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G apitalJy oiuraal Weather Circulation Distribution 10.797 Net Paid 10,444 For Month Ending July 31. 1937 Member Audit Bureau of circulations Fair tonight and Sunday, cloudy on coast. Slightly cooler in the inter, lor. Moderate northwest wind. Fri day: Max. 78.5. mln. 57 5. Rain 0. Rlv. -2 8 ft. Light northwest wind. Partly cloudy. 49th YEAR, No. 187 entered Mcood claw matter alcm, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1937 Two Sections 16 Pages PRICE THREE CENTS EcSSX Ml JV 05 U MM u uav: VALLEY FLOOD CONTROL PLAN GETSjMPETUS Committee to Study Le gislative and Other Needs Appointed Plans to "Sell" Project Locally Discussed at Eugene Meeting Conforming with a suggestion ad vanced by the Capital Journal ear lier in the week, members of the Willamette Valley Project commit tee meeting in Eugene yesterday to consider plans for advancing the $56,000,000 flood control, navlga tion, irrigation and power program outlined by the army engineers took the first steps looking toward fi nancing local cooperation in the project, according to State Senator Douglas McKay, president of the committee. Estimates of the engineers place the approximate amount of local participation In the initial develop ments recommended at 110,000,000, to be spread out in proportion to benefits among the 10 counties of the valley. Recognizing the need for an early determination a system for assess ing benefits and financing local (Concluded on pane 9, column 8) WAR CRISIS HITS JAPAN SHIPPING Tokyo, Aug. 7 (A Japan's par liament ended Its two weeks' session In a blaze of patriotism and excite. ment tonight after voting' funds for hostilities In China. Chief among the measures adopted were war appropriations of 419,000, 000 yen (about J121. 500,000), which General Gen Suglyama, war minis, ter, declared would be "sufficient1 unless the scope of the conflict wid ens. An acute shortage of coast-wise vessels supplying Japanese cities with basic commodities resulted from the concentration of all available ship ping to back the Japanese army's North China campaign. Although the government lifted restrictions on foreign ships engag ing in coastal trade, no American, Canadian or British vessels thus far ' have availed themselves of the op portunity to ply between Japanese ports. Shipments of foodstuffs, coal, ore, salt and other vital supplies were seriously crippled as Japanese mer cantile vessels were pressed into ser vice to carry men and supplies to tne Astatic mainland. To relieve the crisis, the ministry of communications studied the pro blem of emergency legislation that might revive the world war ordin ance controlling and severely re stricting the movements of Japan ese vessels abroad to make them available for use within the island empire. PRESIDENT RAPPED BY WALTER PIERCE Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 7 (U.R) President Roosevelt held to the privacy of his Hudson Valley sum mer home today at the start of a week-end holiday from his White House desk. He lunched with Mrs. Roosevelt, who has been summering here, then retired to his pine-paneled study with two secretaries to catch tip on work delayed by his departure from Washington last night. Contrary to his usual custom, the president has no social or political guests on his schedule. SICK QUINT WELL, REJOINS SISTERS Callander. Ont., Aug. 7 (Cana dian Press) Emilie Dionnea sore throat was nearly well today so she was permitted to rejoin the other quintuplets after five days of iso lation. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe sent her out to play with the others because "she was much Improved and I couldn't resist the Dleadlm look In that UtUt face." 1 NOVELTIES in the NEWS (Br lbs Associated Press) INCENTIVE Flrtndly, W. Va. Prospective wrong-doers of this Ohio river town probably will think twice now be for breaking the law. Frldnely's all-woman administration has ap pointed Mm. Joseph Cline, house wife, as the new police chief. She Is six feet tall, weighs 168 pounds, and has red hair. Her salary Is only $25 a year, but she gets II addition al for each arrest. KEEPING AC-COW-NT Deland, Fla. Governor Fred Cone will be notified by telegram every time a cow Is Involved In a Volusia county highway accident. The Deland junior Chamber of Commerce Joined In unsuccessful efforts to pass laws at the recent legislative session to bar cattle from Florida's roads. Just to keep the matter before the governor, the Chamber's board of director's voted last night to wire him the bad news every time a cow is bumped on the county's roads. "WHILE THE SUN SHINES" Lincoln, Net. Leo Swanson, cus todian of Nebraska's 110,000,000 capitol building, believes in making hay while the sun shines on the capitol lawn. He estimated the blue gass would net several tons of hay. WOODCHUCKED Ironwood, Mich. Bozo was point ed out today as a model dog who always gets his prey, come sewer pipes and high water. Bozo chased a xwdchuck Into