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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1938)
The "Weather Partly cloudy today and Saturday. Xo change la tem perature, humidity. Ma. Temp. Thursday 70. Mln. 40. Hirer &0 feet. Northwest wind. EIUIITY-Kirjl-TH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday, Morning, August 12, . 1938 Prie 3c; Newsstand be X No. 118 MIO&COW mm .men Sage of Salem Bark from til trip by air to New York and a national radio appearance, D. II. Talmadge resume his phil osophical column la The Oregon Ftatesman. - t ' - PouNDso 1651 - - t i s: r . for 1 pit str : V Way Is Clear For Hiring of Nev Teachers Four Teachers Affected by. Retirement Act to Be Replaced Soon District Attorney Hopes for Release of Order of Restraint The Salem school hoard will he advised soon 'to proceed with blr lng one instructor and three prin cipals to fill the four positions af fected by the state retirement act which went into effect last Feb ruary 1, District Attorney Lyle J. Page announced yesterday. The hoard has taken no steps toward replacing the four, faculty members involved because of the suit pending in circuit court here to upset the retirement act. Order Release ' Expected Soon The district attorney said, he hoped to obtain a release for the board next 'Week from the order issued last winter restraining it from enforcing the act, which for bids employing or retaining fac ulty members - after they : have reached the age of 65 years. It applies only to the Salem and Portland school districts. The positions involved are those of E. A. Miller, Grant school principal; LaMoihe R. Clark, Les lie junior high principal; Anna Fischer, Richmond principal, and Adona Cochrane, Richmond third grade teacher. Ellen M. Currin, Grant primary teacher, and U. S. Dotson, senior high commercial instructor, who also were subject to retirement when the act became effective. submitted their resignations last spring. Stipulation Was Never Filed ; . A stipulation between the plain tiff instructors and the board pro viding .that their case follow the decisions made by the court-in a similar action originating in Port land exists but .has never been filed, the district attorney said. The Portland case resulted in a state supreme court decision op holding constitutionality of the retirement act. Although notice of appeal to the United States su preme court has been filed in this case, it is Page's belief, he said, that it is unlikely the appeal will prevent the Salem board from proceeding under the retirement law. -. Indications were yesterday that the local Instructors affected would contest any effort to have the restraining order protecting their positions dissolved until the Portland case has gone before the highest court. . . No other faculty members will become subject to retirement dur ing the 1938-39 school year, it was reported at the school admin istration offices. 7-Year-01d Boy h on WPA list UNIONTOWN. Pa., Aug. 11-(P)-Two timekeepers on Fayette county works progress adminis tration projects were suspended today as state WPA officials op ened an investigation of the hir ing and firing of a 7-year-old boy from a road laboring Job. At Harrisburg, the state WPA headquarters announced Gilbert Colley and Max Whoolery were suspended after a preliminary in vestigation, "turned up informa tion that pointed toward collu sion." . . ' ''- . - I A statement from the office of J. Banks Hudson, state adminis trator, said Whollery was "reput edly related' to Mrs. Arthur E. Malone, the mother of the ' bey who had been mistakenly certi fied as a 'priority worker" of the family. r::i . Lyell L. Buttermore, district WPA director, said the youngster, Richard Malone, had been as signed to a job because of a "cler ical error. " A 16.54 check made out to him has been revoked, Buttermore said. r . Portland Hotels Adopt Open Shop PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. ll.-(eP) ,-The hotel association of Port land posted notices to employes today its members' "will in the future- operate on the open shop plan." " The association's hotels have been involved in a .two-month strike with hotel unions. Earl Mclnnes, head of the or ganization, said the notices were posted in all 16 hotels being picketed. "On and after this date it will - not be necessary for. any of our employes to maintain membership & any labor organization in order to hold their Jobs a our em ploy," the notices read. Man '!ift icq l(j0hju red When His Coupe Strikes Passenger Bus Head-on Badly Fractured Skull, Broken teg Received by j Portland Man in Highway Crash North V of Salem; Dog Guards Master ! Robert Ross Griff ithf about 50, : of 7022 Northeast Siskiyou street, Portland was critically injured when his light coupe collided headon with a Dollar Lines bus on the Pacific highway 2j miles north of: Salem at 8 :04 o'clock last night. His terrier, dog escaped unhurt. : j ; Griffith's injuries included 15 distinct fractures of the Moody , Comhntsi Rosser's Motion Stresses Testimony Value in First Trial of Teamster Head i DALLAS, Aug. ll.