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Famed Fannies The Weather ! . Polly sad IXer Pali, mmH Ptopeye, lead the dally par j ada of famou fannies ap : Occasional showers today aad Friday, little change ta ' V V-l H . . tempemtnres. . Max. : temp. Pjeansjp im Tbe sutesnuuu Colored oa 8nadaya, . N- y Y ;-'i weaaeooay, r 71, nin. f Blw-SfUSW wind.? EIGITipr-NINTU YEAR Salm, Orecp, Thcrsdiy: llcrnls;. Hay 25 ; Prica Ui Nnrsstanda 5 ? ' No. 51 Prune Industry Out of State Marketing Act 'Agricultural Department Head pees Factors Against Inclusion Federal Marketing Plan, Grower Cooperatives Are Recommended - J. 'D. MIckle. director of ths gtate i department of apiculture, handed down Wednesday ' his lons-awaited decision on state prone marketing standards He declined for Ue present to . put " the Oregon agricultural market . ing act into effect lor-the prune industry. - In i a 10-pag decision. Direc tor - llickle reriewed information secured by the department in nu merous hearings held during the past few months. He pointed out that the tacts led to two conclu sions: The prune industry H not receiving a fair exchange value for Its products, and "the ad ministrative powers conferred upon the director would' not ef fectuate the declared purpose of the act." . Application of Act Seen !as Ineffective Major factors which would make application of the market ing act ineffective were set out essentially as follows . 1. Oregon produces only, 15 per cent of the total prune vol ume i of the country. Since Cali fornia produces most of the rest, this ! state's industry is subject to California conditions which would tend to make a state mar keting program ineffective. - 2. A majority of Oregon grow ers have not endorsed the ctate marketing standards plan. The- decision recommended that the growers themselves should " organize a . cooperative marketing agency. t furthering-I - . 1 - IV I . . 1 . l A f .1 1 agreement .would be " preferable ' tTttm lo. page 4, coL 4) . Poison Attempts Confessed, Report Employe of Postoffice at Portland Admits Act" of Tainting Food V OREGON CfTT, Ore.. May 24 -James A. Bryce, S5, veteran Portland postoffice employe,: to night confessed to an unsuccessful attempt to poison ' his wife and mother-in-law by placing' strych nine In their mush, ..District At torney Fred A. Miller announced. Bryce, at liberty on 15000 bail, called at Miller's office voluntar . ily and made the confession and agreed to remain in Jail, the dis trict attorney said. ; The wife, Olga, 48, also a Port land postoffice employe, and the mother-in-law, Mrs. Q. Hansen, 77, who lived with them at Clack amas; noticed a peculiar taste and smell and did not ' eat the mush . which; Bryce told . MiUer- he had prepared for the two women be fore leaving for work. J Bryce said he obtained the poison from a lo cal dfag atore, using" an assumed name, , "- - ; '' He told Miller domestic diftiAil- ty foil which he blamed his mother-in-law prompted the attempt. Four Are Tall As Fairviev Head i - ."' Members of the state board of control were closeted nearly two hours Wednesday afternoon con sldering the selection of a super intendent of the state Falrview home (feet la minded Institution), to sueceed Dr. Roy Byrd, who ..lied recently - Persons dose to the adminis tration said the names of four per sons were discussed; j These in eluded Dr. H. G. MUler, staff phy sician at the Oregon state hospit al; Dr. A. H. Johnson. Portland; Dr. O. W. Ritteman, acting super intendent of the home, and Dr. J. O. Matthis, Bttm.