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State Fair Looms Mnch useful and Inter , sting information about the state fair will appear tn The Sunday Statesman and In issues during fair week. . Unsettled with occasional showers- today and Sunday j southwest wind off coast; Max. Temp. Friday 68, Min. OS ; river -8.1 feet, founded i 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, September, 4, 1937 Price. 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 133 ewi ofcso J3 -i: w & mwwsm mm wmm Election 8 . . -. Chi nese Intensive Fire Forces Troop SWF' Plight . - ' - ' - - . ' ' - ' ; . . 1 --':: Counter-Offensive Likely to Bring "War Back to City's Front Door Shells Burst Around. US Cruiser," Hit Marine Barracks Roof SHANGHAI, Sept. 4 - (Satur day) (-Japan's formidable war piachipe around Shanghai' -was stalled today by aXvlcious Chi nese counter-offensive, but Its leaders declared it .would strike again soon with, increased feroci- The Japanese threat, pro claimed by the imperial navy's third fleet, promised fresh perils as. great as any this stricken city has faced in the three weeks bloody but undeclared war. has surged through and around' it. Already the war had returned with renewed destructiveness and danger to foreign lives and inter ests, within international Shang hai as the Chinese struck effec tively with artillery at. Japanese naval concentrations on the Whangpoo river, Shanghai's out let to the sea. - w Attempts to land ' "" - - ' i " Troops Frustrated r Eight 'Japanese troopships fled down the river to escape destruc tive Chinese gunfire. At Pootung, Just across the Whangpoo from Shanghai, and elsewhere Japanese attempts to land, fresh troops or advance those already landed were stopped. - Neutral authorities agreed the Chinese counter strokes had dis arranged ; the . heralded - Japanese plans, for a biff offensive in the Shanghai area and necessitated complete revision of Japanese strategy. - The Japanese naval announcement- indicated ominously the re vision - would come quickly as punitive action which would "ter minate Chinese activities - in Shanghai." Chief result of China's renewed attacks was to bring the war back to Shanghai's front door. All, day Friday and through the night it. raged over the heart of the har bor .with the United States flag snip Augusta and other foreign warships in line of fire. - Early today, flames were, lick ing, through Pootung and other areas' already badly burned over, their glare silhouetting the Japa jrese and foreign men. of war on the Whangpoo. v ; French .Prepare to, " . -Kvaeuate 650 Refugees : French military and consular authoritiea, howeier, prepared to - protect the departure of e50'refu-g-ees, including many ' Americans, who were to be taken down the Whangpoo early today to - board the French liner Sphinx, bound for Hongkong and southern ports. '. The river battle presented grave i perils for passenger tenders," but the French bluntly notified both " Japanese ;' and ' Chinese they ex- : pected hostilities would be "with held" during, the eyacuatloiu ; Police . of the International areas estimated fifty persons, in cluding half a doxen foreigners, were - wounded by shells, ; ap parently from both sides in those areas Friday. Tnere were no American casualties. ! A projectile struck the roof of the U. S. marine barracks, but failed to explode. - r Shrapnel burst about the flag ship Augusta (nsany times. A big shell hurst at the corner of the Bund and Peiping road. : Greater . danger to American and other foreign warships ; was radicated.- A Japanese n a t y spokesman said its vessels, rather tt"tfC continue to submit to heavy pounding from the Chinese land batteries,- would shift Into posi tions from 'which they could "re ply effectively regardless, of the dangers to which foreign men of war might-be exposed. ' . f Singer Resting ; ; After Operation HOLLYWOOD. Calif.; Sept. S-,(P)-Grace Ioore, screen singer, was, reported resting comfortably tonight following an abdominal .. operation. - r- Her surgeon. Dr. Samuel Hlrsh field, said Miss Moore will remain zn the hospital for about 10 days, The actress' husband, " Valentin Parera. said her ailment Is not Bunitive nnn . 1 j tt i nwuri'j; .... . ,t zO V? ensive I n- Wife of Wll$m0e Graduate Forckii toFlee From Peiping J'': Mrs. Paul Homan, shown leading the way to the embassy auto, while George Merrill, attache at the American embassy at .- Peiping, fol- ' lows with her suitcase. Is the wife of Dr. ' Paul Homan, who was graduated from Willamette university in 1014. Dr. Homan, now professor of sociology at Cornell university, was also in Peiping and was forced to nee the city! with his wife. His father, Fletcher Ho man, was president of Willamette from 1908 to 1014, according to Professor Herman dark, who was a classmate of Pan! Hopuua. .