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apiiBlJMbiDiraal Comics Ita I tact, then art mora real hearty laughs to square Inch to the "Henry" strip th,n to ,ny other comic. Bead It dally along with others on the feature page of tha Capital Journal Weather Fair tonight and Sunday but clou dy on coast. Moderate changeable wind. Friday: Max. 83.2. mln. 48. Rain 0, River -33 IL Northwest wind. Clear. 49th YEAR, No. 199 ZZS SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937 Two Sections 18 pages PRICE THREE CENTS aSS-? cEI. WAR AND FIRE LAY WASTE TO CHINESE CITY Eleven Square Miles of World's Sixth Largest Port Destroyed Naval Board Inquires Into Killing of American Seaman r iCoprrtiht, 191T. by United Presi) Shanghai, Sunday, Aug. 22 (U.R) Japanese lines on the Whangpoo river were severed by desperate Chinese assault for the first time early today. Nipponese strategists responded instantly with a concerted attack by air, water and land. Every Japanese warship except a gunboat anchored off the Bund and a destroyer off Hunt's wharf, hastily cleared for action and steamed down the Whangpoo, guns blazing against Chinese shore for ces. Shanghai, Aug. 21 (P War and fire continued to lay waste In Shanghai today, with foreign police estimates that about 11 square miles (Concluded en page 14, column 1) LUMBER PLANT LOSS $250,000 Glendale, Ore., Aug. 21 m Weary firemen still fought this morning to keep in check flames which last night raged through the Ingham Lumber company plant here, caus ing damage roughly estimated at $290,000. The flames, which cast a glare visible for more than 30 miles, swept through five dry kilns, de stroyed the large planing mil! and consumed more than four million feet of lumber. Hundreds of men, ''engaged in fighting the blaze shortly after its discovery at 7:10 o'clock last night, drove the fire back from the main portion of the mill and saved that 1300.000 plant. The fire fighters were aided by the wind, which was blow ing away from the mill proper. Lacking equipment sufficient for the needs, men engaged in combat ting the blaze stomped out live em bers with their feet and tore away burning material with their hands as they worked on the mill roof and (Concluded on pane 11, column 7) RED NAPOLEON MAY MOVE ON MONGOLIA Tokyo, Aug. 31 W) Dome! (Jap anese) News Agency reported from Korea today that Michael Slavutsky, new Soviet ambassador to Japan, was "Inclined to believe" reports that Marshal Bluecher, "Red Napoleon" of Russia, was on his way to Mon golia. Bluecher commands an estimated 400,000 men in eastern Siberia. The new ambassador, en route here by way of Korea, was reported as refusing to comment on the Slno Japanese struggle other than to say that both Japan and Russia should "reflect deeply" on their present re Young Nurse Slain in Brutal Crime Series That Baffles Police Chicago, Aug. 21 (IP) Miss Anna Kuchta, 18, a student nurse at the Chicago hospital, on the south side, was raped and slain. Police Captain John B. Prendergast said, by a man who crushed her skull with a brick early today. Detectives said the slaying was similar to those of other women tn Chicago In the last two years. The partly clad, bruised and bloody body of the attractive and brilliant atudent lay on the floor near her bed. At her side was her crumpled uniform. Three other women have been slain by the same brutal methods tn the last two years. Two killings have been solved, one negro rapist died in the electric chair and another was sent to prison for M years. Two women have been assaulted by a Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN The whole town was electrified at news that Leo "Frisco" Edwards had been granted a leave of absence for a week as public enemy No. 1 um pire in the Western International league to come back to the old home town next week and act as head officiator at the state Softball tour nament. For customer interest this will be equivalent to putting a third Salem team into the contest while incidentally it is expected to ac celerate sale of pop bottles by at least 50 per cent. But, no foolin' the return of Leo to the scene of his former umpiring triumphs will mean the big ovation of trje year. But we hope that Frisco in liv ing around hotels as- a big league umpire didn't leave his room un locked a la Warren Jones and let somebody sneak in and steal his