gas Alaska, Is Statement; Gas Used to Halt Violence EVERETT, Mass., May 2.-p)-Shortly after police reserves from several cities used tear and nau seating gas' to end - a 'street fight wttsrntrikittg seamen; Thomas Me Gowah, business agent tor the Na tional Maritime union (CIO), an nounced today picketing would be resumed, tomorrow by strikers in gas masks. . A series of disturbances In which missiles were thrown pre ceded the street conflict in Which gas guns were used and brought an appeal from Police Cheif George O. Kenney for "all cities and towns" in the state to send "men and equipment immediate ly." , . :. : Police patrols and prowl cars loaded with officers and gas guns rolled into Everett from metropol itan police stations and greater Boston cities and Boston sent its three harbor police boats to the dock side Ot the Colonial Beacon OH company. When the augmented force num bered about 125, efforts were be gun to keep pickets moving front in front of the oil company plant. Gas was used, officers said, only after trucks bearing provisions for struck oil tankers at the Colonial dock were showered with missiles and one driver was cut by a smashes windshield. Lumber Removed, Loading Resumed On Liner Vermar PORTLAND, Ore., May. t.-Fr The removal ot protested lumber from a dock released the picket bound Calmar line freighter Ver mar today, reducing' to one'; the number of vessels tied up in the Portland harbor by labor, contro versies. i V -'-,- i' , CIO longshoremen 'worked the Vermar for the first time in five days when' the CIO International Woodworkers.,. of America with drew pickets after a dosen car loads of lumber from the Engle A Worth sawmill at - Carlton were wheeled away. 1 ':: - TThe freighter WffiUm. A. Luck enbaeh -waa idle ' for the second day- behind, a picket .line estab lished by, the CIO Maritime Em ployers' onion. The nnlen charged the company had not abided by e 'national labor relations board or der to reinstate three workers with back pay amounting to f 7 to the Polls: r group of white men opposite the negro polling place today. The men left after a few words from Quigg, when declined to disclose what he told them. ' ' , "Last nlght'e demonstration.-in which white-robed men in more then. 50 llcense-ehlelded automo bile paraded through the negro section, followed an appeal by the service league for- protection against racial violence. The peti tion, presented to; Kelly, referred to "threats fey-by.: certain candi dates, - apparently i to Intimidate qualified negro citizens." ,The paraders burned ' 15 fiery crosses and distributed red-letter-ei cards reading; "Respectable ne fr citiiens not voting tomorrow. I.:. " r stay away jrom the pos.' : (Tarn to pare 2. colurn 1) To KetuTn Today had declined to send additional patrol eight coal mines ex between united mine workers and Appalachian operators, in ; New Torn. . .;.;. ' .. Earlier there came reports from nearby Whitley county that a "fly ing squadron" of trucks and auto mobiles packed with men came is from Tennessee, beat up two sher iffs deputies and a bystander and moved back across the state line. The report ot the Whitley coun ty disorder came from Deputy Sheriff Connie Slaton at Williams burg, Ky.. who said all vehicles bore Tennessee license platea n he recognised some of the men aa miners. Doesn't Desire to -"Anticipate Trouble". Governor Chandler, at Frank fort, in denying the request of Kentucky Industrial Relatione Commissioner -W- C. Burrow for state patrolmen, said he did not wish to. "anticipate trouble." ' The governor said he told Bor row to make every possible ef fort to- keep things peaceful." Burrow said he requested the patrolmen When Informed some operators planned to r e o p e n . mines regardless of the status of negotiations in New York between the Appalachian operators and of ficials of the United Mine Work ers ot America. The union miners have been Idle .since Apr!) 1, when the old wage-hour contract expired.- - SEATTLE, May 2.-PV-Wash- ington sUte's 2.C00 coaf miners will walk out. tomorrow at mid night in sympathy with Appala chlan soft coal miners unless a wage agreement Is reached before that time, an official' announced tonight. ; -, ; Sam Nlcholls, district President of the United Mine Workers. saM such a. walkout would close down 45 mines in the state. NEW .YORK. May 2-(AVExelu- sive bargaining r 1 g b t s te the United Mine Workers of America and a checkoff system to collect dues - from both union and non- -union employes designed to pro tect . the nnlon against . Inroads from other labor, organizations were offered today by soft eoal, op erators in a new effort to draft a wage and , bouri contract for: the industry. , . j Facing the possibility some, southern ' operators might refuse to sign contracts, the four operat ors representing the Appalachian soft coal industry which haa,been idle since April 1 offered the new proposals to .John - L. Lewis and other representatives of the union . at a Jolnt conference. ' . ' . ' The , mine ; workers. . who had marked time since the' middle of last ' week, while the - Operators worked -out the proposition and ' attempted'; to obtain tell support ot their conferees, asked an ad journment until 1 p. mr tomorrow to give them time to consult coup sel on the legal phases - , - -?.;. ;;.. i ii ' , v . Qiarges Bahdieclf Theatre Dispute PORTLAND, Ore., May i.-T)-Union charges ot an inferior wage scale brought' a statement today fiom the Circle theatre that it paid as high wages as any house charging comparable admission prices. '."r.: ' -- The dispute assumed . unusual interest-because of court action brought by a motion picture oper ators' anion seeking the right te picket the theatre. Under the state union-control law only a major ity em;!?yea In a company are allowed to establish a picket line, and operators are in a minority at the theatre. . V. v j The nnlon complained of a lt tS per cent pay cut February lj G. .TV Woodlaw, theatre president, said. that la It 3 5 when business' was better and prices higher , he paid. 11.10 an hour to operators and how rys S1.25. . v