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A Weather Circulation Dally average distribution (or thi Month of February, 1635 10,751 Average dally net paid 10,000 Member Audit Bureau of Circula tion i Capital Unsettled tonight and Friday, oc casional rain or snow. Continued cold. Southwest winds. Local: Max. 44, min. 35. Rain .13 in. River 4.4 ft. Cloudy, southerly wind. 8 47th YTCAP Nil fiQ Entered second class ilin ILiAl., iNO. D matter st Salem. Oregon SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1935 PRU;E TH REE CENTS ZZ.Br$?S jo i ; mJomraal 1IF mm, Italy . -.: TWO CLASS B ' ONE A QUINT ELIMINATED Marshfield, Corvallis And Benson Capture Games Thursday Salem Facing Real Test In Clash With Columbia Preppers THURSDAY GAMES 3 p.m. Salem vs. Columbia. 14 p.m. Ashland vs. Jefferson. 7:30 p.m. Astoria vs. Klamath Falls 8 :30 p.m. McMlnnvlile vs. Oakridge. THURSDAY'S RESULTS La Grande 26. Marshfield 39. Umapine 16, Benson 47. Mill City 19, Corrallls 25. Two of the four "B" league en' trants and one Class A club went into the final discard Thursday morning as the second round of the 16th annual state high school bas ketball tournament got under way in Willamette university gym. Uma pine from Umatilla county and re. presenting the "B" class clubs of all of eastern Oregon, was eliminat ed by Benson Tech, 47 to 16, while (Concluded on page 14, column 6) MAlHslAlLED FOR CONTEMPT Klamath Falls, March 21 UP) J, iH. Driscoll, prominent Klamath Falls insurance man and pioneer, was sentenced to 60 davs in the county Jail and fined $100 here to. day by Judge Edward B. Ashurst for contempt of court. Driscoll was held in contempt when the Judge declared he had come to him to discuss a case pend ing In circuit court. In an affidavit filed today, Dris coll said he went to Ashurst's of. flee at the judge's request. He said that In the course of an informal business talk the conversation turn ed on the lawsuit. He denied any attempt to influence the court. HARLEM QUIET AFTER RIOTING New York, March 21 UP) Harlem breathed more easily today after nignt or comparative quiet, wnue iw merchants' association awaited Gov. ernor Herbert H. Lehman's reply to an appeal for troops to prevent fur- ther disorders. Roaming bands of negroes saulted white persons, smashed win dows and hurled rocks at automo biles in New York's great negro cen ter last night, but 500 police kept them on the run. The Harlem Merchants' assocta tlon told the governor the outbreak had been "long fomenting" but that local authorities had "done noth ing." With one person dead, three re. mained in a serious condition at the Harlem hospital, where 34 were on the injured list. Other scores had been hit by stones and clubs. Ten were shot. Officials agreed a radical organl- zation has started the trouble by spreading false reports that a negro boy had been beaten to death. Wallace Acts to Arrest Soaring Food Prices By Increasing Washington, March 21 hope today that bread prices and that soaring meat costs drought and a grain shortage, pre- saged by a gigantic dust storm gripping the middle west, compelled Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to remove all restriction on the 1935 production of spring wheat His announcement came amid na tional anxiety over rising food prices. The government, he said, owed a d'lty to consumers and could not take a chance on weather. Virtually all Important crop ad justment programs now provide for expansion of production this year The AAA has increased the allow ance for hogs by one-fifth above last year and the corn allowance Is one-eighth larger. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Where 1 Umapine?" This ques tion heard on every hand shows how a quintet of brawny boys can bring their home town Into the limelight to make a metropolis out . molehill. You ask us "wnere is Umapine?" Well, after all, where Umapine? But It's sure a great little basketball team that came out of nowhere. By the nne token op at Ai-i toria yesterday afternoon the only question heard about the main streets was, "where is Mill City?" Every fisherman, logger and cranberry picker on the Clatsop hills was getting out a pocket road map about the end of the second quarter to locate MiU City If all reports are true about the Hammond Lumber company, maybe in a few years everybody will be asking the same question. Going around the streets trying to talk business with folks during this basketball tournament is like trying to get a subscriber on a rural phone the next day after the com munity meeting. Bill Isaacs, haberdasher extra. ordinary from Medford, purveyor of gents' socks and zippered pants to the pear picking elite from the