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5 1st Year, No. 95 X?L,,ZSZ'ZL Two Section-16 Pages Salem, Oregon IrM ll rfl Friday, April 21, 1939 SVS Price Three Cents
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House Passes
Bill Extending
FDR's Authority
Power to Devalue Dollar,
Pay Silver Subsidies and
Stabilization Continued
Washington, April 21
The house passed and sent to
the senate today a bill extend
ing for two years the presi
dent's authority to devalue
the dollar again, the treas
ury's $2,000,000,000 stabiliza
tion fund and its right to pay
subsidies on newly mined do
mestic silver.
The bill passed on a voice
vote.
Just before final passage
the house defeated by a 35 to 158
roll call vote, an amendment which
would have abolished the presi
dent's devaluation power.
Bitter Contest
Approval of the Mil climaxed i
bitter lnter-party scrap over admin
istration monetary powers. In which
the weight of the democratic major
ity crushed republican attempts to
amend the measure and kill some of
Its KEX provisions.
The monetary powers would ex
pire June 30 unless congress renews
them.
Republicans centered their fight
principally on the devaluation pro
vision, existence of which they con
tended, creates fear and uncertainty
among business men.
By a standing vote of 153 to 84
the house turned down an amend
ment by Representative Luce R.
Mass.) to bring thechief. executive's
devaluation Dower to an end.
Before a hushed house, Luce walk'
ed down Into the well to tell his col
leagues that:
By Party Vote
"The question is will you use at
this moment an opportunity to allay
the fears of the business world.
"This amendment will appease
them. The only problem here Is one
of psychology It's not of finance.'
By a 3 to 1 margin on a strict
party vote, the republicans went
down to defeat In their Initial at
tempt to change the monetary mea
sure. Representative Reed (R.-H1.)
proposed the amendment, to require
an audit of the stabilisation fund by
th general accounting office. It
was bowled over by a standing vote
of 180 to 87.
Continuing to bombard the bill
with amendments, republicans lined
up behind a proposal of Rep, August
H .Andresen (R.-Mlnn.) to earmark
$14.33 the difference between the
. old and present price of gold per
ounce for the purchase of Ameri
can farm and manufactured pro
ducts.
The amendment was tossed aside,
however, when democrats raised
parliamentary objection.
French Warships
Leave Gibralfer
Gibraltar, April 31 (ff) Eight
French warships left Gibraltar
steaming eastward today.
Several British warships are ex
pected to arrive here from Malta
Sunday. Since early this- week
French warships have been patroll
ing the water in the vicinity of
this British stronghold at the gate
way to the Mediterranean.
(German warships are en route to
the neighborhood for maneuvers off
the Spanish coast.)
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Lindbergh Talks With President Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
was preceded by a White House policeman as he left the execu
tive mansion after conferring with President Roosevelt for 35
minutes. The flying colonel, who has been called to active duty
with the Army Air Corps, had to wait 35 minutes In an ante room
before seeing the president. Later he refused to reveal the nature
of their conversation. The policeman Is Paul W. Proctor. Asso
ciated Press Photo.
Borah Asserts
Neutrality Now
Impossible
American Opinion Has
Crystalized and Aggres
sors Named by Officials
Lindbergh for
Quality Planes
Washington, April 21 (fP) President Roosevelt said to
day he had talked about the world military plane situation
wim Colonel Charles A.-Jjindbergrrr-H would not go into de
tail on the conversation he had yesterday with the famous
flier who has been called to active duty to survey the army's
aviation research facilities. When
asked about it at a press conference
Foreman Faces
Senate Fight
Washington, April 31 UP) Opposi
tion to the appointment of Clark
Foreman of Atlanta, Ga., as Bon
neville dam administrator and Im
pending reorganisation of several
government agencies were said to
day to have caused Secretary Ickes
to postpone indefinitely the selec
tion of a successor to the late J.
D. Ross.
An Informed person said pub
lished reports that Foreman, chief
of the public works administration
power division, was In line for the
110,000 a year position had brought
many protests from congressional
and Oregon and Washington
groups.
He said they were extremely crit
ical of Foreman's background as "a
new dealer" and of his participa
tion in the administration's efforts
to unseat Senator Oeorge (D., Ga.)
last year.
He added that congressional op
ponents. Including several Pacific
northwest members and Senator
George, were determined to avert
senate confirmation of Foreman if
he were nominated.
