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Circulation Dally average distribu tion for the Month of June, 1034 9.853 average dally net paid 0383 Member Audit Bureau ol Circulations Joernal City Edition Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; little change In temperat ure; northweat wlnde. Local: Max. 70, min, 62; rain .08 In., river 3.6 ft. Overcast, nor thwesterly wind. 46th YEAR, No, 173 Enterrd u second claaa matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1934 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND MBW8 STANDS F1VB CENTS Ul iruu Cod C4 I POERS AHEE Ti EAT DEATHS EXCEED II IDLE WEST Temperatures Over 100 Prevail Throughout Drought Stricken Area Water Shortage Grows Acute Loss In Live stock Mounting Hourly (By the Associated Press) The third day of 100 plus tem peratures today boosted the toll of the country's intense heat wave to 188 deaths. To the list of 100 victims claimed by the sweltering heat of Thursday and Friday, the day added another 88. Scores more were prostrated. Twenty-eight were dead In Chi cago alone: Missouri's toll for the three days rose to 61; 25 "heat deaths" had been reported In Kan sas City. From Ohio to the southwest, the mercury boiled upward, again hit ting highs of 105 in Cincinnati, 108 in Defiance, O., and passing the 100 mark long before noon in the sun baked plains of the central states. In many cities, the day's read ings seemed likely to break long time July records and to outdo the highs set by Friday's blazing as sault. Before noon, the 100 mark had been passed in Ohio, where the day brought an unofficial reading of 108 degrees. Promised some re lief by Sunday, Iowa baked again In a temperature of 100. Other readings, as the mercury mounted, included: 99 degrees at (Concluded on pnge 9, column 0) ON MEDIATION Aboard the U.S.S. New Orleans, with President Roosevelt, July 21 (IP) President Roosevelt, aboard the UJS.S. Houston bound for Hawaii, Interrupted his vacationing . long enough to announce the appoint ment of the membership of the na. tlonal mediation board today. The board, created by amendment t the railway labor dispute act In the closing days of congress, Is in tended to be a supreme court of rail labor controversies. The presidential appointees are: William M. Lelserson, Yellow Springs, Ohio, for term ending February, 1936. James W. Commit, Washington, D. C, tor the term ending Feb ruary, 1936. John Carmody, now chief engin eer of the federal emergency re set administration, for the term ending February, 1936. The president also named Murray Latimer as chairman of the rail road retirement board created by s recent act of congress. Mr. Roose. telt has not received the recom. mendations ot the railroad labor executives and the Association of Railway Executives for members to represent them on the board. The president planned to address tlx crew of the Houston after Its inspection today. ' JOCKEY KILLED Seattle, July 31 VP) Plunging headlong from a race horse, An tone Lockhart. 20. a Jockey, was killed today at the Longacres track near Benton. His neck was broken. The coroner said the saddle girth .either slipped or broke while the Jockey was exercising a horse for H. W. Ray, Oregon sportsman who has a string at Longacres, Convict's True Story' Of Lindbergh Kidnaping Implicates Al Capone Joliet, IU., July 21 (U.R A convict in state prison turned over to Warden Frank B. Whipp today what he said was the "true story" of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping. He named rank Nash, slam in tne Kansas . City Union station massacre a year ago, and Al Capone, now In Atlanta prison, as the men behind the plot. The convict, John Pawelcsyk, said the kidnaping was planned to tree Capone, then In Jail at Chicago, fol lowing denial of his appeal from an Income tax conviction, At the time of the kidnaping, Ca pone offered to aid authorities In finding the child and said he had "friends" who could trace the kid napers. The information has been turned over to. federal authorities. It was learned. Pawelcsyk said he met Nash while both were so Leavenworth prison. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN If the vigilantes keep on their instant course it won't be long be fore the reds will be blue. Stop signs put at High and Liber ty streets on Mission are apt to be highly derogatory to business around here, based on past records hung up by those corners. Business Is apt to be hit at about tne loi- lowing ratio: Repair work for garages on bust ed cars reduced 50 per cent. Doctor and hospital Ices reduc ed 33 per cent. Attorneys' fees In damage actions cut 33 per cent. Ambulance lees cut -a per cent. Business for undertakers reduced 10 per cent. All of foregoing being based on the assumption that folks will stop their cars at said stop signs. One peculiarity about these two cor ners has been that generally when two cars were going through tne crossings at the same time some untoward Incident happened. But it will take a lot of excitement out of our life as hardly an evening has passed the last few years but we've been called out to view me remains at either one corner or another. SIZING UP THE SITUATION Says an editorial in the Klamath Herald: "It is difficult to decide whether to praise or condemn Gov ernor Meier for calling troops at this stage of the strike and prob ably no correct appraisal of this action can be made until It Is seen what the effects will be." Waif's finft.hnll team last evening took a licking at the hands of Mr. Pade's team Dy a score oi 99 in A Wo orp i-nnvlnreH that if a real lively ball game is to be seen Mr. wait's team snoma db pit ted against Mr. Turner's Portland Rpnvprfi fn ft rnntest to the death. The score sheet would probably show no hits, no runs, but gosn, tne errors. "w all have to admit, if we are honest, that there is a lot wo don't know about the strike," says Rod ney. Alden editorially speaking in his Woodburn Independent. This is about the strongest admission we've ever heard Rod make. It shows age calms down the heaviest Intellectual. Inii.. rwikn Hi mnvia piwmer X1I1 wiuawj, . Is the proud father of twins, and amply ame to proviue iu wicm. The. will get their pictures In the (..- ,U aomA n O If (h ln- efficient Stork, in accordance with well-estabiisnea Depression custuui, t.- lAff tVtan, at a hlHTH where the father had not worked for three years, and already naa seven cnuu ren." Art Perry In Medford Mail Tribune. We resent that there crack, Art, If you're trying to In- . , . J - Ilia timate we naven b wuracu wc past three years. A Judge in San Francisco has called down tne viguanies ior raw incr communists' Quarters. But, It must be admitted, the vigilantes are making this country seem more like the good old TJ. S. A. every day. GERARD SAILS BUT AVOIDS GERMANY T v4, T.,1 91 API TdmM W. Gerard, former ambassador to Ger many, sailed for Europe today on the Italian liner, Rex, announcing that he would carefully avoid Germ ans "because I don't want to get bumped off." Gerard has been one oi me sutler regime's severest critics. No trace was found aboard the Rex of Wil liam (Billy) Burgess, Cleveland pro moter who was reported enroute to PAiimfinia to orjerate a slot machine concession there. At that time, according to the story, he and Nash communicated by means of a code which later ap peared on a note left at the Lind bergh home. Pawelcsyk named as the actual kidnapers Nash, one Bob Bandvlch and a woman friend of the latter named only as "Tessie." Sandvlch, he said, killed the Llnd. bergh child with a blow over the head after a tire had blown out on their car and they had become pa nic stricken. According to the convict's story, Capone conceived the plot In a des- (Ocncluded on pase 9, column 9) CARSON SAYS HARBOR OPEN FOR SHIPPERS Removal of Freight On Docks Requested and Protection Promised Ballot Expected Sunday On Calling Off Long shoremen's Strike Portland, July 21 IP) A declar ation that the harbor has been opened: that those having freight on the wharves should remove It, and that "effective protection" will be given them if they do, was made here today by Mayor Joseph K. Carson. For the past ten weeks the marl time workers' strike has held the port ot Portland In virtual dead lock. Yesterday, with one thousand na tlonal guardsmen encamped within a lew minutes' run or tne city cen ter, cargo was worked on three ves sels and a caravan of tank trucks under police convoy relieved the gasoline drouth. . Today ships were being loaded or unloaded, and railroad tank cars, lull of gasoline or oil, were to be taken out of the huge terminal section at Llnnton for upstate emergency pools in farm areas. Eastern Oregon and Washington will get their share. Industrial plants outside the city will be sup. Dlied. There was no violence yesterday and none during the early morn Ing hours today, over tne naroor (Concluded on page 8, column 7) 200 PERISH IN VISTULA FLOOD Warsaw, Poland, July 21 (ZD More than 200 persons dead and damage estimated at about 200,. 