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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.
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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
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