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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 21, 1939
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Sprague Asks
State Bureau
Of Research
In Special Message Gov
ernor Would Have Plan
ning Board Transformed
By Paul W. Harvey, Jr.
Changing the state plan
ning board into a state bureau
i of research and development
and establishment of a com
mittee to work on legislation
between sessions were recom
mended today to the legisla
ture by Gov. Charles A
Snraeue.
In a special message to both
houses, the governor said the
revamped bureau would do
research for the governor, leg
islature and legislative Interim com
mittees, and also "have broad pow
ers In exploring fields of economic
development, utilization of natural
resources and Industrial opportuni
ties." He said he would "like particularly
to have legislative committees make
use of this bureau, If created. In
preparation of legislation."
Cites Kansas
Kansas has attracted considerable
attention recently because of Its
legislative council which meets at
Intervals between sessions to do pre-
! llminary work on subjects In which
legislation Is deemed necessary.
"I believe Oregon could accomplish
similar good results by having Its
legislature create a standing Interim
committee for which the state bur
eau could do the necessary research,"
he said.
The bureau would be located In
the new library building here.
The legislature, In a determined
effort to end the session within 10
days, began consideration today of
the administration tax program, one
ef four major pieces of legislation
yet to be acted upon. The others are
appropriation bills, peoples' utility
district legislation, and equalization
of school taxes.
Tax Program Up
The tax program, calling for re
peal of the eight per cent tax on In
tangibles, a three per cent surtax
on Intangibles and a slight boost In
the corporate excise tax, was to
come up for final passage In the
house today. The entire program
would raise the same amount of
4 revenue as at present.
Rep. Phil Brady (D., Portland)
president of the Portland central la
bor council, said labor would fight
the tax program because It was op
posed to the Intangibles tax repeal
A bill authorizing Multnomah
county commissioners to deduct V
per cent from salaries of county em
ployes earning more than $75 a
month to creat a pension fund.
was passed by the senate and sent
to the house.
Regulate Clubs
A bill to permit the liquor com
mission to Inspect and regulate
elubs to Insure orderly conduct also
passed the senate and went to the
lower body. The bill prevents open
display of liquor in clubs.
Despite objections by 8en. Lew
Wallace (D., Portland) that the sen-
ate was "washing Portland's dirty
linen," the senate passed and sent
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Chamberlain Asks
For War Budget
London, Feb. 21 (JP) Prime Minister Chamberlain today
sought House of Commons approval for raising the limit of
Britain s borrowing for her great arms program to 800,000
000 pounds (14.000.000.000) and
warned attentive members even
this huge sum might not be enough.
The premier opened the second
dsy of defense debate with a re
minder $80,000,000 pounds 2.00.
000) was scheduled for armaments
expenditure in the next year alone
a sum equal to almost the entire
national debt In 1014.
Chamberlain admitted the arm
aments race If continued "must lead
to bankruptcy for every country in
Europe."
But, he said, m disarmament con
ference at present Is "not a prac
ticable proposition since there Is
tnot sufficient evidence to show that
"it had a chance of success.
"A conference that failed would
be worse than no conference," he
said.
Planes Crash
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Child Feared Kidnap Victim Anna Louise Sweltzer (left), S. and
Townsend Davis (right), 40, who kidnaped the girl. Associated
Press Photo.
Child Kidnaper
Returned for Trial
Pasadena, Calif., Feb. 21 (IP) Manacled to a police of
ficer, Townsend Davis, 40-year-old gardener and church or
ganist, was returned here today from El Centro in the Im
perial valley and immediately underwent an extensive ques
tioning about his abduction Sunday of Anne Louise Sweitzer,
eight years old. Officers who
brought Davis and the little girl
back here said he admitted abusAig
her but denied he had attacked the
girl.
El Centro, Calif., Feb. 21 WV-
Manacled for a trip back to Pasa
dena to face a charge of child steal
ing, 40-year-old Townsend Davis,
gardener and church organist, told a
shocking story today, police said, of
his attempted flight to Arizona with
golden-haired Anne Louise Swelt
zer, 8.
The gaunt, hollow-cheeked man
and his tiny companion were seized
late yesterday as his old sedan ap
proached the state border, more
than 24 hours after secret departure
from Pasadena.
Faint from an attack of nausea,
Anne Louise was not able to be
questioned.
A medical examination was to be
made of the girl to determine If she
had been harmed.
As reported by police, Davis told
of spending Sunday night with the
girl In a single room at Indio, be
cause he "didn't have money enough
to rent two rooms." When he was
arrested he had 12.30 and a religi
ous tract In his pockets.
