ill.. : Sunday Features The Weather - The Oreeon StateamaM. only Blid-Wlilanaette valley newspaper with Sunday edition, la proud of Its many Bundaj features, litre asing '. cloudiness, cooler today and Wednes day. Max. - temp. Monday 1; mtn. 41. Rain River . feet. NXE wind. ' PCUMD3D EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Saleo, Oresrra, Tuesday llcrclsj, Hay 9f 1S33 Prkt 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 37 Goal :(hi(Ti) Will V-"' , I .'- ml j ?? at dtly iui Iritish : Mediation Idea Windsor's Dramatic Plea for Peace Kept off Air in England Negotiation With Soviet Continues; Signs of Progress Noted (By The Associated Press) The duke of ; Windsor broadcast a dramatic peace appeal Monday night In his first radio appearance since his historic abdication speech two and one-half years ago. ' Speaking ; from an inn at the World war fortress of Verdun, the former British king declared: he was breaking his self-imposed si lence "now only because of : the manifest danger that we may all be drawing nearer a "repetition of the grim events which happened a quarter of a century agoV Britons had to tnne in ' on French , radio stations and short wave broadcasts for the speech, which was broadcast to the United States, (because of the refusal of the British Broadcasting corpora tion to carry It. The Canadian Broadcasting corporation likewise declined to carry the address. Speech la Printed Though Criticized . - British newspapers printed -the speech, although they criticized It in advance as; " untimely In riew of the voyage of King George VI and Queen Elisabeth to Can ada and the. United States. ' Britain, meanwhile, offered if asked to mediate in the German Polish dispute over Danzig and pressed with renewed vigor to bring Soviet Russia into the British-French front ' - : Words of scorn greeted the British offer in Berlin where the nasi press thundered ' that the Rome-Berlin axis now a military alliance was made of steel and k others must : accept It or break their teeth on it." In Morrow th British ambas . aador delivered to the soviet gov ernment Britain's counter-proposals to Russia's far-reaching secur ity plan. The British answer was understood to hare turned down the soviet proposal for a Brltish-French-Russian guarantee to Bal tic and Black aea states.: but to have favored soviet assistance ; to 11 states on Russia's western bor der and promised Brltl ft and French a VI-if such assistance in volved her in a conflict. . The fascist press in Rome, laud ing the new military alliance with nasi Germany., asserted Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini now were prepared to negotiate Eu rope's f'open problems." There were several indications Poland was moving into closer relationship with Russia. $100 Reward Is Offered in Case A reward of $100 was offered last night by H. W. Lanke, son of Karl ' Lanke, C7. missing for the past nine days, to the first person siring information leading to the aged man's discovery. ' The elder Lanke, in indifferent health, bad been a resident ot the Salem Deaconess hospital for some time when he left, presum ably tor a. walk, early Saturday morning, April 29. He is described as S feet 10 inches tall, weight 13 S pounds, grey hair, quite bald, and wore a brown wool suit coat, brown sweater, grey wool trousers ' and UghUanJiat- L - II. W. Lanke said that further Information may ! be obtained by calling him at phone 037. Drowning Denied By Medf ord Girl RED BLUFF. Calif., May S.- (aVMayme Burnett ox uecioro. Or vii . anrnrised no end OB learning here today that officers had been dragging the Bacramen- tA river for her body. - , Sheriff James Froome, who. had fAAn dlreetiiisf the search, located Miss Burnett and two companions, Grace Smith and Mary DeLap.on their way back to Medford from San Francisco. , " , - s! Miss Burnett explained her suitcase bad been stolen from their automobile several toys age on the trip aouin. Discovery oi rtlel as from the suitcase, which had been tossed aside, led to the belief sne naa orownea. GOP Head Denies War Threat Alibi mnr. ; 'ny: Mar g.-VJihn TT.mUton. chairman of the repub lican national committee, said to night the records disproves mat alibi that European war threats cause "our lagging eco nomic recovery." ' This Is a political depression, tint an Aconomle one. It hat lta roots in the political actions of the new deal," JHamutoa aeuarea . .nsM.ii nrenarad for delivery at a r-"r t the Rensselaw county oeriin u Sp-m.sH M ... - v-. - . . .. - s ' "" ' 'm s.- ... V"?-f . 