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, " Pictures ' Events In Europe bare ecently been brought to Statesman readers la pic tare t or m the- following morning. In local pictures. The Statesman also lend. 7eather Partly cloudy preceded by bowers today; . Wednesday fair; little change la tern perature and humidity. Max. temp. Monday 73, min. 01. Hirer -8.7 f U West wind. P8UNDQO (651 NINETIETH YEAR Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, July $0, ISO Price 3c Newsstands Se Ho. 1C3 Ell V. . S- . '. n Accord MS V Centennial Om Vis Tomorrow Celebration details Commlete Pageant Seats Advance Sales But No Shortage yet, Is Statement; Housing Held No Problem Afternoon Forums to Be Constructive; Varied Topics Scheduled Salem's Centennial, the cele bration that comes once in a life time, centenarians excepted. Is just around the corner. Up today will so the 1200 extra- bleacher seats in front of the 300-foot-long Waldo hills setting for the Centennial pag eant at the state fairgrounds. Tents for information and first aid stations will be pitched at the southwest corner of the coun ty courthouse square. Finishing tolucb.es will be applied to the pioneer museum, exhibits in the Willamette university gymnasium. Ticket sales for the pageant, principal means of financing the city's $27,000 100 th binhday party, will pass the E0 per cent stage before the first perform ance begins Wednesday night. General Manager Irl S. McSherry announced last night. If sales in communities outside of Salem prore as large as anticipated, the advance sale will -pass the CO per eent of the "seats "available for . the four-night performance. There win be o04" resemdi seats each night In 'addition; tor the bleachers. Purchase of Tickets in Advance Urged McSherry last night urged the purchase of pageant tickets today to avoid the last minute rush and to secure best reservations. "There are plenty of good seats left," McSherry said, "and I want to stress the fact that the dollar seats will give spectators (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Paul Hauser't Column Cobwebs From a Musty Note book Here's a note about the New Jos. restaurant on which we always Intended r-? to write a piece.! , ix nsea 10 db in r San Francisco, i. It was Just a hamburger joint -1 In the Italian if district, but what hambur-1 , old line about a I loaf of bread and V was no gag. It was a loaf of French bread and the best rti B. hmmt. jr. -hamburger there ever was. There were all the Italian dishes, too real Italian spaghetti with that fine, powdery cheese that looks like sawdust, raviolis and all the rest. ; "" ' But It was the act that was the best. Maybe it wasn't a act. Anyway there were three or four . Italians behind the counter a n d humanity Jam parked five deep rn front of the counter, which had stools for only about 15 people. The cus tomers counted only Intermit tently, however. ? It was the cook who was the aalt of the show. Every 15 min utes his tine Italian temperament would flare np and his fine Ital ian hand would start waving a carving knife. Then such a tor Tent of vituperative Italian yon never heard. The cook cursed and screamed at . tho waiters and the waiters gave him back as good, as he gave. It would go on, border ing ever closer to armed combat, until It reached a welkin-ringing crescendo. It was then that the cook and the waiters would sud denly notleo - with an air of sur prise as lfthey had never dreamed they weren't alone the mob of hungry . humans waiting for the hamburgers they'd dered hours ' tefore. i . , Then to work an i with a rest and verve only an Italian can give in sprint style. Another batch of hamburgers and iipaghettl and then .the war was on again.' The only guy who kepi, on working was the dishwasher. f ' The boys at th New Joe. f finally realized they were pros-; perous and put in a tile front and chromium furniture, r but It was fun while it lasted. . . . This one's a note abont a . piece ire Intended to write on ' fun In a dictionary. For In stance we were going to write . " about the word jltat which .. we always considered a part of the part cl speech lat soT - Tcja t sa&a .L coL 1 ' Reported Good Mark Shoesmith, Noted Sculptor, . ; Declares Blindness No Handicap " ''.-:.r::-- ' . t . f - - -. .- S" : - A: y:."