-(j!PrCor- rohorative value of testimony given in the trial of Al E.';Hosser, former secretary of the .o 1 n t council, of teamsters for Oregon, on a charge of arson, was stressed today by Ralph Moody in com' batting a motion for new trial. Moody, special prosecutor ap pointed by Governor Charles H. Martin, will complete his presen tation tomorrow. ' iRosser was conricted last month in . connection .w 1th the burning of the West Salem r Box factory. .:- . Two reasons for a new trial were added to an original list with the consent of Circuit Judge Arlie G Walker. George Vanderveer and Charles W. Robison, attor neys for Rosser, alleged miscon duct on the part of attorneys for the state and misconduct on the part of the jury in disobeying in structions of the court. , j Vanderveer assailed the testi mony of Cecil Moore, one? of three men who admitted setting the fire which destroyed the factory. Robi son questioned testimony of Al N. Banks, Salem - teamster official now serving a 12-year prison sen tence f orhlring the alleged ar sonists. - Vanderveer also declared a $50 check given Jack Estabrook by RoBser was for payment of pickets and should not. have been ad mitted as evidence in the arson trial. , " i .. ' ' a- Mama Has Law on Rustlers I RAINIER, Ore. Aug. Two men had a cow's mother in stinct to blame for landing them in the arms of the law this week, j They butchered a calf, belong ing, to a Fern Hill community farmer. The mother of the slain animal followed its carcass to the home of Dick Bennett and set' up a vigil. iWilburn found the cow and in vestigate n revealed the veal. - Benj3tt and Christian Boysen were arrested, 'pleaded guilty and were sentenced to six months in jail, suspended on condition they reimburse Wilburn for the calf. v Smith Reelected GOP's Treasurer PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. ll-6Pi -Lloyd Smith, Portland, was re elected treasurer of the republi can state central committee today at a meeting of the executive committee to plan finances for the November campaign. ? IKern Crandall, Btate chairman. said an executive secretary would be selected later. The committee analyzed the political situation in all sectors of the state from re ports of district committeemen. Official A A A 4pp roval G iven To Hop Marketing Agreement ! Final approval by the AAA of the marketing agreement for the hop industry and issuance of an order to regulate the handling of Pacific coast hops in inter state and foreign commerce, was made yesterday, with the agree ment program and order effec tive immediately. Announcement to this effect was received here late yesterday afternoon by C. W, Paulus, in charge of central off ices for the hop control board. Even - prior to announcement that the AAA had given final approval, central offices were set up yesterday at 710 First Na tional bank building. Moving swiftly because the 1938 harvest is near at hand, ap praisers will go into the field this morning, with members of the 12 Oregon district advisory boards meeting here yesterday to get blanks and instructions. Apprais als will also start todav in Cali O EKuii in . ine - zoreneaa region. compound fractures of the right leg, a severe thumb, laceration and multiple bruises, First Aid Captain Percy L. Clark and Salem General hospital reported. Mrs. Pearl Knight. Long Beach, Calif., who had taken the north bound bus after her automobile overturned south of here Wednes day, was alap brought to the hos pital but examination disclosed she was only bruised, f She resumed her journey to Bremerten.'i Wash., to meet her husband, a member of the crew of the USS. California. 