Late Sports ' . v A world'! .- heavyweight title ..fight baseball, or oft ball game - you'U find the result fint always In Che -sports pages of the Horning;? Newspaper. The Veather - .Parti cloudy today and . ' fatnrdayj unsettled i north- -' , went portion. Maximum ' "temperature ' Thursday 78, snlntnmm 55. Hirer 1.7 ft. West wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR 1 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, July 1, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 6e No. S3 Hbuster Letts FD line Power E ru: rr : PCUNDOD 1651 Fall .R Deva r ft-' : Crisis Rumors Are Pondered By Statesmen X ' 1 i Little Evidence Is Seen . of ComingShowdown v - Despite Talks Doubt Arises as to What Britain Would Do if Danzig Taken (By The Associated Press) Alarmed European statesmen pondered a welter . of rumors and bristling official pronounce ments last night in search of an answer to the question: Is there a new crisis In the wind and where? Putting two and two together they found' little concrete en dence of an Impending show down. At least the) eonld : not pat a finger on - uch aminous signs as preceded European cri aes of the recent past. t London official circles insisted with "emphasis there would be "no retreat" by Uritain In Eu rope, but last of clues on Adolf Hitler's : Immediate plans a n d technicalities , of the British guarantee to Poland gave rise to speculation over whether Dan sig was an imminent danger spot j . " . British officials said a dec laration by Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax Thursday that Bri tain's "first ; task is to resist aggression'! was intended in the first place to eliminate any doubt as to whether she would fight for Danzig. How About Nazi 'Ingenuity One Important Question con cerning ' Danzig appeared, how ever, to lie outside his state mentwhat would : happen if Germany used "ingenuity," as a Nazi spokesman put it, instead of force? The British foreign office wouldn't say whether that would be regarded as aggressionbttt It" waa emphasized that ; Britain would be compelled t. fight for Poland if she decided to resist with force. ,; , Nazi officials, who hare denied any Intentions of an Impending coop In Danilg, expressed amuse ment at French reports of an ef fort to settle, by negotiation the German-Polish dispute over the free city. ' Informed Berlin quarters said there were no indications of an effort by either Poland or Ger many to settle the matter directly but that "it might be that France and Great Britain are trying to step in as mediators.' They doubt ed that Hitler would compromise. Nazis Unimpressed -by Waraings ; Topflight nails professed to be unimpressed by Britain's warn ings and assarted Germany would strive unswervingly toward the goal set by the fuehrer return of Danzig to the retch and a sov ereign right of way across Po morse, the Polish corridor, to con nect Germay proper f and East Prussia. - In Danzig Itself the tree city's (Turn to Page Z, Col. 7.) Witness Is Held' In Trooper Death THE DALLES, June S0.-V State police today . held' Leonard Strand, 23, as a material witness In the shooting 10 days ago of State Trooper Willard Tubbs. ! Strand was picked up en route to Condon from Portland. He said he had been in Portland a- week. He disappeared after the shoot lng. ' - - - -, v Tubbs was killed by Lee Col lins, Seattle, when he and- Ar lington Marshal Webb Turner at tempted to question him. Turner wounded Collins who is still par tially paralyzed but out of dan ger. Collins was removed to the Wasco county jail todiy where he wiu awzu uiiiiam county grano Jury action. - . -; New; School Over Du ties of His "' Office Today By BEULAH CHAPMAN Frank B. Bennett,' n educator ot 19 rears' experience, officially takes over duties here today as superintendent of .Salem city schools. , Although . he has " been working at his new job for the past several weeks, his term of office opens with the new fiscal year, July 1. . j--y--v-;,". First on the busy Mr. Bennett's list of activities is attendance of the National Education association conference In San Francisco July 2 to 8. He wilt leave for Calif ornia either tonight or early tomorrow morning and will return next weekend. : Although he believes br placing emphasis on progresslTenesa In education, the new superintendent does . sot endorse the so-called "Progressive Education" : move- rust. ' .: KIDS PARADE PETS AT PLAYGROUNDS 'V " J( Minnesota Abbot Heads Educators Abbot Thomas Meier Made Vice President for Benedictines c HT. ANGEL, June 30 Rt Rev. Alculn Deutch,'OSB, abbot of St. Johns college, Collegeville, Minn., was- reelected president of the National Benedictine Educa tion association here this, after noon as it concluded its three-day session. . . , ; . " ; " Abbot Thomas Meier,. OSB, of Mt Angel college, was elected rice president and Rt. Rev. Lambert Burton, OSB,sSt. Martins college, LaceytWaslu was reelected secretary-treasurer, a post he has held for 20 years.; . , t The closing sessions were de Toted principally : to discussions seeking to evaluate current edu cational theory and' practice. ' . The Benedictine schools, said Father Prank Clement, OSB, reg (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6.) Fair Wpather Is Due for Weekend PORTLAND, Ore., June 8 O.