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" ' . . Coluj Away? r . ' Going cm -m vacation this tnoath? Ltt Th SUtcnuB . , -.-.TTestlier , . Fair today and Sunday warmer with lower humidi ty today; cloudy at time a coast. Max. temp. Friday 60, Mia. ' M. Hirer -4-3. NT? wiad. : follow 701 to brtnx kewi from - borne, . along .wf t b ' I 1 word and ap-to-the-mlaate ; - photo ptctaree of e a t -, 4 , t "" from abroad. ' ; j ; PSUND3D x IIUvSTISTH TEAS Calam, Oregon, Caturdary Moxplag, August 10, 1S13 file So Kiasaisad ta Xla. 113 ; ii - J0)mt Iff eSSBSBVBSBBS ' " v: .1 GQtMtehtion,t MaxFestivd Serious Program Slated - Today Followed by 1 Tour of Plant Queen Dorothy Crowned; ; Parade Is Scheduled . "This Afternoon fctT. ANGEL. Aug? 9 Leaving behind the gaiety of Friday night 't coronation of Queen Doro thy I by, GoTernor Charles A. Sprague and the queen's ball, Mt. Ansel's residents and their dis- . tlaguished flax-minded tout Saturday will tarn their attention .to the serious aspects of the flax industry in Oregon. At 10 a. m. the flax board beaded - by Joseph Bernt, presi dent, F. J. Schwab, manager, and Father Alculn will meet with some CO representatives of state, counties, cities and civic organisa tions at the flax plant. Included among them will be Leo Spitsbart, state fair director. Professor Hys- lop and Dean William A. Schoen f eld- of Oregon State college. The plant will be in fall opera tion and the visitors will be shown all . phases of the industry. Not only these distinguished visitors bnt all those wishing to become acquainted with the different E recesses in the production of nen fiber will be welcomed at Tthe plant. Guides will be provided to giro full explanation. After the tour of the flax plant the special guests will be taken to' St. Mary's school to see the work of the Mt. Angel Wearing guild, 1IU Angel's youngest co operative. . Notable to Speak at Two Meetings Luncheon .at St. Mary's school will follow. Flax will be the sub ject of brief talks by Dean Schoen- teld, talking for the federal gov ernment, E. J. Griffith, repre senting the WPA, Father Alculn voicing ' the hopes of the local community, and Mr. Bernt, speak' lnr for. the flax boardT At 1:29 p. m. there will be a speaking program for the general public from the reviewing stand at the lty hall. Some of the speakers will - be Secretary d State ' Earl Snell ; R. . M. Riley, acting mayor of Portland; Don Ross, representative of the Port land chamber of commerce; C. P. Bishop of Salem and Marshal Dana ef The Oregon Journal. Other dignitaries who will be present are Ralph Clyde, city com xnissioner of Portland; Walter E Pearson, state treasurer; David Cedes, secretary of the board of control, and Miss Harriet Long, state librarian. Graad parade Is Scheduled at 2:80 The grand flax, Industrial and floral parade is scheduled for 1:10 p. m. About 40 entries have been signed p. There" will be three. divisions: decorated floats, marching bodies and bands and -drum corps. A silver cup will be offered' as. first prise in each di vision, with ribbons for second and third places. There will also be a sweepstakes cap for the eat standing entry. The line of march for the pa rade will be as follows: Form at St. Mary's school: on Church to Vain, north on Main to College, east on College to Sheridan, north n. Sheridan to Taylor, east on Taylor to Alder, south on Alder to. College, west on College to Main. ' cross Main to Railroad, south on Railroad to West Church, east on Church past the reviewing stand and back to the school ground. Three out-of-town guests will L be chosen to act as Judges. The prises will be awarded the winners by Qneen Dorothy I at the reviewing stand. At 7 p. m. Sheriff Andy Burk and bis mounted posse of Salem will give exhibition drills, and at t p. m. a variety show consist lag of a motion picture and six special vaudeville features will be presented. ; ' Bean Pickers Are Injured In Crast WEST ETATT0J. Aug-, t Three bean pickers were injured, two seriously, when ' their sedan crashed Into a moving . freight train at tho - Southern ; Pacific crossing here at f: I ft- tonight. William Sykea saffered a se vere ankle fracture aad Daa Walton received a possible brain concussion. Both .were sent to Ealenr General hospital. The driver, Ralph Goforth, es caped with minor Injuries. ' The trio have been Irving In a eamp near MeClellan's store here. The ear they were driving', which was. registered to Robert .Lee of Tracy, Callt. war demolished August 30 Date' -Set for Opening "The 1140 Fall Opening spon sored by the Salem Ad club will be held on Friday, August 10, the club decided , at its meeting yesterday. Holding the opening on this date will enable mer chants to hold over their special merchandise displays Into state fair week, September 2 to T. President Bert Reynard said. Fall Opening committees - wCl be appointewl next weekv .