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Agriculture - As an agricultural com intuit y, all Willamette val ley resident are interested la farm trends. The States man leads in farm news. , HUT "Weather -Fair Sunday and Monday, cooler with rising humid Hy; Max. Temp. Saturday 85, Min. 48, river -3-8 feet oath wind. FOUNDED 1651 Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, . August 22, 1937 Price' 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 127 mures Amidst Bitter Discord. V Congress Ad Fire Fighters Trapped, Some Believed Dead 20 or 30 Are Imperiled as Flames Rage Near : Yellowstone Park " Fate Unverified;" Blaze at : Saddle Mountain -.-: Is Fought by 75 ". CODY, Wyo., Aug.' 21(ff)-An undetermined number of men. ser ral of whom were reported burn ed to death, -were trapped tonight in a forest fire raging 85 miles west of Cody. . H. F. Marion, clerk in the for est supervisor a . office in Cody, aid he could not "verify" re ports that several of the men had lost- their lives. - -. . . t It was learned,' however, t thai A. R. Easton, Park county coroner at Powell, Wyo., had gone to the scene of the fire in northwestern Wyoming and had not returned late tonight' John C. Thompson, jr., manager f the telephone office in Cody, aid he heard a report that ap proximately 60 of the fire-fighters were being brought to a Cody hos pital suffering from burns. He also had received a report several men were dead. The victims were trapped by a sudden flareup of the Blackwater creek fire. The creek 'is a branch of the north fork of the Shpshonl river and is In the Shoshonl na tional forest. Other ; unverified reports from the isolated area said between SO and 30 men were trapped by the blaze. ' L-a As the devouring flames raced forward today forest service I of fi- eials rushed 6 Q0 CCC meat Jfrom northern Wyoming camps to 'com bat their advance. The fire was eating through a lieavtly woocl d Area, It was discovered by an airplane forest patrol flight Friday afternoon. At noon today it had covered 600 acres. Tonight no estimate of the blackened area was avail able, said Car, Krueger, forest ranger. - - .. - ,. . .. ' '; No lodges or highways ' were frn the path of the flames. Cody is one of the entrances to Yellowstone national park. The fire, however, was not ' en dangering tlmberlands in the park. - ' FOREST GROVE, Aug. 2 1-JP) -uxiiciais or toe stimson com pany said tonight 1 00 additional men were enroute to aid in con trolling a forest fire breaking out at the company's operations near Saddle mountain this af ternoon. Seventy-flve men- were - al ready on the , fire line. The extent of the blaze was not known here, ; but company, employes said the spread was believed to have been halted with the' aid of favorable weather conditions. V " The Stimson .operations are located in a portion of the old Tillamook burn. 1 y EVERETT, .Wash.,Aug, 21-(JP)-A sudden rainstorm to night aided volunteer firefight ers in bringing under control a lare slashings fire which for a time endangered - resorts and summer homes at. nearby' Lake Stevens. About 16 acres par tially logged-off land 5 were burned. ' Crop Control to Top Agenda, Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-flV Congress completed a momentous bargain with President Roosevelt today, pledging to make crop con trol its first order of business next session and clearing the way for the president In turn to bolster egging cotton prices at once. The promise to hasten crop con trol which the chief executive had required as security tor loans en this year's cotton went to the White House when the senate completed congressional action on Both houses quickly approved additional legislation enabling Mr. Roosevelt to carry on ms enu i the bargain, which senators said was to assure cotton growers a return of IS cents a pound on their 1IS7 yield. The administration already had authority to -make eotton ' loans, but officials did not want to lend the full II cents because, they said, that would raise prices above the world "level and prevent Am erican cotton from being sold abroad. " . ' ' Dr. Meissner Dies . PORTLAND, Aug. 31-CJPV-Dr. Carl Herbert Meissner, prominent physician of Oregon City, died in a local hospital today. He had practiced - in Clackamas county for S3 years. Funeral services will be held In Oregon City Monday, PARADE OF PROGRESS fDERS GREETED f: x- 'J Salem's official reception committee headed by Mayor V. E. Kuhn van tiwmuw w comment?, grreiea me raraae oi JtTogress exposition at the city limits yesterday af ternoon. A street parade followed. Prom the left: O. E. Wilson, manager of the chamber of com- I merce, Mayor Knhn Kiwanl President Ben Ramsmeyer, J. M. Jerpe of the exposition, Ralph Cooley. W. W. Chadwick, Clifford Harold, director of the chamber of commerce and A. Warren Jones, city recorder. Below, the streamlined transports of the modem Mdrcns of science resembled! the 'ele phants of yesteryears circus as they filed in orderly fashion down Court street yesterday afternoon. .