, World Panorama ' Dorothy Thompioi, Statesman columnist,- brings to this newspaper's readers a keen insight - into world events .and, their signlfi cance. Weather Fair today and Thursday except lor morning .foss; Max. Temp. Tuesday 88. Mon. 47, river -3.2 feet, northwesterly wind. - POUNDOD : 1 65 1 EIGHTY SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 18, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 129 .Black for Com f mJmm U.S. Eycr-Growing Array Battles Japan's Lines Vow Talcen to Push Foes Back Into Sea; Some Cains Are Claimed 100,000 Involved; More Protection Afforded Foreigners There SHANGHAI, Ang. 18 Chinese troops today seized and scuttled a fleet of six Japanese steamers off the French conces sion, effectively blocading the upper reaches 6f the Whangpoo river from Japanese warship at tack. Severe" Japan ese reprisals were expected momentarily, in cluding an attempt to capture all Chinese shipping in the riv er dqwn which American wom en and children are fleeing to safety. SHANGHAI. Aug. 18.-(Wed nesdayWJFl-Ever -growing Chi nese armies hurled themselves in ragged but fsavage array against the tight Japanese lines about Shanghai today with the avowed purpose of pushing " the invader back into the sea from which he came. ' The battle, for Shanghai roared into its sixth day with no lessen ing of the ferocity of the conflict along-the Whangpoo river or, the peril to the 3,500,000 non-combatants huddled in the city. Shells and shell fragments In increased numbers sprayed the French concession, in which most of the American community lives. Police said shrapnel or splinters caused at least 50 new casualties, all Chinese, within the concession. Many, of them. died. Food shortage was added to the dangers of life in Shanghai., and foreign emergency committees or ganized means of bringing food through ' the battle lines . flung around - and within the greater city. ; . . . . As long as daylight lasted Tues day, Chinese and Japanese air fleets circled above the city, strik ing viciously at enemy positions and doing tremendous damage. How many lives they claimed could not even be estimated. Americans Flight Is Seine Speeded : The flight of Americans and other foreigners from the imper illed city went on as rapidly, as shipping facilities would permit. Protection of the foreign areas was increased , by the arrival of the second battalion of the Koyal Welch Fusileers, rushed up from Hongkong. The British troops landed at the Bune and marched to the race course in the heart of the International settlement. (In Washington Seer etary Hull announced 1,000 marines had been ordered from San Di ego -to Shanghai to protect Americans). American marine reinforce ments were speeding here from Manila. The destroyers Ed sail and Parrot were on the way from Chefoo. Another British battalion and halt a Punjab bat talion were under orders for Shanghai. Darkness brought renewal last Bight to the terrific artillery bat- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Long Will Oppose Restraining Order District Attorney J. V. Long of Roseburg, after a conference with Assistant Attorney General Moody here Tuesday, said' be im mediately wouJd file proceedings fn the Douglas ' county clicuit court to dissolve an order re straining the officers there from interfering with the operation of pin ball games and marbleboards. - The restraining order was is sued there last Saturday by- County Judge Quine during the absence of Circuit Judge Carl Wimberly. . Long was advised by Moody that district attorneys ln many other counties bad been success ful in havlrg these injunction nits dismissed. Moody said -he waa advised that the district attorney of Lin coin county had not yet taken any action against the operation of aamblinz devices. Circuit Judge Crawford of Multnomah county held that pin- ball machines and marbleooarda were . a lottery and In violation of the gambling statutes of the state. ' - - Pour in ITh i j&eTu&ees man O- : O Perils Accompany Evacuation oi Americans in War-Torn Shanghai I- V.