Softball Tourney The state softball tourna ment Is Just a week away. The Statesman will provide complete coverage hoars . ahead. Weather Fair and warmer today and Wednesday, lower hu midity; Max. Temp. Monday K9, Min. 44, river -3.1 feet, southwesterly wind. FOUNDED 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning;, August 17, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 122 Flee 1 .Fromi City's Workers' Hopes B J: , - .. " ; C Estimates Run Far m Excess of Limitation Unprecedented Slashing of Items Necessary; Committees Named Small Boost for Public - Employes Hoped for; Hard Task Ahead . Salem city employes saw chances for any appreciable sal ary increase next year dim rapid ly last night as the citizens' bud get committee at its first meeting received departmental expense es timates which, with pay restora tions included, would run the budget 163,658.77 , above the amount permitted by the 6 per cent constitutional limitation. Faced with the necessity of al most unprecedented slashing of the departmental requests, the general committee resorted to the procedure of dividing up the task among sub-committees. Nine com mittees named by Senator Doug las McKay, chairman, will study the estimates and report back at a meeting of the general commit tee August 30. The final meet- lng of the citizens committee probably will be held September Blight Increas i t . Declared Possible (',-. :'V!v Alderman David r6'Hara, ways and means : committee chairman for many years, said ' after last night's meeting that he hoped a small salary Increase could be granted city employes but added that the 6 per cent boost which would restore . them to pre-de-pression level would be impossi ble. The committee and council last year restored one-half of a 10 jer cent cut made during the depression years with the under standing that the other one-half would be returned this year if possible. O'Hara estimated the 5 per cent Increase in the new bud get alone would amount to ap proximately $17,000. Last night's preliminary 1938 budget called for current expense items totaling $318,439.10 as against $240,585-22 appropriated for 1937. At the same time non tax receipts were estimated at $25,000, only $1000 above the es timate for the present year. The result was a new budget re- . quiring a tax levy of $293,439.10. after dedueatlon of non-tax re ceipts, whereas only $229,580.33 could be appropriated without vi olating the ( per cent Increase amendment. The 1937 current expense tax, on which the allow able 6 per cent Increase for 1938 is based, was $216,585.22. More for Interest 5 And Bond Principal Added to the current expense tax next year will be a $115, 861.45 tax for bond Interest and principal, a reduction of $1183.76 from the 1937 tax for such pur- poses. " Citisea Committeeman W. E. Hanson served notice tht he was Coins to scrutinize the new bud get closely because, he said, "this Is the only day John Q. Citisen can come op here and get things off his chest." . (Turn to Page t. CoL 1) McNary Hopeful of Laws for Benefit of Flax9 Hop Crop Fircone, with its grassy sward. Its trout pool, and its sylvan back drop welcomed the Senator Mc Narys home from the national capital yesterday. Arriving in Portland they .were met by Mr. and Mrs. - Walter Stolx and brought to their home north of Ealem, the three of them, Senator Charles L., Mrs. McNary and their daughter Charlotte. The cross-country trip by train did -much to refresh the senator after the strenuous session of con gress. The session Is not yet fin ished, but the end Is in sight; and the senior senator ' from Oregon who serves as leader of the re publican minority, was granted permission to leave early. The. Immediate program of Sen. McNary Is to rest at his country home. Later he will make some trips about the 'state, mentioning Bandon and Bonneville as two points be wanted to visit. - As to Bonneville he praised the legisla tion which passed the congress, and to which he devoted a great deal of attention, declaring It was the best legislation ever adopted for control of such a project. The senator had no comment to make Mandamus By Recall Group Here In Fight on Siegmund Action Filed in Circuit Rejected Names Are Election; Outside Efforts of the group seeking the recall of County Judge J. C. Siegmund to force U. G. Boyer,' county clerk, to recog nize as legal 910 names which were among 1211 he rejected from recall petitions filed with him reached circuit court yesterday when the recall committee was granted an order for writ of mandamus by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan. - . O The committee asked In its pe Zone Issue Again Placed on Table Bonesteele Application Is Protested; Rail Spur Plea Fares Better A number of signed protests against change of the Bonesteel property at 12th and Court streets from