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Dern Demons! The Derm Demons are ruining the kababbage crop and it's quite a problem for King; Sweepea and Popeye. Follow them 00 the comio page. ' . vcyr a The Weather Clear today and Monday; lomewhat cooler. Maximum Temp. 87! MIn. 47. River -3.2. Northwest wind. POUNDCD 1651 E1GUTY-EIGUTU YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, July 24, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 102 YalseHa Mam Biufdis to DeatEi in U Fi: H IF ffsS ;: . t ! SI n ores Three Women Lost in Lava Beds Rescued Went Four Days Without Food or Water After Becoming Lost Three Are Scratched, And Bruised When Rescue Party Finds Them GRANTS, N. M., July 23-(;P)-Three plucky women tourists, sur viving four days virtually without food or water in tha Jagged lava badlands of western New Mexico, were rescued by searchers today. . "Thank God," they exclaimed, when four men came upon them as they huddled under a bush. We couldn't have lasted another day.- - " They were bruised, scratched .and suffering from hunger and exposure. Their shoes were cut to ribbons and their feet were slash ed from struggling over the abra sive lava. But their spirts were high as they climbed into Got. Clyde Tin r ley's automobile- and were sped towarc Albuquerque. '"We feel fine now," they said. Tell Harrowing Tale ; Of Adventures The women. Misses Irene and Laura Pledalue and Marie An toinette de LaForrest, told a har rowing story of the adventures which befell them after they left the main traveled highway here Tuesday and turned south for an exploration of the perpetual ice caves, in the lava country 30 miles away.' !r . They parked -helr automobile near the caves where it was found yesterday and set out on foot over the razor-sharp lava flow. Thty never found the caves, but became lost almost immedi ately among the rugged, rock hummocks."; -- For four days they wandered! A few sandwiches were their only food, and they were consumed the first day. Rain which fell every night saved their lives. Wide Open Months -CauKht Rain "The rock was so porous that It wouldn't held the water." said Irene Pledalue. "but we lay stretched out, with our mouths open, and Just soaked up all we could. The women were found shortly before noon today? about three miles southwest of where their car was parked. Searchers won dered that they had penetrated so tar into the all ut inaccessible region. ' One day. they said. Miss Laura Pieddalue became separated from the other two. She wandered alone nearly 24 hours before, miracu lously, the little arty came to gether again. The Misses 'edalue are natives of Montana. Ir"e, 45. now is h me demonstration agent for Clark county, Kentucky, and her sister. 47, is a New York welfare worker. Miss De Laforrest is a music instructor at the University of Kentucky and came there two years ago from France. "They wanted to show me the " west." aaid Miss De Laforrest. -Well; lve seen all ft it now that I want to see." Dividends Shown, Hollywood Park INGLEWOOD, Calif. 1 July 23. (rt-The I-told-you-so clan ate its words today when Hollywood parf closed highly successful racing season. t . Self-styled experts said the undertaking wouldn't pay. Here's what happened -during the 33 days of racing: An average of 16,000 persons attended dally: More than lls.000.000. passed through the betting windows; The daily average handle was a halt-million dollars; The track made more than S1.2S0.000 on its original invest ment; .... Ticket sales, parking fees and concessions hit the profit celling also. 1800 Trail Hearse At Insull Funeral LONDON, July 23 Eigh teen persons followed the plain golden oak coffin of Samuel In sull today as It was borne to a grave beneath a hawthorns tree In the Putney Vale cemetery. The funeral of the former head of a 14.000,000.000 public utility empire in middlewestern United State was extremely simple, as was his life In London when he left it at the age of 20 as a 1 1.2 5-a-week clsrk. Insull. who died of a heart at tack In a Paris subway station a week ago at the age of 78, was burled near his father and mother. IRISH PRESIDENT ;ETS , - : DongJas Corrigan. counter-clockwise filer, shown as be was greeted las Hyde. Standing at Corrtgan's side Is his host, John , Cndahy, Two Are Injured In 'Cycle Alishap One May ; Lose Leg After