ii - rt i f f f . -M ri 11 11 ii it mil i ii rr mil 11 1 1
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Hopes Hinging
On Efforts of
Arbiter Morse
Mythical . Picket Line
to Be Eyed, See
if It's Real
Morse Efforts Follow
Unsuccessful Tries
at Arbitration
PORTLAND, Ore., May
1 Hopes for reopening of the port
of Portland, closed- two days by a
labor dispute, centered tonight in
Wayne L. Morse." coast arbiter of
waterfront .issue. ; , r, .f.
- Morse, after studying conlllct
Ing claims of iie Waterfront Em-
ployers' association and the CIO
international longshoremen's and
warehousemen's union, said he
would open a hearing at 9:30
a. m. ! . tomorrow : to , determine
whether the dispute was subject
to local or coastwise arbitration.
Other arbitration, efforts "by
Samuel B. Weinstein,' federal ar
biter, and William T. Geur.s, me
'diator' for the national 'maritime
' labor' board, . were unsuccessful.7
The tie-up followed a week's
, unsuccessful effort to . force CIO
. dockman to ' load : the , freighter
William Luckenbach, which had
been picketed by the CIO maritime
office .workers', anion.', The office
workers charred Luckenbach had
Ignored a national labor relations
board order to reinstate three dis
charged employes with back pay.
- Luckenbach ; subsequently , ob
tained, a court injunction, against
to 'respect an imaginary picket
' ' The dockmen's union asserted
."our contract : does not eontenr-
plate working behind a legitimate
picket line." It held pickets were
remored by force so that In effect
the line continued.
Morse's hearing was expected to
'levelop a definition of what con
stitutes picketing and determine
whether employers hare the right
to suspend port operations with
out ; first exhausting other , reme
dies, including arbitration.
The union contended "the em
ployers' riolatlon of contract In
closing this port was so obvious,
they were afraid to submit their
position, to an arbiter and conse
quently disavowed their contract
with us for the express purpose of
preventing the continuance of
arbitration on Thursday.' -;
Tax Revision Is
on
White House Conference
xsiay rrove soowuowu j
- on Change Issue ,
' WASHINGTON. May 12.--tiPW
mm a . sw: - - i
; A ' White House conference, , in
'volvlng a possible showdown on
'whether tax revision snouia : om
"undertaken at' this session- .Of
congress and the "nature of the
changes to be -made, was called
today for . Monday afternoon, ;
. President F-osevelt, after say
ing he was willing to repent the
remnant of the undistributed
; profits tax, if other safeguard
' acted simultaneously, summoned
both treasury and congressional
' tax authorities to the meeting-'
- Many who ."hate followed the
' developing and confused' tax : sit
uation, ; expressed . the opinion
tlia the Conference would find
the congressional : group urging
; the elimlnauon irom ue - tax
-schedules of certain levies which
' nara been called a handicap to
business and recoTery. .. , J
1 - The president's riew, expressed
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: His Second Year
- annum TTTB EMPRESS OF
AUSTRALIA. May 1 J-(Canadian
Press ).-Klng George Tl" received
a Jl-gun salute and in turn or
:dered an extra rum issue tor . men
of th ascortlnx cruisers Glasgow
and Southampton today 1 In cele
bration of the second anniversary
,-f h coronation. n'KK-t i
Promptly -t-nooa.the.ruler
'ranged themselves on. either, aide
;f the Empress and fired the ta-
lute In honor of the" king; who
with Queen JCiixanetn la enronie
: to Canada and the United States. )
Tho ' king and Queen stood . on
the after deck with their suite and
after the guns stopped booming
'th kinr had orders signalled to
the cruisers to "splice the main
brace" which meant that every
- man aboard the warships got ait
Ttra lain- of rum.!- - f
Many congratulatory messages
were received throughout lhe day
Topic
Monday
tX tlx I? dS2. .
Scouts to Race inChanots, .
