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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1940)
ssrP . tm mm A Growing Newspaper The Oregon Statesman la steadily growing news paper. Ita readers know the reasons: It's reliable, com plete, Uvely aad always In terellng. Weather Rata today and Friday! solid temperature; soother ly wind off coast becoming gale. Max. temp. Wednesday 62, min. 40. River 0.7 ft. South Wind. 1651 NINETIETH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. March 28. 1940 Price 3ci Newsstands 5c No. 1 In ine Ear . . ''Paul Hauser's Column Never having sad s beard, it Is some thins; we sre not Qualified to talk upon, so, following oar established policy, onr topic for today la, "Beard? and How to Pre vent Them. Beards were not Invented They Just grew. Whiskers came ar1 Inln thu world and. ini the words of the poet, "Adam Had'em." Shaving, o n the other hand. taai H. Bsatet. t vi invented. If we remember our early history correctly, and yon may be assured we .do not, shaving was invented by an un employed sheep shearer in the little Scythian community of Erb. Little did he know. It has now got to the point where shaving; Is almost a uni versal complaint. From the cradle (some youngsters are precocious) to the grave man now dally scrapes his chin, a form of self-torment which dis tinguishes man from the lower orders. Shaving has progressed from the Greeks. The Greeks had a sword for it. The Romans In vented the straight edge and this continued in general use until King C. Gilette decided it would be nice to have his signature the most widely circulated in the world and Invented a safety razor Some people still prefer a piece of a broken beer bottle, but they are In a minority unless the pres ent census contradicts us. Beards, which were formerly a sign of manhood, are still worn occasionally. Every man likes sometime to grow a beard. Just for the heck of It and to win the whlskerino prize if he ran. He would like to keep the beard and avoid the daily routine of fhaving, only his wife or girl friend won't let him. Sic. Transit Ciloria. Celebrations, such as is ru mored in the offing hereabouts, are great occasions for beard growing. So it is that the major topic of conversation these days is to beard or not to beard. It comes to us that petitions are being circulated for bearding. No opposition has yet been en countered, except from the fem inine side of the house. A man walked Into Parker's sportery the other -day with an old light globe. He said it had been giving light in bis bath room for 16 years until the other day his wife, preparing to clean the shade, started to unscrew it and the glass part came away from the metal part which screws in the socket. The man asked for a replace ment because the bulb wss de fective. What's more he got It. NO COMMENT DEPT. April 1 Last day for pri mary election candidates to file. April 1 April Fool's Day. SUUimis coming TenU toluol. WATERY WISDOM "A lot of water has gone under the bridge," says the commander of the Wheatland Ferry, "but it'd be a heck of a lot better for our business if a lot of the bridge had gone under the water." Mountain States May Pay Dividend ALBANY. Ore., March ll-VP)-A $3.75 dividend, accruing since September SO, 1939, probably will be declared on new preferred stock when the newly elected Mountain States Power company board of directors meets April f, President Zed Merrill said today. Merrill said the company's re organisation and debt refunding plan were completed. New pre ferred and common stock certifi cates are being exchanged for the old certificates. The new board Includes E. R. Bryson, Eugene; Ben F. Dorris, Springfield; W. H. Duff. Chicago, II L; Dr. N. E. Irvine, Lebanon; W. D. Johnston, Casper, Wyo.; B. W. Lynch, Chicago; Z. E. Mer rill. Albany; David S. Boliday, Philadelphia. Pa., and E. B. Wil liamson. Albany. Socialite Spouse Of Fighter Dies PALM BEACH, Fla., March 18 (Thursday) --Socially prom inent Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick Flermonte, whose marriage to an Italian prize tighter In 1933 created a sensation, -died late last night of a heart attack. Mrs. Flermonte's first husband was Col. John Jacob Astor, who was lost In the Titanic sinking of 1913. They had been married ln September of 1911 snd were returning to this country to gether from a European trip when the Teasel struck sn Iceberg. - She bore a son by Colonel Astor, named John Jacob Astor In August. 