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i . Vacation Season Many families will leave soon on vacation - trips. Don't get oat of touch with roar community's news. Have The Statesman follow jrou. VCvC The Weather Partly cloudy today and Friday, temperature un changed i Max. Temp. Wed nesday 77, Sim. 43, river .08 foot, northwest wind. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-EIGIITH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, June 2, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 57 arraniaFJloii " Fought Gliinese Block Rescue Effort Near Lanf eng Villages Captured; Some , Ground Lost Because of Bombardment Hull Protests Refusals i of Japanese to " Let Citizens Return SHANGHAI, June 2:vThurs-day)-(P) Chinese reported today their troops had Mocked efforts cf Japanese to send relnoTce- ments to a beleaguered Japan ese division near Lanfeng, on the central front. Capture of three Tillages north and east of Lanfeng kept Japan ese from lifting toe siege of the division rommanded by Liei. Cen. Kenji Doibara, Cninese said Cheered by appearance on the front lines of Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek, Chinese p'n dieted the Lanfeng area would become a 'second Taierchwing" repl- tition of the Chinese victory-ovsr Japanese forces on the Shar.tung province front April 6. On other parts of the 250 mile central front, where Japan ese are attempting to ga.n full control of the east-west Lunghai railway preparatory to a push south to the provisional Chinese capital at Hankow, Chinese gave ground slightly under heavy aerial bombardment. WASHINGTON, .une 1 Japan is violating An-erican rights In China by refusing to evacuate American properties and allow our citizen to rtturn to them, Secretary of Staie Hull told the Tokyp governmtnt to day in a strongly-worded note.. The United States demanded Japan turn back to their Ameri can owners the H, 000,000 uni versity of Shauhal and other properties now occupied bv Jap anese troops. This government expres-ed its 'increasing concern" at Jr-pan's refusal to let American business men and missionaries return to the posts in coastal and inland cities they formerly occupied. Secretary Hull regarded as flimsy Japan's excure that "peace and order have not been suffi ciently restored- He questioned it by railing Japan's attention to "the fact that Japanese civilians are free ly permitted to yo into and re tide in such areas as, fcr ex ample, at 'Nanking where some 800 Japanese nptionals. It. elud ing a aubstantial numbci of women .nd chilJren. are ieport d to be In residence." Although Am-jrican business men and missionaries havs been refused permission even to make brief inspection of their pro perties to check losses an? take steps to prevent fjrtber losses, "many Japanese merchants and their families are known, to be In the localities to which these American seek to return " The Indication -ras plain that Japan Is seeking to drive out American businessmen and mis sionaries and "eplace them by Japanese. About 300 Americans hare Teea waiting at Shanghai for many months for permission to return to their j.osts in tLC in terior, chiefly Nanking. 0 d d i t i c c ... in the Pi etc RIVERSIDE Calif., June 1 (jp) A "damn" re eel In court here costs $2.3. - E. V. Baker of Los Angeles, testifying in superior cotMt to day, was asked by a lawyer: How's your memory?" "Damn good," said Bafcci. "That'll cost vou $25 for con tempt of court." Interrupted Judge II. G. Ames. Baker was less forceful In the remainder of his testimony. SCHENECTADY, X. Y., June 2 (;p)Through. the research f Dr. Katharine BIod?Mt It now 1 possible to measure oil films so thin that 83,000 of them piled atop each ether would b no thicker than sheet of newspaper. The laboratory with which Dr. Blodgrtt bas been wot kins for several years announced today that she had perfected a method of determining the. thickness of oil fUms by their color. With suitable optical appa ratus, the system makes It possible to measure differences of i10O,00O,O0Oth of an inch, the announcement said. tampa. Fla.. June 1 MV Twenty-two month old Madeline Macadam ot Tauaoassee. ns,, swallowed a chicken boi.e . and her parents had her sped here br airplane ior ia uperauou. ri,. fllrht made her 111 Today physicians said the bone was gone, apparently contra op during her puns nae. May Know More Thar evealed I About Kidnapinr$.Jeter Levine s-y.