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Softball Season The season of night soft ball rider the lights Is starting. The Statesman sport page . provides com plete reports - many hours ahead. The Weather Pair bat " frith consider able cloudiness Wednesday and Thursday. Max. temp. Mob. 74. Min. 54, rain .03 In., -river .9 feet. Southwest wind. mm POUNDDO 1651 EICHTY-EIUHTH YEAK Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning:. June 15, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 6e No. 63 H n TFTso Tin it rr ttk ti r I r n il ii s o-t- ii I I jt w. i i t -rr- -r i i r v. tit jf-m ' vs ; i : ; : 150,000 Ch As Yellow Waters Swirl Over Theatre Of China War Large Number of Troops of Mikado Believed Lost in Deluge Ravage of War and Flood May Bring Greatest Relief Problem SHANGHAI. June 15. (Wed nesday) (JP) The Yellow river wirled over hundreds of square miles of Honan province today, threatening one of the greatest flood disasters in China's history. Japanese military engineers re ported 150.000 Chinese civilians already had been drowned where the river broke through a 50-mile stretch of weakened dikes on its south bank. Fate of a large number of Jap anese troops scattered through the area was not known. It was believed, however, that thousands might be "trapped and drowned throughout the area. '-j Japanese military officials said their engineers were directing thousands of peasants in attempts to check the rushing river, but that it was virtually beyond con trol. Major breaks in the dikes were between Kingshui, just north of the Chengchow junction of the Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow railways, and Kaifeng, .50 miles to the east. Fo-eign relief workers believed that ravages of floods and war in Honan, Anhwei and Kiangsu pro vinces would bring a relief prob lem almost as great as that creat ed by the world war. An estimated 30,000,000 refu gees were fleeing to the west to escape invading Japanese armies. Millions more were imperilled by yellow waters roaring through the heart of China and rapidly spread ing out. The flood was fed by almost continuous rains. Japanese reports from aerial observation were that Chungmow, about 25 miles st of Chengchow, was almost a lake, Kaifeng was (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Grange Considers Eugene, Corvallis KLAMATH FALLS. June 14 -VP)-Deleg&tes to the 65th an nual state grange convention balloted secretly tonight between Eugene and Corvallis for the 1939 meeting. It was not announced. If other cities had entered bids. The se lection will be made public to morrow by the election commit tee. LaGrande Invited the group to hold its convention there in 1940. The grange also voted on can didates for the third position In the three-member state executive committee. None of the six candidates received a majority at thes pre-conventlon vote. rr.1 ...Wl.- TKT liioae dcc&juk vims hcio ti A. Johnson. Grants Pass, In cumbent; Minnie McFarland. master of the Moro grange: C. P. Adams, Grass Valley; How ard Mayfleld. Terrebonne, ana John' Crow, Pendleton. Louis Taber, national grange master, sent a telegram con gratulating the Oregon organiza tion on its growth. Charles G. Dawes Leaves Hospital NEW YORK, June 1Mv5V Gen. Charles G. Dawes, former vice-president, today left a hos pital where he had been serious ly ill nearly two months and boarded a train for Chicago, Before he left, he wrote this statement for .the Associated Press with pen and Ink: - - "When a man whose life has been saved by the quick deci sion and skill of a great sur geon, and. after 51 days, well again, steps but of the hospital, his first feeling . Is one of. grati tude t bis maker and those who have cared for him. and his sec ond, that this world is a damn sight better place than he thought it was before he took -i.ic. (Signed) Charles G. nawei." - The surgeon to - whom he re ferred was Dr. Henry W. Cave. k mm m mm i w . - w 3 inese jrown River Floods John L. Lewis Handed i ; - Defeat When Measure j Stopped in Committee House Rules Committee Virtually Eliminates Bill From Consideration Falls on Session of Congress WASHINGTON, June 14. (AP) A coalition of re publicans and administration democrats dealt John L. Lewis, CIO chairman, a crushing defeat today by bottling up in a committee a labor bill he came to the capitol to sponsor per sonally. I i Less than 24 hours after Lewis used Speaker Bank- head s office as a conference room O in which to: apply pressure to a group of house members the house rules! committee, virtually eliminated any chance that the measure would be considered be fore adjournment. The committee refused to ap prove procedure which would have led the house consideration --and possibly a vote before the final gavel falls. The vote was not announced but one member said privately "it j was