- j . : ' ; VP I 11.11111, 1 QlV Ellll In Most Peri'i Holmari Avers Ginscrlption Bill Under Dehate; Gravityrjol Emergency Topic Danaher, Wheeler Douh Need for Compulsory Training Program By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, An. 9-JP Tne senate s oeoate on peace-time conscription began today with Senator Sheppard (D-Tex.) de claring democracy it - imperilled everywhere aad Senstor Wheeler (D-Mont.) scornfully asserting that those who fear t sail inva sion should summon eourage to seek an. immediate declaration of war on Germany. A momentary stir was created when Senator Holman (R-Ore.) seeking to show that Japan, not Germany, is "the number one threat to our peace," said he had learned from "authoritative mill' tary sources" of the "imminent peril of an invasion of Alaska from the Pacific snd the endan gering of the entire Pacific slope." Later, he added, however. that so fsr as he knew "no one Is mobilising their forces now." Meanwhile the house ways and means committee was at work on tax plans, including a proposal that manufacturers who must ex pand their plants to fill defense orders be permitted to deduct the cost from their taxable earn ings over a period of five years. Secretary Stimson testified that as tax law now stands such manu facturers face an abnormal risk because enlargement undertaken at the government'srequest may be useless after a few years. An other defense development was a disclosure that . the. navy ..would strengthen Its garrison at Guan tanamo Bay, Cuba, by sen din 2900 marines, there . from Quaa- tico, Va next month. Qnantana- mo Bay s an important base for warships guarding the eastern ap proaches to the Panama canal. Daaahev Questions Xnerareacy's Natare The senate debate began with an exposition of the pending bill under which all men between 21 and SO, Inclusive, would be subject to selective military train ing. . Senator Sheppard, chairman of the military affairs committee, said developments abroad had (Turn to page 2, eoL X) 10,G39 Homeless, Louisiana Floods Worse Than In '27, Word; Relief Agencies Are Mobilizing Forces CROWLEY. La Aug. HJPV- Red Cross, state and federal ag encies hurriedly mobilised their forces today to administer emer gency aid te 10,00.0 refugees driven from thsir homes In south west Louisiana by two days of torrential rain which natives said surpassed the landmark flood of 1027. Answering; urgent appeals from Mayor Matt Buatt of Crowley, In the center of the flood. Governor Sam Jones at Baton Rouge swung into action to marshal state, fed eral and relief agencies to send In supply boats and administer available aid. The xo vera or in a later after noon t radio . broadcast described the situation as "most serious" and declared that "everything possible is being done" to rush aid to the stricken thousands. Both! Crowley aad her sister city, Lafayette, similarly stricken, reported the rains let up during the day after flooding the city streets ; from a few inches to ten feet deep. - .Business was paralysed, high way traffic was flooded out, with transportation limited to boata or main line railroads. Board to Seek Old Water First steo toward adjustment ef the' S27.117 tax bill which has been j banging , over the Salem water commission since If J was taken last sight when Chairman X. M. Dough ton named Commis sioners E. B. . Gabriel and Eu gene : Grabenhorit as a commit tee to i invfstlgata possibility ef settling the matter. - City t Attorney Lawrence n. Brown will work with the com mittee.' which will doubtless con fer soon with the county court. The tax bill cropped up short ly after the city, took over the system from the oregen-wasn-lngton water service company. It had been assessed while the pri vate j utility bad been operating the company and was . somehow overlooked in the negotiations made by the city with the com- pany. -t . - v , - . L t: J. cr Paul Hauler's Column We saw a picture ef some bop pickers In the psper the other day and realized with a start that the -t rainy season is sat band. We I don't know why, Sbut It Isn't long after they start picking hops Ithat the rains leome. 