The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 26, 1938, Page 1, Image 1

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The Weather
Partly cloudy Sunday and
Monday with fogs on coast.
Little humidity change.
Jtfax. Temp. Sat. 80. M in 48.
River l. feet. Northwest
wind.
Softball Coverage
Tbe Statesn an has tm
proved Its Softball coverage
this year by publishing ab
breviated box scores of the
night games.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 26, 1933
Price Se; Newsstands 5e
No. 78
Moderation on
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Chinese
Bloody Battle ,
Rages on Bank
Below Hankow
Boom Across River Goal
of Japanese Boats
and Infantry
Mikado's Troops Drive
Toward H?.uKbw, 200
Miles Upstream
SHANGHAI, - June 26-Sunday
) -(;P)-Chinese a n d Japanese
forces fought desperately today
for mastery of the Yangtze river
Talley about 200 miles down
stream from Hankow, the provi
sional capital.
Bloody battles were reported
on the south bank at Shiangkow
chang, 20 miles below the -Chinese-defended
boom at Matow
chen. This barrier of sunken boats,
timbers, rocks and concrete was
the first barrier to Japanese gun
boats pointing the river offensive
against Hankow. -
Japanese infantrymen thrust
overland through the hills of An
il wei province to assist In the
river offensive being conducted
primarily by landing parties borne
upriver under protection of the
attacking gunboats.
-Chinese Claim - .
Drive Halted
The Chinese declared the Yang
tze offensive had been halted.
Shore batteries aided by fast Chi
nese bombing planes were said
to have driven the attacking gun
boats down river after they man
aged once to get within shelling
range of the Maiowchen boom. ,
The Chinese asserted two Japa
nese gunboats were sunk in an
air-raid there yesterday.
(The Chinese army - headquar
ters at Hankow announced more
than half of a Japanese landing
force of 5000 men were killed
or wounded when It was counter
attacked near Matowchen yester
day.) .
Blocked by widespread -Yellow
river floods in Honan province,
the Japanese were 200 miles from
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's
provisional capital, Hankow.
If the river continues to rise
the Japanese may find it impas
sable. Military observers won
dered whether the Japanese,
should the thrust along the Yang
tze fail, would attempt an inva
sion of south China to keep the
conflict on an active basis.
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Circus to Return
To Florida Home
SCRANTON, Pa., June 25.Hff
-John Rlngling North, head of
the Ringling, Barnum & Bailey
circus, and Ralph Whitehead,
head of the American Federation
of Actors,' tonight signed an
agreement for the return of the
circus to its winter quarters at
Sarasota, Fla.
The signing of the agreement
officially ended the summer tour
of the circus which was halted
abruptly last Wednesday when
1,600 workmen went on strike
rather than accept a proposed 25
per cent reduction in wages. .
Spokesmen for the union said
the circus was released to go to
its winter quarters "as soon as
possible." Plans were made for
packing the big tent and animals
on southbound trains, probably
tomorrow.
The employes struck against a
proposed wage reduction of 25
per cent which North said was
necessary if the show was to con
tinue. President Says
He'll Come Here
WASHINGTON. June 25.H1P)
President Roosevelt will visit
Orezon next spring for the pur
' pose of inspect! ig the Willamette
valley project he told Willis Ma
honey, Klamath Falls, democratic
senatorial nominee, today.
Mahoney also quoted the chief
executive as having said that Ore
gon is destined to reach a popula
tion of 3,000,000 or more people
and that projects of this sort will
help the state enable to care for
the increase. -
The president also opined that
one of the great needs of the day
is decentralization of population;
a distribution of activities rather
than concentration of people and
activities in large cities.
He said he favored the Oregon
- o I
project because it would tend to I
bring about this result.
Fight to Keep
Living Cost $317 Less
In Mobile Than Detroit
Study of Cities Shows
WPA Survey in 31 Industrial Centers to Be Basis
for Wage Fixing Under Terms of new U
Wage and Hour
WASHINGTON, June 25 (AP) It costs a manual la
borer's family of four $317 less to live for a year in Mobile
than it does in Detroit. r ' !
Those w ere the cities that stood at the top and bottom of
a living; cost study made in 31 cities by WPA. The figures
were drawn from March 15 prices, compiled by WPA and
the bureau of labor statistics. O ;
Living costs will play a part in
the wage fixing that eventually
will be done under the new wage
and hour, law.
