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Who Won? A question answered ev wy day in the sport section f The Oregon Statesman. Complete coverage of local and national sports. Tlie Weather Clear today and Sunday with fogs on coast. Maxi mam temperature Friday 83, minimum S2. lllvrr -3.3. Northwest wind. ElGHTY.h'ltiHTH YE Alt Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, August 6, 1938 Prle; 2c; Newsstand &c No. 113 Tcmmed. Mamliafttsiini we 7 1 X "C WW J V N- V ATVNy UV: Z'. it rSA V I 1 II II II I v S. IS I 111 I II II II ,11 II Slaying Marks End of Bitter Kentucky Race Chandler's Chairman for Breathitt County Dies - ' From Shot Wound : -Voters Decide Today; on , Fight Between Barkley, " and A. B. Chandler i LOUISVILLE. Ky , Aug. Z.-Ufi -A "bloody Breathitt" county kill ing marked today the height ef bitterness - between - democratic factions supporting new deal Sen. Alben Barkley and Gov. A. B. "Happy Chandler for the; sena torial -nomination in tomorrow's primary. , ; Lee Combs, former Breathitt sheriff was shot and killed and his brother, Lewis Combs, county chairman' for Governor Chandler, was wounded last night at Jack. son "when : they started up the stairway leading to Barkley head quarters. Sheriff . Walter Deaton also was wounded. He and Lewis Combs are being treated in a Lexington hospital. Murder warrants were out for W. A. Combs, no relation to Lewis and Lee, and the county chair man for Barklev. . Barkley Winds Up Drive With Tonr Senator Barkley concluded' his campaign today with a "barn storming motorcade through the,-first- congressional district. He visited 19 towns and climaxed his drive for votes with a big rally in his home town of Paducab, on the banks of the Ohio. . Governor Chandler made two speeches today and two tonight. There was a big Chandler rally at the University of Kentucky star dium at Lexington. The governor '.Willi conclude his campaigning with a radio speech- early in the morning. 4 Headquarters of Barkley and Chandler freely predicted victory for both men. Barkley's leaders said he would win by a majority of approximately 75,000. Chan dler's men claim his victory will be by about 30,000 votes. Approx imately 445,000 democrats are eligible to participate In the pri mary. The chief Issue is the new deal. Barkley, the Roosevelt majority leader In the senate, has the per sonal backing of the president, who came to Kentucky and - In three speeches pointed to Barkley as the man he wished nominated. The defeat of the senator would mean a new party chief In the senate. -, Chandler Opposes Some of New Deal - Chandler, while claiming per sonal friendship with the presi dent, has opposed some of the new deal ' policies. He frequently .has attacked Barkley for "running on someone's coattails." Whoever goes to - the senate, after the November general elec tion Barkley or Chandler might find a challenge because the senate campaign expenditures committee is continuing its Inves tigation Into the Kentucky pri mary situation. ' The committee already has Is sued & statement charging feder al and state funds have been used by candidates In the senatorial race but without calling names. Republicans also hold their pri mary tomorrow. John P. Hoswell has the stata-republican organiza tion behind his candidacy, for the senatorial- nomination. He had four opponents. v- v . Girl and Dog Said Back From London LONDON, Aug. 5.-;p)-Blind Hazel Hurst, 2 2 -year-old Ameri can lecturer, sailed back to the United States tonight after spending just ten minutes on Eng lish soil from which the govern ment barred her faithful dog guide 'Babe. . The ministry of agriculture re fused to allow Miss Hurst's dog to enter the country without first undergoing the usual six months quarantine.' Miss Hurst, rather than travel without her eyes, abandoned plans to spend several months here visiting relatives and lecturing. Shortly, before her ship, the 'American Merchant, sailed' to night, the 'ministry -of agriculture relaxed Its. regulations enough to allow her a brief stroll with her dog through the dingy Thames docks of East London. $32,500 Sum Earmarked For UO Student Job EUGENE, Aug. B.-0T-The national- youth administration has allotted $32,600 to provide em ployment for University of Ore gon students next year, Karl W. On thank, dean of personnel ad ministration, announced , today. Tfca appropriation was - 34000 xaora taa a year ago. . Mysteriot'ZJalady Hits Mich igf"0". own With six Deaths for Week Listed 1 1 - '. . ' , - "),-' . - , - I . t State Health Commissioner Summons - Physicians j in Attempt to Identify Bacteria and -J Infection Source of Disease 1 -'OWOSSO, Mich., Aug. 5.