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Special Features Look for a number of special ' feaares la ' The Bonday Statesman; pictures, special articles, columns, comics, sport section. Weather Mostly fair,' morning rloadiness today and Sun day, warmer; Max. Temp. Friday 76, 31in. 57, river, - feet, northwesterly wind. EIGHT Y-SEV EN TH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Jlorning, August 14, 1S37 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 120 r ryiiig to iMclureii r Woman-1 Save Fails to Meet Delegation of Alliance Here Sends Message Upon His Arrival but Refuses i to Visit "Square Indignation Meetings of : Workers Held Later; Job List' Scorned " Governor Charles H. Martin and 200." .persons participating in, a "Jobless march'' i on his i office played rlng-around-the-rosy Fri day and failed to get together, The r marchers, u. carrying ban ners, -. paraded through the city and reached the eapitol at 4 o'clock; the appointed hour. Gov ernor ' Martin earlier In ' the day had gone on an irrigation tour to Canny ana. aid not return until about 5:30. . t " ' In the meantime the ' marchers, after singing songs and hearing talks by some of their number. finally voted to depart and pa raded back to Marion Square, their starting point, where they held an indignation meeting. Belated Invitation Scorned by Group Upon his arrival. Governor Mar tin sent Wallace Wharton, his ex ecutive secretary,' to the: park to announce that he was in his office .awaiting the delegation. They re fused, to : go, saying that, if . the governor waniea 10 see mem ne must come to the square within 20 minutes. The governor didn't go. Banners, were carried . by - the delegation, demanding that they be given recognition. Sonte of the banners read: . ' "We are not scabs, we want work." - --W-, - "Governor. Martin,; we demand that you .retract your statement that Oregon does not need relief. ' State and city police were sta tioned in the statehouse and only members of the committee were allowed to go into the executive office, . Other officers were stationed In Marion square to quell any pos Bible disturbance.- . ' T. A. Phillips, Portland, secre tary of the Oregon Workers Alii ance, acted as spokesman for the delegation and made the motion that they return to the park. Claim Martin Has Gone Into Hiding" ' ? After returning to the park number of speakers denounced (Turn to. Page- 3, Col. 7) .. . ' ' ff ' Klamath Corps Is Oregon Champion ALBANY, Aug. 13-(P)-Klam-ath Falls post No. 8 took all first places tonight in drum corps com petition featuring the American .Legion convention here tonight. The southern group scored 96.825 points to win the state championship for the second con secutive year. Corvallis was sec ond with 95.825, Portland post No. 1 third, Astoria fourth and Roseburge fifth. ' Dewey Powell of Klamath Falls won his second straight drum major championship, with Don Beery, Corvallis, second; Doc Stram, Portland post No. 1; third, A. S. Page, Astoria, fourth, and Frank Young, Astoria, fifth. Pa lin a leer Gets Legion Picks ALBANY, August 1 S-K-Com-mander Guy" Cordon, Roseburg, tore a page from the record of one of Oregon's greatest, trage dies, the Bandon fire, in warning the American Legion to maintain perpetual preparedness for emer gencies. He addressed theMepart roent convention here today. Work in aiding southwestern Oregon fire victims a year ago stands out as the- most notable accomplishment in the history of the- department, he said. He cred ited the result to Mose Palmateer, vice commander from Salem, who directed the Legion activities da ring the disaster. : i " r J The retiring commander, re porting, on his year's stewardship, recommended that Legionnaires "practice what they preach," set ting an example for all groups In the support of constituted au thority. " -- Cordon listed the accomplish ments of the year as the defeat of optional military training for college students, legislation In child 'welfare, aid to dependent NINETEEN 1 V 5 4 f 1 1 "C . , r NEW YORK, Aug. lSw-P)-Searchers aided by a steam shovel dug: deeper today Into the mud and splin , tered timbers of three tenements which collapsed on Staten Island Wednesday night, in search of two more persons missing in the accident that took 19 lives. ; Nearly either unemployed or on relief. Borough President Joseph A. Palma , them. (Above, view of wreckage.