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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1931)
C apitalAfoiiraal CLOUDY fast and nnsettled with occasional rains west tonight and Friday. No Changs in temperature. Shifting winds. Local: Max. 70; mln 47; rain river -.4 loot; clear; northeast wind. CIRCULATION Dally iitnn distribution for th month ending April 10, 1931 10,581 Average dally net paid 10,146 Mambtr Audit Bureau at Circulation 43rd YEAR, No. 121 MA SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931 PRICE THREE CENTS rT7NRSD. a J m laEil f ifli as IMS SKY ARMADA IN FORMATION OVER CHICAGO 659 War Planes Parade In Attack Groups Over Lakeport Army Masses Its Power In Manuevers of De fense Chicago i A proud armada of the nation's fighting aircraft streak ed through the skies above Ameri ca's Inland metropolis Thursday. It was the army's greatest dem onstration of its air strength. Over Chicago's lake front 659 planes pa raded In formation, serenading thousands of watchers as speedy pursuit ships sang a high tenor to the deep baritone hum of mighty bombers. Thousands left Michigan boule vard skyscrapere as the planes ap peared from the north, where the aerial procession had formed after a wide circular movement from the live airports ir. which they had con centrated Wednesday from Dayton. Roofs and oiflce windows were dotted with on-lookers, and traltic In Grant park stood still as a mass of spectators poured over the green turf to the edge of Lake Michigan and gazed skyward. Overhead the sun shone. Major Davenport Johnson of Gal ""TConcluded on pftge15, column 7) JENKINS SLATED FOR POLICE JOB Portland (IP) The News-Telegram said Thursday that the ap pointment of Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins of Portland as head of the new state police force was vir tually assured. The newspaper said that this re port was current In political and police '.rcles and that it was un derstood that Jenkins will act in an advisory capacity until he able to complete his official duties here. The News-Telegram said that General Smedley D. Butler and Governor Meier have agreed that Jenkins is the logical man for the post end that his contemplated ap pointment was acceptable to all but one stat executive. The story add ed that a possibility remained that another Portlander or an eastern Oregon man might be named and "Tconcluded on page 13. column 5' $3000 VERDICT FOR DEATHCAR DRIVER Oregon Clly P) A verdict of $3, 000 against the Rev. A. E. Danlcy of Eugene was returned In circuit court here Wednesday In favor of James Wagner of canemah. The ult grew out of the death of Wag ner's father, Rudolph Wagner, 63. who was struck by an automobile south of here last November. Wagner had asked damages of (10.000. Kenneth Israelson and George Israelson, Portland warehouse op erators, were named as co-defendants but the Jury found in their favor. Wagner contended the car driven by Danley forced - the Israelson truck off the highway, striking his father who was walking along the edge of the road. 53 ARMY POSTS TO BE ABANDONED Washington. 'IP) Abandonment t,f f3 army posts, valued at $22.- 000.000 is contemplated by the war department. It was announced. The posts were designated by the general staff after a survey ordered by the president. Their abandon menl. General Douglas MacArthur. chief of staff, said, will contribute to military efficiency as well as economy. Only 13 of them now are garrisoned. Others may be added to the list, MacArthur said. Included In the posts unoccu pied except for care takers, which will be disposed of entirely, are: Ford Ward, WasTi.; Willapa Bay. Wash. Included in the harbor defense posts which will be disposed of. ex cept for portions containing forti fications and guns, are: Fort Caset. Wash.: Fort Canby. Wash : Fort Columbia. Wash.; Fort Whitman, Wash.; and Fort Flag ler, Wash. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Dr. Mark Hayter of Dallas, than whom there are no better chaps, has sent us over a check for 2.60 to add to the Billy McAdams fund with the comment that "it seems just too bad that one with such genial ways and kindly dlsposi sion should be so afflicted." Thanks Mark, we have relayed It on to John Parrar. We have received a letter signed "1931 Straw Hat Committee," refer ring to Chief Minto's old straw hat being heaved Into the Willamette and with the added suggestion that the committee had overlooked Walt Fuhrers straw hat which "outdates the neolithic period." Now listen, committee, we made no objection when you had Frank Minto's old straw thrown into the river knowing that you boys had to have your little fun. But if you start on Walt Fuhrers