Contributing to the delay in the
selection of Ross successor, he said
was the Impending reshuffling of
several Important government
agencies. Including the rural electri
fication administration which might
be placed directly under Secretary
Ickes. If this happened. It was be
lieved, he said. Administrator John
M. Carmody of the REA could be
prevailed upon to accept the Bon
neville poet.
Another Attempt to
Free Rosser on Bail
Another attempt to free Al Rosser, former AFL team
ster secretary for Oregon who was sentenced to 12 years in
prison for arson, was made today when his attorneys, John
and George Mowry of Portland, ask-
ed the supreme court to admit nun
to ball pending his appeal.
Ralph B. Moody, state co-ordlnat-or,
and Bruce Spauldlng, Polk coun
ty district attorney, said they would
fight the application. The high court
probably will hear the appeal about
June 1.
The court would haw authority to
free Rosser only as far as the Polk
county arson charge Is concerned. If
Rosser were admitted to ball, he
still would have to contend with the
Multnomah and Washington county
circuit courts since he Is under In
dictment In those counties.
Rosser tendered 186.000 in bonds,
in the three counties to obtain free
dom, but all these bonds were can-.
celed after the supreme court re
fused to allow Rosser to appeal.
But when the high court reversed
Itself to permit Roster? appeal, Ros
aers attorneys asked Circuit Judge
Ar lie O. Walker of Polk county to
admit Rosser to ball. Judge Walker
refused two weeks ago to accept Jur
isdiction, asserting It was up to the
supreme court.
The bond In Polk county original
ly was 1100,000, but after Hosier's
conviction. Judge Walker reduced It
to 135.000.
Rosser. now In the Multnomah
county Jail, has been In Jail 14
month. He was convicted of com
pUdty m burning the West Salem
Box factory.
the chief executive replied he had
talked about the general plane situa
tion all over the world. He said the
discussion was about military planes
only.
It had been reported Lindbergh
stressed both In his conferences with
the president and with the national
advisory committee for aeronautics
the desirability of producing super
ior planes rather than emphasizing
mass production.
The president said he had received
no reply from Chancellor Hitler or
Premier Mussolini to his appeal to
them for a ten-year peace pledge.
The noted filer told the national
advisory committee for aeronautics
emphasis should be placed on qual
ity Instead of quantity In plane de
velopment. The committee has rec
ommended a 110,000,000 research
station at Sunnyvale, Calif., which
was rejected by the house.
Slovaks Attack
Hungarians
Budapest, April 31 VP) Hungarian
military authorities reported Slovak
artillery bombarded the Hungarian
village of Sarosremltx, near Ung
var, last night and this morning.
The authorities said Hungarian
artillerymen and Infantry returned
the fire but apparently neither side
crossed the newly established bor
der between Hungary and Slovakia.
Slovakia, nominally Independent
following the final dismemberment
of the Czecho-Slovak republic oi
March 15, Is under German protec
tion. Hungarians said they were com
pletely surprised by the revival of
border fighting such as followed the
collapse of Csecho-Slovakla after
Hungary occupied Carpatho-Ukraine
(Ru taenia).
(In the occupation of Carpatho-
Ukraine the Hungarians pressed ag
ainst the Slovak frontier for a fur
ther adjustment of the border and
fighting. Including aerial opera
tions, ensued. On March 31 a Slovak
Hungarian commission agreed on
delimitation of the border)
The Budapest foreign office charg
ed that two days ago two Hungarian
soldiers were wounded and captur
ed on the border. Unverified reports
reaching here said they died m Slo
vak hospitals.
Grntnan Gets Contract
Washington, April 31. VP) The
navy awarded a gl.006.478 contract
Thursday for airplanes and parts
to the Orumman Aircraft Engineer
ing corporation, Bethpage, Long
Island. Details were not announ
ced. The same concern was award
ed a 8466303 contract for planes
and parta on Tuesday.
Washington, April 21 P
Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, sis
ter of Senator Taft (R.-Ohio),
today accused the administra
tion of making "bullying
threats" which imperiled
world peace.
Our present un-neutral na
tional policy," she testified be
fore the Senate Foreign Rela
tions committee, "may bring
things to a head far more rap
idly on the continent of Eu
rope than any other course we could
pursure."
Mrs. Manning, daughter of the
late President Taft, Is dean of Bryn
Mawr College.
She urged strengthening of the
present neutrality act and Its ap
plication to the undeclared war in
China.
