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Be on the Look-Out When big news story "breaks" you want the details pronto. Be a constant reader of your home-city newspaper and you'll always get the news the day It's fresh. That's Capital Journal service. C apitalMjoiuiraal ""tT. SALEM. OREGON. TUESDAY. APRIL 13. 1937 xa w" pnipi Weather Bhowtm tonight nd Wednesday, lightly cooler; decreasing southerly gaJei. Yciterday: Max. 56.5. mln. 44.5. Rain 2 21 In. River 9.7 ft. Sou lb wind. Cloudy. 49th YEAR, No. 88 Entered as seoood clua PRICE THREE CENTS ON rRALNd AND NEW STANDS FIVE CENTS matter at Salem Oregon f SHMl 8T0M MEUKS FDR REPORTED i TO STAND PAT ON COURT BILL I President to Re survey j Situation Minimum Wage Bill Proposed Campaign to Outlaw Sit downs and Lock-outs Already Launched Washington, April 13 oT) Cam paigns to enact wage and hour stan dards and to outlaw sit-down strikes i appeared imminent today in the tur- bulent congressional aftermath to I the supreme court's validation of the : Wagner labor relations act. Conflicting predictions of the el- feet of the historic decisions on the judiciary reorganization bill also sus- i tains suspense at the capltol. i President Roosevelt, it was widely predicted, will resurvey the legis- j lative situation in the light of the five to four decisions. His only com- J ment was that yesterday was a "pret- ty good day for all of us." i An informed administration offi- j cial, who declined to be quoted by name, said Mr. Roosevelt would go j- Rhead with his judiciary reorganiza- i tion program. j This official added there was no indication of a compromise on the (Cont1 ludrd on piiso 4. column 8) f RANDlNDICTED HJKSIKlKtAUS New Haven, Conn., April 13 U.R James H. Rand, Jr., president of the Remington Rand corporation, and Pearl L. Bergoff, head of the Bergoff Industrial service of New York, were under indictment today on charges of transporting strike breakers across state lines in vio lation of a federal statute. A federal grand Jury returned its true bill after deliberating less than 10 minutes. Rand and Berg off will be served with warrants today. No date for trial has been aet. The Indictment was the latest development in an U-months-old strike at the Remington Rand plant at Middletown. Conn., called In sympathy with walk-oute at other company plants In New York and Ohio. Workers In all plants planned to vote today on a proposal offered by Rand to settle the strike. Government prosecutors charged that Rand and Bergoff had violated the Byrnes act, which makes It a felony to transport strike breakers across state lines or to Interfere with peaceful picketing during a strike. HAWKS IN RECORD FLIGHT TO MIAMI Miami. Pla., April 13 UP) Lieut. Comm. Prank Hawks landed today at 1:20 p. m. (EST), after a flight from East Hartford, Conn. He winged the 1.304 miles in four hours, 55 minutes. Tills time surpassed the New York-Miami record of five hours, one and a half minutes made by the late Jimmy Weddell of Louisiana in NovembcT, 1033. f Answers to Questions i Concerning Labor Act And Decision Effects Washington. April 13 (P) Here are some answers to Home questions of the man-in-the-street concerning the Wag ner labor relations act. upheld yesterday by the supreme court: Q. what risthts aocs the Na- w tion at labor relations act guarantee to labor? A. It gives working men the right to organize unions and to bargain collectively with their employers through chosen representatives. It restrains employers from "unfati labor practices." Including Interfer ence with labor organizations and discrimination against their mem ben,, Q. Who enforces these right and Sua ranters? A. The National labor relations board, n three-member quasl-Judlc-laJ unit of the federal government. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN A lot of dew and heavy sunshine such as described by Charley Wilson descended on this vale last night. In fact 2 Inches of heavy dew were reported during the night, being one of the heaviest of heavy dews re corded hereabouts for quite some time, and also In the nature of the heaviest sunshine over quite a spell as well. A man on State street was heard to remark this a, m. that It had rained during the night but his ears were promptly knocked down by loyal Oregon ians and from now on he'll know better. He- was sus pected of having come from South Dakota or Minnesota, anyway, and not sufficiently acclimated to watch his vocabulary. We have grapevine word that our fried Prof. Hammond, former Willamette instructor, suggests that inasmuch as "Sips has nothing else to do" he should take a broom and sweep off Table Rock. We'll have to drop in on Prof. Hammond and get this "nothing else to do" business straightened out. Doggone it, if us intellectuals can't hang together in the practical phases of life the country is in a bad way. Speaking of grapevine informa tion, the state penitentiary grape vine which is always in working or der, brings us word that Square Deal Jim Lewis, wafden at the big house, is feeling fine since he got his new clackers wound up and working. Jim is expected to be once more eat ing bull beef and jerked venison in short time. 