- The American flag was the only women and children who were evacuated from Shanghai Tuesday to safety aboard the Dollar liner President Jefferson, although in this picture a sister ship Is framed" with the guns ol a United States battleship. The vessel; shown Is the President Hoover, also expected to figure in the removal of Americans from the war rone. IIN photo. ... ., Terror Reigns in j Beleaguered City : , I Mobs Beat, Kill Natives Under Suspicion of! Poisoning Plot ! SHANGHAI, Aug. 18 -(Wed nesday) -(AKO)- Undisciplined mobs stole through the streets jof Shanghai today, searching, beat ing and killing natives they sus pected of plotting to poison tne city's water, supply, while thou- cands of homeless refugees clam ored for food at the barricaded gates of the international settle ment. The bitter battle between Chi nese and Japanese, with its toll of 1400 noncombatant and foreign dead, burst again at Dawn along the slithering, murky Whangpoo river that winds about Shanghai's famous waterfront bund and hence to the mighty Kangtze.exit to it. - .! Japanese warships, led by the flagship Idzumo, began bombard ment of Chinese positions along the river at early morning. Chi nese guns sPoke in answer from a new position established during the night-, -in Pootung eastward across the Whangpoo from Shang hai proper. Native newspapers had carried rumors, unconnrmea, ini Jap anese tried to influence natives to poison the city's "water supply. Infuriated,' menacing mobs act ed upon the rumors- and many na tives were killed or beaten. Scopes of Chinese ; were stopped ana searched by the raiding gangs.! If they possessed powders or med icines of any kind, the victims were beaten. Fifteen innocent Chinese, police said, were killed and at least 40 injured from this cause. Trunk Murder Mystery Soon Solved and Confession Made NEW YORK, Aug. 17HPH!e-1 tective Capt. Edward Mu 111ns an nounced late tonight a man booked as Joseph Ogden, 36-year-old unemployed cook and dish washer, had confessed the slay ing ot Oliver George Sinecal, whose nude body was found In a trunk delivered ; to an express agency this afternoon. Detectives said they traced the trunk to a dealer who said he sold it yesterday. i - Occu pants of buildings near the trunk store said they saw a man waiting 20 minutes for It to open yesterday morning. - t ; The principal clue. Detectives said, was a number on the trunk. With it they began a canvass of luggage concerns in the city. They then went to the west side address to which the trunk was delivered and arrested Ogden! in his three-room second floor apartment. - The trunk store is operated; by the Moelle brothers at 839 Ninth fate Combat V protection afforded 837 American Linn Courthouse Measure Carries Majority of 996 Reported on Unofficial Tally; Scio Opposes It ALBANY, Ore., Aug. 17-()-The Linn county clerk's office reported tonight the voters at a special election had authorized the county court to ; use unap propriated . funds for the con struction of a courthouse. The unofficial count favored the project by a 996 majority. Of the 6,934 ballots cast, 3,965 approved the new structure. The county court has' 1154, 000 available for the building and has asked an additional $126,000 from the federal gov ernment. SCIO, Aug. 17 Balloting to the two local precincts went against the proposal .for the Linn county courthouse, to be built at Albany, by a majority of 55. It was revealed by a count taken Tuesday night after the polls closed. Union Agent Held Guilty of Attack LAKKVIEW, Ore., Aug. 1-JP)-3. W. Henderson, business man ager of a local timber union, was found guilty In circuit court last night of assault and battery aris ing out of an attack July 29 on Robert Adams, sr., owner of a mill at which Henderson had called a strike. avenue. Ogden's home is at 809 Ninth avenue and the trunk bore a number which detectives said was either, "839" or "859. Police said they found two pis tols in Ogden's room, one of them a .32-calibre revolver from which one shell bad been fired. . When discovered through blood trickling from the trunk, Sine cal's body had a .32-calibre slug in the head. Police said this weapon killed Sinecal, who had a petty , police record in several cities. :-- r-. After first protesting his inno cence, Ogden broke down, Cap tain Mnllins said, and. confessed he shot Sinecal In a struggle tor possession of the revolver. Ten detectives greeted Ogden when he . came into ; his rooms carrying a suitcase he said he had borrowed from a friend. Detectives said neighbors told them Ogden and Sinecal had been (Turn to Page 2i Uol. 4 ) - Gauntlet Shrapnel Hits Boat Removing Them to