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i PAGE TWO Second No-No Barely feed Salem ; Champs Continue 'in Race; BonneTille , Foe on Thursday (Continued from pas 1) . sole hope la the championship race. - Oregon City had ousted Mc- Minnville from the meet by a 9 to S score before Griffin took the mound to strike out 14 Kids, al low bat one ball out of the in- ' field, walk nary a batter and face the one-two-three minimum of 21 batters. ' The 1000-odd fans hadn't quit talking about the amazing- stuff young Griffin serred up when -burly Biff Georgesen, tournament veteran, came along to Tog bis variety by Eugene batters. Biff had two away in the final inning and a no-no - game In his grasp when Centerfielder Phillips took it away from him on a dribble down the third base line which went as hit when Reimers throw was a bit late at first base. Georgesen was toiling for the hustling Bonneville Engineers, who collected 1 nine blows and 7 to 0 victory off two Eugene pitchers. Maurle Stremich, high scoring Portland basketeer, topped the Engineers' assault with a brace of blngles and a double in four trips.) . Hurlln Hank Singer distrib uted four singles to the, Wood burns in his mound chore for the Dealers, who put the game away with a three-run first Inning. Rudy Gentzkow and Chuck De Autremont headed the 10-hit Dealer attack, each registering a pair of hits. Georgesen, who whiffed eight. received one scintillating 1 bit of support in the first Inning, when Walt Schlaffle. former all-stater. hurled a perfect strike to third base from his rlghtfield spot to complete a double play. Schlaffle hauled down Libby's drive deep to right and pegged out Walls, who attempted to go from sec ond to third after the catch. Had Georgesen succeeded In ' bagging his no-no, however, it would hare come as an anti climax to Griffin's superior ef fort. Georgesen walked tour on the paths while the Pendleton pitcher wasn't responsible for putting on even the lone runner that reached a base. With the first round now out of the way, all games are for the full nine-Inning routes. Quarter finals are to be played tonight and tomorrow night, with Cor Tallls meeting Julia Lee Wright of Portland In tonight's 8 o'clock bill ' and the Portland Firemen tangling with Medford at 9. Fri day night will see Oregon City and Pendleton play at 8, and Square Deal and Bonneville at 9. Square Deal 8 10 0 Woodburn 1 4 3 H. Singer and L. Singer; Bean and Uselman. Bonneville f 9 0 Eugene .., 0 01 '4 Georgesen and Miller; Wilson, Adams (.60) and Libbr, Taylor it). Witnesses' Held As Deputy Slain WORTH WINDHAM. Me., Aug. Id-WVDeputy Sheriff Dean Pray, 40, was shot and fatally wounded today daring an argu ment with two men who. Deputy Sheriff Ralph Hooper said, Iden tified themselves as "ordained ministers' of a religious sect, Je hovah's Witnesses. A wave of excitement spread through this little town follow ing the shooting, which consti tuted a new chapter in a series of demonstrations of violence in southern Maine involving oppo sition to alleged activities of some members of the sect. ' One of the men, listed by po lice as Arthur F. Cox, 49, of Philadelphia, was booked on a charge of murder j and was held at Cumberland county Jail. t The second man was held with out formal charges pending in vestigation of the shooting. Police quoted Perley Varney as saying that he witnessed the shooting and that several shots, were fired after Pray, wielding a tire iron, ordered the pair from the building. Film Luminaries Cleared by Dies SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. JO.--.TJ-Four prominent Hollywood film personages, named as com munist sympathisers in testimony before the Dies committee, were cleared of the accusation today by Rep. Martin Dies, committee chairman. "The chair has carefully con sidered evidence received to date, Including the testimony of some of those who have been accused, he said, "and is of the opinion that Mr. Humphrey Bogart, Mr. Fred rie March, Mr. James Cagney and Mr. Phil Dunne are not and have never been members of the com XBunist party. Bogart, March and Cagney are . well, known motion picture actors and Dunne is a scenario writer. He and Cagney voluntarily ap peared today before Dies com mittee Investigating - unAmerican activities and