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PAGE TWO Muddy Waters Continue Flow 1500 More Towns in Path of Raging Flood in Ilonan Province 1 (Continued from page 1) sibly. may increase until Septem ber. : ' The head of the international Red Cross relief work in Shanghai, John Karl Baker, said "this is the worst thing that ever happened to China. i Official Japanese spokesmen in Tokyo and ithe Japanese press re ported the flood as a great crime perpetrated by -the Chinese gov ernment against its own people. Tokyo newspapers, putting the deaths of Chinese as high as 300, 000, charged the Chinese broke the river dikes deliberately. Death estimates by Japanese of ficers on the scene, originally placed higher, now , hare been tea led down to 50.000 or less. The death toll was considered ex tremely small in proportion to the vast area devastated. Japanese military authorities withdrawing scattered flood bound troop units admitted a ser ious food shortage continued, but said Japanese casualties were small. , r Chinese officials at Hankow, provisional capital, said the. area directly east of the north4south Tclping-Hankow railway now had been entirely cleared of Japanese troops, who were forc-i to re treat before the floodwaters. Chinese military -reports indi cated also that Japanese forces marching across An whet province toward the railway were forced lo : fall back, j leaving the Japanese gunboat and destroyer armada in the Yangtze river, south of the flood area, the only active trm of the widely-heralded land-and-sea drive np the Yangtze to Hankow. Grange Looks for Labor Protection (Continued from page 1 ) mended legislation be drafted to provide for a farmer-labor concil iation board with authority to guarantee "uninterrupted grow ing. harvesting, packing, process ing, marketing." - After violent arguments, dele gates condemned the pitchfork brigade tactics of a Hubbard farmer who routed labor pickets nd unloaded his own produce at Portland market several months go. The labor committee termed U an attempt to get publicity and to encourage violence. The convention favored a res olution asking that state highway commissioners be elected and paid salaries but, on the assumption that adoption of the resolution might retard grange efforts to gain a greater distribution of highway money for rural roads, refused to pass It. Oregon's congressional delega tion was urged to seek indefinite postponement of threatened addi tional 7 to 10 per cent increases In freight rates on fruits and vegetables. Amendment of a dog control law to include damages to all do mestic animals, rather than sheep nd goats i only, waa urged. The grange asked that dog licenses be levied and! collected as are other taxes. ' v ! Delegates earlier voted down a long aeries of resolutions. Includ ing changes in state and national (range election laws. Also killed was a Washington county Pomona grange move to abolish the state grange deputy system and to transfer de;mty work to county Pomona. State Master George Sehlmeyer of California installed newly elected Oregon, officials. A move to restrict the powers of State Grange Master Ray W. Gill and force- his retirement at the end of his present term failed when supporters flocked to his 14. 250,000 Damages Asked Joe Louis CHICAGO. Jon 17.-y-Jo9 Louis, who will defend his heavy weight boxing tiUe against Max Schmeling next week, was named la a 1250.000 damage suit filed today ia circuit court by Sheridan A. Bruseauz, a negro private de tective. Hi manager,' John Roxbor- ough. and kit trainer, Julian . Black, also were made defend at. Brnseaux alleged hla repu tation was damaged by an article published in a Chicago news paper July, If, 1I3C, and charged the defendants furnished the In formation.' As Japanese Bombers Rained Death on Canton , L This graphic photo, first to reach tb United States via Clipper plane, depicts one of the numerous fires which broke oat la Canton, China, after Japanese bombarded the city for more than m week. Wamgsha railroad station was one of the most persistently bombed objectives of the raiders. Casualties daring the air raids were conservatively set at 4,000 dead and many thousands wounded. Along the river front of the South Chinese metropolis hundreds of native houseboats were reduced to driftwood as Japan ese projectiles fell Into the river. Canton Is situated close to the British crown colony of Hong Kong ad the bombing brought strong protests from the British government. Army Photographers Shoot P I. O Chiropractors Go Into Main Action (Continued from page 1) Moran. 