- They go to make up the Parade of Progress exposition which while sponsored by a national manu facturer Is a non-commercial show depicting the relationship between research and Industry. - 14,000 Soldiers Stage big Review Three Governors on Hand for big Show; ."War" to Start- Monday TACOMA, Wash;, Aug. S1-0PV- Fonrteen , thousand soldiers en gaged in a mock war took time out today to give Washington civ ilians a view of more massed troops than they have seen since the days when armies gathered at Fort Lewis were training for a very real war in Europe In 1917. The marching organizations, under command of Major General George A. White, of the Oregon National Guard, were the Pacific northwest contingent of the fourth United States army, now concen trated at For t Lewis for'' two weeks training and a "little war" on the . banks of the Nisqually river.':. ;- : - v - Three governors Clarenc D. Martin of Washington, Charles H. Martin of Oregon, and Roy E. AyerS of Montana took the re view, which included their , own state troops as well as regulars from Washington, California and Montana; and several thousand civilians lined the edges of a neu tral amphitheater to watch in fantrymen, cavalry, field artillery men, engineers and tank compan ies go by , while National Guard and regular army airplane obser vation squadrons roared through sky maneuvers Overhead. The review, plus an anti-aircraft artillery demonstration Sunday (Turn to page 16L coL S) Hop Growers Reporting Upon Preference in Market Plan Responses to the canvass of hop- growers to determine their opin ions toward Immediate organiza tion of a cooperative association for the hop Industry are coming In in good snap, members of the special committee ' of the Oregon hop growers association reported yesterday, but growers who have not yet submitted their votes are urged to do so immediately. . The canvassing , questionnaire, mailed out to growers a week ago, gave them the alternative of ex- Dressing opinion in favor either or a cooperative marketing organiza tion or SO per cent crop curtail ment for this year. Organization of the growers Is needed, it is felt by many of them, to ward oft low prices for surplus hops such. as prevailed In 1935 when the price tor surplus hops went as low as six cents per pound. Backers of the , cooperative movement pointed to the fact that mf- Refueling Plane Overturns, Pilot And Aides Unhurt FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. SI -dP-Jimmie Mattern's tri-mo-tored refueling plane, . forced down ' after being lost in dense clouds, overturned in a meadow near here today without injury to pilot Garland Lincoln or his two companions. . After pilcjjt Bill . Lavery of Fairbanks sighted the ship along the Tanana river. Pilot Joe Cros son of Fairbanks flew a pontoon equipped plane to the place and returned with Lincoln, co-pilot Frank Tomick . and Charles A. Marshall, photographer. The refueling plane, which left Burwash landing, Y. T., this morning en route to Fairbanks, capsized on the tundra. ' The ex tent of damage was not learned immediately. - ? . Lincoln flew the craft north from ; Sacramento - to carry sup plies : to - Mattern ? now at Point Barrow to search for the lost so viet transpolar fliers. . Oats Field Burns - - ? - - . , " Oh Kuenzi Place CENTRAL HOWELL- ( Special ) -A ' ten-acre field of oats belong ing to d Kuenzi of the Central Howell vicinity burned at .noon Saturday, causing a total loss of all the oats. The Silverton fire department responded to the alarm, but the fire was well under way when ap paratus arrived and little to save the crop could be done. -1 -f- 193C holdover hops sold last week at eight cents per pound' as a warning to growers that some form of crop control,' either by impounding or curtailment, is needed. - Meanwhile there was .talk among some Salem business men of offering their aid as distinctly interested parties;: to " the - hop growers for whatever cooperation might be possible. ; v ' 'One business man pointed out that the difference between an "un coordinated marketing of hops and a cooperative movement might be a million and a half dollars to the growers of the Willamette valley. His point was that the crop woald approximate 76,000 bales and if they could be sold tor 25 cents a pound through ' voluntary con trol rather than 16 cents without it, that would make the million land a half difference. n A P and W. W, Chadwick, president of Belligerents Get Official Warning Investigation Is Launched by U. S. to Determine Source of Shell SHANGHAI, Aug. ll-fflVThe United States nary today offi cially "informed" Japanese and Chinese authorities of yesterday's Shelling of the cruiser Augusta and began an investigation to determine which side in the Shanghai warfare fired the shell that killed one American seaman and wounded. 