denied any connec tion with the communist party. They were linked to It in testi mony by John Leech, former Los Angeles county communist or ganiser, who previously had named other film., personages In testimony at Beaumont; Tex. Portland Radio . Singer -To Wed Actor Carton HOLLYWOOD, Aug XQP) Jack Carson, - Milwaukee actor, and Hay St. Germain, radio singer of Portland Ore., will be married tomorrow night, Carson . said. He la playiag la "Fireman Save My v Child," and will have io go be--v fore the. cameras again Thursday, so there will be no Immediate War Games ?..., . - r. Mistakes for an enemy unit, this tank from the 87 th tank: company, upon" point blank by a crew from the 153th field artillery, during Wis. To avoid a had-on collision the tank was turned sharply and tank crew are shown fixing the damaged tank track. AT Telemai. Two Communists Ousted, Kingman KINGMAN, Ariz., Aug. 10-(JP- Ralph Duncan and Henry Singer, convicted 10 days ago of disturb ing the peace by circulating com munist petitions, left by train to night for Phoenix, Ariz., as 200 persons shouted warnings for them never to return. They Dare appealed their Jus tice court conviction to the super ior court, and were freed from Jail today on bonds of $100 each. As they left the county Jail crowd gathered and Duncan wi knocked down. The two were or dered to take the Boulder dam highway out of town, but Duncan, an elderly man, pleaded to be al lowed to take the train. They spent the day in the railroad sta tion, emerging only to board the train. Howard Declines Investigation Job HYDE PARK. NY. Aug. President Roosevelt disclosed to day that several months ago he asked Roy Howard, editor of the New York World-Telegram, to in vestigate fifth column activities In Latin America and that How ard had declined. During a press conference, the president Identified Howard as the private individual he had In mind when he said in his third term acceptance address that, with one exception, the persons he had asked to help in the de fense program had agreed to do so. The president said he had ask ed Howard to go to South Amer ica by plane, on a 40-day trip, and meet editors and government officials he knew when he rep resented the United Press there. Mr. Roosevelt said he asked How ard to talk to them confidential ly, on behalf of the United States, and find out what their own per sonal opinions were on fifth col umn activities. House Draft Bill Is More Drastic (Continued from page 1) afso written into the senate mea sure today, on a CO to 10 vote. The general debate on the draft in that chamber today produced a clash , between Senator Connally (D-Tex) and Senator Wheeler (D Mont). Connally angrily charged that Wheeler "wants to make it Just as difficult as possible" for the country to recruit an army. Wheeler, irate, protested, and Connally withdrew the statement, but not without adding a rejoin der that "no other senator" was as "free In reflecting on the mo tives of others" as was Wheeler a prominent opponent of conscrip tion. Late in the day. Chairman Walsh (D-Mass) of the senate naval committee arose to ques tion the necessity for a large standing army, and announced he would seek a "test vote" on a pro posal that, before conscription was attempted, the nation build up a powerful air force, an "in vincible navy," a "multiplicity of airplanes and bombers" and anti aircraft guns which would dot the country "from one end to the other." The senate appropriations com mittee disclosed meanwhile that several of its members had spoken of "conscripting business, apply lag "a little force," or enacting a "universtal tax bill after hear ing a high-ranking naval officer complain that the navy was hav ing difficulty in obtaining mater ials thai go Into fighting ships. Deschutes Forest Has Serious Fire r KLAMATH FALLS', Ore., Aug. 20 (-Fire fighters wers rushed to a 2000-aere blase In the south ern, Deschutes national forest to day as an adverse wind whipped it out of control toward Green Umber, both private and govern ment. - ; : ;-T " Lookouts'' reported ; the, blaze, believed man-caused, had merged with a SOO-acre spot fire which had been controlled. ; victor Sisaon chief firs -dis Tank Meets With Variety of Grief patcher, said fire conditions on the Klamath Indian reservation were