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The Weather Cloudy today and Mon day with lower humidity. Maximum temperature Nat urday 00. Minimum 53. Hir er -a.7 feet. . Southwest wind. Caesar Bled I . . Some centuries -ago ami today Charles E. Wilson tells readers of The Oregon Statesman of his visit to tha pot where Caesar died. 1 1 PCUNDOO, 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, August 14, 1938 Price Be; Newsstand Sc No, 120 Hans built to ' Meco ver JJama ox acroiy cumm W r ID ill . I . t 1 'J, A J1 ' w,1 " I r" X. I I 1 I II H V 1 I 1 1 1 F to w w Europe Uneasy As Nazis Play Witli Dynamite Statesmen Fear Powtler KeSMav Go off While i . Army Games Held Czechoslovakia Seen Sacrificial Goat of Hitler's Plans as By JOHN EVANS aoeiated Prtts General Foreig Editor NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-JP)-Adolf Hitler doesn't smoke, but Europe holds her breath while he lights matches ojr powder bar rels. ; '- : That's what is happening abroad n-w. Cold swtat Is on the brows of most statesmen because, they fear .Germany may swallow be" little neighbor Czechoslovakia as she did Austria, March 13, exactly fve months ago. Their Immediate fear Is that something may hap pen while Germany holds her regular army maneuvers begin nlng Monday. This Isn't a "war scare. It Is a real fear of war.. It is a fear that fills the souls of statesmen. Yet they haven t any evidence. They don't know there will b a ,wwbeii they talk eooly and privately they admit there are more reasons for peace than for war.. . . The trouV- Is chiefly about Czechoslovakia, but there ar complications. Hitler Would -Control Germans Hitler wants control of all Ger mans. He got Austria with 7.' 500.000 of them. There remains a 3,500,000 Germanic minority in the 'western end of sausage-shapad Chechoslovakia whl h is imbedded In greater Germany. Encourage! by Germany, the Germanic ele ment, more than one-ima " population, demands autonomy. Czechoslovakia sees the hand writing on the wall. She is resigned to making con cessions, but determined to fight Germany rather than surrende real .control of that part of the tninnns. easilv defended country guarded ry one of tna best -little armies in the world and equipped by the famous Skoda munition plants. : - Czechoslovak is the sacrificial goat. All she can hope for Is a chance to choose the sauce in which she will be stewed, v Czechoslovakia lias 3 Choices There are three sauces: 1. Germany may take over Czechoslovak or part of it. with technical legality "technical le gality" from the German view point as she went Into Austria 2. Czechoslovakia mcy fight. Whether she wins or loses she t 1 a battlefi'd. a. Czechoslovakia may' main tain peacef . r"esslor of her own country by such concessions to the Germanic minoilty that sht would weaken and disintegrate She is a country of ml"- "ties and Hungarian, Polish, Ruthenian and part of the -vak elements ask some degree of autonomy. 'The world worries because En rope is a mesh of trouble and Czechoslovakia is inly a symbo or me reai iruuuit. Halting Hitler Europe's Task "Halt Hit'er" Is the task most of Europe has "set herself. That means blocking his drang nach osten" (march to the east) which Is Intended to give Germany economic or politi cal or '. even actual . control of southwestern Europe. That is an old German dream of long before Hitler. r The danger of world war lies In other countries' determination ... avat r!mtn tionmlner IU yjCWU W.. J " nv er of the continent. France and Pussla have pledged tbr aid to C " osloTakla. !" Britain, with the world's great er a ament program, st'.d "it might be difficult for her to keep out If a war started." Pledges : are one thing. ; ; Executlon.of them is another. Neither Soviet Russia. France nor Britain border on Czechoslo vakia. If that little atate weft .attacked, her friends could get there only by going through or flying over other -Mries. T"eir probable "aid" would be to attack Germany. None of tliem relish the Idea. , - LONDON, Aug. 13.-(i1P)-Gw taany'a preparations for natioa wide military maneuvers hae pu other Euro;3an powers on an un usually vigilant lookout to .pre vent anything which might lead to a swift nail . stroke against Czechoslovakia. f " Reassuring reports, however, reached European capitals from envoys In and around Germany. Moreover, Germany, in a Berlin press release today, sought to al lay suspicion over the military exercises which are expected . io reach their peak .between : Sept. 9 and 14. , Burned Plane W .stage Sighted For Lost Mexico City Liner Missing Since Friday With 11 Passengers; Sixteen Killed in Crash I of Czechoslovak Air Liner i MEXICO CITY, Aug. plane reported it sighted late today the Jmrned wreckage of a Villa Hermosa-Mexico City air liner "which disappeared yesterday with 11 persons aboard. 