-j zf i,,.c-v. Governor . Charles A. 8pragne announced at the conclusion of the "conference that no definite action : was taken. --. tV.vu Annual Gly-Wide v Bargain Days Aire . t Annual c!iywi3e barf ala1 days bar bees set to start to day,, with many merchants par : tlclpatis. Purpose of the event, la to dispose of the season's ' brokea lines and odds and ends ' of other merchandise. Else where ta today's and i tomor , row's Statesman merchants wCT tell of the many low prices they are offering to make it worth tho while of Salem and oat of town pec;l ta k0? t? weci" , Free Cooking Schoof Again This Throne A f tp Miss Barbara Miller, HcV O-onoinist,' Displays Art in Making Oven Mtal; Guests Today . Urged to Get Seats Early The Oregon Statesman cooking show with Miss Barbara Miller officiating, played before a.' near-capacity audience yesterday afternoon at the Capitol theatre, and indications are for an even larger crowd today, The show will continue through tomorrow, i ,t Miss Miller made an oven meal, baked two pies and made a cnocoiaie covered caae at yes- terday'a demonstration. A style show of garden clothes marked the , S o'clock Intermission. Spe cial displays have been erected by the various local distributors of nationally known kitchen equip ment, and women attending the show took time 'to check over what's new in time-saving equip ment available for their own kit chens. An additional display of food products used by Miss MUler In her show were arranged in tbe lobby of the theatre. Guests at today's show should come before 2 o'clock to get the front seats, as tho better views go first,' and the crowd comes early. The program as planned for to (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Coast Financial .Officials Charged -V ! j" President, Via ; - President of big Concern Held Law Violators LOS ANGELES, May 24.-(p)-Robert S. Odell, president of the Pacific States Savings and Loan company, one of the largest of its kind in the United States, and Gerald S- s White, vice-president; Kare indicted by the federal grand Jnhy tonight on efc3rgesef violaCt ing the bankruptcy act. " V The indictments were teturned within an hour after United States Attorney General Frank Murphy arrived In Los Angeles and ap peared before the grand Jury, ait ting in special session. Evidence offering to uphold the request for Indictments on two counts centered around the al leged destruction of records last February when the company was the target of a bankruptcy suit filed by a group , of - certificate holders. Mt i Pacific States Savings. &' Loan Co. was organized In 1889 and In 1931 had assets of $105,000,000. Estimated current value is 153, 000,000. Boy Owns Killing ; Of Parents, Sister '' JX " i i s $ BEAVER, Pa., May 24.FA middle-aged couple and their red haired : daughter were shot and hacked to death today while they slept and several hours later Cor oner. H, C. McCarter announced the couple's 17-year-old son had admitted the slayings. . The bodies of 'Forrest - Cooke, 45, South - Beaver township tax collector, his wife, Cora, 45; and their daughter, Eleanro. 2 5," were found in two beds in an unfinished attic bedroom of their country home.V;'V';:;;,f V. Their faces had been smashed with the blunt aide of an axe and the. mother and daughter- had been shot f with . a shotgun. Mc Carter said the' son, Paul Cooke, wept as he was taken Into the room and cried out: r- -I did It; They treated me mean." . Rains Hair Crickets ' HALFWAY, Ore.. May 14-tfP) -Rains driving crickets to the drier hillsides and poisonous sprays helped greatly ' today la cheeking r an - Infestation . which has threatened the rich Pine val ley. Bushels of the insects vers trapped last week and burned or aground into teed tor pigs and turkeys.. Crop damage thus far was light. ' - . - Bennetts of. Albany:, Accepts acnooi-dupe -3- - School Superintendent Frank B. Bennett 'of 'Albany 1 advised The Oregoa. SUtesmaa last night he had accepted the off er of the Sa lem school hoard to become city superintendent here and had signed the proffered three-year contract. ' - -z ? l rVf The Albany board met yester day afternoon, .released Bennett from his contract there and -considered applications already ' re ceived from educators aspiring to succeed him. No decision as to his snccessoor had been made by late afternoon, Anne A. Lake, the