an eight Inch pipe which led to a street catch basin. Fifty feet In both became wedged. Howls brought the fire department. A hose was lowered Into the catch basin and pressure turned on. Out the end they ent ered were flushed the dog and the woodchuck. Dripping, but game. Bozo pounced on the chuck and felled It. PAVING 'EM OFF Omaha, Neb. R. A. Maher of Omaha parked his car overtime and the police towed It to their ga rage. They asked Maher to pay $3.50 for a release. He wouldn't do it, saying the police could keep the car. He explained "it won't run anyway." The police plan to auction the vehicle. JAPS LEAVING HANKOW AREA Hankow, China, Aug. 7 (P) Jap anese naval and consular officials today ordered complete evacuation of all Japanese in this Important commercial city and International treaty port at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han rivers. The Japanese officials, reported ly acting on orders from Tokyo, de creed that all Japanese nationals must quit Hankow before noon Sunday (II p. m. EST Saturday) leading administration of the Jap anese concession to Chinese au thorities. Although Hankow Is hundreds of miles south of the northern China hostilities. Japanese have expressed apprehension for the safety of her citizens In central China, asserting that large bodies of Chinese sol diers were concentrated in the re gion. The order meant the remaining Japanese community, numbering several hundred persons and an es timated 400 marines and soldiers, would board ship for the coast In an unparalleled abandonment of a long established colony here. ' Horsts Given To Adopt Kidnaped Boy With Parents Consent Ch icHfc'O, Aug. 7 (U.R) Otto and Martha Horst today ob tained written permission to adopt the 31-months old baby boy they had nurtured in their home since birth. John and Lydla Resan, natural parents of the child known as Donald Horst. gave their consent In a conference between the two couples In the of fice of Assistant Attorney General John E. Johnson. Mrs. Regan was weeping as she signed the consent papers. We think the Horsts will be able to give him a better home than she said. Mrs. Horst was beaming. "I'm so happy, I feel numb all over," the said. Chicago. Aug 7 (UP) Fred Ewert. 41, told officers ho wru helper re PINBALL DRIVE UP TO COUNTY PROSECUTORS Plan to Pass Buck to Attorney General Th warted by Opinion State Office Cannot In tervene Except at Di rection of Governor Enforcement of the criminal sta tutes of the state, under which the operation of pin-ball games, mar ble boards and similar gambling devices may be stopped. Is entirely a matter for the district attorney of each county and not for the at torney general's office to perform, Leland T. Brown, district attorney of Wasco county, was advised today by Ralph E. Moody, assistant at torney general. "The attorney general is without power to direct the district attor ney In the performance of his du ties and cannot act in the capacity of a district attorney unless di rected by the governor," Moody's letter advised Brown. The Wasco prosecutor had writ ten to suggest that the attorney general take the initiative In all counties to enforce the anti-gambling laws against these devices, in asmuch as that office by instruc tions of the governor to intervene in Marlon county "has borne the (Concluded on pure 10, column 7) HOUSING BILL GETS PROTESTS Washington, Aug. 7 lPt Opposi tion developed in the house today to some of the restrictions which the senate wrote into the Wagner hous ing bill when It approved It 64 to 16. The changes limit the construc tion cost of low-rent dwellings to $1,000 a room and $4,000 a unit, re quire benefited communities to sup. ply 5 per cent of the capital cost and a similar proportion of the annual subsidy, and lodge control In the Interior department. The measure would authorize $700,000,000 bond issue and a $26, 00,000 appropriation. Representatives McKeough and McOranery of Chicago and Phlla delphla, respectively, said they will insist that the limit be lifted to at least $1,500 per room. Other members expressed displea sure over putting the housing au thority under Secretary Ickes. Thev said they would prefer to have It operate Independently. The senate amendments would decentralize responsibility to greater degree than was provided In the original bill. The United States housing au thorlty which the bill would set up in the Interior department would not engage directly In any projects. It would distribute federal funds and enforce standards under which the money could be spent. The senate voted to bar limited- profit organizations and consum ers' housing societies from the ben efits. Permission store 11 months old Donald Horst to his "real" parents, and how he telephoned the stricken foster par ents word that the "baby is safe." When he finished his story Assis tant States attorney Wllbert Crow ley announced there would be no charges filed against the chauffeur ard handyman, and that so far as his office was concerned