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Sixteen The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Friday, October 21, 1938 Candidates Face Club and Crowd Of Over 200 An audience of over 300 gathered tt the auditorium of the old high school building lut night to hear candidates for major office, their authorized representatives, declare themselves on public Issues or answer questions put to them by their listeners. The meeting was sponsored by the Good Govern ment club of Salem. Fred W. Jobelmann, representing the club, said its purpose was earnest study of candidates and is sues from a non-partisan point of view. Speaking in behalf of Willis Ma honey, democratic candidate for United States senator, William J. Pender graff of Portland, had much to say in praise of Senator McNary, but declared the representation should be balanced by a democra tic colleague. Among principles that Ma honey stands for were men tioned coast defense, opposition to foreign wars and support of the Townsend pension plan. Kenneth Randall, representing Andrew C. Burk, democratic candi date for congress, declared that Burk was the first man in Marion county to become Interested in the Townsend plan. He spoke of Burk's upbringing on a farm and his later residence In Wyoming as a steel worker and farmer, and ssid he was qualified to represent any ele ment except the Idle rich. Kenneth Dal ton spoke for Earl Snell, republican candidate for secretary of state, and present holder of that office. He described Mr. Snell as a red tape cutter In state business who saved the state a great deal In time, money and convenience by his direct method of doing official business. For Henry Hess, democratic can didate for governor, Elton Watkins of Portland was the speaker. He said Hess had voted for all Town- send memorials In the legislature with one exception, and that was when the pending bill in congress . at that time was defective. Rex Putnam, democratic state school superintendent and candi date for election to the office, was represented by L. A. Wilcox, and C. P. Hyde, democratic candidate - for labor commissioner, by Avert Thompson. Fo mm Contributions to this col umn most bs confined to 10$ word, and algned by writer. To the Editor: You printed under date of Oct. 1$ a complete report of the racketeer-roundup In the atate, purportedly made by Ralph Moody to Oov. Martin. The completeness and authenticity of this report la without question very interesting to the people of the state of Oregon. Interesting in the fact that on the same date you editorially endorsed an Initiative measure that would mean the destruction of all organis ed labor In the state. If the report of Mr. Moody Is cor rect, and without doubt It Is, It only proves that there are enough laws In the state to take care of racketeering and corruption without enactment of such a deceitful mea sure as you endorsed. It further proves that only laxity of the gover nor's office and law enforcement ag encles permitted racketeering to exist The number of convictions shown In the report shows that the present laws are sufflcent If enforc ed, which was not done until It could be used for political purposes. It fur. ther proves that a change Is needed in our statehouse If we are to pre vent the recurrence of racketeering. Because he has marie the state ment in one of his campaign ad dresses that he would make no change In state government, It goes without saying that the democratic people of the state of Oregon cannot support the candidacy of Charles Sprague for governor, and take chances on law enforcement. It seems to me that If the Capital Journal Is Interested In clesning up some of the grafting conditions now prevalent In the state. In some other organisations outside of labor, that you should devote your time and space to the candidacy of a man who has proven by his past records that he Is alert and capable. I apeak of Henry L. Mess, the next governor m me stat or Oregon. A. C. PRIES EN 435 N. Winter St., Salem, Ore. an m i w hi . in in in in iiiii.P'iw'wiyy 2f jjrio " ; n&yyirwrt Iowa Guardsmen Protect Strikebound Plant While hundreds of onlookers milled about the streets around the Swift Packing plant at Sioux City, la., national guardsmen, ordered Jo the scene after vio lence broke out, set up machine guns (note arrow), other machine gun units and a tear gas squad held the roof. Police reported "seven or eight" men, be Ueved to have Been leaders In the violence, had been taken to Jail. Some 600 guardsmen were assembled In the city. Associated Press Photo. Older Boys Date May be Changed Faced with the necwlty of chang ing the time of mMim tnr tv.. Older Boys conference, principals and student body presidents of high schools In Marlon. Polk and Yamhill counties have been asked to convene in Salem Sunday. October SO. It Is probable