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T , - rT The X7eather " , s Oeaerally fair Thursday , ad Friday. -Temperature) . above normal with moder ately low hnmldity.,Wedne- m' day Temp. Max. 70, Mln. 41. Rala o. RlTer .1 foot. NW j wind. ... : . - ..v.. .. ? Ccnday Fearcre 1 She Oregon Statesman, Csdy Mid-Willamette Taller ftewspaper ; with a Sunday edition, is proud of its many Guaday features. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salexa, Oregon, Thursday. llcrri, llzy 11, a Pric 3c: Newsstands 6c No. 39 -1 - - n w . r Km it r ' ' ' ' . ; .... i t . - - .- a, el - - - k , HJlMlWMej '. V---'.- ' ..".'--"'"2-r-; Steelman Asks ; Firms t Sign, Union Shop"; Feature Is Only Stumbling Block Before Conferees Lewis Agrees to Opening on Union Terms, but Not 8-State Area NEW YORK. May ll.-(Thur-4ay)-(flV-A. spokesman tor the bi tuminous, operators announced early today the United Mine Work en had rejected their "last pro posal' tor reopening the soft coal mines 01 21 states, i . ' In an attempt td avert a farther fuel famine, Dr. John' R. Steelman, federal mediator, asked Individual companies to slm separate con tracts with the United Mine Work- ers union. ' , ' - ; : ' He said he believed enough In dividual operators Were willing to comply with the UMW terms for a closed shop to ease the present na tional emergency. "'-.-4., CIO President John h. Lewis, spokesman for the miners, imme diately announced such an ar rangement was satisfactory with the mine union. ' "Today the bituminous districts in the outlying area will be noti fied that the UMW are prepared to execute contracts to reinstate the production of coal," he 'said. Doesn't Apply to i Appalachian Region Lewis said no individual con tracts would be made in the 8 itate Appalachian region, howev er, pending the outcome pf anoth er conference at 4 p.m. today. '. R. L. i Ireland,' the spokesman, aid "the operators Jd proposed Immediate resumptfon of the oper ations stopped at the expiration of the old contract last March ' S 1 when nearly a half million miners stopped work. .'J -r--M.,-:- He said the operators had ought an agreement for resump tion at the wage and hour scale of the expired contract. The announced breakdown of negotiations came after joint and separate sessions of the CIO miners and the operators who renewed their meetings at the demand of President Roosevelt in the face of an Industrial fuel famine. "It's : now up ;to the miners," said a spokesman tor the opera tors. "Negotiations are being con tinued." i , The spokesman said the only aew offer in the operators', final proposal was to reopen the. mines,' as the president requested. - ' Previously, John L. Lewis, pres ident ot the Mine Workers, de clared he had . proposed returning to work four times but had been rebuffed by thei mine owners:.. - iThe operators' spokesman said the conferees had come to terms n every point except the UMWA demand for a "union shop." : FRANKFORT, Ky.. May 10c-(rV-Declaring "the people ot Ken tucky! and the nation have be come weary of this controversy," Got. A. B. Chandler said today he would . send national guardsmen Into Harlan county Monday if no labor ; contract has been signed for the Appalachian coal field by then ' .. , In a ItS 00-word statement, he said the troops, would have "in structions to give protection , to every' citizen ot Harlan county who desires to work in the mines upon terms and conditions accept able to him and his employers. Alice Swift of Salem i Senior Vice President E TJOBNE . May 10WffV-Th i s 3 9-40 senior ciass oi 4 ine u n- TersitT oi uregon cnose rmup AvoidShortage .Lowry, Medford, president today ill.. 0.1 ' .- i , . piesident. . Knights of Columbus Retain: Officers; Over 100 at Meet MT. ANGEL, May lO.-The 81st annual state convention - of the Knights of Columbus opened here today, : the first session In Mt Angel since the local council was organised 11 " years ago. t and unanimously reelected 'Edward J Bell, Stayton, sUte deputy for the new year, and chose Bend, as the elty tor the May, 1840, gath ering. . : .' ' r ' . Other state officers were all re elected: John Dooley, Albany secretary: i Otto Xa i Smith; Klam ath Falls, treasurer; Thomas Bagan, Engeni, advocate; Lints M. Fuller, Portland, warden; Rer Michael Fleming. Canby, chaplain. Over 100 Knights, representa tives from all over the state, were deep in business session from 10 a. m. until 8:30 p. m. with 22 of the 23 resoltttlons. accepted One ot these brings the annual KC retreat to Mt. Angel, college June lHa llM ssztt' Ua Uttiter Alcuia a- - ci if .