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Capital Weather First In News Photos With the Associated Press ex clusive Tele-Mat service, the Capi tal Journal Is enabled to present photos of world events within a tew hours of their occurrence. Oeneralljr cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, unsettled with showers on coast; moderate temperature, mod erate southerly wind. Yesterday: Max. M. Min. 35. Rain 0. River 1 ft. Northwest wind, cloudy. 50th Year, No. Ill Entered as second eliu matter at 0alm, Or son Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, May 10, 1938 frice Three Cents On Trains and Nwa 8tnu Five Cente Teachers' Retiremnieinit Law-D"eclaired Valodl Japan ' Spending Bill To Provide Jobs For 4,13000 Committee Favorably Reports Pump-Priming 4 Without Earmarking Washington, May 10 (P) The administration's $3,054, 425,000 spending-lending bill will provide jobs for 4,135,000 persons, the house appropria tions committee estimated to day. For comparison, emergency employment under federal programs totaled 3,124,919 on April 16. The committee inclu'ded the 4,135,000 figure in a report recommending enactment of the bill, submitted shortly before the house began debate on the measure. The primary purpose of the legis lation, the report said, is to furn ish speedily "direct employment on the site and indirect employment away from the site of work, for some of the many millions who are unemployed and destitute or haras sed by the specters that haunt the doorstep of that too large unfor tunate group." No Earmarking The committee conceded there might be disappointments because of Its failure to set aside specific sums for particular projects, or types of work.- Ihv definite areas. Breaking down the job total, the report said an average of 2,800,000 would be employed by the works progress administration for the sev en months ending next January 31, 1.000,000 by the public works ad ministration for the period of Its two year program; 275,000 by the national youth administration In the 1939 fiscal year and 60.000 on federal public buildings. CCC Additional In addition to the 4,135,000 total, the committee said appropriations already approved for the civilian conservation corps would provide employment for 300.000 individuals In the next fiscal year, while 500, 000 more people would obtain work on general public works carried on under regular appropriations to the various government departments, Ickes Asks for New Projects 1 Washington. May 10 IPi While the debate was In progress over the spendlng-lendlng recovery bill. Sec retary Ickes threw open his office to new applications under the proposed new $1,465,000,000 public works program which the big bill would In stitute. Ickes directed PWA regional of fices to notify municipalities and other public bodies that they may now submit new applications for projects. These would be in addition to the 2.714 projects already filed and approved by PWA but for which no funds will be available until the spendlng-lending bill passes. Associates said Ickes was so sure sj congress would adopt the new pro gram that he felt Justified in start Ing work on applications at once although no legal authority for It existed. The new bill proposes S965.OOO.O0O a for PWA loan and grants of which $315,000,000 would be loans and $750.' 000.000 would go for grants. In ad' ditlon. PWA would be authorized to sell up to $500,000,000 of Its bonds to the reconstruction finance cor poration to establish a revolving fund from which it could make loans. Gangster Sentenced To Seven Months Portland. May 10 m Circuit Judge James W. Crawford sentenced LeRoy Oroshong, 30, former member of a local AFL teamster union,, to seven months In the county JaU to day on two charges of property destruction. Oroshong was convicted of break lng windows but acquitted of bum- lng a fuel truck. He admitted he drove two other former teamsters to the scene of the alleged offense Jbut asserted he did not know the purpose of the visit. The Judge allowed him 3$ days credit for time served while await Lng trial. 's Navy Shells China Asks For League Aid Against Japan Wants Effective Cooper ation Ethiopian Issue Postponed Geneva, May 10 (IP) Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chi nese delegate to the League of Nations, today asked the League council to apply pro visions of the covenant in giv ing China aid against Japan. He cited two resolutions, one by the League assembly last October and another by the council in February, which recommended that League members consider in dividual aid to China. "With one exception," he said, none of the league members had come to China's aid. He did not name the country which had sup plied the help, but It was believed he referred to Soviet Russia. "China expects to receive from other members of the league mater ial aid and effective cooperation In restraining the forces of aggres sion," he declared. Ethiopian Issue Ethiopian delegates fighting against recognition of the Italian conquest of their land won a tem porary success by obtaining post ponement until tomorrow at earliest of the council's consideration of recognition. Delegates of Britain and