(AP) This city of 14,000 persons mobilized all its resources tonight to combat a mys terious "disease that has taken ; six children's lives within the';past week.. - ' -. : ' ;. X: - l -" i' v 1 ?Dr. Don W. Gudakunst, state health commissioner, ar rived here tonight and summoned all physicians and members ..... v.. . , . . 1 : ot his staff. that have been work GOP Policy Body. "- Completes Forum Legislation Trend Stated Threatening Breakdown I ' of Government i - , . CHICAGO, Aug. S.-ifPyThe re publican program committee to night charged current trends in legislation ; and administration threatened : the "breakdown" of the economic -system and the "disintegration of responsible and effective government." In a statement issued at the end of a five-day forum on na tional problems, the group as sailed new deal policies and prom ised to develop a party program designed to revive business, in dustry and agriculture operated under a program grounded on the principles of a balanced repre sentative government, an ade quately regulated and Just sys tem of private enterprise, a work- Lable economics of plenty and an inviolate code of civil liberties." . Calling upon the republican party to -undertake to revive the "productive energies", of. . the American people, the declaration stated: - ' "The key to the whole program the: committee is drafting Is to determine such stimulations, reg ulations and freedoms for labor, agriculture, business, : Industry and finance as will make the ma ture years of Americans a period of high and sustained productiv ity." - The committee concluded "workable policies built upon representative democracy and regulated private enterprise can briirg us a higher living standard than we have yet known, a great er j security than we have yet known, and that, on the material base of these gafns, a vast spir itual renewal of American life can be realized." Attack Injuries Fatal to Sailor PORTLAND, Aug. M-In-juries he suffered when attacked by! three sailors Sunday, today took the life of James Vieri, 61. cook on the freighter Coloradan. Otto Henderson, another cook on ! the boat, told police he and Vierl : were accosted on a down town street. Henderson said he was knocked down. He left the scene but returned later to find Tier) unconscious on the sidewalk. A "John Doe" warrant charg ing manslaughter was Issued and navy authorities were asked to aid In the Investigation. Police said they believed the three sailors were from thetUSS Tuscaloosa. ' Water Board Tastes Water; Finds It Has , The Salem water commission went on a tasting expedition last night and proved to the satisfac tion of seven of the eight men In tbwparty that the source of supply, Stayton island, is not to blame for the 1 unpleasant odor and taste that have cropped up In scattered parts of the distribution system since the hot weather began. The -tasting . was done at the valving and mete, lng station at Ra al avenue and the Southern Pacific right of way where the Stayton island supply line enters the city system. The temperature of the water at this station has been around 60 degrees during the summer. Only Commissioner J. M. Rick man believed he detected any un pleasant taste in the water at this point. - - "I'll agree it's not as bad as at my house but I think there Is a little taste just the same,' Rick man said. . 1 Chairman E. B. Gabriel de clared the test convinced him "the taste is not coming down the pipeline." Others In the party who said they could sense nothing other than the natural taste of the soft island water were Commissioners E. B. Grabenhorst and O. A. Ol ing" on the case fnto'a conference. The state's ' laboratories have been unable to identify the bac terial Infection that is believed to have caused the deaths,' and efforts of local officials to deter mine the source of infection have failed. ' ; Meanwhile a seventh' person, Gilbert Vogelhohl, 18, Vas taken to an Owosso hospital today' suf fering with the disease. . Members of the state health de partment staff said the disease appears to .be one of the dysen teries. A University of Michigan laboratory report said the deaths had been caused by an unknown bacterial infection that had prac tically eaten away the large in testine In each vietim. ; ; Members of fire Owosso fam ilies are. known to have suffered from the disease, but Dr. Guda kunst said that undoubtedly oth er persons had contracted it In a milder form. Gerald Laza, 6, died Thursday, the latest victim of the epidemic. Four children of the Llewellyn Bennett family, and Helen AI drich, on whose father's farm the Bennett family lived,' had died previously. So far as is known there has been no contact between the Laza boy and the other victims. The deaths at first were attributed to the 'Water supply used by the Bennett T and Aldricb,- families. This theory was upset by the Laza boy's death. His family uses water from the city supply, which is tested regularly, 3 , Hotels Disclaim Smashing Unions PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5.