Weather J : Showers today and .Wed nesday; Max. Temp. Monday 63, fWn. 45, river 14 feet; rain Sunday .43, Monday .07 Inch; south-southeast wind. Agriculture Special articles of Interest to farmers appear regularly tn The Statesman, In addi tlon to complete market re ports daily: . POUNDED Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, November 23, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 206 EIGHTY -SEVENTH YEAR .River to wisuM Advahcind JcipanesiExpecl to vnjpn wtin.KLntr fw Claim Cliinese Are m Flight, 'oint Wusih Reached, 95 Miles From Capital; Message to Chiang Dropped 7" Ask Dictator to j Give up and End War ; Envoy of US to Depart SHANGHAI, Not. 22 -(IP)- The Japanese army : tonight reported another of the - Chinese defense systems shielding Nanking was crumbling. I Chinese troops; heavily punlsb- ed by Japanese ' airplanes, were said to be in flight from Wusih, keypoint of the north-south line between the Yangtze river and Lake , Tai approximately halfway between Shanghai and the capital. Although Wusih Is 95 airline miles southeast of Nanking. Jap anese officers expressed belief their forces 'could reach the cap ital's gates this week in spite of heavy rains and quagmire roads. So rapid was' the Japanese ad vance airplanes were used to car ry rations and munitions to infan try columns that had outrun their .transport. Japanese officers said, their air forces also had made a spectacular flight over Nanking to drop "a personal message" for Generalis simo Chiang' i JUI-Shek .In .which f Japan's army and navy Jointly urged him to end hostilities and surrender himself to the Japanese. The Sight was the first the Jap anese have made over Nanking since the Chinese government an nounced last week his withdrawal to Interior cities.. u. . AmDassjiaor .weisan i. Johnson prepared to leaye Nan king to follow the Chinese govern (Turn to page 10, col. 4) d d i t i c s ... in the,Neus i SHAWNEE,' Oklat Xovi 22.--P)-CharIes Hester, Shawnee's humai alarm clock, may soon learn what has caused the audi ble ticking in his head for the past 19 years; -- . ''X'i - Mrs. Jewel Adams, Bed Cross executive, who arranged a broadcast over a radio station here November 4 during which the strange ticking in . Hester's bead was amplified,, said the veterans bureau had arranged for Hester to enter the Hines ' hospital at Chicago . for diag nosis. " '. -.. Hester's head has ticked since a shell exploded at his feet while he1 was in France daring the World war. The ticking can be heard three feet : . away. , ;;; j..; , X-,X ; .;, ,. .' NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-(flV Fond parents . who wish' to give their children tin soldiers, ma chine guns, " and " swords this Christmas win have to huy them some other place than Arnold Constable and company. . 1 .The department store: announ ced today it would neither sell nor display T'toys and games sug gestive of war." . " v " ;The action, said the announce ment, was i inspired by recent statements by Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt. : : i" . McBAEfE, Mow, Jfov." 22F -The Clark brothers bought 11 turkeys four years ago. Now ' they have 10,000 ancT bo end of trouble. ; ; " r " i The huge flock requires pro tection from both robber and wolf, Richard and Boyle Clark explained today, t ' , As Thanksgiving approaches, three watchmen maintain an all-night vigil with guns. They have fired twice at intruders, f - On nearby" island in the ' Missouri river lives a pack of - some 30 black timber wolves. . Flaws are burned all night in an effort to halt their frequent raids. I " - V . . I : CLARENDON, Tex., Not. 32.- yty-Up here in panhandle where bien, they Bay, are men and the shortest distance between two points is a long way, the cowboys will go- to great lengths for ro mance. - -' i . " -. - ' Six J. A. Ranch cow herders recently drove 170 miles to bring their dates -to a dance. They dan ced until 3 in the morning, then .drove- another 170 miles before returning to the ranch for anoth er day's work .on the range. . HalfwavP . , J Brussels Parley F" idy To Adm it Failure Over j . ' . : ' New Protest by China Delegate Refuses to Vote, bad Effect Upon Weaker Nations Is Feared by Koo ; Positive 'Action Is Sought BRUSSELS, Nov. 22 (AP) China's dramatic appeal for eleventh-hour aid against Japan today ,f ailed to swerve the Brussels conference from all but final approval of a re port admitting failure of its efforts to end the. far east-; era war. i i . ';: ..: ! Only refusal of the Chinese delegate to vote before : O consulting his government pre Eyerly Withdraws Offer on Airport Councils'- Non-Acceptance Cited as Cause; Still Open for Deal Late yesterday a letter was received by City Recorder A. Warren Jones, addressed to' the city council, from Lee U. Eyerly in which he withdrew his" offer of $700 rental for the falem Municipal airport, and asked that his certified check of $700, de posited with the council in fur therance of the bid, be returned to him. Both the hid of .