000,000 were reported today as tne flood waters of the Vistula river reached the gates ot the presidential palace In Warsaw. The deaths and damage have oc curred during a full week of high waters. Now a flood wave from the Carpathian mountains menaces the Polish capital. The Vistula has risen to a level of 16 feet compared with Its normal 4-foot level and authorities said that It it rose above 19 feet the heart of the capital was In danger for the levees of the left bank are not ex pected to hold much longer. Police, soldiers, municipal work ers and civilian volunteers worked madly today In efforts to strengthen the embankments. Hundreds of boats and automo biles have been drafted. The streets of the suburb of Prager and the amusement center, Luna Park, are under water. Seven nearby villages are Inundated. Although the water Is receding In the provinces, the situation of the farmers Is reported desperate. The government Is taking all precautions to avert an epidemic. Steamers were unable to pass bridges because ot the Vistula's high stage. GALL EMERGENCY BOARD WEDNESDAY The meeting of the state emer gency board, tentatively set for next Tuesday, was called definitely to day for Wednesday, July 25, at the state capitol, beginning at 10 a. m. The announcement was received to day from Fred E. Kiddle ot Island City, chairman of the board. The board will consider emer gency appropriations estimated In excess of $100,000, for the Oregon national guard, the motor trans portation department, the depart ment of state for circuit Judges and the supreme court. The or iginal appropriation for the board was $150,000 of which less than $25,000 has been expended. AIMEE PRAYS FOR CORN CROP RAIN Fairfield, Ia July 21 VP) Aimee Semple McPhcrson Hutton, conducting a scries of evangelistic meetings here, today had made her prayers for rain. "Oh, Lord we pray If you save Iowa's corn crop,'" she said. "Bless the farmers of this community. Send them refreshing showers. Oh, God send rain and thy name shall have the glory." Charter Given To Home Loan Concern Here Advices from Washington state that Charter No. 431, Federal Sav ings & Loan association, has been granted to a group of Salem busi ness men and their associates Dy the federal home loan bank board. The new Institution will be known as the Salem Federal Savings & Loan association, and it is expected will be in operation within a very short time. Organization will be effected at a meeting of the orig inal shareholders with a represen tative of the Portland Home Loan bank Friday evenings, July 27. At that time directors will be elected and plans developed for operation. Officers will be named by the di rectors. The new Institution will be a member of the Portland Federal Home Loan bank and under its (Concluded on page 9, column 5) CONFESSES TO KILLING MUTE Seattle, July 21 (U1) First degree murder charges probably will be filed against J. H. Hendrikx fol lowing his confession that he killed Mrs. Ruby Barton, deaf mute, with a flatiron In a fit of anger. The 49 year old Tacoma carpen ter, who forced his victim to marry him July 7 although she was legal ly wed to another man, wept bit terly after the confession. "I got terribly, terribly mad and I killed her," Captain of Detectives Ernest Yoris said Hendrikx told him after constant questioning. Mrs. Barton was apparently put ting on her coat with intention of escaping Hendrikx' fury when he killed her Monday night In the room'he had rented for her.. Muffled sounds, thumping and scuffling were heard by other oc cupants of the rooming house, which tallied with Hendrikx' story, Yoris said. Hendrikx walked to the bus de pot after the killing and left for Tacoma. Police arrested him there in a room with another woman early Friday. Mrs. Barton complained several days ago to police that Hendrikx was holding her In his Tacoma home and that she feared he would kill her. OLSON REMOVES LANGER'S STAFF Blsmark, N. D., July 21 VP) Be fore the state house of representa tives which took friendly steps to consider his Impeachment, William Langer, deposed governor, appear ed today, charged his conviction Dy a federal Jury was "political perse cution" and called for an investiga tlon of the events that led to his conviction. Blsmark, N. D., July 21 (IP) Act ing Governor Ole H. Olson, struck again today at William H. Langer, suspended governor whose seat he took, by removing Langer's, princi pal appointees from office. Olson signed orders for removal of Langer's two key men. State Regulatory Director Stephen Ter horst, Mlnot farmer, and Highway Commissioner Frank A. Vogel. He appointed Sidney Papke, Grand Forks, to head the regulatory department and named Bert M. Salisbury, now district court clerk at Minneaukan, as Vogel's succes sor. Vogel declared he would not turn over the highway department's af fairs to Salisbury without "some sort of checkup so I can have a clean bill." ASTORIA TROOPS BACK AT CLATSOP Astoria, Ore, July 21 VP) A detail of twelve national guardsmen from the Astoria company, which accom. panted three