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ZZTtfflZGOU &TATES7IAN, Baler, Oregon, Friday Morniaar, Ancst tU KCj Lisbon Revolt Not Confirmed Caraiona Believed. Killed in Outbreak; Radio in ' Capital Is Silent (Continued from Page 1) - and search of the German steam er Kamerun by armed forces of the Spanish loyalist cruiser Lib ertad on the high seas off Cadiz. In Bellicose. If diplomatic, terms, the sail government In structed Its charge d'affaires at Madrid to make plain its resent ment to the anti-fascist loyalist government, and to warn the loy alists that if any similar incident should occur the loyalists would hare to answer from the guns of German . warships. . Last night seven ? nasi battle ships ; steamed toward Spain to keep a rendezvous. with nine oth er armed nail vessels' in or near Spanish waters. Aligned with German nasi . In political sympathy to the Spanish fascist-rebels', cause was ' fascist Italymade ready on land and In the air by Premier Mussolini. II Duce sent 200,000 men off to. war. games, and kept mobilised the class of 1914 recruits. His air pilots remained on call, and the airdromes housing, his hundreds of . fightitfg planes ' were made ready for Any eventuality. . Cascade Glaciers Retreat,' Claimed Carey Martin Sees Future Threat to Supply of Water in Valley (Continued from Page 1) lng "snow In the higher areas and rain In the lower", Martin points out.' ' Snow and Rain Will Decrease, Forecast "With the glaciers gone, the snow and rain must gradually be come less and less during each decade," Martin's letter contin ues. "Indeed, it is a fact that our snow-mountains now have less snow thaif they did 50 years ago. Many of them now present a black, volcanic rock appearance in summer time. "This writer can remember when- the average depth of snow on McKenzie pass summit flats. west of the high point on the lava was 20 feet. The mail was carried on snowshoes by hardy mountain eers, across the McKenzie pass on the star route from 'Eugene City' to Prineville. the only town in mid-eastern Oregon. When the now became deep, these mail car riers cut blazes on the pine trees to mark; the route of travel. "These blazes were on an ave rage of about 25 feet above ground and remained visible for many years. Assuming that these markers were cut at about the height of a man's shoulders would Indicate at least a depth of 20 feet for the snow in the years of the lata 70s. Some winters now have only four or five feet of snow at the same places." : Martin declared that "the loss of great masses of ice storage in glaciers and consequent depreci ation; In high, mountain snows must, seriously diminish our wa ter supply very, very slowly but with that certainty knon as the law of the gods." "No person now living will be seriously affected," Martin con cludes, "but what of the distant future?" Crowds Greet as Landon Goes East . (Continued fj-om page II an overnight stay at Omaha. ) Ilia train was scheduled to reach that city at 10:15 p. m. Cen tral Standard time. He will break fast there tomorrow! with Nebras ka party chieftains. ' In brief platform talks at Fort Morgan and Sterling, where the special made three-minute stops, Landon declared himself in favor of federal protection of the sugar ret industry. :,i "I know this is one of the rich agricultural counties of Colorado and the west, and that the . beet Sugar industry Is the nucleus and backbone of your prosperity," he told a crowd at Fort Morgan, fand it should receive every pro tection from the federal govern ment. ( "It is one of the crops that we can grow here at home." At Sterling, like Fort Morgan a beet growing center, Landon said: I "Good government Is one of the ifcsuea of this campaign. Too much legislation has been put" through Without proper debate." Violence, Spread Of Strike Feared (Continued from Page II was no need for the state patrol nor national guard because no emergency exists. He answered a "screaming and laflammatory newspaper editorial declaring that disorder prevails in Seattle, that the freedom of the press is abridged, that the gov ernor Is delinquent, and that the governor Is submissive to the may or and certain labor leaders In Se attle." j"A strike on a Seattle news paper plant should not be of state wide concern," he said. "It should be confined to that par ticular plant, and It should be set tled by frank- negotiations be tween the employes and the own ers or their representatives. 