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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1939)
News From Home Going on a vacation? The Statesman will be sent ay where 1b the United State t Canada to vacationing regular subscribers at no extra cost and to non-eub-crlbers for 25 cents for two weeks The Weather Unsettled today and Sat urday, partly cloudy, fogs on coast. Max. temp. 83, mln. temp. 50. IUver -3.7 ft. West wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Horning:, August 4, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 112 s5r Tni its OT .rNsv 4t 4l-X vsA 5 :ygp llllspgl WMill Guards Occupy Colorado Dam Dispute Area Deputies: Are Disarmed by Guardsmen While Strikers Cheer Militia Commander Gives Okeh for Resumption of Work at Dam SALEM AND VETS TOGGED UP FOR SHOW Taft Throws BridsesMolds Merriam His Chapeau Was Paid to Call Guard In the : ' - i v ' Ring 1 : QREE N MOUNTAIN DAM, Colo., Aug. S-()-Colorado na tlonal guardsmen occupied the Green Mountain dam project to day, disarmed about 200 special deputies, and the guard comma der Immediately authorized re sumption of work at the Job, cen ter of a strike battle in which six men were shot and wounded and a seventh cut. - The men, deputized by a county sheriff and part of a "back to work" force that pushed -through union picket lines Tuesday night in the start of turmoil at the $4, 000,000 reclamation bureau pro ject, quietly surrendered their rifles, shotguns and pistols. Before the troopers finished taking up the guns. Adj. Gen. Har old H. - Richardson, guard com mander, said work would be re sumed as soon as possible on the federal irrigation and power pro ject, halted since July 12 by a strike of five American Federation of Labor unions. "Any man who wants to can go back to work," declared General Richardson. , - . ' A. K. Anderson, project super intendent for the Warner' Con struction company, opened the camp employment office and men lined up to register for jobs. The guardsmen, called out when Got. Ralph L. Carr declared a "state of Insurrection" after two major shooting frays last night. advanced to the project from at base established at Kremmling, 1 J miles northwest, this morning. - Anderson said it would be sev eral days before work would be in full awing at the dam, which em ployed 850 men when the strike was called In demand for collec tive bargaining- recognition from the Warner company. General Richardson said a, 24 hour sentry patrol of eight guards men on eight-hour shift would be maintained on the project.- ' The guard's main force, mean while, would patrol the two' high way approaches to the ' project from a camp at Kremmling and another at Dillon. About 60 union pickets cheered and tossed hats In the air when the guard eolumn, headed by a high-speed tank, reached the strike sympathizers' camp, two miles outside the project. The 60 were all that remained of aproxlmately 600 unionists who gathered yesterday to back the strike of five American Federation of Labor craft unions for collec tive bargaining recognition. Excited, gleeful picket spokes men poured out grievances to Gen eral Richardson during the guard column's stop at their camp. They insisted their strike tac tics had been perfectly orderly and that they had been fired on without provocation. Humidity is High, So It Isn't Heat "It Isn't the heat, it's the hu midity." - . That trite old phrase exactly described the local situation yes terday when, with a maximum of only 85 degrees, Salem non theless passed a very uncomfort able day. . The weather bureau figured the relative humidity at 3:30 p.m. as 62, a very high ratio on a midsummer day. The humidity grew In the afternoon - from a . 68 at midday. The humidity of the two preceding days was 53 J ana RelaUve humidity is the ra tio of the amount of moisture actually present in the air to the greatest amount possible at a given temperature. A few drops of rain fell on the ' city during the morning but the Ught showers were warm and, .as one person put It, "felt like 'they came from a tea kettle." y An atmosphere laden -with smoke from far and near added to the general heaviness. ' Five Girls Burned In Sparlde Dance , SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. i.-m 4 -rive girls were seriously burned tonight when their -- thin gauze tostumes canght fire as they danced in the closing scent of "Columbia. Cavalcade." a paxeaat - celebrating , the . sUte's golden . jnbllee. A crowd of 7,000 watched In horror, when the dancers suddenly were wrapped in fire. Three men were reported burned In an at tempt to beat out the flames with their hands. ' - The girls were: - v Sally Lacy, Addle Telker, Ger aldine Smithy Patricia Sells and Virginia WlebeL All were taken to hospitals where attendants said they had suffered second . degree burns. r- ' - Emergency Steward E. H. Doust ' said the ' costumes were ignited by the flowing tips of sparklers used In the dance, in which 121 girls participated. t Ms mm I',.!- 4 '. A :i: C - -"-? 