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The Morning Paper Freith with, the - latest news breaks, the morning paper is preferred by tboee reader who wish news be fore It's history. The Weather Clear today and Frldaj. Fog on coast. Xo tempera tore change. Max. Temp. Weil. 82, Mln. 48. River -3.8. West wind. POUNODD 1651 EIGIITY-KIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, August 25, 1938 Priet 2c; Newsstands 5c No. 120 intted. W&lf as 9 6- Ruscigno Gets No Hit-No Rup As Bakers Win Bend Blanked 9 to 0 as Portly Italian Fans 20 Batsmen Papermakers Break out in Extra-Base Rash to Triumph 11-4 GAMES TONIGHT Grigsby's vs. Silverton.. -7: 30. (Women's Division) Square Deal vs. Baker, 8:30. Rosin! Wines vs. McMinnville, 9:30. Scores Last Night rape rm ill 11. Klamath Falls 4. Rotary Breaa 9, Bend 0. It's the Papermakers and Ro tary Bread of Portland in the semi-finals Friday night, and what the 'Makers have to face was at least in part displayed by Guy Ruscigno's no-run. no-hit game, the second in tourney history, as he whiffed 20 Bend batsmen and sent them over the mountains nursing a 9 to 0 shellacking.' Previous to Ruscigno's massa cre of the central Oregon club, the 'Makers staged a 12-hit batting epree to knock Klamath Falls out of the picture by an 11 to 4 count. Only One Man Reaches First Ruscigno. the stalwart Italian ' who chucked Rotary into the championship last year with a 15 to 0 whitewashing of M & M Woodworkers, allowed . but one man to reach first base and ho on an error. Merely by a dropped throw, in the third Inning when all-state First Baseman Brown dropped Shortstop Kohl's across-the-diamond heave on B. Russell's ground sma.h, did Ruscigno miss every chucker's dream, a perfect game. Only once before in the six years of tourney "history has the feat been accomplished. Last year Crofoot, who finished up the 'Maker game last night by whiff ing four of the seven batters to face him. pinwheeled out a no-no achievement against Milwaukie. Crofoot, however, walked three in hanging up his. j Ruscigno, in whiffing 20. nar rowly missed equaling another tournament record. The strikeout record, 22, is held by Martin of Milwaukie. set In 1935. ? V llelser Lads Lead Rotary Attack r , Again It was the Helser broth ers who led the attack that gave Rotary IS consecutive Innings of scoreless softball la , this tourna ment. Rotary beat Albany Mon day night 7-0 in seven innings. Last night Brothers Hank and Morrie were aided and abetted by Brother Roy. fresh back from semi-pro baseball wars with the Silverton Red Sox' in Wichita. Brother Hank poled a home run in the second and singled in the sixth; Brother Morrie blngled twice In five trips; and Brother Roy crashed a double In his sec ond appearance, going in as a sub stitute in the fourth frame. The Rotarys scored twice In the first Inning on one hit, two walks and an error, once In the second on Hank Helser's round-tripper, twice in the fifth on hits by Bro ther Morrie, Brown and Melcher and Scblaffle's sacrifice, and clus tered four across In the seventh on doubles by Kohl and Kirsch, a pair of passes and an error. Although the Doughboy's hung up a shutout win. It must be said the Bend team never let down even In the face of Ruscigno's steady whiff ball. Between last night's two-winners, 'the Papermakers showed much more power with the sticks. Nearly every one of the 12 'Maker blows were Just that, while sev eral swatted by the Doughboys should have been caught by Bend fielders. Rotary Bread .t t 1 Bend -. ..o 0 4 Ruscigno and Hood; Kargman and N. Douglass. Search for "Body" Proves Fruitless State police and the Salem first aid car crew engaged in a fruit less search at midnight last night for a man reported as lying on the Pacific highway five miles south of the Colonial Cottages, south of Salem. No trace of any accident or victim could be found. Residents at the cottage camp reported motorists in a g r e e n roadster drove hurriedly up and asked that police be notified of the accident. Their car was reg istered to C. L. Page of Jefferson, according to the license number 'noted during their-brief stop. ' Fatal Shooting Climax Of Domestic Row About Repairing Automobile Portland Man Held After Wife Is Shot in Tussle for Gun; Says She Hit