Humming "Wires Over a vast network of leased vires. Associated Press d is patches bring world news speedily to read ers of The Oregon States man. : Tlie Weather Clear today and Friday, Somewhat cooler Friday, Max. Temp. Wed. 9. Min. 60. Rlrer -3.4 feet. -Northwest wind. POUNDQD s 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, August 4, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands &c No. Ill Tteow Another Attack at Border WLW W L C 4i M T (Tl TO ril w ... -.!"' Police Lock tip Dance Hall for Code Violation . - : " x'v- . - - ' , . ' - ' Crystal Garden Band Ends Music on Orders From -City Policeman , License Lack Is Charged; Allege Building Code Violated in Hall- Dancing last night at the Crys tal Gardens,' Ferry and ' Liberty streets, was ; abruptly halted 'one Jhour after commencing at 9 o'clock when a city policeman and the city: police matron stepped to the band stand, halted the music, announced the hall was closed and arrested .the 'hall owner and dance manager?: Otto Klett on - a charge of-running a dance ball without a license. Failure to comply with build ing and sanitary regulation, as or dered by the city building and sanitary Inspectors, was the rea- . son given in Monday night's city council meeting for not granting a re-license to Klett for tbe dance hall. He had formally applied for a license, and' had received a city treasurer's receipt for $60, amount of a half-year license. Busbnell Says. , Wiring Defective City Building Inspector E. C. Bushnell said last night his office had withheld official okeh of-the dance hall until such time as de fective wiring had been remedied and fire hazards such as the six-year-old paper decorations that hung from a board ceiling were removed.- He said the ceiling in itself, not being plastered, pre sented a ftre hazard. Police revealed unsanitary con ditions, condemned by City Sani tary Inspector Batty Cooper in his report to the council, were still in evidence last night. These con ditions had to do,, mainly, with display -nand dispensing of soft-i drinks. Permission Given, Klett Claims Klett, who resides at tbe Sena tor hotel, said the building regu lations committee of the city council granted him permission to operate last night, and that he had begun work on the changes deemed necessary by the sanitary and building inspectors. Addition al exits, including a new stairway from the second floor are nearly completed. Klett said failure to take down the paper streamers was through an employe's over- . sight. . ' - ' - An attempt was made by the management- to refund entrance fees to the dancers, but as many entered the hall free after police had shut it down, there was not " enough "take" to cover the de mands for "give." Consequently, the management is planning a free dance for next Monday night. A crowd of about 200 would-be dancers milled about the dance hall after the closing order. Bar Association . OkehsWU School CLEVELAND, Aug. S-iVThe law college of Willamette univer sity at, S a I e m , Ore., was listed among those receiving official approval of the American Bar as sociation at its convention here. Willamette's college of law has for several years been considered as virtually standardized. The complete recognition by the Ame rican Bar association, announced yesterday, had been held up dur ing the past two years by Inspec tors' reports demanding improved housing of the institution and certain faculty readjustments, such as to teaching load. The 54-year old college antici pates an 18 per cent increase in enrollment this fall, when It will -be moved into the old postoffice building, which has been moved to the campus and will' become the university's law and govern ment building. ' 37 Fighters Sent To Combat Blaze : Calls for 130 men. to fight a forest lire on the Pistol rlTer southwest of Grants Pass on the Redwood highway was received here last night and the first bus load of 37 sent southward before midnight. Placement official said they expected to have the remain der on the way during the night. ( The fire was in a national for est, the state forestry department said. v':;;. --V Revetment Work Bids -To Be Due Augutt 16 PORTLAND. Aug. 3-ff)-Unit-ed States engineers will open bids August 16 on a bank clearing and revetment project along the . Wil lamette river near Salem. The project, in the Probst district, will Involve 1880 feet of work. McMahan FJnts Efforts To Oust Him From Case By Filing of Demurrer Alleges Supreme Court Lacking Jurisdiction in j Case; not Likely That Demurrer Will j Be Argued Until September t . : ' : . Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan yesterday filed a demur rer in supreme court to contest the effort of the state capitol reconstruction commission and Rex Kimmell, assistant attor ney general, to. force him to permit another judge to try the condemnation case against owners of the Boeschen property at 292 North Summer street. The property is part of the land Voters to Decide Tennessee Battle Campaign Has Been Bitter One With Threats of Militia Hurled NASHVILLE. Tenn.. .'Aug. 3. OPHTennessee's bitter, political battje of personalities rather than issue will be decided at the bal lot - boxes tomorrow with the democratic nominations for gov ernor,! US senator and public ser vice commissioner at stake . Candidates concluded their or atorical blasts tonight in a melee into which have been hurled threats of use of militia, a fed eral court injunction to bar the governor from such a step, the swapping of acrimonious charges and a warning . from the senate campaign expenditure committee that the victor might have to face a contest' on "excessive ex penditures. " ; - . Highlighting the races is that for the gubernatorial nomination, with Gov. Gordon Browning, seeking indorsement for a second term,? facing the determined op position of National Commit teeman E. H. Crump and his Shelby county ?JemphisJiorgaBf ization that for years has been all-powerful in Tennessee's "most populous city. Crump is backing Prentice Cooper, ShelbyvWe attorney, against Browning and each side has accused the other of "dicta torship" aspirations. Tbe friend ship between Crump and Brown ing two 'years ago, when the gov ernor was nominated, changed into bitter enmity. I Father Accused Of Girl's Death I ... Youth Who Confessed to Crime Calmly Charges Father Slayer SOUTH PARIS, Me.. Aug. -3.-(flVCalmly, deliberately, 19-year-old Paul N. Dwyer today accused Francis M. Carroll, father of his former sweetheart, of the two "death tour slayings which the youth had previously confessed. The former sheriff's deputy, on trial i, for the strangulation mur der of 67-year-old Dr. James G. Littlefleld, stolidly heard 'Dwyer testify - the peace .officer also choked Mrs. Littlefleld to death. Dwyer, serving a life sentence for the doctor's killing; was never brought to trial for the second slaying, last October. Today he first ; accused j Carroll of killing the elderly doctor, but did not make, the second accusation until cross-examined. , - v Prosecutor Ralph M. 'Ingalls. In ' his direct examination, had sedulously avoided any mention of (3 -year-old Lydia Littlefleld or how she met death.; But 'Defense Counsel Clyde R. Chapman, leading Dwyer into a recital of the gruesome "death tour" that ended in his arrest late last October at North Arlington, N. J., with the bodies ofboth victims, brought' from 'the youth a charge that Carroll- struck the woman with a pistol and later strangled her. x Corrigan Befuddled by Plans For His Royal IMY Reception NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Douglas Corrigan; the man who proved that east Is west, gets borne to morrow from . that transatlantic junket he made In a 3900 air plane, and lest there be some mis understanding about the arrange ments, Mr. Corrigan is In a. fair way 1 of getting pushed arond when he debarks. New York's city hall, which Is In Manhattan,, and Brooklyn, which is a borough f the city on Long Island, hare been argu ing for three days now about which is going to get the first crack at receiving the-flier, when he arrives aboard the liner Manhattan.-' .-." - !- - o Corrigan himself, who. comes from Long Beach, Calif., where things seem to move a little more atowly, is completely nonplussed. Omarnea ror the new capitol ap proach. r ' The demurrer alleged the su preme - court lacked - Jurisdiction both as to the petitioners and as to the subject matter, that the commission had no authority to carry on the proceeding and that their- petition was defective be cause ft did not make the attorney general a party. i Tbe writ of mandamus Was ap plied for last month after Judge McMahan had denied motions" for change of judge in the Boeschen case on the day it - was set for trial. The demurrer was filed by Car son & Carson. . i . It is not deemed likely