- '
rr--.:i yw wS
v'" T
Boy aconta demonstrate their motto,
Duua bridges before they come to a stream, as these members of
Jasoa Lee troop 12 will do at the Cascade council scout circus oa
SweeUand field tonight. There's wot a nail fat it tat It win hold the
troop. Oa the bridge Is George Manning and beside it, Robert Mo
Lauchlan. Forecast as a leading contender in the scout chariot race
is this team, below, from Rotary dab troop 1. Driving 1 Floyd
Meblboff and pulling,- left to right, are Boyd Watson, Leo Reed,
James Baker and Charles .Johnson. . . . ,
800
Boy Scouts Ready
For Colorful Pageant,
Circus. Here Tonight
Previcwers of . Dress Rehearsal Say Entertainment
Is 'Rapid-Fire; 45 Troops of Council,
f Join; Proceeds for Camp
Eight hundred Boy Scouts in action representing the 45
troops of the Cascade, area council will present a rapid-fire
10-ring circus full of excitement at the first 1 annual Boy
Scout Circus to be staged on Sweetland field tonight at 8
o'clock with the gates opening at 7 p. m. Scout officials who
witnessed the dress rehearsal Friday, night state that there
... . . . . O will-not. be a dull -moment from
7tfC n-j" rrl w .' i I
r Qnng . m. ree uu. Jog y
- Which Kill Woodsman
- A BTOR IA, May II (ff) -Bounced
by a falling tree, a giant
log killed Robert Earl Barr, J4,
Portland, In the ' Clatsop woods
today. Barr was employed with
hi father and brother by the Van
Tleet Logging company.; Kx '
Transienu Held, Death
TILLAMOOK, May "il WrV
Police held two men- transient
today while they Investigated the
death 'of : Earl wr Decker, ': S
transient, beneath the wheels of
a-logging train last - night. v t .
Ven? Oregon Parole Boardrhen
1 6 iConfetJFith ''Washington
The : new -state '- parole ' board,
which will take office June 14, de
cided Friday at It first; meeting
to . eonter with Washington state
parole and prison official next
wee; on how, the Washington par
ol law, from which .Oregon's law
was .eoptod, has workad ont - n
. Chairman. Paul R. Kelty of La
fayette and Gerald W. Mason ot
Portland ill leave Tuesday on a
two-day trip to Olrmpl. Seattle
and - the state, reformatory at
Monroe. Roy- SUKeene ot, Salem
wUl Tisit the state penitentiary at
Walla Walla. '. y ; ? ?
. The new law, will permit the
parole board to tlx minimum sen
tences for convicts." An ' attorney
general's memorandum opinion
submitted to the board today ruled
that the law: doe not apply, to
convict committed before 'June
J'
af O,
Build Bridges Without Nails
V-
rBe Prepred;; by leaning to
start to OnlahThe circus is the
largest single event ever to bo
presented by the counciL
Entire proceeds from the cir
cus will be used to develop Camn
Pioneer, the Boy Scout camp. The
rorest service has recently leased
the land to the counciL' - ,
. Thls jnammoth production will
tie in every troop In the council
with over half of the scouts, cubs
and skippers in uniform, adding
to . the color or the event : The
circus will depict scouting activi
ties such as: camping with var
ious tent to be used, cubbing
games, , scouting .; tames, pillow
ooxing, tug-o -war, Indian . roar
and model aircraft. The Sea Scouts
will give a i thrilling display of
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''wit ;
V The board, by request of Gover
nor Charlea A. Sprague, wUl re
commend to the governor that he
reduce some sentences of convict
now in prison by using hi commutation-
power. .This means the
board "probably will atudy the 'cas
es of all the 1 1 0 0 prison inmates.'
: 'The board, which win hare out
right . parole -power, decided to
meet - once :-a 'weekv' Tha- present
board',- merely, an advisory board
f orjther governor " meets; once ' a
month i. rft . - . f -'- '- .- . s."
. The sUte will not be divided In
to parole districts, at least, until
after the boatd learns where most
parolees go upon leaving the prison.--
. ; . . '
- The board did not consider any
application .for. parol director,
assistant director or the four par
ole officers. . i
Bean -Is NeW !
Oregon Utility
mnimbiier
Announcement Follows
Wallace Resignation
for HI Health
Bean, Portland . Official,
Held Well Qualified;
4 Ex-Resident Here
O. R. Bean, city commissioner
of Portland, was appointed state
utility commiajfoner Friday by
Governor Charles A. Sprague,
following receipt of the resigna
tion or N. O. Wallace who has
held the office since January 1,
1937. Bean will begin his new
duties June 1.
l- Commissioner Wallace stated
in his letter of resignation that
it - was prompted by ill health,
and Governor Sprague made it
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Coal Settlement
Phoned Again
Conferees Fail to Aet
on Agreement; Hope
to Settle Today
r . - .