The - report a a I d the laborer
with three dependents could live
for $1144.31 annually In Mobile,
as compared with $1461.40 in
Detroit, j
Mobile was the only city of the
group studied which fell below
$1200 a year. Seven other south
ern cities ranged between $1200
and $1300 a year. They were Bir
mingham, Houston, Jacksonville,
Memphis, New Orleans, 'Norfolk
and Richmond. Atlanta was just
across that line with $1306.
In other sections, the cities in
which living costs were less than
$1300 were Denver, Indianapolis,
Kansas City and Portland, Me.
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Find no Bacteria
In Capitol Pipes
Progress Made Flushin,
Foreign Matter From
Plumbing System
j Water i systems of the new cap
itol and the state office building
showed no sign of the presence of
dangerous bacteria when the dev
elopment of test samples taken
earlier in the week was completed
yesterday by the city water de
partment's chemist. Manager Cuy
ler VanPatten reported.
The outcome of the state group
tests left the water department's
record clear. No tests during the
city's nearly three years' time as
owner of the system have shown
contamination!
: Water department and state em
ployes worked yesterday morning
flushing; out the plumbing system
in the new capitol and reported
progress In clearing sediment from
the water. Several days or pos
sibly weeks are expected to pass
before the condition is entirely
eliminated.
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Presses Roar as
News Strike Ends
PITTSBURG, June 26 ()
Giant presses rolled again tonight
and heralded tbe end of a nine
day strike that kept some 2,000
newspaper workers idle.
Settlement of the strike at the
Sun-Telegraph and the Press as
sured more than a half-million
readers j their hometown Sunday
newspapers tomorrow. Last Sun
day morning they had none.
Sleepy-eyed fathers and moth
ers who get up early to read the
comics I to the kiddies faced a
double task. The Sun-Telegraph
announced it would publish two
comic sections. Including the one
that otherwise would have ap
peared last Sunday.5
Publication of - both papers was
suspended June 17 after an AL
office workers union went on
strike and 10 craft unions refused
to pass through picket lines.
Oregon Astronomer Believes
Spokane Meteor Didn't Hit
EUGENE, Ore., June 25-(JP-Atmospherie
friction probably des
troyed the great Spokane meteor
of June 1 and it never struck the
earth, J. Hugh Pruett, western
director of the American Meteor
society, said today after a study of
reports mailed in by observers.
Prof.' Pruett. who through the
Associated Press, asked for re
ports so that he might study the
actions of the meteor, said people
in four states had written him.
He estimated that the meteor
was destroyed about 10 miles
above the earth after -descending
at a very steep angle and he put
the point ot dissolution near the
Washington-Ioaho line, between
Dominion, Wash., and Bonners
Ferry, Idaho.
' Reports show, he said, that the
brilliant, zig-zagging body left a
smoke trail which was easily seen
Buiu&v ii an niuttt n a a cuu kch
by persons as far as 200 miles
distant and many, reported the
Law Just Passed
Boy Killed When
2 Trains Smash
Crack "Olympian'' Again
in Accident as CCC
Special Struck
INGOMAR, Mont., June 25(P)
A head-on collison between the
"Olympian," pride of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul & Pacific
railroad, and a CCC train killed a
CCC youth and injured 13 other
persons a mile west of Ingomar
today. i
Last Sunday, when the Olympian
crashed through a bridge into a
flooded creek approximately 85
miles east of here, an estimated 47
persons- lost their lives, i
The dead CCC enrollee was
identified as ; Robert Eckert ; of
Portageville, N. Y., a worker in
the CCC mess car. Another CCC
boy, Edward Kohlbrenner of Buf
falo, N. Y., was seriously injured.
Railroad officials said the col
lison occurred when the west
bound Olympian ran through or
ders to meet the eastbound CCC
train at Ingomar.
"Both locomotives were badly
damaged. The Olympian's coaches
were derailed and the CCC train
went down an embankment.'
The Injured included ' four
trainmen and nine pasengers.
none of whom, besides Kohlbren
ner, was reported feriously hurt.
The CCC train was on its way to
Camp Dix, N. J., from Fort
Wright, Spokane. f "
Guns Bark Salute
To Honor Martin
CAMP CLATSOP, Ore., ! June
2 5-(;p)-With thousands of visit
ors looking on, 12 of tbe big 155
howitzers of Oregon's 218th field
artillery wheeled into position on
the camp parade ground today
after 3500 of Oregon's soldiery
had marched past in a grand re
view. . J -! i .
. At an officer's command each
of the guns barked one at a time,
followed by the white burst of a
Shrapnel shell high in the air.