the worst In history. A force of 650 was fighting ' four large biases in the Indian ' territory to night. Nearly 400 of the 5S0 men were holding the Swan lake fire, which has blackened 8000 acres. The blase at Kirk also was reported under control. The other fires, one at Wilson Point and another in the Black Hills timber unit, were proving difficult to check. Suspect Firebug In Yakima Blaze YAKIMA, Aug. 10-(fl-Yaklma officers today rounded up 48 tran sients for questioning in connec tion with the early morning fire which destroyed the John Dower Lumber company and damaged three othe rlndustrial structures causing a loss of approximately 895,000. John Dower of Tacoma estimat ed loss to his company of 80, 000. The fires, which officers be lieved were set by a firebug, dam aged the company's yard In Wa pato near here in the last two years, and he said officers were Investigating incendiarism in con nection with the one here today. Officers said they had received reports the huge lumber storage shed and two adjoining sheds burst Into flames simultaneously and that a man was seen running across the roof of a nearby hotel at midnight, when the flrebroke out Big Diomede Fort Rumor Is Refuted ALAMEDA. Calif.. Aug. 80-if) -Reports that Russia had forti fied Big Diomede island, in Ber ing sea off Alaska, were discred ited today by Commander Harold G. Bradbury of the coast guard cutter Shoshone, Just back from a patrol cruise of Alaskan waters. "So far as I was able to see. there Is no foundation whatso ever to rumors that Big Diomede Is being- fortified as an air and naval base by the Russians," Commander Bradbury said. I can't understand why any power would undertake to for tify a place so unstrateglcally lo cated. All I saw on the island was a barn-like frame building, perhaps constructed to house a boat or two." Big Diomede, Russian owned, lies Just a few miles west of an American-owned island. Little Diomede. Ttco-Year-Old Child U Killed, Auto Accident PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. J0-fl) An automobile overturned on Cooper mountain near Beaverton tonight, killing Leonard Honey, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Honey of Aloha, Ore. The mother, who was driving, suffer ed minor injuries. France's Envoy Ylcomte DMnmalo ; ; vlccmU Jaquee DAumal, for mer French minister at Bogota, Colombia, is shown as he arrived la New York to assume charge of the Trench consulate. - His title is that of 'minister plenipotentiary, which Is the first time such a title been used by a French dlplo- - ., i A TV - i i 0 Ohio national guard, was "tired war maneuvers at Camp McCoy, came to grief. Members of the Salem's Part in Event Is Planned (Continued from Page 1) The task of removing unneeded parts of the Centennial setting has been under way since last week. Little remains but to make last-minute alterations and to put up the decorations, which will consist, principally of American flags and state banners. The notification ceremonies will be the occasion for a series of meetings of party leaders of the west with National Chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., It was an nounced last night. National committeemen and committee women, along wth state chairmen and vice-chairmen from the 11 western states will confer with Martin In Portland next Wednesday after attending the McNary notification here. Postlude to his appearance with Governor Harold S t a s s a n of Minnesota, official bearer of the notification to Senator McNary, at a luncheon at the Marlon hotel next Tuesday noon. National Chairman Martin will outline his campaign ideas before a luncheon to b put on in Portland next Wednesday for the rank and file of the party by the Multnomah chapter of the Oregon Republican club. The Marlon county chapter of the state republican club last night offered the services and co operation of Its members to the county central committee in the coming campaign and In partic ular for McNary notification day activities. The club also expressed Its approval of central committee plans to sponsor a valley-wide re publican picnic in mid-September. Heavy Stands of Timber Imperiled MISSOULA, Mont, Aug. Z0( Heavy stands of timber In the al most primitive Lochsa canyon area of the Lolo national forest In northern Idaho