false teeth. Toothless umplrln' may be all right during the regular sea son but it's not up to snuff for a state tourney. It seems that in this Chinese Japanese war airplanes always zoom and Chinese always move in hordes, according to headlines. Portland police have intercepted a shipment of tear gas bombs said to have been billed to a Chinese at Brooks. Maybe getting ready for the onion harvest on Labish. Steady customers will remember the Little Lady from Nebraska who wrote us such thrilling notes a coupla years ago and then went home leav. tag us stranded. Well, who should pop up here last evening but the same little lady on her honeymoon, accompanied by a big, tall and brawny cornhusker which precludes our column from resuming Its flir tatious air toward said little visi tor.. ... - -, ' Progress In person and not a mo tion picture will parade In Salem tomorrow with those seeing the show elsewhere saying it's one you can't afford to miss especially at the price which is nothing at all. A Chinese or Japanese shell landed on an American naval ves sel, killed an officer and wounded 18 men. And this makes Interesting rumination again as to whether this very shell might not have been concocted from some of the Junk sold from Salem back yards last summer. But then, the Junk was bringing high prices at it was being bought for the very purpose it brought about to kill and maim folks, whether Americans or other, wise. From Russell D. Davenport. 1785 N. Capital, comes an answer to our challenge for somebody to trot out a ball park for use of Biddy Bishop and his team next year. He says he's got the best site in the city for a ball park and while not in a post' tion to make a downright gift will practically give it away for the pur pose mentioned. He says he'll be glad to show It to anyone interested and so anyone with the interest and wherewithal to develop a ball park for Biddy can call on Mr. Daven port and be shown. Let's hope the right parties get together. Ten Acres of Wheat Destroyed by Fire Sllverton, Ore, Aug. 21 Ten acres of wheat in the shock were burned at noon today on the Henry Leichty place in the Central Howell district. As there was no fire in the vicinity, It is supposed the blaze was started by a cigarette. The Sllverton volun teer fire department spent the noon hour in preventing further spread of the fire. negro armed with a brick in their hotel rooms here in the last two weeks, and police believed him to be the nurse's slayer. The killer, police said, fled through a fire escape window when Miss Florence Palmo f ki. it, an other nurse, opened the door of the room to call Miss Kuchta after rest period. Miss Palmowskl found the body on the floor near a cot. It was clad only with stockings and white shoes. Detectives said the killer had stuffed part of a pillow down the (Concluded en page 12, column ) THOUSANDS IN MANILA SEEK AIDJNPARKS Collapse of Church Roof Occurs Just After Worshippers Leave Damage from Earth quake Reaches Inter ior Points of Island Manila, Aug. 21 m War in China and earthquakes here made Manila a city of refugees today as authorities cleared away the debris of nature's destruction and prepared for more unfortunates from b a 1 1 1 e-torn Shanghai. Thousands of Manila's nearly 400, 000 residents took temporary sta tions in parks, where they spent last night after two severe earthquakes rocked the city, toppled masonry, cracked buildings and plunged the metropolis into darkness. For 376 American refugees who had just arrived from Shanghai, the quakes, 24 minutes apart late last night, were an added terror to the shot and shell through wnlch they fled. A vista of widespread damage was revealed with daylight, although there were no official estimates of the amount of damage. There were no fatalities reported from quake In juries. Reports from outlying provinces (Concluded on page 14, column S) BUDGEBEATS ROBERTRIGGS Newport, R. I., Aug. 21 (U.B Don Budge of Oakland, Calif., top tennis amateur of the world, defeated Rob. ert L. Rlggs of Los Angeles, 8-4, 6-8, 8-1, 6-2, in the finals of the 57th annual Newport Casino mens sin gles tennis tournament today. For two sets, Rlggs forced Budge to play to the limit of the game. He matched his court coverage and steadiness with Budge'a deep drives and blazing overheads. At 2-all. three games, breaking Rlggs' service Budge lashed out to