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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Major
defect In the business picture now is
In building. The overdue boom In
! $hs construction Industry has failed
to materialize.
The government
has been spend
ing a lot of
money on it for
three years, but
has only suc
ceeded In keep
ing it from com
plete breakdown.
Private expendi
tures have not
been stimulated
to any extent
comparable with
the pre-depres-
alon era.
With general Industrial production
clicking along at 109 per cent of
: normal, building for November lags
at about A5 per cent. It is the low
vet of all the major trade barometers.
This Is of tremendous Importance
because the bulk of unemployment
Bow la in that Industry. At least. In
the absence of any real statistics
concerning unemployment, moat
economists say It Is In that Indus
try. It means the current unemploy
ment condition Is not likely to be
cured until the construction Indus
try gets back Into stride.
- What has happened to the absent
building boom is not a very deep
mystery. For one thing, prices are
high. That Is, they are high In re
lation to wages and Income. And
there la not much chance that they,
.-will get any lower. . , ...
But that Is not all. Other Indus-
j ''Ml'
j tries have not yet reached the point
where plant expansions arc neces-
ary. Factory building for the last
ten months amounted to $161,000,000,
l Vhlch was good only by comparison
''. with the 90,000,00 of the same
period In 1935. Commercal building
f'- Sar the same ten months' period
amounted only to 2O3,0OO,0OO, and it
L "was 9140.000,000 for the same period
-t last year. Office and store rents aro
iuA high enough and business pros
pect are not yet good enough to
stimulate a general movement in
eommorclal building.
. Residential construction has done
somewhat better. In the ten-month
'. period It amounted to $668,000,000.
' aa compared with $394,000,000 for the
; first ten months of 1935.
. : But the demand for residential
construction still exists. If the gov-
ernment surveys on the extent of
- the residential shortage are correct.
Ample credit facilities exist. The
present wave of wage increases and
bonusea should, If continued, stlnm
J"'Ute buying. Increases of the general
J?price level during November tend to
put the general price level more in
'" conformity to building costs. AH
. these factors suggest a continued
' steady improvement in the reslden-
tlon line.
1 Some slight sign of an Increase In
! factory and commercial demand Is
;: discernible. The rayon industry, for
', one, has ben run til ng at capacity and
' j Is expected to Increase Its plant
: facilities. Increased earnings have
' also caused expectations of plant ex
'; pans! one in steel.
i: In the main, what is expected is a
( alow, smooth upward curve line,
') which may not reach pre -depression
v levels very soon.
f I It Is a problem which the govcrn
'i ment could probsbly help more by
.: encouraging a national belief In the
1 certainty of business expansion, high
) wages and prices, than by the artlfi
l clal methods which have been at
: tempted.
(Continued on Poge Four.)
SIDE GLANCES
, by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Eugne Thorndike paying football
bets in a local restaurant after rue
fully scanning the list of gridiron
upsets over the week-end.
Pete Denson bidding au re voir to
friends before leaving for California
and receiving bon voyages In return.
Aubrey Norrls scouring the town
for the more forgetful Masons to re
mind thrm of the meeting Tuesday.
big feed being one of the Induce
ment. Elmer Knlps, Copco technician,
assuming the role of weather prophet
Sunday with the correct prediction
that the mercury would hit a new
low this morning.
Dick Sleight averring this frigid
that he was so cold he didn't
'know which way to no and then
coutiteractlne that statement by
beating an unswerving path to work.
PRESIDENT'S SHIP
OF GREATJHRONG
Argentine Officials Greet
Americans at Wharf
Opening Address of Peace
Parley at 6 P. M. Tuesday
BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 30. (AP)
President Roosevelt, acclaimed by
hundreds of thousands, reached here
early this afternoon for the opening
tomorrow night of the 21-natlon
peace conference which developed
from his Initiative.
Tho cruiser Indianapolis, which
carried the president on his 12-day
trip from Charleston, S. C, docked
to the cheers of a huge throng on
shore and the shrieks of whistles on
'hundreds of vessels In Buenos Aires
harbor.