--The Portland Hotel association denied through Its president. Earl Mclnnes, today! union statements charging It with having a "union smashing" policy.' . "We are now and always have been willing to deal with our em ployes or their representatives," Mclnnes said.' "We have, however, not been willing to permit certain unions to represent our employes against their will, nor allow . our employes to be coerced Into Join ing unions In order to work in our hotels." Sixteen association member ho tels are involved in a 'strike with unions of hotel workers. , Klamath Fire Loss Set at j $100,000 KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 6. (A3) Estimates of , , damage were placed as high as $100,0 00, today from the fire which razed the Mil ler Packing company.' and de stroyed power poles last night. The residence of Gus Miller, company, president, was endan gered. Firefighters were handi capped 1 by lack . of . water and equipment outside the city lim its. , -- - i ' .VM " J Watery Taste son, Manager Cuyler; YanPatten, City Attbrney Paul R. Hendricks and two. Statesman : representa tives. E. E. Thomas and Stephen C. Mergier. ' "Maybe I've got used to it but I didn't taste anything," Graben horst commented. "At my .office downtown there is no taste? in the water but there is in some places In town.". ' Manager YanPatten : said - - be felt certain the taste,, and odor complained of, notably In outly ing sections of t h e city where water circulation Is : relatively slow, are emanating from sedi ment left in the mains from the old Willamette river supply.. He pointed out that when river wa ter was kept In the new reservoir a year ago it deposited an inch deep layer of Jelly-like chatter and that cuts in old mains had shown the same condition exist ing there. 7 The commission expressed its informal approval of experimenta tion directed toward killing the bad taste In the mains. The manager said engineers had told him 'it was impossible to predict how long It would be. before the old mains are cleared of the de posits left by the old water sup-Ply.:- : -' ;"' ' :"' Soviet Favors Settlement on : k J . . . X . Entire Border -. . . - Japan' Reveals Russians ; Desire to Arbitrate . Whole Question . - T - . ' ' Meanwhile Russian Guns Continue Shelling of r. : " - . Japanese "Posts w " ""T ' . . I TOKYO, Aug." .-(Saturday) JP)-The foreign office revealed today that Japan had proposed to Soviet Russia that the present Soviet-Japanese : clashes on the Siberian-Manchoukuo border be settled but that Russia's view point favored arbitration of the entire border question. The disclosure was made when part of the text was released .of the conference In Moscow Thurs day of Maxim Litvinof f, soviet commissar of foreign affairs, and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu. , -t' Shigemitsn was quoted as In forming the soviet official: "The Japanese government view the present border incident an a. local Question and It Is their policy to exert every effort ' for a peaceful and rational solution as such. "The proposals of today art based on that policy. The Japan ese government propose Immedi ate cessation of hostilities on the spot and opening diplomatic ne gotiations for settlement. "If the soviet government are to accept these . proposals, my government are prepared to enter upon discussions of concrete mat ters." ' Soviet artillery blasted at Jap anese positions alang the Siberian frontier while the Japanese for eign office radiated optimism vthat the Jvest . pocket., bordef ". war soon would' be settled by arbitra tion. ..