The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 18, 1939, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO Annual Budget : Faces County Limit Jy'Law Will Give Budget Body $35,266 More This Year (Con tinned from Page 1.) ago to $180,805 tills year Includ ing 90,000 for old age pension and 90,80S for "charities and corrections." . The county's relief bill was J34.549.34 10 years ago, reached I62.1S3.8S by 1933 and jumped to 8109,577.93 when the first appropriation for old age pensions was made in 1934. Demands for roads and road improvements hare maintained a steady, clamor during the 10-year period but the necessities for ald- . Ing the 'unemployed, the unem ployable and the aged have grown so rapidly that road .'expenditures hare bad to be lowered from year t$ year.ii' :v tV - -?- -."""': The county appropriated $513. 488.91 for roads in 1929, includ ing $103,700 for principal and Interest on road bonds; only $297,500 could. be budgeted for 1939. The last of the bonds, left from an $850,000 Issue for mar ket roads authorised In 1919; were paid off In 1932. .Taxpayer to Be TKept la Mind , Members of the county court say they Intend to keep the .tax payer" la mind when the 1940 budget la drafted but they won't be able to predict how much good their, worthy sentiments on -the subject will do until they receive the county welfare commission's estimate of its next year's needs. And they will still wonder how to appropriate half enough money to oil-surface all the roads the people keep petitioning for. ; These two heaTy demands on county funds spell , gloom for county employes' hope, if any, for material salary Increases. The legislature's recent refusal to. di rect Increases within Its power to decree will also help the budget committee to say "no." . , : Estimate sheets on which county departmental budget re quests will be prepared will be distributed late this month. A three-man citizen committee will be named when the estimates are ready ' and two budget-trimming sessions will follow, the final one to be completed In JNofember at the latest. - ; . Ray Glatt of Woodburn and . L. Wleder of Salem hare served on this committee for four years and A. A. Ulrln for ' three. Since, the court prefers to hare - experienced men on the commit tee, the three may be asked to serre again this year. It Is be lieTed, although the court mem bers have made no predictions. Lost Spokane Girl Found in Denver iK-CRAND JUNCTION Colo., Behrens, 15-year-old Spokane girl who disappeared from Den- police station here today and asked that her mother be notified.- . - - The girl and her mother, Mrs. - Grace Behrens, were risking ' Denrer relatlres when the daugh ter vanished after leaving her mother to attend a theater. " Grand Junction police officers reported the girl told them she had been "hit on the head" after leading the theater and remem bered nothing until she found relf on a highway outside Denver.! f In Denver Mrs. Behrens said she would arrange for her daugh ter to rejoin her. :C.s- a ?, Wfc-J-. J; u U'iiLu Salen Pistributors San Francisco ACME BREWERIES Los Angeles 'New' Leader - v- v ' $ f - -o; t i - frO , WXIan & IHhw (above), of Im perial, Califs was elected com mantW of the California: Amer ' lean Lesion at the state coa Ten don In Oakland. Prertoa&ly the legion had pledged Itself to com bat on-American activities and sked liberalization ef WPA benefit of veterans. Bandit bad Shot Policeman Lucky Gunman Fires Point Blank at Tacoma Officer, but Misses TACOMA, An. 17-P)-Patrol-man Rick Johnson of the Tacoma police force owed his life to a gunman's poor marksmanship to night. . Johnson was only four feet away when the gunman fired two shots at him with a .38 caliber auto matic pistol and lived to tell the tale, after first overpowering Or ville Toland. 19-year-old tran sient. Acting Detective Captain Peter Modahl said Toland had con fessed a $10 grocery store holdup here earlier in the evening and had substantiated Johnson's re port -of the subsequent gunplay when the patrolman attempted to detain the youth for questioning on a downtown street. Johnson said he believed the first shot barely missed his shoul der but that he deflected the sec ond shot upward by hurling him self upon Toland. ' The youth, who told officers his home was in Hannibal, Mo., was being held tonight on open charges at the Tacoma city jail. . TVA Said Giving Help to Jobless PADUCAH. Ky., Aug. 17. (JPy James P. Pope, director of the Tennessee ralley authority, told several thousand persons at tending a growers' picnic today the TVA program "is making an heroic attack" on unemployment. "The government is, - through WPA and other agencies, seeking to furnish employtVnt and sup ply the bare necessities" to the "some 10,000,000 unemployed people In the United. States," said the former Idaho senator. "The goTernment can not so on indefinitely with such a pro gram unless the money can be returned to the federal treasury." "This means that a large part of the unemployed must find a place In our private economic system ." 