The show opened the guard's
combat demonstration. -
The gunfire was followed by
infantry action, who in turn were
followed by machine gun units.
Governor Charles. H. Martin
dropped state and political roles
to return to the military atmos
phere on visitor's day. Standing
bare-headed he reviewed 3600
national guardsmen in ' the three
mile parade. f -j
He was accorded a 17-gun sa
lute when he arrived at the en
campment. Mayor not Candidate
NEW YORK, June 25rP)- May
or LaGnardla, whose friends have
proposed him as a successor to the
late U. S. Senator Royal S. Cope
land," announced tonight he would
not be a candidate this year though
he admitted, "I would love to
serve in the senate." , . "
trail visible for an hour Kellogg,
Idaho, said the trail was seen for
two hours and then was wafted
away by upper winds.- j
Commenting on the fact ' that
the meteor, instead of falling In
a more or less straight line, ap
peared to zig-zag. Prof. ; Pruett
said: : .
"This is a common occurrence
with meteors that are a very Ir
regular type. Many compared the
Smoke trail to sky writing.
While so sound was heard by
these far away, all persons who
were close to the lower end of the
trail he&rd loud blasts that shook
houses. Observers In Colville,
Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry. j Deer
Lake and Metalline Falls made
such reports. In Seattle, some
were certain that the i meteor
struck near there. " v
Prof, Pruett said the excellent
reports assisted materially in
making calculations of the met-
ear's course and acUons,
Fa
mgtze
1322,000,000
Of Materials
In PWA Order
Officials Smile at Rise
in Stock Market but
Make no Comment
Orders Part of Program
' of Lending-Spending
Relief Measure
WASHINGTON, June 25-UP)-
Fublic works officials smiled
broadly today at the week's gain
in stock market quotations and
pointed without comment to. $322,
000,000 of PWA orders moving
into the heavy industries.
That amount of basic construe
tion materials, they said, would be
required by the $440,585,029 of
non-federal projects allotted dur
ing the last three days and the
$150,000,000 of federal works
now in the mill. The two items
are a part of the lending-spend
ingnrosrrani.
Administrator Ickesj and others
oi me f vva nign command re
trained from official statment that
recent bouyance in securities re
flected PWA preparations to
spend, but they saw1 to it that
reporters were duly supplied with
a breakdown of the materials to
be ordered.
t The lists were accompanied by
verbal assurances from Ickes and
Howard A. Gray, assistant admin
istrator, that there would be "no
oiiiciai comment" on tneir re
lationship to rising prices of steel
and other shares.
Big Materials
Order Placed ,
Coincident with PWA' plunge
into materials markets,' the Works
Progress Administration asked
bids today for an estimated $12,-
000,000 of cement, asphalt, sand,
gravel, and crushed stone to be
delivered during the next six
months. ?
Harry L. Hopkins, WPA admin
istrator, said the materials, one
of the largest orders he ever has
placed, would be used on Works
Progress projects to keep an av
erage of , 2,800,000 enrollees at
work.
PWA, heading toward $600.
000,000 of construction, announc
ed grants totaling $49,952,950
for 265 federal projects and al
lotments of $4,238,260 in grants
and $24,000 in loans for 22 other
non-federal projects. '
The first batch of federal works
under the 1938 program includ-
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Dismiss Beckman
As PUC Attorney
i PORTLAND, June 25 f;p
Chairman John J. Beckman of the
Multnomah county x democratic
central committee has been dis
missed as advisory attorney for the
state public ntilities commission
er, it was learned today.
He was recently relected coun
ty chairman, receiving the Bupport
of the left-wing Oregon Common
wealth Federation, and had an
nounced he wonld support the en
tire democratic ticket, including
Henry Hess, victor over Governor
Charles H. Martin for the nomina
tion. Asked whether he felt his tleup
with these factions had any bear
ing on his dismissal Beckman said
he felt sure the dismissal was due
to the fact the work had run out.
Meanwhile Nadlne Strayer, act
ing democratic state chairman, an
nounced the state central com
mittee would meet here July 9 to
elect officers. Several names men
tioned frequently for state chair
man are Robert Bradford, La
Grande; U. S. Burt, Corvallis; Bill
Conrad, Marshfleld; Walter Glea-
son, Portland; B. S. Martin, Sa
lem; John J. Beckman, Portland;
Matt Corrigan, McMinnville, and
Nadine Strayer, Baker.
