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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1940)
No Substitute! You'll Mad do newspaper rmm give more real attrac tion than jronr UH'AL MOHMXQ PAPER, with Its WORLD NEWS pin- HOME COMMUNITY NEWS. Weather Cloudy with light raJn or now flurries Saturday and Sunday; moderately cold. Max. temp. Friday, 44; min. 81. Wind, sooth. KIG'HTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 13, 1940 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 251 i .use Votes Emeir Bill bj E Mar eincy OS . ooundbo 1651 gin Flag Line to Orient Topic Of New Group Chairman of Economic Council Proposes Steamer Fleet Sprague See Progress in Next Decade for Oregon Envisioned by Governor Charles A. Sprague as an agency to speed Oregon's economic development in the Immediate future, his newly formed state economic council yesterday as a firt step resolved to promote establishment of a flag steamship fleet to ply between Portland and the orient. The council addressed Its reso lution Introduced by Chairman E B. McNaughton, Portland banker, to the United States maritime commission. Reviving Oregon's lagging in dustry is one of the early steps necessary in restoring improved business conditions, council mem bers agreed. Nest few Hears to Widen Opportunity Governor Sprague declared Ore gonians stood "on the threshold of a new decade, with 10 years of hard times behind us and ahead of us years, we firmly believe will widen opportunity for us." The executive told the council It should plan the development of natural resources. Improve mar keting conditions, develop a coor dinated program for industrial de velopment, expand fisheries and commerce, and adopt a sound for estry policy. "The state might well develop new Industries based on wood, in cluding pulp and paper, rayon, wallboards and plastics, the gov ernor said, and it may anticipate a bright future for the linen in dustry. Governor Maintains Free Enterprise Beat Many persons believe the gov ernment should take over or at least finance enterprise but "re lease the energies of a free people under the stimulus of self-interest is th most effective means of re storing prosperity." Governor Sprague maintained. Chairman MacNaughton pre sented a letter from the Portland chamber of commerce urging the council to investigate problems created by high property taxes. He Indicated tliat this letter might have been iinspired by the recent decision of the Aluminum com pany of America to erect its new plant on the Washington side of the Columbia river instead of In Oregon. He said he doubted whether there was any great dif ference In taxes in the two state. Governor Sprague said he al ready had requested the state tax Commission to prepare a state ment showing the comparative taxes in Oregon and Washington. Dean W. A. Schoenfeld, Oregon State college, wrote that a solu tion of agricultural problems in Oregon depended to a large ex (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Dread of Future Prompts Slaying OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 1Z-JP) Worrled by "world conditions" J. Harold Friedman, 3 8, killed his wife and 4-yeai-old daughter to day and critically wounded him self in executing what be told au thorities was a plan to save his family from the ' uncertainties of the future." Lawrence Dayton, deputy dis trict attorney, said the motive for the triple shooting was given in a statement made by Friedman from his hospital bed. Attendants said hopes for Friedman's recovery were not bright. The child died this afternoon, a few boars after her mother, Pauline Friedman, was killed. Dayton said Friedman, an in surance broker, blamed worry over world conditions (or a plan he conceived several months ago to kill his family. Ia ft not which Friedman said he wrote yesterday at bis office he complained life had "become too complicated. Our world la chang ing too fast. I'm worried about the fa turn of my family, religion and country." Sentence Set Up For Errant Qerk GRANTS PASS' Jan. 12-iAV Clrcult Judge H. D. Norton said today he would, postpone until Saturday passing, sentence on County Clerk F. 1. Coon, who pleaded guilty yesterday to lar ceny of public funds. ,Cooa was Indicted by a grand Jury ! yesterday for larceny of $7.2? of public funds and entered an Immediate plea of guilty. Meantime, petitions were cir culated asking- leniency (or Coon and appointment of Elizabeth Hol comb, deputy, as clerk, r Council Leader Asks Ship Line :- .... . . . :'-. "-; ' i-wc-.