1 - v ', I j 1 " v Of TITUS LOWE Transf cap Bishop To Indianapolis Brown of Tennessee Comes to Oregon; "Court" of Church Is Chosen KANSAS 3 CITT, May 8.-ff)- Thirty-seven bishops of the Meth odist church , were given perma nent assignments tonight by the uniting conference that sealed the plan of union for the three sepa rate branches.- ,? One provision of the design for merger was that bishops should be assigned to one conference, or section of the country, for life. They may. be reassigned rwithin the conference. T ' - In the committee report adopt ed tonight, 12 - bishops were re assigned. Including: Titus Lowe, from Portland, Ore., to Indianapolis. James a Baker, from San Franf Cisco-, to Los Angeles. j Wallace Ei JSt iwa, iroot Chatta nooga, Tenn4 to Portland,. Ore. KANSAS CITT," May g.-PY- Deiegates uniting the three branches of Methodism elected the nine members of the judicial coun cil or "supreme court" of their new church today. Three of , the 51 nominees for the "supreme court won a clear majority of the 7 7 7-votes cast en vue iuat usuuu . - They are Rev. Francis R. Bay ley of Baltimore, Rev. J. Stewart French of Bristol, Tenn., and Mar tin E. Lawson of Liberty, Mo. On the second ballot, the fol lowing were elected: Rev. George R. Brown, Liberty. . C.; H.- R. Van Deusen, Scranton, Pa.; vln cent Paul Clark, Winchester, Mass.; M. A. Childers, San An tonio. Texas. Chosen on the third ballot were Rev. W. G. Henry. Atlanta; Rev, Walter C. Bnckner, Los Angeles 3 SMALL GIRLS DROWN; ONE - ' v-- J i v 1. - - : JX-i ' - -' v - Cecovery of the tody oi Delta Bacon, lower center, from tie Columbia slouch near 7ashousaL con firmed fears that two other TSaahotJ&al school girls were drowned last Friday when they attempted to - cross the sloagh to a plcnlo fa a rowboat. Dragilas for the other bodies was atSl nnder way. They are Colleen DahL apper left, and Donna Baeon, lower rifht. Lower left, Senaeth, brother of the two Ba con girls, with the dog wmcn naa accompaniea in cm ana rexnrneo, err ca the slcrashAsraciated Pjre;i !ut - - enate Votes Big Increases In Farm Fund 382 Millions Are 'Added to Appropriation as , Treasury Objects" v Deficit Js Already Over 3 Billions, Pointed' ' by Morgenthan WASHINGTON. , May t.-OPi- Whlle sounds ot pain came from the treasury, farm-conscious sen ators took firm command of the situation in the senate today and in rapid-fire order ' voted a series of Increases totalling 1382,075, 000 in the agriculture department appropriation bilL - , - : AIL.. 5 A - A M . . . lav measure wa ll .ue close of l the day, it carried the record-smashing total of approxi mately $1,215,000,000 for the de partmenfs expenditures In the year beginning July 1, including 9Z2i,ooo,000 for parity payments and 1203.000,000 to dispose of surplus erops. " . i While the voting was In prog ress, r Secretary Morgenthan was telling reporters he was "greatly disturbed.". If congress adds hun dreds ot millions jo the bill, he said, it should vote taxes to raiso the money. . He recalled that the deficit for the next fiscal year has been esti mated at $3,300,000,000, without the Increases in the farm bill, and said 2 3 ,3 0 0,0 0 0,0 0 0 was "plenty. There wai no indication tonight of a movement to apply taxes to Taise the extra money. Farm lead ers in congress had said that It this issue were raised they would reply that large increases in arm (Turn to page 2, column I) " y," : . I Quartet Injured ;rAslfecliinesMeet . t : - Occupants Escape Serious Hurt in bad Impact; Driver Arrested Four persons, including a four month's old - baby, miraculously escaped serious , injury when two cars crashed at the intersection ot 24th and State streets at 4:S5 yesterday afternoon. Clarence P. Morgan, 1748 Bel- levne, who is alleged by police to have crashed into a car driven by August Fetsch, of route six, sus tained a broken leg, while Mrs. Fetsch. thrown from the car along with her : baby,; suffered severe shock, numerous abrasions and possible internal injuries. . Morgan, arrested by investigat ing police on charges of reckless driving, operating a motor vehl (Turn to page 2. column 1)1 Retained; Head Of Department J. D. MICKLht Mickle to Regain AgricultureiChief Governor Gtes Experience of Director ; in State , Employ Since 13 . h . :- ye Following a conference with J. D. Mickle, state director, of agri culture, Governor Charles A. Sprague announced Monday that Mr. Mickle would continue as head of that department. ; 4 : U a statement. Governor Sprague said: 4? i "I am deeply interested in the administration ot the department of agriculture, and believe that with his background of experience Mr. Mickle is well qualified to carry on In the position which he has held since August IS, 1938." From 1113 until 1131 Mr. Mickle was state dairy and food commissioner. That department waa abolished in 1931 when the state department ot :; agriculture was created, and Mr. MJekle be came chief of the division of food and dairies in the new department. ii of food ' xtraent.1 III tregonrlli He has been resldent'Df since 1885. 