-n if fr ii- Methoaists UnitedflFinal Ceremony Of Historic Convention 10,000 at Service Bringing Eight Million Into one Churcb; Peace Resblntion Leaves Room for "Honest Difference of Opinion" KANSAS CITY, May 10. AP) In worshipful cere mony the Methodist church was proclaimed one united body tonight by the 900 delegates and 56 bishops who have spent two weeks in perfecting its government. . "The Methodists are one people." That was the key phrase repeated time after time by v Portland Harbor Will Qose Today Dock Men Fail to Work on Luckenbach by Time , intimatum Set PORTLAND, Ore, May 10-nyP) -Portland harbor, crowded with ships, was scheduled to be closed at 8 a.m. Thursday. Tne Waterfront. Employers as sociation threatened Tuesday to close the port at that .time un less CIO longshoremen went to work on the freighter William Luckenbach by 8 a.m. today. But the dock men continued to respect a non-existent picket line today. The boat was tied up last week by pickets ot the CIO maritime office union, who charged the Luckenbach company had, failed to comply with a national labor relations board order -. toa rein state three members with back pay ( -.v. 'Vt: An. f-Injunction dSerorrih line but not until on picket, had been . arrested tor continuing his vigil at the Luckenbach's gang plank. He was charged with con tempt of court. The restraining order , held that the pickets rl' lated Oregon's union-control law, a constitutionality test of which is now being heard. : : - The longshoremen hiring haJl sent four : gangs - to the ship ; to day hat none appeared to work cargo. The longshoremen assert ed the-protest was still In effect. ' There were more than 20 boats in port tonight and several more are due before the 8 a.m. dead line..' . : Log Traiii Wrecks At Independence INDEPENDENCE, May 10. Logs breaking loose from a long logging train caused a wreck on the Independence-S a ) e m run about six miles south of here, at the Greenwood crossing near the J. M. Primus farm about 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. No one was hurt. vt ft . -i . t. tvi 1 - Four logging s cars were de molished, as many more left t' e track, and 400 to 600 feet of track was torn up. Logs were strewn r along the ' track on - both sides ? for sereral hundred feet. : The. wreck: still blocked the road late . this afternoon, how ever the engine went on into Salem and 1 a wrecker was ex pected to clear up the mess. WSMemPerson j Killed on Road OREGON CITY, May 10-flP)-Patricia Rich, 1128 Sixth street. West Salem, was thrown from a swerving auto last night and al most instantly killed. . ' i Setb A. Cook, WPA foreman of the same adlress, driver ' f the' car, j told - State ' Policeman Jay Mercer lights of . an oncom ing car blinded him at the Ba low curve on the Pacific high way 11 miles south of here. . : retreat ' master. Others pertained tr, routine business. t Reports of the district deputies showed a large gala in member ship over last yar. ML , Angel, with membership of 208, is second largest eouncil in the state. ; Today the Knights will travel In caravan to St Paul, where they will participate In the Catholic centennial observances there. About m Knights and their ladles attended the banquet la St. Mary's -dining ban Wednesday night, this event celebrating the 28th anniversary of the Mt Anget council. A beautifully decorated cake, abdut SO inches square and occupying a table ot its own, was cut by P. N. Smith, first grand knight7 of Mt Angel councU in 1814.