Home Economics Housewives are Invited i tune in on the home eco nomics tlk by Misa Maxine Boren, women's editor, over KSLM at 10:43 a, m. . Weather . Fair today and Saturday, little change in temperature ' or humidity; Max. Temp. Thursday 85, Mln. 53, river -3.3 feet, NW wind. POUNDQD f65l EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, August 20, 1937 Price 3e; Newsstands 5c No. 125 onr Measure Killed tor Session e aec r;--.-,sr..-. UoSo Wars Pitched Battle Is Waged Upon Bank of River H50,000 Engaged; Japan Forces Under Severe Attack, Hold out Aerial and Navy Bombing Makes Protection for Refugees Essential SHANGHAI. Aug. 20-(Friday) -tzp)-United States warships were pressed Into service today to evac uate 1,000 Americans through. a curtain of flying shrapnel that blanketed the Whangpoo river their only avenue of escape from i the danger of war to the safety of the open sea. Chinese and Japanese war planes dueled above the rlrer and the big guns of the Japanese fleet threw shell after shell screaming over the heads of the fleeing Americans. Rapid-fire bursts from the Japanese - anti-aircraft batteries sprayed far huge verti cal cones and then rained down to churn the gloomy river. On both banks of the WhangPoo crack divisions of the Chinese and Japanese armies were deadlocked In one of the greatest battles in the history of the fareast. Mili tary observers estimated that up wards of 150.000 troops were en gaged, with the Japanese fighting a desperate defensive to' keep from being pushed into the river. Bombing planes of both armies carried the battle far afield from tbe strategic Whangpoo - banks. ThA .1 a man ma i alrftrOa hnmhed the north station of the Shanghai Nanking railroad, which is imme diately advanced to the defense lines thrown about the Interna tional settlement by the United States marines. . SHANGHAI, Aug. 20-(FrJday) -MPJ-Fleeing from embattled Shanghai as Japanese warplanes dived overhead, American refu gees streamed down the Whang poo river today by tender to the liner President Hoover. Japanese wasrhips bombarded Pootung, across the river from the International settlement, as the third evacuation of Americans swung under way. Aircraft room ed and dfved in attack against Chinese positions. ' It was estimated 1,000 women, children and men In all would be taken by tender to the President Hoover at Its anchorage at Woo- sung, where the Whangpoo emp- ties into the Yangtze river. The Whangpoo remained the avenue of escape for evacuating foreigners after United States au thorities last night firmly reject ed Japanese and Chinese measures which would have restricted river traffic. Six Japanese airplanes early In the morning bombed the Kiang aan dockyards and arsenal in the southern envlronrof Shanghai, up the river from where the Amerl tans were leaving.' Chinese anti-aircraft guns burst sa4 ant t An Kvi f wlf Y n t mrur&nm SHANGHAI, ApK. lO-(Friday) -(TV Japanese marines fought tenaciously in Shanghai's eastern district early today to keep from being swept Into the Whangpoo river by the most Impressive Chi aese drive of the battle for Shang hai. ., ' - - : TheJapanese lines, with masses t Chinese Infantry n r g 1 n g against them swayed back toward the river, but held against the Chinese attempt to thrust a dis astrous breach through hem. The attack began late yester day, apparenly In an effort to reach the waterfront and prevent the landing of large new forces arriving from Japan. Before nightfall It had swirled about the Ward road Jail, within a few hun dred yards of the Whangpoo. Telephone messages from Brit ish .warden remaining at their posts la the jail said it was sur rounded by the fighting, which lad taken on a desperate hand to and character. The whole area was raked by heavy rifle and ma chine gun tire."' ' The Ward road jail Is the chief prison for the International , set tlement, has room for tome 8,000 irisonera. Three of the present amates are Americans. An effort late yesterday to move them to a safer place failed when E. L. Fan pel. United States marshal "for China, and a squad of settlement police .Were tamed back by the Chinese-Japanese battle. Postmaster Confirmed WASHINGTON, August 19-(ff) -The senate confirmed today the nominations of the following post Blaster: Oregon Odden L. Dic kens, John Day. WAR FORCES 1 '.':.