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ITummmg Wires Over a vast network of leased wires. Associated Preas d Is p atehei brioc world news speedily to read ers of The Oregon States man. The Weather Partly cloudy , today and Thursday. Fogs on coast. Max. temperature Tuesday 78. MIn. 44. RlTer -S.4 feet. North wind. POUNDSD 1651 EIUHTY-EIGUTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 3, 1938 Price Se; Newsstands 5c No. 110 in Wit New - . - DeaiL New Russians Hurl Six Divisions' At Sliachof erig 30 Tanks Support Troops in Biggest Fight yet ' of Border Battle Japanese Sources Report . Russians Thrown Back " With big Losses TOKYO. Aug. 3- Wednesday".) -(Apy-Foll owing night-long aerial and artillery bombardments,-sov-let Russians hurled six divisions, supported by 30 tanks, against Japanese positions at Shachofeng at 6 a. m. today according to an army communique. ' Japanese army sources said the Russians were repulsed with "heavy losses." Shachoreng Is a point near Changufeng. dominating height it the Possiet bay region on the ill-defined border of Russian Si beria, the Japanese colony of Korea and the Japanese protec torate of Manchoukuo, " and is about 150 miles southwest of the important Russian far eastern naval and military base of Vladi vostok. Japanese Claim Attack Broken The Japanese communique, de scribing the attack which came at 4 p. m.. EST, Tuesday, said "Japanese troops waited until the soTiets were within 230 yards, then charged and broke the Rus sian attack in hand-to-hand fight ing.. ... The Russians quickly reformed their lines and returned -to the assault an hour later, but again were repulsed. Meanwhile official sources said Russian air squadrons bombed Kojo, a town on the Korean 'side of the border, "causing numerous civilian casualties." Exact military losses on either side were not stated. Meagre information showed both sides were heavily armed with the most modern equipment. The Russians were using small, fast tanks and the Japanese ap parently were forewarned of this type of weapon and were well snpplied with batteries of armor piercing anti-tank guns. 30 Tanks Reported Disabled ' The Japanese war office esti mated the Russians already had lost nearly 30 tanks in the en gagement, 11 of which Jell into Japanese hands. - Despite the continuing conflict which the Japanese . war . office yesterday said was "exceptional ly serious." official circles still insisted the situation was unlike ly to develop into a full-sized war. Today's battle apparently was the most determined since the series of engagementa oyer the frontier position began Sunday. ' .A foreign office spokesman aid that the first secretary of the embassy in Moscow had lodged a new protest against ""soviet lawlessness" on Tuesday, but that no reply had thus far been received. Ambassador Namoru Shigemlt a was to present another protest directly to the Russian foreign minister, Maxim Lltvinoff, today. (The number of men in the soviet divisions involved in to day's fighting was not at once established. If the divisions were at full strength they probably would number about 14,000 men each.) Portlanders Land, Fairbanks Airport FAIRBANKS. Alaska.. Aug. 2-(T-Harry K. Coffey and W. F. White of Portland, Ore., arrived here today by airplane from Whitehorse, YT, after what they described as an uneventful four hour and 15 minute flight. . Their route here from Port land, they aald, was via Vancou ver, Prince George, Telegraph creek and Whitehorse. Coffey said they would leave tomorrow morning for Barrow via Nome and Kotzebue to attend the mm nri al rTliii inrnt 1 Rth of Wiley Post and Will Rogers, who were killed near Barrow three years ago. - Coffey is president of the Aero club of Oregon and White is sec retary of the Oregon Sportsmen's Pilots association. Accepts Appointment . WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 Alvln O. Mark, 719 N. Cottage St., Salem; accepted an appointment of second lieutenant in the quar termaster corps of the reserves, the war department Mid today. Battle Rages Over Minority Dispute To Be His Worry t .