'i'i Capitol Post Legionnaires must wear their Legion bonnets every day until the end of the state convention, opening here next Wednesday. Shown above, from left, are Legionnaires Stanley Freeman, Boy Gard, Jim McClelland and Brazier C Small, commander of the Salem post. Below, Commercial street in gala attire in preparedness for the convention. Salem Ready io Greet .r Legion State Conclave 1000 Registrations Already Recevied at Session Headquarters Here; Thousands More Expected to Throng City Thousands of members of the American Legion, the Legion auxiliary, their families, and their friends will throng Salem streets beginning next Wednesday when the yeterans of the world war hold their first convention in the capital city since an-eventful four-day session in 1929. Plans for the session have been in the hands of Carl D. Gabrielson, general chairman, andO - member of Capital post No. 9 which is host to the convention. A thousand registrations have already been received at conven tion headquarters - in the First National bank building,, with the large majority still to come fol lowing the opening of the con vention on Wednesday afternoon and evening. " : Members of "La Sodete des Quarante Hommes et Huit Che vaux" or, inthe tongue which most of its members speak -the "40 and 8," tun and leadership division of the Legion, will open the convention on Wednesday night when they have their reg ular parade down' Court street from the capitol to Commercial street, across to State street, and back to the capitol. Following this will he a buffet snpper and entertainment for members of the 40 et 8, and a midnight caucus as a closing item. - Thursday the Legion conven tion proper will get under way with a joint Legion-Auxiliary me morial service at ; the Elsinore theatre at 9:30 a.m. led by the Rev. James Os bourne, depart ment chaplain. Following the memorial ser vice the public . opening ceremo nies will be held at the theatre under the direction of Depart ' . (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Fires Continue Though Rain (By the Associated Press) -altfcmirh rain clouds wafted In land from the eoast. tires crackled in Oregon forests Thursday night and two, one on each side oz xne Cascades, evaded control. In northwestern Oregon, where flames have caused thousand of dollars damage In If hours, a coast range fire in the Foster log rinr alterations near WUlamlna streaked through brush and slash ings into virgin timber. - . Eighty fire fighters who con fined the blaze to 200 acres dur ing the night say.it spread to 400 acres Thursday- noon. Additional crews were summoned from-WUlamlna to take up positions along Mill creek. -.-vi.-'--- A fire that h u r n e d along a three-onarter mile section of the Wolf ereek highway between Portland and the sea In the quartz creek area caused the state high way department to 'close the road tonight. ? -The fire, a m o k e from which L? r ; Mother, Children Die After Plunge CHICAGO, Aug. 3 VF) A mother and her two young chil dren were killed tonight in ap parently simultaneous plunges from the 13 th floor of the fa shionable Congress hotel on Mi chigan avenue. The woman, who registered at the hotel at 6 p.m. tonight, gave her name as Mrs. Delia Frank and her address as 68th street at Central Park, New York City. The children were two boys, one between six and seven years old and the other above fire. The woman was about 40 years old. Policeman William . : Gonnde, who was standing nearby when the bodies struck the sidewalk, barely missing several pedestri ans, said the bodies all landed at once. The woman's wrists had been slashed with a razor blade. The hotel room was not dis turbed and only two small bags, carrying no Identification marks, were found. Hotel officials said the woman had told the clerk she didn't ex pect to stay over night and plan ned to meet her husband later. to le Clouds Gather blacked the air for 20 miles along the road, was in an area burned In 1933 but which had -since reseed' ed. Traffic was detoured by way of Vernonia and Mist. .' : Eastern Oregon's most danger ous fire consumed Ponderosa pine In the Malheur national forest SO miles south of , Canyon City. ' A great cloud of smoke rolled up the Canyon ereek gorge and : plumed toward a biasing sun. Three hund red men, the majority of them from Baker, laborelong' rugged terrain. Early control waa, not ex pected because supplies had to be packed in four miles from the highway.- - . " - - - : The 1100-aere Saddle mountain fire near Glenwood, 14 miles west of Forest Grove. waa confined. Sparks showered up from the 800 acre blaze in . the , famous Tilla mook burn but it too was checked. Fire wardens, too cautious to be lieve the clouds , might bring gen eral rain, declined to reduce erews immediately. Crack ... - i't . ... ' Strike in Motors Plant Is Settled Agreement Held Reached by Negotiators Over GM Walkout DETROIT, Aug. 4.