-. y "We are' hopeful of a speedy settlement," said the foreign of fice spokesman after receiving re ports on Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu's Moscow conference yesterday with Maxim Litvinof f, soviet commissar of foreign affairs. The Japanese army reported soviet guns at half-hour intervals were steadily bombarding Japan ese positions at Changkufeng near the spot where the borders of Manchoukuo and Korea join the Siberian frontier. An unspecified number of soviet planes, Japanese said, crossed the border but were driven . back by anti-aircraft fire. The army de clared anti-aircraft guns were the only ones fired by the Japanese answering the Russian maneu vers. Eleven Arrested In Demonstration PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5-iAP) Eleven persons were arrested to day during an anti-Japanese dem onstration staged on the water front just before arrival of the Japanese merchant training ship Taisei Maru. Ten were charged with carry ing banners in violation of a mu nicipal ordinance, one with ob structing river traffic. He releas ed a float on which was erected a banner bearing the words: "Stop Killing the Chinese" and "Japanese Not Welcome." Hunt " Is Started For Missing Girl MEDFORD, Aug. 5-0P)-The parents of Joreta Alice M4ddleton, 16, Talent, thought she .had been at the home -of relatives in Kan sas since she left her own home last N"March. Yesterday a letter from the Kansas kin revealed she had not been there. They appeal ed to state police who have start ed a search for the glrL " Crete Complete Oiling ' Corvallit-Albany Artery ; IcORVALLlS, Aug. R.-iiy-State crews have ' finished oiling the Corvallis-Albany east side high way buttbe route will not be ready for high speed traffic for a week, engineers said today. The oiling was transferred to an eight-mile stretch of the Alsea road - between Alsea and Philo math.. '- .. : $30,000 Allotment Made ; Valley Project Survey "WASHINGTON, Aug. Z.-ify-Army engineers have made an allotment of f 3 0,0 00 from a reg ular appropriation for surveys In the Willamette vaUey flood con trol project, Senator Charles Mc Nary's office learned today ; : CORRIGAN ARRIVES ABOARD jt - 1 ? ? i " i- -' ' Waving to the photographer's airplane, Douglas ("Non-stop) Corrigan if pictured on the bridge of the liner Manhattan as it neared New York Harbor. The youthful Irish filer from Los Angelea who "new the wrong; way' and landed in Ireland, was greet ed by thousands of admirers. Proud Brooklyn Irishmen stole a inarch on New York City by yachting ont beyond Ambrose Light to welcome the flier with a band and the thumping of numerous tin pans. Both. Manhattan and. Brooklyn competed for me nonor or welcoming vjorrigan o AFL Lumbermen Ask CIO Ouster Demand for Delegation of AFL' f or Sawmills to ' Be Made XRB PORTLAND, Ore., Aug, l-(JP AFL lumber and sawmill union ists demanded today in Seattle that the national labor relations board'throw out CIO certifica tions and designate the AFL as bargaining agency at Portland sawmills. O. H. Hill, president of the lo cal council of AFL lumber unions. said representatives of the coun cil went to Seattle today to file the demands with the NLRB. Hill said the AFL had petition ed the board to act on its claims of majorities at several mills here last March. Anxiety over the board's "inaction," he said, In creased ' Thursday night when AFL lumber unions met with rep resentatives of six mills which are uncertified. One of the agreed to talk contract with the AFL, Hill said. but others said they could not do so because of the labor board s certification of the .CIO. The AFL claims to have regain ed majorities since the NLRB cer tified the CIO. Bombed by Planes s SHANGHAI Aug. S.-tiTTh-Jap-anese : naval air . squadrons at tacked the entire 100-mile length of the KInklang-Nanchange rail way today and bombarded the city of Nanchang Itself." 4 . ; ; According to a Japanese naval spokesman, this comprised the principal activity of ( the day on the' Kiukiang front, the' section about 135 miles from Hankow reached by the Japanese in their drive up the Yangtze river to ward the provisional capital. ; The Japanese aviators were re ported to have blasted many Chi nese troop concentrations in the railway zone. "At Nanchang the bombers reportedly concentrated their attack on the railway sta tion and munitions warehouses, setting the latter afire, i Late Sports i HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 5- (-Thirty - thousand persons cheered a game old man to the echo tonight ' as Maxlo - Rosen- bloom, 15 years a - great boxer. gained a draw in ten rounds with young and clever. Bob Pastor. . The night club habitue came in at 184 pounds and Broadway Boh scaled 180 -' - Rosenbloom, as tired as his 34 