1912. In 1918, Mrs. Astor was mar ried to William K. Dick, multi millionaire New York .banker. This union ended In divorce in 1933. , :. ' . : She was married to Enso Fier xnont, sn Italian pugilist, in No rember, 1133. the marriage cere mony taking place In a New York hospital, where she wss a patient. . I I W 1 Page, Berninga Henry Werner Latest to Ft Lanke Will not C J for Clerkship; W0 t? Back Harlan J Coroner Barrick Is out for Renomination to That Office By STEPHEN C. MERGLER When it comes to filing for public office, Marion county re publicans ace at the head of the parade, as they usually are also when the election returns are counted. So It is interesting if not un usual that a fifth republican can didate for county commissioner filed his declaration of candidacy yesterday, a fourth aspirant sub mitted his name to the secretary of state for the nomination as state representative and a second seeker after the party's selection for district attorney announced himself. The three new candidates now officially entered in their respect ive races are District Attorney Lyle J. "Barney" Page, candidate for renomination; R. J. Berning, Mt. Angel, for the legislature, and Henry Werner, Central Howell, for county commissioner. In the legislative race, with four positions to be filled this year, two more candidates have announced their intention to file before Monday night's deadline and in the contest for the lone county commissionership. at least one additional office seeker may file. Lanke Importuned but Will not Hun Rumors that Herman Lanke, an auditor in the state department here for 10 years, would oppose Deputy Clerk Harlan Judd for the republican nomination for county clerk were eliminated last night when Lanke announced that (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Limiting Campaign Cost Is Proposed Three Million Suggested as top Amount for National Races WASHINGTON. March 27.-(fl) A clause forbidding national po litical committees to spend more than $3,000,000 each in any cam paign was added to the Hatch anti-politics bill today as that senate-approved measure passed its first house test. The bill, which would curb po litical activities of state employes paid in whole or in part with fed eral funds, was approved by a house judiciary subcommittee aft er Chairman Walter (D-Pa) had succeeded In adding the amend ment limiting national campaign expenditures. If written into law, the amend ment would hold expenditures of both the republican and democra tic national committees below the levels of the 1936 presidential campaign. In that year, the re publican committee disbursed 8, 065,624 and the democrat's $5, 030.844. Walter told newsmen that $3, 000,000 should be enough to fi nance all the campaigning neces sary, to inform the voters. There was no use having a corrupt prac tices act, he added, if elections were to go "to the highest bid der' Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, the republican leader, predicted that the Hatch bill would pass if (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Burglars Watte Half Hour Prying at Unlocked, Empty Safe in Albany Creamery ALBANY. March 2 7-5)-Thir-ty minutes of practice were all burglars got out of trying to smash the knobs on the Palace creamery safe last night. The strong-box was unlocked all the time. Also, it was empty. The intruders opened the cash register but overlooked the con tents 31.25. Or O I Six Utility District Schemes To Go on Ballot for Primary Exnlratlon of filing time for pe titions to refer peoples utility pro jects to the voters st the primary election yesterday assured that proposals for creation of six dls trtrt and three annexations to the Tillamook county peoples uUl- lty project will appear on special election ballots May 17. The proposed Portland peoples utility district probably is the out standing one of the six projects. This district embraces the entire city of PorUand or f7 square miles. The population was esti mated at 340.000 and assessed valuation $270,000,000. Final pe- uuonfl for this district coniainea more than C00 0 signatures. The Washington county aistrict wonld include 53 S sauare miles with an assessed valuation of $22,465,314. Forest Grove and approximately 15 square miles surrounding that city wonld .be excluded. , Tna Yamhill district would em brace 379 square miles or S3 per Hats Flip Into Political Ring LYLE J. PAGE HENRY WERNER L. E. BARRICK $308,349 Is Take In Tax Collection INDEPENDENCE, March 27. Word was received late today from T. B. Hooker, sheriff of Polk county that the work of opening the mall containing tax collections for the first Quarter of 1940 had been completed today and that $308,349.07 or 65 per cent of the 1940 tax roll of f 561, 127.47 had been received. According to Sheriff Hooker this is the best record of tax col lection made during his 25 years of service in the sheriff's office. The March collection of delin quent taxes amounted to $25, 085.56 according to Hooker's re port. cent of the entire county. The cit ies of McMinnrille and Newberg, together with the territory served by the McMinnville electric plant would be excluded. The district has an assessed valuation of $12, 750.000. Assessed valuation of the Lin coln county project was fixed at $3,830,733. This district would embrace 175 square miles with a population of 8000. The proposed Nehalem basin district would include 83 square miles with an assessed valuation of $1,536,796. This district is lo cated in Washington and Colum bia counties. The Coos county district would embrace a strip of land along the coast. . . Proposed annexations to the Tillamook peoples utility district include Sand lake and the towns of Wheeler and Nehalem. Clackamas county final peti tions brought her Wednesday (Turn to page 2, column 6) - i- ' , " ., L juiiinr-- " mm. i ' - aw'ww' . Ljfc m .:. . 