-(Friday)- The strike of 7,500 skilled work ers employed in 12 plants of Gen eral Motors Corporation was set tled early today. James F. Dewey, federal labor conciliator, said an agreement ter minating the walkout, which be gan July 6, was reached ty nego tiators for the corporation and the CIO United Automobile Workers, which called the strike. The p r o p o s ed settlement, he Bald, will be submitted to a meet ing of union members here at 1 p. m. (EST) today, and, if ap proved there, then will be acted upon separately by the strikers at the plants affected. The terms of the settlement were not announced and Dewey in dicated they may be withheld un til finally approved or rejected. Neither was there any information concerning when the men would return to work if they ratify the agreement. Eccles Says GOP Agrees on Issues PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3 .-()-Nationally, republicans are in ac cord on 1040 platform Issues ex cept for foreign affairs and farm policies, David Eccles said today on return from a meeting of the executive board of the party's na tional program committee. Eccles, s t a ,te budget director, said the east was favorable to Am erican aid to England and France, the midwest to isolation, the west coast to isolation : with reserva tions. The midwest, he said, ap peared to favor government farm subsidies as temporary measures but lacked faith in them as per manent cures. Generally the feel ing Is that organised business and organized labor hare weapons the farmer lacks. t ? Recommendations from all areas reflected a strong sentiment for protection of the American farmer in the American market, " he said. DeputizeFarmers LA GRANDE, Ore., Aug. 5. (AVWallowa County Sheriff A. B. Miller deputised ' 4 O fanners to night after he said he had heard 200 pea field strikers at Joseph had threatened to tear down tows of peas.- -V He also promised protection to anyone wanting worku but asked state police aid. Fifty remained on the Job ihls afternoon after a 'walkout, oc curred at the Perry Gibson farm Workers objected to a require ment they must fill -hampers 'to 33 pounds but receive no. credit when the hampers are over weight. The pay Is '25 cents per hamper t v 1 1 - i7 ' -1 To Keep the Peas Declares any Chance of FDR for Third Term Has Vanished People Against, IVrarin Money for Prosperity, He States , CINCINNATI, A ng. .JPf Senator Robert A. Taft announced today hie candidacy for the re publican nomination tor, president with the comment that the past week in congress "hat knocked out of the window any chance of a third 'term for Mr. Roose velt.- , , . i Coincident with his I expressed willingness that his name be used aa a candidate, the son of the .i late President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft said "All the polls and the logic of the situation Indicate Mr. ; Roosevelt would be the weakest candidate the democrats could put up." Citing slashed appropriations as a "reflection of what the pub lie wants," Taft said in an inter view that "the people are against pouring out money to produce prosperity and passage of the Hatch bill shows they are against spending relief money to promote a candidacy." Fate of the neutrality bill, he declared, Indicates "disapproval of foreign policy in -which the president is apparently too much inclined to interfere in Eiyopean affairs." f Ohio's junior senator cleared his law office desk as, he spoke. anticipating departure tonight for Washington and reunion with his family in Murray Bay, Que., early next week. Viewing the farm question as the "greatest and most difficult task facing the republicans," Taft said that whether the whim of politics pitted him against Roose velt in 1940, "the outstanding Issue will be the reversal of the new deal policies of continuing deficits and excessive regulation of business." But, he .warned, ahould the re publicans win in i9u,ine coun try -need expect "no Overnight miracles." "These things, he said, re ferring to Roosevelt policies, "can not be stopped at once. For in' stance, we couldn't stop WPA or turn it back to the states abort of 12 months. Similarly, it wUl take at least two years to get back to a balanced budget. Boyer to Produce Payment Records County Books Show What Payments Are Made to Attorney County Clerk U. G. $oyer will produce records In circuit court today showing what, payments have been made by the county to the district attorney's office, as ordered by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan ' Wednesday, ' the clerk announced yesterday. McMahan instructed the grand jury Wednesday to the effect that District Attorney L y 1 e J. Page had received unlawful ' payments from the county for salary as dep uty in years gone by and for sten ographic hire. The judge then or dered Clerk Boyer to produce his records on the transactions at 2 p. m. today. 