WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937
-THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
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Ji LOCALS 1
Rev. Joseph KilUan. chaplain of
8t. Mary' hospital, Brecken ridge,
Minn., has been visiting his broth
er, Phil KilUan, and also called on
Father J. R. Buck, who was a class
mate of the chaplain at Mount An
gel college.
Mrs. Arista Nendel, who has been
a patient at a local hospital since
she wa injured in an automobile
accident near Hubbard May 31, Is
now at home in Wcodburn. She
was taken there by ambulance, Ac
companied by a nurse who win re
main with her for a week. Mrs.
Nendel will be confined to her bed
for some time yet.
Bids wanted on sidewalk con (ruc
tion by Salem Water Commission.
Get specifications at water office.
July 16, 17, 18, 21,
The monthly meeting of the Sa
lem Missouri society will be held
at the hall at 246H North Com
mercial street Friday evening. The
state association will hold its an
nual picnic at Eugene, Sunday, Au
gust 15. All former residents of the
state are Invited to attend both
meeting and picnic.
An exceptionally busy day was
spent in SUverton Tuesday by James
McOilchrlst and Ed Ransdell. who
gave examinations for drivers' li
censes and also renewals.
For Roofing, R. L. Elfstrom, 6350.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Russell and
'children, of the Keizer district, are
located in Salem for the time be
ing. They have lived around Keizer
for the last ten years. Russell Is
looking for a farm which will fill
his needs.
Headed by King Bing.A. A. Guef
froy, uniformed Cherrians will
leave Salem from the chamber of
commerce rooms at 7:30 o'clock
Saturday morning, bound for Eu
gene and the Oregon Trail pageant.
The Cherrians are to report at the
Eugene hotel at 10 o'clock and oe
ready to Join the Salem high school
band for the Salem section of the
parade. The Cherrians will hold
final drill at the armory tomorrow
night at 7.30 o'clock.
Washable Wallpaper. 324 N. Coml.
196
Routine business occupied the Sa
lem Trades and Labor council last
night with delegates to the state
convention at Marshfield making
reports.
A verdict in favor of the defen
dant was returned by a jury in the
damage action of C. O. Griffin
against Patrick McCafferty yester
day afternoon in circuit court. The
plaintiff asked $2669 In damages
growing out of an automobile acci
dent. Judge LewelUng sat on the
case In Judge McMahan's depart
ment. Arthur Girod was foreman
of the Jury.
Bckerlen'a Crawfish, cooked or al
ive. Steak or chicken dinners. Mar
lon Club. 175
An amended petition for a widow's
allowance of $50 a month from the
astate of W. L. Bentley has been
granted In the probate matter of
R. M. Bentley against Frank Bent
ley and others in circuit court.
Motion to set for trial and plain
tiff's reply have been filed in cir
cuit court, in the damage action of
Arthur Andresen, ad mm Is tra tor,
against A. M. Drawson.
Two divorce decrees were grant
ed by Judge LewelUng yesterday
afternoon by default. Marion E.
Helsel was granted a decree from
Melvln Helsel with $40 a month for
support of five children and $30 a
- month alimony with property set
tlement confirmed. Myrtle R. Ben
nett was given a decree from
George Bennett.
Salem Vintage, 149 N. HI. Ph. 4014
Zelda M. Jory has filed suit for
divorce from Lewis H. Jory alleg
ing cruel and inhuman treatment.
They were married in Salem in
1926. She asks custody of two chil
dren. Walter J. Kerrigan, former San
Francisco newspaper and publicity
man, spent yesterday here renewing
old friendships and left for his Ash
land home last evening. Kerrigan
reports conditions very good in
Jackson and Klamath county and
remarked that the reopening of the
Llthla Springs hotel in Ashland was
a great success under the manage
ment of Walter Leverette oi Mtd
ford the present owner.
Re-roof now. Mathis, 474 Ferry.
Mike Klimeck of Talent and well
known resident of Jackson county
ipent yesterday in Salem.