Estabrook Trial
In Last Stages
HILLSBORO. Ore., June 25
(JP) Oregons latest "goon" trial
reached the . closing stage today
when the defense rested In the
trial of Jack Estabrook, Portland
warehousemen's anion secretary.
indicted on a charge of participat
ing In the Rock Creek store bomb
ing of 1935.
Final arguments are scheduled
Monday.
Estabrook testified today, deny
ing any participation in the bomb
ing. He said his car, alleged by
the state to have been used to
transport dynamite for the bomb
ing, was in The Dalles at the time.
Other defense witnesses said
Estabrook was at home at the time
of the bombing and that Mrs.
Estabrook had driven the car to
Jhe Dalles, -
igher Wages
In Steel Seen
As Mart Rises
Mart Surges Upward for
Sixth Day to Outdo
Recent History
Some Averages Show Gain
Bigger Than Since
Spring of 1933
NEW YORK, June 25-(;P)-Possibility
of a wage readjust
ment in steel was injected into
the business recovery picture to
day as the stock market surged
upward for the sixth successive
day, completing a week of rising
prices unparallelled in recent
Wall Street history.
The fresh upward thrust given
tne stock market caused many
to rub their eyes In astonish
ment as they viewed the extent
of the week's climb. Some price
averages showed It was a bigger
Percentage gain than experienced
in any week in the spectacular
climb in the spring of 1933, when
prices ballooned after the bank
ing holiday.
The Associated Press average
of 60 .stocks 30 industrial, 15
rails and 15 utilitiesadvanced
$1 today to $45.50, the highest
since March 1, and wjthin $2.40
of the 1938 high. It rose this
week $6.80, or more than 17 per
cent. Statisticians estimated that
close to $5,000,000,000 had been
added since last Saturday to the
total quoted value of all shares
listed in the stock exchange.
Conflict of opinion between the
new deal and Important sectors
of business management over the
proper wage policy to spur re
covery, was high-lighted by the
developments ot the past 24
hours.
1. United States Steel Corp. is
sued a terse, statement .this morn
ing that none of its' officials
"has given any assurance" the
sweeping price reductions In its
products announced yesterday
would not be followed by wage
cuts.
2. In his 'fireside chat" last
night President Roosevelt called
for a united stand by capital
and labor 'to resist wage slash
ing, approved U. S. Steel's price
reduction, and added he was
"gratified to know" it Involved
no wage cut. A. White House
secretary explained today the
president was guided by news re
ports in his assumption wage
adjustments would not follow.
Stock market' traders began
bidding up steel and other in
dustrial shares right after Wall
Street financial news tickers car
ried the corporation statement
which left the wage matter open.
Advances of $1 to more than
$4 a share were numerous at the
finish, making many extreme
gains for the week of $10 to
$20. Trading for the two-hour
session swelled to 1,161,700
shares, approximately 10, times
the sluggish volume of last Sat
urday. Farmhand Hit by
Bolt of Lightning
HAMILTON. Mont, June 25
(JP)A bolt' of lightning ripped
the clothes and shoes from Carl
Corwin, Hamilton farm worker;
left him in what was believed
a dying condition and injured
three others today.
Corwin, with Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Wohlman and Alex ' Ixan
off. was leaving a truck farm
field in a rainstorm a mile east
pf here when the bolt struck.
Corwin's body was badly burned
and at the hospital here his
chance of recovery was held poor
by attendants.
Mr. and Mrs. Wohlman were
burned but theelr condition was
not considered serious. Ixanoft
recovered his sight after being
blinded by the flash for more
than an hour.
Work on Columbia
To Start in August
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 25HV
Deepening of the Columbia river
channel from Vancouver to Bonne
ville sufficient for ocean-going
vessels will get under way in Aug
ust as result of allotment ot $630,
800. it was revealed today at the
North Pacific division office of the
army engineers. The job will re
quire two years.
The sum covers only the first
season s costs. Total estimated
cost is $2,650,000.
Work will, start at the Bonne
ville end. A 27-foot channel is the
goal. !
: Survey Pledged
PORTLAND, June 25-VA
survey In every Oregon county of
existing medical needs, services
and facilities was pledged today
by the Oregon' State Medical as-
sociation through Its house of
delegates at a midyear meeting
Says Roosevelt
Distorted Income
rVi Hi-Mil. I .I,,,,, ! I ... .1 I
I
y
FRANK KNOX
Col. Knox Assails
Roosevelt Speech
Publisher Says Chat Was
Weak Demonstration
- of Statesmanship
WASHINGTON; June 25:-CP)-Frank
Knox, republican candidate
for vice-president in 1936, ac
cused President Roosevelt tonight
of "distorting" national income
figures in his fireside chat last
night.