- BUnded at age 13 by asseSent -which 'occurred while he "was living in Salem, Mark Shoesmith, now a noted sculptor,' la tn this city to Yisif bis psreilts. J He U shown ' worUiij oa a figure destined7 to emerge as that of a child. , " . ; . ' ' " Rising Young Artist Is Visiting Parents Here Miss Nothing by not Seeing" Is Statement of Shoesmith; Teaches Other .Sightless Folk His Art; Studied at U of Oregon By PAUL H. HAUSER, JR. Mark Shoesmith'a sensitive hands carve fine sculptures that his eyes, have never, seen, but he doesn't believe his blindness is any handicap to his work. J Shoesmith, widely known hs parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Shoesmith at their, home at 1480 BeUevue street. He will leave today for New York -i ; -where for three years -he has Portland Skaters Face Diiath Query Night dub Owner's Body .Is Found Amid Ashes; . : Van Hooscns Held ' GRAND "ISLAND, Neb.. July 1 $ -(-Countr Attorney Louis A. Holmes ordered Merle Van H 00 sen- and his wife, Mae, a skat ing team from Portland Oregon, held under $1000 bond each to day as: material witnesses in an Inquest into the death of Ernest Hemmerling,. night club owner here, lit .',-. ' ' Hemmerling's body was found In the ashes of a night club he operated fn the old municipal air port bmUdlng yesterday morning. Testimony Indicated the fire was noticed a ahort tftnSltfter the Van Hoosens and two "friends locked and left the building. Ray Klavon, a mechanic, testl ; (Turn to page t, col. 7) . PGE ' Property not for Sale i ' Piecemeal, Committee Told Properties, of the Portland General Electric - company are not for sale-except In one piece, officials: of the company told the eity's special power committee, appointed by Mayor Chadwick to probe la to the problem of niu nlcipal ' ownership, at a meeting In -the council chambers - last night, i i ; "We're anxious to hold our properties," James H. Holhemus, president of the PGE, told the committee. "We can't afford to be dismembered. ; We can't have a leg cut off here and n arm cut off there." . 1 Polhemns,,- advising, the com mittee : to acU slowly and sarely In any more toward public, own ership, hinted i that rate reduc tions and ilxaplilled rate fched ules might be forthcoming after the first; of the year. He sail; he was preparing recommendations for the company's directors in cluding changes he was not able yet to make JEtbllc. - '. :;; blind sculptor, Is here visitingH been instructing other .'blind per sons In sculpture at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind;-., :, ! -. r-, - ; Shoesmith s work has won na tional attention and he recently finished a piece depicting a wom an holding a Pekingese dor In her arms which was presented to Mrs. Franklin D: Roosevelt. The figure is entitled -Manhattan Madonna." "I feel I miss" nothing by not seeing Shoesmith says. "Many of th sighted artists I know re ly greatly on the' sense of touch. They close their eye to get the feel of the work'. An exploding dynamite percus sion cap-- took - Shoesmith a " eye sight when he was 11 years old. He at first resolved to' be a mu sician and studied piano,' but turned avidly, to sculpture, after being Introduced to It at the Uni versity of Oregon. Before attend ing Oregon he had never modeled. Now 27. the young sculptor has I won considerable fame. His- work has been Illustrated,, In ; national magazines and he has demonstrat ed his ability as a sculptor at the New York world's fair for the past two years. A likeness he made of (Turn to page 2, col S) ..... "Personally I do not believe in public ownership, he said. "I ari sure you people would be bet ter off nider r proposed schedules.' -! " --1" On the question of tone rates versus the postage . stamp rate equal rate for all points regard lens of distance from the source Polhemus t voiced -the, opinion that the city council had already started .-on . scse - rates when It granted it franchise to the Salem Electric cooperative. ; , l -2 Same j disadvantages ot ioue rates rates In which cost of transmlsidon : from ' the supply source a:re figured were discussed.- by George E. " Sutherlin, Tiee-pregtdent of the company. The survey of the TGU , facili ties la : Marlon ' county made re cently, si.owed that . Salem on the sostaga stamp rate' basia bears much of; the cost of xu&iatainlQg equal rai:es .throughout the coc ty.- Under tone :rates each : aiw presumably pays 1U share. . 