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Be on the Look-Out When a bit newa story "breaks'" you want the details pronto. Be a constant reader of your home-city newspaper and you'll always get th newa the day lt' fresh. That's Capital Journal service. Weather C apitamJoiimal Oiuettled with occasional rain to night and Tuesday. Little change In temperature. Southerly wind. Yesterday: Max. 91.1, mln. 46. Rain 28 In. River I ft. Southeast wind. Cloudy. 49th YEAR. No. 87 Entered as second clM matter at Salem. Oregon SALEM. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1937 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWM STANDS FIVE CENTS m o jo n HEARINGS ON COURT PACKING BILLRECESSED News of Wagner Deci sions Causes Postponement Texans Present Protest To Measure Signed by 25,000 Citizens Washington, April 12 P The senate judiciary committee quickly recessed its hearing on the Roose velt court reorganization bill today when members learned the su preme court was deciding consti tutionality of the Wagner labor re la f ions act. The court's decision, awaited for weeks, stirred interest among com mitteemen to fever heat The members hurriedly left the hearing room to learn full details of the court's action. The recess came while Tcxa democratic opponents of the Presi dent's plan were testifying it would undermine the constitutional liber (ConWurird on ihr H, column 8) watsonWpy on vindication New York, April 12 (U.l Morris Watson, whose discharge by the Associated Press on Oct. 18, 1035, led to the Wagner act decision today, said he was "very happy" when in formed of the vote in his favor, fn a statement later, Watson said: "I am gratified of course. Backed as I was by the Newspaper Guild And the Guild members of AP, I was always sure that the fundamen tal human right, the right of work ers to Join themselves together for economic betterment, would be up held. "The decision coming as it docs on top of a unanimous decision In our favor from the circuit court of appeals not only vindicates me personally of the aspersions cast upon my ability when I was dis charged but it nullifies the often used argument of the employers that workers can not be faithful mid loyal to their work while band ing together for mutual aid and protection. "I intend to return to the A&so- elated Press as soon as the labor board arranges details and I shall continue to do whatever I can to promote the organization of press associations and newspaper editorial workers in the American Newspaper Guild so thay may obtain decent hours and pay standards which have long been denied them." WILBUR ELECTED CHURCH DELEGATE Nclscott, April 13 (TV-The an nual meeting of the Willamette Presbytery elected the Rev. J. Stan ley VanWinkle. Prlnevillc, moder ator and chose as commissioners to the general assembly at Columbus. C May 27, the Rev. George H, Wilbur. Salem, the Rev. Arthur Rlt lodge. Waldport. C. P. Nelson. Nels- cott and Fred P. Hlller. Albany. British Send Biggest Battleship to Guard Ships in (By the Associated Press) Great Britain ordered her mightiest men-of-war to the Bay of Biscay today to protect British shipping on the high seas against Spanish insurgent vessels blockading Spain's norm coasi. Aa the huge battle cruiser. Hood, most powerful warship In the world, neared the blockaded waters, an other British war vessel raced to the rescue of, a merchantman re ported "detained" by the insur gent. Shipping circles later said, however, the report probably was only a confusion of names. The British cabinet's hurriedly called Sunday session decided on the reinforced naval guard in the Bay of Biscay but refund to guar antee protection to British food hip anteiing Spanish territorial Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN If there are as many May flowers as there are April showers, there should be a grand profusion of blooms next month. Fishing season starts next Thurs day with local anglers getting. about the same tonnage of new hardware for same, as the boys are picking up in old scrap iron for the Junk dealers. One peculiarity of the an gler is he'll spend $40 for fishing tackle and two weeks trying to catch a 10-inch fish, bt- holler his head off at paying 15 cents a pound for salmon in the fish market. Judge McMahan plans to have an air conditioning system placed In his courtroom. It wants to be good one to get into competition with a combination of odors from beans, onions, sauerkraut and cab bage floating up from the Jail kitch en. Our initial bets are on the sauerkraut and cabbage. Young Bob Feller of the