Tho Indianapolis reached the flower-bedecked
dock at 1:34 p. m. (11:34
a. m., E.3.T.)
. Son First Ashore.
James Roosevelt, the president's
son. was the first ashore. He shook
hands with Argentine President Au
gustln P. Justo and others in the re
ception group.
President Roosevelt disembarked at
1:88 p. m. He was greeted at the
pier by President Justo, United States
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Ar
gentine Foreign Minister Carlos Ssav
edra Lamas, Cardinal Santiago Co
pello. and other notables.
Before Mr. Roosovelt left the In
dianapolis, the cruiser's band played
the Argentlno anthem and then the
"Star Spangled Banner," In which
the Argentine navy band ashore
joined.
The visiting United States presi
dent descended the gangplank hold
ing the arm of James Roosevelt, who
had re-boarded the vessel.
Greets Argentine Chief.
President Roosevelt got Into a car
at the foot of tho gangplank after
greeting President Justo. to whom
he was Introduced by United States
Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell.
Then the two executives drove off
togothor along the SO-block route to
the United States embassy, Mr.
Roosevelt's residence during his stay.
President Roosevelt Is to make the
opening address when the Inter
American peace parley, proposed by
him lsat winter, gets under way at
e p. m. tomorrow.
Eight Argentine warships and a
river flotilla escorted the Indianapolis
up the Rio Plata to the quay, while
Argentine planes circled and dipped
overhead.
Near the dock along which a red
(Continued on Page Eight.)
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YREKA. Calif.. Nov. 30. (AP)
I fore than 100 veniremen were dis
missed until next Monday when the
trial of John and Coke Brit, brothers
on a charge of slaying three men,
was postponed to that date.
The postponement was taken be
cuuse of the Illness of Horace W. fry.
their attorney.
The brothers were to have gone to
l:lal today on charges growing out
of the deaths of Deputy Sheriff Mar
tin Lange. Constable Joseph Clark,
end Fred Seaborn, retired naval offi
cer, of Vallejo. They were shot when
they sttempted to arrest the brotners
lust Aug. 38.
The court ruled the trial must pro
ceed next Monday regardless of Pry's
condition.
1936 Traffic Slaughter
Will Be Worst In Book
CHICAOO, Nov. 30. (UP) When
all the crushed and mangled bodies
have been counted, 1030 will be re
corded aa the nation's worst yesr for
traffic fatalities, the -Nntlonal Safety
Council predicted tonight.
The council, forecasting an all
time high of 37.-VH) motor accident
doaths, 500 more than in 1935, blam
ed the Increase on pedestrians.
"More persons are walking into
trouble this year than last, accord
ing to figures for nine months. said
R, L. Forney, who graph the coun
cil's grisly statistic. "Fatal pedes
trian svldenta lumoed about two
j pfrcc nt for this period while other
type of nwitor vehicle accident
dropped about one percent."
1 The trend to pedestrian deaths re
AIRES
P. I. Resumption Cheered
fSv if
The .Seattle Post-lntelllgeiirer.. which su.spendcd pulilUat lull August
13, because of a newsroom strike, retrained yesterday with John Boettl it
er, (upper left) President Roosevelt's son-in-law, In the role of publish
er, appointed by William Randolph Hearst, (upper right) owner. Below
Is shown advertising solicitors of the P. I. hailing with cheers their re
turn to work. (A. P; Photos)
DEADLOCK PREVAILS IN POST-INTELLIGENCER
COAST MARINE STRIKE; APPEARS AGAIN WITH
EASTERN UNIONS FUSS OLD WORKERS ON JOB
(By the Associated Press)
Tho mnrtlme strike situation on
the Pacific roast remained at an im
passe today with negotiations be
tween steam schooner operators and
licensed deck officers at a standstill.
On the east -coast the situation
was enlivened bfc a dispute between
striking tnsurgerrt seamen and long
shoremen who have remained at work.
In San Francisco federal mediators
continued efforts at adjustment of
the month-long blockade of the mar
itime Industry. The coast guard has
taken over the task of carrying
emergency supplies to HI wait, with
the prospect that a cutter will sail
for Hawaii with a cargo of food next
Thursday.