years showed him to be, staged a great rally to win the tenth round and earn the draw. The young and anxious Pastor, who once staved the limit with Heavyweight Champion Joe Lou- Is. kept boring in to the body from the start and scored heavily in the late rounds, but every time it appeared that Rosenbloom was about .to let age take Its toll, the veteran of more than 36 v ring wars rallied to cuff his opponent riciously about the head. f - Kiukiang Railway win i ri none. p Corrigan Has Paper Shower Of 1800 Tonb r NEW - YORK. Ag. Eighteen hundred tons of paper fell on and around Douglas Corrigaa daring his Broadway reception today, equaling the amount showered upon Howard Hughes and his ronnd the world flying companions, t b e sanitation department said. Both figures were about lpO tons behind the Lindbergh rec ord. The weight . of the paper Is determined after it is swept i p. Gun Fight Gose Lif e of Murder Laborer Wanted in Four States Shot Down ii Arkansas Hotel HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug! 5- (ff)-Earl Young, 28-year-old Leb anon, Pa., laborer wanted in four states tor a series or roDDeries, kldnapings, rapings and one mur der, was killed today in a hotel gun battle with two Hot Springs police captains. j The fugitive was described by the federal bureau of Investiga tion as "dangerous." , I Police Captains JeTry Watkins and Ben. Rogers, whe trapped Young in a hotel room' and phot it out with him when he made a bolt tor freedom, escaped Injury. . Officers said Young was want ed at Sioux Falls, S. D., fori the brutal kidnap-murder or pfetty Betty Schnaidt,17Jyear-old high school ' graduate; at Hutchinson, Kas.; for the kldnap-assault Sofa Kansas .State college co-ed; at Louisville, "'Ky., for the kidnap- robbery of a young; woman and at Lebanon, Pa., for jail breaking, robbery and car theft. I- Rogers said he recogiieed Younr in a beer parlor here! last night rod trailed him to his hotel room. ! . Escaped Grizzly Bear Gives Pittsburgh Police bad Time L ' . PITTSBURGH. Aug. 5. 350-pound, . heat-crazed V gristly bear clawed her way from a ft eel barred cage in the Highland Park zoo today' and terrorized resl lents of the park district : for five hours before she was shot and killed. " . Bullets from sub-machine &uns and high powered rifles ended bruin's holiday 'l after - she j was routed ; from a cool, rock-welled pedestrian roadway underpays in the 400-acre park where she bad "holed -up" away from tha hot sun. f. -".'I ;' "' - - '' Sought by a posse of 30 police and termed "too dangeroujs to have a name." the bear was; dis covered by a park workman as he started Into the tunneli He yelled and Sgt. Ralph P. Birton drove out the animal with 15 shots S'om a machine gun. j Wounded ana snarling, j ine hnr rushed from the tunnel and started bp an embankment tp the MANHATTAN Water Earnings $21,594 in July Figure 'Above $21,000 for 2nd Time Since City " Took System The city water department showed earnings totaling 821, $94.71 last month as they touched the 121,000 mark for the second time since municipal ownership of the system began In 1935, Manager Cuyler VanPatten re ported to the water commission last night. Earnings In July, 1937, were 82978.08 less than those last month. Cash collections during the month amounted to 820,333.11 and. accounts receivable, 817, 055.24. .The' report listed cash on hand at 8184.17 In the operating fund, 82618.88 In security deposits, 813,202.94 id, reserve for bond interest payments and 81264.11 set aside for principal retire ments. The commission now has 873, 000 invested in bonds maturing from 1940 to 1942 to retire bonds falling due in those years. . Youth Dies While Giving First Aid PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. S.(JP) -Death came to Clyde .Lafferty, 24, Portland, today as he was riding on the running board of a light truck holding a tourniquet on the injured arm of Mrs. Clara M. Smith; Portland. The truck and a street car collided.: - 1 Mrs. Smith severed an . artery in her arm. : Albert Snodgrass, driver, and Lafferty," were .rush ing her to a hospital. The truck seat was narrow and Lafferty rode on the running board. Neither Mrs. Smith nor Snod grasf were seriously hurt. roadway where Arnold J. Schau mann, zoo superintendent, stood ready with a rifle. The three-year bid bear reared to her height of eight feet and Schaumann let her charge within eight feet of him before be fired two shots into her shoulder. She stumbled, fell and rolled down the embankment. She