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Special Features Weather Fair and cooler today, Sunday - unsettled, v .higher humidity; Max. Temp. Fri day 83, Min. 45, river -3.S feet, northwesterly wind. A n amber of special tXclea and features of local Interest will be included In The Sunday Statesman. A. complete home paper. poundod 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning;, August 21, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 126 lt Mewed. Mdtm rem Cong I T JEDetea w Bettigerem One American Seaman Killed By Projectile Protests Are Sent Both ; of "Warring Nations ; Battle Rages on Shot Hitting Angusta Is Japanese, Reported; Property Loss hig i SHANGHAI, Aug. 21-(Satur-dajO-PAdm. Harry E, Yarnell; commander-in-chief of the United States Asiatic fleet, announced to day he had warned both Chinese and Japanese authorities against shellfire over American and foreign warships after an Amerl- can seaman was auiea. "I asked them especially to re frain from firing over the Augus ta, the admiral said. It was on the Augusta, $10, 000.000 flagship of the fleet, that Freddie. John Falgout, 21. "of naeeianu, la., was aiiiea ana it of his 800 crewmates slightly In jured, by an anti-aircraft shell last night. The flagship was lying In the Whangpoo river, near the heart of the international settlement, when the projectile crashed on one of the cruiser's decks. Chinese authorities were inves tigating the incident to determine the source of , the. shell, , said Mayor O. K. ;YuI, but he added, : apparently In conflict with Yar nelPs announcement, that no pro test had been received from Unit ed States authorities." The mayor is a close associate of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, head of the Nanking gov ernment. . . .-' , .. , ' Fiercest Duel of Artillery Staged - The Augusta was hit j while Chinese air bombers andj shore batteries and big guns of the Jap anese fleet on the river were fighting the fiercest bomb and artillery duel of the 8-day Shang hai conflict. At Washington it was reported the fatal. shell was Jap anese. -- A fourth of Shanghai's densely populated area was set ablaze by bombs . and shells and the fires rages furiously into the night with no effort to check them. The largest of them were along the waterfront of Pootung. industri al area across the Whamgpoo from Shanghai's Internationa settlement, where Chinese airmen bombed Japanese properties, and In Honghew, the" Japanese section of the city. Three United States citizens and more than 1000 Chinese were killed last Saturday when Chinese bombs fell into interna tional areas of the city. American losses were believed heavy in the fires roaring tbroug the industrial district on both banks of the Whangpoo. Plants of the Sherwin-Williams Paint company and the Simmons Mattress company were reported burned. In or close to the burn ing Pootung district are big stor age plants of the American Standard-Vacuum and Texas Oil com panies. Their fate was not known. The war had driven all fire fighting companies out of the burning districts. The flames spread steadily along the water fronts, close to the anchorages of the $10,000,000 Augusta, the destroyers Edsall and Parrott and the gunboat Sacramento. Chinese' field pieces hidden on rooftops in Chapel, the native section in northern Shanghai, and batteries well to the south of the International settlement 'ex changed steel with the Japanese warships on the river, their shells screaming over or near the inter- naHnnii iu vher tens of thon- tands of foreigners remained de- pite the wholesale evacuations f , thi week. Warships helped evacuate 1100 United States citi- tena tndav. Tne miernauonai wiucuitm rnrkoit to the explosions. Shells from both sides fell on the bor der of the French concession, where most ot the Americans lisi aAAine fresh fears. - The Anensta's wounded were taken ashore, with FalKOUt's body, and placed In the American marine hospital. The fatal shell, a one-Inch pro jectile, fell from a high angle at 8:40 a. m., when most of the crew was below at mess. Orders were then riven for all officers and men to remain below decks as mnch as nosslble. The same was done on the Parrott and Ed sall. and some of the other fo reign men o war on the river pre pared to move to saier ancnor ages. . Shellin&WdS ' t Refugees Run Into New Terror As Quake Rocks Manila; Some in Panic Nerve-Shocked Women From Shanghai Fear It's new Bombardment; Shocks Worst in Forty