-i -Oregonlans headed for beaches, mountains and lakes today as fair weather and mild tempera tures enhanced .vacation spots for holiday weekends. Except tt Newport where 6-lOths of an inch of rain fell, the state was dry last night and to day.. The forecast was for gener ally fair weather Saturday - and Sunday with slight temperature drops in the east portion. - ' Baker got the hottest reading Thursday, J8 degrees. Bend had 84. Brooklngs-4 2, Burns 12, Eu gene 72, Hood River 74, Lake view 84, Medford 8f, Newport 84, North , Bend 88, Pendleton 84, PorUand 78," Roseburg ,78, Siski you 8ummlt 70. Superintendent Takes "Practices in '.education' are changing' all .the time,; and' will continue to. change," he said In an interview yesterday. "And ho system can be considered good tor all time." ? Some of the ideas of the Pro gressive group Mr, Bennett agrees with, but others are already out moded, he said.' Child centered, bat no child directed, activity meets with his aprovaL Curricu lum must be based on the fun damentals which the child win need, in life - activities and which grow out of the child's native in terests, hesaid. Art and music are gaming a more important place for themselves In the curriculum, he added. ' ' . v-- Mr. Bennett is a graduate of Willamette university in the class of -1821. Previous to starting to the university, however, lie bad Glimpse of pets on parade, as a teraaj visited annual pet day Onager Mary Lou Allen, at whose two dogs. Patsy and Ml try -grinning from the doll carriages, won the best dressed prize; said right, Jeanne Hoffman, whose pet kitty short time before escaped np a tree. At Leslie,, left George Miller is np on Bossle, with whom he won the biggest pet prize, while Sister Betty stands at her head. Doggies Snatch Prizes In Annual Pet Parades n ! ; !.'' ' . Cats Close Second and Many a Mortal Combat Is Narrowly Avoided as Felines and Canines Strain Leashes '' ' J'"'- From the number of canines entered in the annual pet day parades on the. city playgrounds yesterday, dogs must be children's best friend as well as jnari's. Eight of Jhe 14 prizes were copped by the canines in pet. shows that drew 40 en tries at Olinger and 28 at Leslie. ; Cats were a close second to their mortal enemies, and as a consequence little masters wereO oftimes hard put to stave off bat tles that threatened to demoralize the parades. But frogs, alligators, minnows, chickens. Peruvian cav ies, cows, earwigs, ladybugs, gui nea pigs, goats and fleas also had their -day at the pet fair. Olinger winners were: Mackle McLean's dog, for largest pet; Peggy Frantz two i doll buggy dogs, for best dressed;. Pearl Fer guson's baby frogs, for smallest;. Billy : Stepanek's baby alligators, for most unusual; Alice Faye Dougherty's toy terriers, best trained; Donna Shalt's bulldog, ugliest; and Lavon Mathis' kitten, prettiest. At -1 Leslie first prize winners were: 1 George Miller's cow, larg est; Dick Turner's flea, smallest; Bud Smite's dog, ugliest; Rona Nelson's Pekingese, prettiest; Bill and Bob Heisler's duck, most un usual; Katherlne Cunningham's "Terry" dog, best trained; and Cynthia Needham's ''Nigger" dog best dressed. 1 About 600 spectators witnessed the two pet parades, in which the biggest attraction was probabl; Billy Stepanek's baby alligators, which he toted around in a wagon filled with water A program at Leslie consisted of vocal solos by Delia Saabye, Char lotte Mae Mof fett, Elaine Ander son, j Margaret Dougherty and Donna Whitely; poems by Cynthia Needham and Francis Baker; and a duet by Gloria Scay and Marian Lee Cunningham. . ; Shiny neto Automobile , ' Get Good Salt Bath : CANNON BEACH, June 3.0-m -A California motorist, Wayland Dunham, drove his brand new automobile too close to the surf here yesterday and it sank in a crab hole. Salvagers planned to dig it out at low tide. . already had one year's experience as a teacher in a small elementary school in Idaho. He has also held positions ? In Westport. S Prairie City, Enterprise. Tillamook . and Albany. In the last four places he was superintendent. - ! He is active in the work of the Oregon : State Teachers associa tion and is a member of the scope and sequence division ot the cur riculum revision of that organiza tion. " ... ;- Golfing and fishing he lists among his favorite outdoor recre ations, but he