Small T-bone steaks 20e lb. Beef
boil 10c lb. Pure lard 11c lb. Midget
Market. 172
Transcript of Judgment has been
filed here from Polk county In the
ease of C. K. Yinker and others
against Ed Forgard. the face of the
Judgment being shown as $61.66.
Agnes Grassman has filed her
report as guardian for Anna B.
Peterson, showing receipts of
$1372.29, disbursements of $1189.09
and balance of $254.20.
Damage action of Dexter Boies
against Ben Wilson and Salem
Sand 4c Oravel company started
before Judge Levelling in Judge
McMahan's department of circuit
court today with the Jury being se
lected this morning. The plaintiff
alleges that 'Ben Wilson' beat him
about the bead and face and broke
his nose in two places. The alter
cation took place, he says. July 2,
last year. The defendant Wilson, in
an answer, avers that the plaintiff
deliberately conducted himself In
such a manner as to incite an alter
cation, that he used coarse and ob
scene language against the defen
dant and that the plaintiff defend
ed himself against the assault.
Boies asks for $2000 in general and
$8 in special damages.
West Salem Florist serves Mon
mouth, independence, Dallas, Phone
6439 for your floral wants. 172
Motion has been filed In the case
of Anna Savage against Albert T.
Savage, administrator, to strike the
plaintiff's complaint on the ground
that two separate causes of action
are not separately stated. -
Building permits have been issued
t oP. M. Hilmoe, re-roof dwelling,
515 South 21st to cost $25; C. J.
Adams, re-roof dwelling, 265 Wall
er, to cost $100 and S. Z. Spitler,
re-roof dwelling, 1375 South Liberty,
to cost $100.
James Melton is booked at the
police station on a charge of being
drunk.
' Marriage licenses have been Is
sued at Vancouver, Waih., to Floyd
H. Davis and Alice J. Johnson, both
of Gervais route 1, and to Harold
E. Eddy, Independence and Norah
S. Schols, of Lebanon.
Marion County Republican club,
Marlon hotel 7:30 tonlte. Public in
vited. 172
Suffering only from shock alter
being rescued from the Willamette
river Tuesday afternoon by Russell
Hagy, life guard at the river beach
below the dance pavilion, Winifred
Mann, 12, was taken to her home
at 855 Center street by the first aid
car. Although unconscious when
rescued, oxygen was applied and
she quickly recovered.
The 4th U. S. Enzineers" associa
tion of the northwest will hold Its
annual picnic Sunday at Carver, in
the district east of Portland.
Funeral services for Hugh B.
Smith, 39. who met death in a col
lision between his automobile and
one driven by Ben Hutching of
Portland early Tuesday morning on
the highway Just south of the Lib
erty Junction, will be held Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the
Clough-Barrick mortuary. The
American Legion, of which he was
a member for many years, will be
in charge of the services. Smith
was a member of the national
championship drum corps of Capi
tal Post No. 9. Interment will be
at Belcrest Memorial park.
Wanted: Car in exchane on 3
good lots, paved St. Creek property,
Ph. 6439 from 5 to 8 p.m. 173
A number of persons got wet feet
and one or two flower beds were
damaged last night in Wilison park
as the result of some one turning
on the wattT hydrants during the
band concert. The water flooded
the west portion of the park and
concert goers walked into the pools
following the concert. Frank Klurk.
city gardener said today that the
hydrants apparently remained open
all night.
Three cases of communicable
disease were reported in Marion
county to the stale department of
health during the week ending July
17. They were one each of typhoid
fever, whooping cough and tubercu
losis. -
Harold Say of the Information
bureau. Oregon state highway com
mission, wiil address members of
the Salem Lions club Thursday
noon at the Quelle.
Closing order has been filed In
probate on the estate of Paul Rudyk
of which Rufus C. Holman Is ad
ministrator. Joseph B. Felton. as guardian for
Albert and Evelyn Jensen, minors.
Is given authority in probate to
cancel a promissory note and sat
isfy a mortgage of Jack and Ar
line Hall and directed to accept a
mortgage from George C. and Dei
tha Weber.
