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CIRCULATION Dally average distribution for the Month ol June, 1933 CITY EDITION Local: Fair tonight, Saturday and Sunday; no change In temperature; northwest Rinds. 9,609 Average daily net paid 9,177 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Max., 84; Mln 45; rain, 0; river, -1 foot; clear; variable winds. . 45th YEAR, No. 172 Entered as second clasa matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTO (ft pa iSiuaqn own mm XL "li MI F 11 EAST VOTING LIGHT IN SALEM AND GVER OREGON Only 15 Percent of Qual ified Electors Vote Up To Noon Here Not More Than Half of Voters Expected. To Visit Polls Today Election Returns With the cooperation of Louis duBuy, Radio Head quarters, returns of today's election will be announced at the Capital Journal office through a special broadcast ing device commencing at 8 o'clock tonight. State, county and city re turns will be gathered and compiled as rapidly as the count progresses by the Asso ciated Press and a special staff of Capital Journal cor respondents and reporters. Telephone information as to the progress of the count may be had by calling 4882, or 4681 after the polls close at 8 p. m. Early reports from Portland vot ing precincts today indicated a heavier voting trend than had been expected for forenoon, and an av erage of 10 per cent of the registra tion Ijad been cast at mid-morning, according to information from scat tered precincts. There was no day counting of votes in Multnomah county's ' '540 precincts, except at 27 polling places. At the 27 precincts the count began at 1 p. m. At the oth ers it was to start at 8 p. m-, when the polls closed. Indications at noon were that less than 50 per cent of the 12,737 reg istered voters in Salem would exer cise their right to ballot at the spe cial election today. A check of the 24 precincts made by the Capital Journal during the noon hour revealed that only ia (Concluded on pngo 8, column 1) BY TENNE (Copyright by Associated Press) Tennessee became today the 19th state to approve repeal of the 18th Amendment as Oregon proceeded to ballot on the problem. The margin of victory for antl- prohlbltionlsts ' in Tenessee was smaller than In any of the other states which have held popular elections on the proposed consti tutional change. As returns from yesterday's elec tion neared completion today, the repeal lead was approximately 10,- 000. Tennessee, the third soutnern state to vote on and approve repeal, had been dry for years, the legis lature having passed a dry law in 1909. This year 3.2 beer was legal ized. Nashville, Tenn. July 21 (P) Charging that "the grossest possible fraud" was perpetrated In Memphis and Nashville in yesterday's refer endum on the eighteenth amend ment, John F. Baggctt, chairman of the prohibition campaign, said in a statement today that the vote is being "very carefully studied with a view to contesting the election. Baggett said "all right-thinking people regardless of whether they were for or against repeal know we deserve and have won" and added: "We have the city machines 6f Nashville and Memphis to thank for the very narrow margin which the wets are claiming." Pointing to the fact a number of precincts are unreported, he said it was possible the repeal ists' mar gin will be overcome when complete reports are in. HORSE RACING AT GRESHAM TRACK Portland, July 21 (VP) An Oregon grandstand today echoed to the roar "they're off!" as legalized horse racing came to this state for the first time since 1906. The 26 day meeting under the promotion of William P. Kyne open ed at the Gresham track near Port land with eight races on the pro gram and the hlghes class of thor oughbreds ever stabled in this sec tion listed for action over the new flre-eighths mile oval. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN m " s ' Col. Baldwin got out-' his dress suit, plug hat and whisk broom today to doll himself up in readiness for announcing election returns. At the Capital Journal at 8 p. m. "Hear ye, Hear- ye, Hear ye! The umpty-ump voting precinct of Marlon county is now open for business." So shouted 79 chairmen of election boards at 79 poling places at 8 o clock this morning, how do we know? Because we heard one at 8 a. m. making similar noises irom the courthouse steps, while we were the only one standing by yet it started off the election just the same in the good old fashioned way. All of which merely leads up to the remark if you haven t voted by the time this comes out you'd better shinny over and vote no matter how you stand. Remember this isn't