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: " FAGS TVVO ' Th OSEGON STATESMAN, Salra. Orscjon. Tuesday Morning, Ttbruary 4, 1341 , , - - , I j - I P'r I ' ' ' "' ' ' . ' I : '. ' I : : : . I -. Irreconciliable ; Clash Voiced Labor, Employer Speakers Disagree on Effect, . Value at Hearing ' (Continued From Pane 1) V. said the experience rating pro f vision woald reduce the unem f ployment compensation com-" i mission's fud to a point where j It woald not remain solvent . daring a depression. Y "When this defense rearma ment program is completed, we will have one of the greatest de pressions the nation has ever seen," Gurskesaid. r- Ralph Campbell, former com mission attorney and now a repre sentative of employers, said the "concern for the, insolvency of the commission's ' fund does not hold water, since labor also has Introduced bills to increase the i amount of benefits to be paid to the unemployed. Experience Ratings . Encourage Employers i "Experience rating is the only ' factor in the law to encourage j employers to stabilize employ i ment." j . Campbell said that labor in Wis consin, "the only state which has ', siren experience rating a fair trial, favors It. He said unem ployment has been reduced in Wis-" ' consln. J All Oregon employers now pay 1 1.1 per cent of their payrolls to 'the commission's fund. Under ex perience rating, their rates would vary from 1 to 4 per cent. Gover- nor Charles A. Sprague asked that experience rating be siren a trial. Campbell denied labor's charge that experience rating would resnlt in additional book keeping expense for the commis : slon, asserting that the govern j meat pays all administratiTe ' costs. ' James Landye, attorney for the state federation of labor, said "the I basic Industries, such as logging and construction, would pay a high - rate. Service Industries, such as retailers, newspapers and hotels, would pay low rates. The service Industries get the first drag on ithe unemployment compensation 'checks, and they are the ones that would get the most benefit. The 'northern Willamette Talley would : get the most benefit at the expense of the rest of the state." Charges Employers Fear : for Claim Compensation . Landye also charged that em ployes have been afraid to file 'their claims for compensation be cause employers, wanting to build up a good experience rating, threaten them. Campbell, how ever, averred "this charge is more imaginary than' real." Merle Chessman, Astoria pub lisher representing the Oregon Newspaper Publishers association, said the 'publishers feel they have qualified among those employers who have stabilized their employ . ment. All they're asking for is to . get what they have earned. They feel there should be some incen tive for employers to keep their men on the Job." T. Morris Dunne, chairman of the unemployment rompen t satioa fund, , said experience rating would not reduce the commission's fund this year be ; cause defense industries will make the payroll the biggest "in hLstorjt . Responding to committee ques . tlons, Dunne said the unemploy ment fund reserved for paying 'future benefits would reach $13,000,000 by next July, and ,"will take care of anything but a great big slump." The lumber industry has paid In more than it has taken from -the fund and some mills "are getting toward the point of hav ing a good ratio" from an ex perience rating standpoint, Dunne said In renly to a question put oj itep. u e o r g e R. Duncan, -Marion county member of the judiciary committee. CIO Spokesman Quotes Social Security Board That the primary purpose of unemployment compensation is to !Ive benefits to workers was as serted by Ralph Peoples, CIO spokesman, quoting a member of the federal social security board. Asked by' Rep. Warren Erwin what he considered a minimum reserve fund. Peoples said the $8,000,000 figure set by the com mission at present "Is sufficient, t,but the proper way to expend excess reserve Is to Increase bene fita to workers and extend them -to workers not now receivina them." ; Monroe Sweetland, speaking fdr i the Oregon Commonwealth .federation, predicted that reten tion of experience rating wonld A COIIE III TODAY Take Advantage of - Gevurtz' J I SEIISATIOIIAL RADIO 7RADE-III