Broadside Crash With j Salem Street Bus Jim Nolan, 265 South Church, and Alva Campbell, 895 South 20th, sustained serious Injuries shortly afjer 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the motorcycle on which, they were riding crashed broadside into a street bus at 21st and Trade streets. Nolan, 18, wbo was riding tan dem behind Campbell, faces pos sible loss of his right leg from a compound fracture. The bones of his leg were badly splintered, first aid car men who attended said. Campbell, 29, sustained a sim ple fracture of the right leg, a broken jaw and numerous cuts and abrasions. Several of his teeth were knocket out. Police said witnesses reported the pair of motorcyclists, with Campbell at the handlebars, were apparently Joy-riding as they, had circled , the same block three times and were on their fourth trip around when halted by col lision with the street : bus. The bus was traveling west -on Trade and the motorcycle north on' 21st. Marathoner Near State Boundary Ziegler Showing Signs of Wear-and-Tear From t Hoofing Ordeal EUREKA, Calif., July 2 3 -)-Still Jogging but not so sprightly. 55-year-old Adam Ziegler neared the California-Oregon line tonight in his ; one-man - marathon race from San Francisco td Grants Pass and showed " signs of wear and .tear.-- ". ..- v : Ziegler,' who took off last Mon day in an attempt to beat the rec ord of the Karook Indian, Flying Cloud, almost fainted twice from the combination of heat and for est fire smoke. " . - ; 70 Miles Per Day Hope Expecting to average better than 70 miles, a day, the mara thoner was doing no better than 60 and if he Is to finish ahead of the record of six days, 23 hours, 50 minutes and 57 seconds, set 10 years ago by Flying Cloud, he must speed up to 90 miles through today and Sunday, probably an almost Impossible feat. Organized Labor in Review As Huge Parade Marches by Organized labor passed In re view Saturday night for the edi fication of a crowd which throng ed the downtown streets to view the second annual parade spon sored by the Salem Trades and Labor council. All unions of Sa lem and vicinity will continue festivities today t the all-union picnic at Wendiand park-, south east of Salem, where a varied program will be under way front 10 a.m. to midnight. Marching units, floats and decorated cars, two bands on toot and three others traveling In truck, formed the "parade, with ' a number of the displays offered by local unions and by firms employing union labor re vealing novelty of Ideas and , de sign. ! Most Impressive of the parade units waa that of the teamsters' union, led bT a representative ot the same union's activity in 1907 y a i six-ppny team, extremely sklttisQ, and one craii - team after which came a group of -v -1 - i, . Hillbilly Music Expert Leading in Texas Race W. Lee O'Daniel, WTio Campaigned With Rhythm and Solar Plexus Punches at Politicians Has Majority for Governor Post , DALLAS, July 24. (Sunday) ( AP) W. Lee O'Daniel, flour merchant bidding with hillbilly melody and platform punches at the "professional politicians,?' gained a majority of 10,136 votes early today in the democratic pri mary campaign for the governorship. t Of 527,730 votes cast Q'Daniel received 268,933. Food Poison Hits 350 at San Diego Training Station Gobs Laid low From Meal of Ham, Cabbage SAN DIEGOVCallf., July 23-(JP)-Food poisoning struck down 350 naval training station sail ors In the city and at the beaches today In the greatest mass pois oning case! in the city's history. Training station officials said that apparently: none of the men affected were In ' a serious con dition, although ill ! were under doctors' care at the station. They said the poisoning ap parently resulted from ham and cabbage which was served to the 1,200 . statiqp sailors at noon. Calls began to flood police headquarters and naval . patrol officers as men along the streets in the Army & Navy YMCA and downtown theatres suddenly be came violently ill. f At Mission Beach emergency hospital, 12 men received emer gency treatment when they were taken sick after being in swim ming. Naval training station officials said the poisoning apparently had greater effect upon the men who left the station and who walked a great deal, and who exercised violently after eating the lunch. Norwegian Vessel Freed By Spanish Insurgents LONDON, July 