Him With Hammer When He Pleaded He Was 111 PORTLAND, Aug: 24. (AP) A nervous, thin little man was held by police today in what they termed the climax of 31 years of domestic bickering: ending in the fatal shooting of Mrs; Laura Flowe Williams, 53. The buxom 200-pound proprietress of the White Heather kennels died of a single pistol shot. Chief .Criminal Deputy Walter S. Lowe Taken by Death Wa9 Street Commissioner Here 16 Years; Once ? Council Member "Walter S. Lowe, for 52 years a prominent Salem citizen and city official until he retired to Cutler City, Ore., six years ago, died at his coast home yesterday, accord ing to word received here. The body was brought to Salem last night by the W. T. Rigdon com pany for services and interment. Walter S. Lowe was city street commissioner for 16 years prior to 1932 and his term la office saw the laying of most of Salem's con crete streets, city records showing that 73 per cent of the city's blocks were hard-surfaced at the end of his administration. He also served on the city council, was chief of the Salem fire department for a period, and chief of the early Tiger volunteer tireflghting com pany of the capital city. - He was born on Howell prairie,' the son of John Lowe, pioneer. He came. to Salem about 18S0 to engage in the livery bus iness with Jasper Minto, the firm occupying the present site of the Salem Hardware company, and later he went into the business by himself. He was long a member of Saleai lodge No. 4, AF & AM. He was about) 77 "years of age. Survivors include the widow and a stepson, Arthur Lowe of Sa lem. Japanese Forces Face Heavy Fight SHANGHAI, Aug. 25-(Thurs-day)-0P) Japanese forces had fought ! their way into ; position today for a two-way drive against Hankow, Chinese provisional capital I about which 1,000,000 defenders were said to be de ployed.! ' ' " Reports from the central China fronts placed one Japanese force at a point 100 miles southeast of Hankow and another in po sition . to' strike overland 140 miles 'against the Peiping-Han-kow railway. A heavily reinforced Japan ese army reported it had smashed through the east gate of the town of Juichang in its advance up the south bank of the Yangtze river on Hankow, 100 air miles to the northwest. . Liquor Industry Practice Okelied " ! ' : -.".- ' . ' PORTLAND, Aug. 24.-VThe liquor Industry received a "satis factory" rating today from Cap tain W. S. Alexander, director of the federal alcohol administra tion. "The members of the Industry are imbued with the necessity for fair trade practices and realizehe danger of unfairness such as sometimes was practiced in the days before prohibition," he re marked in an interview at the Na tional Alcoholic Beverage Control association convention. Chicago Churches A sk Probe Of Official Aid to Bookies CHICAGO, Aug. 2-VP)-Tht Chicago Church federation asked an official investigation today of what it called the "take" in Chir cago's gambling business to de termine "what officials partici pate in thia, unholy profit." - The federation, declaring that a "scandal of first magnitude is brewing in Chicago," made its re quest; in an open letter to Got. Henry Horner asking the state's chief executive to institute the inquiry "if the city and county refuse to investigate." . The federation's acUon eame shortly before axemen of State's Atty. Thomas J. Courtney struck again in his war against Chicago handbooks. Two squads wrecked two more alleged handbooks, seized five C Sheriff Holgar Christoffersen said her husband, 120-pound M. A. Williams, 54, had been detained for questioning. No charges had been placed against him. Williams told Christoffersen his wife, disregarding his illness, dragged him from the house to repair an automobile. He assert ed, Christoffersen said, that she struck him on the head and temple with a hammer. Christoffersen quoted Williams as saying: "I suggested we live happily. She, however, became abusive and cursed me. There was a struggle. I don't remember the details. Suddenly I heard a gun pop. I don't know whether I fired the shot or not." Blood, streaming from a gash on his head, Williams was seat ed disconsolately on the back porch of his home when depu ties arrived. Mrs. Williams body was in the dining room. The couple had two