"I guess I done something rash.
but she wanted to leave home.
considered her home a bad envi
ronment for her, Davis was quoted
as saying.
He told officers he had planned to
take Anne Louise to Somerton, Ariz.,
where they were to visit the Rev
Virgil Vance, an evangelist, who has
a daughter about the same age.
At Pasadena, the girl's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sweitzer, in
dignantly denied she had been ill
treated or led anything but "a
happy, normal home life." Sweltzer
Is a disabled World war filer and
his wife Is a semi-invalid.
Then he indicated Sir John Si
mon, chancellor of the excheauer.
might be compelled to ask for fur
ther loans, since the estimated ex.
penditure of 1J50.000.000 pounds
(6.3SO.OO0.0O0) for the first three
ears of the five year, 1500.000.000
pounds (11,500.000,000) rearmament
program launched In 1837 would
leave only 3i0.000.000 pounds ($1
250.000.000) for the last two years.
It would be criminal he said, not
to attempt to halt the arms race. In
a conciliator reference to dictators
he added: "It would not be a bad
thing If we ourselves showed a lit
tle more confidence and did not al
low ourselves to believe every tale
that comes to us about the aggres
sivt intentions of others."
King Launches
Big Battleship
Newcastle. England. Feb. 31 MV-
King George VI, guarded by more
than 1000 police, today launched
Britain's great new battleship which
bears the name of his father, King
George V.
"May God bless her and those who
serve her, the king cried as the
35.000-ton ship shot down the ways
into the river Tyne, the first bat
tleshlp Britain has launched In more
than 13 years and the first of a new
group of monster vessels that will
total at least nine.
As the king and Queen Elizabeth
came to Newcastle for the ceremony
they were under the strictest guard
ever given a modern British mon
arch In his own country.
Because of the wave of bomb ter
rorism In recent weeks, which was
attributed to Irish republican sym
pathizers, nearly 500 special con
stables were called to augment lo
cal police. Every place the king and
queen were to visit was inspected
for bombe.
Pulling a silver lever which re
leased a magnum of Australian wine
to smash against the great craft,
King George watched eagerly
the vessel slid into the stream.
The ship will mount ten 14-inch
guns and have secondary armament
of sixteen 5'4-lnch guns in eight
turrets, as well as numerous smal
ler pieces. The admiralty said she
would be "appreciably faster" than
the 33 knots of the last battleships
built by Britain.
Three sisterships -The Prince of
Wales, the Duke of York and the
Beatty are to be launched later
In the year and the fifth of the
series will leave the stocks early in
1940. Two other battleships have
been authorized and the govern.
ment has announced plans for two
more.
Personal Injury
Payment Provided
Washington. Feb. 31 P The sen
ate passed and sent to the house a
bill to pay Roy D. Cook. 13-year-
old Portland lad, 13500 for Injuries
received when a large u. 8. mail
box fell on him in 1935.
The boy and a companion were
on roller skates when he attempt
ed to stop by grabbing the large
carrier storage mall box. He slid
under It. pulling the box on top of
him. The accident broke four up
per teeth, loosened the others, frac
tured his upper right Jaw. dislocated
his right Jaw. fractured his chin
fractured his lower jaw on the left
side and severely cut him about the
face.
The postofflce department
Jected the claim for damages on the
ground the government was not at
fault but the senate claims com
mlttee held responsibility rested on
the government because the mail box
was not securely anchored.
in Fog
2 Pilots Killed;
6 Escape by
Parachutes
Brazilian Officer Among
Dead; Students on Train
ing Flight at Pensacola
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 21 (IP)
Trapped in a dense fog,
eight navy planes were wreck
ed and two pilots killed on a
routine training flight last
night.
Rain washed away the fog
at dawn today, disclosing the
full toll to officers of the Pen
sacola naval air station.
Si0 student fliers escaped
by bailing out in the darkness
in their first parachute jumps.
Four pilots landed safely In south
Alabama.
Lieut. O. F. Presser, Sr., a Bra
zilian navy officer receiving regular
training here, died when his plane
crashed and bumed at Corry field
where land planes are quartered.
No Radio Equipment
Lieut. N. M. Ostergren was found
in his wrecked and burned plane
near McDavid, Fla., about 35 miles
north of Pensacola. The fog kept
his fate a mystery until after dawn,
when scouting planes took to the air
for a search of the entire section.
Lieut. J. P. Monroe, aide to the
commandant, said there waa noth
ing anxious ground erews could do
except wait for the pilots to Jump.