23 (A) Lloyd's reported tonight the 7,831 -ton Norwelglan steamer Ketty Brovig had arrived at Gibraltar after hav ing been halted and released by Spanish Insurgents, j v members on foot and then a long procession ' of trucks, large ' and small, many of them decorated. The largest marching unit was that of the papermakers' union. Leading the parade," aside from the police escort and color guard, was the Salem Heights band on a truck; then came the decorated cars, " two attractive floats and marching unit of the carpenters union, followed by this organ ization's auxiliary and the au xiliary orchestra. . . - The Neighbors of Woodcraft float - and i decorated cars, the Eagles' .float and brightly uni formed drill team comprised the fraternal section. Then, some of them presenting both floats and marching units, came the plumb ers and steamfitters, the- roofers, the Salem municipal band, the paper converters, the painters and decorators, . the brick and clay workers, the musicians' un ion band, the barbers, the novel float and marching group of the (Turn to. Page 2 Col.. 4).. CORRIGAN i. by the president of Ireland, Dong American minister to Ireland. O DALLAS, Tex., July 2 4.-(Sun- day)-(3)-Three incumbent con gressmen, including Maury Mav erick trailed opponents In stormy races of - the Texas democratic primary early today. Soon after he had pulled up within 13 votes of Paul Kllday, 38-year-old Bexar county prose cutor, Maverick, again started slipping . and late Incomplete re turns gave Kllday 14,412 against Maverick's 13,733. Rep. W. D. McFarlane suffered an even worse beating In his 13 th district race. Ed Gossett, attorney wbo ran second to McFarlane tour years ago, needed only 133 votes for majority In a midnight count. He had 23.331 votes whUe McFarlane ran second with 20, 642. ' - .;. s In district three. Rep. Morgan Sanders trailed along in third place behind Lindley Beck worth. 3,008; Grady Gentry with 2.510. Sanders had 2,129. ! Japanese Report Kiukang Burning But Foreign Observers Say Gty Still Calm, Situation Same SHANGHAI, July 23-(;P)-Re-connoiterlng Japanese airmen re ported tonight that the water front of Kiukiang, immediate bar rier to the up-the-Yangtze offen sive against Hankow, was in flames. Foreign naval advices from the area declared, however, that the situation was unchanged from that of recent days calmness In a city which for weeks had been within earshot of duelling Chinese shore batteries and Japanese nav al guns. Earlier a Japanese commu nique, announcing domination of the mouth of Poyang lake and fresh land expeditions at several points, had indicated that the long-awaited assault on Kiukiang was under way. Kiukiang is 135 miles down the Yangtze from Hankow, General issimo" Chiang Kai-Shek's general headquarters. ; , Three : weeks of terrific bom bardments by warships and air craft preceded today's crossing of the lake mouth on the southern" side of the mighty Yangtze. Highway Revenue Diversion Is Hit GOLD BEACH, July 23-P) County courts of . Coos, Curry, Jackson, Josephine and Douglas county, meeting here today, vot ed to oppose diversion of the mo tor vehicle-" revenues and advo cated a personal property tax on cars and trucks payable when licenses are issued. They also advocated reinstate ment of the road district special tax law with restrictions. . Boeschen Case Settlement Is Made Certain Only I Minor Points Left To Be Agreed; Amount Believed $12,000 Jury Called to Hear Suit . Notified Not to Come; ; Broom Case Next Virtual settlement ot the last condemnation suit Involving pro perty sought tor Inclusion in the enlarged state capitol Bite was announced late Saturday. At torneys representing Arthur Boe schen and Mary Boeschen as ad ministratrix of the estate of Vic toria Boeschen, defendants in the suit brought by the state capi tol reconstruction . commission, said ; negotiations had resolved all excepting a tew minor points, and that the jury called to hear the case In circuit court Monday morning would be notified not to appear. The! attorneys did not an nounce the basis ot settlement but from other sources it was reported that the price agreed upon was between $12,000 and $13,000. The capitol commission had previously offered $9530 and the owners had demanded $18,216. George A. Rhoten ot Salem and Wendell Gray of Port land have represented the Boe schens. 