OFFER! Gevurtz Now Gives You - la ; Fcr Ycsr Old Iladio (Depending oa Its Age, Style and Condition) Oi Your Choice lo a New Crcslsj, Gcncrd Elcclric, Zenith, or PHIco l- cj a rj N discourage new -industry from .en' terlng Oregon.1'. ; " -Repeal of experience rating was opposed by spokesmen for Oregon hotel operators, construction con tractors. ; i manufacturers," a w -mills, the American L e g 1 on , represented by O. K. Palmateer of ' Salem; r the textile industry, laundries and dry cleaners, shipbuilding- and metal trades and miners. Their plea was to give experience rating "aj fair trial." ' i ' : Action of Ciurt Assailed in Talk - " Change in Viewpoint of . US High . Justices" Is T: "Viewed With Alarm" . Temporary denial of constitu tional liberties In the interest of national security may be Justified but there is cause for concern about regaining them when the emergency is past, Circuit Judge James W. Crawford of Portland declared In addressing the Salem chamber of commerce luncheon group on Monday. Citing freedom of the press, of speech and assembly and the other freedoms guaranteed In the bill of rights as "indispensable attributes of our American form of government," Judge Crawford "viewed with alarm" a change In viewpoint on the part of the United States supreme court since February. 1937, the last month In which any new con gressional enactment was over turned by the high court. Characterizing the Justices as competent "with possibly one ex ception," the speaker said the court had ceased to fulfill its role as a check upon the other major branches of government; adding that the spirit of prag matism which seems to pervade the court is going to make It difficult for the nation to "deter mine what the law is." The speaker, was Introduced by Bishop Bruce R. Baxter. Council Reserves Parking "Rights" (Continued From Page 1) corner of the city hall be re moved "at the discretion and ex pense" of the park board. The letter termed the tree a hazard. The motion was passed. Three bids for painting of the city fire stations were opened and referred to the fire committee. Two bids . on two new coupes for the police de partment were opened and re ferred to the police committee with power to act. A committee recommendation was adopted that stop signs be placed where roads on the senior high school grounds enter 14th street at B and D street in two places.' A bill for a 'new. city milk ordi nance came up tor second reading and was referred to the health and sanitation committee. Sen. Holman Informs Senate on Russ Trade WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.-UP)-Senator Holman (R-Ore) told the senate Monday he had received in formation that this country now Is exporting tin plate. Iron, steel, copper and airplane towers .to Russia. - "I suppose that is part of the moral appeasement that has set public opinion aghast in the last 10 days," remarked Senator Tobey (R-NH). The administra tion recently lifted its "moral em bargo" against the shipment of aircraft to Russia. President's Wife Asks No Pix in White House WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-(Jp) It has been the custom for first ladies to leave behind their por traits to hang upon the White House walls, but Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said Monday she would "rather be remembered in spirit." "I hope I never have to sit for my portrait." she said at her press conference when asked whether she was to pose for a well-knowu artist. Senator's Wife Sinking BAKER, Feb. 3 -UP) -Physi cians held little hope Monday 1 for the recovery of Mrs. W. H. Strayer, wife of the Baker county state senator. Sen. Strayer, dean of Oregon senators, and other relatives have been called here. Nature of Mrs. Strayer's illness was not disclosed. ; - . -" v. - - 2 earASr 0T.y :; co. ItaHan'sGnpi Slips in Libya British Sweep Eritrea Strongholds, Push on ' Into Other Areas ! , (Continued From Page 1) nf ArnntiK Imnnrtant rtl anil highway center 40 miles to the north. , Pushing beyond Agordat, the British pursued the Italians along the railroad to the sea port of Massawa. Cheren, 110 miles inside. Eritrea, Asmara '&9 miles beyond, and Massawa, 'only usable Eritrean port, in that order appeared