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A Capital onraal The Afternoon Newspaper Leads The Capital Journal la tint with the latest news of the European crisis, United and Associated Press news dispatches. The only Salem paper carrying both services, Weather Partly cloudy tonight and slightly colder. Bundsy fair. Northerly wind. Friday: Max. 48, mln. 16. Rain .11 In. River 14 ft. South wind. Partly cloudy. Salem, Oregon, Saturday, February 25, 1939 Price Three Cents On Trains and New Stands Five Cuu 3 151 I eor, no. 10 mtlr l (Ulem. Or., on chool Board Votes 3. to 2 anser JU . FDR Requests Labor Peace Order Italians In France Back To Homeland Mussolini Repatriates Italians as Slap at France (Br Auocl.ted Pr,u Italy's territorial aspira tions at French expense cast a new shadow over Europe's I peace today as thousands of Italians began an exodus from France in what many quar ters viewed as a direct slap at the French. The Italians' return to their homeland was said to be part of Premier Mussolini's plan to repatriate Italians abroad, Italian sources said 3,000 were leaving continental France and 1000 were leaving Corsica, French Island department which has fig ured In fascist clamor for French possessions. An Italian embassy spokesman in Paris ssid this was "only a begin ning" and foreign circles In Rome expressed belief it was another ges ture of Italian Ill-feeling toward France. It coincided with signs of immi nent peace In Spain. Both France and Britain were making urgent ef forts to end the Spanish civil war and clear the way for their formal recognition next Monday of General I Francisco Franco's rule as Spain's legal government. France already has disclosed her intention to giv Franco recogni tion and the nationalists were said to have given assuraces encouraging to Britain. In Budapest, Hungarian political police investigated tips that the Hungarist nasi movement, dissolved yesterday as a menace to national security, was reorganizing to con tinue underground as an illegal po litical organization. The leader of the Hungartst "black corps." the party's allegedly terrorist section, still was sought. Guam Rejection Pleases Japan Tokyo, Feb. 25 CUR) Newspapers welcomed In editorials today the action of the United States house of representatives In rejecting an ad 4V ministration proposal to Improve 'Ihe harbor of the Island of Ouam. "The action augurs well for the future of Pacific relations," said the Nlchl Nlcnl. "We are glad that prominent Americans have finally agreed with the opinion of Japan ese experts." (Rejection of the Ouam proposal by the house was considered due partly to belief that harbor Im provements at the Island would damage United States-Japanese re lations, suggesting that the United 8tates would fortify the Island lat . er "This will dampen the abnormal enthusiasm among some Americans for Pacific defense expansion," said the Asahl. "It will save vast sums of money which otherwise would have been wasted, since the Ouam fortifications would only have weak ened American defense. Though we are unable to say that this la a 'Irndlv gesture to Japan, at any mt it certainly softens Japan's resentment at the Ouam program. Prentiss Gilbert Dies Suddenly Berlin, Feb. JS (Pi Prentiss D. Ollbert, charge d'affaires at the United States embassy, died last night of a heart attack. He was 55 years old. Mrs. Ollbert. who was vacationing at Davos, Switzerland, was notified and started at once to return to Berlin. She planned to catch a plane at Zurich which would reach Ber lin at noon today. Ollbert had been In charge of the embassy since the departure of Am bassador Hugh R. Wilson, November 10, for Washington on the summons of President Roosevelt and Secre. tary of State Hull. Ollbert was succeeded temporar ily by First Secretary Jefferson Pat terson who this morning notified toe United 8tates department, the Cerman foreign office and the Doy en (senior member) of the dlpto malic eorrv. 