carloads of equipment to Portland Friday, returned last night and the company now Is stationed at Camp Clatsop where guard lines have been established around the warehouses and supply depot. ' Equipment taVen from the camp yesterday for Camp Withycombe In Clackamas county, consisted In the most part of large pyramidal squad tents. Part of the longshore delegation of 60 which left for Portland yes terday morning returned last night. About 30 remained In Portland. The situation remained peaceful on the Astoria waterfront, although longshoremen became excited over a report that an attempt was to be made to load lumber on a Norwe gian ship at Warrcnton. MARTIAL LAW THREATENED IN MilEAPOLIS 4000 Troops Massed For Action Where Yes terday's Riot Occurred Truck Drivers Appeal for General Strike Told To Return by Monday Minneapolis, July 21 (IP) A tern., porary truce until Monday at least was agreed on by the employers in the Minneapolis truck drivers' strike today the Rev. Francis Haas, federal mediator, announced. Minneapolis, July 21 (IP) Fearing new riots in the blood spattered city market section, Governor Floyd B. Olson today threatened to place Minneapolis under martial law. More than 4,000 national guards men under command of AdJt. Gen. E. A. Walsh were massed In bar racks within stone's throw of the spot where 49 striking truck drivers and passing pedestrians were shot yesterday by police. Muttering groups of union men congregated around the district, but avoided hostilities. Governor Olson caustically criti cized the part police played in the brief but furious clash and said martial law might be necessary to enforce a "rule of reason." "The blood of those wounded and dying is upon the heads of the men who brought about the breaking oi a truce premised me," Olson said. "I am prepared to take over mili tary control of the city at any time. "That means martial law, with police and sheriff subject to direc- (Concluded on page 9, column 7) FOREST SHELTER BELT ORDERED Washington, July 21 VP) Secre tary Wallace announced today that work would begin Immediately on a $75,000,000 project to plant a forest shelter belt 100 miles wide extend ing from the Canadian border to Texas. President Roosevelt In an execu tive order signed July 11 and releas ed today, allocated $15,000,000 of emergency funds to begin work. The shelter belt, which will ex tend more than 1,000 miles through North Dakota, South Dakota, Neb raska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and into the Texas panhandle, will be de signed to furnish permanent alley. latlon of drought conditions through tne midwest. The area affected. will be approx imately 20,000,000 acres, ot which about 1,820,000 acres will be planted to trees. According to the plans outlined by F. A. Silcox, chief forester, wind breaks about seven rods wide run. nlng north and south will be plant ed one mile apart, making approxi mately 100 parallel windbreaks across the 100-mlle wide belt, SERIOUS DAMAGE IN PANAMA QUAKE Port Armuciles, Panama, July 21 (Vlo Tropical Radio to UP) A vlo. lent earthquake occurred here at 4:55 a. m., (C.S.T.) today, causing extensive property damage. Early reports indicated no one was seriously hurt. About 10 houses were partly ruin ed. The United Fruit company's doc: was practically destroyed. Three banana conveyors which transfer the fruit from the dock to ships, were wrecked. Port Armuelles, on the Pacific side of Panama, has about 1,000 In habitants, mostly employes of the United Fruit company. It Is the company's principal port In that section for the shipment of bananas northward from the Chlriqul plantations. FOREST FIRE RAGING IN MODOC FOREST Klamath Falls, July 21 VP) The worst forest fire In several years was reported burning today In Modoc national forest east of WU- lowranch In northern California. Communications from Alturas said the old Zambnnl mill had been destroyed and the flames were threatening the crane creek mm ber company holdings. Three hundred men are fighting the blaze. COMPANY RENEWS OFFER TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE FILTER Blame for Odor and Taste in Water Laid Upon Council's Refusal To Permit Completion of Purification Plant; Protection Against Loss On Investment Only Condition Ey HARRY N. CRAIN A prospect of permanently correcting the condition which at present finds the city water supply contaminated with an unwholesome odor and taste, without obligating the city to any impracticable expenditure of capital, lies in the reiterated offer of officials of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company to proceed with needed improvements to its supply. filtration and distribution system upon