- . ,? s . x Jt ' J 5- ' t-t- B. McNaughton In One Paul Mauser's When winter comes and Icicles hang by the wall, as the poet had it, a young man's fancy turns, Alfred. Iord fT" I Tennyson had it, to thoughts of radiators, es pecially if they leak, as Paul H. Hauser, jr., the home me chanic, had it. There are. and it's o 1 d Paul, the grease ball, a-sayin' it. n n.nr ir inreo w a y u ui keeping winter out of your mo tor. You can fill it full or anti freeze compound and quit worry ing or you can follow one of the other two. They are (1) the blan ket system and (2) the puddle method. We do not recommend the blanket system and have little to nay in favor of the puddle method. The latter is m con tinual drain. The better known draining experts (listed in the latest Gallup poll as 993 per cent successful) adhere to the black out or fumbling method. To those in the audience who are not familiar with the opera tion of the modern water-cooled internal combustion engine we explain at this point that there is a doo-dad in the water-cooling system, the purpose of which is tc let the water out. It is usually at a low point, the better to let the water run out, my dear. It is nearly always at a point in accessible except by mule team. The members of the fum bling; school (among which we are proud to be numbered) at tack this phase of the problem with eest. By rules of the game, nse of flashlights, matches, or other means of ar tificial illumination is consid ered bad form and is frowned upon by the rules committee. An expert will probe into the Innards of the horseless car riage with his right hand until he contacts a bare battery wire. The resulting sensation adds greatly to the thrill of the pur suit. The next step Is to get the hand caught between the fan belt and the pulley (or thingumbob) upon which it runs. Only the best players can attempt this difficult feat. On the third try It Is some times possible to turn the valve and set the rusty water stream ing. This la where the expert gets his feet wet. We will not here relate how. on the following morning, to re fill the radiator with water (not the same water unless your bill was over five dollars last month), an that is a chapter In itself. We shall only note for the late com ers that on such mornings It Is not necessary to take a bath be fore entering the garage. EX-SKIER'S LA3IEXT I think that I shall never see A thing Immoveable as a tree. British jewelers keep op with international affairs. They are now advertising their wedding rings with statements that they are fa "the- encirclement bxtsi- E. i3r Column i Bizarre Story of Murder of Farm Family Related FORT TOWSON, Okla., Jan. 12 -()-An amazing story of how a farm family 01 tuieo was killed by gun, ax and firs because of a die gams prompted state offi cials today to Investigate prison camp conditions, including reports that convicts get drunk and go hunting 'with shotguns. A frightened fanner, Houston Lambert, 28, signed a statement that ha saw three convicts brutal ly kill Elmer Rogers, his wifa and f our-yMr-4d Sou Dean, oa New Year's eve in anger because Rog ers had won money from one of th three camp trusties. Informed of the statement, War den Jess Dunn closed the Fort Towson prison camp, herded its a? legates y ,5 o Methodist o nclave Here Governor, Seattle Pastor Stress Ideals, Talks at First Meetings Conference Continues on Today, Sunday With Special Services Youth of Methodist and other denominations thronged into Sa lem in unexpectedly large num bers yesterday afternoon for the first Oregon Methodist youth con ference, which continues today and Sunday at downtown meet ing places, the First Methodist church and on the Willamette university campus. When 600 delegates crowded into the Marion hotel banquet rooms arranged, at conference leaders suggestion, for 500, Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague was prompted to resort to Milton, the poet, and quote, "They also serve who only stand and wait." The governor welcomed the. young men and women and urged them to pursue the ideals being out lined at conference gatherings. Robert Johnson, Conference President, presided. Understand ing, Faith Held World's Needs The world needs understand ing, faith, worship, courage, sac rifice and love if It is to direct Its present fast pace to a worth while goal, the keynote speaker at the assembly following at First church. Dr. James