- UN photo.) . ' Strike Called at Big Toledo MU1 Industrial Union Opposed by AFL Loggers Who Seek Unit Vote TOLEDO, Ore., Aug. The lumber, and sawmill workers onion called a strike today at the big C. D. Johnson Lumber Corp. mill; here; climaxing a dis pute over recognition by the com pany of the Industrial Employes union, Inc., as collective bargain ing agency. As the mill was operating only four days a week the number of employes supporting the strike will not be known until Monday, When R. Richardson, superinten dent, said it would re-open as usual. ' - .. However, 350 members of the AFL union at Camp 12, near Sil- etz. BUDDlrina- logs to the mill. wftlked out today, and longshore men at Newport said they would not load the company's timber. Union officials .also said log ging camp employes who have been transporting the lumber to the Southern Pacific railroad would refuse to handle the mill's production. Four pickets appeared outside the mill. " 'v Companv officials denied an assertion by Elmer Rich, union secretary, that 25 members of the AFL group had been laid off. Replying to the striking nnion's demand for a vote on the bar gaining agency, company execu tives said such a i vote must be confined to mill employes while AFL officials insisted that - log ging . camp workers be included contending that the Inclusion would give them a majority over the IEU. , 1 The IED was organized this spring upon the dissolution of the old 4-L. which included both em ployers and employes. Recogn it ion; Pendleton, '38 mothers, law enforcement coop eration, and establishment boys' camps junior baseball. v "The field of youth offers the greatest : opportunity ' for good deeds," he added. He sought the approval of the convention to raise the pay of legislators and support the na tional universal service bill con scripting capital as well as man power In time of war. The Le gion's man power has reached 11,600 members, he said and each man must serve in peace as In war. He recommended state aid for educating war orphans. "The WPA is making a bunch of bums out of a lot of men, said J. R. Smnrthwaite, federal veterans placement officer. He urged members to take jobs in private industry wherever possi ble, and - to appoint an employ ment officer in every post, i Cicero Hogan, Portland, senior national vice commander of dis abled veterans, said the country must put through a civil service (Turn to Page 3, Col.' I) If So DIE IN BUILDLtf I. - i r 1 i --1- - 1 vv in, Grand Windup of Regatta Planned; I Two Shows Today The diving; tower at the' West Salem i water carnival could not be moved Into deep water last night so the man agemenc decided to, call the aquatic show off and will pre sent It at 2:15 this afternoon, aa double feature In connec tion with the scheduled boat races by prominent boatmen of this part . of the. Willamette river. ' The diving: acts and semi finals of the swimming contests will also take place this after noon. Tonight, the first West , Salem water regatta will close with another show at the river side grandstand featuring the swimming finals and a display of fireworks which will last for an hour. Another dance will be : held at the pavilion. . Last night concessions, rides and games occupied m crowd at . the regatta, while others danc ed at the pavilion. Potts Reports on Flax Fund Status George W. Potts, home from at tending an agricultural confer ence at Salt Lake City, reports that the subsidy of 7.50 per ton for flax may be assured for 1937 but is not part of the present program for 1938. Potts, who. is state president of the Fanners' Union, attended the sessions as delegate of the state flax board. The meeting; was - called by George Farrell of the department of agriculture with jurisdiction over work in : the western states, At the meeting Potts spoke on the wisdom of developing the flax industry here, citing the fact that 500,000 acres of land suit able for flax! growing are avail able in this valley, and referring to the high quality of the Oregon product. He , discussed . the flax subsidy matter with Farrell who indicated he would come out here later to investigate the situation. Secretary Wallace In his. ad dress outlined his seven-point program as follows: making ag neuiiurai purcnasing power on parity with Industry: level off the wide fluctuations in prices of ma jor crops; ' encourage farmer- owned farms and check farm ten ancy; soil conservation; encour aging marketing, processing and purchasing cooperatives; aids to rural Incomes; federal and state aid In research. Pope Is Reported As Somewhat m VATICAN CITY, Aug, H-( Sat urday) -(-Sources elose to Pope Pius XI reported today the pon tiff was suffering somewhat from the intense heat' but was contin uing his duties with courage. The pope Is summering at Cas tel Gandolfo, where later today he is to receive 1.500 pilgrims, in cluding a number from the United States.