1 m a w m r a m m Oil Reduction Is Rescinded I Stoppage of Crude Flow Expected to Bring More Action OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 17.- (-Mid-contInent oil producers scored an initial victory in a. six state shutdown war against col lapsing crude prices today as the Bell Oil and Gas Co. rescinded a 20-cent per barrel reduction put into effect last weekend. Heads of the major purchasing companies whose price cuts were responsible for the current crisis igare no indication whether they would follow Bell's lead, but ob servers expected the stoppage of 8 per cent of the nation's crude production to bring results soon. Meanwhile, as Texas, Okla homa. Louisiana. Kansas, Arkan sas and New Mexico continued to enforce oil field shutdowns hold ing 2,136,800 barrels of erode off the market daily, these develop ments Interested the "black gold Industry. Ickee Asks Control 1. Secretary Ickes declared present conditions would necessi tate legislation giving the federal government partial control of oil production. 2. The Lion Oil Refining com pany challenged in court the right of the Arkansas oil and gas commission to shut down the state's oil fields while Gover nor carl B. Bailey sent a de tachment of state police to El Dorado to enforce the order shut ting down all wells in the state's controlled fields. 3. The Oklahoma Stripped Well association charges in an open letter to President Henry M. Dawes of the Pure Oil com pany that present "chaotic con ditions" were caused by un bridled production in Illinois. . There was no resistance as the police, accompanied by county peace officers and a state oil com mission representative, motored through a driring rainstorm to padlock the wells one by one. In some instances Lion employes shut down' the producers at the motorcade's approach. Fish Suggestion For Truce Buried OSLO, Norway, Aug. 17-JP)-Divided opinions of interparlia mentary union congress' delegates indicated tonight that the much discussed resolution of Represen tative Hamilton Fish of New York nrging a 30-day ,,truce' in Europe would be quietly buried in the un ion council. The unon rules committee held such a resolution, not on the offi cial agenda, may not be debated unless the council approves by a two-thirds majority. The conference, after a speech by Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wis consin urging goodwill among na tion, adopted a resolution "that general peace can find no guaran tee other than collaboration be tween states with a view to satis fying the economic and social needs of the nations by peaceful methods." She Had Million ' But Shot Herself CLEVELAND, Aug. 17.-(P-Mrs. Julia Morgan Marlatt, 66, bad a million dollars but no de sire to lire. Her suicide last Monday was disclosed today coincident with filing of papers showing an estate worth $1,024,000. She left 3500, 000 to the Cleveland museum of art. Mrs. Marlatt. childless, was a widow of William H. Marlatt, Cleveland corporation lawyer who died In 1937. She was found dead in her bedroom with, a bullet through her head and a revolver nearby. Coroner Samuel R. Ger ber said she had been in ill health and recorded death as ! suicide. No Decision Made On Actors Scrap ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 18. (Friday) UP) Split over What to do about the dispute among actors unions, the American Fed eration of Labor's executive coun cil recessed today -without reach ing a decision. William Green AFL president. said the council had "nearly completed' a statement of its position, and this would be com municated tomorrow to officials of the Associated Actors and Art ists of America, the "4-A" which Is the parent organization of a dozen actors' onions. Light by the Nickel SEATTLE. Anr 1 7. flT1i n I city park board adopted a plan today for use of metered lighting ion piayiieia tennis courts, under tne new system players can turn lOB. the lichti fcr Inserting rnlm I In a slot.;. PEACHES ' Are Now Ripe and Ready for i CANNON; Crawfords, 11 air, 8 1 a p p y. Champion and Tuscan Cling. Elberu snd Late Crawfords a few days later. r Bring This Ad to lfy I . Orchard and Receive - - I I FREE ; A Basket of Peaches la Mission , Boltpm, 19 miles nortH'of Salem-on old LsPoK lett farm. C R. LaFOLLETT The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Held for Murder Charles Jefferson, 84, who posed ns n movie talent scout. Is shown in West Palm Beach, Fla shortly after be was formally charged -with abduction, rape and murder or .ramces irann, Miami, Fbu, high school girl. In JalL Jefferson appeared wor ried and: distraught after the court procedure. r Rainier s Height Battle Continues i i Tacomans Are not Willing to Concede Mountain Is a Pygmy SEATTLE, Aog. 17.