prefers activities In which all his family may partici pate. He and Mrs. Bennett have tire children, an of which will enter Salem schools this fall.' His only daughter, a sottban star, will be junior in high; school. Four sons will be in the Sth, 7th. Ith and 2d grades. Statesman staff photographer yes at the city playgrounds. Above, at left, helping: Peggy Franta, center. LaMoine R. Oark Is Welfare Chief Governor Names Chandler Brown, Jack, Minto, Potts to Body Three new members were ap pointed to the Marion county public welfare commission yester day by Governor Charles A. Sprague. i LaMoine R. Clark, recently-retired "principal of Leslie junior high school, was named chairman to succeed Rev. George H. Swift, who had resigned. John D. Minto. hopgrower and former Salem city councilman, and Chandler Brown, young Salem businessman, were the other new appointees, taking the positions formerly held by J. F. Ulrich and H. V. Collins. George W. Potts of Jefferson was retained on the commission. The three i members of . the county court make up the remaining membership. Appointing w e 1 f a re commis sions for all 36 Oregon counties at one time. Governor Sprague sr.ld he had endeavored to make them ''broadly representative and bipar tisan and to - select persons who combine a lively sense of respon sibility - with human sympathies.'1 At least one woman was includ ed on each commission, the gov ernor Madded, "in recognition, of the responsibility of the commls (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2.) 400 Chickens on Menu Following Spreef Patient It'll be chicken dinners for sev eral days at Oregon state institu tions after; what , happened Wed nesday. .' . J:"- -An epileptic patient at the Cot tage Farm operated in ; conjunc tion with the Oregon state hospi tal, became disturbed after eating a Quantity of cherries, and wrung the necks of 400 of the best chick ens on the place, i ' i, - Dr. John Evans, superintendent. who reported-the incident yester day, refused to divulge theame of the patient but said the, man had been at the Cottage Farm for several years and previously had given the officials no trouble. - - - CCC Enroltee Drops Dead After Wrestling Contest DETROIT, June 30 Eloi Wick-: ander, 18. CCC enroUee at the Mary ; creek camp here, dropped dead here this afternoon while wrestling with other enrolees dur-r tag a recreation hour.' Efforts to revive him by artificial respiration and a pulmotor rushed from Bend failed. He is survived by his mother.- Mrs- Hammett Wlckander of Cherry Grove, Ore. ? -v- o Measure Sent To Executive Near Deadline Roosevelt States Four Provisions of Bill Are Not Good $1,755,600,000 Is now Immediately Available for Agencies WASHINGTON, June i0-(JP)-Presldent Roosevelt signed the re lief bill tonight, thereby making 11,788,600,000 available to WPA and other agencies for the fiscal year starting tomorrow. At the same time he asserted in a statement that the measure con tained tour provisions "which will work definite hardship and in equality on more than 2,000,000 American citizens." He said that the measure had reached him from congress at 10 p.m., and "obviously I eannot withhold my signature and stop work relief for the needy unem ployed." (Funds contained in existing appropriations expired at mid night). The president said in his state ment that these hardships would be imposed by the bill: 1. Requires that security wages In different localities shall not be varied in greater degree than is justified by differences in the cost of living, but in the same provision requires maintenance of the cur rent national average security wage. "The net result of this," Mr. Roosevelt asserted, "will prob ably impose a redaction in secur ity wages In northern and western areas, and a corresponding rise in that , portion of the nation which has a-warmer climate." , v s Objects to Lay Off Provisions 2. A requirement that project workers, excepting veterans, who have been employed continuously on projects tor more than 18 months shall be laid off- for 10 days. In this connection Mr. Roosevelt noted that a senate amendment which permitted exercise of some discretion in the case of families in "dire need" was deleted at the insistence of house members of a joint senate-house committee which worked out a compromise on the legislation. Z. The limitation ot administra tive expenses to 8.4 per cent. While this is about the same as for the present fiscal year, the president said, a reduction of more than 1500,000,000 in the to tal of the relief appropriation means that the overhead for the smaller sum .will be on a higher percentage basis if equal efficien cy is to be maintained. Hits Abolition , of WPA Theatre 4. Abolition of the federal thea tre project, which Mr. Roosevelt said "singles out a special group of professional