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. First In Sports The ' Statesman takci pride in making Its sports ewi pages foremost in cov erage as well as first In point of time. As a result Its sports readers are legion. The Weather " ' Fair today and Sunday with occasional low clouds along; coast," warmer In in terior; max. temp. Friday 71; min. 39, river 8 feet, clear, northeast wind. . EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, May 14, 1938' 1 ' Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 41 eJla anuain . ": V;--! L; :H " ' ; iPOUNDnD 1651 i :'" - ' ' Mexico Severs R i . . ':-'. ' i t : i i : ' -. - ):-.,..? 1 - - Along wl TFT) Jo Japanese Land Soldiers Near Foochow Entry Debarkation Is Preceded by Aerial' and Naval . Bombing, Shelling Invaders Encircle IJalf IMillion Chinese in Lunghai District FOOCHOW, China. May 14. -JFj- ( Saturday ) -Under cover of a furious airplane and naval attack Japanese troops landed today near the mouth of the Min river, gateway to this south China city. This was the second Japanese attack on the Fukien province . coast within a week, the other being at Amoy which now is under Japanese control. : The size of the landing force . could not be determined. De tonations of the bombs and shells were audible in Foochow, Indicating that both planes and : warships were attacking. : The landing was reported to hare been made ten miles south : of the Min river's month. SHANGHAI. May 1 4. -((Saturday )-Japan's armies, swiftly .Hearing the Lunghai railroad from north and south, today virtually had sealed 400.000 Chinese troops In a tight circle on the-vital cen tral front. Chinese Admit Giving Ground Chinese acknowledged they were losing ground against dozens of Japanese ' columns spread eagled around the dwindling ter ritory they are defending between Japan's conquests In north and central China. Apparent imminent success of Japan's mouths - long " efforts ' to reach the east-west Lunghai, cen tral China's main communication! line, endangered the defenders' whole resistance on the seaboard. China's armies, -. Japanese de clared, would be trapped without hope of escape, Japan's northern and southern forces would be joined and Suchow, where the im portant north-south Tientsin-Pu-kow railroad crosses the Lunghai, no longer could be defended. Early Cutting of Lunghai Line Predicted A Japanese a r m y spokesman early today declared the Lunghai would be cut within a few hours. Japanese declared 20,000 Chi nese soldiers had been killed in 24 days from April 14 to May 6 on the Shantung province front by the great Japanese campaign against Suchow to redeem the blow six weeks ago at Taierch wang. There the offensive col lapsed under the most crushing defeat of a modern Japanese army. Chinese were counterattacking desperately At Mengcheng, 75 miles south of the Japanese van guard at Tangcheng, in an at tempt to break the Japanese lines. They admitted loss of Meng cheng, now far behind the Jap anese front, after the city's walls were demolished in a three-day attack, by Japanese planes, tanks and heavy guns. Clerks Seek to End Injunction . OREGON CITY. Ore., May 13 (ifKlrcoIt -Judge Carl Hendricks today took under advisement ' a motion by the Retail Clerks un ion for dismissal of an injunction preventing picketing' of; stores here. ; ' ; '- ; The motion was opposed by the Associated Merchants of Oregon; Clackamas branch, which obtain ed the temporary injunction. 0 d d i t i c c in the Netca NEW YORK. May 13-(P-Howard Upson staked 4 against minus 2 in traffic court sweepstakes today and won by a photo finish. Summoned to court on an Il legal parking charge, Upson's ' first act waa to buy a camera In a nearby drug store and photo graph his car from all angles. - The pictures convinced Magis trate Alfred M. Lin dan that the car was not parked In a restricted tone, and the charge was dis missed. If he had followed the form -chart. It would have cost Upson -a $2 fine, instead of the mere $4 the camera cost NEW YORK, May 13-C5V! or ris Kutler Held by police as the 'phantom " burglar" responsible for scores of . breaks in Queens . must have heard that one about the lack of honor among thieves. After a two-day search de tectives found Kutler's apartment in the Bronx. Protecting the fur nishings. Including numerous arti cles identified by the "phan tom's victims,, was an elaborct burglar alarm.. Ross Says Rates t r i ..... $ Be Lowest in Wallacfpays Rate Is FivfMlls per