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Blondie Is Coining ' "Who Is Blondie? Why, tho character in a brand new comic page of The Sunday Statesman. She appears next Sunday, July 23, and weekly thereafter. Weather . Fair today and Friday, continued warm and low hnmldity;' Max. Temp. Wednesday SI, Min. 47, -river -1.9 feet, northerly wind. POUNDED 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, July 22, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 100 r kyo Claims Tientsin at mm mi ) vl ' 'I ' i -i -o .. Friends Admit Court Change Measure Dead Compromise Sought Will Deal With Inferior Tribunals Only Garner Takes Hand; Foes of F. R. Plan Announce lneir reace lerms WASHINGTON. July 21-(?V The administration, with a real istic view to the strength of foes of the court reorganization bill, threw "that measure open today to a revision intended to bring a peaceable disposition.. The action virtually coincided with such statements as these: Senator Min ton (D-Ind.), sup porter of the bill "well, it's up to them (the opposition) now. They're got the votes." Senator Wheeler (D-Mon.) "We're got them licked." Vice-President Garner Inter vened in the situation during the day. He sought out Wheeler personally and asked him to pro pose, for the administration's consideration, a summary ; of how far opponents are willing to go in drafting t toimala cn which all can agree. .Garner generally was believed to be acting as the personal emis sary of President Roosevelt. AIL Supreme Court Changes Ruled Out Quickly, the Montanan . called for complete abandonment of, the section providing for new su preme court " justices if justices past 75 do not retire. He also de manded a guarantee that there will be no political-reprisals against those who have opposed the president's bill. - On" the positive side., he spoke of enacting some reforms apply ing to the lower courts. Garner's action came after sev eral hitherto uncommitted sen ators were reported to have serv ed notice they would vote to pig eonhole the president's bill unless j some "compromise" were worked ' out quickly. As a result of the Garner Wheeler parley, the fighting fac tions of the democratic party were engaged tonight in a mutual search for s oi e formula - that might end the gruelling battle and restore harmony. The Garner-Wheeler meeting, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Plan for Bandon Relief Proposed PORTLAND, July 21-Sy-Y. J. Griffith, state WPA adminis trator, suggested today that con gress be asked to enact a re lief appropriation for the re building of fire-swept Bandon. Ore. If the RFC does not see fit to make a loan to Bandon on terms which the city is able to meet. It would seem that the log ical procedure would be to ob tain such an appropriation, Grif fith said. Discussing Inability of the WPA to aid the Bandon recon struction program, the adminis trator said that a lack of quali fied relief workers in the Ban don district was only one rea son. ' - - ' ' "Even If labor were available in other parts of the state and the WPA, were willing to import men and set up a camp for them to live In, there are at least a dozen projects in Oregon already approved that have a prior claim to such available-labor," he said. Mavor Joseph K. Carson, Jr., of Portland said he could see no objection to sending roruana iit workers to Bandon, point ing out that a precedent had been set on the Wolf Creek and Wilson River roaa projects. Hostages Wound Traxler and Kill Tindol BOS WELL, Okla, July il-Wf- Roy "Pete" Traxler, southwest ern desperado, lay dangerously wounaeu m . ...... , . - a -i n nnuni r mi rv- night, shot down oy two coai headed hills' country hostages. '' The hostages, Frank Trimmer, Bff Pleasant Hill farmer; and J E 'Denton, 44, oil field worker of Kingston, seized the outlaws' own guns and shot them while nearly 1 000 possemen searched through the southern Oklahoma hills for the fugitives in one of the great est manhunts in the southwest- "iTsted to do It," Trimmer J.M "I wish there'd been some other way out. But 1 figured that if the - officers caught us all In the car they would shoot. It was either their lives or ours. "I shot Tindol, and Denton shot Traxler. Tindol died instantly. Trailer begged Denton not to shoot again." Ha nd-to-Ha nd F ighling In Spain Bloody Wiiti Insurgents Prevailing ... . '': ;." j. Rebels Hold Hill 660 Despite two Fierce Thrusts by. Government Infantry; British Hopes for j Neutrality Plan Suffer new Setback MADRID, July 21. ( AP) Insurgents gained complete possession of hill No. 660, captured in their advance yester- j day, by repulsing government in a bloody battle tonight. Close-quarter fighting was desperate during the day, when government infantry twiceswarmed to the peak's top and twice were driven by wither-o ; tng machine gun and rifle fire back down Its slopes. : The