'As a result of the removal of this case from the docket, the circuit court Jury panel will not report, until Wednesday- at 9 a.m. when the trial of Martin Broom, indicted upon a charge of burglary not in a dwelling, will be started. This case may continue in court, for several days since a large number of witnesses have . been called. The ease of state vs. Rutherford has been advanced to August 4 and that of state vs. Ruggies to Au gust 6. " ' ; Settlement ot tbe Boeschen case will eliminate the legal tangle which has iinvolved It re cently.! Earlier Saturday a writ of mandamus returnable August 3 had! been issued by Chief Jus tice Bean of the , state supreme court,1' In the mandamus action brought by the capitol commis sion to require Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan to assign the case to another judge, after McMahan had recently refused to honor an affidavit of prejudice. Cruiser Will Aid Refugees of Fire British Ship Speeds to Assist Residents in i Danger Zone SEATTLE, July 23 (JP) T h e British cruiser York speeded down the British Columbia coast front Prince Rupert, B. C tonight, ready to offer "any assistance pos sible' i If residents of Campbell river area had to be evacuated from the sone of a 1000,000-acre forest! fire. ' Commander C. T. Beard ot Canada's Pacific naval station at Esqullmalt said a radio-telegraph message from Sir Sidney Meyrlck, commander of the York, notified him the British vessel had f'vol untarUy" Increased speed on the southern leg of Its cruise In Brit ish Columbia waters. ' In the fire sone, forest officers said the biggest blaze in Van couver island history was "calm er? tonight, and It was not an ticipated the York's services would be needed. The Canadian destroyers Fraser and St." Laurent, and the mine sweeper Armentieres were already moored in Comox bay to meet eventualities. Wheat Shipments Seen Decreasing . WASHINGTON, July 23 Jf Foreign trade experts of the ag riculture department said today it was doubtful ! whether overseas shipments of American wheat dur ing the next 12 months would be as large ha during the past two seasons. . , Competition for the indicated small volume of trade "would be keen, thereby making It difficult for this country to expand its ex ports, the bureau, of agricultural economics reported -. - -. It listed several factors as In dicating world trade would be smaller. They were: prospects for a world crop of 4.200,000,000 bushels, or the largest on rec ord; Imposition of new Import re strictions by several European nations; prospects for larger ship ments from Russia; disturbed bus iness conditions, and increased use ot wheat Hour substitutes. . Rainy Weather Brings Floods Death, Damage In Widespread Areas i Eight Reported Dead and Millions of Dollars of Dam age Done as Wet Weather Sweeps Over Atlantic and Gulf Areas (By the Associated Press) Rain that continued pouring, after as many-as seven successive days in some sections had caused at least eight deaths by last night (Saturday) and done damage totaling millions' to crops, homes, shops, roads, railroads and com munication lines front Maine to Florida : and westward to Texas. ! Japan Entangled, Russ Press Says Papers State Diplomats Had to Save Military From Soviet War MOSCOW, July 23.-UPH3ovlet Russia through her newspapers pictured Japan today as so en tangled in trying to conquer China that her "diplomatic forces had to be called In to rescue the militarists" from trying o touch off a conflict with Russia. Despite another Siberian-Man- choukuoan frontier incident, in which Japanese-Manchonkuoan soldiers were reported ; to have tailed in an attempt to - occupy an Island In the Usslrl river, soviet circles viewed the possi bility ot Russo-Japanese war as a diminishing threat. i Dispatches from the Siberian city, Khabarovsk, said the second incident this month occurred north of Changkuf eng where Japan had accused red soldiers of occupying a bit ot Manchoukuoan territory.' i 1 The. clash earner the day follow ing a Japanese ; protest against occupation of the Changf ukeng district a protest rejected by Foreign Commissar Maxim Lit vinoff with the statement that the area lies' within Siberia. The g o v e r nment newspaper Izvestia - charged Japanese mili tarists with manufacturing both Incidents but echoed the general Russian belief that the possibility of war had declined. r ;f "The Japanese militarists have their mouths full of. .China," Izvestia said. r i- Embassy to Mqve Farther up River Chungking in Seldom Seen Territory to Be' pew Capitol-of China WASHINGTON, July 23-(P)-It will be moving day again this week or next week for the Am erican ; embassy in : Hankow, China. - Ambassador .Nelson T. 