the "crim inal aspects" of the case were closed. "It's a matter now for the Juvenile courts." he said. "In determining a proper home for the baby. (Concluded eo page 1$. column Bonneville Dam Bill up Next Monday Washington, Aug. 7 (U S) The sen ate today ordered the bill providing for distribution of power generated at Bonneville dam be taken up when the chamber convenes Monday. The action was on motion of Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, R-, Ore., sponsor of the measure. REPORT REVOLT OF ANARCHISTS Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron tier, Aug. 7 (jP) Spanish insurgent army officers at I run declared to day they had received reports of an anarchist rebellion at Albacete and other important Spanish govern ment centers. The insurgents said that former Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, extreme socialist leader, was re ported to be head of the anarchist movement. Government forces In eastern Spain threatened to push General issimo Francisco Franco's Teruel salient back in its tracks, Madrid Valencia commanders reported. They said frontal and flank at tacks by infantry and artillery from the south and west of the Albar racin sector of the Teruel front had gouged insurgents out of newly won territory southwest of Teruel, Francos lower Aragon base. BABY PASSES CRITICAL STAGE Philadelphia. Aug. T MVr-Threc and one-half pound Frances Mary Boccassinl, who was delivered In a post-mortem caesarean operation, was declared today past the critical stage and doctors hoped to remove her soon from an oxygen tank which has aided her breathing. Dr. William O. Turnbull. super intendent of the Philadelphia Gen eral hospital, examined records which showed the tiny girl had tak en nourishment regularly during the night. He said her temperature had fallen toward normal steadily since she was delivered In an operation yesterday one minute after her mother died. "It looks as though she was past the critical stage as far as sudden death Is concerned." Dr. Turnbull said. "If anything happens now it will be gradual. "She is taking her food all right and her breathing Is good. All In all she looks pretty good today." Dr. John Corblt, assistant chief surgeon who performed the post mortem delivery, commented to day the baby "looks fine." He said "the next thing that we have to worry about Is cold. We are going to Isolate her and take every precaution against Infection." CROP INSURANCE BILL APPROVED Washington, Aug. 7 OI.R) The house agriculture committee today favorably reported the wheat crop insurance bill which Is backed by the president and designed to pro tect growers from crop losses. The bill already has passed the senate. The bill, on which action this session had been requested by the administration, was brought out of committee without a record vote. Changes made by the committee in the senate draft included: 1. A provision that during the first three years. Insurance con tracts would be limited to one year only. 3. That $10,000,000 be authorized for administrative purposes but only $20,000,000 of the authorized $100.- 000.000 capital stock set up be Is sued the first year. MANY OLD AUTOS STILL IN SERVICE Automobiles of ancient design and out-mod ed mechanical features ap parently have an appeal for some motorists Just as old furniture has for collectors, registration records in the state department revealed. A recent check of registration re cords shows that In one county alone there are several hundred cars from 12 to 24 years old now being driven. They Include one 1913 automobile of popular make, three 1916, seven 1917. five 1918 and num erous cars manufactured In the eaxs between 1920 and 1926. SENATE VOTES BILL REFORMING LOWER COURTS Six Months Controversy Ended by Passage of Compromise Measure Substitute for Roosevelt Measure Supreme Court Not Affected Washington, Aug. 7 (U.R) The sen ate today approved a bill for re organization of lower court procedure as a substitute for President Roose velt's original supreme court enlarge ment program. The shell of what had been the most controversial measure of the entire Roosevelt administration was whipped through the senate without a roll call when It finally came to a test After a brief argument and minor amendments Vice President John Nance Garner suddenly banged his gavel and declared the question was on passage of the bill. When there were no objection he declared the measure passed without even a voice vote. The measure, offered as an am endment to the house approved Sum ners bill, goes back to that body for concurrence. 