Bret (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Army Contingent Halts in 'Screen' Fog as Thick as Smoke Greets Soldiers in Camp at Salem Cold fog thick enough to re semble a carefully-laid smoke screen shrouded a motorized Unit ed States army company that made overnight camp at the state fairgrounds last night. The unit, the Third ordnance company from Fort Lewis, Wash., bound for the joint army-navy training exercises at Monterey, Calif., will leave at 7 o'clock this morning for Medford, Its next stop. Company equipment included two small-arms trucks, a machine shop truck, an automobile shop truck, two light repair trucks, kitchen wagon and five small sup-; ply vans. In addition, seven pri vate cars belonging to officers who have gone south by troop ship, were in the caravan. Captain Loren E. Gaither head ed the 3 9 men In the unit. Trade Agreement With Japan Urged PORTLAND, Jan. 12--An equitable trade agreement with Japan to replace the 1911 docu ment renounced by the United States would brighten the eco nomic future of the whole Pacific basin, Robert Norton said today. Norton, associate editor of the magazine China today, urged an embargo on war supplies, which he said would halt Japanese ag gression in China. However, trade policies giving Japan equal rights with the United States in China would maintain this nation's "open door," he added. "I hare no idea that Japan can conquer all of China, but even If she takes only northern China she'll have enough to provide cut throat competition and ruin Pa cific trade," Norton said. "Be sides, the resources would enable her to prepare for further con quests." High Mark Set ASHLAND, Jan. 12. --Winter term enrollment at the South ern Oregon College of Education passed 300 today, the highest mark since 193S. 25 occupants Inside the peniten tiary walls at McAlester and dis closed ha had discharged a camp sergeant for allowing his charges too much freedom. Previously Got. Leon Phillips hal said his owm investigation showed that Fort Towson con victs were allowed to hunt with shotguns and "got out and got drunk.- Lambert, who told Sheriff Joe Harmon he was afraid to speak earlier because he feared venge ance on himself and family, iden tified two of the convicts as Frank Wellman, Oklahoma City man serving 30 years for murder ing his bride, and Floyd Carpen (Turn td page 2, coL 2) 60r Finland Battered by K uss Bounbs Fiercest Raid In All of War Strikes South Attack Follows hy Day Mass Air Death of Parachute Troop 0 t her Scandinavians Send Volunteers to Aid Finns (Editors Note: wade Werner, now In Helsinki, for the Associated Press, knows the army and knows the Kus slans. He Joined the United States army durine the World war : he spent 1938 and part of 1939 as Associated Press chief of bureau In Moscow. Ons of Europe's best - trained American news correspondents, he covered the violent socialist suppressions in Vien na and the subsequent assassination of their director. Austrian Chancellor E.n' irelbert Dollfuss, in 1934. Recently h has been chief of bureau at Copenha' gen.) By WADE WERNER HELSINKI, Jan. 12.-iiPH5OTl-et Russia's alrforce today sub jected southern Finland to one of the heaviest bombings In the month-and-a-half of war, break ing Helsinki's telephone commun ications with the outside world and punishing a dozen other cit les. The violent attacks came a day after a soviet attempt to land par achute troops on the Karelian is thmus was reported to have ended in mass death in the air. Lahtl, 60 miles north of the capital, reported the heaviest damage. The radio station in this Important railway junction was put out of commission by bombs. Elsewhere the damage was not so heavy, although there were some casualties. Thirty planes raided Turku ( Abo) , southwestern seaport through which much foreign ma terial and many volunteers for Finland are passing other cities along the Gulf of Bothnia were likewise pounded. Bombs which broke Helsinki's telephone connections with for eign lands fell on islands some 30 miles south of the capital. Vibra tions were felt here. Riihlmaki, a rail junction 40 miles north of Helsinki, also was bombed. Tele phone communication was ex pected to be reestablished shortly. Air raid sirens screamed In Helsinki at 2:15 p.m. (4:15 a.m. PST) for an hour and 35 min ute "alerte," but no planes were sighted over the city itself. How ever, the Russian bombers rang ed over a wide section of south ern Finland. Finnish marksmen