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T . - Art Appreciation All 48 of the ftmou paintings may now be pur chased at The Statesman; hundreds of readers are taking advantage of this offer. Weather - Unsettled, probably rains today and Wednesday, mod, erate; Max. Temp. Monday CI, Min. 41; river 12 feet, vain .01 inch, southeast wind. EIGHTY SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 14, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 224 Presents Japan Tliree '-;---:' poundhd 165! " ') v : -tV' v;---'0 :. V-: em Eyewitnesses Tell Story of Hit-Run Death .Warren Peters and Rose Couple Give Details of Fatal Sinashup v Hoogerhyde Trial Opens at Oregon City; 7 Women on Jury OREGON CITY, Pec. -(Special) -Testimony of: three eyewit nesses highlighted the opening of the circuit court trial here today of Clarence L. Hoogerhyde, 22, of Salem, on a charge of causing a death by striking with an auto and failing to stop. . . , - . The accident in which he is charged by the Marion- county grand jury as being the driver re sulted in the death of Mrs. Fred ericka Green, 74. and Mrs. Clara Swafford, 83. after they were struck at 17th and State streets, , Salem; the night ot October-29. .... Seven of the .12 Jurors selected for the "trial ' are"- women." Circuit Judge Earl C. Latourette is pre siding. The state's first witness, War 'ren W. Peters, Salem salesman, took the stand at 11:15 this morn ing to tell his version of the acci dent He told of seeing the body of Mrs. Green hurtle through the air as he stood at a point 80 feet from the intersection. Screams and the screech ot ' brakes attracted his attention, he testified, and he saw a westbound automobile trav eling approximately 35 miles per hour skid half way aroundre cover and slow down. Supposed License x Kumber Recorded Believing the car was about to stop, Peters said, he rushed to a nearby house to have police and an ambulance called. " -"."Hey! Come TAek nere! t Pet ers said he- shoulted as he turned and saw the car suddenly speed away. The other eyewitnesses were Edgar W. Rose and his wife, Flor ence G.'Rose, who said that from near their residence at 1599 State street they saw the body of a woman thrown into the air by the Impact. Mrs. Rose testified she called to her husband to write down the license number of the car, which she took to be 22-151. Mr. Rose said he wrote 221-51. The number of the Hoogerhyde car was stated to be 221-613. A fourth eyewitness will be placed on the stand at Oregon City today. District Attorney Lyle J. Page announced on his return to Salem last night. He said the state would rest its case at about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Whether or not the trial may be concluded Wednesday, he said, will depend on the number of witnesses called by Defense Counsel Edwin Keech and Paul F. Burris. Deputy Dis trict Attorney Joseph B. Felton Is assisting Page in the prosecution. ' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) I d d i 1 1 c s ... in the Newt BOSTON, Dec. 13-(ff)-The whipping post, the ducking stool, or the public stocks, punishments of Massachusetts' colonial days, would be revived and inflicted on persons convicted of driving while drunk under terms of a bill, filed today by State Representative Charles W. Olson. '; : Under the proposed measure, two to 10. lashes might be im . posed while penalties ranging up to four hours a day for three days would be Imposed In the ducking stool and stocks. The existing law provides ' for fines of 335 to $1000 or jail terms ot two weeks to two years, or both, in such convictions. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Dec. 13-CflVThe staters first lethal gas execution was per formed late today with a 100 pennd red pig the victim. Three minutes , after 15 cy anide eggs , were spilled from their metal tray Into a crock of diluted acid, sending off a steamy clood of vapor, the pig died. Warden 1. M. Sanders an nounced the test was satisfac tory and that the state wonld accept the new death, chamber. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec 1-iJP) -J. J. Love, 40, a taxi driver, showed A bandit today how to "Mm tin fiehtinr. The bandit - entered Love'a cab as a fare early this morning ifir a drive of a dozen blocks the tare slugged Love three times In an attempted holdup. tnld nolice the-first blow made him "sorta dixsy," the see- nnd "tint him out." but the third woke him up fighting mad so that he routed the slugger ano savea his money. . Cats on Love's head required several stitches. THOUSANDS HOMELESS, CALIFORNIA FLOOD I V r ft V . Flooded towns, overflowed rivers, isolated common-ities and thousands rendered homeless followed In the wake of the recent gale which swept the west coast, driving heavy sheets of heavy rain before it. Many autolsts were marooned when highways fl ooded and resembled gushing rivers. Photo shows a section of U. S. Highway 101, between Santa Rosa-and Healdsburg. CaL, which could only be "nav igated" by row boat. The town of Healdsburg Ttas completely Isolated with all highways cut off. Note man in rowboat who was heading toward Healdsburg to join rescuers. UN photo. ' ' O 1 New Flood Perils Dot Weather Map Streams Approach Crests in Calif.; Snow and Freeze General (By The Associated Press) Freezing temperatures, snow and new flood dangers dotted the weather map from coast to coast last night. In scattered sections of north ern California some streams ap proached flood crest, despite a ma terial recession of flood waters from last week's unprecedented storm. At Colusa, where three men were reported missing, a new menace appeared when a ' Sacra mento river weir filled, and im pounded waters poured back into the stream. Floods flow leg through seven breaks in dikes In undated 61,000 acres and killed much livestock in the district. The gale and floods caused five known deaths and damage amounting to several million dol lars. Earl Lee Kelly, state direc tor of public works, said further damage might be expected in cen tral and lower San Joaquin valley where streams are just reaching their crest. Kelly said' at least 3750,000 damage had been done to high ways and bridges in northern California. Damage on the new Feather river highway, alone, amounted to 3200,000, he said. Fair weather prevailed over the entire - flooded region yes terday t and forecasts for today svere favorable. A steady buow fall spread yes terday from the continental di vida in Colorado and Wyoming (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Ask Incorporation Of Unions, Report Reports were current here Mon day that an initiative measure was being prepared in Portland under Which all labor, organizations would have to incorporate. The measure was reported to be similar to a bill Introduced at the last legislative session.' This bill died in , a committee after several spirited debates. " In case the preliminary peti tion is , filed within the. required time and a sufficient "number ot signatures are obtained the meas ure will go on the ballot at the next general election. , ;.. Weimar, Gervais Firebug Is Deemed Dangerously Insane Disposition ot the arson case against David Andrew Weimar, indicted, on a charge ot setting the Gervais fire September "28, landed In the county's - lap yes terday when an alienist's report based on an examination ordered by Circuit Judge L. H, McMahan was received, declaring Weimar "is and has been dangerously Insane for some time past. . Submitted by Dr. J. c .Evans, superintendent of the state hos pital, the report was filed by Judge . McMahan with County Judge J. C. Siegmund with di rections to have the customary examination, made for admission of a patient to the hospital. Judge Siegmund began an Inves tigation but Issued no commit ment papers., J , Dr. Evans report asserted Weimar "should be permanently restrained from society." The indictment against Wet mar charged : him specifically with having set fire to -the build ing occupied by the Gervais Star and owned by Frank Cannard. f r - x . S Panay Is Marked As 'Jonah' Vessel At Its Launching DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 13--Cbmdr. Mackey Lewis of the US navy today recalled that the USS Panay, gunboat bombed and sunk near Nanking, was once known as a "Jonah" ship. He said a Chinese soothsayer once declared "the devil was after it." Mackey, on a visit here, said he was in charge of the vessel when it was put in service. The gunboat was assembled in China, he said. "While we were putting it to gether the Panay caught . fire and warped the plates so badly they had to be put back in the shops and straightened. 