The planes were three radio-equip
ped two-seat instruction ships and
nine single seated land craft (Boe
ings), with high landing speed that
makes It difficult for them to alight
on soft ground, were not equipped
with the radio.
Four of the deserted ships fell on
the government reservation.
Trucks were sent to bring In the
wrecked planes as each was located.
In addition to Lieut. Presser, an
other Brazilian officer, Lieut. A. C.
Horta, was in the group. He leap
ed to safety.
Two Brazilians
The two Brazilian officers were In
training under a long-standing na
val policy of aiding South and Cen
tral American countries to prepare
their fighting forces, said those close
to the air station.
These two, reported to be the only
foreign officers now In training here,
were on their final test flight along
with the other students. They were
flying In squadron five, which is
equivalent to a concluding examina
tion of their fitness as fliers.
A law approved by congress last
summer permits training of South
American aviators in United States
service schools, the measure left
regulations up to the president.
Pea Soup Fog
Nine advanced students and three
instructors took off early last night
for a routine after-dark flight.
Not long after they were aloft
soupy fog rolled In from the gulf of
Mexico. The well-lighted landing
field was blotted out. Thousands of
feet high, the fliers were faced with
the choice of ' hunting an airport
that was not fog-bound or flying
until their gasoline was exhausted
and jumping.
Three Instructors and one student
managed successful landings. Cadet
J. E. W. Whitener, Lieut. W. G
Jackson and Lieut. J. H. Brett, Jr.
came down at the Atmore, Ala., air
port. Cadet A. C. McDonough land
ed at Greenville, Ala.
Leapt to Safety
Leaping to safety were Lieut. Hor
ta, Lieut. E G. Osbom. Cadet R. F.
Chalmers, Lieut T. D. Cummins, Ca
det C. W. Harbert and Lieut. R. E.
Harner.
All their planes save one crashed
within 10 miles of Pensacola. The
ship from which Cummins leapeo
fell into the back yard of the home
of Mrs. S. R. Likes at Myrtle Orove
a suburb. Another sank In Escambia
bay.
"It's unfortunate aa It can be,
Lieutenant Monroe said In discuss
ing the accident. "It's Just one oi
those things."
He said no blame could be at
tached to anyone. Coastal fogs come
up quickly and cannot be foreseen
he explained.
"The fog came In suddenly and
the planes were caught a9oul it.
Monroe added. "The pilots couldn
do anything. A lot of them were out of
gas and most of them Just Jumped.
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Runaway Engine Wrecks Train, Kills Two This battered, twisted mass of metal Is all that remained
of two locomotives, one a runaway freight engine, the other pulling a pssenger train, after a terrific
head-on crash near Harlan, la., in which two men were killed and 31 persons hurt. Associated
Press Photo.
Eugene Power
Line Bids Asked
Portland, Feb. 21 (fl1) Another
xtep toward extension of Bonneville
dam power to the Willamette valley
was taken today with a call for
bids for construction of a 110.000-
volt transmission line from Van
couver, Wash, to Eugene.
This line will be the southern
arm of power from the main distri
buting station at Vancouver. Bids
will be opened March 10 and awards
will follow shortly with the expec
tation that the first unit of the line
will be ready to carry power within
five and one-half months the fall
deadline set by the Bonneville ad
ministration for delivery of power.
The route of the southern line
will be from Vancouver to St. Johns,
where power for the Portland area
will be taken off, thence southward
near Beaverton to Wilsonville. Butte-
vllle, Donald, West Woodburn and
to a substation toward Corvallis
and thence to Harrlsburg, Junction
City and Its terminus, a substation
near the Eugene city limits.
Willamette valley towns which will
be close to the line Included Orleans,
Verdure, Tangent, Oakville, Peoria,
Shedd, Halsey, Alford, St. Paul, Ger-
vais and Independence.
Cardinals Elect
Pope March 1
Vatican City. Feb. 21 (jP) Cardin
als at the Vatican announced of
ficially today they would meet In
conclave March 1 to elect a new
pope.
They previously had Indicated they
would start the conclave Febru
ary 28, with voting to begin the
following day after Cardinal O
Connell of Boston and the two
South American prelates arrived.
The Vatican announced, however,
the cardinals decided the opening
ceremony would be March 1. Vot
ing consequently will begin March
Speculation quickened on the
chances of various cardinals, al
though all conceded there was lit
tle upon which to base predictions.