children, both dead several years. Only Five Survive Attack on Airship Passenger Plane Gunned to Earth by Raiding Japanese Craft . HONGKONG, Aug. 24-J)-On-ly five of 19 persons aboard a Chinese-American owned airliner when it was reported forced down and machine-gunned today by Japanese airmen were J known to have escaped alive. The large land plane, carrying two women, a baby, a small child and 11 men as passenj:rs and a four-man crew, was forced to alight on a small river between Canton and Macao on the south China coast. H. L. Woods of Winfield, Kan sas, the pilot and only American aboard, reported Japanese airmen riddled : the airliner as it sank. Besides Woods, the known sur vivors are his radio operator, Joe Loh, C. N. Lou, a passenger, and two unidentified passengers. All on the plane except Woods were Chinese. ? ; Survivors said two Japanese planes opened fire on the airliner shortly after it took off from Hongkong. The pilot veered south from his westward course to shake off the attackers. A little later five pursuit planes attacked, diving and zooming close to the large plane so that it was forced down. 1 C. N. Lou, who reached a Macao hospital with' a bullet wound In his neck, said some of his fellow passengers were wounded while the plane was still in the air and others while they 'were attempt ing to reach shore. J Silverton Sewage , Plant Is Sought PORTLAND, Aug. 24-h-C. C. Hockley, regional director for the PWA, announced receipt of the following projects today: j jj Oregon Outfall sewage a n d disposal plant at Silverton, grant $27,085, estimated cost 360,190; school building at Falls City, grant 111, 400, estimated cost $25,300. men and routed about 450 pa trons, many of them women. In the eighth and ninth raids since last Wednesday. When . Courtney opened his anti-gambling drive after falling hrouga technicalities to win convictions in the courts. A police court freed 49 gambling raid defendants today, ruling that the establishment were not ade quately described in search-warrants and that paraphernalia seis ed was not legal evidence. - ' The church federation' sub mitted to the governor a list of 78 establishments It said were re ported "as being gambling Joints" and asserted that it was "an open secret that a syndicate composed of gangsters and underworld characters" control the gambling racket ;. Semi FDR. Frowning On GOP Brings Fast Reaction Party Nominees Informed Support Coming 'Less Something Wrong Hamilton Says President Indicted State's Laws on Elections WASHINGTON, Aug. li-(JP President Roosevelt' denuncia tion of republican participation In democratic primaries had two Im mediate reactions in Washington today. 1. Chairman Brows (D-Mich) of the democratic senatorial cam paign committee with direct ref erence to the Idaho situation where friends of Sen. James P. Pope blamed his primary defeat on republican votes said party nominees could expect the com mittee's support "unless there was something fundamentally wrong" with the primaries that nominat ed them. Hamilton Makes Statement 2. Chairman John Hamilton of the republican national committee said in a statement that "in view of his recent political activities Mr. Roosevelt must have had his tongue In his cheek when he as serted that republican- participa tion in democratic primaries vio lated simple political morality." The chief executive's assertion, he added, constitutes "an Indictment of the election laws of a number of sovereign states"." f Brown, who told .reporters he expected the committee to hare $20,000 to $40,000 in campaign' funds at its disposal, made it clear that before its support was withheld from a duly nominated party candidate, it must first re ceive representations from the party organization in the state that the primary election was im proper. Idahoans Engage In Party Fend Pope, an administration sup porter, was. beaten by Rep. D. Worth Clark, who asserted during the campaign, that he would not be an administration "yes man." Reports from Idaho say the two are now engaged in a contest for control of the state organization. Meanwhile, Pope is considering accepting the nomination of the progressive party, or running In dependently. Asked about that sit uation, Brown replied: That's a difficult question. I would