residential cone 2 to bus iness zone 3 motivated the city council in session last night to postpone taction indefinitely, on Evans' motion seconded . by Mrs. Lobdell. The matter had been hurried along by giving it two readings. . . . : Another request that fared, bet ter, was the Oregon Electric rail way spur construction on Front street at the Reid Murdoch pack ing plant, which was passed after rules had been suspended for a third reading. The 1937 building code was rushed through likewise, but fail ed of passing last night because copies had not been distributed to council members. Since the $20,000 general bond issue of 1927 for the construction of an Incinerator falls due Octo ber 1 of this year and there will be no moneys to meet it, the coun cil was favorable to refunding the bonds at interest not to exceed 6 per cent. A resolution to endorse the Schwellenbach-AUen bill for relief of the needy, especially discharged WPA sewing project women now In congress, was passed and a copy will be f orewarded to the state's delegation in congress. The new Seagrave fire engine recently purchased will get some new gadgets, notably several new (Turn te Page 2, Col. 5) - , Late Sports WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 .-)-Henry Armstrong, 131, Holly wood, outclassed Johnny Cabello, 129, Puerto Rico, in the 10 round featured bout here tonight, winning a technical knockout In the second round when Cabello failed to answer the bell. PORTLAND, Aug. 16.-(ff)-The Japanese wrestling duo of Don Sueal of Salem and Tetsura Hig ami of Japan defeated Noel Franklin, Portland, and Sailor Moran Chicago, In a team match headlining the middleweight card here tonight. as to the selection of the adminis trator for Bonneville. - .The senator brought good re port as to the prospect of getting a $450,000 grant tor the state li brary building. - He reported the president as putting schools and rebuilding of public structures In flood areas first on the PWA list, but hopeful that the money would prove sufficient to meet the Ore gon needs. on the flax subsidy he is op timistic for continuance of bene fits In future years. The hop bill he believes will pass in the next session, because of , the prospect that growers, dealers and brewers will work out a program to deal with the situation. It may Include higher tariff on Imports. Sen, McNary predicted that Sen. Black would be confirmed tor su preme justice and Claude MeCol- loch tor federal district Judge, but he said the supreme court enlarge ment bill of the president's la ab solutely dead. He quoted the pres ident as saying no special session would be called before November. The Oregon senator discounted talk about a third term for Roose Pay Increase Viewed 0 cCl : - " Is invoked Court Contends That 910 Valid, Seeks to Force " Judge Will Hear tition that Boyer be compelled to consider and count 910 names cer tificated by ; J. S. Baker, a notary public and a leader In the recall movement, as names of residents and electors' of Marion county and which were among 1211 names rejected by Boyer. In addition the petitioners asked that Boyer be compelled to count the" 3376 sig natures which he certified as gen uine and to order a special elec tion' to be held on or before Aug ust 29 or to show cause why he could not do bo. District Attorney Lyle J. Page said that a demurrer to the writ would be filed immediately. Hearing on the alternative writ of mandamus, to which Boyer will make answer, was set for August 20. Judge Ii. H. McMahan, it was , (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) ' Quest of Russian Aviators Delayed Rains and Poor Visibility Prevent Search; Jim Mattern Is Ready FAIRBANKS, Alaska, August l-f)Uei.yj rains and lowering clouds late .today halted at least until tomorrow plans to scour Arctic wastes north of here for the lost soviet transpolar plane. Rescue I parties and soviet agents here were heartened by reports from Moscow and Irkutsk, Siberia, that faint radio signals intercepted there Indicated Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five passengers were still alive. From Edmonton, Alta., came information a plane chartered by the Russian embassy at Washing ton, D. C, left there Saturday and arrived last night at Aklavlk, 1750 miles northwest of Edmon ton, i - The plane, piloted by Bob Ran dall, veteran northland aviator. accompanied by Engineer Jerry Buckan, iwas believed tonight to have started its "search of the Arctic from Its northern Canadian base. I Jimmy Mattern, American flier who was rescued by Levaneffsky in Siberia on a 193 S flight, an nounced: at 5:3 0 p. m. (PST) he would not take off today because of heavy weather. Mattern rushed north from Los Angeles over the week-end to aid northern search ing parties. His refuelling plane took oft from Los Angeles today, bound for