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.
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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." .
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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
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, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Shanghai Battle
Air Raid Victim
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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