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Weather u Journal Food Pages The Capital Journal boast of IU food page filUtJ with tesUd re cipes, suggestions for parties, hints to housewives, answers to questions, pertinent Illustrations, and new wrinkle in cookery. AIRE OCEAN FLIERS FINISH FLIGHT FR0ML0ND0N Merrill and Lambie Bring Coronation Films in Easy Trip Land at Boston Airbase On Way to Make Sure Of Gas Supply Floyd Bennett Field. New York. May 14 (flV-Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie landed their twin-motored monoplane here at 3:35 p. nr. EST, today to complete their round trip trans-Atlantic flight. Hurtling through the "white darkness" of a drizzling fog, the fliers arrived here 24 hours and 22 minutes after leaving Southport, England. They were compelled to make a brief landing at the Sou an turn nav al air station in Massachusetts to recheck their bearings before pro ceeding to the starting point of their flight. Their total elapsed flying time was set unofficially as exactly 24 hours. They made a 22 minute stop over at Squantum. (Concluded on pate 13, rcihiaui 8) REBEL PLANES BOMB BILBAO (By the Associated Press) An insurgent air fleet roared over besieged Bilbao three times today and rained bombs on the Erandio district. Two persona were killed, ten in jured. - Eight miles to the north, in the Colluble mountain sector, the In surgent army smashed at Basque defenders in a dawn attack. Air planes aided the column. The Basques captured ft German motorcycle rider. Bilbao's defender clung to their positions on Mount Sollube Government forces held their grip on a beleaguered insurgent garri son In University City, on Madrid's northwest, when they repelled a re lief expedition under heavy artillery, machine gun and rifle fire. Both insurgent forces defending Toledo and government attackers laid down their rifles for picks and shovels to build dugouts and trenches. Fortification work was In. terrupled only by occasional shells from the Insurgents' rear guard ana the government's cannon blasting bridges and railways west of the city of the Alcazar, about 40 miles soutn of Madrid. KIDNAPER SOUGHT IN 80 COUNTRIES Washington. May 14 (U. Dlrec tor J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of investigation, disclosed today that the search for the kid nap murderer of 10 year old Charles Mattson had been broadened to in clude 80 foreign counties. Hoover simultaneously revealed that 100 special agents are now working on the case. He said that more than 3,400 suspects have been Interviewed and investigated since the Mattson boy was kidnaped from his Tacoma, Wash., home last December 27. "Information concerning this crime has been forwarded to the law enforcement officials of 80 for elim countries." he announced. He said that a total of 1.499 tech nical laboratory examinations of material forwarded to the FBI had been conducted. BANDON OPERATOR GETS HEROISM MEDAL San Francisco, May 14 (UP) Evelyn Manciet, of Bandon. Ore. who stayed by her telephone ex change switchboard and sent emer- c-ncy calls for assistance while forest fire was destroying the town, was awarded a Bell Telephone sys tem award for heroism. It was an nounced today. A similar award was given Otto P. Hoffman, who at the ruk of hi own life, rescued Walter Ce.l.on, Jr. 10. from Uit Russian River last June, G apit aOy tiur ml matter St Salem Oregon Ww Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Another of the city's charming spots of greenery succumbed to progress this morning. A little bank of workmen concreted over the "Frosty" Olson garden at the corner of High and Court streets where wild flowers bloomed in the spring and a hay crop ripened during the summer months. Tilts will change the landscape for old timers wholl hardly know the cor ner from now on. It's our guess "Frosty's" parking strip garden couldn't stand the competition put on by the bigger and better one that Bill Watkins has been nursing around the corner. A HIGH RECOMMENDATION Mr. Robert Loeb. who Is promi nently mentioned as one of the chief instigators of the Siegmund recall movement, has written a let ter to the papers which we take as one of the best possible recommen dations why Judge Siegmund should not be recalled. An excerpt from the letter says: "Personally I have no 111 will to wards Mr. Siegmund. I have always thought of him as a moral man in his home life. One thing I admire in the old man he does not prom ise the world with a fence round it. You get It or you do not get it." What better