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A Crowing Newspaper The Oregon Statesman la steadily growing news paper. Its readers know the reasons: It's reliable, com plete, lively and always In teres ting. Veather Increasing cloudiness to day and Thursday with rain in northwest portion Thurs day; little change in tent peratnre. Max. temp. Wed nesday 7, mln. 32, river 8 ft-, northeast wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, March 20, 1940 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 303 Pounooo 1651 Byrd Stresses EconomyNeed, Farm Aid Bill Treasury Shortage, new Debt Limit Declared Only Alternatives Virginian Hits Back at Administration Men Urging Spending WASHINGTON. March 19.-JP) Senator Byrd (D-Va) cautioned the senate against greatly increas ed appropriations today, lest the treasury's supply or. cash be re duced to an imprudent level, or it becomes necessary to Increase the legal limit on the national debt. He spoke as the senate slowly approached the session's first im portant test on the economy is sue, with a bill pending to appro priate 8922,864,668 for the agri culture department and farm benefit payments. The amount was more -than $200,000,009 greater -than taeewm roted by the house Xnd3Presldnt Roosevelt's budget estlmatesr ' Late this afternoon the cham ber rece&seH without reaching a vote on the measure. Administration leaders. Includ ing Senator Barkley (D-Ky) and Byrnes (D-NC), had contended that the increase could be Eafely taken front the $1,500,000,000 of cash now in the treasury's work ing balance. Byrd called their at tention to other factors involved. Would Cut Treasury Balance, Warning He said that to avoid an in crease in the debt limit, the bud get submitted in January by Presi dent Roosevelt Involved reducing that balance to $500,000,000 as part of the government's regular fiscal plans for the year begin ning next July. And he taxed Barkley and Byrnes with state ments made in the debate that a balance of at least $1,000,000,000 should be maintained at all times, for safety's sake. "I simply rise. Mr. President," Byrd said, "to make clear in the record that under the budget as now presented to congress, the working balance will be reduced to an amount as low as this gov ernment could safely operate on. "As the senator ironr Kentucky, Mr. Barkley, - aaUC-yesterday, an adequate balance should at all times be maintained in the treas ury of the government so as to meet all obligations coming due, and any further reduction in this working balance would not be in conformance with prudent fiscal operations. "We should, therefore, not ex pect to use any part of the work ing balance left on July 1, 1941, of approximately $500,000,000 to pay any part of increased or new appropriations to be made by con gress." George E. Glover Files for Judge Sublimity Man Is Fourth COP Entry; Only one Demo Is Certain A fourth name was submitted at the county clerk's office for the republican nomination for county judge when George E. Glover, of the Sublimity district, filed for that office. Ahead of Glover in filing had been W. A. "Adolph" Heater, Lewis Judson and Arthur H. Moore. . Glover as a campaign state ment promised: "Conduct the business of the office of county Judge in a cour teous, efficient. Impartial, busi nesslike manner. It shall be my steadfast resolution to see that all requirements of law are strict ly observed and enforced as they relate to the duUes of the of fice On the democratic ticket, only Kenneth Bayne Is now out for the Judgeship bat at least one other candidacy is expected. E. G. Neal, county democratic chair man, plans to enter the race. Meanwhile efforts of some party members are being directed to dissuade both Bayne and Neal from going on the ballot and in stead to give way to the can didacy of W. E. Savage, Keizer dairyman. Thf ee Are Killed In Du Pont Blast BATON ROUGE, La., March 19 CP-An explosion at the new Etyl-du Pont gasoline blending plant today killed three workers. Injured several others and caused damage estimated by officials at $100,000. The dead were Clifton Coney, 21, from New Orleans, J n s t i n Hughes. SI, from Dallas. Texas, and Henry Klnberger, 2 J, from Plaquemine Many more persons were treat ed at the plant and in downtown hospitals for burns and shock. The blast occurred et 1:21 p.m. (SCT) and was followed by three lesser explosions. Fire, started by the first blast, was brought under control before nightfall. Part of the roof and north end of the building, recently complet ed at e cost of .