1 I iL j The report, received by Compania Mexicana de Aviacion operators of tJie line, said the wreckagej was in a Vera Cruz state, just off the regular routeo of the plane. ; ' Ground parties were organized and started immediately toward tbe scene, about, four miles east northeast of. Tliacotalpam, on Al varado bay in Southeastern Mexico.- . '; I .' r .: . The country -in the' viiinity is mountainous, with n u m e r o u s risky gorges ntaktsg it difficult to negotiate lhe-distance. j An airways official Bald ha. be lieved all the passengers 'were Mexicans except one who . was booked fas Eugene Carlson. His address was not known. I The report that the wreckage had been sightc ' was the first word of the plane since its radio became silent at noon yesterday after reporting it was encounter ing rough weather. (By the Associated Press) j Sixteen- persons were killed In a Czechoslovak air liner crash at Kehl, Germany, today and six bthers were believed to have lost their lives when a royal air force flying boat crashed off .Felix stowe,' England. - I The crash at Kehl came when the big Czechoslovak passenger plane struck a mountain top dur ing a heavy fog and exploded. Two Americans, .both of New . York, were among the dead. . i In tbe Felixstowe crash, one body was recovered.. FJabing boats continued to search for the other five. - : : : . i .V Posses Patrolling j Arkansas Highway Floyd Hamilton Believed Trapped in Woods Area1 ' North of Dequeen DEQUEEN, Ark., Aug. 1 3JFy Nearly 40 heavily armed peace Officers from three states patroll d late tonight roads bordering en square miles of densely wood ed hills in which desperadoes loyd Hamilton and Ten Walters ere believed trapped. .The two, flushed from , stolen ar at Ladd's bridge. 12 miles orth of here today, fled on foot ihto tbe woods nnder a fusillade of machine gun bullets fired by Assistant Supt. CUff Atkinson of the Arkansas state police and De puty Sheriff Leslie Dillahunty of Dequeen. ; Officers from Arkansas, Okla homa and Texas concentrated on tbe erea in Increasing numbers during the night and shortly be fore midnight reported establish ment of a revolving cordon around the woods. They planned to tighten the net on foot at day break. In the abandoned car were found two sawed-off shotguns, a rifle and an automatic pistol with about 30 rounds of ammunition. Officers expressed belief the men had no more arms. " ' ; -: Portland Births up PORTLAND. Aug. 13 - (ft -Portland's birthrate Jumped in July, City Health Officer Dr. Adolph Welnzlrl said today. There were 496 births, the greatest num ber since records have been kept. County Republicans to Meet A t Picn id in Silver ion Pa rk .The men who head the repub lican party ticket in Oregon will present . themselves , and their ideas to hundreds of WiUamette valley citizens today at Sllverton park when the Marion county re publican central committee spon sors a public picnic, with the pro gram scheduled , to begin at 2 P. Xtt. : I Sllverton's Junior Legion band will start things off in peppy fashion, and the gathering will sing t w o or three community songs before the speaking starts. Billed to speak are James W. Mott, up for reelection to con gress; Charles A. Sprague, candi date for governor; Rufus Holman. for United States senator; Earl Snell. ; for secretary of state; Charles A. Rice, tor state super intendent of public instruction, and C. H. Gram, for "state labor commissioner. Senator Charles McNary, although not a Candi date at this time, has also been Invited to speak. by Set rch ers Mexican Ship 13. (AP) An airsearching Government Army . Holds Insurgents New; Mountain Defenses Aid Loyalists in War to Keep Ahnada H END A YD, France, (At the Spanish iron tier) -Aug. 1Z-JP) The southwest city of Cabez del Buey, lohg considered the key to Almadenis rich mercury mines, fell to the Insurgents today, but a reinforced government army kept the door to Almaden closed with new defenses in the moun tains. Heavy fighting still raged around the nearby little town of "Ox Head." ; There Insurgent General Quiepo de : Llano's forces ; met General Jose Mlaja's central armies for the first time of the war. Cabeza del Buey and its ancient plas tered houses, ruined by insur gent artillery in the past two days, now were the target of gov ernment artillerymen. Government reinforcements