'Next we cut, the ropes when launching time came and the ship didn't move. Extraordinary steps were necessary to shove it into-l the water." When the boat failed to slide down its runway, he said, Chi nese spectators fled the scene and a dockyards prophet pronounced the boat "hoodooed and said a third mishap would take it to the bottom. Bombing Plainly Deliberate, Held HANKOW, China, Dec. 13-(P)-Observers who witnessed the Jap anese aerial attack on the U. S. gunboat Panay - late tonight de clared the bombing was unmistak ably deliberate,precluding; possi bility of error. Though the gunboat had Amer ican flags painted on her awnings and carried flags on every mast observers said squadrons of Jap anese planes bombed the Panay four successive times beginning at 1:35 p.m., Sunday (12:35 a.m. est)." T vV-: The British gunboat Bee, which rushed under forced draft to the scene of the incident, was in ra dio communication tonight ' with Hankow, presentTseat of the Chi nese government and the U. S. embassy. . " Bullet in Stove "Wounds PORTLAND,' Dec. 13-C5VMr-L. V. Rinehart was shot in . the abdomen when a cartridge acci dentally placed in the kitchen range by her three children ex ploded. The wound was not serious. The sanity examination was or dered ; recently at the request of District Attorney Lyle J. Page. : Weimar is 38 years old, sin gle, a common laborer an d a resident near Gervais, the alien ist's report recites before going at some length into the man's family and personal history. As to the: Gervais fire, it states In part: - r; ; "He admits setting fire to a lumber shed belonging to S..H. Cannard which structure adjoins the office of the Gervais Star, a newspaper publication. He has confessed this act . ot arson to the state police, the deputy sher iff, myself and others, but re fuses to plead guilty to the charge in the presence of your honor, , claiming that if : he did thU he would be sentenced to the penitentiary without trial. "Lengthy questioning brought out : the fact that he believed the Gervais Star had published certain jokes and Insinuations Involving himself and 's wife, (Tom to Page 2, CoL 7), . $ V-v Another Forgery Tangle Is Traced Car Answers Description of One Wanted, Couple Probably Is not It would seem that Salem is a good place for forgers, forgers' relatives, alleged forgers and sus pected forgers to give a wide berth. Last night, about 11 o'clock, Officer W. M. Overgard noticed a car sitting In front of the Blue Bird restaurant with nary a license plate fore or aft. While inspecting the machine, a man and woman approached and he arrested them, taking them to the police station. Com munications on file there re vealed one from the sheriff's of fice in Eureka, Calif., asking that all of the occupants of a car an swering the description of the licenseless one be held on a war rant charging forgery. Saying they were brother and sister, and giving their names as Virgil E. Ramsland, 17, and Flora Esther Ramsland, the woman said she was the wife of Fred L. Wilson, an Inmate of the Oregon state penitentiary whom she was here to visit. . Records at the penitentiary, checked by city police, revealed that Fred L. Wilson was received there November 24. He is serv ing a three-year stretch on a forgery conviction from Polk county. While city officers inferred the communication from the Eureka sheriff's office stated that it was Fred L. Wilson and his brother, Sidney Wilson, who were wanted on the forgery charge there, both of the Ramslands were held in (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) University Buys Lachmund House Members of the board of trus tees of Willamette university have closed negotiations-for the pur chase of the Louis Lachmund house for use as residence for the president of the university. The house is on land recently pur chased by the . state for capitol building purposes. . It " fronts on Court street opposite the capitol grounds and was remodeled a few years ago by, the Lachmunda at heavy expense. The house - will have to be moved by -April 1. Decision will be made on whether to put the house on the campus or on a lot off the campus. -. A. D. Moodie, who has the con tract for removal of the old Sa lem postofflce to the university grounds where it will be used for a law school building, moved his equipment to the postofflce site yesterday and present plans call for having - the building moved by December 2S. UsecTCar Week Offerings Here ; Are Exceptional Announcing that they have the finest selections of used cars on . hand . now that they nave lever been able to offer, aat mo bile dealers of Salem have des ignated this week as Used Car Week. Because of the numerous trade-ins on 1038 models within recent weeks, Salem dealers not only have a wide selection,' but better values in used cars than can be found anywhere