Rogue, is here on his annual never fail trip to the tournament. He got so used to coming up here with the Medford team he just came along anyway this year to watch the ghosts of great Medford teams of the past dance their way across the maple courts. Few Salem people know it, but Bill Isaacs is an in ternational figure. He's the "Hy1 Everdlng of Southern Oregon who engineered the historic trip when the late lamented Herbert Hoover caught a fish and refused to have his picture taken so the public could see. Its size. Oirr own Fred Lamport has also leaped Into the sports limelight. It has Just leaked out that on Fred's recent invasion of Palm springs he won the ping pong tournament down there against the best product of the movie colony and the New York millionaire tribe from the east. The most remarkable part of this achievement is that Fred did It nursing the remains of a busted collarbone and three equally busted ribs he picked up In his automobile accident. Efforts are being made for Fred to put on a public exhi bitlon at the New Salem ping pongery as soon as the high tide of basket ball furore ebbs a bit. Sam' Collard has made a bid for half membership in the F. T. & B. A. with all his uppers gone That's good, Sam, remember the old adage, well begun Is half done, A letter starting from here yes terday addressed to a party on "Morning Oregonian, Oregontam, came back to the sender for cor rected address. The old rag has changed so that even the post- office doesn't know where It without the "Portland" attached, If it had been addressed to the old "Telegram" probably it would have reached the Oregonian offices without a hitch. Seats at Willamette gymna sium will be a lot harder to the touch Saturday night than they were yesterday afternoon. Jackson, Miss., March 21 (A?) Ted Logan, 23, was released from Jail for 30 minutes yesterday to marry Miss Ruby Steadham. whom wooed and won from his cell. Ruby lives across the street from the bas- tile. Crop Quotas (U.R) Housewives had cause to will be held to reasonable levels will be checked. Menace of Crop acreage for this year, an other report of the department In dlcated. will generally be greater than In 1933 and 1934, The acreage, exclusive nf cotton, was estimated at 285,775,000 as compared wltlfl 244.485,000 last year. In the Chicago wheat pits where trading largely regulates the prices farmers receive and the millers pay for grain, his announcement evoked mixed reactions. Veteran LaSalle street traders conceded that its ultimate effect would be cheapen bread prices, but pointed clouds of Kansas dust awtrlln (Concluded oiTpage 16, oolumn 3) NDICT SEVEN FOR FRAUD IN PUBLICWORKS Engineers and Contrac tors Accused of Con spiracy To Defraud Officials of Hammond Lumber Company Are Among Those Named Washington, March 21 (LP) Seven prominent engineers' and contract ors were indicted today on charges of plotting to defraud the govern ment on a 14.853,000 Texas irriga tion project, the major scandal in the federal public works program. The indictment, returned by the first special federal grand jury called here since the Teapot Dome oil scandals of 10 years ago, named former high PWA official, tnree wealthy California lumbermen and three Texans. They were accused of conspiring to provide for use of 250 miles of California redwood pipe in the Wil lacy county, Texas, Irrigation pro ject which under plans originally by PWA called for use of no pipe at all Those Indicted: Col. Charles R. Olberg. discharged engineer examiner formerly in charge of PWA irrigation work and an internationally known engineer Harry W. Cole, San Francisco president of the California Redwood association and vice-president of the Hammond and. Little River Red wood company. Leonard C. Hammond, San Fran cisco, vice president of the Ham- (Concluded on page 4, column 4) SIMON HOPEFUL OF GERMAN AID fnfmvr1a.it hv Amtnciated Press) London, March 21 Sir John Si mon, foreign secretary, today told the house of commons that if he only can have a successful personal conference with Reichsfuehrer Hit' ler, the major powers of Europe, in cluding Germany, will be called Into a conference to create a new Eur opean security system. Mis declaration was made in the face of suggestions in unofficial cir cles that Germany's refusal to en tertain Italian and French protests made today might precipitate an other crisis In European relation ships before he can get to Berlin for his talks with Hitler next Mon day; The foreign secretary spoke to the legislator after George Lansbury, labor leader, had declared Germany had demanded the right to tear up the Versailles treaty and to embark on a policy of armament which "would