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.... 1 - . - 7 . - Smiles in Style '4 The Weather Friday with normal temper tare, hamidlty. Max. Temp. 'Wednesday . tMJ. Mln. AO. River. a.2 West wind. ' And you'll be in style If M you glance every morning - j a the punch line of Style i Smiles' on the society page. ? . j vv EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, July 28, 1938 Price Sc; Newsstands &c No. 105 escJi - . : :: ' PeuNDno .651 ; ; ;V: .', .Heavy .Raiim'g Kmc mi Republic Steel Spying Probed By Committee Company Agent Testifies of Organizing Union at Youngstown Off icial Says Spies Used to Get Evidence of ... Mill Sabotage WASHINGTON. July 27-JP)-G rim-faced unlon men and a former strike breaker filed be fore the senate civil liberties committee today and, :. between arguments among themselves, told the story of labor. spying as conducted by the Republic Steel corporation. ". Harold F. Vargo, who readily conceded that he had operated as a company agent under the names of Richard Brooks and Ira Alberts, testified that while In the employ of Republic's po lice department he helped organ ize and became financial secre tary of a CIO union in Republic's Youngstown plant. - f - Later he was on the picket line, during the bitter strike in little steel a year ago, but be fore that he had resigned his union po-st at the request of other union officials. Union men told the committee that ' Vargo was suspected of turning the union's membership roll over to the company. , j .Vargo testified: J "I was asked to resign be cause they said some members didn't like .my attitude, but that wasn't the reason. The real rea son was that 1 wasn't communis tic enough." Earlier Charles M. White, vice president of Republic, said it nev er had been the policy of the company to use espionage to get information regarding the forma tion of unions, but that it had been used to get evidence, of sa botage and other things. Seated beside the Blender "but muscular Vargo was Charles Fa gan. an excitable little man with a thick Scotch dialect. Now presi dent of the union, he testified he was still out on strike. He and Vargo engaged in many quarrels, Fagan sputtering in protest at some testimony, given by the others or Vargo denying Fasran's testimony. Vargo, who said he held "quite numerous strike breaking Jobs," testified that during a strike the company used him to mingle with the men on the picket lines for the purpose of picking up in formation. He said he was given an automatic pistol 'by Captain Earl Butler of the Republic po lice. The union men smiled for the first time when further testi mony revealed that this weapon was the Instrument of getting Vargo . arrested and ''slapped around" by the Youngstown po lice. '.' During the strike, the test! moor ran. Vargo operated on an expense account from Republic. He couldn't recall how much he received. . but he testified that he got "all he could" and ate well and drank well." Plan to Reseed Big Clatsop Burn L : CORVALLIS, July 27-JP)A plan to reseed sections of 300 to ' S0O acres of an experimental grazing area wiped out by forest fires in Clatsop county received consideration by state college ex perts today, ; CCC workers saved several valuable test - plots containing numerous varieties of grass. Suf ficient feed remained to provide for cattle "this summer. - The experiment was undertak en pn land destroyed or seriously damaged by previous fires. - Indian Drowned In Lake Is Fear KLAMATH FALLS,' July 27.-(jpy-An unidentified Indian wom an's search for wocus, the lily-like plant which has . provided meal for the Klamath tribe for genera tions, probably led her to death In upper Klamath lake, state po lice reported today." - - She has been missing for five days.' Authorities said if , they found the woman's canoe they would start dragging the lake for her body. Garcia Messenger Honored by Cuba f ' i . - ;- - - - SAN FRANCISCO, July 11-JP) -Colonel Andrew. S. Rowan. .81, , who threaded his way through Cuban Jungles with President Me Kinley's "message to Garcia," was decorated today by the Cuban gov ernment. The Carlos Manuel de Cespedes award was bestowed upon Colonel Rowan for "eminent-service ren dered to the republic of Cuba In it right for independence.'