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I) i; X S 1 i flf . ir I i ) I4 ; ;Home Economics . Waiy Willamette valley houaewives are finding "In terests and values In the Friday 10:45 talks o( Miitt BIaxin Borcn over KSLM. EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR apam' Go vernor Local Officers Fail, Cited as Decision Basis Operatives Are Ordered to Keep CIO "Pickets ;off Company Land Step Is First Taken by Martin, Inter-Union " Strife in Oregon - First 'definite action by Gov ernor Charles H. Martin in con- .-nection with Inter-union contro versy in Oregon was taken Thurs day night : when he ordered Charles, P. Pray, superintendent of state police, toend operatives ia- .to Coquille, Coos county, to prevent- CIO members from interfer ing with approximately 650 AFL members employed in the Smith , Wood Production company plant. ' Supt. Pray said he had directed his operatives to keep CIO work ers' ; automobiles oft the com pany's property and to give men employed in the plant such pro tection as was necessary. The governor's order" followed an official investigation based on complaints received from officials ' of the wood production company and the AFL workers. Reports re- . ceired by the governor indicated that Sheriff Howell of Coos coun ty had failed to cope with the sit uation. Picket Reported To Be Trespassing Governor Martin was advised that a number of CIO pickets were stationed near ' the wood jroduc " tion; company's plant and that automobiles owned by these-"men and their sympathizers were being parked in a lot set aside for the I AFL workers. Approximately 90 I CIO unionists were involved in the 5 controversy. Governor Martin de- clared. Pray said, he might go to Co . quille later in the week provided his operatives now assembled there were unable to handle the situation. "I Intend to see that the 650 - men now employed in the wood production plant are given police protection provided they desire to work," Governor Martin declared. Reports received from Coquille indicate that the company's em ployes were satisfied with' their working conditions and wages; and desired to continue their op erations. The parking lot, absorbed by the CIO workers, was said to be on the company's private prop erty., ; d d i tics . . in the News INDIANAPOLIS, Sept 23-( -Weird sounds in the chimney disturbed Mrs.. Martha Mayer to day and she telephoned the tire department. Dispatcher Arthur Leonard regretted he couldn't send . a ladder wagon to investigate, sug gested , a neighbor man might bring a step ladder, remove the stove pipe 1 and see what he could find. Mrs. Mayer called back to tell Leonard the neighbor man found an owl and released it. - NEW XORK, Sept. 23--Candidates for the New York police force were saved by Major L Guardia today from the prospect of having to dance the rhumb with "diz iy dowagers. i The mayor vetoed a bill which .would have authorized the police commissioner to 'detail men from the eligible 1 isct as special ! patrolmen to otbrr peronatp1r6perty. " Vben does his duty as a policeman cease and his obli gation as a gigolo commence r the mayor asked. "The statos -Jof t these employes would be so uncertain as to defeat the very purpose of the bill. n.ttn a ri n - Ron . ?3-7PV- Canned crow meat, alleged to taste liKe a .i nri -v k"f-"-. will make Us debut and bid for - ulace on the American . din- ner tame bb "-- t Three hundred crows furnished by Chief Inspector Peter Jerio of the Illinois . . ..nriiiiii th material. Vv.w meat tmi fff 1 Z o vuo w - - iip especially for dinner at the cannea ioou - " j mAHitn-r. called liance ot America. -.. if tne pi-c , . iri' tickled satisfactorily, Presi- debt 1 fTf . Jrl tn tock ?o1o store." In 44 -Ute. with smm Orders O- Industrial Employes Union Validity to Be Tested. Labor Board Wagner Act Violation Is Charged Against Lumber Firms Recognizing IEU; Participation by Ruegnitz and Chisholm Is Basis PORTLAND, Sept. 23 (AP) The national labor re lations bard brought charges of violating the Wagner act today against three sawmills, an operator and "other mills" recognizing the Industrial Employes Union, Inc. The IEU, representing about 70 locals in Oregon, Wash ington, California, Idaho and South Dakota, formed after O the discontinuance of the Loyal Endeavour Is not Found, Announced Previous Report in Error Says Amastra Captain on Hearing Radio LONDON, Sept. 23-irVHoyds of London announced tonight it had received a radio message from the British ship Amastra de tying its previous advice that it bad sighted the lost British racing yacht Endeavour I off the Azores islands. The message, signed by the captain of the Amastra, read: "Hearing it broadcast from Lon don that the Amastra had sighted the yacht Endeavour I. I feel deeply concerned as I have not seen or heard anything what ever about her and gravely de plore the statement made."