inevitably lead to an arma ments race which must ultimately plunge us into war and the destruc tion of civilization." Sir John said he hoped soon to have "frank discussions with the chancellor of Germany." COUNT FINISHED IN MERRIAM RECALL Eugene. March 21 (LP) At least one election board in Lane county considered the recall of Rep. How ard Merriam by Townsend pension plan supporters, an expensive gcs lure. The county clerk received a note from the board at Heceta precinct on the seacoast, saying that its members did not want any pay for their services. The precinct voted 25 to 0 in favor of the recall. The complete count from all the county's 9S precincts was: Yes, 7384; No. 4464. POPE PREPARING NEW ENEYCLICAI Vatican City, March 21 (IP) The pope Is preparing an encyclical an alyzing the political situation and renewing his plea for world peace The encyclical will be Issued In connection with the closing of the Jubilee year on April 28. It was understood the Pope's sur- vey of the political situation would be of general character instead of strictly religious. It will pertain to the social, moral and religious interests of humanity at large. Fetsch Rolls Into Jail On Skate Charge John Fetsch literally rolled into 55 day jail sentence on roller skat es when Judge McMahan today handed him such a jolt on his plea of guilty to receiving stolen proper ty. The property in question was a pair of roller skates belonging to Robert Bollinger of the Oaks In Portland. Skates mysteriously dis appeared from there after skating trips made by Fetsch and another party, name not given. It is said Fetsch accounted for five pairs of skates although 15 pairs were re ported missing from the place. Arthur L. Johnstead pleaded guil ty to non-support of four children. He was given 30 days In jail and pa roled to Newell Williams on condi tion that he pay $15 a month for care of his children. MARTIN PARTY TO LAKEVIEW Bend, Ore., March 21 (LP) Gov ernor Charles H. Martin and mem bers of the state highway commis sion left early this morning for Lakeview after spending the night in Bend. The governor, after at. tending conferences with Bend groups, was in bed early last nignt for his first "vacation sleep" since the opening of the 59-day session of the state legislature. While here the governor and highway commissioners conferred with Senator N. O. Wallace, leader of the fight in the state senate against elimination of tolls on the five new coast bridges; and officials of the Bend chamber of commerce. Chairman Leslie Scott of the high way board declared, the commlSj. sloners were in central Oregon to look over highways, not to make de cisions on policies. Other members of the party are Commissioners . B. Aldrich of Pendleton and Carl O. Washburne of Eugene and State highway Engineer R. H, Baldock. On the trip south the party was accompanied by Frank R. Prince, president of the Bend chamber of commerce, and K. D. Lytle, state highway department division en gineer. W. B. Snider, representative from the Deschute-Lake county legislative district, was to meet the group at Paisley. From Lakeview the group planned to go to Ashland to spend the night. Tomorrow the party will go to Crescent City, Cal.. before turning north on the coast highway. COVER CHIEF OF BUDGET BUREAU Reorganization of the state bud get department including the pro. pcrty control task assigned to it by the legislature was announced to- day by Director D. O. Hood, prior to his business trip to New York Hood's task as active head of the department will cease this week, he declared, but he will devote a portion of his time to complete the reorganization made necessary by the addition of the prop'erty control set-up, the budgetary control under the governor and the task of standardizing state salaries. Hood announced the appointment of Carl Cover of Portland as chief clerk of the department, and Clif ford Mudd will be named property custodian. He has been doing slm ilar work with the state highway department. Mudd will name an as sistant. Walter Robinson, who was clerk under Henry Hanzen's directorship, will be retained as assistant to Cover. Miss Myrtle Cradick of Portland will also be employed In the department. The budget de partment will be divided into two divisions, the property control be ing a separate one. THE DALLES TO VOTE ON BONDS FOR PORT The Dalles, March 21 IJPi April 30 has been set as the date of special election called In The Dalles port district to vote on a 1200,000 bond Issues for the purpose of building water terminals on the Columbia river here. It is proposed to ask a PWA grant of $78,00. The port commis sion plans to construct two water terminal units. The