SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937
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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON
WAR AND FIRE
LAY WASTE TO
CHINESE CITY
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ol the world's largest port hid been
destroyed.
Fire leveled most of Chinese Cha
pel, Japanese Hongkew. YangUepoo,
Industrial Fcotung, across the
Whangpoo river, and Klankwan.
Only the International settle
ment, the French concession and
parts of Nantao In the Soochow
creek area remain Intact.
In the absence of firemen, who
already had evcauated the burning
areas, the flames continued to
spread unchecked In all directions.
Stifling smoke and fierce heat were
driving many Chinese belligerents
from the Hongkew battle area,
Three Chinese warplanes dron;d
over the smoking ruins In renewal
of warfare today, aiming their
bombs at the Japanese consulate.
The projectiles fell wide of the
mark, but killed one Chinese and
one Japanese and wounded 13 oth
ers, all believed to be Japanese.
From the United States cruiser
Augusta, $10,000,000 flagship of the
American fleet, grim-faced blue
jackets carried the shell-ripped body
of a 31 year old Louisiana boy, one
of the crew and the fourth Ameri
can to be killed since the hostilities
started. The body was wrapped In
the stars and stripes.
The mighty Augusta still lay res
olutely at anchor on a curve of the
Whangpoo near the heart of the In
ternational settlement to protect
American lives while Investigators
sought to learn the origin of the
one-inch anti-aircraft shell that
killed the seaman, Freddie John
Falgout of Raceland, La.
A routine navy inquiry board
headed by Commander E. H. Kin
cald of the Augusta heard testi
mony of persons who witnessed the
shelling. Chinese authorities, while
disclaiming responsibility for the
incident, conducted a similar In
vestigation. .
As the Shanghai hostilities en
tered the second week, foreign au
thorities estimated Chinese casual
ties to date as about 5,000 as against
600 Japanese.
Japanese diplomatic sources de
clared Japanese forces were In no
way connected with the shelling of
the Augusta which resulted in the
death of Falgout and wounding of
IB other sailors.
Although American naval officers
said they believed the shell which
landed on the Augusta came from
an anti-aircraft gun, a Japanese
embassy spokesman said Japanese
thought the projectile was fired by
a Chinese trench mortar.
The United States consulate said
approximately 500 American women
residents of Shanghai have decided
to remain despite the wishes of au
thorities that they leave the city.
Whether their evacuation will be
ordered depends upon seriousness of
hostilities.
American civilian volunteers won
a bloodless brush with armed Jap.
anese. The Japanese massed In
front of the British Hongkong and
Shanghai bank, south of Soochow
Creek, and demanded entrance
saying they wanted their deposits.
The Americans disarmed the Jap
anese party and turned them over
to Japanese bluejackets. The Jap
anese said there were 10,000 of
their countrymen In the Hangkew
area virtually without food.
Four missiles blasted Into the area
behind the consulate in the French
concession while Japanese anti-air
craft gunners attempted futilely to
pick off the wheeling, diving attack,
ers.
Shanghai soon rumbled anew to
the thunder of artillery.
Five hundred twenty-five retu.
gees of various nationalities fled to
the safety of the open sea, board'
ing the French liner Aramis under
and shower of screaming shrapnel.
The refugees Included 200 French
and 175 Protuguese.
The planes that attacked the Jap
anese consulate were of American
manufacture. They retired un
scathed after the bombing.
Shanghai entered the ninth day
of the carnage-fraught struggle be
tween powerful Chinese and Jap
anese armies In a setting of devas.
tation. Oreat sections of the city
were in smoking ruins after a day
and night of terror.
An estimated fourth of greater
Shanghai's densely populated area
was an unchecked holocaust during
the night, the result of air bom
bardment, naval shelling and ar
tlllery demolition. The damage
reached into tens of millions of
dollars. The loss In life was enorm
ous.
The gun duels of the locked forc
es along the winding Whangpoo
river turned Hongkew, the Japan.
ese section; Yangtzepoo, eastern
section of the International settle
ment; Chapel, the Chinese area
and Pootung. the Industrial district
across the Whangpoo to the east,
into vistas of charred and tumbled
buildings.
The thick pall of black smoke was
still relieved here and then by
sheets of flame.
Banks and Insurance companies
face tremendous losses as a conse
quence of the fires touched off by
artillery shells and bombs. Losses
in trade are incalculable.
Flames ate near to the American
owned Shanghai Electric Power
company plant, the largest In Chi
na, causing the company hurriedly
to evacuate Its staff. Fire also
threatened the Japanese and Soviet
Union consulates.
The nerves of civilians were fray.