'But, unfortunately, live strike has been seized upon by a few ex tremists on both sides, and by a Itw 'political opportunists . . w&Ich is being spread ... to dis turb the people thro iaout out Dallas Man Is L Robert 8. K reason of Dallas, chosen this week as Oregon's safest driver, who wilt attend a two-day conference on traffic safety prob lems In Xew York City with all expenses paid by the Oregon State Motor association. The conference will be attended by a "safest driver" from each state in the anion. Mr. K reason in 210,000' miles of driving in the last SO years, has never had an acJent nor been arrested for a traffic violation. Guild States Its Side. P. I. Strike - I Reign of Terror Now On in Seattle, Is Charge of National Officer XEW YORK, Aug. 20.- (JP) The American Newspaper Guild, in a statement tonight, asserted that "the real insue involved" in the Seattle, Post-Intelligencer strike "is the right of j organized newspapermen to seek fair work ing conditions, and the right of other organized workers to sup port them in a strike brought ou by the denial of those condi tions." ! The statement, signed by Hey wood Broun, international presi dent, denied that the strike had led to terrorism and the break down of law and order in Se attle. - ? . j Replying to a statement issued by the general management of Hearst newspapers last night it said that this management while' declining conferences to end the strike "is filling downtown Se attle hotels with armed men. termed 'loyal workers') Imported from Los Angeles and San Francisco."'- ! j ;f ' Denies . Violence . It denied there has been vio lence on the part of trade unions picketing the Post - Intelligencer but said many of the trade union ists have been assaulted and that the Hearst management ; "is using its immense nation-wide resour ces to confuse the public mind and befuddle and misrepresent the issue." j The guild charged that work ers imported by Hearst from oth er cities wore fake identifica tion buttons of local unions and "cruise the city in cars, beating up pickets and terrorizing the wives of strikers late at night while their husbands are on the picket line." The Hearst management, it as serted, breaks into. Seattle radio programs "with attempts to incite a spirit of mob violence against the duly constituted authorities of the cky because they have re fused to condone the reign of ter ror which, Hearst has already, in stituted," and quotes from old telegrams of international presi dents of the printing crafts unions in an effort to misrepresent the present situation and make the strike illegal. j Says Unions Aiding The statement said that scores of labor unions in Seattle are ac tively behind the strike;; that the American Newspaper guild, an af filiate of the American Federation of Labor, assumes full responsi bility for the strike and its direc tion, and that Jonathan Eddy, na tional executive secretary of the guild, is on the scene and in per sonal charge. j ' " The guild says it welcomes the aid and cooperation of other un ions "including the valuable and active aid of the teamsters, long shoremen and woodsmen," and will go further by seeking the backing of the entire labor move ment in America. 1 It adds that "for the last six months the American Newspaper guild has been engaged in a strike against Hearst's Wisconsin New3, in Milwaukee, where his cries of terror have served to conceal the blunt refusal of the management to accord any form of I recogni tion to his exploited employes." . U. S. Turns Down Peacemaker Role (Continued from Page 1) tlon of all the circumstances In voked we are constrained to be lieve .hat the prospect that such an o! ?r as is suggested, would serve a useful purpose, i is not such as to warrant a departure by this government from i Its well established policy. j "t am confident that, in the light of the foregoing, the gov ernment of Uruguay will fully un derstand why this . government finds Itself unable to accept the suggestion that, it participate in any oner or. meaiauon Rnanlsh conflict. in the Safest Driver s Two-Hour Parking Areas Designated Signs Govern, Stated by Police Judge; Police Tag Numerous Cars - Confusion which resulted from a sudden , police attempt this week to enforce all parking re strictions yesterday prompted Mu nicipal Judge A. Warren Jones to list the streets on which one- and two-hour parking limits prevail between 9 a. m. and 6 p. m. daily extept Sundays and holidays. The new city traffic code, omitting mention of specific streets, pro vides the time limits shall exist according to the . signs posted, which may be changed at any time by the council. Two-hour parking. Judge Jones said, is In effect on Ferry street from Church to Front; on Che meketa. Court and State between High and Church; on High, Lib erty and Commercial between Chemeketa