Statesman correspondent at . Al bany, reported. Bennett ' will come to Caleni "off and on to make connections" with-his new work prior o Lis Af. &moon; $8 Opener Bobby Berry, 8, Drowns in River Hubbard Boy Is : Victim of Swimming Tragedy in Pudding River Bobby Berry, . about eight,' of Hubbard route one, drowned In tbe Pudding river shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon while fording the stream with his broth er, Gene, 11, Coroner L. E. Bar- rick reported last night. ' The two boys had gone to the swimming hole on the Alex Fo bert place 1 mUes from their home on the Pacific highway to play, with their mother's warning not to go in unless other boys were present, the coroner said. They had waded across the river and were returning when the current apparently upset Bobby and be was carried into a deep hole. Neither Gene nor Gilbert Saun ders and Junior Fobert, who were on a raft downstream a short dis tance, were able to reach the lad as he made a feeble attempt to swim : t State police and residents of the district were stlU dragging the river in search of the body when the eoroner left at .7:30 to return to Salerno The Sal ear first aid car also was called to the scene. , " Bobby Is survived by his moth er, Mrs. Ruth Berry, and the one brother. They formerly lived In Salem. .... . " Bergdoll toSee WASHINGTON, May, 2A.-ypy- urover. uiereiana uergaoii steamed toward his homeland to day after nearly 20 years of self imposed ; exile in Germany while government officials debated whe ther he shonld be permitted to re enter this country.' - Harry -Weinberger, "the - draft dodger's attorney. Informed the senate military affairs committee that Bergdoll was aboard the liner Bremen, dne In New. York tomor row. He had departed nnannoun ced from: Germany after signify Ing a desire to serve a five-year sentence imposed after his convic tion in 1120.-: . 4 - Major General Allen W. GulEhm, the army's Judge advocate gener al, told the committee that the war department was anxious f to take Bergdoll into custody and send him to prison? ;; .-" -. Gerard P. Bellly, sblleUor of the labof "department, aaid lmmlgra , tlon authorities wo a Id oppose Bergdoll's rentry on the ground that he had forfeited his citizen ship by his nearly 20 years in ex ile. . Mrs. Don Morley Given Transfusion : Mrs. Don Morleys condition was reported by Salem General - hos plUl authorities as but "fair" last night, following an operation and a blood transfusion performed yes terday morning.: 3 - Injured Tuesday morning when struck down by "an automobile, Mrs. Morley was at first thought to have been hut slightly bruised Internally. Complications necessi tated aa operation, however, and a blood, transfusion. ;' Blood was do nated by Glen Shed eckcity fire man. rinte assuming the superin tendency on July 1, he said. He suted he would study local problems before for mulating definite; administrative policies. - ' !I want to get acquainted with everything la the Ealem system first, he explained - r The Salem directors voted unanimously Tuesday night to offer Bennett Ihe position as. suc cessor to Superintendent Silas Galser. The contract prorldes for a salary of $4000 the first year, 14250 the second and 14500 the third,- plna travel expenses. Bennett has held similar posi tions at Tillamook, Enterprise, Prairie City and WestporL He Is a graduate cf Willamette unlver Hty. ,-,,..-.-.