-' I -1 Z . , rv r k It v. yfy This peaceful scene has been transformed Into a war-torn shambles icans and other foreigners who Picture shows the International settlement, the famous Bund and the Whangpoo river near the 8oo chow bridge. Tbe tall building at right is the Cathay hotel, near which bombs fell In early fighting. UN photo, -v ' Giolera Is Peril In Hongkong Area 200 Deaths Occur; Vaccine Rushed in; Menace to Refugees of "War . HONGKONG, Aug. 19 (fly Enough vaccine to Innoculate 250,000 , persons was rushed here tonight by airplane,; and steamer to combat a cholera epi demic that has caused almost 200 deaths along the south China coast. The spreading plague created a new peril for thousands of Asia tic, British and other refugees fleeing the war danger in north ern China. The liner Rajputana, carrying the first British refugees from Shanghai, docked here today In pouring rain to find the city al ready packed with south China and Formosa refugees and in the grip of a cholera epidemic. Because of the epidemic, inoc ulation of all new arrivals was enforced before landing. After ward they were taken to quarters provided by the government. The plague threatened to shut the door of one of the best hav ens, the crown colony destina tion of many refugees already on the seas from Shanghai. Outbreaks of the disease oc curred here and on the mainland at Macao, a Portuguese colony, and at Canton, China, up the Pearl river. The vaccine was shipped from (Turn to Page 9, CoL 1.) , Cliampoeg History Probe Is Ordered WASHINGTON, Aug. 19-(ff-Historian Charles R. Hicks will go to Portland, Ore., next week to conduct an investigation into the historical significance of the Cbampoeg meeting for the advis ory board of the park department. Protests from Oregon over the decision of the board that the site was without national significance resulted In the investigation. Fru it Growers V ictory Over Judgement of $1274.90 against r . u,in Pn inr.. vi granted 41 J ' ' - the Woodburn Fruit Growers Co operative assocIaUon in a deAn by Judge Artie G. Walker irV public yesterday. iA , The amount granted the op erative was approximately ' -one third of the $18,255.69 whfn it demanded In Its action, an out growth of a contract between the association and the cannery for handling the 1934 crop of associ ated loganberries. Damages of $9789.55 for al leged underpayment on contiact were asked by the association In the ! first of Its two -' Uott and damages of $8459.14 to Its second cause of action, alleged damage resulting to the assocIa Uon by the refusal of the cannery to accept berries toward the end of the season. " Judge Walker in Ma decision awarded the growers nothing on the second cause of acUon, saying : ntr ; : FOR 't JERS FROM SHANGHAI :;A'.- " ' ' . -am : k Vify vriirr-Br'-'i -v frr'in occupied If prior to the spread of Gold Vein May Be Found in Canyons Created in Idaho BUHL, Idaho, August 19-(flVOverall-garbed farmers of this southern Idaho agricultur al region, intrigued by a min eralogist's statement, conjec tured tonight on whether there was "gold In them thar can yons." The canyons, formed within the past three weeks by Queer geological disturbances along the Little Salmon river eight miles north of Buhl, may bare rich veins of gold-bearing Quarts, L. A. Tibbs, Gooding, Idaho, mineralogist, reported. Eager to cash In on Tibbs' prediction, two men Ed Cary and Roy Hopkins prepared to stake claims In the crevice marked region undergoing geo logical change. "We probably won't be able to do much until the ground stops sinking, but we mean to be the first on the job when It does," Cary, a barber, said. Work Is Speeded On State Capitol Craftsmen of most all building trades but carpenters are at work on the new state capltol. Brick layers are putting up interior par titions of hollow tile. Electricians, sheet metal workers, plumbers are laying pipes and air flues. The concrete floor is being covered with a maze of conduits for tbe various services: and over these another layer of concrete will be poured. - The vaults for the state treas urer and land board are being built to protect the contents from tire and theft. The walls are solid reenforced concrete, 18 inches thick. Inside these walls Is a lin ing of one-Inch manganese steel. Ponderous manganese steel doors will be hung at the vault en