Liner Ten-Mile Trip Made, no Protection Except American Flag 1700 British Women and Children Moved With Naval Convoy Aid SHANGHAI, Aug. ll-UP)- Three hundred and thirty-seven American women and children ran a ten-mile gauntlet ot shell' fire today to escape this city of terror and hunger and death. Their worried husbands and fathers watched in tense silence along the famouns Bund as they sailed down the Whangpoo river past the smoking guns of the Japanese fleet to the safety of the Dollar liner, President Jefferson. Jagged splinters of shrapnel from Japanese anti-aircraft guns firing at Chinese warplanes roar ing overhead tell in a steady shower on the tender carrying the American refugees, but no one was hurt. Gun smoke formed a thick haze over the river. It quickly ob scured the tender from the anx ious eyes of those on the water front. As soon as the white-faced women, with their frightened children, were aboard, the Presi dent Jefferson slipped out to the sea, bound for Manila. Many Evacuated by British Officials - The Dollar line tender was closely followed down the river by four British tenders carrying nearly 1,700 British women and children to the refugee ship Raj- putana. The Raj pu tana, her ref ngee passengers safely aboard put out toward Hongkong. Brit ish crown colony to the south. The American tender was ntes corted, but the four British tend ers had a naval convey. When the kin the refugees left behind saw the tenders disappear into the mist of gun smoke they muttered prayers for those aboard (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Methodist Women Back Relief Pleas One hundred fifty women, dele gates to the Woman's Home Mis sionary society meeting in the First Methodist church yesterday authorized the sending of a letter to Gov. Charles H. Martin urging his aid in restoring needy women to WPA sewing project Jobs. The letter, which was prepared by Mrs. Nada Grinde, president, and Mrs. Gladys Wood, secretary ot Christian citizenship, related that "Many of these women have physical handicaps and many have little children dependent nPon them; therefore they are unable to qualify for the few available Jobs which private employment offers." The letter said further: "We cannot help feeling that when you really know the dire distress caus ed by these lay-offs you will nse your utmost Influence to keep available these jobs which provide a -bare "subsistence wage. "We deplore your past state ments concerning the Tellef situa tion in our state; and we call up on you to support the Schwellen-bach-Allen resolution now before congress." Rock WaU Moving In Sinking Canyon BUHL, Idaho, Ang. 17-P)-The moving wall stole the show from the sinking canyon today In southern Idaho's display ot geo logical histrionics. . A rock wall 400 teet long, 10 or 12 feet thick and In some places SO teet blah, baa been teetering along the new sinking canyon bottom - and within z hours has traveled 1 0 feet, said Farmer H. A. Robertson who lives not far away. "The dam y thing's . getUng shakier and shakier, and one of these dais she'll fall with an awful crash," Robertson proph- ecied. ' v - ' -.r. - ' - "When she does fall, the Jar is likely to open up new can yons, what with things as un easy around here - as they - are sow." Woman in Car Burns Fatally tes Open Container Catches Fire "When Cigarette Is Lighted, Report Hop Picker Dies Almost Instantly, Penned in Auto's Back, Seat Trapped by flames when an open can of gasoline in the driver's . compartment was ig nited, Mrs. Susanna Flannigan, 38, was burned to death Tues day night about 7:30- o'clock when a coach-type automobile was destroyed on the streets in Donald in northern Marion county. Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honey cntt who, together with Coroner L. E. Barrick,' investigated the tragedy, said the woman's hus band, Mike Flannigan, had set the can of gasoline down on the floor of the car in front and then lighted a cigarette, intend ing to get into the back seat with his wife. The gasoline burst into flames Immediately, engulfing the in terior of the car. The wall of flame and the closed windows would have prevented Mrs. Flan nigan from escaping in any case. but witnesses said she did -not scream and it is probable that she breathed flame and died al most instantly. Her body was reduced almost to ashes. The