Years hut Only one Death; Buildings Stand MANILA, August 20 (AP) American refugees fled from one terror to another when they left 'a hell on earth" in Shanghai five days ago and stepped ashore here tonight into a panic born of earthquakes. Nerves worn raw -by the the terrifying spectacle of swaying buildings, falling mason- O Salem Woman Is Among Refu gees Mrs. Grace Norman Going to Hankow; Newberg People on List WASHINGTON, August 20-4JP) The state department said today 256 American refugees from Shanghai were aboard the Dollar liner the President Jefferson, which arrived at Manila today. The American embassy" in Nan king, meanwhile, informed the department that 17 Americans had left : Nanking on the British S. S. Stieshi bound for Hankow. Two other Americans wereVen route to Kuling. Names and addresses, wje known, of those aboard the Jef ferson Included: Mrs. J. M. Huppman, Seattle; Mrs. R. R. Schinazi and daugh ter, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. R. L. Pearce, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. S. F. Jensen, Seattle; Miss Dorothy Reierstad, Portland, Ore.; Miss H. Kappell and mother. Mrs. F. R.'Engdahl, Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Hazel Severns and son, Newberg, Ore.; Mrs. P. Severns, Newberg, Ore.; Mrs. Mary Putnam, two sons and daughter, Pocatello. Ida.; Mrs. B. Roth, son and three daughters, Seattle; M. F. Roth, Seattle: Mrs. Helen ,M. Joyce and son Bremerton. Wash. Those who left Nanking for Hankow included: c Mrs. Grace Norman, 160 Le- felle street, Salem, Ore. Frederick F. Strake, Jr., of In dependence is a sailor aboard the Augusta, U. S. cruiser which was struck by a Japanese shell result ing in one death and minor in juries to 18 others. Strake is the son ot Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Strake of Independence and a (Turn to Page 2, Cot 4.) Harmful Logging Practice in Polk Is Cited by Mott WASHINGTON, Aug. 20P) Representative James Mott of Salem, Ore., said today he had asked Secretary Ickes to invoke authority granted under a bill sent to the White House this week to halt "harmful" log ging operations on grant lands near Dallas, Ore. The bill, when signed by the president, will set np a new ad ministrate plan for revested Oregon nd California grant lands, and will give the secre tary of the interior power to bait such operations as he con siders harmful, Mott said. Dallas had protested that the logging created a fire hazard and threatened the watershed. Appraisal of City's Power Plant to Precede Any Deal .Disposition ot the hydro-electric generator on Mill creek own ed by the Salem water commission wiHj be deferred until after fur ther investigation and appraisal, the commission voted at its meet ing last night. The committee investigating the advisability of selling or oth erwise disposing of the plant was authorized to call in competent assistants to aid it in determining both a fair selling price and a fair rental value. . , Several of the commissioners expressed the opinion that the commission would be wise to lease the plant, thus maintaining its water rights on the mill stream ditch, Instead ot disposing of it outright. Pleaa of several 'persons who A- Shanghai ordeal snapped under ry and sudden darkness a few moments after the 376 refugees stepped ashore in the Philippine capital. Cries of "it's another war and "the Japanese are bombing us!" came from groups of terrified women refugees as the Manila customs house twisted and swayed over their heads." The refugees, first of several hundred expected here, told their stories as they awaited transfer to shelter prepared for them here. Mrs. H. G. Jensen of Seattle, wife of a Shanghai dentist, said she received the fright of her life (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3.) Sinking Canyon Is Goal of Tourists Neighbors Cashing in but ' Robertson Whose Land v Caves in, Is not BUHL, Idaho, Aug. 20.