Fairbanks. DESPERATE '.5 r,i. f ft t T '' iCCKCtSSiO' ! Aerial view of Shanghai with various locations figuring prominently ta the 6ino-Japanese war news de signated. The Whangpoo river is utilized both by the death-dealing Japanese warships and the vea- eels which are evacuating America and other foreign women and children. UN photo. Paper Rollers Win Marathon Playoff Clash Kelly's Speed on Paths Ties up Contest and His Blow Wins It Most Everything Occurs as Battle for Place in Tourney Opens Kelly of the Papermakers made a bad error last night but he made up for it in such brilliant fashion that the Papermakers de feated Hogg Bros. 4 to 3 in 13 innings to take the first leg on their playoff for entrance In the state softball tournament. It was Kelly whose surprising base-running feat of coming all the way home from second on a play at first base put the Paper makers back in the ball game by tying the score in the ninth In ning. And It was Kelly again who drove in, In the 13th Inning, the run that gave the Papermakers the ball game. No one put a mark against him because he, thinking the game over with that run, went hopping about the infield like a madman until Johnny Steelhammer tagged him out, much to his surprise. Hogg's far Ahead In Bat Department So Hogg Brothers, with theirw 11 hits, lost to the papermakerr r with their seven in a ball game is which a little bit of everything happened. There were " beefs aplenty and once even Dutch Schnuelle, usually the most amic able of men, nearly came to blows with Long John Steelhammer and again with Umpire Mickey Shult son. Percy Crowfoot, the Papermak er hurler, performed the neat feat of Etriking out 19 men, something (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Zimmerman Eyes Executive Office PORTLAND. August 16-tiP)-The Oregonlan said today that Peter Zimmerman, Yamhill coun ty farmer and liberal political leader, may seek the republican nomination tor governor next year, and that Howard Latourette, democratic national committee man, may head his party's ticket In the state. While Zimmerman was de scribed aa feeling his farm back ground would prove a valuable asset in the next gubernatorial race, Latourette will seek to dis place Governor Charles Martin with whom he la at odds, the newspaper said. Latourette, the newspaper said, was expected to support Willis Mahoney of Klamath Falls for the democratic nomination for United States senator and receive Mahoney's backing in return. La tourette's candidacy would also probably involve deal with his political ally. Dr. J. F. Hosch of Bend, who was reported consid ering making the race, the article stated. BATTLE RAGES AT SHANGHAI J nil State Theatre Due to Change Hands Sunday Al Adolph Wl Operate Showhouse; Is Well Known in Salem Ed Lewis to Devote Full Time to Promotion for Vaudeville Agency Ownership and management of the State theatre, 255 North Church street, will be taken over next Sunday by Alden E. "Al" Adolph, member of a pioneer Sa lem family, it was announced yes terday. Adolph will succeed E. C. "Ed" Lewis as proprietor of the theatre. He has taken a long-term lease on the building from the Capital Securities corporation, of which Donald A. Young is man ager. Lewis, relieved of duties In con nection with management of the theatre, will take a more active part In promotion of the Eastern Circuit Vaudeville agency. In which he has been Interested pre viously. He will make his head quarters in Seattle. Mr. Young is also interested in the vaudeville agency which is extending Its ac tivities to serve the entire north west, its territory including part of British Columbia. Mr. Adolph announced that Eastern Circuit vaudeville would continue to play at the State the atre, and added that Mr. Lewis, with more time to devote to this business, was planning to bring a number of movie stars here . for personal appearances during the coming slack season in movie pro duction. Policy of Theatre Won't Be Changed Otherwise, Mr. Adolph said, the policy of the theatre will be un changed and there ' will be no changes In the theatre staff. The theatre has available for picture (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Officer Attempts Suicide; Suspect Was to Be Questioned on Robbery at Vancouver Loan Firm's Office PORTLAND, August 16-(flV-Det. Sgt. John H. Schum of the Portland police department said that Deputy Marshal M. 0. De Long, 38, shot himself on a downtown street tonight as police approached to question him about the robbery of the office of the Evergreen Finance company In Vancouver, Wash. He was in a critical condition In a hospital. The robber entered the finance company office about 5 p. m., Schum said, held up the employes with a gun, bound them with ad hesive tape and took about $150 In cash. gome of the employes, whose names were not learned, noted the license number of the rob ber's car and telephoned It with a description of the driver to the Portland police. A check showed the license had been Issued to De Long, Schum said. He said he and several other officers went to De Long's office and found he waa not in. As they left, Schum said, he saw De Long about half a block away, and started toward him. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) "'if. SflU 't v' ft?- . Shanghai Battle Air Raid Victim " v f " Her. Dr. Frank J. Rowlinson, of ficial of the American Board of Foreign Missions, one of three Americans killed Saturday when Chinese planes apparent ly by accident released bombs over the foreign settiement. IIX photo. Mills Qose Over Inter-Union Fight Seven Are Shut Down and Three May not Open Today, Forecast PORTLAND, Aug. 1 6-(JP)-Sev-en of the city's ten sawmills clos ed today when pickets from the building trades council, affiliated with the AFL, appeared following acceptance by the Portland local of the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers' union Saturday of a CIO char ter. Approximately 2,500 employes were Idle. The affected mills were the Jones, Inman-Poulsen, Clark ft Wilson, Eastern Western and West Oregon lumber companies, the East Side Box company and the Portland Lumber mills at St. Johns. AFL workers also began circu lation of petitions among the workers to bring them back with in the organization. "We're going to wage an active (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Rival Unions Joke as Mill Reopened TOLEDO, Aug. 16.-(ff)-AFL pickets and Industrial employes union workers joshed each other good naturedly as the big C. D. Johnson Lumber company plant reopened today. The lumber and sawmill work ers' union pickets began their pa rade Friday In protest to the signing of a working agreement with the I. E. U. The mill, which operates only four days a week, was closed Friday and Saturday. The company's logging camp near Silets was closed today, 350 AFL employes having walked out in sympathy with the union's mill hands. M. H. Mumtord, IEU official, told about 500 members employ ed In the mill that the company Intended to operate the plant on a 24-hour basis as usual. Softball Girls oL Portland Win out Swatting the offerings of three Pade's girl's team pitchers for 20 hits a Portland girl's softball team turned in a 19 to 4 victory in an exhibition game on Sweet land field last night It was the first girl's softball game ever played under the Sweetland field lights but the Sa lem lasses, who were held to four scattered blows, could not com plain of being daztled by anything but the opposing pitchers' speed. f Nine Fade errors contributed to the debacle. Score: - Portland .. .19 10 B Salem Pade's 4 4 t -Dick, Burg and Frost; Yocom, Gueffroy and Welch. B A L L A D E of TO DA V By b. a - 7 Some 15,000 troops converge , on peaceful Puget Sound : in mimic war with paper wads they'll fire round on round ; j across the ocean at Shanghai, along the Whangpoo's banks a grimmer : struggle's being waged; the bullets are not blanks. t ' I - " j "A am " .JL " V--" Battle Moves Into Fifth Day Without Decided Advan tag e Casualties Are Heavy but no Figures Possible; Explosions Quake-Like in Force Rock Bombarded City ' Evacuation of Americans Goes Abead -Rapidly; Sbell Strikes- Navy's Tender but no One Wounded SHANGHAI, Aug. 17. (Tuesday) (AP) The men of China and Japan fought on and died today in ceaseless, heedless battle that rocked and tore at Shanghai and this tra gic city's way to safety to the sea. Between them, the twisting Whangpoo, a flare-lit river by night and a murky menace by day, carried American and other foreign women and children to the broad, safe decks of liners that flew their flags. There was no way accurately to estimate the dead and dying that have littered the outlying-scenes of war since mis placed Chinese aerial bombs killed more than 1,000 and wounded even more than that in the international areas en Saturday. Neither side admitted many dead. This was the fifth day of this strange battle of Shanghai, O which shiifted from the struggle Senators Double Fists Over Black to ieterich and Burke Seek Physical Argument but Colleagues Prevent WASHINGTON,- Aug. U.