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yry - Popular Comics Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Uttle Annie Rooney, Polly . , and II cr Pals, Toots and f Casper five unfailing j chuckles in The Statesman. lu i The Weather Partly cloody today and Saturday, cooler, higher hu midity; Max. Temp. Thurs day 4.4, Min. 48, river -3.6 feet, N. W. wind. FOUNDED 1631 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, August 21, 1936 icuator Mm '9 u mm u 1 him i I i Price 3c; Newsstands 5c . No. 125 - -... . . . . . . t , Revoll Cannery Wage Boosted Here By Two Firms One Other Announces it Will Match Raise and More Considering Living Costs Increase is Reason, Said; Margin Slight, Objection - Voluntary Increases ln the minimum wage rate for ca'nnery workers became effective in - two Salem .canneries yesterday and a third "posted notices to its em ployes that the raise would be made. Other canneries are re ported lo be studying the sltua tioa and may follow suit al though because of the c'os v margin of sale on the fruit which has already been marketed some canners declared that it was al most impossible for them to In crease wages. The raise adopted by the can cers calls for a minimum rate of 32, cents per hour for wo menand 40 cents per hour for ni en. 'Previous minimum require ments under contract with the state labor commissioner were 27 V cents and 32 cents with the provision that at least half of the women working on piece work should net 30 cents per hour. This provision. : canners making the raise, said will-still be adhered to. Reflects Living Costs, Explained Hunt Brothers and the Cali fornia Packing company were the canners who instituted the raise Yn Salem yesterday. The Libby Packing company is report ed to be making a similar raise In its Portland plant. Reid Mur doch & Co. posted notices last night that the raise would be -made, "" - ,- The canners making the raise said it was made voluntarily for the reason that living costs of the workers had gone up and because prospects for fruit sales looked good at present. Other packers who are eyeing the increased wage situation said they were doubtful of the advis ability of making the raise. They pointed out that future sales of some of the fruit had been made on the basis of the old wage rate and that they would either have to curtail the pack or take losses on their canned goods. " It was also stated that the Oregon packs would have to go Into competition with California , fruit where the canning season Is practically completed and where packers will be but mildly af fected by the Increase. PUYALLUP. Wash., Aug. 2Q-(P-Refuslng to accept a proffered wage agreement. 250 employes of the Hunt Brothers cannery here Toted tonight to strike Friday morning. They were; members of the fruit eannes union. The strike vote followed sign ing of an agreement by workers and management of Washington Packers. Inc., another large Puy. allup cannery, early this week. Union officials said similar wages and working conditions were asked In the Hunt Brothers plant but the management offered an alternative agreement. Company officials refused to comment. Unofficial sources Indicated a large percentage of the eastern Washington pear crop normally : canned here might be sent to the Salem, Ore., plant Instead. Champion Steele Wins Early Kayo TACOMA, Aug. 20.-jP-Meas-uring bis man with a halt doxen harmless looking body blows. Freddie .Steele, middleweight w.orld's champion, tonight knock ed out Jackie Aldare, of Brooklyn. New York, In the second round of a scheduled 10-round non-title fight. Steele weighed 160, Al dare 162. Aldare went down for a nine count within 30 seconds after the fight began. He rallied later In the round, covering up and deliv ered two or three, fairly effective blows himself. Freddie missed a pair of right uppercuts to the face and pounded Aldare's arms until the bell rang. ' In the second. Aldare landed several' rights in an apparent ef fort to carry the fight, but went back on his. heels when Freddie swung a one-two. Another .right to the body sent Aldare to the mat. He arose on one knee at the eount of eight, then fell again to be counted out. Sixty one seconds of the round had elapsed at the knockout. The fight was Steele's first appearance In a full-length- ring battle since he won the - title from Eddie Babe" Risko In Seattle last aionth. Violence and Spread Of Strike Feared in P.