$1,000,000, was blown , out end the structure steel frame was twisted badly. Film Player Is Held in Slaying 1 V, Irving Cohen, 87, of Los Angeles who . played bit roles In the -movies including one as a po liceman, la shown after his ar rest in Los Angeles in connec tion with the 1037 slaying of Walter Sage in Sullivan county, NY. His arrest was tied npwlth that of ten men In the Brook lyn, XY, "murder combine" roundup. AP TelemaU En One Ear . . Paul H mixer g Column Well, children, it seems only yesterday that we were havinsr lof the year and the winter sols tice was upon us. The solstice of winter is gone, but the so I a c e of soring 'seems here at last. Anyway to morrow comes 'an o t he r vernal rol H. Hinier. jr. equinox and we haven't been able to properly feed the last one. This is the time, as yon a know if yon had looked it np aa we did, that the axis of the earth is" at right .angles, to the. direction of the sun. Since the days of Charles the Wick ed, he with the cleft foot, that has happened only twice a year and as regular as clock work. So It's worth remembering. Please try. Before we leave this and go on to the next chapter, entitled "The Decline and Fall of the Buggy Whip." we might note that this day, when day and night are equal, is a holiday in several countries. Including Ran goon, where it is the Full Moon of Tabaung. Does that answer your ques tion? The census bureau would be spared a great deal of expense in Marion county if it would take our advice. We suggest the bureau Just count the num ber of candidates and multiply by four. We heard carillon notes as we passed down State street yester day. They seemed to be coming from the Methodist church and we knew pretty well there Wasn't any carillon there, so we stopped to investigate. Sure enough, the notes were coming, clear and bell-like, from the old church tower. We poked our nose inside the front door, then, and nearly stumbled over a bunch of wires in the darkness. We'd almost stepped right into the chimes. The chimes, a rack with a two-octave range, were in the church vestibule and the sound was picked np by a micro phone, amplified and went out through loudspeakers in the steeple. It was just kind of a trial installation, but the chimes, which are played from a key board, may become a permanent fixture. We Just mentioned this in case n inn, ' 1a warn mvatlfled bv snatches of music coming from the church steeple mingled with a man's deep voice asking, in (Turn to page 2, col. 2) life OA I I I ?;" t I "11 Roosevelt Denies Remarks About Farley and Prejudice By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON. March 19.-UPI The third term riddle became more puzzling than ever tonignt pn.Mni Rnodevelt repudia ted a much-discussed arUcle in which he was quoted as stating his views on 1940 ticket-making. The article, by Ernest K. Lind ley, columnist, was published on March 4 and assertea inai pres ident Roosevelt, in a conversation with a southern legislator, had said: That he was not going to run for a third term; i That Cordell Hull, secretary of state, wonld be a good man for the presidency; ; . That it would be lnavisable to nmlnifa Pnitmlltcr O 6 r 1 1 James A. Farley for the rice pres- . Idency because the nominauuo would stir up a lot of religious iiMlnilA anil Amotion and would lead some people to say that "wi were using Cordell Hull as a stalking horse for the pope." : - Rneakfnr with rare bluntness at a press eonf ersnce today, ' Mr. County Utility Hearing Is Set HereT7sday Organize go" owing Not Plarr ponsoring Cg 0 iee Avers Spokesii a for Various Communities Will Be Heard, Announced Whether or not Marlon county should be turned into one big people's utility district will be discussed by witnesses at a pre liminary hearing to be held in the old Salem high school audi torium at 8 o'clock. Thursday night before the state hydroelec tric commission. Called by the commission fol lowing the filing of preliminary petitions by a district sponsoring committee, the hearing is pro Tided for by law to sound out public sentiment and to give the commission data to indicate whether or not it is advisable to proceed with engineering and cost studies. Organized Showing Not Planned, Claim The sponsoring committee will not present a pre-organlzed front at the hearing, Dr. O. A. Olson, vice-chairman, asserted here yes terday. "No effort will be made to make an organized showing," Ol son declared. He said, however, that the committee expected representa tives from many communities throughout the county to speak at the hearing. Whether or not the Portland General Electric company and the Mountain States Power company would present adverse testimony for inclusion in the record at the time of the hearing was not definitely decided. Inquiry here yesterday Indicated. The proposed district would In clude all Incorporated municipal ities and all other territory in the county with the exception of sparsely settled fringe areas. Regular Meetings Held by Group The committee whose efforts resulted in the presentation of the preliminary petitions began meet ing, weekly early last fall and has-' since - held several public meetings throughout the county for the discussion of forming