-f -rim- sr x - - Following recent discovery of the body of Peter Levine, 12, kidnaped several months ago, on Long Island beach, G-men grilled Edward Penn, left, and AVerncr Luck, who have been held since March 24 when they confessed an attempt to extort S3 0,000 from Murray Levine, father of the boy. Police arc convinced Penn and Luck know more than they hare told about the kidnaping. Meanwhile an Intensive search is being made for the murdered boy's severed head. In : the hope It will yield additional clues IIX Thoto. Medical Society's "Activities Probed Anti-Trust Law Violation Suggested in Barring Group's Physician: ' WASHINGTON. ' June 1 UFh The Washlnfton Star said today the Justice department wss in vestigating complaints the Ameri can Medical ass Kiaticn ai.d the District of Columbia Medical so ciety had violated i.nti-trust laws In opposing "group health pro grams. . i . The complaints were made. the Star said, as the resalt of expulsion of Dr. Mario Scar.difio. child health specialist of a local group health association, from the district medical society last March. (Turn to rage 2, colump 1) Cafe Strike Vote r ' Friday, Portland j i . - PORTLAND, June 1-Un charging that the Portland Res taurant Operators association had demanded a return to the 1935 contract an4 a consequent 20 per cent cut in wages, Gertrude Sweet, an official of the waitresses and cafeteria workers union here, said today that a strike rote had been ordered for Friday. The vote was ordered, she said, by her union and that of the cooks and helpers and would In volve 3000 members in the two unions. Negotiations were broken off today,' coincident with the ex piration of the contract. Miss Sweet said between 250 and 300 Independent cafes had renewed the 1937-33 contract. Outstanding Agriculture OSC Student Given Post KLAMATH FALLS, June 1 (JP) Walter; Jendrzejewski, of Her mlston, who was named the out standing (student in the tchool of agriculture at Oregon ttate college this year, was appointed today by the state board of high er education to the post of as sistant county agriculturist here. Sauries Isle Farmers Fight Dike Breaks PORTLAND, June l.-(yp)-Sau-vies island farmers, encouraged by a prospective drop in the raging Columbia and Willamette rivers tomorrow, labored tonight to prevent repetitions ot dike breaks around their narrow, 25-mile-long strip of land. The rivers, exceeding the 21 foot mark, were three feet above flood stage but still two feet be low the top of the dike protect ing the island. Worst fear ot hag gard dairymen : who had sand bagged threatened breaks for 24 hours was that wares from a passing boat would eat lnt the top of their sand dike before the river started dropping. - : The Island lies below the con fluence of the two rivera near Portland. Boatmen, returning from the island shortly after noon said water was seeping through the 25-foot dike on the upstream esd. Some of the 35 farmers seek lxj to reinforce It thought It W I!" 2 Little Indians Have Adventures Lost in Wilds Near Keizer They Tlay Havoc With District's Mail A tale of two Httle Indians, 9 and 13, who got lost in the trail-less Marion county country, well-paved though it is, but found their way back to Chemawa, under escort, when they tried to buy some ice cream with a check filched from a farmer's' mail box was told by state police yesterday The two little boy I braves. newly-arrived at t h e Salem In dian school Saturday from Celilo, wandered off the campus, failing to find their way back, finally entered a house In the Keizer district whose ; occupants were away over the Memorial day double holiday. There they found food and spent one of the two nights they were away from ! the school. Tuesday morning the pair espied the rural mall carrier going by and followed him. As rapidly as he deposited mall in the farm ers' letter boxes, they removed It, redistributing It along the line, opening some of the letters. From one letter they removed the check that made a Keizer storekeeper suspicious. He called Trooper Farley Mogan and : the latter took the pair back to Chemawa. One knew no English, the other little more than to tell 'his name. : if it- Elections Boost; Postoffice Trade Election mailing and a general growth in business boosted re ceipts at the Salem postoffice during May nearly 16000 over the corresponding month , last year, according to the figures re leased yesterday by Postmaster II. R. Crawford. ! The May, 193$, receipts totaled $28,452.55, compared to $22.