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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1933)
G apitalJWoiimal 1L "mnflrrr CITY EDITION Oregon: Fair but with fogs on coast tonight and Thursday; war mer east portion; changeable winds. Local: Max. 97; Mln. 50; rain 0; river -2.8; clear, variable winds. PRICE THREE CENTS SSJIVJS? 5th YEAR, No. 200 r.S SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933- The Capital -N R. A, Journal Subscribes ' to President X 4r . Roosevelt's 3Sgr' Program P WI DO oua PAJTT FnfcDf? ?nfpulcirl?) REHl EAST SEABOARD BEING RACKED BY HURRICANE Violent Storm Twisting Up A 1 1 a n t i c Coast Wrecking Shipping Two SOS Calls Sent Out By Liner Madison With 90 Aboard Washington, Aug. 23 (Pi A vio lent storm, described variously by naval and weather bureau officials as of "hurricane" or near hurri cane intensity, was reported by the bureau today to be sweeping in land from the Virginia capes on a generally northwesterly course. Bureau officials estimated if the storm, which weaved a sinuous, shifting, snake like course as it came up from the south, main tained its present northwesterly di rection It would pass over the na tional capital before nightfall. Although it left a trail of dis tressed shipping in its wake, wea ther bureau officials were of the oDlnion that its force would be con siderably dissipated when it moved inland. Nevertheless. R. H. Weightman, weather bureau forecaster, said the storm, which early today battered against the Virginia coast, had done the unusual for a disturbance orig lnaUngmetropJlbystr (Concluded on pnge 8, column 7) BOY SCOUTS TO SEE ROOSEVELT Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 23 (LP) President Roosevelt took a recess from his work on the International disarmament situation and the do mestic recovery program today and visited a Boy Scout camp. He planned to complete before dusk his trip to the camp 80 miles from the summer White House. He will observe New York City youths enjoying a camp life he him self made possible. Mr. Roosevelt, while head of the New York state Boy Scout founda tion, led the movement for the establishment of recreational ac tivities of the youths of crowded cities. He planned to have lunch con with the directors and deliver a brief address to the personnel. If time permits, the president was expected to review his disarmament discussions yesterday with Norman H. Davis, chief of the American delegation to the Geneva confer ence. Davis came here to receive his final instructions before returning abroad to conduct negotiations pre liminary to the reconvening of the conference October 16. MOTT WIRES FOR CHEMAWA ACTION In an effort to halt what appears to be a series of "buck passing" between the director of the bud get and the secretary of Indian af fairs, Congressman James W. Mott Wednesday morning telegraphed President Roosevelt asking for his early favorable intercession in con nection with the Salem Indian school at Chemawa. Action is deem ed necessary as the school Is sche duled to open for tne'fall term In about three weeks. Continuation for the present on the 300-student basis Is authorized, U... --nn-rlfnn in a telPBrflm reCelV- cd recently, the budget director has rejected the proposal iur an larged school. Congressman Mctt ... n,.tcaH thnt Rpcretarv Ickes had taken the matter back to the president, but no formal action nas been forthcoming. ATTEMPT TO UNIONIZE FORD MOTOR PLANT t-n.--b. w t Anir m UP) An at tempt to unionize the Ford Motor company plant at Edgewater was launched today with at least partial success indicated. AftA- en son of the 2000 em ployes at the plant had listened to three American rrawawuu u bor organizers here last night, it was announced that about 75 percent had signed union pledges. Tribute was paid to the organiz ing genius In industry of Henry Ford who Is an open shop advocate. The workers were reminded that under section 7 of the NRA blanket code, the right of employes to or ganize without fear of losing their Jobs Is recognized. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN "Astoria Plans $80,000 Brewery," says Capital Journal headline. What, Just after being advised the American Legion convention will be held there next year? Elk tags have been received by the county clerk. A hunter is per mitted to kill only one buck elk with two points or more. A three point two elk is just elk's milk. MAYBE THE DIP WAS HIS WIFE Stockton, Cal., (A1) Chief of Po lice E. W. Gaddy of Turlock is con vinced that pickpockets plied their trade during the melon carnival in Turlock. After many people had complained of pocket thefts, officers here were told, Chiei oaaciy visit ed the carnival to make a personal investigation. In one pocket he car ried a bulgy wallet in which he placed a note