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Softball Season The season of night soft kall under the light la starting. The Statesman port, page provides com plete reports many hoars ahead. The Weather Mostly fair bat with some cloudiness Thursday and Friday. Max. temp. Wed. 74. Min. 53. Rain .01 inch; riv er 1 tt-t ?W wind. EIGUTY-EKJHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, Jane 16, 1938 Prict 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 69 to Ma res mm POUNDDD 1651 . Cong A 1 1: j W aits Drop Paper Mi 6- 5 in Hill Sends in Winning Score In 14th Canto Score Is Same as When Wait's Won Opener in 14 Innings ' 20-30 Wins Over Eagles 2-1 in 2nd Contest , Ending at 12:15 TONIGHT'S GAMES G. PHEASANT vs. 20-30 EAGLES vs. SQUARE DEAL. By Ron Gemmell It tabes that Walt's crew long time to do it, but It event ually wins. Last nignt, lor me second consecutive appearance, Wait's waded through 14 Innings before downing the Papermakers, 6-5, the identical score and num ber of frames it took 'em to ease out Square Deal in the league opener Monday nignt. Accurate time pieces recorded 12:15, Sweetland sortbau time before the "Numbers" gang clinched a 2-1 victory over the TTatrlpa in the second same of last night's doubleheader. Twen ty-Thirty's victory came . despite three-hit, 11-strikeout hurling by Kennv Larson of the Eagles. The makers of paper took a lesson out or Square Deal s doo and tied up the count at 5-all in the, first of the ninth. Dunn coring on SerdoU' blow to short. Dunn -hit -across the keystone, advanced to second on Nichol son's rap through first base and took third on Adolph s errpr. A Scoreless Framri VollOW From there four scoreless Inn ings ensued, although the Pa permen threatened In the 11th with hits . by Dunn and Steel hammer, and Wait's garnered one blow in each of the 10th. 11th. 12th and 13th frames. Hill, who fcari ninrh-hit fnr Adoloh in the 12th, hit hard to Hoffert at sec ond in the 14 tli to score tcaies with the winning run. Hoffert's throw pulled Catcher Schnuelle off the plate, he needing only to have touched it as me Dases Touted. Opening the final inning. Roth singled and advancea to second on Scales' tap to first base which Scales beat out. Roth, in . (Turn to page 9, col. 8) Portland Parks Denied to Group PORTLAND. June iS.-VP)- Comml8sloner J. is. Bennett ciosea the citv narks today to the state liquor control commission and members of the liquor industry who Will meet here this summer. Austin Flegel. Jr., commission attorney, had applied for use of park for an outdoor banquet. Ttennett said the nnblic main tained the parks for constructive purposes. He asserted there was "nothing constructive" about a meeting of liquor industrialists. d d i t i c s in the Neun ? tt:tnamvilie. Ind.. June 15 -;p)-After 20 years of freedom, 71-year-old J. C. Crafton was returned today to Indiana's penal farm, from which he escaped in 1918. to complete a six-month sentence on -a liauor charge. A routine check of his old age pension led to his return. State police, sent after him; found him hoeing potatoes on his. little farm near Madison, Ind. YORK,, Pa June 15-Oip)-The Rev. A. P. Weaver stood In his York home and read over 2,000-mile telephone hookup the marriage ceremony that made hM daughter,- Ma Inra, the bride of M. D. Thomas in San Antonio, Tex. Relatives listened on extensions. INDIANAPOLIS, June 15-P)-Millard Evans. 32, of Valley Sta tion, Ky., gave a novel alibi to day for failing three times to appear in federal court on an automobile theft charge. "I didn't have any money for carfare.- he told Judge Robert Baltzell, "and I can't - write. That's why I couldn't let you know." Freed on his own recognizance in March, he had skipped pre vious scheduled court appear ances at New Albany, Bvansville and Indianapolis. Ills excuse worked. The Judge suspended federal, reformatory sentence Df a year and a day. 5 Extra Three Injured hW rash When Train Mrs. Frank Goodman, Result of Car Being Struck by SP Train at Turner Crossing as TURNER. June 15. Three persons were injured, two seriously, when an automobile Goodman, 42, was struck by a o'clock tonight. '' Two freight trains were moving in opposite directions, witnesses said, and Mrs. Goodman had waited for the south bound train' to pass,, then drove onto the tracks