in the northwest, " See page today for their of ferings. . w. Protection of NLRB Sought, Portland Mill Van Duzer Files Demand Boycott Be i Stopped by Federal Board One Picket on Hand, 100 Menat Work ; Canadian Lumber Is Banned PORTLAND, Dec. 13-(jPV-The Inman-Poulsen Lumber company, which reopened its mill today with approximately 100 men under the banner of the CIO, asked the na tional labor relations board for re lief from an AFL boycott on its products. H. B. Van Duier, president, tel egraphed the board that the boy cott was "effective," and asked: "If the boycott makes the re sult of your decision valueless from an operating standpoint, what relief can you! offer?" ' He said the board replied that it had power only in the matter of representation and could "do no more." The mill, closed four months, reopened after an employe elec tion last Thursday, ordered by Gov. Charles Martin, whose visit to Portland today brought reports that seven other closed mills were planning similar elections. One AFL, picket appeared at the Inman-Poulsen plant. CIO union loggers' and logging operators' representatives reached an agreement today in a dispute that tied up operations at Glen wood and Vernonia. Union off! cials said restrictions against movement of logs to an AFL mill at Forest Grove would be re moved. Windows were broken in rest dences of four AFL employes of the Plylock Corporation in St. Johns. - Federal Judge James Alger Fee issued a temporary order, restrain ing the CIO lumber union from picketing vessels, following the tie-up of AFL lumber at Newport, where the steamer Anna Schafer awaited loading. The order affected only picket- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Britain Studying Orient Situation LONDON, Dec. U-VPj-Grezt Britain and the! United States worked In close concert tonight in the grave far eastern situa tion growing out of Japanese at tacks on gunboats of both na tions on the Yangtze river. Members of the house of com mons cheered Foreign Secy. An thony Eden's statement that British ships had fired on Jap anese planes after they had been bombed and shelled. - - Eden told commons the Brit ish ambassador to Tokyo . had "made the strongest protests" to Japan for the shelling of the British gunboat Ladybird at Wu hu, up the Yangtze from Nan king. Eden conferred with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Herachel V. Johnson, the U. S. charge d'affaires, before mak ing his cautions statement to commons that the . two Anglo Saxon ; powers were "in consul tation" r on the serious interna tional developments In Japan's undeclared war with China. Georgia Senator Fights Farm Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-JP) senator George or Georgia took fellow democrats to task today, declaring that instead of restrict ing the production of crops they should stick to fundamental doc trines of the party. : He thundered a challenge to an attentive ring of senators to take advantage of the "best opportuni ty In many years ' and make the new farm bill an example of legis lation against "special privilege Instead ot paying benefits to cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco and rice producers for curtailing their crops, he said, congress - should look upon current overproduction as an emergency, appropriate money to buy up surpluses at prices near the cost of production, and recognize the farmer's "equal rights' with industry to run his own business." v-f V Storm Warning Go up All Along Coast Again SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 13hUP -The i weather bureau ordered southeast storm warnings posted at 7 p. m. at all Washington sta tions and the mouth ot the Co lumbia river,' warning shipping of Increasing east to southeast winds the next 24 hours. Tokyo Greatly DhtujvedOven "Accident" to American Boat Lompe And Guarantees Asked President Roosevelt Addresses Emperor With Note of Protest; Nipponese Chagrin Prevents Celebration of Nanking's Capture WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 presented Japan three stern "indiscriminate bombing and sinking of the US gunboat Panay and other American ships above . Nanking. At the same time President Roosevelt sent expressions of shocked concern to the emperor of Japan. " O While Capitol hill reverberated Idaho Warden Is Fired but Stays j Gess Officially Ousted in Van Mack Matter but Will Contest Move BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 1Z.