- - Home Land Today naency Agreement Is Nearly Ready "Full AgMNement, to Be Announced WitHiji k ; Fortnight, Said; 1 . "V - ; - Chief Obstacles Past; Axis Powers Irked by new Front By tha Associated Press 4 The nearly two-months-long ne gotiations with Soviet Rassla for a tri-power mutual assistance pact have progressed to the point where a "full agreement may be announced within two weeks, Brit sin's Prime Vlnister Chamberlain announced Wednesday. - v ' The prime ministry made this report to the house of commons Wednesday after a two-hoar cab inet meeting at which revised pro posals of cooperation with the so viet were approved. n r . In the long negotiations details of the formation of tho arrange ment proved i a stumbling block, with Russia! Insisting upon a (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Man Faces Trial In Water Feud J. D. Burke Gets Hearing, Held Without Bond, in Shooting Death BURNS, Ore., May 24W. D. Burke, CO, charged with the water hole feud shooting ; Saturday of Frank Dobkins, 68, in the Wagon tire section, was bound over to tbe grand Jury without bond at a hearing today, Sheriff C W. Frasier announced . - The grand . Jury will meet , in Septembers The only stats witness. Homer E. Carlon, testified 'he and Dob- kins, on their way to check cattle, entered a road known as a "stock driveway" When they encountered Burke and Harry Arnold. He said Burke and Carlon ex changed greetings after which Burke accused Dobkins of stalk ing about me." He asserted Burke spurred his horse at Dobkins' mount.' Dobkins' horse (Whirled and at the same time Burke drew his pistol and fired. jCarlon' testi - (Turn to-page 2, eoL 2) Philippines Sees Cholera Outbreak -. MANHjC' May 25-Thursday) f-(P-A " cholera, epidemic which took a - toil .oi si aeaa - u two towns the i last . five ' days; was being battled by health authori ties today' la Neuva Vicaya pro vince, northeast of ManilaT Health officials reported dif ficulty fat detecting" the. cases as natives were hiding those suffer ing with the disease. , The -cholera outbreak, first la the-Philippines since epidem ics ? swept "China and i other ori ental sectors several .years ago, started . from unsanitary well water.-, 2 PORTLAND, Orel May tl-VPl -With Eddie Marshall, utility ln- flelder, replacing Frank Hawkins on third base, the cellar Portland Beavers snapped- out of - their slump .tonight, beating ; Sacra mento 3-1 in, the delayed Pa cific coast league series opener. . Manager Bill Sweeney doubled in the fourth and sixth, each time reached third on sacrifices or oats and scored as Rosenburg filed and grounded out for Port land's -margin, BilL Thomas scattered nine hits and blanked" the Solona in all but the 8th Inning. Tony Freltaa was' reached for 1L Both pitch ers were aided daring the speedy garner-played In an hour and ' 24 minutes by numerous double plays. Sacramento turned In fonr, Portland two., ' -f - Hawkins, who drew a total "of $1 SO in fines last week was In- definitely suspended by Manager Sweeney when he refused to re port for the game. Sweeney said the first $100 fine was tor "par tying." Ue remaining SzSe for failure to' report tor games. Sacramento ! ....... 1 2 Portland 11 1 Freitas : and Ogrodowskl; Thom as aad 'Adams. Hollywood ........ 2 C 2 Oakland S - IS t Phebus. Tost. - Moncrlef ; ant Brentel: Cantwell, and Ralmon- dJL ' ; f ' 5 San" Diego ...T;H. "l t Seattle V. vi' 4 ' 12 2 . Craghead and ' Detore; - Turpln and Campbell. , , ; . : San Francisco V. i. 4 -- It S Los Anseles .......10 14 3 Etutx, Jorrtsrs and Sprlns: British-Russ Late Sports FOUR OFFICERS ALIONG 33 SAVED FROII SUB A'.lWAlVWIIWIKlMWKiMt.w. v...,...- Anti-Jew Reading HeldFloodingUS Thouaanda of Pamphleta ' Sent Here by Nazis I peatherage Says WASHINGTON. ! May . 24-4PV- George Deatherage, talkative commander of the Knights of the White ; Camelliar Informed the Dies committee today . that a "world service" In Germany sup plies material to interested or ganisations here for anti-Jewish aad anti-communist publica tion.".. .... . . "Untold thousands' . of pam phlets and leaflets of -this type are distributed throughout the country, he said,' adding that an official of . the e German , embassy once 1 told hlnf : there was ' more anti-Jewish feeling la the United SUtes today-than' there' was In Germany before 'Adolf Hitler came to power ' , , , .: In addition, Deatherage told of , a f trio to - Newport. , in -, the course of which he dined on the yacht of Howland Spencer, New York