to be the objectives of the British. South of this front, the British announced, south African forces from the Kenya colony hare pushed 10 miles into Ethiopia. Italian retreats also were reported continuing In . the Gondar area near Lake Tana, and in Italian Somaliland. North African preparations for the drive on Bengasi west of cap tured Derna were proceeding, the British added, with RAF bombers harassing Italian troops and motor transports. The admiralty in London an nounced a "large number" of Ital ian prisoners were killed when a British ship removing them from Libya was attacked by a plane "believed to have been German. Reports from Split, Yugoslavia, said a concerted British-Greek submarine attack had sunk seven Italian vessels recently. i Air operations over Britain were confined by the weather to sporad ic hit and run raids by lone planes. One person was reported killed and towns on the east coast, and in Scotland were reported dam aged. There was no alert in London during the day and up to a late hour at night. British bombers struck across the channel in p re-dawn raids on German air bases, but the targets or the damage inflicted were not reported. In the Mediterranean, British planes were said to have smashed successfully at one of the main sources of power in Sardinia. The Italians acknowledged a raid "with no effect" on a dam there. $200,000 Borrowed For Relief Funds The state treasurer Monday borrowed $200,000 with which to meet relief demands during the remainder of this month. The loan is secured by certificates of in debtedness aaainst the atat lin. nor control commission funds. Previously $50,000 was bor rowed. State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott said the entire $250,000 probably would be nald nff nnt isier man March l. Ota Johnson Marries Her Business Manager NEW YORK, Feb. 3-)-Mrs. Martin Johnson, who stalked Hons and tigers in African Jungles with a movie camera, was married to her business manager, Clark H. Getts, Monday by Mayor Fj H. LaGuardia. On the marriage certificate she signed her maiden name, On Helen Leighty, gave her age as 46 and her occupation as a motion picture producer. Her husband is City Arrests Charge Traffic Violations Salem police Monday night ar rested Sterling A. Rlchey, Leba non, on a violation of the basic speed rule charge. Lawrence L. Mukey, route one. box 241, Sa lem, Marius R. Brockway, 1455 Ferry street, and George Alfred Matter, 609 Locust street, were arrested charged with failure to stop. Booked on drunkenness charges were Carl Lynch, Pistol River, Ore., and Harry W. Jen sen, Salem. State, US Probes Bridge "Sabotage" PORTLAND, Feb. 3.-(iP)-Be-hind closed doors, District ; Attor ney James R. Bain Investigated Monday what he called "sabotage" in tne crash of a shin into bridge here last Friday. While the district attorney In terviewed attendants of the bridge, a federal bearing opened and witnesses offered two : ver sions of the crash. I " Methodist Society Slates Dinner . TURNER Mrs. Fred Dierks will be hostess all day Friday to members of the Methodist Christ ian Service society, .with ia no host dinner at noon. The ! group will spend the dav in sewlnr. preparatory to the spring ibazaar to be given April 4. All, are urged to attend. Native Daughter Dies PORTLAND, Feb. 3-6T-Mr. Cathryn J. Cawood, 68, daughter of the founder of the North Pa cific Dental college, died here today. Born in Oregon City De cember 8, 1872, she had lived in Ore r on all her life. ' 'I ' t. Census Chief, Retires WASHINGTON, Feb. William Lane 'Austin, who en tered the census bureau in 1100 as a clerk, , retired Monday as di rector of the census. He reached the government retirement age of 70 on January 85 Food Costs Advance WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-(V Jtteiau zooa costs advanced about one half of one per cent between December 17 and January: 14, the labor department reported Monday.