$700 per year rental on the . airport and the deposited check n "were re-; ceived by the city recorder No vember 19. - -j Bids were received, although no bids had been asked, by the city council at its last conven ing, November 15, from both Mr. Eyerly, present lease of the airport and Leo Arany, flying instructor at the airport. Eyerly's original bid was for $300 a year. which he resubmits in his let ter as of yesterday, and. Arany's was for $600 the first year, $650 the second and $700 the third with further - remunerations guaranteed the city in the form of percentages on "takes" from air circuses, concessions, etc. Eyerly's letter yesterday, .ad dressed to the city council: "Gentlemen: Iia&much as you have not ac cented my offer to lease the properties of the Salem Munici pal airport'Upon ma terms set (Turn to page z, coi. zj ttDaUesportw 4th Name, Postof nee THE DALLES, Nov. The most southerly postoffice of Klickitat county, Washington, will get a fourth name, Dalles- port, from the postoffice depart ment December 1. When all eastern Washington and Oregon commerce was dis tributed through The Dalles' in pioneer days, th settlement across the Columbia was Rock land, w ;' , The Rev. O. D. Taylor, Baptist minister, raised the town to its highest pinnacle, however 45 years ago as Grand-Dalles. This super-salesman's bubble hurst and the factories he built burned. Const ruction of Bonneville dam revived the dream and Goldendale and Bingen: Wash., business ; men - established an other town site company, this tim North Dalles. . ' ' The- name -created confusion because of similarity to o t h e r northwest points, the postal serv ice found. , Showdown Likely Wednesday Upon Truck ..Wednesday noon or earlier will bring a showdown on the efforts of the Associated Restaurants of Salem, Inc., to require delivery of goods by common carrier trucks through Culinary Alliance picket lines, it appeared yesterday, , Frank Chatas, association pres ident, gave notice to the Silver Wheel Motor Freight, Inc., to de liver & shipment of supplies with in 48 hours and announced that If delivery were not forthcoming he would file a new complaint with the public utilities commissioner demanding revocation of the trucking firm's permit to operate. ' Hearkening to a teamster union assertion that union trucks would not pass through picket lines. Gov ernor Charles H. Martin yesterday declared: m 1. Wins two Days Delay; vented the conference from ap proving the document drafted by the United States and Britain and then adjourning for an "indefi nite recess." Final action was deferred until Wednesday. The Chinese delegate. Dr. V. K. Willington Koo, appealed to the conference at today's session to reconsider 1 its admission of fail ure, declaring an "abortive ending of this conference will unwitting ly augment the already prevailing sense of general insecurity." Koo told the conference adop tion of the report might "indirect ly place small or weak states more at the mercy of the strong and ag gressive and make ell peace-loving nations feel more Insecure thap ever." He pleaded: "Will you not with your unlim ited resources of power and strength contribute your share by some positive action, even though it may be indirect, to the cause of upholding the principles of law and order, world security, and world peace"? He said the conference had had a "striking lack of fruitful re sults." Sheriff Mass and Son Face Charges Tax Deputy Also Indicted After 6 Months Probe, Clackamas Jurors : OREGON CITY, Nov. Sheriff E. T. Mass, his son, Dep uty Sheriff Howard Mass, and Jes sie Paddock, tax deputy, i were charged ; with larceny of public funds in four indictments return ed today by a Clackamas county grand Jury. ; : i