Due to leave San Francisco for
Seattle today were Harry Bridges,
International Longshoremen's dis
trict president, and Harry Lunde
berg, decretory of the Sailors Union
of the Pacific.
And Sudden Wealth.
JOPLIN. MO., Nov. 30. (API
George Workman waa sAnging a pick
on a WPA ditch project. Two feet
below the surface his fSfck struck a
pocket of lead ore, Workgia nprompt
yl leased the property Tin which he
waa digging and announced he would
become a lpd miner.
vers the tenlency of recent years,
be said. From !Q?7 to 1035 pedes
trtan deaths Increased only 29 per
cent while other traffic accident
fatalities advanced 57 per cent.
While children grow more careless,
the council figures Indicated, old
folk cross streets more warily. For
ney found the "rnoat unfavorable"
trend in accident dea'tis among chil
dren five and 14 years of sge, 10
percent above the 195 level, while
there was a six percent drop n the
"65 years or more" classification.
The council statisticians found
thst the annual Increase will be
much as then has occurred In other
years and secondly that the gaso
line consumption rate has lnrreaFed
over that of 1016 much faster than
the death rata.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 30. (UP) The Se
attle Post-In telllgencer, morning
newspaper owned by William Ran
dolph Hearst which has been sus
pended since August 13 by a strike
of editorial employes, appeared on
the street last night for the first
time lri more thnn three months, ss
publication waa resumed.
Carrying 44 pages compared to the
usual Monday Issue of 16-20 pages
before the enforced suspension the
"green streak," late evening edition
of the morning paper, was on the
fltreet at 6 p. m.
An editorial captioned "Statement
by Mr. Hearst," commenting on re
sumption of publication, waa carried
on the first page of the news sec
tion. "The Post-Intelligencer resumes
publication this morning after Its
(Continued on Page Two.)
Trio Of Forgers
Get Year In Pen
ROCEBURO Ore., Nov. 30. p
Sentences of one year each In the
atate penitentiary were Imposed in
the circuit court here today upon
Faye Spring:, Ralph Oearhart and
3. R. Btevenscn. each accused of for
gery. Springer was originally sentenced
several weeks ago but waa granted a
parole. The parole, however, waa for
mally revoked In court this morning.
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14 Autos Pile Up
On 5. F. Speedway
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. (AP)
Because one driver Jammed on his
automobile brakes to avoid a rear-end
collision, 14 automobiles piled up to
day on a fog-choked stretch of the
high-speed Bay-shore highway, south
of here.
Thirteen persons were Injured, but
onlv one rnulrd more than'enw-
' nmrv hosnital trat mn t . Traffic
waa blockM more than an hour.
6 !Ip In Mlat
DELTA. Pa.. Nov. 30. (AP) Six
workmen were killed and a seventh
seriously Injured today In an explo
sion of dynamite at a slate quarry
near the Mamn and Dixon line. The
men, carrying the dynamite, wrr
about to ent-r the mine of the Funk
bouser company, manufacturers of
roofing materlai.
MM
HELD INDICATION
Fascist Planes Confine Ac
tivity to University Sector
of Madrid Socialists
Jeer Red Commander
MADRID, Nov. 30. (AP) Insur
gent' planes raided the capital twice
today, bombing government Um-s In
the university section and alon the
Mnm'.anares river.
Tho fascist blrdmen then wheeled
back to their buses without attempt
ing to bomb the center of the city.
The failure to take advantage of
"perfect bombing weather" to attack
the heart of the city Itself pusszled
military circle. The government
pointed to the maneuver a the latest
gent attack on Madrid had been bro
indteatlon that the back of the Insur
ken. Franco Jeered
Socialist Jeered the Insurgent com
mander Francisco Franco, saying:
"A general who hesitates 1 tost "
Late In the day the Insurgents,
tfter considerable firing In Caes de
Campo across the Mn neonates river,
bugan dropping shells In the center
of Madrid while their left flank op
ened an attack on Humera. from Po
suelo de Alarcon.