K. D. Snyder has been named
ferryman at the Wheatland ferry
to act for Marion county. Yamhill
county also provides a ferryman,
the two taking alternate shifts.
Snyder was formerly in the coun
ty's employ, but was laid off from
work for a considerable length of
time after he sustained a broken
ankle at the Battle Creek rock
crusher while working for the coun
ty. Levelling of the ground sur
rounding the new high school at D
and 14th street is proceeding rap
Idly and as a result it is expected
seeding operations will get under
way well in advance of the fall
rains. Landscaping of the grounds,
a WPA project, will be started just
as soon as conditions permit.
The case against J. H. Cummings,
charged with issuing a check with
out sufficient funds, was dismissed
in justice court today upon motion
of the district attorney's office. It
is understood Cummings has taken
care of a number of outstanding
checks and has completed satisfac
tory arrangements with persons
who are holding others.
County Judge Siegmund. at a
meeting of the county court tins
morning, raised the question of get
ting the debris hauled away on the
property of the old Dreamland rink
The building which housed the rink
fell "under the weight of the mow
last winter and the land has been
littered with tha ruin of the rink
ever since. Judge Slegmund said
he had referred tha matter to the
district attorney and County En
gineer Hubbs, who is a member of
the city zoning commission, said he
would call it to the attention of that
committee tonight. Aside from the
appearance of the debris on the lot
it Is stated a fire harard Is also
raised by Its being allowed to re
main in Its present condition.
However, question was raised as to
authority to require its removal,
which question may be decided by
the district attorney.
Vic Fox was found not guilty in
Justice court on a charge of falling
to stop and give his name and re
gistration number following an ac
cident. LUSKNAMED
AS SUCCESSOR
TO CAMPBELL
(Continued from page 1)
as governor, and today'i appoint
ment was Governor Martin's first
supreme court appointment.
Justice Campbell died here Friday
night of a heart ailment, and was
buried Monday in Oregon City.
More than 30 applications for the
post were received, but Governor
Martin accepted none of them until
after Justice Campbell's funeral.
Justice Campbell was elected for a
six-year term In 1930 and was re
elected last year. He was chief Jus
tice in 1935 and 1936.
Judge Lusk, born in Tfashington.
D. c, in 1883. received hia bachelor
of laws degree from Georgetown uni.
versity in 1907. He has lived in Ore
gon since 1909 and was assistant U.
S. attorney in 1919 and 1922.
He now is serving his second term
as judge of the fourth Judicial dis
trict of the circuit court. He has a
wife and five daughters.
The supreme court adjourned a
week ago today to reconvene next
September when Justice Lusk assum
es his new post.
JudRe Dobson was born in Indiana
in 1879. completing his law educa
tion at Chicago In 1608. He is mar
ried. He was a member of the legal ad
visory board during the World war
and aided in Liberty bond work for
the Y.M.C.A. and for the Red Cross.
FATAL JOKER IN
DRUG FOOD LAW
Washington. July 21 W Repre
sentative John M. Coffee of Taco
ma. Wash., said today In a speech
broadcast over a nationwide hookup
(CBS) that "the record of congress
the past four years in respect to food
and drug legislation is one of which
none of us can be proud."
Coffee, urging support for a food
and drug bill proposed by the Con
sumers Union of the United States.
Inc., which he has introduced, said
the existing law. enacted in 1908,
"has now outgrown its usefulness."
"Its chief defects," he said, "are
that it applies neither to advertis
ing nor to cosmetics, although it does
forbid false claims on labels and
prohibits adulteration of food or
drugs.
Coffee said the law also "contains
a fatal Joker." when the government
starts an action ased on false thera.
peutlc claim against sellers of pat1
ent medicines, he said, it must prove
"not only that such claims were
false but also that the person who
made them knew they were false.
"In other words, the more lgnor
ant a drug vendor was. and the less
he knew of medicine, the less likely
he was to be convicted."