France. having won general council appro val of Britain's new accord with Italy, had tried to have recognition brought before an afternoon session. They favor ending the obligations of league members not to recognize Italy's seizure of Ethiopia. The "realistic" great powers were believed sure to win eventually, for the morning session showed that Viscount Halifax, Britain's foreign secretary, and French Foreign Min ister Georges Bonnet had the meet ing well In hand. Realism to Triumph wnen recognition does come before the council the Ethiopians are expected to make objections to what would amount to expunging the fallen realm of Halle Selassie from the list of nations and from league membership. After this members of the council probably will make a series of de clarations which will be considered to have freed them from their non recognltlon pledges. It was not ex pected there would be a vote on the matter or any similar formal league action. Ross Discusses Bonneville Rates Washington, May 10 (JPi Rates for Bonneville dam power were dis cussed today by Washington and Oregon members of congress and J. D. Ross, administrator. Representative Magnuaon D Wash.), said the group discussed a yardstick for power rates and de cided to have Ross work out pro posed maximum rates to be sub mitted the- group later for discus sion. Thep also discussed getting auth ority In future legislation that would permit connections among Bonne ville and Coulee dams and municipal plants to Insure maintenance of constant power loads. IlDuce to Make Anglo-French Gesture Rome, May 10 (VP) High mier Mussoirm will take a step trench entente into harmony speech at Genoa. Saturday. The primary object apparently will be to dispel fears that grave things are to come aa a result of the Oer man fuehrer's visit to Rome to emphasize the solidarity of the Itallan-Oerman partnership. Any new collaboration, aa fascists see It, would not take the form of a four-power pact, at least for the present. Both nazls and fascists, however, assert that a formula can be found for harmonization of the democratic and nazl-fascist fronts. The Italo-Oetman conditions ap pear to be first, elimination of Rus sia from Europe, which would mean weakening ot the Fraaco- Silver Creek Gets $1208 Washington, May 10 (P) The na tional park service disclosed today it had alloted ah additional $1208 of new relief funds to the Silver Creek project In Oregon. A pre vious allotment of $19,320 was made shortly after the park service re ceived $1,000,000 from the funds voted by congress to carry on re lief work through the remainder of the fiscal year. Strike Rioters To Pay Penalty Ottawa, 111., May 10 P An Illi nois appellate court upheld today sentences Imposed on 39 persons for their part In tha sit-down strike rioting at the Fansteel Metallurgi cal corporation plant at North Chi cago In February, 1937. The opinion of Judge Franklin R. Dove of 8helbyville, sustaining fines and JaU sentences for 37 sit down strikers, and two of their leaders ruled: " Congress did not by its enactmerl of the Wagner act de prive or attempt to deprive the state of their police powers to pro tect property rights or punish illegal acts committed In the course of la bor disputes ." The striking employes and two Committee for Industrial Organiza tion organizera were sentenced to pay fines ranging from $100 to $1 000 and serve 10 to 240 days In Jail for violating a Lake county court order to evacuate the corporation property. A riot followed an at tempt by the sheriff to evict them, but his second effort forced them out. In appealing, counsel for. the defendants argued the National Labor Relations act was a compe tent code for employer-employe re lations and that no state court had Jurisdiction over such relationship. M'Nary to Fight For Flax Aid Washington, May 10 P Senator McNary, Intent upon saving Ore gon'a embryonic flax fiber industry, Is preparing to make a fight for a separate appropriation for experi mental work If the agriculture com mittee refuses to provide for such a program In the pending farm bill. The senator proposed to the com mittee that It accept an amendment which would supply the agriculture department with $25,000 In 1939 for Oregon flax subsidies, recommend ed by the agriculture department as necessary for the success of the Industry. McNary went to congress for the flax appropriation after AAA dis continued annual subsidies. Renew ed federal aid probably could be ex pected, he said, when the Industry had worked out sound operating methods. The $25,000 would help processors do this. The Job of carrying out the ex periments probably will rest with George Farrell, western division chief of the agricultural adjustment administration. There have been several reports that he Is already atudylng a plan to send crews Into Oregon to sur vey anew the needs of the flax In dustry, but he denied these with the assertion, "I've never heard of them," and added that any action must await congressional appropria tions. Award U Bates Pullman, Wash., May 10 Washington Stale college R.O.T.C awards yesterdsy Included: lead ing second year officers, Paul Bates, Albany, Ore. fascists aaid today that Pre