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; More Liberal Benefit Chamber Boo's ;er ' Away in Huff Rep. Bloom Is "Insulted'' by. His Greeting as Invited Guest i Statement US Business Should Gladly Pay; -: . . Taxes Is Booed - "'' .K ... i v ..... I . "1: y: j -v'1 A.S i !:, s ':;i'A.... WASHINGTON, May 8-flPV-Rep KaI Rlnnm . TV.NYI left a New York state dinner of the United j Eta tea chamber of commerce ab ruptly and angrily tonight when booing greeted hla statement that business men -should be giaa to pay taxes tor the privilege oi uv lna la a free country. ! " . He told reporters afterward that he and other congressmen had been "insulted" by being Inyited to the formal dinner, with their -wires, and then being "put on the spot" as to their attitude toward tax revision and. other legislation. Bloom said he thought several persons booed his remarks at the dinner. . but . spokesmen for ) the chamber oi commerce said '' they believed only one man was respon - clble, - .. ... . .. . - 'k': -: t ' ' V Bloom said one of the business men at the New York gathering President? RooseTelt and "wanted to know what we were solos to do about taxes and other matter? . Compares Native Land To Other Countries-,"' : - Blooltrmddedr "I got up and replied tbat when we Tiewed the situation In other eountrieSriwe ought.; to thank God for the privilege of paying some tribute In taxes in this country and " baring peace. - vt -u m Senator' Burke" " (D-Neb.), critic "of many new deal measures, touched off a businessmen s dem onstration today in behalf of Vice- President Garner.:.., ; - In the- midst of a speech In which. he; denounced the Wagner labor relations act and the board which administers it as "public . enemy number -1. the senator referred to the rice-president as one of the great men of the age Af this there was a burst of auDliuse through the huge hotel banquet room where members of the chamber were gathered in an nual meeting. : r Before Burke spoke, W. Gibson Carey, Jr. who is expected to be elected president of the chamber told a meeting of the organisation that! the labor act had '"induced unrest. . built bad feeling, de creased productivity, and dis i vlaced thousands i of men from nrivate employment." $153 ,CC0,C0DArms Bill Becomes Law WASHINGTON, 1 May l.-tfVA $153,000,000 bill to provide. mis cellaneous fighting equipment, for the army and to add new ships to the navy was signed Into law by President Roosevelt today. 1 In addition to this, the house naval committee approved an ex penditure . of $S,C60,000, with which the navy would overhaul five old battleships the Tennes see, Calif ornia, Colorado, Mary land.51 and West I Virginia and make modern fighting craft of them. -.: -- v At the same time, the navy, with " an eye to an eventual in crease in the efficiency of Its en listed DersonneL I increased i the term of enlistment from four to tx veara. The order is to become effective on July I. .when the navy expects to have completed the enlistment otj 8,000 -new re crniti with which to .man its ex panded fleet. 5. mi- fV j Prune Maurfa I 'm - ' r i w,i Mt matewiae Pinal decision uoon an Issue upon which has occupied .the attention of prune growers in Oregon tor eeveral months is expected to fol low the growers' meeting which will be held in the 1 state depart ment of agriculture trices here Friday, and it was Indicated yes terday that virtually all prune growing districts in the state would bo represented. Processors also were expected to attend. - Ten public hearings were held in various prune-producing sec tions earlier this year, upon the proposal of a special prune grow ers committee to apply the 1931 state agricultural marketing act to this Industry. At the conclusion ot these hearings -Director J. EL tlickle ruled that the department would Ula-to actlca at tie time. Drive Sneali R eorgan ization Plan's EjtiveissWune 24: Assured FR by House - fc f -f -Jr ' t, .:. ' ' ' ' ' ' '. .. ' Democrats, u with GOIV to - Kill Projected ; Merger of Agencies; -r Only Adjournment Cari, Frustrate 5 Tl WASHINGTON. May 3. (APV House democririi- with some republican help, gave guarantee today