9 it - Peace' Terms; Probe Arrests Tokyo Proposal Said to Call for Cession of Five Provinces Purported Suicide Note of British Newsman Under Suspicion HONGKONG, Jaly 2l-(ffV-Chi- na was reported today to have turned down unconditionally Jap anese peace overtures giving Ja pan five northern Chinese prov inces outright, plus indirect hege mony over the Asiatic possessions of France and Britain. - Foreign' quarters close to the Chungking government of Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek list ed the 'Japanese proposals: 1. Outright cession by China to Japan of five provinces, Hopeh (which Includes Tientsin and Pei- ping), Chahar, Shantung, Shasi and Sulynan. , ' ? z. Recognition of Wang Ching- Wel, Japan's puppet in Nanking, as president of a Chinese repub lic m a d e up of the remaining provinces plus British Burma, French Indo-Chln a and Thailand (Slam), In which China and Ja pan would, share economic oppor tunities. , -". ; - (This proposal apparently was predicate on av defeat of Britain by Germany France's defeat al ready Has Jeopardized, her Asi an possessions and Japan has wrung , concessions from both Britain and France to Increase her blockade of China. . (Thailand is independent but unable to defend herself.) Z. The status. of Manchoukuo would be left in abeyance Indefi nitely. , (Manchoukuo Is dominated by the - Japanese army, but is nomi (Turn to page z, coL I) Highway Opening Reduces Distance Completion of Willamette Route Draws Caravan; ;' Some From Salem r. t Salem will be , IS miles closer to San Francisco, officially,, this afternoon following the dedication of the t completed Willamette highway from Eugene ; .to The Danes-California highway. . The distance between the" Oregon capital and the bay metropolis Is (49 miles via the Pacific highway, 3 3 : by . way? ct the Willamette pass . route, - rr -,- - r y Jit- least , seven automobiles from Salem aside- from those bearing: state officials wUl .join the dedication caravan, which will arrive at Chemeketa - and North Summer streets at 1:15 o'clock this : morning and leave . for En gene and the Willamette road at :-. v-.v., ;-. 3- : fialem citizens who had notified Dan Hay, chamber of commerce caravan chairman, yesterday that they would attend the dedication are C ' P. Bishop," Mayor W. W. Chadwick, George Arbuckle, Guy N. Hlckock, George . H. Riches, (Turn to page 2, col S) Bomb Explodes in IVfilwaukee Store "MILWAUKEE, lulj H-VPf-Twenty-four hours after Rowland II. Davie, manager, received an extortion note demanding $100, -000, a small bomb exploded in a Sears Roebuck and Company store last - Wednesday, police-revealed today, - " - .Damage ;was slight, bat the note promised " ' "a -u bomb 300 times larger will go-off at your south and north side stores be sides your own -life will be In danger If yon fall.? - -x A heavy guard has been plac ed around all company stores In the city.i. ri i :. -' ' The note demanded that Davie place $100,000 In need money of $5, $10 and 28 denominations la a "good and strong bag"- and drop It from an airplane. He was to receire later instructions as to where to fly. Our Senators Cliina Rejects 1 Dover Assault Hints Big Nazi Drive Nearing Attacking Planes "Fall Like Autumn Leaves'' : Defenders Claim - 17 Na2i Airaromes Are Bombed Red . Cross Misuse Charged (By The Associated Press) Germany, aiming at England's southeastern "chin" - which juts out close to France, struck new bomb blows on teeming town and countryside today following np Monday's heavy, raid on Dover, greatest single smash at a British city thus far. : The bombers this morning spent three hours bombing Wales and other localities, but . their, most massive attacks seemed to center la the southeast. Bombs fell In a workmen's resi dential district there before tle populace could get to shelters. There was no report on the num ber of casualties, but the British acknowledged that homes had been destroyed. As the British sternly defend ed Dover yesterday against at least 80 German dive-bombers and fighter planes, witnesses said "German planes were falling like autumn leaves." SO Reported Shot Down by British . The British air ministry report ed 17 nazi planes had been shot down, and three other bombersJ were aestroyea eisewnere. Dover is the nearest English port to German-occupied France and a logical place for debarking German troops. Reports train ser vice between unoccupied and oc cupied France had been halted. denied in Berlin, plus more in tense 4r-ttaeke, heightened spec ulation that Adolf Hitler might hot be long in giving the expected order for an attempt to" Invade England. -. . The