-(P)-Tourist dollars flowed today from the choking Java dust of southern Idaho's "sinking canyon." Farmers and townspeople, as tounded at attention given a ge ologic quirk that is transforming fertile farm land into a desolate hole of dirt and lava, are seeking and getting money from hun dreds of curious who have flock ed to the site from S3 of the na tion's 48 states. For more than 10 days, fertile acres on the farm of H. A. Rob ertson, seven miles northwest of this town of less than 2,000 per sons, have . plunged downward, amidst rising clouds of dust and rumbling explosions. Seven acres have disappeared into canyons more than 2S0 feet deep. The phenomena, geologists say, is caused by the collapse of lava strata softened by Irrigation wa ter that turned this near-desert area into one of Idaho's most pro ductive regions. Mrs. Harry McFarlln, who oper (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Schenck Gaining Support, Stated PORTLAND, Aug. 20-(!p)-The Portland Oregonian said tonight that support tor F. R. Schenck ot Portland as administrator of Bon neville dam was showing Increas ing strength in Washington, D. C. Schenck, a former government employe, Is not only strongly supported by Portland Interests, but is receiving substantial back ing from Seattle- and Tacoma, the newspaper said. .; He was a member of the com mittee ot civil engineers who di gested the army engineers' report No. S03, showing the feasibility of deep-sea vessels navigating the Columbia river to The Dalles. have property adjoining the main pipeline from Stayton island out side of the city limits to have wa ter service direct from : the line were considered but the matter was tabled pending further inves tigation. Manager Cuyler Van Patten and the city attorney were given au thority to make final settlements on crop damages on land through which the pipeline Is being con structed. The commission moved that the manager be instructed to Invite tne Pacific Northwest section of the American Water Works as sociation to hold its annual con vention here in 1939. This year's convention was held in Victoria, B. C, in May and the 1938 meet ing will probably be in an eastern Washington city. Vessels Labor Board's ; Aid Unwanted, Muir Asserts Hands off" Warning for C. W.. Hope hut Trades Council Differs - Audit Desired; Politics Charge Is Hurled at Longview Session PORTLAND, Ore., Ang. 20-6IP) The United Brotherhood of Car penters and Joiners, through its vice-president, Abe W. Muir, served notice on the national la bor relations board today to keep hands off the AFL-CIO dispute which had closed seven Portland mills. "The labor relations board has no legal right to interfere," Muir asserted. "The brotherhood Is going to untangle Its own affairs. Port land mill owners have no right to break existing agreements with the AFL and we won't recognize any pretended right of the labor board to step in." Muir's statement followed word that Charles W. Hope, regional director of the board, had ex pressed willingness to eonduct in the Portland mills a "courtesy audit" of union membership rolls such as was held in the-St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber company plant jit Tacoma, Wash. Aodit -V Desired n -X: By Trades Council The Portland mills closed when AFL pickets from the building trades council appeared following (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Glendale Lumber Plant With Loss Around $200,000 GLENDALE, Ore., Aug. 10-UP)- Fire destroyed five dry kilns, the planing mill and about400,000 feet of finished lumber at the Ing ham Lumber company mill here tonight. Damage was estimated at about $200,000. Volunteer firemen, aided by a pumper from the Grants Pas3 fire department and a favorable wind, saved the main plant. The blaze was believed to have originated in one ot the kilns, which were filled with pine lum ber. Company officials said the plan ing mill would be rebuilt, and that the loss was covered by in surance. The company employs about 250 men. Late Sports SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20-UP) -Portland's Ducks gave right hander Bill Posedel, their pitcher, ample support with their bats here tonight to hang np a 4 to 1 victory over the Missions. Posedel sat down the Missions without a great deal of trouble in all innings but the third, when the hometowners, aided by a pair of Portland errors and an infield hit, put over their lone tally of the game. , The Ducks smashed Walter Beck, Mission pitcher, hard from the outset, but did not score until the third. Three singles in. a row by John Frederick, John Clabaugh and. catcher Tresh produced a run. Clabaugh tripled In the sixth with two on the bases, for two more runs. Portland 4 13 2 Missions 1 8 2 Posedel and Tresh : Beck, Os borne and Frankovlch, Outen. First night game 10 innings: Seattle 8 13 Los Angeles 5 11 3 Osborn, Pickrel and Fernandes; Prim and Collins. Second night game 7 innings: Seattle .7 9 1 Los Angeles . 