1345 South High street, from 2 to 4 o'clock as the clos ing affair. j At a 1:30 meeting ' Sunday, reports of committees will be heard, and election of new of ficers will be made as the last act of the convention. ; Roy - Hewitt, Salem attorney, spoke at last night's dinner meet ing, taking present economic problems as his subject. He out lined mankind's j history and struggle for existence, emphasiz ing that he believed the race to day must make j adjustments greater than ever before in order to survive. In asserting his op timism aa to the survival of civilization, he said that the chiropractic physician could do his bit. for the race by continuing and improving hla present work of healing ills and thus making minds .healthy and clear. Among the visitors is Dr. Gor don V. Pefley. Portland, who told of treating the case of Mrs. Helen Caldwell, Portland young' woman who recently suffered amnesia. By manipulation and adjustment of the misplaced atlas of the spine, he was able to restore the patient to normal within one hour, so that she recognized rela tives. This young woman's case waa the third thus treated and corrected in this country, Dr. Pefley said. She totally lost her memory in a fall and had lain for three days in Portland police emergency hospital before she was identified. f Maritime Union Votes to Go AFL SAN FRANCISCO. June 17. (AVBy a vote of 2087 to 918, the Sailors Union of the Pacific has decided to give up its status as an independent union and join the AFL. which it left in 1935. The result of the sailors union election, which has been under way at various coast ports for month, was disclosed here to night. The action : of the union climaxed a break from the Mari time Federation of the Pacific, which now is holding a conven tion here. I Sailors anion officials said the sailor weald have entire auton omy Including freedom to nego tiate and sign their own agree ments with employers and the right to call or settle strikes by referendum vote of the member ship. ' When the sailors union waa a member union of the maritime federation it paid a per capita tax on a membership of CS00. Harry Lundebexg, head of the sailors nnion, could not be reach ed for comment, i - He and Harry Bridges. Pacific coast CIO long shoremen's president and domin ant figure In the Maritime Federation.-have been at odds over policies for many months. f f -, Si? Churning steam and dense smoke me most perfect cone In the world" as US Army Air Corps photo graphers ventured near 51 1. Mayon in Albany Province, P. I. Erupt ing at intervals of four hours, the "Thunder God of the Mountain" roared, cascading molten lava down the precipitous aides of the rone. Authorities tried vainly to calm terrified natives who fled the region. One man died of fright and another went Insane during the eruptions. Top photo shows the rolcano shooting steam high into the air. , r j Three Injured in Crash of Sedan (Continued from Page 1) The Sutherlands were north bound when the accident occurred and according to Investigating of ficers, evidently traveling at an excessive rate of speed. Mr. Suth erland, at the wheel, pulled to the left to go around another northbound car, evidently lost control of his machine In the loose gravel, narrowly missed a telephone pole, skidded along the linenp of gas pumps in front of the service station at the left of the highway, and rammed atop the concrete slab holding a stand ard for an air pressure hose. The Salem taxi ambulance brought the family to the Salem General hospital. Summer Widening Bids Due June 30 The state capitol reconstruc tion commission announced here yesterday that bids would be opened at Its Portland -office Jnne 30 for paving and widening of the North Summer street ap proach to the new capitol build ing. No estimate of the con tract's cost was released. As revamped the approaching street will be approximately 225 feet wide with a sunken grass covered parkway the width of the present street extending down the center. Sidewalks will be built along either side of the parkway and also along, the sides of the new pavement. Under a contract to be let by the state highway commission Court street will be fanned out in front of the capitol to a width of nearly 200 feet. Anti-Plane Cannon For Fort Stevens ASTORIA. Ore.. June 11-) Nearly $500,000 has been allo cated for installation of modern, mobile anti-aircraft batteries at Fort Stevens, it was disclosed by an authoritative source today. The half million dollars will come from a congressional ap propriation this year of J 4 2,0 00. 000 to the army for anti-aircraft defenses 'throughout the nation. The guns will be of the latest model and are now undar con struction. It is believed they will be completed In about 18 months. Fort Stevens may receive part of the equipment this year. These guns will represent the greatest single addition to Co lumbia basin defenses since the fort, built about IS 50, was ex panded during the World war. The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, ; 0 ; hilippine Volcano 'J t . v Is shown roaring straight up fromO" Wave of Cholera Runs Over India -Hi-fi- LUCKNOWJlj India, June 17.