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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1937)
. Special Feature! Look for number of out standing special features In The Sunday Statesman, as well as the regular Sunday columns and department. Weather Fair today and Sunday, somewhat cooler, rising ha mldlty; Max. Temp. Friday 76, Mln. 47, river -3-0 feet, northerly wind. pounddd 1651 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, September 18, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 150 evelt K Fifflit lor eform X EIUUTY-SE V ENTH YEAR .Roo Co tort E Americans Are J . . : ; ... .- Again in Peril In China Fight Japanese Bombard Areas Near "Where Marines Have Their Lines Invaders Claim Advance at Luihong, Victories on Northern Front i SHANGHAI, Sept. -(Saturday)- iP)- Japanese artillery' un leashed a new, bombardment of the Markham'road section today, bringing fresh perils to the American-defended sector of Shang hai's war-shocked international settlement' Japanese shells crashed into the area close by the patrol as signed United States marines as Japanese nary planes, taking ad vantage of clearing weather, re sumed bombardment of Chinese positions on a wide front. . The aerial attask was launch ed; against Liuhong, Lotien. Ki ngwan, Chapei, and Pootung, Japanese naval officials declared, aiming at Chinese troops concen trations in those sections.,' At the same time a Japanese army officer asserted Japan's land forces had repulsed Chinese counterattacks on a 25-mile front extending from the north at Liu hoi to Shanghai's' outskirts. The Japanese were said to have advanced within a mile of Luihong, the powerful wireless transmitting base to the north where Chinese forces were in strong positions. Heavy Chinese casualties were reported in the counter attacks when Japanese permitted the ad vancing troops to- push within close range before opening a withering machine gun fire that .halted the Chinese. 'EIPING, Sept. 17-GP)-Japan ese army headquarters announc ed! tonight that Its steamroller offensive south and southwest of Peiping had rolled over the wall ed; city of Chochow, Chinese ad vance base on the Peiping-Han-koiw railway 40 miles from here. The fall of Chochow, the Jap anese declared, had isolated five Chinese divisions, some 50,000 me;n, along the railway north of tht city. Two Japanese columns moving pincer-wise from, either side of the railway threatened to entrap and destroy this .force. The Japanese drive, launched : with -60,000 men with the cross ing of the Yungting river 30 miles south of Peiping Tuesday, gained added momentum and ad vanced 12 miles in the last 24 hours. Beyond the Yungting the turbulent river Chnma was cross ed by pontoons by moonlight last night to bring the Japanese with in sight of Chochow's walls. part of the force continued down the railway toward the .main Chinese base in this aria, Pajotlngfu, 80 miles from Pei- pine. v - The Japanese also reported Tabid advances for their highly mobile column penetrating Shan sr'province west of the Peiping tattle area from the north. (Chinese headquarters In Nan- fciiisr. however, declared Chinese air forees had inflicted heavy punishment on Japan's Shansi expedition.) - feWAKST. Sent. 1 8- ( Saturday )- 3Two Japanese superdread- naughts appeared off the month of! the Yangtie river near Shang hai todav. Chinese officer said. -while Japan's sea and land forces prepared ror wiaer.ouensne ot Japanese itaid fresh army nnlts A been landed near-the Yang tze's mouth, but would not say wnerev Neutral military observ A hiieved the Javanese were rviri to nlice an - expedition In pootunr, th area Just across the TcianrDOO liver from Shanghai. rrn rittTiM divisions are en- A WW " trenched thre. ; ! . Pickets Removed From Paper Iill a 'a two-day interruption in ship-' xnenU by track-irom me uregon plp it Papo company mill here aca Yesterday when Salem Building Trades council pickets ed from in front of . loading office, . iThe councU began picketing mill when it was discovered packing boxes manntactured by a Picketed West Salem plant were Jin need by the paper company. Ralph Harliin. council secretary, declared. In announcing the pick ets' withdra wal Harlan said 'the tte nor romnnny management had arranged to secure box materials from another source. . t Picketing of the Salem box fac tory in West. Salem continued yes terday with two or more repre sentatives of the building trades council standing by to serve as witnesses