- - - V -.: t Governor Charles ' A Spragne was unable to attend, but was represented by Jerry Mason, mem- r: -i ff? Proclaimed Bishop . Edwin .Holt Hughes, ot Washington, in the service sym bolically sealing the schisms which have divided the American fol- lowers of John Wesley for. more than a century. - i " " ' . Ten thousand persons watched the ceremony climaxing 23 years of unification work by bringing the 8.000.000 members of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and the Methodist Protestant church into one organization. Every delegate and bishop rose with raised hand as Bishop John M. Moore, of Dallas, put the final motion for approval ot the plan of union. No one stood on the call for opposition votes. "We do so declare," chanted the delegates in unison, as Bishop Moore read: ',--. "The Methodist Episcopal church, the Methodist Episcopal (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Green Insists on Law's Amendment Six Fundamental - Chare . Listed; Conference Is v Under Way WASHINGTON, May lO.-fflV President William Green declared tonight that the American Federa tion of Labor had given na thought to compromise in its drive to amend the Wagner act and list ed six changes which he consid ered "fundamental w He- expressed . his Tlews at "a press conference while two ot his associates. General Counsel Joseph A. Pad way and John P. Frey of thev metal trades department, were closeted with labor board mem bers in an attempt to Teach an agreement on some, ot the AFL amendments. i The AFL-labor board confer ence was called. Green said, Ho explore the situation to see it an agreement can be reached on cer tain amendments. Green included among , the six changes a proposal to abolish the present three-man board and re place it with a five-man agency. He conceded that there was lit tle likelihood ot the board's agree ing to this. ,4 J:' , ,--, Thev other !. "fundamental" amendments, he said, included re stricting board powers to tlx the appropriate bargaining unit and Invalidate contracts,' permit ting appeal to the courts in repre sentation eases, fixing the time for complaint hearings, and permit ting employers to petition for em ploye elections. Prayers Don't End ents V PORTLAND, May lOHffh-Cir-cult Judge J. A. Mean gave two disputing - factions of the -Gospel Light tabernacle some advise from the scriptures as he ordered them, for the second time. to go home and: try to solve their disagree ments with practical Christianity. A week ago he ordered the two groups, both seeking possession of. the church, to try-.prayer, but they were back In court today. . "Apparently your prayers were not directed to the right subject or you would not have been here today,, the judge" commented. ' He ordered them to ponder the matter farther with this eounsel: "Agree with thine-, adversary quickly, whilst thou are in the way, with hlm;r lest at any , time the adversary deliver thee to the Judge, and the Judge deliver thee to the officer and thou be cast in prison. x , . Wdbb Is Paroled, 1 Restore EUGENE, May 10-iffV-L. VL Webb.t former' superintendent ot the . Oregon Fiber Flax associ ation plant at Springfield, agreed today , to replace ; funds - alleged to' have been embezzled and was paroled by Circuit Judge Geor. e F. Sklpworth. Webb v pleaded guilty to. larceny - and was. sen tenced to five years in prison. The Judge revealed association directors favored the conditional parole to a brother, .Tom J7ebb pf Turner Argum Centennial of Church Set at Pontifical High Mass at I 10, Blanchet Service f 2:30 in Afternoon Pageant at ' Vancouver-! ! Impressive; r Scene of 18391s Recalled VANCOUVER. Wash., Mar 10- CffV-The Fort Vancouver that Dr, John McLoughlln ruled over came to life tor an hour today In a pa geant that marked the second day of the celebration of a century ot Catholicism in the Pacific north west- : , ; i" The pageant Included a depic tion of .the landing 100 years ago of Father Francis Norbert Blan chet and Father Abbe Modest De mers, who brought the Catholic church to the northwest ' wilder ness in 1839.' - Vf I Federal theatre project actors took the roles of famed pioneer characters. Harold Petterson as Dr. McLoughlln rode but of the restored gateway of the old stock- ade under the flag of the Hudson's Bay company. i Scores of high churchmen from all over the nation witnessed, the show. Pope's Representative ' Has Seat of Honor i The seat of honor was occupied by the representative of Pope Pius XII, the Most Rev. Amleto Gio vanni CicognanL Surrounding him were Bishop Gerald Shaugh-H aessy, Seattle: Bishop Edward D. Howard. Portland: Rishon CharlM D. White. Snokane. -Whenrthw--'eaano!ftihe-for tired a shot designating the sUrt of the ceremony, an estimated 8000 spectators were massed along tne railroad embankment and ov erflowed the 2000 seats provided. j- Director of " the picturesque event, sponsored Jointly by the catholic centenary committee and m Vancouver Btocxaaers, was Edwin G. O'Connor, Seattle. The second day of the centen j (Turn to page 2, col. 5) EWorld Terrible Mess", Governor Informs Students EUGENE. May 10.