say offhand that unless there appeared to be something fundamentally wrong in the pri mary we would support the nom inee." Brown Agrees With President He said he agreed with Presi dent Roosevelt that "political im morality", was involved in the, re ported republican participation in the Idaho democratic primaries. Mr. Roosevelt's statement that 15,000 to 20,000 republicans cast their votes against Pope, he add ed, indicated that there was "evi dence to be considered by the committee." . "If the democratic state organ ization makes representations to us. we would consider them. There would have to be strong evidence that we should not support the nominee." Brown . said the committee's funds would come from the demo cratic national committee. He ex pected it to concentrate its efforts on "close states," he added, men tioning, in thia connection Penn sylvania, New York, New Hamp shire, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa.. ' Hamilton said that "if republi cans have or intend to participate in democratic . primaries and there 1 no conclusive proof that they have or so, intend it has been and will be in accordance with the provisions of state laws." he asked: -;- ' ' ' "Does Mr. Roosevelt now pro pose to sponsor some kind of fed eral 'force law to compel the states to revise their election laws to suit hi views? Can it be that Mr. Roosevelt Is not satisfied with merely telling the people of sov ereign states how they must vote but that he also must prescribe the rules under ' which they cast their ballots rules which would best assist in the fulfillment of .Mr. Roosevelt's desires?" 30-Year-Old BUI Paid " For old Academy Fees PORTLAND. A u g. 24-CiP)-Mayor Joseph Carson became custodian of a conscience fund today. An unidentified woman mailed him $90 which represent ed an unpaid , bill at the old Portland academy 30 year ago. He was Instructed to turn it over to charity if the academy no longer existed. . . - .- . HINES SAYS "ITS A LIE" va :SB J 4 1' - fs. James J. Bines, Tammany district leader accused of accepting protection money from the "Dutch" Sennits numbers racket gang, yesterday showed his first agitation during the current New York trial when he arose to cry out that George Weinberg, principal witness for the state and District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, was lying. Hines is shown a bo be with his wife. Weinberg is shown at right leaving court. Motor Speedster Travels 347 MPH Mark Unofficial as Timer Breaks on Necessary Return Stretch BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah, Aug. 2 4-P)-Capt.' George E. T. Eyston drove his ponder ous automobile nearly six miles a minute today but a blazing des ert sun threw the delicate tim ing device out of gear, depriving him of an official record. The tall, lean Englishman flashed his "Thunderbolt" once through the measured mile at 347.155 miles per hour, faster than man has ever traveled be fore on land. On the return trip, required to strike the average and make the mark official, the glare caused a failure in the electric eye that measures the speed. On this run, said friends, he hit the unpre cedented, mark of almost 360 miles an hour. ' Could that speed be sustained, he could travel the 3,111 airline miles between New York and Los Angeles in about eight hours and a half. Eyston said he would try again as soon as American automobile association . officials can fix the timing machine, probably in the next few days. Two Dead, 11 Hurt In Truck Mishaps OREGON CITY, Ore., Aug. 24 (") William H. Schwann, ll.dled under a read wheel yesterday when he fell from his father's truck as it moved down the Mount Hood Loop highway. The family was returning to Molalla after a berry i picking - expedition near Government Camp. ; PENDLETON, Ore., Aug.. 24-(tf)-A wood truck rolled, down an embankment last night : after a collision with logging equipment hear Pilot Rock and killed Mrs. John Bartley of Pendleton. " BAKER, Ore., Aug. 2 4-(fl-A forest service truck with 24 men aboard and a truck loaded with eight-foot poles sideswiped today as the drivers tried to pass on a narrow bridge east of Baker with the Tesult that 11 CCC enrolees, all of Oregon, were .hurt, - three teriously. Imbiber Punished In Novel Fashion MARSHFIELD, Aug. 24.