trances. . The exterior marble is going up on the sides of the structure, and the heavy bronze window frames and sash are being Installed. Co-op Gains Cannery Firm that the plaintiff failed to show by a preponderance of evidence that the defendant refused to ac cept the balance of the loganberry crop in quesUon. In the first cause of action In which a judgment of $6274.90 was granted as compared to the $9789.55 asked by the association and the $2210.74 admitted by the cannery to be due the association, the court holds "that It ii the In tent of the parties . making the contract In question that the plaintiff was to receive 3 cents a pound for its berries and the de fendant was to receive Us actual expenses of manufacturing and selling the product before th de fendant was to receive or make any profit. I feel that consider ing the contract as a whole and the testimony pertaining thereto, that this la a reasonable construc tion." - ... i The court declared that the fol (Turn to Page 9, CoL 2.) j. . . .-v..-:: :. : s : -f-i? -u. a. i. . f ... ' 1 lav - ' ay If 00? 1st deserted by a majority of the Amer Sino - Japaneee conflict to Bbangnai Power Project in Valley Is Probed Loan to PGE Is Declared not Cancelled; Mott Taking Hand now WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 yPt Representatlve James Mott of Sa lem, Ore., said today the suspen sion of a rural electrification ad ministration loan of $110,000 to the Portland General Electric company would not be lifted un til REA officials have made a thorough investigation. The loan, recently approved, was held up as a result of a pro test by Representative Walter M Pierce of La Grande, Ore., who said he would demand a Public hearing In Oregon if an attempt was made to grant the loan at less than three per cent Interest. Pierce contended that a private utility should not be permitted to borrow a a lower Interest rate when funds were available "In Wall street banks," and that pub lic cooperatives soon would be able to purchase power from Bon neville dam. The loan was to have been used for a project in Marlon county. Mott, who sought withdrawal of the suspension order, said jthe loan had not been cancelled. Four Are Hacked Fatally With Axe HUTCHINSON, Kan., August 19-JP)-illn. Eugene Paul War ner and her three small children were found hacked to death to day and her husband, arrested, was quoted by County Attorney Wesley E. Brown as admitting the quadruple butchery Brown quoted the Sl-year-old oil company employe as saying he attacked his family with a dou-ble-bladed axe, then attempted suicide by letting it fall on bis head five times. The prosecutor quoted Warner as saying: "I guess 1 just went haywire.- There was - no reason. My wife and I never quarreled." Neutrality Law's Application Urged WASHINGTON, August 19-P) -Twenty-four house members of all parties have -signed a state ment favoring immediate applica Uon of the neutrality act to Chi na and Japan. Tbe signing was announced to day by the National Council for the Preveniont of War. Earlier the council dispatched an open letter to the president condemn ing his failure to Invoke the law. Plan Protection Of Fruit Trucks HOOD RIVER, AuS. 19 -(P)-District Attorney John Baker said today special deputy sheriffs would be appointed within a few days to protect farmers in haul ing their fruit to market. - "With so much labor trouble occuring throughout the conntry, we are going to make certain that law and order are maintained In the Hood River valley," he said. Czechs Watch Situation and Fear Germany Portuguese Hold Russia Responsible in Arms i Transfer Refusal Praha Suspects Nazi of Inspiring Move, Look for Attack There LONDON, Aug. 19-i!P)-Portu-gal'a one-sided severance of dip lomatic relations with Czechoslo vakia became a red flag tonight for the suspicions of all Europe. Czechs, In Praha, their capi tal, asked if Germany Is working behind the scenes to make their strategic, hemmed-ln country a "future Rhineland" in a coming struggle between the two great political camps, facism and com munism. ' Authoritarian Portugal blamed a third party" presumably So viet Russia for Influencing the Czechs to fall to fill an order for machine guns, official reason for the breach. Nazi Germany and faclst Italy sympathized. Other Motives are Hinted Elsewhere Within 24 hours, however, other