'nil the chars dsr fair bad died. Score Injured In Union Pacific Train Wreck 5 Passenger Cars Keel Over Embankment in Southern Wyoming Laramie, Wyo.. Feb. 25 OP) Injured when five cars of the Union Pacific's "Pony Ex press" passenger train "keel ed over a 20-foot embank ment in southern Wyoming, 13 persons were under treat ment today at a hospital here and five others were in a Raw lins, Wyo., hospital. Three persons were able to leave the Laramie hospital after receiving first aid. w. W. Jaeger, vice-president of the Bankers' Life Insurance com pany of Des Moines, one of several insurance executives bound for the Golden Oate Exposition at 8 an Francisco, said his fellow passen gers "kept their heads pretty well" when the cars Jumped the track and overturned near Bosler, Wyo., at 10 p. m last night. Tells Experience Jaeger said he and his wife were sound asleep In their berth but awoke when they felt "the bumping of the wheels over the ties." "There was a smash, a crash and I sensed the car sailing through the Ir," Jaeger said. "Then the car keeled over on Its side and came to rest." : : There was little screaming or other confusion among the passen gers, Jaeger related after he and his wife were brought to the hospital here. Bosler . Is 17 miles north of Laramie. Ambulance drivers were impeded by a blinding fog while driving to the scene of the wreck, where the Injured were swaddled in blankets against the zero cold. Kicked Window Out Dr. E. W. Dekay, Laramie phy sician, said he had to kick out a window before he could enter one of the Pullmans and start boosting out the injured passengers. He cut one of his legs on the broken window glass. Aiding four Laramie doctors are Dr. J. R. Mllsson of Omaha, chief surgeon of the Union Pacific. N. A. Williams, general manager at Omaha for the Union Pacific, also was here to superintend clearing of the wreck age. None of the Injured, with the pos sible exception of a negro porter, was believed dangerous injured. Broken Rail Blamed Several hundred yards of track were torn up when the train was derailed, and railroad officials said an emergency track was being laid around the wreck site to restore westbound traffic over the double track line. Union Pacific officials here de clined to explain the cause of the accident. At Omaha, Neb., officials of the line said a broken rail caused the derailment. Keck Fracture Fatal Portland, Feb. 25 UP) E K. Tur ner, 25, whose neck was broken In an auto accident, died yesterday. Nazis Order 1 00 Jews A Day to Emigrate .Berlin, Feb. 25 (IP) The acted to speed emigration of Jewish community of the city uie names 01 iuo jews wno tnen- will be required to leave the country within two weeks. The order Is to take effect Mon day. Some new measure against the al leged enemies of the nasi regime had been expected today following a double-barrelled attack on "Oer- man-haters abroad" and opponents of the regime at home delivered by Chancellor Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Paul Joseph Ooeb bela, Hitler spoke last night at a Mu nich rally of his "old guard" on the lth anniversary of the founding of his nazl movement. Ooebbels' blast appeared In Hitler's paper, Voelklscher Beobachter. Both ack nowledged continued opposition to the nazls In Oermany. Today's police notice provided that as soon as the 100 names are furnished the necessary deductions w Silas M. Gainer Salem superin tendent of schools whom the school board has refused to re elect. Negrin Accepts Armistice Paris, Feb. 25 W) Spanish gov ernment officials said tonight go vernment Premier Juan Negrin had accepted a British proposal for an armistice to end the Spanish civil war. They said the decision to accept the armistice, which would allow opening of negotiations to fix terms for the war's end, were conveyed to Asana by Spanish government For eign Minister Jul)o Alverez Del Vayo. At the same time, Spanish gov ernment officials confirmed that Azana already had signed hi re signatlon as president of the Span Ish republic. In a document which may be made public tomorrow, it was stated Azana would declare that French and British recognition of the na tionalist government of General issimo Franco had ended the legal life of the republic. Hines' Fate in Hands of Jury New York. Feb. 25 0J.R) The case of Tammany leader James J. Hines, accused of selling his political in fluence to the Dutch Schultr policy racket, went to a blue ribbon jury In general sessions court at 12:15 p. m. today. At the end of five week of tes timonythe trial started on Janu ary 23 Judge Charles C. Nott, Jr., delivered his charge to the Jury, com posed of brokers, bankers and busi ness men selected from a "blue rib bon" list, and it retired to determine the 62-year-old former blacksmith's fate. He Is accused of having sold and conspired to sell to the late Dutch Schultx's lottery mob, the political Influence he amassed and kept In tact by dispensing coal, food, jobs, funeral expenses. Ice cream, hand shakes and pats on the backs to the poor voters of his 11th assembly dis trict. The maximum penalty of the crimes attributed to him is 27 years Imprisonment Berlin police authorities todav Jews by serving notice on the that it must furnish each day for taxes, the billion-mark fine le vied on Jews last November after the killing of Ernst vom Rath In