smouia any eident occur Last of Salem Gravity Pipeline Being Covered AsBigTaskNearjpid Backfilling at Tunnel Under Wf Oo er Will Be Turned Into Pipes Soon, Rt. city Mains in About 30 Days, Manager Announces "Completed" was about to be written across the city's $647,985 Salem-Stayton water pipeline contract as backfill ing started yesterday on the Fairmount hill section, last unit of the gravity supply system to be finished. The last 500 feet of steel pipe in the line was laid through a tunnel 30 feet below the surface of Rural avenue between Fairmount avenue ndv- the new reservoir at Rural and Johns street. Cuyler VanPatten, water de partment manager, predicted that water from the new Stayton island source would be turned into the city's mains in about 30 days. Island water will be run into the gravity supply pipeline earlier, however, for testing and steriliz ing purposes. During the coming 30 days the water department will conduct fi nal tests of the Stayton island underground infiltration system and sterilize the 17 miles of Bteel and concrete pipe linking the island with the Salem water main system. The pipeline contractor, Ameri can Concrete & Steel Pipe com pany of Tacoma, Wash., has pos sibly one-half of one per cent of its contract yet to perform, Van- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Sacramento Nine Clinches Pennant Angels Help by Defeating Seals Twice; Portland Winner by Shutout SEATTLE, SepW lT-rVThe Sacramento Senators defeated Se attle 11 to 6 tonight to cinch first place for the regular" Pacific Coast league season. The Senators still must win the Shaughnessy plan playoff among the top four teams before being crowned league champions, bow ever. The victory tonight, while sec ond place San Francisco was los ing a doubleheader to Los Ange les, 8 to 1 and 2 to 1, put the Sacs four and a half games ahead of the Seals. San Francisco can win its re maining three games and Sacra mento lose its remaining three games with the Senators still re taining a game and a half lead. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 17-JP) The Portland Beavers did the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Bad Blaze Fought At Warren, Idaho McCALL, Idaho, Sept. 17-UP)- One of Idaho's worst forest fires of the season roared out of con trol tonight on a two-mile front near Warren, Idaho, 45 miles northeast of here. CCC enrollees and fire fighters from southwestern Idaho towns estimated by Harold Vassar, fire dispatcher at McCall, at 585 were fighting the flames. The fire was spotted late today by lookouts on the head of War ren creek, two and a half miles southeast of the old mining town of Warren. Idaho National Forest Supt Henry M. Shank estimated over 400 acres had been burned over. The cause of the blaze was un determined, he said- Fire fighters were recruited from Boise, Caldwell. Emmett, Nampa, Cascade and Payette. Planes and Ships Included In Order far GENEVA, Sept, 17-(ff)-Brit-aln and France tonight gave their growing Mediterranean fleets or ders to "open fire immediately" on airplanes and surface craft as veil as submarines which attack merchant vessels. Their extension of the "anti plracy'V campaign previously limited to undersea marauders was based ' on a new accord of Nyon signed today by the nine powers which framed the original pact against submarine piracy a week ago. The two major powers gave their naval commanders soon to have at their disposal some 150 warships sweeping ' orders to combat the "pirates. But some of. the lesser nations signed the new accord a litUe j timorously, with an anxious eye at Italy. . L; For Premier Benito Mussolini's government remained" aloof, in sisting it must be given equality i with Britain and France in the Seek Adjustment, Salmon Problems Jurisdiction Over Alaska Waters May Be Widened to Block Japanese WASHINGTON, Sept. n-ff)-A state department official said to night "an early adjustment" will be attempted In a current dispute between American and Japanese salmon fishermen operating off the Alaskan coast. "We don't want this to be a constant source of friction," he said, adding that a report Is un der preparation by a. department investigator who spent some time on the fishing banks the past season. West coast fishermen protested early this year the Japanese were in Bristol bay In such numbers as to constitute "an invasion" of traditional American fishing grounds. They warned unless some international regulation was effected, the banks would