and Center; and on Chemeketa, Court and State be tween Commercial and Front streets. One-hour's parking only la per mitted on High, Liberty and Com mercial streets between Ferry and Chemeketa streets, and on Che meketa, Court and State streets between High and Commercial streets. Protest Registered The unannounced beginning of enforcement of the two-hour limit on Ferry streets brought many protests because of misunder standings that had arisen through frequent changes in - the regula tions governing this parking area. Two-hour parking was Provided for on Ferry street by ordinance until 1930 when the restriction was removed. The two-hour limit signs, however, were never re moved. Under" the new traffic sode, since the signs are still standing, the limit again prevails. Another parking regulation which caused several motorists surprise, was to receive police "tags" under the .traffic code re striction on overnight parking. The code prohibits parking for more than one hour between 1:30 and 5:30 a. m. in the area bound ed by Union, Trade and Cottage streets and the Willamette river, and more than two hours else where in the city during those hours. The municipal court was turned Into an information bureau rather than a place for penalties by the police drive. Judge Jones was fol lowing a policy of advising first offenders of the regulations and admonishing against violations. New High in Bank Deposits Reached WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-(iip)-National bank deposits were. re ported by the treasury today to have established a new high re cord on June 30. J. F. T. O'Connor, comptroller of the currency, announced that on that date, when the last bank call became effective, they stood at 126,200,453,000. an increase of $1,340,998,000 over the previous cell on March 4. As compared with June 29. 1935, deposits showed an increase of $3,682,207,000. Loans and discounts also in creased though not at the same rate as deposits.. On June 30? they aggregated $7,759,149,000, an in crease of $328,285,000 since March and of $393,923,000 for the year. The ratio of loans and discounts to deposits declined. On June 30 it was 29.61 per cent, while, on March 4 it stood at 29.89 per cent and on June 29, 1935 at 32.71 per cent. Pinball Factory Has Costly Fire SEATTLE, Aug. 20.-CP)-Ex-ploding gasoline In a pin - ball game manufacturing shop set fire to the Bavlew building here to night and swept through the third floor with a loss battalion Fire Chief O. H. Ebbinghouse estim ated at $42,000. " The chief said about $7,000 damage was caused to the build ing and the rest of the loss came from ctmtents . Rescuers Wear Entombed Men Chances Held 1000 to 1 Luartet Dead Though Efforts Continue (Continued from Page 1)' Covered with dirt and breathing: with difficulty, the rescuers wield ed shovels, axes and pickaxes 100 feet below the earth's surface In a crumbling hole seven feet square. They worked in squads of four men, sending to. the surface in buckets the dirt from the mine tipple that was destroyed by fire Tuesday and collapsed Into the shaft while A.' W. McCann, 60, Edward Stonner, Jr., 26, Demmer Sexton, 82, and George T. Cam' eron," 27, negro, were laboring in the abandoned tunnel preparatory to reopening the mine. Tonight , approximately 7,000 persona from all sections of cen tral Missouri had assembled to watch the rescue operations. . About 9:35 o'clock,' the steel cable of the shaft cage was un covered by the diggers. . Arnold Griffith, state mine inspector, said this indicated -their goal was only few feet away. '; - Woman Is Caught, Gar Theft Charge A Salem police broadcast at 6:29 o'clock last night that an automobile stolen from Albany at 5 p. m. had been seen speeding northward was followed 20 min utes later by the announcement that a state policeman had arrest ed a 20-year old married woman garbed in man's clothing a mile and a half north of Salem city limits. Brought to police head- Quarters' here, she immediately signed a confession of the theft. Giving her name as Margaret Georgia Genevieve McGee and home address as Taklma, Wash., she told police she had hitch hiked from Holland, Ore., to Eu gene and then had ridden an Ore gon Electric train to Albany, she stated she found an unlocked au tomobile there and drove It north ward at speeds as high as 65 miles an hour. She was headed home, she said. The car belonged to Nelson Buckle of Albany. State 'police arranged to have the prisoner kept in the county jail here pending the arrival to day of Linn county officers. City police declared last night's arrest was the first of a woman on a car theft charge here