4 je -isr:S-: '' v ( '. i . it - I ",V wf ! 1 i, I 'r 1 ' ' ---t . I J r I I R. J. BERNING . . ' - - i ' a - v ' V 4 1 Jisjaiiiaiiii- st: Sea and Air War Blazes in new Fury While A Hies Plot Speed-up Methods Fate of Tariff Issue Depends On Five Votes Administration to Need All of Them to Beat Down Amendment Vandenberg Avers Setup Is Ruinous ; George Defends Legality WASHINGTON, March 27-(fl-Leadera of both sides anxiously and apprehensively counted votes today as the senate neared a close decision on the question of sub mitting trade agreements to the senate for ratification. One republican senator took s poll, which, he said, showed that the senate stood 47 for such a re quirement to 44 against it, with five votes doubtful. He said that this tally jibed with a poll taken by a leading opponent of ratifi cation. On the basis of this count the foes of the trade agreements program claimed a real chance for victory. The fire votes counted as un certain were those of Senators Bailey (D-NC), Holt (W-WVa), Schwellenbach (D-Wash), Pep per (D-Fla) and Donahey (D-O). The mathematics of the situation was that the administration had to pick up four of the five to ob tain a tie, or all of them to win outright. Garner May Swing It for Administration In the event of a tie, and the possibility of one was hardly dis counted, it was thought probable among Vice-President Garner s friends that he would swing the decision to the administration. The leaders and many others ftpent more time today checking up the uncertain outcome than in listening- to the debate, which found Senators O'Mahoney (D Wyo) and Vandenberg (R-Mich) speaking for the ratification re striction and Senator George (D Ga) speaking against it. The question came up with a resolution extending for three years the authority of the presi dent to make trade agreements changing the tariff rates. With out the legislation his power to do so would expire on June 12. The administration is so deeply opposed to it that there has been talk that President Roosevelt will veto the bill if the amendment is adopted. Arguing not only for the amendment but against the pro gram In its entirety, Vandenberg said the nation was about to (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Miners Ambushed, Several Wounded SOUTH PITTSBURGH, Tenn., March 87. (JPV-Coal field gunmen today ambushed 40 miners en route to work, wounded 10 to 16, and held them all prisoners brief ly to warn them against operating recently reopened Battle Creek mine. Those hit were believed to have suffered minor flesh wounds from shotgun pellets but the victims were reluctant to discuss the out break. There was no record of any having received hospital treatment. The mine, a small one near Orme, reopened two days ago un der a contract with the Progres sive Mine Workers of America (AFL) after having been closed for 13 months. during negotiations with the United Mine Workers (CIO). George R. Cain, company super intendent, blamed the trouble on miners from nearby Whitwell and Palmer, where mines are opera ted under CIO contracts. 67 Million Voted For CCC and NYA WASHINGTON, March 27-(Jpy-Despite cries of "How are you going to pay the bill," the house today added $67,450,000 to next year's appropriations for. the CCC and the NYA. tomorrow, the members ran Subject to f 1 n a 1 confirmation roughshod over economy forces, adding $50,000,000 to President Roosevelt's request for $230,000, 000 for civilian conservation camps snd upplng by $17,450,000 his request for $85,000,000 for the naUonal youth administra tion. Jenks Is Confirmed as Postmaster at Tangent WASHINGTON, March 27-V-The senate . today - confirmed the following postmasters: Oregon Otis, A. Snook, Drain; Harry D. Force, Gold Hill; James E. Jenks, Jr., Tangent. - - HAVEN BENEATH WAREHOUSE "'! at ' , j V ; . ' '"v & " '4 w A - ' Two women were among the nine victims, bodies of whom were recovered by rescue workers a few hours after the floor of a Santa Rosa, Calif., warehouse collapsed beneath weight of 850 tons of prunes. The dead had sought protection from a driving rain. Rescue workers are shown removing the body of one of the women. AP Telemat. Whiskerinoes Enlisting Plane Policy Has Conimittee's Okeh Manufacturers Preparing to Handle Orders in Billion Amount