soon be depleted. Japanese, they said, were able to operate unrestricted, while American fishermen, governed by conservation laws, were forced to stand by, helpless. They suggested several regula tory methods, among them exten sion of United States jurisdiction over Alaskan waters to the edge of the continental shelf. At pres ent this jurisdiction reaches only to the three-mile limit, and for eign fishing vessels operate be yond this point. Council Sessions Jinxed; Third Try Bumps on Holiday SILVERTON, Sept. 17 City councilmen are beginning to be lieve that there may be a hoo doo about their meetings. A twice postponed meeting had to be thrice postponed. First it was set for Tuesday night. No quorum showed up and Mayor W. H. Moffett re-set it for Thursday night. Again an insufficient number was out. Mayor Moffett asked if the members could be present Fri day night. They all could. When Friday night arrived it occurred to the mayor and the members that this was a legal holiday and action would not be legal. Now plans are to hold the meeting . some night next week. Standing Room Only in County Jail, Reported Sheriff A. C. Burk and his men were wishing yesterday the new courthouse were already built, in eluding the projected new, larger jail. The "lockup"1 in the old courthouse was so full there was "standing room only," deputies declared. There were 35 men and one woman in the Jail, its max! mum capacity aside from the standing room. X Piracy Attack patrol against the. mysterious at tacks which have grown put of the Spanish civil, war. Representatives of B a 1 k a n states expressed apprehension over Mussolini's eventual reaction to the refusal of France, Britain and other powers to grant-Italy parity in the patrol. Italy has been in the limelight of the '"anti-piracy" issue since Russia bluntly accused Italian submarines of sinking two soviet merchant ships. .That accusation kept Italy from accepting an in yitation to the conference at Nyon which drafted the original accord. ' Today the nine powers made no mention of Italy in a brief communique announcing broad ening of the scope of the patroL The communique said merely: "Powers signatory to the ar rangement of the Nyon confer enee signed today at Geneva I complementary accord for adopt- tTurn to Page 2, Col. 4) o One-Man Rule Is Decried by Steiwer, Mott Trend to Dictatorships Abroad Deemed Due to Popular Indolence Future Outlook Is Held Bright as Republican Club Holds Rally PORTLAND, Sept. 17-UP)-The constitution will endure only so long as the people are loyal to it, Senator Frederick Steiwer said, addressing a Constitution day rally here tonight. The meeting climaxed the open ing day of the annual convention of the Oregon Republican club. Pointing to the modern history of Germany, Italy. Poland and Portugal, Steiwer said that "in each of these the fall of the gov ernment came after the people were made indolent and sold their character for temporary gain:" The framers of the constitution provided, he asserted, that no one man should be enabledto lift him self above the rest of the nation. Campaign Claims Are Believed Now Addressing the afternoon con tention session, Representative James W. Mott of Salem asserted that "everything the republicans said during the last campaign is still true, but the people did not believe it then." "Now things have gone so far in one man government and -the administration has shown so clearly what it will do if it gets the chance, that if we tell the voters the same thing the next time they will believe us," he said, , Referring to new deal meas ures, Mott asserted that "it isn't legislation at all; it just turns over to the president the power to solve issues in his own way." William A. Ekwayy, former (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Probe of Hoover Bombing Started SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17-UP) The government today launched an Investigation into the bombing' of the Dollar liner President Hoover and heard testimony from passengers and crew members de-. scribing the attack which took place off Shanghai last August 20. While both Japanese, and Chi nese consular officials listened in tently, first officer Harry L. Han sen expressed the belief the three planes which figured in the inci dent were Chinese. Other witnesses told how fly ing shrapnel fatally injured Lio nel Haskett, a crew member, and hurt several others. They describ ed also how the exploding missiles tore a great hole in