first, suggested for immediate construction, would be for river boats but would be later converted for deep sea ves sels. The second would not be started until the U. 8, engineers have committed themselves to dredging the Columbia channel be tween Vancouver and Bonneville dam. SENATE KILLS PLAN TO RAISE RELJEFTOTAL LaFollette Amendment to Double Public Works Appropriation Loses Vote On Currency Infla tion Assured As Pat man Pushes Bonus Bill Washington, March 21 UP) The senate today rejected the LaFol lette amendment to add $5,000,000,- 000 for public works to the $4,880, 000,000 relief bill. The vote was 78 to 8. Those voting for it were Bilbo, Costigan, Neely and Thomas, Utah democrats; LaFollette, progressive. and Cutting, Frazler and Nye, re publicans. In urging the addition, LaFollette told the senate he was in "com plete disagreement" with those who say the unemployment emergency can be met successfully without im posing taxes at this time. Senator Bone (D., Wash.), pro posed an amendment to authorize 40 year loans to states and munici palities to acquire privately owned power systems. Bone said the government now was engaged in building large hydro. electric projects, but there was "no more stupid a procedure than for the United States to build these electrical giants, and not. remove the harness to create a market for the power." Senator Byrnes (D-, S. C), said While the bill did not specify such loans, it would permit them under the $900,000,000 earmarked for (Concluded on page 4. column 4) SUGAR REFINERY STRIKE SETTLED San Francisco, March 21 (LP) While the San Francisco water front hummed with talk of a gen eral strike in the oil tanker Sea men's walkout, federal conciliators completed arrangements today for the return to work of warehousemen at the California and Hawaiian su gar corporation refinery at Crockett. Dan Flannagan, secretary of the cereal workers and warehousemen's union, announced adjustment of the refinery dispute last night and said that the men who have been block ading the plant would return to work within 48 hours. The warehousemen walked out week ago. They were followed by union longshoremen. Together the two groups of unionists laid siege to the refinery, largest in tne wona and kept 650 workers Imprisoned for 24 hours. A new storm of labor protest was brewing in San Francisco mean while due to the decision of oil tanker operators to resume business with or without union crews. inc operators broke off negotiations with the International sailors' union Monday because of the letter's de mands for preferential employment of Its members as a condition to entering arbitration. TROOPS GUARDING FLOOD AREA DYKES Greenwood. Miss., March 21 (LP) National guardsmen moved Into the flooded Mississippi delta today to halt dynamiting of levees by mobs of farmers. A 42-foot hole was blasted In the Tallahatchie river levee last night after 400 farmers descended on guards. One man was injured in free-for-all fight. Acting Sheriff Sam Clark of LeFlore county ap pealed to Governor M. 8. Conner for troops. Three other dynamltlngs were rc ported, one at Phillips and two near Olendore. Other sections of the le vee were believed in danger. Threats of dynamiting arise each year during spring floods as farm era frequently cross the river and blast out levees on the side opposite their lands, thus saving their own homes and crops. WILLIAM BOYD DEAD Hollywood, March 21 (LP)-Wil Ham Boyd, stage and screen actor, died in a hospital here last night of an Intestinal ailment. Boyd was well known for his performances on the New Vork stage and won hi? greatest success In "What Price Glory." HOUSE VOTES FOR INFLATION TO PAY VETERANS BONUS Washington. March 21 (U.R) The house today voted in favor of inflating the currency by $2,000,000,000 to pay off immediately the soldier bonus. House approval of the infla tion payment method came on adoption of a motion to sub stitute the Patman inflation bill for the anti-inflation Vinson American Legion house measure.: A standing vote showed 183 In fa vor of the Patman bill and 142 against substituting it for the Vin son bill. A teller vote then was ord ered. Previously the house, in a riotous, irresponsible mood, turned down proposals to pay off the bonus In part through the Tydings bond plan and by a national lottery. Supporters of the Legion bill, fa vorably reported by the Ways and Means committee, still have an op portunity to force reconsideration of their measure on a roll call vote of the house. Previous to the vote on the Pat man bill, the house, in a riotous mood, had turned down amendment after amendment. Rep. Sam McReynolds, D., Tenn., offered his bond-Issue payment bill. It