ar rived ! too late to save the town, but they established new posW tijns dominating the Castuera Almaden railway line Just west of 'CabeaJ'-.' - i I (In Madrid a government re port said pilots of 12 gozvern ment planes had shot down four insurgent planes on ' the Cabeza del Buey front.) Insurgents held the advantage, however, for they took not only Cabeza but the strategic moun tains dominating it to the north. Boeing Mechanics Seek Dollar Wage 1700 Plane Machinists to Strike Monday Noon if Demand not Met SEATTLE, Aug. 13-(i?3J-Seven-teen hundred machinists employ ed by the Boeing Airplane com pany today voted to strike at noon Monday unless their demands for an increase in wages from 90 cents to 1 1 an hour are met. The machinists left one loop hole, authorizing their committee to postpone negotiations until Oct. 4 if the company will Join in writ ing with the union in petitioning the United States labor depart ment to set higher mlnimums In the aircraft industry. " The Boeing company contends Its wage scale is higher than those : of ' competing companies, and assert they will be unable to bid on government ' contracts if the wage rate is Increased. The strike of machinists would throw 3200 workers out of em ployment at the big Boeing fac tory. Production would be halted on 39 "flying , fortress" bombers to be delivered to the United States army by 1940. . , Boeing officials refused to corn men ton reports they would not reopen their plant in the event it is closed by a strike, but would move It to a site in Kansas. Lunch will be eaten before the program 'starts, with free coffee served by the central committee. Salemites who plan to attend the picnic will shove oft from the Marion hotel at 11 a. m. in caravan formation, : with police supervision planned all the way to the picnic site. Local police will lead the caravan to the city limits, where state police will lake over. , v,j ; i i- Two or more buses will also ac company the caravan, to provide free transportation ; for anyone who wishes It, Cecil Edwards, transportation chairman, said. Nearly 2000 persons attended last summer's Willamette valley picnic at Dallas, and it is expect ed this year's affair, stimulated by the coming campaign, will ex ceed that figure. A public address system has been: planned for so that everyone in the park may hear with east. . There will be plenty of tables and seats for all who attend, Lewis Jadson, county chairman, said yesterday. Frey Charges CIO in Hands Of Red Party AFL Chieftain Informs House Committee of CIO Communists Says Lewis not Memher hul Names Bridges and 279 Others WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-(ff)- John P. Frey of the American Federation of Labor charged to day that John L. Lewis' rival labor organization was honey combed with members of the communist party, whose purpose he said was revolution. I Informing a house investigat ing committee that 280 commun ist party members were or had reen on CIO payrolls as organ izers and officials, he added "in fairness" Jhat Lewis himself and the majority of his followers were opposed to communism. Frey, chief of the metal trades department of the AFL, peered gravely over his spectacles i and waved: an unilghted cigar in ' vig orous i emphasis as he told the committee: Says Revolution Is Purpose "It's time the public knew the truth about efforts of the com munist party in tbe United States to carry out the purpose of Mos cow and the third international, which purpose is revolution." For 20 years, he said, AFL had held communistic Influences in check in the American labor movement. But the communists had gained a foothold in recent years, Frey charged, through their Influence -in and in some cases domination of CIO unions. In addition to charging that 2.0 communist party members were or had been on CIO pay rolls, he gave the committee a list of 60 others high in the CIO ranks who, he said, were com munists or closely linked with communism. Among these, were John Brophy, a CIO director; Francis Gorman, international president of the United Textile workers; Wyndh'am Mortimer, vice president of the United Au tomobile workers of America, who, Frey said, was a communist official elected recently under tl party name of George Baker; and Harry Bridges, chief of the Maritime union of the Pacific. Frey produced in evidence what he said was a 'photographic copy of Bridges' party membership ccJd. . ? . Promises Names ; Next Week Names of 230 more commun ist volunteers workers in CIO af filiates were promised by Frey when - he resumes testimony next week. ' Chairman