toward bringing the British with the Rome-Berlin axis in a Russian alliance (not presently likely, in the French view) and of the Czechoslovak-Russian treaties; second, disposition of Czechoslo vakia and Fuehrer Hitler wishes (for the protection of Oerman ml norltles resident there); third, col onies for Oermany. or concessions by Paris and London. With Fuehrer Hitler's departure, the Italian government was ready to resume bargaining with France on an accord for peace. A usually Informed source predicted also that conversations would be begun with Yugoslavia to settle question of Influence on the Adriatic Amoy Chinese Port Bombarded By 12 Warships Eastern Half of Island Captured and Battle Rages for City Shanghai, May 10 (R) The Japanese navy today launch ed an expedition against Amoy, chief port of the south ern coastal province of Fu kien. Foreign dispatches said a Japanese naval force landed after heavy bombardments by 12 warships off-shore and relays of bombing planes. The invaders came to grips at once with the Chinese garrison. Japanese planes dropped leaflets on Kulangsu island, Amoy's foreign settlement, urging foreign residents and foreign vessels to leave the port and announcing Japan's Intention to occupy the Chinese city. (The normal foreign population of Kulangsu is about 250. Amoy 250,000 population, 620 miles down the coast from Shanghai, Is the chief gateway to Fukien. population 12.000,000.) The leaflets promised that rights and Interests of neutral powers would be safeguarded. All Day Bombing Aerial bombing lasted through out the day, and the famous Unl verslty of Amoy, one of the most modern Institutions in China, was reported damaged. Panic spread through the Chi nese city, and Chungshan road was thronged with frightened Chinese seeking to reach the international settlement. Japanese military headquarters in Shanghai declared the eastern half of Amoy Island had been cap tured and severe fighting was in progress for the native city of Amoy, which occupies the western half of the island. The Japanese said much of the city was burning. Kulangsu, or Drum Waves Island, about three miles in circumference, where most foreign residents live. lies across the harbor from Amoy Island. Fifteen Americans, includ ing Vice Consul Lei and C. Altaffer, and missionaries of the Reformed and Seventh Day Adventist church es, were known to be there. Foreigners Endangered (Chinese dispatches to Hongkong said more than 100 Japanese were killed and "5 captured when landing unit of 500 was surprised by an ambush of the defenders.) Japan's trust Into South China as considered extremely signifi cant here, where it was believed de signed to draw some Chinese rein forcements from the bloodily dead locked Central China front or pre vent sending southern reinforce ments to the north. It was pointed out the Japanese also had avoided possible complies Uons with Britain by attacking Amoy Island of Canton, near Bri tain's colony of Hongkong. Amoy Is only 150 miles from Japan's Is land of Formosa,. Royal Air Fliers Killed in Crash London, May 10 OPt Seven Royal Air Force fliera were killed In three crashes today, a day after King George made flying visits to four air force atatlons. Five were killed in crashes of two planes belonging to tha Wyton Sta lon. Huntingdonshire, Two others died when a plane from Helmsewell Station, near Lincoln, fell. Lyon, France, May 10 (JP) Five French army aviators were killed today when a military airplane crashed soon after leaving an air drome near Lyon. Fairmounf Hill Dump Removed Manager Cuyler Van Patten of the city of Salem water department said today that the objectionable old closets, lumber and other ac cumulation from the recent water system reconstruction crews had been removed from Falrmount hill to another location where It will not be obnoxious to residents. The matter has not been sold or des troyed because It will again be useful when other construction work la started. i Police Crash With Auto Picketa Swinging clubs sent two policemen and a picket to a hospital as po lice forced a path through a United Automobile Workers picket line into the Michigan Steel Castings company plant In Detroit. Several others required first aid treatment. Clubs and fists were awinglng as this picture was taken. Associated Press Photo. Roosevelt Call Conference Atlantic City, N. J., May 10 (JP) President Roosevelt was called upon today by Philip Murray, vice-chairman of the CIO. to hold immediately a national conference of industrial ists, labor leaders, farmers, f this destructive depression. Clothing Workers of America con-' vent ion that such a conference must be held "out in the open" Instead of "behind closed doors.' Too many "selfish little groups" had been run ning to the White house In their own Interests, he said, and the time had come for all "to get together unselfishly around the conference table." Employers would profit as much as their employes from the passage of the administration wage and hour measure. Labor Secretary Per kins told the convention. The cabinet official urged quick passage of the bill to "protect that great majority of employers who are trying to maintain decent stand ards