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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1939)
Late New . The Oregon - SUtesman m the only paper delivered la Salem Sunday morning carrying an account of the disastrous Nevada tralav wreck. a. M .N. v.' k The Weather Fair today and Wednes day, cloudy on coast; little change in temperature or humidity. Max. temp. 80, rain. 47. Hirer -S.9 ft. XW wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, August 15, 1939 Price 8c; Newsstands 6e No. 121 Thanlisgiving Date Changed Hay Mediate Row . Over Danzig City Leech Denies Dies Probers TWISTED STREAMLINER AFTER DEATH STRUCK Rail Saboteur Hinited;rash r Resident; Decides Labor Day too ;far Away J " : From Nov.; 30 '; ' f A 1 I 11 I I I.I I 1 I-' I IM llll l i-iirfc.A I LJ -V f ; -:rk: ':;"". ' -'" -i-A i. a'.a PcuNoao 1651 ByRbosevelt Coaf MnsHiin - - Two ? Nators Have P Hearing, J jess Says - A ' it Death TdU 23 Football,' Coaches .Groan as "big Games' Are 1 ''Reorganized" j CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, New -dent Roosevelt is solus to mure Thanksgiving day up a week this ; year,' he said at a press confer ence today at his mother's sum mer home. . ,-' . For he last six years, he ex plained, a great many people hare been j complaining that there is too long an interval between the Labor' day holiday early in Sep tember and Thanksgiving day to ward the end of November, and that the time is too short be tween Thanksgiving and Christ mas. ....... Sounds Silly, Bays He DUUUU3 BUiy. US BtUU. . Bat he added that stores, work ing people and retailers had pro posed that Thanksgiving be changed from the usual ast Thursda in November. This year Thanksgiving would normally "fall on November 30, and Ar. Roosevelt has decided to issue a ember 23 as Thanksgiving day. - He recalled that in the early days of the republic a day in Oc tober " wps marked down for thanksgiving and that it was ..ot until after the Civil war that the last Thursday In November was selected for observance. ', NEW YORK, Aug., 14-()-Presldent Roosevelt's plan to move Thanksgiving day ahead a week provided a headache to night tor football schedule-makers. I If he goes ahead with his idea of proclaiming November 23, they wlir find their climactic classics relegated to a mere late Thurs day in November. Clamor May Be Kicked up So far as many a traditional big game Is concerned the Roose velt plan might kick up more Clamor than a hot halfback run sing the wrong "Way." ' " All over the country, football games aranged well in advance are booked for November 30 "Thanksgiving," the schedule makers trusted. To move them back to the pro posed new Thanksgiving date, November 23, might mean play ing two games In three days or even three within seven days in the event there were engagements on the preceding v and following Saturdays. If the "Thanksgiving" games remain scheduled for that bleak November 30 when even the tur key hash will have vanished and the prospective customers wi 1 1 have returned to work, some of the games may be played in com parative privacy. Coach R. S. "Spec" Keene of Willamette university Indicated last night that a forward shifting of the Thanksgiving date would necessitate ' changes in Willam ette's football schedule. Willamette Is now scheduled to play Whitman at Walla Walla on . Thanksgiving day, which would now be Nov. 23. and College of Idaho-at Caldwell November 24. Keene said the College ot Idaho game would probably be switched to November 18. Governor Charles A. Sprague would be inclined to concur should President Roosevelt proclaim Thanksgiving day for one1 week earlier than has been customary, he said last night. First word the governor had of the president's proposal came In a telephone inquiry as to his opin ion, made by a New York newspa per last night. . The governor said he had not looked op the Oregon law as to Thanksgiving day and would, of coarse, be opposed to observance ot separate state and federal holi days. UO Class 1879 Member Is Dead BEND. Aug. 14.-P-Funeral for John J. Blew, 78, one of the first students at the University of Oregon, was held today. Alumni records listed him as a member fit the 1879 class. The year the university was founded. Blew sold his farm near Eugene and entered the preparatory de partment. The next year he en rolled In the college proper. : He was a member of a pioneer , family and came to Bend from Portland in 1815. 83-Year-Oldster Shows Them how .HEP PNE R , Aug. 14.