-JP) William H. Gess, Idaho prison warden who was ordered dis missed as a result of the suicide of triple-killer Douglas Van Vlack, refused tonight to vacate the post. He said that when two mem bers of the prison board Atty. Gen. J. W. Taylor and Secy, of State Ira H. Masters called upon him with , the newly appointed warden, I Sheriff E. F. Prater of Twin Falls, he declined to give up keys and custody ot the prison records to Prater. Taylor and Masters voted late today to discharge Gess and re place him with Prater. Gov. Bar zilla W. Clark, chairman of the board, did not take part in the hearings on the Van Vlack case conducted by Masters and Taylor. Gess, in a prepared statement, said he declined to give up his office because the board action, "following up . proceedings which were apparently of such a charac ter that the attorney general and secretary of state not only ex cluded the public but dared not admit even the press, caused grave doubt in my mind as to the legality of such action and as to the propriety for which I am under a $10,000 bond. "I am now officially In charge as warden of the Idaho state peni tentiary and If proceedings to question the right to hold office are instituted all questions in volved will be thoroughly gone into in order that the public and press may have the full facts." Efforts to Float Liner Will Start MANILA, Dec. U-(P)-All the passengers and crewmen were re ported safe and well, but the 18. 000,000 liner President Hoover rested dangerously tonight on ' a rocky reef of a Formosan Island Salvage ships stood by the 653-J ot pride ot the DoHar line, andl foot the company said immediate at tempts would be made to refloat the steamer which grounded Fri day midnight In tempestuous wea ther, i - ' - -' Meanwhile, toward Manila the President McKinley carried the Hoover's 134-cabin passengers and 319 from the third class decks. The McKlnley was to reach. Manila Wednesday night. Most of the Hoover's crew of about 830 will be put aboard the President Pierce tomorrow. Entire Series, 48 Paintings Now Ava ilable at Statesman The Statesman now has avail able for its readers all 48 ot the famous paintings offered In co operation with the National Com mittee for Art Appreciation, the 12th set of four arriving Monday. The portf iollos. which may be obtained without charge by per sons who have purchased ' all 1 2 sets, are expected to arrive"' this week. Further announcement will be made when they are received. In order; to obtain the portfolio, it is necessary to clip out the port folio certificates front i the 12 en velopes and hand them In at The Statesman office, or mail them to The Statesman, If the portfolio is to be sent by mail, ; there la a mailing charge of 15 cents, - v-- Readers who ave purchased some of the pictures and wish the remaining sets and the portfolio by mail, may obtain them by send ing -;ta the portfolio ) certificates they now have, paying Zt cents each for the sets they lack plus 27 cents for postage. -1 , , ; Th final set of pictures Is one nsation, Apology (AP) The United States demands today because of the to the sinking and a heated dis- cussion rose on the floor ot the senate, this government demand ed: , ; Full . compensation to the gov ernment and victims. (Dispatches to the navy department place them at one sailor killed, six missing and 15 persons wound ed.) Apologies for the incident. Guarantees against a repetition of such an attack. The president's personal ex pression, handed to Japanese Am bassador Hirosi Saito by Secre tary of State Hull for transmis sion to the emperor, was a mes sage from one head of state to another and therefore regarded as of greater Importance than the series ot protests that have been (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Nanking Occupied, Japanese Push on Hangchow Expected to Be Next Objective; City- Reported Aflame "SHANGHAI, Dec. i4.