-AV-Instead or getting tne world with a pink ribbon tied around it university graduates more likely will get world fat a bucket, "for It's in a terrible mess," Got. Charles A. Spragne told the University of Oregon student body last night Attending exercises at which John Dick, The Danes, was in stalled as president- ot the student body, the governor remarked that students today must look forward to sterner discipline if the world is to be returned to economic nor malcy but he warned them against panaceas. StPaolToday Lindbergh Reaches WekGoasi, . Aircraft Facilities inspection Wearing the aniform of a colonel la the army air corps Charles Xiad ,f bergs la pictured shortly after lie arrived at IJndbergh field. Bear i Caa Dieso, C&IIf. He Is comsRiay fiata"on Uncle Sam's aircraft facilities. Daring an Inspection of Consolidated! Aircraft company's j plant the Lone Eagle, accompanied by Major It, O. Fleet, rresidest I Family Ignores Claim of 'Rossr. Gvstave Blair, 09, is decreed to be Charley Ross, who was kid naped at age 4, 65 years ago, by an Arizona superior court Tne Ross family of Philadelphia " didn't contest the suit bat ai nonces it will continue to Ignore the claimant. AP Telemat. Damage to Crops By Drought Seen lOnlv .ftl TnMi Rainfall In ' - --,w---.; May to Date ; Federal Report Is Issued A drought record for May fol lowing the one set here in April appeared well on the way for Salem and vicinity yesterday with a third of the -month gone and but .01 Inches ot rain recorded in the 10 days. Compared to this almost un- measurable precipitation, .88 inches had fallen in the first 10 days in May ot last year. The Willamette river is showing the drought's cumulative effect yes terday's river stage being a trif ling .1 foot, as compared to 3.3 feet Just a year ago. Cloudiness forecast yesterday failed to appear and the outlook for the rest of the week is tor more fair weather. PORTLAND, -May 10.-ff)-The northwest began to pay .off today in shrinking - crops for the most pleasant yet the most destructive, weather - since pioneer ' farmers stuck the first spade In -virgin soil decades ago. -j.. -s.--v - feeble splash ot rain la south ern Oregon merely brought atten tion to the most serious drought on " record and , emphasised what s (Turn to page 2, eoL 4) ! Scliobl Leader Selection Due fore June 1 f - .j '. , ' -V . -.. t Smith, Durham, Several Others Mentioned as . : Possible Choices Mrs. Aenes Booth, Also Two Connected With Office Mentioned The Marion county court prob ably will appoint a successor to Mary L. Fulkersen as county school superintendent before June 1, Judge J. C. Siegmund said late yesterday, We are going to take our time because we want to find someone it possible who can carry out Mrs. Fulkerson'a program during the rest of her term," Judge Siegmund added. Mrs. Fulkerson's term expires December 31. 1940. - While no formal applications for the position have been received by the court which by law must mi the Tacancy. several persons names have been mentioned by friends. Among them has been William M. Smith, whom Mrs. Ful kerson succeeded as superinten dent 19 years, ago when be Joined the state department ot education In 1936 he was ' defeated at the primary election by Mrs. Fulker- son in a contest for the oiiice. -Durham, Mrs. Booth Receive Mention ; Outside the courthouse two oth er possible candidates for the county superlntendency were be ing mentioned, H. F. Durham, re tiring principal of Fairish Junior high school. Salem, and Mrs. Ag nes Booth, principal of Salem Heights school Durham next month will terminate many years ot service to the Salem school dis trict as he becomes subject to the compulsory state retirement act Mrs. Booth has. been- in the teaching profession tor IS years, principal at Salem Heights for the last fire years, haa held several of fices in the state and county teach ers' associations and, friends said (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Ickes Denies Any Project j Pressure WASHINGTON, May KHJPf- Secretary ickes today termed 'an unqualified i falsehood" as sertions that he attempted to Influence congressmen by threat ening to withhold or promising to grant money for public works projects. He defended himself la re plying to statements made on the floor of the house by Represent ative Elliott (D-Calif) which the secretary said were "un doubtedly Inspired" by Charles G. Dunwoody, conservation man ager of the ' 1 California state chamber of commerce. 