-L Labor Trouble Guild Issues Reply - to Hearst; Hints Marine and Lumber Industries May Become Involved ; Governor Deplores Widening of Issue SEATTLE, Aug. 20. (AP) Outwardly quiet on the sur face, charges that violence and a spreading strike move ment may grow out of the Post-Intelligencer - American Newspaper; Guild strike, now in its eighth, day, were aired here todayi i The guild, through Jonathan Eddy, international execu- U. S. Turns Down ! . . Peacemaker Role National j Policy, Slight Hope of Success Cited in Uruguay Reply . WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-ff)-The United States tonight rejected a Uruguayan proposal to partici pate in an attempt to mediate the Spanish revolution with a state ment that it did not feel warrant ed in departing from its estab lished policy' of non-interference in the affairs of other nations. In a formal note transmitted to the Uruguayan minister, Jose RIchling, acting Secretary of State William Phillips said: "Actuated j by a profound and constant desire for peace, this government wishes to give sup port wherever practicable to the principal of conciliation. Howev er, this country is committed to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries." Policy Statement August 7 Recalled The note directed attention to this government's statement of policy with regard to the Spanish crisis on August 7 to "scrupulous ly refrain from interference in the unfortunate situation which now exists in Spain." The Uruguayan government in a note to the department August 17. suggested a "cordial media tion to be offered to Spain by the American countries which, to this end, might act jointly either in Washington within the Pan Amer ican union, or in any other Amer ican capital which might be chos en." i In replying today, the United Stated, through Phillipes, said: "After most careful considera- (Turn to Page 10, Col. 2) Planned Suds Manager SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. ti-VPl -Charging his Seattle Indians ith listless playing, President William Klepper asked waivers on nine regulars and threatened to finish the season with young play ers: - -- - ; . "If they don't want to give me the best they; have, I don't want them on the ball club," Klepper said. The Indians have lost three games in a row to the seventh place San Francisco Seals. The Seattle head man said he referred to Pitchers Ray Lucas, Paul Gregory, Don Osborn, J. Millard Campbell and Wells; Out fielder Mike Hunt; Shortstop Bill Smith; Catcher Mickey Cuggan, and Infielder Bill Michael. The Indiana return home next week for a series with Los Ange les and Klepper declared he will not tolerate the same listless ac tions in front of Seattle fans who have been marvelous and I won't foist a disinterested ball team on their hands 1 I have to get rid of the majority of the ball club." Sliakeup Cascade Glaciers Retreat, Water Supply Threat Seen In the glaciers of Oregon and what are proving not to be "eter nal snows" on its mountain peaks lies a warning that the water sup ply of the western half of the state Is gradually diminishing, ac cording to Carey F. Martin, Salem attorney, who is vacationing at Belknap springs in the McKeniie region. Martin has come to this conclusion, he says in a letter to The Statesman, after 63 years of glacial observations. , Reporting steady retreat of gla cial ice beds, for example, Martin contends that "with less water produced by nature and more wa ter needed and used by and for ir. rigation and increased population. It requires no great amount of study to discern the great import ance of water conservation. Collier Glacier Dwindles, Claimed , Collier glacier, a valley of Ice In a deep canyon between the O tlve secretary, issued a 'reply to the statement by the general management of .the Hearst news papers yesterday in New York. Picket lines had dwindled to a few members, : but guild leaders said many others were on imme diate call. "The Hearst management is openly preparing for a bloody riot," Eddy said. "It is thorough ly cognizant its course of conduct may precipitate a general strike of the marine, lumber and truck transportation industries." 