Paris, the capital flight tax and a special levy' for the support of aged Jewa unable to emigrate will be taken from the fortunes of the nominees. They then will be handed their passes, bearing the large Imprint "J" (Jew) and told to obtain a visa to some other country within 14 daya. The order caused consternation In Jewish circles, which had hoped the rekh would permit them to wind up their affairs normally witnout undue pressure. Leaders of the Jewish community said they could name only 300 or 400 Jewa of whose ability to leave with' In a fortnight they could give as aurance, Green and Lewis Urged to End Controversy President Wants Nego tiated Truce Between AFL and CIO Bodies Miami. FIa Feb. 25 (TP) President Roosevelt, in letters today to the heads of the country's rival labor organ izations, said labor "faces a challenge in finding itself di vided into opposing camps and called upon them to name a committee to negotiate peace. In letters to John L. Lewis, chairman of the congress of industrial organizations, and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. Iden tical except for the final paragraph. he declared the American people "sincerely hope that a constructive negotiated peace with honor may come about between the A P. of h. and the C.I.O. within the early months of the new year. Says It is Right "The secretary of labor." he add ed in the letters made public at the temporary White House here, "tells me that after careful Investigation and prolonged conversations with respective leaders In both groups there appear to be no insurmount able obstacles to peace and that In fact there Is a real and honorable desire for unification In the labor movement among all parties con cerned. The president was still at aea aboard the cruiser Houston when his letters, making dramatic plea for labor peace, were given out by Acting Secretary William Hassett. j In asking the CIO and AFL, at,, loggerheads nearly three years over I the organization of labor by Indus try and by craft, to appoint commit tees to negotiate "terms of peace," Mr. Roosevelt based his reque&t on four grounds: Reasons Stated First, because It is right. Second, because responsible offi cers In both groups "seem to me to be ready and capable of making a negotiated and Just peace." Third, because "your membership ardently desire peace and unity for the better ordering of their respon stble life in trade unions and in their communities." Fourth, because the government of the United States and the people of America "believe It to be a wise and almost necessary step for the further development of the coopera tion between free men in a demo cratic society such as ours." Hopes for Reply In the final paragraph of each letter, the president expressed the hope he would very shortly receive a reply giving the name of the peace committee members. To Lewis he said: "In addressing this letter to you, my dear John, I have great satisfaction In knowing I am dealing with a man whom I respect, a man of honor, intelligence and good will." To Oreen. he concluded: "It Is with confidence that I write you, dear Bill, as a man of good will, of experience and high principles. The president said the opportuni ties for a united and vital labor movement to make a contribution to American life of help to the people and future generations "were never better." Cites Employers He added the National Manufac turers' association recently made a statement "expressive of a better understanding of the problems of labor relationships and of their wil lingness to work with labor In a realistic effort to Improve their mu tual relations and to better general working conditions. "The complicated economic and social problems of today require the cooperation of responsible groups of citizens of all walks of life end the effectiveness of labor In this type of council can only be realized by Its fundamental unity of purpose and program." The president said he did not need to remind the labor leaders of the "great variety of opportunity to be of service which cornea to a united labor movement." The president said whatever as sistance "we In the government can give you In this matter will be glad ly given." Sprague Vetoes Free Blood Tests For Marriages Governor Says It Imposes Burden on Board of Health and Taxpayers . By Paul W. Harvey, Jr. Gov. Charles A. Sprague vetoed today a bill providing that the state board of health shall make free blood tests for marriage license applicants. Asserting in his veto mes sage that the bill "imposes a burden on the state board of health," the governor said "the law does not limit the free service to those who are financially