in their memory. Canvass Reveals Clark as Winner BOISE, Idaho. Aug iOj-UFV- Official canvasses of the August 11 Idaho : primary by the state's 44 county auditors today showed Mayor Barzilra W. Clark of Idaho Falls winner of a red hot demo cratic gubernatorial race by 233 rotes. The municipal power champion will oppose Frank L. Stephan of Twin Falls, the republican nom inee, in the November 3 general election. ' Clark finished with 10,081 votes. Attorney General Bert H. Miller polled 9.848 and Lieut. Gov. G. P. Mix of Moscow 9,846. Five other candidates trailed far behind. Complete returns on the repub lican senatorial race settled ear ly last week s bowed Senator William E. Borah carried every county in his bid for a return to congress a sixth time. He polled 32.503 votes to 9,547 for Town- send-backed Byron Defenbach, a former republican state treasurer. More Old Age Aid Checks to Go Out Seven per cent more names ap pear on Marion county's old age assistance list for August than for July, according to a report from Glenn C. Niles, county relief committee executive secretary, yesterday. The average individual payment for the present month due September 1, has been in creased 20 cents, or 1 per cent over July. Old age payments have been ap proved for 884 persons, Niles an. nounced. as against 825 in July. They will receive $17,952.66, of which the county and state each will pay one-quarter and the fed eral government one-half. Financial aid to blind persons for the present month has been granted In 17 cases, an advance of five from July. Total August payments to the blind will amount to $364, an increase of $78. Japanese Explain Nation's Policies YOSEMITE. Calif., Aug- 20. (JP) Unofficial Japanese spokes men tonight told the Institute of Pacific Relations that their coun try's international trade and ter ritorial policies were virtually forced upon her by the policies of other nations. Repeated criticisms of Japan's allegedly "aggressive" methods drew the general answer that speed was necessary to give her a proper place in the world trade picture and that so many barriers had been raised against her that she had been forced to use every commercial weapon at her com mand. British sources suggested the rapid tempo of Japanese expan sion constituted a source of un easiness for other nations. They also asked whether Japan's in come from mounting foreign trade was being distributed to earners at. home. - Union Secretary to Speak ' ' ' ' ', .. '.. . ' ' .- v . . ", . ..... T. 9 . v i - v." ' " ? - ' ' yf' -s- .- . ; . i V. . m . - . . . ::, . . ; - """ i Stfward C Kennedy, national secretary of the Farmers Union who will speak at several places in the Willamette Yaliey starting 8at nrday. lie will give an address at the statewide picnic of the Union at Champoes park, Sunday, August 23. ' - Lumber Strike Is Believed Settled Official Announcement Is Awaited; Soldiers to Be Removed Soon PIERCE, Idaho, Aug. 20-UPV- The next move to make complete termination of the north Idaho lumberjack strike rested tonight in announcement of plans by Pot latch Forests, Inc., major logging operator in this area. C. L. Billings, general manager of Potlatch, said he had no offi cial word of the ending of the strike, and until he received it he would have no statement on pol icy. Strikers remaining here voted yesterday, 120 to 18 to resume work, and the general opinion in this region was that the seven-week-old walkout was history. Couriers reportedly were sent from this tiny mountain Tillage to all camps of the area to advise loggers the strike was over. Got. C. Ben Ross announced from a hospital bed at Boise that martial law would be ended prob ably Friday and that Col. S. D. Hays, of Boise, would withdraw the 35 remaining national guards men on duty in the area. Martial law was declared Aug. 2. After strikers and. non-strikers clashed with guns, and 90 guardsmen were sent to Clearwater county. Fire strikers were shot and sev eral non-strikers were badly beat en in the clash. ' The ousting of six I.W.W. lead ers from Pierce and Orofino Tuesday by national guardsmen preceded the vote to return to work. At that time, the lumber. jacks said, they understood they would go back with some of their six original demands granted by Potlatch Forests. Portes Gil Quits As Party Leader MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20.