3 - The Hearst statement had said: "An American newspaper is forced to make a choice between suspension and having-', its em ployes murdered or maimed by hoodlums of a mob which are not identified in any manner with the publication of a newspaper." PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20. Gov. Clarence- D. Martin, in a radio' address tonight, offered his services "toward better un derstanding and peaceful settle ment" of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer strike, but declared there (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1) Governor Olson's 1 Condition Better Peritonitis Fear at End, Blood Transfusion Is Not Required Ndwr ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 20. -ffy-Gor. Floyd B. Olson's condi tion tonight was very mucft bet ter" than when he arrived JMon day night after an emergency airplane trip and all fears of gen eral peritonitis setting in are substantially gone," Dr. William J. Mayo said tonight after visiting the chief executive. t Dr. Mayo said tube feeding has been abandoned and that intra venous means of nourishment hat been resorted to with a "definite improvement" in this phase of his treatment, There is not any immediate ne cessity of a blood transfusion. Dr. Mayo said. "With his condi tion Improving as it is," he ex plained, "we are giving no thought to a blood transfusion." His condition was such his sten ographic secretary, Morris Hursh, came here from St. Paul. Hursh's presence gave rise to speculation the governor might be asked to issue a statement Boon on the Min nesota political situation. Olson is the farmer-labor I par ty's candidate for the United States senate. Simultaneously with Hursh's arrival, several par ty leaders conferred in St . Paul. They did not disclose the topics discussed. - '' r Drunk Driving Charged j George Belton, ' Salem nran, was booked by city police last night as being held for state po lice on a charge of drunken driv ing. City officers said he . was arrested on the Pacific highway north of Salem. ' j North1 and Middle snow peaks of the Three Sisters in the Cascade range near Bend, presented a sheer, 80-foot ice wall at its snout and was hundreds of feet in thick ness in the bowl-shaped area above when Martin first inspected it in 1883, he writes, adding: "Now this ice mass has melted down to the rock floor of the valley at the lower end. It is im possible to estimate the millions of tons of Ice which have forever disappeared from this one glacier. Think of a valley filled with ice hundreds of feet in thickness which has gradually melted away and decreased in height each year more than one foot for the entire mass." . ' . - i ' : The utility, of the glaciers. In preserving the state's water, sup ply consists of the cooling' and condensation . of "the warm air from the Pacific ocean," produc- - (Turn to Page 10, CoL 1) - Mercury Here Reaches Peak of Year 94.4 Recorded as Cooler Weather is Forecast ; Swimming Popular Forest Fire Smoke Seen Here; Gates . Blaze is Quickly Quelled HOURLY TEMPERATURES NOTED HERE THURSDAY 9:41a.m. 77 4:41 p. m. 91 10:41a.m. S3 5:41p.m. 88 11:41a.m. 84 6:41p.m. 81 12:41p.m. i9 7:41p.m. 76 1:41p.m. 91 8:41p.m. 69 2:41 p. m. 92 9:41 p.m. 64 3:41 p. m 92 Maximum, 94.4, occurred be tween 2:41 and 3:41 p. m. Old Sol stepped out 1 yesterday to the tune of fin the Good, Old Summertime" and showed Salem residents he hadn't done 'his best when he encouraged the mercury np to the .93.6 degree' mark last month. Yesterday - he pushed it to 94.4, a new record tor 1936. The old mark he set exactly one month previously. Cooler weather but higher hu midity was predicted for today and Saturday by the United States weather bureau. Light rains were forecast for the coast Yesterday's hot weather' reviv ed Interest in the city swimming pools and cool clothing.' Demands for ice cream and cooling drinks at some business places emptied the ice boxes before the day's closing hour arrived. Maximum Reached , i i In BHd-Afternoon i I Attendance which had been dragging : spurted .upward eaj-ly in the day at Olinger an LesJle swimming pools, Vernon GilmoVe, superintendent of recreation, re ported. After refusing to budge below the 48-degree mark Wed nesday night, the mercury began a swift upward climb which by 10:41 a. m. had brought it to the 83-degree level and by 2:41 p. m. to 92. The airport weather bureau reported the day's maxi mum of 94.4 came between 2:41 and 3:41 p. m. , First hints of forest fires, in the form of a smoky haze, drift ed over the city yesterday. State Forester J. W. Ferguson report ed a small fire along the South ern Pacific tracks near Gates. The blaze, he said, was controled before serious damage resulted. Fifty men from the North San tiam CCC camp were mobilized to fight it , Small fires previously report ed in Coos county have been ex tinguished, the forester said. There have - been fewer forest fires in Oregon this year than for several seasons, Ferguson said. " PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20. (TP) Portland had its warmest day of the year today. The tem perature hit 90 degrees at 2:30 p. m., and stayed there until al most 5 p. m. Three Connected With Games Die BERLIN, Aug. O.