real esute . - dealer,- with Frailer Jelke, a , New York so ciety figure, and JTyoangvAstor He explained " his ., program to them; he' said. ' and later Spencer contributed 1200 ; to his. move ment, . ; 7 .. i ; ' : v l f . Mild of. manner today in con trast . with his stormy behavior yesterday.: , Deatherage said he was convinced that a ' left-wini revoiuupn fomented by lnter? ti urn to page z, coi. t -,A, FindofdbtLea Is Roiberyl Nci Llrirder Que i Discovery of several pieces' of woman's, apparel, calling cards, a doctor's prescription, several pil low cases and a cartridge belt oa the bank of a slough south of Wheatland Tuesday was partly ex plained yesterday when Sheriff A. C. Burk Interviewed the woman named on the eards,' Urs. O. G. Gerber, of Portland, at! was In formed her house had been -bur glarised ;10 days'. ago.:i'jv -: All the articles found sear the slough, located on the lower river road, except ' tho ' eartrid; belt tre Identified as being from the loot taken from" the Gerbr rest denes in northeast.PorUand..They were turned over to Portland per lice for cheeking. 7. Sheriff Bnrk first suspected fenl play when WPA road 'workers re ported the find. " - t ' 6 Men Are Heldf ? Car Theft G)unls ASTORIA,. May . 24-(VPolke had' ate men' under arrest today in connection with the thefts of three automobiles. . . - Those detained gave the tames of WllUam Warner, Jess Fisher. soldiers; of Fort. Stevens."1 Fred Earhart,- who was arrested at TUlamook, - and Don. Joffman. John Hoirma:: and Richard Pan-" ner, arrested at Newport by : statsj lelOTO j a-.riia alaxa. - L t ...-'-x :;7x::7- -w f Above, scene cf the snbmarine Sqmaraa disastert hoveiimtT over the snnkea vessel are the rabmarlne Scnlpisi and .the teg Wandank, first vessels to arrive. Ease eft spots on the ocean surface reveal the dialled craft's location rintt roif otindlvldaal rJctnres, from left, Ensf-n Johseph IL Patterson, the one officer who lost his life: Ltent. WlUiact T. Doyle and Xlewt. IC N. Robertson r second tow, Lieut. Comm. O. F. Naqutn and Ensln W. C. Klchohu. Map below shows locatioa of disaster Off New England coast--41X photos. morulas 36 Mqutp "(r II tar's nctet . Judson TtonS3 ri3, S3, cf Norfolk. Va., an elzctrician's mate, on the subma rizs. Crnslns, la better ecndltlca than t: je et his fellow survivors, J gave tie fc" awing interview T7ei atsday t:;tt:) por.Tr:cTn. laLifari ii- (Jr-Tn very hapry to. beUtere and to say I -was wl'Jt a very flr boneh of shU nates. X never f aw a'crew hnndl3 so well at:trstl;a that really needed good k&n&lis:. I We made a perfectly normally fast dive. It was a test dive aad the test superintendent was tim ing it and cloekina It as we went dOWn.', 5 zil-- 'r;."i:-'y I Thea something happened. It Jest couldn't be helped. It was one of those things . that - might ; go wrong with any complicated me chanical thing. , ' t "We started taking In waiter through the ventilation valve. We knew something had gone wrong aft. Ths crtaln eazse Itlnwt Ee was'; la complete charge at all tines. All cf his orders were car- Sift V,'. - K uii)worj3ells JUhaet Waters t'.:1 out Immedfately. "The men worked to shut oft tie water. Then the diving officer came below and tave orders to blow-the tanks. We took a terrific ersls.lt was about A degrees, 1 illzi. wUhUta tow ep. One of lla closed tls dsot to the af- tr rsrt of the t-Ip, It took super frecsth to do it and I don't see 1 3W he did It .J;.f "All tho men possible got oat of tie after compartments- I dont know, lf .au the after ' compart ments were flooded and V hops they wero'aoL ?l':Xi&V.h :A "We lost all power and had no communication astern. No - oae wu excited at any tine.. Everyone was living in the hope 'We'd be found. We fired smoke bombs at regular ' Intervals. We heard the Scnlrln's engla axouad t o'clock and anew she wss there, ."We knew It was the Scnlpin because her en sines are Just like ours. We were greatly relieved. T."s knew wo had been found, and had nothlag to wcrry about.;7tT-..