a duty it's a privilege. We expect that Rev. Mr. Close will be glad when his Close shave becomes a Closed Incident, The Hollywood Itch which finds a whole, flock of motes in every body's eyes but its own, might lay off the outside world for a- week or two and clean up the double parking nuisance in its own front yard. Every evening the Pacific highway thereabouts is congested with cars parked two or three deep causing interference and danger to through traffic. The other day coming in from Rlverdale park on the river road south we picked up a small country lad about 10 years old who was just returning from swimming. "Maybe it , would be better for you to walk than ride, we remark ed. "O, I enough walking," said the little lad. "I shock the hay cultivate the corn, go after the cows, hoe thistles, go to the store af tur groceries, round up the horses, go out and feed the pigs besides having to run errands." "And walk to swimming now and then," we interjected. "Yeah," said the boy. We remarked to the lad we sup posed that he . had to tease his father to let him cultivate the corn, go after the cows, et cetera and that when the father wanted him to go swimming he probably had to take a club to the boy to do it, "O, no," said the lad looking at us in wonderment, 'Its Just the other way around." A team of caddies out at th: Salem Golf club took a beating yesterday from a team from the Statesman force which included Ralph Kletzing and Ralph Curtis. The only moral to which seems to be that the caddies around here ain't, what they used to be. "Truckmen in Germany have a better sense of the eternal fitness of things," says the Corvallis Gazette-Times. "One of them caused an accident there the other day and pulled out a revolver and killed himself." Most of the truckmen around here will do that without an accident if the new truck law isn't repealed. Schermerhorn Asks For Second Trial Medford, July 21 (JP) Attorneys for Gordon L. Schermerhorn, form er sheriff who was convicted Sun. day for complicity in the ballot theft case here, late yesterday filed motion for a new tnal. The lawyers alleged the Jury was drawn in an illegal manner, that evidence was insurncient to war rant a conviction, that the verdict was contrary to law and that cer tain jurors hod expressed the opln. ion before they were drawn as Jur ors, that Schermerhorn was guilty. Grain Exchanges Close To Catch Breath After Big Crash Of Thursday (By the Associated Press) The grain trade drew a long breath and retaxed as trad ing was suspended at all the principal American exchanges to allow rest from the violent sessions which culminated yesterday in the worst price col- lapse in many years. Following the action of the Chi cago board of trade In suspending dealings for the day, Kansas City. Minea polls, St. Louis and Duluth were quick to fall in line and take a holiday. When trading is resumed tomorrow there will be limits on dally fluctuations. The action taken by directors of the Chicago board of trade late last night caused but little surprise. The reason given for the suspension of trading was that tired employes needed some rest, but veteran ob servers saw it as a means of check ing the frenzy which character ized transactions late yesterday. SEEK TO ENLIST ENTIRE NATION FOR RECOVERY Campaign Underway To Swing Employers Into Movement Hearings Pushed On Four Separate Industries Submitting Codes Washington, July 21 (JP) Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator, set swiftly in motion today the na tionwide campaign to swing every employer into the wage raising movement. . He telegraphed to chamber of commerce presidents in all cities over ten thousand, asking them to create local committtes which will run the community end of the re employment drive. While Johnson acted. President Roosevelt kept close watch on the movement, alert for public reac tion to the program he approved only last night. Meantime, deputies pushed ahead hearings on four separate industries which have stepped forward with codes for self regulation and labor betterment. These were the shipbuilding, lum ber, electrical manufacturing and women's cloak and suit industries. Labor's demands for better wage and hour terms than offered by the employers dominated the pro ceedings. Slmultaneosly the presses at the government printing office were roaring away on production of mil lions of copies of the president's emergency - reemployment agree ments, which employers, beginning (Concluded on pnge 7, column 3) BALBO CHEERED New York, July 21 (LP) A cheer ing throng jammed along the side walks and