that his first plan for reorganization of the government would become effective June 24V They killed, 264 to 128, t a resolution by Rep. Taber (R-NY) to reject the plan, which provides for merging a vf Missouri Capital Loses old Hotel 70-Year-Old . Noted Hotel Madison Is Gutted; 4 - Arc Injured JEFFERSON CITT, Mo., May 1. -AV"Jeffrn City's proud old uadison notei was sunea oy iu that awept , through , the S 0-year-old structure at .ihe dinner hour tonight, 4.!:;tt. : Af-'t'i-'- Within two hours the recently remodeled four-story bullding'was a gaunt ruin with flames licking from every window. Four persons were taken to a hoanlt&l as cuests clambered down fire 'escapes, ladders and Impro vised . ropes, .Among them -was Fred Joseph; legtelative represen tatlve for the. 'Stt- iiouis ny aa mlnistratTon. v'Nohe fc was ; seriously injured. First r e porta that Joseph's leg was broken, in a leap from a window proved false. Leo Levy, manager of. the 'hotel, estimated the building's, value at 1135.000 and the contents In ex cess of $80,000. . Levy said he believed the: fire started either tn a kitchen or in the elevator shaft. Within minutes the flames were licking .up , the elevator, shaft and nnnnln out too floor windows. Traffic through the capital (Turn to Page 2, Col. f) Arizona Officials Scent Foifl Way PHOENIX Aril.. 3 May lHffr- Arizona authorities, fearing foul play, asked the police of 11 west ern sUtes today . to aid la the search for Jack Peterwrn and Ellis Koury, Phoenix automobile ales men, and Robert M. Burgunoer.1 a student at Arizona State Teachers college at Tempe, who nave neen mlulnf four davs. . s ? Burgunder was identified today, police said, as the man who ap peared at an automobile agency Saturday, told of an intention of tradinc in a 1929 model car for a new one, and drove oil wiur-ret-erson and Koury on a demonstra tion trio. They ' have not been heard from since. UO Champs Billed Upon 'Purchases' ' EUGENE, Ore.. May J-CflV Members of the national chain nion University of Oregon bas ketball team pondered their tame today and wondered -what it would .cost. .. . .- ? Thev i bave f received a batrh of ' bills from northwest mer chants, for -roods. particularly Jewelry p u r c h a s e d in, their namesThe sUte police are look ing for a number -of youths who posed as the champions and were accorded credit privileges by . a-w V j m.j - V r nuay but suggested the holding of the meeting , which1 s scheduled ere Friday. " It was expected that lively discussion would center about the proposal, since the marketing standards , will be applicable to all growers In the Industry If the marketing agreement is approved' . The proposed order which the state director la asked to approve, provides for an advisory board of I! to- serve a, intermediary be tween the director- and persons engaged in the industry. Seven ot the board members would be growers, elected in the seven dis tricts set up. All growers and ; processors of prunes would be licensed and sub ject to revocation or suspension V (Tarn to Pace 14, CoL 1). t If Si- rariey - . Ballot Down Proposals President Koosevelt a virtual score of government agencies Into three new bureaus handling wel- fare, works and lending activities. Under , the reorganization, act. presidential reorganisation pro posal becomes effective to days after the president submits It to congress, unless both houses dis approve. Rep. Warren (D-NC1, sponsor of the act, said that to day's vote clinched : rictory for the president's first , plan, unless congress adjourned before . June Zf, the date the f 0-day period expires. If adjournment " occurred be fore than date, he said, the presi dent would be forced to submit the plan all over again next year. Todays fight in the house was one of the most unusual of the year, because democrats wereso confident of the results. Republi can speakers shouted long and . (Turn to Page 2, Col. S) - Piistol;;Contests:. Set for Weekend Contact -Camp of Reserve Officers to Draw 200 7 Throughout State Ten pistol matches will be con ducted at the government range at Turner Saturday and- Sunday, May 6 and 7, in connection with the contact