recommendation for a public office holder than the com ment "You get H or you don't get it?" Too often with office holders you think you're going to get It when you hear them promise, but you dont get It. Or you think you're going to get it and find out sooner or later that somebody else got It. What this country needs Is more of the boys In office who'll tell you whether you're going to get it or whether you're not. It certainly doesn't need any fewer of the stripe who have vertebrae all up and down the spinal column. And also could be used a few more who don't promise the world with a fence around it. The world can only be given away once. The humble dandelion has been roundly cussed but down at Che mawa Archie Claggett has grown three acres of them for the pur pose of saving the seed to give more dandelions to the world. Yeah, he's growing them for a seed company to make more plants to be used for greens, and in making wines and medicines. Edward lost his throne over the three little words, "I love you." Now he's In a row with the British Empire over the three little words, "Her Royal Highness. Magazines have been printing full page pictures of Lou Gehrig's mother and the tempting dishes she cooks for her son. The pictures are a bit ill-timed if they are ex pected to illustrate that the food in question can make a home run hitter. Yesterday he got his first hit out of 22 times at bat. He'd better go back to Oregon prunes. The statue of an English king has been blown up in Ireland and British warship has been blown up m bpanish waters. We 11 see pretty soon whether the new English king can get mad or not. Masonic Funeral Today for C. C. Going Marshfield, May 14 (A The Ma sonic lodge will have charge of fu neral services this afternoon for C. C. Going, member of the state fish commission, who died Wednes day. The Elks lodge will conduct graveside services. Federal Comptroller To Be Commencement Speaker at Willamette Dr. James F. T. Connor, comptroller of the national cur rency. Washington. D. C, has been secured as the speaker for the 93rd annual commencement exercises of Willamette uni versity, Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, presi- dent, announced today. The ad dress will be given before the sen ior class and guests of the univer sity the afternoon of June 12 at the Elsinore theatre. The services of Dr. O'Connor for the commence ment date in Salem were brou&ht about because of friendship between President Baxter and the comp troller and the fact the latter will attend a bankers' convention In San Francisco at about the same time. The comptroller consented to start his trip west a day earlier in order to fill the commencement dat at Willamette. Comptroller O'Connor received FLOATING MINE FATALTO EIGHT ON DESTROYER British Warship Rocked By Explosion While on Spanish Patrol Duty Twenty Other Members Of Crew Wounded Boat Docked for Repair London, May 14 (7P The British admiralty officially announced to day eight men were killed aboard the destroyer Hunter yesterday when it was rocked by an explosion just off the government-held city of Almeria on the southern Span ish coast. Despite the insistence of Spanish government sources at Valencia and Almeria that the blast was caused by an attack from "a German sub marine," a floating mine laid dur ing the months old Spanish civil war was understood to have been definitely established as the cause of the disaster. The official announcement came as the admiralty launched investi gation at Almeria to determine who laid the mine and fix responsibil ity for what observers believed would be a stern protest. Twenty other members crew of the warship were some of them seriously. of the injured, by the shattering explosion wNch ripped open tne Hunters bows in mid afternoon. Dispatches from Gibraltar said the destroyer, one of Britain's new (Concluded on pnjra 7, column 1) MARTiNSASK VETO OF BILL Sacramento, May 14 WV-Governor Merriam announced today re ceipt of communications from Governors Clarence D. Martin, Washington, and Charles H. Martin, Oregon, protesting enactment of the Peyser bill imposing retaliatory bans on liquor trade with states which discriminate against California al coholic beverages. The Oregon cnlef executive urged Governor Merriam to veto the bill. The Washington governor said he hopes the California chief execu tive would "consider this bill as an unfriendly barrier toward the neighbolng state of Washington." Governor Clarence D. Martin said he was Informed by the Wash ington state liquor board, "prob ably