leaning from skyscraper windows gave a tumultous recep tion today to General Italo Balbo and his flying companions as they rode up Broadway through a storm of ticker tape and torn paper to receive the formal greeting the city reserves for its heroes. From the battery to city hall hundreds of thousands viewed the triumphal procession and at the squat century-old scat of city gov ernment additional thousands had massed solidly to acclaim the flyers as Mayor John P. O Brien presented their commander with a medal of valor. The flyers composed the largest al welcome from the city since the battery of heroes to receive a form- return of the soldiers 14 years ago Forty automobiles carried the 96 aviators through the streets es corted by detachments of police, soldiers and sailors. On many buildings the Italian flag waved side by side with the stars and stripes and the shouted greetings of Italians rang in the ears of the flyers. At city hall Mayor O'Brien hailed the aviators as the direct descend ants of Columbus and the great naval explorers of past ages. ABIQTJA TEAM BEATEN Silverton Hills The Silverton Hill Billies baseball team played their last game of the season Sunday, and outscorcd the Abiqua nine, 19 to 18 on the home diamond. Then wheat dropped upwards of 17 cents, rye 26 and other grains In proportion. Although H was a holiday In the pits, hundreds of traders circled uneasily around the vast trading floor of the Chicago exchange with huge crowds in the gallery watch ing curiously The comparative quiet of the trading floor was In strange contrast with the uproar that usually prevails. Brokers clerks worked many hours checking their records. A few transactolns were taktn care of in the cash market, mainly business that had to be cleared on (Concluded on page 4, column 8) " Leading Recovery Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, energetic administrator of the national recov ery act, la shown her- In a charac teristic speaking pose. (Associated Press Photo) ELLIOTT TO WED RUTH SATURDAY Burlington, Iowa, July 21 (I1) El liott Roosevelt, son of the president and Miss Ruth Coogins of Fort Worth, Texas, will be married here tomorrow under present arrange ments, the Associated Press learned from an unimpeachable source to day. Young Roosevelt will arrive here by plane today, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Anna Curtis Da 11. Mrs Dall will be Miss Coogins' only at tendant. Only immediate members of the two families will be present at the wedding in the home of George C. Swiler, brother of Mrs. J. B. coo gins, mother of the bride to be. The hour for the wedding has not yet been set, the Associated Press was told. No formal statement will be Issued until after the wedding and the couple has departed for a honeymoon "in the west," it was as serted. Washington, July 21 (IF) Presi dent Roosevelt contemplates on ac tion regarding the stock echange where prices have dropped consid erably in the last few days. Informed today by newspapermen at the regular press conference about reports on the exchange re garding his health, the tanned pres ident smiled and replied: "Look at me." It was made clear that the admin istration is focusing its full atten tion on the recovery drive and in official quarters the opinion was ex pressed that If speculators and in vestors are silly enough to bid up stocks far above their value they are very apt to lose their money. In official quarters the view also was expressed that many people at tach undue importance to fluctua tions in stock prices. President Roosevelt was said to be concerned more in improving the general purchasing power of the workers and he is not concerned over stock market girations affect ing Ills campaign. PORTLANDGROGERS ADOPT LABOR CODE Portland, July 21 (IP) A code which proposes the closing of Port land grocery stores on Sunday and holidays and regulates hours of op eration from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. was adopted at a meeting here last night of the Grocers' and Merchants' association. This organization mem bership does not include chain stores or similar non-delivery units. The minimum wage for women was set at $15 a week or $2.50 a day. The maximum working week will be 48 hours, and a maximum of 8 hours a day was established. For men the week maximum was set at 48 hours, and the day at 10, with a minimum of $18 a week or $3 a day. Store managers would receive minimum of $30 a week of 54 hours, or $5 a day for nine hours. Appren tices would be paid not less than $12 a week or $2 a day for 0 hours. The apprentice payroll could