Wrongful possession of county funds - was charged as follows Sheriff Mass, $1,095 on July 1, 1936; Howard Mass, $637.06 on May 23, 1935, and $80 on Jan. 11, 1937; Miss Paddock, $360.87 on July 1, 1936. The indictments climaxed a six months' investigation by the grand jury on . an alleged shortage of about $42,000 reported by John Telford, special auditor. .Warrants were served by the county coroner. ' Sheriff -Mass fur nished bail of $2500, Howard Mass-$1500 and Miss Paddock $1000. - ... . The County court ordered a tax department .audit following con viction of Dave Palmblad, former tax deputy, now serving a peniten tiary term for alleged epecula tions. Portland Raid Fitifk ; , Many Slot Machines - - 9 . PORTLAND, No,. 22.-P)- vice operatives seized 223 slot machines . when they raided a warehouse today. Delivery Issue ; "If there is any interference with the efforts of these or any other, licensed truck operators to comply with the law and the or ders of the public utilities commis sioner, the full power and force of the state will he nsed to prevent such interference.' A; N. "Al" Bankks. local team ster business agent, reiterated his statement, made late Saturday, in which he said there would be statewide tleup of shipping before the union drivers would consent to delivering beyond picket lines, "All we said still goes," Banks declared last night. The restaurant men "have no fight to pick with the teamsters union," President Chatas said last night in a formal statement. ; .(Turn to page 10, coL 7) - Program Given By Vandenberg erity Incentive Taxation and Repeal of Emergency 'Powers Advocated Changes in Wagner Act, Ban on Sub-Standard 1 Goods Suggested - WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-UP)- Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan, challenged the Roosevelt adminis tratipn tonight with a 10-point 'opposition" program designed to 'give honest business a chance to create stable prosperity." I. The republican senator, who has been; mentioned as a 1940 presi dential, prospect, presented: his program in a nationwide radio ad dress in the Washington Star ra dio forum. Vandenberg said he was ready to "go forward with any 'party' old, new, or fused which prom' ises : liberalism with sanity, so- cial-mindedness without social ism" and a restoration of "equi table economic fundamentals." "Business must not be permit ted to run the government," he said, "but unless it is permitted reasonable latitude to run . itself . . prosperity will die on the vine' Would Eliminate Attacks on Business Ha outlined his 10 points as iouows: l.i An end to governmental hymns of hate" and bitter at tacks on business which have cre ated a "jittery state of mind' among business men. 2. Progress as rapidly as pos sible toward a balanced budget 3. Amendment, or repeal, of the surplus and capital gains tax, and substitution of "incentive tax ation" for "punitive taxation." 4, Amendment of the social se curity act to eliminate the "need less drain upon the resources of commerce and labor." 5. Revision of the Wagner la bor, law to make for greater cer tainty in "long-range industrial planning." 6. Abandonment of the wage- hour bill and substitution of legis lation to protect states from the importation of goods produced by sub-standard labor. 7. Repeal of many of the presi- ! (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Wage-Hour Bill Is Opposed by Green WASHINGTON. Not. 22.-UPV- rne administration's wage and hour bill suffered a malor blow tonight when William Green de clared the . American Federation of Labor could no longer endorse the measure in its present form. The AFL president said it was not; safe to entrust a government board with the determinations which would be necessary in ad ministering the legislation. -TTb" llin fnntiiiilu) tha "Mil should crovfde a shorter work dav and a shorter work week to off set unemployment caused by the ousaness recession. . As . now nhrased the measure would set up a federal board to tlx minimum wages at 40 cents an hour or less and maximum work ing hours at 40 a week or more : j '. 