the largest single purchaser of California wine," that the bill awaits action by the California exe cutive and that "enactment of this measure may jeopardize present friendly commercial relations be tween our states." Decision as to whether the bill is to be signed or vetoed must be reached by next Wednesday, under the 10-day constitutional clause. Governor Merriam has not indicated what his attitude is in respect to the proposed act. The measure, if signed, would not go into effect until Sept. 1, 1938, the long delay being based, sponsors said, upon the desire to provide sufficient time to negotiate with states considered to discriminate against California, or an amicable 'settlement. the degrees of A B, LLD., and LL.B. from the University of North Dakota. He later received the LLD. degree from Southern Methodist university and LL.B. from Yale. From 1909 to 1912 he was a member of the faculty of Yale university and from 1918 to 1924 a faculty member of the law school of the University of North Dakota. He formed a law partnership with Senator William Gibbs McAdoo in 1925 wrnh was continued throutrh 1930. He was appointed comptrol ler of the currency In 1933. Dr. O'Connor has held a number (Contludrd oo pee 7, column 1) SALEM, OREGON, mi Leaders Ask A Permanent Farm Program Washington. May' 14 Presi dent Roosevelt discussed with Sec retary Wallace and 30 farm editors today, general objectives of the ad ministration agricultural program. The editors, assembled here an nually from all parts of the country by Wallace, who also is editor of an Iowa farm publication, had a 20 minute conference with the chief executive. Wallace said the president dis cussed principally, in generalized fashion, an administration goal to avoid extreme fluctuations in prices of all agricultural commodities. Earlier, farm organization lead ers, apparently backed by the presi dent and Wallace, served notice to day they would try to enact a per manent federal farm program at this session of congress. "Farmers want a permanent long time farm plan that will incorpor ate part of the benefits of the old AAA program and part of the ever normal granary," said Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American farm bureau federation. PLAN TO TRIM RELIEF ROLLS Washington, May 14 (VP) The works progress administration, fac ing the task of cutting at least 525, 000 persons from Its relief rolls next year, already has started retrench ment Intended to make its funds go farther in employing workers. Officials said today that state WPA directors have been Instruct ed to make communities meet a larger part of the cost of materials used on relief projects. Some more prosperous communi ties now are paying for all supplies used on their projects, and the proportion of non-labor costs met by other communities Is being ad Justed to their ability to pay. The question of how the govern ment should spend for relief In the year beginning July 1 is now before congress. Rep. Wood rum. D., Va., an econ omy advocate, has proposed that $1,000,000,000 be allotted, but the house appropriations committee voted yesterday to seek an addition al $500,000,000. President Roose velt estimated the larger amount would be needed. Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, told a subcommittee that the administration's program for dropping 525.000 persons from WPA rolls would be successful only if private industry could hire those dismissed from novernment projects TROOPS AWARDED MEDALS BY KING London, May 14 (Pi Troops from the corners of the British empire marched on the lawn of Buckingham palace today and were presented special coronation medals by King George, Queen Elizabeth and the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent. Picked soldiers -1.200 of them In their native uniforms, formed a great "U" on the palace lawn. Their majesties and the king's two brothers each took a separate rank, greeted first the officers, and distributed the medals of garter blue, red and white. TVA INJUNCTION ORDERED DISMISSED Covington, Ky., May 14 flj.R) The sixth U. S. circuit court of appeals today set aside an injunction sign ed by Federal Judce John J. Gore of Tennessee which restrained the Tennessee valley authority from building new transmission linen or soliciting new power customers un til Its constitutionality Is dc term In ed. The decision of the three Judges was unanimous Judges C. E. Simon and Flor ence E. Allen held that the bill of complaint brought by. 17 private southern power companies question ing TVA's constitutionalitv should be tried in the eastern district fed eral court at KnnxvlUe. Explosion Badly Burns Bend Woman Bend. May 14 VPt Mrs. Clarence Adams was in a critical condition In a hospital here from Bums receiv ed when cleaning fluid she was using to clean a coat on a backyard clothes line ignited. Ira Johnson, the flrt to arrive on the scene, burned his hands in attempting to exunguub the fixe. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937 ROOSEVELT TO RENEW DRIVE FORWRAM President Attends Cabin et Meeting and Confers With Party Leaders Refuses to Discuss Court Issue Hopes to Stab ilize Farm Prices Washington. May 14 (P Presi dent Roosevelt, refreshed by a fishing cruise In the southwest, re turned to Washington today to give new life to the drive for his major economic objectives. The chief exe cutive, whose return trip from Texas proved a sentiment-sounding tour of the mid-section of the coun try, was met at the station by Mrs. Roosevelt, Vice-President Garner and virtually the entire cabinet. On his day s calendar was a cab inet meeting, to be followed by a conference with congressional lead ers. These were expected to give him the latest picture of resistance to his court and relief programs. The special train arrived In the rain-drenched station at 10:15 m., eastern standard time. Soon afterward, the president was back at the White House, which he left little more than two weeks ago. What started out on April 28 to be a simple fishing cruise in the Oulf for the president apparently turned Into a sounding out of senti ment In the interior on national ecomonics. He voluntarily told cor respondents he was going ahead with his original objectives and try, in an ordeTly way, to attain those not yet reached. He said he was still doing busi ness at the same old stand, that the best way he could describe his alms was to refer to his Madison Square (Concluded on pace 7, column 3) FLOOD WATERS IN FAIRBANKS Fairbanks, Alaska, May 14 fTV- Half of Fairbanks 2,100 residents were surrounded by water varying from a few Inches to three feet deep today, as the Chena river con tinued to send a swirling mass of water and ice into the city's busi ness and residential districts. A forecast of cold weather gave refugees hope that the water would recede. Many homes, water spreading ln to the living rooms, were evacuated, residents seeking shelter In hotels and a large concrete school build ing. City officials said they believed the school would be closed today. Precautions were taken to guard the city's water supply. Water breaking through the Ta nana river, which joins the Chena 10 miles south of here where there is a huge ice jam, may aggravate the flood situation unless ice Jams In the Tanana break, allowing water to go down that stream, officials said. All highway and rail communlca tlon to the ouUlde was severed, and the airport was flooded, preventing takeoff and landing of planes. Twelve members of a Hollywood motion picture company, led by Di rector Norman Dawn of Republic Pictures, Corp., were marooned on a nearby island, unreported since early yesterday. They were said to have sufficient supplies. SALMON JUMPS INTO FERRYBOAT J. W. Marcroft, ferryman on the Wheatland ferry, doesn't need rod. line, net or other paraphernalia to catch salmon. For him the .salmon catch them wives. And Just to prove It he appeared at the courthouse this morning with a 20-pound chlnook which Mar croft avers jumped out of the river onto the ferry boat. "Maybe he knew it was a free ferry,' said Marcroft. "But he was fooled this time as the ferry was tied up at the landing temporarily out of commission due to high watr. He said that the salmon are run ring in a sprightly fashion down Wheatland way and the big boys are often seen Jumping in their race to get up the river. This one jumped In the wrong place. STilSL STiBE WINDSOR'S FOR ROYAL TITLE FOR WALLY LOST Government Apparently Successful as Only Act of King Can Confer Royalty; Queen Elizabeth's Experience Cited; Deadlock With Royal Family on Wedding Eased London, May 14 (VP) Unofficial but uauallv well In. formed sources said today the to have won its quarrel with the Duke of Windsor to keep Wallis Warfield from styling herself "her royal highness" after they are married. British society and persons to whom the distinction between "the Dnch- ess of Windsor" and "Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor' Is a vital matter cited the highly authoritative "Debrett's" as conclu sive proof that the former King Ed ward VIII could not win. They