car was a total loss. Had Been Offered Ride to Own Car The automobile belonged to H. R. New, who like the Flan- nigans was employed as a hop- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Ross Has Ba Of Norris, Claims Hosch Busy Lining up Aid for Seattle Man for Bonneville Office PORTLAND, Aug. 17-VP)-3. D. Ross ot Seattle has won the back ing of Senator George. W. Norris of Nebraska for administrator of Bonneville dam, Judson H. King, secretary ot the national popular government league, Informed Representative J. F. Hosch ot Bend, today. .Hosch is head of the People's Power League of Oregon and favors Ross' selection. "The fact that he is for J. D. Ross makes it more apparent than ever that Governor Martin and his crowd will be unable to turn Bonneville'over to the pow er trust," Hosch said. King also wired Hosch Senator Robert M. LaFollette, jr., of Wis consin is behind Ross. OREGON CITY, Aug. 17-(JP) Every, community in Oregon Is as much entitled to favored rates from Bonneville power as Port alnd, Dr. J. F. Hosch, Bend legis lator, told 200 Clackamas county grangers. Hosch, who favors the appoint ment of J. D. Ross of Seattle as Bonneville -administrator, recom mended a : postage stamp or blanket rate. Staggered rates will permit big city industrialists to "hog" Bonneville with long-time con tracts, he said. Mayor Doused by Young Roosevelt CANNES," France, Aug. 17-)- John Roosevelt, son or the Am erican president, said city offi cials tonight, squirted champagne in the face of Mayor Piere Nou veau and roughed him with a bouquet of flowers during the annual "battle of flowers' Sun day night - v - Roosevelt. Harvard student and youngest son of the presi dent, with another youth Identi fied as John Drayton of Boston, Mass., was participating in the flower parade in a two-horse car riage placed at his disposal by a local hotel. When Mayor Nouveau left the reviewing stand and came to the aide of the carriage to greet Roosevelt on behalf of the city, the mayor's aides declared. , the youth took a bottle of champagne from a bucket on the carriage floor and squirted the contents in the mayor's face. :ft.:Vs-, Then, the executive's assistants related, Roosevelt seized a ; bou quet of flowers and brought them down over the mayor's head. The mayor "retired as grace fully as possible, his spokesman avowed, adding that his suit was voined- - - AsGasIffni eking. First Traffic Signals Go Into Place On Downtown Corners i - State and Commercial Lights Are Installed; Much Attention Attracted as Program Gets Under Way; Installation Will Be Speeded Two traffic signal units, first of 24 such stop and go electric signals to be installed at six downtown intersections, made their appearance attached to lamp standards at the intersection of State and Commercial street yesterday. The two units, one on the southwest corner and the other on the southeast, gave many motorists and pedestrians '. o their first view of the type of Lockout Charges Face Mill Firms Portland Situation Quiet With six Plants Down; Toledo Men Work PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 17-UP) Spokesmen for sawmill workers affiliated with the CIO charged today Portland operators who closed their mills yesterday were guilty of employing an "illegal lockout" and threatened to in voke the Wagner labor disputes act. Six firms remained shut to day after AFL pickets appeared to protest CIO lumber. The sawmill, workers organi zation said its men were ready to go back to work if employers would reopen. They said they would refuse to respect picket lines established by the building trades council. Longshoremen announced their sympathy for the mill workers and announced they would ignore "jurisdictional" nicketlines if they appeared around lumber on the docks. U TOLEDO1- .Aug. n-m-1- though the, -AFL local or. me Lumber and Sawmill Workers union called a strike to protest a company agreement with the ndustrial Employers' union. Dean Johnson of the C D. jonnson T.nmber comoration reported 600 out of 720 employes at work to day John Helmick of Portland, representative of the Columbia river district councU, invited 450 men, including townspeople, to affiliate with the AFL at a mass netine last night. The AFL leaders said the na tional labor relations board will call a meeting in ahout iw aay to consider alleged violations by