but may now be at the mercy of price-cutting competitors. "Passage of such legislation," she said, "will go far toward stabilizing Industry In the best Interest of all the people and will lessen the dan ger of great and long-continued economic setbacks In the future. Port Closure Shuts Sawmill Seattle. May 10 UP) The St, Paul & Tacoma Lumber company an- nounced today its lumber mill in Tacoma, employing 600 men, will close Friday because of Tacoma port tieup as five maritime unions prepared to vote on a proposal to close the Seattle port. Union representatives, acting as a "diverted cargo committee" to enforce the ban on goods destined to or from Tacoma, recommended calling all their men off ships here In protest against the 10 day clos ing of the port of Tacoma. Union members will continue working In Seattle until separate memberships vote on the issue. P, B. Oil), business agent of the Sail ors' Union of the Pacific, said, Besides the Sailors' union, the Masters, Mates and Pilots, Marine Firemen, Oilers and Wipers and AFL longshoremen are Involved. James Banner, member of the federal steamship Inspection board Investigating the tieup of the steamer Maklkl when its crew walk ed off, said a similar Investigation will be made up of the steamship Point San Pablo. Flva vessels are tied up here. Wage-Hour Bill Adion Delayed Washington, May 10 fUP) The house rules committee today defer red action until tomorrow on I proposal to speed the wage-hour bill to the floor next week Instead of May 23 as now is planned Committee members said there was no discussion of the resolution of Chairman John J. O'Connor, D . N. Y., to permit Chairman Mary Norton. D.. N. J , of the labor committee to call up the labor standards measure Immediately. O'Connor had said he would not rail for a vote "unless we have the votes" to put it throuah. . . -'if 77 6 III k r k Asked to inancials and merchants "to halt Murray told the Amalgamated Babe Recovering From Operation Chicago, May 10 (UP) Six weeks old Helaine Judith Colan appar ently was recovering today from an operation which medical authori ties beleived has halted spread or a dread cancerous eye growth and paved the way for them to save at least part of her vision. A week ago her parents had abandoned hope, certain she would die or be doomed to a life of blind ness. Yesterday her left eye was removed during a 13 minute opera tion which a council of 10 eminent medical specialists, holding in its hands the power of life and death, had decreed was her only chance for life. Today, Dr. Robert H. Good, who performed the operation, said the baby still has the sight of her right eye. He and Dr. Casslus B. Rogers, brain specialist of the Oar field Park Community hospital, agreed there was a "good chance" that at least partial vision of the remaining eye may be saved by X-ray or radium treatments. They said a small tumor already has attacked the eye. If the dis ease has progressed too far, that eye also will have to be removed but the physicians said there was hope that It can be treated. Attorney Samuel Hoffman, fam ily spokesman, said the baby's mother, Es telle, 23, who had been in a state of collapse, had returned to normal. The father. Dr. Herman Colan, 30 year old dentist, said he and his wife were "eternally grate ful" to the physicians who aided them. Minfon Only Vote For Press Penalties Washington, May 10 (P) Senator Byrd (D., Va), told a newspaper men's conference no one but Sena tor Mlnton (D., IndJ, would vote for the Indianan'a bill to penalise the press for mis-statements of fact. Byrd criticized the Mlnton pro posal in addressing Maryland and Virginia managing editors and pub lishers of newspapers holding mem bershlp In the Associated Press. Indications are that the bill will not be brought to a vote. Last week Mlnton said his object In Introduc ing the legislation had been accom plished and that he would not press for action. His object, he explained, was to make sure newspapers print ed criticisms he had made about tha American newspaper publishers association. 12-inch Mortars Added to Battery Astoria, May 10 P Two similar batteries Installed three years ago at Fort Stevens, near the mouth of the Columbia river, were supple men ted today by two 12 Inch, rail way mounted artillery mortars. The guns passed through here yesterday. Reports here said oth ers wert on tha war. UAW Condemns Recent Strikes Detroit, May 10 MV-The inter national executive board of the CIO United Automobile Workers union adopted a resolution today con demning unauthorized strikes by Its local unions and announced It would investigate three recent strikes and would punish Instigators by suspen sion or expulsion, if-they are found guilty of violating UAW procedure. The resolution was presented by Homer Martin, International presi dent, whose support by the board has been the subject of much con jecture and rumor. Martin said the board adopted his resolution unani mously. He said the incidents to be Investi gated are: a recent strike at the Chevrolet small parts plant at Bay City; a work stoppage on the Pack ard Motor Car Co., assembly line at Detroit three days ago, and the strikes, now settled. In eight plants of the Bohn Aluminum & Brass Co., at Detroit. By Its action today, Martin said, the international UAW board has assumed the power which the local unions hitherto have exercised, to punish members violating UAW reg ulations. Boy Prodigy To Wed Heiress London, May 10 M" Yehudl Menuhin, 21 year old violinist, an nounced his engagement today to pert, red-headed Nola Nicholas. 