Dies td-Tex), of the investigating committee, said names of the complete party membership had been obtained and would be introduced as evi dence. They run Into the thousands," he said, without disclosing bow the committee obtained the doc uments. "I've only skimmed the sur face," Frey said when hen, con cluded four hours of testimony. The rise of communism in the American labor movement, Frey said, dated from 1935, when "the - communist party in the United Slates completely scrapped Its program so that it could se cure a controlling position with in the CIO." , That was tha year of the com munist international congress in Moscow, in which communists wtre Instructed to discard many old precepts and Join with in stead of opposing groups and parties with democratic Inter ests. A protest from the Ameri can government against, state r ents of American delegates was lodged during the congress, and American-Soviet relations cooled notably when Maxim LJtvlnoff, the Soviet .spokesman on foreign affairs, rejected it. . Peace Is Planned For West Oregon PORTLAND, Ang. 13-P)-A peace program designed to open the long-harrassed West Oregon sawmill immediately and ulti mately to clarify the situation in other Oregon mills was an nounced today by the national la bor relations board. - Elwyn J. Eaten, regional NLRB director, said the dis putants had agreed on a plan whereby the CIO - International Woodworkers will remove pickets from West Oregon and sympathet ic CIO longshoremen will load the . long-idle schooner W. R. Chamberlln Jr. at the mill dock; the mill will reopen, probably Monday, reemploying both AFL and CIO men; the NLRB will con duct a hearing immediately to determine whether the . AFL's claimed majority control of work ers was gained legally and wheth er the AFL contract, crux of the controversy, will stand. GERMAN TRANSPORT WINGS The huge German fonr-zaotored transport plane Brandenburg, pictured as It was about to. land at Floyd Bennett field. New York, new away yesterday on its return bop to Berlin and was alghted - last night roaring over Ireladd. Averaging about 170 miles an hoar the plane crossed the Atlantic oat Its westward flight In 25 hours. The 19-ton machine normally carries 24 passengers but only four-man crew was aboard on the initial trip. (UN). ' Threat of Strike Seen for Valsetz Union Spokesmen Request Restoration of Wagea to May 1 Levels VALSETZ, Aug. 13 Possibili ty of a strike of approximately 400 employes of the Cobbs-Mit-chell Lumber company in woods and mill here on Monday was seen when union and company of ficials held a conference here to day. The union spokesmen"asked that wages be restored to the base which prevailed, up to .May 1, when tbe men accepted a cut amounting to 16 per cent. The base they are demanding calls for a minimum of 60 cents an hour. C. L. Starr, general manager of. the company, said notification would be given by Monday mornfl iiik i iuo tune lor resuming oper ations. The men plan to report for work unless they learn ear lier that the increase will not be granted. If it is not granted, noj work will be done, union spokes-i men said. Authority for their ul timatum was given at meetings of the two unions involved on Tuesday, it was reported. -. Attending the conference in ad-l ditlon to Starr were C. C. Mc Clean, woods superintendent, and Bert -Thomas, ..mill superin tendent, representing - the com pany; Pete Latham, president of the loggers' union, local No. 2692, and Jack LeFevre, president of the sawmill union, local No. 2636, and- the grievance committees of the two locals. Fred Stirber Dies In Crash of Auto SILVERTON,-"Aug. 13 Fred Stirber, 19, was Instantly killed and Bernard Scharback sustained a broken shoulder this morning shortly before 2 o'clock when the car they were driving hit loose gravel and turned over near the Barber corner as' the two were re turning from the Mt. Angel flax festival. Scharback is the young son of Mr. ' and ' Mrs. Lawrence . Schar back and Stirber -was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stirber who lire on North. Water street at Sllverton. Stirber was a member of the 1938 graduating class at the Sllverton high school. Besides his parents he Is sur vived by a number of sisters and brothers. Including Edna, Doro thy. Verna and Charles at home; Hilda BJerke and Marguerite Williams of Portland. . Funeral arrangements are in charge of ' Unger of Mt. . Angel. Funeral- services will be , held Tuesday morning at 9:30 from St. Paul'a Catholic church at Sll verton. Father Arthur Sullivan will he in charge. English Snowfall WindfaUtoTown LONDON, Aug. 13-i)-The lit tle village of Wold Newton count ed up a small fortune brought by a two-foot snowfall today while the rest of Britain surveyed Its loss from two days of freak storms. . Visitors flocked to the hamlets, near Bridlington in Yorkshire, In buses .which solicited: .business with such provocative signs as: "Your chance to say you've seen snow. In August. - Wold Newton urchins did a landofflce business selling snow in old Jam Jars to the gullible. The price was two cents a Jar. 