5 7 1 Opelt, Pickrel, Gregory ani Splndel; Evans, Garland, Over man and Collins. San Francisco . 0 Oakland .l Gibson and Monzo: LaRocca ana KaimondL Night game 11 Innings': San Diego .... 7 IK Sacramento ;. 11 0 Craehead. Pilletta and Detore Seats, Schmidt and Franks. State Library GrantOkehed By Roosevelt Last Barrier to Needed Project Here Removed as Funds Provided Will Speed up Optioning of Site; Plans Being Prepared Already Information that President Roosevelt had approved the al location of S450 as a PWA grant for construction of new state llh-. rary building In Salem, was re ceived by Senator Charles L. Mc Nary Friday in a telegram from Harold L. Ickes. PWA admin istrator. This approval, recently viewed as doubtful in view of official statements from officials at the national capital, removes the last possible obstacle in the path of the long-advocated library build ing project, its immediate result will be to speed up the caPitol re construction commission's nego tiations to purchase property In the block across Court street to the north from the present cap- itol site, the planned location of the library structure. State funds in the amount of 8550,000 for construction and 8300,000 for site purchase were authorized by the 1937 legislature. Option on approximately halt of the block already has been closed and negotiations with other property owners are being car ried on by Commissioner Harry Banfield, who said he would be ready to submit further options to the commission for final ap proval next week. Plans Must Be Ready November 1 Work on the detailed plans for the structure, the estimated total cost of which Is 81.000,000 along with a central heating plant for thr entire group ot 'state bnild ings, is already under way by Whltehouse A Church, Portland architects. Under the terms of an agree ment with PWA officials they are to be submitted for approval by November 1 and construction op erations are scheduled to start within 60 days from that date. Completion of the library Is set for not later than June 30, 1939. "There is no reason why the library project cannot proceed un interruptedly now," said Ralph E. Moody, assistant attorney general and special counsel of the com mission who recently spent sev eral weeks In Washington Iron ing out details in connection with the grant application. "We know what PWA requires (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) Chinese General Predicts Victory By MORRIS J. HARRIS SHANGHAI, Aug. 20-UP)-Gen. Chang Chi-Chung, commander-in-chief of the Chinese armies de fending Shanghai, told me tonight that the Slno-Japanese conflict would end toon with a smashing victory for China. He added that If a general na tionwide war should break out, time would be on the side of the Chinese who were now Pre pared to continue the struggle for years. I interviewed him In the cam ouflaged offices of army general headquarters. The gate leading to his offices bore Chinese characters meaning "house of peace." General Chang, veteran of the 1932 Shanghai war, appeared confident that the Japanese forces would shortly be driven south of Soochow creek into the midst of the international settlement He asserted that in that event he would expect the international authorities to disarm the Jap anese. Munchausen Rival Arrested, Seattle SEATTLE, Aug. 20-R-He was a famous doctor who had "ex amined the Lindbergh baby." He owned a racing stable -a od gave his wife a notarized bill of sale to the famed horse, "Pom poon." He had a million dollars on de posit to help sponsor a national lotteries bill which would make him the national lottery king. ' And he was Myor John F. Dore's "cousin." - All this and more. Dep. Pros. Henry Clay Agnew charged In a grand laceny complaint today. Jack P. Mills, 43, clerk, told an unnamed Seattle (woman . whom he is accused of defrauding of 82000 in what' Agnew termed a "marriage bunco racket" They married last month. Agnew said Mills confessed to detectives "It was all lies. I'm nobody." Af new also said Mills admitted he was not Dore's cousin. Matter n Dares Arctic Fogs While Seeking Lost Fliers From Russia "sah-vJ. T:tow. Jimmy Matte rn i!'' v " -- t , ' . ' ' -- - v V ' " j 'r s v v - - - A X - , 7h v - - - - - - - v - -' Matters'! plane , 1 Four years ago Sigismund Levaneffsky, "Lindbergh of Russia," res cued Jimmy Slattern when he was forced down In Siberia on a round-the-world flight. Yesterday Matters started his attempt at repayment by braving fog Over the arctic ocean as he sought to find the Russian ace and bis companions, lost for a week on their Mos-cow-to-San Francisco flight. For a time fear was felt for Mattern's safety but he was later reported as continuing his flight. With him in the upper picture is his co-pilot, Frank Jones. Search in Made byMattern Unreported for Time but Safe; Finds Breaks in Bank of Fog - BARROW, Alaska. Aug. 20.