was defeated on a voice vote. The house then defeatd without record vote a proposal by Rep. Ed ward A. Kenney, D., N. J to pay (Concluded on page 13, column 7) F. R. STANDS PAT ON BONUS ISSUE Washington, March 21 (P) A pro posal that the controversial- bonus issue be disposed of through a com promise was made to President Roosevelt today by Senator Bulkley, (D Ohio), but the chief executive was reported-still firmly against Im mediate payment. He didn't Indicate any change in his attitude," the senator said after the conference, He went to the White House just as the house renewed debate on the legislation in an effort to begin vot ing as soon as possible on amend ments to the $2,000,000,000 proposal. House leaders predicted a sub stantial majority for cash payment. The Patman bill would meet the ex pense by Issuing new money. The Vinson bill leaves the method of payment up to the government. Bulkley, an opponent of Immedi ate cash payment, said he initiated the compromise discussion. I talked of the possibility of do ing something to get the Issue dis posed of. I have voted in the past against present cash payment and I am ready to stand by again on that point but I do hope we can do some thing that will be measurably sat isfactory to both sides. YOUTH CONFESSES . MURDERING MAN Bend. March 21 (P) Aldrich W. Lutz, 10, of Portland who in a sign ed statement admitted killing Frank C. Angermetr Tuesday morning at his roadside camp near Dunsmulr Calif., was held here today for Siskiyou county, Calif., officers. Ascribing no reason, Lutz said "I just shot him," Sheriff Claude Mc- Cauley said the youth admitted. He was arrested here with two com panions when they abandoned the automobile of the slain man. The other two, Harry A. Rathbun and Aaron S. Willey, who Lutz said he picked up north of Klamath Falls, Ore., were exonerated of com plicity in the slaying but were held as material witnesses. Sheriff McCauley said Lute con fessed he spent Monday night at Angermefr's camp. Angermeir went to town and when he returned Lutz shot htm, took a money bag of small coins from his person and fled In his car, according to the confession Ann Dvorak Kills Coyote With Club Hollywood, March 21 (IP) Wield ing a club with directness of pur pose and deadly effect, Ann Dvorak, motion picture actress, yesterday beat a coyote to death In a pen oi her prise chickens after the prairie raider had killed more than a doz en of the fowjs. The commotion in the chicken pen attracted Miss Dvorak and her hired man. The man tried to capture the coyote but changed his mind when he received a bad bite on the hand. Then the actress went into action with the bludgeon. Washington, March 31 (IP) Inter state Commerce commission today authorized the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company to abandon 20.64 miles of railroad between Bnavllle and and Prlchard Ida.. :x.aui it no longer pays profit, SENATE TRIES TO BEAT HUEY LONG Washington, March 21 (LP) Sen ate action on the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill today developed into a raoe to pass the measure before Huey Long returns from Louisiana The senate has made such prog ress this week, with Long absent, that Us leaders hope to forestall any further delays by getting the bill through before he has a chance to renew his attacks upon it. Majority Leader Joseph T. Robin son had hoped to bring the bill to the point of passage today. But he now believes another day or two will be necessary. One report was that Long would be back In Washington tomorrow. At his office, however, it was said he would not return until Sunday. If the works bill can not be pass ed tomorrow the senate will be held In session Saturday to finish work on it. Robinson goes to New York to night for a speech in which, accord ing to advance notices, he will at tack the Townsend and Long rem edies for the depression. The speech may reopen the whole bitter field of controversy which General Hugh S. Johnson brought into public focus with his speech on the "pied pipers" Long and Father Charles E. Coughlln. As the senate resumed discussion of the measure today the proposed amendment by Senator Robert M. LaFollette, P., Wis., boosting the to tal appropriation to (9,880,000.000. was the pending order of business. POLICE EXPERTS STUDYING CRIME Sacramento, Cal... March 21 (LP) Police experts of 10 western states met In conference today to chart united action against lawbreakers. The primary purposes of the far western antl-crlme conference called by Governor Frank F. Merriam were: 1. An Interstate pact to permit peace officers of one state to follow criminals into another state and abrogation of extradition