'j .. v ,-'' " .if .- :.:,..': , .: :- to" " " J German Plane Near Its Home on Return Jaunt BERLIN, Aug. 14 (Sunday) (AP) The German airliner Brandenburg roared over Ireland at dawn today on her return nonstop flight from New York to Berlin. The big plane radioed she land, at 4:40 a. m., Middle European time (10:40 EST). BERLIN, Aug. 14 (Sunday) (AP) The German airliner Brandenburg roaredO- steadily toward her goal today on her nonstop return flight from New York to Berlin. In regular messages she re ported "all well" and said the was flying at about 4000 meters (13,120 feet) altitude. At midnight (6 p. m., EST) ahe was approximately half way home. Two hours later she re ported her position as S2.33 north latitude and 23.20 west longitude, about 500 miles oft the coast of Ireland. Two Are Charged In Party Killing Manslaughter Charges Are Made After FIIA Chief Is Found Dead SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-P) -Police filed manslaughter charges today against two men who. Inspectors said, admitted taking part in a hotel-room party that ended fatally for Walter Cy ril Vibert, 46, federal housing ad ministr v n executive. The story of a girl who fled Vlbert's room after the first blow was struck and later voluntarily surrendered, "broke" ' tbe mys terious case. I The girl. Miss Rose Fields, 24, of Weaverville, Calif., a typist for FHA and Vlbert's" ' fiancee, named three men as having par ticipated in the fight. Tbe three were swiftly appre hended and . when their stori were sifted two of - them Tom White, 34, an : electrician, and Archie Andrews, 2 5, unemployed :were booked on manslaughter charges. , The third, Thomas Smith, 38, a bookkeeper, was quoted by In spector George Engler as saying the battle sorted last night over a bottle of liquor which Vibert accused Andrews of stealing. Smith was not held. Postojfice and Shelton Left To Figh t for Regional Crown ' By RON G EMM ELL McGINNIS PARK, Sllverton, Aug. 13-(Special)-Sister Slates Washington and Oregon, repre sented by Shelton and Postofflce Pharmacy of Portland, tomorrow afternoon shortly after 2: IS be gin play tor the northwest re gional Legion Junior basebaU championship here, preceded by a: five -inning, one-hour-and-16-mlnute, time - limit consolation game between Burley, Ida., and Missoula, Mont. The consolation game begins at 1 p. m. Whiffing IS and pounding a homer and two hlngles in four trips, Portsider Don Momeyer led Postofflce Pharmacy of Portland to a wholesale, 14-to-2 victory over Burley, Ida., in tonight's first - game. Captalizing on Montana's dreary baserunnlng and their ability to nip runners on tbe bags WAY HOME was passing over Clarev Ire Carriers Asked For tRau Ideas US Chamber of Commerce Seeks Information of Transportation WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-flV The chamber of commerce of the United States invited the nation's transportation Interests today to pool their ideas on solving the problems of the railroads and other carriers. George H. Davis, president of the chamber, summoned all In terested persons to a conference here September 14 and 15. He said congressional committees had promised to utilize findings of the conference in preparing a transportation program for the next session of congress. President Roosevelt asked the last congress to do something for the 'railroads,- but made no comment on the, ideas of a dox- en experta end officials which he transmitted to the legislators The volume of other legislation ad the controversy over a pro posed redaction in railroad wages! caused congress to postpone ac tion. . Davis predicted the meeting would consider "policies having to do with railroad revenues Ullcles affecting economies- in railroad operations, problems of competition among the transpor tation agencies, and the question of the organization . of govern ment agencies dealing with trans portation. Woman Is Pinned Beneath Car, Dies PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. It-V?) -Pinned beneath her automobile after a collision at the intersec tion of Northeast 24th