government saidt insurgent reinforcements from Villa Franca Del Castillo finally forced the government troops to abandon their efforts to capture the stra tegic hill. The hill is east of Villa Nueva de la Canada, which lies about 15 miles west of Madrid. The town was taken in the government drive two weeks ago and 'the troops of insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco are trying to regain it. Insurgents before daybreak ad vanced westward in an effort -to capture Villanueva de la Canada and cut through a government salient to demoralize the defend ers of government-held Brunete a few miles south. The government (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Robert Thompson Added to Faculty Social Science Assistant Coming to W.U.; Well Prepared for Task Robert Franklin Thompson, a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan university and Drew Theological seminary, has been appointed as sistant professor of social science at Willamette university. Presi dent Bruce R. Baxter announced Wednesday. The appointment fol lowed a personal Interview at Lincoln, Nebraska, while Dr. Bax ter was on his recent trip east. Prof. Thompson, who is 29 years old. was awarded the Dela-plaine-McDaniel fellowship for study abroad in a severe competi tion. He spent a year at Mans field college, Oxford university. and a year at Zurich, Switzerland. Upon submission of his thesis covering investigation carried on those two years, he will receive a Ph. D. degree. This summer Prof. Thompson is minister of the Orient, Long Island Methodist Episcopal church, being a member of the New York East Methodist con ference. He comes highly recom mended by Dean Lynn Harold Hough of Drew, seminary. While at Drew In 1932-33 he (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Insult to Injury; Stolen Safe Left In Officer's Yard PORTLAND, July 21 JPf Adding insult to injury-scarce-v ly expresses what thieves did to Detective Lieutenant T. T. "Tip" Schulpius, who special izes on safe robberies. They stole the safe from a tire company office early this morning. Shortly after, some one called police headquarters and asked for and received Schulpius' address. Still later, another call informed police a safe was lying in a drive at 3101 N. E. 41st avenue. It was the tire company safe, and it was In Schulpius' yard. as Posse Hunts Traxler talked readily to news papermen in his Hugo hospital room. " "We never hurt anybody," he mumbled as he tossed from tht pain of his wound. ."All we want ed was to get away." r On a lonely country road eight miles north - of here the weary gunmen, who had subsided main ly on whisky, and narcotics in nearly two weeks of - desperate hide-and-seek with . Texas and Oklahoma officers, stopped their commandeered automobile. Trimmer, who was driving his own automobile with a gun at his back since the outlaws broke into his home this morning and forced him to accompany them said he first thought Denton was an outlaw. " When the car stopped Traxler and Tindol dozed, their guns in their, laps. Trimmer said he look (Turn to Page 2, Col. ) troops who tried to retake it Roosevelt Reform Endorsed in Part Professor Gatke Objects to two Features; Set j Republican Picnic . President Roosevelt's- depart mental reorganization proposal was attacked in two points but endorsed in general by Dr. Rob ert Moulton Gatke, Willamette university political science In structor, in an address before the Marion County Young Republican club at the Marion hotel last night. Departmental reform is noth ing new, Dr. Gatke recalled, but he said the president's proposals for merger of the independent commissions with the departments and for change in the eivil service commissions were the first such to be made. The professor de clared both of these units of the Roosevelt reorganization program were objectionable. He urged his hearers to notify Oregon's con gressmen they believed the bill ill-advised on these two points! A panel discussion followed the address. Musical selections were provided by Mrs. C. C. Geer. 1 The club voted to hold a Will amette valley picnic at the Dallas park Sunday, August 15. i The committee on arrangements con sists of Mrs. R. L. Wright. Mrs. George R. K. Moorhead, Mrs. D. B. Kleihege, Dr. P. O. Riley, Lawrence Mor ley, C. S. Emmons, Stuart Weiss and Floyd Hastey. Fall From Truck Is Fatal to Lott REDMOND, July 2 lHVOren J. Lott, 46, died Instantly today when he fell from a truck driven by his son. Jack, enroute from Hood River. i Officers said Lott ' stepped from the cab of the' truck when canvas covering his load of apples ignited from the exhaust. The son did not 'see him fall, but later found his body on the highway, his skull crushed. Campbell Will Probated OREGON CITY. July 21.