camp which is to be sponsored by the Marion-Polk chapter of the Reserve Officers association, it was announced Wednesday. a Col. Carle Abrams and his staff of the 582nd infantry will direct the contact camp. It Is expected that 200 reserve officers from all over Oregon will participate, f in addition to government med als which are to be awarded, ten local- merchants have put up mer chandise prizes for the contests. - This will be the largest affair of this type which has ever been held in Salem, and the general public Is Invited to attend. Those who feel that ther are especially good shots are Invited to partici pate in the matches. I The . matches will include six (Turn-to Page 2, Col. t) Gafencu Hopeful J ter Visits to Europe's Capitals ROME, May 2.-iArRumanlas foreign minister, Grigore Gafencu, said today his current tour ot five major capitals had convinced him Europe would solve Its problems without, war. . I , His statement was made after conversations with Premier Mus solini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Previously he bad conferred with government offi cials in London, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw.'--. ;. ..'-. f - "On one thine I found an agree, Gafencu said, "and that was that war would mean every one's ruin." : 1 i . Gafencu declared he had under taken no negotiations during bis tour and he confined himself to exchanges of opinions and infor mation on questions in which Ru mania is Interested. ? He is scheduled to make a brief stay In Belgrade before returning to Bucharest. Holmstrom to Try Going up Rivers r COQTJILLE, Ore., May Haldane V'Buzs'! Holmstrom, America's ace river runner who was the first man. in history to "solo" , the fearsome - Colorado, will try going up rivers instead of down for: a change. ? At-the requett of Mrs. E. B. Clegg, Vancouver, BC, Holm strom organised a party to travel up the Columbia and Snake riv ers to study river lore. ; Mrs. Clegg, Earl Hamilton and Clarence Bean, Coquille; William Johnson, Thistle, and Holmstrom I left, Portland" npriver today -in Iwo IJ-foot aklffa,- Begin In 1940, Plan House Committee Favors Eliminating Payroll - Tax, big Incomes E-- - :Jt -. . -.t - Lowered Rates in States That Have Adequate Reserves Voted WASHINGTON, May J-tfV-The bouse ways and means committee voted today to slash the unemploy ment compensation tax by many millions of dollars and to liberal ise benefits under the ' social se curity act. : -.. It decided that old age pensions. under the contributory system, should start in 1940 instead of 1942. and that the federal gov ernment should pay naif. Instead of a third, of the cost of state aid to dependent children. - - In announcing the committee ac tion on taxes. Chairman Doughton (D-NC). said: "We are going to try to relieve the taxpayers in every state ot any unnecessary . tax that the im portant thing. - 1 The committee decided that the per cent federal unemplayment compensation tax, paid entirely by employers, should not apply to In dividual incomes in excess-of S3- 000 a year. Under the law now. the tax is paid on total Incomes. Sixty Million Saving ;UH TJjas9ioyera.HeK' -x rf Doughton said that enango would cut employers' tax bills f (0,000,000 a year and Represent ative-MeCormack (D-Mass) added that it would mean a 7 to 15 per cent reduction' in the tax paid by the average corporation. - The committee also worked out a : complicated arrangement by which states with "adequate" re serves to back up their unemploy ment Insurance programs may lower their tax rates. The com mittee probably, will define an ade quate reserve as not less than 160 per cent of the highest amount paid Into or out of a state unem (Turn to Page 2, Col. f) Witness of Leap Dies From Shock MILWAUKEE. May S-UPV-A witness to a death plunge in the rotunda of the city - hall today died ot shock an hour later. Harry L. Kumelskl, IS, drop ped within a few feet of Albert Pauly. 42. a milkman. In his leap from an eighth floor rail Kumelskl. third person to the death leap in n Aged Receiving Aid months; died InstanUy. Pauly'slln the first election were Verna death was attributed to cerebral hemorrhage. ..