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PAGE TWO Premier Warns Japan Bluntly Chamberlain Says Fleet '" Blight Be "Sent if It" 1. Is Necessary . . .. , LONDON. Aug. 4-.(AP)-Prime MinUter, Chamberlain wound up parliament for the summer today with a blunt warning to Japan that. Britain might find it neces sary ''in. certain circumstances" to send a fleet to the far east. f He did. not indicate what theae circumstances were, but said he hoped no one would think It was "absolutely out of the question for such circumstances to arise." : "I do not say that as a threat." be declared, "but only as a warning.- ; ...... ' . The speech was, one of the most pointed he made during the stormy 'session of parliament which began ot. 8, 1938,- and which saw him discard his so called - "appeasement" policy for building up the British-French V front. ' . ; - Parliament will not reassemble until Oct. 3 unless an emergency arises "'.-" i, , Makes "Blood Boil" Chamberlain said that some of the things that were happening to British subjects in north China made his "blood boil. but that he I would try to show "patience and to' exercise reasonable modera ' tlon." (Britons hare been subjected to stripping when seeking to pass the barriers of the Japanese y blockaded British and French con cessions of Tientsin and an anti- British campaign has spread through north China.) "Lef us not forget." the prime minister told the house of com mons, "that we hare graver and nearer problems to consider in the course of the next few months and we must conserve onr forces to meet any emergency that may arise." , He said Britain was in a "diffi cult' situation both because of European tension and because any use of force against Japan would endanger British subjects in Chi na. . "Surely we must think all the time in the presence of these in sults and injuries which hare been inflicted upon British subjects in China by Japanese what are the limits of what we can do . . . ." he continued. "At the present moment we hare not got in the far east a fleet auperior to that of the Japanese. . We hare such a fleet here. In certain circumstances we might find it necessary to send a fleet oat there." Excellent Rating Is Given Oregon CLEVELAND. Aug. 4-(P-Ok-lahoma and Pennsylvania demon stration ' teams were .awarded highly prized ratings of "super ior" , in competition for Future Farmers of America members at the seventh world's poultry con gress today. Demonstrations Included ca ponixirig birds, disease eontrol, food mixing and fowl selection. Second-place awards of "ex cellent", went to Ohio and Oregon. Honolulu Stocking Up on Groceries HONOLULU, Aug. 4(flVHon olulu grocery companies are stocking, large supplies of staple foods against the possibility of a ! waterfront tieup at San Francis co iOext month when maritime un ion , working agreements expire. -f Steamship companies reported that virtually every ship from the mainland is bringing reserve stocks of groceries. Union officials declined com ment. 1 Killed, 3 Hurt . . On Klamath -Road . KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 4tip) One man was killed and three persons injured today - when an automobile overturned on Lake- shore Drive a mile from here. " C. B. Ford, driver, was killed His wife, T. . J. O'Connex, 40, and George Lawson, 21, were injured O'Conner's back was broken. Two m 'i vyr? t this bridge two miles south of .Kmman;i, Tolo., two men were shot an j wbnnded ia a akirmish be . tweea union workers and sheriff's deputies a few -minutes 'after this' picture was ' taken of deputies halting a car. Kational Guardsmen moved In and disarmed snore. than '200 deputies, and workers at Creen Mountain dam, hub of the strife-torn tone.' " r""". '. "" .. . . - On Outer Mongolian Frontier -t ':- " l " -.-, - - " i sx , 1 v., I - lrr 1 , , s ir . c ' - v. v" - : " ' ,.v'v - PS -' s" - .. M-riYni'(WintfrfMfltfs:jiiiiffl'Tiririrri mmairrritrr 1-1 T-fr in rr" -.'i f-.'