Cleve land Indians who, reports said, was to become another Rockefeller from endorsements of breakfast foods, chewing gum, candy, et cetera, be came another kind of rocky Feller yesterday when a young feller in an Arkansas bush league knocked home run off Feller with three men on the bags and his team trounced the Indians 5 to 0. This swat will probably be a good thing for both tellers, showing Bob he isn't in vincible and the ofher young feller that he s big league stuff. The other evening a certain well- known business man of this town was invited out to a dinner by his little daughter. The little daugtv ter was quite concerned at the ta ble over her papa's manners and this concern reached a fever pitch when papa stabbed a pickle from a passing pickle dish with a fork. "You sure you did that right, dad dy?" she queried in a whisper. "At home you pick them off the plate with your fingers." FT & BA GIVES GREETINGS The. Rev. William Kllnkhammer, who is out here from Minnesota visiting Father Buck, was report ed to also be visiting the dentist here today, getting ready for full- fledged membership in the FT & BA. We'd heard of the drought area sending folks out here for most every purpose but to Join our club, so needless to say we felt pretty swelled up when this Information came into our grasp. Incidentally the name of the Rev. Mr. Kllnk hammer has sort of dental sound about it that should intrigue any member of our club. We're told by the local Kiwanis Bulletin that there's a movement under way to organize a men's chorus within the various service clubs. The object is laudable if they can get together as to which club's songs they'll sing. NOTE FOR JUNK BRIDES (Also from Kiwanis. Club Bulletin) The following story is quoted from the Klamath Falls bulletin. "The demure young bride, a trifle pale, her lips set in a tremulous smile, slowly stepped down the long church aisle clinging to the arm of her father. As she reached the low platform before the altar, her slip pered foot brushed a potted flow er, upsetting it. She looked at the spilled dirt gravely, and then rais ing her child-like eyes to the be nign countenance of the old minis ter, she muttered: "That's a hell of a place to put a lily!" North Spain waters. The insurgents are at tempting to prevent food from reaching the besieged city of Bil bao and have declared provisions canroes will be regarded as contra band. Augmented by the swift new war ship. Neptuno, which the govern ment started building before the civil war began, the insurgent tightened the blockade against Bil bao which, in reports to Hendaye, France, was described aa on the verse of mass starvation, cut off from supplies by with lt pnpu (Concluded M pan T column 4) PUBLIC WORKS DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHWEST National Resources Com- mittee Recommends $520,868,000 Program Flood Control for Willa mette Valley and Salem Sewer Plant Included Washington, April 12 (fV The national resources committee, re commending an orderly plan of in vestigation and construction, placed a $520,868,000 Pacific northwest de velopment program before Presi dent Roosevelt today. The suggestions included 190 gen eral and local projects over a long term period. There was no recom mendation of a particular rate of public expenditure. Emphasizing that the listing of projects having local interests does not mean that federal funds should be used for their construction, Chairman Abel Wolman of the wa ter resources committee said: "The listing means only that the project is believed to fit Into an integrat ed drainage basin program." The committee approved 113 pro jects in Oregon, Washington and idano requiring siea.ytsi.uw to con struct or complete. The projects should be immediately investigated or undertaken, it said. Chief among these was the Grand Coulee dam project In central Washington, for which $40,000 was proposed for the next two years and then $84,250,000 more to com plete the giant structure, Its pow erhouses and pumping station. Oth er projects receiving favorable con sideration were the proposed $9,575, 000 Portland sewer and sewage dis posal program: the expenditure of an additional $5,650,000 to complete the $45,065,000 Bonneville project on the Columbia river between Wash- (Conclmled on pnw S. column 5) FIFTH DAY OF MADRID BATTLE Madrid, April 12 tJPi Hot govern ment cannon hammered insurgent front lines in two vital salients of the battle of Madrid today. Both forces locked at close grips on the fifth day of what may prove the war's costliest fighting. Government artillery batteries