'State police said Griffith ap peared to have been driving on the wrong side of the highway. Griffith's- dog attempted j to keep first aid men from approach ing his master. Captain Clark said, and finally dog; master and the blanket:' on .which- they had been placed .were packed into the Salem Taxi ambulance and sent to the hospital. City, police later took charge of the dog. . :The bus, . driven : by Cooper, proceeded on toward Portland after emergency repairs had been made. The motor and hood as sembly of the coupe was demol ished, i Heavy Death Toll In Raid on Wuhan 400 Killed or Injured in Bombing of Industrial Center of China :: HANKOW, China. Ane. ll-Pk -Japanese air raiders today exact ed a heavy toll of-dead and In jured in a swift attack on the in dustrial heart of China -the Wu han tri-citles. , i Unofficial estimates said 400 persons were killed or injured. Three United) States mission properties were $ badly damaged when 27 Japanese planes, heavily loaded, dropped their cargoes on Hanyan and Wuchang at the con fluence of the Han and Yangtze rivers. ; .' -- - Only one of the three cities. Hankow, the provisional capital. escaped the attack on the last great central industrial region re maining under Chinese control. Boone university and St, Hil da's school for girls, both operat ed by the American church (Epis copal) mission, were hard hit. A direct strike demolished the Boone hoy scout's building where a number! of Chinese : bad taken refuge. ? j:. ; it'-. , ' Walls of the girls school were blown in: by . concussion of a bomb striking nearby. War Anniversary :- Marked by Bombs SHANGHAI, Aug. lt-(Friday) -(i?3) Anti-Japanese agitators to day opened a terroristic celebra tion of the anniversary of the out break of Chinese-Japanese war fare in Shanghai Aug. 13. Two bombs, thrown af a Japan ese cotton mill in the Italian de fense sector of the international settlement, fell back into the street and exploded, Two Chinese were killed and 15 injured. -' fornia and Washington. At the same time, the first meeting of the control board was called for next Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Marlon hotel here. The hop marketing agreement was ; developed by growers with cooperation of dealers and brew ers. Under the program, the sal able quantity of 147,500 bales of hops will be established for the 1938 season, and the salable quantity for 1939 hops will be determined by the secretary on the basis of available information on 1939 production, carryover and total consumptive demand. The program provides for the allotments to each grower of his proportionate share of the salable qnantlty for each year (the agreement is effective for 1938 and 1939 crops) based on the quantity of hops he produces. Al lotment certificates designating individual salable quantities are required. Camp Election In Georgia Is Urged by FDR Defeat of Sen. George i for Non-Liberalism Asked in Speech George, on Platform, Is Unmoved as President Attacks Record BARNESVILLE, Ga., Aug. 11- ypy-President Roosevelt for the first time called vigorously to day for the defeat of a democrat ic senator he feels does not meet the tests of liberalism and. his challenge was promptly accepted. Mr. Roosevelt told perspiring and cheering thousands assem bled for a rural electrification celebration he felt Sen. Walter F. George should not be returned to the seat he has occupied 16 years and added firmly "I most assuredly would vote for Lawr ence Camp" in Georgia's Sep tember 14 primary. George Impassive Through Speech Senator George sat impassively on ,- the platform through the president's hard-hitting speech and at its conclusion walked across to the party chief, shook hands with him and said: Mr. Roosevelt, I regret that you have taken this occasion to attack my public record. I want you to snow mat l accept the challenge." in muiu; u young ieaer&i district attorney from Atlanta uia cucice i or me oiuce, i n t? the candidacy of former Gov. Eugene Talmadge. He did not rTceriiirm'GrcRTeUanu attorney and Townsend plan ad- Tocate. it was the second Georgia speech of the day for the Wash fkAnft nV r VMM t lir ington-bound president who is returAaav -from... a cross-country vacation and a Pacific fishing cruise. 