the de murrer will be argued until the supreme court reconvenes at Its regular time in September. The mandamus action is hold ing up possible negotiations for a settlement of the condemnation action. George A. Rhoten said his associate in the defense, 'Wendell Gray, came here from Portland Tuesday to discuss a compromise but was notified by Kimmell that there would t be no negotiations until the mandamus matter was concluded. . li , Kimmell declared : that as far as he knew there had been no ne-. gotiations since the suit was filed. The commission has taken over the Boeschen property and under Its orders the owners have razed the house 'involved, t - Special Election Urged by Hockley PWA Director Makes Call by Phone After Court Letter Received That a special election be called to authorize the new courthouse project for Marion county was urged upon the county court yes terday by C. C. Hockley, regional PWA director, in a telephone call from Portland. The call came af ter Hockley had received a letter written by the court : Tuesday renewing its request for a time extension so the question could be presented at the regular election In November. The court, however, still feels that a special election would not even be a gamble, with stakes of f5000 election expense on the county s part and a $266,000 grant on the part of the PWA, but rather would he throwing the $5000 awry, its' members indicat ed. Hockley had contended the chance of the people's authorizing the project at a special election was worth taking. ft.. The PWA director has urged that the court either call a spe cial election or cancel its hold on the grant. The court has determ ined - instead to press for more time." . . ' , i , WCTU Roacl Signs Due ; ior Oregon j PORTLAND, Aug. 3.-iip-As a result of Oregon's participation In the National Women s Christian Temperance union educational campaign, motorists will view roadside signs such as theBe: "Alcohol plus gasoline equals danger." i 'if - "Safety first don't drink tra vel safely." ;-:..-; '' t'rr- '.i Mrs. Necia Buck, president, an nounced the project would display 2 S slogans. ; . People have been calling him on the ship-to-shore telephone night and day, telling him what he is going to do when the ship noses up the bay. ; ; Mostly his reply has been, J'oh.'1 He is on record -once as having said, "is that so ?" - i - He Is anxious to avoid offend ing Brooklyn and the mayor and an organization which - prints . its announcements in green ink and calls itself the "Douglas Corrigan committee. New York Irish-American harbor reception. ! " Nor does he want to offend Col Jacob Rup pert, the baseball man. who has offered the Yankee sta dium for a jamboree Friday night. i"If the mayor says all "right about the Yankee stadium thing,' Corrigan Is quoted as saying, why then, all right." Maytag Plant To Be Opened With Soldiers Washing Machine Factory Will Reopen Despite Strike of CIO Question of NLRB Right to Hold Hearing Also Ended by Governor : DES MOINES. Aug. '3 (ff Gov. Nelson G. Kraschel of Iowa, to night : ordered the f strike-bound Maytag Washing Machine factory of Newton, la.; to be opened at noon tomorrow under martial law after the CIO Maytag local union had refused a proposal to return to work under a 10 per cent wage cut. . The governor at the same time disposed of the question of the Tight of the national labor rela tions board to resume the Maytag labor practices hearing right In the federal court house here by amending his previous order' to confine "the military district of Iowa to Jasper county-, only." The governor said the Maytag CIO union had refused to accept the wage cut proposal and a mili tary commission ruling which would have denied jobs to 12 of the workers while the city con tinues under martial law. The 12, the governor quoted the commis sion as saying, were "particularly active in matters tending to ag gravate and provoke disturbances in this community." The Maytag plant closed May 9 when the union refused to ac cept a 10 per cent wage cut. The plant normally employs about 1400 men. The hearing on charges brought by the union is scheduled to be resumed tomorrow, with Charles Fahy, NLRB general counsel, and Robert Watts, asso ciated general counsel,, present as observers. Tbe governor last week ordered martial law authorities to close the labor board hearing in New ton as a "disturbing factor" in efforts to reach