a power district and obtaining elec tricity from the Bonneville ad ministration. Its members in ad dition to Dr. Olson are J. O. Farr, Willard Stevens, Ernest Werner and H. E. Barker, secretary. Should the hydroelectric com mission decide from testimony presented at the hearing that there is a demand for formulation of a utility district program here, it will proceed to make cost and engineering studies. If its report is favorable, proponents of the district will circulate further pe titions asking the commission to call a special election. The sponsoring committee's plan is to have the election called to coincide with the general elec tion next November. New Pension Plan Measure Is Filed Two per Cent Tax Would Be Placed on Checks, Bank Drafts Preliminary petition for an In itiative measure, providing a two per cent revenue stamp tax on bank checks, drafts, warrants and other evidences of credit, for old age pensions, was filed in the state department yesterday by F. L. Austin. Corvallis. Instruments disbursing public funds also would be subject to the stamp tax. Funds raised by the stamp tax would be used to match federal old age pension allotments. Any surplus moneys, after paying max imum old age pensions, would be distributed on the basis of 50 per cent to reduce real property taxes, 25 per cent to the common school fund and 25 per cent to the re (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Roosevelt said he never had said such a thing about Farley, who is a member of tie Catholic church, and that the rest of the column was equally false. Lindley issued a statement say ing that his column was "a piece of straight reporting of informa tion which came to me from sour ces whose reliability - I have no reason to doubt, - "Within 24 hours after Its pub lication," Lindley added. -I re ceived word from . several demo cratic politicians eonfirmlag Its substances and expressing the fear that they might be 'on the spot' at the White House for hav ing talked 'out of schooL " v The president's remarks 'about the column, it was agreed on all hands, did not mean that he was stating hie intention to seek a third term. Rather, he merely de nied that he had ever given the reputed interview to the southern legislator. ? - : - ' Mr. Roosevelt himself said he never had talked along that line fTur to pace 2, coL 21 British Bomb Sylt, German Air Base Seven Hours; Scapa Flow Is Avenged Cabinet Shifts Forecast, Both London, Paris Daladier's "Confidence" Vote Actual Minority; Criticism Implied Chamberlain Tells Aims; Hints at Air Attack Which Follows PARIS, March 20-(Wednesday) (jP)-The chamber of deputies to day, departing from a wartime policy of unanimity, voted confi dence in the government of Pre mier Daladier with only 239 bal lots for the cabinet out of more than 500 deputies. The vote was officially an nounced as expressing confidence in the government by 239 to one; hut in addition to the single bal lot cast against Daladier, about 300 deputies abstained. The motion of confidence urged Daladier to "take immediately and in all domains, measures in dispensable to bring France's force to a maximum and to carry the war to victory in close accord with our allies." The vote came early this morn ing after a 12-hour secret session of the lower house of parliament in which critical members pro pounded many questions to Dal adier concerning his conduct of the war, particularly the failure of the allies to get aid to Finland before she was forced to sign a peace with Russia. The secret (Turn to page 2, column 1) Welles Winds up European Junket Neither Took nor Received any Peace Plan, Says Press Statement ROME, March 19.-(;p)-Sumner Welles finished tonight his swift circuit of war-lashed Europe with the firm declaration that be has neither received nor conveyed any peace plan whatsoever during his 24 day tour; yet he was believed In possession of an inside account of what happened in yesterday's meeting of dictators in the- Bren ner Pass. Welles, breaking the silence which he has maintained through out the tour which brought him twice to Rome and took him to Berlin, Paris and London, said his task had been solely to gather information "for the president and the secretary of state as to present conditions in Europe." His statement to the press, is sued shortly before he left Rome for Genoa to sail for home tomor row, said: "In order to allay the flood of rumors about my mission, I wish to state categorically that I have not received any peace plan or proposals from any belligerent or from any other government; that I have not conveyed any such pro posals to any belligerent, nor to any other government; nor am I bringing back to the president any such proposal." Welles' final tact finding con versation was with the Italian for eign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, who is believed to have given President