were threatened tonight by a fire which already has blackened more than 100 acres. Seven hundred and fifty men were on the fire lines. Foresters said the blase was started by a careless camper. Scene of the fire At about 90 miles southwest of Missoula. Sup plies were being transported to the fire camp by airplane. In Yellowstone national park five forest fires continued to rage unabated, and the flames broke through defense lines on the 3800 acre Mountain Ash creek blaze. This fire, rangers reported, was approaching another along Spires creek. More than 1(00 men were attempting to corral the fires. Townsend Settles His Tax Argument LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.-AV Dr. Francis E. Townsend, old age pension leader, has settled his tax differences with -the govern ment "for less" than the sum de manded, his lawyer, Scott MeRey nolds, said today after filing of a lien for 120,412 against Dr. Townsend was disclosed. McReynolds said the dispute covered 1931, 193T and 1933 and resulted from an "erroneous be lief that monies collected by the old age revolving pension organ ization became Dr. Townsend'a personal funds, hut as a matter of fact the doctor didn't get a dime of the money. - - Ready For Dasli, Belief SAN DIEGO, CaUf Aug. 10-(JPV-Crew members of the tuns clipper ' Prospect, arriving today from-MawxaniTlo reorted the Ger man motorshlp Weser had com pleted refueling apparently pre paratory to s dash to sea. . The Weser, which recently slip ped out of harbor at Puntarenas, C.R., an dlater made port at Man sanillo. Is painted a dun gray, the Prospect crew said. The nazl. flag flies from the stem. . . - Crewmen also reported the Ger man motorshlp Blsenach still was at Puntarenas, but that some members of the crew had been transferred to the Weser. Motorsbip Italian Force Jyt ' Greece DritisKrAinerican Union Is Possible, Claimed in ... j Parliament Talk . (Continued from page 1K Albanlan patriot by two Greeks which touched off a bitter Italian press campaign against Greece. Greece denied any connection with the slaying. ; - The Germans snd British, mean while, exchanged heavy aerial blows during the dsy. Three wates of 'German' planes attacked English Inland points while the British said their planes' had bombed two German transports at Haugesund, one of the nearest Norwegian porta ' to Britain, and nad made a surprise attack on the German-held air drome at St. Omer, France, which left that base "cloaked In flames." The1 royal air force also said Its bombers attacked the German naval base- at Kiel and 30 air dromes In Germany snd la enemy- occupied territory. Daylight raid ers bombed an . airdrome at Flushing and an anti-aircraft po sition near Amsterdam. Churchill told commons that his government was willing to grant the US 99-year leases to better the defense by the United States of its Atlantic seaboard. At the same time. Foreign Sec retary Lord Halifax told the house of lords of the agreement "In principle" On the question of leases and added the discussions concerned Atlantic islands, var ious West Indian points and Newfoundland. Reinforcements for Navy Held Needed OhurchlU Indirectly referred to discussions in the United States about the sale to Britain of some over age US destroyers when he appealed for "timely reinforcement" of Britain's navy from the United States. The prime minister made It clear that the British blockade would not be relaxed to permit food to reach Hitler-conquered countries despite American re quests because to do so would "only prolong the agony of all Europe." He said also that Britain could continue the fight again t Hitler "indefinitely"; that the British new aircraft production exceeds that of Germany although Ger many's planes still greatly out number the British; and that Britain has lost 92.000 dead, wounded and missing In the war since last September. He compar ed that total with the SSS.OOO British casualties in the first year of the World war. The Germans, stepping up air fighting after a day's semi-holiday, threw fresh bomb assaults upon Britain. DNB, official Ger man news agency, reported the nazis had "successfully bombed airports and other military ob jectives. The Italians completed their occupation of British Somaliland. They were reported preparing for an aerial