- Earle Fighting 1 His Grand Jury CARL B. SHELLEY Legislature Bucks Grand Jury Probe Pennsylvania Governor's Program Virtually Is jGiven Approval HARRISBTJRG, PA., July 27-(,P)-Ridlng roughshod, over a flurry! of republican opposition, democratic strength today placed the bulk of Governor George H. Earle's program, to check a grand Jury investigation in position, for final consideration in the Penn sylvania house of representatives. Voting in concert, the big dem ocratic majority amended. and passed on second reading four of fiv administration measures, designed to take over the pro jected! Dauphin county inquiry of Earle and 13 associates. A fifth bill providing that all grand! jury investigations of civil officers subject to impeachment be held in publicwas with held and Floor Leader Herbert Cohen indicated It might be "pickled." Most significant of the amend ments was one which would stiff en the penalty that could be- im posed j upon anyone who with held evidence and records the legislature sought. The bill was changed to allow Imprisonment for contempt " of this nature until the 1939 reg ular session discharged the pris oner, j Previously, the Imprison ment j would i have been merely "until discharged." - Gov. Earle's chief objective is to force District Attorney Carl B. Shelley, who . is conducting the grand Jury Inquiry, and Former Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti. who first fired the charges, to divulge their material and make it public. '." i t ; . ' " " He Wanted Ride Aiid He Got One TXTCCMCARI, N. M July 27 -;p)-rhiHp Scogllo, 26-year-old Xcw Yorker, wanted a ride on m train today. Instead, be got transportation to the state penitentiary. -; rieding guilty to placing a 'wooden tie across the railroad tracks so be could "hook av ride, Scogllo was sentenced to 10 years in prison. . FLOOD WATERS SWEEP BRIDGE AWAY I Swirling flood waters reeemUy swept away a bridge from Brady, Tex, leaving the entire tow Inun dated. Business waa halted and residential districts were out of communication with the central parts of town. In the foreground Is the buttress which held the bridge "before is collapsed and was carried away by the high water." The courthouse, la background, was completely isolated Resi dences were undermined and general havoc was wrought. -The Colorado River, fed by flood tribu tary sttwanas. threatened Austin, Te stat eajjital.; , 'v' 7,; ese -Japanese ".ST it i.i . As new Line Is Formed Province Is 11th of 24 to Be Invaded by Battle; new Chinese Line 20 Miles up River J From Kiukiang; Cholera Raging ! SHANGHAI, July 28. (Thursday) (AP) The Chinese-Japanese war; today rolled into Hupeh province the 11th of the 24 Chinese provinces to be afflicted by land com bat in a struggle just one year and three weeks old. The Chinese, admitting "a strategic withdrawal" from Kiukiang, gateway to Hupeh and the metropolitan Wuhan Oarea centering on Hankow, due In f L.nMn.rl xriui gall Viiiai gcu With Interfering TV A Counsel Testifies ? Ex-Director's Action Unpredictable KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 27- (A)-James Lawrence ! Fly, TVA general counsel, charged Dr. Ar thur E. Morgan today with "un warranted interference" in the 18-company ' power suit against the government agency at Chatta nooga last winter. ' The witness told a congression al committee fhvestigating the Tennessee valley authority that the ousted chairman's conduct in the case was "wholly unpredict- able." At one time. Fly said. Dr. Mor gan challenged the "integrity" of defense counsel with accusations they had put TVA engineers "un der pressure" for "misleading and misrepresentative" evidence. The witness iJnied the accusations. The case, in which private utilities attacked constitutionality of the authority, is now "pending before the supreme court. Previously, Dr. Morgan testi fied engineers were." "embarrass ed" by requests for evidence which he considered f misleading, but which was not used in the trial. . ' RFC Gets Behind Expansion of , Projects Made Possible by Jones Action H WASHINGTON, July 27 (ff) Jesse Jones threw huge resources of . his reconstruction finance corporation behind the public works program tonight. This made possible a large expansion of the pump-priming operations