NEW YORK, May U-flVThe
full Appalachian coal conference
took no action In a s-hour discus
sion tonight on an agreement
reached today by it negotiator to
grant the "anion shop" te Joan, I
Lewi union miners, and Una a
final settlement of the controver
sy that ha tied p thennfaaouj"
nunc or state was postpone;,
until tomorrow at the earliest.
- The conference made up of
ISO representative of operators
and an eo.ua! number of represent
atires ot the union ended with
out public expression from either
side a to the prosecta for tomor
row, but a high operators' spokes
man said privately that it almost
unquestionably would see the
signing, of a contract.
, A union spokesman of equal au
thority put forward a similar view,
with the statement that a general
reopening of the mines by Monday
seemed certain. '
NEW YORK, May -UP)-An
agreement to giro John L. Lewis'
CIO miners a "union shop" and
thus to end the long tie-up ot bi
tuminous coal fields in St states
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SAN FRANCISCO, May
The Portland Ducks bombarded
three San Francisco Seal pitcher
for an easy IS to t victory before
8,009 fans in a Coast league base
ball game here tonight. --
Larry Powell, Toung Seal south
paw, was batted out ot the box in
the first Inning. He yielded tour
runs on three hits and three
walks. Aldon Wilkle, who relieved
Powell, ran Into trouble in the
seventh when the Ducks scored
five runs. Ed Fraxier finished the
game.;. '!---tT'. '"
Bill Thomas, with a big lead,
hurled a good game. Hi only bad
inning was the eighth, when Ted
Norbert smashed a home run with
one on base. Bill Sweeney, Port
land manager, hit four singles and
drew two walks in aeren times at
The Seal are ahead, S to 1 in
the current series.
Portland ......,,b.lS ll! 1
San Francisco . . . . iV U t
Thomas and Monso; . PoweU,
Wilkle (1). Fraaler (7) and
Woodall, Leonard (7). v
Hollywood
til
San Dleao ........... S ' S
Osborne and Crandall: Weldon,
Johnson (II and , Detore. ' Far
quharsoa (I). '
Oakland '.. ' 1
Sacramento .......... S t v S
, CantwelL Sheehan (7) and Ral-
mondl; Seat and OgrodowixL.
: - LOS ' ANGELES.' May IS-OPr-
Lo ' Angeles and. .Seattle fought
through 11 Inning : tonight be
fore ' Seattle won " the ' baseball
thriller, I to T. ,"m , - ,
Seatue ..i',.:..;.,,t II 1
Los ; Angele . . i . . . .T 14 1
--Gregory,-Webbr,-Turpia Tad
Campbell; . 8 1 1 e LUber and
;faCBAMENTO, Msy 1SP
Second' night 'game: T
oakiand:u,.;;;jKj i
Sacramento . . . . . . 1 I - t
; Fallon . and Conroy; Freltaj
and OtTOdowskl.,, ,;
(AVSweeping ' the r two ? short
dashes to pile up -most vt their
winning margin, the - Whitman
Missionarlea today defeated Col
lege, of ruxet souna., ji:t is,
tn.a.dual .track meet,,, J j
Go
I Late Sports
Turkey Allies
Herself With
- Peace Front'
. ' ' , ,
East ,W e st ' . Crossroads
i Nation Joinsv With '
4 Britain, France
Former War Enemies
Exchange Pledges;
6 now in Bloc
(By The Associated Press) .
. The British-French front ac
quired an important new ally Fri
day in Turkey, "cross-roads be
tween east and west."
' The World war enemy of the
western powers and Britain ex
changed pledges to aid each oth
er "in the event of an act of ag
gression leading to war in the
Mediterranean area."
. Prime Minister Chamberlain
told Che British house of commons
the arrangement would remain ef
fective pending conclusion of a
"definite long-term agreement of
reciprocal character."
The addition of Turkey in
creased the membership of the
London-Paris bloc to six nations
Britain, France, Poland, Rumania,
Greece and Turkey.
Two Opposing Alliance
Have 0 Members Each.
The rival Rome-Berlin alliance
has a like number of nations lined
up in the anti-comlntern pact
Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain,
Hungary and Manchoukuo.
i Britain is negotiating with so
viet Russia for an accord while
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, al
though doubtful, are leaning
toward the Rome-Berlin front. -
French Premier Daladier's na
tional' defense government, mean
while, won a strong parliamentary
Tot of confidence S7S to 2 to
la it declared policy of resistance
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lragn Sections
International . Settlement
at Amoj Is Scene of
'Plotter Roundup
SHANGHAI, May (Satur
day) - (ff) Japanese bluejackets
who yesterday suddenly occupied
the . Kulangsu international set
tlement at Amoy . today began
rouhdlng up Chinese suspected ot
anti-Japanese activities. . .