--:"--! . Vatican sources said that al though the pontiff, who is SO, Is bothered : by chronle trouble with his limbs, he was able to walk a bit In his quarters yes terday. - , , --i ; COLLAPSE all residents of the structure were said, appealing for funds, to bury ' ' , Ku Klux Tieup of Black IsCharged Mos ObjeciioikJBased, on Constitutional Issue Over Appointment WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-(P)- Word spread about the eapitol to night that the Ku Klux Klan is sue might be raised by some sen ators fighting the appointment of their colleague, Hugo L. Black of Alabama, to the supreme court. One of Black's senatorial op ponents, who refused to be quoted by name, said he understood study was being made of reports that the Alabaman had once been supported for office by the Klan This senator said that If any thing of a documentary nature could be found it would be sub mitted to the judiciary committee which mast pass upon the nomi nation. Some other members of the small senate group openly oppos ing Black declared, however, that they were "washing their hands of any such tactics. They added their objections were on legal grounds only. - A final showdown on the sen ate floor, where appointees from membership usually are confirm ed without any such struggle as that now going on, appeared un likely before next week. The Initial test came in a juris- (Turn to Page I, Col. 8) New Supreme Court Pleased; Wife -S News that Senator Hugo L. Black, Willis Van Devanter was welcomed by Mrs. Black. She Is shown congratulating her husband in the eapitol building. , " " "":" Queen Louaim Is Crowned at Flax Festival Wears Linen; Cherrians Have Major Part in Initial Events Huge Crowd. Present for Opening of Program; to Continue Today MT. ANGEL, Aug. 13. Clad In a gown of white eyelet linen, product of the realm she rules; Queen Louann knelt and received the crown upon her head here to night to become for two days the ruler of Flaxaria. 4 With ceremonies simply per formed before an elaborately dec orated stage at the baseball park, thus opened Mt." Angels second an nual Flax Festival, as King Bing A: A. Gueffroy of the Salem Cher rians placed the tiara upon the head of the smiling Mt. " Angel girl, who thereupon arose and blew kisses to her admiring sub jects, and said a few words to them. ' The baseball park was jammed with 2500 automobiles and a mass of humanity as the royal proces sion approached promptly at the scheduled hour. Following a po lice esco., in the lead, rolled the cars of the queen and three prin cesses. Then followed the four royal buglers, Alfred Schledler, Al SelferrJohn .Wruel.anjl Jtobert Leos, and the - contingent of i 2 Cherrians from Salem who were to conduct the coronation cere monies. At the scene of the coronation six pages made up of three sets of twins, Raymond and Robert Pheis, Hilda and Mary Bean and Dolores and Deleen Houghman led the procession to the platform. Dr. A. F. . Schierbaum, act ing as master of ceremonies, In troduced the princesses and es corts, Princess Margaret and her escort Joseph L. Wachter, Prin cess Dorothy and escort Lee Wil- kins, and Princess Lois and escort Ted Stevens. The royal princesses wore long linen dresses each of contrasting colors of green, coral and blue. They were presented with bouquets by little flower girls and all carried gardenia cor sages. . Mayor Berchtold of Mt. Angel then escorted Miss Irene Berning 1938 q.ueen of the festival, wear ing her queen's gown of last year, to the platform. Miss Georgiana Karuse, queen of the 1935 Fourth of July celebration also assumed a place of honor on the stage, which was gaily decorated and brilliantly lighted. A fanfare of trumpets announ ced the queen as she, made her way through an aisle in the close ly packed throng, wearing a white (Turn to Page 3, Col. 6) Appointee Is Congratulates Him - ' ! ! of Alabama, was named by Presi- Three Chinese Planes Attack Japan Cruiser Second Day of Shanghai Battle Opens, More; ; Fierce Than Ever Artillery Duels Waged; Invaders Repelled -at Nankow Pass SHANGHAI, Aug. 14-(Sat-nrday) (JP) Machine gun cross fire and anti-aircraft shells splattered today about the in ternational settlement where reside 4,000 Americans and 8, OOO British, as Chinese fought the battle of Shanghai in the iair, along 'the river front and though theVity." One British - resident was in jured. A Russian was shot in the' stomach. Two Chinese res idents were killed. One report that an; American had - been caught in cross fire appeared to be erroneous. There were, however, uncon firmed - reports that many ashore had been -injured Just after dawn when three Chinese warplanes attacked the Jap anese cruiser Idxumo and ' es caped the cruiser's anti-air. craft fire. SHANGHAI, August 14-(Sat urday)-)-Three Chinese war planes bombed the Japanese cruis er Idzumo today at the northern end of Shanghai's famous Bund but apparently missed their mark by the narrowest margin. The attackers, appearing over the cruiser, with lightning sud denness, dived 'and loosed one bomb each, the explosions rever berating through the city and en gulfing the vessel, flagship of the Japanese fleet here, ia a wall of smoke. '.. .' .