4 3 - Bop pick ing - - I m a 1 . . . . t . 4 1 v e r s 1 on if not taken seriously. It should not be attempted in the rila er In the hafr.-!tfcpr. f Vmi t Bmm: ir. matter. For some reason neither rain nor beat seems' to deter hop pickers, how-. ever. Nobody follows our advice, not even bop pickers. We have slacked . hope ta youth. We never ax to bo millionaire a It, So far we bare never got to be a seOllon aire at aaythias; else, bat we're sta looking. Hard to diaflla stoa, that's as. - In our early or bop picking pe riod we got up earlier than wo ever have since. Ton can do your best bop picking, so the sages say. when the dew la heavy and the sun Ilea low. This may be right. but it makes 10 o'clock In the morning seem like time for a sies ta. There must be some Latin blood in us, because we are al ways looking around for a siesta. A bop vine makes a very pleas ant place to sleep, providing you can keep those red bugs out ef your ears. The elods aren't com fortable, but you can allay this with a couple of old hop sacks, If you can stand the smell. Another good thing to remem ber when picking hops Is that you are thirsty. We used to remember this every 20 minutes and walk half a mile to a pnmp for a drink. This is a practice which makes it possible to pick very few hops and neip out the government, which would Just throw them away any way. When the rains eeene, as they are bound to, things grow more difficult. The sensible person, like as, . crawls . under a bop basket aad goes to sleep. Maay others, however, Jast keep oa placing nops la the same old rat, figuring the added weight of the ralawater la the hope will Increase their check. This shows the aajly, profiteering side of bop picking and -also snows tfcat there are quite a few people left aroaad who havea't sense enough to come la oat of the rata, especially la nop yards. ' V : Trivial iaformation That har dy looking eltixea who was sit ting In Parker's coffee shop on State- street across the , tracks (Turn to pace 2. eel. C) Adjustment, Utility Tax Bill $7C11.I K aad acerutd by De cember 21. IS 3 1. according; to the last audit ef the water commis sion... " "-' . . .-j The tax iuestloa has been a thorn to ' the . water commission sines It first learned of the exist ence of the tax bill. - Opinions requested front sever al attorneys at ' different , times have differed on liability of the water commission in the matter o the taxes. The last audit, made by the secretary of state's divi sion ef audits, pointed; out that Interest accrues at the rate of S2201.SS yearly and said. "ob viously the matter should be set tled at the earlleat possible date." Commissioners E. ,B. Gabriel and O. A. Olson were appointed as a committee to consider sal ary adjustments tor. water de partment ' employes.' . . ; v : t 0 m o ; ; T : ii U(Qi(B Dolls Coinpeie tor Playground Honors lui.imi ji hi 11. min iu ipui in - 111- "1 Winners to their little mistresses, these dolls, top photo exhibited at Leslie playground yesterday by, left to right, back row, Bolette Great, Edith Anne Stmpsoa aad Lauretta Deacon, and, front row, Helen Jane Albrlcbt, Shirley Kae HcGlanls aad Jimmy Simmons. Funniest of the entries, the Judges ruled, were these twin dolls, lower photo, entered by Mary Jane Mefford-Statesmaa photos. 117 "Little Parents-Enter Playground Fluffy dolls, tattered dolls, cracked and maimed dolls and brand new; shiny dolls were lnger playgrounds yesterday annual doll day. The little irirls (and a few force with their dolls, some held tenderly like real flesh and Americans Enlist, Canada Air Force OTTAWA. Aug. -ffV-Several thousand Americans were unoffi cially reported today to have Joined ap with the Canadian air force here and in England as pi lots, observers, air gunners, me chanics and instructors. The national defense depart ment said it could not provide any figures because until recently every man enlisting In Canadian forces had to say he was a Brit ish subject and bad to take the oath of allegiance. Since this stip ulation was dropped there was a spurt in enlistments for the ah force. ' It was reported unofficially that 100 Americans were In the first division of ground troops to go overseas, and the air force Is far more popular with Americans than the army. . - - ' With the same proportion throughout the Canadian active service force, however., there would be aroand 1000 Americans La ta army alone Says ''Much Timber , rm - : - ? : v. - Can lie salvaged MeMTJTNVnXlS. - Aar. l-OV Harry -. White, Baker . creek . log ging; company manager, reported today two-thirds of the . 