worse than over whelming." j The legislation, which Lewis said he desired "with a ven geance," would have forced cor porations whose contracts with the government exceed $2000 to conform to ; stipulated wage-hour standards and accept decisions of the national labor relations board affecting them. , Violators would be subject to a - (Tern ' to Page 2, Col. 8 ) - Chamberlain Says Not to Use Guns Feels He Cannot Sanction Action That Might Jump Control f - LOXDONj June 14-(P)-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain re fused today; toj use any of Great Britain's new armaments to halt the repeated bombing of Brit ish ships in Spanish ports. He explained to a critical, if not hostile house of commons that effective protection could not be guaranteed British ships calling at war zone ports unless British were -"prepared to take an active part in hostilities." Ulo VAMti r fr ol1 "f alt ft ilia ; i uuicu t uc o cii cbuld not! recommend action "which might well result in a spread of .the conflict beyond its present limits." Chamberlain warned shipown ers to keep out of the danger areas and, 1 amid laborite heck ling, announced the government was working on two plans to halt the bombings which, he ad mitted, sank or seriously dam dura to Page 2, Col. 3) Jones Sentenced For 5-Year Term CORVALLIS, June 14-F)-Convicted here today by a cir cuit court 1 jury of assault with Intent to kill, W. J. Jones was sentenced at Salem to five years in the state prison by Cir cuit Judge Paul Geddes. Jones was accused of 'shoot ing A. J. (Fuller last February 16 as the latter stepped from his automobile In a garage. Fuller, shot; through -the chest, recovered. : Education Board Gives Okeh To Kerr's Marketing Setup PORTLAND, June 14.-(P)-The board of higher education, ap proving a 1 minority report after more than an hour of debate, ad opted Dr. J. W. Kerr's recommen dations to establish a state agen cy for agricultural and Industrial marketing.' The board agreed upon a plan to Improve marketing conditions but was divided upon procedure. President E. C. Sammons, E. C. Pease, Herman Oliver and Walter E. Pearson supported the former chancellor's proposal while Rob ert Ruhl, C. A. Brand and Mrs. Beatrice Walton Sackett voted against it.' r Dr. Kerr, ex-president of Ore gon State college, advised the board to assign funds already bud geted In the field to creatine a marketing; cilice at Corvallis. The director, operating at the start with limited facilities, would be instructed I to coordinate and Im prove existing marketing and pro duction activities. - Dr. E. L. Packard's resignation Before Final Gavel Writein to Elect t - ' Harland Planned Church, Civic, and Parent Croups Have Candidate for School Board A campaign to elect Roy Har land, young attorney and church leader, to the Salem school board next Monday by the writein meth od took form last night at a meet ing of representatives oil major church, civic and parent groups. Leaders there announced Harland had consented to be made their candidate. - . Known as, the citizens' commit tee, the new candidate's j sponsors expressed a belief they could" suc cessfully enlist the support of non partisan groups of voters interest ed In the welare of the school system to accomplish election of a candidate not formally nomin ated by petition. The committee also will support Mrs. David Wright for reelection, it was announced. The impending writein cam paign is the first conducted In a school election here in at least 26 years, the time during which W. H. Burghardt has served as school clerk, he said last night (Turn to; Page 2, Col. 1) Loyalists Refute That City Fallen MADRID, June H.-(g)-A Spanish government communique tonight denied the strategic city of Castellon de la Plana had fall en to an Insurgent army pressingi southward toward ' Valencia, on Spain's east coast, j (Insurgent advices received at Hendaye, France.on the Spanish border, stated the" insurgents had captured the city last night and had 'driven today to a point five miles further, on the banks of the Mijares river.) : The government admitted the enemy was pressing Its ; forces hard in the Castellon sector, but added that government troops under Gen. Jose Miaja were dis plcying gre? t heroism there, and that the city had not yet fallen. Storms Sweep Hungary , BUDAPEST, J u n e 14 - (JP) -Eight persons were killed by lightning and scores injured ! by falling debris tonight as a vio lent thunderstorm and cloudburst swept Hungary. Ha 1 1 devastated vineyards. Hundreds of houses collapsed In rising floods. j j as dean of the school tot sciences at Oregon State college was ac cepted. Dr. F. A. Gilfillan, head of a department in : the , school of pharmacy, was named - acting dean. Dr. Packard who came from the University of Oregon when the science school was transferred in 1932., will retain the title of dean as director of general ; re search, director of the institute of marine biology and head of i the department of biology. 