- "' . ; r As the smoke lifted the fdzumo appeared to be undamaged but the docks nearby were splintered. The .Japanese unleashed a hail of anti-aircraft fire as the planes appeared but caused no damage. Machine guns and one-pound guns were pressed into action. , The attack followed the re sumption of hostilities early this morning with the roar of field guns and the chatter of machine gun fire ushering jn another day of anxiety for Shanghai, torn by Sino-Japanese conflict. The thunder, of the guns, fol (Turn to Page 3, Col. 8) Hop Control Plan : Difficulties Seen Committee Views Further Today; Contracts Are Cited as Barrier . Fifty Willamette valley hop growers gathered in the Salem chamber of commerce rooms here Friday, agreed that every effort should be made to work out a voluntary crop reduction scheme in lieu of the federal agreement., that apparently is stalemated in congress. However, difficulties appeared. immediately, chief among themj the possibility of legal involve-r ment for growers whose 1837 crops are contracted in advance. ' - The fact ; that the 50 present j constituted only a fraction of all ; growers in Oregon likewise stopped any action for the state as a - whole. Another deterrent was the fact that hop harvest Is ready to begin and it is apparent ly a little too late to do much on any redaction plan. The meeting opened with unan imous expression that a crop cut was i desirable this-' year to raise prices from disastrous levels. Then the issue of cutting produc tion on hops already contracted for arose. .. After this was brought up, the meeting developed Into a staler mate, with several motions left hanging in midair as the legal (Turn to Page S, CoL I) . Woodworkers Ban ; Speakers of GO - - MARSHFIELD, Aug. Members of the Plywood, Veneer, Box and Shook - Workers', union locals here voted to bar appear ance "of CIO speakers at all fu ture meetings. -' The local previously acted to retain AFI affiliation. ALL A, D E of TODAV By B. a Our governor's a busy man, the unemployed have , lots of time yet both should keep their dates; they might have reached some useful - plan - for - jobless folk to earn a dime not ag gravate their hates. B Tots in Demolished A uto Not Seriously Hurt, Train Impact Father, Also Attempting to Remove Children From Stalled Car Falls Free and Escapes Injury Mother Braves Oncoming Engine and Is Crushed; Smashed Auto Rides on Pilot Quarter of Mile Courageously samficing: her own - life in an effort to save her children, Mrs. Evelyn Schlag; about 21, met instant death when a north-bound Southern Pacific passenger train shattered the family automobile which had stalled on the Hayesville road north of Salem about 6:30 o'clock Friday night. The smashed automobile with the two children-in it was carried on the pilot of the engine for a quarter of a mile down the track, but miraculously the children were not critically injured. John Schlag, their father, who also, at tempted to get the children out before the train struck the car, was not injured. . ' As the, story was pieced together by Virgil T. Golden, deputy coroner, the family, which lived less than 100 yards ' O from the track, bad Started to rv . T 11 1 I ward the highway in the family aoviei Luiaoergn Is Believed Lost No Word of Russian Plane After Fuel Supply Is Due to Be Used up a SEATTLE, Aug. 13-(ff)-An authoritative source close to the Russian flight headquarters here, expressed belief tonight " Sigis mund Levanevsky, the ."Soviet Lindbergh," -and his . fire com panions may have been swallowed by an Arctic storm In their at tempt to fly over the top of the world from Moscow to Oakland. Calif. ' The source, declining to be quoted by name, virtually gave up hope that the big four motored plane had ever reached Alaska and declared this might prove to be a disaster likened to the Ame lia Earhart disappearance in the Pacific ocean. United States signal corps offi cials here, when asked if they be lieved the plane was still in the air at a late hour, replied: . "Your guess is as good