17. The Nanking central Chinese government "deplored'' the inci dent, but stated the shell that hit the Augusta probably was not Chinese. The United States am bassador,1 Nelson T. -Johnson, said no official United States ac tion was contemplated now at Nanking because the origin of the shell was not known. -: A special naval board of in quiry examined several eyewit nesses of the tragedy, whleh oc curred while the flagship of the United States asiatic fleet was lying protectively in the Whang poo river off the heart of Shang hai. , r Naval officers said the board's findings would be announced on ly after exhaustive investigation. They v declined to speculate as to whether the shell was Jap anese or Chinese. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, fleet commander, took occasion to deny he had informed Wash ington the shell was. Japanese. Japanese officials were quick to disclaim responsibility for shelling. of the Augusta. I O. K. Yui," Chinese mayor of greater Shanghai, announced the Chinese voluntarily had begun an - investigation to fix responsi bility for the tragedy. . The body of Freddie John Fal gout of , Raceland,' ? La. killed by shrapnel, was carried ashore from the Augusta by his mates, and his wounded comrades placed in the marine corps hospital. Americans Leave Aviation Offices SHANGHAI, Aug. ll-fJPfTlt-teen Americans withdrew front the China national aviation corpora tion today until the end of the Sino-Japanese conflict ' to : avoid embarrassing the neutrality efforts of the United States. - .-;.- Pilots ' and technical experts, they represented the entire oper ating personnel of the air' line which is jointly owned by Pan American Airways and the Chi nese government. ' -- They took their step after con sulting with American authorities here - Chinese Aerial Fleet Wins in Massed Battle Shanghai Burns, Inmates of Jail . to Be Freed Because of Chaos r Japanese "Expected Soon : to Attempt Landing of Added Forces SHANGHAI, Aug. 22 -(Sun-day)-iF-Sbanghai's battle ebbed and flowed today beneath the sul len smoke of miles of blackened ruins while high above the Yang tze toward Hanking a Chinese fleet of airplanes- fought and won the biggest aerial battle of the traffic conflict. So complete was disorganiza tion of this great lnternation com munity, caught in thevvortex of the undeclared Chinese-Japanese war, that its governing council decided it could no longer be re sponsible for Its own Ward road jail, the biggest in the world. . It prepared to turn the 7,000 inmates loose outside the boun daries of the international settle ment. Murderers, kidnapers, nor cotlcs traffickers, mostly Chinese but of many other nationalities, were Included in the derelict throng that must be freed. Japanese naval guns and Chi nese batteries in Pootung early to day resumed the terrific artillery duel across the Whangpoo river, Shanghai's outlet to the sea. 4 It was in such duelling that one American seaman was killed and 17 wounded aboard the American flagship AuguBta Friday night. Until the battleship guns, began roaring Shanghai had enjoyed the quietest evening of its ten days of war. r;.t'A. - .::r: Great fires which raged un eheeked In northern and - eastern dlstri$ts of the'eity drove out ev en, the contending amies, virtual ly erasing ' the,; front in t h e s e areas. Soldiers and marines, re gardless of the uniforms they wore, had to flee before the flames, in some places abandon ing positions won, at the cost of much blood. . 1 Reports persisted that the Jap anese were preparing for a great attempt today to land army rein forcements, said to total 60,000 officers and men, newly arrived from. Japan. Japanese officers refused to comment on the reports, wnlch said the landing was to be made on' the south bank of the Yangtse, some IS miles north of Shanghai. Chinese asserted Friday their shore batteries had repulsed . an attempted landing at Lluho, IT miles northwest of her, where a Japanese army was put ashore In 1981 to turn the tide of that cam paign against the Chinese. Now, the reports said, the Jap onese have established two air fields on Tsungming island, at the mouth of the Yangtze, from which planes are to cover the landing. The armada hovering in the Yangtze estuary was reported to be bringing tanks, armored ears and artillery, in addition to the Infantry. Guests Routed as Two Hotels Burn ASBURY PARK, N. J.. Aug. 21-(jP)-A spectacular fire lev eled two hotels and drove more than : 1,000 guests from eight other . hotels tonight as a week end crowd estimated at 100,000 watched. :i Three firemen, one policeman and an unidentified volunteer rescuer were injured as depart ments from , five mulcipalitles, aided by police, national guards men and marines helped in com batting , the fiercely burning blaze. ; : Starting about 6:15 p. mi. ( PST) in the New Monmouth hotel, the blase roared across to the adjacent Park Lane " and within less than two hours ex hausted Itself while firemen pre vented its spread to the other hostelries in the heart of the Atlantic seashore