Softball Season
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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River Floods
John L. Lewis Handed
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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
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Chamberlain Says
Not to Use Guns
Feels He
Cannot Sanction
Action That Might
Jump Control
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To
Recommend
That PGE Bid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.