-JP)- xoung swimmers ox mis eastern Oregon city got some pointers to day from 83-year-old W. G. (Gran) McCarty, retired wheat farmer. . ', - - . '"' -: ; " . McCarty, learning that Hepp ser's new nool was open, bought s pair ot streamlined trunks his id suit was filled with moth holes - -end gave tho youngsters a lei on in diving. t 4 3 Dr. CARL BURCKHARDT Burckhardt May Mediate Danzig League Commissioner to Talk Settlement With Halifax Is BERLIN, Aug. 14.-(P)-Prof. Carl J. Burckhardt, League of Nations commissioner, for Danzig, emerged tonight as a possible me diator of the German-Polish dis pute over the Baltic free city. Burckhardt, a Swiss professor, who has retnrned to Danzig after a conference with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, was unofficially reported in Berlin to be preparing to go to London to discuss with Lord Halifax, British foreign sec retary, a plan lor a peaceful settle ment. German hopes tended in the di rection that Burckhardt's conver sations with German, British and Polish officials would result in a solution by which Germany could take over the free city without bloodshed and gain a strip ot land through the Polish corridor to East Prussia. Informed political circles here expressed the belief that Hitler, Foreign Minister Joseph Beck of Poland and Albert Forster, nazl leader' In Danzig, had accepted such a plan as a basis for dis cussion. Following his visit to Hitler. Burckhardt conferred In Danzig with Forster and the Polish diplo matic representative. M a ri a n Chodacki. Official Germany declined to affirm or deny that Burckhardt had been charged with a highly Important mission to London. In press and party circles, how ever, one heard that Hitler's next step "will depend upon what Burckhardt brings back with him in the next few days from his talks with Halifax." Courthouse Probe Start yet- Unset Returning to the "bench after a week's vacation at the coast. Cir cuit Judge L .H. McMahan said yesterday he had not yet received word as to when Mark Y. Wea therford, Albany attorney, would return to the valley and open the JudKe's uroDOsed Investigation of county officials. He expects a mes sage late this week from weatner- f ord, who has been in eastern Ore eon overseeing the wheat harvest on his ranch there. I Weathertord was appointed spe cial nrosecutor bv Judge L. H. Mc Mahan fnllnwinar nroceedinrs de signed to show District Attorney Lyle J. Page was not qualified to act Saturday Crash Faal for; Youth ROSEBDRG. Aug. 14-6fIV0ne person was killed and another in jured here Saturday when William rt Dala aral rrnm tna roan lu a. v avoid colliding with another au-1 tomoblie. , - ; Jack Victor Gynn. 28. of Rose burg, died of a fractured skull, broken seek and crushed chest yesterday: Betty Boyer was slight ly hurt. Bale and another passen ger, Albert Olson, were unnurt. Breathe Deep, Say Corsets Are in Again vp.w YORK. Aug. 14-tV-Take a deep breath, girls corsets are coming back. ' . That's the word Mrs. Adam Glmbel, wife of a Fifth avenue (Saks-Fifth avenue) department tore owner, brought back today from a preview of the new fall fashions in rails. Mrs. Glmbel said that, with the new styles, i life for girls "with hips' would be "a dream. She explained ' that . clothes . will be "elaborate and luxurious." 5 "Small waists and new corsets are coming back," said Mrs. Glm bel. "American women are going to be more luxurious. Clothes are to be very elaborate with- heavy brocades and small waists and the new corsets are going to be the O&hlan. IS. Jfort Is Started to Get Doyle From Minneapolis SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 14-(ff) -John L. Leech, former commu nist and a witness in" the Harry Bridges deportation hearing, re vealed today that two investiga tors ' for the Dies congressional committee on unAmerican activi ties have been attending the hear ing.1 ' - - : Leech, undergoing extensive cross-examination after his earlier testimony that Bridges was 'a member of the communist party, denied that the Dies committee investigator had told him what to say on the witness stand. The former Los Angeles house painter said he gave one ot the investigators, whom he named as George Hurley, an affidavit con cerning the CIO west coast lead er,, several months ago at Port land, Ore. Leech said he had talked with Hurley and the other Investiga tor, " a man named Randall" dur ing the past week. "Did you discuss with Mr. Hur ley your testimony here?" Aubrey Grossman, defense attorney, asked the witness. Denies He Talked About Trial "I did not, at any time," Leech said. After Leech said he did not know whether the investigators