WASHINGTON, March tl-(JP)-The administration's new policy of releasing late model warplanes for export won the general ap proval of an inquiring house com mittee today, and American man ufacturers Immediately prepared to handle prospective allied or ders totalling $1,000,000,000. Secretary of War Woodring, ex plaining and defending the policy before the house military com mittee, asserted it had been form ulated by the war department "without coercion or pressure from anyone." "As long as I am secretary of war, I am not going to be pushed around," he assured the commit tee bluntly, in denying he had had any "friction" with Secre tary of the Treasury Morgenthau over sale of planes to the allies. Chairman May (D, Ky.) squelched an attempt by Rep. An derson (D, Mo.) to have Wood ring answer a question as to whether Morgenthau and" Ambas sador William C. Bullitt had "sold' President Roosevelt the idea of letting the allies have all the planes they would buy. After hearing Woodring, Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war, and Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, endorse the revamped policy unqualifiedly, committee members generally ex pressed satisfaction with it, al though no vote was taken. Meantime, a score of plane manufacturers conferred with a presidential committee appointed to coordinate domestic and for eign airplane orders. Afterward, the conferees issued a statement saying: "There was general agreement that large additional foreign or ders can be handled in a manner affording complete protection to our national interest and to the satisfaction of the airplane indus try." Billion Is Limit In WPA Requests WASHINGTON, March 17-(ff)-President Roosevelt, an informed official said today, has decided not to Increase his $1,000,000, 000 budget esUmate for WPA expenditures in the fiscal year be ginning July 1. Consequently, congress will not get the usual spring message on relief. Instead, the administra tion's views on the problem will be outlined to the house appropri ations committee next week by Col.-F. CJ Harrington, WPA com missioner. Committeemen, wll be Invited to discuss relief with the president later if-they, choose, For Stunt to Back- Centennial Six Hundred Members Signed up Says H. Busick, One of Initiators; Commission Support .Will Be Asked at Meeting Tonight Whiskerinoes I Have you heard of 'em? If not you will soon, be you a man. Be you of the gentler faction, you may become conscious, anyway, of their exist ence. It's not a racket, this Whiskerino business, Harold Bu sick, past King Blng of the Salem O Cherrians, declared last night in announcing that the order would hold Its first meeting Friday night. Over the coffee cups last week several of Salem's young sprouts decided the city's 1940 Centennial celebration ought to have whis kerson its male participants. And they decided that all the city's males should be partici pants. Hence, the Whiskerinoes were born and Friday night they will elect officers and be about their business of drumming up trade for those barbers who have not forgotten how to trim a beard. "Nothing could advertise the centennial more than whiskers," Busick declared. "And besides the Whiskerinoes' plan will raise money for other forms of adver tising." Busick estimated at least COO men already had signed member ship petitions sow being circula ted. Each member pays 50 cents (Turn to page 2, column 3 ) Faking Injuries Charged to two PORTLAND, March 37-ZP)-men were accused by the grand jury today of faking personal in juries in order to make false claims against Portland firms. The jury Indicted Kenneth A. Wallace on a larceny charge In volving $500 paid by the Pacific Indemnity company. A similar charge was placed against John D. Becker for a $30 claim col lected from a railroad by a friend. Deputy District Attorney Sid ney Hayes said one man presented a claim for injuries in a "delib erate", fall and another appeared ss witness. Easier Shopping Facilities Available to Salem Buyers It yon are looking; for "easier shopping facilities," try Salem stores. That Is the theme of the fifth of an eight- ' weeks series - of "Shop Salem First" campaigns being waged . by local merchants to emphasise the fact- that Salem is the best place to shop for .val nes,' for wide se- lCtUonior liierciiaiidlse and for. PROVES TRAP ' ""y r7 wi Males Storm Does More Damage in Oregon Bayocean Peninsula Chips off Again; Rogue Area Streams at Flood Though the rain came down hard for spring showers, only about three-quarters of an Inch fell in Salem yesterday. This com bined with the precipitation of Monday and Tuesday for a total of approximately 34 inches, ac companied by a rise of five feet in the Willamette river, from 1.7 feet Tuesday morning to C.7 Wed nesday. The sun peered through the clouds at times and the wind blew, all to make it a real March