5 i Sammons urged the board to encourage leadership in consolid ating Imagination, invention, ' ad vertising and selling in connection with Oregon products. He said the state's development in produc tion surpassed what had been done In marketing. Ruhl, who presented the reject ed majority report, said: i ? ' "It is the committee's opinion that as a fact finding advisory agency in marketing and not as a regulatory one, the institutions under our direction, particularly ITurn to Page 2. Col. 21 ; To Recommend That PGE Bid j - , Be Accented For Sale of City Owned Power . Plant on Mill Stream Final Decision Remains for City Council at Next Meeting ' Acceptance of the Portland General Electric company's bid for the city-owned hydroelectric plant will be recommended to the city council by the water commis sion and the special water com mittee I of the council. It was de cided at Tuesday night's joint meeting of these two groups. The! power company's bid for the equipment alone was 112,000 in a lump sum, as compared to the offer of $14,000 made by H. B. Read, owner of radio sta tion KSLM, but Read's bid called for payment over a period of years to be made in electrical service, aside from a down payment In cash. The power company, on the other hand, offered to pay $25 a month for a five-year lease on the property where the plant Is housed; and for the water rights1 in Mill creek. Both bidders agreed to pay maintenance costs on the ditch from Stayton. W. M. Hamilton, representing the power company, agreed to make certain changes in the lease proposal which would relieve the city of 1 any liability in connection with the ditch, and . the recom (Tam to Page 2, Col. 7) Gendarmes Patrol Lindbergh Refuge ST, BRIEUC, France, June 14 -iTO-French gendarmes today pa trolled; the northern tip of the Bretoni coast guarding Charles A. Lindbergh's Island refuge after the famous flier received what police described as new menacing letters from America. Lindbergh, his wife and two small sons are guests at the St. Gilda's Island home of Dr. Alexis Carrel, the American sci entist with whom Lindbergh has collaborated in scientific re search. They plan to stay there until work On their newly purchased Illiec Island home nearby is com pleted. News of the Lindberghs ar rival in Brittany from the Kent farmhouse they occupied two years and a half in England, brought new public attention to the family in exile. Since they came a week ago police said Lindbergh had re letters from persons be Bruno Hauptmann Inno of .the kidnap-killing of ceived lieving cent Lindbergh's first son March 1, writers, holding Lind partly responsible for Hauptmann's execution April 3, 1936, were said to have made no direct threats, but the let ters had an injurious tone. Trial at Harlan Proceeds Slowly LONDON, Ky., June 14-;p-The Harlan labor trial bogged down in a mire of Interstate com merce technicalities today. The . government, prosecuting 20 companies, 22 operators and 22 former mine guard-deputies for conspiracy to violate the Wagner labor act, met firm re sistance at every turn as It sought to introduce required proof ! the companies' ' operations "affected the flow of interstate commerce." Hopes of government attor neys that they might bring their case to a speedy close today were blasted by. the refusal of the defense to stipulate that operations of all the defendant companies were similar. This would have made It necessary to place on the stand only one wit ness today. Train-Automobile Crash Near Seaside Injures 2 ASTORIA, June 14-()-A col lision j between an SP&S train and an automobile near Seaside criti cally Injured John Jandrall, Sea side school superintendent, and Mrs. IE. S. Trenholm of Lincoln, Neb., today. The woman's bus- band. also a passenger in Jan- drall's car, was unhurt. The group was returning from a fishing trip to Cullaby lake. W. A. Parsons Nominated WASHINGTON, June 14.-CZP)-The senate received the nomina tion of William A. -Parsons as postmaster at Waldport, Ore.,, to day, i : Pleads Guilt in Kidnaping Case ' I-: cS. k 1 FRANKLIN McCALL McCaU Guilty of Kidnap, He Pleads But Pleads Innocent Murder Charge at i Arraignment . of MIAMI. Fla., June li-iffy-Franklin Pierce McCaU pleaded guilty at a preliminary hearing to day to the 110,000 ransom kid naping of James Bailey Cash, jr., a crime that carries a death pen alty in Florida, and the court ar ranged to hear evidence tomor row. A special grand jury also in dicted the 21-year-old truck driv er for murder In the five-year-old Princeton lad's death but McCall, arraigned immediately, pleaded Innocent to this charge. After several attorneys express ed unwillingness to defend the prisoner because they were pre