-' Britain Moves.to -JStop Sub ttaqks Sends Destroy ers I to Cap ture or Sink lWystery Submarines (By the Associated Press;) LONDON, Sept. 3 Great Brit- ain led the way tonight in Eur- opets efforts through naval might apd diplomacy . to end I mysterious submarine attacks on Mediterran ean shipping and : theirthrwt to the continent's peace. i The , British goverhment an nounced it would "submit impor tant proposals" at a conference of Mediterranean powers next; week at Geneva. The proposals were not disclosed. 3 . j ' The statement was made while four additional! destroyers sped into the . western Mediterranean with orders to capture or sink the (Turn to Page, 2, Col. f.) ; : .. -S-: -i ' Words Deleted HI Speech; by! Levis WASHINGTON. S e; p t.3-(Jfy Some of the phraseology John L. Lewis, intended to'h to rj in his broadcast address tonlghf rproved too strong for Columbia Broad casting system and radio officials felt it' was imperative to censor his remarks. ' V I' ' They announced that j at their 'suggestion" Lewis ! agreed to leave out a word in on passage of his text, and a whole paragraph in another. . I 1 j " The single word was iaa adjec tive applied to Governor! Davey of Ohio, and the paragraph excSriat- ed one of Lewis principal foes, Tom Girdler, president pf the Re public Steel corporation; Fuller Seti New In Trans - Continental Race CLEVELAND. Sept 3-JPt-The nation's most famous ar derby the .Bendix trans-continental race wrote a new high? figure for sustained speed In American long distance competition f today y and smashed' another! record of three years stan din g. i- i j V At a pace oi zss muea an nour, Frisk FnllerJ San Francisco sportsman;" streaked hi way to a mark of seven-nours ana 9 min utes for the 3042-mile course be tween ; Burbank, Califs it d Clete- lahd,- topping ; Jimmy . Haiziip a five-year-old record oy xnmuit. Fuller's feat came Just a couple of hours before a crack German stunt flier, h I a plane tTaauaiiy losing speed as lt skirted ; the ground upside aown.i erasnea oe- fore fearful spectators Injured Flier Says He'll Be Back Soon ! - The airman, Count -OUo Hagen burg, crawled from the (wreckage, his head bloody, and paired to the crowd at the first diy'i program of the national air raees4 His head wrapped in bandages, he appear ed a half Don t later wun an nounced intention ofi flying again before the four-day classic Is com pleted. - aipatiese 7 " "soooeefloWs--:' -J Vf Killed in - s --c., . itjingjandits Trap Robber Quartette in Resort -Cottage; , Gun . Duel Kills 3 SPRINGFIELD, O., SepL. 3-(P)- Four holdup-abductors matched pistol fire with the deadly spatter of police machine runs today in a stilling battle that left two offi cers and a bandit dead, another robber dying and third officer wounded. Hunted for a $1290 robbery In which their victim was abducted from a downtown street, the quar tet was trapped in a lake resort cottage IS miles southwest of here and sought to shoot their way through city, county and state officers. . Chief Sheriff's Deputy Edward Furry, 45, and City, Patrolman Martin Randolph, 38. were killed as they exchanged pistol shots with the robber quartet - In the cottage. "They never gave him a chance, he was shot In the back. - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5.) , President's ;Luck Fails dt Fishing ABOARD YACHT INDIAN, Sept. 3-(P)-Presldent Rooseyelt turned from Hyde Park, squire to Long Island fisherman today, but at the end of many hours of trolling the ocean side of won tank light, he had .snagged but one fish. i -, The president, refreshed " from the days cruising, planned to try his luck again tomorrow on the sound side of the island. He also may take : a run' to Block island, about 20 miles north, and troll for tuna. Flying Mark Fuller, flying a stripped-down Seversky combat plane powered with -a twin-row Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior motor, also . posted a mark of nine hours and 35 min ntes from Burbank to Bendix, N. J. . : This, wrecked Roseoe Turner's record for - the Bendix- 242 6-mile transcontinental of 10 hours, two minutes and SI seconds, and Ful ler, who had predicted-"111 be W the money if the ship holdst to gether," won si3,ote in the szs, 00 speed event. . ;". - , "Fastest Ship " -Bans 'Second - y ( Earl Ortman, flying his mod if led edition of the old Kelth-Rr der which : in pre-race dope 'wjls believed the fastest ship entered, took second, place for. $5000. His elapsed time to Cleveland was nine hours and 44 minutes. The lone woman entrant. Jac queline Cochran of Indio, Calif flying a Beechcraft wast third with an elapsed time of ten hoars and 29 minutes, good for . 