-(JP)-A ware of f holera, one of the most dangerous epidemic diseases, i rept over f increasingly large areas of. India today while mod ern medicine and sanitation fought against ancient religious practices mixed with superstition Thousands died as the dread disease was spread by natives ceremoniously carrying out centuries-old religious rites. British- led health authorities thus were greatly handicapped in their ef forts to check the epidemic. An estimated 16.500 persons already have died in the united provinces during the seven-weeks scourge, which now is said to have reached Afghanistan, beyond the northwest frontier, as well as into India's central provinces. NLRB Order Coquille Plywood Firm Workers Reinstated if Wished WASHINGTON, June 17. -(&)- The labor relations board ordered Smith Wood Products, Inc., of Kansas City toda to offer rein statement at its Coquille, Ore., plywood plant to 175 employes discharged after they switched their union allegiance from the AFL to the CIO. The board directed that back pay be computed from the date they make applications for their jobs until j they are reemployed. Thayer in Redmond FOX VALLEY Don Thayer went to Redmond this week where he hopes to get work during hay and grain harvest. ss Be Srare to i - Just Pfl Oregon, Saturday Morning, June - , in Action John Roosevelt's Wedding Today (Continued from page 1) At high noon tomorrow, John and Anne, Harvard senior and Boston debutante, will join hands at the altar of the quaint, 107-year-old union church here to provide the real climax of the number one wedding of the year. The young couple will go through the standard Episcopal, single-ring ceremony. NAHANT, Mass., June 17-(P)- Anne Clark will go to the altar tomorrow to wed John Roosevelt wearing a gown with 620 yards of satin ribbon, hand-embroidered on its gossamer whiteness. The dress. One of the most beau tiful bridal costumes of recent years, required weeks of work in a Boston shop. It took 20 yards of French organdy, and Anne's tulle veil is 30 feet long. 2 Major Parties Lay Plans Today (Continued From. Page One) ent chairman recently said . he would not be' a candidate for re election but is reported receiving backing for the position anyway. A. C. Friesen, first mentioned for democratic chairman, is now rumored interested rather in the state commltteema-nshlp now, held by A. M. Dalrymple. McCaU Takes Cell In Row of Doomed RAIFORD. Fla., June 17-()-Franklln Pierce McCall walked into his "death row" cell at Florida state prison today, 20 days after he kidnaped and killed Jimmy Cash. Unless the state pardon board heeds sn appeal for clemency, the 21-year-old farm laborer will die in the electric chair on a date to be set, by Governor . Fred Cone. Before you go on your vacation, tell us your new address ... so you may be certain of getting this paper daily; Go away and have fun . . . but don't miss the home news from the family's favor ite newspaper- one 9101 We'll Do the Rest ! No Extra Charge THE OREGON STATESMAN 18, 1933 . McNary, Snell Score Session Say Duty of Legislators to Remain in Session , to Remedy Evils (Continued from page 1) cards they built falls apart around them." ' The republican spokesman list ed ten proposals for which they had fought, sometimes success fully, during the session. These included repeal of the undistrib uted profits tax; modification of the capital gains tax; balancing of the federal budget through eliminating of waste and through equitable taxation; return of re lief administration to the states; revision of the Wagner labor rela tions act to "end the present wasteful and disruptive discord between employer and 4 employe." In , brief, the republicans of house and senate have fought to bring about a sound, lasting re vival of American industry and business," the statement said, "believing- this is the only, means whereby, farmers can find mar kets at fair prices for their crops. workers Jobs at living wages end consumer-; a better standard of living." Asserting that a' the repub lican program, the minority lead ers Said they remained pledged to fight for its adoption and would "continue that fight unremitting ly when we return to Washing ton to greatly increased num bers." Deaf Man Struck By Delayed Train BELLIXGHAM, Wash., June 17 -(iT-Because a train was late. Miles Rittenberg, about 80, of Oeming, near here, lost his life tonight. ' The elderly county resident, who. friends said, - was totally deaf, was cutting greens for his rabbits along the Northern Pact fic right-of-way in front of hia home when struck by a north bound train. Train officials said they signalled repeatedly. Investigators said, the train usually passed the Rittenberg home between 4 and S in the aft ernoon. Rittenberg. believing the train had passed, went out later in the evening, failed to hear the train and was struck. The body was badly mangled A widow and daughter at Dem in are among survivors. Umatilla Backers Say Dam Certain PORTLAND, Ore., Ore., June 1 7-VP)-Jubilation was voiced to day by the Columbia Valley asso ciation, long-time sponsor of Co lumbia and Snake river develop ment, over Teports that President Roosevelt had promised funds to start work on the Umatilla rapids dam project. Amedee M. Smith, association president, said "we feel there is no question as to the president's authority to apportion the neces sary funds." Dispatches said the president was investigating legal ity of allocating WPA money for the