people for a denial of work in their own profession. "It is discrimination of the worst type, the statement de clared. "I have not objected to the provision that a portion of the cost of projects for artists, musi cians and writers should be paid for by local governments and (Turn to Page 2, CoL S.) Washington 3Day Law no Deterrent VANCOUVER, Wash., June SO. -(jp)-Washington's three-day no tification law proved no deterrent to the little guy with the three cornered, pants and the archery set during June. v Cupid brought 808 persons to the altar during June up to a late hour today, the biggest marriage license month: tor Vancouver since June, 1837, when 815 Ucen ses were issued,- County Auditor K. W. Durgan said. " -;. - ' Durgan said : about a' fifth of the applicants side-stepped the three-day delay, by filing inten tions by mail. The superior court issued 20 waivers of .the delay. .v Most of the applicants' were from Oregon. ' PORTLAND, Ore., June 30.-ff) -Oregon's marriage law requiring both parties to submit to physical tests to obtain a license' reduced June's license total from 287 last June to 240 this month,' the coun ty clerk reported today,. ; j " " f i ii " , -1 - Tillamook !ator : :: Dies Fropi ffijiiry TILLAMOOK, Ore., - June 10. (SVHarry Sherman, 85, Tilla mook amateur', flier, died today from injuries suffered la an air plane crash Thursday. . . ! Wlnslow Etiilweu, SO, !a tit plane with Sherman when tt stalled and crashed en e farm, re mained in critical coodlUon. v.r App Neutrality Measure Is Passed by Hoiisel With Arms Embargo Left in Vote on Final Passage Is 200 to 188; Senators Get Bill Next With Stormy Session for Measure Predicted WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) The house passed the neutrality bill tonight after overriding administration wishes and including a modified arms embargo provision. ' The vote on final passage was announced by Speaker Bankhead as 200 to 188. The measure now goes to the senate where an adamant O "Isolationist bloc" of senators al Construction Hits Six Months' High Dwelling Permits Record, but Commercial Falls Below Normal New dwelling construction in Salem attained a new flrst-six-months-of-the-year high, it was ascertained at the close of the city building Inspector's books yester day, but commercial building fell far behind even a normal leveL Permits for 155 new dwellings, aggregating a value of $360,650. have been issued this year with last month's 28 overshadowed only by March, which saw permits for 35 new houses issued. The in crease In new dwelling construc tion over the same period in 1938 was nearly 50 per cent, as but 84 new dwelling permits that aggre gated only $242,172 were issued for the first six-months of last year. Total permits Issued for the first six months of this year were 47, valuing 8464. 8S5 a figure less than half of the total value of construction for the same period in 1938, 81,171,915, and far short of any similar period for several years back. Last month saw issue ot 79 per mits, raining 186,349 23 of which were for new dwellings that aggregated $76,385. Yesterday's issue listed permits to C a It in Bressler, to reroof a dwelling at 1865 North Church, $75; Mark B. Powell, to alter a dwelling at 1895 North Church, 815; A. H. Bunn. to repair the roof of a dwelling at (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Police to Start Parking Arrests The Salem police department wlU start Monday making good on its. recent warning that or dinances prohibiting automobile and truck parking on the wrong side of the street and In restricted and no-parking zones was going to be stringently enforced. "We have been issuing warn ing slips on illegal or irregular parking to give motorists a chance to park right," Chief Frank A. Minto said. "Beginning the first of the week, we will give them tickets citing to appear in court." The department's decision to enforce parking regulations more closely, in, residential as well as business , districts, was brought about by two recent serious acci dents attributed to obstruction of autoista' view by wrongly-parked vehicles. BENEDICTINE Benedictine educators who read papers at the Rational Cenedlctine lege durin the Past three darst aer, Et. Vincent's collej-e', PcanrylTania; Kt. Kev. Abbot , rrocopius St. EernartTs eoUese. Alabama: dement A rank, lit Ansel Conception college, tllorlj Sylvester Sehmita, SC Benedict's ; college, Kansas; jamei Laser, $tY Cads saHc XUhMis, : Paschal Cota. Et, John's smlrersity. Dm , k . , roves ready has threatened to prolong the session all summer rather than permit the bill's passage in the form desired by the administra tion. Defeated, in their efforts to pre vent inclusion of the arms em bargo, house administration lead ers narrowly escaped a complete rout. A motion to send the