trained their fire on University City, in Madrid's northwest, and the Casa Dc Campo park on the west in a pro longed effort to cement the isola tion of the insurgents' two most for midable garrisons on the siege front. Casa De Campo, former royal park on the western border of Madrid, is separated from University City by the Manzanares river over which the "Frenchmen's bridge," the besiegers' main connecting line, was dynamited by government forces yesterday. The city's attacking defenders in the University City zone were said to be confident they had broken the back of the strong insurgent hold there by blasting the bridge. Genera) Jose Mlaja's government troops found themselves, at dawn, within close firing range of insurg ent positions at the top of heavily- fortified hills key to the siege lines' strength in the park where Bourbon kings of Spain once played. More than 3000 of General Fran cisco Franco's forces were still hold ing their pinched-off positions in University City, outpost of their lines and the greatest menace to Ma drid's resistance. FIRST LADY WILL ' VISIT IN SEATTLE Seattle, April 12 Mr. Frank lin D. Roosevelt, wife of the presi dent of the United States, will come here the latter part of this month to visit her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr, and Mrs. John Boettlger, and her two grHnd-children, Anna Eleanor Dall and Curtis Roosevelt Dahl, Mrs. Boettiger said today. Exact date of the first lady's arrival here was still uncertain, Mrs. Boet titter said. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Boettiger will speak together on a nation wide broadcast for the first time. but most of the week will be spent in a real famiy visit. It was announ ced. BoettigT if publisher of tht Settle pnt-JntHignrer. owned by William Randolph Hearst The Supreme Court Informal Poses of the Justices . . y -car r yil v.v aw. .v r ::r r r lr- TRAIN WORKERS VOTE TO STRIKE San Francisco, April T2 W) Two railway brotherhoods voted over whelmingly in favor of a strike on coastwise Southern Pacific lines. union officials claimed today, but likelihood of an actual walkout was discounted by the railroad and by a federal mediator. C. H. Smith, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. and C. V. McLaughlin, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemcn. said their 8.000 members had voted more than 95 per cent in favor of the strike. President A. D. McDonald of the Southern Pacific, however, declared the situation was not alarming to him. "The company docs not expect strike." McDonald said. He cited machinery established by the railroad labor act to avoid strike action, "successful lor the past 50 years. Dr. W. M. Leiserman. chairman of the national mediation board Also expressed doubt of the immi nence of strike action. He said his board probably would act again on the controversy, now over a year old, which resulted in the strike vote. The board considered the matter once before. Southern Pacilic officials said the dispute arose over a Jurisdic-1 tional controversy between the en-' ginemen and trainmen on one hand, and the Brotherhood of Loco-1 motive Engineers and the Order ofj Railway Conductors, on the other. FREE FERNES OVER COLUMBIA SOUGHT Portland, April 12 Wi Orciron and Washington .spokesmen rallied today to support a toll free ferry service across the mouth of the Co lumbia river between Astoria and the north bank. The state hichway commission and Lacey V. Murrow, Washington state director of highways, will confer privately on the proposal later today. Henry Cabell, chair man of the Oregon commission, said it was doubtful tf a decision would be reached today. Only opposition to a free Terry came from spokesmen for the bridge at Longview and ferry oper ators. Wesley Vandcncook of Long view suggested that If a free serv ice is established at Astoria, free travel should be Inaugurated at Longview and mentioned that the bridge, constructed by private in terests, "probably could be pur chased" cheaply. EDEN ISHL'KS WARNING Liverpool. England. April 12 U.P Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, addressing conservative party mem bers here tonight, sternly warned that Intervention In Spain's civil war must cease the moment the in ternational control schema begins formal operation. These photos of the nine supreme court judges, rarely snapped so informally, are the latest taken of them. Top row: Stone, Cordoza, Roberts, Butler; below: Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, Hughes, Brandeis, (Associated Press-Paramount News Photos.) DISSENTERS