--Sulcide of the vice-commandant of the Olympic village, and the deaths from natural causes of two other persons connected with the games, were disclosed officially today. The reich propaganda ministry said Captain Wolf dant"Fuerstner, who had been superseded by an army lieutenant-colonel as com mandant, had shot himself fatally. Also announced were the deaths of Gustav Kuhne, an executive In the Olympic games commissary, and the Rumanian featherweight boxer, Nlcolai Berechet, who died of a carbuncle.!' ; Persons close to the Olympics said Fuerstner had suffered ' from being superseded shortly before the games opened. : In German Olympic circles (the version was current that Fuerst ner had not , shown "due rigor" when thousands of visitors viewed the completed Tillage before. the athletes took up their abode there. r Knhne's death was attributed to a stomach hemorrhage. Hoovers in Coos; Mission Unknown MARSHFIELD. Ore- Aug. 20.-(JPy-Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover slipped into Marshfleld at 6:30 p. m. today and are spending the night here. ' T::- " - The ex-presldent and his wife, whose mission and destination are unknown other than that they are traveling north, were accompa nied by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Van Antwerp of Palo Alto. German Note Increases Rescuers Near Shaft Holding Entombed Men Chances Held 1000, to Quartet Dead Though Efforts Continue Crews Face "Death Perils as They Dig Away in Cramped Quarters MOBERLY, Mo, Aug. 21 (Friday) (fly-Discovery early today that heavy timbers had crashed through the cages ait the bottom of the main shaft set up new obstacles in the work to rescue four men in the old Esry mine. Workers sUma-; ted five hours would be re-, quired to clear away the tim-; bers and rid the tunnel .of gases. ; MOBERLY, Mo., Aug. 21-(Fri- day)-(iip)-Arnold Griffith,' chief state mine Inspector directing a desperate battle to liberate four men entombed in a coal mine near here since - Tuesday afternoon, said at 1:15 a. m. (Central Stan dard time) r today rescue workers expected "anytime now" to break into a tunnel where the men are believed to be trapped. Griffin said, however, there was only a thousand to one" chance the men would be found alive.. They were trapped 100 feet below the surface about 3:30 Tuesday afternoon when the mine tipple burned and collapsed into , the main shaft i v -f Hun timhera and tree atumns. the mine j inspector, r e d o r t e d. blocked the tunnal entrance at the bottom of the shaft but there was no sign of fire. MOBERLY, Mo., Aug. 10.-UP)- Grimly forcing their battle against death, rescue crews to night dug within an estimated six or seven feet of the bottom of a caved-ln mine shaft where they hoped to penetrate Into a 600 yard tunnel and tescue four min ers entombed since Tuesday after noon. (Turn to Page 10, Col. 4) Mystery Vessel's Fate Is Uiiknown SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 20.- (JP) Navy destroyers searching in the darkness 560 miles west oi Guadalupe island late tonight passed the position where t h e vessel San Joaquin was reported sinking without finding a trace of it. . Commander Edward C. Raguet, commanding the destroyers, Ayl- win, Monaghan and Worden, wire lessed he would continue the search. Th coast guard cutter Tahoe, rushing from Santa Bar bara, Calif., was expected to Join the hunt at dawn. Possibility the .San Joaquin might have gone down without a trace was seen. If any wreckage were left it might not be discov ered in the darkness. Another possibility, navy men here said. was that the ship, or the men in the lifeboats, might have drifted far from the. position reported by wireless. . The incident took a tinge of un reality when search of marine di rectories revealed only one ship by that name the tuna boat San Joaquin, now at San Pedro. The call letters given by the wireless are not listed. Border Gar Theft Treaty Is Sought WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-;pV A treaty designed to end the ac tivities of automobile stealing rings" along the Rio Grande-bor der is under negotiation between the United States and Mexico. - State department officials said today that the proposed anti smuggling pact which ' may be signed in the near future was planned to prevent the driving of stolen cars across the 1600 mile boundary betweenthe two nations, and to facilitate th erecovery of stolen cars transported across the border. ' : A similar treaty with Canada, In