A few diplomats to the Holy See
thought the chances were slightly
increased for election of Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelll, Vatican secretary
of state under Pius and now earn
er 1 en no of Interim ruler. Most ob
servers, however, thought he would
receive merely a substantial courtesy
vote on the first ballot
Only three of 62 members of the
college had not yet arrived. They
were Cardinal O'Connell of Boston
and the two South American pre
lates. Cardinals Copello and Leme,
who are expected to disembark
from the Neptunia March 1. Card
lnal O'Connell Is transferring to
that vessel at Gibraltar.
Vote to Continue
Export-Import Bank
Washington. Feb. 21 JPi Over
the protests of republicans that the
action might result In leading this
nation Into war, the home voted
today to continue the functions of
the export-Import bank to June 30,
1941.
It pawed and sent to the sena'e
a measure extending the bank, and
the commodity credit corporation
to thst date. The bill also would
raise from $500,000,000 to $900,000.
000 the amount of securities the
rrertlt cornnrstlnn coitld have out
standing at any ona Umt,
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Wine Back for
Action in House
By Harry
The farmers' wine bill HB 84 was back on the desk of
the house today awaiting a place on Wednesday's calendar of
measures up for final passage, and accompanying it was a
report recommending its enactment signed by four members
of the committee on alcohol control. Fuhrer. Thnmiis. Hpssp
and Carter. Declining to recommend
It but making no minority report
were Representatives Kiinoerllng.
Hall and Wells.
It was the second time the meas
ure had come back to the house with
the same report. Yesterday it was
on the calendar, but was sent back
to committee at the request of
Rep. Munroe, who asked that Hood
River fruit growers be given a hear
ing on their allegations that its pas
sage would invite retaliation by Cal
ifornia and other states and destroy
a wide market for their apple and
pears and by-products of those
fruits.
Wine Council Busy
When they met to hear the grow
ers following adjournment yester
day It was developed by questioning
that request for the belated hearing
grew out of a telephore conversa
tion between a number of the Port
land firm of McMarsters and Cole,
representatives of California wine
interests, and R. J. McLsaac, presi
dent of the Hood River growers' co
operative,
Did (Kern) Crandall get you on
the telephone?" Rep. Walter Fuhrer
asked McLsaac. referring to the
chairman of the state republican
central committee who has admit
ted being employed by commercial
wine Interests to oppose the bill.
Retaliation Seen
Fuhrer charged that behind the
belated request for a hearing are the
Oregon Wine council and the Cali
fornia wine importers who, he al
leged, are using the growers to de
feat the measure by delaying its
consideration until they can build
up opposition to it.
While we are fooling around here
the opposition is manufacturing ar
guments for the bill's defeat by agi
tating retaliatory legislation In the
California legislature," Fuhrer said
today.
'If California wants to engage in
war of retaliation they do not
want to forget that Oregon can play
the same game. In the long run they
have more to lose than we have."
Opponents of the bill caused
plainly marked copies of morning
newspapers containing report of
proposed retaliatory legislation in
California to be placed on the desk
of every house member this morn
ing.
Fuhrer said that he would ask the
bill and the report of the committee
be made a special order of business
in the house Wednesday morning.
Distillery Opposes
Mrs. Munroe told the committee
yesterday that she had long been a
worker for prohibition and thst she
had no quarrel with the bill's pro
visions for regulation of the sale of
fortified wine that her only inter
est lies In protecting the fruit grow
ers from destruction of their pres
ent markets. She expressed fear tha1
enactment of the bill would have an
adverse effect upon Oregon grow
ers; that its passage would not bring
about the expected results.
Opposition to the measure also was
expressed by Jesse Crenshaw, repre
aentlng a Hood River distillery, who
said Its pa-ssage would result in dou
ble taxation of Oregon fruits used
In the manufacturt of fortified
wine.
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Japanese Bomb
Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Feb. 21 (IPs Japanese
warplanes bombed a railroad sta
tion In the British crown colony of
Hong Kong today, killing a British
Indian policeman and wounding
about a dozen other persons.
The bombers also demolished a
railway car in which a score of
British policemen were sheltered
near the station.
British military authorities said
the low-flying Japanese planes first
dropped bombers in Chinese terri
tory not far from the western bor
der of the British colony and then
flew over the border, unloading
more missiles on the Lowu station.
18 miles from the heart of Hong
Kong.
A mixed passenger and freight
train of the Hong Kong-Kowloon
railroad two miles within the col
ony border narrowly escaped des
true t ion when a Japanese bomb
landed near the tracks, shattering
windows of the cars. The passen
gers were reported uninjured.
(A Reuters, British news agency,
dispatch from Hong Kong said at
another point a bomb fell on
British military blockhouse, killing
and Indian and several Chinese.)