the liner's boat deck and perforated her plates. Capt. George W. Yardley, mas ter of the big liner, said an Amer ican flag 10 by 16 feet had been nailed atop the wheelhouse and that it must have been visible to the fliers. The liner also flew both the stars and stripes and the Dol lar line houseflag. During and prior to the attack, which occurred over a 10-minute period, Tardley said, an Italian liner was half a mile off starboard and a Japanese destroyer was two miles off the port bow. Bonneville Dam's Turbines Tested BONNEVILLE, Ore.. Sept. 17 -(fl-Army engineers announced today 'the first passage of the Columbia river current through Bonneville dam turbines during a test run of the 5000-horsepower station service unit. No power was generated during the test due to a "short" in the generator field. The present "head" of water is only i 7 feet, as all but two of the gates on the main dam are open to permit passage of the fall run of salmon. The nnit will furnish power for the government reservation. Find McLeod Car At Crescent City The automobile which Donald A. McLeod was driving when last seen here Wednesday, was picked np Tuesday, abandoned, 15 miles south of Crescent City, Calif., ac cording to information received by the state police from the f Del Norte county sheriff., , Search for McLeod, employe in the state department here, was started yesterday. His wife said he had been ill and complained of a severe headache. " Dictatorship Threat Seen; ' Will Make Northwest Trip Stops Planned At Bonneville, Grand Coulee Unforeseen Development May Prevent Trip; to Start Wednesday Seattle Is Goal; Chief not to Make Formal Speeches, Word WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-iPf-President Roosevelt announced tonight that he would leave Hyde Park the middle of next week for a trip to the west coast and Pacific JSTorthwest. The White House announced that the president would ; leave Washington tomorrow night for Hyde Park and start the trans continental trip Wednesday night, returning to the capital probably early In October. No formal speeches have been arranged for the trip but the president will stop at Yellowstone park and inspect a number of the larger government projects, Including the Bonneville, Fort Peck and Grand Caulee dams. Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany the president on the trip and they will visit their daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, in Seattle. White house officials empha sised that detailed plans for the trip had not been finally deter mined and thatithe full itinerary would not be completed for a-day or two. The announcement conditioned the trip upon the absence of "un foreseen" developments . which might prevent its being j made. The formal announcement was made by Marvin H. Melhtyre, presidential secretary. Amplifying the formal: state ment, Mclntyre said that while no set speeches had been arranged there probably - would be cere monies at some of the presiden tial stops. He said the trip out would be a swift one, with a stop-over In Seattle for probably one day and two nights. The president probably will return October 7 or 8. Accompanying the president, in addition to Mrs. Roosevelt, will be Mclntyre, Col. Edward M. Wat son, his military aide. Dr. Ross Mclntyre, his physician, Mips Mar guerite iLehand, his personal sec retary, 'and perhaps one or two other aides. Brakeman Is Killed BEND, Ore., Sept. 17-;P)-John Marvin Webb, 47, Oregon Trunk Line brakeman, died here today from injuries suffered last night when he fell from a boxcar at tached to a moving train. Both legs we,re severed. Late Sports TACOMA, Sept. 11 - (JP - The Tacoma Tigers combined a dozen base-hits, five opposition errors and eight walks handed , out by the . Wenatchee hurlers to take a 13 to 3 decision over the Chiefs here tonight in the third game of their playoff for the Western In ternational league championship Joe Malman, willowy southpaw. pitched five-hit ball for the Tig era as they once again took the lead in the series, two games to one. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 11-iJPi -Sonny Boy Walker, Phoenix, Ariz., heavyweight, won a refer ee's decision over Eddit Simms. of Cleveland, in a 10 -round fight here tonight. The decision was booed lustily. Walker weighed 205 pounds, Simms 198. HOLLYWOOD, Sept. l'-JPi- Wesley Ramey, 134, Grand Rap ids, Mich., scored a technical knockout over Joey Alcanter, 134, Kansas City. In the sev enth round of their scheduled 10- ronnd bout at the Legion stadium tonight A GRANDE, Sept ll-iPr" Hairway high school was defeated at Union 30 to 0 as northeastern Oregon football got under -way. At John Day, Baker high trounced Grant Union, 24 to 0. T PORTLAND, Sept lf-ai-BIll Wetxler's passing, the i' driving legs of Roy En and superior all around power gave Jefferson high school a If to 0 Tictqry over Vancouver, Wash., in a pre-season game here tonight Jefferson scored in the first, second and third quarters. President Swats Court's ieOdd Man9' And Decides He'll Visit Northwest j Bernard Baroch -:mW. ... J. 'St- i , $ i w President Franklin D. Roosevelt revealed what he thinks aboat the constitution and the supreme court last night, attacking the system whereby the "odd man" on the court may decide national policies. Almost simultaneously it was announced that he would leave next week for a western trip which probably will Include a visit to Bon neville dam. Recently he has been doubtful of making the trip be cause of troubled conditions abroad. He is shown here conferring with Bernard M. Baruch, unofficial advisor who told him Europe waa a "Under box." Canyon Rumbling Renewed at BuhH More Earth Sliding Into River; Disturbance Shifts Half Mile BUHL, Idaho, Sept. 17 -UFl- After lying dormant three weeks, southwestern Idaho's weird geol ogic disturbance thundered today into new activity. Giant slices , of lava rock and earth cascaded into Little Salmon river as the land movement, ac companied by subterranean rum blings, shifted half a mile from the original "singink canyon" that was transformed in a week fom a flat, productive farm into a useless, jagged chasm. Farmers of the region, eight miles northwest of Buhl, whose anxiety was lessened when the underground rumblings stopped and land ceased to sink late in August, feared a new hazard. Tons of canyon wall shavings were crashing Into the river, threatening to form a natural dam and flood valuable land. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Movie People to Buy Large Tract CENTRL POINT, Sept. n-(JP)- A summer visit of Victor Moore, screen comedian, to Rogue river fishing grounds was reported cli maxed here today when Moore William S. Van Dyke and Wesley Ruggles, motion picture directors, prepared to purchase a large tract of river frontage. The tract, in the Flounce Rock district, borders a secluded stretch of excellent fishing water. Asserted KlansmamGraves Sits Near FR on Platform WASHINGTON, Sept 17-F-Governor Bibb . Graves of Ala bama, linked with the Kn Klux Klan by the same stories that have alleged Associate Justice Hugo Black's membership in that organization, sat Just at Pres ident Roosevelt's left tonight as he delivered his Constitution day speech. '-'v WasMngtonians, Quick to no tice this fact, wondered if it con tained any significance; if Mr. Roosevelt, who has said he would have no further comment nntil Black returns from Europe, was indulging in a calculated gesture. The newspaper stories which told of Black's receiving a life membership in -the klan in 1926 said Grates had such a member ship conferred on him at the same time. Black had just , won the Alabama democratic senator ial primary and .Graves had Just triumphed in the gubernatorial primary. ' WASHINGTON, Sept Vt-Wr-Chalrman John D. M. Hamilton of the republican national com mittee said tonight H was "in .. - 1 President Roosevelt Tammany Rout in Gotham Complete LaGuardia and Mahoney in Mayoralty Final With Copeland Defeated NEW YORK, Sept. 17 JP) Tammany's old guard was left gasping tonight under an ava lanche of votes that pushed both major parties behind pro-Roosevelt candidates for the November mayorality election. Mayor Fiorella H. La Guardia, republican-fusionist and support er of the president, was renom inated by a wide margin In yes terday's primary election over Sen. Royal S. ; Copeland, Tam many democrats who sought the backing of both parties on the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Motorized Cattle Rustlers Menace DENVER, Sept. 17-(P)-Irate Colorado stockmen, stung by mounting cattle losses, met today in a council of war reminiscent of vigilante days and decided to do something about cattle rustling. Most of them admitted tho 1937 rubber-tired cattle thief has them "buffaloed.' 