as ours. We haven't heard anything since the fliers were over the north pole early today.' At 8 p. m. (PST) tonight, the plane was more than six hours overdue at Fairbanks, Alaska, its first scheduled stop for refueling. Hundreds of persons who had gathered at the Fairbanks air port,1 expecting the plane to arrive-sometime between noon and 4 p. m. (PST) were remaining on the field, anxiously awaiting some news. : Levanevsky, upon his departure from Moscow at 7:13 a. m. (PST) yesterday had estimated he would (Turn to Page 3, CoL 2) No Lack of Labor For Hop Harvest : GRANTS PASS, August -Despite the need of 3000 pickers to harvest 1000 acres of hops within the next - two weeks, no labor shortage was anticipated here. . . . Growers report daily registra tions from midwest states and Lane, Douglas and Klamath counties. Wait's Noses out Corvallis; Eugene Stars Prove Strong The Man's Shop and seven Wait's players defeated . the . Cor vallis All-Stars ( to S last night; at any rate Vern Gilmore and Tom Drynan, drafted from the . Man's Shop by Walt's, had plenty to do with the city champions winning an nphill victory, v -- Gilmore Just went in as a re lief hurler after Sammy Stein bock, Walt's regular chucker, was chased in a third of an inning and held .. the Corvallis team to four hits while striking out 13 batters. ; . Drynan' only hit one of the longest balls of the season for the home ran that opened the scor ing for Waifs in the third inning and ' drove In ' one run ; of - three that brought the Salem club to the fore in a sixth frame banting attack. yv v":- .--. Handicapped by four runs from the start as the Corvallis visitors slammed Steinbock for four hits and four runs in no time at all Wait's had a stiff row to hoe and eould ' thank Gilmore that they worked to the endof the patch. - Singles by Grany and Torson car when it stalled on the track, with the passenger train, which had left Salem at 6:45, already in sight. Mr. and Mrs. Schlag Jumped out and were attempting to lift the children out when the train struck. Mrs. Schlag was on the side next to the train and was crushed to death. Mr. Schlagg, on the other side, somehow escaped injury. . . , I , - The children, Donald, about IS months old, and Wallace, aged three, were carried In the , prac tically demolished machine, which had been ' hoisted by the Impact up onto the engine pilot, vntil the train ' stopped a' quarter ef a mile down the track. They were taken to the Salem Deaconena hospital. ' : . : The accident occurred about half a mile west of the Kappahn winery. -, The family had moved to the Hayesville district only a few weeks ago. Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Schlag have not been completed. The body is at the. Clough-Bar-rick mortuary. New Canyon May Mean Lost River BUHL, Idaho, August 13-V Geologists expressed fear tonight that Buhl's sinking canyon may turn a life-giving Irrigation sys tem Into another of Idaho's lost rivers. : - - Horton Abell, ' Nampa, Idaho, geologist who is studying the col lapse of a half dozen fertile farm acres eight miles northwest of here and - the subsequent forma tion of a rugged, deep canyon, said the sinking process Is slowly blocking the Salmon river. Great boulders have crashed' Into the river bed, he said, back ing up the stream. The river, which flows south west of here to join the Snake river, has turned from crystal clear to a dirty yellow. Its color ing influence has been noticed ia a wide area where the Salmon meets the snake near Hagerman. ; Should the cracks open the riv er bed, said Abell, the water pos sibly, will disappear, to flow as a subterranean stream beneath the surface of the earth. It may come np again as springs at some dis tant point - and then a walk issued to Spul nik set things up for Corvallis -and successive singles by Weber and Pratt did the initial dam age. That . was where Gilmore went in to strike out the first man to face him and make the next ppp up. . . , . : Drynan's . home run put Wait's In the scoring and Salstrom's deu ble in the 'same inning, drove la Bone- for another. i .Two boots; by Pitcher Yeung Lee gave Wait's a third run In the fourth but It was neutralised' In the next frame when Torson took advantage of Foreman's er ror to score. v v;: .: . . Walt's three runs in the sixth came , when ' Scales ' walked, was sacrificed to second and scored when Foreman beat out a bunt. Adolph and GUmore safely follow ed Foreman's precept for another . ran and Adolph scored for the last when Drynan forced Gilmore at second. '"'i . Gilmore, who had to take av lead off position when he went in- . (Tarn to Page 3, CoL 4)