-0SV The will of the late James i U. Campbell, associate justice of the state supreme court, filed for pro bate today, named his widow, Anna C. Campbell, sole heir and executrix. The estate Included real and personal property valued at 18,500. 1 DISASTROUS OIL BLAZE AT JERSEY RESORT '7 Sfore than 200 uersona vrcra taken ft ''' ' r 1 1 ' L" r ' A l I ! . f - ' f - ' ' i 9S? r Anrinv KnctacuUr oil hlam which threatfnml Kew Jersey's fought the stubborn fJames for Valley Lumber Workers Take Opposing View Will not Go CIO States Paddock, Officer of Regional Council Vote of Confidence Goes to Pritchett Despite Threats of Rift EUGENE, July 2 1 -(yp)-Terming it a "minority" decision of an "illegal" organization, C. A. Pad dock said the Willamette council of the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers' union, of which he Is secre tary, will not recognize the vote of the Federation of Woodwork ers convention favoring CIO aUif iation. The council did not send dele gates to the Tacoma convention. TACOMA, Wash., July 21-(ff)-Harold Pritchett, president of the International Woodworkers of America, received a vote of con fidence from delegates to the or ganization's special convention here today, only a few hours af ter a threatened rift In the ranks of the 100,000 members came in to the open at a meeting of the Tacoma local. The delegates voted for Prit chett and his entire executive board by a large majority while they waited the report of the committee drafting a new consti tution for the organization, which voted Monday to transfer from the AFL to the CIO. Other resolutions adopted in cluded opposition to laws forcing unions to Incorporate, provision for nomination of executive offi cers by convention delegates and election by vote of the member' ship suggestion for a petition to congress asking release of Tom Mooney, provision for removel of the Timber Worker, official pub- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 ) Late Sports SACRAMENTO, July 21-()-Portland made it two straight and clinched the three game se ries with Sacramento here to night by winning to 2. It was Portland's 15th Tictorr in the last 17 games played by the Beavers. Ad Liska hurled the victory and coasted after the Beavers routed Henry Pippen In less than two Innings. Manager Sweeney led the attack with four blows. It was Liska'sl6th win oi tne season against ao aeieats, Portland .i, I 12 2 Sacramento 2 10 1 Liska and.Tresh; Pippen, Seats, Murray and Cooper. OAKLAND, Calif., July 21-(JP) -Oakland's Oaks battered three Mission pitchers for 19 hits to night and emerged victors, 13 to 3, In a lop-sided baseball game, Missions 3 11 0 Oakland 13 19 2 Hermann, Beck, Ardizoia and Frankovich: La Rocca and Ral- mondL WESTERN ViTh. LEAGUE Yakima 8, Vancouver 4. Spokane S, Tacoma 3. Wenatchee 11, Lewiston C. , f XI. f v to Atlantic City. N. J hospitals more than half m day before gaining the! upper band. Oregon Supreme Court Appointee HALL S. LUSK Lusk Is Named to Succeed Campbell Portland Circuit Judge Is Elevated to Oregon Supreme Bench ; Hall Stoner Lusk, Multnomah county circuit judge, was appoint ed Wednesday to the state su preme court by Governor Charles H. Martin. Lusk succeeds Justice James U. Campbell who died last Friday. i To succeed Lusk on the Mult nomah county bench , Governor Martin appointed Alfred P. Dob son, - Portland attorney. Both Lusk and Dobson are democrats, although both judicial positions are filled on a non-partisan basis. Dobsom was the democratic nominee for attorney general at the general election in 1932 and 1936 but was defeated by Attor ney General Van Winkle, repub lican incumbent. Lusk will serve until the next general - election Tin November, 1938 Governor Martin said Judge Lusk was appointed from a field of more than 30 candidates. . Judge Lusk was born in Wash ington, D. C, September 21, 1883, and was educated at Georgetown university, where he received his bachelor of laws de gree in 1907. He has been a resi dent of Oregon since 1909 and held the office of assistant United States attorney in 1919 and 1922 Judge Lusk Is now serving his second term ,as circuit Judge of the fourth judicial district. Judge Lusk married Miss Cath erine Emmons September 30, 1914. They have five daughters. Judge Lusk's term as circuit judge of Multnomah county would have expired January 2, 1939. Capitol Board to Meet on Tuesday PORTLAND, July 21 --Alton Bassett, secretary of the Cap itol reconstruction commission, said today further steps in the projected, construction of addi tional buildings in Salem would be discussed here next Tuesday. An interim committee of the commission which has been stud ying the offer of architects rel ative to building designs probably will report at the meeting, Bas sett said. ; 1 V snfferins from Injuries received " famous seashore resort. Firemen , ' p? tit - - 4 1" t . - 4 v ' tv. , i i i - - - Republic Firm Is Accused of Causing Riots Pressure, for Provision of