110 Workers off County WP A Roll A reduction of 110 WPA jobs waa made in Marlon county In accord with statewide quota re ductions for May, the district WPA offices disclosed here yesterday. Ten of the 110 were women, six of them from the sewing project. The severity ot the cat was softened to some extent by the fact that an average of three to tour WPA workers a day are leav ing to take private employment and the vacancies left have been creaitea toward tne county s quo ta cut. Continuance of the inarch of workers away from work re lief Jobs may avert further en forced reductions this month. BODY FOUND 1 tr cnrping m. vppcr wtga - - . - - HotelBuilding Sale to Ford ced Consideration of About $75,000 Indicated, Bligh Stractnre Later Remodeling of Its . Exterior Is Probable! Attorney Asserts : Sale ot the Bligh hotel build ing at 437-445 State street to Bert Ford, Salem attorney, by Chester G. Murphy of Portland was announced yesterday by the W. H. Grabenhorst & Co., Inc., which handled details of the transaction, While the consideration In volved was not disclosed. It was stated that . Murphy's price on the property had been $75,000, Mr. Ford, who two years ago purchased property in the same position on : Court street, 't iCl 227, said he had no Immediate alternation ' plans , la mind for his new holding but Indicated he might remodel lta exterior at some time la v the future. ; He bought the property for invest ment purposes. . . , Several Businesses Occupy Main r. Floor The two story hotel building has an 82-foot frontage on SUte v street and : . extends back into the block the same distance. Its' lower floor is occupied by the Bligh Billiards, the f Jewel Box, the hotel lobby, Salem Taxi service and the Western Union office. The entire second floor is utilized by the hotel. I With the sale went the! hotel business, which Ford said he would operate for the present. The deal represented one of the largest transfers of business property in many months. lair-Rccomized As Ross by Court Carpenter, 69, Conceded to Be Four-Year-Old Kidnaped in 1874 PHOENIX, Aris., May 8 (JP) After hearing brief, uncontest ed testimony, a Jury in. Maricopa county superior court decided in eight minutes teday that Gustav Blair, 69-year-old Phoenix car penter, is Charley Ross,-whose kidnaping in Germantown, 85 years ago shocked, the nation. Blair filed the civil action to establish his Identity. He named aa defendents Walter L. Ross, Sophia Ross, Martin K. Ross and Anne G. Ross, all of Ger mantown, other children of Christian. RV Ross, father ot the kidnaped child. j The" defendents tailed to an swer the complaint, and Super ior Judge G. A. Rodgers entered a default Judgement against them. , Charley, then 4, and Walter Ross were kidnaped " from the grounds of their parents', home la Jnly, 1174. Walter was re leased,, but. the-two kidnapers aemandea 930,000 for Charley's return. : His . father offered to pay, but not without delivery ot the. boy, and jhe child was never returned. - - Blair testified ha had deter- mined by family traits, likeness and other means that he is the missing Charlev Brewster Rosa. Lincoln C. Miller. Ph o e n i x. whose , family ; reared , Blair,' tes tified' that his (Miller's) father had told him Blair was the kid naped Child. Miller added that he had guarded the four-year- oid . cnud in a cave. Blair asserted that he waa not seeking Judgement to gain any Inheritance or property rights. 'as all this la lone- since barred by time., - ...... - - , . Ten KUUdi 300 Injured, f Celluloid Factory Blast TOKYO. May O.