resort. Late Sports SACRAMENTO. Ang. ll-ifr-Pitcher Henry Pippen -broke an eight-game losing streak here to night in pitching Sacramento a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres. The leaders are In front in the series three games to two a nH their lead was cut to two and one half games. San Diego . ' , , S ,7 0 Sacramento " ., , 4 1 t Ward and Detore; Pippen and Franks. . WESTERN ETTX. LEAGUE Yakima S, Vancouver 1. Tacoma 4, Spokane S. Wenatchee 9. Le wist on S. Defeat of Roosevelt Program Calls Forth Threats, Replies And Prospect of Party Scrap More Trouble laming up in BoorbonCamp (ourt Packing Move one big Issue Wrecking Party Harmony Failure of F. R. Program Broken Only by Coup Appointing Stone By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-flrVA congress of shifting political loy alties adjourned today, leaving more portents of trouble to the future than accomplishments to the past. . It convened eight months ago with huge and seemingly solid democratic majorities ready to back the program of a president newly elected by a record out pouring of rotes. It adjourned with these same majorities shattered by bitter dis sension, their conservative ele ments In revolt, and the presi dent's' program only fragmentarily. enacted. ,---r The cause waaspparent on every ImportaTji'roU call On vi tal issueaiiWnservative demo crats refused to follow the presi dent's lead, combined with the republicans and, in some Instances,- fought him to a stand' still. . s-.- ,; Bitter Fight 'Ahea4.,:.;ix:-i Though Session Over ' The result is more difficult to gauge. As nearly as the situa tion can be evaluated, a bitter struggle lies ahead, with Presi dent Roosevelt and his "liberal" supporters pitted against these same "conservative" elements. , The prize is control of the par ty organization, the all-important privilege of naming the party's presidential candidate In 190 and writing the platform on which he will seek election. When the session began, Presi dent Roosevelt was engaged in a grim battle, not only with the conservative wing of his own (Turn to Page II, CoL C.) Chicago Hospital Terrors Renewed Worker Is Slashed Early Today After Murder on Previous Day CHICAOO. Aug. SS-(Sunday) -P)-Miss Florence Swanson, S4, night superintendent of nurses at the Jefferson park hospital, reported to police early today she was severely slashed on the chest by a man she surprised in her room on the first floor of the hos pital. Miss Swanson said the man jumped out a window and fled after cutting her. The attack was the second In S4 hours on young women at tendants in Chicago hospitals. CHICAGO, Aug. SMffV-Four high ranking police officials took charge tonight of the hunt for a man who crushed a pretty, young nurse's skuU with a brick and attacked her In a hospital room , (Turn to Page 10. CoL 8.) CIO Union Plans Reopening Of Seven Sawmills Monday PORTLAND. Ore August 11-()-The CIO sawmill -union an nounced today plans for a mass offensive Monday to reopen Port land's "" seven " sawmills - which closed this week as a result of picketing by the AFL. , Harold Prltchett of Vancouver. B. C, president of the Interna tional Woodworkers of America. said the mills' S600 CIO employes would appear at the plants at the regular opening hours and de mand their Jobs. - . - i : It the operators refuse to re open, hs said, it would "prove definitely collusion between oper ators and the teamsters' union." i Mill owners had expressed fear that their products would be boy cotted by the AFL teamsters if they operated their plants with CIO employes. : Prltchett said a "strong dele gation" would confer with team ster officials to induce them to handle the CIO lumber. Storm Center in Democratic Row - V V ft A JOSEPH F. GUFFEY Boiineville Power Bill Becomes Law Signed; Fight for Choice as Administrator now in Active Stage j WASHINGTON, Ang. SI Wi Prealdentlal approval today of ibng-pending Bonneville dam ad ministrative legislation immedi ately started speculation as to mtrn wnnld reeetve the Jl 0,608-- year post of power administrator. f xnere are iu"y "uiuo' The appointment rests with the Interior secretary, but thus far Ickes has declined comment. How ever, informed persons assert ne has been studying the matter for months and may act soon. Among those prominently men tlnnnil for the task of distributing and marketing the energy of the 175,000,000 Columbia river nav igation and power project are: J. D. Ross, Seattle Light com pany manager and utilities and exchange commission member; Tnm rfiTe11 Klamath Falls. Ore.. utilities man', C. C. Hockley, Ore gon public works administrator; J. W. Carey, Washington public works engineer, and E. O. Robin son, Portland engineer. Pacific northwest congressmen said several other prominent en gineers have been mentioned, but none has openly manifest interest in the job. ; Army engineers will operate the dam, shlplocks, fishways and mfnlntratnr would hold a SUPer- visory authority