capitals of Europe had sup planted Portugal's expressed mo tive for the break with strong ideas on deeper causes militant Interests in the Spanish war and the often-expressed theory that Germany Is preparing to at tack Czechoslovakia. C t e c hoslovakian authorities explained their armament Indus try had been unable to supply Portugal with new machine guns because It had been swamped with Czechoslovakian and other previously placed orders. Then (Turn to Page 9, Col. 8.) Bids Invited for More Farm Units PORTLAND, Aug. 19-(-Blds will be opened September 2 on construction of 17 complete farm units and remodeling of 18 additional units In the resettle ment administration's Yamhill farm project near McMinnvllle, E. R. Herzog, representative of the coordinator, Washington, D. C, said today. The SO units, to be built on private contract, will bring the total on the project to more than 100. Most units Include a two bedroom house, a 10-cow barn uonaujiauoD uojum. xlo eijun oi G. M. Schumaker, area con and a small poultry house, struction engineer, reported the was previously begun as being 80 per cent completed. The project will bring more than 100 new farm families to Yamhill, Washington and Polk counties, each selected for their qualifications for operating the type of farm to be established, the : officials said. 2 Everett Papers Closed by Strike EVERETT," Wash., Aug. 19-(ff) -The city's two daily newspapers, the Everett Herald and the Ever ett News, were closed today by a printer's strike, the first time Ev erett' has been without a daily newspaper since 1897. ; A joint statement by Mrs. Ger trude D. Best, publisher of the Herald, and Leonard Diehl. pub lisher of the News, said that the wage demands of the union. Ty pographical union No. 410, were "so excessive that they cannot be met In justice to the publishers and business Interests" of the city. Late today, the union, in a statement, took Issue with the publishers' assertion, declaring no pay increase had been received since 1932. . " Late Sports PITTSBURGH, Aug. 19.p)-Chocolate-skinned John Henry Lewis, king of , the light heavies, battered Italo Colonello of Italy with : a Y hatchet right for 12 rounds, but had to be content with a decision in an overweight bout at Forbes field tonight. Lewis weighed 181 H pounds and Colonello 200. The Italian suffered a terrific beating during - the fight ' but re ceived an ovaUon from the crowd of more than 7,000 as he left, be cause of his gameness. Opening Round In Northwest Is Taken y CIO Big Tacoma Sawmill Due to Reopen Monday as Union Certified Abe.Muir Says Products Can't Reach Market; 'Go on Unfair List TACOMA, Wash.. August 19- (Jfy-Th St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., closed August 8 when it was picketed by the build ing trades council, announced to night it will re-open Monday morning. Some departments, including the dock and shipping workers, will re-open Friday. The announcement was made a few hours after Regional Director Charles W. Hope of the national labor relations board cerUfied to the mill that 761 of 1092 eligible employes had applied for mem bership in the International Woodworkers of America, CIO affiliate. Means Victory in Inter-Union Clash The re-opening announcement gave to the woodworkers their first Important victory in what has been hailed as a nation-wide struggle between the AFL and the CIO in the lumber Industry. Closing of the St. Paul mill was the first move of the Internation al Brotherhood of Carpenters and joiners and allied unions In their expressed Intention to drive the CIO out of the nation's forests and lumber mills. Only this afternoon, Vice Presi dent Abe Mulr, of the carpenters' brotherhood, volunteered a state ment here in which he asserted peace could only come to the in dustry if the revolting lumber workers returned to their aban doned locals of the lumber and sawmill workers' union. At the same Ume, Mulr announced vic tories over the CIO In half a doz en Washington and Oregon dis tricts and pointed out new re prisals against CIO lumber have been made. He warned then that though the finished products in the St. Paul mill now are not on the carpenters' unfair list, the strong brotherhood, with the Interna tional Brotherhood of Teamsters, will boycott any products made after the CIO contract goes Into effect