'Bc Kind to Animals Week" had progressed into its second day with everybody reported as being kind to animals as requested except the weather with nobody doing anything about it. Ct-ce Edwards has his face all scratched up which he claims is the result of poison oak picked up in recent army maneuvers while others suspect a horse has been un kind to him, as was one once before when it broke Cecil's leg. "Court Unstable, Lewis Declares, Nation's Destiny Held in One Man's Hands, says an Oregon i an headline. The fact that the nation's destiny is now held in one man's hands is agreed to by everybody. But the one man is not the supreme justice to whom Mr. Lewis referred. The destiny of the nation right now seems to be pretty well in the hands of Mr. Lewis. Probably he has more of the potentialities of the Hitler or Mussolini than any man in the history of the United States If he wanted to exercise his power as ruth lessly as did those two gentlemen. The way he exercises his power the next year or two is going to have more influence on the nation than any supreme court and inciden tally on labor organizations. THE NEW BOGEYMAN Employers soon will start to learn What the racket's all about, For John Lewis is going to get 'em If they don t watch out. We hear that State Police Offi cer Benninghoff got a big hand at the city police station when he ap peared with an overtime parking tag for his privately owned automo bile. Ah, when justice triumphed, INDIAN BILL PASSES Washington, April 13. VP The senate passed yesterday and sent to the house legislation refunding to the Klamath and other Indian tribes money expended for irriga' tion systems on their respective reservations. Q. Does the Wagner act act up wane and hour standards? A. No. It merely assures the work er the right to bargain for them. Q. Will It stop all strikes? A. The law says "nothing in this act shall be construed so as to In terfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike." J. Warren Madden, chairman of the board, said If employers will com ply, further strike will not be ne cessary to establish the right of collective bargaining. Q. How does the board determine (Coaclnded m pate 4 column S) RING OF STEEL ABOUT BILBAO DRAWN TIGHT Insurgents Seeking to Force Surrender by Starvation Defenders Can Stand Siege for Month Ma drid Battle Continues B.v the Associated Pirsb) Spanish insugents tightened rings of steel around the port of Bilbao, Basque capital in northern Spain today, trying to force surrender by "starving out" government troops and civilians. The city's hungry population has risen above the 300.000 mark with the influx of refugees. The Basque government, admit ting the food situation was "grave," offered protection of government ships within 10 miles of the coast to any vessel that would run the insurgent blockade and bring in food. Insurgents solidified their block ade of Bilbao after Great Britain refused protection to her merchant men within Spanish waters. Bilbao's de-fenders, however, de clared they' could withstand a siege of months. They declared the land drive on the city by insurgent ar ( Concluded on piikp 4, column 6) CHINESE DYING OF STARVATION Chungking. Szechwan Province, China, April 13 (yp Parents in towns and villages of central and eastern Szechwan are tossing their children into the streets to die be cause of inability to feed them, re ports reaching here today said. The tragic scenes have resulted from the drought and famine, said authorities, who disclosed that 2,102 bodies of famine victims had been picked up off the streets of this city alone in March. They added a similar death rate was continu ing throughout the stricken area. The united church of Canada Mission, with headquarters at Tor onto, has organized a relief pro gram through its ten stations In the province, with funds raised in Canada. From an obscure village to the north came a typical story, con firmed by local missionaries: A wood cutter delivered a bundle of firewood to a customer but fail ed to await payment, even though the need for money to buy the little available food is acute. The purchaser's curiosity was' aroused and he opened the bundle immediately to disclose a starving child wrapped within. The father, unable to buy rood for the infant, had tried unsuccess fully to give him away and finally decided to force the child he could n't feed on another family. REV J. S, M'CALLUM PASSES AT SEATTLE Seattle, April 13 'Pi Funeral ser vices were held today for Rev. James S. McCallum. 