KWH, Present Load Factor Would Approach two Mills if Consumption Went to 100 Per Cent of Time, Commissioner Says; j; Governor Hopes for Still Lower Figures -: Utilities and utilities districts will pay five mills per kilowatt hour for Bonneville power, based on a 42 per cent load factor, if the primary rate announced yesterday by Dam Administrator J. D. Ross is finally adopted, it was estimated here late yesterday by N. G. Wallacej state utility commissioner. ? O Portland Mill to Quit CIO Dicker West Oregon Manager Says Majt jority of Workers Petition for AFL PORTLAND, Ore.,' May ..13HS3) -A. E. Mcintosh, manager of the West Oregon sawmill, broke off contract negotiations with the CIO today and said he would ac cede to AFL demands' to enter contract discussions. Mcintosh declared that "ac cording to my interpretation of the law, I'm forced to accept the AFL, request to negotiate because a petition presented by the AFL contains the names of a majority of my employes. It represents al most 95 per cent of the men cur rently employed." The national labor relations board certified 'the CIO as bar gaining agency for all local mills following a union jurisdictional dispute which started last August 14.." i "I don't know what the NLRB will think, but I hope the board will not throw j. anything in the way of steady operation of our mill," Mcintosh! said. AFL petitions to be accepted as bargaining agency, accompanied by signed lists of asserted majori ties in all sawmills, were filed with the NLRB some time ago hut no action has been taken. Probe of Voting y Illegality Asked OREGON CITY, Ore., May 13 -;p)-Governor Charles H. Martin today ordered Charles Pary, su perintendent of state police, to make an investigation of asserted illegal voting here and report to him personally; ; In a telephone conversation from Salem, the governor said he took the action after a delega tion of Clackamas county war vet erans appeared at the capltol to demand a special Investigator or prosecutor. ! Pary was here today, but did not disclose whether he had taken any action.' j . The veterans previously com plained to District 'Attorney Fred A." Miller that immigration office records at Portland showed at least four persons voting illegally in Clackamas county. " Portland . Poster Wins NEW YORK, May l.-(py- First prize In a national poster contest held in connection witn Airmail week was awarded today to Rosemary Niederle, of 6407 Vancouver avenue, Portland, Ore The prize poster was selected from those submitted by 48 state contest, winners. Anglo-French Leas ue Suffers Severe Blow GENEVA, May 1 8-;P)-Anglo-French leadership In- the Jrague of nations suffered a severe blow at Its prestige today as two war torn nations, China and Spain, sought moral and material help In this capita, of collective se curity. i White-haired Julio Alvarex Del Vayo, representative of govern ment Spain, lost a drami tie fight to end the international policy of non-intervention in Spain's civil war, but in the league council's vote on his resolution war. bitter medicine for France and Britain. Of the 15 nations voting, only two, Poland - and Rumania, fol lowed France and Britain la re jecting the resolution. - Thi gave sufficient nrargin of $17.50 per kilowatt year The rate would approach two mills per kilowatt if power were consumed 100 per cent of the time instead of the : present 42 per cent," Wallace said. .; "This means," Wallace ex plained, "that if Oregonians use only as much power as they do now, the retail rate for residen tial lighting, would i remain at about three cents . per . kilowatt hour. If they use power 100 per cent of the time, they would be paying much less. "The object of the kilowatt year basis is to encourage users of electricity to purchase all the pos sible appliances they can and to use all the power possible." Customers buying one kilo watt year, for instance, would (Turn to p&ge 2, col. 2) : Price, Bill to Go Into Effect Soon Default Order xby- Court Is Needed to Gear - Away ' Injunction Action J Reports that the anti-price dis crimination bill enacted by the 1937 legislature went Into effect today were declared to be In error last night by Attorney-Gen eral I. H. Van Winkle. However, the apparent default yesterday of the defense in an injunction suit in the Marion county circuit court means that the law presumably will go into effect whene-rc Cir-' cult Judge L. S. Lewellhig en ters a default judgment. I Leader in the referendam