13000 an d an addition al S 2 5 0 0 for the lowest women's - elapsed - time to Cleveland. She averaged ; 194.4 miles per hour. - . Drive: Threateued Tieup Spreads To Oakland in CIO- Teamsters to Carry Battle to Latest Front on Wednesday, Word Shooting, Possible Kidnap Enter Portland Scene; Council to Probe SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Z-(JFl -A practical tieup of the whole port pt Ban Francisco, the na tion s second largest, appeared inevitable tonight when the AFL teamsters union projected its wa terfront blockade to transbay Oakland in its "finish fight" against CIO forces. Secy. Charles W. Real of the Oakland teamsters announced his men would haul nothing to or from . the Oakland port except perishables, ship's stores, bag gage and government consign ments beginning next Wednes day. - The San Francisco teamsters union blockaded its side of the port Wednesday, moving only government, perishable and emergency supplies. Nearly All Cargo Shipments to Halt Shippers said the extension of the- blockade-to Oakland meat) virtual - stoppage f i art regular cargo excepting petroleum for all the waterfronts on San Fran cisco bay, since the two team ster units control hauling at these points. Real said the blockade would continue until the ClO-affiliated International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union "recog nizes the jurisdictional award' of the American Federation of La bor and ceases interference with the rightful activities of the teamsters union." A few hours previously Dave Beck, Seattle teamster leader and head of AFL forces on tne pa' clflc coast, announced the block ade would be extended to Oak land if shipners attempted to route San Francisco cargo there Beck also served warning that (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3.) Board Discusses Rural Water Rate ' Rates to be charged water us ers along the new Stay ton island gravity pipe line outside the Sa lem city limits occupied the city water commission in its meeting last night. The six members pres ent decided to table the matter until the entire commission is available to set the rates. Letters from water boards lit Portland. Tacoma and Seattle, written in answer to requests for those cities' out-ot-town water rates were read, revealing that the rural charges were approximately 50 per cent above the city mini- mums. It was agreed at last -night s meeting that Salem'B water rates to country patrons should he made as low as possible in order to attract users. , ? Bids opened from two firms for Installation of an Oil .burner In the new furnace at the water offices developed into a question of choosing between a fuel oil or diesel burner and the matter was tabled for investigation. r Farm Income Here Doubled From Low PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3-flP)-Oregon's agricultural 1 n e o m e again is more than 1 00,0 00,000 a year after dropping to a low of about $50,000,000 dnrlng the de pression F, L. Ballard, vice di rector of the Oregon State college extension department, .told mem berg of the Oregon Bankers' asso ciation here today. i . The association's agriculture committee . laid plans a empha size cooperation with the 4 H and Future Farmers groups during the coming year. r " - t ' ' Bankers- association officials and committee members here to day included: - Clyde . Williams, Albany, presi dent; O. A. Houglum, Eugene, vice president; H. C. Pfund, secretary; T. B. Garrison, Oakland, Ore., committee chairman; G. - C. Blohra, Klamath Falls; P. A. Eck man Corvallis; F H. Sloes, ; Ba ker; -N. M. Robertson, ; Seaside, and John ? Thornburgh, - Forest i Grove. V " Sup reme Court (Made By Ex-Member Foundation of Highest US Court Undisturbed by Fight, Contended Van Devanter Bavs Court " up to Date for Five ; i Years, Docket . YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo., Sept. 3-P)-WillIs Van DevanteT, retired justice of the United States supreme court, said today "the foundation underlying the supreme court 'has not been dis turbed" by the controversy over reorganization of the tribunal. "The. recent flurry will soon be forgotten," he said, in an In formal talk before the' Montana and Wyoming Bar associations at Canyon hotel here. The retired justice, who was the oldest member of the supreme court In point' of service when his retirement became effective in June, was given an ovation at the start and at the conclusion of his speech. Declines Comment On Recent Agitation "No doubt you'd be glad to have: me say something about the supreme court, and I would be glad : to say something about the supreme court, but not the merits of the phase in which you have been most interested recently," he said. j i "That would be inappropriate." : Justice Van Devanter said