STATE DECISION DESTROYS FREEDOM OF PRESS Washington, April 12 (P) The supreme court, in a 5 to 4 decision delivered by Justice Roberts, held today the Wag ner Labor Relations act was constitutional in its application to the Associated Press. The majority decision held that the statute did not "abridge the freedom of speech, of the press, safeguarded by the first amendment" to the constitu tion. A dissenting opinion was written by Justice Sutherland in which Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds and Butler concurred. They asserted that "tin applica tion of the act here has resulted in an unconstitutional abridgement of the freedom of the press." The majority opinion affirmed an order by the national Labor Rela tions board directing the Asociat (( oik liidert on piute 3, column 2) FIRED INTO FLATCAR, WOUNDED TRANSIENT Baker, April 12 William Brown, transient, 39. who gave To ledo, Ohio as his home address, was probably fatally wounded Sunday afternoon near Hot lake in Union county by a rifle bullet (ircd by one of two men from a nearby hillside into a flat car in which Brown and several other transients were rid ing. Brown was taken off the train here and lodged in a hospital. He was not expected to live. Other transients on the car told state police here that three other bullets were fired into the flat car by the two men whose sedan they saw parked a short distance away. The state police were at a loss to account for the shooting. It was known that a number of squirrel hunters were In the vicinity yester day afternoon. State police and Union county officers were inves tigating the case today. RALPH INCE KILLED INAUTO CRASH London. April 12 (U.R) Ralph Ince. veteian acior-dirpctor of Mage and movies, was killed ywwrday when hla motor car, driven by his wife. crashed Inlo a atreet reftme near the Albert Hall. Mrs. Ince waa aerlously Injured, Ince. 60. had been In England three years. He had Just completed a film. In-e beean his stage career with Rirhard Mansfield He waa a native of Bifttfm, Mao. WSC STUDENTS KILLED IN CRASH Colfax. Wash.. Anrtl 12 0J. Pi- Plummeted' more than 400 feet into the rocks along Snake river, Cloyd Artman, Oroville, Junior at Wash ington State college, and Frank See Colfax, sophomore, were killed in the crash of their dual-control glider near here Sunday. Artman. holder of several i official world gliding records, was handling the controls. See was in the rear cockpit. According to Fred Wollenberg, one of the members of the Wash ington State Gliding club, who was present, the plane hit an air pocket a nd d ropped a f ter wh ich 1 1 w as caught by a strong cros.s-wlnd, put ting too much stress on the wing and crumbling it. The accident was witnessed by Audrey Artman, sister of the glider pilot. She was standing at the take-off tramway, more than 1.00(1 feet above where the ship crashed, Elmer Carlson, a member of the Glider club, was killed about year ago on Steptoe butte, near the scene of yesterday's accident. HOUSE TO VOTE ON ANTI-LYNCH BILL Washington, April 12 UR) The house voted today to bring up for consideration for the first time in 15 years an anti-lynching bill, the vote being 281 to 108. The measure Is sponsored by Rep. Josepn Gavagan, D., N.Y.), making lynching a frderal crime and provid ing lor federal penalties against state or subdivision officers failing to pro tect prisoners sought by mobs for lynching purposes. Under the procedure the measure will be brought up in the house for debate tomorrow with final action unlikely until Thursday. JAMES BYHEK DIEM Medford. Ore.. April 12 fP) James Wlilam Walker Bybee. 81. native son of Jacknon county, long urtive as a stockman and farmer ri(d Saturday after a short iliac as. NINE KILLED IN UNION RIOTING Picher, Okla., April 12 W) Tru culent lead and zinc workers re turned to their Jobs today In an atmosphere made tense by a bloody week-end in which nine were shot, with leaders of an unaffiliated group announcing determination to 'prevent C.I.O. unionization of this territory." The wounding of eight men and a boy at Galena. Kans., yesterday by gunfire from a headquarters of the tern a tional union of mine, mill and smelter works, climaxed a week-end of beatings and floggings and brought this terse statement of plans of the group opposed to the committee for industrial organiza tion: All mines and smelters will be open as usual Monday. All men will go back to work. We will continue our attempts to prevent C.I.O. unionization of this territory. Signed by President F. W. (Mike) Evans, that notice was pasted at the