either one or two conditions. Referring to the report of the Oregon State board of health that "if a modern water purification plant were constructed to treat the Willamette river water at Salem, a safe and palatable water could be produced at all times," company of ficials again informed the Capital Journal that they are ready to go ahead with the necessary improve ments, if The city will abandon proceedings for municipal condemnation or ac quisition by other means of the com pany's properties here, or: II the council will give to tne com pany adequate assurance that, a (Concluded on page 8, column 4) SHINGLE PACT WITH CANADA Washington, July 21 Cana dian red cedar shingle producers and the NRA have reached an agreement, it was learned authori tatively- -today, - under which 11 ports of Canadian shingles to this country will be voluntarily limited to a stipulated percentage of do mestic consumption. Oregon and Washington shingle producers registered a complaint against unrestricted imports of Canadian shingles, duty free, to President Roosevelt. Under his In struction the tariff commission held hearings as a result of which definite recommendations concern ing shingle Imports were made to the national recovery anmmistra tlon. NRA officials and representatives of the British Columbia shingle pro ducers, on the basis of those re commendations now have signed an agreement limiting exports. The limitation figure was not made public but is understood to be a compromise between the 20 per cent suggested by Americans, and the 37 per cent desired by Canadians, on the basis of aver age Imports from Canada during the past five years. The agreement is similar to the agreement between NRA and Jap anese producers limiting imports of pencils and rugsirom Japan, JAMES A. FARLEY TO ' TALK IN PORTLAND Portland, July 21 VP) James A. Farley, postmaster general and chairman of the democratic tlonal committee, will deliver address here next Tuesday evening at a public banquet in Multnomah hotel, It was announced today by Carl C. Donaugh, chairman of the state committee. Donaugh had a telephone conver sation with Farley in San Francisco today and said the postmaster gen. eral told him he would be glad to speak the national administration at the banquet here. Farley wll reach Portland at 3:45 p. m Tuesday by train, and will leave at 11:30 for Seattle. The ban quet at the Multnomah hotel will start at 6:30 p. m. Donaugh said arrangements are being made for more than 700 persons, and a large up-state delegation Is expected. Upon reaching Portland Farley and his party will be taken to the site of Bonneville dam in which Farley has expressed much Inter est, SOYIET SENTENCES 5 MENTO DEATH Leningrad, July 21 (IP) In a vig orous effort to wipe out wave of brutality and publlo disorder, the Soviet court today sentenced five men to death and handed down prl son sentences to 51 others, on charg es of public violence. Only one of 67 prisoners was ac quitted. The group was charged with raiding workers' clubs, beating and stabbing the members. The raids took place apparently without reas on except possible class prejudice. According to the press, the group was composed chiefly of Rons of Ku laks and other declassed persons, al though It Included "a few mlsguld. cd workers." RAIDS ON REDS San Francisco. July 21 (IP) Raids, both legal and extra-legal, on al leged communists continued last night and early today in various parts of California. In San Francisco G5 more su spects were arrested over night and held on vagrancy charges. In Stockton, 75 miles away, 500 citizens wrecked a communist head quarters. One arrest was made there. The Stockton raiding party or iginally numbered about 70 and formed at the civic memorial audi torium, prepared to break up a com munist meeting in the court house square. Each of the 70 members of the crowd carried two foot clubs. Police spoiled the plan to raid the meeting, however, when they ar rived first and broke it up. The raiding party then moved to ward communist headquarters, its number growing each block until fully 500 were in the crowd. The communists gathered there. fled. The party completely wrecked the meeting place, which formerly wns a United Brethren church. The windows were broken and furniture demolished. At Sacramento a large crowd of alleged communists was rounded up by police but when officers ques tioned them for possible deporta tion they found only two aliens in the group, both Chinese. PEACE RULES SEATTLE PIERS Seattle, July 21 (IP) Departure of the American Mall liner Presi dent Grant for the Orient was held up today by collector of customs Saul Haas on grounds that the ves sel was Inadequately - manned. The