win the next twice along the way. Rlggs came back to smash through Budges ser vice at love, and take a tive-tlmes deuced ninth game to come up to 5-3. Budge then took a love service for the set. Riggs played the set of his entire tournament season in the second, Down 3-1, he fought up to 3-all. A- gain Budge went out Into what seemed a commanding lead, 5-3. only to see the black-haired Rlggs fight him off and draw up to 5-all. Rlggs' answer to Budge's smashing attack was a series of high lobs which forced the red-head to retreat from his an nihllatlng position at the net. Forest Hills, N. Y.. Aug. 21 U.R The United States made a success ful defense of the Wlghtman cup, emblematic of women's tennis su premacy, today when Helen Jacobs of Berkeley. Calif., defeated Ruth Mary Hardwick of England, 2-8, 6-4, 6-2. Miss Jacobs' victory was tne fourth scored in the best-of-seven series, the United States having won the two singles matches and the dou bles contests yesterday. Today's victory was the seventh straight scored by America. PRESIDENT SIGNS BONNEVILLE BILL Washington, Aug. 21 (U.B Presi dent Roosevelt today signed the Mansfield bill to administer the 175,000,000 Bonneville hydro-electric, navigation and flood control project on the Columbia river. The bill calls for the appointment of an administrator at tlO.000 per year to sell and distribute the pow er after It leavea the central "switchboard." The administrator would be appointed by the secre tary of interior. The army engineers would have charge of the flood control and navigation facilities together with generation of electric power up to the 'switchboard.'" Proponents of the legislation in both houses pushed the bill to fin al action vigorously since the power wiU be ready for distribution about January 1 and heavy losses would have occurred unless there was a set-up to administer It, . Mrs. Becknell Leaves Prison After 26 Days Medford, Aug. 31 (AV-Florhannah Mae Becknell, Medford matron, was freed from the county jail early this morning after serving 26 days of a 30-day sentence, imposed by Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman for non-possession of an auto driver's license. She was sen tenced July 25 and was allowed four days off her sentence for good be havior. The jailer reported Mrs. Becknell had been a model prisoner, and "was in fine spirits when she left." Friends reported Mrs. Becknell will not apply Immediately for a new auto driver's license, "but wants to think the matter over for a while." The 1931 license under which Mrs. Becknell has been driv ing her auto has been declared void and turned over to the secretary of (Concluded on page 14, column 2) TUCSON WINS PORTLAND 5-4 Okemah, Ok la., Aug. 21 0J.fi) Capt. Harold Franco's triple in the 11th Inning today gave Tucson a 5-4 vic tory over Portland and advanced the Arizona team to the sectional finals of the American Legion Junior base ball tournament. With two men out In the 11th and Catcher Frank Terrazas on first, Franco met one of Signor's pitches solidly and drove it deep into the outfield. Terrazas scored easily. Johnnie Bubalo, Portland third baseman, accounted for three of his team's runs with two home runs. He hit one in the fourth and one in the eighth with one man on. Portland had scored one man previously in the eighth, so that Bubalo's smash sent the game into extra innings. Franco was the batting star of the Arizona team. Besides driving In the winning run, he figured In the re mainder of his team's scoring in the seventh inning. He came up with the bases loaded and hit a triple. He scored a short time later himself on McB ride's single. The score: Tucson 000 000 400 015 7 0 Portland ....000 100 030 004 4 Plana and Donning, Terrazas; Fre dericks, Signor and Erautt. 