750,000 board feet 'of failed and bucked timber , scorched in TamhCl coun ty's first forest fire of tho season could be salvaged.. Workmen brought the SSO-aere Baker, creek 'blase '.under control by completing a fire-mile trail. Our, Uc3, 04 whatever the Judges said, were Doll Day Event found all over Leslie and 01- as tne piaygrounas neia ineir little boys) turned out in blood Babies, some oangiea care lessly .by a leg or an arm. At Les lie playground there were 1 6 en tries with ISO dolls, at Olinger SI entries. Grandmammy of all the dolls was a 70-year old dolly whose ven erableness won first prixe in the oldest doll division at Leslie for Harriett Jones, 17 CO South High street. Next oldest were those ex hibited at Olinger by Donna John son, 62S North 21st street, and Donna Mae DeWitft 1110 North Capitol street. Their dons were both 00 years old and tied for first place at Olinger. , A clothesbasket full of dolls. SO in all, brought first prize for the largest group at Leslie to Ruth Rae, 2442 Lee street. Lor ene Rossi tfcr, 1144 Center street, brought 40 dolls to Olinger for a first ribbon there. Other prises: " At Leslie: Largest doll Janet Kurth, 178 Winter street, first: VerUe Mal lory. 14S0 Hlnes street; second: Mary Ann Bonesteele, 1248 Sag inaw street, third. - Prettiest doll ITaryanne Stmts ville. ISIS South Church street; Marlene Waters. 2S7S. East Nob Hill street; Jean Thomas, route four. " Oldest DoH Harriett Janes; Janet Gibson, 17IS South High street ( S S years) ; Alice Louise Ohllns. 20SS South High street (40 years).-!'" - ' Smallest doll Clarice Waters, 2S7S East Nob Hill etreet; Lilly Daily,- 1110 South' 12th street; Betty Sehofleld, 116 S Cross street. Funniest doll Mary Jane Mefiord. 2 4IS South High street; Evelyn - Ham rick. 1140 Howard street: Claudia Waters, S7S East Nob Hill street. At Olinsjert ;, Largest doll Betty . Jean Ol son. 1 SI 8 -North Water street; Barbara Beckley. 110 North 24th street; Marilyn Myers. tlO Mar ket street, . . . - v . Prettiest doll Barbara Ryan; 1020 North ISth street; Bettie Cooler, 2270 -Center street Eu nice Jean Miller, 11 S North Cap itol street. t - 1 ' 5. Turn to page 2, eol t)- ' School Oraed By Methodist Church Is Hit 100 Casualties Reported in Chnrigkiiig as 900 ; Baildings Bombed US Woja't Oiange PoKcy in Orient, ' Indicated ; Troops to Remain CHUNGKING, China, Aug. 10 ( Saturday ) JP) A. dormitory wins of the American Methodist school . was destroyed and other buildings of the school were shaken yesterday by Japanese aerial bombs which destroyed more than 900 buildings in this Chinese provisional capital and killed or injured 100 persons. . Damage to. the Methodist lnstl tution was estimated . at about 110,000. The bombs blasted at both the crowded older sections and the newly built western suburb of the city, and some exploded along the south bank of the Tangtxe river, where the US and other embassies are located. Large fires were started near the US embassy but were extinguished. . Thousands of volunteer police men and firemen were mobilised to fight seven large separate fires. eventually extinguishing; them. The costliest was is a dump of thousands of gallons of vegetable oil awaiting transportation to the United States. Wounded persons were treated in the - American Methodist and Canadian mission hospitals. One of the buildings which suffered! a direct bit was a Chi nese YMCA . ' American observers counted 108 -Japanese bombers over the city, in the two-wave raid, worst m many, weeks. : - t WASHINGTON Aujt. . f-V The United JStates 'adhered to-itr own position in China tonight de spite the withdrawal of British - . (Turn to page 2, eol. S) Bates and Yoiing Gain Promotions Officers "Pour It on" as JBiggest War Games in History Loom np CAMP MURRAY. Wash.. Aur. 9 (-Promotions announced for the 2 41th coast artillery, nation al guard, today included: Major Arthur B. Bates of Sal em to lieutenant colonel In com mand of the second battalion: Joseph Toung of Salem to sec ond lieutenant, headquarters bat tery, second battalion. TELM. Wash.. Aug. S-UPV- Preparing for the biggest war games In far west history, offi cers poured it on national guards men from pre-dawn to post-dusk today as the