liner was scheduled to leave at 11 a.m. for the Orient with a full passenger list and capacity cargo as the first passenger ship to sail from the port since early May, Haas also held up sailing of tho McCormlck line freighter West Cactus for South America for the same reason. The President Grant ordinarily carries 19 able seamen, but only had eight aboard when Haas acted, "Two of the seamen aboard did not even know lifeboat drill; one didn't know the port from starboard and several were college boys," Haas said. Seattle, July 21 (LP) In complete control of waterfront activities, no- lice prepared to post extra details when the first American passenger snip sails from Seattle since early May today. The Americn mall liner President Grant was scheduled to depart for the Orient with a full list of pas scngers and cargo at 11 a. m. Police and special deputies were (Concluded on pngo 8, column 1) Statistics On Crime In Marion County Show Burglary Leads Out of 96 defendants sentenced in Marion circuit court in 1933, 47 were paroled or given suspended sentences, 42 sentenced to the state penitentiary and sent to serve their sentences. Six were sent to Jail and one fined. These figures are from a census Just completed by County Clerk Boyer for the department of commerce at the instance ot the state police who were asked to se cure the statistics. A total of 112 defendants were up before the court. Ot these 105 were new cases and seven old cases. Four were dismissed on motion ot the prosecution, three were acquitted after Jury trials, two were trans ferred to other courts or found In sane. 1 Out of tho totol 91 pleaded guilty to tho offenses charged against them and four were convicted after TO ARBITRATE ALL QUESTIONS Proposal Contingent! Upon Longshoremen's! Doing The Same Maritime Unions Asked To Select Responsibly Representatives San Francisco, July 21 VP) The! waterfront employers today an nounced a plan for arbitration to? settle the maritime strike, on con dltion the longshoremen's unioni should vote to submit all differ ences to mediation by the presl dent's labor disputes board. Thomas G. Plant, representing; the waterfront employers, announc ed the employers were willing to) submit the question of the hiring halls or employment agencies to arbitration, so far as the longshore men are concerned. Heretofore the question of whe ther the longshoremen or the em ploycrs should control the employ ment agencies has proved a stum bling block to bringing the long shoremen and employers together for arbitration. "We are willing and have been willing to submit all points, in cluding the hiring halls problem, (Concluded on ptwo 8, column 6) HULL TO TALS RUSSIAN DEBT Washington, July 21 VP) Rus sian-American debt negotiations which have reached a stalemate In Moscow will be transferred to Washington next week. Announcement that the negotia tions will hereafter be conducted by Secretary of State Hull, Assistant Secretary of State Moore, and Alexander Troyanovsky, the Soviet ambassador, was made by the de partment following a visit from Troyanovsky. The negotiations were started be tween William C. Bullitt, the Amer ican ambassador, and Maxim Lit vlnoff, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, immediately after Bullitt went to Moscow seven months ago. Litvlnoff has been forced to de vote considerable time to European and Asiatic affairs, however, and has been unable to carry on un interrupted discussions with Bul llt. Negotiations there reached an . Impasse several weeks ago. WITHDRAWAL OF f GUARD UNDERWAY San Francisco, July 21 (IP) With, drawal of troops from the San Fran. Cisco bay area was begun today at tre teamsters returned to work and ' there were definite Indications that all strikes now in progress would be ended soon. Between 2500 and 3000 of the 4206 troops on strike duty will be with drawn In the first movement. The reduction of forces mobilised here was approved by Adjutant Gen eral Beth Howard and carried out under the orders ot Major General David P. Barrows, The 164th infantry, 185th Infant ry, 160th infantry and 40th tank corps will be the first to leave. trial by Jury. In one ease the Jury round the defendant guilty of a lesser offense than that with which he was charged. Seven cases are still pending for further considera tion. The statistics gathered show that burglary led all other crimes, there being 25 up for burglary with 24 of them receiving sentences, 20 going to the penitentiary and four were paroled with one still undisposed of. The next In line la larceny, and this really leads burglary but under the census blanks provided this crime Is segregated Into larceny and icdncludcd"6n "poko 9. coiumn4T"