-(- Emilio Portes Gil, under sharp fire for monthB, quit tonight as president of the powerful revolu tionary (government) party. Sending his "Irrevocable" re signation to President Lazaro Cardenas and the party's execu tive committee, he said the sen ate's refusal yesterday to seat five party candidates declared victorious in recent elections bad decided him in the action. A former provisional ; president of Mexico, former attorney gen eral and former secretary of for eign relations, Portes : Gil had held the party presidency since June 13, 1935. The post is con sidered the second most Import ant political position in the coun try. . Big Firms Aiding Demos' Financing WASHINGTON, AugJ 20.-JP)-William Hard, In his radio broad cast sponsored by the republican national committee, said tonight that approximately 125 important corporations have "contributed to Mr. Roosevelt's compangn expens es" by purchasing space in the democratic "convention book." He said they included such "Top-class 'economic royalist out fits" as Genefal Electric, General Motors and United States Steel corporation. "The acceptance of their mon ey," Hard asserted, "has caused a considerable outcry among left wing supporters ot the new deal." Loggers in Court' In Shooting! Case OROFINO. Idaho, Aug. 20.-A) -Eight employes of the Fromelt logging camp, accused of shoot ing I. W. W. pickets in the clash 24 miles south of here on Aug ust 2 which precipitated declara tion ot martial law in Clearwater county,, were arraigned' before Probate Judge E. B. Steele to day and were released under bond of $750 each when a pre liminary hearing was demanded. Heroic Girl Has White House Bid Threw Herself in Path of Sled to Save Boys as Lives Endangered- ZANESVILLE, O., Aug. 20.-(JPy-A shy Ohio country girl, 12-year-old Clara Kathryn Van Horn, considered , tonight 'an invitation to visit the White House and re ceive from President Roosevelt a medal in recognition of her her oism in rescuing. two playmates from death on an icy hillside last February. Notification that she would re ceive the medal of the army and navy legion of" valor Sept. 12 was made personally by Capt. Ralph W. Robert, national commander, who came from Cambridge, Mass., to visit Clara at her modest home in the nearby village of White Cottage. Captain Robert said Clara would be the first girl ever to re ceive the award. He asked her to go with him to Cincinnati Aug. 30 to reign as "queen of honor" during the four day convention of legion medal holders. Modest almost to the point of timidity, the little school girl ac-w cepted, and then, as she shared with visitors a large box of candy Captain Robert had brought, told him briefly how she saved Ger ald Nixon and Raymond Kelly from death under the wheels of a train. On February 5, Clara related, the two boys,' 10 and 12 years old, lost control of their sled as it coasted down a steep hillside at the foot of which was a rail road crossing. A train whistled down the grade, and the panicky boys headed straight for it. Clara, trudging the hill, flung herself Into the path of the sled, tossing the boys Into a snowbank. The tied cut and bruised the girl as It passed over her body and was smashed under the train. "There wasn't anything else I could do," said Clara, wide-eyed at the attention paid her. Captain Robert said there was only-about 1,000 members of the army and navy legion of valor, which was founded 46 years ago. Sure, Pm Keeping Up On the World During fly Vacation" . . . Fm Having 1 he statesman Sent Me at My Vacation Address... O DIAL 9101 THE OREGO Hippodroming of Court Criticized Hanptmann Case Is Cited; Cnr on Publicity of Trials Is Sought INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20.-(ff)-ProposaU for curbing what it termed newspaper aad radio "hip podroming" of American criminal Justice as in the Hauptmaim and Mooney trials are contained in the report of the American Bar asso ciation's; committee on criminal procedure to be presented to the association at Its annual conven tion starting Monday in Boston. . ; Stressing publicity given the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnaping of the infant son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, the report proposes enactment of legislation that would strengthen existing contempt of court stat utes, j , The committee report was made public here today by Attorney General I Philip Lutz, jr.; ot In diana, chairman.' The report said "the most seri ous criticism of American crimin al procedure today is that t he judges of the courts permit news papers t usurp the court's own duties a4d functions." .'