Kd to the point of hysteria.
One hundred sixty-four Ameri
cans appealed to the United States
consulate to provide means for their
transportation back to the States
insuad of Manila, where hundreds
of refugees already have been tak
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U. S. 8. AUGUSTA HIT IN WHANGPOO; ONE DEAD One seaman was killed and 18 wounded when
an anti-aircraft shell exploded aboard the U. 8. S. Augusta (above), flagship of the Asiatic fleet of the
U. 8. navy as she lay anchored in the Whangpoo river. The accident occurred during a fight between
Japanese and Chinese forces. The vessel Is shown at anchor In the Whangpoo (Associated Press Photo.)
13,000 Americans Stay
In Hostile Zone Rather
Than Leave Business
Shanghai. Aug. 21 (&) Thirteen thousand Americans
and 100,000 other foreigners, including Japanese, have
chosen the perils of war to leaving the land where they have
homes, business or property. Except
for American women missionaries.
notably in South China, who insist
upon remaining at their posts to as
sist war-stricken natives, most of
the American women, children and
many men already have been evac
uated from the danger zones,
The United States authorities are
prepared to make evacuation of all
Americans mandatory except for
those who must remain as a matter
of duty such as army and navy
men and newspapermen.
Japan, whose 100,000 nationals
gave her the biggest International
Continuation of
Mrs. Becknell
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state's office. In order to drive her
car she will require a new license.
A charge of driving without a tail-
light still pends.
Two applications of Mrs. Becknell
for a driver's license were rejected
by the secretary of state on the
grounds she had failed to fill out
the birth date space properly. Mrs.
Becknell, friends say, still Insists
she is required only to report the
number of her years, not the date.
The committing magistrate at the
time of sentence declared Mrs.
Becknell had been "defiant of the
secretary of state, the state police
and this court over a long period."
Non-Zionist Group
Bolts Zurich Meet
Zurich. Switzerland. Aug. 21 (P)
The American non-Zionist delega
tion bolted a session of the poli
tical committee of the Jewish ag
ency for Palestine yesterday In a
dispute over the British plan to
partition Palestine Into sovereign
Jewish and Arabian states.
The Americans, led by Felix M.
Warburg, the New York banker
philanthropist, withdrew after the
committee voted to recommend ra
tification of a Zionist congress re
solution that would open the way
for negotiations with Britain on the
partition scheme.
The American group favora ne
gotiations with Arab leaders not
Britain for establishment of a
single Arabian-Jewish state In Pa
lestine, Warburg said.
LITTLE GIRL WALKING
Zena A Zena girl. Rose Marie
Butler, small daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Prank Butler, Is learning: the
an 01 walking with a brace on her
lower limb, this summer. The baby
has had a stiff knee for several
months and was taken to Port
land physician this month where a
brace was fitted to the knee.
"WENT HAYWIRE" Eugene
Paul Wamer, 31 - year - old
Hutchinson. Kas., oil field work
er, shown after he confessed he
killed his three young children
and 32-year-old wife. They were
hacked to death as they left. He
told officers he went "haywire."
(Associated Press Photo.)
stake In China, has reduced that
number to a few thousands, mostly
In South China cities.
This wholesale evacuation of Jap
anese, many of whom had prosper
ous businesses In China, will cause
Japan to lose hundreds of millions of
yen in trade unless or until her mil
itary dominates China. If it falls, she
has lost Irretrievably the Chinese
market which each year bad absorb
ed countless amounts of Japan's
cheap goods unsalable elsewhere be
cause of trade barriers.
With the areas of Sino-Japanese
hostilities ever widening, the United
States army and navy now have pro
tective units at or near every import
ant area where American lives or
interests are Involved.
In constant touch by wireless and
with the two forces cooperating very
closely, the army and navy units are
ready at a moment's notice to pro
ceed to trouble zones to rescue any
endangered Americans or safeguard
their property.
At Shanghai, in addition to 1152
marines, there are the flagship Au
gusta, the destroyers Edsall and Par-
rott, the gunboat Sacramento and
the yacht Isabel of Admiral Harry E.
Yarnell, Asiatic fleet commander.
The minelayer Finch is en route here
from Tslngtao. '
At Canton the gunboat Mindanao,
flagship of the South China patrol, Is
guarding American Interests while
at Nanking the gunboat Guam Is on
a similar assignment.
Further up the Yangtze river from
Nanking there Is one American gun
boat at Hankow and one at Chung
king. At Tientsin, In the north, now
completely In the hands of the Jap
anese, the United States has 800 in
fantrymen and at Pelping, in the
same northern war zone, there are
600 marines.
