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Hound the Valley Ills Genevieve Morgen ' trill present her first broad cast of special Interest to - rural - communities, oh to ' Might's K S L 31 program, . 7:15. - . Weather j Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, cooler Friday; Max. Temp. Wednesday 85, Mia. 44, river 0, gentle northerly wind, dean - POUNDDD 1651 1 1 . Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, July 8, 1937 M5K- ML Price 3c: Newsstands Se i NavAA "Tt A 71 O ; ' yTNTI O ri n TT-rv nTl -n Ami II'--. Ml ".II..;- r. I I .. I I V " w . - ; -- ' r - '.II 4: J .n nil si. ' S(RH(R mn Ti(n)?!i(r lies Amateur Radio Operator Gets Location Word Catapults Send Aircraft out Over Pacific but Nothing Is Found Definite Knowledge May Be Delayed Till Next Monday, Statement' GREAT PAULS, Mont., July 7 P)-Ray Havens, Conrad, Mont., creamery worker, reported to the Tribune tonight he picked up radio messages, .believed authen tic, locating Atnella Earhart's plane at 173 west longitude and 5 south latitude. About 10:40 p. m. (MST) Havens said he heard a man's voice give the position and say: -All's well." ABOARD U. S. S. COLORADO. July 1-(JP)-Ttiree Planes cata pulted from the battleship Colo- search for Amelia Earhart's round-the-world plane ' tonight but returned after two hours to report no trace sighted of the missing flier and her navigator, Fred Noonan. The Colorado, cruising off Howland island, tiny atoll that was . the goal of the Earhart plane after It took off from Lae, New Guinea, catapulted Its planes at 6:05 p. m. PST. The planes returned at 8:25 p. m. f HONOLULU, July 7-;P)-Three catapult planes awaited the Blg nal today to hop from the decks of the battleship Colorado and begin the aerial search for Amelia Earhart In the reef-strewn Pa cific east of Howland Island. Despite lessening of the mys terious radio signals which fanned the sparks of hope until yester day, Miss Earhart's husband, George Palmer" Putnam, and oth ers clung to the belief the avla trix landed on some island or coral formation near Howland last Friday. Coast guard listeners again re ported hearing the strange "car Tier wave" signals which began coming In on the Earhart plane's wavelength Saturday and contin ued nightly. They said the sig nals today were weak. Putnam termed "fantastic" the report this morning of an Oak land amateur, who said he heard Miss Earhart at 7:10 a.m. (EST) broadcasting ."we are okay on a coral reef." Near In g the area pointed out bv Putnam and others as the most likely place to search, the Colo rado headed first toward WInslow Banks, a long reef formation 175 miles east of the little Ameri-an Island which Miss Earhart and her navigator, Frederick J. No; nan, tailed to reach in their at tempt to fly 2.570 miles from New Guinea to Howland. The Colorado presumably re futed the coast guard cutter Itas ca 100 miles northeast of How land this morning and both pro ceeded Into the southern phase of A 1 . I. ..wit The minesweeper Swan, which helped the Itasca search a great area north of Howland without success, ' was ordered to accom pany the cutter and the battle ship. . - v r - Directing the search frpm Hon olulu, Rear Adm. O. G. Murfin, TL4th "naval district commandant, said It should be known by mid afternoon Monday whether Miss Earhart was alive or dead. . Murfin said- the aircraft car rier Lexington should reach the search area Monday morning and if it used all its planes would be able to scout thoroughly 36.000 square miles about the Phienix Islands In six hours. Neatness Is not Wise, This Case GRANTS PASS, July 7.-(P)-The virtue of neatness was it own reward to the two young daugh ters of Dr. C. L. Ogle, but it cost their father $900. - During an illness. Dr. Ogle en trusted the girls with the task of soaking the stamps from 100 en velopes which had belonged to his mother. The task finished, they burned the envelopes. Stamp collectors valued the en velopes, with the old cancellations 9 each, the stamps at 17 cents. Pullman Boy Drowns' PORTLAND, July 8-Wlc& -rd Goss, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs M. H. Goss of Pullman, Wash drowned while swimming in the Grant high school poo! Pla From BStleship HTpih CUTTER AND (-vv'-x.---.