Sir Oeoffry Northcote, governor
of Hong Kong, who was spending
the week-end a few miles from the
border, immediately went to the
scene of the bombing to make an
investigation.
It was understood the colonial
government requested the British
consul general at Canton to bring
the Incident to the attention of
Japanese authorities there at once
Kx-Collertor Dies
Portland, Feb 21 (TP) Lew L.
Blumenthal, Portland business man
nd former customs collector In
Yukon Territory, died Sunday. He
formerly was In business In Alaska,
Scion Li Hung-Chang
Slain at Shanghai
Shanghai, Feb. 21 (P)
Marnuia Li. grandson of Li
statesman, was Rhot and killed
neclor of the International settle
ment by two unldrntlfled gunmen.
U vas reported to have been
amorlatpd wllh the Japanese-spon
sored Nanking reformed government.
Incomplete police reports said the
gunmen attacked U as he was leav
ing his house to enter an automo
bile. The assailants escaped. Poli
tical assassinations since the Jap
anese occupation of the Shanghai
area In November, 1937, reached a
total ot 53 with the slaying of Li.
' Police said five bullets entered
U s body.
LI was born In 1881, the eldest
grandson of Marquis LI Hung-Chang
great viceroy In the later days of
the Chinese empire, from whom Li
Inherited his title.
Hit public positions Included: Se
Can't Obtain
Needed Guns
In Two Years
Only Start Made on
Manufacturing Wea
pons So Far
Washington, Feb. 21 (fl"
The senate military commit
tee heard today the army can
not obtain in less than two
years sufficient anti-aircraft
weapons to equip its "initial
protective force" of 400,000
men.
Chairman Shcppard (D.
Tex.) said Maj. Gen. Charles
W. Wesson, chief of ordin
ance, told the committee day
and night shifts would be re
quired in manufacturing plants to
turn out sufficient of the heavier
types of anti-aircraft guns In two
years.
The army made a start on manu
facture of this type of artillery un
der an appropriation of $13,000,000
and contract authorization of $10,
000,000 by the last congress.
Shortage of Supplies
Sheppard said testimony of Wes
son and other army officials dis
closed even the appropriation ot
$110,000,000 sought In the presi
dent's rearmament program for this
purpose would not provide enough
artillery, ammunition and other
supplies for the 400.000 soldiers
comprising the regular army, na
tional guard and organized reserves.
While the senate committee con
sidered armament, the house mili
tary committee was told by George
S. Messersmith European nations
were "using every effort to press
the services of their experts" on
South American countries free of
charge.
Americans Preferred
Most of the South American na
tions prefer, however, he said, to
use United States expert chiefly
for solving agricultural and eco
nomic problems and pay for their
services.
M es.se r smith testified on a bill to
amend the law authorizing this
country to detail expert for such
foreign service so when the foreign
government pay for the services
the funds could go direct to the de
partment Involved Instead of 'into
the general fund of the treasury.
Immediately after Messersmlth
concluded, the committee unanim
ously approved the legislation.
Another house committee veter
ans affairs heard Administrator
Frank T. Hlnes say the veterans'
administration had set a goal of
100.000 hospital beds for war vat
erans. Hlnes expressed hope
would be attained in the next 10
years. Present plans call for 82,026
beds by June 30, 1940.
In another discussion relating to
national defense and war, Francis
B. Sayre, like Messersmlth an as
sistant secretary of state, told the
senate territories committee condi
tions In the far east were so volatile
America might be involved In trou
ble there by an abrupt severance of
relations with the Philippine.
The house reached the crux of
the controversy over the adminis
tration's $552,000,000 defense pro
gram today a recommendation for
a seaplane base on the Pacific is
land of Ouam.
The Ouam proposal, included In
a $53,800,000 bill for Improved naval
air ba.ses, accentuated question of
foreign policy In the Orient at a
time of Intense argument over
American relations with Europe.
Li Kuo-Chieh, better known as
Hung-Chane, famous Chinese
today in the American defense
nior councillor of the board of ag
riculture; Chinese minister to Bel
glum, 1910-1913; member of the ad
visory council of the president.
Since 1924 he had lived in retire
ment In Shanghai. A government
order In 1932 ended his connections
with the China merchants steam
navigation company because of his
attempt to negotiate a loan with a
foreign country.
Japanese army and diplomatic
authorities reiterated tonight "grave
concern1 over an attack in the In
ternational settlement Sunday when
a Chinese gunman fired Into a
taxlcab and wounded three ot the
four Japanese occupants. The as
sallsnt escaped among the crowds
celebrating the lunar new ear.