a settlement in the Newton strike. Kraschel later bearded the board by issuing a statement in which he said: "You can tell the cockeyed world that there will be no labor board hearings in the military district of Iowa." Both Sides Claim Air Fray Victory Japanese Say 32 out of 54 China Planes Put out of Action SHANGHAI, Aug. 4-(Thurs-day)-;p)-Both Chinese and Jap anese claimed victory today in a large-scale air battle near Han kow, . provisional Chinese capital and target of the Japanese drive up the Yangtze river. ' Japanese asserted that a Jap anese air , fleet engaged 54 Chi nese planes, shot down 32, and destroyed seven more In a bomb ing raid yesterday oa Hankow which ended with only two Jap anese craft mlSBlng. I Chinese declared they lost only six planes and brought down 12 Japanese raiders', Including" one bomber. T - - i Japanese srround forces were admitted by Chinese to have en tered Hwanemel. slightly more than 100 air miles east of Han kow. but ; Chinese said the in vaders were "under water." The city was said to have been flood ed by rising Yangtze river wa ters which poured through . bro ken dikes. ' The "warfare prevented re pair 'of the broken embank ments,? Chinese said, in appar ent denial of Japanese charges that the dikes were being cut deliberately to halt the Japan ese, advance. Flying Nipponese ; Say War Unlikely PENDLETON, Aug. 3 - () - Pausing here on - an airplane night to New York. Baron Y. Ya- suva and Count I. Goto, members of the Japanese house of peers, said in an interview that the Sl-beria-Manchukno border dispute was not as serious as it appeared but that Japan would go to war if Russia Invaded her territory. They said the Ill-defined border aggravates such Incidents as those transpiring. 1055 Forest Fires Are Fought in ttco ? States PORTLAND, Aug. S.-CSVOor- ernment forest fire fight jrs have battled 1055 blazes in Oregon and Washington this year. Lightning caused 751 and 30 developed from man-made condi tions. -. :,:. The fires damaged 52,317 acres under government supervision. - PORTLAND MANUFACTURER D r Man Dies in Fire As Mansion Burns R. H. Bayly, Manufacturer, Trapped in Bedroom r by Early Blaze ' PORTLAND, A n g. 3.-(r-A A neighbor's caretaker found the body of Russell H. Bayly, 39, so cially prominent manufacturer, among the debris in the basement (-today after a fire razed a luxuri ous residence in' , the Highland road district. Payly, .Apparently -trapped la a bedroom by the early morning blaze, was plunged to . the base ment with a burning mass of tim ber and furniture when the fire gutted the interior of his 375,000 home. Caretakers Uninjured Mr. and Mrs. .William Acker man, caretakers, were uninjured in a leap from a second story win dow. The victim was vice-president of the Bayly - Underhill overall manufacturing concern which has offices here. Denver, Oakland and Long Beach, Calif. He was a graduate of Williams college. His widow, the former Isabel Wilson of Denver, left for the coast by "plane from New York where she had been visiting with her three children. His parents re side at Los Angeles. A brother, Charles, Jr., ot Long Beach, arrived from California last night but did not stay at the residence. , Arbitration Plan exico MEXICO CITY, A u g. 3-6fP- Mexico today rejected tbe United States' proposal of July 21 to submit to arbitration the question of Mexico s failure to indemnify American - citizens whose farm lands she has expropriated since Aug. 30, 1927. . Instead, Mexico proposed two- party discussion or tne issue, as serting arbitration to be "unne cessary" and "unlawfuL" A note handed by Cordell Hull, United States secretary of state, to the Mexican ambassador in Washington, Francisco , Castillo Najera, July 21 admitted Mexico's right to expropriate, but insisted upon prompt payment. Hull de clared international law provided for this. ' . - Secretary Hull stated that 310 132,388 ' was the value placed by the owners on the small farm land 'properties Involved. Need of Project Seen in Weather : CORVALLIS.' Aug. 3-flP-Dr. W. L, Powers, Oregon State col lege soils department head, said today Willamette valley : weather conditions this year had empha sized the need for the . Wlllara e tie valley project to avert either extremely high or extremely low water.