hat to go the same route we rise up in pro test. There are plenty of laws on the statute books to back us up. The Oregon code contains three or four pages of laws about pollut ing the streams of the state. The state board of health has been ap pealed to time and time again to clam up the Willamette at this point. And In face of these facts it s no time to talk about throwing that old lid of Walt Fuhrer s into the river. The river is having a hard enough time as it is without going Into the summer season try ing to absorb that old sunbonnet. Why doggone it, this glutton of a committee will want to heave Carey Martin's straw hat into the river if It is given a little leeway. Give some of these birds a little authority like that and there's no telling where it's going to wind up. I'NBLTTON VOI R VESTS, BOYS Who cares what Smedley Butler does. Why waste your time on a brigadier? Who cares if Hal gets a three buck fee On your motor car for the coming year; Who cares if Minto stirs up the cops And switches them off on a new routine; Who cares If the cons get a two-bit raise For a four hour day ona flax ma chine; Who cares if they launch a new attack. To upset a vote on the state police; Who gives a darn for this or that Or whether the world has war or peace? Why worry your heads over little things For this is the springtime of the year, And the wide world laughs as it smacki Its lips For strawberry shortcake time Is here. Not wishing to slight anybody, sure we extend our big strawberry competition to the Ettersberg grow ers as canning season advances. Why we might even go further than that and Inaugurate a prize competition for the biggest and best sack of sugar left at our house by a local grocery. If there's any one thing we want to be it Is fair, open and above board and not shut anybody out. BURGLARS WARNED BY POLICE RADIO Chicago (LP) The radio system which Chicago police installed to speed up capture of criminals has been turned by robbers Into an Im plement to help them evade cap ture. It was discovered Thursday by Sergeant Tom Stalbus of Austin station. Stalbus' squad was touring the streets when a flash came over their radio to hurry to the Prudential Life Insurance company, where burglars were reported working on the second floor. The squad arrived a minute too late. The burglars had Just left In such a hurry they forgot their tools. Among the "tools" was a portable radio. It was tuned In on the po lice broadcasting station. Upon en tering the place, the robbers had set up the portable ar,d the same flash which sent Stalbus and bis men speeding to make the capture had been the robftW warning to flee. Joke on The Snake Ate China Nest Effg Petersburg, Ind. UPi The joke. Mn. Sallna Gladlsh reported, was on the snake. For two weeks, she said, she had been missing eggs from her hens' nest. Last Tuesday a China nest egg was gone. Thursday she saw large snake In the barn yard. She killed It with a hoe and was iur prlsesd to find Inside Its carcass, the China egg. RUSSIA NEEDS MORE WHEAT FOR HOME USE Soviet Delegates Refuse To Curtail Production For Own Consumption Definite Export Quotas Favored As Remedy for Wheat Surplus London ifl"; Soviet Russia's dele gates to the world wheat conference said Thursday they opposed a plan suggested by Samuel R. McKelvle. head of the American delegation, for reduction In wheat acreage be cause Industrial and social condi tions In Russia made increased wheat production imperative. "Wednesday," an official an nouncement said, "The Americans submitted a proposal which is un acceptable to Soviet Russia because of conditions in our social system, with extraordinary development In our industries and the number of our industrial workers, and in view of the increased production which Is necessary to wctt growing in ternal demands. "It seems advisable to us to al low each country to decide for it self whether to cuitall production of agricultural commodities, and wheat in particular." The statement said It was the Russian opinion, drawn from state- (Concluded on page 15. column n CO-OP COUNCIL HEARS GEHLHAR Portland Pl In the first public antwannfa tm Yias mnrlf slnre he- ing appointed director of the de partment oi agriculture, Max oen lhar of Salem Thursday announced a nnltrv rf rinse cnonerntion with the Interests of lnd.vidual industries in Oregon agriculture tor the gen eral betterment of fanning in the state. Gehlhar was the principal speak er at the meeting of the Oregon Cooperative council in session here. Through a coincidence the direc tor of the newly created department spoke first before the body which had been most active In opposing the idea of a distinct agricultural department. In