referred also to the status of Queen Elizabeth herself at the time she married the then Duke of York and contended that only an act of the king could confer a royal title on Mrs. Warfield. Queen Elizabeth, who was the commoner - born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was raised to royal rank by King George V, her father-in-law, by a special announcement after her marriage in 1923. Today's sources maintained there was no indication that King George VI was contemplating such a step, especially in view of strong govern mental opposition. "Debrett's," the august red and gold tome on "peerage, baronetage, knightage & companionage," points (Concluded on page 7, column 1) ECKTNETsIES RUINS OF ZEP Lakehurst, N. J., May 14 (,4V-His face a mask, the old master of zep- pellns, Dr. Hugo Eckener, saw for the first time today the gaunt ruins of his flagship, the Hlndenburg Silently he surveyed the almost shapeless remains of the great diri gible on the sandy naval air station landing field. The chief of the German Zeppe lin company prepared for his spectlon of the wreckage by first viewing motion pictures and photo graphs of the Hindenburg's flaming destruction May 6 in which 35 lives were lost. Members of the official six-man German investigating com mittee which he heads also watch ed the photographic chronicle of disaster. The German commissioners have Indicated they would accept the findings of the commerce depart ment investigation on the cause of the disaster. i Although Dr. Eckener was thou sands of miles away In Vienna when the great ship crashed, mem bers of the three-man department of commerce inquiry board say he will be one of the most Important persons to testify. CHOPS OFF FOOT TO ESCAPE WORK Huntsville. Tex.. May 14 IIP) A grim account that a 19-year-old convict, tiring of work, paid a fel low prisoner $5 to chop off his foot, was detailed today by Harlem prison farm officials. . Prison Manager O. J. Ellingson said William H. Sliocmake. serving two years for theft, admitted the self-inflicted torture. lie was in a serious condition. Imperial Conference Warned by Baldwin Of Threatening Future London, May 14 (P) Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin warned the opening session of today, "The international threatening." He whs elected by the statesmen -delegates to preside over their deliberations to evolve a coor dlnated stand on such vital empire questions as defense and communi cation, foreign policy, trade and migration. "The responsibility rests upon us." said Baldwin, "to see that our de liberations not only are of service to ourselves but also may help in some measure toward solution of those International problems which are perplexing the world. "It will be our ta.k to examine causes of the present national un rest, to exchange views upon them n 10 a PRICE THREE FIGHT British eovernment anneared ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS BY POLES Warsaw. May 14 fP) Poland's Jews expressed grave fears today of a national wave of anti-Semitic violence after a night of rioting at the town of Brze.sc had demolished Jewish shops, ruined Jewish mer chants and left Jewish residents barricaded in their homes. At least 53 Jews were known to have been injured, three of them critically. In the fighting. An estimated $500,000 property damage was done to the city where the allies and central powers made the abortive 1918 peace of Brest litovsk. The riots began last night after a policeman, stabbed in a fight with a Jewish butcher, had died In hospital. Through the streets of the town, which Is capital of the province of Polesia, the cry spread; "A Jew has killed a policeman!" The rioting continued until 2 a. m. today. This noon, the government in Warsaw suppressed a national radi cal party manifesto demanding "re venge" for the Brzesc killing. , Nevertheless, It was being circu- lated secretly over all of Poland. Authorities were tight-lipped and the Jews of Brzesc (better known to wartime newspaper readers as Brestlltovsk) were afraid to talk over the telephone from their barri caded homes. So far as known no Jews had been killed up to this noon, but many were Injured. MARTIN FIGHTS UNION EFFORT A movement to unionize state employes brought a statement from Governor Charles Martin today serving notice that the state can not enter into collective bargaining agreements with unions or their representatives. "Public money is used for the payment of the services of state em ployes and it is mandatory that no persons be discriminated against for not belonging to a union or giv en preference because of such mem bership," the governor said. He called attention to a clause in the Wagner labor act which empts public employment from Its provisions. The payment ot dues and enjoy ing whatever fraternal benefits arise will be the only privilege available to state workers, the gov ernor added. "It is no concern of the state gov ernment whether its employe Join any labor union or any political movement so long as membership does not impair- the employes effi- (rnncliifliMl on puRf 1. 