had been in the little hearing room at the Angel Island immi gration station on each of the sev eral days he had testified during the five weeks ot the hearing, Thomas B. Shoemaker, govern ment attorney, said "I feel confi dent Mr. Hurley was not In here every time Mr. Leech was on the stand." v , Defense attorneys questioned Leech on his past activities in their attempt to discredit his for mer testimony. ' New efforts were made today to I obtain the presence of - Stanley Morton "Larry- Doyleone-time commander of the -American "Le gion 40 et 8 society and anti-radical activities leader, wanted by the defense as a witness.. Bridges' attorneys claim Doyle, reported to be in Minnesota, was the key fig ure In an asserted conspiracy against the alien. Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure is sued an order which was airmail ed to Minneapolis directing Doyle to appear In court here before August 28 and show cause why he should not be ordered to testi fy at the hearing. This was the second such order, the previous one lapsing after the United States marshal at Minneapolis re ported he was unable to serve it on Doyle. Plane Flies Away; Owner Is Worried A minor airplane tragedy oc curred yesterday about noon when a gas model plane, constructed and flown by Glenn Smith, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kay Smith, 35 Lansing avenue, was caught in an up-current of air nnder a cloud and disappeared. When last seen it was flying south from four corners, and the young owner, fears it may have flown as far south as Albany before cooler currents of air brought it to earth. The model, "Com it Clipper," Is outfitted with a midget motor, is 52 Inches long and has a wing spread of 6 feet It Is blue trimmed with red. Glenn has been building model planes for the past six years. Young Angler's Body Recovered From River MEDFORD. Aug. 14.-A,)-The body of Jackie Jewell. 13-year-old fisherman who disappeared last Saturday, was recovered' yes terday from the Rogue river. Cor oner Frank A. Perl said a deep gash over the lad's right eye In dicated he fell while leaping from one . rock to .another and was drowned while unconscious. Girls, They - "They are beautiful but uncom fortable," she added, "but women will wear them. Women will wear anything if it's the fashion. . . We have had .comfort for years. Now we are going back to dignity. You have to hold your head up with a corset. Everybody has to be dig' nlfied wearing corsets." - Mrs. Glmbel said she had one of the. new corsets, but didn't have it on at the moment She said she was going to wear it, though. : Tamarsr, Russian singer for the reopening ot the Broadway hit show "Leave It to Me." thought Mrs. Gimbel's remarks were inter esting, but added: : , :: - "No corsets for me. I don't think that women will ever allow themselves to be made uncomfor table again. v , if.- Wreckage of the'atreamllner City of San Francisco strewn across tbe Hmblodt river canyon in northeastern Nevada after 23 persons were I killed and scores' injured in a Saturday night crash. The wreck was caused deliberately by persons who tore up an outside rail, moved i hi inward and respikedl it. Police FBI men and railroad Investigators are running all suspects to earth In a search for the mass mur i derer (AP photo) Mclntire Robbers Aren't Extradited i ! Pair to Be Held on Theft Charge of Federal Government Russell Brown alias Robert Carter, 22, and Wayne Lee, pair accused of robbing Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mclntire near' here August 6. will face a federal car theft charge instead of being released for return from Redding, Calif., nil A r 'ATtrnriitlnn.' in Sa.lp.nr 11 .m. 4uesta Jjis vice. Attorney , i-yie j ...... - . Page was notified yesterday after noon. A telegram he received from Emmett J. Sea well, assistant Unit ed States attorney at Sacramento said the two men would be taken before a federal grand Jury on a charge of violating the national motor vehicle theft act. They were reported to Page to have been in possession of a stolen Washington automobile when they were ap prehended at Redding last Thurs day. Mclntire signed a eomplalnt in Jefferson justice court last week charging the pair with assault with Intent to rob, after identi fying them as the men who held him and Mrs. Mclntire up at their residence south of Salem, then left them tied. Brown, known as Robert Car ter during' more than, a year's residence in Salem, is on parole from a six-months Jail sentence here for larceny. Gun Ban Prompts Parole's Refusal Refusal of a Yamhill county farmer to accept a parole from the state penitentiary because of a condition that he should not possess a gun, was reported by Paul R. Kelty, chairman of the state parole board Monday..