through, which the Roosevelt ad ministration hopes to hasten eco nomic recovery. Jones and PWA Administra tor Harold - L. Ickes, two "big money" men of President Roose velt's spending-lendlng program, agreed that ; wherever possible RFC would make loans for public construction and PWA would con serve its money exclusively for outright grants. Hitherto, PWA has been making both loans and grants. ... : . '..; .,. - I '-" Under the new system' it will be possible, officials said, to un dertake more big projects such as roads and bridges than if PWA had to furnish all-the money It self. The last congress . gave Jones agency power to lend. SI, -500,000,000 to states, cities and business men. ; ; ; : ; ' ." , Recovery Setup War n i - a I on a new defense line 20 miles up the Yangtze river and just ahead of the Japanese offensive. The new defense line runs south from Lungping, on the north bank of the river, to Telan,30 miles south of Kinkiang on the railway to Nanchang, Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek's greatest air base. Kiukiang fell Tuesday. Chinese officials reported that cholera had broken out among refugees from Kiukiang and among the Chinese forces. Thirty nine foreigners, including nine Americans, remained at Kiukiang or aboard the American and Brit ish gunboats Monocacy and Cock chafer and the British river steamer Wenchow. '. Advancing upriver against the Lungpin-Teian line, intent upon smashing it and shoving 10 miles further westward to Tienkiachen and Wusueh, site of a submerged river boom, the Japanese carried their invasion into eastern Hupeh, part of a province of 71,000 square miles and 29,000,000 population. Body of Jumper Is not Claimed Medical Experts Offer Explanation of - Leap From Hotel Ledge NEW YORK, July 27.-(jP)-John Warde, 26, the nerve-sick "man on the ledge," central fig ure in Manhattan's most spectac ular delayed suicide, was alone to night in the solitude of an east side funeral parlor. ' The 1 1-hour carnival of death that gripped thousands of New Yorkers In agonizing suspense, clfmaxed last night with his plunge from the 17th floor of the Gotham hotel, was ended. No one called to Identify his' shattered remains. No disposition was made for the body. In the aftermath of the strange case,, enacted amid a stage-setting of skyscrapers, neck-craning thou sands, clicking newsreel cameras, magnesium flares, fainting wom en and even a television pickup. medical experts Joined the man in the street trying to answer the question: "Why did he do it the way he did it?" Dr. A. Arden Brill, psychiatrist. and disciple of Freud, Columbia university lecturer on psycho-sexual science, Interpreted Warde's prolonged debate with death as the manifestation of a- schjzold manic. "He lived In his own dream world, out there on the ledge be fore he jumped," Dr. Brill said. "He was not a manic-depressive. That type gets moods of ex ultation followed by moods of the darkest depression. In the sec-ondary-hang-over mood, a maniac type would s not hesitate. He would walk to the window and leap." . . 1 German HitsMin Plan Under Plan Concessions t in Schools, Languages . Would Be Granted Germans Complaint That , Sudetens not Treated as "Staatsvolk" j BERLIN. July 27.-(V-Tbe nazi-inspired press today unani mously condemned the Czechoslo vak government's newest minori ties-soothing plan as an evasion of The autonomy demands, of Sudeten Germans Adolf Hitler is determined to protect Headlines showed plainly j- the temper In which the press re ceived Premier Milan Hodza'a proposed statute granting conces sions to the 3,500,000 Germans and other minorities in Czecho slovakia, i. Typical of them were: t " "Scandalous disregard of Ger man demands." "Praha already begins sabot aging British efforts." "No way to peace." I "Evasive maneuvers wholly unacceptable." j The principal. German com plaint was that the statute regard ed and treated; the Sudeten Ger mans as a -minority Instead of as a "s t a a t s V o 1 k"- a people with rights and status equal to those of the dominant Czechs and Slo vaks who far outnumber': the re public's Germans, Poles, Hungar ians and other racial groups. ' Hodza's minorities itatut e. which would grant concessions in school administration, govern ment jobs and the use of langu ages, was announced last night only a few hours after the British government appointed Viscount Runciman as unofficial mediator In the Czechoslovak-German, dispute.?