that when he became a member of the court cases were from 18 months to two years behind. He described (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) Astoria Council ; Shuns CIO AFL ASTORIA, Sept. 3 - UP) - The lower Columbia labor unity coun cil, growing out of a split Thurs day night In the ranks pf the Astoria central labor council, will be affiliated with neither the AFL Jior the CIO, Roy'Kizer, tempor ary president, said today. The new group includes the 50 delegates who walked out of the central labor council meeting, CIO. timber workers, AFL cereal work ers, longshoremen and clam dig gers. The walkout occurred when Ben Osborne, president of the state federation, revoked the council charter because of the member ship of delegates from CIO unions. - Declaring -that "the Astoria la bor council is now definitely reor ganised as a legitimate AFL bodt." Osborne returned the charter after the CIO delegates left. i Any union now represented that may; later transfer to CIO affllla tion wfirbe immediately disasso ciated from the council, Osborne said,' ' - Hornets Sting Girls ALBANY, Sept. 3-n-HorneU - . . . . . r mi.n encgunierea si tne w . ai. hopyard.' northern Benton foun ty, sent Dorothy Chandler, 11. and ' jean Feebler, 10, to a hos pital here for treatment today. Despite numerous stings, the. girls' conditions were reported not serious. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3-JP) -The Portland. Beavers continued their bid for a berth in the Coast league playoffs tonight by shut ting out theSeattle Indians 6-0 in the last half of a doubleheader after taking the opener 7-6. . First game: - Seattle ...... 9 Portland L......-7 10 Pfckrei. -Barrett- and Fernan- des;: Hare and Cronin. Second game (7 innings):. Seattle : :.: 0 2 1 Portland 6 9 0 ! Oppelt and Spindel; Radonits and cronin. . . LOS t ANGELES," Sept First night game : v. -Missions ....-10 Los? Angeles l-...-....',.....8 MP)- 15 : .Babich and Sprinz; Prim,-. Ov erman and- Collins. r , t i 'Second fame (7- Innings): MiBion , ' - 9 Los Angeles '.L-:-.0 - - 7 1 Beck -, and Outen; Lleber - and Collins. - ..- v - ? S AN FRANCISCO,. Sept.- t-yp)-Night game: : San Diego JjlLjAS 18 - 5 San Francisco H 20 4 'Ward. Pillette, SheUenback. He-bertr- Detore; Stutz, Lamanske, Bailor nd Modzo. " v ; OAKLAND, Calif., Sept, Z-VSj-Night game 10 inings: Sacraraento -l..S . -1 Oakland t -;--v-,.r I r : Klinger and ' Franks, Cooper; La Rocca and Raimondi,-Baker.'. - ' - x Defens rt rs Houses off Required Detour Signs Erected on Moving Job to Proceed; Kay Residence, one Time Governor's Mansion, to Be Razed With i the Pacific highway on North 'Capitol street fenced off and detour signs diverting traffic to North Sum mer, street the city knows thatf house-moving, is under way for the vacation of the block in which the state will build a library. For Salem folk are not just moving from the tract, many of them are taking their O County 4H Stock Show in Progress Winners Today Will Enter State Fair Next Week; Judging at 10 A small fair in itself, the Mar- loft county 4-H club livestock show and Future Farmers of Am erica machinery exhibit opened yesterday morning at the- state fairgrounds on the eve of the big state exposition beginning Mon day. Twenty-five to 30? head of sheep were Judged yesterday be fore the 4-H members called time out at noon for the annual coun ty picnic with parents and friends in the grove at the grounds. Today, competition begins again as members enter over 100 head of hogs, and 25 head of beef and dairy cattle, the winning entries to stay over to compete at the state fair. Hogs will be judged at 10 o'clock this morning, fol lowed by the dairy competition. . " . This afternoon, the 1 Interna-, tional Harvester contest, to attach a disc to a tractor in the shortest possible time, will be run off be tween two winners from, the north and south ends of the county. The victor of this contest will enter the statewide competition next week. Wayne. Harding, county club leader, said yesterday that Inter est in this annual event is grow ing yearly, and that the 1937 show boasts the largest showing of livestock ever assembled for this event. Typhoon May Hit Next in War Zone HONGKONG, Sept. 3-CflP)-The death toll of the devastating ty phoon which swirled over Hong-. kong Thursday .rose tonight when it was disclosed at least 300 died at one point where a six-foot tidal wave, was hurled half a mile in land by the mighty rwlnd. r That number of. bodies already hare been discovered in the ruins of Taipo village and the nearby market place,. a few miles from Hongkong.: Police estimated at least 300 mora had died at other places, while it was still impos sible to estimate the loss Of . life at sea. :f.. Strong gales still i