on the Isth- i mus were reported to have frus trated the attempt to land groups of the red army's vaunted para chute corps by picking them off as they dangled from 'chute shrouds. Scandanavlan newspaper correspondents said several groups of 50 In parachutes were (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Democrats Spurn 'Draft FR' Move No help from the Marion county Democratic s o c 1 e ty may be ex pected by the Commonwealth Federation in Its "draft Roose velt" petition program, judging from the remarks of John Mar shall, president of the club, and several of its members at Friday night's meeting at the courthouse. It was mentioned that the peti tions had been mailed to precinct committeemen and committee women, and some of those present said they bad burned them. Sentiment expressed at the meeting was opposed to any for mal expression of policy in the matter. Dorothy Wheeler resigned as secretary to conform to the Hatch law, she having been appointed clerk typist In the district census office. Late Sports LOS ANGELES, Jan, U.-iJP) -Southern California's .Trojans started their quest for the Pa cific coast conference, sooth em division, basketball title to night by outscoring the rangy University of California quin tet, 49 to 3. PALO ALTO. Calif., Jan. 12. -C)-Stanford university opened its It 40 Pacific coast conference, southern division, basketball season with a S3-to 38 victory over the University of California at Los Angeles here tonight. ,v ;. TACOMA, Jan. 1 2. -(Moving oat in front at the opening whistle, P a e I f 1 e university hoopmen led all the way to de- ; feat College of Paget Sound, 41-31. in their northwest con ference game here tonight.- The victory gave the Badgers ; an even break In the two-game se ries. ' " Heroic Effort to Rescue Buried Miners Is Abandoned as Failure I -TKH- AXIOM T9sTesasas3u2Msv? Ninety-two men died underground corporation's Hartley No. 1 mine when an explosion ripped through the shaft Wednesday. Dogged efforts by rescue crews to reach the entombed men in time to save them proved fruitless. Above are shown several of the men who had come to the surface after toil ing three hours to reach their comrades. All hope of reaching the men alive was abandoned last night. (P). Hopes for Entombed Miners Is Lack of Air Prevents of 92 May Survive in West Virginia BARTLEY, W. Va., Jan. doned tonight for the entombed men in the blast-swept Bart ley No. 1 mine and company officials put the death toll at 92, the worst mine disaster in the nation since 1928. Raymond E. Salvati, vice-president of the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal corporation who had led rescue crews day O Kenet worker Often Listens To Sad Stories Oregon public welfare com mission caseworkers have to grin an1 bear pathetic stories such as this, told at the capitol yesterday: This casewerker called at the home of a once-wealthy Port land man recently in response to his request for relief. He laughed and joked with her until she told him where the federal surplus commodities store at which he could get x more to eat was located. Then he sobbed. "I built that building In my more prosperous days," he ex plained. Patience Advised For O S C Co-Eds CORVALLIS, Jan. 12-(p)-Pa-tience, thoughtfulness and tender ness were recommended to Ore gon State college co-eds today as ways to gain power over the oppo site sex. Dr. Fritz Kunkel, German psy chologist and lecturer here for a series of seminars, said girls using these characteristics gain more influence than those who are de manding, flighty and subject to displays of temper. He urged, ad herence, to truth in human rela tions to avoid Inhibitions. Pickett Retires As Class Leader EUGENE, Jan. 12. -()-The junior class at the University of Oregon was without Its two high est officers today. James Pickett, Salem, retired aa president and Genevieve Casey, Portland, did not return to school this term. Other class officers said a special election would bo held to fill the vacancies. Project Doomed LA GRANDE, Jan. lZ-4P)-La Grande's airport project apparent ly Is doomed, through-inability to find a sponsor's $3000 share, Dr. C L. Gilstrap," state aeronautics board member, said today. h :klSaw3 11 . '. l....,JL. .' . -v-y mlmm in the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Abandoned Possibility That Any Result of Explosion Coal Operation 12. (AP) Hods was aban una night in their efforts to reach I f TlA Tft nTVSf TltAlt loan A1 Vk