PAROLED FORGER
GIVEN THREE YEARS
Rcceburg. Ore.. July Jl (Pi Thom
as Charles Martin, alias Charles
Moore, paroled a year ago from a
check charge in Marlon county, was
sentenced in circuit court here today
to three years in the state peniten
tiary when he pleaded guilty to issu
ing a worthless check. The crime
with which he was charged occurred
at Canyonville, where he passed a
$25 check on Mrs. M. E. Maniey, inn
keeper. District Attorney J. V. Long
told the court.
Martin, under the name of Moore
was sentenced in Marion county July
3, 1936. to two years in the peni
tentiary, but was paroled, the dis
trict attorney said. Information re
ceived by the district attorney from
the criminal Identification bureau
shon s an arrest at Tillamook August
8. 1935, on a forgery charge but gives
no disposition of the case, Long re
ported. Deputy Sheriff Skinner of Val
entine. Neb., is expected to arrive
In Salem tomorrow morning from
Hayward, Calif., to pick up M. H.
Roberts, apprehended here on a
telegraphic warrant for Valentine
authorities on a charge of embezzle
ment of $500. Skinner had been
advised that Roberts was in Hay-
ward but when he reached there It
was found Roberts was in Salem
and arrest was made by Deputy
Sheriff Honeycutt at 340 N. Church
Roberts maintains hia Innocence.
He states the charge grew out of a
stock deal and that no embezzle
ment had been committed.
Governor Martin said today he was
"very sorry" to learn that fire-swept
Bandon could not receive WPA as
sistance because of a shortage of re
lief labor. He said the state, which
suspended the city's taxes, could do
nothing more, but he Mid he did not
doubt that the city mould rehabili
tate itself.
LABOR BOARD
USED TO COERCE
INDUSTRIALISTS
Detroit, July 21 William J.
Cameron of the Ford Motor Co. told
members of the National Editorial
association today that publicity is
the "lash on the whip" being used by
political agencies on industries that
maintain their independence.
"The national labor relations
board," he said, "is the agency for
this news.
"The federal law." Cameron told
the editors, "sets up traveling courts
of inquisition. One is sitting in De
troit now, as judge, prosecutor and
jury on Its own charges. Any find
ings by '.he court favorable to In
dustry are given only scant mention
by the press, but the ends of the po
litical agencies already have been
served.
"This misuse of the press never
occurs to an industry that signs up
(with Lewis) and many have signed
up to avoid legal lynching.
"Newspapers, not achievements,
made John L. Lewis," he declared.
"Labor has originated nothing in
the way of better conditions for
workers. All of its ideas have been
borrowed from progressive Indus
trialists. He asserted "there never was a
Ford riot; there never was a labor
disturbance in the Ford shops, and
Ford employes never rioted."
"No firms that are owned by any
one have signed with the union,"
Cameron said, explaining that he
distinguished between stock corpor
ations and firms directed by the
owners.
DEMAND UNION
KEEP CONTRACTS
Detroit, July 21 (Pj General Mo
tors corporation demanded written
assurance today from the United
Automobile Workers of America that
it would comply with the grievance
procedure in their agreement before
calling strikes.
William 6. Knudsen, G.M. presi
dent, wrote Homer Martin, U.A.W.A.
president, that the corpora tion
would not consider the union's pro
posal to negotiate a revision of the
agreement until the pledge against
"wildcat" strikes had been made as
an amendment to that document.
Meanwhile, work resumed at Fry
Products. Inc., where the boss twice
has gone on strike.
Walter L. Fry. president, whose
employes capitulated to his demand
ed exclusion of the United Auto
mobile Workers of America, as such,
from any signed agreement, re
opened the plant.
Upon their Insistence yesterday to
stand by the union, Fry closed the
plant.. Reconsidering. 150 em
ployes late in the day accepted Frys
terms regarding the U.A.W.A., which
he charged was "irresponsible.'
Fry gained nation-wide notice
last February when he followed his
employes' ait-down strike with a
sit-down of his own.
