... . Like Blqndie? . Headers of the Sunday Somic section reported th4 E comic 'Blondie' which appeared but week had tit their fancy. Weather Cloudy early today bnt generally fair, warmer Sun day; Max. Temp. Friday 74, Min. 49, river -2.4 feet, northwesterly winds. POUNDED 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, July 31, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands Sc. No. 108 oiE Tientsie Jle ail urn .Ba .Rages .Hear South Ubje sets Vigorously to Wage Measure Harrison, Smith Lambast Labor Bill as Blow ' to -Their Region " Roll Call Is Checked as Administration Croup Becomes Nervous 1 ' WASHINGTON, July 30 -JP-Eouthern oratory of the old fash ioned, full-voiced type reinvig orated today1 a movement to bury the administration wage and honr bill in a senate com mittee. ; - Led by Senator Harrison of Mississippi and Senator Smith (D-SC), the southerners almost to a man banded together in an outright revolt against the mea sure. Harrison shouted the bill would set up a labor standards board which could destroy "bus iness, large and small, by its ad ministrative fiats." Smith said the measure is in tended to "check the inevitable, rise of the south from the lowly condition in which the war be tween the states left it." "Why don't we call in God and tell Him to stop this bus iness of giving one section more natural advantages than anoth er?" Smith asked. Hacking of Green , Is Counted Upon Administration leaders, who earlier counted the battle won when William Green, president" of tne American Feaerauon 01 Labor, urged the bill's passage, hurriedly checked the senate roll call. They reported that there were still enough votes to pass the bill, though they were ob viously worried. ; The bill Itself would establish a board, equipped with author ity to make , surveys in individ ual Industries and prescribe for them, in its discretion, minimum hours of not less tban 40 week ly, .and minimum wages of not more than 40 cents an hour. As for the bill the "philan thropic and eleemosynary spirit" behind it is nothing but a "vote getting proposition," Smith said, and claimed the measure is de signed to repress the south eco nomically. Harrison in closing told the senate one reason for his opposi tion to the bill was that "Mad ame Perkins" would have a hand In administering it. Tint h centered his criticism upon the proposed board. "I' don't want to give that much power to anybody," he shouted. - An amendment by Senator XIcGill (D-Kas) which would ex empt persons delivering farm products to markets was ap proved. Double Hatcliery Output, Urged by ' Governor Martin MARSHFIELD. Ore., July 30.-(pv-Governor Charles Martin, louring the state with members f the state game .commission, arged that body today to double Its fish hatchery output next year. ' Asserting that "we must make Oregon a sportsman's paradise," he suggested that 35,000,000 tin gerllngs and 100,000 pheasants be liberated in 1938. "Such an attraction will bring as thousands of tourists," he aid. "Tourists have money to spend with os. But we must remember that the t o u r i s t who races through our state at 70 miles an hour isn't the one who spends the snoney." The party visited the- Corvallis came farm and the Alsea and Bandon hatcheries on the first ay of their three-day tour. Disease Germ By Rebels; Frenchmen Held HENDATE, Franco - Spanish Frontier. July 20 -ifiY- Two Frenchmen were condemned to death today for what insurgent Spanish officials charged was a macabre plot to Infest their ter j i ?ry with typhoid and sleeping sickness epidemics." ?- They said the whole world -would be called to witness the truth of their allegations that Louis Chabrat and Jean Boujen Bee were tools of an internation al ring that involved Englishmen, Frenchmen and some Spaniard In high government office. For that reason, the insur gents said they would stay exe cution of sentence and give In formation of the supposed , plan to the League of Nations and all world casitals. . r , ; A lnsurgeAtJIIftarytolirt Non-intervention Plan Deadlocked as Britain Holds Firm for Policy Demands for Change Come From Gerr iy, Italy and Russia With Rihhentrop -Blar Soviet for Breakdown; Three Po' .ade v LONDON, July 30 (AP) Gr? .tain will hold out for her plan of non-intervention in y despite the opposi tion of