Neutrality Gone
Senator Borah (R-Idaho) during
committee questioning of Mrs. Man
ning, declared that "In the state of
mind now prevailing In this coun
try" It was well-nigh impossible "to
come to any decision that might
be regarded at all from a neutral
standpoint."
"The world already Is at war," he
said. "Already things have taken
place which make other nations
look on us as an un-neutral. Do you
think we can write permanent legis
lation at this timer...,. ,.,c-:s
- Mrs. Manning replied she believed
some revision of the law would Be
wise.
"There Is no neutrality at this
time, owing to conditions through
out the world," Borah persisted.
"We have practically made up our
minds whose side we are on. We have
practically named the aggressor na
tions,"
Signed-Up for War
Appearing before the house for
eign affairs committee, Laurence
Dennis, New York economist and
former member of the diplomatic
service, asserted utterances of Pre
sident Roosevelt and others In the
administration indicated "we are
already signed up for war."
Testifying at that committee's
hearings on neutrality legislation,
he said this country was being pro
pelled toward war both by Interests
demanding maintenance of an in
ternational status quo and by those
favoring a spread of world com
munism.
"We have got to make It a basis
of declared American policy," Den
nis asserted, "that It Is none of our
business what takes place in Eu
rope and China."
While Dennis advocated reten
tion of the present neutrality law,
Dr. Esther Caukln Brunauer, of the
American Association of University
Women, backed the Thomas-Geyer
bill to embargo trade with nations
which violate treaties with the
United States.
Rumanian Envoy
Stops at Brussels
Brussels, April 31 VP) Grigore
Gafencu, foreign minister of Ru
mania, arrived from Berlin today on
his way to an official mission In
London, and was received In an au
dience by King Leopold this morn
ing.
Belgian officials and Rumania,
Yugoslav, Oreek, Turkish and Po
lish envoys were at the railroad
station.
In Berlin Gafencu held long con
venations with Chancellor Hitler
and Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop.
Sprague to Inspect
Highways in South
Governor Sprague and the state
highway commission will leave Sa
lem tomorrow on a four day In
spection trip of southern Oregon
highways.
They will go down the coast to
Gold Beach, spend Sunday going
up the Rogue river, and attend the
semi-annual meeting of the Oregon
Coast Highway association at Oold
Beach on Monday.
On Monday afternoon the party
will leave for Rose burg via Coqullle.
spending Monday night In Roseburg
and returning to Salem Tuesday,
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Perkins Finally
Takes Action on
Labor Leader
To Ascertain Whether
Alien Was a Communist
When Action Started
Monster Military Parade Staged For Hitler A monster military review was staged In Berlin in honor of
Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday. It took four and one-half hours for the units to pass the Chancellor's re
viewing stand, and was described as Berlin's biggest. The display of armed might obviously was In
tended to Impress a nervous world of the vastness of Nazi preparedness. These big guns (above) -were
the features of the parade, being new types of long range air defense artillery. This picture was
radioed from Berlin to New York. Associated Press Photo. ,
Russia to Join
Allied Bloc
London, April 31 JP) Soviet Rus
sia has proposed resurrection of the
Anglo-French-Russian triple entente
of the World war, a highly authori
tative source said today, as a bul
wark against possible future aggres
sion by Germany, Italy or Japan.
Such a recommendation of a flat
reciprocal military alliance was said
to have been made by Foreign Com
missar Maxim Lttvlnoff to Sir Wil
liam Seeds-," British ambassador In
Moscow. Both Britain and France,
this informant said, have the pro
posal under serious consideration.
No official indication was given
of the Anglo-French reply, but Bri
tain, although favoring a less bind
ing agreement, was believed to be
ready to accept such a military alli
ance rather than lose Russia's support.
Moscow, having In mind the pos
sibility of. attack both by Germany
In the west and Japan In the east,
was said to have demanded full
military support from Britain and
France in return for her adhesion
to the bloc of nations they are form
ing. .
Duce Pledges
Solidity of Axis
Berlin, April 21 (") Messages published today showed
Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini exchanged assur
ances on the reichsf uehrer's 50th birthday yesterday that the
friendship between their two countries could not be disturbed
by enemies of their Rome-Berlin axis. They were disclosed
while Hitler turned from his birth-
day festivities to the drafting o' the
45 Hour Week
For French Labor
Paris, April 31 VP) Minister of
Finance Paul Reynaud announced
tonight the French government had
established a flat 45 hour work week
and a new one per cent sales tax In
an effort to strengthen national de
fense.