7000 PRISONERS WILL BE FREED Shanghai, Aug. 22 (Sunday) OP) Authorities of Shanghai's battle- fringed International Settlement today decided to empty the Ward Road Jail, believed to be the world's largest prison, and free its 7,000 inmates. The jail for three days has been in the middle of the Slno-Japanese battlefield in northeastern Shanghai and the Settlement authorities de cided they could no longer be re sponsible for Its administration. Beginning today its inmates will be freed at the rate of 600 to 1.000 daily. They will be taken to the western borders of the Settlement and turned loose to meet any fate that awaits in this tone of war. Murderers, kidnapers, narcotics dealers and addicts are included in the derelicts thus to be thrown on the world. Nearly all are Chinese, but many nationalities are among them. Three American prisoners were rescued from the Jail Friday. Two of them, women, are to be paroled For You and Your: ENTERTAINMENT The Capital Journal has added a four-page weekly colored comic section featuring Mutt & Jeff, Out Our Way, Major Hoople. Tailsptn Tommy, Captain and the Kids, The Nebbs and other nationally known cartoon characters. On Monday. August 30. the serial antics of CAPTAIN AND THE KIDS will be added to the Capital Journal's dally page of comic strips. ENLIGHTENMENT THE CAPITAL JOURNAL TODAY PRESENTS ITS THIRD WEEKLY "WORLD THIS WEEK" PAGE A SPARKLING, INFORMATIVE AND CONDENSED REVIEW OF CURRENT ' NEWS EVENTS ON PAGE T. INFORMATION The Capital Journal will continue to add new features and departments from time to time in conformity with Ita policy of Riving the people of the Willamette Valley the best news paper possible. RIFT IN PARTY SPREAD WIDER DY DEMOCRATS Guffey Asks for Defeat of All Who Opposed Court Program Senator Calls Names And Demands Heads in Radio Speech - Washington, Aug. 21 (P) A threat of retaliation for opposition to the administration's court reorganiza tion plan turned the senate's closing session today into a fierce political battle over democratic party regu larity. The threat was voiced by Senator Guffey (D.-Pa.) in a radio speech predicting defeat at the polls of Senators O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) and Burke (D.-Neb.); questioning the re-election possibilities of Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.); and belittling Senator Holt (D.-W.Vr.). The session was hardly open be fore the attacked quartet arose one after another to heap angry, emotion-choked response to the Penn sylvanlan, who sat, little ruffled,, in his accustomed seat. O'Mahoney said It would be well for the democratic contingent In the senate to remove Guffey from the leadership of the democratic sena torial campaign committee. Wheeler said that Guffey had not written the speech he delivered on (Concluded on pnge ii, column 7) MURDER HINTED IN DUNBAR CASE Bremerton, Wash., Aug. 21 (U.R) Sheriff Rush Blankenship invest!' gated the possibility of murder to day in the death of Mrs. Jeanette Dunbar, about 38, housekeeper for Fred Miller, wealthy retired Sea. beck man. Mrs. Dunbar was found dead last night, slumped down in a chair in her bedroom in Miller's pretentious home where she had worked as a housekeeper for eight years. She had been shot once with .30-0 calibre rifle a little below the heart, the bullet entering at an angle and shattering the liver. The gun had been put away in a clothes closet. There was evi dence the woman had been lying on a bed before sitting in the chair in which she was found. Dr. H. A. Barner. autopsy sur geon, said he believed it would have been Impossible for the woman to have put the gun away after sur fering such a wound if she had shot herself and then rested on her bed and then moved to a chair. Officers thought the woman had been lying on the bed after she was shot. Officers questioned Miller but made no arrests Immediately. Mill er said he left the house yesterday at 10:30 a. m- and returned at 5 p. m., to find Mrs. Dunbar dead He said she had a son who had left home a year ago and that she had been despondent since then. Mill er did not know the son's name. Deputy Coroner William Steltz said he thought the woman had been dead seven hours when her body was found. ORDER TO PREVENT PINBALL SEIZURES REFUSED BY COURT - Judge Norton Declares out Authority to Enjoin Enforcement of Criminal Laws; Trial of Offenders Held Proper Procedure Grants Pass. Aue. 21 (Ft Judge H. D. Norton, after listening to two and one-half hours of argument in a suit to restrain the district attorney and sheriff of Josephine county from enforcing their ban on pinball machines, today refused jurisdiction. It is not the place of a court of equity, he said. to prevent enforcement of a law. He said that the proper time to sit in Judgment on the case would be when violation of the law was charged and the accused brought to trial. Denall of the order indicated similar action in Jackson county, where another suit is scheduled