other powers, Foreign Secret, Anthony Eden told parliament today just before adjournment of a long, historic session. Far as the present plan Shin Blaze Loss A Reduced to Four Two Dead and Two Missing With Six Injured in . Baltimore Fire BALTIMORE, July 30 UP Quick action by a flotilla of res cue craft held the death list in the City of Baltimore steamship fire to not more than four, a check of survivors and passen gers and crew lists established today. Of the 93 persons aboard the Baltimore-Norfolk boat when the fire broke out in the bold an hour after she sailed, 89 were rescued alive. Two are dead and two ar missing. Six survivors were Jnjured, none seriously. Shipping officials, the rescue work completed, centered their attention on the causes of the blase. Almost at once, Capt Charles O. Brooks, a veteran of 35 years lh the Norfolk-Baltimore service and eommander of the City of Baltimore, said that the "amaz ing spread of the fire suggest ed sabotage to him. He said he had no reason for the suspicions except the speed of the fire in its spread. The federal government win open the inquiry tomorrow morn ing, when a special investigating board, appointed in Washington, begins a series of hearings in Baltimore. Longshoremen to Seek no Changes SAN FRANCISCO. July 30.-UP) -Another year of peace on west coast waterfronts appeared in prospect tonight when j Harry Bridges, head of union longshore men on the Pacific coast, announ ced his organization would ask no revision of its present working agreement. The Waterfront Employers as sociation earlier in the day had notified the longshoremen, of its willingness to extend present con tracts another year beyond next September 80, their expiration date. Six other maritime unions also have contracts expiring Septem ber, 30. Under the agreements they will be automatically renew ed unless either side serves notice of intention by tomorrow night to seek revisions. There was no official word con cerning the status of agreements affecting the six other maritime unions, but the sailors and fire men were reported meeting to de cide what action to take. Mosier Girl Dies Of Crash Injuries ALBANY, July 30-iip-Ellen Mosier of Corvallis, injured when the car in which she was riding crashed into a pole, died; at the Albany hospital today. - j Elizabeth Tunlson, one of fire other persons hurt, was report ed. In a critical condition. The car was driven by Lee Kohler; Plot Charged declared-the scheme was hatched in London and that Chabrat and Boujennee possessed vials of ty phoid and sleeping sickness germs when they were arrested in Fnentarabia. . It accused . them of smuggling the germs across the French bor der and of engaging In espion age. - The two Frenchmen were said to have, received .100,000 francs .(about $3,750) each for their part in the alleged plot. . Both sides on - the Brunete front, west of Madrid, burled thir dead, apparently content to ie4ve their . lines temporarily where they are. ' A communique said the Insur gent warship Almirante Cervera sank a foreign steamer, in span Ish waters near Reqnijeda. The sunken ship's name was not re- ported:-' -- is concerned," he said, "we do Onot propose to agree to any ma jor modification." Demands for changes came from Germany, Italy and Russia and German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop declared the Brit ish plan had been wrecked be cause of the soviet attitude. Eden admitted the prospect would be dark if there were no agreement on the British scheme. Parliament adjourned for the summer. Eden's plan for resumption of regulated non - intervention in Spain, under discussion by the directing sub-committee of the (Turn to Page 3, Col. 2) Rankin Again Hits Labor Board Acts Will Ruin President Says Southerner; Outrages Cited Upon Floor WASHINGTON, July 20-JP)-Representative Rankin (D-Mlss) said today "outrages" perpetrated by representatives of the national labor relations board are threat ening to wreck the Roosevelt ad ministration. Taking issue with the presi dent's recent statement that the board, has been fair to both capi tal and labor, Rankin said the chief executive evidently had been misinformed. The Mississippian expressed be lief Mr. Roosevelt would "call a halt" if he knew the facts. The facts are, he declared, that out rages have