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SALEM. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1937
PRICE THREE CENTS
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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
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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
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