- v:H. : t'j ' " ' " f-rV;-- - in.' -Cl1 ' ' ' t' 'v '-" . .1 - 0 iH;;:r: j ;-', . -V f t J v '"f 111 v i 1 M"' A Aftermath of the recent terrific encounter waged between Soviet and Japanese troops in Outer Mongolia's remote Halha river valley Is shown in photos above. Both sides threw cavalry, artillery and war nlanes into the border stragale. Soviet tank in top photo is one of 200 Nipponese claim to have captured. Tanks generally were cap tured by Japanese barling soda pop bottle filled with gasoline, which ignited when broken on the hot metal of the steel monsters, often cremating occupants. Temperatures in the mid-Asia Tighting area mounted to 140 desrees during tbe fray. Second photo is an other demolished Russian tank. viet prisoner being treated at the ese nurse, part of a battalion with, Japanese deep in the Mongolian wilds. (UN). Tydings Puts Hat In Democrat Ring BALTIMORE, Aug. 4-)-De- mocratlc presidential speculation turned suddenly to Maryland to day when friends of Senator Mil lard E. Tydings tossed the militant new deal" "purge" survivor's hat into the race for the party's 1940 nomination. The 49-year-old ex-army offi cer's name was added to the rapidly-growing list of presidential possibilities by Baltimore's Cal vert club, which asserted already printed campaign stickers and the club's projection of his candidacy both had Tydings' "full approval." During last year's senator pri mary campaign, in which he de feated the new deal candidate. Rep. David J. Lewis, by some 65.J 000 votes, Tydings consistently de nied he was either a "new dealer or an "old dealer," asserting he preferred instead to be "known as a square dealer." Oregon Air Tour Starts on Jaunt PORTLAND. Aug. 4.-(fl)-A fleet of airplanes left here today for Albany where they were to loin additional planes and form the 19J9 Oregon air tour which will stage a series of flying cir cuses at , Albany .Saturday, Port land Sunday and on successive days . thereafter at The Dalles, PrinevUle, Eugene- Salem, Rose burg, Medford and Klamath Falls. Wounded in Strike - .. - . , r - , - ? r ... ? : i. i ':' Picture at tbe bottom shows a So Halta field hospital. Note Japan Coincidences Hit This Auto Driver TOLEDO, Aug. 4-(r-Glenn Mnlkey of Silets knows about coincidence now. He was fined 3 by Justice Earl Conrad for a traffic viola tion. While backing from a parking lot a moment later, Mulkey tore the bumper off the adjacent automobile. Mulkey purchased a new bumper the car was Con rad's. High School Boy Is Shot on Dare KANSAS CITY.Aug. 4-(iP) John Vandersloot, 16-year-old high school student, was shot and killed today by a friend on a thoughtless dare. After assuring Jack Wood, IS, the rifle "won't go off," Vander sloot dared his friend to point it at him. Wood aimed and pressed the trigger. . - . "I'm shot," John cried. He was taken to a .hospital where he died. Eddie Frantz Resigns ST. HELENS, : Ore., Aug. 4.- J (Harold Sm'lth of Wapato, Wash., has been named athletic coach of St. Helens high school, succeeding Edward Frantz, who resigned after four year's to ac cept a similar position in Califor nia. Battle iVvt...-.' 'lvJ1Wrnl...l'IA".'t I... K W.M..::iyj.lll.l.i.wl.lAWM'!f . . ' ' 4. , The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Medics Rap FSA For Asking Bids Profession Ethics Stated Violated by :YamhiU. . Farm Setup. ' McMINNVILLE, Aug. Violation .of professional ethics in endeavoring to get doctors to bid against each other was charged to the farm security ad ministration by the - Yamhill County Medical society today. The society declared the FSA sought competitive bids from doc tors to handle resettlement medi cal cases on the ground they were charity patients. The FSA at the same time, the society said, pictured resettlers as self-sufficient farmers with financial backing to pay standard figures. When the doctors refused to bid, the society declared, the FSA took the patients to Portland for treatment on a charity basis. The society filed a protest with the Oregon Medical association. The new charges followed by a day Regional FSA Director Wal ter A. Duffy's statement he would "welcome" a congressional in vestigation of the Tamhill re settlement farms. Duffy asserted that although "IS of the 10S settlers" have been reported "in a state of revolt for the past two weeks," no complaints had been filed with the FSA at McMinn ville or Portland. Bridge at Danzig Worrying Poland Pontoon Affair Is Ready to Swing Over Vistula to Join Reich FREE CITY OF DANZIG, Aug. 4. UP)-A new pontoon bridge floated an a Dan tig dock tonight ready to be thrown across the Vistula river and fill the most se rious gap in land communica tions between the Free City of Danzig and German East Prussia. The bridge, about 25 feet wide and supported by 24 pontoons. will connect the two free state communities of Kaesmark and Rotebud, the latter some 12 miles from the East . Prussian frontier. Informed foreign circles re garded the bridge as having sig nificance as a possible avenue