In a statement issued by the
republican national committee,
the Chicago publisher said the ad
dress was "as weak a demonstra
tion of statesmanship as this
country has ever seen-' , f
Knox disputed the president's
assertion that the income of ell
persons in the United States was
$38,000,000,000 in 1932. Depart
ment of commerce records, Knox
said, showed the total to be $48,
362,000,000. "What is important," Knox
added, "is that the national in
come estimated by the president
for this year of $60,000,000,000
a figure regarded as much too
high by some experts is less than
$12,000,000,000 more than the
national income actually paid out
in 1932 after three years of world
wide depression. Of greater sig
nificance Is the fact that this year
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Two More Hotels
Join Strike List
.VI
PORTLAND. Ore., Jiine-2 5-(7P)
Portland's "struck" hotels jump
ed to ,16 today as union employ
es left jobs in the Cornelius and
Park avenue hotels. Pickets be
gan patroling in front of the entrances-Ben
C Grlmson, proprietor of
both hostelries, said that of his
35 employes, only six maids
walked; out. They were replaced,
he said, by non-union workers.
The union board said that other
workers not on duty at the time
of the strike would not return
to work.
In the meantime negotiators
representing the culinary unions
and restaurant association of
Portland will meet again Monday
in an effort toward compromis
ing their differences and avoid
ing arbitration.
$30,000 Slash Fund
WASHINGTON, June 25-;p)-.
William E. Dodd, former ambas
sador to Germany, said tonight
he had been informed confiden
tially the German government
had allocated $30,000,000 for
propaganda dissemination In the
United States.
Heavy Japanese Buy ing Here
To Continue on Larger Basis
NEW YORK, June 25-)-
Heavy Japanese buying, which
has been a reported factor In some
rising commodity prices during
the past 10 days, will continue for
months to come on an expanding
basis, Japanese sources said here
today.-
In at least two major American
commodity fields, cotton and wood
pulp, and possibly in others, the
new purchasing policy may be an
important factor in American mar
kets. Hatsujiro Yoshida, manager
of Mitsui Sc. Co., merchant bankers
and largest Japanese Importing
firm, predicted in comenting on In
formation gathered by Toyoji In
ouye, commercial secretary of the
Japanese embassy here.
Japan, he said, plans . to in
crease Its foreign sales ot fabricat
ed - American cotton and Japan
ese manufactured rayon made $f
Nye Faces Fight
In N. I). Primary
SEN, GERALD P. NYE
Langer and Nye
Seek Nomination
North Dakota Primaries
Climax of Long Feud
Between Pair
BISMARCK, N. D-. June 25-
(JP)A five-year fight between
Gov. William Langer and U. S.
Sen. Gerald P. Nye, two nation
ally prominent North Dakotans
seeking the republican senatorial
nomination, will go before the
North Dakota voters in Tues
day's primary election.
Tossing national issues aside,
the former friends whose fight
has been symbolic ot the intern
al strife in the nonpartisan lea
gue dominant since it regained
control of state government in
1332, have fought on state is
sues. The Nye versus Langer con
test overshadowed an otherwise
quiet election in which five dis
trict ticket are arrayed for Bom-
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McCormick Youth
Is Still Missing
ALBUQUERQUE, N. lit. June
25 (JP) Darkness called a halt to
night to the sea re H oi sandia
peak's rugged slopes for JHedlll
McCormick, 21-year-old heir tor
the McCormick publishing for?
tune, who has been missing since
Wednesday on a mountain-climbing
expedition.
Like birds of ill omen lazy
buzzards wheeled slowly in the
darkening sky as the last of tbe
scores of searchers wended a slow
way down the treacherous cliffs,
on which young McCormlck's
climbing companion was dashed
to death.
Only a handful of forest serv
ice rangers, remained in the moun
tains over night, and Gov.. Clyde
Tlngley ordered the hunt resumed
tomorrow at daylight. Supplies
were trucked into the base camp
tonight in readiness for tomor
row's activities.
As the second day of intensive
search came to a close, none was
able to hazard a guess as to the
fate of young McCormick. Most,
however, held to the belief his
body was caught in a high crevice
pf the 6000-foot peak.
The battered body of Richard
Whitmer, McCormlck's climbing
companion, was brought into Al
buquerque from the mountains 20
miles northeast of Albuquerque.
It was found under the towering
rock face of a cliff known as "The
Shield." near the summit ot the
peak. .