- I i v ' 1 I s iaiyia.iOTftaisifaiViiiiiisi tmtu i mummmmmimmmmmmm I r I- V , I h t; I - I . .y b - ' f ! t si- -1 I! " , ' iV f , ' i I Above, the coast guard cntter Itasca, which has been combinjr the vicinity of Howland Island for Amelia Earhart and her navigator, lost on their round-the-world flight. Below, Karl Pierspn and Wal ter McMenamy, Los Angeles amateur radio operators, with the set on which they picked up SOS signals believed to be from the lost aviatrix, and giving her supposed location. International Illustra ted Sews photo. ; I j ! ; Nine Deaths From Heat in Midwest Three Eastern States in Hot Wave Grip Also; no Relief Seen ' ',(By the Associated Press) Hot winds fanned a heat wave across the mlddlewest yesterday and lifted temperatures in New York New Jersey and jConnecti cut I Nine deaths were attributed to the hot weather in seven states as the mercury climbed through the nineties and beyond the 100 degree mark. j In Chicago, the temperature reached 90, soaring 20 points in six hours. New York, with a max imum of 91, experienced the hot test day this year. It was 93 at Indianapolis, 94 at the Newark, N. J- airport, and 91 In Detroit. Generally fair and ' continued warm weather was forecast. Thermometers registered 103 at Lincoln, Neb.. 10 at! Yankton, S. D.. 96 at Mitchell, S. ID., 94 at Sioux Falls, 93 at Minneapolis, 92 at St. Louis. 91 at Springfield, ill., and 90 at Centralia, 111. Three hundred perspiring con victs, laboring in a quarry, were (Turn to Page 7, Col. .) Two Slain in Strike Rioting j at Aluminum Plant in South ALCOA. Tenn., July 7-P)-Tennessee troops, armed with ma chine guns, guarded the huge planl of the Aluminum company of America here tonight after a pitched battle between police and strikers armed with clubs and guns resulted in two dead and more than a score wounded. - Henson Klick, 30, one of the strikers, wounded by a ballet In the neck, died tonight in a hos pital. W. M. Hunt, 42-year-old special officer, died from a ballet-pierced abdomen, t - sv. Seventeen strikers and three policemen were carried to the hos pital with bullet wounds following a gun and club battle today near the gates of the fabricating plant which reopened after being closed seven weeks because of a strike. Tonight company officials, said a check revealed that at least 11 officers suffered pistol or club wounds in the battle. Shifts Are Changed ! With Toops, Help , Shifts changed at the mill to night under the protection of a machine gun company of Tennes- O DIO "HAMS" 1 s n Palestine Divided By British Decree Method Must Have League Sanction; Reaction by Rival Races Feared LONDON, July .-ffjr-The British government anounced its approval tonight of a royal com mission report carving ancient Palestine into three new states and warned that swift military intervention would follow any re newal of racial strife in the i holy land. I The cabinet's adoption of the drastic plan for splitting Palestine into separate sovereign, Jewish and Arab states was disclosed in a paper which accompanied the report of the commission. Under a new permanent man date, Britain would govern the holy cities of Jerusalem, Bethle hem and Nazareth and a corridor to the sea. ' Bitter objections to the were expected in Palestine plan and Britain kept troops and a I war ship in readiness there to stamp out possible disorders. j The program for Palestine, which the commission described as a "surgical operation." will be (Turn to Page, 7. Col. 7.) see national guardsmen j from Knoxvllle. i The union abandoned its 1 pick et line. ' i .. . Infantry companies of guards men from Athens and Elizabeth ton and a special squad from Nashville to handle tear gap and riot guns were expected, to reach reacn R. C. Alcoa before midnight. State Adjutant General Smith arrived to take charge of strike duty. j , ' The clash occurred as the! com pany re-opened Its fabricating mill; closed since May 18 when workers walked out, demanding that the basic hourly wage be In creased from 45 to 0 cents an hour. ' - - " : , : j. Kv: Approximately 3000 men were affected. The reduction and car bon plants of) the company, em ploying about 1500 had continued in operation, i i Bloodshed followed a club fight at the plant's entrance. Witnesses said a truck headed for the mill was surrounded by picke'ts, and officers charged the picket line. : . ' (Turn to Page 