- 0!P)-Flying by instruments through heavy patches of fog, Jimmy Mattern, American airman searching for the lost soviet transpolar fliers, was winging his way .over the Arctic ocean late today. Norman Lott, Pacific Alaska airways radio operator at Flat, Alaska, reported Intercepting a message from Mattern at 5:15 p. m. (PSTX, saying thejlier, his co-pilot, Frank Jones, and radio operator John A. Stump, found the heavy fog broken in spots. Lott said apparently the plane was over the arctic. Receipt of Lott's message re lieved the slight anxiety which arose when Mattern failed to re port after 8:20 p. m., when he wirelessed he was over the treach erous Endlcott mountains between Fairbanks and the Arctic ocean. His sleek, aluminum - colored twin-motored plane left Fairbanks at 1:10 p. m. for the arctic. Mattern carried with him a let ter of greeting to Lost Pilot Sig ismund Levaneffsky and his five companions from soviet agents at Fairbanks. It was to be delivered in case the fliers, who vanished last Friday, were found. Sir George Hubert Wilklns and his aerial search party of four in a flying boat landed at Fort Smith, N. W. T., at 2:30 p. m. (PST) to Join a search for the missing Russians: They flew non stop 1,200 miles from Port Ar thur, Ont. .At Barrow, the soviet pilot, Zadkoff, the Canadian aviator. Bob Randall and the Russian ice breaker Krassln, with four planes aboard It, prepared for an exten sive search of the polar ice floes. Recall Case Demurrer Taken . ... ' . Under Advisement by Peters Demurrer to the .writ 'of man damus filed by sponsors of the Siegmund recall movement against U. G. Boyer, county, clerk, was taken under advisement yes terday by Judge R. Frank Peters of Hillsboro, assigned by the su preme court to hear the manda mus case. , Much of the force of the de murrer which had reference to the sufficiency ot the writ, was taken away. District Attorney Page, its filer, admitted when Roy Hewitt, attorney for tho re call committee, asked and was granted Interlineation In the writ That the 910 signatures to the recall petitions which Boyer chal lenged are in fact "legal regis tered voters" was the chief alle gation contained in the interlin eation. It changed abruptly the aspect of the case, in which pre viously the main issue had been whether a recall petition signer must necessarily be; a "regis v ; " i i v Kf4aVr ; 'r O Congress Passes Grant Lands Bill Oregon Measure Expected to Receive Approval at White House WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-(-Oregon congressmen predicted to night presidential approval of a bill setting up a sustained-yield management, of some 2,500,000 forested acres of revested grant lands in their state. The bill, sent to the White House yesterday, also provides for a redistribution of revenue from the western OreSon lands which interior department offi cials said would put their admin istration on a business basis." Representative James Mott, Sa lem, Ore., said he was "well sat isfied" with terms of the measure which will provide approximately 8400,000 annually for the grant land counties in lieu of taxes re (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2.) Former UO Girl Takes Own Life NEW YORK. Aug. 20-G?P)-Beau-Uful Adelaide Hughes, 120-year-old Glendale, Calif., girl who-came east to "make her own way," ws found dead this morning in her mid-town apartment from gas fumes which poured from a kitch en stove. ' A former member of the follies. Miss Hughes,, tall and blonde, shared the apartment in which her body was found with two other girls. Police said she left her roommates a note asking them to "consider t!h is an accident," and to so notify her parents. Police were told Miss Hughes came to New York about a year ago after attending the University of Oregon. , tered" elector as compared to a "Qualified'! elector. While figares in the county clerk's office indicate that of the 110 names certified to by J. 8. Baker, head of the recall commit tee, as genuine only 350 appear on the registration , lists at all Hewitt stated that there was every reason to believe the evi dence would show that an of the 910 are registered voters. It Is possible the allegation that all of the questioned signatures are those of registered voters may result in a long drawn out court case in which the registration lists will be brought into court and the challenged names gone over individually. : That registered electors only are qualified to sign recall peti tions was stated by the district attorney. In regard to Baker's certification as a notary public ot the . 