without seeing that the north - bound train was coming. It I was not moving fast and the car was not thrown, any great distance but was totally de molished, j Mrs. Goodman and her son Rob ert, 7, were seriously injured, a daughter, Suzanna, 12, being less badly hurt. (The Southern Pacific agent hj6re j called the company's physician and an ambulance from Salem and all three were taken to the Deaconess hospital7 there. They live three miles southwest of Turner. . Attendants at the hospital said Mrs. Goodman was the more seri ously injured of the three. She was still unconscious when she was put into the ambulance. The boy. suffered a head injury. The Salem first aid car was also called to the scene but arrived aft er the ambulance had started back to this cityf with the injured peo ple, j Mrs. Goodman was reported by the Deaconess hospital to be in "fair" condition early this morn ing. She suffered a fractured pel vis and numerous cuts about the body. Oregon's Soldiers To Begin Shooting ASTORIA, June 1 5.-;P)-While 3600 Oregon National Guardsmen training at Camp Clatsop took toughening drills today, an ad vance detail of the 249th, coast artillery regiment checked equip ment, installed radios and tele phones In five Fort Stevens coast al defense! gun batteries In prep aration for firing practice starting Thursday, j Following a 1 3-gun salute for Major General George A. White, commander of the 41st division who reached camp today, the 162 nd Infantry, commanded by Colonel Fred M. West, Portland police captain, held the first reg imental parade of the encamp ment. I Fires started in several tents when heat; ignited grease used as a stovepipe preservative, but were smothered; with little damage. Artillerymen 1 e a r n e d then would fire one-pound, sub-caliber shells in six and eight inch guns and three - pounders in mortars when actual firing starts next week. . j SCC Buys Flour WASHINGTON, June li.-Jf) The surplus commodities corpora tion announced today the pur chose of 914.900 barrels of flour at a cost of about $4,200,000 from millers In virtually all sec tions of the country for distribu tion among needy families. . Osteopaths Elect LA GRANDE. June 15-;p)-The Oregon Osteopathic associ ation named Dr. Margaret ? Igle of La Grande president at the closing session of the 35th an nual convention. The 1939 meet ing will be at Portland. Grangers Refuse to Oppose 70rCar'Train Limit Measure KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., June 15.-;P)-Tbe Oregon grange over rode its transportation committee today and refused to adopt eith er of two resolutions opposing a 70-car train bill now in congress. The action followed a lengthy de bate, r Grange convention delegates voted to : ask the state board of agriculture and Governor Charles IL Martin to put a grange-sponsored state marketing act into op eration soon to allow an early test of its constitutionality. An Increased tariff on South American canned beef and redu ced sugar importaUons were urged to protect American farm and livestock Interests. The grange overwhelmingly en dorsed the pre-conventlon re-election of State Master Ray W. Gill Hi Frmnes S-kes Car 42, Has Serious Injuries driven by Mrs. John Frank freight train here at 9:10 ' ' - l i . - , 7 Market Koads Listed for Oiling Work Scheduled to Begin After July 4 if Court Able Sections of seven market roads In Marion county will be oil-surfaced this summer if the county court Is able to carry out Its pres ent tentative program, scheduled to start shortly after July 4. Twenty miles of new oiling will be done unless requirements for patching and non-skidding of old surfaced roads make too great an Inroad on the court's oiling fund. County Commissioner Roy S. Mel son said yesterday. This season's mileage of new oil-rocking will be lower than that of last summer because a heavier base and binder treatment Is to be applied to : make the surfacing more durable. Roads listed for oiling are: . Market road 22, extension of Pen road east of Salem from Geer toward the Silverton - Sublimity road, approximately five miles. Market road 65, Broadacres to Donald, and Nos. 61 and 12 from Donald to Champoeg, r approxi mately 6.8 miles. Market road 74, otherwise known as Meridian or Silverton Monltor cutoff road, completion of Pudding river bridge approach