Roosevelt's inves tigator information about yester day's "parlor car" meeting be tween Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler at Brennero. Oil Seen as Lure For Italy Accord BERLIN, March l9-(i?VRus-sian oil was mentioned tonight as an Immediate reason for Rus sia and Italy to come together in a better understanding as a result of Monday's Brenner Pass conference between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The subject ol oil was brought up as Germans discussed creation of "a new European order" through extension of the Rome Berlin axis to Moscow. Russia always has had oil that Italy would like, but informed quarters said, that Italy in the past never had been interested in contracting for it when the only feasible means of transport was through the Black sea and the easily-closed Dardanelles. - Also Italy regarded the soviet union as an unpromising , trade partner and an 'even worse polit ical associate. Threat of Felony Charged to Lamb 'DALLAS, March It. P, T. Lamb ' was arrested by Deputy Sheriff : W. W. Williams Tuesday on a charge of threatening to com mit a felony.' - - --i: He was arraigned and hen set at IE oo. Ha Is bains bald in the folk county Jail, . a . - jtiait i It&ow CONGRESS MAY PROBE OHIO MINE DISASTER r:;2RT;,CsJW d ate ' i VJ .. :.-,.-5T it . " 1 " " tgggga saWsssaeaMsaslaiflWejS i y j'j i i tmtSas c-1. tjtULmtjt- y,sj:&fcc iliito t flaVi .raw weaTsMsaMssssssssss CJ ZJ?y? &hl---r . v - - ; r ";-;v KZ .-'Jt f at I Jl fyqfetfr' . . a. :v:-:w:-wis; :-A-aK-:wM-wsaTsaaaeaTssaesss , " i. 1 ) ' Hope for the 53 miners still entombed in the Willow Grove coal mine at St. Clairsville, following Saturday's explosion had been abandoned on Tuesday after 18 bodies had been recovered. One hun dred had escaped or been rescued. Upper picture by 1X3 shows wives and families of trapped workers waiting at the mine's mouth for bulletins from rescue crews. Middle picture shows blanket-covered body of John Marks, mine motorman, one of the first to be brought up. Lower picture, wives and rel atives wait tearfully In company office. . Two lower pictures AP Telemata. Ten More Bodies Are Brought Out After Mine Blast ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., March 19-iP) An immediate congres sional investigation of the Willow Grove coal mine disaster was pro posed today while cleanup squads continued a weary struggle through blast born debris. Ten additional bodies were brought out raising to 18 the number of known dead. No hope was held for 53 men still missing. Members of the house mines and mining committee suggested the inquiry after Rep. Earl R. Lewis, democrat of St. Clairsville, visited the scene of Saturday's'ex plosion and asked a sub-committee to come here. Brooklyn Slaying Probes Reopened NEW J. YORK, March 1 Reopenlnfr of two , sensational Brooklyn - gang- kiuings was an nounced today by District Attor ney William Ff, O'Dwyer as he pressed his investigation Into a "murder-forcash" , syndicate to which officials have attributed at least 30 assassinations. .- O'Dwyer said he was reopening the murder , cases of Frankie JTaJe, once-, a friend of t'SaEfaee?.uAl Capone,..ajMllftf,i,Joei. thR'Bess" M assarts, both. t.wfc were shot down? ifli33reUynu"rub-out."i VtlnveaUratora.aaldi iCDwxer, hadi i obtained -evidence nt Unking rtft leiaywgSi.Miw i aureus jiwo ptaemben et.jhejmnyderjjfcttfia &iUis ifiJii :3K '.:fcrs.i-. - v.-5r tn-K; mseafci'aw'ssniii --"'' Shipping Shortage Deplored At Hearing; Relief Is Asked TACOMA, March 19-(P)-PoInt-ing out lack of intercoastal cargo space is causing "economic paral ysis" in the Pacific northwest, port, chamber of commerce and industrial executives of Oregon and Washington appealed to the United States maritime commis sion tonight to supply additional ships "to relieve the acute emer gency." In a four-hour meeting, the 100-man group organized the Pa cific northwest shippers emergen cy committee and planned a vig orous campaign which will be di rected at the commission and each state's congressional delegation. Opening the conference, Ross Mclntyre, Portland chamber of commerce president, declared: "Commerce is dying on the Pa cific. " With ships being removed at an alarming rate for service on other routes, it is up to us to as sist in solving the problem." An appeal, prefaced by a decla ration the committee represents all districts and industries in Ore gon and Washington, was wired to Emory 8- Land, maritime commis sion chairman. It read," In ''parti "One and1 ;ofty; objective 'ef ti ganlzatioif 1s to jwUtioii'Mariftme: commfsslonf for parly. t 1on .6'.TeV. Bete" acute, emergency ndw; exls$-.' Ing In' inter cbastar fcnd'lcoastvflse space, situation'. ThieVtfttexiir economic partly sis, and increasing anemployment; basic . northwest Industries so largely dependent,' on water IranpotUtjhnr --f,- XegrtjpjJ .Had Lao I. la.!