'This morning at Athens he received an h&norary doctor ate of laws from the state uni versity, renewed previous appeals for t sharp improvement in omit n0rn rrrt rtm n uta n n i t-H a arA called for "constant progressive action in the national , govern - ment. Calla Renatop "3Iv FriendM , Mr. Roosevelt frequently called! George "my friend" and said he "is beyend doubt a gentleman an: a scholar" and his personal friend, but "I am Impelled to make it clear that on most pub lic I questions he and I do not speak the same language.' - Senator George fought the - su preme court reorganization plan. the! executive department reor- ganlzatlon and the wage-hour till; as well as some lesser ad- minisiraiion proposals. Camp as well as George sat on the platform although net ther h,td a part in the program while r the chief executive tooa the offensive for the first time in this year's primary battles. Heretofore '. he has , said good words for administration stal warts but has not publicly sought the defeat of incumbent dissent ers. The president referred to Tal madge s sharp attacks , against the new deal In the latter part of his governorship In 1935 and 1936, said this "concerns me not st all" hut added "I have read! so many of his proposals, so 1 many of his promises, so many I of his panaceas -that I am Tery certaln in my mind that his elec- I tion would contribute little to practical .government." Says George Not r Liberal School . After saying "my friend, the senior senator from this state. can not in my judgment : be classified as belonging to the lib eral school of thought," the president referred again to the personal menasnip mem he told his listeners: . . ... 1 "What I am about to say win I : I oe q lu '"J I senator vvaiLer oeor. ,1T . . I respondence with him and, as a J result of it, he fully knows my views. Then he proceeded to an ex- ..M.;t.-,.Vn h.t MSi. dent alBo is his party chief. as president it is clear that there - -.o.- v.i.un I . d mrZuy he said "MT Is one of the - essentials of the party form of government. The test is not measured, in the case of the individual, by bis vote onndmerj bill. The test lies rather in two questions; first, has the record H shown. while differing perhaps in de tails, a constant,-active fighting attitude in favor of the broad ob jectives of the party and the government as they are consti tuted , today,- and secondly does the candidate really, in his heart believe in the objectives? I "I regret that In the case -of I my mend, senator ' ueorge, i cannot answer either of these questlons in the affirmative. HAWAII DOCK RIOT BRINGS INQUIRY An inquiry Into a labor riot, in Dy the Hawaiian bureau of the attempt to picket an incoming steamer from Honolulu. Unionists said the steamer carried a strike breaking crew. According to reports, the pier is territorial, therefore public property from which no- oouy can be excluded. Photo were brongbt Into play (IIX). ,. German Plane Hops Sea To NY in 25 Hour Span 3942 Mile Flight Is First, Westward Hop From I -n i tvt it i rrr t i 1 Berlin to JNew York; Was Experimental i - , I to SnOW f easibility OI XlOUte I JMiVV IUKJ1, Aug. 11. who had dinner last nicrht York this afternoon to complete in 25 hours aviation first 1 westwaru 11111- uetweeu tc ivu uuca, . I t Over 3.942 miles of land and water their 24-passeng;er I Focke-Wulf transport flew to .... . .. Insurgent Armies In Drive to Mines Pitched Battle Reported I I in Progress About 1 " - . I Town of Alma den I H END A YE, France (at the Spanish frontier), Aug. ll-iS5)- I Insurgent armies in southwest I Spain drove today to within range j of Cabeza Del Buey, key to the rich government-held Almaden mercury mines. A pitched battle was reported in progress around the town, 24 miles west of Almaden. It is the last important : position between the insurgents' Estremadura frpnt I ana Almaden. The latter is In the J highway running east from Cas- tuera. Insurgent dispatches told of a general advance while govern ment advices acknowledged the campaign had moved into the out skirts of Cabeza el Buey. The government forces which have fallen back steadily before the insurgent offensive for sev- i eral weeks, have fortified the town strongly as a main line de fense. On the northeastern Ebro front the insurgents advanced in the Pandols mountains, tightening their hold around government po sitiona in theviclnity of Gandesa. The government acknowledged the loss of two hill positions but reported other insurgent counier- attacks were repulsed. Crest TraU Hike Ends at Border SEATTLE, Aug. 11 -JP- A "three year" hike along the Pa- dfic G r e 1 1 traU ended at the pMra rrh t ma!nn todav and TO vvuaaawu a, wa w aa v k along the coast mountain range. Tae trip Started in 1935 at the Mexican borderland was carried . ,4 Tltr. on by 38 coast YMCA groups. Fire Seattle youths and Warren Rogers, Portland. Ore., covered the last leg of the hike from V"' " ii-Trw-if t YMCA .carried the Odell lake to Elk Uke.seetlon of the Pacific crest relay, a nIkeof 6TDm, and delivered to Governor -Martin a letter from Governor Merriam California. Their part injhe (eiaj via jwriuriaea msi auiusu Bolivian Cabinet ' out After- Signing Treaty LA