- Several Tiours, earlier Lloyds had announced the receipt of a wireless from the Amastra re porting the sighting of the yacht in latitude 32 north, longitude 39. west, about 630 miles south west of the Azores. There tad been no verification of that wireless, except from British newspaper correspondents In Horta. Increased Bread Price Protested WASHINGTON, Sept 2Z-(A)-Government economists protested against increased bread prices today, declaring the boosts had added $50,000,000 a year to the public's food bill. D. E. Montgomery, consumers' counsel of the agriculture adjust ment administration, contended the increases had been made "in spite of relatively low wholesale prices of bread ingredients," and added, "available labor cost fig ures Indicate that wages account for only a part of the enlarged spread between Ingredient costs and wholesale bread prices." Anthony to Come Down and Reveal Results of Quest GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Sept. 2J-WVSoaked from three days of chilling rain, Dr. Harold E. Anthony sent word from atop Shiva Temple tonight that he weuld descend Saturday or Sun day with the results of his ex plorations on the "island in the sky." Dr. Anthony said he had col lected nearly 100 animals which he will examine to determine how evolutionary processes -have changed their fellows in unre stricted regions. Ruling on Hours and Wages Fsor Women Reports that recently-changed regulations reducing working bours and raising wage scales for women in Oregon are not being enforced were branded untrue yesterday at the office ot Charles II. Gram, state labor commissioner. Gram declared he already had men in the field investigating alleged violations of the new regulations, which were set up by the state -welfare commission. The regulations in general set the ''maximum , working day at eight hours, week at 44 hours and not to exceed six days. Min imum wages range from 30 to 35 cents an hour. Apprentice ship wages are arranged on a three-term scale varying through 22, 25 and 21 cents an hour. A 45-minute rest period Is re quired for every six continuous hours ot work. A digest of the regulations by . occupations, with wages and ex : ate Legion of Lumbermen and Log- gers, a corporation made up of both employers and employes. John Babe, board attorney from Washington, D. C, sched uled hearings for September 30. The complaint was made by the AFL and CIO. The action said W. L. Rueg nitz, secretary-manager of the Willamette Valley Lumber Oper ators' association, resigned from the 4L and aided in establishing the IEU at Eugene, Ore. It said (Turn to page 12, col. 1)' Deer Hunter Toll In Oregon Is Four Nyssa Man, State Highway Worker Are Victims - one, Daily Quota PORTLAND, Sept. 23 -VF-Deaths yesterday of two deer hunters sustained the Quota of one accidental fatality a day for the first four days of the hunting season in Oregon. Leland Bull, 22, Pistol River highway worker, and Pete Glas cock, of Nyssa were Wednesday's victims, both shot by hunting companions who mistook them for deer, the reports of local author ities said- . Bull was hunting on the Pistol river with Allan Walker, 19, and William Price, 20. Glascock, hunting near Unity, was- sitting on a log with Dwight Burke when a third member of the party, James Hite of Nyssa, saw their two gun barrels pro truding above the brush and mis took them for the horns of a wounded deer for which they had been searching, Gold Beach offi cials said. -Otto Smith, Mount Hood, and Charles Gacy, Harper, were fat ally Bhot Monday, the .opening day of the season. Sabotage Charged But Cannot Trace I PORTLAND, Sept. 23 - UP) -Federal marine Inspectors today said their three-day investigation of allegations that sabotage caus ed the grounding and damage of the States line freighter Califor nia had produced ho evidence that would point to any member of the crew. Capt. Gregor Johnson, master; Capt. W. W. Babbldge, pilot, and First Assistant Engineer Jack Maple asserted a steam valve had been closed, rendering the steer ing aparatus useless. The California -will go into drydock for inspection tomorrow. Divers reported her stem