-J ilL. VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN VieW Pessimistic On Czech Problem 1 j ' Cfovernment not Hopeful Runcinian's Visit Will Aid Settlement PRAHA. CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Aug. 2-(iZP)-Pessimism blanketed government hopes tonight of set tling Czechoslovakia's pressing Germanic minority problem which Viscount Runciman is com ing to study as Britain's unofficial- mediator,; ;j - The main issue In Czech eyes is whether Czechoslovakia can tolerate! a state-wlthin-a-state by granting, full autonomy rights to the 3.500.000 , Germans within her borders, the measure of free dom demanded by nazl spokes men. ' ; In view of the Sudeten German condemnation of the govern ment's proposed statutes, offered to appease the Germans, govern ment quarters were none too op timistic (that Lord Runciman's visit would bring the problem nearer peaceful settlement. Sudetens called the proposed statutes j "utterly inadequate." Czech political circles said It was "becoming clearer and clear er" that the solution lies In Ber lin. If Germany wishes to solve the problem peacefully it can be done, they said. A 15-room hotel suite was re served for Runciman and his staff and conferences set for him with President Eduard Benes and Premier; Milan Hodza August 4. 9000 ,CCC Youths. Assigned Oregon WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -JPy-Nearly 20.000 CCC enrollees from the east will begin leaving eastern camps this week to many western CCC camps in their program of improving the forest conditions of Oregon, ! Washington and Califor nia, j . . . About 50,000 men are being sent into the regions west of the Rockies; this year to patrol the government's vast forest domains and the departure this week of 19,600 enrollees will mark-the last of the summer, contingent to move west. .. . ' The bulk of them. 9,000, will bo assigned to Oregon. Futility of Special Election Explained to PWA by Court The county court yesterday re iterated to the PWA Its conten tion that It would be futile to call a special pre-November election on the ; question of authorizing erection of a new courthouse. Marlon county, on the other hand would be able to act quick ly in both . financing and begin ning construction after the gen eral election should the proposal be approved by the -. people, the court advised C. C Hockley, re gional PWA director, in a letter written at his suggestion. The letter, renewing the court'a request: for an extension to De cember 31, 1938, of the time for starting construction, states It will be followed by letters from Salem newspaper editors and other observers emphasizing the fact that public opinion la opposed to the 15000 expense of a special election even though a $2(6,000 grant may be at stake. "Fourteen days is all that would be saved by sailing a spe Moscow Retains Hopes (Jf Avoiding Conflict . With Japanese Nation Soviet Statesmen Convinced Weakness in Border Dispute Would Hasten Hostilities, so Russian Troops Hold Ground ; MOSCOW, Aucr. 3. (Wednesday) (AP) The crash of bombs and thunder of artillery in the battle f or the strate gic height dominating; far off Possiet Bay on the Manchou-kuo-Korean-Siberian border evoked" an anxious echo in Mos cow today. ; ! Soviet statesmen, however, had not relinquished hope of preventing the' outbreak of aO - widespread conflict with Japan, They were convinced that weak- ness in the face of armed provo - cation would only hasten the I spread of hostilities. 1 Soviet trnnna. therefore, were! stubbornly standing their ground. Repeatedly,. Moscow warned Tokyo of the grave consequences of continuing the Changkufeng conquest. Soviet circles, however, discour aged any sensational predictions of inevitable war, and still looked for a peaceful solution. ; Tass, official news agency, in an account of yesterday's conflict, said Japanese troops "resumed the offensive" against Changku feng In soviet territory and that fighting for the hill lasted all day. Soviet artillery fire and air bombing caused the Japanese "tremendous losses" as they crossed into Russian territory, the agency reported. (Japanese reports said soviet tank, artillery and airplane at tacks On the disputed c' t held by Japanese were driven back.) Reports . of flights of soviet bombers over Korean and j Man cfioukKG territories which . were circulated by Japanese agencies and newspapers; Tass said, were "emphatically refuted by compe tent soviet circles." . Chinese Cut Dike To Halt Japanese Japanese Report Farming Lands Flooded in Area Held by Troops ; SHANGHAI, Aug. 3.