--.n Tist Announcks Plan to Wed -Son:bfT6rm Princess Irma Darblay, who makes her llvias as a typist in Mill Valley, CallL, I who recently annoanced.her. Intention to wed -Paul Crawley j whose kinship to royalty wasn't generally known natll he deserted f from the United States army. At a court martial trial. It developed that he went AWOL to Jook. for his mother, the former Kussian Princess Thais Madimir. He. was honorably discharged from the . army after serving a short sentence following conviction. Crawley Is risking bis royal mother's cUaayroT&l in xaarrxinj an Aciericsn girl, ha ryecIe4--ICJ rhoto ' ' - . -. , . m . US Neutrality Gone, Landon Supports FDR Move for Peace Talks, Though m Some Hope Lost sees united states as Only Power Ahle to 1 1 Make Peace Bid ' KANSAS CITT, May 1-OVAlf M. - Landon declared tonight he was crossing "party lines ... to support my president" in a world peace conference move, but at the same time he charged RooseTelt had "abandoned neutrality for the United States. In a nationally broadcast ad dress on foreign affairs prepared for delivery at the Methodist unit ing conference, the 192 republi can presidential nominee said: "I think wo can and should support the president's appeal for a peace conference and urge him to take such advantages of fur ther discussion aa Mr. Hitler's re ply offers. Without ' particularising, be commented: "The president, in so far as be speaks and is able to do so, has abandoned neutrality for the United States." - While asserting "a great war threatens,' Landon saw Hitler's speech to the relchstag last Friday as leaving "the doos slightly open tor farther discussion of the com mon destiny ot the common peo ple of this world." He warned "we are beading Into dangerous paths, and urged bis listeners to "remember that we were Involved in the world war by another president who attempted to act as a mediator . US Alone Able To Rrmaln Calm otwitJistandingtWa danger ' ha saw -tha United .SUtea a -the one- great power, which baa the chance to offer something other - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1). Robertson t Students of WU Frantz, June Brasted and Carol Read Win Other Runoff Elections Final student body elections at Willamette university were bald Wednesday with - Dayton Robertson ot Salem named presi dent -of the associated students tor the coming year. Robertson la a graduate of Salem high school, a member ot Blue Key and Sigma Tau fraternities and president of the TMCA. Opposing Robertson in tne ronau wa Wallv Turner, s Henry Frants defeated Win ston Bunnell . tor second rice president and June Brasted won over irma Calvert tor xirst vice president. Carol Read was elect ed song Queen defeating Mary I Henaler. Other officers ; elected i vospern secreiary; to eiun, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) ToAidAnyvay His "Releaser Adds - v f , : Of Soviet L maxim lttvinoff; Prison Stretches EndGui ten Army Deserters Who Made Northwest Jumpy Get 5to-15 Years PORTLAND, Ore., May 2-(iP)-Prison terms ranging from five to IB years were pronounced today upon three army deserters from the San Francisco Presidio whose trail of crime with three school girls ended in Boise, Idaho, April 17. , - ; The alleged ringleader, Donald BaUer, 2J. who bad two previous cdnvlclons, was sentenced to'lS years after he and bis companions. Vern Jensen. 20, and Edward Klaus, 21, suddenly reversed their pleas of Innocence. Bailey was sentenced for as sault with intent to rob, while Jensen and Klaus, pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous wea pon, were given five years each. Preceding them in Juvenile court by 24 bouts, their girl mends. Cleone Alyea. Edna Mall spin and Jewell 'Smith, each 17- year-old San Francisco high school students, were ordered confined In a state Industrial school until they reach the ages of 21. , The- men,' although accused of petting party robberies in San Francisco, auto thefts and arson, were sentenced lor invading a suburban borne here with the girls and robbing and holding five persons captive tor five hours while they partied. -: i ' -.y (Hekets Halt to Lunch on Wheat MORO. Ore., May 2-CAVThe advance, of Mormon crickets in rich northeast Sherman county aloweddown today as .the in sects reached green wheat and spent more time ' eating r than traveling. . ; - ; . Farmers . banded - together In the afflicted sections to help spread . poison dust, when it . ar rives Thursday morning. Federal entomologist Robert- Every sur veyed the infestation ' today and said that . dust and - spraying equipment was 4on its .way.