-(5J)-The national park service and other federal agencies apparently will never hear the last from civic minded Washingtonians about the recent announcement demoting ML Rainier to fourth place in the list of the country's highest mountains. ! The Washington state progress commission entered the contro versy tonight, with Chairman Leo Weisfield making a formal appli cation to the coast and geodetic survey fori a remeasurement of Rainier. I Weisfield, who maintains the mountain is at least third high est. Isn't satisfied with the Ta coma chamber of commerce plan to add 11 feet atop Rainier to beat out ML Massive in Colorado. "We've never had a measure ment by the coast and geodetic survey and it may be that this will show ML Rainier isn't only the third highest mountain in the country, but the highest of all," he said. Originally, Ralnier's height was given as 16,000 feet, but was shoved to third , place in 1913 after the geological survey found it was 14,408 feeL "First ML Whitney in Califor nia got in the way, then Mt. El bert in Colorado and now when Mt. Massive comes along to claim 10 added feet it begins to look suspicious," he said. "It seems like they cut a few feet off Rainier every time they measure it, while they add a few feet to some Colorado mountain nobody ever heard of." 2 Democrats Hold 3d Term no Good WASHINGTON. Aug:. 17. OP) The democratic senators Van Nuys of Indiana, and King of Utah predicted today there would be disaffection In party ranks if President Roosevelt were nominated for a third term. Van Nuys told reporters that at least 15 democratic senators would withhold their support in next year's campaign if the presi dent were nominated again. The Indiana senator did not name the senators. King; who; like Van Nuys, has opposed some key administra tion legislation, said he was "in. clined to think that there would be a good deal of disaffection" if Mr. Roosevelt again were the party's standard bearer. Carrier Launching Kills 1, Hurts 20 BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Aug. 17-ff)-The runaway launch ing or Britain's newest aircraft car rier, the 23,000-ton Formidable, aiuea one woman and injured 20 otner spectators today with shower of timbers and iron bolts rrom ner burst cradle. The Formidable & one of seven streamlined aircraft carriers or. I dered by the admlrallty under its vast rearmament program. Hundreds of dockyard laborers unaer tne keel, warned by the screech of splitting lumber, leaned to safety as the 763-foot ship tore oer own pain a Dove them. nying fragments killed Vn. iao Dei Kirk, wife of a shipyard employe, j t Keiects Antarctic Jaunt PORTLAND. Ana. 17 I Stanley Jewett. Jr son of the re gional cuec of the federal bio logical : surrey - here, said today he' had declined an offer to lain the Byrd expedition to the Antarc tic as chief biologist : because "there Isn't enough wild life there.". . - He said he nref erred ft Mil tlnue studies of Columbia river salmon under Dr. WIHfs w. rm bianrorainnirersitr icthyologlst. : : Employes of the Falrriew home snd their families - had a nlealc gathering at RIverdale Thursday night. About 175 vert present, - : 4 -v , i ' - ; v, x ' x ;V:v. ::: 'J '' : 1 - '-'-I - - Jewel Oregon, Friday ifornin, August 18, 193 Union Parade ; Starts at 7 Many Floats Are Slated by Unions and. Finns - for Procession - Organized labor, -Its:? friends and employing institutions will parade on Salem streets tonight featuring Union-Label week, "re cently, proclaimed , by Governor Charles AvSprague;' j1 Salem unions,-'' totaling -.more than 30 with approximately 3,000 members - will be larjrelv . repre sented anVT many" will sponsor floats. There wiu also be xioats by union-employing institutions and Xrsterhal societies. The parade will form at Marlon so nare at 7 o'clock. - Many are reviewing and all are Invited to see the - display of union labels, union-made pro ducts and union-employing in terests at US North. Commer cial street, an Innovation , in la bor anion activity here. , i The week wiu close with a picnic at fat's Acres, near Aur ora, on Sunday, to which the pub lic is invited. In an extensive program of attractions there are to be bathing-beauty contests for men and women with a .loving cup for the winner. . There will also be a contest by amateur entertainers featuring practically any specialties the entrants are prepared to presenL snd open : to all amateurs. Late entrants not yet registered sre nrged to con tact the committee without de lay at the Labor temple, 259 Court street, or at the picnic grounds Sunday morning as early as possible. War Body Studies Mobilization Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-WV The new civilian war resources board began today a "precaution ary" study which officials indi cate might Involve a thorough going revision of: the war depart ment's master plan to mobilise American industry in event of war. The group of industrial and commercial leaders received in structions from Louis Johnson, acting secretary of war, to seek iiaws ana omissions in tne ae tailed blueprints on which mili tary experts have worked for the last 18 years. At the same time Johnson as serted that the government's call for civilian advice "does not in dicate a belief that war is im mediate or inevitable." The board, headed by Edward R. Stettinius, jr., chairman of the United States Steel corporation. was appointed last week, with President Roosevelt's sanction, to advise the expanding armed serv ices in peace time and to take over control of Industry in event of war. Battle for Spoils Bad for Democracy PORTLAND, Aug. 17.