not ex. ceed 25 percent of the working help, STOCKS CRASH DEMORALIZING TO ENTIRE LIST Prices Break From 4 to 13 Points In Record Turnover Since 1929 Third Day of Slump Sees Half of Gains This Year Wiped Out New York, July 21 (IP) Stock market prices were smashed drastic, ally today for the third day in suc cession, at a trading pace of 9,570, 000 shares, the greatest trading since October 30, 1929. Some relief from the terrific pa per losses declines which at the lows at 2:30 p.m., meant more than $4,000,000,000 in losses to the traders was given In the lost few minutes when, on rapidly rising prices, more than half the losses were eliminated in many instances. It was a frenzied session. 'Early irregularity gave way to strength. Strength gave way to slow weakness andn then suddenly the great burst of selling dropped on the market. Tickers could not keep pace run ning behind the markets as much as 30 minutes. The floor of the ex change was a bedlam as traders sought to execute their orders. And as suddenly as the drastic decline started, the rise came In and stocks jumped in some Instances as much as 5 points in five minute intervals. The tremendous trading day, fifth largest in history of the exchange, meant more night work for the wea ry brokerage clerks and stock ex change employes. All specialists, or (Concluded on page 8, column's NEED TO CLOSE London, July 21 (IP) If President Roosevelt wants to save the world, he will close the New York stock exchange. Premier R. B. Bennett of Canada said today on emerging from a meeting of wheat confer ence delegates. Bennett previously Indicated prl vately he approved the closing of trading in grain futures in Chicago" He declined to elaborate his re mark about the New York stock ex change, but it was taken to mean he felt a halt in speculation was necessary, and in closing the ex change would be the best way to accomplish It. Wheat negotiators, unable to reach agreement to control produc. tion, had heard reports that they were responsible in part for the drastic declines in wheat prices on the Chicago and Kansas City ex changes. PRESIDENT HOLDS CABINET MEETING Washington, July 21 (JP) The status of the administration re covery program engaged President Roosevelt and his cabinet in a meet ing at the White House offices this afternoon, after the chief executive had spent a busy morning in the mansion proper. Full recovered from his slight in disposition, the president also ar ranged for his regular semi-weekly interview with newspapermen. Before entertaining at a state luncheon the special representative of Ethiopia, Mr. Roosevelt went over the public works program with Secretary Ickes and took under ad visement a list of regional admin istrators to carry out the gigantic public Improvement plan. He also conferred with Lewis Douglas, the budget director, and gave his attention to various aspects of the industrial control program. "HUNGER-MARCHERS MAY COME TO SALEM Portland, July 21 M1) Signs here today indicated that Salem may again be the unwilling host to a platoon of "hunger marchers." Dirk De Jonge, communist candi date for mayor here at the Novem ber election, Is said to be the moving spirit behind the new onslaught on the state capitol. A pamphlet was being circulated here declaring that the "march" Is being organized under the direction of the Oregon state unemployed councils and the leadership of Dc Jonce. "Demands" will be presented Au gust 15. Preliminary meetings are planned In Salem August 13 and 14 to formulate these "demands." Mattern At Nome Describes Flight As Most Thrilling Yet Nome, Alaska, July 21 (fP) Jimmie Mattern, luckless round the world flier, offered he could to aid Wiley Post, when he heard that Post had disabled his plane in landing at Flat, Alaska, after being "lost" sevan hours. "I'm sorry to hear he suffered such a misfortune," Mattern said "If there- : Is anything I can do, I'll put forth every effort to help him get going again, so that he can break the round-the-world record." During the afternoon, Mattern had arrived from Anadyr, Siberia, In a Soviet seaplane, to be greeted by his relief expedition. In a plane flown by Pilot Levanosvky, the flight was made here from Asia, arriving at 1:10 p. m. (7:10 p. m. E.S.T.). Mattern had crashed on June 14, near Anadyr. "If Post s plane is out of commis sion," Mattern said, "I'll offer him the ship flown by my relief expe dition." Mattern described his flight from Anadyr in the Soviet plane as filled (Concluded on pnge 8, column 3j WHEAT CONTROL PROPOSAL FAILS London, July 21 (JP) Stanley M. Bricc, Australian