been committed by board agents in conjunction with communistic influences; that small manufacturers now are be ing subjected to "Inquisitions," and that brutal treatment has been meted out to citizens by "this unholy combination" tinder the pretense that it has adminis tration backing. Rankin told the house that (Turn to Page I, Col. J) Relief List Down But Costs Higher PORTLAND, July 10 -UP) - State Relief Administrator Elmer R. Goudy reported today that Ore gon's case load for-June was 30 per cent less than . the same month a year ago, but that high er living cost has increased the expenditures. Last year there were 4017 cases as compared to 369C last month; Chairman Jack Luihn of the com mittee said costs have Increased 3 per case since January. The reports were made when Multnomah county commission ers requested a direct' relief bud get of 180,000 for August. The committee allowed $79,000. The state budget: approved by the committee today totaled $215,938, Including $156,479 for direct cases. July payments In cluded $24,392.50 for! dependent children. $10,268.85 for blind as sistance, and $275,467.90 for"Id age assistance. Corvallis Tourist Group Safe, Word PORTLAND. July 30 -(JP)- Hi S. Zumwalt, district manager of the American Express company, received word today that the Milam party of Oregon ians tour Ing China was Safe at Peiplng. Dean L B. Milan, of the home economics department at Oregon State college, headed the 22 members who sailed June 26 and are marooned in the Chinese war area. " .- i Included In the party are: Misses Alma C Fritchoff, Lucy A. Case and: Agnes M- Kolshorn of Corvallis. : Ford Increases ' : Price -Upon Some Car ModeU DETROIT, July" 30-5)-Tbe Ford Motor company announced price Increases of $15 to $35 to night on several passenger models In its 1937, line. A forma state ment attributed the move to "ris ing cost-- Vote Assures j Large Project i For Jefferson j . $48,000 School Building I Made Possible as Tax Favored by 63 to 9 PWA Assistance Will B. Available as Result of Policy Change Jefferson school district at a special meeting Friday voted an additional tax of $5400 which removes the last barrier, other than an allocation by the PWA, to construction of a new $48,000 school building there, Jefferson residents reported. The affirmative vote on the special tax was 62 to 9. Previously the district had voted a bond issue of $21,000 for cooueration with PWA in the school building project, but the additional tax was found neces sary to meet the government's requirements. Reinstatement of the 45-a& per cent matching regulation by the PWA paved the way for re viving the project. Under the previous arrangement which had prevailed for several months, the Jefferson district would not have been able to proceed with its plans. All other requirements have been met, Jefferson district offi cials declared. Plans for tne building had been drawn pre viously by C. N. Freeman, Port land architect. The building, of brick veneer construction, will house both the grade and high school Glasses. There will be ten classrooms. I . Firemen's Voices Fail Terribly as Siren Substitute BERKELEY, Calif., July 20 ; - (JP) - Residents of decorous Berkeley were astonished toaay to see a fire truck speeding to a fire with a group of firemen leaning far forward and crying In unison, "aw-oo!" in an abys mally poor Imitation of a siren. Nothing like It had ever hap pened in Berkeley before, and half the town trailed the truck for an explanation. It came when the truck" drew up before a burning shed, and the tire men, after swallowing throat troches, went to work. What had happened was that the truck was on the way to the fire when suddenly the siren,; went dead. The boss fireman, seeing a department tradition in peril, decided that something should, be done. n "All right, you guys, start wah-hooing," said he. "WeTe; got to have a siren." Picketing at big Store Called off PORTLAND, July $0-flV-Pick-Oling of the Meier and Frank de partment store by the Portland local of the International Long shoremen's association, begun last May, ended today. Reason for the action was not revealed. The picketing resulted from an effort of union warehousemen or ganized under the ILA to obtain recognition, which met with op position from the teamsters' union which claimed Jurisdiction. The Portland central lauor council supported the teamsters and refused to recognize the rtke, later ousting ILA delegates instructions from wuuam president ot the American Federates ot Labor. Motorist It Killed MEDFORD. July 30.