78, minister in Christian churches of Oregon and Washington for more than half a century. He became pastor of the Olympia Christian church in 1891 and later held a similar post at Eu gene, Ore. He came to Seattle during the war and retired three ye-ars ago. Survivors include a son, Hugh H. McCallum, pastor of the Christian church at Milton. Ore., and two sis ters, Mrs. Fannie George, Eugene, and Miss Ruth McCallum-Carter of Portland. Mr. McCallum dlrd Sunday. MORRIS WATSON BACK ON AP JOB New York. April 13 Ol.fi) Morris Watson returned to work at the Associated Press here today in line with yesterdays ruling of the U S. supreme court. He collected $1,710 due him In bark salary and then took "part of the day off to take care of out side business." The city editor of the Aworlated Press said that Watson would re Mime "his old job as a rewrite man." Tooze Leads Democratic War on Pinky Assurance of support was given Governor Charles H. Martin today by the Tooze wing of the Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon, when three representa tives of that wing called on the gov ernor to deny cer tain troublesome rumor. Those calling on the gov ernor were Walter U Tooze III of Os wego, Stanley Brooks of Port land and A. C. Friesen of Salem. Yi. L. lOOZfc 111 One of the stories the three young democratic leaders sought to spike while here was that they were op posed to Governor Martin. Another was a story that Tooze, a candidate for the state presidency of the or ganization, has the backing of Howard Latourette. This was de nied also in a statement by La tourette today. That wing of the organization (Concluded on put 8, column 6) ANTI-SIT-DOWN BILL APPROVED Washington, April 13 (U.R) After a bitter internal fight the house la bor committee today approved the senate-adopted resolution condemn ing sit-down strikes and employer violations of the Wagner act as con trary to "sound public policy." The committee vote to report the resolution favorably was..-U.to 4. Earlier the committee, after a long discussion, tabled a motion by 8 to 5 to delay consideration of the resolu tion until members had had an op portunity to study the supreme court decision yesterday on the Wagner act cases. Opponents to reporting the senate resolution held that the supreme court had already decided the issue, that congress had no power to legis late on sit-down strikes and that it would not be advisable to take up the resolution which, they felt, might "complicate" the present situation. The resolution also condemned the so-called industrial spies system and company unions. Committee Chairman William B. Connery (D., Mass.), said he would have a rule Monday to bring the resolution to a floor vote on Tuesday. Last week the house rejected the Dies resolution for a congressional inves tigation into the sit-down strike sit uation. HIGH TIDE FLOODS TOWN OF RAYMOND Raymond, Wash., April 13 (Pi Eighteen inches of water were dri ven into downtown stores early today by a howling gale blowing off the ocean into Willapa harbor. The crest of the flood, which covered an area five blocks long and two blocks wide, was reached at 2 a. m., when the tide reached its high mark of 11.4 feet. Heavy rains throughout Monday raised the Willapa and South Fork rivers. Raymond is located at the con fluence of the two streams at the cast end of Willapa harbor. Fire sirens blared the flood alarm shortly after midnight, sum moning merchants to barricade their stores against the rising wa ters. TRAINMEN PLAN FOR A WALK-OUT San Francisco, April 13 OTi Twenty-five members of a strike committee gathered today to issue directions for a walk-out of 9.000 Southern Pacific employes, which strike leaders said would be called out unless President Franklin D. Roosevelt Intervenes. Presidential intervention would mean appointment of a federal emergency board to mediate be tween the employes, represented by tht Brotherhood of Railway Train men, and the Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemen. Southern Pacific company offi cials have expressed the opinion that machinery set up In the rail road mediation act would prevent a walk -out. ALFONSO GIVES HEAVILY Paris, April 13. (4 The Infante Eulalle said today that her nephew, former King Alfonso of Spain, had given "nearly ten million dollars" to Oeneral Francisco Franco to fur ther Franco' insurgent mum, HEAVY RAINS BRING SLIDES, BLOCK ROADS Winds Reach Gale Pro portions as Streams Reach Flood Levels Storm Extends from Eu reka North to Vancou ver Damage Slight Portland, Ore., April 13 (U.R) Tor rential rains, accompanied by strong winds, reaching gale force on the coast, drenched Oregon and Wash ington Monday and last night. The forecast was for continued showers and decreasing gales on the coast. Storm warnings were still flown, however, at all Oregon and Washington coast stations. Numerous roads were blocked or partly blocked by slides throughout the western portions of both states and there was considerable inter ruption in power and communica tion lines, although no serious dam age was reported. In Portland the heavy rains un dermined a four-family flat dwell ing and it collapsed. The seven oc cupants In it at the time escaped without injury. Heaviest rainfall was reported from Falls City in Polk county. (Concluded on pace 4, column 7) BRITISH PLAN CENSURE