-;P)-Too much drink got Walt Smith, 5 0, Coqnille, , in trouble here for the 143rd time In 12 years -so Re corder Frank Leslie handed out a new form of punishment he forced Smith to pevr 20 gallon of confiscated liquor down a sewer. ' Mourned Smith: "This is worse than JalL'! - Mussolini Honored ROME, Aug. 24-tP)-The high est decoration Japan award to foreigners, the grand cordon of the supreme Order of the Chry santhemum, - was bestowed . upon Premier Mussolini today in a new affirmation,, of Italian-Japanese friendship.. -L-- -.- l s; Hiries Brands Weinberg Liar as Policy Racket Testimony Is Related NEW YORK, Ausr. 24. ( AP) James J. Hines, veter an Tammany district leader accused of accepting money to protect the Dutch Schultz policy racket, stood up in supreme court today and cried out that George Weinberg, one of the state's principal witnesses then on the stand, was lyincr. The dramatic moment came late in the afternoon after ; O itri IlllafC HalH I XVVU JcUlClO 1ICIU . In Meam Deaths Mayor ' Orders Arrest of Pair, Precipitating Feud With DA i PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24-r(P) Two prison guards were held on homicide charges .today in what an official statement called the "baking to death" of four hunger-striking convicts . in steam heated punishment cells at the Philadelphia county prison. The arrest precipitated a tug-of-war between Mayor. S. Davis Wilson and Dist. Atty. Charles F. Kelley to fix blame for the pris oners' suffocation during an or ganized revolt! against "monoton ous food." j Two leading investigators de clared the convicts stifled in an almost air-tight cell block in which steam, -radiators had been turned on two full days. The in vestigators and a county judge said the circumstances showed "utter ferocity" and " wanton cruelty." , Mayor Wilson ordered the ar rest of the guards, Alfred W. Brought, 39, and Francis Smith, 43. . '-. Mary's Peak, Polk Roads Projects Are Approved WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-P)-The WPA informed Senator Charles McNary's office today it had approved $18,000 for con struction of the Mary's Peak road near Corvallis and $37,000 for road Improvements in Polk county. Rush Holt Charges Enemies Accuse Brother to Hit Him CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 24.H?3)-Sen'. Rush D.-Holt, youth ful democratic critic of the Roos evelt. administration, charged to night' his enemies were trying to "shut me up" as a federal indict ment was returned accusing his brother of forging endorsements of two WPA check. The brother, Matthew S. Holt, jr., 40, was WPA district engin eer in Parkersbarg, W. Va., from July 1, 1935, to February 21, 1936. .."- Senator Holt said in a statement at hi home in nearby Weston: "Since I started to expose the corruption of a rotten . political machine, my family, my friends, as well as myself, have been the targets of malicious attack. Ev ery type has, and is, being used. ..One hlih official , said, 'we AT TRIAL V i .vy"::::::-.;; w Lloyd Paul Stryker, chief defense lawyer, had begun a sharp cross examination of the witness. I Weinberg, a henchman of Schultz, had testified he paid Hines $500 a week or more for protection, starting In the spring of 1932. The payments, he testi fied, took place frequently in Hines apartment. Stryker, an adroit examiner. had Weinberg repeat the time em braced by his visits, had him de scribe how he parked his car out side, had him -describe the layout of the apartment, and, returning to the time element, asked Wein berg if he was sure he had paid Hines there in the" summer of 1932. Weinberg, soft-spoken and com posed, insisted he had. 