day. Creeks in the valley have all shown sharp rises and some have oterflown their banks, but no serious damage has been reported. Predicted by the weather bu reau are rain for today and Fri day with mild temperature. PORTLAND, March 37 - -Spring rain is just as wet as the (Turn to page 2 column 2) Nan Honey man to Try Again, Congress Race PORTLAND, March l(JPy Nan Wood Honeyman, Oregon's first congresswoman who ' served from 1937 "to 1939, ' announced her candidacy today for the demo cratic nomination to . congress from the third (Multnomah coun ty) district. ease and convenience In buying. - Salem merchants take pride in the modern improvements to be found in their stores, made for the convenience of their custom- VShoppers find that in Salem iplays are better aisles are Srider. lighting is excellent and ventilating systems are efncient. -- Twenty two merchants are par ticipatlng today with the cooper ation of The Oregon Statesman in ibis -week's "easier . shopping ".facilities".. demonstration. , - German Plant Burns; British Losses Mount Demand to End Sit-Down Cited as Conference Called in England Franco - Soviet Rift Still Indefinite; Air Duel Costly to Nazis LONDON, March 28 -(Thursday) - VP) - The Daily Mail says British and French statesmen are to "hold "Immediate talks to re view methods of speeding up the war.? The discussions, expected to be held "somewhere in Great Brit ain," according to the newspaper, will give Prime Minister Neville. Chamberlain his first opportunity to consult personally with the new premier of France, Paul Reynaud, on means of intensifying the al lies war efforts in the military, diplomatic, and economic fields. "Both in Great Britain and France the demand is urgent for action on sound lines to end the present state of 'sit-down war, The Mail declares. "Leaders of the allied govern ments are keenly aware of this and of the need, while being care ful of avoiding action for action's sake, for keeping ahead of any of the complicated moves by which, Germany is waging the war." (By The Associated Press) Warfare on the high seas and in the air blazed into new fury today with mounting accounts of sinkings and air fights, an explo- eion aboard a French destroyer and a tangle of incidents issuing out of the tightening of the Brit ish blockade. The British tallied sundry losses and fumed over the report that a German undersea Taider had penetrated the big, closely guarded blockade base of Kirk wall in the Orkney islands, there to sink the good-sized Norwegian freighter Cometa. The French navy acknowledged an explosion aboard the destroyer La Railleuse, reporting seven killed and others missing in the blast. Stefani, Italian news agen cy, estimated 100 dead. Injured or missing in the explosion which occurred last Saturday as the de stroyer was leaving a Moroccan port. Stefani said the destroyer broke in two and sank. Plant Making Small Ammunition Ablaze Fire broke out late last night in the north Berlin plant of the Bergmann Electricity company,, an industry understood to hare' been converted to war purposes. DNB, official Germany news agen cy, did not mention the name of the plant in announcing flames had been confined to a large wood en warehouse filled with "highly inflammable materials." The flames reddened the sky over Berlin. There was no evi dence of casualties. Unofficial in formation was that the plant man ufactured ammunition for smaU arms. It still was a question how Russian-British relations would be af fected by the detention at Hong kong of a second Russian freight er, the Vladimir Mayakovsky, re (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Farm Dictatorship Charge Is Hurled GREAT FALLS, Mont, March 27-iP)-A charge of dictatorship was directed today-at the United States department of agriculture by a farm loan association official because of the refusal of the 12th farm credit district board of di rectors to call a meeting for the discussion of policies. E. F. Lyman, president of the Great Falls National Farm Loan association, declared in a letter to William A. Schoenfeld of Cor vallis, Ore., chairman of the dis trict board, that refusal to call the meeting was "evidence that the principle of supervision is be ing made an instrument of dicta torship to gag the owner-borrowers." . Presidents of farm loan assoei- " ations in the northwest asked the -directors to call the conference se -information might be obtained on . policies affecting the federal land banks as a result of absorption of the farm credit administration the department of agriculture. Power Exchange Plan Is Off ered "PORTLAND, Ore., March 17 () The ' Bonneville . administra tion said today it hoped to sign a 10-year power, exchange - agree- ' v ment with Seattle. The contract, now In the final -stages of negotiation, will give each party access to the other's excess power, a spokesman said.