effect ten years, has resulted in a reduction of the number of stolen cars transported across this nation's only other land border, and expedited their recovery by eliminating much red-tape. Opening of the new , highway from the American border to Mexico City is understood to have stimulated interest In negotiating a pact as quickly as possible. Loyalist Prisoners To Camp by Rebel I i '! ml' i im ,i ii ii mr-Ti ymmm f i ' 3 ii '-'t r ! f Arms raised in surrender, Spanish they were marched through the streets of Pueblo de I ter by vic torious "white" rebel forces. Insurgent soldiers captured the men during the attack on the small Spajnish town, which they .now have In their possession. The prisoners were taken to a prison camp and fears are felt for their nltimatef fate. International. Illustrated News Photo. - Rich Gold Strike In Nevada, Rumor Hoover, Raskob and Other Mining Men Reported to Be Interested RENO, Nev., Aug. 20-tipY-VI- slons of a new golden age danced through the minds of Nevada's Black Rock desert prospectors to night because of a reputedly rich gold "strike" in a desolate re gion 150 miles northwest of here. Visits by former President Herbert Hoover, John J. Raskob and representatives of a British mining firm. to the scene kindled enthusiasm -over the find. The new found gold was coming out of a mine recently purchased by George B. Austin, storekeeper and prospector, for $10,000. . Austin's diggings were reported to be honeycombed . with a pecu liar formation yielding $123 to the ton of ore and S420 in a one-day production test with mortar and pestle Mining men said they under stood Austin could realize as much as $1,000,000 for the prop erty now, under certain condi tions, but that he had formed a 50-year trust to assure its being kept in the family. - . -i Kootenai Forest Fire Is Checked SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 20.- (tfVFlames continued to roar in side the fire lines on the 3500 acre Edna creek blaze in the Kootenai national forest.- today, but the forest service reported the fire under control. The northwestern Montana blaze was checked by 1350 fire fighters after gaining a 24-mile perimeter. The service reported the first lay-off of men on the fire tonight. Blown down timber added to the fuel standing trees inside the fire lines. r Crowds Greet Landon as He Starts Campaign ur East ABOARD GOVERNOR LAN- DON'S SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE EAST. Aug. 20.-JP)-Gov. Alf M. Landon took the presiden tial campaign trail today on a nine-car special train' which head ed across Colorado's plateaus to Nebraska's farm acres and popu lous eastern-points beyond. The smiling Kansas, informing well wishers "you Coloradoans have certainly won my heart," put back of him a brief vacation on a secluded mountain ranch. ' Aboard the train, as the repub lican nominee started his first cross country drive were more than 50 party leaders, friends and Colorado republicans led by State Chairman Charles R. Enos of Den ver. ;- ,.. Landon left La Salle, a few miles from Greeley, in a nourish ing farnterritory, at 10:25 a. m.. Mountain. Standard time, as on lookers gathered at the tiny sta tion cheered him off. Mrs. Landon and Peggy Anne, Are Marched s;Fate Unknown " -"V r. ''j "J .loyalist prisoners are pictured as eath Plotted bv Trotzky, Claimed irned . to Fascist- Policy j After Expulsion Says . 1 fix-Soviet Leader (Copyrighted, 1936, by Associated Press) I MOSCOW, Aug. 20.-(iiP)-Death fcr communist : leaders to pave the way for a fascist regime in Russia was the picture unfolded tonight in the ; trial of 16 per sons charged with fostering a terrorist plot against the soviet. Gregory Zinoyleff in dramati cally shouted words accepted full gijilt for the conspiracy to kill sojriet .leaders and gain control ofj the government as he faced judges and prosecutors in the Hill of ! Columns, the for uTe r Nobles club. -. j , Turned to Fascism, Zikovlef t Admits - f'Trotzkyism plus terrorism Is, of! course, fascism," he declared. "I went all the way from oppo sition party powers to counter revolution and terrorism and ac tually fascism." r iZinovieff and Leon Kameneff, who with Joseph Stalin, now sec retary of the communist party and' dictator of Russia, once rul ed the soviet during the illness of; Lenin, answered state charges in; entirely different manner. ;Kamenerr quietly disclosed tne plot from the witness stand, but neither he nor Zinovieft made any attempt to deny responsibil ity for the conspiracy. jWith Leon. Trotzky,. former so viet minister, of war now in exile inij Oslo, .Norway, the two men wre expelled from the party in 1927. .Later they recanted and wre taken back into the fold. 