1 Oyer Thousand on VrfFA, two Counties From fewer than 500 men and women in mid-fall, the number of workers on Marion and Polk county WPA projects has jumped to more than. 1000, it was re ported at , the district offices here ' yesterday. . The employ ment division interviewer Is be ing kept' bu sv several hours daily taking . applications for WPA- assignments. The last complete employment report: ' made ' on November 15 showed 904 men and -women at work on WPA projects in Marion county and 89 in Polk county. Committee Will Study School Lands Status PORTLAND, N 0 T - 22.-(ffH Scnool, civic and women a organ izations have named a committee oft. five to- "study remaining school lands of the state of Ore gon." Prosp Senate ttf Get Farm Aid Bill; Vote in Upper Branch Is Likely Within Week; Filibuster Halts Rayburn may Lead House Coup to Get Wages, . Hours Bill out WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-V The senate's blustery and tem porarily successful fillbustej against antl-lynchlng legislation halted tonight to permit action on the top item of the president's special session program crop control. Democratic Leader Barkley ar ranged r to bring up the farm bill for debate tomorrow, and predicted it would be ' passed within a week. On the house side of the cap- itol, however, farm legislation still lagged. Chairman Jones (D- Tex.) of the agriculture commit tee there reported his group was taking its time but hoped to get a bill ready for action this week, if not in the next day or two. , Nevertheless, there were strong indications the house would get down to action on ad ministration matters tomorrow. It was whispered about the leg islative halls the democratic leadership was planning a coup on the bill to regulate minimum wages and maximum working hours. Coup on 'Wage Bill Rumored in Honse That measure is caught in rules committee trap sprung last session. If 218 house members sign a pending petition, the com mittee will be forced to release the ' measure and permit action on the floor. Nearly a week has passed since the petition was tiled,, and it still lacks aout,70 of the necessary signatures. : "" So, it was reported, Demo cratic Leader Rayburn of Texas intended to march to the ros trum tomorrow, sign the petition and then make a speech. The leadership was hopeful more than enough signatures then would be obtained quickly. The leaders have had this pro cedure In mind for some time, (Turn to page 2, coL 5 ) ' Strikers Are Out Of Fisher Plant PONTIAC. Mich., Nov. 22-flV Homer Martin, international pres ident of the United Automobile Workers of America, led 200 sit down strikers out of the General Motors Fisher body plant today as a dramatic demonstration of the union's determination to curb un authorized strikes.' ' The international board of the union, in a statement, had said its position was "Jeopardised'Tby the "unsanctioned strike." f The strikers had held the plant since Wednesday evening, defying the union and even their own strike committee. ! Today, however, an intermedi ary sent word to Martin the men wished to hear from him. An hour and a half after Martin entered the plant, the men emerged and the company was notified the strike was over. : '"" . H. J. Klingler, president of the Pontiac Motor Car Co., said not until "the latter part of the week" could all of the 14,721 men thrown into idleness by the strike be re turned to work. The Fisher plant produces Pontiac automobile bod ies and the strike necessitated qlosing both plants. . Need for Valley Project Stressed CORVALLIS, :. Not. 22-tfV Oregon - needs '.' the Willamette vaUey project to make room for more settlers, Dr. W. L. Powers, secretary of , the reclamation 'congress, said today. "We : have been too long In preparing for adequate drainage in the Willamette Talley, he said. "We haTe been paying for drainage without getting it, in the form ' of crop losses on poorly drained lands." V Army engineers : recently dis approved Immediate work on the project. " v Military Burial Planned . ; For Sgt, Donald Dy merit PORTLAND, Nov, ll-VPf-Tinl Sergeant Donald Dyment of the Oregon, national guard who died Saturday will be buried with full military honors Wednesday. Dy ment, 37, World war veteran and city sanitary inspector, was at tached to the Service company, 186th infantry. House La Victim of Minneapolis Slaying : ; J And Reporter who Predicted it 1 - I v - Labor Board Men Come Here Today To Confer With Governor on Oregon Situation; -Re-Surrey Opens PORTLAND,vNov. 22-)-Opening a resurvey of the . tan gled Portland labor' situation in the roles of "good listeners," national labor relations board representatives