was twisted and broken and some un derwater bow plates fractured by bumping into a shoal 15 miles above Astoria, Saturday night. Being Enforced ceptions to general rules noted, follows: Laundry, cleaning and dyeing: Nine-hour day, 44-hour week; time and one-half for overtime; 45 minutes rest for every five hours' work; no women to be employed between 6:30 p. st and 7:30 a,m.; regular wage 30 cents an hour. Manufacturing! Wage 30 cents an . hour; apprenticeship, 22, 25, 27 cents. ': Mercantile: Wage 30 cents; apprentices. Junior employes, 27 cents. . . Need" ecraft: Wage 30 cents; apprenticeship, 22, 25 and 17 cents. Office occupations: Wage 35 cents; apprenticeship, 22, 25 and 27 cents. Personal service establish ments: Ware SO cents; ap prenticeship, 22, 25 and, 27 cents." (Turn to page 12, eol- 4) - POUNDDO 1651 Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning:, September 24, 1937 Agst Police Politics Topic As President's Trip Proceeds Illinois Leader Asserts Black Publicity Has Killed Klan There Other Officials Are on Train; Owyhee Dam'g Visit Cancelled OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 23-(JP) President Roosevelt's N special train left Omaha at 11:15 p. m. (GST) tonight for Chey enne, Wyo., where the presi dent Is scheduled to make rear platform appearance. The president had retired when the train reached Omaha at 10:40 p. m., (CST). A small crowd at the station was greeted by Mrs. Roosevelt and Governor Cochran of Nebras ka, who boarded the train In Chicago and left It here. ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN ENROUTE TO SEATTLE, Sept. 23-0P)-rilinois democratic lead ers gave President Roosevelt re ports at Chicago today on what they described as popular reac tion to Justice Hugo L. Black's alleged membership in the Ku Klux Klan. Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D, 111.) told newsmen he brought Mr. Roosevelt good news. "I assured him the people are with him," the chunky Sabath said as he left the ehlef execu tive's special train on Chicago's west side. The train sped on to the Mis (Turn to page 12, col. B) Republican Meet Sentiment Split Referred to Committee's Gathering; Hamilton Says Idea Is His WASHINGTON, Sept 23-(P)-A division of sentiment developed among members of the republican national executive committee to day on the advisability of having a national party convention Just be fore next year's congressional elections. After a discussion which oc cupied most of the afternoon, the group voted unanimously to refer the whole question to the full re publican national committee. It will meet in early November, (Turn to page 12, col. 1) Tennessee Keeps Prohibition Laws NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 23 -P)-Tennessee voted overwhelm ingly today for retention of Its prohibition laws in a referendum from which repeal leaders held aloof on the ground it was "mean ingless." Drys' hailed the victory as marking the end of repeated at tempts in the legislature to legal ize liquor. Late Sports SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23-(JP)- Portland won its third consecutive victory, 9 to 8, over the San Fran cisco Seals in the coast playoff series tonight. Posedel, Portland's start tng pitcher, was credited with the victory although he was touched for eight hits. Liska relieved him late in the seventh inning and al lowed the Seals only one hit there after. The Ducks got six hits and five runs off Ballou in the first five Innings; The Seals sent in Stutz. Sheehan, and Lillard successively in an effort to stop the Portland winning streak. Hawkins, Seals' second base man, scored a home run. Portland .9 10 3 San Francisco 8 9 2 Posedel. Liska ; and Cronin; Ballou, Stutz, . . Sheehan, Lillard and Woodall, Monzo. San Diego 15 t Sacramento 1 8 8 Ward and Detore; Newsome, Stout, Klinger andsFranas- Tacoma,' Sept.' 23-(ff)-Pushln over a touchdown; in the third quarter the Enumclaw Silver Bar ons of the northwest league aeieat ed the College of Puget .Sound. 