unable to provide it for themselves. It would Impose fresh burdens on the state at the cost of the taxpayera. "The bill makes It mandatory for the board to provide the service, and it would be merely optional for applicants to use Independent reg istered laboratories. Too Much Expense "The costs of the board have been growing steadily over the years and. while I am aympathetlc with the public health program, I feel there are limits to which the state can and should assume in the way of burdens of expense." Sponsors of the bill argued It would influence people, who have been going to Washington state be cause of the marriage examination bill passed by the voters last Novenv ber, to be married at home. Sen. Joel C. Booth (R.-Lebanon), who Introduced the vetoed measure, usald he would make no attempt to have the bill passed over the gov ernor's veto. Abolish Capitol Board "I can understand how the gov ernor feels. If people want to go to Vancouver, Wash., to get married, then let 'em go. This bill would have stopped that," Senator Booth said. Dissolution of the capitol recon struction commission on April 1 was approved by the house today and sent to the governor. Other bills passed by the house were measures to permit cities to establish sinking funds to buy equip ment such as fire apparatus, and to appropriate $15,000 to aid Oregon livestock breeders In entering exhi bitions at the San Francisco fair. The senate passed 33 to 5 and sent to the governor a bill to prevent cor porations from practicing optome try, despite the charge by Sen. L. W. Wipperman (R.-Orants Pass) that the "bill Is a political football and would restrain trade." A senate bill sent to the house would require motorists to dim their headlights at night, and that motor vehicles carry two tail-lights or re flectora. PUD Bill Monday Ralph E. Moody, house legal ad viser who Is drafting a new peoples' utility district bill for the senate railroads and utilities committee, said Uie bill would be completed Monday or Tuesday. The bill would provide that districts pay the same taxes as private utilities, that voters pass on every bond Issue, that dis tricts may be dissolved after five years by majority vote of the peo ple, and that rates shall be high enough to pay taxes, bond retire ment, depreciation and cost of op eration. The senste passed and sent to the house a bill providing for non-par tlsan nomination ana election of the slate superintendent of publ.c Instruction. The bill prevlous,y haa passed both houses and was signed by the governor, but the senate re called It for minor corrections. Men and Women Picket Vessel Marshfleld, Feb. 25 HIM A group of a dozen men and women who said they represented Coos Bay cit izens today picketed the Oreek steamer Kostis which was loading 3.000 tons of scrap Iron for Japan. Coos Bay Chinese knew the pic ket line was planned but denied any part and had no members of their race on the docks here. It was be lieved the auxiliary to the CIO In ternational Longshoremen and Warehousemen's union was Insti gator of the line. Sxlty-ehtht long shoremen went to the ship but would not pass the pickets and said they would return only when they are withdrawn. Members of the banner-carrying brigade said they would demonstrate only for two daya then lat loading continue. i Bigger Pension Hopes Fading Little Progress Made for In 48 Days Restoration Lightens Social Security By Harry Crain As the 40th legislative assembly crawls along toward fi nal adjournment hopes of the been working for extended and er forms of relief, involving tax revenues, are gradually lading, forty-eight days of pull ing and hauling and deliberating- with the money problem have re sulted In the formulation of a pro gram which, at thla writing, reads something like this: Repeal of the Intangibles tax law and revision of the personal in come tax act to Include a 3 per cent surtax on Income from stocks. bonds and other securities. Upward revision of the corporate excise tax to make up for lost reve nue Incident to the Intangibles tax repeal. Social Security Maintenance of the social security budget at t23.000.000 for the bien nlum with the reduction of the counties' ahare by $1,000,000 a year and an Increase of that amount In Uie atate'a lead. Funding of the state's Increased social security burden through a boost In liquor prices, which would be accomplished without legisla tion through the governor and his liquor commission. Restoration of automobiles to the personal property tax rolls for fur ther lightening of the social secur ity load on the counties In the esti mated amount of $1,500,000 a year. So far as house and