for troop transportation from East Prussia to the Free City, whose nazl-dominated government has declared Its desire to return to the reich. A nasi Danzig spokesman, how ever, said it had no political sig nificance and that its preparation was not connected with the cur rent political strife with Poland over the nasi determination to Join the Free City to Germany. Informed quarters in Berlin said the bridge was just another measure by Danslg to guard against any sudden attempt by Poland to seize the Free City and make its reunion with the reich impossible. Bridges Tells Of Tear Gas (Continued from page 1) leader), another as "a sincere per son who calls his shots as he sees them," and a third as a lawyer who followed "sharp practices." The attorney, Aaron Sapiro, had testified Bridges told him, "I'm running the communist party and the party is running the water front unions." Denies He Ever Threatened Sapiro Bridges denied this or that he had ever threatened Sapiro. "I told nim," Bridges said, "In pretty short words what I thought of him and his plans and I told him we'd put him out of the in dustry and there's where he end ed up." He said he was familiar with Sapiro's farm cooperatives and ac tivities, in the cleaning and dyeing racket and wanted nothing to do with Sapiro's plans for indepen dent maritime labor unions with labor banks and labor insurance companies. In explaining his views to gov ernment attorneys on ownership of private property Bridges testi fied: "I don't see why a handful of individuals should control enor mous tracks of land here, why they should control ail the public utilities; I don't see why they should control the railroads or the oil wells or many of the natural resources of the country. They stole them In the first place. . . . "Private property, in the sense as yon describe) it to me, I take to mean the big utilities, the big fac tories, the big Industrial plants. In other words, the means of pro duction of the various heavy in dustries. That Is the way I con strue that. - "And I am In favor of govern ment ownership of those things. Yes, and If the government can't make a better job of running them and paying sometheng more to the people that work la them than private industry has, then I would say give It back to private Indus try again." Shoe. Gag Again i PORTLAND, Aug. 4-flV-A bur glar's sense of humor failed to get a laugh from women of the T. W, Atkinson household. He stole one from each f six pairs of women's shoes, taking nothing else. ; 2 MILES NORTH OF BST)EPltNDICE j . Every Saturday Night l :! Large Crowds . Cool Hall . . . Good Music : 1 ... TO MM IE SE RINE :- - 9 Men and a Girl ::. A SWING BARGAIN 25c -.'. j.: Oregon, Saturday Morning August 5. 1939 Anthony Cornero Stralla, who openly admits he was 'a pun-runner In prohibition days, was 'still In com mand of his gambling ship, the Aex, after a two day siege by writ-laden sheriffs deputies, who were waiting to board bis neon-trimmed ship and close it as they had three others. He Is shown (right) with two of his employee watching with poker-faced patience the flotilla of small boats which hemmed him in. Radio Propaganda Battle Approved Salem Woman Chosen for National Post in D AV Auxiliary BOSTON, Aug. 4-flP)-The 19 th annual convention of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War unanimously approved ' to night a report suggesting nation wide broadcasting of radio pro grams to combat "all false and dis pleasing propaganda" distributed by a group "whose real purpose is the utter destruction of the Con stitution." ; The veterans elected Lewis J. Murphy, of South Bend, Ind., com mander. The convention also unanimously approved a suggestion that the or ganization fight, fascist, com munist and other subversive pro paganda." The convention selected Green Bay, Wis., as the 1940 conven tion city. I Other officers named were: Third junior vice commander, Carl Haverson, Bremerton, Wash. Mrs. Lily Ginsberg, German town, Pa., was reelected comman der of the auxiliary. Other officers elected Included fourth junior vice commander, Josephine ' Os trander, Salem, Ore. New Fires Break, Out Over Oregon (Continued from page 1) said an lncendiarist started about 100 fires along a two-mile front in, southern Douglas county last night. In the same area, 150 men fought a 1000-acre conflagration in valuable timber -on Days, and Labrad'ore creeks. Garden Valley farmers put out a 1000-acre brush fire near Rose burg. The Umatilla national forest was sprayed with sparks from a 700-acre slashing fire south of Gurdane, in the Pendleton area. A Malheur national forest crew controlled a 700-acre tire 20 miles south of Canyon City. Five hundred acres were burned over on the Foster operationsoear Willamina and 200 acres or vir gin timber destroyed before, the fire was trenched. Leonard Rush, Tillamook fire warden, was in formed by a lookout that tha fire between the south fork of, the Wilson river and Devil's Lake fork was out of control on the east side and was nearing the Saddle Mountain lookout station on the edge of green timber; Six hundred men were combatting the blase. 