laws. 2. Coordination of police commun ication systems, including teletype and radio. For two days the foremost crime experts of the far west will discuss these proposals and other means of checking criminal activities. . Federal experts will assist. Joseph B. Keenan, asistant U. 8. attorney general who has been prominent in the prosecution of many public ene mies, win be a speaker. During the conference, functions of prisons, organization against crime, modernization of criminal law and procedure, police personnel, stete police, the children's approach to the crime problem, parole reform. crime detection, apprehension and prevention, detention camps and communism will be discussed. ELKS A PEST Astoria (LP) Elk were so numer ous In Clatsop county that the cir cuit court' was asked to declare an open season to kill off a sizeable percentage of them. Birth Control Not Part Of Program for Dealing With Relief Problems (Copyright. 1035, br United Presi) Washington, March 21 (U.R) Scattered charges that some relief officers have favored sterilization or birth control in dealing with relief problems were revealed today by a na tionwide united Press survey. Tnere was little Indication, however, that practices actually had been put Into effect with the possible exception of county welfare administration at Martinez, Calif. State relief administrations and federal emergency relief director Harry L. Hopkins denied that ster ilization or birth control was playing any part In the care of the nation's unemployed. Interest In the subject was arous ed after charges by Governor Mar tin Davey of Ohio that birth con trol had been fostered by relief workers In that stale. Davey la en REICH SPURNS PROTESTS OF TWO NATIONS League of Nations Told Berlin Attitude Threat-' ens Peace World Capitals Anxiously Watch Crisis Caused By Hitler Edict (By Uw Auoclated Presf) Adolf Hitler's Reich, which has startled Europe with an announce ment of a reawakened conscript army, added fire to thi turbulent situation today by firmly declining to entertain French and Italian protests against her action. The French and Italian ambassa dors handed protests against vio lations of the military sections of the Versailles treaty to frigidly for mal German foreign minister at Berlin. The Paris government simultaneously looked to Geneva and told the league of nations the Reich decision to rearm "threat ened to disturb the peace." League observers said the league faces the gravest crisis In its his tory. France requested an extra ordinary council be held and quick telephone calls were made to com suit members on the setting of a date.- .i., ', : British and continental capitals, and Washington, closely watched (Concluded on page 4, column 5) 200,000 FEWER. WORKERS IDLE Washington, March 31 (U5) Sec retary of Labor Frances Perkins to day reported an employment in crease of 200,000 workers from Jan uary to February and a $10,800,000 weekly gain in payrolls. Especially encouraging, she re ported, was a 4.8 per cent rise In employment In durable goods Indus tries with a 11.8 per cent gain in payrolls. The gain for durable Industries outstripped that for consumers goods which showed only a two per cent rise In employment and a 4.4 gain in payrolls. Factory employment and payrolls expanded more than seasonal. Em ployment gained 3.2 per cent, ex ceeding gains for any of the last 18 years except 1934. The payroll gain of 7.8 per cent, was larger than In any February since 1818, except for 1934. Factory payrolls reached an Index of 69.1, higher than in any month since June 1931. Major industries making substantial gains were au tomobiles, steel works, machine tools, foundries and machine shops, clothing and boots and shoes. Chinese Tactful But It Didn't Work New York, March 21 07) Out of the Harlem rioting came the story of a Chinese laundry man who shared the fears of other shop owners that hoodlums would smash their shop windows. Then the Oriental noticed that negro shopkeepers were painting on their windows with huge, white letters the word, "colored." Up went a sign on the laundry, "Me colored too." The window was smashed. gaged in a controversy with Hopkins. A grand jury now la reported In vestigating 112 cases (1 sterilization na-fn-mail at a Ua-tin Hal naa- pltal. Some of these cases were, it was charged, performed at the in stance of local welfare officers. Dr. Edwin W. Merrlthew, Contra Costa county physician, said many relief clients had .requested sterili zation operations but was unable to say whether this resulted from pressure by local welfare officials. He said there also were "quite a few" persons Kekln- Illegal opera (Coacludtd on page Ureoiunuf".)"";