introducing the new director, however. President Glenn Marsh of Hood River declared the council is most desirous that the department succeeds. "I have no pre-conceived or hard and fast policy that I intend to put in force," Gehlhar said. "But I do want the suggestions and cnimu-i now and at anv time of Just such groups as this. The de partment must depend at an times on the ocopcration of those actually engaged in the individual agricul tural Industries, otherwise any pro gress Is limited to the capacity of the officials themselves." T hiivp already found there Is considerable misconception as to the functions of the state department," he continued. "It was not created to do for farmers by some magic means the things they must do for them selves." The speaker also pointed outthat "Tconcludrd-on" pa8e'"l3. column 4 SOUTHERN PACIFIC CUTS FRUIT RATE Portland 'IP) A six and one-half cent reduction on freight rates for fruit from the southern Oregon sec tlon to Portland, was announced Thursday by J. N. Mulchay. as sistant freight and traffic manager of the southern Pacific railroad. The existing rate Is 35 cents a hundred and the new rate, which will become effective August I, In ample time for the 1631 harvest, will be 28 j cents. The new rate, admittedly made to meet truck competition, U ex pected to stimulate shipment of fruit to Portland for the European export trade. Heretofore a large part of the Medford crop has mov ed overland to New York fo. Eur opean dispatch there. It is believed however, that with the new rate much of this export business will be routed via the port of Portland. Eugene Convention Gets Special Train Portland A spedel tram will carry delegates to the Kugene con vention of the Oregon Btat Grad uate Nurses' association May 35 and It, it was announced Thursday. M'Namee Sad As Wife Sues For Divorce New York MPl The voice to which millions of radio fans have listen ed choked with emotion Thursday as Graham McNamee confirmed the shattering of a romance which Broadway had considered an idyiuc example for ten years. Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee is suing the radio announcer for a separation. The suit has been on file several weeks but no inkling of her charges has leaked out. McNamee, looking haggard and nervous, said he had been alone sev eral weeks although even his near est friends knew nothing of Mrs. McNamee's intentions. I haven't seen her application for a settlement," he said "but I been served with the necessary pa pers. I don't know where Mrs. Mc Namee is, but I do know that the statement that the separation is by (Concluded on pase 15. column 5) DUNLAP'S BODY SENT TO PARIS Tours. France, ilP) In the pre sence of three French generals, the body of Gereral Robert H. Dun- lap, U. S. M. 0., who died attempt ing to save a French woman from a landslide, was removed from the mortuary chapel Thursday and placed in a hearse for transporta tlon to Paris. As the flag-covered coffin was borne acros sthe street, General Goubeau, commander of the ninth army corps, and Generals Loiseau and Mauren of tne anuiery corps. stood at attention, surrounded by their staffs. The prefect of Tours, Marcel Gregoire, supervised the ar rangements. A crowd of people who had come to show their respect for the Ameri can's heroism stood bareheaded, men and women crossing themselves meanwhile. Commander Calvin Cobb, of the American embassy, accompanied the body on the Jour ney to Paris. Mme. Denis Briant, who was taken alive out of the wreckage from which the general's body was recovered, underwent a second operation at the hospital here Thursday and her condition was reported extremely grave. Her leg was so badly crushed that part of It was amputated immediately af ter she was rescued. CUBA SUPPRESSES REBEL MOVEMENT Havana '.f) The government Thursday announced that the auth orities had suppressed revolution ary attempts at Manzanillo and Jiguani and some "excitement," manifested at Shaparra, and Holo uln. An official statement issued by Secretary of Interior Octavlo Zub lzarreta said the government had taken measures to prevent further trouble and that its armed forces were prepared for any emergency although "there Is no fear that events will become more serious." The statement added that re ports from all other points In the republic showed absolute quiet pre vailing. It declared that while a suspension of constitutional guar antees which the president was authorized to use at his discretion had not yet "been resorted to It may be necessary to do so If the seditious attitude persists." The government reports that none was killed and only 1 few wounded in the disturbances which occurred In the