'Johnson has permission from Secretary ot State Hull to move himself and staff 1,000 miles ap the Yangtze river to Chungking, about to become the new capital of China. - The Japanese are advancing very gradually on Hankow, against Chinese contesting every foot of the way. . . ' The embassy's move wfll be its second within, less than" year. Last November it : shifted from Nanking to Hankow, short ly before tho Japanese.' occupied the Chinese capital. At Chungking the American embassy will be 1,300 miles up Ihe river from the coast at Shanghai, in the midst of a re gion seldom visited and little known by Americans. Sent i - Pro -A U Star Selection Named at tournament's Close SILVERTON. July 23 (Special) While Edwards emerged cham pion here tonight, the : Portland team didn't pack home all the sil verware. Money winner! also were Silverton, second-place, and Hills Creek, third place. ; Introduced by the tournament announcer, Glenn Gregg, Secre tary of State Earl Snell presented awards. ' - All-star team: 'J Pitchers G. Smith, McElroy's; G e or g e Windsor, Silverton; Squeak Wilson, Silverton; Gene Fenter, Portland Babes; Erick son Kinzua. 1 Catchers G 1 e n Butenschoen, Portland Babes; and Hood, Mil" waukie. , . : ? First base A rland Schwab, first base. Second base KIrsch, Babes. Third base Cameron, Babes. Short stop Pesky, Silverton. O swlrt, swollen rivers rolling down the hills of southwest Texas wrenched at least 30 homes from their foundations and drove hun dreds to treetops and roofs for safety. ' The rain-burdened San Saba river, which already had overrun the last open highway to the little sheep town of San Saba, - rose 10 feet in two hours at the nearby town of Menard and swirled four feet deep through the business district. The floods drove between 400 and S00 from their homes In San Saba, where the water: stood at 39 feet with a rise forecast for tomorrow; evicted 300 in Brady, a town of 5 000 without electric lights, and hundreds more In Menard, where the water supply was spoiled. Only two lives were reported lost in the Inundated Texas val leys, over a 100-by-5 0-mile area, but several entire families were marooned and In danger In tree tops at Pecan Grove. Fourteen Mexicans, long ; reported missing, were rescued from a barn roof. Two . persons were reported drowned in New Jersey. , i A navy 'bombing plane flying blind In a driving " rainstorm crashed near Woodbridge, Conn., killing Its pilot and two passen gers. ,Xv ; :i Another person was killed and five persons injured In the crash of a bus which skidded down a hill in the rain and hit a concrete abutment at Hackettstown, N. J. San Saba Waters Increase Swiftly Residents Marooned Atop Houses as . Torrents Sweep Over Town SAN SABA, Tex., July 23 (JP) Swift San Saba river floodwaters rose 10 feet in two hours tonight at Menard, near here, pushing tour feet deep down-the main bus iness street, and marooning resi dents In trees and on rooftops. Continuing downpours , of rain pushed the river rapidly toward even high levels and increased the menace from flooding streams over an area 100 miles long and 50 miles wide. The latest upsurge of the San Saba climaxed a five-day. assault on the town which bad seen its business district .threatened four times since Tuesday. . M. H. Leverett, manager of the Southwestern State " Telephone Co., branch at Menard, reported orer the only communication line into the plagued town of 3.Q00 residents that: "Our town poks like a river. "It's still raining here and water is rising fast," he said. "I can see folks now trying to wade in water on the main street. They can't do it the water is too swift. The gas and 1 water lines have been cut off but our lights are still burning.! We only have this one telephone ' line left and it's liable to go at any second." Outfielders Bonney, Silver ton; Walcott, Babes; D. Wright Hilla Creek. Utility lnfielder Salstrom, Silverton. Utility outflelder-Jack Scboen heinz,' Mil