- XTurn v itl 2-ecL;:2) Sunken Graft Watery Coff 'e For 26 Deatl " - - . - . :-- ' - - -. .- ' -.r f . ''.. - - ., v.-- Navy Completes Heroto Re8cne; Chamber Is Used in Task Rescued Men in Bell r Periled for , 'While v as Cable Jams y PORTSMOUTH. N. R.. May 21. " -(Thursday) -(ff)-Tn e United states navy completed early to- day a major epic of the sea tbo perilous rescue of 22 men trapped since Tuesday on the ocean- floor ; aboard the submarine Squalus and the sunken crsft was left peo pled only by Its 21 dead. - Under the giant searchlights el a fleet of mercy vessels, a rescue chamber bearing the last eight men finally was brought to tho surface at 12:20 a. m. (EDT), but only after an escape from a see- ond near-tragedy. - . For nearly four hours, the us- i wleldy, nine-ton diving bell bust suspended ISO feet below the sur ' face when a hoisting cable jam- i med. i! ! Men who already had been im- ! prisoned for more than 31 hours In the stale, gas-ridden but icy cold air of the crippled Squalua were Jammed like sardines in tho cramped rescue chamber. Only tbe fact that, a hose reaching to tbe" surface was attached to tbe bell, so that fresh air could be pumped down, prevented acute danger to the trapped men. A second hose also was connected through which stale air could be drawn off. Message Is Flashed At Last Eight Up As the bell finally broke the surface on its last , tortuous trip, this message was flashed from the rescue ship Falcon: "Eight men on fourth trip. ATI In good shape andv all survivors now out.! v ' Thus was completed the; roljt UielMnr. ' . More than 40 fathoms below rested the dead, two of them elv Ulan observers and one an officer Ensign Joseph W. Patterson of Oklahoma City. - Even as the final eight were brought out alive, however, tho -navy's high command gave the or (Turn 'to page 2, col. 6) George VI Urges World Fair Play WINNIPEG. May U.-(JP)-Klns George VI observed British Em plre day in this heart of the Cana dian prairies today with a world wide radio address which extolled "the faith in reason and fair DlW"" which he skid wss shared by Brit aln, the United States and his De minion of Canada. v v This Joint faith, he said, was "one of the chief ideals thst guides .the British Empire is all Its ways today. J .1-7 7 "Canada and the United States have had tor dispose of . searching differences; of , aim and ? Interest j during the past hundred years; but never has one of these differ ences been resolved by force or by threat, the king said. - r: , f . ."No man, thank God, will ever again conceive of sueh arbitra ment between the pople of my em pire and the people of the United States. . - . . . - - orgfei not DALLAS. . May 24 Lewis Otto Eitelgeorge was declared not gull- i ty by a circuit court Jury hero to-1 day In his second trial on statu tory charges. The case went to the Jury -at 4 p.m. and verdict was reached St 3:21 .to. v v v f -Eitelgeorge, a Salem auto me chanic, was tried here previously about a month ago on a charge ot assault with Intent to rape, and the jury was dismissed by Circuit Jndgo Arlie Q. Walker after it had deliberated over 23 hours without reaching a verdict. . . Eitelgeorge was indicted by tho Polk eounty grand Jury ea si eonnts Involving two minor glria. Tho present charge was that of contributing to the dellnauency of 0 minor. ; ,v?.h7.,.-;.; Pcoliiig Order ba( stata mix caatroi hoard today is sued a new pooling and quota or der tor tho Portland: market, ef fective June 1, designed to elimin ate indiscriminate transfer, sale, barter and borrowing ot quotas among' producers.-- - . 1 The order; limits methods ky which quotas may change hands. places a responsibility on the pro- cucer of maintaining his asslgne 1 t quota of milk -under penalty .cf quota, reduction, and prorii a ' method' ty which new si!. i may.be admitted to the tiaiit-' when dem&zl warrantx.'r-"."'' : ' Eitelge Guilty