- ; - - Lobby Hobbnobber . i '(Continued From Page 1) afternoon of a : commerce aad navigation committee meeting. The naval riaitor was Lt. Comdr. O. D. Adams, who lax etrlliam life Is director of the Oregon, stat board for roca ttonal education. He will re turn today te Bremerton navy yard where he is assistant shop superintendent ia charge f training the thousands of mem engaged in building U n c 1 e Sam's two-ocean nary. Among former legislators ex tended courtesies Monday -were W. W. Banks, one-time represen tative and senator, Portland, who sat with Rep. Stanhope Pier, and Walter RnaseU, ex-representative, guest of Rep. Eugene Marsh. Courtesies also were extended to members of the Portland Leagfce of Women Voters, here to attend Monday n I g h t's unemployment compensation hearing. A cold provided aa excuse for JJonaldeanne Mull, if to play hookey from school Mon day and see her father. Rep. Vernon Bull, ia action. Smiling as usual. Sen. Douglas McKay returned to his desk Mon day.recovered from an attack of lnfluenxa that kept him away sev eral days last week. Library Selects New Committees Salem public library board committees for 1141 were an nounced Monday night at the board's regular meeting by Mrs. Frank H. Spears, elected presi dent at the board's annual meet ing In January. The list of committees includes finance committee, D. W. Eyre, E. T. Barnes, A. A. Lee, H. H. OUnger and W. A. Sprague; build ing committee. H. H. dinger, B. T. Barnes, R. J. Hendricks, and Mabel P. Robertson; book committee. Mabel p. Robertson, D. W. Eyre, Mrs. J. W. Harbison, W. A. Sprague; employes' com mittee, Mrs. J. W. Harbison, D. W. Eyre, R. J. Hendricks, A. A. Lee; insurance committee, E. T. Barnes, A. A. Lee. The board also listened to Li brarian Hugh Morrow's report for the month of January, which shewed total adult circulation of 14,751 books and pamphlets, a gain of 1712 over the same period in 1940. The report also showed a total of 42,025 books and pamphlets on the library's shelves as of February 1. Medical Test Measure In Washington Senate CAPITOL. Olympla, Feb. Z-iA3) A senate bill that would require persons . obtaining a marriage li cense, te. take medical examina tions was reported out of the sen ate medicine and dentistry com mittee tonight with a "do pass" recommendation. The measure, fathered by Sen. Ted Schroeder (D-Pierce), would require alter-bound couples to take medical tests within 30 days before their marriage. : ! ' f r-r - r . I ! I I I V!"4 ' sr,' r j j a ' 1 1 viiv - - iamu v n ff 8mOMrS,lkP 1 rj I f - ! lhe 1 . ci 1 r t i 1 1 r B W .f aw. Batista Takes in Cuba Other Late War Reports ' Indicate -. Nazis Irked on Donovan Visit (Continued From Page 1) agency, dispatch from Istanbul, said today that members of the German diplomatic corps ia Turkey were keenly annoyed at the activities there of Col. Wil liam J. Donovan, unofficial United States observer. - WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-H7P) A clerk and a former clerk in the American legation at Oslo have been held, by German au thorities since early la Decem ber, oa charges of possessing documents hostile to the Nor wegiaa government, state de partment officials said tonight. The men are Ivaa Jacobeen of Seattle, former University of Washington student, who had been employed ia the legation since early last year, and Frank Nelson, a temporary employe last summer. Nelson's mother lives at 8t. Joseph, Mo. ' They have had a preliminary hearing and a final hearing is expected any day, officials said. The American consulate la Oslo has reported that they are ia good health and receiving fair treatment. VICHY, France, Feb. 8. French Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan conferred with Pierre Laval for several hours Monday ia Paris negotiations aimed at meeting German de mand that the former vice president of the council be re instated in Marshal Petain's government. Admiral Darlan was expected to return shortly with Laval, or bearing a report oa Laval's con dition for re-entering the gov ernment from which he was ousted ia December. Friends of Laval said he ex pected to receive aa important portfolio, possibly the f oreiga ministry, and declared Laval took the position that if he re turns he should be placed in full charge of Franco-German negotiations and with an under standing that there would be no divergence la opinion on what constitutes "collabora tion:" (There have beea reports that Laval favored a more ae tire form of collaboration with Germany.) Report Submitted By County