delegate, told the world economic conference today that his country certainly would not associate itself with any scheme for the restriction of wheat production as a solution for world difficulties "Australia has not at this mom ent subscribed to any such scheme," Bruce declared. This declaration appeared to make more remote the chances for con clusion of an agreement for restric tion of wheat production, which has been sought by representatives of the United States, Canada, Argentina and Australia. Bruce was making an attack upon all sorts of projects for restricting production of commodities but what he said appeared particularly ap plicable to wheat for control of which negotiations hda been going on by the big four producers for more than two months. The Australian spokesman was considered in some quarters to have left the door open for further treat ment of the wheat question howev er, when he said that he recognized that in some cases because of ex traordinary surpluses and other conditions, limltatidh as a remedy mignt improve conditions. Washington, July 21 JP) William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor today denounc ed the wage code proposed by the lumoer industry as insufficient. "The wages imposed in this code do not conform with the spirit or letter of the recovery act," he pro tested at the hearing on the code "The lumber industry must org anize as the law permits it to organ, ize and as a result receive a decent price for Its product so that it can pay a decent wage and put its hours oi worn at a point at which it can absorb its Idle workers." Wages proposed by the code range from $10.80 in the south to $20.40 per week in the northwest, with hours from 40 to 48. Green objected that such wages would not provide the purchasing power which is the purpose of the law and contended the hours were much too long. Green objected to the differentials. Essential Points Of Agreement Employers Requested To Sign Washington, July 21 (I3) Here are the essential points of the "president's re-employment agreement" which employ ers will be asked by President Roosevelt to sign: The volun tary agremeent will be in force un- til the last day of this year or un til a code to which the signer is subject takes effect. It prohibits manufacturing or mechanical employment of children under 16, and otherwise permits them to work only three hours daily, not conflicting with day school, and between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sets a 40 hour week limit for clerical, service and sales employes, with store or service operation hour kept up to 52 a week unless now be low that limit, when they may not be reduced at all. Fixes an absolute maximum eight late last night to do "anything j FLAN5IUUUKB SPECULATION Washington, July 21 (IP) Presi dent Roosevelt and his recovery ad ministration today were preparing for two-fisted action if necessary to restore order in the commodity and security markets. While there were no official Indi cations that the administration in fluenced the decision of grain mar kets to suspend future trading, the government's determination to check the violent fluctuations due to ex cessive speculation was plainly in dicated. As a preliminary regulatory move, the president directed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to order reports from the grain pits on all traders committed beyond a certain limit for the Chicago board of trade the figure was set at 500,000 bushels. If this does not tend to check speculation sufficiently, the govern ment has power under the farm act to license all grain traders and en force on them whatever regulations it deems necessary. The administration wants a mar ket as free as possible, but reflecting more accurately the laws of supply and demand. Secretary Wallace said the dive of grain prices was a natural reaction from "speculative frenzy" in which the general public was widely in volved. He had no sympathy for traders, big or little, who went into the market in hopes of making "killing" and then were cuught In the collapse. AT WINNIPEG Winnipeg, July 21 (JP) The larg est export business in several weeks andn firmer Liverpool cnbics than had been expected, combined to steady wheat futures on the local grain exchange today after two days ol plunging quotations and the mar, ket closed easy, unchanged to one cent lower. In comparison with Thursday's panicky session the market present ed a quiet appearance. Late In the session traders were reporting an export business of close to 2.000.000 bushels. Everything offered over night was quickly taken