7. CoL 4.) AID SEARCH 4 Seattle Paper to Reopen on Friday Support of Mayor and of Labor Council Figure in Opposing Guild SEATTLE, July 7 -)- James Scripps, treasurer of the Scripps league of newspapers, announced tonight the Seattle Star would re open its strike-bound plant Fri day at 6 a.m. His announcement followed a promise by Mayor John F. Dore to use police to disperse picket lines, and a resolution by the Central Labor council con demning the strike. Scripps said no agreement hsTd been reached with the American Newspaper guild which called the strike Saturday. He said a statement was being prepared explaining the manage ment's stand. The guild called the strike af ter 19 members employed in the newspaper's circulation depart ment were removed aud given other assignments and replaced by members of a teamster's un ion affiliate. The AFL controlled labor coun cil demanded that the guild's "un authorized picket line" be with drawn. The council's resolution said in part: ' we further demand that in the future the Seattle chapter of th American Newspaper Guild confine Itself to its lawful juris diction as allocated by the AFOL. Later, the Star Issued a state ment declaring its Intentions to reopen Friday, which said in part: (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Collision at Mile Height Kills Two PEXSACOLA, Fla., July 7-tf) A mile high collision -i between two navy airplanes brought death to the pilots as the flaming ships crashed to earth in a wooded sector several miles from the na val station. Those" killed were J. A. Mc Mann, a U. S. naval reserve cadet, of Glendale, Calif., and W. ' F. Mershon, marine corps cadet of Mena, Ark. Witnesses said one of the planes were flying In formation with eight other pursuit ships when in some manner it crashed with an observation plane. Fire started immediately. Charles Morgan of Pensacola said he saw one pilot attempt to leap: with his parachute. The 'chute tangled with the plane, he aid, and suspended the pilot so that he swung i o the whirling r")eller. The other aviator was burned to death, Morgan said. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., July 7.-P)-The Portland Beavers and the Oakland Oaks opened their series here tonight by splitting a double header tht for a time threatened to exhaust available pitchers for both clubs and to run into Thurs day without extra Innings. Oakland took the opener, 12 to 8, the Beavers coming back to take the nightcap, 7 to 2. Oakland .12 20 0 Portland .-.. 8 14 2 Douglas, Haid, Miller, Bonham and Baker, Raimondi: Carson. Moncrlef, Drefs, La Flam me and Tresh. " Oakland . , ,. , . .I 7 3 Portland 7 9 1 LaRocca and Raimondi; Rad onits and Cronin. LOS ANGELES, July 7-(i!PY-The San Francisco Seals made it two In a row over the Angels by clubbing out as 11 to three victory. ' San Francisco ...... .11 13 1 Los Angeles ...... S I' 3 Shores, and Woodall; Prim. Overman, Lieber anad Collins. WESTERN IXTL LEAGUE Yakima 5. Spokane 4. Tacoma 11, Lewiston . 9. Vancouver 11, Wenatchee t. Mae West not irister, She Advises Court Finally Admits Wedding in 1911 to Wallace, Obscure Hoofer Previous Denials Aren't Official, 1 Explained by Her Attorney LOS-,! ANGELES, f-July 7,-(JPy-Blonde and buxom.' Mae West of he films, a woman of many dia monds and few words, admitted today she married Frank Wallace, New York vaudeville actor, in Milwaukee, Wis., 26 years ago. . The admission came in a brief answer to a suit brought by Wal lace in an effort to establish the fact of his marriage to her. Miss West previously publicly denied she ever married the actor, or ever had known him. Miss West admitted she and Wallace were married at Milwau kee April 1J, 1911, but denied she- ever had lived together as man and wife. When Wallace's original at tempt to establish the marriage was made in New York In 1935, the actress commented tartly i "I never married Frank Wal lace or anyone else. I was a school girl in.1911, too young to marry. I can't understand it." Miss . West asserted that Wal lace was married February 6, 1916 to Miss Ray Blakesly, con tending that, to her knowledge there had been no dissolution of the West-Wallace union at that time. , f, To Wallaces complaint, he at tached what was purported to be a copy of the marriage license, showing that he was 21 years of age and Miss West was 18 when they were wed. Denials Were Not Official, Declared Miss West's answer was filed by Atty Charles E. Mlllken, who pointed out the actress' denials of . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Church May Lift Remarriage Ban NEW YORK, July 7-(iip)-The commission on marriage and di vorce of the Episcopal church pro posed today liberalization of church law to permit its bishops to authorize the remarriage of divoiced persons. ' Its proposed addition to the Episcopal canon on marriage would allow divorced persons to apply after the expiration of one year from the, granting of di vorce to the "bishop of his or her diocese for permission to marry," and would allow the bishops to permit such marriages "if, in eq uity and good conscience, he shall choose to do so," Episcopal leaders here predict ed considerable support for the movement to broaden the church laws on marriage, particularly from the dioceses of Michigan and Missouri. Present laws of the Episcopal church require that no minister shall "solemnize the marriage of any person who has been or U the husband or the wife of any other . persons then living, . from whom he or she has been divorc ed for any cause arising after marriage but this canon shall pot be held to apply to the innocent party in a divorce for Adultery." , Complaints Filed In Dumping Case TOLEDO, July 7-(ff)-The Pa cific Truck -Express fjled today complaints against two unnamed men charged with dumping 109 doien crabs, valued at V 1145, from a company truck north of Newport today. ' " The complaints , charge enter ing the . truck with intent to steal. - District Attorney L. G. Eng lish i said i Wesley Clegg, the driver, was warned to stay in the cab by the two men, who had parked their car across the highway. J J - ; . State'- police, who had , been warned there might be trouble la moving the crabs, ' watched the loading of the truck but saw no picket line. Officials of the Industrial Em ployes union said representatives of the Pacific Fishermen's anion had declared the crabs. ?aught by members' of the L E. U., to be "unfair." - Sp FoesofCqurt Plan Accused Of Disloyalty Bitter Debate Upon F. R. Scheme Is Halted by Baseball Recess i Wrecking President Aim bf Opponents, Charge of Senator Logan WASHINGTON, July Roosevelt men, continuing their furious drive to alter the supreme court, declared on the senate floor today . that opponents of the re vamping bill are trying to smash President Roosevelt. .The assertion drew immediate denials from the democratic op position, and the ensuing debate brought into the open certain po litical charges and counter charges which usually are only whispered in the cloakrooms. ' Senator Logan (D., Ky.) had declared that some democratic senators who owe their election to Presilent Roosevelt have "played1 the ingrate" by opposing the bill. Hardly had the assertion been made than Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) replied with an accusa tion that the administration had been guilty of Ingratitude in seek ing to "destroy" men who in 1932 abandoned their long time politi cal affiliations to back his can didacy. Adverse Report Is Declared Disloyal Logan asserted that the sen ate judiciary committee's adverse (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Courthouse Setup Studied by Court . - - J Conference Set; Tapering Off of PWA Is Added Setback, Belief PORTLAND, July 7-P)-C. C. Hockley, director of the PWA for Oregon, said today he had been advised by the central office to accept no more applications for new projects. Applications now on file in Washington are ample to exhaust the funds available to the state from the amount granted the fed eral emergency administration of public works by congress, the di rector said. The program of the state of fice for the present will be con fined . to completion of projects now under way, assisting public bodies which may receive new al lotments in the completion of con tracts and projects and arranging the program so as not to exceed the time limits set by congress, which authorized continuance un til July 1, 1939. Marion county's application for a courthouse . building grant reached state PWA headquarters before the deadline announced yesterday but the chance of its being allowed is dimmed by the fact that