reading "Did you ever get fooled?" After spending an hour on the grounds he returned to the office with the wallet still in his pocket, but his associates revealed that on opening it he found a different note saying: "Quit your maaing." George Graves qualified for champion straw hat roller yester day afternoon. His straw hat blew off near State and Liberty streets and rolled fulh half a block on the edge of its rim Deiore oemg scoop ed up by a star infielder, name not learned. Rye advanced to a high point on the Chicago market yesterday. Bourbon is understood to have fol lowed suit. Maybe a reaction to returns from the election announc ing that Whiskey Hill planned to retain its name. ThR Willamette Valllev Cherry Growers association under Bob Shinn has maintained a large force of people pitting cherries in the Espee warehouse and intends to lrin tin t-.hn anoA work until the first of the year. It seems the cherries arc more to be pitted than censurca. Young Jimmy Nicholson, the world's greatest junior ball player, and the Woodburn junior giants will turn loose again tomorrow at Toreka. Listen, woodburn io.ks. We'd rather see your team win that ball game than get a whole crate of the mammoth berries your Doc Gerald Smith brines up to us every year. Dogged if that isn't showing an interest in your old ball game. A couple of banty roosters out in the yard about 4 a. m., ought to help in curing these cases of sleeping sicKness. The NRA Is going into the movies. We knew they'd have to drag the old sex appeal into it somewhere. IRELAND DECREES BLUE SHIRT BAN Dublin, Aug. 23 W) General Eoln OTJuffy left the fate of his national guard up to the "verdict of the peo ple" today after the government had banned the recently organized blue shirts. When proscrpitlon was first prom ised because the guardsmen defied a decree forbidding parades in uni form, General O'Duffy said his mil itary organization would not dis solve, but when he learned last night that It was proclaimed Illegal, he declared: "I have nothing to .say except that the national guard awaits the ver dict of the people." Unless they resign, the blue shirts will be liable to arraignment by a military tribunal re-established by the government to act under the drastic public safety act. The tri bunal can levy any punishment in eluding the death sentence. Drop Suit Against Cannery For Polution Of Willamette Water Voluntary nonsuit has been taken by the plaintiff in the $24,000 damage action of Eva Palmerton against Hunt broth ers cannery and Judge Lcwellinff has signed an order of dis missal based on the action 01 ine Dlnlntiff. The damage action was for al leged pollution of the WiUamette riTer by Hunt brothers cannery In dumping its waste from the can nery fruits and berries into the river. The plaintiff operates a re sort on the river at Spong's land ing below the cannery and she de clared In her complaint that this made the river unfit for boating and swimming and as a result she had been materially damaged. In her original complaint filed December 12. 1931 she charged $2,000 damages and $10,000 In loss of profits from the spring of 1930 until filing the complaint. The case was set to RADIO PRIEST GRILLS HOOVER BANK POLICE Coughlin Says Gold Pour ed In At Top, People At Bottom Died Attacks Philosophy. But Not Personality of Ex President Detroit, Aug. 23 (IP) The policies of former President Hoover were criticized by the Rev. Pr. Charles E. Coughlin today before the grand jury investigating Detroit bank failures. "There was corn for the pigs of Arkansas," the radio priest shouted, "but not one loaf of bread for the starving people -of Michigan." 'The trouble with the Hoover philosophy is that he tried to cure the damnable depression by pouring gold in at the top while people died at the bottom." Father Coughlin read at length excerpts from an article- he said was written by Mr. Hoover in 1912 for the Mining Magazine, an Eng lish publication. It was entitled ths "economies of a boom." The article explained steps for organiz ing a mining company capitalized at $5,000,000. A half million dol lars would be required to sink the mine, $25,000 to organize a board of directors and $75,000 to pay off stock brokers. Then, the article stated, the company was ready to be capitalized for $5,000,000. V 'lt is .quite possible,' Pr. Coughlin read. " 'that the blank (Concluded on page 8, column 8) T FILBERT CODE With all elements of the filbert industry at the state represented at a meeting of growers and packers here today a national stabilization agreement for the industry was ap proved for presentation to the sec retary of agriculture. The code drafted covers fair practices only under the agricultural adjustment act, explained Arthur A. Goldsmith, co-oporativc attorney of Portland who drafted