tha mm nan v - in discharging workers for union activity. John son has denied the cnarges. Noise of Airplane Heard by Eskimos pippnw. Alaska. Aug. 17- DPnh Randall. Canadian air man seeking the lost transpolar flyers, said late today Barter island Eskimos told him they heard what they believed were a plane's engines "four or five days ago." Barter Island Is about 300 ntiaa st of here on the north Alaska coast. It is on the 144th meridian, about 175 miles from the 148th meridian down which v arotst nvern had been ex pected to traverse from the north pole to Fairbanks. nndall. who flew here earlier from Aklavik. N. W. T-. r ft n rued to Barrow late this at ternoon and said he made many landings along the bleak north ern stretches In quest of Sigis- mund Levanefrsay ana nis companions. Big Appropriation Measure Passes: Session Near Close WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-)-A boisterous house passed -the session's final big appropriation bill in an overtime session to night after increasing U hy $20,000,000 to start administra tion's farm tenancy program. Carrying a total of $98.8S0, 375, the appropriation- went through without a record vote. The house overrode recommen dations of ita appropriations committee and pleas for econ omy in granting the agriculture department's request for $20, 000.000 to start tenancy aid. Half I Of this f und was asked for farm purchase loans to ten ants and 'halt for converting portions of the western "dust bowl" into a vast pasture. An amendment by Represen tative ; Starnes (D-Ala) , provid ing the millions for tenancy aid, won despite vigorous, bi-partisan opposition. Farm state members demand ed that something . be done for "these homeless farmers. ' The '. Mil , also , carries $22,- Control standard signal to be used in Sa- lem's new traffic control system The units are made of two "heads" or signal lamps, each equipped with red, green and yellow lens, one "head" facing the lanes of motor traffic and the other the pedestrian lane. Four such units will be located at each Intersection, one to" a corner. Installation of the signal units will procede as rapidly as pos sible, Harvey Bosler, head of the contracting firm of Bosler Elec trie company, said yesterday, and should be all in place by Satur day when the first shipment of cable is expected. Installation of cable through the conduits laid several weeks ago should take no more than three days after the final ship ment is received on August 27th, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Ruef Death Case Is Being Checked Reported Seen Late Last Week in Sheridan; Man Is Held at D orris PORTLAND, Aug. n-iJP State police and , citj detectives checked a report -rom Sheridan today that Herbert Ruef, 36, who died Sunday soon after he was found unconscious in the park blocks, was seen Saturday night with an unidentified man. Ruef succumbed to a frac tured' skull. Police are investi gating the possibility of foul play. The victim's automobile was discovered at Sheridan. Chief of Police H. O. Wills of Dorris, Calif., reported he Is holding a man giving the name of William McGee who said he was involved in an assault case here last weekend. INDEPENDENCE. Aug. 17- (Speclal)-The man found dead in the south park blocks at Port land Sunday was positively Iden tified as Herbert Ruef of this city by his two brothers, Cecil and Earl Ruef. who made a trip to Portland this morning. The dead man, who was thought to have been killed by a blow In the head, carried $300 In currency concealed in his shoes, and keys In a folder bear ing a Monmouth garage firms name. -... His brothers went to Portland on the strength of the clue pro vided by the key case. The body will be brought here for burial later. Car Looting Charge I Filed; Blanket Taken A man who gave his name as William O. Smith ot Portland was being held at the police station last night charged with theft. Two blankets, which bad alleged ly been taken from parked auto mobiles, were in his possession when thd arrest was made. One blanket was identified and re turned to its owner. 