'iBut from the .date of their ex pulsion; Zinovieff said, they were lofal to the Ideals of Trotzky, who was accused by the state of beng the master mind of the cujrrent plot. j r- ; , ... . th$ governor's 19-year-old daugh ter, made the 50-mile automobile drive here with! him from Estes Park, near which the family's va cation site is located. , jThey waved a farewell as the special puffed away and then climbed back In! their automobile fot the return trip. Appreciates Courtesy 04 Colorado Throng Just before the special started its; eastward trip, Landon walked oujt on the rear platform to wave tofthe shouting throng. I'Friends, I certainly appreciate your kind courtesy .In coming down to see me off," he said. "You Coloradoans have certainly wn my heart." Brief ; stops at Fort Morgan, Sterling : and Julesburg In Colo rado and North Platte, Ogallala, Kearney, Lexington, Grand Is land, Columbus, Central City, Scjhuyler and Fremont In Nebras- aa lay oetween tne governor ana I (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1) Tension ents Little KiKHvn; Censorsliip On Carmona Believed Killed in Outbreak ; Radio in Capital is Silent Nazi Warning to Spanish Rebels Dark Spot on - Neutrality Hope LONDON, Aug. 21-(Friday)- (P)-Unconfirmed reports reach ing London early today said .a revolution had broken out in Portugal and that it was believ ed President Oscar Carmona bad been killed. No message had been received here from Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. In nine hours. It had been impossible to tele phone Portugal tor the past ten days. Only outgoing calls had been accepted from all. points la the country. President Carmona, first elect ed November 29, 1926, ruled Portugal as dictator since a new constitution was adopted March If, 1933. 4. r He was re-elected president for a seven-year term February 17, 1935, by an' estimated majority of 1,000,000 rotes. It was learned the Lisbon ra dio . station had been silent throughout the night.. Ordinarily, the Lisbon radio club has broadcast frequent bul letins at night regarding the Spanish clTil war ..n.4-.v- : (By the Associated Press) "Force against force." This challenge of nail Ger many hurled at the Spanish loyal ist foes of fascism last night cool ed hopes of other European pow ers for neutrality in the bloody struggle in Spain. - Baked up by the guns of war ships driving toward Spain, the national socialist regime of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler deliv ered a steel-clad ultimatum to the loyalist government at Madrid that any future acts the nazis deemed overt would be answered by Germans "with every means at their command." France's avowed hopes for a neutrality pact were dimmed as the Hitler government followed a crisp ultimatum to Spain with the crackling radiogram of the 'com mander of its Spain-bound fleet that he would "meet with force all unjustifiable afcts of force." Halting and Search Held Unjustified Deemed "unjustifiable" by naxl Germany was the reported halting (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1) Californians Rise Early, Discovered WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-;p- If you usually go to bed around 10 o'clock your yawn is just one in a sleepy chorus that includes most. Americans. If you celebrate New Year's eve 6:30 o'clock the next morning, the chances are good that you live in Chicago. If you and your neighbors are up by 6 most every -morning. It's another fair bet that you are either a farmer or a Californian. Clues to these and other living habits of folks In different parts of the country were furnished to day by a chart prepared for the world power conference, showing the way consumption of electrical current goes up and down In a number of "typical" cities. Meeting of Farm Croups Proposed HYDE' PARK. Aug. JO.--A post-election conference of farm organizations to study an effective approach to the problems of crop Insurance and rural credit was suggested by President Roosevelt today as he continued to survey drought relief needs. Crop insurance and rural credit are two of the key items of the legislative program of the nation al grange, and Louis J. Taber, master of the grange, said they had been emphasized, along with drought problems, in an hour's conference with the president and Secretary Wallace. Mr. Roosevelt planned to enter personally into the campaign foi his reelection before starting for the Dakotas. Lisbon li A.