Sees 10 Year War
KYOTO, Japan, June 25-(jp)-War
Minister Seishiro Itagakl.
who came here to worship at
the grand shrines of Ise, de
clared in an interview today that
Japan must be prepared to fight
"at least 10 years."
American wood pulp, especially In
the latter field. Wood pulp pur
chasing for the next 12 months
will probably exceed the past 12
months by 66 percent, he said.
Purchase of American steel and
iron. Including tinplate, and scrap
steel, for non-military purposes
will increase 10 percent or more,
he estimated, to be used chiefly
in the second year of Japan's five
year plan for building heavy in
dustries. . Japanese wool buying, while
taking place chiefly in Australia,
has improved domestic commodity
prices through Japanese heading
operations In the New York wool
futures market, he said.
Japan also is Increasing pur
chases of top grade hides, he said,
although this category Is not rel
atively Important by reason of
the fact that the bulk Japanese
hide buying is in China,
Bomb Reprisal
Threat Causes
Fears of War
Spanish Government Say
Bombing of Italian
Cities Possible
II Duce Warns That IIia r
Troops Would Wipe
out Loyalists
LONDON, June 25-f)-BrltaIa
and France strongly urged moderation-on
both factions in the
Spanish war today to prevent In
surgent bombing attacks from
turning into campaigns of whole
sale slaughter which might spread
the conflict.
French representations to the
embarking upon widespread re
prisals against the insurgents
and their foreign allies, Italy
and Germany, had the support of
the British government.
In line with the Anglo-French
fears the Spanish conflict might
quickly burst its borders if Bar
celona' should carry out its
threats, Italy tonight notified
France - the Italian air force
would wipe Spanish government
cities off the map if Italian cit
es were bombed.
Offcials here wece silent on
the Spanish threat, but France
was understood to have used her
greater influence" in behalf of
Britain as well as herself in coun
selling Barcelona against the
threatened course.
In Rome, Virginlo Gayda. au
thoritative fascist editor, wrote
in his important II Giornale
D'ltalia that Italy and Germany
would , reply to any such bomb
ings "not with diplomatic notes
of protest, but with cannon."
PARIS, June 25-(iT")-Europe
was plunged into a . new war
scare tonight by Spanish fov
ernment threats of bombing re
prisals against Italy and a quirk
warning from Rome that Italy
would meet such reprisals by
wiping Spanish government cit
ies off the map.
Loyalist Threaten
To Bomb Balcares
The Scare started by disclo
sure the Spanish government at
Barcelona had threatened to
bomb "Italian-dominated" towns
in the Balearic islands, just off
Spain's east coast.
It was heightened by reports
from sources close to the French
foreign office that the Barcelona
government also had threatened
to "bomb cities of "those foreign
countries" sharing responsibility
of bombing of Spanish civilian
centers.
Then tonight, creating fear
among French and British dip
lomats that a general European
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Bombers Kill ICO
In Madrid Raids
MADRID, June 25-()-A swift
15-minute raid by insurgent
bombers today caused an estimat
ed 100 deaths, Injuries to 230 per
sons, and the destruction of 70
buildings in the Spanish port of
Alicante.
The raiders dropped 50 explo
sive and Incendiary bombs before
government aircraft could chase
them away. The casualties includ
ed many women and, children who
were standing in food lines when
the sudden bombardment started.
The master of Alicante harbor
declared the raid was hot direct
ed against the harbor. The civil
governor personally started in
specting the ruins where m o r e
bodies Were expected to be found.
.The outlying workers' quarters
were subjected to especially heavy
attacks by the raiders in flvr
German-type machines.
- (Barcelona dispatches said in
surgents again bombed Valencia,
destroying several buildings in
cluding tbe Finnish consulate.)
3 Albany Women
Injured in Crash
Three women were Injured Sat
urday night in a head-on automo
bile collision which occurred at
about 6:15 p. m. near the school
house at Central Howell. They
were Mrs. John MacNeill. 81, of
Albany, who sustained a shattered
left knee, severe face cuts and a
dislocated hip. ber daughter,
MisaJCathryn MacNeill, whose leg
was broken below the knee, and
Mrs. Irl Grace, driver of the other
-car, also from Albany, who re
ceived a fractured nose and cuts.
Mrs. Grace, who was alone in
her machine, was traveling from
Silrerton and the MacNeills were
going toward Silverton when the
accident occurred. Tbe MacNeills
were en route to visit Mrs. Mc
Neill's son. Dr. William MacNeill
at Silverton.
They-were taken to the Silver
ton hospital. .