avenue and Prescott streets, Mrs. Ola U. Smith, S3, was fatally injured J today, the city's 30th traffic fa tality of tbe year. Another driver escaped serious injury. after their own boots put them there, the Sbeltonites of Wash ington, cheered on by a frensled crowd of better than 100 home folks, bested the' heavy - hitting Montanans 7 to S, Momeyer limited an inferior Idaho team to five blows as he himself swatted in three of tbe Postofflce tallies. His second-Inning homer, to the boarda in een terfield, scored Granata, who had doubled, ahead. Outside of Mo meyer, it was First Baseman Jim Ellis who contributed most to the Postofflce attack. He poled a triple and single In two trips, knocking in two tallies. Though Earl Toolson was a bit erratic on the mound for the Ida hoans, it was his mates' six. boots that proved his downfall almost as much as the Postofflce artil lery. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) States Suit to Start In two Weeks Intimation Is Made That Teamster Organization Will Be Defendant Plaintiff Will Seek Full Amount of Its Loss - -of Going Concern Suit' to recover damacei for the destruction of the West a lem box factory by fire last No vember 20 will be filed la tb Polk county circuit court in about two weeks, George A. Ilhoten, at torney for the Salem Box com pany. Inc., successor to tbe Sa lem Box & Manufacturing com pany, disclosed yesterday. Tbe announcement followed the sentencing of Albert E. Iless er, ex-Teamster union council secretary, Friday to 12 years ia the state penitentiary for con nection with the setting f tee West Salem fire. Intimate Teamster Group Defendant Rhoten was not ready to state exactly the defendants to s named in the action but he in timated that a teamster nmi. lzatlon would be one. Whether or not Individual union members or leaders would be named de fendants had not been decided. The - plaintiff will seek' the full amount of Its loss of a going- concern, Rhoten said. John S. Frlesen, president f the company operating tbe mill at the time of the fire, said at the time the physical plant and stocks were carried on the boeka at $95,000. Inclusion of a claim In the 'Impending suit for golagr concern value would push tbe .total demand for damages well beyond 3100,000. Insurance Claim Said Assigned The Insurance company wait paid Friesen's . firm 20, 00 eat the fire loss Is understood ts have assigned to the present com pany its claim against the per sons or organizations responsible for the blaze. Plans to file the suit were be gun last February when Albert N. Banks, then Salem Teamster secretary, Rosser and four other Portland men were arrested ew arson charges. Banks pleaded guilty and was sentenced to. IX years In prison 'but dispositieat of the cases of the other foar. sside from Rosser, was deferred and still remains to be made. Rloonlight Raiders Bomb China Spots SHANGHAI, Aug. 14-(Sunday -AVJapanese reported today that their planes bad bombed a number of central China poiata in moonlight raids last nigkt. One squadron struck at Nan chang, main Chinese air base, and was. said to have damaged military warehouses, railway tracks, barracks and airplane hangars. Another raided Klan, and still others bombarded Yushan, Ning po and Lishul. In the Yangtze river valley, Japanese strove to break tbe deadlock which has held up the drive on Hankow for mora than two weeks. A Japanese column was re ported near Juichang on the cra ter of the Chinese line about let miles southeast of Hankow, the provisional Chinese capital. Loss tf Legs no Hamper to Pooch YAKIMA, Aug. 12-(ft-U tah more than the loss of a couple of legs to keep a good dog down, the Henry Sterns family said today Introducing Oscar, pet rat terrirr that learned to balance and walk on his front legs after losing Ms hind ones In a mowing machine. After the accident Oscar crept away and the family could not find him, assuming he had died. However, the next week they hard feeble barks ana saw Oscar cent Ing across a field, walking on his front legs. Oscar hv resumed his place in the Sterns farmyard, c has tax chickens and frolicking around the livestock all on his front legs. Project, to Pliolo Northwest Region WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-C7V A WPA project for aerial jhosra phy of the Tacific northwest a national defense move hns I f u allocated 132,224. The rrojt will be conducted by the com manding officer of the 29th en gineers at Portland. The map will Show all highways, railroa .Is, roads and trails and th-e wni be Imposed on the present tr j -graphic map pf the region.