Qerk Court, marriage license and other fees collected by County Clerk U. (2. Boyer during 1940 amounted to 115,551.45 as com pared with I1S.733.S5, the coun ty clerk revealed Monday in con nection with compilation of his annual report. Aggregate fees collected by the clerk but not essentially relating to his office totalled $26,074.85, of which $6827 was dog license and other fees. The collections were segregated Power C " waeasasaawawasan IRMw W eaaaju. I, .j-.H 11 'MP" '' hbu ' as follows: . circuit court filing, $4733; circuit court trial, f 968; probate court, $3469.50; county court, $1156; marriage licenses, $1599; miscellaneous f 1 1 1 n g , $1170.95; certified copies, $1477 80; law library, $817.40; game, $735; circuit Judge's salary, $1184; district attorney's salary, $960, and dog licenses, $6827. . Court Upholds Wage-Hour Law (Continued From Page 1) decision appeared to place at least a large part of this within the control of congress, along with all child labor in interstate industry, ' ' ' The wage-hour law Itself, . passed la 1038 and known tech nically as the fair labor stand ards act, prohibits the employ ment of children under 18 in mining aad manufacturing and of children under 18 in haaard oua occupations, bat Its chief purposes are to fix minimum wages aad maximum working hours for all workers whose products enter Interstate com merce. Another provision of the law, requiring employers to keep rec ords of their employes' wages and hours to prove compliance, also was specifically upheld. The decision, by Justice Stone, was unanimous. The court be came an eight-man tribunal tem porarily upon the retirement Saturday of Justice. McReynolds, who ccelebrated his 79 th birth day Monday. ' PHILADELPHIA, Feb. t(JPr The third US circuit court of ap peals ruled today that the na tional labor relations board ""has no Jurisdiction in disputes aris ing between an employer and em ploye after the employer has signed a contract with a labor union. With the signing of a "genu ine collective bargaining agree ment," Judge Albert B. Maris wrote, "the goal of the (na tional labor relations) act has beea achieved aad the board has ao farther jurisdiction with respect to the labor dispute which has beea settled by the agreement. The decision set aside a na tional labor relations board order to reinstate Agnes Fahy, an em ploye of the Newark Morning Led ger Co., with back pay from the time of her dismissal in Sept., 1937. At that time she was presi dent of the Newark unit of the American Newspaper Guild. She and the guild contended that she was discharged because of activity on behalf of the guild. This the NLRB upheld. The circuit court concurred tn this also but Judge Maris' opin ion said: "The Question presented to us is whether the function of the board under the act had not been fully performed when the parties bargained and reached an agree ment so that they were relegated as to breaches of the agreement, to arbitration, if provided tor, or to their remedy In the courts." Legion Fetes Guests American Legionnaires who are members or employes of the state legislature were special guests Monday night at the regular 4 rr 1 "ine 1 Tl ta 1 1 I A 1 th McUiard r leia 0111 asks Bomber Found All -1 Crew Believed Dead . in . Rugged - Terrain , atMorton, Wash- (Continued From j Page 1) - Tuesday morning. Major Over acker said it probably would re quire about four hoars to reach the scene.-' ! " County Coroner W. D. Turner was here to go lnte - the woods with the ' first rescue party.; '. Officials, said horses' probably would be needed . later to . bring ont bodies from the scene. Ini tial hopes of a rescue party going to the scene tonight were aban doned promptly after officers ar rived and surveyed the situation. An army order said aU non official civilians would he pro hibited from entering the region. The eastern Lewis county re gion w a s searched intensively from the air by army fliers for two weeks after the bomber's dis appearance,' but no I clue to the wreck was ever found. The state patrol headquarters reported it planned ! to establish a radio sending station at the wreck scene, and equipment was reported en route to Morton from Olympla. j Morton Is about SO miles by