-UP-Tb.e democratic system of government "cannot continue to exist it the purpose of the party in control is to wage a fight for spoils," Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D-Ga) told delegates to the National Rural Letter Carriers' association con vention today. Politics, Ramspeck said, should be confined to those moulding the policies of governments Ramspeck, chairman of the house civil service committee, told an interviewer he believed the United States could stay out of European war "but we'll have to be very careful." Pershing Declares French Are Ready NEW YORK, j Aug. 17. P) General John J. Pershing, re turning tonight from a ten-weeks visit in' France, threw up his hands and declared "nobody knows" whether there will be a European war. - The French, 1 he said, were ready for it the French army Is in excellent shape. At the time, the war-time commander of the A. E. F. voiced agreement with a recent state ment by Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, commandant of the fourth corps area, that the United States' army and reserve forces were inadequate and that there should be a longer training period for both.'. I I ., . 1 135 N. Commercial Phones 5197 - 7023 ! . PRICES FRIDAY, SATURDAY, THROUGH MONDAY The Original Yellow Front Drug ' 1399 1930 Sole Agents Penstar Remedies and Candy Special Store in Salem , in Marion County STORE HOURS Week nays 7tS0 AM.-9-.OO PJM. gat. 7;tO AM9:4Q PJH. Son. 0:00 A.M.-d:OQ P.M. Holidays :QQ A.M.. pj Dia-Bisma The effective Antacid. "A Pensl&r Product 2 for 25c Cigarettes Vliy carton Eastman & Agfa At Lowest Cut : Prices Fitch D. IL Shampoo 55 s -i-09 Drene Shampoos d9c & 79s Takes Over ' iiessi mil- hi v WwllWWW -- Admiral Coartney Admiral Charles E. Courtney Is shown on board the U. S.. Uner WssUngton as 1m ssfled totsks over the U. S. navy Mediterrn nean squadron. " Juvenile Stars Go Under Labor Body SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17-UP) -Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Freddie Bartholomew and all the other juvenile stars, character ac tors and extras of filmdom will come under the jurisdiction of the state labor commissioner, begin ning next Monday. H. C. Carrasco, labor 1 commis sioner, . said he had notified all motion picture producers and the Los Angeles school authorities that the consent of his department must be obtained before minors may be employed in the produc tion of movies. He added that he must be satisfied that the child's school record, attendance and health comply with the necessary requirements before he will grant permission for film work. Mutual Network Is Given Series CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (JP Ex clusive broadcasting rights for the 1939 world series were awarded today to the Mutual Boadcastlng company. Kenesaw M. Landis, baseball commissioner, announced the Gil lette Safety Razor Blade com pany had signed to sponsor the broadcast. The company wlU pay $100,000 for the privilege. The money will go into the world series pool, to be divided as are other receipts. Never before hare the big league granted exclusive radio rights to one broadcastig com pany. Four Towns Face Water Shortages MeMINNVILLE. An 17 -fl Approximately 6,000 residents or iNewDerg, wuiamina, Dayton and Lafayette faced water short ages today. Installation of a pump In Henry creek was approved by the Lafayette city council in order to augment the regular supply. Willamlna was dbrrinr a teat veil for additional water. Newberg investigated three springs capable of doubling the nresent flow available thronrh it gravity system. Dayton police eniorced regulations against sprinkling except during set hours. Police prohibited an ir rigation of lawns and gardens at Willamlna. Noted Rodeo Hero Victim of Bronco LARAMIE, Wyo., Aug. 17-P) -Mervln A. Bath, 83, widely known rodeo rider and one of the few to stay with "Five Minutes to Midnight." famous bucker of the Cheyenne show, is dead. - A horse he was breaking on his ranch on the Little Laramie river kicked Bath in the abdomen. causing injuries from which the rancher died yesterday. Bath had appeared in every Cheyenne show since 1927. CHUX Disposable Diapers 99c Llte-teX ; mml