(This waa the first Madrid admis
sion that Pozueto de Alarcon, com
manding a government communica
tion line on the northwest, had been
taken" by-the fascist.- IPozueta 1
Dbout 7 mile northwest of Madrid
and Humera Ilea on a parallel branch
(Continued on Page Eight.)
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COURT CLEMENCY
Lester J. Measall, 98, of the Lake
Creek district, who entered a plea
of guilty to failure to stop his auto
at the scene of an accident, waa
placed under a six months' suspend
ed sentence by circuit Judge H. D.
Norton and his present ball of I2S00
will continue.
The suspended sentence Is opera
tive only during good behavior, and
Mesaal la forbidden from driving an
auto during the period of his driver
license revocation.
The auto driven by Messal struck
and killed Everett J. Thompson, SB,
of Talent, a highway pedestrian, on
the evening of September 13.
Judge Norton In granting a sus
pended sentence, said there were ex
tenuating circumstances. Including
evidence, that Thompson, blinded
by the glaring light of an approach
Ing auto, had Jumped In front of
Mensal's auto.
The fact that Measal Is married
and father of a young child, and
had previously borne a good reputa
tion, also acted In his favor.
A petition asking leniency signed
by 4fi neighbors of the Messals was
also presented to the court.
Cargo Of Bananas
Runs Sea Blockade
RAN YSIDRO, Calif.. Nov. 30 (UP)
Five carloads of bananas unloaded
from the Norwegian steamer Lourltu
Swensen at Ensenada, Mex., crossed
this little border town last night for
distribution In Los Angeles and San
Francisco aa fruit shippers clrcum
vented the coastwlde maritime strike.
The bananas were brought to the
United States border by a fleet of 30
trucks. Mexican workers loaded the
railroad car without Incident. No
sign of strikers or picket was
ported.
Seven more carloads will be brought
across the International line today.
Recommend Hicks
As Bar Examiner
PORTLAND, Nov. 30. m Recip
rocal relations between the Oregon
and Washington bar associations wore
discussed here at a conference of at
torney from the neighboring states.
Recommendation to the supreme
court far membership on a commit
tee for examination and admission to
the bar IneludM Edwin D. Hlckv
Med ford.
Remlls rormf Itroiieht.
TILLAMOOK, Nov. 80. ( AP) Ore
gon's fall drought cannot be much
worm than that of 1900, Bill Ryan,
Blsine pioneer, recalled today. He
said It rained only 13 days In De
cember and that was virtually all the
moisture the state had for the entire
BRITISH MISTER
HITS FRENCH HOPE
OP 3-POWER PACT
England Against Tendency
to Divide World Into Con
flicting Camps Friendly
Relations of. All Is Aim
LONDON. Nov. 30. (AP) Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden dampened
French hopes of an aggressive mili
tary accord between Great Britain,
Franco and Belgium today.
'His majesty' government.' the
youthful foreign minister told the
house of commons, "has explicitly
deprecated any tendency to divide
the world into conflicting camps.
"Our policy continues to be to pro
mote friendly relations between all
nations."
(Reports from Paris today said that
Foreign Minister Yvon Delboa would
annotince an agreement Friday that
waa virtually a tripartite military
accord between Britain, France and
Belgium).
Although Eden's statement was in
terpreted a an expression of oppo
sition to Ideological pacts and ag
gressive military alliance, Britain
wn said to favor defenstve under
standings to promote peace.
While his commons speech waa
called a denial any Anglo-French-Belgian
agreement would be an ag
gressive military alliance, Informed
commentators said such an under-
(Contlnued on Page Eight.)
"OWNERS OF PROPERTY
TO PAT MILLION LESS
IN TAXES NEXT YEAR
SALEM, Nov. 30. (p) The atato
tax commission handed Oregon prop
erty taxpayers an early Christmas
present today.
The commission said that property
owners will be asked for 91,033.323 In
1937 more than $1,000,000 leu than
they paid In this year and the great
est relief afforded them with the ex
ception of 1033, when the levy was
waived.
Increases In revenue from Income
taxes, which must be applied to re
duction of the property levy, will be
the principal factor In lowering of
the tax despite the growing financial
burdens of the atate because of capi
tal reconstruction, old age assistance
and the like.