airline south of McChord Field. Those aboard the plane were : Lieut. Robert M, Krummes, Boise, Idaho, pilot. . Lieut. Charles T. Nielsen, Eaa Claire, Wis., co-pilot. Lieat. John F. Gels, Seattle, navigator. Tech. Sgr. Heara A. Davis, Taeoma, engineer, j Sgr. Leo H. Kietllag, Sclo, Ore., radio operator. Sgr. Paul L. Maas, Qnlncy, Hl bombardier. Lieut. Lewie B. MacKay, Lincoln, Nebv, a passenger. Soon after the plane disap peared a great search was launched by air and land In Washington, Oregon and Califor nia. As many as 36 planes took part at times in the search. Land parties went Into the mountains without finding anyj trace of the missing plane, and army officials expressed the opinion wreckage might have been covered by new snow In the mountains. Shortly after the report was made of finding thai plane, army officials issued orders that no ci vilians or civilian authorities would be permitted i to take pic tures of the plane wreckage until an Investigation had; been made. ! Lease-Lend Bill Okeh Predicted WASHINGTON. Feb. t. -()-With administration leaders pre dicting approval by ! a margin of 100 rotes, the lease-lend bill was brought to the house poor Monday to " be heatedly denounced as a: step toward war and dictatorship, and warmly defended as a mea sure to keep the horrors of con flict away from American shores. meeting of Capital Post No. 9, commanded by Ray j J. Stumbo. igarettes and join the army of Satisfied smokers al over America who are getting ileal Smoking Fleas ' ure- from Cjhesterfield? s Milder, Cooler, Better Taste. " I YOU CAN'T DUY A 1BETTER CIGARETTE ive Boards Merged Single .Commission 'Asked to Administer Dutiea -, of i Present tTnits ,-: ' - : ? (Continued From iPage 1) compensation Administer all n n e m p loyment compensation and employment service ; laws. Director of saf etyi---Admlnls- ter all laws relating to t safety of workers In industry, with pertinent: oowers now held by labor commissioner and - lndus-j trial accident commission. . Director of Industrial lnsur-j ance Administer ail lairs re-l latlnr tit state compensation and Insurance of injured work4 men and their dependents. f Right of appeal to the new commission 'from regulations or orders issued by division direc tors, and from commission rulings to tne circuit courts would be granted. - j I?- j The bill would aboEsh the pres ent separate agenciei oniJuly I, Hi .5 f - i - house woald establish a 40-houf keek in all industries "which are. hot covered by the federal wage hour lawf provide one 'to three years, in prison or $2500. if Ine for negligent s homicide in connection iaith traffic accidents; I exempt from taxes the first: $1000 15 value of the home ' ot fold ak pensioner; and provide' -that the chief Justice of the supreme cptfit Shall be elected by 'the curti McEldowney lutes I Slafed for Todajr j INDEPENDENCE -M- F itt n e raj services for Thomas' Ar. McEldow ney will be held today at 8 p.m. at the Christian churth in Mon mouth, with Rev. Wj Aj ElkinJ officiating. Interment! will be at the Fir Crest cemetery,' j S I Mr. McEldowney idled at, his home eight miles southwest of In ependenee ' Saturday; morning . at ie age of 77. He was born In Vir ginia City. Nev.. July: t. 1863, the day after his parents, !Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McEldowney, j arrived by covered wagon from Iowa pity. Is. The family came to Oregon la 1870, settling at Hillsboro where his father became one -of the first breeders lot registered1 Shorthorn battle in Oregon. til ( j In 190$ he waa united In mar fiage tofElsle M. Shattuck oft Medford and moved tp;Wenatehee, Wash., where he operated a fruit orchard for five-years,; after whicfc jhe returned to the; home place jwhere he resided until hlsj death j I He is I survived by j his widow, Mrs. Elsie McEldowney, and nine jchlldrenf Frank oft Hafrisburg, jMaude of Bend, Thomas, j Jr., and iDonald Of Monmouth Joseph of Hamilton field, Calif.,' William o jCprvalUi. , Wllmer . and James oi The Dalles and Mrsj Louise Ter .way of Spokane; three grandsons, iMarvin,:Eldon and Lyle McEldow iney of Harrisburg; two brother!, W. H. McEldowney of F 6 r r e s t prove and J. H. McEldowney of Beaver Creek-. next time yoii buy ask for ChesterfieldJ.,