province of Oriente. HAS OPERATION London 'P. The Duke of Can naught, King George a uncle, under went a minor operation on the nose Thursday. He was 81 years old on May 1. Central Oregon Faces Driest Year In History Crops Being Abandoned The driest season known in recent yeius in Ort'iron has struck the central part of the state and has resulted in real cause for alarm, State KnKiiipri' Charles K. Stricklin, said Thursday. The dry area constitutes a strip through the central part 01 the s'ate through California and to the Mesican line. The strip runs from the Cascade mountains to the Blue mountains. Reports from that section Indi cate the farmers there hve giv-n up any Idea of cropi this vason. but are worried for et.o'it. h water for their wells to supply l.v...tork and some rrhsm. Where this wa'er was coming from, had not FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS MEETS FRIDAY Business end Profession al Women To Assemble In State Convention Program of Sessions and Entertainment Arran ged Locally The eleventh annual convention of the Oregon federation of Busi ness and Professional Women's clubs will convena in Salem Friday for a three-day session. Registrations will commence at the convention head quarters In the Marion hotel at 10 o'clock. The list of 164 voting dele gates, which Includes the six elective federation officers, ten federation directors and chairmen, presidents of the 22 clubs in Oregon, and 126 official delegates, is expected to be augmented by several hundred ad ditional clubs members who will at tend the convention sessions and the many social events planned by the Salem club. Pre-conventlon sessions of the executive council and their lunch eon, a luncheon for vice-presidents of the 22 clubs in the Oregon feder ation, and a third luncheon for all convention delegates and visitors not included In the other luncheons, will be held at the Marion hotel Friday noon. The business sessions will be held in the chamber of commerce rooms. Miss Martha Gasch of Portland, state president, calling the conven JCon clu dedoiTpsge 4 .eol u mn 3) Ire fighting" among chinese Shanghai, China (IP Fighting be tween revolutionary forces in north central China and government troops was reported Thursday to have broken out along the Peiping Hankow railway. The reports could not be con firmed. A censorship on press dis patches was anticipated by cable officials here. The spread of insurgent move ments to north China was retarded as a serious threat to the authority of the central government at Nan king, already harassed by open re bellion In the south. The government was reported to have decided to use the Yangtze river naval squadron In an effort to establish a blockade at Canton, seat of the southern rebellion, an emergency military conference was called at Nanking. General Chiang Kai-Shek, head of the national government, was understood to be taking drastic ac tion to check the growing revolu tionary menace. SUN YAT SEN'S SON TO JOIN REBELS Shanghai (LP) Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. bun Yat Sen, and until recently minister of communica tions In the Nanking government, has sailed for Canton, apparently intent on taking a post In the In dependent Canton government, It was learned Thursday. Sun was accompanied by Eugene Chen, who was minister of foreign affairs In the radical government set up at Hankow a few years ago. Chen also Is expected to take a post at Canton. ben determined. Reports from California, .Stricklin states. Indi cates that stale Is worse off than Oregon In the area of the dry strip. The state distributes water for irrigation to a million acres, but the streams are lower and some of them In tlie dry area are entirely dried up this year. Lack of snow In the mountains has likewise slow.'d dn and dried up many springs. California's Heat WaveBr oken; Snow Falling In San Francisco (U.R) A record May heat ware in north ern California was broken Thursday by cool ocean breezes as an army of fire fighters brought under control hundreds of brush and grass fires started in the last 48 hours. The third major fire in San Francisco in as many days swept a large mercantile building and climaxed a series of blazes that caused damage exceeding $1,000,000. Oakland brush fires which destroy ed several homes and threatened many more, and others In Tahoe national forest, Calaveras, Tuolum- me, Santa Cruz and El Dorado counties were under control. "Fire weather" prevailed over southern California, although lower temperatures were forecast. Denver, Colo. (LP) Apple and cherry blossoms and tender young crops In this section were covered Thursday with snow as tempera- i concluded on" page 14, column 