-WVDan iel Colman. 27. whose address was believed to be Lakeview, was kill ed Instantly last night when. the coupe he was driving left the Crater lake highway and struck a tree north of Prospect, Notice to Subscribers Effective August 1 subscription rates for The Ore gon Statesman will be as follows : - , . . , BY CARRIER BY MAIL IX OREGON Monthiv - .10 Monthly .$ One year 7.20 ! T UNITED STATES OUTSIDE .OREGON - - Monthly .60 Six months 3.00 One year f.00 , : Increases are made necessary by present and Impending Increases In costs of production of newspapers Including news print, wages of employes, taxes and provision tor additional com pensaUon to earrters.- - ' ' 'f ' " "'- Becomes Ruler Of Free Egypt Aruk I, who ascended the throne of Egypt Thursday as the first independent ruler of that nation In four centuries. The recently signed Anglo Kgyptlan treaty arranged for withdrawal of British troops and left the Egyptian monarch an Independent sovereign though retaining In alliance with Britain. WA Will Occupy Old IIS Building Southeast Wing Only Will Be Occupied; Sewing Quarters There The old Salem high school building will become the new home for the district WPA of fices and sewing projects, it was decided at a .meeting held Thurs day between committees of WPA officials and members of the Sa lem school board. ; Moving of equipment wlU commence Mon day and J. E. Smith, regional su pervisor, said the new quarters would be occupied before the end of next. week. .-s.v. .At present," ths offices and sew ing' units are occupying the rear ef the Chambers building, on :,crth High street, Just a block e;itb of the high school building. The 100 by 70 foot southeast wing of the high school only will t used by the WPA, Smith said. TLSs will be partitioned in the hiways so as to be separate from the main building. The re mainder of the structure may be come v a " temporary courthouse should Marion county voters de cide to erect a' new county build ing on the . site of the present courthouse. ' - - The WPA will probably utilise the lower two floors ot the wing. Partitions will be built to divide the rooms Into of flee spaces. j The rental to be paid .by the WPA was not disclosed yesterday. Loot From Train Robberies Found, Youth at Eugene EUGENE, July 30.-(iiP)-Sheriff C. A. Swarts ot Lane county dis closed today two Identified watch es and $60 in money was found on Louis Bradley, 18, arrested In connection with the robbery of a Spokane-Portland train Tuesday night. ' The youth was caught by a sec tion foreman at Divide, 20 miles south ot here. It was alleged he bad been caught rifling clothing in a Pullman car, bat leaped from the train and escaped. He was held in the county Jail at Eugene. 8Ix months 2.10 6.00 One year I i Miami ? ; . v. s - iV VI' - --t -c : f - :;! : .7 V .J tfrv if f x ? f X ''I Tax Loopholes Plug Measure To Be Written Increasing Surtaxes one Proposal With Curb on Holding Companies Enactment This Season Sought With one Eye on Likely Revenue WASHINGTON, July 30.-p)-A congressional tax committee, in agreement on proposed methods for sealing revenue law loop holes, arranged today to put Its recommendations into bill form next week. Members did not disclose what suggestions they would make to congress. They have dropped hints the legislation might Increase surtax os, restrict deductions allowed to personal holding companies, ad Just reductions for such incorpor ated hobbies as yachts and boost the levies of non-resident aliens Committeemen Indicated the administration desires to have the legislation enacted before ad- pournment so it may apply to the present calendar year and pro duce Some $150,000,000 to $250,- 000,000 of additional revenue. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) said, however, the committee is more Interested in preventing con tinued loss of revenue through use of tax avoidance devices than in bringing in more money. Probably the legislation will not embrace all tax dodging me thods, he said, because insuffi cient Information has been obtain ed to cope with some. But the more Important ones will be cov ered, he added. The committee will assemble again Tuesday. By that time, the chairman asserted, it hopes to have its report to house and sen ate ready and a bill drafted for consideration.