got up again and started back into the tunnel and Schau mann followed, firing two more shots. Bleeding,' lame and bef brown fur torn and spotted with blood,, the bear collapsed midway In the underpass, , Barton fired another stream of bullets Into her and fellow police men, getting in on the kill, fired shot after shot into the carcass with pistols and rifles. - The bear, brought, to the too from Yellowstone park last July 1 with another female, broke three bars and ripped off a wooden roof to escape from an old outdoor cage, . , - ... , Reverse Flight Hero Grins as Crowds Cheer Push of Throng Results in Broken Cartilage, hut He Just Grins Entrances Crowds, Mayor ; and Keeps Poise While ' Irish Go Crazy ; NEW YORK, Aug. B.-flTJ-Wlth many a Quip, many a flash of Irish wit, Douglas Corrigan rode today through one of the wildest recep tions New York has given any hero, perhaps not excepting Cel. Charles A. Lindbergh. He bowled over crowds outside his Broadway hotel in midtowm Manhattan and lifted a million people In lower Broadway to a frenzy of roaring applause. He made a pretty lUtle speech in rlty hall to Mayor LaGuardla and jammed a council chamber. He captured the hearts of guftti at an advertising club luncheon. Sends Flatbuj.li Into Raptures I And he sent the Irish of Brook lyn and all the other nationalities of that borough into raptures of glee In a gigantic parade from Manhattan to Floyd Bennett field where he took off July 17 in his $900 crate in the astonishingly wrong flight to Dublin. But the result of the crowd's enthusiasm threatened for a few moments to end the day on a less Jubilant note. No sooner had the smiling avi ator returned to his hotel, from his Brooklyn celebration than be was put to bed by the hotel phy sician, Dr. Willard Ellsworth, who found cartilage broken around Corrigan's breast bone. ' Harry Corrigan. the , flier's brother, said both he and the direction-confusing Irishman be lieved the injury was suffered when crowds broke through police lines and stormed the hero's car, shoving and pushing him for min utes until officers rescued him. Dr. Ellsworth put a heavy layer of tape on the aviator's chest and said later the injury was not o serious as was at first believed. That was all Corrigan needed to hear. He immediately an nounced he would go through with the remainder of his recep tion plans. Corrigan's Grin Never Leaves Him It was Corrigan's day rjl the way and the grin by which all men now know him never left his face. Himself entranced by the vastness of the celebration, the noise, the color,' the unceasing roar, he never lost his poise. Cool and self-contained in the midst of sweltering thousands he par ried questions about his flight which might have embarrassed one less confident. "Your achievement," said Mayor La Guardla at city hall, "attracted more attention thaa any other accomplishment in the history of aviation. It was so un orthodox -the way you did it. Your deliberate impetuosity finds a responding chord in me." And the speech found a re sponding chord in Corrigan's grin. ' He was grinning when, freed from interviewers and others, the police hustled him through tbe jammed lobby of the Hotel Mc Alpin and through hatleas, coat less thousands, packed with sick ening density in the streets out side. Tbe crowds roared from windows, elevated stations, from the street. , t Corrigan grinned. Irish flags were wavlnr, ven dors were selling miniature Cor rigan crates, and buttons, pen nants and flowers when he em erged, wearing tbe worn wind breaker which warmed hint against the. chilly North Atlantic weather. At the battery where the pa rade up Broadway started,: the po lice said there must have been a hundred thousand persons, swarming over the grass, the side walks, looking from tall bullet in g s, elevated structures, the steps of the custom house and Bowling Green. - And nine times that many ie tween Bowling Green and city hall, crammed along the tide walks, perched on skyscraper led ges and In the windows, clinging to the fences of Trinity and 1J St. Paul's sweltering thousands, but Indifferent to the beat en.l mindful only of Corrigan's grin. Thousands watching as the clouds of torn paper and tUlrr tape floated downward on the -try air, festooning the buildif -t, tangling on- flagpoles, whiten!.-; the bright hot asphalt. , Excavation to Start EUGENE, Aug. Hrrni'a,s tion for Eugene's new 8250, C '. 3 postofflce building is to t'uit Monday, the George IsackM j company, Portland contract! r, said today.