heard spokesmen for the AFL reiterate today their contention the board was with out Jurisdiction in the dispute which closed local mills more than three months ago. Charles W. Hope, regional di rector, and E. J. Eagan, labor board counsel, conferred, with representatives of both AFL and CIO, employers, civic- bodies and acting Mayor Earl Riley through Out the day. . Hope said each : faction stated its case, but declined further comment tendin submission of f nil", report to the - board to night. He said he would confer with Governor Charles H. Martin at Salem tomorrow. "We are happy to meet with the governor," Hope said. "We hope he has a program which will provide a solution." Ben T. Osborne, secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, said he had reaffirmed the AFL stand that the board Is without authority to settle ; a "Jurisdictional" dispute and termed Its participation,: "med dling." Riley said he had cited ef fectiveness of the police cam paign against labor vandalism to prove the city's ability to handle the situation without labor board interference. The Inman-Poulsen Lumber company was reported to have. reiterated its demand for an employe i election,- agreeing to (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Farm Bill Praised Bv Walter Pierce WASHINGTON, Not. 22.-69 Rep. Walter M. Pierce, La Grande, Ore., said today congress faced the alternative of accepting wheat provisions of the new house farm bill, or sending the farmer to dire disaster next year." , ; Pierce, chairman of the wheat section of the. house agricultural committee, expressed the opinion in an interview after the full com mittee tentatively, accepted -his group's recommendations. "We must have ;an adequate control over-wheat production or see wheat go down to two-bits (25 cents) a bushel in 1938," he asserted.) - r He said the farm bill, as it stood today, would provide this "adequate control" because there were "teeth in the quota provi sions.", r. '"r -r, " Sixth Set Art Noiv Ready; Simplification of the method by which sets of art reproduc tions, offered by The Statesman in cooperation with the National Committee for -Art Appreciation, may be - obtained, has simulated still greater interest in this pro gram and has resulted in an in crease in the v number of sets purchased during the past week. One art certificate, clipped from page Xi of The Statesman, together with 30. cents, ; entitles the purchaser to one set of four pictures. The charge Is 48 cents for each set of four which must be mailed out, ' : There have ajso been a num ber or orders for the entire se ries of 12 sets, 48 pictures, to be delivered before Christmas. Such orders will be filled if they are left at The Statesman officer before December -1. The : port folio, which may be obtained free by those who purchase all . - ....... ; t - . .-. -i r " . - . : ' -i : : I - V - 4 Above, Patrick J. Corcoran, Mia- neapolis labor, leader who was home last: Wednesday night, shown with his wife. His death was declared' by BOlice to be v, . w ns.i part of a plot to "purge" Twin Cities labor circles. Below,X?ed rlc Adams, ' Minneapolis news- : , v," : that" aFpmen? Mea l-i -,m Jli Ared. But he says CrVn was not the one he meant. Jefferson School District Expands Parrish Gap Consolidates With Neighbor, Result of Recent Election The Parrish Gap and Jefferson wvui uteinciB. -were oiuciauy consolidated yesterday by formal school districts -were officially action of the district boundary board here. The action was based on the results of an election re cently held in both districts after the proposition had failed on an earlier vote because of a tie in the Parrish Gap district. ,The Jefferson district will con tinue to be known as' No. 14 but to it will be added the $72,925 assessed valuation and the 22 child : school census total of the Gap district. No. 17. The question of the status of Constance Ilen- ningsen, teacher who holds a con tract at 182.50 a month running through next Hay with the Par rish Gap district was referred to the district attorney. The Parrish Gap school board consisted of Homer Davis, chairman; A.