- . - -s The winglesa ravagers that spilled into the croplands after a - dustry migration across "wage landa from the Ticinity of ' the John Day river broke np 'into swarms around each green wheat stalk, .devouring' each -Individual sprout dear to the ground be fore scurrying on ' to another. ; -, Liverpool Gnema , Blasts liijiire:J5 ? . LIVERPOOL, May 2.-p)-Teat gas bombs believed by police to have been planted by Irish repub lican army agitators exploded to night : In - two crowded , movie theatres. Fifteen persons were taken to nospltala.- " f . , .1 n t a tlgatora - expressed the opinion that the bombs were re prisals for the sentences imposed on two IRA members in London today.', m-r, Sporte I NEW YORK, May "HWalter tropeyei woods. New Ton mid dlewelghtT won the decision over Frankle Blairr Camden, NJ, In- a one-sided 10-round bout at Madi son Square Garden tonight. Woods weighed 112 and Blair 1644. I CHICAGO,-May i 2H)-aBT Angott, lightweight of Louisville, Ky., defeated Milt Aron of Cbica- go, welterweight contender, in a lo-rousd battle in the coliseum to- UisU f;r 12th straight ylctory. to Emnmh ' Position as to Pact "f. Legality Is Eyed uperators' i rroposai on Collection ' of Does -DniWAttorner. NEW YORK, May S-(P)-Legal questions arose today around the compromise ' proposal made by soft coal -operators to the United ' Mine t Workers . In their two months Old negotiations to ward a new labor contract that would reopen the idle "mines of tne eight-state Appalachian area. tus propose v wniie, stopping short of the closed shop demand ed by John L. Lewis in: behalf ot tht union, would permit the Installation- of ,t checkoff sys tem to collect j dues" from : both union and non-union members. r As . its terms were threshed over, first the union and then the operators summoned attor- (Turn to Page 2, Col. ) Meals SKp Past, Fishermen s Fear ASTORIA, Ore., May t-iJPf-Co- lumoia river lunermen learned with dismay today that the spring run of Chinook salmon, their live lihood, apparently passed up stream about a -week before the commercial, fishing season opened Monday. . ! - ,. . Seven days before the season opening, S220 Chinooks. or about 120,000 pounds of . fish, were counted at Bonneville dam. Since then the count has declined stead nr. '; . i-W-i . . - Gillnet catches continued good, however, with mid-river fishermen in the St. Helens and i Kalama areas getting the biggest hauls. - Meantime , deep sea - trolling of tne Pacific 1 coast fishermen's union fleet was suspended '. with termination of spring price eon- tracts when an impasse was reached over union' demands for increased troll prices. Packers off ered the '193 8 scale and declined to deal exclusively with, any one union, claiming such would be a violation of anti-trust laws, v ; V Severe Earth Shoek . - Recorded in California PASADENA, Calif.; May J-MV A strong earthquake was recoraed at 1:68,51 p.m. (PST) today by the California ' Institute of Teth- nology seismologies! laboratory.. i Distance of the earthquake from Pasadena was estimated at "about 800- miles.-DirecUon waSun- known.- The tremor was severe enough'to have caused damage in a populous area. . . j , - Bend .Woman Killed TONASKET, May l-P)-Un. Earl Strickland, 28, of Bend. Ore, was killed late today wh n ant automobile In which she was riding turned oyer near Spectacle Lake,. 10 miles north of -. here.. - DETROIT, May -Thursday)-)-TwO men and a woman ar rested in Detroit Wednesday night as inspect In a Chicago tavern shooting Tuesday night agreed to Waive extradition . to Illinois al though police said they appeared dased and were unable to give a clear account of their-aetivlties. -- Lieut Leo Doyle of the homi elde squad said-the prisoners were Involved in a Tuesday night hold up In which a Chicago tavern pa tron was killed and two policemen injured. v vf'.