- c- ..-. j. - - .... Czechoslovak acceptance of the appointment was seen as a tri umph for Germany . by Germans who regarded Praha as yielding a decree of sovereignty. r Arguments Ended In Eugene Trial Picket Ordinance Seen as x Free Speech Violation by Labor Lawyer L EUGENE. July 27-iip)-Circu!t Judge G. F. Skipworth .took under advisement today the arguments of attorneys In a case offered as a test for the .validity of a city ordinance regulating pickets. . B. A. Green, Portland labor at torney, said the law would pre vent free speech and delegate un due power to the city attorney. The city's counsel described the ordinance as "one that would en able police to determine who is picketing and the purpose of the picket line." . Green asserted the city record er had been given power to cay what constituted a labor contro versy. He attacked the regula tion as discriminatory. : S. M. Calkins, city attorney, argued that the act would only determine If pickets had legal rea son for establishing a picket line, - ' ; ;" 20-Day4)ld Babe Killed n- Oregon Car Crash COQUILLE, July 27.--An automobUe accident at Carpen terville resulted in the death of Robert Byron Kughler, 20-day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kughler of Long Beach. Calif. The child's mother was seriously In jured. - f - SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 27- (py-Scorez , ;. ;. Hollywood ... . . . . 0 7 1 San' Diego ' . '. . . . Y . .". 1 f 5 '. 0 , .Tost and. Brenxel; Chaplin and Hogah, Detore !). -j SACRAMENTO,' Calif., Jf ly ,27 -()-Night' game : ,: F - Seattle ... k ........... e IS 1 Sacramento .. . . ..... . . 3 1 8 2 ' . PIckrel, Gregory (4) and Spin- del; ' Newsome Walker' () and Franks. - ..- OAKLAND, Calif:, July nJP) Night game: San FranclscJ ........12 15 - 2 Oakland ; . Wv. .... ; 1 " S Stutx and Sprinx; Van Fleet, olds (3), LindeU (3) and Conroy. LOS ANGELES, July 27-(ff)- Nlght game: - V .i Portland V. , 4 -: 9 1 Los Angeles ........12 12 1 v Darrow, .Douglas 3), Liska (7), -.'Shealy (7) and Cronln, Dickey; Salveson, Bush (X and Collins onty Late Sports Loyalists r i 1 In Su rp rise ents Insure. Steam-Roller Drive Covers 15 Miles and Results in Capture of 4900 Prisoners Despite ' Bombing of 150 Rebel Planes , HENDAYE, France (At The Spanish Frontier) July 27. (AP) The Spanish government announced tonight that its three-day-old Ebro river offensive had carried Cata lonian shock troops into the streets of Gandesa, Generalissi mo Francisco Franco's south Catalonian headquarters since April 2, Roosevelt Views Hermit's Island Volunteers Carry Food and Papers to Few , Inhabitants ' ABOARD U.S.S.HOUSTON. In Galapagos Archipelago, July 27-(JP)-President Roosevelt, viewing tragic, mysterious Cnaries island from .- the Houston, today sent precious fresh food and other gifts to the few inhabitants. . The chief executive reached the outermost point of his equa torial Pacific fishing cruise when the -Houston dropped anchor in Post Office bay, Charles Island's "waterfront." Mr. Roosevelt asked his naval aide, Commander Daniel J. Cal laghan, to head a group of vol unteers from the ship's crew, Members of the -presidential party together with about 50 bluejacket volunteers, went ashore with foodstuffs, maga zines, newspapers and medical supplies. t A) The party struggled up steep mountain slopes to the crude home of Heinz Wittmer, his wife and their family of three. While ashore they; also f otfnd Elmir A. Conway and his wife. who left California 13 months ago and for ten months d been struggling to exist on Charles Island. f The shore party signalled the cruiser about the Conways and another boatload of supplies was sent for them. Additional gifts also were sent to the five Ecma dorean Indians who, with the Wlttmers and the Conways, make up the island's population. First Power Sale To Utilities Made PORTLAND, Ore., July 27-F) The Northwestern Electric com pany signed a contract with Proj ect Administrator J. DY Ross to day, for the first private utility purchase of electrical energy from Bonneville dam. Ross said the dam would de liver power to the North western's CC.OOO-volt line on the Washing ton side of the Columbia river where it will be distributed to the Portland General Electric and the Pacific Power A Light sys tems, thus tying three firms with the dam for experimental pur poses, ... ' ' The Northwestern will pay the regular S1-.50 per kilowatt year rate for 2600 kilowatts and the secondary rate of $11.50 for the remainder. Rosser Sentence Ijelay Is Granted DALLAS.' July 27.