es and oil-surfacing, 2.5 miles. Market road 64, from end of Rosedale pavement s o u t hward. length to be oiled not yet deter mined. Market road 52, or Chemawa (Turn to page 2, col. 2 : McCall Adjudged Guilty in Court MIAMI, Fla., June Franklin Pierce McCall, 2 1-year-old truck driver, was formally ad Judged guilty today of kidnaping little James Bailey Cash, Jr. a crime punishable by death. Circuit Judge II. F. Atkinson deferred imposing sentence until tomorrow at the request of de fense counsel, ft Florida statutes provide the electrocution penalty for ransom kidnaping unless a Jury recom mends life imprisonment. There was no jury because McCall pleaded guilty of abduction at a preliminary hearing yesterday. Although indicted also j for murder, he was tried only on the kidnaping charge after he pleaded innocent of the five-year-old boy's death. ... OSC Registration up j CORVALLIS, June 15.-01P)-E. B. Lemon, registrar, announced today enrollment at Oregon State college had more than doubled In the last four years. Registration for the school year Just completed was 4476 compared with 2227 for 1933-34. and selected Corvallls for the 1939 meeting. - s ; Ralph W. Perry of Hood River, who opposed Gill In the recent state-wide election, received 22 write-in votes. Corvallls gained preference over Eugene, 321-89. Officers elected with. Gill were Morton Tompkins, overseer; Mrs. G. W. Thiessen, lecturer; Edyth Weatherred, chaplain; Bertha J. Beck:, secretary; Max K 1 i g e I, gatekeeper; ' M a r k e y Knowles, Ceres; Eleanor Rich, Ponoma; Pe ter Zimmerman and Fred A. uoff. executive committee. . A run-off election deposed Dr. Albert Slaughter. Portland, veteran member of the executive commit tee, replacing him with W. ; A Johnson, Grants Pass. Also elect (Turn to page 2, col.-) Cholera Adds To Flood and War Dangers Shanghai Municipal Body Says Dread Plague Rampant There Peasants and Troops in Flight Before Flood Waters' Ravages SHANGHAI, June 16.-(Thursday ) -(JP)- Flood and cholera dangers mounted! today in China, where peasant millions already were suffering from 11 months of warfare. Rising floodwaters of the Yel low river surged 50 miles south of disastrous breaks in dikes near Chengchow, central China's rail and military crossroads. Far from the war and flood fronts, the Shanghai municipal council officially declared cholera to be epidemic in Shanghai. In the city's hospitals there were 123 cases, 73 of them originating in foreign-administered areas. . . On the northern Shantung prov ince coast the British steamer Shuntien was quarantined at Che foo after one cholera death aboard. Eight Chinese died of cholera in Japanese-occupied Soo chow, 50 miles west of here. To block spread of the disease to Japan the Japanese consulate general ceased issuing bills of health to vessels proceeding from Shanghai to Japanese ports. Thus all passengers without certificates of inoculation must undergo ex amination before entering Japan. (Dispatches from Lucknow, In dia, in the area which in years past has been a starting-point of epidemics, said cholera had taken 12,000 lives in the past seven weeks in the united provinces.) In flood-menaced areas Japan ese engineers directing attempts to stem the inundation said their previous statements that 150,000 (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Land Damage Cost Out of Flood Bill Three Bank Protection J Projects Underway on I Willamette WASHINGTON, June 1 5-jP)-Congress loaded on the federal government's shoulders today an extra 8140,000,000 share of the cost of flood control projects au thorized this session and last. It approved a bill eliminating the previously - required 100 per cent contributions by local spon sors to cover land damage costs in construction of flood control dams, reservoirs r.nd channel im provements. Army engineers, discussing the bill unofficially, said that as a result the federal cost of projects in this year's bill, originally esti mated at 1375,000,000, would be increased by about $40,000,000. Adds to 1936 Project Cost In addition, they said, there would be an Increase "that might reach 8100,000,000' in the cost of completing the pro gram authorized in the 1936 flood (Turn to page 7, col. 2) , White Wins Case Against PT & T PORTLAND, Ore., June 15.