-(Wednes-day)-(JP)-Chlnese were reported today to have cut dikes of the mighty Yangtze river to halt the steady advance of Japanese against Hankow, China's provi sional capital. Japanese said a large area of farm land was flooded when Chi nese broke the river's retaining walls 125 miles downstream from Hankow in the area where Jap anese had just announced cap ture of a town which placed ad vance guards astride a modern highway leading Into the Interior. The break was- 1C miles above Kiuklang, Important river point. Twenty-five miles north of Kiu klang. Japanese reported entering Hwangmei "virtually without op position" to obtain control of the highway to Hankow. '. In severing Yangtze flikes, Chi nese repeated the strategy by which they halted the Japanese attack on Chengchow, railway Junction 300 miles north of Han kow. Japanese had planned to nse Chengchow as the base' for a drive southward along 1 the Pelp-Ing-Hankow railway when Chi nese breached Yellow river dikes, flooding, the area. ' i cial election," the letter stresses. To get the question on the No vember 8 general election ballot the court must act by August 18. The letter adds that the court can not by law levy any tax for the project -before it term open ing November 2. .: i i , The county's architect have finished preliminary - plans, are now making working drawings and will speedily finish the lat ter when PWA funds are aasured, so that bids could be taken im mediately after the election, the letter points oat. . , ; . 4- . - As a final argument the ' let ter declares the conrthouse "Is an integral part of the civic cen ter of the capital city" and is the remaining building that should be replaced. r j "Completion of this gwap is a matter of more than local in terest,' the court maintains, and "should be an achievement which the public works administration can point oat to the nation aa one of its major achievements," i v 1 LaialDaign iTODerS l a - C i; - CT rv- Old LP til Say Use of Public Funds in Politics Threat to Free Ballot WASHINGTON, A ug. 2.-(JP) -The senate campaign expenditures committee asserted today that po litical use of public funds in Ken tucky's white-hot senatorial pri mary has become a threat to "the right of the people to a free and unpolluted ballot." The committee applied its bluntly-worded criticism to tactics em ployed on behalf of both candi dates in the democratic race Al ben Barkley, the majority leader of the senate, and A. B. Chandler, governor of Kentucky. Without mentioning names, the senate group said, "It is certain that -organized efforts have been and are being made to control the vote of those on relief work, and that contributions h a,v e been sought and obtained from federal employes, in behalf of one of the senatorial candidates." On the other hand, the commit tee reported, "it is equally certain that state officials charged in part with the distribution of federal funds for old age assistance and for unemployment compensation have been required to contribute from their salaries and of their services in the interest of another csEdidate for the United States senate." I; Terming the situation "deplor able," the committee said the facts it had found In Kentucky "should arouse the conscience of the country." !i Seek Plans Grant On Valley Project PORTLAND, Aug; 2 -)- A 3200,000 application to the PWA was filed by the Willamette valley project committee today to pre pare surveys in readiness for flood control, navigation and irrigation work. Congress has tentatively approved . the vast ' project bat made no appropriation. - The survey work would be car ried on by the army engineers. The project committee is ask ing the US army engineers to sub mit the application ; for funds to the PWA to finance preparation of working plans for major pro ject units. Senator i Douglas Mc Kay, chairman, said last night. Allocation, of the money as re quested would mean that plans would be in readiness whenever congress appropriated money to start the project. Settlement Made . In Bakery Strike PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 2.-(JP)-A strike at the Davidson Bakery company was ended tonight with the signing of a contract with the Bakers union. The plant reopened immediately. y, . Details of the setUement were not disclosed. : - The Wholesale Bakery Drivers' anion, charging the company at tempted to place them on a com mission basis, joined the Bakers' union' in striking earlier today. The Bakers' group asserted the firm worked Its employes . 