senate lead ers, taxation committees. Governor (Concluded, on page a, column Seek to Reduce Warplane Costs Washington. Feb. 25 (P) Eco nomy advocates in the senate Joh.d today In an effort to reduce the $170,000,000 expenditure President Roosevelt has proposed for new air planes. Sewral said they believed a sub stantial saving could be made by supporting the house-approved limi tation of 5,500 planes for the army. This limit has been raised to 6,000 by the senate military committee. Senator Burke (D-Neb) told reporters It was his belief thai, If costs could be reduced by mass pro duction of planes, as contended by Secretary of War Wood ring, and others, this saving should be passed along to the taxpayers rather than be Invested In additional craft. Woodrlng urged the committee to remove all limitations and thus per mit the army to acquire as zntmy ships as possible with the money congress provides. He said mass pro duction would cut costs so radically that there was hope of building be yond even the 6000 limit with the $170,000,000 fund recommended by the president. It is estimated that 3.032 plann must be built to bring the air corps total up to 5,500. The economy advocates, prepared to contest for the lower limitation when the bill is called up In the senate Monday, Joined also in a con troversy over proposal to revive a $3,000,000 authorisation for sir base Improvements at the laclflc Island of Ouam. County Court Okays $116,000 Project County officials today gave approval to three WPA pro jects covering over $116,000 under the 8275,000 blanket WPA road project approved a few weeks ago. Under the arrange ment with the WPA each aeparste project under the blanket road pro- Ject must be set up and given ap proval. One project approved today cov ers a portion of market road No. 24 In Mission Bottom two miles west of Waconda and contemplates $16. 284 expenditure of which $12,264 will be spent for labor by the federal government and the sponsoring county's cost will be $3,670. The project contemplates expenditures of $11,234 on earth excavation and $2,700 for graveling. Total cost for unskilled labor on the project all borne by the federal government will be $11,040. the balance of labor cost (or skilled and Intermediate labor. Another project calls for a total expenditure of $39,661 on five county roads near Oervala. Of the total fi3M will be borne by the More Extended Relief of Autos to Tax Rolls Load on Counties various groups which have more liberal pensions and oth sizable additions to the state's Polish Students Stone Embassy Warsaw, Poland. Feb. 25 (UP.) More than 1000 students broke thr ough a police cordon today and stoned the German embassy, smash lng all ground floor windows. The outbreak coincided with the arrival of Count Galeaxzo Ciano, foreign minister of Italy. Germany's partner In the Rome-Berlin axis, and with anti-German demonstra tions by students at all principal Po lish universities. In the attack on the embassy, the students, after an excited meeting during which denunciation of Ger many and the treatment of Poles In Danzig whipped them Into fren zy, rushed the cordon protecting the building on Pius XI street The students poured past the em bassy, hurling stones as they ran. Police reinforcements dispersed the demonstrators from the Immediate vicinity but demonstrations contin ued in the neighborhood. A high official of the Polish for eign office visited the German am bassador, Hans-Adolf von Moltke, and apologized on behalf of the go vernment for the window smashing. The demonstrations were disturb ing to the Polish government, es pecially In view of Count Clano's visit. Ciano did not witness the de monstration. Bridges Plans Strike Extension Seattle, Feb. 25 (P Harry Bridg es, west coast CIO leader, warned ship owners today that the current labor dispute which has tied up Ban Francisco shipping would spread to other ports if employers attempt ed to re-route their vessels. "In no case will ships which regu larly do not call at San Francisco be affected," he said. "But if the employers decide to boycott San Francisco in an attempt to whip the ships' clerks' association into line we'll retaliate. Any place those ships are re-routed they will be declared 'hot' and the longshore men will not work them." Picketing of the Enclnal terminal by the clerks, which led to the tie up, was an attempt, Bridges said, "by the employers to violate a ver bal agreement." "We have a written agreement with the employers but they claim they have a verbal, supplementary agreement, which Is ridiculous. They want the clerks to return to work under the so-called supplementary agreement