'Drastic meas ures to put a stop to the increas ing, cattle thefts have failed, they said. The consensus of a dozen ranch ers at the meeting today at head quarters of the Colorado highway patrol was that new1 rustling laws are needed and new methods must be devised to meet the rustler "on his own ground." conceivable" that President Roosevelt" would knowingly hare appointed a klansman to the su preme court Entering the controversy over the alleged Kn Klux Klan con nections of Associate Justice Hugo iff. Black, he said in a for mal statement that "all must hope that Mr. Roosevelt will be successful in finding a solution of this difficult problem compat ible at once with the dignity of the supreme court and of his own high off ice. .. "It Is a matter of regret to re publicans no less than democrats that the president should have remained in Ignorance of the evi dence regarding the affiliations of Mr. Justice Black," he said. "In an issue of such serious ness affecting as it does the In tegrity of our fundamental lnstir tutions there Is no proper - place for partisan criticism." . Meanwhile, the Justice depart ment revealed - that the govern ment has already Paid Black twelve days' salary, $686-6, as a' member of the court, although (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) 'OddMan'Hit, Constitution's Support Urged Fealty to US Basic Law Bespoken; not to Its "Misinterpreted" Raising Living Standard Said Only Method to Retain Democracy WASHINGTON, Sept. President Roosevelt renewed his fight for a "rejuvenated" eu- -preme court tonight with a warn ing that unless social reform is assured the nation is threatened by dictatorship. Commemorating the 150tb an-, niversary of the signing ef the constitution, he urged that Amer ica pledge Its "fealty to the con stitution itself and not to Its misinterpreterB." A responsive but shivering aud ience of thousands, gathered la the open air beneath the Wash ington monument, heard the chief executive return to the bat tle in which he suffered his most severe defeat little more than a month ago. The scars that remained from that battle were not forgotten by hi3 listeners and there was especulation whether tbe demo crats who opposed him would he subject to reprisals. - Those who listened tonight fer a reference to the current sgita tion over the alleged K Klux Klan affiliation of Mr. Roose- -velt's only nominee to the ea preme court were disappointed. But the address was studded with assurances that the reform the ' president seeks can be achieved without loss of individual liberty.. Acres of people stretched be fore the present as he spoke from a tiny rostrum in the pit of a natural amphitheater known as the Sylvan theater, The moon shone down brightly while a chill autumn breeze swept across the throng. Estimates of the crowd varied from 50,000 to 75,000. Only by raising the living , standards of the masses, he said, "can we ensure against internal doubt as to the worthiness of our democracy and dissipate thA illusion that the necessary price of efficiency is dictatorship with its attendant spirit of arg rea son," he added: "That is why I have been say ing for months that there is a crisis in American affairs which demands action now a crisis particularly dangerous because its external and internal difficul ties reinforce each other. "I am not a pessimist I be lieve democratic government in this country can do all the things which common sense people, see ing the picture as a whole, hav the right to expect I believe these things can be done under the constitution, without the sur render of a single one of the civ (Turn to Page 2, Col. ,1) Vagrant Carrier Pigeons Roost in C. K. Doane's Car Squab! No, not the ordlaaryi run-of-the-roof variety of pot pigeons, but cultured, bioodei carriers. Eighi of them loose la one gasmobile. -To whom dU& ' they belong? No one knows yet but the Salem police, where th birds took np temporary quar ters in a gunny sack, will fiad -out. They, (the squabs, not tk police, ye squabs), were take to the' police station last night after they were found la his car, loose mind you, parked; at 1232 Center, by C. K. Doaae. Marie Dionne Better CALLENDER, Ont, Sept IJ-(JP)-Marie, the tiniest of the iti was permitted today to play wJtk her sisters after having heea Iso lated for two days with a alight indisposition. She . was f ally te covered. BA L LA D E of TOD Ay By R.'a - Twas a day set apart ler consideration of the blessings enjoyed by our favored natioa, -and pVaise of - the men waeee contribution was that of -writing the constitution, but twaj picked as the time for varices t actions which emphasised that ' we're blessed with-faeties9