1 " i Elliott had charred 4 la" a de bate . with Representative Gear. hart' CR-Callf) . that , Ickes had promised projects tor his district in return for support of legisla tion to create the John Mutr Klngs Canyon national park in California. -! k Window-Smasher : Ge te l f A man who 1 broke - out two windows in the county fail ear ly yesterday will spend SO days there repenting but officers are still looking ' for. : another who sometime Tuesday night threw a large; stone through a i front window of the united States Na tional bank bulldlng here. t Orral Edward f Pphl, 27, who was arrested at 2 a-m. on a charge of being drunk on a pub llo : highway, used -. a chair to break the windows ot the wom an's cell where he hadbeen placed in the county jail. Later ia tie day he pleaded guilty tn justice court and was sentenced to SO days confinement ; Rozd Crozt Assczdllr. : ; llcZZcnzie Snots Drift ' . ' Xr -v., t . .-. , ... ",... .' .1 . rUGItS, Hay 10-CTVRoad crews aided by warm weather at tacked snow drifts atoo the scenla McKenxie river highway, pass, to day - and expected to : open th ronto next week. .r J-4 Traffic wiU 'ha permitted ca the road several weeks in advance ot the opening in previous years All clearance work Till ta Czzi from the Bend slie. ' . - . . Late Sporfo YnCSTETJI ECTL LEAGUE i Takima -1, Tacoma ' Beninghani t, Vancouver f. ' ; ckant Jg esatchet f IilMiUidn ': Sure, , : More Possible With Mouse Voting Boost Amount ' Recommended hy Committees Is Increased; Three Valley Project Dams to Receive Allocations Cottage Grove, Fern -Ridge, Dorenav n Work Revealed WASHINGTON, May 10. (AP)The house, overrid injr the recommendation of its appropriations committee that funds for flood control and navigation' projects be confined to budget estimates, voted today to increase them from $177,000,000 to $227,000,000 for fiscal 1940. It adopted: the view of the subcommittee which prepared the annual appropriation bill for the war department's civil functions that the item for New York on navigation projects should be increased from the budget's $30,000,000 to $55, 000,000 ; that for general flood control from $110,000,000 to $133,000,000, and that for flood control on the lower Miss issippi river from $37,000,000 to $39,000,000. O Cotton Program Suffers Setback Senate Refuses to Attach Rider; Proposal now V in Muddled State ; WASHINGTON, May A plan, lor a, government subsidy; to increase exports of American cot ton suffered a setback In the sen ate today when the chamber re fused to suspend its rules in order to attach a rider dealing with the program to the pending $1,218, 000,000 agriculture department appropriation bllL The plan was a modification of the original Roosevelt administra tion proposal for subsidies to facil itate sales abroad of the United States' huge cotton crops. After some southern senators had vehe mently objected that under the Roosevelt proposal, huge portions of the 11.0 00,00 0-bale supply which the government holds as se curity tor loans would be released on the market and drive down the price for new crop cotton, Senator Bankhead (D-Ala) stepped for ward with a compromise. Under his proposal, the subsi dies would apply only to the forth coming II 19 crop. - He asked the senate today to suspend its rules to approve this form of subsidy but the chamber refused, S 7 to 36. A two-thirds majority is required to suspend senate rules." The adverse vote left the cotton export proposal In an admittedly muddled status. Both critics and opponents of the bounty plan con ceded that existing law and some 150.000.000 of funds already in the farm bill would enable the ad ministration