Special Police Is Blamed by Chief Ford Official Is Quoted as Praising Attacks Upon Union Men WASHINGTON. Julv 21-UPV- Stanlev V Switter. chief of OO- Itna at Massillon. O.. declared to day that pressure by the Repub lic Steel corporation . and others for the appointment or specia: nnllcd canned the fatal steel strike riot in Massillon on July Two were killed when nollce and nickets. clashed that Sunday night while Switter was out of town. Switter was the first witness at a hearing: before the labor re lation's board on its complaint that the Republic Steel corpora tion has violated tne wagner la bor disputes act. From the time the strike start ed, May 26, Switter told the board, Republic officials and Massillon business men in the Law and Order League urged him to enlarge his 18-man force. Ha said f.arl Mevers. Republic plant manager, asked him why the Massillon notice didn't nan die the situation like the Chi cago police. Ten strike sympa thiiom had been killed in a clash with Chicago police on Memorial dav. On cross-examination, he said many of the strike picket were armed with clubs and that rocks were piled along the road near the plant. DETROIT. July 21.-MPr-Harry RAnnntt. Ford Motor comoanv personnel director, was named by a witness at a national labor (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Charge Pair With Looting 21 Autos Fred .Haynes Admits Part in Affair; Methods in Each Case Similar DALLAS. July 21. Fred TTTn 1r.l and Pat "Chicago Fennell were arrested here today In connection with the looting oi 91 automobiles Tuesday night. Haynes, who was committed to the Oregon state training scnooi for a Dallas store burglary In De cember, 1936, confessed his guilt after questioning, and Is held at the county Jail. i Fennell, who has denied the charge against him is also in the conntv iaiL In each of the thefts the same methods were used. The glove compartment in the dashboard was onened and the contents piled on the front seat of the car. Loot consisted mostly of sun glasses, cigarettes and cigars and blan- (Turn to Page 2, Col. by Power Office Is Moved to Yakima PORTLAND, July 21.-P)- Georze T. Bragg, general man- ae-er of the Pacific Power and Light company, announced today that the firm's business and field staff of a dozen employes would be transferred from Portland to Yakima in August. Executive offices will remain hr. and the 13 district offices in Oregon and Washington will be unaffected by the change, he said. , . .. '-.-.., ? - " He said the step was taken be cause the Yakima " valley consti tuted the company's biggest busi ness area. Marine Biology Institute Will Be Viewed by Boatd PORTLAND. July 2l.-Wr-The state board of higher- education will . hold Its first meeting at Marshfield Tuesday, Jn.ly 27, to Inspect then e w'l y established Institute of marine ' biology at Coos Head, Portland board mem bers were advised today, f 4 ' B A L LA D E of TOD A V Bj r. a 7 1 la Eugene the men ; wear whiskers as they honor pioneers while tht women wear poke bonnets and parade 'mid thun- i derous cheers, their pageant of the long ago makes green the ' Oregon Trail and is bossed' by Salem's Zollie so of course it cannot fail. , Incident May Spoil Peace Hopes Raised A s Chinese Retreat Officer Reported Against Ambassador Frustrated; Troops Withdrawing Slowly Mutual Suspicions Force Protects Nationals; Regret Over Case of Women Expressed TOKYO, July 22. (Thursday) (AP) The news paper Hochi reported today from Tientsin that an alleged attempt to assassinate Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe and the mayor of Tientsin had been frustrated by Japanese consular police. The newspaper said officers arrested the Chinese Colonel Zone Change not Favored by Board Liberty Near Mission Is District Involved - in Newest Petition The Salem planning and toning commission last night declined to act on a request received from Donald A. Young, as attorney, for a change of zone along South Lib erty street between Mission and Bush streets. Unable to reach a decision on a petition from Ben jamin P. Taylor for a cone change at his bathing beach, 21st and Ferry streets, the commissioners decided to meet .again Monday night to consider It further. The sone change sought for the Liberty street property" is from class one residential to class three business. The petition, signed by Henry O. Miller and 14 others, requests the change be made to apply to one-half of the blocks on both sides of Liberty between Mission and Bush with the ex ception q the .lot at the north east corner of Mission and Lib erty. Attorney Young, who did not attend the commission meeting, said he did not know the purpose of the Liberty street rezonlng pe tition. The filing fee of $10 was paid by Capitol Dairies, which has a plant at Commercial and (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Signing of Flood Work Bill Hailed ASTORIA, July 21-(fl)-SIgn-Ing of the flood control bill by President Roosevelt with word that 82,500,000 is included for Oregon projects, was "the most important news people in this territory have received in years," Walter Nelson, secretary of the Astoria chamber of commerce, said today. Local projects now approved and to be started, when the flood control .fund is "allotted include the Knappa-Svenaen, Tenas, Illa hee island and Warrenton dik ing districts and the blind slough area. Junction Gty to Vote JUNCTION CITY, July 21.