- Kelty said the man was sen tenced to the penitentiary after he had sent, a bullet Into a neigh bor's house on suspicion that one of the tenants had cut off his cow's tall. The bullet narrowly missed a Utile girl. The prisoner was quoted as in forming the parole board that he could not get along without a guv and would refuse the parole rather than to surrender such a privilege. Kelty said the man has two years yet to serve. The parole was recommended by Sheriff Manning ot ' Yamhill county and other officials. The prisoner's name was not' dlrulged. Committee Asked To Form SS Bill i Governor Charles A. Sprague Monday sent letters to a number of prominent Oregon men urging them to serve on a committee to prepare a legislative bill providing social security for state, county and municipal employes. The governor said he would not release the names, of. the commit tee until acceptances have been received. ,--:; - .- - ! A bill seeking retirement bene fits for these employes was con Sidered at the 1139 legislative ses sion but no definite action - re sulted. ; : i : Governor Snrague 1 n d I e ated that the bill would provide defi nite retirement benefits for state employes and that an enabling act would give the counties and cities authority to fix their benefits in a smaller or larger amount - i State, county and city employes have no social security under the existing laws.' - i 'V J ait Rome-Berlin , i Try for Another Munich Diplomats Point out That Apparent Bid for Four-Power Parley Similar to Munich Meet LONDON, Aug. 14 (AP) Reports of peace moves in Rome and Berlin were interpreted by informed London quar ters tonight as an attempt to lead Great Britain and France back to the policy of Munich. . . The same four powers at Munich last September 30 de cided the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Hie latest pro- Bartlett Returns To WPA Job Here Reorganization It Seen for Office Here to Cut Costs W. M. "Jack" Bartlett, former Salem WPA executive, returned here yesterday to take over duties as new supervisor of operations at the district WPA office. He has served for the past two years as planning engineer at the state WPA office In Portland and pre vious to that was with the Salem office for 15 months as district engineer and assistant director. It Is understood that extensive reorganization of the office is plan ned to cut administrative costs in compliance with -the law recently passed by congress requiring that front 5 per cent to 3. per cent of allotments. , ' Although no officiaT announce ment has been made Ttoncerning reorganization plansi3s under stood that G. R. Boatwrlght, for merly supervisor of operations, and-Fred Bates, area engineer, will, become field project direct ors. Other engineers now working in the office will probably also be assigned; to project direction. Bartlett's '. position,' besides su pervision of operations, will In volve coordination ot the four branches of the WPA office, op erations, finance, employment and professional and service projects divisions. . 'Mrs. Bartlett and daughter are remaining In Portland tor a short while before moving to Salem. Columbia Forest Blaze Gets Away PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. l-)-Strong winds late today whipped the 12,000-acre forest fire at the border of the Columbia national forest out of control. ' " Embers carried across fire lines kindled snags, windfalls and tim ber In two sections which prompt ly burned together. Crews began hewing a line - around the new blaze." ' ; .. .-t . The fire proper covered approxi mately CO 00 acres Inside the na tional forest; and C000 outside. : Crews began mop-up operations in Oregon's Dutch Canyon and Saddle Mountain fire areas. Both fires were burning themselresout within fire lines." ;t-- Canadian Mounties Due ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-flPV- Senator Charles McNary's . aides were advised today by Acting Sec retary of State Sumner Welles that a detachment of Royal Can adian mounted police would pre sent a mounted drill at the Pacif ic International Livestock exposi- UMi at Portland In October, i,t,.iiilvaili ihi Peace Held Events Leading up to Oposals would be for disposition of the German-Polish dispute over the free city of Danzig. British officials refused to com ment on the reports. Diplomatic circles, however, were quick to point out the