stara ment "We have penetrated far enough to justify our thoughts that there was no possibility that the men barricaded themselves (against explosion gases). They are all dead. They wonld be dead even if they had barricaded themselves. There is Insufficient air." The rescue squads found SO mangled bodies in the wrecked corridors 600 feet underground, leaving 62 still missing. Only three bodies had been identified but relatives of the trapped men sadly started preparations to bury their kin. The company at first had fixed the total of trapped men at 91 but a recount of work records showed 92 were caught when the blast ripped through the mine Wednes day. Forty-seven others escaped unharmed. Not since 195 were killed in the Mather, Pa., mine explosion of 1928 has the death toll in a mine disaster been higher. The all time record is 31 killed in the Monogan, W, Va., explosion of 1907. (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Aid to Finland Alp house, WASHINGTON. Jan. ll-(JPf-Tbe question of extending finan cial aid to Finland became en snarled tonight in controversy over whether President Roosevelt or congress should take the lead. After the president told bis press conference that - he had a ted democratic and republican leaders to work out the problem of helping the Baltic nation, both Senator Barkley (D, Ky.), the majority leader, and Senator Me Nary (R, Ore.), the minority leader, informed reporters that they would not wish to act with out the views of the administra tion. - - "President - Roosevelt should not attempt to throw this ques tion Into th lap of congress," McNary said, adding that . the chief executive bad command of "all the agencies best fitted to deal with the question.. ,. ' Barkley. a down -the -line ad ministration supporter, declared: ."Congress should not take the Initiative unless ' Its proposals meet with the approval of the executive and the department of state. After all, they (the presi V f British Claim Scouts Inside Germany Lines All Planes Reported Safely Back at Home Bases Valuable Information Is Picked up hy Reconnaisance By EDWIN STOUT LONDON, Jan. 12-(;P)-Great Britain ' disclosed officially to night her airmen had bombed and reconnoitered far inside German territory in the give-and-take aerial warfare raging back and forth across the North sea. Apparently in retaliation for several successive days of flight by German planes over the Brit ish Isles, the royal alrforce planes dropped six bombs on a row of lights in Rantum bay on the is land of Sylt, Germany's great sea plane base in the North sea. A British statement announcing the operation said all the planes returned safely despite anti-aircraft fire. Lights Extinguished After Bombs Drop The string of lights in Ran tum bay, believed to have been (Turn to page 2, col. 4) 1 Dead, 2 Missing In Air Collision Navy Torpedo Plants Crash In Mid-Air; 3 Pilots Are Reported Safe SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 12.- (7P) One man was dead, three safe and two missing after a head-on collision of two navy torpedo planes over barren Borego can yon, 75 miles east of here, 11th naval district officials annuonced tonight. A searching party of more than 50 ranchers and sheriff's depu ties from San Diego and Imperial counties was spread fan-wise across the desert near the crash scene, seeking the two missing men, reported by survivors to have parachuted from the crash ing planes. Two of the survivors. Elmer Edwin Jackson, 22, Henderson ville, N.C., radioman third class? and another whose name was not given, were reported safe at a lonely highway repair station, 15 miles from the nearest telephone, in the canyon famed for its des ert beauty. The third survivor of the crash Charles W. Post. 24, Troutdale, Ore., radioman second class, was reported suffering from shock and a sprained ankle at Brawley, Calif. Bend Police Radio To Start Function BEND, Jan. 12-(5n-With ar rival of two mobile' transmitters, the Bend police department will put Its two-way radio communica tions Into operation. Chief Ev erett Rambo said other prepara tions were complete. The entire force soon will take the operators' examination at Portland, Rambo said. The Bend station operates on a frequency of 2442 kilocycles. Assumes Gaston Aspect dent and state department) know how such a program would fit into our foreign policy. There already are pending In congress proposals to suspend the existing Finnish debt to the Unit ed States and to grant Finland a S6O.000.000 loan from the re construction finance corporation. 