Baby PanU aJC 'Not Rubber Stop the Pain! ' ,'Cse 8chaeters i Corn Remedy 5 No Relief. No Pty Hind's H. & A. : - Cream IC3, 2flC 35 Violence Growing In NY Milk Fight Governor Lehman Orders State. Trooper Into Strike Area UTICA, NT, Aug. nyP)Aml& new reports of violence In New York's dairy farmer: union milk boycott Governor Herbert H. Leh man today ordered all available state troopers on duty te deal with a strike situation which a state of ficial termed "very serious." . The governor's action brought an Immediate reply from Archie Wright, chairman of the striking union, that Lehman "is. making the -government a strike-breaking agency." : Efforts of the union to squeeze the huge metropolitan market dry to force a baste price rise to 42.36 per hundred pounds (47 quarters -5 cents a quart) made Itself felt in New York city where Health Commissioner John L. Rice estimated the normal supply had been cut J 5 per cent. ' Because; of the curtailed sup plies. Rice said he was considering extending the radius of the -New York milk shed to. allow ship ments from. Boston, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago mllksheds. Clashes between pickets and non-striking : farmers, which al ready have caused one death, and milk dumping broke out sporad ically throughout the day. Montgomery County Sheriff Gerald K. Nell is reported a milk truck leaving a Dairymen's league plant at Fort Plain was fired upon by three men hidden in a corn field. Ranger Held Dead In Forest Flames MONTEREY, Cal., Aug. 17. UP) Fires blazed unchecked through California forest and brush lands today, laying waste thousands upon thousands of acres and possibly taking the life of one man. State Forest Ranger Joe Cal- andra of King county was miss ing in the Santa Lucia mountain fire zone and officials said he probably had perished In the names. Calandra was trapped with John H. Murray, 18, of Oakland, Wednesday afternoon. Murray, severely burned. stumbled out of the mountains late yesterday but no trace was found of Calandra. Hospital attendants today said Murray's condition was lair. Chicago Woman Killed GOLD BEACH. Ore- Ane. IT. -OPt-A car plunged off a 100 foot can on the Oregon coastal high way tonight, carrying Mrs. Hans H. Anderson, wife of, a Chicago streetcar motorman, to death. Anderson was seriously injured. ft) lit W Phone 757 .1 in the city, so this Is the place to buy your meat supply daring the warm weather. Yon can always do better at McDowell's. PURE LARD 4 lbs. for 30c Oar Own Make BACON SQUARES . JQC HEAVY BACON, sugar cured.... 1 3c & 1 gC FRESH PIGS' FEET $C MUTTON STEW .. . Jc VEAL STEW ......... OC SPARE RIBS... . .......IOC & 12C BEEF POT ROAST... . IQc PURE PORK SAUSAGE 15C MUTTON CHOPS , - -IOC FRESH SIDE OR SALT PORK...........14C PORK TO ROAST, no shanks 1.L.12C4' PRIME RIB ROLL, a real buy 17c There are seven meat cutter here folks, ready and glad to wait on you ' OPEN UNTIL 7 Panama White Shoe ; i. Qeaner For all white 11 ni shoes 1 Anacin Tablets 19c, 59c, 59c j,- 90c: ,, For Pain - ! '-Picnic Time ? Bo-Sure Use Hood's ; ; poison Oak Lotion for relief. , 5Cc&oa.co Only at Schaefer's ,, rr II Witness of Fight Between Ironclad Ships Reaches 97 PORTLAND. Aug. 17-P)-De- crin Farrar, one of the few living men who witnessed the naval bat tle between the Merrimac and Monitor, first ironclads, during the Civil war, observed his 97th birthday anniversary today. . He said he was gunner No. 3 at Fortress Monroe when the histor ic fight took place. He volun teered for artillery service from Wisconsin. He came to Oregon by covered wagon in 1868. Upturn Is Noted In July Industry WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-JP)-The federal reserve board report ed today a sharp upswing in July industrial activity. The board's index of industrial production, based on preliminary returns, climbed to 102 per cent of the 1923-25 average in July, compared with 98 in June and 92 in April and May. An Increase of steel and iron production, which usually falls at this season, accounted for much of the July improvement. Mates and Pilots Agree on Scales PORTLAND, Aug. 17. UP Wayne L. Morse, west coast ar biter of waterfront disputes, ended a three-day hearing today when the masters, mates and pilots onion, local 17, snd river towboat operators agreed on wages, hours and boat classifica tions. The new scale will give ISO union members employed on Co lumbia and Willamette river boats wage increases of $7.50 per month. Hours were fixed at 240 a month, with additional counted as overtime. a nirr m ItlHmVri B.Coun. What we want to impress on you folks is this: We have the cleanest meat market and Mm hMt ivfrivmtn nlnt P. M. SATURDAY SchaeferV i Ice Cream S3c pint -25c quart Healthful, delicious. . - Commercial Chocolates C lb. Friday & Saturday Only' '- ; Kotex or Blodess ' - 12's 2Cc All sizes. ; DIAMOND DYES i. 3 25c n TEEL for .Teeth r AC3, 22s, 3?3