The commission has eliminated the
entire property tax within the six per
cent constitutional limitation and
that levy to be collected will bo ap-
( Continued on Page Two.)
Ask Sanity Test
For Young Killer
PENDLETON, Nov. 80. (AP) Er
vln Enbysk. 14, who shot and killed
Howard Gwln, taxi driver, near Pilot
Rock November 8 pleaded not guilty
when arraigned In circuit court here
this morning before Judge Jame A,
Fee. The young man asked for a
sanity test. ,
One of the questions facing young
Enbysk's examiners will be whether
or not a 14-year-old boy Is capable of
premeditating murder. Enbysk had
previously confessed shooting owin
In the back of the head. Ho will be
held for trial In January, tne exami
nation to be msde before that time.
Santa Will Bring More
Costly Gifts This Year
WASHINGTON, Not. 30 (AP)
Secretary Roper said today that re
jKrt to the congress from all sec
tions "clearly show that people are
buying this Christmas more expo naive
type of gift than for any season
since 1020."
The first comment from an ad
ministration source on recent heavy
d vtdend declarations, Roper said
"the unprecedented distribution of
corporation funds through bonusra
end extra dividends la a most stimu
lating factor' In the Chrlstmaa buy
ing surge.
"Progres report" on Chrlttms
business, the secretary said, support
p:i:Tious prediction that department
store sale this season "will be at
least 1 per cent greater than In 183fl
Md will closely approach the volume
attained In the 1020 fwaaon.
"Our report give evldeuc of the
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Whipping Threat
Brings Suicide of
12-Year.Old-Girl
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 30. (UP)
City Physician James H. Neal to
night returned a verdict of sulcldo
in the death of Dorothy Young,
13, whose body was found hanging
by a wire clothe line In an out
house here today.
Neal said the girl apparently
had been dead about 15 hours
when found. Police had received a
call from the girl's parents, Mr.
and Mrs, William A. Young, earlier,
asking that they attempt to find
her. She was last seen Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Young said Dorothy had
fled out the back door when she
had threatened to whip her
daughter for refusing to help wash
dishes.
EARLY MORNING BLAZE
ROUTS OWENS FAMILY;
Major and Mrs. George R. Owens
and two children were routed from
their home at 10 Geneva avenue by
firs at 4 :20 yesterday morning.
Aroused by suffocating smoke, they
arose, sounded an alarm, dressed
quickly and hastened to the outside.
The fir started at the sawdust fur
nace In the basement of the two-story
house, exnet cause being undeter
mined. The blaze crept up between
wall and broke out In the bathroom
on the upper floor. The downstairs
hardwood floor waa practlcslly ruined
snd damage was done to the wall
Chief Roy Elliott reported. Damage
waa, estimated at several hundred dol
lars. Los wn covered by Insurance
The residence Is owned by B. L. Dodge.
. Firemen saved all of the Owen'
furniture and furnishings, including
expensive Oriental rug. The de
(Continued on Page Two.)
ARREST GOVERNOR
RUTLAND. Vt Nov. 80. yp)
State Attorney Asa S. Bloomer Is
sued a warrant today against Gover
nor Charles M. Smith, president of
the Marble Saving bank, charging
him with concealing theft. The gov
ernor was released In 90,000 ball,
without being Arraigned,
The warrant waa served on the
governor In his bank office.
John J. Cocklln, an officer of the
bank, was recently convicted of em
benzllng 1134.000 In bank funda.
Some time ago, Lathrop Baldwin,
the bank treasurer waa convicted of
perjury In the same case.
During the past nine years, the
state charge 9361,000 has been em-
berzled from the bank. .
Princess Held As
Husband9 s Slayer
MEXICO CITY, NOV. 30 (AP)
Princess Concetta Leone de Nlgeratae,
charged formally with killing her
titled husband, waa held today tn
"female killers" row of the Mexico
City central Jail.
Police said Leo B. Granroos, Finnish
vice-counsel, told thsm h witnessed
the fatal shooting of the Georgian
prince, Vladimir Nlferatne, Saturday
night.