CLUB JUDGING
T0URMGUST2
Sixteen Marion county boys have
already signed up for the Willamette
Valley 4-H club Judging tour August
2, 3 and 4 under extension service
of the state college. The Marion
county delegation will leave the
courthouse at Salem August 2, at
8:15 a.m., and meet other county del
egations at Canby. Other boys liv
ing north of Salem will be picked up
at Brooks, Gervais or Aurora. Trans
portation will be in a truck belong
ing to Ralph Harper.
On August 2 visits will be made to
the following farms: Kraxburgers,
Harms Bros., Bolton's, Ridder's and
camp will be had that night at Dodge
park on the Sandy river. Next day
visits will be made to the T. B. Wil
cox farm, Estelle Pennon and Mc
Elhaney dairies and camp will be
had again at Dodge park. Next day
Luscher and Mahy's dairies will be
visited after which the party will
tart home, arrival at Salem expect
ed at S or 6 p.m.
Those already signed for the tour
are Junior Miller, Elmer Bierly, Or
ville Brown, Johnny Brown and
Myron Harper, all Gervais route 1:
Henry O. Pfening. Ned Jensen, Her
bert Booth, all Turner route 1; Rob
ert Cole, Jefferson, route 1; Robert
Zlelinskl, Hubert Panther, Law
rence Beckner, Loren Bosten, all
Salem route 2: Kenneth Ballweber,
Woodburn. route 1; Donald Naf
zlger, Salem, route 6. and Robert
Hunt. Aurora. Palmer Torvend, a
former club member of SUverton,
will go along to assist on the trip.
GOVERNOREARLE
CENSURES LEHMAN
Harrisburg. Pa., July 21 (U.R)
Governor George H. Earle today
asserted that Governor Herbert H.
Lehman of New York was guilty of
"great disloyalty and a ere.it mis
take in Judgment" in opposing the
president's supreme court reorgan
ization plan.
"If Lehman's feelings were sin
cere, he should have stated them
when he wrote the president a let
ter sometime aero giving his posi
tion with regard to the court bill,"
Earle said, "to hold off and spring
his stand at the crucial point in the
fight. I think, was disloyal.
"I have a feeling Governor Leh
man in a liberal socially, but I am
very much afraid he 1 not a lib
eral economically, (
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WAITING ON WAR. The well-known Chinese "long knife" troops were among the first to
see action in hand-to-hand fighting that opened the defense of Peiping, when native troops repelled
a determined attack by Japanese forces. Here a "knife squad" awaits the word to go over the top.
REBELS DRIVE
ON 3 SIDES OF
MADRID LINES
(Continued from page 1
subject the government salient lo
frontal attacks from the south to
ward Brunete. flanking maneuvers
were directed from east and west.
Government reports said Miaja's
men had taken up positions from
which they could better defend Vil
lanueva De La Canada,
(An insurgent communique said
the Insurgents pushed Miaja's lines
to the Guadarrama river about
four miles east of Brunete and
asserted the government had lost
more than 20.000 in the recent
Madrid fighting.)
South of Madrid and east of
Navalcarnero where other govern
ment forces are fighting to Join
Miaja's western front salient, the
government reported its lines were
held in the face of heavy counter
attack. Reports from the Guadalajara
front, northeast of the capital, told
of a continued concentration at
tack to break them up.
BRUNEMAN HAS
CHANCE TO LIVE
Los Angeles. July 21 (U.R) George
(Les) Bruneman. veteran of the
gambling wars, fought for his life
against a gunman's bullet today
with a gambler's odds to win.
Doctors gave him a "fifty-fifty"
chance to survive the bullet fired
through his lung by one of two ap
parently hired a.ssasslns who way
laid Bruneman as he strolled on
the Rpdondo beach strand with a
pretty blonde Monday night . Brune
man, true to the code he lived by,
refused to help police track his
assailants. Through clenched teeth
he muttered:
"I don't know who did it. I can't
give any clues. I don't know noth
ing." Four hard-fared, shifty-eyed stal
warts stood guard outside his hos
pital door, apparently fearing a re
turn visit from the gunmen.
Pretty Patricia Eatnne, 21-year-old
model and club hostess, who
was with Bruneman when he was
shot, lunched with two of the gamb
ler's friends.