; More than 100 were arrested
in house-to-house searches
through the little foreign area on
I i; (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1)
Occupy
CENTURY ROLLED BACK IN CHURCH HISTORY
If
f . ; ,K
1 A rzrz: -t
.e FloSITIa f Fsl."
I .azl I.
Zladest 'Cefaer trccSht ..CK2iom8 kI; -!Tt f . ,.cc td tf Cicala tzzxHsrjiim'mfper pk
a I -z t',8 pic ' :cr rricits lrrf at t C. . '-II ilvcr tlcr izzt Vzzecster, XTakh
.her t' c! -rt! :a Llc L:j Tzi .i C flt cr; j li r tl at Fort Van-
r tore, a
i . att f
jcost
Ban oh Log
Arg
ued at
Holman Bill Under Fife
CoL Greeley Says It ;1J7illsTurn Business Over, to
y(z&zi'JLvduy and Trade Experts Disagree; ' -Agreement
With pominiezi Suggested
, WASHINGTON, May 12 (AP) A representatiyf if
the West Coast Lumbermen's association told the senate
commerce committee today enactment of legislation prohibit-
u wie cApuxrt ua xwuKias iir piywooa togs wouia serve only
to rob the lumber industry of its remaining foreign business.
"Frankly, the situation many of us fear," said CoL W. B.
ureeiey. one-ume ,. cmei umua5
States forester, "is that if we ac
cept such a program hastily, we
will simply give over to Canada
our log export business."
Greeley's statement, and a re
quest that the committee post
pone action until it had been de
termined whether Canada would
enact similar legislation and
thereby assure a measure ot pro
tection to the American industry,
came at the end of a day of testi
mony in support" of the proposal
introduced . by Senator Holman
(R., Ore.).
The Holman bill. Its sponsors
said, was designed to stop the ex
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Panish Principal
Asks County Post
JI. F. Durham, Long Here,
. Seeks Superintendent
of Schools Term
f H. F. Durham, principal of Par
rish Junior high school,' formally
applied to the eounty court yes
terday afternoon for appointment
as county school i superintendent
to succeed the -tat Mary: L. Fal-
kerson. After interviewing County U'iOTLErrON
Jwdg J$ a-Wearo teKiJJS
iflcatlon to Commissioner Roy
S. Melson and Jim : Smith, who
were absent from tha courthouse.
I Principal Durham, who has
been employed la the Salem school
system tor many year, will be re
tired next month ander the com
pulsory: state law, forbidding the
employment ot teacher oyer IS
years of age. , " ?
1 Theoaly other, formal applica
tion for the county superln ten
dency is that of Edna Allen; mayor
of Jefferson. Mrs. Agnes Booth,
principal of the Salem Heights
school, who Thursday visited the
court,' Is expected to put in ber
application soon. : r
i The court will withhold It de
cision until it feel all would-be
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w wva a ae ew- gftvvwste a
rBenactedl events c .? i. -1 it t
Exports Is
Washington;
Salem Man Killed
By Falling Tree
Lewis E. Roberts, 28, Is
Victim of Accident
Near Monmouth :
INDEPENDENCE, May 12
Lewis E. Roberts, 28, of Salem
route 7, was fatally hurt late this
afternoon when struck by a fall
lng tree on the S. J. Yates place
14 miles southwest of Monmouth.
Roberts, rushed to Dr. George
C. Knott here by three Salem men
with whom he was engaged in cut
ting trees, died before the doctor
was reached. Dr. Knott said death
was due to internal injuries.
Roberts, according to C. Sicho.
W. Brown and C. E. Miller, with
whom he was working, started to
climb up a hill to get away from
the falling tree, but slipped and
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Cascade Locks to
prBonclCasc
Ore., Mf U.
from a"Hood Kfror
eountr circuit4 court - ruling in
the city ot Cascade Lock' suit
to fore W. J. Carlson, tity re
eorder. to-lasu STSJ)eO- beads
for an electrical distribuUon sys
tem, were filed with the state
supreme court today.