air ministry, however, re ported 17 nasi airdromes in Ger many, - Holland. Belgium and northern France had been bombed Sunday night along with oil de pots and docks in Germany. Three British planes failed, to return. The Germans placed Britain's plane losses at 11 and said the raids Sunday night did not hit military targets. ' The British charged Germany was using seaplanes marked with a medical Red Cross for "valuable reconnaissances" for the general ministry said two of those planes were shot down Sunday, 28th Destroyer's' Loss Is Admitted Britain acknowledged ' the loss of the 1260-ton destroyer Wren, her 28th destroyer lost since the war beganj The admiralty said the warship was hit squarely by a bomb. Casualties were not dis closed. . - '.The British also announced loss of the trawler Staunton, sunk by a mine. . - - Germany ' and Italy waited for the Balkans to reorganize accord ing to plans' laid down by Hitler and - Premier . Mussolini - daring conferences . over the weekend with Balkan representatives. : Rumania was-- expected ' to deal directly i with Hungary and 1 Bul garia in satisfying their claims for lost territory. It was reported in Berlin that Bulgaria would take southern Dobruja, yielded to Rumania J nst before the .World war, and: Hungary would recover at least a thin part of Transyl vania, huge province "lost to Ru mania In post-World war settle ments. Bucharest heard Germany had glren Rumania until Septem ber 15 to decide. Lato Sports SILVERTON, July 29 Sil verton and Jack 'ex Jill! of Port land win meet here In Tuesday night's Oregon semi-pro baseball tournament semi-final- game, a nine-inning affair, starting at 1:30, for the right to play Al bany In, the final at that city Wednesday night. " . - Silverton reached the semi final ' by out-slugging B St O Transfer of . Portland tonight to win 1 to S, whUe Jack & J1U trounced Reliable Shoe 8 to 3. Silverton's 12-hlt attack Includ ed two triples by Don Klrsch and one by Whitman. B a O was aided . by Berry's , homer and triples 'i by - L. . iinde, tewls and Smith. Silverton had a six-run rally in the third Inning on four hits and two errors. B O match ed it In ; the fifth on-fire hits and a bobble - ,' Jack & Jill . - 8 13 1 Reliable S:ioe : : 3 8 3 Clow, and .-Ww t WitUe; - Jabltx, Smith and ?essenger.s 7 1 ; B A O Transfer t - i 4 Silverton . ; , , . 18 13 4 t John Linde. Vewi and Marr; Wilson : and Kremers. . YAKIMA, July 29-CP)-A sin gle by Ulckerta and adoutle by Trower la the ninth J Inning" to night gave Taeoraa a -10-8 vic tory over Yakima in a TWertern International league game.- . .(Tarn to page 2, coL " Pleads Guilty ToSSlayings 1 A Verlln Spencer, a picture of de jection as he appeared in court . Monday at Ixa Angeles to plead guUty to charges of snurderiiig ';, five associateav AP Telemati Spencer to Avoid Penalty of Death Provable Motive Missing Says Prosecutor - as Guilt Admitted LOS ANGELES, July 29 (ff Sharp faced Verlin Spencer, 87, former South Pasaderfa Junior high school principal, ; pleaded guilty today to the murder of five associates and attempted murder of a sixth. He threw himself on the mercy of the court. Deputy District Attorney Ar thur Veitch agreed to the change in plea from innocent and inno cent by reason of Insanity, with the recommendation that Spen car's sentences should 'run con- secutif elv. The prosecntlojtt has ho proof of motive worthy of serious con sideration. Veitch admitted. , ;The .. difference between : hav ing his (Spencer's) dead body and having him Incarcerated for life Is not -sufficient to warrant tak ing" any chance in the case. . Spencer went to confer May f with "George C. Bush, $4, South Pasadena superlntendentof schools; John E j Alman, 58. high school principal,- and WHIR. Speer, 53, school business man ager, and killed them all. As he left the office he shot Bush's sec retary, Dorothea Talbert, through the spine and she may he para lysed for life. : Returning to his chool,T3pen- eer killed Yerner ?V. Vaaderlip, 41, and fatally wounded Rath Sturgeon, 88, both teachers. Views of Willlrie On Training Asked WASHINGTON, Julyr 19-P-Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) chal lengedWendell I Willkie tonight to state his position on compul sory mliiUry training.; ; v "The American people have a right to know," said. a statement issued ' by Wheeler, a leading foe of the pending Burke-Wadsworth conscription- bill. . - ' - - The" bill, the