- 604.67 a year ago that month The increase was $5847.88. j v The report just compiled shows a boost of more than $1000 over the May receipts two years ago, which was also an election year as R ivers R ise would collapse before nightfall. Roads to the island generally were cut off and farmers : took to - boats to transport milk and produce. Several farmers ferried their cattle to the mainland. The Dalles, 9 0 miles to the east, reported the Columbia bad risen eight feet in a week and the town was threatened with a repe tition of the, disastrous 1894 flood, which' Inundated - tour blocks of the waterfront, Charles Hageman, port engineer, said con tinued hot weather- might send the river over a protecting dike He said the river was flowing (00,000 cubic feet per second, and that 900,000 second feet would flood the dike, a mark reached only four times 'prior to and In cluding 1894. The weather bureau said the crest of the flood had been reached this evening and that the water . would drop alowly : but steadily tomorrow. V V I i -i i i; imii I . . Laa Clues Studied As Jimmy Cash Still Unfound One Man Is Questioned; Brown Paper Possible Trace, Peninsula Palmetto Thickets Being Combed; Reveal Serial Number on Bills PRINCETON, Fla., June 1UP -A sheet of brown paper, sand wich wrappings and a stained stick were studied tonight for a lead in the kidnaping of tow- beaded Jimmy Cash as federal of ficers questioned an unemployed carpenter about the case. Meanwhile, with hope for re turn of the boy alive virtually abandoned, authorities broadcast serial numbers of the 1,500-odd banknotes which made up the $10,000 ransom the five-year-old child's father vainly delivered at a rural rendezvous yesterday. : The brown paper discovered to day by one of 26 posses grimly combing the palmetto thickets and citrus groves of this thinly populated area near the tip of the Florida peninsula was like that on which the ransom notes were written. -It bore writing but the context was not disclosed. The stains on the stick looked like blood. These articles with some other scraps of paper were sent to Miami for ex amination for fingerprints. The man questioned was M. F. Braxton, who was arrested near the Cash home in the midst of the forming posses. Braxton's wife said tonight he had been at Cash's filling station Saturday night but returned and went to bed about 11 o'clock. AH posses were called In after. sundffwn." Sheriff Coleman said it was "too dangerous out there on account of rattlesnakes." The men were ordered to report again at 7 a. m. tomorrow to continue the (Turn to Page 2, column 1) Pay Last Dividend Upon Aurora Bank Payment of final dividends totaling $20,968.03 in the liquida tion of the defunct Aurora State bank was ordered yesterday in circuit court here. The institution will have paid out at the rate of 80.01 per cent in the commercial and 84.05 in the savings depart ments when Its books are closed by Mark Skinner, superintendent of banks. Yesterday's order directed pay ment of a sixth and final dividend of 10.01 per cent, or $17,306.95 to holders of ordinary commercial claims approved prior to March 6, 1937, and a seventh and final dividend of 4.05 per cent, or $3661.08, on ordinary savings claims as of the same date. In addition it approved payment of all the earlier dividends on $27.94 worth of aarlngs and $57.58 worth of commercial claims not included in the general listing, v When the authorized dividends are distributed, $402.80 will re main to pay expenses of closing liquidation. The liquidator reported $172, 896.58 in approved commercial and $90,397.09 in approved sav ings claims subject to dividends. Study Gtizenship i EON Seniors Told LaGRANDE. Jane l-0!p)-The youth of America must be train ed in citizenship as well as in trades. Associated Justice George Rossman of the state supreme court told 57 graduating seniors of the eastern Oregon Normal school at commencement exercises today. Rnarking that millions now looked to Washington for leader ship, the Justice said that educa tors should train young men and women to think for themselves and be their own leaders. He remarked upon the multi plication ot laws and "our exten sion of government Into the do mains of business, labor, relief and social security" and said that It tended to "lessen the sense of individual responsibility." What la needed, he said, Is to train the citizen to govern. Nurse$ Convention Tolk$ "Hours, Wages, Insurance KLAMATH FALLS, June 1 (JP) A nationwide program of short er working days, yroup Insurance, and salary and employment con ditions were discussed befoie the 31st annual convention of the Oregon - Graduate Nurses associ ation here today by Mrs. Alma H. ScOtt, New York City, a dl i ector of the American Nurses as Will Reign Over Berry Festival : x . . - F1 - ; : ft i f in i I In -.ViMnm i tsil Miss Nadine Nichols who will be crowned Queen Nadine I In a colorful pageant ceremony on the Lebanon high school cam pus tonight as one of the high lights of the Lebanon straw berry festival which continues through Saturday. Collins Named on Relief Committee Will Succeed Wiiidishar; Successor to Wieder not Yet Selected Harry V. Collins, district man ager for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company here, has accepted appointment to the Marion county relief committee to succeed T. -A. Windishar, who has resigned. Governor Charles H. Martin announced yesterday. The executive indicated a successor to E'.-alu Wieder committee chair man who also, has submitted his resignation, will be chosen within a few days. Collins has been active in nu merous civic and charitable or ganizations In Salem during his residence here. v The relief committee held a special meeting yesterday to con sider a notice from Hawkins & Roberts that the first floor and balcony of the Chambers build ing, which the committee's staff has occupied for some four years, must be vacated within 30 days. No decision, as to a new location was reached. Moving of the relief offices does not present as great & problem to the committee as does that of the WPA sewing room, located on the mezzanine floor. Committee mem bers said that under a new state wide sewing project being ar ranged, the WPA might assume responsibility for quarters for the project In the future. Stealing of two Cars Is Charged PORTLAND. June 1-UP-A "business trip" was the explana tion William Jr Hawks handed detectives who arrested him on a grand larceny charge growing out of the alleged theft and Wreck ing of a taxicab and the subse quent stealing of a forest service car. .. Hawks declined to sav what the ''business" was that he had to transact. He was caught at Dufur after he had turned the cab over three times near Eagle Creek and abandoned It. later stealinr a forest service machine from, a ranger station. When, he tried to buy gasoline at Dufur. the serv ice station attendant became sus picious .and snatched the keys calling police. , ' : Ex-AFL Teamsters Start Jail Terms PORTLAND, June l-Aipv-The 34th and 35th prisoners to be sentenced in the drive against la bor terrorists , which began last January drew sentences of nine months - each in the county jail today, i : They ; were Ernes Kell and Or ville Hart, former AFL teamsters, who pleaded guilty in circuit court to assault and ' battery charges. Kell was charged with attacking the driver of an auto mobile company Involved In a la bor dispute and Hart was accused of assaulting the driver of a dry cleaning company, the plant of which later was : bombed. Hart bad no part In the bombing. Rolling Log Kills Man PENDLETON. June 1 (JP) A log rolling from a truck at Pilot Rock,1 fatally crushed - Deforrest J. Dean, 23, Baker logger, who died In a hospital here tpcay. Brother Slays Mayor, Spouse; Soon Captured Barricades in Home With Mother but Is Routed by Tear Gas Bomb Family Quarrel Believed Cause of Tragedy in Town in Montana THREE FORKS, Mont., June 1 -(-Sheriff Lovitt I. Westlake said John Kunz shot and klfied his half-brother, August Kunze, 53-year-old mayor of Three Forks and the mayor's wife, and then barricaded himself in his own home with his aged mother to night. Tear gas bombs fired into the house by Bozeman and Butte of ficers finally routed John Kunze, who was arrested when he started to climb out a window, Sheriff Westlake said. The sheriff said residents of Three Forks told him they knew of no reason for the double shoot ing but expressed belief the fam ily had been quarreling. Westlake said John Kunze crossed the street from his home to his half-brother's home and shot the mayor's 38-year-old wife, Louise, in the chest. Then, said the sheriff, as August Kunze turn ed toward the house, John Kunze shot him in the back. John Groves, foreman on Au gust Kunze's ranch, was standing near the house and was warned by John Kunze to step aside, the sheriff said. Sheriff Westlake said Groves told him John Kunze then ran back to his own home, and barri caded himself Inside. His mother came from the house as soon as the first tear gas projectile had been hurled, -but Kunze fired two' wild shots through a window and retreated to the basement, the sheriff said. A few minutes later Kunze re (Turn to Page 2, column 1) Six Are Arrested, Trust Fraud Case NEW YORK, June l.