19. daughter of an Australian million aire. Yehudl. now a grown-up "boy prodigy," said he and Miss Nicholas would marry at a London registry office May 27. Then, he said, they will sail for the United State to settle down on his Los Oatos ranch in California's Santa Crua moun tains. Nola, whose father Is George ft Nicholas, a Melbourne maker of aspirin, first saw Yehudl across the footlights while he was on an Aus. trnllan tour In 10.35. He went away but their romance continued to ripen until they met again here a few week ago. The young violinist has Just finished the last of a series of four concerts here. LaFollette Offers Liberals a Refuge Washington, May 10 (IP) The factional split in the dem ocratic party, in the opinion of Senator LaFollette (Pro-Wis.), already has weakened "and now threatens to destroy" the effectiveness of President Roosevelt s leadership. "What Is left of the new deal." LaFollette said In a radio speech, "is In many Instances honeycombed with office holders who are completely out of sympathy with Its avowed alma." He criticised Mr. Roosevelt for relying on "divided councils." as serted he hsd not been vigorous enough in opposing "resctlonary democrats," and said the administra tion's new spending program falls far short of needs. The only place liberals can now go, the senator said. Is to the new progressive party proclaimed by his brother, Governor Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin. Senator LaroUette has been 65 Year Age Limitof 1935 Law Upheld Only Teachers of Mult nomah and Marion Coun ties Affected by Decision The 1935 teachers retire ment law, requiring retire ment last February 1 of teachers at the age of 65 in Multnomah and Marion coun ties, was upheld today by the state supreme court. The high court, in an opin ion by Justice Belt, reversed Judge H. D. Norton, rendered in Multnomah county. The suit was brought against the directors of school district No. 1. Multnomah county, by 11 Portland school teachers who contended that the retirement law deprived them of property without due process of law. impaired their contractual rights and denied them equal protection of the laws. The law affects districts of mora than 20.000 population, but only Marlon and Multnomah counties have districts this large. Court's Findings "There Is no merit in the conten tion that plaintiffs have been denied equal protection of the law, as the compulsory retirement provision ap plies alike to all teachers within the same class," Justice Belt wrote. "The legislature x x x said that compulsory retirement of teachers who are 65 years of age tends to promote the general welfare of tha public and Is for the betterment of the public school system. "Many reasonable-minded per sons believe that there Is danger of schools being loaded down with superannuated teachers who have lost their appeal to youth x x X Not Arbitrary "Whether such legislation Is w4se Is not for this rourt to determine. It la sufficient to say that we do not consider such compulsory retirement of teachers arbitrary or unreason able." Three Multnomah county suits were consolidated In the school board's appeal from Judge Norton's order enjoining the board from en forcing the retirement law. Those who brought the suits against the board were Btrdlne Merrill. C. E. Ferguson, C. E. Scott, N. A. Baker, A. A. Campbell. C. M. Hlggins. Emma Richards. 8. F. Ball. Jessee McCord. B. E. Hugaon and Mrs. E. L. Coovert. Petitions for rehearing were de nied in the following cases: Van tine vs. Hclllg. Fluhrer vs. BrameL and In the estate of Warren Her bert Norman. Haile Selassie Returns to London London, May 10 W Sad-eyed Halle Selassie, exiled emperor of Ethiopia, came to London today from his seaside retreat at Bath, but It was Indicated he would not proceed to Geneva for the league of nations council debate concerning his country's fate. His wife, the Empress Menen. and son. Prince Selassie, have ar rived In France. They came from Jerusalem aboard the liner Marietta Pacha, docking at Marseille. As they entrained for Paris the empress said she did not know whether they would go to Geneva. vigorous suDBOrter of many Roose velt proposals, and observers noted that he objected to the president's tactics rather than his principles. At one point he called Mr. Roose velt "one of the great liberal lead ers of modern times" and at another he spoke of the president-! "In comparable ability to present the essence of complex economic prob lems to the voters." "In the past three sessions of con gress it Is no secret that the re actionary republicans and demo crat worked In a coalition. They have been so aucceasful that the overwhelming nominal democratic majorltiea In both houses of con gress have become almost Impotent to enact a thorough-going program even If one were presented."