Montant" senator said, presented the' greatest Issue eonfrnotlng- congress and the peo ple today. It would permit th president, "e added, to -conscript 42,009.C0d men. it he saw fit.' , Asserting r that he would pro pose as a substitute . a measure reducing army enlistments from three years to one, and was sure that would "get all the men need ed," he added: . ' "The American people ought to be told why all this haste and why all the hysteria. Are we go ing to war with Japan? Are we going to set up an armed camp i between now and election time? "The .American people have ' a right to know." x j A National Guard Mobilizing y . ; Authority Is By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON," Jnly A r&qnest from President Roose velt ; for anthority - to order . the national guard and army reserve officers to - active ; training duty was received. today by a congress engaged in a deep-seated contro versy over the question, of com pulsory military training. - ' "The developments of modern warfare are such," Mr, Roosevelt said" in a letter read to the sen ate, "that only seasoned and highly trained troops can hope for success. . This group of men who of necessity must be among the first to fight la the nation's defense 'have a right to the best preparation that time and circumstance permit." -' In some quarters, and. princi pally, amvrag the opponent! of the pending Barko-Wadsvorth com pulsory training bill, there was an immediate' disposition to link the two proposals. Senator vrheeler (D-liont) said that if the conscription bill were with E ome Government's Ratification to Be Awaited, Explained '' ' '.'" -- 4., ''. . All Others Sign Virtual Endorsement of Monroe Doctrine but Unanimity Spoiled by Last-Minute Move r.?r:,i'V" L' ': '" Conference Work Concluded: Projrram of Economic and Anti-5th Column Defense Generally Approved HAVANA, July 29- ( AP ) -Argentina hedged tonight on the important American foreign ministers' conference agreement on treatment of foreign possessions in America by making a reservation to its signature of the "Act of Havana."-, Members of the Argentine delegation said that any sig nature put on the document here would have to be approved finally by the government in Buenos Aires.1 - Although they said the matter was merely an "academic questibn," thefact was that Argentina, by making the reser vation, left the door open to back out of an agreement that had been accepted by other nations as the most important Willkie-McNary Qub Plans Float Showing in Parade to Be First Activity of New 1 ' Organization Here The Marion county,1 Willkie McNary club, formally organized at the Marion hotel, 'will enter a float in the Centennial parade of progress parade - Saturday afternoon- as Its . fit activity .oil be half, of the republican candidates for president and vice-president, respectively. Membership and - functions of the club will be conducted on a non-partisan basis, Ernest A. Mil ler, who was elected permanent president, announced. Dr. P. O. Riley was named executive secre tary and Frederick S, Lamport treasurer. Mrs. Emma Murphy Brown, " Senator McNary's first stenographer and his home sec retary, will make arrangements for the club's float. The club will carry , on an ag gressive program of organization with Wfllkie-MeNary- boosters in other' counties - throughout the state, MUler said. . - - ' Directors, to be added to from time to time, are C. P. Bishop, Emma Murphy ., Brown, William McGUchrist. Jr., Governor Charles A.' Spragne, Secretary -of State Earl Snell, Mrs. Blaine McCord of Wood barn, E. M. Page, Miss Elis abeth Putnam,- Mrs. Hal Patton, Mrs.-Robert Craig, Ralph Cooley, T. A. Windishar, Prederick S. Lamport, Mayor W. W. Chadwick. T. M. Hicks,-Fred Stelwer, Grant Mnrpby of Stayton, Senator Doug las McKay, Carl B. Gillis, Lloyd R. Smith, 'Senator Ronald Jones, Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson, - Er nest A- Miller, . Drt P, 0. Riley, Dr. H. H. Olinger, Louis Lach- mund M. L. Meyers and . Mrs. N. B. Mickel of ; Mt. Angel. u; :J 24-Hour Schedule Assured by Order - PORTLAND. J l7 M.-tn-A United States navy,' order: for 135,000 yards of uniform eloth was received ? by tne ortiana Woolen mill today, assuring the company of a 24-hour .per.