.'Newspaper interference with criminal justice always appears most flagrantly . in celebrated criminal cases." the .report said. "Those judicial proceedings, therefore in which American criminal justice most needs to be a calm Investigation of the truth are, on the contrary, most violent ly 'hlppcldromed" and 'panicked by the press." Citing j proposals advanced In the past for "correcting the pres ent system," the report suggested that a nfew statute might be en acted to give the courts more broad powers of punishing for contempti as a weapon for control ling publicity In criminal trials. Other subjects covered by the report lqciuaea proposals or en actment jof , procedural statutes which have proved effective, but have notlbeen widely adopted; to admit evidence obtained by police officers Acting in good faith, but with technical illegality, and for interstate I compacts to obtain more cooperation in law enforc ment Heroj Saves Two, Then Is Drowned GREAf FALLS, Mont., Aug. 20 -yP)-Alter rescuing two youths from the Missouri river near here late today. Harry Ritter of Great Falls. WPA timekeeper, drowned in an unsuccessful attempt to save the life df :a third, Buster Lake, 16, of Cascade. Lake a id the two other youths stepped into deep water while bathing and were swept down stream pfcst Ritter and another WPA timekeeper. J. C. Haney, who were cleaning fish on the bank. ' ) .; ; Ritter lunged in and brought two of the trio to shore but drowned in his effort to save Lake. f-- Haney i lso tried vainly to reach lake. Houses Tossed by Nebraska Twister WASHINGTON, Neb., Aug. 20. (JP) A twisting wind tore three houses , f com their foundations here tonight, poured a torrential rain Into) the community and drove almost the entire Washing ton population of 117 into storm cellars. No injuries were re ported. All communication facilities were interjrupted, and roads were made impassable. And Ask ' to Have Your Statesman Foncardcd to Your Vacation Address N ST Most of Tourists Found For Landon" Carl Pope Reports Alaskq j Trip Ideal; Colony Is Joke There, Learns All but one passenger on thoj Prince Robert, de luxe steame carrying tourists through Alas kan waters, planned to vote fo? Alfred M. Landon for president, it was reported by Carl T. Pope, Salem attorney who with Mrs. Pope returned this week from a Tacation trip to the Yukon coun try, The one passenger who fav ored President Roosevelt for re election was a Chlcagoan. Native Alaskans laugh at the Matanuska colonizing . venture, Mr. Pope reported. Potatoes rais ed there are so watersoaked the have no value as a commercial product, due to frequent raina and the short growing season which also handicaps other crops, t The Yukon Talley is thinly populated now, with nobody to be found there aside from xur traders and tourists. Two steam ers carrying tourists on the Yu kon were wrecked this summer but only one life was lost. ' Glaciers are Seen ' Highlights of the trip includ ed the Taku and Mendenhall gla ciers, the Yukon river and 'the old Russian capital at Sitka. The Prince Robert called at all of the principal Alaskan ports and passed close to the glaciers. While cities near the coast have up-to-date daily newspapers, Mr. Pope displayed a copy of a Dawson paper which, 11 days old, was the freshest news me dium he could obtain there and It, Incidentally, sold at 25 cents a .copy. Mr. and Mrs. . Pope were en thusiastic about the Alaskan tour as a vacation trip, describing it as both interesting and restful Hewitt Case Will Continue, Decided SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-JF) -Deputy District Attorney August Fourtner staked out a new legal battleground tonight on which to continue his prosecution efforts against two physicians involved in be sterilization of Ann Cooper He witt, heiress. Still smarting over Superior Judge Raglan Tuttle's dismissal yesterday of mayhem and conspir acy charges , against the physici ans, Fourtner said he would ap peal the -decision to .the state ap pellate " court "as soon as' possi ble." ... He also asserted he would bring the girl's mother, Mrs. Mar-, yon (Cooper Hewitt, to trial hero on similar charges "It It's the last thing I ever do." The . physicians. Dr. . Tilton E. Tillman and Dr. Samuel G. Boyd," received congratulations from their friends and prepared to re sume their practice, , which had been interrupted frequently be cause of the legal -proceedings. Republican Heads Talk at Lake view LAKE VIEW, Ore., Aug. 20. (P) Walter L. TOoze, assistant chairman of the state republican central committee? Lars Bladine, secretary, and David Hobs, young republican club leader, reached here today on their tour of east ern Oregon. They spoke at a meeting pre sided over by County Chairman T. S. McKinney. Last night the trio conferred with Harney county republicans at Burns and earlier in the day spoke at a Grant county meeting at Canyon City. A TE S M AN t ''' - K ' J