6 to 0. tonight in the first football game to played under the lights of the Tacoma athletic park. nit amy to Protect Coquille New, Commander, National Legion DANIEL J. DOHERTY Doherty Is Named As Legion's Chief Resolutions Urge Stronger National Defense, Hit at Various 'Isms' NEW YORK, Sept, 23-()-In a thunderous last session, the American Legion elected Daniel Doherty of Woburn, Mass., as its national commander today after recommending vast in creases in the United States mil itary establishment which would give the nation the largest navy In the world and bring the standing army to 180,000. The 19th Legion convention, too, hit obliquely at violence in labor disputes and sharply un derlined its reaffirmation of the rights of personal liberty and private property. Upon other issues it took an expected stand, denouncing com munism, fascism 'and nazism, and urging national legislation "that will punish American citi z e n s who advocate the over throw of our government by force, fraud or violence, and de port all aliens, who so advocate such overthrow."t The election was the high spot of everything since the spectacu lar, record-breaking Fifth ave nue parade of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Doherty's victory over his strongest opponent, Ray Kelly of Detroit, became obvious as Vir (Turn to page 12, col. 2) Another Quake in Helena Recorded HELENA, Mont., Sept. 2Z-JP) -An earthquake, the 2,396th in a series which began Oct. 12, 1935, was felt here today. The. shock, at 7:26 a. m. (mountain standard time) lasted between one and two seconds. It was classified as "weak." by the weather bureau. No dam age was reported. BOMBS RAIN It - i, $ I'M- Fonr waves of Japanese bombing planes swept, over fear-stricken Nanking recently, leaving population of the Chinese capital either dead, dazed or deafened after eight hours of uninterrupted bombard : ment. It was estimated at least 50 tons of explosive bombs were unloaded on the city. Commenting on the attack, a Japanese spokesman declared: ThJs U only a mere taste of what we intend to give Nan ' king." Pictured bere Is the Chinese Foreiga Affairs bulldimc sltMted tm m Urge square fat Ott capital titj. The baUdinc was a major target ht the sensatiomal Japanese air raid IW photo. ..... f . ...... - - .- J- - - .- " .- - . - ., : I- . . J ' .M Two Thousand Casualties in Canton Attack Corpses Litter Streets After Heavy Bombing by Nippon Planes Armada of 55 Heads for Nanking but Doesn't Get There, Report SHANGHAI, Sept. 2Z-JP)-Japan's airforces today carried their campaign of death and ter ror to a score or more cities throughout nearly all of eastern China. Canton, great metropolis of the south, suffered the most ter rible punishment, with 2,000 dead or wounded in two days of heavy bombing. Nanking, the capital, escaped Thursday after two great raids of Wednesday, but numerous towns within a 200-mile radius felt the wrath of the Japanese bombers. Whether rainy weather or the protests of the United States, Britain, France and Germany against the Nanking bombard ments kept the Japanese airmen away from the capital was un certain. At any rate Nanking went unbombed although reports that an enemy air armada of 55 planes had left the Shanghai region flying west kept the capi tal in acute tension for several hours. That airfleet apparently spent most of its force against the Klangyin forts of the Yangtze river about 80 miles east of Nanking, although fragmentary reports Indicated several other towns in the lower Yangtze val ley were bombed. American and other foreign observers told of harrowing (Turn to page 16, col. 6 ) Beer Injunction's Status Is Probed PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 23-(;P) -Federal Judge James Alger Fee ordered United States District Attorney Carl Donaugh today to investigate alleged violation by the Teamsters' union of a fed eral district court order restrain ing the union and its officials from interfering with delivery of imported "red label" beer. The judge instructed Donaugh to bring prosecution proceedings if his investigation showed vio lation of the restraining order. Judge Fee's action followed a complaint by Robert Magulre, at torney for the California State Brewers' Institute, which brought Injunction proceedings as a re sult of a jurisdictional dispute between the teamsters and the Brewery Workers' union. The restrainer was Issued by Judge Fee following a hearing August 14. DEATH ON CHINESE CAPITAL ' ,: K. t-- -" ..... i-T V . 