bill back to the foreign affairs com mittee which would have had! the effect of defeating the bill! and continuing the existing neu- it. i j j , i. only two votes. f The harried leaders desperately fought through an uproarious ses sion lasting far into UK evening to remove the arms embargo re striction, making three attempts. Each time, they were beaten, though speaker Bankhead, a vet eran of the congress which de clared war against Germany, went down on the floor and pleaded in a dramatic speech for elimination of the restriction. The roll call vote, ratifying ten tative approval given yesterday to an amendment by Representative Vorys (R-Ohlo) prohibiting the ex portation to belligerents during wartime, of "arms and ammuni tion," was 114 to 173. ,i v The ; provision " represented a UlUUillLAtlUU, UU , CI CI UL C" I latfnar law whlfh hunt anloa tn T10I- 1 ligerents of "implements of war" as well as "arms and munitions' Vorys said he himself was not sure what difference this lan guage made, but that he presumed it would permit sale of airplafces, oil and other products not strictly classed as arms or munitions. Troubles Double5 For Man Charged On Check Counts His troubles doubled when George E. Williams, Salem route six, was brought into justice court iere yesterday on a charge of is suing a check without sufficient funds in the bank. The court promptly bound him over to the grand jury under $500 bond on1 an old, unsettled check charge, and ordered him held under 8350 bail on the new one. ' Williams was given a prelimin ary hearing last August on the old charge, involving a 85 check cashed at a service station, and was told to . return September 2 to hear the court's decision. He didn't return until Adams arrest ed him yesterday. He said he had been in a veterans' hospital. . The new charge Involved an 88 check cashed by Charles Krauger. grocer. .- j : ' - - . Williams failed to make bait on either charge and was taken ' to the county Jail to await prelim inary hearing set for 8 p. m. Mon-, day. - . - ' rl SAVANTS CONCLUDE MEET tlrft to rtrht. front row) t rather. RSik Bill A - - -I. ' Senators Talli Agree to Vote Wednesday on Whether to Revive I Expired Power Senator Tydings Speaks Coup de Grace ior Filibusterers WjASHIXGTOX. July l-(Sat-Hrday ) (P) F ought trium phantly by a relentless band of republican filibusterers In the senate, the Roosevelt admini stration's power to devalue the dollar and to operate the 92, OOO.POO.OOO stabilization tamA expired at midnight last night. However, before adjourning, the senate agreed in the wee, smaQ hours of the .morning te take, a vote next Wednesday on the administration's monetary bill-pthe bill which would hae extended the powers. The administration men and thehf critics were in bitter dis agreement on the question whether this later Tote, even if it went in- favor of the admini stration, would revive the monjry powers. The 'opponents contended that under the law the powers died at midnight, and (that the "continuing leg!- jwVtilfi VWkt kvf n i ! .1 mm back; to life. It would be eces- saryj they argued, to start from scratch with new legislation, and jaU the deiay.lt involves. But Majority Leader Berk ley D, Ky.) read to the senate -an opinion by Attorney General : Murphy holding that passage of . the pending - legislation at any time - wonld . revive th- powers. . ; . ;., -. - , - :: , .? - - Te senate then 'a Jo'urned. 1 UndlMidnight To Delay Vote !'!"" ; - : WASHINGTON, July l-(Satur-day )4 (JP) President Roosevelt's power to devalue the dollar died at midnight,' stamped out in the -senate by relentless republican filibusterers who gleefully left lb , last, killing speech to an im placable democratic 'foe of lb . chief executive. x That speech was delivered by Senator Tydings (D, Md.), who declared in stern, measured toues that Congress must keep its his toric powers over money to itself. Stabilization Fnnd Also Goes With the dollar devaluation power expired the 82,000,000,000 " exchange stabilization fund, with which! the treasury for five years had endeavored to protect the for-jf T eign jralue of the dollar against the raids of other governments and of speculators. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) June Has Nearly Inch of Wetness Nearly one inch of rain, or 0.88 inch, jfell on Salem' during the month of June, the official record er reported yesterday. The mean ; average for the month Is 1J3. Las year in June there was but .08 ineh of rain following the re-: cord-breaking wettest" j. June, 19S7,iwhich set a mark of 4.41 inchesir '. ; V'?5-'.;; : Thig year .17 inch rainfaU was' registered June 4 and 18. The last rain felt on the 20th. , .- eoavenlln, tel. t, Ar 1 col. ." Cfrissmnd. Ac . . ! : TeUx Tell, .'v of Usle, 1IL; Cjlrc.tcr Tar?- - college. (Hack row), 11 - ALVa, ' 1 r