'At his press conference, Mr. Roosevelt said that the question of aiding the Finns should not become Involved in partisan poll tics and that he thus had request ed leaders of both parties to get together on it. . Minority Leader Martin (R. Mass.) of the bouse said that, the president's proposal was news to him and that he felt .that prece dents should be. studied, carefully before any steps were taken. Senator Borah (R, Idaho), a leader In the fight against the administration's - neutrality, bill, told reporters that he was unwill ing, to support any proposal for aid to the Finns "until we know all the facts. -1 nrnmnu tt fita m. step to Involve us in the European I vuea mm to. aaaress a uum -CTurn to page xYeo!. S) ' I Mine Workers convention. , Initial Test Shows Heavy Defense Edge Outlay for Increase in Army, Navy Wins Favor Only one Effort Reduction Made on Measure for WASHINGTON, Jan. lt-Py The session's first test of congres sional sentiment on defense, ap propriations resulted today in overwhelming bouse approval ef a J264.611.000 emergency out lay, principally for increases in army, navy and coast guard per sonnel. The measure, providing funds to pay for the additions to the armed services already ordered by President "Roosevelt under his declaration of emergency powers, rolled through the house with only a scattering of "noes" on a voice vote. Only one major effort was made to reduce the total. Rep. Taber (R, NY) proposing a cut from J18.000.000 to J9.000.000 1p the fund for winter army ma neuvers. His amendment was de feated 93 to 50. Sentiment Develops for Diversion to Farm Because of the measure's na ture, the house vote was regard ed, however, as giving little In dication of what congress' atti tude will be toward the J460, 000,000 increase in defense spending asked by President Roosevelt and toward the navy'a request for approval of a J1.300, 000,000 new fleet expansion pro gram. Already some sentiment hs developed in the senate' for di verting part, or all, of the pro posed $460, 000,000 t increase to farm payments. The navy program has drawn ctticism from Chairman Walsh (D, Mass.) of the senate naval affairs committee who asserted in a statement tonight that the navy was asking authorization for a huge, future construction program when it had not yet started to build a single combat vessel under the $1, 000, 000, 000 navy act of 1938. The real question at the present time, Walsh said, is to get more ships actually under construction, rather than to increase a "paper" navy. Meanwhile, the navy's chief ef operations, Admiral Harold R. Stark, gave the house naval com mittee new reasons why he said the Jl, 300. 000, 000 bill should be speeded through congress. Hinting that the navy may (Turn to page 2, column 7) Hayden Predicts Economic Trouble PORTLAND. Jan. 12 - ()-J. Ralston Hayden declared today that Filipinos have "sufficient ca pacity to govern themselves" but economic dislocations will follow complete Independence for the islands. Hayden, former vice-governor of the Philippines under Frank Murphy and now professor of po litical science at the University of Michigan, told Reed college students that political disturb ances also would follow independ ence in 1946. The Day in Washington (By The Associated Press) The house approved a $2C4 611,000 emergency outlay for the army, navy and coastguard. President Roosevelt d I a closed he had asked congres sional leaders to get together oa the problem of giving ftna so cial assistance to Finland. Sen ator Barkley, majority leader and Senator McNary, minority leader, told report res, however, that -they did not want to act wtthowt the views of the SjOV snialstratlon. A house committee received is evidence an affidavit quoting Ho mer Martin, president of the AFL-Unlted Automobile Workers, as saying that Henry Ford had promised to gire him financial help. The affidavit was-sworn to by Harry A. Elder, former DlW organiser at 8t. Louis , Secretary Wallace t eld a house committee that domestic markets were . Insufficient to absorb all American farm ont Pt aad that foreign sales were necessary. He urged continu ance of the reciprocal trade agreements program as a tneana to that. end. Talk that John L. Lewis may . get behind Senator Wheeler (D, Mont.) for the: democratic presi dential " nomination ' Increased i when Lewis praised him, as a "most eminent statesman" and In