-- - , Ben Lipscomb to Manage Security Office in Salem SAN FRANCISCO, July SO-UP) -Ben O. Lipscomb, who has been head of the Klamath Falls social security board for several months, will be manager of the office at Salem, Richard M. Neu stadt, regional director of the board, announced today. Daniel J. Coman of Portland, who has been in the Insurance business there for 18 years, was appointed manager of the Klam ath Falls board. R, C. Stillwell, who opened the social security office here re cently, was sent to Salem on temporary assignment to open the office and serve as manager until a permanent manager could be assigned. Battery Charged To Union Of ficer LAKEVIEW, July 3 (HP)-Justice of the Peace Frank Duke bound over J. W. Henderson, bus iness manager of the sawmill workers' union local, to the grand Jury on charges of assault and battery filed by Robert Adams, sr., mill owner. Bail was set at $1000. Adams charged Henderson knocked him down and kicked him in the face and body during the noon hour yesterday before several dozen witnesses. The fight, it was alleged, was an outgrowth of the trouble be tween the union and mill Oper ators following discharge of a worker. Employes passed picket lines and the mill kept operating. Late Sports HOLLYWOOD, Calif.. July 20 -()-Ken Overlin, 152, Washing ton, D. C, outpointed Toung Stuhley, 161. Kewankee. I1L, In ten rounds at the Legion sta dium tonight. f PORTLAND. Ore., July 30-) The San Francisco Missions took the Portland Beavers into camp again tonight, winning an easy S to 2 victory as they nicked Hobo Carson and Moncrief for 11 hits. The Missions landed on Carson In the fifth for 6 hits. Including a triple by Max West with two on, that were good for fonr runs. , Moncrief stopped the rush, holding the visitors to one lone single during the last half ot the' game. -7 '" Missions '; ............. 5-"ll 0 Portland . ..;..; ...-.3 t o NitcholiV and - Sprlns ; Carson, Moncrief and Tresh. " - WESTERN INTL. LEAGUE Spokane 12, Vancouver 11. Tacoma 2, Wenatchee a. : Takima 3, Lewlston 2. . - Chinese Unit Holds Out There Despite Fierce Bombarding Invaders Also Claim Progress Down Railway Line Toward Hankow; University Plant Wrecked "Second Steps" Being Considered at Tokyo Wbere Hope for Settling Conflict StiU Expressed TIENTSIN, July 31 (Saturday) ( AP) Bitter fight ing: broke out at the Central Railway station, in the heart of Tientsin, today as Japan's army attempted to clamp complete control on the commercial gateway to North China. New hostilities started when Japanese forces attacked a Chinese unit which still held entrenchments nearby despite two days of heavy bombardment of the city by Japanese bat teries. An earlier barrage of shells screaming into the ravagedl city had brought no reply from Chinese guns. This had led to the belief that Japanese domination of the city was complete. At the same time Japanese reports asserted their army Petition Recheck To Be Next Move Recall Proponents Claim Names Sufficient, May Take Case to Court Rechecking of petitions filed for the recall of County Judge Seigmund- will be begun today by proponents of the recall, .J. 8. Baker, who has been leading the movement, stated yesterday af ter a first check By thV-countjr clerk's office found' the " peti tions 790 sigantures short of the 4166 required to call a special election. Baker, who said he had a su preme court decision to back him, stated that the recall In stigators hoped to salvage all names of registered and unreg istered voters thrown out by the county clerk as illegal. Of the 4587 names submitted by proponents of the recall, 3376 were passed as legal by the coun ty checkers to leave a shortage of 790 names. Of the last filing, of 471 not checked prior to the Thursday deadline, 125 were re jected by the clerk Friday. A number of signatures were thrown out because the signers (Turn to Page 3, CoL 1) - Minesota Bandit Suspect Captured ROSEBURG, Ore., July Z0.