40 hours a week compared with 3 at other bakeries. E. F. Davidson, firm president, said the r plant closed because "union officials re fa se to include a fair arbitration clause in their agreement. Curry County to Seek , . Grant for Courthouse GOLD BEACH, Aug. 2-( -The Curry county court received auth orization from the taxpayers to day to ipply for a 345,000 PWA grant to constuct a courthouse. The total cost was estimated at 3100.000. subject to the approval of a bond Issue to nleet the cost of the county's share. - Kentucky Zoe Stockton Condemnation Suit Ordered Owner of Summer Street : Property Decides not I to Accept Offer Demurrer Will Be Filed fcy McMahan to Order of Mandamus ' Condemnation of the Zoe Stock ton property at 274 North Sum mer street ' was ordered by the state capitol reconstruction com mission yesterday after Miss Stockton had announced a deci sion not to accept an offer of 39, 740. The property is the last in the two blocks bordering the Summer street capitol - approach to be bought by the commission at pres ent. The order for another court ac tion came on the eve of the dead line for the response in the su preme court by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan to the commis sion's mandamus petition to force him to withdraw from the Boes chen condemnation case and allow an outside judge to take charge. Judge McMahan will file a de- m-rrer attacking sufficiency of the, petition, he announced last night. It will be supported by the record of the capitol group con demnatlon proceedings in his court. Unless the supreme court chooses to hold a special sitting. no decision will be handed down until It reconvenes in September after its summer recess. The mandamus petition is based on McMahan's refusal to recog nize' affidavits of prejudice and motions for change of judge filed against him by Assistant Attorney General J. M. Devers for the cap itol commission and by Rex Kim- Iftell assistant - attorney general, personally; Devers asserted McMa han had criticized the commission and questioned its good inten tions. Kimmell alleged the judge had accused him of ungentleman ly conduct and professional in competence. Judge McMahan subsequently entered an order declaring the motions ''sham and frivolous and not made in good faith" and struck them from the record. NY Will Welcome Corrigan Friday NEW YORK, Aug. 2-(ip)-New York's official reception for Doug las Corrigan, who flew to Dublin "by mistake,",, will be held Friday, the day after his arrival, from Ireland aboard the US liner Man hattan. That will mean a ' least two celebrations for Corrigan one in the harbor Thursday and a parade up lower Broadway Friday. , James McGurrin, deputy New York county clerk and president of the American-Irish historical society, was arranging the final details for the celebration. After the city ball reception Corrigan will be honor guest at a luncheon of the advertising club. : Newark, NJ, plans to give Cor rigan an official ' reception on Monday. Seek Closed Shop In Six Sawmills PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. l-Py-The' district council of the AFL lumber and sawmill workers un ion asked six sawmills today to sign elosed shop agreements. The plan would be similar to the one accepted by the West Oregon company. The CIO im mediately established a picket line at the West Oregon yards and dock and prevented loading 2,500,000 board feet of lumber on the schooner W. R. Chamber line, Jr. . . f - The AFL j claimed a majority at all six plants. , Chinese Boy Dies From Shot Wound ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 2-(JPf Kenneth Lee, 17-year-old Chinese Altoona cannery worker," was killed today .when a gun In the hands f Robert Goon 24, Chi nese,' was fired accidentally while the pair 'struggled to extricate a jammed cartridge. Lee died In a boat en route to a hospital here. - . ... , , - Scio Request Received PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 2.