the county does not have Its share of the cost, 8304,425, provided for. The application was filed at Hockley's office May 25. The immediate future of the county's plans will depend upon developments at a meeting of the general building committee next Tuesday night at which either Administrator Hockley or .his chief assistant, Folger Johnson, will be present, it appeared ye terday. . From the PWA representatives the county court expects to ob tain definite word as to whether or not it is any longer possible, to secure a federal money grant for the building project. Raising Money in : One Move Advised District Attorney Lyle J. Page advfeed the court yesterday that in the light of Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle's recent opinion u (Turn to Page 7, Col. I. J Toledo is Victorious Again;" Dallas Team Plays Tonight Schedule . Tonight 7:15 Dallas vs. Cornelius. 9:60 Mantle Club vs. Reli able Shoe. " SILVERTON, July 7 Toledo entered the third round of the Oregoon semi-pro baseball tour nament undefeated tonight as its batsmen collected 12 hits to defeated St. Helens 6 to 3. M. Graser and Mebestas of To ledo each hit xafely three times and Mullen and pitcher Roberts got a couple each. One of eras er's and of Roberts' were doubles Turple of" Toledo s and P. Cody of St. -Helens also hit for 1 two bases. Loren Wodeage of St. Helens hit for the circuit In toe sixth, the first home run of the tournament. . , , Stunt Flier in Here ataav.-wx j v, v?v jfww l Pjaii m . - y. ,.., .,:., V,-,,,-'.. BERNAD1NB LEWIS KING Air Circus Comes Here! Late Today Record Crowd Assured in View of Popularity in Other Cities AH records for attendance at air shows in central and eastern Oregon have been broken with the crowds which have turned out for the Sky Circus and flying aircraft exhibition of the 1937 Oregon Air Tour, which will appar at the Sa lem airport at 5 p.m. today. A number of Salem stores will close at 4:30 to cooperate in the pro gram. The "thrilling 3-hour Sky Cir cus has kept crowds on edge end have sent them away from the air ports with enthusiastic praise of the show -"It's the best air show I have ever seen." Tex Rankin's sensational half hour stunting performance in a tiny all metal silver monoplane, has been the high spot of the per formance at each of the shows pre sented in. central and eastern Ore gon. His daring upside-down dive across the field at full throttle so low that spectators could almost look Into his face drew almost as much applause as his risky speed dash across the field with the monoplane tipped on Its side. Bernadine Lewis King has kept crowds entertained both with her sky writing and her stunting ex hibition, which is climaxed with picking up ' a handkerchief on a stick with her wing tip. She per forms in keeping with her upside down records by flying most of the time upside down. Two Parachute Junipers Are Billed New thrills in parachute jumps have been : presented by George Cook. Hollywood ace, and Doro thy Barden, Sacramento sky lean er. Crowds have held their collec tive breaths waiting, for each to pull the rip cord and comp out of their long delayed tumbles through space, at. which they reach speeds of 16 5 miles an hour. The entire program moves like clockwork under the supervision of Allan D. Greenwood, tour director. (Turn to Page 7, Col. 8.) Army Interfering With Pickets But Method Peaceful A meat workers' union is hav ing trouble maintaining its picket ing of a Salem market, because the United States army is taking away the, pickets. No armed force was utilized, only the attractions of joining the army as offered by a recruiting sergeant. - About a month ago,. Sergeant Joseph Scarpa, going about his duties ojt enlisting, men for the service, . talked with and " signed up the first picket. A few. days later he fell in with the successor and that man too decided to ex change a ' picketer's " , shoulder boards for: the army packsack. ' Last week the sidewalk in front of the market was barren of pickets' for the third time as an other man decided the opportuni ties afforded by : the army air corps beat walking the pavement. Union heads must have con ferred to stop this sort of thing, for yesterday a. new kind of pick et, a woman,. paced the walk In front of the meat, market. - Four .Toledo. blows la the sec