-) -Junction City voters will ballot August 23 on a proposed bond issue not to exceed $70,000 for the construction of a complete water system, and. payment of 38,000 to Guy Miller, owner of the present system. Portlanders Win on Breaks; Fans Threaten Base Umpire Hogg Brothers lost a game they deserved to win last night as the breaks went in favor of the Gold en Glow Softball nine of Port land. ,': -I' ..': v- J '..: . The Portlanders combined two big innings to beat the Brothers 5 to 3 in a game which saw about everything, happen that can hap pen in a ball game. , f i The usually peaceful Salem fans even gathered angrily about Umpire Mickey Shultson of Ore gon City at the close of the game and had it sot been tor the paci fying exhortations and arm-waving of Long John Steelhammer, Shultson might have been called upon to defend himself. Decision Is Blade By Plate Umpire ? - ? It was all over , an eighth in ning decision that meant the ball game' for Hogg Brothers but, the fans picked on the wrong man for their mob scene.. Hogg's were leading 3 to. 2 when it happened. With the bases Arrested as Plot Remain; American OBai Shou-Tang when he visited Kawagoe s hotel. They charged him with planning to kill the ambassador. Colonel Bat, the dispatch . said, was formerly a staff officer uader Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang, vice-chairman of the military affairs com mission of the Nanking (central) Chinese government. TIENTSIN, July 21-GJVChr, nt e troop withdrawals from the Wanpinghsien battle cone west , of Peiping eased Sino-Japanese tension in north China tonight Two weeks after conflict breke out in the area, almost all sol diers of the Chinese 29th - army were evacuated under an agree- ment calling also for withdrawal ; of Japanse troops. f , Chinese said late tonight that; the next 2t hours may ; tel , neiuer me Japanese Will : fill their part of the bargain. ml a . m i any aeciarea occupation oi the demilitarized zone would give the Japanese control of the northern terminal of the stra- . a a-1 - n.l.l ir n a iceic reiiiingnnsuw rauruio. Japanese maintained watch during the day as the Chinese soldiers departed. Machine gun ners guarded trenches behind which batteries of howitzers were trained on Wanpinghsien. Secondary batteries pointed norm toward reiping. No firing was heard from the Japanese front lines- except ne outburst from a machine g ua near Wanpinghsien. It was estimated there were between 14,000 and 15,000 Jap anese troops In the area. The 15th United States infan try, . meanwhile, was ordered te stand by under full war packs to defend American citizens and In terests. (The Sino - Japanese , under standing for troop withdrawals was said in Nanking to be nly an oral compact under which beta sides would evacuate the trouble zone "as an evidence of feed faith.") At Peiping, a Japanese denial that embassy sentries used vio lence against two American wom en here conflicted today with their (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Man Paroled Here Gets Three Years on Charge Of Issuing bad Checks ROSEBCRG, July 21-UPh Thomas Charles Martin pleaded guilty to a charge of issuing a worthless check in circuit court here today and was sentenced to three years in the state peni tentiary. District Attorney J. V. Long said that Martin, under the name of Charles Moore, was sentenced to two years on a check charge in Marion county a year ago, bat was paroled. loaded In the eighth and two out Peterson, . Golden - Glow center fielder, hit a line drive through second. Ernie Garbarino, Hogg second baseman, fielded It and touched Infield, Golden Glow shortstop, with the ball as their paths crossed on the baseline.. X link was luo piJ iji9.uuinicD failed to see. Shultson, anticipat ing a . play at first base, was watching there, while Rigels, the nlata nmnire. called Infield safe. It was the break in the game, for H. O'Berg had crossed with the tying run and runners were perched on second and third.' W. O'Berg's single then fixed things up nicely as two scored. Aftr a little preliminary beef ing about the legality of his pitch, Calhoun, Golden Glow, pitcher, managed , to hold Hogg , Brothers to two hits, and hitless from the second Inning. His swp- port was wobbly, however, and the five errors chalked against; (Tarn to Page 2. CoL 7) -