The princess, mother of two chil
dren, was reported in a hysterical
condition, threatening to kill herself.
Police official said she admitted
killing her husband "because I could
not bear the Idea of losing htm."
fact that people throughout the
country are In a much more prosper
ous condition now than ha been the
case for the laat seven years," he con
tinned.
"The general uptrend of business.
more widespread employment and
better prices obtained by farmers,
have been major factors In stimulat
ing this holiday trade to the hit? heat
ifvels In seversl years."
Analyzing report from trade cen
ter, a commerce department sum
mary aald that "there have been very
definite Indication In the last few
week that New Yorker are no longer
"penny pinching" and that money in
Increasing amount Is being spent on
goods other than necessities. "
The "unexpected money pumped
out In extra dividend In New York."
It waa said, "Is finding U way into
pnrehnee of fur roar. Jewelry, furni
ture and automobile."
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Child's Mother Bound Hand
and Foot Lies Helpless
Nearby As Brutal Act
Committed by Husband
JESUP, On., No7. SO. (AP) Sher
III B. Warren announced today the
arreat of a 51-year old Itinerant re
pairman, charged with stamping to
death hla 14-year old atep-daughter
while the child's mother, bound hand
and loot, lay helpless nearby.
The child, bleeding about the
mouth and ears, was removed last
Wednesday to a hospital In Bruns
wick, where she died.
Warren aald the stepfather, L. R.
Ward, reported she had been struck
by a "hit and run motorist."
The aherlff aald the accused man
denied he struck the girl, but that
the mother "told ua the most plilful
alory I ever heard."
The step-father, Warren said, was
arrested during funeral services for
the child near Lyons, Oa. The sheriff
declined to say where the step-father
Is held.
The sheriff said "Jealousy" was the
motive for the attack.'
Warren said the motber told him
Ward had tied her hands with rope,
and her feet with chain.
"The little girl weighed 73 pounds.
The step-father weighs about 300,"
he said.
FOG AND FREEZE
PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 80 (AP)
Pog and cold weather put a damper,
on late-season fires In wostern Ore
gon end Washington today, and
barring an unexpected resumption
of the brisk east wind forest otriolala
Indicated the Immediate danger was
over.
Crews In ivnst sectors were cut In
hslf. It was estimated roughly fires
ths past week swept over 30,000 acres
In the Columbia river area of Wash
ington snd 16.000 acres In west cen
tral Oregon snd along the coast
mostly on second growth or cutover
land.
All conflagrations were reported
tinder control. Until the usual
drenching rains visit the nnrthwost,
however, forest officials stressed thst
the potential danger would not be
ended.
SALEM, Nov. 80. (P) Marlon
county Townsendlam split today over
a proposed compromise on the orig
inal pension plan for (300 a month.
A group favoring the 200-a-month
program walked out of a meeting
Saturday night when a faction voted
to accept ISO a month as a starter.
The exodus csme as tho hat waa be
ing passed to defray meeting costs.
Among those favoring the eso-a-month
program waa Theodora O. Nel
son, stormy petrel of Oregon Town
sendlsm. RUSSIA NEEDS NO AID
SAYS HEAD COMMISSAR
MOSCOW, Nov. SO, (AP) Russia
relies on "nobody but ourselves and
our own atrength," aaya Vyaoheslaff
Molotoff, president of the council of
commissars. ,
8peaklng at the climax of ses
sion of heated attacks on Nszl Ger
many and fascism at the eighth all
union oongreaa of Soviets yesterday,
Molotoff declared: .
"We cannot have a common lang
uage with fascism whose dsngera we
neither exaggerate nor under-estl-mate."
Governor Kecovera.
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 30. (AP)
Governor C. Beu Rosa returned to hi
desk today apparently recovered from
pleurisy. "I'm feeling all right now;
just need a Ht'le rest," Ross com
mented, He spent a week at horns
snd In a hospital.
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Income Shares
Maryland Fund, bid (10.73: asked
11.73.
Qusrtarty Income, btd 118.80; asked
aao.77.