at tack on Senator William L. Dick son's bill was George C. Stanley, Eugenegrocer He led the cam paign td file "S-eferendttm peti tions and they were filed In prop er time. However, the injunction suit to prevent the measure go ing on the ballot was tiled here, grounds being that there were errors in the copy of the act attached to the petitions. The attorney-general's office ; (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Rescued, Helpers Escape on Rocks MARSHFIELD, Ore... May. 13-(-Four coast guardsmen and three sailors from the wrecked fishing boat Maxine' M escaped from the south jetty ln Coos bay at low - tide tonight by - leaping and wading from rock. to rock. R. S. Magnussen, owner of the fishing boat,- Pete Hansen and So ren Christensen, the crew, were stranded on the jetty for six hours after the 40-foot craft was washed aground in heavy seas. None was Injured. Previous coast guard ef forts to reach the men failed. ' Coast ' guardsmen 'finally reached the Jetty In a dory, but could not put off again. . Magnussen said his boat and five tons of fish were total losses. Leadership in to turn it down since only Soviet Russia; joined Spain the -latter being given a temporary pUce at the council table in the affirm ative. : " i . v ' . y The blow to ths Anglo-Yencb leadership was n the. cine ab stentions including even Belgium, previously the most loyal follow er of the two big powers. - China won from the council only warm expressions of sympa thy bat Chinese sources declared some powers, including Britain and France,-had agreed to grant China . credits for ; purchase of arms and also assuring of aid In getting the arms into the coun try. ' J - - !-" The council arranged to go on public-record as flatly refusing material aid. May i , p Nation Power Charge Schedule for ! Dam Revealed Bonneville Rate Lower 4 Than TVA, Equal to '. Boulder Project Primary Charge $17.50 j for Kilowatt Year Delivered Is Set ' 1 WASHINGTON, May 13.() J. D. Ross, Bonneville power ad ministrator, said today he had asked the federal power commis sion to permit sale of power from the big government plant on the Columbia river at r a t e s lower than those of any private utility in the United States. . ! He said the proposed schedule, calling for a wholesale rate of $14.50 a kilowatt year at the generators, or $17.50 delivered, would place Bonneville on a par with Boulder ' dam and give- It rates lower than those of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Also Figure Below " Tacoma, Says Ross He added the charges also would figure below the wholesale rates of the Tacoma, Wash., mu nicipal power plant, which at present has about - the lowest in the country. "Everything will be sold from Bonneville - at wholesale, except ing In the case of industries at the dam," Ross said after the power commission had, published his nine proposed ratdschedules. These were: s Rates at the power plant, with purchasers providing their own transmission lines for resale 114.50 a kilowatt year for prime power; $9.50 a kilowatt year for secondary power; and 2.4 cents a kilowatt day. Identical rates were proposed for power pur chased at the damsite for use by the purchasers. Rates Based oa Use Of Bonneville Liaes Rates for power delivered to relay points on the Bonneville transmission system, for resale only prime, $17,50 a kilowatt (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Waley Draws Map, Kidnap Hideaway SAN FRANCISCO, May 1Z-(JP) -An affidavit together with a crudely-drawn map showing the hideaway of George Weyernaeus er, kidnaped son of a Tacoma, Wash., lumberman, was filed by Harmon Mefz Waley in U. S. dis trict court today In his effort to win freedom from Alcatras through habeas corpus proceed ings. The prisoner, serving a . life sentence for the $200,000 abduc tion in 1935,, contended his sen tence was Invalid because, he declared, the boy never was taken out of the state of Washington before he was released. ' An "X" on ; the map, inJioatinr a hide away near the Idaho state line was cited in support of this claim . Waley declared he - confessed falsely to taking the Weyer haeuser boy outside of Washing ton because he wanted to protect his sick mother and his wife, and because he "relied on the ego of J. Edgor Hoover in wanting pub licity" to gain his end. Says Rio Rebels Had Outside Aid RIO DE JANIERO, May 13-P) -Pres. Getulio Vargas declared to night fascist integralists who be sieged his presidential palace