dam construction. vThe money would start con struction of the first of a series of dams which ultimately would op en the upper Columbia and lower Snake rivers to ocean carriers to Lewlston, Idaho. "t Aims at Balloons 1 Emma Wright, tricky archer) champion of Clatsop Beach, Ore., is pictured as she per formed a difficult feat of arch ery, shooting drifting toy bal loons while in a prone position. With both shoulders flat on the sand. Miss Wright is unable to draw the bowstring to its full "test" thereby hampering her aim. . Cop Who Arrested Robber His Friend LEAVENWORTH, .Kas.. June The policeman who ar rested Roy Gardner 17 years ago was on hand to gceet the notor ious western mail train robber and prison escape artist when he walked out of the federal peniten tiary here today, a free man: "Catching .Roy got me away from pounding the streets as a. policeman." explained Louis Son ney, whose single-handed capture of Gardner at Centralia, Wash., June 16, 1921, was acclaimed as a dangerous feat. "It . got me to a place where- I own a company distributing film out in Los Angeles. He helped me, so I helped -him." Sonney will, accompany Gard ner back west and assist him in his new ambition to make "legiti mate money." "He's been the best man to a convict that I ever heard of," praised Gardner. "He's sent me five dollars a month since I was put in and I figure he's bought me 110,000 cigarets. When a man remembers you 17 years, that a a lot." Two of Gardner's mall train robberies netted a total loot of more than S 250.000. His escaDes included one from water - locked McNeil Island. Pierce SaysTule Lake Reclamation Will Be Project . WASHINGTON. June 17-(P)- Representative Pierce (D-OrO) said today the reclamation bu reau would use -1100,000 pro vided for Klamath irrigation project in Oregon and California in the second deficiency appropri ations bill to draw 5.000 acres in the vicinity of Tule Lake. Oregonians failed in an attempt to -obtain additional funds for a more comprehensive program which would include diversion of Tule Lake waters through . a ridge to irrigate rangelands and reflood the dry bed of the lower Klamath lake. a i .. - f - - : - " v j ... i - ' ... f V : 1 - - -j r. V" ' y '..y J , .' .: ' Tvvk "V- ' ' '" r - X ,. I Kidnap Law Is Upheld by Court Washington Bench! Okehs Conviction of Larius Under new Law OLTMPIA. June 1 7.-yp)-Wash-" ington's "Lindbergh kidnap law" was upheld today by the supreme court, which affirmed the first degree kidnaping conviction - of swarthy Maurice Larius. "The statute should be given a reasonable construction in order to aid in the efficient enforcement of the law, and to promote the ends of. Justice," Justice Main, who wrote the opinion. Bald. The decision was unanimous. A Thurston - county court Jury convicted Larius, but with a spe cial finding against the death penalty. Larius faces life impris onment. On October 29, 1936, the 26- year-old former boxer, sailor and labor union worker, engaged taxi- ariver -Arlington C. Jones or Olympia for a trip, but after a short drive placed a small knife against Jones neck, and ordered him to drive to Portland. Near Chehalis, Jones, a crip ple, saw. a chance to escape as a truck approached. Thinking he might get help from the truck driver, Jones set the brakes of his taxi and threw himself upon the pavement. Larius followed him from the taxi and told the truck driver. this. man is crazy," and the truck driver did not interfere. Jones then was beaten and Larius disap peared, ; later -to be arrested in Boston and returned here for trial. - Homesick Indians Tired of It all WASHINGTON, June 17-(;P)-A group of "homesick" Oklahoma Indians asked the JTederal govern ment today to help them to run away from "civilization."; They explained they were tired of trying to get along in a white man'a world and wanted to re turn to the simple ways of their ancestors. .' They proposed to" do this by moving to some secluded spot, abounding in game and fish and forests. ' Jack Gouge, a Creek Indian from Hanna, Okla., and the lead er of the delegation, told John Collier, Indian commissioner, about 4,000 Indian a All full bloods were prepared to Join the migration." All they asked of the govern ment was the land a land that could become a "happy hunting ground" in life where they could hunt and fish and feast and work. Collier said he was entirely "sympathetic" but the matter was one for congress. He explained to Gouge that there was not such land available on present reserva tions. After the conference. Collier told reporters he believed the In dians would be 'better off away from the white people. Affiliation of Austrian Army With Nazi Decreed BERLIN. June 17.-;P)-A de cree for the coordination of the former Austrian army with .that of Germany and an order calling the Austrian men born in 117 to report between next August Is and. September 10 for military service were announced today in the official Gazette. Miss Elliott Visits AURORA Dr. and Mra. F. C. Renfreu are entertaining as bouse guest Miss Ruth D. Elliott, of Los Angeles.