the agreement, and in no manner touches on labor claus es or conditions of labor which come under the industrial recovery act. Under the fair practices code unanimously agreed to provision is made for a control board to con sist of two representatives of the North Pacific Nut Growers Co-operative, one representative of the Oregon Nut Growers Co-operative, one from the Eugene growers' as sociation and one representing the independent growers and packers. One of the principal objects of the control board, 'the attorney ex plained, is to determine fair min imum prices but it in line with the code will also labor to eliminate unfair practices within the industry. The agreement adopted also will contain a list of grades and packs and the attorney stated when ap proved will be binding on all pack ers of filberts. R. A. Duncan, executive vice pres ident of the North Pacific Nut Growers, presided at today's meet ing. Inasmuch as Oregon Is consider ed virtually the only filbert grow ing section of importance in the United States the code covers the industry nationally. come for trial in the next few days and she filed a supplemental com plaint recently in which she alleged another $12,000 in damages on the sam basis from the time of filing the original complaint to the time of filing the supplemental com plaint. The cannery In its defense of the case declared that its dumping of waste In the river was reasonable, that it and other canneries did the same, that it had been doing it since 1914 and had gained a lawful use of the river for that purpose by adverse user. It declnred it would be impossible forjhe canner "Conciudedonpagee, column 3j Legion Team Of Woodburn Held In Kansas Topeka. Kas Aug. 23 ft Youth ful baseball players, composing six teams which won their respective regional championships, assembled here today in preparation for the western sectional tournament open ing tomorrow, the winner of which will meet the eastern champions later at New Orleans for the na tional American Legion baseball ti tle. The six teams which will compete for the western sectional title here are those from Woodburn, Ore., Par- go, N. D., Ada, Okla., Chicago, Lou isville, Colo., and Stockton, Cal. Drawings for the pairings are to be made tonight. Two teams will draw byes and will not play until "(Concluded on pnge 8, column 7) TO REPEL NAZI (Copyright, 1933. by United Prcsi) Vienna. Auir. 23 (LP) Austria pre Dared an army of 1,000 picked sharpshooters today which is to be sent to the German frontier in fear of an attack by exiled Nazis, work- ins in cooperation with Hitler storm troopers. The frontier already is heavily guarded. Military Intelligence reports that the Nazis planned a series of bord er raids, and perhaps an invasion in force, earlv in September, caused Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss to order the new force of two battal ions of the Hcimwehr to prepare for action. This development emphasized the tension between Germany and Aus tria over the Nazi or fascist problem which lias brought increasingly bit ter enmity between the governments which were allies during the" World war. European powers were considering the addition of 8,000 men to the mil itary forces allowed Austria under the St. Germain treaty. It was hoped the men would be ready to go to the border early in September, after they have been organized and instructed in special duties. Authorities want the new men to serve a double purpose. In add! tion to being frontier guardsmen, they are intended to be a medium for increasing the morale of the present frontier forces, chiefly Ty roleans and Salzburgians, by im pressing upon them that they are defending Austria as a whole in re pelling Nazi attacks not the Tyrol alone and hence that eastern and southern Austria are ready to do their shares of any fighting. PRICE AT SALE Portland, Aug. 23 (A1) Properties of the Umpqua Mills and Timber company in southern Oregon will be re-advertised for sale, it was said here today by Federal Judge John H. McNary, who yesterday ruled that the upset price of $800,- 000 fixed on the properties at the time he ordered a decree of mort gage foreclosure, will not be dis turbed. Judge McNary denied a motion of attorneys representing the Conti nental National Bank & Trust com pany of Chicago, holder of the mortgage. No bidders appeared at a recent sale conducted in Roscburg by Clarence Knox, deputy United States marshal. "Right now, when we are on the upgrade," Judge McNary said, "It would be a bad policy to change the upset price. If we sold for the price of the mortgage, unsecured credit ors would recive nothing. The de mand for lumber Is increasing daily and there is more opportunity to get a favorable bid now than there was at the other sale." J. O. Elrod, president of the Ump qua