-JPThe indictment ot six men, accused by Dist. Atty Thomas E. Dewey of looting seven Investment trusts with combined assets of over 316,000,000, was disclosed today with the arrest of four of the defendants. With a total investment of only S5, Dewey -said, the men got con trol of four Investment trusts with aggregate assets of $13,500,000 out of which $4,300,000 was quickly dissipated. , Two of the men, Thomas W. Morris and Ralph H. Robb, Bos ton lawyers, were arrested in the Massachusetts capital as fugitives. A third, Philip A. Frear, a former New York City securities dealer, was seized in Washington, D. C: and the fourth man, Vincent A. Ferretti, a lawyer, was taken into custody and held in $25,000 ball. All four were among a group of 41 individual and corporate defendants against whom State Atty. Gen. John J. Bennett, Jr.. secured a temporary restraining order last Friday preventing them from dealing in New York state In certain types of securities.- Mayor Carson s in font Signs Social Security PORTLAND, June l.-()-Joan Cradlck Carson put in her bid to day as America's youngest social- security card holder. Tne duhter of Mayor and Mrs. Joseph Carson got her card when she was three aays oia, signing via a hand print, Too Much Ra in no w Plagues Midwest; Farm Season Late CHICAGO, June 1. Unwanted rain swept an extensive portion of the midwest agricultural area again today to plague farmers, already concerned about their crops because of too much mois ture at the wrong time. Farmers whose fields hare been too wet to work, worried ubout getting corn' planted while those with seed In the ground worried too, fearful that It might not germinate or that the corn might wash out. '.' vl In the southwest wheat country growers were apprehensive that recent rains would be followed by "muggy" weather, conducive to spread of the already prevalent black stem and orange leaf, rust disease, which might appreciably cut the yield ot the anticipated bumper wheat crop. . While the persistent rait a have resulted In delayed seeding : In the corn , belt, farmers were thankful in way for the rain since entomologists stated It President's Letter Touches Off Scrap; i men i is ueoatea Administration Senators Contend It Urges Free Hand for FR, Others Say Their Projects Readv Struggle Over Political Use of Huge Fund Continues; -More Money for Farm Benefits Is Allocated WASHINGTON, June 1. (AP) The senate split into diametrically opposed factions today after President Roose velt urgently requested legislators to pass the $3,247,000,000 spending-lendiftg bill without attaching strings which would prevent "the selection of those projects which can be got under way most speedily." j Administration supporters said the president's letter, in which he asserted the "unemployment situation has grown worse," was an argument against the current movement on capitoljhill to "earmark" huge slices of the funds for specific projects. They said the administration wanted a free hand to select projects. - - On the other -hand, senate conservatives quickly an- Dodson Disputes Tfoss Sale Claim Doubts if Any Real Power Application Made Yet; Issue Important PORTLAND, June l.-(JPy--k statement attributed - to vj. D. Ross, Bonneville dam administra tor, at Washington that electrical energy had been oversubscribed was challenged - today in a tele gram from W. . D. B. . Dodson, chamber of commerce executive, to the federal power commission. "It appears to us that no bona tide application could be made for power until rates and condi tions for purchases, ' are known," Dodson said. . "We have no evi dence here of any bonafide appli cation and would appreciate such information." . . , Dodson declared that "the issue Is very Important because of pub lic and private limitations in law wherein public agencies are given preference. If public agencies have oversubscribed, no. power Is available for privately owned In dustry." Flying Pheasant Shatters Window PORTLAND, June l-(ff)-Pa-tricla Hays, eight-year-old daugh ter of J. L. Hays, press agent for the Union Pacific system, knew a news story when, she saw one but her father Is