'jDidn't 1 you know," Stryker suddenly shouted, "that Mr. Hines never moved into that apartment until the first day of October, 1932?" The witness, apparently undis mayed, shook his head. Plane 'Pancaked', None Are Injured - ALBUQUERQUE, NW, Aug. 24 (jpy-Mechanics late today began the task, of dismantling a big TWA sleeper plane which in the early ' dawn was pancaked skill fully to a forced "belly" landing on. the mesa bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande without injury to its eight passengers end crew of three. The ship, eastbound from Los Angeles to Newark, was set down on .its fuselage by Pilot Harold Hess in the darkness about three miles northeast of the airport, after one of its two motors ap parently failed a minute or two after the takeoff. will shut Holt up.' They are .mis taken. The fight to expose corrup tion Will gO On." ' v: Matthew Olt was charged . with endorsing checks Issued two years ago to Max Lynch, Parkersourg WPA worker. He posted $2,000 bond for appearance in court Mon day at Fairmont. ; f :, . --'- Matthew Holt was discharged from WPA less than a week after his brother had charged In the senate that F. W. McCnllough, then state WPA administrator, was "using the WPA to elect him self governor." : ;: : -I McCnllough, who now is secre tary of the1 national bituminous coal com mission, told Aubrey Wil liams, deputy WPA administra tor, a short time after the charge, he was not a candidate for any of fice. He did not run. Socialists Give Daladicr Hans Entire Backing Premier Urges 40-Hour Week Dropping as Aid to Defense Plan German Military Machine Cited to Show Need for Defenses - PARIS, Aug. 24-(i!P)-The radi cal socialist party gave its presi dent,' Premier Edouard Daladier, full backing for his plan to aban don the 40-hour week today after he had warned that German mill-' tary preparations made necessary a strengthening of France s de -. fense measures. An abstract of his speech, deliv ered behind closed doors to the party executive committee, said the "premier exposed in detail the military preparations of Germany, citing the effectives now under arms and showing the accelerated rhythm of war industries beyond the Rhine. The executive committee of the party, a conservative unit of the peoples front which is outnum bered only by the socialists in the house of deputies, then adopted a , motion assuring Daladier of its "complete conifdence" and call ing for the cooperation of "all parties which seek the safety of liberty, of peace and of the father land." Daladier, who on Sunday an nounced his plan to scrap the 40-hour week which now applies to 8,000,000 workers promised that the principle of the short work week would be maintained, and that the longer hours would be applied only to Industrie where absolutely necessary. 2 WPA Workmen Die in Explosion Dynamite Charge Explodes as Men Attempt to Dislodge Tamper OREGON CITY. Ore., Aug. 24-(jP)-Two WPA worker were killed In a premature blast in a rock quarry near Oak Grove to day. s The dead were Frank Propeau, MUwaukie, and Roy Lay ton, Jen nings Lodge, each about 40. Propeau died instantly, while Layton succumbed a short time later in a Portland hospital. State Police Officer F. E. Wes cott said the men were tamping 137 sticks of dynamite, prepara- i tory to blasting, when their tamp ing stick broke and they attempt ed to pry it out with an iron bar, letting off the blast. WPA officials said they were attempting to blow the stick out with a compressed air gun. An other WPA workman said they were attempting to burn the brok en stick out with a blow torch. Hurricane Brews Over Gulf Stream JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 2 4.-P)-The weather bureau to night warned "all interests" la the northwestern Caribbean sea to exercise "extreme caution" un til a hurricane has passed. - "This is a severe storm, said a 9:30 p. m. advisory whkh placed the center of the tropical disturbance 100 miles southwest of Grand Cayman island. "Heavy gales cover a consider able area and winds of hurricane force prevail over an enlarged area near and north of center. the advisory continued. "At pres ent rate of movement" storm wiU reach Yiclnify of Yucatan channel late . Thursday a n d j Thursday night." MEXICO CITT, Aug. 24.-()- weather bureau storm warning tonight for the coast of Yucatan said a hurricane was moving across the Caribbean sea from near Jamaica toward the Yuca tan peninsula. Lost: Lowers, 6000 Feet up, 25 to Finder TULSA, Okla., Aug. 2.-(V The advertisement , read : ."Lostone lower plate false teeth. Near . Perry, Okla. t-i reward. - ' - ' . V Arthur O. Olson, oil drilling contractor, -explained ; "Tuesday afternoon I was flying down to Oklahoma City In my plane. We were at about 0.OOO feet and cruising ECO miles an hoar. I stark oat my head to get rid of some gum . and whoosh away went my lower teeth. '