- I Page and Max Schults with Jennie Page as secretary. Before the -consolidation, the Jefferson district had a 8418,735 v u-uuuvu bum m vcunuo . lyuu ul 218 children of school are. Its iHlxS'i'o" ' " Reproductions Orders Increase 12 sets, will also be made avail able before Christmas . to those who take delivery on the entire set of pictures by that time. Except by special order,-only ten of the sets will be available for purchase! by Christmas, ; The sixth set of pictures, fea turing four outstanding English painters of the 18th and . 19th centnriesj becomes available to day. The set includes; ;: "Colonel George Coussmaker" by Sir Josh n a Reynolds; a color ful picture of an English gentle man and hia horse by one of the most successful artists of his period. .t- X vH; ' o: ;x:--: : "Ur.U Grace ,.Palrymple .Elli ott" ; by , Thomas v Gainsborough, first of - the distinctly English school of painting, and the most celebrated society painter of all time. '. : .(Turn to page 10, eol. J) . i ! .-. . . : : " . . Z ".: i ; SXJ'Wm :'1XP Mf l in I I I ' ialU 14-Foot Mark Reached Willi Monday's Rise Nearly 2 Inches of Ram Falls During Weekend . in Salem District Wilsonville Ferry Halts and Two of! Cascade Passes Closed The Willamette river will over flow valley lowlands before the present week closes if the predic tion of the united States weather bureau,' for a 20-foot crest, proves tine. j 1 ' This prediction was made by the bureau last night as heavy rains Sunday and yesterday caused - . revision of a forecast of a 14-foot crest, il ' i i. . Fed by 1.75 Inches of rain be tween 7 a. m. Saturday and i p. m. yesterday, the river climbed nearly four feet in the same peri od. The stream remained station ary in the afternoon but between 5 and 10:30 period rose three-. tenths foot to the 14-foot mark. There is no immediate danger of the Santiam river's cutting a new -course for Itself across the Ankeny Bottom district. County Engineer N. C. Hubbs declared last night. Residents of that sec tion, however, have some cause to worry about such an occurrence in the future, he I admitted.-' The Santiam was rising at Jeffersoa last night but remained within Its banks. I - No Damage So Far To County Roads! The heavy weekend rains ap- pmBt,J, dif no dm.a1fe t0J"!' """" X ix - " m roads in the Stay. ton districts early in the - day. : r.:" bantiam nignway; was unaer wa ter four miles' below: Menm but was still passable. - ' j-"" r- "--p- I (By the Associated Press) 6J$ highway travelin various parts of PJ"1 nlht lle torm. cuuuuuev. j The coast highway between Co- quille and Bandon was under 17 inches of water after a dike went out. Traffic crept through behind a pilot car." . . i . Swollen creeks poured over the highway in at least two places near Gold Beach,1 while torrential rains continued. A southerly gale slowly dropped temperatures, i . The Coos Bay-Roseburg route was the only open primary high way between southwestern Oregon. and the' Interior. suaes coverea portions or in Reedsport-Drain section of tho (Turn to page 10, colv 4) j i g- i W V (jUlSC t6 U eilianU Throne of France PARIS, Nov.- !22-)-The ex iled duke of Guise today pro claimed i his decision "to recoa Quer' the non-existent French throne as police,' pressed : their search for leaders of a secret rightist I revolutionary committee. A spokesman for the Surete Natlonale said until now the in vestigation x into' the ' apparently widespread armed movement to overthrow the government Mi shown i no connection f between royalists and "the national com mittee of the revolution." , : The 5,0 00-word manifesto Is sued by the CSO'eaJf-old pretender who seeks to rule . Franc j as King Jean. Ill left ne- doubt he planned . a pacific conquest. A spokesman .insisted use of the word "reconquer" did not mean uimuuf ; ctvwavaa 1 Foiir Nea Death, Streetcar Crash SAN DIEGO, ICallf., Not. 22- GPWWhile four persons lingered near death In San Diego hospi tals, street railway officials cen tered their investigation of a head-on! collision of two street cars in a dense fog today on the suburban beaches. .,-.;-. j Twenty seven, other persons in jured in the crash ' were treated and most of them release!. BA L L A D E of TODAY . By R. a Flood stage i In the rhrerV about 20 feet,! the water will rise to that mark, it's predict ed; that's still quite a ways be low Edgewater street, with seri ous damage , we're seldom , al- -flicted; from 1 o w land -the livestock will promptly be mov ed, a few county roads may i put on the bummer, but th feature about it that's most -din-approved, is this we could oss fjaM natHf atUA sluuuuvaf