4 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c Capture of Declared To Winning of War Protest of Peril to Embassy Is not Liked; Warning by Vice-Admiral Intended as Friendly, Said Nine -Power Pact Suggestions Being Studied, Confirmed; Germany , Refuses to Take any Part TOKYO, Sept. 23 (AP) The newspaper Nichi Nkhl today warned that the United States "will only suffer great er damage in the end" if it seriously attempts to restrafrl , Japanese bombings of China's capital, Nanking. The paper declared the United States, Great Britain, and other powers that protested further air attaeks on th ' . . -Ocity. were confusing legalities Water Pressures Survey Scheduled 12th Street Main Project Making Progress; Other ; Improvements Slated A citywide survey of .water pressures will be undertaken soon to guide the Salem water depart ment in carrying on its program of improving the distributing main system, i Frank Koehier, en gineer in charge of the 38 00,0 00 blanket WPA project now in pro gress, announced yesterday. From survey findings, decisions will be made as to areas most needing the increased water pressure to be secured by laying of new, larg er mains. Fifteen hundred feet of 24-inch main on the 12th street cross town line will have been laid by tonight, Koehier said, and the section from Rural avenue to Cross street probably will be placed in service In two weeks. Until the Salem-Stayton gravity supply system is ready for use, (Turn to page 12, col. 2) Rogue Deepening Held Inadvisable PORTLAND. Sept. 2Z-(JP)-An unfavorable report on proposed improvement of the Rogue river for navigation has been filed by Col. Thomas M. Robins of the United States engineers with the board of , engineers for riv ers and harbors at Washington, he said today. Col. Robins reported, he said, that benefits reasonably to be expected from the project did not appear to be commensurate with the cost. t . - ' I. i l , "'' 4 V : Weather Fair today and Saturday, slowly rising temperature Max. Temp. Thursday 07, SUn. 87, river -3-3 feet, northerly wind. - No. 155 Nanking with realities. It contended that the fato t the entire Japanese campaign in China rested on the capture t Nanking. "The moment that Ueneralissfc mo Chiang Kai-Shek -abandajO Nanking he faces immediate a4 complete defeat both In set hi China and in Shanghai," NicaJ Nichi said. "This is because all the politi cal, nilitary, social and econemi controls are concentrated ha Kan king and Shanghai." The newspaper expressed' dis appointment over the representa tions of the United States protest ing the peril to its embassy an 4 its citizens in the heavy air bomb ings of Nanking. "The Unftid States asks what right in international law; Japan warns diplomates to evae uate Nanking," it commented. "Vice Admiral Klyoshi Hage?a wa's warning is not a matter to be regarded in the light ef legal interpretations, ot rights and ob ligations, but should be received in the spirit of good will wit,, which it was offered. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-(fli Unless expert observers have mis read the -diplomatic signs and por tents, certain world powers, in eluding the United States, are bow engaged in secret studies to see if the nine power pact can be seed . to restore peace in China. This agreement, signed by Chi-' na, Japan, the United States as six other nations, guarantees tb territorial and administrative in tegrity of China and maintenance of the "open door" of commercial opportunity there. Some of the signatories not ably the United States and Great Britain already have begun ex changing information on tkehr views and diplomatic maneuver! regarding the undeclared war new? raging in the far east. This is being done in accordant with the treaty's provision for consultation whenever a situations arises which, in the opinion of any one signatory, "involves tko applications" of the compact. A few hours after this becamo known. Secretary Hull indirectly reaffirmed that this government (Turn to page 12, col. 8) Oregon Delegates Vote for Doherty Upon Final Ballot NEW YORK, Sept. 22-WV The Oregon delegation to th American Legion convention which solidly backed . Daxitel J. Doherty for national com mander after Steve Chad wick of Seattle withdrew from the race, scattered tonight. ' . "Mose" Palmateer, of Salem, Oregon department com man-e.,- left for Albany. He win return by way of Canada, ar riving in Portland Tuesdar - Dr.' and Mrs. Laban Steevts of Salem ' boarded the liner - Washington to sail for London and continental' Europe. ; Mr. and Mrs. A. L, Ketney of Cor vallis also will sail for. Europe. ; Carl Moser, Oregon adjst ant, was named chairman of the program ' committee . to ar range for. a conference of Le gion commanders and adjut- ' anta In Indianapolis in Novem- ' her. '--- - B A L LA D E of TODA y By R. a ' The nations that have fiaaav- f cial stake in the orient ehonl protests o r a 1 ; we hope for pacifism's sake their suastss. will be strictly "moraL" W orkers Essential LI canned crow u.