"They told me to keep my mouth
shut," she said, "or I might grt
into trouble if I didn't. They said
the 'other side" might try to kill me
because I was with Les,"
Police feared the shooting means
a new gambling war.
WARSHIP SAILORS
RESCUE WOMAN
Portland, Ore., July 21 flJ.R)
The attempted suicide of Mrs. Ma
rie Beck, 28, was frustrated early
today by Robert E. Bailey and Par
mer N. Lewis, sailors aboard the
cruiser, U. S. S Richmond, who pull
ed the unconscious woman from
the Willamette river after she had
leapt from a bridge.
Bailey, harbor patrolmen said,
heard the splash as the woman's
body hit the water. Searchlights
from the vessel were spotted on her j
floating figure, and the sailor peel- j
ed off his middy, dived in and pull- (
ed her aboard a whaleboat which ;
Lewis had launched In the mean-!
time. I
At the hospital examination dis- j
closed Mrs. Beck to be suffering I
from a possible broken back, inter- j
nal injuries, hemorrhages and
shock.
The problem of highway safety
must be solved by the automobile
driver and not blamed upon other
factors, John Kcrrick. of the secre
tary of state's department, told the
Rotary club today noon in speaking
on "highway safety." Most acci
dent reports li.st "causes" when
they should read "excuses," he said.
Speed is not a major factor if pro
perly utilized, the speaker said. In
referring to highways, he also said
these were not to blame, for a poor'
driver on a good highway is stillj
a poor driver and probably more1
ao becair of conditions. j
Government employes of Hon
duras are receiving payment of sal
aries In arrears.
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Free Flowers
For Shut-Ins
With such a profusion of
summer flowers in his garden
at 336 North High street that
he will have to cut and throw
them away, J. Henderson
wants to share the blooms
with lets f ortuna te persons,
particularly patients in hos
pitals who ha ve no f lo wers
of their own and who cannot
afford to buy them.
"Please tell the people who
want flowers for hospital pa
tients but who cannot afiord
to buy them that if they will
call at my place I'll cut the
flowers and give them to
them." Henderson told the
Capital Journal today.
PORTLAND TO
ASSIST BANDON
Portland. Ore.. July 21 (U.P Full
est cooperation of the city of Port
land in aiding the firt-ravaEPd
town of Bandon to obtain relief
funds contingent to gaining a loan
from the reconstruction finance
corporation was promised in a
statement by Mayor Joseph K". Car
son disclosed today by E. F. Slade,
head of the R.F.C. in Oregon.
Bandon has been promised a
$200,000 R. F. C. loan, providing the
community secures a supplementary
grant of $117,000 from the works
progress administration or from
some other source.
Tuesday word was rrrcivrd Ban
don might not be able to obtain the
necessary relief money, due to em
ployment of all available bona fide
relief labor on other projects.
Mayor Carson, howevrr. has of
fered to try putting relief workers
from the Portland area at the
service of the coastal town, Slade
said. The Portland mayor found
precedent for the action in the case
of the Wolf creek highway, for
which Portland was made an em
ployment center, the R. F. C. di
rector said.
SPOKANE PLANE
Portland. July 21 (fP United
Air Lines plane, completing the
first round trip of a new service
between Portland and Spokane, left
at 7:45 a. m. today carrying David
L. Simpson of the Portland chamber
of commerce and Queen Catherine
Collins of the Pendleton roundup.
The plane made its first south
bound trip last night, bringing
Commissioner A. B. Colburn of Spo
kane, who presented a wreath to
Mayor Joseph K Carson. Jr., of
Portland, from the Spokane city
council.
Ako In the party wrre Mavor C
L. Lieuallen of Pendleton. L. Drake.
Pendleton editor, and H. T. An
thony and H. Clevinger of Spokane.
The new service includes stops
at Pendleton and Walla Walla.