-JP) -The PWA regional office re ceived an application today from Scio for a grant of 39327 for con struction of a 320,727 school building." Heated- Tennessee Brings Senate r . "v-. -.... : -v PRENTICE COOPER Tennessee's hotly contested dem ocratic primary is the target for at senatorial investigation . on grounds that unethical tac tics have been used in collect" lug and spending campaign monies. The primary this week end is also in the spotlight be cause it has thrust the power ful political machine headed by Ed Crump, Memphis "boss," into a fight with two of its hit terest foes. ' In the gubernator ial race. Crump is backing Prentice Cooper against! Got. Gordon Browning. In the contest for the democratic nomination for senator. Crump la backing Thomas against Senator Tom Berry and J. Ridley Mitchell, independent democrat. .. . ... Order Wider Hunt For Lost Clipper Search - to Cover Ocean Area North of Spot of Last Report ; MANILA, Aug. 3-(Wednesday) iiP) Still hopeful that 15 persons aboard the Hawaii Clipper might be alive, drifting with ocean cur rents, in the flying boat which dis appeared five days ago, naval' of ficers ordered a widened search today by their planes and surface craft. They directed the search to be swung northward or the place above the vast Pacific where at 12:09 p. m.. Friday the Clipper in a last routine raaio report saia she was flying at 9,100 feet in rain about 500 miles from Manila on the Guam leg of her flight from Alameda, Calif. Samples picked up by the army transport Meigs Saturday from an oil patch on the waves some 400 miles east of San Bernardino strait were turned over to a navy destroyer to be brought to Manila for analysis. Officials hoped that the analy sis would show whether the sam ples contained aviation gasoline or aviation oil. If they do, it will almost prove they came from the Clipper, - since no other planes were that far seaward. First Hop Picker Requests Are Had Portland; Aug. 2-m-The state employment office said to day it had received its first re quest for hop. pickers and opened registration for pickers. ,1 A few yards in the Independence-Salem area- have started picking, ; the employment office said. Registration is being taken at Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Albany, Corvallis, Dallas and Mc Minnville. , ; Blind Girl Won't Leave Ship Without Dog Banhedby Law LONDON, Aug. 2-ay-An Amer ican blind girl, weeping- aboard her ship, in the Thames, said to night she had appealed to Presi dent Roosevelt, because British authorities refused permission for her. "eyes" a German police dog guide to enter England with cr --v. . The girl. Hazel Hurst, 22, of Oneonta, -NY, arrived yesterday aboard the liner American Mer chant. She refused to leave the ship without her dog. - -5 The ministry of agriculture, al ter ' "serious consideration," an nounced the dog could not enter England without a customary six months quarantine, required ; to determine whether animals are in good -health. .'."y '-'"r': Miss Hurst said she had cabled President Roosevelt to obtain his help in landing with the dog guide, "Babe." Primary Race ; Probe oi Tactics 1 A i oi THOMAS STEWART Mixup in Rackets Charged Officials Dewey Says NY Judges Influenced by Dutch . Schultz Rackets , NEW YORK,. Aug. 2-(JP)-T)ls-trlct "Attorney Thomas E. Dewey said in supreme court today that the late Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer and his policy num bers racketeers bad "influenced" these officials: William Copeland Dodge, for mer city magistrate and Dewey's predecessor as district attorney. Elected proescutor in 1933, he served until last year, when Tam many neglected to renominate him. He now Is in private prac tice as an attorney. Magistrate, Hulon Capshaw, ap pointed In 1929 by Mayor James J. Walker and reappointed for a full ten-year term in 1933 by Mayor John P. O'Brien. He is a native of Cookevllle, Tenn. The late Francis J. Erwin, a magistrate from 1931 until 1935 wfien he died. , The names, regarded by sensation-seekers as a delectable appetizer-for the trial, of James -J. Hines, veteran' Tammany district leader accused of being the "front man" for the policy mob, were served up in a bill of particulars demanded by counsel for, Hines. Neither Dodge, Capshaw nor Erwin was charged with a crime, it being merely alleged that they were among those who had been "Influenced," by intimidation or bribery in the handling of policy cases. I explained," she said, "that I was refused permission to take