Mills & Timber company, de clared in an affidavit under this mortgage has an actual value today 01 from $1,800,000 to $2,000,000, ap proximately three times the amount of indebtedness due the plainlifl." LINDBERGHS HOP OFF FOR FAROES ISLAND Copenhagen, Aug. 23 CP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife landed this evening at Tvcraa In the Faroe Islands, completing a (light from Iceland. Eskifjord, Iceland, Aug. 23 (LP) Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh left at 7:40 a.m. E.D.T., today, on the eastward route to Europe. Their Immediate destination was the Far oes Islands, north of the Shetland.!, but their plans beyond that point are Indefinite. DRAFTING COAL CODE ABSORBS NRAENERG1ES Roosevelt and Johnson Keeping Tab on De velopments Seamen Present Greiv- ances Dress Industry Hearings Begin Washington, Aur. 23 UP) The ser ious problem of shaping a final code of fair practice for bituminous coal again today overshadowed manifold activities of the recovery adminis tration, but the only word on pro gress was that a "break might come any time," and that not only admin istrator Hugh S. Johnson but Pre sident Roosevelt himself was keep ing constant tab on developments. This word came from deputy ad ministrator Kenneth M. Simpson, who handled the coal hearing. While the coal conferences went on privately between officials, oper ators and labor leaders in separate offices, factions of retail trade be gan airing animosities In public hearings, advocating suppression of forms of competition denounced by witnesses as unfair. A group of se nen representing the marine workers industrial union and headed by A. H. uones of Balti more, arrived at the office of John son to present a demand for a code for ship crews, long shoremen and harbor workers. . After consultation outside johif- son's office, four spokesmen for the 20 men who came presented (Concluded on page 0, column 4) UTILITY SLASHES RATES St. Louis, Aug. 23 (LP) The low est electric light rate in the United States was announced here today for St. Louis and vicinity by the Union Electric Light and Power company which made a voluntary rate reduction of (1,600,000. Rate cuts as high as 35 per cent for some users were included in the new schedule while average re duction for the city and county was 17.5 per cent, company offi cials said. Of the company's 309,000 custom ers, 289.000 of them will benefit by the reduced rate. St. Louis residents will receive the first 32 kilowatt hours under the new schedule at 5 cents an hour, the next 168 hours at 2,5 cents and all over 200 at 1.5 cents with a five per cent reduction for prompt pay ment. Louis E. Hogan, president of the company, said the reduction was made on the prospect of increased demand of electricity which the company was confident will accom pany the nation s economic recov ery. CONTRACT CARRIERS ONLY ONES EFFECTED Circuit Judge Lcwelling here to day from Albany stated he is pre paring his decree in the case of A. C. Anderson against C. M. Thom as, public utilities commissioner, and in the decree wculd set out specifically the sections of the state truck and bus law which he has de clared Invalid and which the utili ties commissioner will be enjoined from enforcing. He expected to have the decree prepared tonight or tomorrow for filing. While not stating what the de cree would contain he intimated from the reading of his memor andum that invalidation of the act would extend only to contract car riers Involved in the timber indus try. His recent memorandum opinion overruled a demurrer interposed to the complaint. Defendants refused to plead further and consequently the court is preparing his decree from which appeal will probably be taken. Under his recent memorandum opinion he held that there was no factual difference between a con tract carrier hauling a log or an other hauling the same log cut Into shingles, shooks or some other tim ber product. NO HEAT RELIEF Portland, Aug. 23 P Continued warm weather was forecast for the Portland area today, and no hope of immediate relief from the new est hot spell was in sight. Tues day's maximum of 92 degrees fol lowed a pleasant 73 on Sunday. EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE HERE APPEARS PROBABLE Necessity of Providing Upon by Governor and Advisers, But Peo ple Must Show Willingness To Support Method of Financing; Sales Tax Advocated By HARRY N. CRAIN If anS when Governor Julius L. Meier, his advisors, le gislative leaders and relief officials can devise a plan for fi nancing relief for the unemployed in Oregon that will have some assurance of being acceptable to the electorate the gov ernor will summon the legislature into extraordinary session to enact sucn a program into law. But (here will be no special ses- slon if It appears that