attempt to conquer Aden, British protectorate across the Golf of Aden from Somali land and the eastern hinge of the gateway to the Red sea and the Sues canal, s part of Brit ain's life-line. nao The DULY I dm AUSECIBA3, Spain, Aug. SI -(Wednesday) - (J?) - JSnany planes scored five direct bits ' oa the center of Gibraltar, Britain' great rock: fortress, starting a big: fire early today In the fourth raid in 24 hours. British Mti-aircraft batter ies for bo firs time. . brovgfet down st plawo . mm warships -Joined in the shooting. -' - The objective struck by the raiders was not immediately d determlated-but Games and smoke conld be observed rising front the center of.; the rock " Ions after, the raiders; had fled. - LOXDON, Ang. ZiPy-Tbm " government announced- today s amber . of . persons ' were lav - Jured,' some fatally, la a -Ger-' snaa air attack last night on a sonthwest England town. - Its " communique, lssned by ,the air ministry . and ministry of borne 'Seettrity follows: --- "Yesterday evening enemy aircraft attacked a . town in southwest England. Some bombs 'fell la a public park aad others damaged booses sear a railway station. -A a umber f persona were injured, some of them fn - tally. There was negligible en emy air activity over this coun try daring the night, (fad communique). ROME, Aug. Zl-Vfy-Am Ital ian warning to neutral shipping not to eater waters within SO miles of British coasts was de scribed by fascist authorities to ' day as meaning a totL uncon ditional blockade" of British Mediterranean territories TOKYO, Aug. 21-(Wednes. day) OfV-The spokesman for the Japanese foreign office as serted today there was appar ent JnstlficaUoa for many Jap anese activities in the Far East in the principle under lying the new Canadian-United States defense plans. The spokesman, YakJchire Soma, said: "If the United States wnder takes a defease of Canada wa der this principle, it would seem many of the actions of Japan regarding adjacent ter ritories in the Far East would be Justified." Guardsmen Will Head Home Today CAMP MURRAY. Aug. I0-UP1 By train and by motor convoy. national guardsmen from eight western states will leave for their home stations Thursday, Friday and Saturday, marking the end of their participation in war games which saw a total of 41,000 troops engaged in maneuvers over southwest Washington terrain. The guardsmen wers to be paid for their three weeks of training prior to their departure, and disbursements here to ap proximately 19,000 officers and men from Washington. Oregon. Montana, Idaho and. Wyoming were expected to amount to close to 9600,000. The entire evacuation will be conducted on n schedule design ed to allow guardsmen from even the most distant points to arrive at home by midnight Saturday, the end of the three-week train ing period. i s. (Uoml OREGON STATESMAN tomy a r.:o:mnjY. Democracy WiU Siiirvive. Qaimed ' (Continued from Pag s 1) present nosltlon "as a country with a strangling, cord around her neck but thers was no bitter ness in his speech.' Jul his talk waa inthe vein of facing the Cir cumstances and making the best of themiC- , V-u-" It is his ambition.- he -said, w preserve in France a kind ox ae moeracy with discipline, and pointed to Switzerland as an ex ample ot a country where "disci plined freedom exists.? -Of England be saldr - i ,I do not wish to criticise Eng land. I cannot accuse her. - Any nation lias the right to defend It self. I feel France was left alone to fight out the war on her own soil too soon.- but I .do not wish now to engage in resentment." Traiisport Course Bniigs Accusation (Continued from' page 1) that Vessel is blown skyward the charge will' be made that aha was torpedoed by , a German suoma- rine. . " Hs suggested that congress in vestigate why the state aeparx ment -or other officials Insisted that the vessel, which left Petsa mo, Finland, Friday night, had persisted in a course through the mined area In the face of the Ger man warning. Senator Pepper. (D-Fla) inter rupted Bone to say that the tat ter's remarks would "giTS sjd and comfort" to nations that might want to sink the ship. Bone replied that he was tired of hearing alding-the-enemy ar guments and added that the "sen ator from Florida wants to go to war and has said so." . "The senator tells