-' - -.; - -s. ,. . r-- fDr.f Powers, . secretary- of the Oregon reclamation congress, said that in contrast to winter condi tions, when floods caused thous ands of . dollar sot damage. streams . were now so low - that farmers were experiencing: diffi culty In getting enough water to irrigate. '. . College weather station records show this to be on of the driest and warmest summers on record in the mid-Willamette valley. No rain of any consequence has fall en since May 11, while the mean July temperature was 70.4. com pared with a normal of C5.5. IT ' ' " i -n ar VetoedDvM 1 I if 'Ladies First' Is the Motto Of Bartenders" SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.-(;P)-Becau8e of the Women's Christian Temperance union, the AFL-af filiated Bartenders International alliance has post poned the opening of Its an nual convention. The two groups . chose the same San Francisco hotel for their gatherings. The WCTU convention, however, opens to morrow and lasts through the date the bartenders originally intended to start their meeting. So the bartenders have decided to wait, mttll lAngnst IS. ' Judge Sets Aside Ring Bill of Sale Automobile and Beer Hall Also Involved in Bill Under Dispute A bill of sale by which Monte Leonard acquired two diamond rings, an automobile and a beer hall in Mill City from the late Edgar R. Ellis was set aside by Circuit Judge L. C. Lewelling yesterday at the conclusion of a day-long trial of the case of A. A. Keene vs. Leonard and Mildred Ellis Kerrick. Whether the pleadings were such that Ellis will , lose the car and beer hall on the basis of yes terday's decision - was uncertain since the formal decree had not been signed and only the; rings, valued at 3750, were involved as far as the plaintiff was concerned. ; The court held that Ellis, ill at the .time he gave the bill of sale, ' was believed incapable of knowing what he was doing. ' ' . "A Keene filed the siit as admin istrator of the Pomeroy ic Keene partnership .to ascertain whether the firm should deliver the rings to Leonard, - who -had left them there with Instructions to re mount them,, or to Mrs. Kerrick, executrix of the Ellis estate. Hit and Run Motorist , ' Sought at The Dalles . THE DALLES, Aug. 3-(1)-Po-Uce searched tonight for a hit-run driver who struck Clarence Van Winkle,-54, Condon, as the lat ter stepped Into his automobile two miles east of here. Van Winkle-suffered back and neck inju ries. He was hurled 30 feet by the impacL Label League's vi Disclosed as Jewell and Wendell Cross of 2C5 North 21st street were dis closed yesterday as the stars of the all-Salem motion picture, "Union Labor - on the . March." which will be presented at din ger field . at 8:4a o'clock Friday night. v " . -; ' - The attractive young couple performed their parts in the ro mance scenes going into the pic ture and. then spent most of tbe day making a tour of business houses and - industries, with the movie cameras operated, by J. T. Anderson, - state fair Industrial show director, and Ci IL Carter, director of the production, follow ing them. Today's issue of The Oregon Statesman will have a place in the picture." Action - shots of its mechanical department, including its swift-rolling news -press were taken early this morning. . Seventeen alert men and wom I E S IN FIRE , i . i ,' r ' f Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed a $73,000 home In an exclusive Portland district , Wednesday and killed Russell II. Bayly, vice-president of the . Bayly and Underhill company, manafactarers of overalls at Portland, Denver, Oakland and Long Beach, Calif. The victim is survived by his widow and three children, who have been visiting- in w York. . . Blaze Threatens Mill on Highway Crown Fire Near New Era Endangers Doernbecher Furniture Plant OREGON CITY, Ore., Aug. 3-VPy-A- spectacular crown fire, sweeping through old growth fir timber along the Pacific highway near. Coalca, south ot here, threat ened the Doernbecher furniture - . e mill tonight. The blaze, started from an abandoned camp fire, covered 75 acres. Fire-Warden Tom Steen- son said. It broke out of control twice during the day A 50-man crew laid hose lines a quarter mile from the Doernbecher plant in an effort to check tbe swiftly running flames. A b r 1 s k wind menaced the mill; across the high way from the fire. i - Three other forest fires, at Jennings Lodge, Cams and West Linn, were controlled today.' Movie Stars Filming Opens en yesterday won merchandise prizes la connection with the pic ture filming by finding a mystery