8enate foes of the president's orig inal court program having forced abandonment of the proposal for ad ditlonal Justices on the high tribun altook precautions against a pos stole house move to revive the ad ministration measure. The house (Concluded on pase g. column 8) CHOICES FOR WAGE BOARD Washington. Aug. 7 P If con gress sets up a five man board to fix wage and hour standards, In formed officials predicted today President Roosevelt probably will appoint members representing la bor, business and the public, at large. Officials, who asked not to be quoted by name placed Isador Lu bln high on the list of possible ap pointees, Lubln, commissioner of labor statistics, formerly was an ec onomics professor at the University of Michigan and an economist at the Brookings institution. William H. Davis, a New York patent attorney, was mentioned as possible representative of the public on the board. He formerly served as NRA compliance director and was a member of the commit tee which analyzed results of the NRA after the supreme court In validated It. Also mentioned were two other members of the NRA analysis com mittee George M. Harrison and George H. Mead. Harrison Is pres ident of the Association of Railway Labor executives. Mead, a Dayton, Ohio, manufacturer. Is former chairman of the business advisory council. Two former heads of the NRA Donald Rlchberg and S. Clay Wil liams were among those listed.. Rlchberg Is practicing law In Wash ington, and Williams Is chairman of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco aom-1 pany. 45,000 Japanese Troops Massed in North China Preparatory to Seizure Pelping, Aug. 7 W) Japan's north China war machine, strengthened by 15,000 new troops in the Tientsin area, was estimated today by informed asiatic observers to total 45,000 men massed In the rich region ap- parently destined to come under full Japanese sway. Army reinforcements came as Ja pan disarmed the Chinese police of Pelping and Japanese nationals were allowed to leave their embassy com pound where they sought sanctuary when the Slno-Japanese trouble a rose. They must return at night after transacting customary affairs. An embassy attache told the As sociated Press that "peace is Impos sible in the Pelping area wnlle cen tral (Nanking) Chinese troops are operating In the vicinity of Nan kow Pass near the great wall and, V E BORN MINUTE AFTER MOTHER DIES The three-and-one-halt pound girl in the Philadelphia General hospital one minute after the mother, Mrs. Mary Boccassinl, died of tubercular meningitis, was said to have a good chance to survive. It gasped but did not cry when born. The Infant Is shown a few hours after birth. CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN THUNDERS TOWARD ITS FINAL CLIMAX With the Insurgent Army (P) Through the blazing heat in Spain is thundering toward may come in the mountain where Generalissimo Francisco Franco's eastern army is trying to kniie tnrougn tne vital? Madrid-Valencia -highway;, on .the coast of the Bay of Biscay; In the upper Aragon of the northeast, or In the rich mineral lands of the south. But the issue probably will reach final solution on the blood-spattered barricades of Madrid. Insurgency claims two thirds of Spain's territory. Franco's Junta rules 14,000,000 people. The Span ish government, still clinging to the country's three largest cities, Ma drld, Valencia and Barcelona, was estimated by Insurgent sources to rule 9,000,000 people. The battle lines reach some 1 300 miles, from the walled otf mountain provinces of Santander and the Asturias on the Blscayan front In the north, down a zig-zag course to the shore of the Medl terranean on the south. The Insurgent line snakes through the western outskirts of inland Ma drid and around part of the south ern rim of the former capital, ready to roll forward at any moment the (Concluded on tmse B. mliimn 7) M'NARY WANTS DAM MEASURE HURRIED Washington. Aug. 7 IIP) Senator Charles McNary of Oregon asked the senate to make Bonneville dam legislation the next order of busi ness after the court bill, which would bring it up for action Tues day. McNary was assured by Senator Key Plttman that he would not op pose the legislation, nor Insist on the Boulder dam amendment, which was eliminated In the house. McNary moved that the house measure be adopted with all but the enacting clause eliminated, and the body of the senate bill be substi tuted. maintain a challenging attitude to ward the Japanese army." A Japanese column of 3000 mech anized troops reportedly was head ing northwest toward Kalgan, about 70 miles beyond Nankow Pass. Kalgan Is the key city to Chahar which Japan desires as a buffer be tween her protectorate Manchoukuo and Russian-Influenced Mongolia. The northward move accompanied Japan's thrust farther south from the Pel ping -Tientsin region com pletely dominated by the Japanese army. Though no military engage l Concluded oa pa column it on the Araeon Front, Auk. 7 of mid-summer, the civil war a climax. The turning point badlands southwest of Teruel 1700 FIGHTING SPUD HILL FIRE Portland, Aug. 7 JP) Forest ser vice officials began releasing men today, from the lines surrounding the disastrous Spud Hill fire in the Columbia national forest and de scribed conditions as "satisfactory." Portland, Aug. 7 (fl Some 1700 men launched a crucial drive today against the stubborn Spud hill fire In the Columbia national forest In