in an abortive putsch Wednesday did so "with foreign help." His statement came after Fo reign Minister Oswald Aranha re turned by airplane from Rio Grande Do Su with a police dos sier on German nasi activities In that state. : , ; "As we repelled extremists of the left In the recent past, so to day we confront unswervingly the extremist on the right, Vargas said in addressing a celebration commemorating the.sesquicenten- nlal of the abolition of slavery and his escape from Wednesday's revolt. : A', I The presidential offices, mean while, announced the arrest of the prominent industrialist, Raul Leite, while he waa in a waiting room at the presidential "palace. He Is a reputed integralist. Circuit Puts new er Holds Employer Can not Be Penalized if He Acts Sincerely NLRB Reversed Third Time Within .Week, Kentucky Bench COVINGTOX, Ky., May Reversing the national labor re lations board for the third time within a week,' the sixth US cir cuit court of appeals held today that an employer cannot be- ac cused of "discrimination' when his repeated and "sincere" at tempts have failed to produce agreement on a labor policy. The opinion set forth' a new interpretation of the Wagner la bor act. The decision by Judge Florence1 E. Allen declared that the board's findings against the Sands Manu facturing Co., of Cleveland, mak ers of heaters and valves, were not substantiated by the evidence. In May and August, 1935, the Sands plant w.as closed by strikes. The NLJtB order, issued in May, 19 3 ff, directed that 48 men, as sertedly locked out, be reinstated with back pay. The labor board sought enforcement and charged discrimination. Finds Negotiation Sincerely Attempted Judge Allen found evidence that the Sands company negotiated (Turn to Page 3, Col. 1) River Road Oiling Plans Meet Route Encroaches on OE Right-of-Way, Found; Part May Proceed Delay caused by the possible necessity of securing easement deeds from' the Oregon Electric railway for certain rights-of-way along the projected - line of im provement on the south river road may greatly hinder completion of the project this year. This developed yesterday, at a conference between the county court, Oscar Cutler, market road engineer, and Hedda Swart, pro ject engineer for the state high way commission. , Discovery that the present county right-of-way in some places overlaps the railroad right-of-way is the snag that may hold up the proposed oil rocking of the stretch south ' from Roberts to Oroville. ' ' Whether easement deeds which the railroad c o m pany in 1911 agreed to give to the county were ever, given will be the object of a record search to determine wheth er the county need get further deeds. If the deeds supposedly given in 1911 are found it will (Turn to page 2, col. 4) 1 000 Oddfellows Ready For Pendleton Conclave PENDLETON. May 13.-(-The state convention of Odd Fel lows and Rebekahs opening here Sunday, will attract approxi mately 1000 delegates, S. F. Bow man, general chairman,- said to day. The session will continue for five days.;. -"' Late Sports PORTLAND, May 13-VTbe University of Portland baseball team rapped out 27 hits for- 27 runs to win both ends of . a dou ble-header baseball game with Oregon Normal school - today. Scores were 13 to 9 and . 14 to 8, both in seven-inning fames. Portland will meet the Willa mette university squad tomorrow. EUGENE, May 13--The Uni versity of Oregon's golfers de feated the touring College', of Puget Sound links tean, . 20 H to 2 today, winning the best ball foursomes and losing only two points in singles play Ben Hughes, Oregon, was medalist with a sub-par 70. NEW YORK, May 13.-JP)-Two-ton Tony Galento, the barrel shaped gent from Jersey, knocked out' Nathan Mann, New Haven, Conn., heavyweight, in the. second round of a 10-round bout at Madi son Square Garden tonight. The pudgy Galento weighed 232: Mann 19154. ... Tony., connected solidly, with only - four punches - in the two rounds the fight lasted, but each of them nearly took Mann's head off.' - -' : t-'J ';. .,' : ' WI League Scores . Belllngham 3, Spokane - 2. Vancouver 9, Tacoma 2. Wenatchee 4, Yakima 7, View OnWagn Delay Sokial Security "Not Attained" ( Y7 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE Pump Priming Is Held no Solution Sprague Says Agriculture, w-k, 1 -ar w-e . N Business Have energy to Bring Normalcy PORTLAND, Ore., May 1Z.