VOTE London, April 13 (U.R) Labor par ty leaders, constituting the official opposition, have decided to move a vote of censure against the gov ernment tomorrow for its attitude on the Bilbao blockade, it was learned today. Regardless of the censure motion whose defeat was assured a bit ter political fight seemed certain against the decision to recognize the Spanish nationalist blockade of Bilbao as a "special situation." Conservatives, discussing the problem outside the House of Com mons, called the government's de cision "a wise gesture of cautious neutrality." There were reports in political circles that the government was in fluenced not only by diplomatic caution but by strong pressure from navy chieftains. The navy men were represented as feeling that opposition to the blockade at Bilbao, where mines and not war ships constitute the chief hazard, was not worth the risk involved. Comment from Spanish loyalist sources was of bitter tone. At Va lencia, the United Press correspon dent reported, official sources were astounded by the government's atti tude. M'CULLOUGH TO SUCCEED GAMBLE Portland, April 13 Wi Tht new Oregon blind commission appointed Linden McCullough of Corvallis superintendent of the Oregon blind trade schools at its meeting here yesterday. McCullough succeed Orville V. Gamble, whose resignation became effective April 1. O. V. Badlcy of Portland, chair man of the commission, said Mc Cullough's years of experience in vocational training and educational work fitted him for the post. The new superintendent organ ized a vocational night school for adults at Roslyn, Wash., in 1015, and during the war he developed the part-time school idea at Ellensburg, Wash. 12 NAVAL PLANES FLY TO HONOLULU Honolulu, April 13 fPt Twelve great United States navy planes bearing 78 officers and men arrived here at 12:15 p.m., PST., today from San Diego, Calif., after an over water flight of 2553 miles. The seaplanes took off from San Diego bay at 2:50 p. nv, yesterday and made the long flight in 21 hours and 25 minutes. Under command of Lieutenant Commander L. A. Pope, the squad ron flew over six surface boats sta tion! along the course, and re ported all well throughout tht day and nisht Water Pressure Journal Staff Photo Looking south on 21st street across what used to be the con crete bridge over She) ton ditch (top). The lower photo shows how the water cut In behind, causing base to give way. It was taken Just east of the bridge and upstream. FEDERAL JUDGE AND A METHODIST BISHOP ATTACK COURT BILL Washington, April 13 (P) John Clark Knox, federal dis trict judge of New York's southern district, was the first witness heard when the senate committee resumed iU hear ings of the president's court bill today. "So far as I can ob serve," Knox said, "the real issue is whether certain reforms. presently considered to be desirable of attainment, shall be secured in an orderly, constitutional procedure, or through a program which, if not unconstitutional, is definitely and positively anti-constitutional." In his testimony, Judge Knox said: "As citizens of a free state let us be careful that through specious reasoning and fallacious argument we do not create a situation whereby our Judicial establishment will be rendered akin to those that are to be found in certain foreign lands whose example we have no wish to follow." Wuming against too much faith in the Injection of new blood into the (Concluded on paite 7, column 3) WPA WAGE CHECK FORGERY SMASHED Washington, April 13 (U.R) Sec ret Service Chief Frank J. WiLson reported today to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., that secret service agents nad smashed an extensive plot to coun terfeit and cash WPA wage checks. Fifteen of the alleged conspira tors are under arrest in Chicago, Milwaukee and Los Angeles. According to WiLson, the alleged ringleader was Paul Masiolotti, for mer WPA gang foreman, now in custody In Los Angeles. Held in Chicago is John Russo, who Wilson said was seized with plates and other equipment used in printing the .spurious checks, only a few of which were cashed before treasury agents broke up the con spiracy. CUTTERS TO RESCUE OF DISABLED SHIP Snn Francisco, April 13 Pj United States coast guard cutters Itasca and Soshone were speeding under forced draft today to the as sistance of the San Francico bound freighter Manukai, rudder gone and drifting helplessly about 1,150 miles southwest of San Diego. A plra for assistance was re ceived from the Manukai, a 5.895 ton freighter of the Matson line fleet, yesterday afternoon. It re ported its rudder gone, but in no immediate danger. Efforts were being made, the message said, to rig a Jury rudder. Portland Teachers Seeking Increase Portland, April 13 (Pi The busi ness committee of the Portland school board submit ted a resolution last night asking a 10 percent pay increase for 1700 teachers. The proposed increase would be paid from $114,500 made available In the emergency fund and would re store 50 percent of the salary