the conference will take place early In December In stead of late March as has been the eaae In former years. The change Is being made In order to avoid a conflict with Chrtataln Endeavor's annual meeting which occurs In March. Discussion of the program for the next conference will also be taken up during the October 90 meet ing. Wallace Brown of Hubbard Is pres ident of the conference, with Don Chrtstensen. McMlnnvllle. vice-president, and Silas Torvend, Silver-ton, ecretary. SllverUm Hills The regular meet ing of the Sllverton Hills grange will be held Friday night at the aommunlty hall with Victor Hadley, Biastar, in charge. i Jew Colonies Attacked by Arab Rebels Jerusalem, Oct. 21 (U.R) A wave of scattered attacks by Arab rebels on Jewish settlements was reported today white British troops strug gled to end sporadic shooting in the old city of Jerusalem. The Jewish settlements In the Haifa, Sasria and southern dis tricts reported shootings, bombings ana sabotage. Fighting in the old citv had con tinued Intermittently until late this morning, raising the toll to 10 dead and 25 wounded since the British forces stormed rebel strongholds there on Wednesday. But the clashes ended as soon as prayers began In the mosques. British troops had been firmly instructed to avoid Interference with religious activities. Major Oeneral R. N. O'Connor, the military governor, permitted Arabs to observe their regular Fri day prayer In the mosques, al though a 24 hour curfew law still was in force and no person was allowed on the streets without spe cial permit. Troops watched wor shippers sharply. Ounflre still was heard frequent ly. Rebels fired from ambushes on roofs and behind stone pillars of ancient buildings. Troops returned the fire. Three Arab women hnd been killed and seven wounded In the Indiscriminate shooting, a mem ber of the British Black Watch re giment was wounded yesterday, an other soldier and two British po licemen were wounded In the first attack on the old city. 8isters of Zton from the French convent were carrying bread from house to house, supply citizens who could not leave their homes because of the curfew. Church Women Meet Falls City The Women's Mis sionary society of the Christian church held the October meeting at the church business in charge of Mrs. Ooode. The program was in charge of Mrs. Fabrique. Devotlon als led by Mrs. Mnude Beard's group and refreshments served by Mrs Helmer's group. Roaring Typhoon Deals Death in Tokyo Tokyo, Oct. 21 (P) A typhoon roared in from the sea today, taking at least 226 lives and injuring more than 590 persons. About 230 persons were missing. The unseasonable storm which lashed waters over- land along the coastal reaches of Japan in the Tokyo-Yokohama dis trict and elsewhere rendered an es timated 35,000 persons homeless. More than 24,460 houses In Tokyo were flooded and some col lapsed. Thousands of trees were up rooted and Tokyo's communications and transportation were partly paralyzed. Tens of thousands of workers were unable to reach places of em ployment In the capital and most schools were closed. The typhoon also caused much damage at Yoko hama. All sailings from that port city were suspended. Seven passenger ships scheduled to arrive at Yokohama this morning failed to dock. The storm first struck the Kago- shlrma district of Kyushu, south westernmost main Island of Japan, and a few hours later swept into the Honshu mainland, hundreds of miles to the northeast. Reports from Kagoshlma prefec ture said the area was devastated and 2,368 houses had been washed away. About 20 fishing boats were miss ing off Chosl and Chlbl prefecture. The 5,138-ton British freighter Hat-1 terlock broke her moorings and ran aground at Tsuruml, a suburb of Tokyo. The Japanese freighter To- ten Maru also snapped her moorings and grounded. The crews of both vessels were believed safe. The weather Improved shortly af ter noon and the sun shone again on a vista of wreckage. The storm passed from Japan northeastward. Andrews Says Shut-Downs Unfair to Act Washington, Oct. 21 Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour administrs tor, hit out today at Industries which he said Intended to shut down Mon day to avoid compliance with the new fair labor standards act. These suspensions of operations seem to have been timed in an ef fort to bring the law Into disrepute, evidently, with the hope of Intimi dating the age and hour division In, Its administration of the law's pro visions," Andrews said in a state ment. "It must be plainly understood, however, the fair labor standards act la the law of the land, with severe penalties for Its violation and the wage and hour division has choice but to carry out the will of congress. "In translating that will into ac tion, the wage and hour division will enforce the act uniformly and compel lingly, with forbearance but without partiality." Andrews said millions of Amerl cans welcomed the opportunity to help "Inoculate our economic sys tem against the virus of sweat shops." "Unfortunately, however," he add ed, "there Is a small and scattered minority who apparently are unwill ing or incapable of contributing to the common good. These delin quents, whose number and import ance are magnified by their isola tion, resort to subterfuge in an ef fort to camouflage their selfishness and blame the fair labor standards act for their own anti-social conduct." Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 21 (JP) President Roosevelt was informed today by Elmer Andrews, federal wage-hour administrator, there had been such a general disposition on the part of employers to comply with the wage-hour law It was hoped intra -state Industries would voluntarily accept the standards act up for lnter-stat firms. The president termed the report very gratifying. At the same time, he said at a a press conference the action of the last congress In delegating author ity to revise and simplify federal court procedure had resulted In amazing success and was a method that should be followed In reorgan ising government departments. Regarding the wage-hour law, Mr. Roosevelt said while only Inter state industries could legally come under the law establishing mini mum wages and maximum hours, local concerns could voluntarily adopt the standard. The president also described as a favorable business sign the action by General Motors In re-employing 35, 000 furloughed workers and read justing wage cuts. Silverton fo Get Hi-Y Club Formation of a Hi-Y club at Sll verton was virtually assured last night when 50 boys, school officials, Instructors and Influential business men met with a group from Salem at a conference conducted at Sll verton. Last night's conference was the outgrowth of a meeting held In Salem a week ago with Ous Moore, boys work secretary of the YMCA in charge. Moore reported today that the enthusiasm shown at Silverton last night was the greatest he had witnessed for a meeting of this nature. As an outgrowth of the Silverton conference, Harold Adams was elec ted president of a temporary Hi-Y organization. Other boys named were Stubby Erickson, vice-president: Bob Neal secretary; Huck Anderson, treasurer, and Eugene Torgerson, sergeant-at-arms. Reg ular meetings will be held each Thursday night at the high school. Accompanying Moore to Silverton were Carl McLeod. Clinton Wampler, Virgil Sebern, Don Barnick and Bob McKee. These boys, all members of Salem Hl-Y clubs explained the pur- Bids on Nine Road Projects To be Opened Bios on nine highway protects. Involving $399,000 in construction. will be opened by the highway commission In Portland, October 17 and 18. The nine jobs will b constructed with PWA aid. Bids on other pro jects also will be opened, Including the $120,000 Klamath Falls grade crossing elimination project. Tne PWA projects are: Baker county Surfacing 18 miles of Richland-Halfway section of Baker-Homestead highway. Cost $48,000. Coos .county Grading and sur facing on Charleston-Minor creek poses and alms of the organization. 8unday night a similar group wilt discuss the Hl-Y program for the benefit of Salem Indian school stu dents at Chemawa. section of Cape Arago secondary highway, $38,000. Gilliam county Grading and surfacing on Rock creek-Morrow county line section of Wasco-Hepp-ner secondary highway, $52,000. Jefferson county Furnishing 1, 700 yards of crushed rock for Madras-Deschutes county line sec tion of The Dalies-California high way, $13,000. Llnh county Constructing main tenance building at Albany, $14,000. Douglas county Constructing bridge on Umpqua river bridge sec lion of the Pacific highway, $120,- 000. Jackson and Josephine counties Furnishing 7,700 yards of crushed gravel for Powers ranch-Jacksonville section of the Williams high way and the Medford-Provolt sec ondary highway, $13,000. Jefferson county Improvement of Vanora-Madras section of Warm Springs secondary highway, $90,- 000. Sherman county Furnishing - 7W yards oi crusneo rock lor Moro- Wasco section of Sherman high way, $15,000. The tongue of a giraffe grows to 18 Inches In length. THI Wllw F.MIir. INC.. Al00 . SCtNU t.O . .- MOO-M 3AM Nl'JtUt IPHItt Silverton Lions' Club Has Dinner Silverton Members of the Silver- ton Lions club met for their 8:30 o'clock dinner Tuesday night at the Silverton Grille basement banquet room. Following a brief business session the men attended the pro gram of the Chamber of Commerce at which Father Alcuin was the speaker, telling of his summer's tour of Europe. Fifteen members of the Lions club attended the charter night for the Stayton club and had a part In the 'presentation" of the charter pro gram. 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