-(tf)-Coe C. White, ex-englneer, received 825,000 'from a circuit court jury today in his $100,000 damage suit against the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany and Special Agent R. V. Jen kins. The former employe charged he was "maliciously prosecuted and wrongfully arrested" in connec tion with a $5,484 robbery. The grand jury returned a not true bill. White was recently awarded $12,375 in federal court in a sim ilar action against the company and another special agent. Battleship Oregon Berth Appropriation Approved WASHINGTON, June 15-(P) The state of Oregon received title to small tracts of land In Coos and Tillamook counUes for high way use and $25,000 for the per manent docking of the Battleship Oregon at Portland In three meas ures signed today by President Roosevelt. .- Late Sports OAKLAND. Calif., June 15.- (JPy Night game score: Los Angeles . 1 ', 11 t Oakland . ; . 9 12 3 Leiber, Berry (8) and Collins; Sheehan, Llndell (1), Joyce (9) and Ralmondl. . Plane Wreckage Found Atop 4r Z -"t -J This is the sight which greeted H. O. Collier when he recently reached Buena Vista Peak, in the Sierra of Yosemite Park, while on bis "hnnch" search for the TWA airliner which disappeared March 1 while en route from San Francisco to Los Angeles. After crashing two trees, the plane apparently 'plunged into the mountain peak. Both wings were sheared off with hardly a scratch. The fuselage was a tan . gled mass of wreckage. Bodies of the nine occupants were recovered and taken to Fresno, Cal., where Mrs; Rachel Dirlam awaited the remains of her son and daughter, J. Tracy, 22, and Mary Lou, 18, both Stanford students. The Dirlam children were en route to the bedside of their, dying father at Mans field, O. The father succumbed to a heart ailment m few days after the plane was reported missing. 4 Cent Minimum Placed on Logans Board Sets Scale Detailed Study Foreign Marts After of The Oregon loganberry control board, holding an all-day ses sion here ' yesterday, set a mini mum price of four cents per pound on the 1938 loganberry crop regardless of to what use the berries are to be put. The minimum price Is 2 cents un der the control price last year. General business conditions, coupled with the fact that there is a large carryover of the 1937 pack of most fruits, determined the final price set by the board. The price was set only after the most thorough study of mar ket and crop conditions on the part of the board members, all of whom were present for the meeting. Market conditions in England, Canada, Washington and other growing centers were weighed carefully. At the same session, the board elected' Harry HugiU of the Hub bard Berry Growers' association president; Frank Hrubets of Sa lem, vice president; and reelected William Linfoot, Salem, secretary-treasurer. The control board is confident that all logans will move at a price of not less than 4 cents, and where growers are able to (Turn to page 7, col. 1) Insurgents Drive To End Campaign HENDAYE, France - (At the Spanish Frontier), June 1S-(JF)-Insurgent armies today pressed a double drive against two widely-separated Spanish government strongholds In what appeared to be a large scale campaign to end the civil war. On the Mediterranean coast Insurgent Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco's columns struck to ward refugee-crowded Valencia without slackening their offen sive after the fall of Castellon de La Plana gave access to the central coastal plain. In southern Spain a. sudden attack on the long dormant Pen narroya sector northwest of Cor doba indicated insurgents were starting a general offensive into Cordoba province to put govern ment defenders between two fires ; .. Insurgent bombers again ranged the east coast in attempts to shut off .government importa tion of supplies. In Valencia har bor a F r e n c h , freighter was bombed and sunk and a sailing vessel set afire. . Five raids were made on Va lencia itself. 