Washington. Timing the attack for the hour of the highest humidity the army of fire fighters recruited from every national forest In Oregon and Washington, from 16 CCC camps and from the ranks of civilians, took the aggressive at dawn in an attempt to save valuable timber stands. Clouds gave some promise or rain, but foresters predicted a dry wind. K. P. Cecil, supervisor In charge, said the blaze must be controlled today to prevent materially increas ed losses. A radio dispatch from the fire last night said the burned area was two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide, embracing about 1,100 acres, aside from numerous smaller spot fires. The drive embodied new tech nique, methods and equipment nev er before used in the field, the message said. Forest officials described the at tempt as "a test of the best brains and brawn on the coast." NAMPA NEWSPAPER SOLD TO OREGONIANS Nam pa, Ida., Aug. 7 Bernard Malnwarlng and Luclen Arant, pub lishers of the Democrat Herald at Baker, Ore., purchased the Nampa Free Press daily newspaper at a sheriff's sale here today for $36,600. The only other bidder was Thom as La Fond, manaeer of the corpor ation which publish the Free Press, whose last offer was $36,500. The Free Press daily has been published since 1919. The sale was to satisfy creditors under first and second mortgages. It was ordered by District Judge John C. Rice of Caldwell. BRITAIN MAY BUY LINER LEVIATHAN TinHAn Aner 1 1 I PI Or no Rrl- nil! II in J lllj 1,1 iT UII1.se 'l VUW IIUCI Leviathan for scrap metal to use in Its rearmament program now pro ceeding at an urgent rate, It was understood today. It was reported further that the admiralty might ask for five more slant battleships In next year's pro gramto be addfd to five already budgeted. COUNTY COURT PREPARES FOR ELECTION CALL Lafky Sounds Warning of Attempt to Block Pro ject in Courts Failure to Secure WPA Aid Means Delay Until 1940 on Start Following a conference of two hours duration, during which time all angles of the program were dis cussed, the Marion county court de cided to authorize the calling of a special election to determine wheth er the voters wish to proceed with the construction of a new courthouse. William H. Trlndle, who has been working with members of the court concerning the necessary machinery, will prepare an order declaring it Is the purpose of the court to build the courthouse. A sour note was Introduced into the proceedings this morning when Herman Lafky, Salem attorney, voic ed the opinion that legal action would almost certainly be taken to stop construction of the courthouse. He said that the law speflclcally states that no steps toward building the courthouse can legally be taken until the voters have had a chance to cast their ballots on the project. He pointed to alleged contracts with architects and otheai and to nego tiations with WPA officials as alleg ed violations of the law. Trlndle and members of the court, however, believe the law, which Is somewhat conflicting on a few points, has been complied with and will pro ceed accordingly. Should WPA assistance be forth coming toward construction of the building which will cost in the neigh. (Concluded on lw 9, column 4) FAMOUS CHEF SUICIDE VICTIM San Francisco, Aug 7 (U.R) Henry Chateau, S3, chef to the notables of two continents, was dead today, the victim of a bullet which police said was fired from his own rifle. Circumstances surrounding hit death, however, led police to In vestigate the possibility of murder. They reported that two men drove to his home shortly before his death and that one of the men spoke to the chef briefly at his front door and then said he would see him in his garage. In the interval during which Chateau walked down an inside stair to his garage to open the door It was believed he obtained his rifle, from which he previously had removed the stock. The rifle, with one bullet fired and a shell still In the chamber, was found near him on the floor of the garage. Chateau was shot through the head. Chateau was a member of the chef's association and had been on strike recently along with employes of the leading hotels of San Fran cisco, He had served as chef of the William Randolph Hearst San Si meon ranch, and had worked In Maxims in Paris, the Waldorf- Astoria In New York, and leading cafes In San Francisco. The World This Week For its busy readers the Capital Journal today pre sents a comprehensive, yet condensed review of the news of the past week. Written in breezy, enter taining but brief style "The World Tills Week," an exclu sive Associated Press feature, tells the complete story of big and interesting things going on at home and abroad in words and pictures stories of people, politics, religion, science, finance. Invention, ad venture and other things. In accordance with the Capital Journal's policy of serving Its readers to the best of Its capacity "The World This Week" will be a regular Saturday feature hereafter. Turn to Page 7, please.