over power pro duction and the expansion oi gen erating facilities. i'- .: ...... ,;. tfliunction Denied To Pinball Owner 1 GRANTS PASS, Aug. Sl-(ff-ladn H . D. Norton, after two and a half hours of argument, refus ed today to restrain the snenii and district attorney of Josephine county from enforcing the ban on pinball machines, i It is not, the place or. a coun of equity, "he said, to prevent en forcement of the law: i The court would have jurisdic tion, he said, when a violation was charged and the accused was brought to trial. , . - V -""If the teamsters refuse, we will either organize their mem bers in our union or put on our own drivers," he said. ; ' ' : Morris H. Jones, spokesman tor . the employers, - declined to comment on the CIO plan, t. - He said, he had conferred by telephone with Charles W. Hope, regional director of the 'national labor relations board, concerning an unofficial audit by Hope in an effort to settle the AFL-CIO ques tion. He denied, however, that he had requested the audit, say ing he merely sought Information as to how it might be conducted. 1 . "We are certainly open to con structive suggestions,, Jones said. "We are trying to analyze the situation and find some way out, but so far nothing has presented itself." . , HOOD RIVER, August tl-JPh Four hundred Hood River county (Turn to page It, col S) Four Senators File Challenge Against Guff ey. Demand Ouster as Party Campaign Leader but Find It's too Late Housing : Bill Is Agreed Upon; Appropriation List Is Slashed WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-ifi Congress adjourned tonight, em broiled to the last in a speetac- nlar warfare between firhtinr factions of the democratic psyty. After eight months of furious wrangling, the wearied legisla tors turned homeward, wonder ing If the party's once solid ma jorities had been split beyond repair. They woadered, too, whether .V u.tl 1- . . . 'uey wuuiu u summoned oaca into special session this fall to deal with problems left unset tled, and, if so, pessimistically predicted that the intra-party row would, go on then, from where it ' stopped today. v For it ended on a note of wrathful defiance. Four of the democrats who opposed the Roosevelt court bill arose, one after the ' other, and challenged the administration to unseat them because -of that opposition. ' Upon Senator Guffey - (DPa) who had suggested such a course the four, Wheeler, Burke, O'Ma- boner and Holt,, poured vials of cuaitaif i ana denunciation, -while he sat grimly looking straight before him and said nothing. Ask His Ouster As ; Campaign Chairman Then, they circulated a peti tion among their democratic col leagues, asking that Guffey be ousted from his ' position as chairman of the democratic sen atorlal campaign committee. They said they had obtained from 15 to 20 signatures. However, the petition was with drawn later when Senator Bark ley of Kentucky, the democratic . leader, disclosed that a week ago Guffey came to him with his resignation from the com- mittee. Barkley said he was busy at the time and suggested that, the resignation go over un til after the session. - Packed galleries during today's debates contrasted strangely with a spaQse attendance en the part of legislators, except during the Guffey dispute. ' One roll call In the house showed 250 of the members not In attendance. . Workers Alliance Demands Hearing; -t A .reinforced - capitol v police staff was on. the alert to prevent . any disturbances by delegates of the Workers' Alliance who milled about the 'corridors, protesting that they , had been refused ad- mission to.; the galleries. The -Alliance demands more relief. " When the , day began. . con gress had two tasks left to per form, approval by both houses of conference reports on the $526,000,000 low-cost housing bill and on the third deficiency bill. The housing conferees, .who worked into last night, had their report ready when congress .met. Both chambers quickly ap proved It, after some minor snapshooting on the measure's provisions regarding civil aerv-. ice requirements for employee .of -the new federal housing ..-commission. The senate had voted to pat all such employes under the civil -service, the house to put nonef them in that status. Tbs - con ferees recommended that civil service requirements be .applied to all receiving salaries' of ,less , than $1,180 ; -v-V,-? While the report was kefore the house and senate, conferees on the deficiency bill, which car ried last-minute appropriations, reported a? partial agreement, and ; asked the house for fresh instructions on several polBts. : As the result of . their labors, the bill providing for expend , ' .(Turn to Page 10, CoL 3.) , A L LA D E of TO DA A . By R. a Happy days are here, again for congress has adjourned, we need . not fear each , day to hear ' the nation's over turned; but. even so . there's scarcely, time for , too pro longed elation, the solons will convene once more,' Imperiling the nation. '.