The ' city appealed " from the
eonrt'a ruling that the recorder
had the right to refuse to issue
the bonds because they were not
advertised properly under Ore-
gonjaw. ; '
The recorder appealed from a
ruling "upholding the constitu
tionality of the city's charter
amendment exempting the
bonds from the city's limitation,
and permitting the city to issue
them payable solely from reve
nues from the electric system
and not' from general taxation.,
,1 rr Itzjicls IL" Ebuscbet
CropD
amages
Forest Fires,
Serious,
Son Boosts to ; 87"in
Salem for Record; i
r RaioFar Away -
Vest Timber Blate - It
Spreading; Paget'
r ires fought
Auguring further damarfe ta
crops, the 1939 heat record waa
broken in Salem Friday when the
mercury in the official thermom
eter rose to 11 degrees at i: is
p.m. The highest mark recorded
caruer mis year was 8 degrees.
on April 17. . v i
Friday's maximum was thi hJrh-
est since Seutember is - nit
when the mercurr dim hod tn ei
degrees. , ;
WEST TIMBER. Mir' ll
Wlnd-borne flames crackled over
700 acres of brush and iluliinn
on Round Top mountain today, j
The fire spread over an area es
timated at four miles in length
and two and a half In width, chief
ly on the Weist ft Scritsmier aad
Dwyer logginc o Derations HnM.
lugs of the Standard Logging com
pany and the ConsoUdated Log
ging company were menaced bv
spot fires. -v . ;
Ray Miller. SB. a WiUtt ari.
mier mechanic, mutter m. krk.i
leg while running a buUdoser on
ua lire line. - . ... ,
The fire swept the bnlldoir.
four donkey engines, about a mil
lion and a halt board feet of inn
and 15000 worth of lines and rig
Sing. No uncut timber was losLi
With the threat of a dangerous
wind always at hand, John Harrta
began throwing up protection for
hi Wedehurg mill an dock. - r
Approximately 2 0 0 CCO men
and loggers, directed by SUIe Firs
Warden Cecil Kyli; wercatUmpt. .
us w irau in Diaxe.
US Marine Fight
Washington Fire '
I2ATTLS.' Ui tln
United State marina, f r
Puset Sound navr 1 vard mn
called tonight to fight a forest
fire menacinr tha
theater, an outdoor playhouse
surrounded by virgin Umber on
Chic creek, in Kitsap county.'
The blaze, which ComniniM.
erCharle Klelnfelier of Kitsap
county said he believed was in
cendiary, was a mile and a halt
from Camp Wesley Harris, ma-
line corps rifle range. It was
burning late todav within a
feet of the amphitheater, owned
ny me Mountaineers club of
Seattle and used for outdoor
pageants. .
The fire was the tMt
Mveral mtArti -v. ....
Fear
northwest a high temperatarea '
end low humidity increased tha
Kasarcu Tno mercury climbed t
SO at Seatue, highest of tha .
A Crew af elvllfan 'mkumI.
1 tlon corps worker vn tmiiM "
to combat another Kitsap county
Mas, near Eglon. it wa bum
ng on a three-mile front. i
second growth timber and tiuk.
tag. - ' i . . ...:
SUU another, blase occurr
in a COnntv nrlun a. - .
nans to yage .ICol; I
Death Rostt3
hito Fire
CHICAGO. Mav: U--.Tk-
death list in the'flre that de
stroyed five towerlnr crain ai.
vatora swelled to nine tonight.
i David Marvin,' an . employe at
one of the elevators, died of buna
he incurred in his flight trosa
the biasing structure. The sight
others killed were trapped ia the
flaming twHIwf,
o survivors . of : th Ore 'werw
tuesUoned today la aa effort to
dstenala the cause. " . .
City, state and federal mvaatu
gator joined In the inaulry while
Crsaen played stream of water
on ta block square area of snoot
ing grain dunes, blackened Urn--bars
and twisted steeL .
i A search for bodies ln tha
wreclaga of elvator-A, of tha " '
JKoaenpaum . Brother.- comnanr.
vhert tt t!aza Orir&ite 1 yester-'
day. Was deferred antil tomorrow-' -
Picliireatin
i Fhotog-raph of 5S0 yosmg
cLUiren cf Saleu and. vicinity
wUl 'appear in- the aanaal
;Otaby Section of The States-
man .wucu 'wm bo.-si spec!-l
feature cf . tomorrow's . pa;cr.
The section win , Include 4
pares,-tabloid sUel .... , ,
This, wUl bo the largest such
section pabllshed ty
Ctatesmua - ia ttie 4 many years
aartoj-1wliich:it ;bas .fceesi aa .
annual --f eatere. Or tor
extra copies, should t placed
promptly. 4; . r."