-fTuesdavl- (ffV-Ten persons were . known . ta have been killed today and 100 injured ioo seriously, la two ex plosions at a celluloid factory at Komamezawa on the ontaklrts of Tokyo. The tiro destroyed several nearby buildings. - Late Sport WHITB PLAINS, N. Y., May t. -(P)-Don . Budge defeated Fred Perry tonight, 8-ff, f-2, la the con cluding, match ot, their, nation wide pro tennis tour. Budge won 28 matches ot the 38 played. They are scheduled to sail, for Europe Wednesday to begin another series. PHILADELPHIA, May 8-ffV-Lou - Ambers, former lightweight champion from Herkimer, N. Y pounded out a 10-round decision o,ver Jimmy Vanghn, & ot Cleve land tn.the lOrround windup of a boxing show tonight before SO 00 at the arena. ' Ambers weighed 121 Ifc, Vaughn xsAnnouii Marion County Education Leader Dies Following Extended Illness MARY I. FULKERSON :- v v. "" ' ' t. Funeral Wednesday for Veteran Mary L. Fnlkersohs Service of Nearly 19 Years Recalled; Progressive policy Combined .With Careful School Administration Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson, school superintendent of Mar ion county, died here Monday morning following a lengthy illness. - Funeral services will be held from the chapel: of Clough Barrick company Wednesday, afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. F. C. Stannard officiating. Burial will be in the O cemetery at Zena. , Permits to Build Are Over $25,000 Heavy Day at City Office Swells Spring Building Already Very High Permits for six new dwellings, aggregating better, than $26,000 in value, were ' yesterday written by the city building Inspector's office, bringing new dwelling construction to II ln number since March 1. There were 27 new dwelling permits written in March, break ing all city records for that month, and 10. written In April. Four dwelling permits were writ ten this month prior to yester day's six. The six were to: Vera L. Hill, to erect a 1 -story dwelling and garage at 18(0 Madison, J4500. J. S. Scherrer, to erect a one-story dwelling and garage at 2008 North 19th, 83000; Charles Boy er, to erect a 1 -story dwell'ng and garage at 1095 Columbia. 85. 300; George Roth, to erect a one story dwelling and garage at 1105 Columbia, $5000; N. R. Thorn Quist, to erect a 1 -story dwell ing and garage at 1585 Broadway, $3800; A. M. Trippett. to erect a 1 -story dwelling and garage at 1900 North 18th, $4000. Other permits yesterday were to: Ray Johnson, to reroof a ga rage at 2785 Brooks, $50 ; . H. L. Purbrick. to repair a dwelling at 1185 North 17th, $15; R. A. Fortner, : to repair a dwelling at 1853 North Capitol. $4$; Para mount Shoe Co., fa alter a store bunding at 405 Court, $2500. ' Salem Catholics Will join Centennial Activities Salem Catholic clergy and lay men will nnite with their fellow members la the three-day celebra tion of the Oregon Catholic cen tennial, which opens in Portland at 10 o'clock this, morning with Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Clr cognani, apostolic delegates of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, celebrant ot the opening - pontifical , high mass In the municipal auditorium. The larest group of church dig nitaries ever assembled la this re gion will be in the process of es corting the apostolic delegate. A vested choir of 500 male voices will sing the . ancient Gregorian chant of . the church during , the mass a I t-sTrSj&l- ik'.'-ri rf-'. j 4 v ; - , -t - - J Bora In Minnesota In j 1873, JIary L. Stanton came to Oregon at age 14 with her parents, Har vey H. and Mary Stanton, who settled near Turner and later in Polk county. She completed her education in Oregon, attending Oregon normal school at Mon mouth and at Ashland. She was married to A. N. Fulkerson, Polk county native, in 1898. Having specialized- In primary and rural school work, she was aa Institute lecturer in those fields for eight seasons. During several summer sessions she .was an in- lBtruior Lteac.her txfsSn suvsiuia .ai,o uuko vs uiv wauavaa county superintendent as super Visor of rural schools nnder Will iam H. Smith. 1. ! - In September, 1920, she was ap pointed to succeed Mr. Smith aa superintendent when he became assistant state superintendent ot public instruction; under J. A. Churchill. Since that time she has continued to serve as county su perintendent, being reelected sev eral times. She served one year as president of the Oregon State Teachers' association. . In her wort in Marion county, Mrs. Fulkerson instituted what is known as the rational, system of education and this has been ex tended to a number of the rural schools. She was particularly In terested In assisting the Individual child, and carried on an extensive program in the; county to assist chUdren who i were hampered in their learning processes. - Her husband, who was propri etor ot a large fruit farm south ot Salem, died December 20, 1918, and Mrs. Fulkerson has been fll since that time, being able to work In her office only about two weeks this year. t Surviving relatives Include two brothers, Charles J,. Stanton of Las Vegas, Nev and Harvey J. Stanton of Salem. - . The centennial observes the ar rival in 1821 of Fathers Norbert Blanchet and Modesto Demers from Quebec, Canada, to Oregon to minister to the pioneer Catholics living in the Oregon country. The sermon of the mass," commemor ating this event, will be preached by. Hia Excellency i Edward D. Howard, archbishop of , Portland. ; Wednesday's celebration will commemorate arrival of . the i two priests at'Fort v Vancouver, : with pontifical mass to be sung in the Vancouver, Wash., 7 church by Bishop Charles White of Spokane. Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy, Seat tle,, will r reach the sernoa. A noon . ITuxa to page .2 columa X ' Superintendent Toddy 1 ' 1 ' Perkins Hints "Other" Steps May Be Taken President's Role to Be That of Mediator in Today's Meeting Secretary Flays Owners of Alines; Bargaining . Ethics Violated NEW YORK, May 8-()-Nego- tiators for. Appalachian coal oper ators and CIO union miners will meet President Roosevelt in tao White House at noon tomorrow m an effort to settle ( their two- months dispute over a new labor contract and thus reopen the idle mines of the 2 6-state bituminous area 1''' i; ! !; The Invitation was extended to night by Secretary of Labor Per kins.- ';;!. She acted soon after John L. Lewis, head of the United j Mis Workers and of. the Congress of Industrial Organizations, mad public a letter to Dr; John R. Steelman, labor department; con ciliator, blaming the Roosevelt ad ministration specifically her own department tor the long shut down, i i . . r 'At the same time she announced the negotiators' acceptance of the White House invitation, the sec retary struck out at the operators. She asserted that In refusing ta continue operations, pending nego tiations, under the old contract, which expired March 31, they had been guUty of a "violation ot the principle, of the ethics, ot collec tive bargaining.'' j Hanger in Mining : Towns Is Reported jK . She likewise ! remarked there was "hunger" In the mining towns. The failure of the negotiations turned some 460,000 miners to Idleness. ; j ' ' ' i I &Li&;i - Miss Perkins i emphasized- that tne president s roie wouia oe inns t of "a mediator." She will sit in. Lewis had said earlier In a blunt letter to Dr. Steelman: I "Failure of the Roosevelt ad ministration to approve or sustain the mine workers', offers to keep the industry in ' operation caased many coal operators : to believe that they had carte blanche to dis embowel the Mine Workers union It they could. In consequence, your (labor) department must accept responsibility for its own adminis trative blunder. ; i ,:-.'- Clauses Needed to -i-ir'4 Protect From AFL j . j .V- - A reference was made to the suspended Roosevelt-Inspired peace conferences of the CIO aad AFL when Miss Perkins was asked x- whether the rivalry between those two organisations was a factor ta the coal deadlock., j v :i , I "It is a vital factor," she re plied, "though not the sole fac tor." 1 The TJMWA has f contended in the coal negotiations that it need ed contract clauses that would protect it from rivals, presumably the AFY's progressive miners. . In a resume ot the negotiations, which she said she had given the deadlocked conferees. Miss Per kins indicated the two principal bars to the signing of the contract still stood:: The union's demand for either (1) a "union shop" or (2) 'elimination of strike penalty clauses.. -. j, --. . "I , Miss Perkins said no : conclu sions on those two j issues were reached at her conference with the negotiators. Unless an agreement was signed quickly, however, she added, the government must make "one, , two, three i. recommendations.- J She did not specify what those might be, but added at that point that a "practical course" might be adopted for. supplying coal to in dustries threatened with a fuel famine. Asked whether the -government itself might distribute coal, she replied, "I cannot answer that - JJ , - Brite Boys Given : life Connnutation SACRAMENTO, ' May $-(.$")-John and , Coke Brite, Siskiyou ' mountain triple slayers," woa a long, tight to escape the Folsom prispa gallows today when Gov ernor Culbert L. Olson commut ed their death sentences to rife ' imprisonment. The 1 double execu tlon was scheduled! for next Fri- -day. . . - 1 1 -V -'V .'- The governor said although he was unprepared to Estate : ua eaulvocally that these men acted entirely in self-defense I do . be lieve that there ta sufficient doubt . of their guilt f murder in the first degree to warrant a com mutation... ; -' The brothers, wtoss ft-.t fcr ; life has beerrmaterUIly a! : ty their aged Bother, were ccr. 1 of killing two peace cJflct 3 f -1 f a vacationer during. a til :!it- j tight at Horse Creek, ia t:. 3 rs-, mote-EIilyoa-mouataia c.-:"rr, ; la August Of 1935. . . ! yr.TS t 1