-(iT)-Senten-clng of Albert E. Rosser, former Portland . AFL teamster official, was postponed Indefinitely today by Circuit Judge . A. G. Walker. Rosser would have appeared Thursday to hear sentence on an arson conviction. : ' . Judge Walker said the delay was necessary because of the pres sure of court duties in Tamhill county. - -. . - Serge to Go in To Reenact The Sage of, Salem is going up in and on - the air it an over night pondering over a telegram recognizing -The, Oregon Statesman- columnist's gentle wit and store of entertaining . Incident brings an affirmative answer this morning,. . 7 The answer will be to a tele gram"'- the Sage, otherwise D. II. fDaTe".. Talmadge, received - yes terday from Jack Johnstone ra dio director. Rockefeller Plaza. New .York city. Inviting- him to attend a network dramatization of Talmadge's capture 52 years ago of one Clark Street Ed, notorious Chicago gunman, In a litUe Iowa town. , - v -:, , . .- If the Sage accepts, he will fly to Gotham, which be last visited in 1898. Ills expenses will be paid by the sponsor of the Phil lip Morris radio program. - . "Would present your story as example of fine work by county reporter getting scoop on-big pa- Take Gandesa - Thru s t as Rain Bombs O There theT rraunled- hand-to- hand with the insurgent forces that. once had driven them from the town. Entry of the town capped a sur prise thrust of more than 15 miles from the banks of the Ebro in which the government reported capture of 15 villages and 4,000 prisoners.'. k : The steamroller drive started early Monday when Catalonian engineering squads, shielded by artillery, swiftly laid pontoon bridges to carry brigades of in fantry, and field batteries, into insurgent territory. The advance into Gandesa was said to have been effected de spite some of the war's heaviest insurgent aerial operations a day in which 150 heavy bombers unloaded explosives on the en croaching infantrymen hour af ter hour. The government reported an advance all along the some 90 miles . of Ebro river front, fromJ Amposta, at the river mouth, in land to Flix. The government,' hitherto lack ing in planes, - challenged Gen erallssimo Franco's aerial super lority on this northeastern Span ish front." Throughout the day squadron after squadron of blunt-nosed "Chatos" Russian type pursuit Planes tackled the - relays of heavy bombers. There were many aerial battles. , Counties to More Road Money Diversion of Their Cut for Relief Purposes Will Be Fought ALBANY, July V-i-WUlam-ette valley county judges and commissioners resolved yesterday to ask the Oregon Association of Counties to work for the reenact ment of a law permitting forma tion of special road Ux levying bodies. ' The officials reported the law would facilitate Improvements in districts which otherwise would not benefit from the general levies. F. L. Phlpps, The Dalles, execu tive secretary of the state group. said the. counties might expect greater participation in gasoline and automobile license revenues because of an Increase in the highway commission's income. . Several speakers agreed money had been diverted from county roads because of the pressure of rising relief budgets. British Freighter Sinks From Bomb MAPr-D. J u 1 y 27.