simi larity of the apparent bid for a four -power conference to the events which led to the Munich conference. They recalled that there had been the same Intense propaganda campaign In Germany and Italy and the same heavy troop move ments and that the same four powers were mentioned as par ticipants. The question uppermost In the minds ot London diplomats ras whether Britain would enter Into a conference on the Danzig ques tion. Official circles have main tained there could be no settle ment without Poland's consent and that Britain would, put no pressure on her. If the governments adhere to that policy It would be difficult to take part in a conference in which Poland was not Included. Diplomatic sources were gener ally agreed that Poland was not likely to accept a settlement along the lines of the reported Berch tesgaden plan They said they could see little difference between Hitler's "fi nal" demands, which were re jected by Poland last spring, r.nd the new plan which was said to Include annexation of Danzig by Germany and guarantee a passage across the Polish corridor. Country Midi Carriers . Convening at Portland PORTLAND, Aug. 14-(ff)-The 38th annual convention ot the Rural Mail Carriers' association will open here tomorrow,' with Ambrose O'ConnelL second assist ant postmaster general, as prin cipal speaker. Approximately 3000 will attend. .' Shattered Cabin of Clipper Where 14 Died Is Salvaged RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 1 -) -Salvagers today lifted from Guanabara bay the shattered cab In of a Pan American "Baby Clip per which, yesterday became the tomb of 14 persons, including six Americans, , In one of Brazil's worst air tragedies. - . r ? -?- s ; The crumpled wreckage ot the airliner was towed to the Rio D Janeiro-airport ' where Brazilian and Pan American officials joined in a search tor a clue to the cause of the accident ".- '-'' J -' Bodies of 11 of the victims, in cluding that ot Dr. James Harvey Rogers of Yale university, emi nent economist and one-time ad viser of President Roosevelt lay la a morgue while divers sought to recover the . bodies of ' the . three other .victims. ,. . . i r - .' i The plane, coming down yester day af ternoon preparatory, to land Prune Men Meet For Parley Here Governor Calls Session to MuU Stabilizing Means for Mart All Oregon prune growing and packing districts will be repre sented at a conference called by Governor Charles A. Sprague this afternoon t,o discuss means ot stabilizing 'and extending the prune market The meeting will open at 2 p. m. in tbe hearing room In the basement ot the Capi tol. The governor called the con ference following a meeting of agricultural leaders last week at which prune growers' problems were discussed. He told the gath ering he had been Informed the prices offered for 1939 green prunes were below cost of produc tion and said steps should be taken to protect this large in dustry. A large' majority of the prune growers, processors and packers invited by the governor to attend today's conference have accepted. Use ot a special 28-pound box for fresh prune shipments, which growers claim will cut packing costs and bring a market pre mium, was authorized yesterday by the state department of agri culture. Johnson's Trout To Be FDR's Fish THE DALLES, Ore., Aug. 14- (iP)-President Roosevelt will have Rainbow and Eastern Brook trout for his table, thanks to a catch made here today by Louis John son, assistant secretary of war. Johnson, who said he "wouldn't trade the trip for 310,000," made the catch on the Warm Springs Indian reservation. The fish were taken aboard an army transport plane that will take Johnson to California for a session of the California department, American Legion. The catch of Dinty Culp, The Dalles, member ot the Johnson fishing party, was ruined when a skunk Invaded tbe camp during the night. Claim Transient's Body ALBANY, Aug. 14.-(ff)-The body ot Blucber V. Lawson, 28, of Harpster, Ohio, was en route to relatives at Sandusky. O., to day. He succumbed Saturday night to a compound skull fracture ap parently suffered when he was hit by a freight train. ing at the end of a flight from Miami. FUlV slanted sharply, struck a crane on a dry dock In tbe harbor and crashed. !