while negotiations are being made, but the clerks will re turn only under the terms of the written agreement they now have," he said. government and $5,890 by the coun ty. A total of $26,741 will be spent on earth excavation and $5,600 on graveling. Of the total apportion ed for labor $25,720 will go to un skilled labor. Fourteen miles of road are In this project. The third project covers seven county roads near Turner as well as some work on market road No. 22 east of Salem, with a total ex penditure contemplated of $63,526. Of this the government will pay 51.M2 and the county $11,744. A total of 27 5 miles of road will be covered. Dirt excavation will cost $43,112 and graveling $11,000. To tal cost for unskilled labor la placed at $46,000. Work on all three projects will be of the general WPA road Improve ment type of brushing, ditching, grading, graveling and aim liar types of maintenance work. Star Chamber Session Denies Re-election Lack of Cooperation Al leged Superintendent Asks Public Hearing Superintendent Silas Gaiser of the Salem public schools has been notified that his con tract, which expires June 30 of this year, will not be re newed. Acting in executive session early this week the board members, by a vote of 3 to 2, decided against renewal and unless a reversal is brought about in the mean time. Superintendent Gaiser will end his five years with the district the first of July. Voting to retain the auperlntendent were Mrs. David Wright and Dr. L. E. Banick. Opposed to renewing the contract were W. F. Neptune, chair . man, Percy Cupper and E. A. Brad field. Directors Barrick and Cupper were appointed members of a special com mittee to notify the auperlntendent of the board's action. The task was performed later in the week by Dr. Barrick. Asks Hearing Superintendent Gaiser said today that he would request a public hear ing where he would seek to have all of the cards laid on the table. "I do not think It Is fair to myself or to the 1500 persons who have signed petitions favoring my retention to decide the Issue In a star chamber session where everybody la sworn to secrecy. It would be cowardly for me to quit under fire," he added. Whether this hearing will be grant ed appeared to be up to the board Itself. Chairman Neptune said he had not had time to go Into the proposal since It had been broached to him only this morning by the su perintendent. ' "We (the members of the board) were elected to run the schools to the best of our ability and when we declined to renew the superintend ent's contract we were hewing to the line In this connection," the chair man said. Lack of Cooperation "Lack of cooperation with what the board decided was to the best interests of the school," was the reason advanced by Director Brad field for declining to renew Mr. Oal ser's contract. "If the superintend ent wants an open hearing, we will have plenty to offer In defense of our action." "We notified Mr. Gaiser of our decision and agreed that we would say nothing about It, thus giving the superintendent a chance to line up something else," Percy Cupper said in commenting about the situation. "We take the attitude that we were elected to operate the schools. We believe we are taking the right course In declining to Issue a renewal of Mr. Oalser's contract." Director Wright said she was in favor of conducting an open hear ing where all sides to the Issue could be heard. Barrick's Comment "I feel that the achjol are Im proved over what they were when Superintendent Oalser took chsrge, and In view of this situation, I did not see how I could vote against renewal for at least a short term contract." Dr. Barrick commented. Superintendent Gaiser came here from Mllton-Freewater in 1034 un der a two year contract. At Its ex piration he was given a three-year term. During the past month virtu slly every service club In the city. Including the Chamber of Com merce, has gone on record favoring his retention. Petitions bearing ap proximately 1500 signatures, also seeking his re-election, have been filed with the board. Many of the teachers In the sys tem have expressed their preference for Superintendent Oalser and pe titions bearing their signatures were circulated throughout the schools. Later the Salem Teachers' associa tion voted against taking a hand in the matter. Employment Drops In Most States Washington, Feb. 25 iN Employ ment In non-agricultural Industries dropped In most states from De cember through January the de partment of labor aaid yesterday. The total decrease was about $80 000. Payrolls alo went down. Oregon's employment, however. Increased 0 per cent but payrolls fell LI par taut,