4The grand Jury has not been called in for this session of the court. The result of the instructions and introduction of the records is expected to be an order disqualify ing Page from conducting the in vestigation of eounty court's offi cial conduct, recently recommend ed to the grand jury by Judge He Mahan, who said last week an out side attorney mtghfte assigned to the tast a : Page contends he has never re ceived any money from the county that was unlawful. . Fake SOS Sender Object of Search MIAMI. Fla., Aug. 3p- Convinced they had been victi mised by a hoax, federal offi cials started a 'statewide search today for the operator who load ed radio channels with urgent distress signals through a hectic seven hours last night. In answer to a stream of er ratic messages, the coast guard and. private shipping vainly searched the Atlantic off south west Florida by air and water, seeking a British tanker afire and sinking. ; First doubt arose 'after the un known operator had said his ship was the Tanker Dunkwa and Lloyd's of London reported the Dunkwa safe in port at Rotter dam. f- p -:' Further discrepancies - in the harrowing calls supposedly sent by a ship's officer after the ra dio operators was badly hurt were noted : soon ,. but i the coast guard "didn't immediately, aban don its' costly searchi Conviction of sending false dis tress . calls r' carries a I maximum penalty of a 410,000 fine and 'two years imprisonment; Senator McNary, Wife and Child, Come Back to A- Senator McNary. Mrs, McNary and daughter, Charlotte, on arriral at Portland yesterday. (AP photo), McNary Says 3d Term tor FDR Oregon's Senior Senator, Happy to Be Back Home, Says Roosevelt Will, Nevertheless, V Dominate Party Policy W WALLACE A. SPRAGUE' Senator Charles L. McNary, Oregon's senior member of congress, is pleased to be home. You could tell that yes terday had you seen the happiness in his eyes as he pointed to a charming black and white pony which had been deliv ered only that same morning lotte; or as he showed a visitor over the spacious lawns about "Fir Cone," his home onO the homestead on the North River road which has been the property of his family since 1845. Though naturally happy to be at home, and proud of the beauty of the Oregon firs which form an imposing back-drop behind his modest home, as well as of the splendid lawns and flower gar dens which surround it, the sena tor's face showed the marks of the strain which he has been under during the last months of congress. One could tell that be ing the floor leader of the re publicans in the upper house is nobody's picnic, even if one has been a member of the senate for 20 years, as McNary has. At his ease in a garden chair (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Police Hold Lamb As Stock Fleecer SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. David E. Lamb, 62, was taken into custody here tonight at the re quest of Portland, Ore., police. Inspectors Thomas Reagan and Charles Iredale said Lamb had $7 in cash and photostatic copies of asserted trust funds amounting to $250,000. They said Lamb told them the copies .represented money he, had Invested In a Port land "deal.? The police inspectors said Port land police had advised them the "deal" was a swindle.. They said Lamb claimed .however, be him self had been bilked In the Port land transaction. He was held for investigation. Housing Bill Is By Congressional Coalition WASHINGTON, Aug 3 The house completed the destruc tion of President's . Roosevelt's lendingprogram today with 1S1-1T0 vote declining even to consider the $800,000,000 slum clearance and housing huL V - A coalition of republicans and democrats mowed the measure down in precisely the same way it kilted the $1,150,000,000 works financing MIL " - ' . The coalition consisted ' today of 127 republicans and 6 4 de mocrats. A total of 159 demo crats, e 1 g h t republicans, and three minor party members sup ported the administration. , .The vote removed one more obstacle to adjournment, and soon after it was taken another, was shoved ' aside. Representa tives Rayburn of Texas, the de mocratic leader, announced to' the house the decision of the ad ministration . leadership to scrap for the session highly contro versial legislation amending the wage-hour law. v " v- Rest at"Fir Cone" ..,.. ,., .:'-':S,':-'- t 5 . ' not Possible for his little daughter, Char Wife of Minister Victim in Crash Mrs. A. E. Minneraan Dies as Result of Mishap Near Cheniawa Mrs. Stella Minneman, 49, wife of the Rev. A. E. Minneman, pas tor of the Christ Evangelical church, was fatally injured yes terday, and her three daughters, Stella, 17, Ruth 15, and Margaret. 10, were confined to a hospital after an automobile accident at the Chemawa corners on the Paci fic highway shortly before 8 a.m. John Minneman, a son and the driver, escaped with minor scratches, and Leon a Busch, 16, of 1825 North Fifth street, a passen ger, suffered abrasions. . The injured persons were first treated by the Salem first aid car and then transported to the Salem General hospital by the first aid car and the Salem Taxi ambulance. which made two trips. Ruth Mln neman was most serionsly injured, having suffered a possible skull fracture. Stella suffered a frac tured collarbone and possible in Jured back, and Margaret's left arm was broken near the shoul der. All received numerous bruises and scratches. The three girls were reported resting comfortably last nighty ; , . -- The accident occurred when the Minneman car, a light truck, was turning west on the Pacific high- : . (Turn. to page 2, eoL ) Given Boot However. leaders who had hoped to end the session Satur day night were forced to allow tor a possible revision of, their plans by developments in the senate. There, a row was evident ly. developing over the third de ficiency bill, which as It passed the house failed to provide funds for -a continuation, of . price-bolstering, loans 'on farm commodi ties. .