275 Delegates Expected For AFL Tillamook Meet PORTLAND, June 15-;P-Approximately 275 delegates will at tend the annual State Federation of Labor convention a tTillamook Monday, Ben T. Osborne, secre tary; said today. Invitations to speak have been forwarded Henry Hess, democra tic nominee for governor, and Charles ; Sprague, the republican nominee. Osborne said Astoria had bid tor the 1939 session. "7 x f - - - 4 V'H' A. Foreman Crushed In Tunnel Cavein After Giving Aid MCMINNVILLE, fere., June 15 -ipy-A. B. Doyle, 5, Portland, foreman of a government drain age tunnel project cm the Salmon River cutoff near Boyer, was killed today in a tunnel cavein. Doyle went 20 feet into the tunnel to free a workman caught In a; small' slide, helped him es cape but was struck by another cavein. ) : Workmen uncovered a portion of Doyle's body but determined he was dead, but were forced to stop digging because of con tinuing slides. State police said the body would be recovered to morrow. Rev, Swift Named For Relief Board Governor Charles H. Martin yesterday announced he had ap pointed Rev. George H. Swift, rec tor of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Salem, to succeed E. L. Wieder as a member of the Marion coun ty relief committee. Mr. Wieder, chairman, recently submitted his resignation. Rev. Swift is the third new citi zen member to be appointed to the committee in the past year. J. F. Ulrich of Salem succeeded M. G. Gunderson of Silverton last year while H. V. Collins recently was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of T. A.-Windishar. Before coming to Salem nine years ago, Rev. Swift was rector of All Saints Episcopal church of Minot, N. D., and from 1918 to 1922 engaged in settlement work for Trinity parish in New York city. US Shouldn't Sell Planes Says MussolinVs Paper MILAN, Italy,. June 15.-)-Premler Mussolini's newspaper II Fopolo D'ltalia today declared the United States should halt the sale of bombing planes to all nations if she wants to be consistent. II Duce's paper made the sug gestlons in' commenting on the declaration Secretary Hull made June 11 attempting to stop the flow of American-made planes to Japan. . Secret Service Nahant for NAHANT, Mass.. June 15.-JP Secret service men of the White House detail moved quietly through this sea-girt town today in final preparation for President Roosevelt's arrival for the Satur day wedding ot his youngest son, John, and Anne Lindsay Clark. When John and Anne set out tonight to fill part of their cram med social calendar, plans had been completed for the chief ex ecutive to land from the Yacht Potomac at the historic seaport of Salem, not far distant, just in time to motor to the wedding cer emony. A literally blushing bridegroom met with reporters earlier in the day to struggle, at their behest, through a description of the dress Anne's mother, Mrs. F. Haven Clark, will wear oa the weddin" Mountain 1 kyi if Convention Here Mrs.' Mitchell Reelected and Seaside Named for 1939 Meet Oregon third and fourth class postmasters concluded their two- day, contention heij late yester day afternoon with reelection of Mrs. Sophie M. Mitchell of Ya chats as president and election of William Fisk of Sherwood as secretary-treasurer. Earlier in the day Seaside was selected as the 1939 convention city, the date to be set later by the National League of District Posmaster8,. of which the Oregon group is a branch. The. four district vice-presidents elected were: J. V. Bilyeu, Tigard, first; Olive Mott, Summit, second; Agnes Wyant, Lake Creek, third; and D. E. O'Conner, Paisley, fourth. . Farley. Assistant Gives Talk - Other highlights of the Thurs day program were addresses by Charles C. Wenrick, chief clerk, first assistant postmaster general, and the man in Washington, D, C, through whom bulk of the postmaster appointments pass be fore they-are announced; S. C. Schwartz, postofflce inspector .(Turn to page 7, col. 3) Planes Shot Down As Canton Raided CANTON, June 16-(P)-(Thurs-day)-(iB3)Chinese reports today said a Japanese bombing party lost heavily in a series of air raids, upon this city, the largest in southern China. Officials claimed fire bombers were shot down in he vicinity of Shiukwan, north of here, when the ' Invaders encountered 13 Chinese pursuit planes. The surprise defense started speculation that the Chinese suc cess may have' been the result of action of the high command In sending 30 French-manufactured planes to the Canton area to ward off the almost daily at tacks which started May 28. . Today's air raids, starting at dawn, wrought additional havoc to the city and it was believed caused a heavy loss of life. Men Prepare Roosevelt Rites o- day, report plans ror