training tempo of the fourth army maneuvers were stepped up. Troops arose an hour ahead of the regular rising time, and were kept In the Held until after dark, some until 10 p. m. Aided by showers and cooler weather, the Infantrymen went on hardening marches ranging up to 16 miles. Officers, reporting that guardsmen realised the ser iousness of the maneuvers and the part they must play In na tional preparedness, said that mo rale and discipline were excellent. Officers were occupied today with a mock war' without troops, trucks or guns. The work was a command post exercise, a theo retical battle fought to test com munications which will be used in the '"real war next week. Mechanised units, which will be the first to contact an enemy, went out after evening mess to night to work under conditions they would likely face in a 24-hoar-a-day fighting. McNary Swamped With Bids To Talk; Duties Prevent It i WASHINGTON, An- Senator , McNary '. (R-Ore) repub lican vice presidential candidate who as - minority . leader, or j tne senate Is one of the busiest mem bers of congress, is UteraHy being swamped with .requests to make addresses an roate to bis notifi cation eeremonles al Salem," Ore August 27 before he departs and after the eeremony. w The smllinr. unperturbed nom inee for second place on the re publican ticket has declined gra ciously f ail ! invitauonsr s leuinj those who requested be make adw drtutt that because eongress re mains In" session considering national-defense measures, be can not' leave ; Washington, and that he Is making no commitments for mating speeches until after i his formal notification. Hs simply savs that public matters incident to the session prevent. him leav- Bombings. Continue ; But Britain Claims ; Air Assault Fails t r::'' ' ' i h - Help From Egypt Expected if. Italian Troops Invade; Japan Pleased at Withdrawal of Shapghai Force i English Airmen Report Victory Over Libya; Score on Channel Fight Altered in Britain's Favor i (By. the Associated Press) v German air raiders hamrnered heavily at Britain again today.- TP-! ! Loud explosions and the ; British' acknowledgement of two deaths, several injuries and some damage indicated the weight of the blows in southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest England despite the deadly curtains of anti-air. craft bullets fired aloft in the gleam of searchlights; Still, the five-day period of high summer tides favorable for an invasion attempt ended Friday night with the long threatened German move on sea and. land still withheld. Britain, fighting a lone battle against Germany and It aly in Europe and Africa, looks to Egypt for military help Aerial Attack Is Deemed Banloxipt Cost to Germans Declared 4 to 1 Over That to England in Raid LONDON, Aug. -V-Tbe Ger man i campaign of mass air at tacks on these Islands was de clared by some British observers today to be costing the nasis-a great deal more in money, mo rale mad messerschmitts than th' aefeflders-sC. X!' This . elalnr - that '- the air Inva sion Is thus:. far a bankrupt stra tegy was pat forward on the ba sis of an official checkup of the results of yesterday's vast raid by 400 German planes en Kns lish channel shipping. For, this, said the air ministry, was the score: . German planes destroyed A. British planes lost Is. British . shipping destroyed. both by air and the torpedo boat attack that ushered in the air assault, SO St tons. Seven ships in a convoy were acknowledged damaged! but all were declared taken to port. (The German score sheet was far different: Berlin claimed that 49 British planes were shot down and 72,000 tons of British ship ping sunk.) From all this, unofficial com mentators reached the conclusion that the net German loss in mon- (Turn to page X, eol. 1) Order for Giant Tanks Disclosed WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-OPr- The army maintained strict se crecy tonight regarding the de tails of a new monster tank which is to go Into production shortly at the Baldwin Locomotive works in Philadelphia. Officials evidently felt that any Information regarding the -design of the '.'land battleship" . might prove of value to some foreign nations. They were displeased by the fact that news of the $5,689,725 contract with Baldwin for produc tion of an undisclosed number of the tanks had slipped out In a routine list of contract clearings made public by , the national de fense commission. " '' It waa assumed that the army's