waukie. Hpnorable mention A n t o n Brown,: McElroy's;; Don McFad den, Edwards; Podielan, Sher wood; Baker, Silverton; Harkens, Blue Lake; Carsens, Babes; J. Gordon, HUs Creek; Steltzer, Ed wards Kelsay, Hllsl Creek. . Outstanding pitchers Helser, Hillsboro. , - , Outstanding catcher Hauser, Silverton. - : Outstanding lnfielder . Pes ky, Silverton. ' Outstanding outfielder - Bon ney, Silverton. . Hitting trophy award Bon ney, Silverton. Outstanding, player Halser, Silverton. ... Scorched Body Of Stryker Is Found in Fire Had Gone Out With- First Truckload of Fighters At Blaze Outset Ferguson Reports Forest Situation is Greatly Improved in State - DALLAS, July 23. Roy S. Stryker. 35. emnlnva nf t ) Cobbs, Mitchell company at Val- setz and former presid)t of the AFL loggers' local in that dis trict, was found bumed to death in the serious forest fire which occurred in that district, Satur day forenoon after he had failed to return from the fire line with his truck Friday, night. Stryker had gone out with the first truckload of firefighters Friday when fire was reported along the logging road. He be came separated from the other men and apparently was trapped by the onrushing fire and over come by smoke and heat. When the body- was found, both legs had been burned off. He is survived by his widow and three children, as ydell as a sister, Mrs. R. E. Norfian, and a brother. Ed Stryker, .both of whom, lived at Dallas until re cently. Mrs. Norman lives now at Caldwell. Idaho. No Merchantable Timber Burned The fire in the Valseti vicin ity had covered 2500 acres of logged-off land up to noon today but no merchantable timber had been destroyed. Reports early tonight indicated that the crew of approximately 300 fire fight ers would be able to hold the blaze in check although it was not definitely in control. , siaie roresier-. w. Ferguson and his staff in Salem were keep-, ing In touch with the numerous forest fires throughout the state Saturday night, but Ferguson re ported that in general the situa tion was improved. The hardest fighting was centered in Douglas county but there were good pros pects of corralling the Smith Riv er blaze where 9000 acres of vir gin timber had been destroyed. Ferguson . reported that about 9000 men were fighting fires in Oregon, about half under his di rection and half under national forest service supervision. About 160 separate fires were being fought. Weather trends were somewhat on the side of the fire fighters, with the temperature dropping and humidity rising. Salem's tea day heat wave during which tem peratures reaches 90s or 100s each day, was ended Saturday with 87 the highest mark record ed. However the mercury stood at that maximum for three hours, from 1:35 to 4:35, ' ( By tbe Associated Presa Fighters gained today In their battle against 170 Oregon fires but the situation remained acute and several big conflagrations were still uncontrolled. A new fire. 12 miles west of Agness, : mid-Rogue river com munity, covered nearly 400 acres and was not controlled. The Chetco blaze that has scored 10, 000 acres jumped the Chetco river In the Siskiyou national forest and moved northwest with 1000 men fighting It. . The Nome creek blaze, covering 4000 acres, and the Galice district tire, : covering 1500 In southern Oregon, were checked at least temporarily. Near Jefferson. Ore., two Ore gon - Electric railroad bridges were" damaged by fire, one seri ously, late Friday. Drives to Doctor With Ann Missing TROY, Ida, July 23.-(Vllia left arm torn completely away by a : passing truck, Edwin Johnson, 34. JRea ' lineman, tonight re mained at the wheel of the car he was driving, and, continued to the Troy hotel from where he was helped to the hospital. Ills phy sician says he will recover. Deputy - Sheriff "John Kinseila said that Art Nelson, Troy farmer and driver of the truck, was blameless. Johnson was driving along Main street with his arm double and protruding outside tbe car window when it was struck by the truck and dropped to tbe street. . American Can StrikcrM Reject 'Dock to ITork SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 (JP) A new "back-to-work" proposal by the American Can company was rejected late today by spokesmen for 1,350 CIO workers who have been on strike for a month at plants in San Francisco,; Oakland, Los Angeles and Sacramento.