girl brought into Salem as a feat' nre of the business tour, which continues today. ' All that is necessary to win ons of these prises is to approach the mystery girl, touch her on tbe arm and ask her, "Are yon the mystery girl?" She will admit her identity nd give the person iden tifying -her a merchandise order, according to Walter A. Chambers, president of the Salem Union La bel league, sponsor - ot Friday 'night's show. ' Tickets for the show are not on sale but may be obtained at stores displaying signs announcing they are taking part In it. At these same stores the mys tery girl her identity Is known to ne one outside the show spon sors will make appearances to djr -. Japanese Say Russ Advance Losses Heavy Tokyo . Message Claims 200 Soviets lxst in v Latest Attack Russians Maintain Their v Attitude Is Defense of Russian Land TOKYO, Aug.. l.-(Thursday)-(AVeovlet Russia threw four bat talions against Changkufeng aat 8hachofeng at 10:30 p. m. Wed nesday (8:00 a. m. EST, Wfdnes day), but met a repulse In which they lost 200 men, a Japanese army communique said today. , . The Russians advanced la a dense fog, Japanese reported, but their ranks were exposed when Japanese suddenly fired "thous ands of flares" Into the sky throw ing a ghoulish light over the bat tle. Examination of tbelr uniforms, disclosed the attacking force was composed partly of the 118th No voklevsk infantry, which la re ported to be a unit of tbe far east ern red army. The Soviets abandoned 15 tanks and 25 pieces of light artillery, advices from the front related. Japanese casualties were net stated. ' i : . ' Claim 250 Tanks Are la Area : Tbe number of men In the three attacking battalions was not esti mated by the Japanese war of fice, but it was said 250 tanks had been concentrated In the area by the red army forces. This was believed to be part ef the relnforccements which Japan ese said yesterday soviet Russia was moving up to the far south eastern corner of Siberia la the disputed border sons facing Jap an's Korea and Mtnthoukuo. . Despite the dally encounters. Japanese official quarters IntlnteJ they did not want a genuine war with Russia. (Russian officlafs yesterday said their army's operations were purely defensive, and there were Indications she wants to rearh a peaceful settlement. Nevertheless, mass meetings of workers and res olutions passed by red army groups Indicated the public was being prepared for a real emer gency should the necessity of lar ger operations arlae.) Official circles declared Japan "Is fully prepared If necessary" and repeated their stand that the course of the incident, most seri ous In a long series of border clashes, depended upon Rusnla. (Russia maintains she is defend- ing her territory and has ' set crossed the border.) With the Changkufeng area re captnred, authoritative sources said, Japan would not adraa.-e further. Russia has contended that the sector Is soviet territory while Japan insists it is a part f Manchoukuo. Antijew Orders In Italy Started . ROME, Aug. S.-OfD-The Italian government today announced tbe first of anti-Jewish measures fore shadowed by the recently-promulgated fascist doctrine which holds that Italy's-47,000 Jews "do not belong to the Italian race." Tbe order barred foreign Jews from Italian schools a measnre of limited scope since ft does not affect Italian Jews, and the num ber of foreign Jews normally at tending Italian schools is not large. Foreigners attending 1 1 a 11 an schools in 1J36-37 totaled 2,12 but the proportion of Jews was not known. Nevertheless. Italian Jews con sidered the xegnlatlon symptom atte since it disclosed that tha ra cial campaign already has paste,! from tbe academic to the practi cal stage. Other more stringent regulations were expected t fol low. Republican Slalc Executives Named PORTLAND. Aug. 3 - (,T") - A state-wide executive committee was named today by Kern Cran dall. Oregon republican chairman. . The members are I-of1 Ffo k mas, Pendleton; C. y, lo)linrer, Clatskanle; Roy Kilpatrirk, fan yon City; C. M. Kennedy, Cafe way; N. R. Allen, Grants Pass: Arthur Triaulx, Chlloqufn: Crar.t Murphy, Stayton; E. J. Iia?)l, Sheridan; Mrs. Dona Waddvll, ' Roseburg. Aid Hold Strikers MARSIf FIELD. Aut. Strlklng hotel workers of Port land were given the support to day of the southwestern Orcy-r j central . labor trades council. hlch voted to make a rah d - cation to the unions Involved.