Reynaud said the government ex
pected to realize 16 billion francs
(1396,000,000) from the new series
of decree laws establishing new tax
measures and slashing ordinary
government expenses In favor of In
creased armaments.
Two billons of the 15, however.
Reynaud. said, would be used to pay
the deficit of the national wheat
office for surplus stocks from the
1038 harvest purchased by the gov
ernment.
He declared the time had come
for French citizens to consent to
Immense sacrilices" resulting from
the European armament race.
The new measures were voted to
meet two pressing needs:
1. Additional revenue to pay for
mobilizing hundreds of thousands
of reservists now called to the col
ors and for precautionary measures
during the International tension.
3. For new revenue to pay for
rising costs of armaments, includ
ing new equipment for the army,
navy and air force.
They were accompanied by offi
cial notice of a new national de
fense bond Issue, which the com
munique said would be for two
years. It failed to state the amount
of the loan.
At the end of the decrees was one
designed to Impose official super
vision over foreign propaganda In
France paid for by funds sent from
outside.
relchstag speech with whlcn ha will
reply ona week from today to Presi
dent Roosevelt's non-aggression pro
posals.
In a lengthy telegram, Premier
Mussolini told his axis partner the
friendship between Rome and Ber
lin "which has withstood many
tests cannot be disturbed by the
recurring ridiculous attempts of our
enemies."
Some time they will have to
convince themselves," II Duce tele
graphed, "that they are following
a false course because fascism and
national socialism (nazlam) are the
way of Justice and peace."
Hitler Responds
The fuehrer thanked Mussolini
and added:
"With thanks I bring anew the
assurances of my Indestructible
friendly ties with you and tlie fas
cist Italy created by you as well as
my best wishes.
Lights bumed late last night at
the new chancellery where Hitler
spent the evening In company with
close collaborators while Joyous
crowds thronged the spacious, flood
lighted WUhelmplata,
At the old chancellery building
several rooms were piled with valu
able and sentimental birthday gifts.
Including layettes for distribution
to expectant mothers, historical doc
uments, objects of art and food
delicacies. The official news agen
cy, said there were twice as many
gilts as last year.
The youngest among Hitler's call
ers yesterday was 10-months-old
Edda Goering, daughter of Field
Marshal Hermann Wllhelm Ooer
Ing, who was brought by her mother
and nurse to see the fuehrer, her
godfather.
McNary Hop Bill
Passed by Senate
Washington, April 31. (U P) The
senate Thursday passed a bill by
Sen. Charles L. McNary, R . Ore.,
to extend to September 1, 1043, the
time during which orders and mar
keting agreements under the agri
cultural adjustment act may be ap
plicable to bops.
Dutch in Fear
Of Aggression
Paris, April 31 0J.F9 The Dutch
government was understood In
diplomatic sources today to have ex
pressed concern over Its future se
curity in reply to a German canvass
of small European nations regard
ing whether they felt fear of a nazl
attack.
Adolf Hitler, preparing to reply
to President Roosevelt's peace mes
sage next Friday, asked the smaller
nations whether they felt their se
curity menaced by the totalitarian
powers as Intimated by Mr. Roose
velt. Yugoslavia was understood to have
replied In the negative to her big
and heavily-armed neighbor.
Diplomatic sources described the
Dutch reply as "courageous" under
the circumstances.
In effect, the Dutch government
told Germany that It did not at
present feel Itself menaced. But, It
was added, the Dutch government
feels that It lacks the "certainty"
that the present "sense of security
will persist Indefinitely."
German War Fleet
Through Channel
All Six Bandits
Now in Portland
Portland, April 31 MV-Five of the
six alleged auto bandits captured
Monday at Boise, Idaho, after a
lawleses Jaunt across four states,
were returned to Portland last night
under police guard for arraignment
lata today on charges o( robbery and
assault.
The five were Edward Klaus, 34;
Vera Jensen, 34, Edna Malespin.
Cleone Alyea and Jewell Smith, all
17. The sixth, Don Bailey, 37, was
In Multnomah county hospital with
a gunshot wound suffered In a gun
battle with Portland police last
week. He was flown here from Boise
Wednesday.
Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff
Holger Chrlatofferson said the pri
soners were docile on the trip, which
was delayed twice by tire blowouts.