500,000 to begin a three-year program of postotfice and other public building -construction; Members said the program wUl permit erection of approximately 380 structures costing $70,000, 000. As passed, the bill was approx imately $20,37,500 .larger than the total recommended by the ap- nronrlations committee, i. Part ot the Increase was dae to restoration of $8(7,500 which the committee had cut from an appro priation for the national labor re lations board. The fund for the labor board was the subject ot bitter contro- versr. :-'.'! "If you want to give life to the Wamer-Connery labor relations act," urged Representative Mead (D-NT), -rise in your pieces anu support this amendment Representative Rankin (D Miss) accused the labor board of "fomenting strikes" and . Increas ing labor unrest Tha committee slash In the .. . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) ; Vote Is 63-16 In Support of FR Selection Klan Affiliation Claims Are Ignored Although Proof Is Offered Re-Commital Is Opposed hy Borah Though He . Votes 'No Later WASHINGTON, Aug. 17HP) Hugo L. Black, aggressive sew dealer, stood ready tonight .to take the oath of office as an as sociate Justice of the supreme court of the United States. The last obstacle to his assum ing the judicial robes was re moved by a senate vote ot S3 to 16, approving his nomination, the first to be made to the court by President Roosevelt in three years of conflict with the tri bunal. In confirming the appoint ment, the senate brushed aside charges that Black has been a member of the Ku Klux Klan, that he is of a temperament ill suited to the judicial office and that he is ineligible for the post for constitutional reasons. These accusations were hurled with vigor and occasionally with bitterness by the small but res olute band of those who opposed confirmation, throughout a d a y of forthright debate. Bnrke Claim Proof He Is Klan Member The spectacular charges that Rlark had been associated with the Klan were raised at the out set of the debate by Senator Copeland of New York, and em erged irrepressibly throughout, until. Just before the voting be gan. Senator Burke (fi-'Neb')' as serted: ": "If the senate will join me la sending this nomination, back to committee for investigation, I will produce two witnesses who have told me that they were present when Senator Black was initiated into the Klan." Recommittal was urged as well, by Senators Bridges R N.H.), Austin (R-Vt.) and others on the ground that the committee should make a thorough study-of the fitness of the nominee. Borah (R-Ida.) and Glass ( D-Va.) op posed it on the ground . that all necessary . information was at hand, though they voted "no" oa the question of confirmation. With such defections as these, the opponents of confirmation who had counted on . making a. strong showing upon the motion to recommit were quickly deem ed to disappointment. The ote was 66 to 15. Steiwer Is Among Those Opposing A roll call on confirmation fol lowed immediately. The. sixteen who voted against were: Austin, Borah, Bridges, Davis, Hale, Johnson of California, Lodge, Steiwer of Oregon, Townsend and White (Republicans), and BoTke, Byrd, Copeland.. Gerry, Glass and King (Democrats). During the debate defendants of Black assailed the opposition to him as based on "prejudice" oc casioned by his liberal legislative career. They said he was a man well-fitted to sit on the highest bench. ; . . . - - Senator Black quietly awaited the outcome in the nearby office ot Edwin Halsey, secretary of the senate. Reporters found him there, smiling his pleasure when the vote had been taken. v ; ; -"I am very much gratified at the confidence shown in me by my colleagues, he said. ' He was uncertain, he said, as to when- he would "take the oath f office as a member of the court, but Intended In any event te re sign from, the senate at once and take a vacation before Assuming his new duties. ( Excitement, mo.mting swiftly as the day of debate advn-ed, reached a high point in the half hour, before ; the voting began. Within that time, no less than a hrif-dozen senators delivered rap id fire speeches Medford Has Fire MEDFORD, ORD, Aug. fire In $1 damage to the resulted Medford chamber of commerce building. Cause of the blaa -is Umknown. The loss Is covered by Insurance, f ' B A LL A D E t TODAy By R. a The traffic lights are going up and soon we'll look for sig nals green to tell us that we may proceed through inter sections all serene, but have -to watch those cupolas for buss ing bells and signals , red, then Jam on brakes and wait a while, not rush where angels fear to tread.