my dog ashore with me unless it Is . first quarantined for six months. I am hoping the pres ident will help 'get the order re laxed before my ship sails Friday. "Otherwise I am returning to America. . I would like permission to. stay In an hotel while I am here, but I am not leaving this boat without Babe. It would be like leaving my eyes behind me." Miss Hurst, attractive in a print dress, had been crying. "It is the first time In my life I have felt Blind." she said." "1 don't feel safe being guided by a human being." She asserted she had bad the dog Inoculated against rabies. : An agriculture ministry official said of the case: . . - "We cannot make an exception." 1 .if I i t t i . 1 ButAlsoWins Approval From West Virginia Dodo, Self-Styled FDR . Supporter, Defeated , 3 to 1 by Smith Senator Clark Triumphs . Easily in Missouri, , McGill in Kansas By the Associated Press) ". Primary elections produced both victories and rebuffs yester day for democratic congressional candidates.' who pointedly backed the new deal in their campaigns. Outstanding among the returns was the 3-to-l triumph of Repre sentative Howard W. - Smith of Virginia, who has , voted against key administration measures, over William E. Dodd, Jr., who pro claimed, himself, an "unserving" Roosevelt supporter. - By a narrow margin, former Representative Colgate W. Dar den, "Independent" democrat in another Virginia district, unseat ed Representative Norman W. Hamilton, who had called himself a loyal supporter of the adminis tration, despite a vote against the reorganization bill. New Dealer Ahead In West Virginia In . West Virginia, however, it was a different story. There, three democratic members of the house who have consistently supported the president Representatives Ramsay, Edmiston and Johnson received comfortable leads on the basis of slowly accumulating returns. Senator Clarke (D-Mo), a fre quent critic of the new deal, won renominatlon easily, and Senator McGill (D-Kans), a consistent ad ministration backer, triumphed Just as handily. xn iiansas, ;-uie Kev. Gerald - B. WInrod, denounced bf clergymen and political leaders for "nazi Ism" was running third in a four way race for the republican senatorial- nomination. Ex-Governor Reed Ieads in Kansas Former Governor Clyde M; Reed was leading ,Mth 34.442 votes, followed by Dallas Knapp with 22,944, WInrod with 18.150 and the Rev. J. C. Fisher with 8,907. The count was on a basis of 914 of the state's 2,708 precincts, but Reed's victory was considered cer tain by his supporters. . United In supporting Senator Clark, Missouri's, two democratic factions, one lead by Governor Stark and the other by Tom Pen dergast, Kansas City political "boss" fought for party control with, a state supreme court seat as the Immediate prize. With the unexpectedly p r o Stark St. Louis vote still to be counted. Pendergast's man was leading, 166,485 to 125,158. Missouri's republican senatorial primary found former Governor Henry S. Canlfield running far ahead of a politically-unknown opponent, -Ray E. White of SL Louis. In the Virginia contests. Smith's vote was 19,601 to 6,530 for Dodd, with 209 of 219 precincts wnnrf To rAan roAA'irA - 10 ait votes to Hamilton's 17,283, with all precincts reported. ' Price Regulatory Act Test on Way PORTLAND, Aug. 2 The Portland Public Market company revealed in circuit court today It was prepared to carry a constitu tionality test of the state anti price discrimination act to the su preme court. v A suit filed by the Food Trades institute. Inc., charged the mar ket sold and advertised sugar for less than the production cost. The market replied the act impaired the obligation of contract as de fined by both . federal and state constitutions. - Hood River Buys Bonneville Power HOOD RIVER, Ore., , Aug. 2-(fiy-The city . council voted yes terday to purchase 100 kilowatt years of Bonneville dam power, to be used tor municipal purposes only. 1 ;- ;,. . Cost for. the power will be only 340 annually above the cost cf operating the city's municlpally owned plant, which produces an Inadequate 65 killowatt years cf energy. Rocks Smash "Windows PORTLAND, Aug. 2-;P)-Wal-ter Buchholt complained to police today that rocks were hurled through! two windows at . his home. He said he was employed at a hotel where the culinary un ions called a- strike.