cuts' taken In 1932. Proves too Much STEEL WORKERS RETURN TO JOBS Aliquippa, Pa., April 13 (U.R) Ten former workers in the Jones "and Laughlin mills, whose dismissal be came labor's cause celebre In the steel industry, return to work today because of the supreme court's val idation of the Wagner act. They lost their Jobs in the sum mer, fall and winter of 1935 becau: they tried to organize this one-time rock-ribbed company union town of 30,000. They got their jobs back plus checks covering the period they were unemployed because of their discharge. It was the case of these 10 men a cross-section of Uie nationalities that labor in the steel ;mills--upon which the supreme court ruled yes terday In one of its five . decisions upholding the Wagneoct. The court affirmed the order of the national labor relations board which directed Jones and Laughlin, the country's fourth largest steel producer, to rehire the men and pay them for time of unemployment at the rate of pay in effect at time of discharge. "It'3 great, It's great," snid Hu.sky Harry Phillips, who used to be pres ident of a Beaver valley lodge of the Amalgamated association of iron, steel and tin workers His union activity led to his discharge in July of 1935. "Tills Is what we've been waiting for for years. It means that work ers can now go ahend without fear of losing their jobs, like we did." Supreme Court Denies Rehearing Income Tax Case for Contractors For the second consecutive time within the month the state supreme court denied today the motion for a rehearing on the injunction suit of the Winston Brothers, contractors. against the tax commission invoiv- ing collection of Income taxes The opinion handed down several months ago ruled that the contract ors were not subject to tht Oiegon income tuc iaw for operating on the lower Columbia river Jetty. It held the contract was a federnl one and the work was performed upon fed eral land. AftfT Uie first motion for re hearing was denied the tax com mission took the cafe to the su preme court of the United States upon petition for a writ of certiorara. The a pp' a 1 was Mill be f ore t he federal court when the aecond mo FLOOD CRASHES BRIDGE ACROSS SHELTON CREEK Concrete Structure on 21st Street Collapses Breaking Sewer Main Streams Flood Newly Planted Lowlands River to Reach 14 Feet With 2.21 inches of rainfall re corded In the 24-hour period ending at 7 o clock this morning, continu ing during the day and general throughout the valley, flood dam age was mounting hour by hour and included the destruction of the concrete bridge on South 21st street across Shelton bridge. The bridge, according to Hugh Rodgers, city engineer, Is a total loss. Collapse of the bridge broke an 8-inch sewer main and caused a temporary closing down of the two inch city water main. The line car rying was was not broken and at noon it was swinging about a foot (Concluded on phcp 7, column 4) MARTIN PLANS TO FORGE FORD Detroit. April 13 'JP Homer Mar tin, president of the United Auto mobile Workers of America, pre dicted today that the federal gov ernment would "force" the Ford Motor company to deal with tha union under the Wagner Labor Re lations act. Jubiliant over the supreme court decision upholding the Wagner act, he declared that "a strike to force Henry Ford to recognize the U. A. W. A. will not be necessary now." Union officials announced that an Intensive membership campaign among Ford workers would be be gun immediately. One method of operation, Ed. Hall, second vice president said, will be to broadcast appeals to Ford employes from an airplane flying over the Ford Rouge plant. No comment was forthcoming from the Ford company o1 from Henry Ford, who announced re cently from his winter home at Ways. Ga., that hLs company would inaugurate the highest wages In history "as soon as this labor mew s over." He made that statement shortly after reports were published that-'' the Ford company planned a V minimum wage, far in excess of union demands, to combjn't the U.A.W.A. membership d;lvp. LARZluWOMO, DIP10MAT DIES White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., April 13 fPf Larz Anderson, one time ambfl.iJor to Japan, died to day at the Greenbrier hotel. The body will be returned to Washing ton for private burial. Ander.von was born in Paris In 1866. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1888 and was appointed ambassador to Japan in 1912. He resieued in 1913 arter a rhnngp in the naiional administra tion. tion for rehearing was denied orally today. Last -cek Uie court reversed It ,,cir on a similar suit brought by Uie Guy F. Atkinson company, con tractors on Bonneville dam. The ma jority opinion in this ease held that the federal government did not have exclusive jurisdiction on the Mils under the waters of the Columbia riveT and therefore the company must pay the slate income tax upon It profits. In a written opinion today tht court revered Judge Carl Wimber ly of Dousbs county in a autt (Concluded on page $, column ii I