-(Tues-day)-P)-A Japanese communi que announcing o c c u p a tion of anklng today hinted Japan's army would push on into the heart of beleaguered China. The Japanese gave no word of the 18 Americans still in China's abandoned capital. Nanking was reported in flames. blanketed under tremendous clouds of smoke. Japanese spokesmen said they were without - Information con cerning the Americans and hand ful of other foreigners or the for eign-owned property in the cap ital, once the pride of the republi can China. The Japanese communique, aft er reciting events of the four months of warfare before capture of Nanking, said "although Nan king has fallen, so long as anti Japanese sentiments exist in Chi na the sentiments ot the Japan ese people are that hostilities have just begun." They reported Chinese troops retreating from Nanking, up the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Pierce Advocates Tc'sllnO, flirrTlOV AUlXlg lurrency i. WASHINGTON, Dec. Uipy-ls- suance oi S3,000,ooo m new cur rency, to assist financing of the farm program was recommended today, by Congressman Walter M. Pierce of La.Grande, Ore. 1 MI believe there should be cur rency issued against, the gold that Is stored in Kentucky," he said. He opposed an amendment by Con gressman Patman of Texas to re quire farm Benefit payments nec essary, to reach parity prices. of the most interesting of the en tire series, representing the work ot four outstanding American painters of today. The pictures are: Arbor Day by Grant Wood, a painting regarded as the greatest work of this Iowa realist; a pic ture both beautiful and signifi cant of a phase of American, life, i "Winter", y Rockwell Kent, social-minded artist who recently was Involved In a controversy over his' mural In. the new postofflce department building at Washing ton, D. C, which was found to contain propaganda for Porto Rlc an independence. .. "Line Storm" by John Stuart Curry, a dramatic scene depicting a lightning storm daring harvest season In his native Kansas. ; 'Flood Detail" by John Corbi no, a graphic presentation of the horror anH confusion of flood by the artist who reached the peak ot popularity within Cte last few years. : 91' Missing or Dead in China River Incident Most of Those Recorded Missing Are Believed Safe,, Late Report One US Citizen Is Dead and Possibly Others; Search Still on SHANGHAI, Dec. 14-(Tues-dayJjPj-Ninely-bne persons were reported dead or missing today after a grim 36-hear search for survivors of the four American vessels destroyed Sun day by Japanese airplanes. On a American rpn man tit ih sunken gunboat Panay vat dead. Fifteen of the 69 known, sur vivors were wounded, at least one of - them seriously. - Eight Americans and : other foreigners aboard the Panay, Captain C H. CaTlson of the cargo boat Meian and 81 Chinese of the crew of the Meian and two other Standard Oil company boats were unaccounted for. There was no indication any large number of the missing Chi nese were dead. (A cable to the Socony-Vaeu-um corporation in New York from its China offices - expressed belief Captain Carlson, whose ad- , dress was, listed at Waterbury, ' Conn., was killed.) Three navies today rushed aid to survivors of four American vessels destroyed Sunday: J. by s Japanese air bombers on the Yangtze river above NankinrHsnd - irieu w cuiuiiteie a luuuv ql uc and wounded. , British Gunboat Tells of Bombing The British gunboat Bee, . i , i . . . . j which sped from Wuhu to aid the Americans, radioed to the Cruiser Augusta, United , States flagship at Shanghai, first de- ay, the bombing and burning of the oil tankers Meihsia and Mel ping and bombing and beaching of the freighter Meian. : The Bee, first rescue ship est ' the scene, reported she had res cued eight Americans, seven of them Panay seamen, and heard of two others safe ashore. . The eighth American saved, by the Bee was a Standard ; Oil of ficial, J. V. Pickering of Cadis, Ohio, one of four Americans re ported aboard the Standard Oil snips. in aeaiuon, uese snips carriea iwo European capuuns and Chinese crews believed to . total 81, making a total of 1SS persons! aboard the four Bhlps. : The Standard Oil boats reached . land and .were abandoned by their crews before the final de structive bombing attacks,' se it was believed most of those aboard reached safety. Yesterday the Japanese array sent a. plane to Hohsien carrying Major-General Harada, military attache , here, to supervise Jap anese assistance , to the victims, prevent . Japanese operations In the vicinity from exposing them , (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) B iA L LAD E oLTODA y It's a queer situation; with war undeclared, a belligerent nation for conquest has dared its neighbor to pillage no value has life each city and ' village laid waste in the strife; If foreigners tarry where bat- : ties are , fought, that - may be contrary, , to ; c o no. n e r o r s thought; unfortunate "acel- I dents" might . be arranged to 'drive, them : away while - the ? map's being changed, f e ryb ody KJbuys and uses Christmas Seals 10 -Shoppinq Pays Left .vrcisSScT . doctor ' V TCdLV nil! '