(JP) -Federal Agent F. D. Dennis cap tured C. R. Gibson, 31, sought in connection with bank robberies In Minnesota last year, on a road leading to Loon lake 80 miles west of here today. He reported Gibson had been hiding out with a woman companion who also was taken Into custody for question ing. Accompanied by. State Police Sgt. Paul Parsons and Deputy Sheriff Clifford Thornton of Douglas county, Dennis went to the lake region to Investigate a man living under the name of Clarence Boyd Vines, suspected as being Gibson. 1 They met the cou ple on the way out by auto and made the arrest without resist ance. - - Dennis said Gibson was wanted for robberies at Cold Springs June 6, 1936, and at Eyota November 16 last year. He said the prisoner admitted his Identity. Qreg on Woodworkers Start Fieht for Pritchett Ouster a EUGENE. July 30.-OPV-C Paddock, secretary of the Willam ette district council of the Lum ber and Sawmill Workers' union, said today a movement was nnder way In Oregon to oust Harold Pritchett of Vancouver, B. C, as president of the newly-formed In ternational Woodworker of Am erica. He named f Percy ; Madden of Marshfjeld and Don Helmick ot Portland, secretary of the Colum bia river district eouncil, sis eA- erS.' i"."5 '-.':"' "-- Prftchett's - opponents contend he was "steamrollered" into the presidency ot the new. CIO organ isation, formed at the recent Ta coma convention ot the North west. Woodworkers Federation, Paddock said. -v ; : -- Paddock and John Stanioch of the Puget Sound district council are leaders In a move to form an m erican Federation of Labor or- tv Ohad advanced down the Hankow- Peiping railway line south of the ancient Chinese capital to a point 18 miles beyond the city's walls. to tighten Japan's grip on the central region of the northern provinces. Thousands of homeless Chinese streamed out of tha nativA ei- tlons of Tientsin last night, seek ing escape from the terror of the last two days. Again Japanese shells and air bombs fired buildings in the Chi nese sections of the city. Chinese said corpses still . lay in the streets, but there was no estimate ot casualties. Yesterday, in the. firff. day of bombardment, Chin ese officers said thousands of non-. combatant Chinese were killed or wounded. Front many points along the twisting 100-mile front between the coast and Pelplng's western environs came Japanese claims of success for their arms. The Japanese declared Fri day's Tientsin bombardment was necessary to wipe out centers of Chinese military preparation and to turn back a Chinese counter" attack. Among the targets was the sci ence library of Nankai university, gift of the Rockefeller foundation to that Institution, most Important center of learning In the north. At the same time, tha nrenaratnrv schools of Nankai In that native city were bombed. Nankai university has been a. center of patriotic 'student agita tion against Japan's attempts to dominate North China. TOKYO, July 30.-(flVThe gov ernment today laid before Emper or Hirohito plans for '"second steps" to deal with Japan's stead ily widening conflict with China. An official announcement said that in view of "the utmost gra vity" of the situation in North China, Gen. Sugiyama, war min- tf A1 SI VI I A A m Ifttanvneaa Vsvvt f navy minister, will make a full re port tomorrow morning to a se cret joint session of the two Cham-" bers of parliament. (Turn to Page t. Col. 1) J B A L L A D of TODA By R. C In China and In Spain folks congregate to slay each other, or, If not, to maim; in Salem crowds collect to recreate them selves at band concert dr"6ft ball game; comparing notes, we feel somehow most willing to stay in Salem and miss jail the killing. O ' . sanitation opposlnr the Wood workers CIO group headed by Pritchett. - VANCOUVER. B. C. Jnly 10.-(if)-Harold J. Pritchett, interna-, tlonal president of the Woodwork-. ers of America, which recently voted in favor of affiliating with' John L. Lewis' committee for in dustrial organisation, said today he had been refused admission to the United States and his appli cation for United States cltixen-. ship had been turned down. - Pritchett returned here July 26 after ' spending three months In the United States. His permit of entry ended July 28. Mr. Pritch ett said. - Refusal to renew his visa was made on the grounds he might become a charge of the state, he said. Pritchett Is appealing both the citizenship and admission refus- aJfv