to be brought before Judge Norton, Earl Bush of Marshfield filed the complaint Monday against District Attorney Orval J. Millard and Sheriff B. H. Lister. Machines have been barred in Josephine county since August IS. Walter L. Tooze of Portland and O. M. Roberts and William McCal llster of Medford represented Bush. Millard was assisted by counsel from the office of the state's attorney general. BATTLE RAGES HAND TO HAND (Copyright by United Prtu) ' Shanghai, Aug. 21 U.R Chinese troops and Japanese sailors fought hand to hand today with bayonets, trench knife and f let amid the blis tering flanes of fires racing through an tne Hongkew area. British business men, trying to make a preliminary estimate of fire damage, said they believed that It amounted to 500,000,000 Shanghai dollars 9150,000,000 American al ready. And through these flames, raging more and more fiercely in the Hongkew area, the Japanese and Chinese fought today. The flower of the Chinese army smashed Its way Into tha Japanese lines from the land side. A suicide squad of 30 Chinese volunteers poled its way across the Whangpoo in a sampan, effected a landing, mount ed a machine gun and began pour ing a deadly fire into the Japanese from the docks. The volunteers, wearing plain clothes, made their daring landing on the dock of the British owned "New Engineering and Shipbuilding Works." The Japanese asked British au thorities for permission to storm the dock. Early tonight, a second daring party of Chinese volunteers, all sharpshooters, crossed In a small boat and landed at the British own ed Shanghai water works. Japanese stormed the building, using hand grenades, and wiped them out. RUSSIA MAY HELP CHINESE FORCES McMinnvllle, Aug. 21 m If China's armies falter, Russia may come to her aid in the struggle against Japan, Dr. Elam J. Ander son, president of Linfleld college, believes. Home after a tour of the Orient, Dr. Anderson said he foresaw a possibility of Russia entering the war in the fact that Japan Is mov ing as many troops to northern Manchurlan borders as are being sent to Shanghai. Dr. Anderson said that while the Chinese have progressed In the past two yean as much as they did In the preceding IS years they are still handicapped by lack of adequate armaments. 200 BATTLE FIRE !N IMNAHA AREA Portland, Aug. 21 VP) A sleeper lightning fire In the Wallowa na tional forest near Imnaha blew Into a 940 acre blaze today, bringing 200 men on to fire lines. Prom the La Grande and Baker areas another 117 CCC enrollees were en route The fire was burning In what the U. 8. forest service dtacrtbed as a "Jungle" and was out of control. The weather was reported "not too favorable." Eight miles from a road and In a mountainous territory, the fire was I difficult to reach but the forest service said It hoped to have it un Jder nnntrol soon. Court of Equity With WILL ROGERS BILL IS VETOED Washington, Aug. 21 VP) Presi dent Roosevelt vetoed today a house bill authorizing a 1500,000 appropria tion for federal cooperation with the state of Oklahoma in construction of a permanent memorial to Will Ro gers, the humorist. The president pointed out the measure failed to provide for the type of memorial and suggested congress at the next session recon sider the form it "should properly assume. I am sure, as one who knew the depth of Will Rogers' love for his fellow man, that he would have de sired a living memorial something that would carry Joy and gladness into the hearts of those he left be hind," the president said. "With these thoughts in mind cannot forebear to mention WiU Rogers' deep love of children. You and I who knew him through the years are well aware of his devotion to childhood. He contributed gener ously to the care of handicapped children and In providing education for boys and girls who could not afford ItT FLIERS SET UP BASE IN ARCTIC Point Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 21 (U.R) Drums of gasoline stood on a sand spit today as fliers of three nations set up an emergency airport as a base for a search over Arctic wastes for six Russian airmen missing eight days on a trans-Polar flight from Moscow. A government tractor moved the searching planes around and lined them up for take-offs. Jimmy Mattern, around-the-world flier, J. S. Jones, navigator, and John Stump, radio operator, landed here from Fairbanks after flying 