- Vi.. M. Scott of Portland, committee Chairman. .Declaring "an emergency exists today which it is believed the maritime commission can allevi ate before curtailment of employ ment becomes more widespread," the petition read: "The sale of ships . . has se verely curtailed space to and from all Atlantic coast and gulf ports, as well as Pacific coast ports. In dustries adversely affected include pulp, canned goods, wool, dried fruit, salmon, wheat, flour, grain, matches, lumber, plywood and in (Turn to page 2, col. C) Son Sought After Slaying Revealed SEATTLE, March 19-iAV-The stabbed, beaten and .trussed body of attractive Mrs. Harriet Red ding, also known as Mrs. Arnold, 45, was found this afternoon in a kitchen cupboard of her bunga low -north of the city, and to night a murder warrant was is saed.agalQst her son. ' l Jostle f2uy?B. Knott Issued the .warrant againstnpenzel Davis, the! 2 3-year-old: aoa" et-Mrs. Ar nold by an earlier Jmarriage, upon complain r-t f Deputy -Prosecutor Charles Rtm&tl? y.Rtlls swore out: the etfmplalnt after,' raying Davis- 0-year-old estranged- wife, Jane, had - made aitatenreut!rto,himfithat iRa4s ttjl IaM liaw aavllas. In wtla A mw 'thai ,ha,h4 fJ0Ue4 jmoter.,,! .ao ifJooI .Inilitaoia. a Hangars Burn; Blasts Reveal Damage Heavy Ammunition Dumps Bloic Up, Danish Witnesses Infer From Sound Planes Freight Cargoes Of Explosive Across 350 Miles of Sea LONDON, March ao-(Wednes-day)-(jp)-The air ministry an noanced at 8 a.m. (11 p.m., PST Tuesday) today, that only one plane had failed to returm ' from the night-long; sustained raid on the German Island of Sylt, signifying the end of the attack. The ministry communique said: "Attacks made on Hornnns (a military base on Sylt) la night, were spread over a per iod of about seven hours. AU oar aircraft have returned safe ly with the exception of one which is overdue and most be presumed to have been lost. "Information now available shows that damage reported earlier is very extensive and in clndes direct hits on slipways and hangars." LONDON, March 20.-(Wedne-d a y) (IP) Britain unleashed a gruelling bomb attack on Ger many's Sylt island air base which for more than seven hours last nigm ana toaay Diasiea ai nurs ing hangars, workshops and slip ways in by far the longest and most sustained air attack on the war. Hitting back at the nazis for their 85-minute raid last Satur day on the admiralty's anchorage in Scapa Flow, British bomber were declared by thejilr twsistry at 3 a. m. (6 p. m. PbT Tuesday) today still;, to be freighting their (Turn, to page 2, col. 4), '; Five-Man Labor Board Proposed Hoffman Proxy Vote Aids in Rejecting Move to Abolish Tribunal WASHINGTON, March 19.-(JFi By an overwhelming vote of 14 to 3, the house labor committee proposed today to add two new members to the three-man nation al labor relations board and by a margin of one vote rejected prer posals to abolish the present board. Ironically, It was the proxy vote of Rep. Hoffman (R-Micta) one of the board's severest critics that resulted in a 9 to 8 defeat for a-motion to remove the three board members. Chairman J. Warren Madden, Edwin S. Smith and William M. Lelserson, and create a new, five-man board. Hoffman, called away from the city, gave bis proxy to Rep. Smith (R-Me) who surprised the com mittee by recording Hoffman as against the motion. The Michigan congressman sent word to his of fice that he would ask the com mittee to reconsider its vote at a meeting tomorrow when he will be present. "I cast Mr. Hoffman's vote as I thought he would want me to, Smith said later. "I believe the people of this country want toeee changes in the NLRB that would not emasculate the Wagner act, so I voted for both of us to in crease the board, which would ac complish the same purpose as abolishing it and creating a new one and still would not destroy labor's hopes." i Harmon Snook Is Called at Age 83 Harmon Snook, S3, building contractor and Salem resident for nearly SO years, died Tuesday morning at the family residence, 1097 South Liberty street. He had been 111 for two years. Services will be today. Mr. Snook was born In Branch ville. NJ, November 28, 1856. On January 1, 1884, he married Emma Morley. They came to Sa lem from California by covered wagon in 1891. Buildings erected by Mr. Snook include Eaton hall of Willamette university, McKinley grade school, 23 other public schools and 11 courthouses in the state.' Survivors are the .widow, Mrs. Emma Snook; -sons, . Paul and Glenn Snook of Eugene and Louis Snook of ' Corvallis; daughters, Mrs. Ella Traver of Corvallis, Mrs. Fay Traver of Sacramento, Calif.. Mrs. Ada Maria Ireland of Forest Grove and Mrs. Emma Lemmoa ersalenv-;--:- : ' - - : uFuneral services win he held In the chapel of the W. TvRigdon company thiaatternoon ' at 1 - Iloo .JixJIi1. VKioiiI u J-ui)k. o'clock,, wit, concluding ervice, Mi&tfyrVlew cemetery pey. WI