-, , i : The twin-motored craft broke in, two, one section falling ashore and the other. Including the cab in, plunging into the water. .. ; -' Only two , persons aboard the clipper survived. : Besides . Dr. James Harvey Rogers, the Amer ican victims included Henrie May Eddy, Gain sville, Fla acting li brarian at the University of Flor ida; Robert Landman ! of New York and the three crewmen Capt A. G. Person of Miami, pi lot; Capt George King, Miami, co pilot; Russell Jenkins, radio oper ator; and Julio Trujillo, steward. The survivors were O s w a 1 d o Birth, German engineer, whose leg was broken; and Mario Lyra, a Brazilian, who escaped with cuts and bruises and a broken rib. First Earless'? Suspect Proves Alibi, to Be -Released Railroad Man Who Raved ' Against Road Sought by Police Deaths mounted to 2 3 . today In th . crash of the streamline train "City of San Francisco" as police pushed a general roundup of suspicious characters in railway' . yards Is quest ot the mass murderer blamed for last Saturday's tra- gedy. Two men were questioned la Jails ot two states as rescue crews found the bodies of two women and a man. Two other men died la an Elko hospital of their injuries. One hundred fourteen others on the train were Injured or badly shaken up, nearly 100 of them re quiring at least first aid treat ment, when the 32,000,000 train was hurtled Into a rocky Nevada canyon by a deliberately moved rail. Albert Johnson, 647 East 75th street, Chicago, at first reported by the Southern Pacific to have perished in the wreck, was found tonight to be alive, though ser iously injured, in an Elko, Nev., hospital. "Earless" Suspect TO Be Released Chief of Police Andy M. WelH ver announced tonight that tomor row he would probably release Bob La Duceur, 28, after federal. locai ana raiiroaa ponce naa spent all day questioning him. Welllver said he was arrested because he answered the descrip tion of an "earless man" whose strange action made him one of the main objectives of the search. - The police chief said T. J. Mc Laughlin, federal bureau of inves tigation agent, had established that La Duceur was at Pyramid lake, Nev., Saturday night and Sunday morning and could not have participated in the wreck. He said the man was apparently riding a freight train from Port land, Ore., to Fernley. Nev., but was left behind at Pyramid lake when the freight pulled out while he was rettlns a drinV nf wfpr "He had breakfast with mem- hers nf thn" Southern PaMffo tion crew there Sunday morning according to members of the crew," Welllver said. . ' Special Investigator William Sked of the railways said the man was "sore at the railroads. He said a train cut his foot in half In Montana two years ago. But he denies any connection with tbe Nevada wreck." Part of the man's right ear was missing and half of his left foot He said he was from Lew istown, Mont Five Men Held At Utah City Five men were taken from an eastbound freight train at Og den, Utah, and held for question ing. From Ogden to Oakland, Calif., police watched railway yards for the "earless man" and a railroad man who raved against the railway the day before the wreck. In his fury against - the rail way, which he said "never gave me a break," the worker lit his cap and hurled it at a Chinese early Saturday morning. Chief Welliver Bald the earless man had been reported "acting suspicious ly at Fernley, and' had Inquired yesterday morning at a Fernley garage, 'Has anything hap pened?'" The interstate commission com mission sent five investigators from' Washington, DC, to :be scene of the wreck where crews began rebuilding a 0rfoot steel bridge which the train smashed down into Humboldt river. Of the known dead nine were passengers, four of them women. Seven ot the railway employes killed were negroes. : - They were hurled screaming to their death when the rocking din ing ear caught in the bridge sa perstructure and pulled the train and the bridge Into the ravine. (Turn to page 2, col. C) t Gives Jail Terra PORTLAND. Aug: H.-Jpy- George E, Pohrman, 28, a cook. i . . . . . . woo was snoi in ub ngni arm when he attempted to break away from a detective, was held under guard In tbe city Jail today. He Is charged with assault and robbery. . Detective Sergeant Bill Browne' said the prisoner was charged with holding up and robbing Rob ert G. Petticard of $12. Detective Floyd Smith shot him when he attempted to escape. Browne said 4 the guard was ordered after he slashed his wrist In Jan with the edge of a tin cup. , 14 Blood Donors " Fail Saving Life PORTLAND, Aug. 14p-Elna Erminnle Marshall, 23, mother of . three children, was dead today despite 14 blood transfusions and -offers of blood from CO persons. ; Death was caused by streptococ- , cus secalis, a rare blood disease. Blood from a person who had' re- covered ' from Ihe disease might hare saved her life, doctors said. Attemn eu Escap