whipped Hongkong harbor and nearby, wa ters, but the main storm roared on . to the north, hugging the China coast. . Weather men said it probably would strike again - with' destruc tive force, perhaps between Amoy and Foochow on the Fukien coast, and likely would pass close to war-gripped Shanghai. . The Japanese liner Asama Mara was refloated but the Ital- ianluxury ship Conte Verde was still aground. s , Peiping Conquerors Plan to Restore Old Ihtperial Court PEIPINGJ Sept' S (JP) r Peip ing's Japanese conquerors today prepared- to restore much ot the Confucian ritual of the old imper ial court -,i of China,- and many Chinese believed they also would bring back the. one-time boy em peror, Hsuan Tung-rnow Emper or KangTeh of Manchoukuo-to sit again.on the dragon throne. " Restoration of Confucian -worship, . which had -beeri ll bnt abandoned in China under the na tionalist regime, -was a feature of the changes wrought- by Japan when . she established let; protec torate 'Orer Manchoukuo.- Much the same thing Is occurring. in the north China regions Conquered by Janan.."j --d; : -..--lifC- Spect scalar Revival - Is Arranged for A - Japanese officers have arrang ed for a spectacular Confucian re vival next Monday, when Mayor Chao-Sung will'go to the Confu cian hall of perfection and; kowtow-nine times, as the ' emperors did to honor China's sage.. : ; . Coaluciaa rttesthu will place the ceremonial of the Chi Moving of Block for Library North Capitol to Permit houses with them. Nearly all the property-owners there have closed with the state for the sale of their property. Many .of them retain the right to move their houses to other locations. . . Governor Moody Residence Goes Block 83, which is being va cated, was long one of the choice residential spots of the city. Land marks on Court street fronting the capitol grounds were the Pat ton house and the . Kay hodse, the latter once the home of Gov. Z. F. Moody. Householders who will be dis possessed, and what they are do ing are listed as follows: The Karl B. Krugel home that stood on the corner of Chemeketa and Summer streets is headed north on Capitol street toward it's permanent location in the 700 block. . The W. I. Staley home will next be hoisted across the now vacated corner lot so the trees will not be injured. It will be located on the northwest corner of Market and Summer streets, . Just north of the Joel E. Roman home. The (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) 0'Mahoney Sees Freedom r Threat BAKER, Sept 3 -(JP) Danger of losing personal freedom grows as government .responsibility Jor the economic security of the peo ple increases, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming told members of the Oregon State Bar here today. ; v . Discussing the supreme court reorganization proposal, which he opposed in the senate, O'Ma honey said: "It Is the heartfelt belief of the lawyers of America, and, I firmly believe, of the people of America, that the courts sh'ouid be- kept free and independent in order that they may maintain the power to protect and Indi vidual against any power which could' take away the Individual rights." r5 Adolph Hitler's ' strategy . in gaining assertedly unrestricted power of the state to interfere, with any right .of a German cit izen was discussed by Dr. Paul Weldenbaum,, member " of the Oregon", Bar educated in Europe ahd England. : .- v - The German courts, Weiden baum, asserted, ' were bound - to accept the theft prime minister's ordinance "for the people's and the - nation's - protection ' against communistic attack" because they were - hound hy their own inter pretation of the president's emer gency powers. :- Anoka Coated It Named v , : For-Rojeburg Position ROSEBTJRG, Sept. . 3-(ffV-Miss Anoka Coates of Salem, Willam ette university alumnae, win suc ceed Miss Carol Hollingsworth as girls' physical education instruc tor In the Roseburg high schools, it was : announced today. Miss Hollingsworth resigned to : enter Multnomah, county junior Red Cross work. ' nese republic against which Japan F( waging . an., undeclared war. Three bows before the picture of Sun Tat-Sen, father of the repub-' He, is the main republican "rite. The Japanese here,, as in Man ehoukuo, hope to appeal' power fully to Chinese "conservatism by restoration of the old 'ways, v -X'. ' . TOKYO, Sept. s 37)-Th cab inet, today approved an Increase ot Japan's war fund for the cam paigns lrf China to approximately 1737,000,000. v- '-- Exceeds Cost of Z",. 1894-5 and 1904-5 Wars .. . ; - With more than . 