41 RAILROADS ASK HIGHER RATES New York, .yp) Presidents of the eastern railroads, representing all lines east of the Mississippi, Thurs day voted to ask the Interstate commerce commission to restore freight rates to a level which. In the judgment of the commission. will protect the credit of the car riers. A committee was appointed to work out the details. It consists of W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania; Daniel Willard. president of the Baltimore fc Ohio; P. E. Crowley, president of the New York Central lines; J. J. Bernet, for the Van Swerigen lines; J. M. Davis, presi dent of the Delaware, Lackawanna Sc Western; J J. Pelly, president of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford, and C. H. Hix, president of the Virginian. The committee will appoint a chairman and determine at once the manner and method of proce dure. It was pointed out that the committee's major work will be to study the question completely and to decide on the amount of in crease to request. It was said there was a disposition on the part of the executives expressed at the meet ing to ask only for a sufficient in crease to protect the roads. CRAZED BY LIQUOR SHOOTS UP FAMILY Medford, Wis. fP) Joseph Fleisch mann, 35, shot and killed his wife and two small sons Wednesday night and for five hours held his two daughters, another son and three adults In a tate of terror while he talked Incessantly of fir ing deer rifle bullets at them. The three adults, one a Catholic priest, escaped from the Flcisch mann farm home, two miles north of here, amid bullets from Fleisch mann's gun. They called authorities who arrested the man before he could harm his other children, Fleischmann, an assistant butter maker, was craved by liquor. Sheriff George R. Belrd said. He said Fleischmann had been confined twice before for alcoholic Insanity. LOCAL AUTHORITIES SEEK ARMY POST Washington HP) President Hoov er has rereived two requests from local authorities to take over army posts for local purposes, it was an nounced Thursday at the White House. Governor Franklin D. tloscvclt. New York has asked for 2.00(1 acres nt Camp Upton. L. I . and senator Howell, republican, Nebraska, has asked for part of Fort Omaha for a municipal university. NAME OF CRAWFORD'S SLAYER TOLD POLICE Los Angeles U The name of the man who may have killed Charles Crawford, powerful politician, and Herbert Bpencer, newspaperman and nmga.lne editor, was given to the police Thursday by Ouy Mc Afee, known as a political "boss" and lord of big gambling Interests In the city. Police said McAfee gave them the name of the susiect at a con ference which broke up about noon Rockies BEAOTY QUEEN TO RETURN HOME Nice, France (LP) Charlotte Nix on -Nirdl in ger, acquitted by a jury of Frenchmen, made plans Thurs day to proceed as quickly as possible to the United States. The St. Louis leauty queen was free after two months In jail In Nice, after the shooting of her hus band, Fred O. Nixon-Nirdlinger, wealthy Philadelphia theater owner. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlingcr departed for a mountain village In the foot hills of the Alps, overlooking the Mediterranean, where she soufcht to avoid the throngs of curious. She left her two small children at the apartment In Nice, scene of tne shooting. Her mother, Mrs. James H. Nash, accompanied her Into seclusion. She said they Intended to remain several days before proceeding back to America. The acquittal permits the young widow to claim a third of her hus band's estate, valued at $725,000. Her claim would have been annulled un der the Pennsylvania law had she been sentenced. Mrs. Ntxon-Nirdllnger said she had little money available and that she intended to live simply, kreping her share of the eMato-about $;'40.- 000 for the education of the chil dren. PROTESTS GRAIN 3E CUT Hot Springs. Ark ypv Senator T. H, Caraway told the Arkansas Bar association Thursday that i Am erican representatives at the Lon don wheat conference were .succiss- fut In reaching an aurrumm to restrict American expoit; or acre age the effect would be "to starve people off the farms n..J into the cities." Such an eventuality, he said, would cause "grave conscpqut iicj.s to our governmental fabric." "Twenty-one millions of people arc now paupers through the un employment of 7,000.000 workers." he said, "and any restriction of farm acreage or exports wouiu send an additional 10.000.000 people off the farms into the cities to live off charity.' Senator Caraway asserted the government owes agriculture, as a class, the obligation of removing the "high and unjust tantl. "The present administration tells the farmer he must go back to the