judiced, Circuit Judge H. F. At kinson appointed Jack Kehoe .to t'efend him on the kidnaping count only. It was indicated Mc Call might not be tried on the murder charge. A special grand jury heard tes timony from James Bailey Cash, father of the kidnaped victim, and federal agents, end returned the indictments within two 'hours. Mc Call was arraigned immediately. FBI agents said' earlier McCall confessed he placed .a handker chief over the face of' the Cashes' only child in taking him from his bedroom May 28 at nearby Prince ton, Fla. The body was found 12 days later less than a mile from the residence.. Relief Body Asks Alteration Plans The Marion county relief com mittee yesterday ordered detailed plans drawn to show alteration requirements for the two sites recommended as new quarters for its staff and commissary. Selec tion of the hew location will be deferred until owners of the two buildings - under consideration, Fraternal temple, a 47 Center street, and Heltrel building, 356 North Liberty, have decided how much remodeling tljey are willing to undertake. The relief office staff was asked to have the plans completed by this afternoon for presentation to the owners. Death and Destruction Left by Japanese Bombs In Stricken Chinese Cities After Air Raids ; fir 1- f it:- v, 1 ., ... "M(. -S..- I , ::.S; '4s;; It- , -v .), " Taking a terrific toll of property damage and thousands of lives, Ja panes planes left such cities as Hsucli ow, above, and Canton In shambles after repeated air raids. More than half of Canton's 1,000,000 pop ulation has been evacuated and Hsuchow Is almost a deserted city with whole sections such as that above, left without a house standing or a street left nnscarred. Postmasters icing at Bill's Passing " Wtird of Civil Service Bill's Approval Read at Meet Three Classes Virtually Assured Lifetime " Jobs by Action Oregon third and fourth class postmasters, holding their annual convention banquet here last night, rejoiced at word that the bill putting first, second and third class postmasters under civil ser vice was yesterday passed by the senate and now goes to the presi dent for bis signature. News of the bill's passage was contained in a telegram read by Emmett E. Conzelman, Republic, Kans., representative of the . Na tional League of District Postmas ters, who earlier in the day pre dicted passage of the civil service proposal before termination to day of Oregon convention. Fourth Class Wants Salary Yesterday's congressional ac tion will obviate one of the three important resolutions which were scheduled to come before the postmasters sessions today. The other two resolutions, not yet re ported on the floor, presumably will ask for congressional legisla tion to place fourth class postmas ters, already under civil service, on a salary basis, and will seek for third class postmasters .some of the revenue from their post office equipment rental In addition to salary. S. K. Adams of Saginaw Is chairman of the resolutions com mittee. Main speaker at last night's banquet was Carl Donaugb, US district attorney, who compli mented the postmasters upon their service in behalf of the gov ernment to Individuals and com munity. Donaugh expressed pleasure at passage of the civil service bill (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Clatsop Bristles With Guardsmen . ASTORIA, Ore., June H-(JP)-Camp Clatsop bristled with sol diers today as 3600 Oregon na tional guardsmen of the 41st di vision arrived in 160 trucks in three convoys and five trains for two weeks of training. Brigadier General Thomas E. Rllea arrived with the first train, bearing the Becond battalion, 18 6th infantry, from La Grande, Baker, Pendleton and The Dalles. The second, with guardsmen from Roseburg, Medford, Grants Pass and Oregon City followed and three others, bearing upstate troops, were unloaded within four hours. Colonel Thomas Monroe, sen ior instructor of the California national guard, arrived to act as president of the board of inspec tors during the encampment. Woman PWA Counsel PORTLAND, Ore., June 14-() -Mrs. Dorothee Scarbrough Wolfe of Olympia, Wash., became assist ant counsel in the regional office of the, PWA today. She was for merly deputy attorney for the Washington state social security administration. 4 v.- Reio l .... .1, v v - UppO isitwn Jrqps up To Compromise Bill ' A nd Ties up Senate Elimination of States9 Contributions for Dams and Reservoirs Reason for Fight Against Measure Battered Wage-Hour Bill Receives Okeh at Last and Goes to White House for President's Signature WASHINGTON, June 14 (AP) A burst of legislative speed swept two major pieces of administration legislation through congress tonight, but then the senate became En meshed in a wordy discussion over flood control. The battered and bruised wage-hour bill, establishing labor standards for much of interstate business, was sent to : Othe White House for President Nine Bodies Taken From Plane Ruins Air ' Bureau Men Finish ; Investigation of Wreckage YOSEMITE, Calif., June 14.