600,000,000 yen ($145,000,000) already ap propriated,, the. ministers approvr ed a third supplementary, budget for 2.042,000,000 yen (about $592,000,000). more than the empire spent altogether on its wars with' China in 189 1-5 and Russia in l04-S.i',;-:v-.v;-?:---'; : "All of, .'tha new - bndget Is al lotted to war,; purposes . except 29,000 yen :($5.800 ) for bacter iological research. ., " i'j (Turn to Pago t. Col. 1.) ' Scores ID avey, Hurls Rebuke At Roosevelt Asserts AniStrike Acts Financed by Federal Funds, one Case Shakespeare Reference President Is Rapped; Break Confirmed WASHINGTON, Sept. i-tm-- John L. Lewis of the CIO rebafce President Roosevelt tonightt for his attitude toward the recent steel 1 strike and warned lafeer'a' "so-called friends and political beneficiaries'' that there will bo a reckoning on election day j -In bitter language he aeeased Governor Davey of Ohio and Chi- cago's Mayor Kelly of anti-strikV activities and took another thrust -at the administration by asserting that the activities were in one la-, stance financed by federal funds and in the other tolerated by of ficials here. - j Although he did not men tick' the president by name, there was' no mistaking the target of bto , shafts. Vividly, he recalled! Presi dent Roosevelt's application of the Shakespearian "a plague on .both, your houses" to both sides at the height of the steel strike. J .' Unbiased "Curse" ) . Objected to if' "It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table," he said, "and who has been sheltered la labor's house to curse with, equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and Its adversaries-w h e they become locked In deadly - brace. Lewis remarks. made la radio speech, served as confirm!-, tion of - recurring - reports; 4f fa . break between himself and the president A year ago," he was of the chief executive's most vig-. orous supporters and his United Mine workers contributed g5 00, 000 to the Roosevelt campaign.! - Beside raking the president aa4 . - 1 the administration, the CIO ehief -scornfully upbraided democEate members of the house who pm-, vented caucus action on the wage and hour bill by declining to. answer their names when called. He denounced the chamber of commerce of the United I States "anf similar groups" becius. ke , : said, they encouraged "a eym- - . pathetic organization of vigilant . groups to fight unionization wa der the pretext of local Interests). j. Says CIO Must - J ' - j ? Redeem Pledges ' i ' J .-! ' He said the objectives of tha ; CIO movement are "not political:' in a partisan sense". but that St is true that a political party whieh seeks the support of labor aaa makes pledges of good faith, fo labor must, in -equity and 4eod ; conscience, - keep that faith aad redeem those pledges. ' '. -- I :Ho continued:, " .. r : ". "The spectacle ot august .'and j dignified members ; of - congvees, j . servants of the people and agents j of. the republic, sulking is hall- ways .and closets, hiding their j faces id a party caucus to prevent ' a quorum t t o m acting upoa? a labor-measure, is one that empha- ; sizes the perfidy of politicians ana blasting the confidence of labor's ; millions in politicians' promise j and statesmen's vows. ; J "Labor . next . year cannot avoid the necessity of. a political assay i 6f the' work and deeds of, its so- called friends and MU -politieal ' beneficiaries. It. must determine .. who are Us friends in the.areaha ; of politics, as elsewhere. ; 4 t 5 "It feels that Its cause t lust : and that its friends should not view Its struggle with neutral de-: taehment or intone constant crtt- icism ot Its activities. Those who ; -chant their praises of democrsKy - but who lose no chance to drive their knives Into labor's defeat- ? less black must feel the-weight t labor's woe even as its open- ad- ; -versaries must ever feel the thrust , of labor's power. ' I -"Labor 4iker Israel has many v sorrows. ' Its . women weep lor . their fallen and they lament for J the future of the-children of the race. . ,-' ., . t i . At this point came his reference v to the president, and In concle-.! -ion, ho said: - ; . . f ' - "1 repeat ; that . labor seek j . peace and guarantees Its own ley- j alty, but the vole . of ; labor, la- t sistent upon its rights, should not i be annoying to the ears of Justice, f 1 ' or offensive to .the conscience t the -American. people." ' .' t ; ; His reference to Keljy and . .. Davey he prefaced with a state- meat that during the steel strike eighteen . steel ; workers- wer either shot to death, or had their brains clubbed out by police. -r armed hirelings In the pay of the ' steel companies.' ',- . j Expire Chief Die. . ROSEBURG. Sept 3-CAVJamea Fletcher, 4 S, retired Roseburg flr ; chief, volunteer fireman for mere ; than 25 years and former Uao- ' type operator at the Roseburg Re- . view, died today at the . WaJJa Walla veterans hospital, his tww , : brothers were notified.' .. 3 . . aerious. -