law of supply and demand,' he said. "There Is no such law, under the tariff. "If that law must be applied, j then the farmer must be allowed to sell to whomever he pleases and ! be allowed to buy from whatever! country lie pleads." NO SITESELECTED FOR SOLDIERS' HOME Washington (IP) The federal hospitalization board considered proposed sites for the northwestern branch of the soldiers' home at an executive meeting Thursday but members declined to discuss their deliberations. The she must be Ap proved by President Hoover before an announcement is made. It was announced later that th1 bmrrt had not reached a decision Thursday but hsd asked additional information on the various sres proposed from the veterans' bureau. The matter will be taken up at a meeting later in the week. Charley Erb's Suit Is Heard at Medford Medford, Ore. HP Charley Erb's $11,000 tult agalnH the Consolidated Trurk company for Injuries suffered in a crash on the Parilic highway near here In February, 1!30. con tinued In circuit court heie Thurs day. The former alar Uuhirvlty ot California football pljver and ex Idaho coach, alleged that he as In a hospital 11 weeks following the crash and that the Injuries pre vented him from coa-hlng. SPONSORS OF REFERENDUM AWAIT RULING Attack Upon State Po lice Bill Delayed Until Court Acts Kowitz To File Suit in Behalf of Sportsmen Organizations If sponsors for the referendum attack upon the state police bill get under the wire with their com pleted petitions within the statut ory time limit for filing with the secretary of state, midnight of June 5, It will be a scant margin or hours to spare It now appears. Copies of the perfected petition with the ballot title prepared by Attorney General Van Winkle are ready for circulation, but their ac tual circulation is being field up pending a decision by the supremo coudt on the validity of the title, which decision will come on an ap peal to the court. Until this decision w banded down there Is, according to Ed F. Averill and other sponsors for the petitions, nothing to be gained in circulating them. In the event any defect Is found In the title all names which micht have been se cured on the petitions prior to the C onclutlt-d on pane I 4, column 8) FOIL GROCERY STOREJPBERY Officer Wintersteen who has the South Salem pa fro! at nltrht cruised along In his car just at the right time early Thursday morning to break up what evidently was the plan of four pilgrims from parts un known to break into the KnJghten grocery store on South 14th street. He took them to headquarters where they were booked as Earl Sears, 19, Buckler Evans 22. James V. Flint 22 and Colbert C. Joits. 20. They are held for Invest ipa tlon. The quartet wns nabbed by the officer at 2:35 am. The officer found one of them In the street, one stationed on the side walk and the other two at one of the store win dows, with a sirnincnnt appearing empty sack lyin? at hund. Wlntersteen said that the men had attempted to enter the store. Evan, the oldest of the four, having tried to open the rear door. The Sheridan dairy store, known a? the Hazeldell. at State and 12th streets, was en'ered by burglars .some time during the nicht. but ap parently nothing was taken. En trance was made by prying open a- window leadlnp into the boiler room, the "Jimmy" being used for the purpose, from indications. Th tracks of a man were found outside. The place was entered some ttrct. between midnight and dawn. NO WAGE CUT IN STATE DEPARTMENT Secretary of Stat Hal E. Hots, announced Thursday the state de partment did not contemplate the reduction of the waee scale to is employes. He made this announce ment following the action of the state Industrial accident commis sion in which the vnce scale was cut on an average of 10 per cent. Rumors had been circulated that other departments contemplated such action. Hoss stated the salary and wage scale In the state department ws bs low as possible r.ow, and that he could not reduce wnscs furtlier. No other department have announced any wage rcrt'.r'iuhv or plans to that effect. Vabahond Lover To lirinff $10,000 To Sons Writer Chicago .Il-r.ie "V.itabond Lov er' was ba k It 'tie Thurjday, a co'm decided. The song, which whs sung an over the country, was nltten, Judgo Piul'p t: Sullivan decided Wednes lav, by Jesse Bro n. an attorney In ivnaif he o d-re.1 an ae- counting from Kudv allee, Leon Zimmerman, Leo i-vist. inc., puo llshers. and tv.o pioiu-graph com- lainles. Brown said he ( ;cd to reause II0 000 s a result of tht decision. He said he tuned l'i n the radio one night two years aco when th song was a bis hi! and remembered he had written it at a time when he was leading an orchestra.