headquarters here of the trl state mine, metal and smelter wor kers union, which claims 8.000 mem bers in this rich mine area of Ok lahoma, Missouri and Kantas. The week-end toll included the flogging of Constable Ray Keller at Hockcrville, Okla., in auuiuon lu the Galena shooting and the beat ing of a number of men here. WPA WORKEHS QUIT Pendleton, April 12 'j Eleven per cent of the workers on the WPA roll In District 1, eastern Oregon, found other employment during the month of March, J. K. Thomp son, district director, said today, and he pred ic tod that a n even greater percentage would enter pri vate employment during April. Claim Decision Means Defeat of President's Court Packing Plan Washington, April 12 (!') Opponents and nilvoaitea of the Koosevnlt court reorganization bill drew contradic tory interpretations today from the supreme courts action In upholding the wngner ijfioor na-' latlons law. Senate lender of the fight against the bill hailed the court's decisions as a factor that would go far toward defeating the court re organization plan. Supporters of the bill, however, denied the decisions would have any effect on the controversy. Both sides expressed delnrht with the court's finding that the law was constitutional. Senator Wheeler, a leader of the opposition to the bill, forernst flatly tiie decisions would "mean the de fcut," nf the nresirlrnt's measure I leel uow Uure oan A be any fx- LAW UPHELD IN 5 DECISIONS FOUR BY 5 TO 4 Interstate Commerce Clause Broadened to Affect Industries Justice Roberts Cast De ciding Vote with Liber alsFour Dissent Washington, April 12 The su preme court gave the government a major victory today by upholding constitutionality of the Wagner la bor relations act as applied to all business engaged ip Interstate com merce. Speculation was stirred Immediate ly as to whether the tribunals deci sions in five cases would affect President Roosevelt's fight for rc organizating the tribunal. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, had described the Wagner act aa "the magna charta of labor." (It guarantees collective bargain ing to workmen in negotiating with employes on wages, hours of work and other labor conditions). Four of the supreme court'a deci sions, involving the Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation of Pitts burgh, the Fruehauf Trailer company of Detroit, the Friedman -Harry Marks Clothing company, Inc., of Richmond, and the Associated Press, were five to four decisions. The court was unanimous In th Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach company case. Justice Roberts, who has held the balance of power In some five to four decisions, delivered the 5 to 4 opin ion upholding the Wagner act did not violate freedom of the press and could be applied to the Associated (Co iniii deri on "panif 3. -column IV BELGIANS VOTE FASCJSTDEFEAT Brussels. April 12 (U.PJ Belgium. In a kty election for a single seat in parliament, has registered a victory for democracy against fascism which seemed likely today to attain import ance Bll over Europe. Comment on the election showed elation in countries which have fas cist-nazi movements of their own. and corresponding disappointment ia nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Comment from Holland. Join! neighbor to Belgium and Germany, was that the election would reflect upon, and be reflected in, Holland's own general parliamentary election to be held late next month. In the election Premier Paul Van Zeclar.d defeated Leon Dcgrello, Rexlst (fasclst-nazl) leader by 275, 840 votes to 69.242. He obtained 75.80 percent of all votes cast ( 16,358 were blank or invalid), and Dogrclle ob tained 19.05 percent. Dcgrello polled fewer votes than his Rcxlst-Flemlsh nationalist block did in the 1936 elec tions. The vote was orderly despite angry partisanship, six were injured In minor brawls. A Kexist deputy resigned so there would be a teal election. Van Zeelatid accepted the challenge personally and had himself made the govern ment candidate. case for wanting 1ft members on the court," Wheeler said. Attorney Oeneral Cummings de clared the rulings constituted "a sweeping government victory. "For more reasons than one the decisions of today show the wisdom and soundness of the presidnts plan," he said, but smilingly refused to dlwlone what "reasons" he had In mind. Solicitor General Btanley Reed, one of the government attorneys who argued the litigation before the court, said of the opinions: "A realistic treatment of the con stitutional prHilems involved in fed (Concluded en ri column