Mulr Invited both Port land and Tacoma CIO members to return to their AFL locals without prejudice. Added Privileges Wfll Be Accorded Mulr also announced Oregon and Washington members of the sawmill and timber workers' un ion would convene at Lonvlew Friday and Saturday to receive (Turn to Page 9, Col. 8.) Harry Boivin now Oregon Governor Representative Harry Boivin of Klamath Falls became Oregon's chief executive Thursday noon when Governor Charles H. Martin crossed the state line Into Wash ington, accompanied by Mrs. Mar tin on a trip to Bremerton to spend a few days with their son-in-law and daughter, Lt. and Mrs. Schuyler Pyne. Senator Frank Franciscovich of Astoria, first in line for governor during the absence of the regular Incumbent, telegraphed from Ber keley, Calif., that he would not return to Oregon until Saturday. This is the first time that Boi vin has served as governor since his election as ' speaker of the house. Senator Franciscovich has serv ed as governor on four occasions during the Martin administration. AFL War Council Is Called To Map Fight Against CIO PORTLAND, Ore August 19-(A)-Bonn Math is, secretary of the Portland building trades council, said today Northwest AFL offi cials would be asked to meet in Olympla early next week tor a "council of war" against the CIO. The announcement followed a board of business agents meeting here today called to determine lt enough sawmill workers could be mustered to re-open Portland's seven closed sawmills Monday under the AFL banner." . Petitions were being circulated among the rank and file of the CIO sawmill workers' union but insufficient signatures had been obtained today to justify a pre diction, Mathis said. ' The group voted to release ma terials and fuel at the "down" mills provided they were handled by AFL men. i; - The B. F. Johnson plant closed today, the seventh to cease oper ations as a result of AFL picket Trip to Capital , Is Significant L J. D. Rosa of Seattle, most-men cloned prospect for the Bonne ville dam administratorship ad the bone of contention between various gronPs Interested In the northwest power project, left for Washington, D. CL, yester day, possibly to confer with of ficials in connection with the Job. Graves Appoints Wife as Senator Explains It's Move Aimed at Neutrality; Plans Special Election WASHINGTON, Aug. 19-ifl5)-Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama appointed his wife, Dixie Bibb Graves, today to succeed Hugo L. Black as senator from Alabama. She Is 55. The governor announced Mrs. Graves appointment Immediately after Black tendered his resig nation from the senate. Mrs. Graves will serve only temporarily. The governor called a special election for next April 26 to name a senator to fill Black's unexpired term, .which ends in January, 1939. He said Mrs. Graves would not be a candidate, and that the Ala bama constitution barred him from the race.' ; The state democratic commit tee, he said, will call a special primary election some time af ter February 1 to nominate .1 candidate for the April 26 elec tion. Graves said that Immediately after the primary he would ap point the democratic nominee to the senate to succeed Mrs. raves. Sen. John H. Bankhead, who became Alabama's senior sena tor with Black's resignation, (Turn to Page 9, CoL 7.) Maneuver Troops ' Start Field Work TACOMA, Wash.. Aug. 19-(V-Tent cities on the Fort Lewis mil itary reservation were deserted to day as the fourth United States army. Pacific northwest detach ment, went into the field fully manned and equipped.. The 41st division, mostly na tional guardsmen, held the first of its field skirmishes as Individ nal Infantry battalions executed field tactical problems, supported by the 146th and 148th field ar tillery regiments firing regular service shells. The infantry in cluded Oregon, Washington and Montana troops. .. . Infant of 18 Month It Found Drowned in Creek ALBANY, Aug. 19 -UP)- Mrs, Herbert McCleary found the body of Jier daughter, Mary Ellen, aged 18 months, floating in Periwinkle creek today ten minutes after the child disappeared from the house, Efforts by firemen and a physi cian at resuscitation failed. ing which followed acceptance of a CIO. charter by, the local lum ber and sawmill workers' union. While CIO officials.: described the shutdown as a "lockout" mill