200 miles north of the coast without sighting the missing Russian mono plane. Heavy fog even obscured the Rus sian ice-breaker Krassln from Mat tern's view. The searchers had to fly by instruments most of the way. Pilot Bob Randall of Mackenzie Airways waited for instructions from Edmonton before continuing his search. He made a trial take-off yesterday from a lagoon aa did a Russian plane piloted by Vaslli Za dukov. The Russians flew from Si beria to Join the search. In Fairbanks, Joe Crosson. famed "1.46:8 Filer." said he believed the missing filers were nearer the north pole than the Alaskan coast. The Russian plane, piloted by Slglsmund Levanevsky, "Lindbergh of Russia." was lost after It passed over the pole a week ago Friday. Buzzards of Battle Due To Supplant Peace Doves At Democrats' Gathering By HARRY N. CRAIN The buzzards of war promise to supplant the doves of peace in what hovering is done over and around the annual love feast of Oregon democrats at Oaks park, Portland, to morrow. From hither and yon all- over the state the faithful are scheduled to gather for what Is bill ed aa a "picnic." and there is every Indication that It will turn out to be Just that. All of the party big-wigs, both actual and, self-acclaimed, will be there with the exception of Govern or Charles H. Martin, whose name significantly does not appear on the official program. National Committeeman Howard Latourette Is billed as the toast master and general chairman. Willis Mahoney Is down for t speech, as GRIST OF WORK POSTPONED TO NEXTMEETING Some Members Expect President to Call Fall Session ' Approval Given Housing Bill; Deficiency Mea sure Agreed On Washington, Aug. 21 (U.R) The senate late today recessed subject to call of the chair and sent the leaders of both parties to "wait on the president to determine whe ther he has any message to trans mit before adjournment. Washington, Aug. 21 VP) The senate sent to the White House to day the revised version of the Wag-ner-Steagall housing bill, leaving final action on the third deficiency appropriation bill as the last ma jor barrier to adjournment. Congressional action on the $526, 000,000 housing measure was com pleted when the senate approved a conference committee compromise of senate-house differences. The bouse standing vote was 128 to 38. The legislation was one of the major points in President Roose velt's program for this session. Washington, Aug. 21 VP A weary (Concluded on psse 11, column 4) JOBLESS HERE WAIT ON M MY A committee of representatives of unemployed organizations confer red here today with Senator Char les L. McNary regarding federal re lief appropriations and recent lay offs in WPA. Attending the conference were representatives of the Salem Cen tral Trades and Labor Councils, Oregon Commonwealth Federation and workers recently laid off WPA sewing projects. The conference agreed that the (1,900,000,000 relief appropriation could be expended at any time prior to January 1, 1938, rather than paid out in budgeted amounts. Senator McNary referred the delegates to State Relief Adminis trator Elmer Goudy, State PWA di rector E. J. Griffith and national WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins. These men, McNary told the dele gation, were the proper officers to hear their complaints. The committee tendered to Sena tor McNary a petition urging pass age of the Schwellenbach-Allen resolution for continuance of WPA, signed by 32 city and county offi cials, officers of labor organizations and representatives of unemployed. Two Injured When Motor Cars Collide Grants Pass, Aug. 21 VP) Thomas R. Campbell, Klamath agency In dian, suffered a cut elbow and Mrs. Mary Frances Jean Morgan of the Murphy stage route received head Injuries last night when their cars were badly damaged In colliding at the Fort Vannoy bridge. State of ficer Oene Reed said it appeared both cars were crowding the center line. are Mayor Joe Carson. Mrs. Emily F. Ed son, national commltteewom an: Congressman Walter M. Pierce and Congresswoman Nan Wood Honeyman (both delayed In Wash ington), Hon. Claude McColloch. newly appointed federal district Judge, and Victor Myers, lieutenant governor of Washington, who Is to be the keynoter. But the fireworks will not be In spired by the slliht accorded Gov ernor Martin, although that may hsve its echoes. (Concluded on pais IU column 8) I