- ... ; Omission of funds for this purpose was another victory for the economy bloc. , The senate, however, - has repeatedly shown Itself more inclined to appropri ate for farm relief than the other branch of congress, and an effort to write a S119.000.000 amendment tor farm loans Into the bill was in the making. Such an attemnt obviously would be time-consuming.' Today, the mea sure was ln.the hands of the se nate . appropriations committee. before which Secretary Wallace appealed for the item, lest, he said, farm prices sag to disas trous levels. . $30,OOOWent PorCampaign In '34 Strike Labor Leader on Stanil Declares American Way Is Best Blames big Corporations for Woes of Small Businesses SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-UPi- Harry Bridges charged today Frank F. Merrlam, former Califor nia governor, "got $30,000" for calling out the National Guard in the 1934 general strike here. Bridges, alien west coast CIO eader, voiced the charge from the witness stand at his deportation hearing on Angel Island. Thomas B. Shoemaker, chief of the government's counsel, asked him to elaborate. "Thirty thousand dollars was paid into his (Merr lam's) cam- paign fund by the ship owners," Bridges replied. His charge against former Gov ernor Merriam came near the end of a day devoted principally to an examination and elaboration of Bridges' philosophy of govern ment, and of his viewpoints on employer-employe relationships. "Do you think there would be any benefit in scrapping our form of government?" Shoemaker asked Bridges. "I do not at all." the witness replied. "Do yon think the form of gov ernment existing in the soviet un ion would be any improvement?" Holds American System Is Best " . . . I don't think the Ameri can form of government can be bettered anywhere else la the world." - Examiner James Landla. presld- lnr. asked Brldres Ma . rlawa Am fascism and Bridges replied he ob- jected to "dictatorship of any sort" including a dictatorship of the proletariat. In response to a direct question he said i. "If it came to a decision I think. a majority of the American people would vote in favor of Russia over Germany." He said he thought the Russian dictatorship was less ob jectionable than the fascist form because it aimed at benefitting a greater number of people and be cause Russia was not a threat to world peace while "Germany and Japan are." On the question of seizure of private property without recom pense Bridges told Landis he be lieved the government might be authorized to take over "a sweat shop plant" which was violating . the minimum x&ge and hcurs act by its inability to pay a living wage. The plant could be rehabil itated by the government, he said, ' and later returned to its owners. "If you fined the owner in mon ey," he said, "they would take it out of the wages of the workers." "You want a penalty which could not be p a s s e d on to the workers?" Landis asked. "That's right." In response to Shoemaker's question Bridges said he believed Individual policemen g e n e r ally were not anti-labor but that he could name sections of the coun try where police departments were anti-labor only in the Paolfle northwest. He was asked to name what he considered some anti-labor organ izations and listed these: the United States chamber of com merce; the Associated Farmers: the National Association of Man ufacturers; Southern Call fornf ans. Inc.; Women of the Pacific; the "TNT's" of Southern Califor nia; and the Employers Council of San Francisco. Guard Xever Aid To Strikers The National Guard, he said in response to questions, has been used tor anti-labor purposes, add ing "I've never seen the National Guard called out to protect strik ers." Bridges pointed to newspaper stories of Colorado labor troublee in support of his assertion that a "class struggle" was under way in the United States now. "Is there a class itrnirl e?" Thomas B. Shoemaker, chief of the government's counsel at the hearing, bad asked Bridges. !Very definite," B r 1 d g e s re plied. f v , "Who are on the different sides?" ' (Turn to page 2, col, 8) One Man Missing After Boat Siiiks KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Aug. S. Coast guard headquarters report ed tonight it had received a brief message from Craig, Alaska, that the purse seiner Hertha sunk to day with a probable loss of one life a mile and a half off the west coast of Prince of Wales island. " ,.;:. -:" The . terse report ' said Oscar Casperson, of Ketchikan, waa missing while Joe Burdette, Ketchikan and tire others had been picked up and taken to Craig, 100 miles west of Ketchikan.
