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Popular Comics
Popeye, Mickey Mouse,
Uttle Annie Rooney, Polly .
, and II cr Pals, Toots and
f Casper five unfailing
j chuckles in The Statesman.
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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.
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EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, August 21, 1936
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
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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. -
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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.
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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
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.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
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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
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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
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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.
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