-aV A fist fight almost broke- out among senators today when crit ics of Sen. Hugo L. Black's nom ination to the supreme court be gan a vigorous, but concededly hopeless, battle to prevent senate confirmation. - Tempers flared to white heat in the senate judiciary committee be fore that group voted, 13 to 4, to approve the nomination without the public hearings demanded by the opponents. A clash between Senators Die terich (D-Ill) and Burke (D-Neb) culminated when the latter charg ed physically upon the bulky Die terich, only to be restrained by other senators. Burke had proposed that the committee summon Black before it for questioning on his constitu tional views, and about his sei zure of private telegrams when he was head of the senate lobby in vestigators. Angrily Dieterich, without men tioning names, had declared that committee members had attempt ed to "besmirch" Black In the newspapers by trying to link him with certain organizations. There had been reports that senators might seek to determine whether Black was once supported by the Ku Klux Klan. After 4he committee session, the fight was renewed on the sen (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Salem Girl Pay Store for "Souvenirs" Taken EUGENE. Aug. 16.-P)-Con-science won another battle today when a Salem girl sent a dollar bill to a "dime store" to cover the cost of a "few souvenirs" taken from the Eugene store four years ago. "I see my mistake now. The principle of the thing was wrong," she commented. Salem Infantry Leave Today Salem's military forces called to duty In the largest peacetime war"- in the history of the north west, the Fourth Army maneuver at Fort Lewis, Wash., will depart this morning, entraining at 10:30 o'clock aboard troop train No. 12 which will be made up at Eugene and pick np troops and their equipment as it proceeds north ward through the Willamette vil- ley. ' - v - Company B, 112nd Infantry, will be the only Salem unit par ticipating, the local artillery forces having previously under gone the usual training period at Camp Clatsop. Captain Harold G. Malson of Company B said, the company's destination was Fort Murray, ad joining Fort Lewis. The company of CO men and two officers is at full strength. First Lieutenant Dow. LoveU will accompany the unit; but Second Lieutenant John George will not participate aa he is a member of the .Oregon rifle team which left recently for the national matches. j The Fourth Army - maneurer. for an economic grip on the nor- them provinces and dealta suc cessive blows to Shanghai because the Japanese filled the city with warships and bluejackets and the Chinese army sent troops swarm ing in contrary to the truce of 1932. In that year, Eome 12,000 fell in Sino-Japanese warfare here. Today and last night, facing both ways from the Whangpoo, f Japanese warships afloat and ma-' rinea .ashore locked In desperate , combat with ever-growing Chinese I armies smashing at their lines from north and south; planes flew ' and fought en masse. Shanghai rocked to explosions, ' some of quake-like force. Night . skies were brilliant as both aides sought to light the grim combat below. Ghastly starshells flared over a bitter land battle north of. international Shanghai. Search lights from Japan's powerful nav- , al force on the river picked out objectives for the big guns that pounded Chinese ashore through out the night. Tracer bullets ' streaked across the clouds. This beautiful and awful spec tacle stretched along a front of some 30 miles, from the Yangtze to the north to well south of the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8 ) Sinking Land Area Proves Extensive BUHL,, Idaho, August 16-UP)- : Hazardously exploring land slashed Into deep crevices by Queer geological disturbances, newspapermen discovered today that the area of the Buhl "sink ing land" phenomena is more ex tensive than at first estimated. ' Climbing over throbbing earth that "rumbled when we stomped our feet," newsmen found the dis turbed area, originally thought to", , include approximately five acres, a region one and a half miles long . and half a mile wide. An all-day survey of the regie eight miles northwest of this southern Idaho' town brought more apprehension to farmers. , Exploration showed that the course of the nearby Little Salm on river is being narrowed. In several places it is only four feet wide where formerly the stream flowed through a 25-foot channel. Company to for 'War Zone with simulated warfare involving 15.000 men, opens August 23. Prior to the commencement of active field operation will be a period of intensive training. For the Oregon troops this will start Wednesday, the day following their arrival in camp. The ma jority of red army troops are al- ready at the 1 maneurer area, -where they have been In training for some weeks. . ' . The one show event of the maneuvers will .be a consolidated review of aU troops next Satur day, August 21. This review will witness the largest number ' of troops ever to pass a reviewing officer In peace time on the coast. General George A. White wilt command the provisional army -corps and has invited the gover- nors of five states as reviewing officers. Governor Charles H. Martin of Oregon, Governor CI a- rence D. Martin of Washington, ? and Governor : Roy E. Ayert of Montana have accepted. - ' The review Is set for 2 o'clock In the Fort Lewis reservation and (Turn' to Page 7, CoL 8 ) v