-(ff-The shattered remains of a TWA airliner were left to the el ements near the top of lonely, bar ren Buena Vista crest in Yosem Ite National park today as depart ment of commerce men completed an investigation of the wreckage and started the long, hazardous trek down the 9,1 5 0-foot moun tain.' The bodies of the plane's nine occupants arrived In Wawona via mules early this morning after a 20-mile hazardous descent. The plane crashed in a violent storm, the night, of March 1. The wreckage was found Sun day by W. O. Collier, Fresno youth, who acted on his "hunch" that the plane was following a ra dio beam north from Fresno. The ship struck three trees si multaneously probably at 200 miles an hour; sheared them off 50" feet above ground: crashed in to a huge tamarack tree a few hundred feet further on, and (Turn-to Page 2, Col. 3) Two Trains Crash In Slide, 20 Dead TOKYO, June 15- (Wednes day )-P)-T wo express trains traveling in opposite directions were derailed today by a land slide between Wake and Kumaya In southwestern Japan, killing at least 20 persons and injuring 150. Ten children -were among the dead. Apparently the slide, loosen ed by a day-long rain, came just before the trains were about to pass each other. Heavy rains at . Shimonosekl, port on the extreme southwest ern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, also caused a land slide in which five houses were burled and 10 residents killed. An explosion in the M like col lieries in Fukuoka prefecture killed at least 10 miners. i 1 j ti'.5p'-iv .V., ,-"' Roosevelt's signature. With the exception of two con troverted senate amendments, the lendlng-spending bill, appropriat ing $3,753,000,000 to be applied to work, relief, direct relief, pub lic works and other projects des ignated to stimulate recovery, re ceived the same senate and house approval. Then, with the leadership call ing adjournment sometime tomor row "a cinch," the unexpected happened. A compromise flood control bill encountered a firm wall of opposition in the senate, because It required federal pay ment of the cost of dams and. reservoirs and relieved the states' of any financial participation. Would Permit Condemnation In addition, the bill would per mit the government to step in and condemn property for flood con trol projects in one state even though the 1 benefit of the pro jects contemplated; were confined to other states. This provision was hit hard on the senate floor. Senator O'Mahoney (D, Wyo.) attacked- it bitterly, while Sena tor Bankhead, with a look at the clock it was then midnight) re proached .him for filibustering against the measure. Other speakers besides O'Ma honey awaited their turn to take the floor in opposition. Sena tor Barkley (D-Ky), the majority floor leader, tried in vain to ob tain an unanimous consent agree ment to vote finally on the measure some time tomorrow. At 12:30, when floor attend ance was growing thin, and some senatorial heads nodding, Bark ley proposed and obtained a re cess until 10 a. m. tomorrow t Wednesday ). f The house prev iously had adjourned until noon tomorrow. Remaining to be disposed of were the flood control row, the formulation , and adoption of conference reports on a defi ciency appropriation- bill aBd what remained still in dispute of the lending-spending bill. The latter consisted of senate proposals, that $100,000,000 be (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Entombed Miner, Son Still Alive ASHLAND, Pa.. June 1 "Hungry but not hurt" were the words shouted up the rock-choked slope of a mountain coal hole to night by a father and his 17-year-old son,- trapped since early Mon day. . Rescuers tnnneled a new entry In an effort to reach 48-year-old Peter Shlnskowsky and Peter. Jr., who huddled together, without food "or water, 100 feet down la the mine they operated. They bad sot taken lunches to work with them . Monday. Experta of the Central la Col lieries company, owners of the anthracite property, and leaders of the- Independent Miners' asso ciation to which the Shinskowskys belong, worked side by side. They said they hoped to reach the pair by-tomorrow. Potter Company Workers Killed as Pole Breaks TILLAMOOK, June 14.--Lloyd Streeter, 40, died today of Injuries received June 7 when a power pole snapped and hurled him 25 feet. His fellow workman, Bert Thayer, 47, of Cloverdale, was killed almost Instantly.' The men were employed by the Mountain States Power company. Drowned in Umpqua ELKTON. June ' 14.-SnLnti! C. Farmer, 60, of Cottage Grove, lost his life In the Umpqua river last night attemDtinz to monr drifting boat. A son, who witness ed the accident , recovered the body.