by imiwrt crs and more was sold during the morning. Chicago traders, with their own market closed, continued liquidation of their Winnipeg accounts and were the most noticeable selicrs. Weather and crop news played a small part in operations, though only slight precipitation over widely scattered points was confirmed. Cash grains trading was dormant, A wild drop o f22 cents in flax at one time featured coarse grains. Further declines were recorded in other grains but values recovered a little Hiid were fairly firm through out. Wheat closed: July 78 '.ft, October 80 3-8; Dec. 82',. Cash: No. 1 nor thern 78, No. 2 northern 757a, No. 3 northern 73!6. hour day for factory and mechani cal workers, on a 35-hour work week with leeway for six 40 hour weeks in the psriod from now to December 31, 1033. Exempts from these limits estab lishments with loss than three work ers in towns under 2500 population unless part of a large trade area; also registered pharmacists and pro fessional people, managers and- ex ecutives drawing now more than $35 a week; emergency workers and highly skilled persons employed on continuous processes. The latter must receive at least time and onc- (Conciudcd oh page 4, column 4) FLIER HOPS OFF AFTER GETTING PLANE REPAIRS Refuels At Fairbanks In Rain With Edmonton Next Stop Post Loses Propeller In Crash at Flat But Gets New One Fairbanks, Alaska, June 21 IIP) Wiley Post. Oklahoma flier, circling the world by air, landed here at 10:42 a. m. today (3:42 p. m. E. S. T.) It was raining and there was poor visibility. Guided by Joe Crosson, pioneer Alaska flier, Post-left Flat, 375 miles away at 1:28 a. m. (12:28 p. m. E.S.T.). The flight took three hours and 14 minutes. Post was to refuel here for his 1450 mile flight to Edmonton. Hien he has 2200 more miles to go to complete the first solo airplane mgnt around the world. Crosson had brought a new pro peller to Flat to replace the broken one when Post nosed over in a cross" wind at 3:30 p. m. yesterday after being in the air 22 hours and 32 minutes on his flight from Kha- oarovsk, Siberia. Pint. Alnclrn .Tnlu 01 IB U7i1a Post, Oklahoma filer, resumed his (Concluded on pturc 8. column 5) HULL PRESENTS London, July 21 (LP) Secretary of State Cordell Hull presented to the expiring world economic conference today the draft of an international truce against restrictions of trade, supplementing the so-called tariff "truce." A letter accompanying Hull's proposal pointed out that although the chief portion of its work is incomplete, the conference is about to enter a recess. "During and after the recess, it is to be hoped the governments will carry out the fundamental purpose of the conference," he said. A letter accompanying Hull's pro posal, which would prolong as well as .supplement the tariff agreement, was read at a public meeting of the economic commission in a small, sweltering committee room by Hen drikus Colijn of Holland. Colijn said he understood It was not proposed to open discussion of Hull's proposal and here therefore suggested that it merely be attached to the committee's report. NO RANSOM PAID FOR O'CONNELL BOY Albany, N. Y., July 21 (P) Break ing his silence for the first time Ed O Connell, uncle of John J. O' Connell, Jr., today sid a ransom had not been paid for the kidnaped boy. The elder O'Connell, democratic power up state, since the youth wai kidnaped two weeks ago has re fused to discuss the case with eithel authorities or the press. Today he answered a series of questions. He said the family had had no contact with the kidnapers beyond advertisements in Albany and New York papers. He believed the boy was sufe but that was based on "just a feeling." The present status of the abduc tion case, he declared, was one oi "waiting for news.'" 1 LINDBERGHS OFF FOR GREENLAND Halifax, N. S., July 21 UP) Slight ly more than two hours after they had taken off from Cartwright, Labrador, for Juliune-Haab, Green land, Col. and Mrs. Charles Lind bergh landed their plane at Hope dale, about 150 miles from Cart-" wright. A wireless from Belle Is land to the marine department here said they turned back because of fog. Cartwright, Labrador, July 21 (IP) Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh left here at 10:22 a. m. EDT., today, continuing their route mapping flight in the north. Their destination was understood to be Naln, 300 miles away. Thej had been held here since last weeJ by unfavorable weather. Lindbergh did not give out de inite information about his de tination. One report said he planned ; head straight for Greenland wife out stopping at Nam.