PAZ, Bolivia, AusVll-On- The cabinet of President German Busch resigned today after ratifi- cation of the Chaco peace treaty between Paraguay and Bolivia.. ii was said me resignation was prompiea oy uesire io ieo iu president iree to cnoose new coi- laborators. .. . which 80 persons were wounded", was National Labor Relations Board. Rioting began when police blocked aa shows police firing tear gas at the ... (Ari J?OUr lierman Iliers, in Berlin, drormed in on New demonstrate, it was explained, tne zeasibuuy of air service be tween Germany ana America. But so unheralded and casual was the flight that It had been under way hours before it came to the public's notice. By one of aviation's pioneers. Al Williams, the feat was de scribed as "one of the most sig nificant developments in modern flying." He stressed that Alfred Henke, the skipper, and his crew of three had made the trip in a land plane, not a seaplane or flying boat. Reporter Thumbs Way Across US NEW YORK, Aug. 11-5V iuicuaei m. tiira, zt, Seattle, re porter, made a bet with his city editor, lost, and likes it. He bet a round trip transcon- UnenUl hitch-hiking trip, with a boxing glove -OQ his hitch-hiking hand, against his editor's $10 on the Al - Hostak-Freddie Steele fight two weeks ago. Bird lost, so, using his vacation, he started thumbing. ' He -arrived here today after nine days a a cost of $11.50, and made plans to start back to Se attle in a day or so. Urge Easy Terms On Hospital Bill PALO ALTO, Calif v Aug. 11 (A3) Installment buying of hospi tal care was advocated today at the Stanford conference of the western institute of hospital ad ministrators. -.. ' R. D. Brisbane, president of the Association of California Hospi tals, said hospitals should meet the patient half way in extending credit, saying "hospital bills usu ally are undeslred and unexpect ed." Police Puzzled Of Deaths in NIAGARA FALLS, NY, Aug. ll-P)-Roaring Niagara Falls and its rapids, where police cay four women may Lave ; perished in two weeks, produced three new mysteries today. . Strangest was Patrolman Sam Rhodes' report that he saw a m.n about 25 years old, heavily built, wading across the perilous brink of the falls toward tiny Robinson island. . Rhodes. ' knowing that the rocks are slippery and the cur rent treacherous, ran to a bet ter vantage point, Vt the man had disappeared. - Another patrolman and a state reservation employe, tied to a rope, made the dangerous cross ing to the heavily wooded island. They reported they found only footprints going around the muddy edges of Robinson island and adjacent' bird islands. - Chief of Police Tracy G. Levee of the reservation police said; launched at Hilo; T. II., .recently unionists. Later, shotguns and rifles Heavy Offensive Opens on Yangtze 60,000 Japanese Troops in Action to Crack Nanchang Lines SHANGHAI, Aug. ll.VF)-A A Japanese army estimated as 60,000 strong today opened an offensive designed to crack the Chinese lines defending Nan chang. Gen. Chiag Kai-Shek's greatest air be." Nanchangabout90:mlles south of the Yangtze river, stands as a threat to the. left flank of the Japanese .. dJJtt ;uptlver , toward Hankow. .,;,,... V :; . 'Fierce fighting raged through the wooded .hills between Sha- hochen and Mahulling, about 70 miles north of Nanchang. From Mahuiling, foreign ob servers reported the whole, pano rama of the offensive was vis ible, with the Japanese shoving southward from the gray fringe of the river to 'widen their valley offensive, From hilltop observation posts, the observers saw a long line of stretcher-bearers walking back .from the Japanese front. .numerous cooiies iiumouai back from the Chinese line, bear ing loads of captured Japanese equipment, were a further indU cation that the Japanese were heavily taxed by the Chinese re sistance. The observers expressed the opinion that storming the Chi nese hill defenses would take a tremendous toll In Japanese lives. North of the Yangtze, facing the Japanese right wing, Chinese counter attacks were holding up the Japanese advance near Hwangmel, 110 air miles from Hankow. , Aluminum Firm Is 'Contract Winner PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 11. The Aluminum company of America today was awarded the contract for construction of the "backbone" transmission line from Bonneville dam on the Co lumbia river to Vancouver, Wash. The winning bid was $23 ,- 934.28. The award was announced by J. D. Ross, administrator. The line will carry 220,000 volts of Bonneville power on its first lap to western Oregon and Washing