-(JP) -Dynamics of the American agri cultural, . commercial ' and indus trial machine, brought to normal function through wise administra tion, would create new Income of ten to twenty billions of dollars a year, Charles A. 'Sprague, can dldae i for the . republican guber natorial nomination, declared in a radio campaign speech tonight. Sprague assailed proposed busi ness pump priming. He declared he had no quarrel with the ultimate goal" of social security but "we have not attained it. Recent figures prepared by Harry Hopkins show 6,000,000 families including 20,000,000 persons on relief rolls." "Instead of security, fear stalks the streets," Sprague said. "It halts ' the" purchase -of ' goods. It stops ; Investment of capital. It causes unemployment." He urged an end to the "civil war that is paralyzing industry." Nye Resolution Is Pigeonholed Senate; Committee Yields to Hull Warning Against j Aid to Spanish WASHINGTON, May 13.-UP)- The senate foreign relations com mittee, given a blunt warning by Secretary of State Hull of the unnecessary risks" that would be Involved, pigeonholed today the Nye resolution to permit arms shipments to the Spanish govern ment. With only Senator Pope (D- Idaho) opposing, the committee voted 17 to 1 for a motion , by (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Gillespie Hunt Is Without Success ASTORIA, May 13-iiP)-Sher!ff raui Kearney returned today and reported an unsuccessful two day hunt for Ray, Gillespie, whose parole was ordered revoksd fol lowing a recent conviction on an assault ' and : battery charge at Hillsboro. . ; , : - ; Gillespie v.w a sentenced ; to. three years n the - state " prison. and paroled after pleading guilty to charges of participation in a labor riot at. Seaside in which two were ; killed two ". years . ago, He filed a motion this week that his plea be changed to Innocent and that he be permitted to stand trial. - . - , . ' . Kearney - said his of flea and the state police would continue. efforts to take, Gillespie into custody. , . .: Business Meths by Roosevelt Recession Cause WASHINGTON May ' 1S-(P)-Presldent Roosevelt "at a press conference today denied charges of his critics the present depres sion showed his first big spend ing program was a failure. Instead, he blamed business methods - for many existing eco nomic troubles and using one of his athletic figures of . speech declared business had run away with the ball.. - His statement about business methods recalled his past remarks about overproduction, .high-pressure; salesmanship, and certain prices he considered too nigh. , Much of today's conference was devoted to discussing the pre vention of swollen Inventories, accumulations of unsold products. The president, who has urged In . ...... tne past mat tne question oe ap - proached through consultations Gives Attitude As Reason for Act Minister Primo Villa Michel Legation Staff Withdrawn From London by Foreign Relations Division Increasingly Sharp Protests on Oil and Other Debts Attributed as Major Motivating Factors MEXICO CITY, May 13. (AP) Mexico severed diplo matic relations with Great Britain tonight. The government's foreign relations department an nounced the withdrawal from London, "in view of the un friendly attitude" of the British government, of her minister Primo Villa Michel and the legation staff. 7 , This country's drastic action followed Britain's in creasingly sharp protests at President Lazaro Cardenas' ex propriation March 18 of -British-owned oil properties and Mexico's delay in payment to Britain of. claims growing out of Mexican civil wars. (Oh that date Cardenas took over the $400,000,000 OBrltlah and American owned Truce Called, Tacoma Docks Longshoremen Return to "Work; Seamen Also Back at Seattle TACOMA. Wash May 13-(JF-Longshoremenj. worked cargo in Tacoma's . port tonight-? after 10-day labor truee halted the waterfront shutdown here and forestalled a serious shipping tie up at Seattle. . Several hours after the 14-day shutdown ended here, first long shore crews were called to work ore carriers. The truce terms included: Employers lifted their suspen sion of relations with AFL-af-filiated Tacoma - longshoremen, who had refused to pass a Sail ors' Union of the Pacific Ticket liiie.