2 Die as Airship Crashes in Field URBANA, 111., Aug. 4.-P)-Leonard Field, Dakota City, Nebr., was killed and his companion, Harry R. Ely, Fort Collins, Cjolo., was critically Injured tonight when an airplane, piloted by Field, crashed three miles north of here. ; Witnesses said the motor of the plane stalled and the ship suddenly plummeted to the ground. Field had been an instructor at the Urbana airport for the last three months and Ely was a student. Pardons Allowed Two at Prison Conditional pardons for two In mates of the Oregon state peni tentiary were recommended to Governor Charles A. Sprague by the new state parole board which met here Thursday. Names of. the prisoners recommended for parole were not divulged. ii Approximately SO prison cases were considered at the meeting and other conditional pardons may be recommended later,! offi cials said. .1 j Tony Keeps the Law Away (Tall Board CAPITOL Today Double bill. "I Stole a Million," with George Raft and Claire Trevor and Roy Rogers in "Southward Ho." HOLLYWOOD Today Double bill Gene Au try in "Mexicali Rose" with Smiley Burnette and Made leine Carroll and Fred Mac Murray in ''Cafe Society." GRAND. Today Randolph Scott. Nancy Kelly and Binnle Barnes in "Frontier Marsh all." STATE T o d a y Double bill, Boris Karloff in "Devils Island" and "Heart of the North" with Dick Foran. Saturday, midnight show, "The Hound of the Basker ville." ELS1XORE Today " G o o d b y Mr. Chips" with Robert Donat and "Miracles For Sale" with Robert Young and Flor- ence Rice. Saturday Mickey Mouse mat- inee, double feature, stage 9 show and chapter 7 of "Tbe Oregon Trail." Tuna Fishermen Remain Adamant ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 4-()-An effort to end the lower Columbia river albacore tuna fishing tieup through an independent trollers' mass meeting failed today. Salmon and halibut fishermen moved for an adjournment after packers declared production costs and "vicious" California and Jap anese competition prevented a higher offer than f 90 per ton. W. L. Thompson, chairman of the Columbia River Fisherman's Protective union, said he believed California tuna packers had "sent about 10 fast workers to keep you boys from fishing," and that southern packers "actually hope the northwest tuna industry will fail." Packers said costs for the small 193 S pack allowed them net prof its of only 12 to 3 5 'cents per case and addition of even a half cent on raw supply prices would boost the cost per case 21 cents. Hiccoughing Cop Seeks Treatment BUTTE. Mont., Aug. .-(JPl- Eddie O'Connor, Butte's hiccough ing policeman, left tonight for Rochester, Minn., where Se will seek a cure. O'Connor returned last week from Berkeley, Calif., where he received treatment, and was back at work in the police force when his condition suddenly became worse today. He has been hiccoughing for the past 16 weeks. Gene Autry in "Mexicali Rose' with Smiley Burnette Madeleine Carroll Fred MacMnrrej i "Cafe Society" 'in o Also News, Cartoon and Chap. S of "RED BARRY" tarring Larry (Buster) Crabbe On Our Stage at t'.SO P. M. Seth Jayne and the Hollywood Buckaroo Program Broadcast STARTS TOMORROW Continuous Performance Tomorrow 2 to 11 P. M. Added Sews, S Stooges Corned ."CASTLES IN THE AIR aad " March of Time - CCLBEil lliECEEV - V I 4 Hope Fades for 2 Of 5 Burned Girls Burns Received as Filmy Costumes Caught Fire May Be Fatal SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 4.