ond inning ' accounted for two runs and ' two more came on three bingles in. the fourth. Runs were also scored In the fifth and sixthj "'St jHeien got two; to' he fourth and one in the sixth on Wodeage'a f homer ; which stayed Inside the big park. ' " 1 Toledo played 1 errorless - ball, - . In the first game " of tonight's double header Oiegon City was eliminated, 6 to 2, by Portland Woolen Mills when Shirley Brown of the Portland team pitched four-hit ball; with errorless sap port. Brown struck out ten bats men. His mates rapped out four hits in the third inning to score (Turn to Page 7, Col. 7) Peace in East Threatened by New Outbreak Marco Polo Bridge Held by Invaders at End of Bitter Battle -TV n City, Barricade for Extended Siege PEIPIXG, J u 1 y iS-ypy-The Japanese army resumed its at tacks on the city of Waaping hsien at 11 a. m. today after' rapturing the strategic com munication lines from Peipimg to Hankow in a battle with tlw 29th Chinese route army. Japanese circles denied Wan pinghsien had been bombard ed and pla? the blame for the battle on the CThlnese forces. I "The Incident is entirely due to Chinese troops who fired a maneuvering Japanese troop at 11 p. ni. Wednesday,' Major Take Oimai, assistant Japanese military attache, said. PEIPING, July 8-(Thursday)-(-Japanese troops captured th strategic communication 1 1 B e i from Peiping to Hankow today la desperate fighting with Ga. Cheh-Yuan's 29th Chinese routs army 10 miles west of the forbid den city of ancient China. After a four hour bombard aient of the tiny walled city of Wan pinghsien. near the Fengtai rail way junction, the' Japanese troops gained possession of both the his toric Marco Polo bridge across the Ying-Ting river and the Pel pin g-to-Hankow railway lines. . v The Chinese troops, were forc ed to withdraw into the walled city, which they now are fortify ing during a temporary armistice. The gates of Wanpinghsles were closed and heavy sandbag forti ficationswere being erected. The battle between the 29th omv anf Tarawaa 4waaa ducting secret night maneuvers started at midnight and continued until 10 a.m. The sound of battle could be heard plainly here where observers feared the entire ques tion of peaceful Chinese and Jap anese relations hung in the bal ance, i Desultory Firing Is Still Heard Desultory rifle fire was still continuing in the vicinity at mid morning with occasional heavy explosions In the western outskirts of the city near Bridges. The city was being barricaded and all traf fic was halted. The Chinese de fenders were apparently preparing lor an extensive siege. Several score Chinese soldiers were known to have been killed and wounded in the renewed hos tilities between China and Japan. A Japanese officer I was said to have been killed and several non commissioned officers and men wounded. It was believed the Japanese casualties would run considerably higher. A Japanese o f f i c e r entered Wanpinghsien bearing ' a white flag shortly after the armistice was concluded. It was presumed (Turn to Page 2, CoL I) Slashing of WA Expense Ordered PORTLAND. July 7-VPrE. J. Griffin, Oregon WPA administra tor, announced today ! a - 31, per cent Cut in administrative per sonnel, eliminating 106 of the 338 now employed in the state. The reduction, Griffith said, is in proportion to the reduction in the relief load in the state, which dropped from a maximum of 22, 500 last year to 13,000 on Jane 15 of this year, with a. farther decrease of 2000 expected by July 15. The present four state districts will be eliminated under the re organized setup, and. offices ot resident engineers established where they are warranted by con struction activities.! The aniaber of resident engineers will feef re duced from 23 to 18. who will re port directly to ; the : Portland head q u arters. 1 f . . "The reduction in the relief load has been almost entirely au tomatic and has resulted from re lief workers returning to private employment of their own voli tion," the administrator said. B A L LAD of TO DA By R. a E y Throughout the western, U, S. A. the short wave radios are tuned in hope of catching some faint word from refugees on coral reef: with anxious hearts the people pray ; that fliers brave, perhaps marooned, may yet be saved grave doubts are heard, but many cling to their belief