to ignore the senate rote, if it wished, and carry out the plan anyway. QandeGatch Is -Gilled by Death; Ex-Salem RIayor PORTLAND, Om, May 10 (-CUude Gateh, member " of a pioneer northwest family and one-time, mayor of Salem, ' died today ta Oakland, friend here leaned. He had been in i for some time, -t For many - years- he was cashier of the Ladd Bush ; bank at 8alem and active ta Oregon politics ; later federal hank examiner In . the north west, examiner and director of the federal t serve bank la ; San' FraacJjco. v;;'v -Vr-v B rit is h fProjs(ol-0ced But Russia "RemdijEjiighics (Ey tho Associated Press) The enigma ot the position w Soviet Russia in .. Europe's in tensive diplomatic , maneuvers dominated - news .from abroad Wednesday. Epeaking'ln the house of com mons ta : make dear Great Eri taln'a stand on proposed security arrangements. Prime Hiiister NeTlIla Chamberlain ass aril Russia that Britain's proposals to Moscow asked, for military aid la eastern .Earojo only-..- after British-French forces have taken the field In any future war. . Chamberlain spoke ' to allay Soviet doubts about the British proposals, but nevertheless tho feeling persisted "tn some emar ters that the Soviet anion might reject the Erttlsh planv psiv.- In ' Moscow it jwas lobsenred flat rritlrh and French iledges on List; Amounts for During hearings ' on the bllL army engineers told the subcom mittee that allocations under a -general flood control appropria tion of $130,000,000 would in clude the following (they said today they were preparing a new list of allocations to reflect the further increase of $3,000,000): Cottage Grove reservoir, Wil lamette basin, $1,480,700; Do rena reservoir, Willamette basin, ' $1,505,000; Fern Ridge reser Toir, Willamette basin, $1.4S9-' 200; Willamette river, $150,900; Tualatin " river, "Willamette ba sin, $110,250; Santiam ' rivei Willamette basin. $80,000; De troit reservoir highway reloca tion, Willamette basin, $500, 000; open river improvement Willamette basin, $100,000; 8au vies Island, Columbia river ba sin, $655,00; Multnomah drain age district No. 1, $398,900; ' Scapoose drainage district, Co lumbia basin, $207,000; Youngs river dikes, Columbia - basin, ' $27,000; John Day river dikes, Columbia basin, . $35,000; Wal luskl river dikes, Columbia ba sin, $ 8 9,0 0 0 ; Sandy drainage district, Columbia basin, $115, 000;Deer Island area,; Colum- bin county, $153,000; Prescott area, Columbia county, $33,001; -Peninsular drainage district No. 1, Multnomah county, f $127 00O; Westport district,' Colum bia and Clatsop counties, $34'r 000. v For new work on navigation projects fine engineers made ' ' (Turn to page 2, col. McNutt Departs Visit to US MANILA, May ll-(Thursday) -(ffJ-Amid" one: ot- tho greatest . send-offs in Manila's. h history. High Commissioner Paul V. Me nutt of the Philippines, and hie wife, sailed today for a visit te the United SUtes. i The. Philippine army babl played "Back Home In Indiana as the United States transport Chaumont left tho dock and beaded out escorted by US army ' planes. . i:s McNutt -was on the bridge, waving his hat to the throng ashore. All boats In the bay Mew farewell blasts. : 'The high" commissioner, ac companied by his wife, will vl t China en route to the United ' States and Indiana, ' McNutt'a . home state.- - : - Well-wishers included Com- -monwealth President, f Manuel Quezon and hla wife, : General Huges Jones and his wife,- and high government officiala. Me- , Nutt and Quezon strode up the gangplank arm , In arm. ' , to Pclud and Rudarii . hare . lessened considerably Ilnscia'a need for an alliance la the e;t. Some observers' felt ttere waa no reason . for - Russia to j o 1 a in any tight at nil, now that Poland, a buffer between Ger many and Xlnssia, has automatic British and French ail coming in event of trouble. : - . Rurzla's rdatloss with flrl were regarded as improved aa a result of a conference la War saw between fcer assistant on mlEsar for f oreljn affairs, Vladi mir P. Potemkin, and Foreign Minister Joseph Beck, j - "Potemkin was belieyed to have assured Beck there was no possi bility f of. a- German-Rnsslaa re eoncillatlon : under existing eir- -- . enmstances. . tt: -.- Meanwhile German mores wtra (Tnm to page 1, cel. 2) .