a falsehood when he makes that statement," Pepper replied heatedly. Both senators later apologised for their remarks. Rep. Rogers (R-Mass) com mented to reporters that in refus ing to change the vessel's route, the administration showed that it preferred that the ship be "blown up by the Germans rather than the British. . "The only possible reason for not changing her coarse, she said, "is that the British had mined the waters near Iceland while there were German mine fields nearer Great Britain. If the ship is blown np, she add ed, "the tragedy will never" be ex cused, and the administration will be held strictly accountable." Navy officials declined to com ment on the ship's whereabouts, but at the state department it was said that in the absence of any news to the contrary, the vessel was assumed to be safe. On the basis of unofficial cal culations, the ship was believed to have nassed through, the "danger sons" during the night and morn ing. A German embassy spokesman, asserting he had no official infor mation, expressed "hope" that the vessel was safely through the area described by the embassy as in fested with uncontrolled mines that constituted a "grave danger." O In World Nowo with latest reports assured bj the latest press-time of any morning paper in the state. O In Stato and Local Nowo gathered by a skilled, experienced news force. ' O In Sports written and edited by an expert in every form of sporting activity. , " f - . - r, O In Features selected with an eye to the most varied tastes. .; 0 In Editorial ; Leadership the heritage of 89 years of distingni4'e i publication. ' : '- ' " 01 In Advertising which assures' full information on every merchandise value in the . Salem market. - caro.4 Laio Sports . SAN DIEGO, Califs Ang. J0-. (Jty-Smn Diego continued in .the thick of the fight for a C o a s t league first division berth here tonight by thumping hapless Port land f to 3. Two unearned runs in the third started the Psdres . off on an easy triumph, i Portland I 7 t San. Diego ; ; t 14 I ' liska Fallin (g and tAdams; . Hebert and Salkeld. j - i . .12 19 San Francisco SacTamenton Stats snd Sprlns' Botelho (7): Judd and Ogrodowsky, Ballenger (8). : .; I San Francoeco 17 0 Sacramento . ISO Dasso and' Leonard; f Munger and Ogrodowski. m I Seattle lit I : 4 i Campbell; 8 tine Los Angeles . Barrett and and Holm. Hollywood 10 9 Oakland 4 Osborne and Brent el. Dapper; Corbett and Conroy. American Aasoeiatioa Milwaukee 0-0, Indianapolis 8-4 SUPsul 4, Columbus 18 St. Paul" 4, Columbus 18 Minneapolis 10-3. Toledo- 41 Kansas City 6. Louisville. 2 YOUNGSTOWN. O.. Aug. 30- LTV-Harry Jeff ra of Balltomore, featherweight . boxing champion. was pressed hard tonight to gain a split decision over i Jackie Wil son ot Pittsburgh in a non-title 10-round match. A crowd ot 11,- 000 saw the boat. Each weighed 137. r Roosevelt Turns Down Debate Bid (Continued from Page 1) ss he did what the situation was. In his own acceptance speech. he said, he, told the public and the democratic convention that he happened to be the president of 130.000,000 people and that things were in such shape this year that it was. of course, per fectly obvious that he could not do any political campaigning. He did not identify "things, but there was no doubt hs refer red to the trend ot international affairs, their impact on this coun try and the vast defense program.. RUSHVDLLE. Id.. Aug. tO-iJPi Renewing his invitation for President Roosevelt to meet him in debate. Wendell L. Willkle ex pressed the opinion today that the chief executive was "under a doable obligation" to discuss, cam paign issues because he was run ning for a third term. In a statement handed to his press conference after Mr. Roose velt had turned down his earlier debate proposal, the republican presidential nominee s a I d he would "be glad to debate the questions Involved in the present campaign at the points he (the d resident) visits in various parts of the country. The president is running for a third t e r m," Winkle's state ment said, "and in view of the fact that this is a violation of a tradition of ISO years standing, it is my -judgment that he is under a double obligation to discuss the issues, as well as the particular Issue of a third term. : . . 0 day "t . BY MAIL f ewe i - ; f 9 S