ton. , Bids will be opened Monday for 35,400 Insulators. by Mystery Niagara Falls the man might have waded back to shore during the few moments he was invisible to Rhodes, or might have been rwept to death over the falls. There was no clue to his identity. Meanwhile, police In nelghbor Ing'Nlagara Falls, Ont., were in vestigating another puzzling case. Constable J. A. Brooks said police bad searched the region tor John R. Sutherland, 20, a college student, of Butler, Pa. Sutherland, he said, disappeared Tnesday night rfom a tourist home. Today's third case was report ed by two tourists who last night saw a woman standing near the top of the falls. When they looked again she was gone. Near by they found a purse which con tained an automobile license is sued, police said, to a Wellsvllie, N. Y., woman. Two woman's bodies have been recovered within the last two weeks below the falls. Din of Battle Ends as Tens 3 Peace Is Kept Opposing Military Chiefs Meet in No-Man Land to Set Boundary Cessation of Hostilities Welcomed by Diplomat Corps in Russia MOSCOW, Aug. 11.-MVOp-zcism pervaded Moscow tonight with an official announcement that Soviet -Japanese honi ill 1 had ceased on the disputed fron tier between eastern Siberia and Japanese-supported Manchoukuo. A soviet communique stld fight ing on the Changkufeng front stopped at 1:30 p. m. today 11:20 p. m. Eastern Standard time Wednesday) In accordance with a truce agreed upon by For eign Commiftsar Maxim Lltvlnnff and Japanese Ambassador Marn oru Sbfgemltsu after long prare negotiations. Battlefield Knjoys Peace and Quiet The still of a summer's eve ning prevailed on the hattlefUU where for days artillery bad roared, machine-guns had barked and tanks had smashed through tangled underbrush. Although the truce stipulated that the fighting stop at noon to day, the soviet communique said it was an hour and a half later that the guns ceased firing. The opposing military leaden met a few hours later aouth cf Cbangkufeng Hill and adjourned to meet again at noon tomorrow to fix a line to be occupied ly their troops and lay plans for ex amination of the boundary by a mixed 'Russian-Japanese commis sion. News of the . cessation of hos tilities was welcomed In foreign diplomatic circles which had beta apprehensive lest some latt-mla-ute hitch might prevent prartli-al fulfillment of the truce reached yesterday. A difficult period of negotia tions still lies ahead for the two powers, but the beginning cf the armistice was considered a vital step for peaceful solution of the dispute which threatened to de velop into a major war. (Dy the Associated Prem) TOKYO, Aug. 11. Japanese and Rusalan troops kept a ten peace tonight separated by only a few hundred yards of shell-torn no-man's land on the Manehou- kuo-Slberlan border. Scarcefy 75 yards divlJed them at one point. A feeling of general relief was apparent throughout Tokyo, al ready deeply Involved In the sec ond year of an undeclared war w China. There was no surprise ex pressed, however, for authorities consistently have maintained that the Siberian frontier fighting merely was a magnified border In cident which would be Settled across the conference table In stead of on the battlefield. Dome! (Japanese News Agen cy) dispatches from Ilalngklng, Manchoukuo, declared "border patrol authorities believe a strict watch on soviet troops movements must be maintained as a precau tion against possible armed rlah- es resulting In violation of the agreement." A : Sharks Following Tuna Jaunt North NEWPORT, Ore., Aug. UV(n -The rich schools of albarore tun that have wandered from their customary aeml-troplc waters Into the chilly seas of the north I'a- clflc, have lured their enemy, th hark, with tbem. Oregon fishermen have r es corted alshtlnr Innumerable t!r I thivll, Mtlll lap... tV.M . 1 . a I species usually found in Hh m ! waters, f o 1 1 o w 1 n g the tuna ! schools. They have doraal fins that extend as much as three U-ri out of the water. Fluhermen ear some of the sharks are als t " t In width and 20 feet In length. Bavarians Upset By Troop Move;; MUNICH, Germany. Aur. 11 (TVTbe I'.-varlan population much upet today over n;i:!fary preparations along the bord- r 1 -tween Germany and CzechooWiv.. kla. Despite official M'uranfi tt .t nothing more than t!. .:- j au tumn maneuvers aa :, the public was worried. Ant-..- . biles, trucks, furniture vans c n -i even municipal buies l.at 1 . i requisitioned by the army. I'! ; . clans and railway en-,pti I been ordered to keep tl. rr.s lw ready for service. -