REPORT ON LOSS
OF HINOENBURG
Washington, July 21 fPj -The bu
reau of air commerce said today
that fire, caused by an electrostatic
spark which ignited a mixture of
free hydrogen and air, "probably
caused the destruction of the diri
gible Hindenburg at Lakehurst last
May 6. Thirty-six persons were kill
ed In the disaster.
"The cause of the accident was
the ignition of a mixture of free
hydrogen and air," the bureau's re
port said. "Based upon the evidence,
a leak at, or In the vicinity of cells
four and five cauwd a combustible
mixture of hydrogen and air to
form in the upper htein part of
the .ship in considerable quantity, the
first appearance of an open flame
was on top of the ship and a rela
tively short distance forward of the
upper vertical fin. The throry that
a brush discharge ignited such mix
ture appears most probable."
The report declared that, suspi
cions of sabotage were unsupported
by any videnre
Caroline Patterson ft; suardian
for Clayton Sherman Patterson,
minor, has filed her annual account
showing rrrnpts of $402 70; dis
bursements of $326.20 and balance
a' 176.30,
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BARKLEY WINS
CLOSE CONTEST
(Continued from page 1)
congratulated the victor and that
"we are all going to work for har
mony in the democratic party."
Barkley gave out a brief state
ment saying:
"My policy is to be representative
of the administration as well as the
senate in working out to the best
of my ability the problems that
face the party, the administration
and the country."
The last ballot counted decided
the contest, senators said. Up to
the last vote, the two candidates
were tied at 37 to 37. When the
deciding ballot was announced,
there was a burst of applause.
President Roosevelt publicly kept
hia hands off the contest. Both
candidates participated in a le
glslative conference with him last
night.
Both senators have supported the
Roosevelt administration on nearly
every issue, including court re
organization. SEElSPROBEOF
INDIAN BOREAU
Washington. July 21 ttJ.W Senator
Burton K. Wheeler (D., Mont.) today
proposed an investigation of the of
fice of Indian affairs in the interior
department.
Wheeler, author of the Indian re
organization act he now wishes to
repeal, commented on the animosity
between Senator Dennis Chavez (D...
N.M.), and Indian Commissioner
John Collier with one brief state
ment: "I think thtTe should be an In
vestigation." The Chavez - Collier cross-fire
flared after the high council of the
Navajo tribe, claiming to represent
50,000 Indians, wired President
Roosevelt asking the removal of
Chavez from the senate Indian af
fairs committee.
Collier then charged the Navajos
are "victlma of Senator Chavez and
a dozen whit stockmen who arc so
unfaithful to their citizenship that
they do not pay taxes."
In reply, Chavez declared that
Collier "is seeing red" because the
appropriation for the bureau of In
dian affairs was reduced and that
the tribal council did not represent
the purported 50,000 Indians. Cha
vez also said he did not "own or
lease one foot of land in the Nava
jo area."
Wheeler, in a statement before
the senate Indian affairs commit
ter recently, charged Collier with
"playing in with the lumber com
panies'" and "approving fraudulent
contracts."
ESCAPED PRISONER
SHOT IN CAPTURE
Portland. July 21 (Pi Shot twice
in the back. John Brown. 24, negro,
was captured today by Deputy Sher
iff Jack Wills near S.E. 17th ave
nue and Powell Blvd., as police
hunted for him following his es
cape Tuesday from the Kelly Butie
rock pile. His condition was seri
ous. Wills said he sighted Brown and
arrested him but the man tried to
flee. The officer ordered him to
halt and Brown stopped. Wills took
him to an automobile and as they
wercabout to enter the officer said
Brown )nt him on the chin and
ran. Wills fired three times.
Brown staggered but continued to
run and disappeared, only to fall
Into the arms of a special patrolman
as officers combed the area.