The prisoners were returned In a
police auto and In the maroon sedan
they admitted taking at Vancouver,
Wash., after burning one car and
abandoning another here.
Win Honor Shakespeare
Ashland, Ore., April 31 (U. Ash
land will celebrate the birthday of
William Shakespeare Saturday, The
Southern Oregon Normal college of
education will conduct a Shake
spearean reading festival.
London, April 31 VP) Screened
for the most part by darkness and
mist, the German fleet enrouto to
maneuvers off 8 pain's Atlantic
coast passed through the English
channel last night and today.
The last ship reported sighted was
a destroyer bearing the number 33
on her hull. She passed Dover, head
ing westward, at 0:15 a. m. Green
wich mean time (13:15 a. m., EST)
Two battleships came Into view there
last night.
The German battleship Admiral
Scheer was seen passing St. Cath
erine'a point. Isle of Wight, last
night while two cruisers and two
destroyers were sighted off Beachy
Head, 55 miles southwest of Dover
Washington, April 21 (JP)
Secretary of Labor Perking
said today she had ordered the
immigration service to pro
ceed with a hearing of depor
tation charges against Harry
Bridges, west coast CIO director.
The charges include one
that Bridges is a member of
the communist party.
The secretary told a press
conference that the hearing
would determine whether Bridges
was a member of the communist
party in the light of the supreme
court's recent decision that previous
membership was not grounds for deportation.
Reason Grim
Asked how the supreme court's
ruling would affect the pending de
portation case against Bridges, Miss
Perkins said, "We dont think It
would be futile to continue with the
Bridges' case, but the evidence has
to be examined at a hearing."
The specific question was whe
ther Mtss Perkins thought continu
ation of the Bridges case would be
tutUe, after the court ruling in th
other deportation ease.
The Bridges case, which started In
March 1938. when the Australian
born CIO leader waa served with a
deportation warren In Baltimore,
has been suspender pending the su
preme court rulirg In the Joseph
a. Strecker case. In the Strecker
case, the labor department endeav
ored to deport Strecker even though
he claimed to have resigned from
the party.
Assemble Evidence
Strecker was prosecuted under
IBIS law providing for deportation
of any alien who advocated th
overthrow of the government by
force and violence.
Before a date for a hearing In th
Bridges case can be fixed, the sec
retary said, the Immigration ser
vice must assemble its evidence from
several scattered offices and de
termine what affidavits and infor
mation will be usable.
"The hearing wlU determine whe
ther Bridges Is a member of th
communist party," Miss Perkins said.
Bridges, who Is an alien, has de
nied membership In the party.
Ml&s Perkins expressed the opin
ion In the light of the supreme
court ruling, th labor department
"would have to prove Bridges was
a member of the party at the tun
the warrant of his arrest was Is
sued." She noted there was no evidence
to Indicate Bridges advocated over
throw of the government by fore
and violence, and explained It would
be necessary for the department to
show the communist party advo
cated overthrow of the government.
Blue Mountains
Considered Safe
Pendleton, Ore., April 21. 0JJO U.
S. forest officials today declared
the Blue mountains safe from acute
fire hazard despite unusually warm
April weather.
Pendleton weather charts reveal
ed that Tuesday's high of 04 de
grees was the warmest early April
day since 1936 and on of the 13
high marks In the past 60 years.
Snow remaining In the high
mountains was considered one of
the best checks to a summer fir
hazard.
Heavy Fog Aid to
Oregon Fire Fighters
A light morning fog and showers predicted for tonight
and tomorrow relieved the western Washington and Oregon
forest and brush fire situation today. Maj. C. S. McCowan of
the Washington Forest Fire asso-
elation at Seattle, received reports
of 14 new fires but said the situa
tion was much better.
"Rain must come before the dan
ger Is over," he said. "But this
morning's fog Is a great relief."
Numerous brush and timber fires
continued to burn throughout Ore
gon and Washington but forestry
officials believed they had the sit
uation In hand.
In Oregon, which passed the 30th
day without rain yesterday, the
state's longest recorded drought, ob
servers said two more weeks without
substantial rain would result In
heavy losses through the state's
wheat belt.
The Oregon department of agri
culture said farm damage had not
yet been great.
Although 20 new fires were re
ported In Washington state yester
day the fire situation In that Stat
was Improved today. Two of the most
serious blazes In King county (Seat
tle) ware under control.