-6JPV-SU V cessful after two futile attacks, an Insurgent seaplane today bombed and sank the 'British freighter Dellwyn in the British leased port of Gandia. There were no casualties. . J - Two bombs struck the vessel as she was unloading a cargo of coal. One ripped -a big hole below the waterllne and the other crashed through, the deck. The 1- 4 5 1-ton ship sank in shallow ra ter. a rid o n Air Felon's Taking pers, emphasizing natural comedy Jin situation and fine records since first break." the radio official.: wired. - . ' - - , f Only Dave Talmadge could re count' that story properly, as he did in print in an article for .The American Press, newspaper trade magazine, In 1S3C. The article won him a prize as well as a' con siderable fee. '. -i I But the. story briefly Is that Talmadge was set on the watch in northern Iowa for the- gunman by the Chicago Tribune, for which he corresponded. The Tribune be lieved Clark. Street Ed carried a letter that would Identify higher ups in a ruthless gang of swind lers. -v- - . i: ' Almost 'fearing the hunt would be, successful, Talmadge one night met the gun-toter face to face In a restaurant and, enlisting the aid of an equally scared town marsh all, took Clark Street E4 prisoner. (Turn to page 2, col. 4) - Smoke Cleared From Sides as Fires Die ou All Major Blazes Under Control as Moderate Temperature Comes Ferguson Says Situation Best in two Weeks; 50 Fires Are Reported BEND, Ore.. July 27-P)-Heavy rains drenched the De schutes national forest .tonight and aerial fire spotters said rain laden clouds were sweeping over the partially controlled 100,000 acre Warm Springs Indian reser vation fire. . Precipitation here was a third of an Inch, the rain clearing smoke from the sky. ' (By The Associated Press) The stalwart efforts of fire fighters, reinforced by the re turn of ' Oregon's traditionally temperate climate, had conquered virtually every major blaze in the forests today. Fog along the Cascade peaks and rain at lower altitudes checked the 100,000-acre timber. brush and grass fire in the warm Springs reservation region. Crews expected to complete trenching the menace Wednesday night. Lightning struck about 74 smaller - fires in the Deschutes and Ochoco forests. Detection was hampered by haze. State Forester Ferguson said the Oregon situation was the best in two weeks. Fifty per cent of the fighters at the Valseta fire, where one man lost his life, and the Smith River burn were with drawn. The cooler weather and the control work reduced the number of fires to 50, compared with more than 200 a week ago. ' Logging operations resumed , In Jackson county. The majority of the 1000 men ' who checked the Galice fire in the Siskiyou national forest were transferred to smaller blazes. Forty-seven men battled a 600-acre fire on Bull and Murphy creeks In Josephine county. A lightning set blaze burned over 250 acres of grass on the west side of the lava beds national monument in northern California near Klamath Falls. Ontario Premier In Missing Plane JUNEAU. Alaska, July 27-qpy-Premier Mitchell Hepburn of On tario and, bis aerial touring party were unreported at 10:45 -. tonight, five and a half hours af ter they left Whitehorse, T. T.. for Juneau on another leg of their 8000-mile Journey. " A check of hotels and airports disclosed the plane and party had not arrived. It was believed here the Hepburn party may have landed at Skagway because there was a low ceiling in this vicinity about P.m. There was no means of communication with Skagway after 6 p.m., and word waa await ed from there tomorrow. The .premier had said before his Whitehorse . departure ttie party intended to stay overs.ir.tit here, flying tomerrow to Casts bell river, B. C, on the east coast of Vancouver island. Mother Brings in Stabhing Suspect She promised an officer .she would, so last night Mrs. Rosetta Farlow walked Into the city po lice station ' with her 15-year-old son, Everett; wanted for the alleg ed knifing of Howard Nelson Hsn saker in Marion Square park Tuesday night. "I promised Officer Edwards I'd bring him in if he showed up." Mrs. Farlow was quoted as saying when she delivered the boy for whom - officers spent a consider able portion of Tuesday sJrht scouring the town. . -. The. boy, alleged to have slicej young Ilunsaker In. the shoulder blade following an argument be tween the two, was turned over to juvenile authorities. Britain Considers Japanese Actions ' LONDON, July 27.-M)-Vis-count Halifax, foreign secretary, told the house of lords today that the government was considering "possible action' if Japan re fused to recognize Britain's Inter ests in China. "We are quite ready to consUer and already are considerin S pos sible action pen to us if we da not secure adequate cencideratioa for interests we have a right to protect', the foreign secretary said. . ,