He was serving a year for lar
ceny. LOANS BUNG MADE
Independence F. E. Siemens of
Dallas, manager of the Polk County
Federal Loan association, was in
Independence on Tuesday afternoon
on business. The association Is plac
ing a number of good loans in this
vicinity.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their sympathy and
kind ner to us in the death of our
mother. Katie M. Allison. The Alli
son family. 172
COUNTY ASKED
T0PAYS5808
IN FIRE TAXES
At a prolonged conference this
morning between J. W. Ferguson,
state forester, District Attorney
Page and members of the county
court, a bill for $5608.08 filed by tha
state board of forestry against tha
county for delinquent fire patrol
assessments went unpaid and ap
parently with nothing to be 'done
about it until the county budget
meeting in NovembtT. The bill was
submitted some time ago. It cover
ing tax delinquencies running back
to and including 1926 on lands tak
en over by the county under fore
closure. These are largely margin
al lands along timber belts which
are subject to fire patrol tax, al
though timbered tracts are includ
ed. The list covered 87 such tra eta
on which fire patrol tax has not
been paid for about 11 years.
A letter from the state forester
states that it is well established by
law that this fire patrol tax u ft
lien which is not invalidated by tax
foreclosure and that the county
owes it. This was not disputed by
District Attorney Page nor county
court members. The situation seems
to be that the county hasnt the
money to pay the bill and there la
no provision in the budget to pay
it.
A letter submitted also from the
Association of Oregon Counties set
up a compromise proposal for all
of the counties affected, there being
many carrying such orlliiquencles
over a long period. The compro
mise proposed was thar the delin
quencies be paid from the sales of
land and where sales are less tha
delinquencies that both sides bear
a pro rata loss. That each county
make up a list of its delinquencies
and offer the board of forestry 10
per cent of the assessments up to
and Including 1935 in full satisfac
tion. That contracts be entered
into on a basis of 2'i per cent acre
cost to the county for 1936 and
1937 patrol work. The cost to
private individuals Ls 4.8 cents per
acre. A third compromise was sug
gested today that for 1937 and 1938
a cost of 4 cents an acre be assessed
against county lands.
However, it developed ihat under
the law no one Is authorized to
make a compromise. On the other
hand the district attorney pointed
out, there is no way under the law
the forestry board can enforce the
claim against the county so the sit
uation seemed at a deadlock untj
the budget committee meets to ef
fect some settlement.
BOARD TO MEET
COOS BAY NEXT
Portland, July 21 (PI Portland
members of the state board of
higher education have been noti
fied that the next meeting of th
board will be held in Marshfield
Tuesday, July 27.
This will be the first meeting of
the board to be held there and waa
arranged in order that the mem
bers might inspect the recently es
tablished institute of marine bio
logy organized at a special lite on
Coos head.
Business of the meeting will con
sist partly of handling some post
poned budget matters from the last
meeting, giving further considera
tion to the retirement annuity plan
for faculty members and other rou
tine business. It ls possible also
that informal discussions at least
"i1l be held regarding the search
for a successor to President C. V.
Boyer. who submitted his resigna
tion as president of the University
of Oregon at the June meeting.
WAGNER REPLIES TO
GOVERNOR LEHMAN
Washington. July 21 'U.P Sen.
Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., today
wrote Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of
New York that his court plan vote
would be "consistent both with safe
guarding American institutions and
with advancing those social objec
tives which epitomize my own life'
work."
In an open letter replying to Leh
man's letter urging him to oppose
the pending Judicial reorganization
bill, Wagner pointed out that there
is uncertainty as to what court
proposal will ultimately be submitted
to the senate.
Wagner did not commit himself
on any specific court plan In his
reply to Lehman.
Mt. Angel Misa Suzanne Hauth,
clerk in the Eberle Cash store, is
back at work after spending a
week's vacation visiting relatives
and friends in Portland and Van
couver. The state department of agricul
ture today called a hearing at Mil
ton July 29 when representatives of
the prune industry will discuss whe
ther they want to retain the stand
ard 30-pound prune container used
last year.
Marriage licenses have been Is
sued to Ernest Savaac. 21, salesman,
and Evelyn Beckner. beauty oper
ator. 20, both route 2, Salem; John
Warner. 27, salesman, and Dorothy
Buskuhl, 27, secretary, both New
born. Green Stamps
every day. Doublt
every Saturday
CARSON PHARMACY
nial MM Mil Court St., KllftB