'iiimn 2) Britain's Imperial conference situation is difficult and even and to consider whether there any contribution which we, coop erating together, could make to their diminution or removal." Referring to tlie "ruinous race" for re-armament, Baldwin said "With so many of the most power ful nations of the world expanding their armed forces, we in this coun try decided .Nwas our duty to put out defenses in order at a cost and matmltwle which you know" (Britain has a 17.500 000.000 five year defense protrram under way.) "We deplore the necessity." the (Concluded on pme T, column 4) Fair tonight and Saturday. Warm er Saturday. Northerly winds. Yesterday: Max. 72.4. min. 47.4. Rain 0, River 7.1 ft. Southwest wind. Cloudy. CENTS 5tt?fc1Sg MEN ORDERED BACK TO WORK BY CIO LEADER Election Called for De termining of Collective Bargaining Agency First Recognition by Jones & Laughlin of Union Labor 30 Years By th Associated Press) Pittsburgh, May 14 ("Pi The na tion's first major steel strike in 18 years ended today with a tentative peace agreement between the Jones & Laughlin Steel corporation and John L. Lewis steel union forces. Chairman Philip Murray of the steel workers' organizing committee ordered pickets withdrawn from the company's plants end an immediate resumption of operations by the 27.000 workers. He said a tentative agreement signed with the company provided for an election by next week to de termine whether the union should have sole collective bargaining rights In the company's mills. The agreement, Murray stated, made these five provisions: , 1. Immediate ending of the strike. 2. Return to work of all employes on the company's payroll May 12 (the day the strike started) with out discrimination. 3. A consent election under su pervision of the national labor re- (Concluded on puge 7, column 8) UNION BRAWLS FEATURE STRIKE Portland, May 14 fP) The con troversy between the Teamsters' Union and the International Long shoremen's association over Juris diction of Meier & Prank company warehousemen waged more hotely today following a series of brawls in which officials of the two groups took part. Jack Schlaht, teamsters' business agent, and O. R. Robertson, Pacific. coast district representative of the I. L. A., tangled Thursday in the labor temple restaurant and were separated by bystanders after an argument turned into a fistic metee. Schlaht was said to have objected to a reference to himself in a hand bill circulated by the I. L. A. Earlier an I. L. A. warehouseman was reported to have "laid out" A teamster in the labor temple base ment, and two I. L. A. pickets at the Meier & Frank store said they were attacked by two men. They were not seriously hurt. In Seattle a schtxlulcd peace meet ing was called off because of the absence of Dave Beck, head of the teamsters' union, and Mayor John Dore. The I. L. A., In convention at Seattle, sent a telegram of protest to Portland following reports that Robertson had been beaten by a teamster "beef squad." NARROW ESCAPE FOR OREGON CO-ED Eugene. Ore., May 14 0I.R) Clara Igoe, University of Oregon co-ed, Thursday had as close a shave with death as she will ever care to have. And she can thank a split-second decision that she Is still alive. A car she was driving .stalled on the Southern Pacific railroad tracks at a street Intersection. Miss Igoe worked frantically trying to start It, and Jumped bare seconds before northbound train No. 18 ploughed through the car. hurlinR It against a telephone pole 20 feet away. It was Eugene's fourth train-car col lision In 1837. Halliburton Hopes To Make Junk Cruise Medlord. Ore.. May H W Th distinction of being the first to cross the Paclllc in a Chinese Junk is th immediate ambition of Rlchaij Hal liburton, nulhor. lecturer and globe trotter He said he planned to obtain a suitable craft In China and sail it back to the World's Fair In San Francisco. He wants one with dragon eyes, and carrying a Chinese family, and pigs to retain all Its color and at mosphere. Iw explained.