the people will not stand behind the lawmak ers, or that the program of emer gency financing devised at such a session is to be defeated at the polls. Governor Meier made these points distinctly clear at a conference with state and federal relief officials, public works administrators, NRA directors, highway commission rep resentatives and legislators held In Portland yesterday afternoon. Obvi ously disturbed by the prospect that from 100,000 to 120,000 people In Oregon will be dependent upon the state and other agencies for food, clothing and shelter during the (Concluded on page 9, column 6) T AIDS STRIKERS Philadelphia, Aug. 23 (LP) Strik ers In the textile, radio, leather and baking Industries were enlivened today by the warning of Mrs. Glf- ford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania's governor, -that the --"nation would be In a bad way If workers didn't have nerve enough to fight for their rights." Hailed as a "red-coated champion of labor," Mrs. Pinchot rushed from one striking plant to another, and also found time to address several unions at their headquarters well as the American Federation of Pull Fashioned Hosiery Workers in annual convention at the Kit tenhouse hotel. "The state has become conscious of the fact that the burden of the depression was being placed on the shoulders of the workers," she told the hosiery delegates. "I am glad I had a part in making the psople of the state conscious of sweatshop conditions. "We need employment Insurance so that when a skilled worker loses his job, through no fault of his own, he may be guaranteed some measure of help. When the pick-up began, big business wanted to take all the profits for itself. The NRA has put the full power of the law behind the workers. PERSIAN LOVE NOTES DEADLY WEAPONS Los Angeles, Aug. 23 (LP) A Per sion love letter written 4000 B.C., may have read, "Baby, you're the light of my life," but it also served a more utilitarian purpose. The next time an unwelcome suit or called, the writer's sweetheart may have wedged the note firmly about his ears, according to Prof A. F. W. Jackson of Columbia uni versity. Persian love letters were written on soft clay and then baked into tile, thus forming a lethal weapon, Jackson caid. Jackson, who made seven expe ditions into Persia as a noted auth ority on Indo-Iranian languages, arrived here from New York by steamer for a vacation. Radio Dealers Adopt Fair Trade Code Along With Other Industries Radio dealers of the city elected officers for a six months term Tuesday night with Fred Kist, president; Louis Du Buy, vice-president; Lloyd Rodgcrs, secretary and William Garvin, treasurer. The ouicjai name will be the Salem Radio Trades association with a majority of the local dealers represented. A general code was adopted with min or changes to be made by a special committee. All dealers are urged to attend another meeting at the chamber of commerce rooms Friday evening at 8 o'clock at which time the proposed code will be discussed and action taken. Effective Wednesday morning the Salem Box company Is operating under the code, with a 7-hour day except Saturday, when the hours are reduced to five. A night crew is being added due to an increase In business with the payroll nearly Belief Funds Agreed Portland, Aug. 23 (Adoption by the several Interests involved of a wheat marketing code for the Pa cific northwest, was announced here today by Douglas Mclntyre of the federal agricultural adjustment ad ministration. Producers, exporters, millers and bankers, Mclntyre said, have en dorsed the agreement under which it is expected a forty million bushel wheat surplus will be exported on a federal subsidy plan. Final drafting of the agreement for signature by the various inter' csts, preliminary to approval by the secretary of agriculture, was under- taken at once. The sub-committee of four appointed by the general executive committee yesterday, worked into the early morning hours ironing out differences and adjusting terms. It was expected that the code, as finally drafted, would be -ready for presentation to the lull committee late today. The committee which brought the agreement into its final form In cluded F. B. Burke of Sperry Flour ing mills, San Francisco; A. E. Sut ton of Portland, representing ex porters: F. J. Wilmer of Rosalie, Wash., representing producers, and Herbert V. Alward, manager of the Portland branch of the Bank of California, representing bankers. 