convinced her technique is not yet complete. The child was standing before window practicing her violin, she told her father, when the glass suddenly crashed and show ered her, cutting, her slightly about the arms. Some boys out side looked pretty suspicious un til a passer-by cleared them' of rock-throwing possibilities. Further Investigation showed a beautiful Chinese ' pheasant had flown through tho window and I was fluttering In a corner of the room. But the price ot the win dow was not Hays' only loss. His generous daughter gave the pheasant to the passer-by, who presumably had a good dinner from it. served to slow .up hatching of grasshoppers in acme sectiens. North and Sooth Dakota and Kansas report JJ. he harpers were hatching in "great num bers' but experta predicted dam age would not b as "serious a menace aa in former yeart be cause rank grow:& of vegetation." Report from Texas said that some wheat fields ere heavily Infested with black stem rist as a result of abundant rainfall hu midity and clou llness. Tne rust spores puncture the wheat items and. halt the flow of sap to the forming kernels. " Orange leaf rust., which t not regarded as destructive a black stem rust, has been frand n Ok lahoma, Kansas and- Mlrsouri. The Kansas federal-state depart ment of agrlcult Jre's report said orange rust in some areas seems destined to reduce yields ap preciably v : Moisture In Kansas was de scribed as plentiful to excessive for wheat. Onounced that they interpreted the letter as an endorsement of ear- marking. They said they had a list of projects which could be started quickly. Behind this conflict was a struggle with major political as pects. During senate debate the last few days, critics of the ad ministration charged political use of relief funds. Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) said relief money ap parently was to be employed to defeat senators "because someone doesn't "like the color of their hair." . v . Proponents of earmarking said these charges showed that con gress should keep strict control over appropriations. Administration m e n, denying political motives, argued that to tits the hands of the president would be to prevent the mobiliza tion of relief dollars quickly in the areas where they were most needed. Copeland Says HI p Flood Jobs Ready Senator Oe p e 1 a n d (D-NY), author of amendments to ear mark more than $400,000 ot PWA funds for designated proj ects, asserted: . 'The president wants N only projects that can be started at once,' and that is the only kind I am proposing: My amendment earmarking $325,000,000 for flood control and rivers and har bors work would cover only proj ects that .could be started soon." Another Copeland amendment would tie up $85,000,000 of the public works appropriation for army housing projects. Senator Schwellenbach ( D Wash) said he thought Mr. Roosevelt's letter showed the ex ecutive was against earmarking, and that he wanted to eliminate an existing restriction that the WPA must so allocate its funds to stay "out ot the red." The senate worked at a slow pace through most of the day, however, voting 58 to 18 to in crease the $250,000 house-approved appropriation for the na tional resources committee to $750,000. - - x - , Then, working without recess into the night, the senate approv ed on a voice vote an amendment sponsored by Senator Russell (D Ga) to provide an additional s 2iz,uo,ooo ior rarm benefits. A total of $500,000,000 now is available for farm payments. Under the amendment, the ad ditional fund would go for pay ments of up to two cents a pound for cotton, 10 cents a bushel for nhoaf riifo .nt - 1 u I m .w.u, wm. a iiuuuu iuf to bacco and one-fourth of a cent a pound for rice. An amendment was adopted re quiring the WPA to pay wages equal, to the minimum set in any federal wage-hour legislation, or the "prevailing wage," whichever was higher. M& M Co. Appeals Order From NLRB SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 JT) An appeal to the ninth federal circuit court of appeals against u, uiuci vi iu uiiiauai ; DOT relations board directing rein statement of a certain group of employes was made today by the M & M "Woodworking company, of Portland. The case was an outgrowth ot a dispute between the CIO and AFL over control of eniloyes, a group. of employes bolting the AFL for the CIO. The company contended that it was under Con tract to the AFL and that t was compelled to dismiss the workers who bolted.