-. day production schedule "lor many months to come" President Charles H. Carter announced. The government has assigned the company more than 1500,000 worth of - orders the past 'three weeks. Carter said, i Ashed by FDR ¬ drawn he would be glad , to sup port Mr. Roosevelt's new sugges tion. V ' - ,i Senator Yandenberg,- (RrMIch), also a Critic of the draft bill, ad vanced the opinion; that . the two were part of one program. - Meanwhile, Senator Austin of Vermont, the assistant republican floor leader, said it was his under standing - that ; If Mr. Roosevelt werr giTen the power. requested, the national guard - would, be called out to train recruits draft ed under the Burke-Wadsworth bill, if the latter were passed. " From Senator Earkley of Ken tucky, the democratic leader, came a statement that the guard bill would probably be introduced by Chairman E&eppard (D-Tex) of the senate military committee, and that action would be expe dited, in view of Mr, Roosevelt's request for tpee'y. enactment.: It was surges-ted. by some leg islators, ia iact, that the guard till might b3 broufht before the (Turn to page 2, col. 7) continental defense measure ever taken in a Pan-American confer ence. .... ;' : '; In making the reservation - at j the last minute, Argentina kept L her pre-convention promise not to - sign any binding agreements at this conference. ' The diplomatic; maneuver was executed so' smoothly that many persons attending the conference did ncft immediately see .the im portance of it. . J i Uuantmou9 Consent May Be Disrupted N The Argentine action created a . complicated situation with regard to the old Pan-American confer ence rule of unanimity. The United States, which al ways has been a stickler for unan imous consent to such matters, actually had the agreement of the 20 other American republics to sign the "Act of Havana," yet Argentina at any time could say: "We withdraw our consent." Just as Argentina waited untU the last minute onThursday to introduce Its own resolution oa foreign possessions in this hemi sphere. It waited untJft the "Act of Havana' was ready jfor the final plenary actlon the formality of signature before slipping in the reservation about the necessity of getting Its government approval. .It came when -all the- other delegates were certain that -everything had been accomplished as planned In Havana and masy of them already were think irg about transportation hojne. 1 The, work of the conference waa concluded St a private . plenary session tonight, all but the form- al signatures which 'will be af fixed at a public session Tuesday, approving a policy of . resisting political, v military or economic threats to t h 1 s hemisphere ty ' foreign powers. - Amount of Financial Aid May Be Sticker Some observers linked the Ar gentine maneuver with the Unit ed States economic plan, which is couched in broad terms and leaves unspecified the. amount of finan cial, assistance to be given tooth- , er countries. - It was understood that this pro posal was drawn purposely with out specific financial promises so the other countries would shew their willingness to support the United States measures on dr " fense. - - : r ' - (Br reservidr commitment ea the question of European posses sions in this hemisphere, Argen tina thus is In a good economic bargaining position. -An Argentine reservation also ., excluded from the Americas 'truateeshio, plan the Falkland islands, British south Atlantic base, ownership of which Argen tina loa$ has disputed. This, however, merely restored a proTt- siott embodied In the United States' original proposal r Hull Rejoices at , ' x Substantial S access - SecreUry of State Cordell Hull. weary -from long hours of cer-. suasion and argument to satisfy,. obiectlona raised chiefly by Ar gentina, was happy orer what sources close to him described at -substantial success of the United States ? in welding the American nations Into a closer-knit group to. face perils ljinij; ahead in a war-disputed world. ' Three main United States ob jectives were accomplished la th tedious negotiations, although the documents emerged in lan guage couched differently f roze the original proposals. Thees were: : .-" , 1. An "Act of Havaaa," rep resenting, a step forward from previous mere declarations, ia which lh9 other 2s republics vir tually embraced the Jlanroe doc trine and gaTe their prior con sent to its enforcement to pre vent any new forsisa powers from gaining control orer possesions ia tiiJa hemisphere. - 2. A prograsa for erc0T.l2 pro tection and development de.-fgaei both to reliere- exIstUs distress resulting from tl;e lo- ct Kurf- (Turn to page 2, col &)