23,522 SIGNERS Fl Portland, Aug. 23 (LP) Blue Eagle code signers in the Oregon-Idaho district numbered 23,522 today Frank Messenger, department of commerce district manager, an nounced at Portland NRA head quarters. Approximately 500 employers sign the code daily, he said "The total number of employes affected by the blanket agreement fixing wages and hours is 82,841 Messenger said, estimating thai at least 20,000 u nem ployed have re turned to work In the two states since July 15. Will Simon, chairman of the Ida ho state recovery board, said to day that a survey showed nearly 1,000 unemployed had secured work in the Boise district within the past 10 days. Simon told Messenger that 10,000 additional men would go back to work within two weeks in Idaho. August 28 is the date set for NRA forces In the two stntes to begin their "deadline week" drive to place blue eagles in every business house and the consumer's blue eagle card in every home. Mass meetings have been sched uled for Friday in Corvallis, Ore. and for Monday, in The Dalles, to promote the deadline week cam paign. doubled to take care of the work According to John 8. Fricsen, man ager, the change means a 37 per cent increase in operating costs. Demand for box shooks Is the cause of the Increased business. A fair competition code was adopted Tuesday night by the 8a lem Shoe Repairers' association, of which V. E. Kuhn is president. AH but one local shop has agreed to its provisions, which sets a price list, working hours and wages slm ilar to that in effect In other north western cities. Regulations were explained to group of real estate dealers, with "(Concluded on pnge 0, column 7) WILSON RIVER BLAZE EXTENDS FLAMING AREA C.C.C. Camps Evacuated As Men Escape to! Safety 350 Square Miles of Ever green Forests Burn Loss Totals Millions Portland, Ore., Aug. 23 (P) Roll ing through millions of dollars worth of Evergreen forests In un controllable billows, the giant for est fire in the north Oregon coast sector burned savagely today while 2.000 men who have been waging an unrelenting battle, could do lit tle more than flee to safety. The danger area today formed a rough square with Cochran and McMinnvllle at the north and south, and Forest Grove and Tillamook at the east and west sides. In the north center or this 50- mile square section of mountain country about 350 square miles was In the actual fire district. The flames were stripping the finest of the virgin timber. Dense smoke and the extent of the burned wr ests made it impossible for fire of ficials to estimate the area ac tually destroyed. All outlvlnir civilian conservation corps camps and other fire-fighters' (Concluded on pnge 8, column 4) SMITH PLEADS N.R.A. PROGRAM New York, Aug. 23 (P) Alfred E. Smith Is In favor of full co operation by the country In Presi dent Roosevelt's NBA program. He said in a speech last night that If the plan cannot, In the na ture ofthings, accomplish the mll lenlum, "it has unquestionably re sulted to date in the increasing ol wages In many callings and in the employment of a large number of those who had become, or were about to become through no fault of their own, public charges." "This accomplishment alone," he said, "entitles the plan to further trial and full cooperation." "There are many," he said, "who honcstlv believe in other remedies. That Is not the point. There can be only one curt at a time ana me president must, like Luke In the Bible, be the great physician." Support of the program, he said, 'commits no one to a blanket ap proval of objectionable methods employed here and there In this campaign," He said "threats, Inti midation, compulsion, boycott, Blacklist and suppression of opin ion" have "no rightful place In th picture." HOME LOAN BANK DIRECTOR COMING Portland. Au. 23 W) Officials of the federal home loan bank board here, headquarters for Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho. Utah and Alaska, announced today mat representatives from communities in each suite will have an oppor tunity to confer here Friday and .Saturday with Prank A. Chase, di rector of field service for the fed eral organization. A survey of possibilities for estaD ILshiiie federal savings and loan as sociations in the various cltis of the five states and Alaska will be un dertaken by Chase who will arrive Friday from Washington, D. C. Any community wincn neeas ad equate homo financing may con sult with Chase, the directors here said. The government will match, dollar for dollar, any subscription offered bv any city, up to $100,000. Subscriptions by the cities are raised through investments by tho residents of those cities in con servative savings, installments thrift and full-paid shares of the federal savings and loan associa tions. PLAY MONEY GETS SENTENCE TO JAIL Portland. Ore., Aug. 23 & Albert Dale, 53, will have plenty of time to figure out whether he had $10 worth of fun. He was arrested on a vagrancy charge after police said he had tried to pass some imitation money at the rooming house. One of the "bills" was produced In court. It was marked "play money good for $10 In fun." Dale was senten ced to 15 days in jail.