operators Issued a public state ment tonight, saying lt was- fu tile to attempt to operate as It will lead to trouble." - - - ; They called - on the disputing workers to "first, adjust and set tie i. their X differences ; i second, guarantee to as , that operations can peacefully be resumed in our plants and there, will be an un restricted movement of our pro ducts and by-products." Harold Pritchett, president of the CIO International Woodwork ers of America, and his legal council, Harry Gross, were expect ed here Friday to petition for a labor board election similar to that conducted at Tacoma. - The belongings of E. B. Weber, secretary of the CIO .lumber (Turn to Page 9, CoL 8.) Separate Law Child Labor Sought Southern Democrats Use Tactics Similar to House Bloc Here Senate Tries to Salvage Part; Tax Loophole Measure Passed WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-V By a strange campaign of "pas sive resistance," southerner la the house of representatives bur led the administration's wage and hour bill deeper than ever tonight In the dusty files of congress. Advocates of the labor stand ards bill called a caucus of dem ocrats. In an effort to pass a res olution forcing the house, rules committee to stop blocking the measure. But when the roll was called te open the meeting many southern ers and some others refused to answer to their names. Thev sat with their lips grimly closed or strolled in the corridors out side. "Point of order, no quorum Is present," shouted Representative Rankin (D-Miss), according to several legislators who were pres ent. "A lot of others have come In that have not answered to their, names," objected Representative Healey (D-Mass). one of the chief backers of the legislation. "Point of order, no quorum," shouted Rankin, again. So the chair ruled that too few members were present and that the meeting could take no action. Therefore the bill, died so far as this session of congress is con cerned. WASHINGTON, Aug. l9.-ff) t 1 . V- ll J 1 I. n Legislation io. ouuiaw cunu uuvr shot through the senate today In an eleventh-hour effort to save that phase of the administration's buried labor standards bill. Senators consented unanimous ly to passage of the measure, writ ten by Senators Wheeler CD Mont), a foe of President Roose velt's defeated court , reorganiza tion bill, and Johnson (D-Colo). Their surprise action followed a suggestion that the house might agree to a separate child labor ban this session even if it does not act on the senate-approved wage and hour bill carrying a similar prohi bition. The separate child labor bill carries the same language Incor porated in the child labor section of the senate-approved wage and hour legislation. Child-Made Goods Shipment Forbidden It would prohibit the shipment in Interstate commerce of goods (Turn to Page 9, Col. T.) Kidnap Suspects Are Taken Twice GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Aug. . 19-P)-Po88emen captured tonight two prisoners who sawed their way out of the Grand Junc tion jail a few hours after their surprise arrest at a desert camp near the Colorado-Utah boundary. Two members of. tho posse, Fred Peck and Warren Bush, re ported the fugitives, Einar Johan sen, 26, and Harry Edwards, 34, surrendered without resistance. Peck and Bush, American Le gion members, said they - came upon Johansen and Edwards hid ing near a railroad box car a mile east of the city. - Three companions arrested with Johansen and Edwards mad no attempt to escape through the jail window out of which an Iron bar was sawed. : - Johansen and Edwards are wanted In connection with the kldnap-robberles of Dr. William H. Leary, dean of the University of Utah law school, and Dr. Mil dred Nelson, - Utah state health official and also for a similar of fense In Idaho. f Brush Fire Coralled MEDFORD, August 19-JFh grass and brush fire near the junction of the Klamath-Ashland and Pacific highways, believed to have started from a cigarette, waa controlled today after covering more than ,500 acres. B ALL AD E of TOD A By R C Just who shall saw op Into lumber the 1 northwest's mon ster firs and pines, la now the reason for a number of skir mishes between the lines of old time labor federation and new, ambitious CIO; their struggle may spread through the nation; meanwhile they'll let the big trees grow. Banning