- to work the Shepard 'line freighter Timber Rush. The Timber Rush was moved to Seattle with its CIO national mar itime union crew. During the 10-day truce period the independent sailors' union of the Pacific, the .federal labor de partment, the 'Shepard line and the labor relations board will con duct east coast conferences to de cide whether the sailors union or the lMU will furnish Shepard line crews. No Shepard line ships will en ter Tacoma harbor In the mean time. Harry Lundbefg, SUP secre tary, planned to. fly east for the conferences. Seattle seamen' and firemen, who left their ships late Thursday as reprisal, against the Tacoma closure, reported back aboard to day after the truce was voted. Tenants, Landlady Run Afoul of LaW ALBANY, N.T, May.U.- Dean A Kurti and, Wesley Crulk shank : were sentenced to 10 days in .-.the - county - Jail after ; they pleaded, guilty to a. complaint ' by John Pflug that they, failed to. pay rent for - a room they .had occu pied at his home. . Mrs. .Pflug was charged with soliciting clothing and funds on the alleged misrepresentation that they were for the Salvation Army In a complaint signed the follow ing day by Captain Marabelle Ear ley of the Salvation Army. between government and business. told reporters he hoped the prob lem would be Included In the study of anti-trust laws which he recently, recommended- to con Lgress. ! . .. The administration attempted to reach these problems in an ex perimental way through the NRA, he said, lut had to abandon this approach when that act was held unconstitutional. Consequently, the president added, the problem still exists. Also In connection with hit dis cussion of the business situation. the president produced a semi final report from John D. Big gers, director of last fall's cen sus of unemployment, showing that fi.813.401 Individuals volun- : tarll-r rnortM themaelres anem I ployed while 2.011, SIS were do I. . m iing only emergency wora aaujuuen wane piam. ar (Turn to page i,. coL 2) last night Unfriendly ofLon don foreign oil industry in Mexico.), Britain Expected, to' Withdraw Minister It was expected -Greats Britain would counter immediately with withdrawal of her miniates to Mexico, Owen St. Clair O'MaJley. O'Malley said this evening he had as yet received no advice from London. He added, that he probably . would not decode. until morning any cable arriving from the British foreign office tonight. The British minister was noti fied of Mexico's decision wheat he called at the foreign office this afternoon.' to receive "-checks fr 361,737.17 pesos about .4.5 S) due as an annual.. Installment on the "civil war claims. ' Mexican Attitude Toward Debts Scolded He had several times protested delay in payment of the a mount, most recently in a stiffly worded' note dated Thursday which said Mexico's "attitude toward govern ment Indebtedness generally" waa "far from reassuring."; 4 Die, 50 Hurt in Columbia Riotin ft Or BOGOTA, Colombia,: May 13.- (JP) Four persons were killed aad 60 wounded in disorders in three Colombian cities, belated advices said tonight. A decree was Issued by Pres. Alfonso Lopez prohibiting any demonstrations or radio broad casts of -news relating to public disorders following the outbreaks in Pasto, Popayan and Cartagena. The four dead were at Pastcv capital of Narino state, where stu dents, strikers and an angry crowd attacked , the government palace. The , palace guard was stoned. The demonstrators, demanding freedom of prisoners In Paste Jails, took possession of the palace and burned some of Its archive and furniture. .. Forty persons were weundt there. . Five students were wounded at Popayan when a bomb exploded prematurely in their hands. They were said to have been attempting to bomb the newspaper El Liberal. Capitol Ceremony Deferred to 1939 . Dedication at, Oregon's wm 12.500.000 capitol building prob ably will not be held until th opening day of the 139 legisla ture, II. H. Olinger, member of the capltol reconstruction commis sion, announced yesterday. r- It originally was planned te hold the dedication ceremonies when the building Is turned over to the state in July. - The legislative ball will be made a prt of the dedication pro gram.. . Officials who move Into the new building in July will use their present furnishings for several months. The new office furnish ings were not expected to arrive, here until early In Septembers The work of placing the carpet In the house of representatives was under way yesterday while outside workmen were removing foundation stones to the new loca tion for the Circuit Rider, east of the new . building. V Girl, 3, Drowned NTSSA, Ore.. May 13.HTV Monta Claire Fife, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean HJi or I Nyssa, drowned in an Irrigation- I ii. v a. v-