910 - names he cited a (Turn to Page I, CoL 4.) John Lewis Is Irate at Wage Bill's Failure Complaint Against Demo Failures Regarded as Significant Adjournment Is Set for Today; Items Added to Finance Bill By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, August 2H) Congress coasted comfortably along toward adjournment today with just a few more issues to be settled before the legislators say a willing farewell to the steamy heat of a Washington summer and the even more torrid contro versies of the past session. Officially and definitely, party leaders in both houses fixed the adjournment hour at late tomor row afternoon, or sometime to morrow evening. Senate leaders clung during the day to a hope the adjourn ment might be reached tonight When the house refused the up per branch recessed until noon tomorrow. Houses Debate on Minor Problems Throughout the afternoon, the senate happily added items to the 8138,000,000 third deficiency ap propriation bill, while the house' debated the advisability of buy ing reindeer for the Alaskan es kimos and of sending a delega tion on an autumnal junket to Hononlulu. Then, Into this idyllic situa- ffnn otrnrlA Jfthn T. Ijiw! nf thA committee for Industrial organ ization, irate and storming at the democratic leadership because of the tact that the wage-hour bill, passed by the senate, Is now in extricably trapped in the bouse rules committee. The program which they party promised. In last year'a campaign has been sabotaged by "a small group of Its more conservative members," he said in a preparfS statement issued in his capacity as chairman of labor's non-partisan league. He referred to last night's abortive house democratic cau cus at which many hoped by par ty action to get the wage-hour bill out of the committee and onto the floor. Party Discipline -Challenge Hurled "To the leaders of the demo cratic party," Lewis continued, "it presents the challenge wheth er to restore sufficient party disci pline to permit government to function under their guidance, or to confess that their party is not the vehicle by which the people of the country may, progress to a solution ot their pressing social problems." - In that last sentence the hom ing legislators found material for speculation. Washingtogn has buzzed with reports that Lewis is on the outs with President Roose velt. ' 'I The senate got to work on the deficiency bill, last appropriation measure of the session, carrying some 8138,000,000 for purposes which have arisen since the reg ular departmental appropriation bills were passed or which were overlooked in the bills' prepara tion. To this the senate added 8500 to meet emergencies arising from the war in China, ordered ear marked the sum of 82,005,000 for the purchase of land Increasing the area of the Yosemite National park in California, and wrote' in an item of 850,000,000 for bene fit payments under the sugar mar keting bill. . Customs Funds to Provide Cotton Benefit Then ' with southern senators assuring senators -from the wheat states that they will help If an emergency arises in wheat, the senate ordered $65,000,000 of customs receipts made available for subsidy payments on this year's cotton crop. The house, meanwhile approved the sugar control bill and sent ft to the White House where it Is assured of a cold reception be cause of restrictions imposed upon imports of sugar from Hawaii and Pnerto Rico. This done, the house quickly approved senate amendments to the bill to strengthen the tax laws against evasions and avoidances, sending that measure likewise to the president- It was one of the bills he had asked this congress to paSS.-.:-.-;."," ;:. ' '.! ' After that, there was nothing pressing so the house turned to (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) ALL A D E of TO DA V By r. a 7 Although they flee safely k from Shanghai's grave strife, . American refugees still are pur sued by additional perils to health and life, such as earth quakes, diseases and shortage , of food.