solving a somewhat acute housing shortage due to so many Roosevelts being In town on the same day, and re veal that Harvard athletic teams had robbed him of two of his ush ers. -,; . Despite all questions, however, John refused to disclose how he and Anne Intended to escape from this almost-Island town, connect ed with the mainland only by a causeway, after their wedding re ception. There was continued specula tion that their honeymoon trip would include a sea-trip, either to Europe or Bermuda. John and Anne danced tonight at a private supper party, and ar ranged to dance again tomorrow jTurn to page 2, col. S) Leaders Make Final Effort ToEndToday House and Senate Diffei on $289,000,000 Deficiency Bill House Overrides Veto on Bill Continuing low Interest Notes WASHINGTON, June 15-UP)-Administration-leaders' efforts to bring the historic 73th congrest to a close tonight failed when senate and house differed on a comparatively minor Issue a de ficiency bill carrying $289,000, 000 to eke out the funds of sev eral government agencies. The two chambers will go into session again tomorrow, when the leaders- will make another effo to -wind up legislative af fairs. They predicted It would be successful. Before congress- knocked f f work for the day, the house re belled against President Roose velt's leadership on a farm ques tion. It -voted 244 to 87 to over ride his veto of a measure con tinuing low interest rates on cer tain loans made on farm land by the federal land banks, and on farm products by land bank commissioners. The measure would continue an "emergency" rate o 3' .per cent on the former class of loans. and 4 per cent on the latter. Mr. Roosevelt objected that the bill would Cost the treasury $208,700,000. Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the majority leader, predicted the senate also would override the veto. Farm Bencfjts -Settled A senate-house committee settled touchy question of conference today the distributing $212,000,000 in benefit payments among farmers, principally grow ers of cotton, corn and wheat. Each chamber had " wanted to divide the money somewhat dif ferently, but the conferees chose the house proposals. - They provided that $86, 400,000 shall go to cotton, $68,800,000 to corn and $53,200,000 to wheat. The money is included in the ad ministration's big spending-lend-ing bill, which totals $3,753, 000,000. . When the deficiency bill for government agencies came up ia the senate, that chamber tacked on $10,000,000 in various miner amendments. Thereupon con ferees, whose job it is to har monize senate and house bills, threw up their hands and decided not even to attempt the task until tomorrow. One of the measures passed to day by the senate and sent to tba White House would set up a sys tem of unemployment compensa tion for railroad workers. A tax ot three per cent ot wages up te $300 a month would be collected from railroads to finance this program, which would be admin istered by the railroad retirement board. State Rights Filibuster Dies For a while today it appeared there would be a prolonged sen ate filibuster ou the question oi states' rights, but this argument J (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Study of Effect On Fish Before River Job Asked "PORTLAND, June 15-fP)-Ap-proval of dam construction and flood control projects before studying their effects on fish life .was opposed today by the state fish commission. Hugh Mitchell, hatchery super visor, forecast a large salmon egg take this season because limited catches permitted fish to reaclT spawning .waters Mike Hoy, master fish warden, said a preliminary investigation re futed assertions the spring sal mon run had vanished. He added the run this year was about the same as 1937 but less than 1936 Helen Priday Chosen Eastern Star Matron At Convention Close PORTLAND, June 15-()-Mrs. Helen Priday of Madras was elect ed worthy grand matron and Phil ip C. Jones of Portland, worthy grand patron at the annual con vention of the Eastern Star. Other officers' included Dora Stipe, Beaverton. associate grand matron, Benjamin Nichols, Cor vallls, associate grand patron, Nellie McKInley, Portland, grand secretary, Isabel Lowe, Troutdale, grand treasurer, Hallie Hunting ton, Eugene, grand conductress. Fay Ambrose, Portland, associate grand conductress