-(JP) -Physicians held slight hope to night for the recovery of two of the five girls who were burned last night when their filmy cos tumes caught fire as they danced in the final act of an outdoor pageant, "Columbia Cavalcade." Blood transfusions were given 13-year-old Sally Lacy today and Dr. R. J. Condon said her chances for recovery- were "50-50." Dr. Richard T. Flaherty said Patricia Sells, 15, waa in an "extremely critical condition," and Dr. M. M. Kales described the condition of Addle Felker, 15. as "serious." The three doctors concurred in an opinion that it would be "at least two or three days" before they could determine if the burns would be fatal. All said their charges were weakened by shock and severe pain. "Patricia'g body was literally covered with burns," Dr. Flaher ty said, adding that the child at first rallied from stimulants, then became more gravely ill. Virginia Wiebel. 15, and Ger aldine Smith, 18, were said by their physicians to be recovering. Pea Crop Workers Return to Fields LA GRANDE, Ore., Aug. 4 -()-Pea harvesting near Joseph was resumed today when a ma jority of field workers accepted a strike truce and returned to work. A representative of the state labor commissioner's office wiC arbitrate a dispute over pay and picking conditions affecting about 150 workers. Forty farmers were deputized last night by Wallowa County Sheriff A. B. Miller, who asserted he had heard threats to tear down rows of peas. No violence was reported. Another 350 field workers and 90 cannery employes continued work throughout the strike. Strikers demanded an increase of 10 cents per crate. ONE TOWN WAS THE WICKEDEST, WILDESTDEAD- LIEST III THE OLD WEST...tiIlthtlaw came in at the shoot Ing end of Wyatt Earp't six-guns! 'P&Htf . ON THE (;; tarp's six-guns! r-' r rT iX?V RANDOLPH NANCY SCOTT- KELLY ( )p j . CESAR ROMERO ff I BIN1MIE BARNES f J JOHN CARRAD1NE K l " aw4Wagy -. X AM KAT0ER1UE ELLIS r Her Predictions i c i a I LA DIES MAT I NEE nOUDAY, Aug. 7,MN ADMISSION 2 GoCdjOOOD (Fniit and Grain Prices Decline Chicken, Egg, Milk, Spud, Values Increase, Says Report for July PORTLAND. Aug. 3-(;P)-Sharp declines in fruit and grain prices and increases in prices paid for chickens, eggs, milk and potatoes over the country mark the July report issued today by the U. S. department of agriculture mar keting service. The average prices received by farmers thus were unchanged from the June report. The price index for grains as a group dropped 1 points to 66 per cent of pre-war. This is the lowest July IS Index for grains since 1932, and compared with 72 per cent of pre-war in mid July 1938 and 139 per cent for July, 1937, the service reported. All grain crops shared in. the decline. Fruit Above July '38 Fruit prices at 80 per cent of pre-war on July 15 were down 13 points from a month earlier, but were 1 point above the index for mid-July last year. Prices of meat animals showed no change from June, but averaged 16 points lower than a year ago. Dairy products were 2 points higher than a month ago but 5 points lower than a year earlier. Chicken and eggs were up 6 points from June 15 and down 14 points from mid-July of last year. The all-commodity index was S points lower than a year ago. Wheat prices dropped sharply at local farm markets from mid June to mid-July. Domestic win ter wheat crop prospects im proved and marketings of the new crop increased materially. Record large world wheat sup plies are in prospect. The price index for Oregon for mid-July at 59 was 2 points higher than for the same period in 1938. The 1939 figure was 50 per cent of parity for the United States. CIO Executives Ratify Terms DETROIT, Aug. 4. --Executives of the CIO United Automo bile Workers tonight ratified the terms of an agreement to settle the month-old strike of skilled workers in 12 General Motors plants. Tomorrow the strikers them selves will vote at their respective plants on accepting or rejecting the agreement, which was reached just after last midnight in con ferences between corporation ex ecutives and UAW-CIO. In announcing the result R. L. Thomas, president of the UAW CIO, said that "substantial gains on every point" had been made by the union as a result of the strike. Approximately 150.000 produc tion workers will be returned to their jobs beginning next Monday if . the agreement is signed to morrow, t Culinary Helpers Found in Demand Many calls for waitresses and culinary workers to help in res taurants during the American Le gion convention have been re ceived by the Salem office of the state employment service. Several places for the same type of work ers In beach resorts are also open. Experienced workers are re quired. Registration of persons wanting this type of work will be taken Saturday and Monday, D. L. McBaln, manager of the employment office, has an nounced. STAGE , Are Amazing -