new heavy tanks would resemble the 70-ton giants which have been credited with playing an Im portant part In the German break through of Belgian and Frenen defeases. L-v Ins; Washington aad adds he has made ao campaign plans, other than his acceptance at Balenu The senator will confer, with Wendell Winkle, republican presi dential candidate before mapping any plans for campaign speeches and even these may depend upon the situation iA congress. -Meantime McNary. is devoting bis whole . attention to the work of eongress. To watch bis calm, purposeful manner and- work in directing' the minority of the sen ate it is bard to realise that the dapper leader sitting in the front row ef the republican side of the senate has another Job that soon will- find ; him 'fighting . fo the party which Insisted his accept ance of the vice presidential nom ination would mean victory for 1L EUensburs wanted the senator to participate in Its rodeo Aug ust SI while the Chehalls Toung .. (Turn to page 2, column 5). as soon as Italy makes an expect- , ed attack on the historic land of the Nile. r,' ' Egypt already has a defensive alliance with Britain and has brov ken off relations with Germany and Italy. She has served notice she would fight Italy if attacked. Ia the orient,' Britain drew la her horns to some extent by With drawing for use elsewhere her -troops :in Shanghai and- North China. .', :- - :. '. ; : 1 ;:, Japan bad requested this ear lier, and the Japanese press hailed the move as an attempt to reach a rapprochement . with Japan before the battle of Britain should begin. 1-Japanese i spokesman said Japan wasVery pleased" and ex pected other belligerent powers to do the same. In Washington, Sum ner Welles, acting secretary of state, said US marines stationed In China would remain there. ' 1 Japanese Admiral t J Oonamands Shaaghal ' ' ! Withdrawal of the British will , leave a Japanese- admiral. Mor tal Takeda, the eommandinr of fl eer of Shanghai defense forces as the ranking officer. Britain, under-Japanese pres- , sure, already had elosed the Bur- ' ma road to China, vital for" war supplies to China'a Generalissimo, Chiang- Kai-Shek, in his tight against Japan. Japan also ob- : tained closure of 'routes through ; French Indo-China. Departure of , the British -for ' service elsewhere' Will leave - ' 10,000 British subjects and In vestments estimated at 200,000, 000 (approximately $800,000. 600) to be guarded only by Brit- -lsh naval units. British troops first landed in Shanghai about 100 years sgo. -. J ' ! American forces In China num ber about 1650, French 2040 and Italian 205. - t.; . $' j ' 1 ' - Domei, Japanese news agency, , reported In Tokyo that the small rightist East China association, Toa Kyokai, had given a petition to leading cabinet ' members de manding; an , Immediate declara tion of war upon Britain because of the arrests of Japanese in Lon don, ; ;;j c :Y 4 , The "Japanese themselves un leashed one of the heaviest of re- c e n t air bombardments against Chungking, provisional capital of China. 1 - - ; .China carried in her official newspaper a statement that she would aid French Indo-China if the " Japanese undermined that colony's territory or political in- Victory for British i Air , Force Claimed ' Meanwhile Britain claimed an overwhelming victory in the big- . 1 gest air battle yet fought In the near east's developing desert fighting. RAF fliers shot down IS Italian planes Thursday over Italian Libya next to Egypt and lost two planes despite being out numbered two to one, the British . said.:-;.: 51 . The Italian rersloa was that they lost two. the British fiTe. ' News ef this action followed - - Thursday's great aerial battle over tha English ehannel In which the ' British claimed to have shot down -0 nasi planes out of 400 sent against them. Britain acknowl- . edged the loss, of It British planes, then later announced three of the pilots had landed -safely. .4 . If A1MAV.V tit KMltl A.tIM4 three more naxl -planes were shot . ' down In scattered fighting Fri day, i r1,-:-,'. , $ ' -, -'- . M : ta a battle of communiques, the German high eommand asserted the British losses were 49, their own only 10. Meanwhile over 70,000 tons of shipping were sunk, the Germans declared. Airmen of both slJes continued their night bombing air raids on .ports factories and surrly cen ters. JThe war thus eoiitmuea as blocka3e and counter-fciocsace-w. affair. : interest on tne taxes loiauug :!:."-