-vf ---v---.i?: The prisoners were booked aa Orvllle: Watson; II; "Edward Riley, 11, and Susanna Smith, 22. Wat Compromise His Successor Said to Favor Defense Pact Change Will Delay- Meet Aimed . at Ironing out Alliance Barriers - Hitler Seeks r to line np Group of "Neutrals ' f r in North Europe (By the Associated Press) . The Soviet government . ia surprise - announcement : Wedaee- f day night disclosed that Maxlas -Litvlnoff, long-time, chief of Se- . Viet h foreign affairs and noted proponent ot the collective se curity principle, had been "re leased", from his post. .. - -, The disclosure 4 came with pusxling suddenness . to Europe struggling through a continuing crista in which the position of Soviet Russia already had , been a major uncertainty. Only a few hours before. Bri tish Foreign Secretary Viscouat ' uaiuax was said: to have-. sug gested a meeting of himself. Lit vlnoft and French Foreign Min uter ueorges Bonnet at . Geneva May IS in ' an effort to smash the deadlock In British-French attempts to' get Russia Into n triple stance with them. Both Bonnet and Litviaoff had ' been' ' understood to " have agreed to the meeting, r Successor Reported ; ' . To Favor Coalition , t - i . j?: i v don diplomatic quarters was that replacement, -ot Utvinoff might prevent bringing Russia into tao Britiah-Frnrk onlitln - u saw,, howover, Polish - political quarters understood that Litvia ofr successor, Vyacheslatf Mole, toff, approved the British-French . tieup with Poland;-4 f " v German morning papers " d-1 dared Mho jetlremeniof iI4ty' nof f i resulted ft oi failure of his polfcies" which they describ ed as , attempts to gain bolshe- Tistiff footholds In other coua tries. j-;.; England hurried her moves to get Russia to loin her aa Ger many made a swift step aimed to keep northern European states out of the British-French bloe and to Isolate Poland, which M engaged In a diplomatic battle with the Reich over the Free Citv of Tlanztr. Germany has sent proposals to Denmark, Sweden. Norway, Finland. Latvia and Estonia of fering to sign bl-lateral non-aggression pacts which were be lieved te involve pledges" on the part of , the smaller nations not to favor either the Paris-London or Rome-Berlin campa. ' Aimed at Blocking ncirclemenf . , r w (iivi, - w t H" scribed In Berlin as a bold dlple- ' maUe offensive by Reichsf nearer muer to destroy what he con siders British and French efforts' to .-encircle Germany. If Estonia and Latvia- agree to Hitler's . proposals it would' mean tnai round ; would be sur rounded, except for Russia, by neutralised nations la any clash with Germany. - Litviaof rs - "release - was . at his own request, (the , Moscow ' government announced. - He was' j - (Tam o Page l;, CoL f ) rf.y;a- . Japmese;i Envoy. Portlaiid Ciiest ' PORTLAND. i May . S.-PV--The door In China 'will swing , opea again as soon as the war enda Kensuke ; Horinouchi. Japanese ambassador to the United SUtes, declared today. - I - He- arrived "In Portland from the San Francisco fair,, en route to Washington,' D.- C . S ln my opinion ' the doors Is Chinaare 'always open: and win be always open.' Because' ot mili tary operations there are some difficulties in trade now." When these military operations are over,'' we are 'hoping trade will resum a formerly.'! be said.- - ;? He aald the end of the Oriental tight depended on fthe attitude' of the -Chinese government ; . our ultimate object , Is to secure co operation" between C b t n a and Japan.":.; . son was suffering fromani abdom inal wound. Lleat- .Doyle said the trio ad mitted tey had Jost arrtred bert from Chicago. -Doris said both B.U ley and Watson had Michigan prla-, on records, v . ' - CHICAGO. May SHfJ-An aged physician operated upon a wound ed robber with a rasor blade to day while In the shadows of a dim : room another" gunman lev elled a pistol and-warned :r "Ton" better- tlx him right or else V ; . Shortly before ' Dr." ' Siegmun J Ilirschfeld, ; wacalled out c" jlTurn towage U;: ) --.'.' S