American naval and military au
thorities are prepared to summon re
inforcements if the war takes a gra
ver turn and the Uvea of the 13.000
Americans In China are further im
periled. Dixie Bibb Graves
4th Woman in Senate
Washington, Aug. 21 yp Mrs. Di
xie Blob Graves of Alabama Is the
fourth woman ever appointed to the
senate and all four of them came
from the south.
Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton of Geor
gia was the first. She served one day
November 7, 1922 under a court
esy appointment.
Next were two widows of former
senators, Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway of
Arkansas and Mrs. Rose Long of
Louisiana. Mrs. Caraway, only wo
man ever elected to a full term, Is
still In the senate.
Mrs. Long, widow of Huey Long,
gave up her seat on the election last
November to Allen J. Ellender. She
was not a candidate.
Name Too Long, So
They Want Billville
Brazil, Ind., Aug. 21 vD Citizens
of William Williams corner, a little
community a mile south of here,
are tired of saying and writing the
name of the place they live in.
"It's too long. It takes too much
breath and too much Ink," they com.
plain.
So they have prepared petitions
asking that the community's name
be changed to "Billville."
QUITS FOOTBALL
Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 21 U.R)
Robert Gilbert, of Portland, Ore.,
guard on the University of Califor
nia football squad, said today he
would not play football this year.
Gilbert, a student of optometry.
said he was giving up the pigskin
to devote all his time to his stu
dies. The priceless records of William
Oilbert, originator of the modern
science of electricity, were lost in
the Great Fire of London in IBM.
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BUCK SALE TO
FEATURE EVENT
Plans are being completed today
for Salem's annual fall opening to
be held the night of September 2.
Milton Josephson is heading the
committee on arrangements.
A novel feature this year is the
"Buck Auction Sale" on the night
of the opening. Starting Monday,
August 23, and continuing dally, the
merchants participating will give
10 "buck certificates" with each 25
cent purchase. These 10 buck cert if
icates wlil be accumulated by the
public who may use them to buy
merchandise at auction on Fall
Opening nfght. No real money will
be accepted for the merchandise to
be auctioned, all articles must be
paid for In "buck certificates," each
article, of course, going to the high
est bidder. Families and friends may
pool their "bucks" for the big sale.
In addition to the auction there
will be the usual abundance of mu
sic and the carnival dance. Windows
will be unveiled at 7:30.
LOUIS DECLINES TO
BECOME PROPHET
Pompton Lakes, N. J., Aug. 21 VP)
Joe Louis is willing to talk freely
on most subjects especially base
ballbut he Is strangely silent on
how long he thinks his bout with
Tommy Parr next week will last. .
"I feel fine and expect to win,"
he says, "but there's no chance of
me naming the round.
"I picked a few very close, but
I was only guessln' After the Max
Schmellng bout I decided I should
stop picking the round. The scrap
with Bob Pastor also showed me It
was fooling. So Just say Joe feels
great and expects to beat Tommy
Fair, that's all."
Louis does every thing asked of
him and follows orders with good
grace. He wanted to play catch
yesterday, but when Manager Julian
Black told him the soft ball had
been locked up until after the fight
because of the danger he might hurt
a finger, Joe merely grinned and
found something else to do.
Score of Attorneys
Want Healy's Post
, Spokane, Aug. 21 (jP) R. F.
Brown, general agent of the farm
credit administration of Spokane,
said a score of attorneys from
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and
Montana are under consideration as
successor to William Healy as (en
era 1 counsel.
The appointment will await the
meeting of the board September 20.
Healy resigned to accept an ap
pointment to the circuit court of
appeals at 8an Francisco.
Two Mayors Head
Round-up Parade
Pendleton, Aug. 21 (Pi Two may
ors Joe Carson of Portland and C.
L. Lieuailen of Pendleton will head
the annual Westward Ho! parade, a
feature of the Pendleton Round-up,
on Friday, September 17,
They will head a parade In which
100 spotted horses, a rare spotted
mule, and even more rare, a team
of 12 spotted oxen, take part, ac
cording to George Strand, parade
director.
The Round-up will be held here
September It, 17 and II.
GETTING OUT LOGS
Falls City Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam
Lockman are moving from Forest
Grove to a place between Palls
City and Black Rock when the 8. P.
company Is building a spur to bring
the logs out for the Spauldlng com
pany. In the Socialist valley dis
trict. He will have charge of the
steam shovel.
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FRANCO HOPES
CITY MAY FALL
COMING WEEK
By EDWARD 1. NEIL
With Insurgents on the Santand-
er Front, Aug. 21 (P Weather per
mitting, Generalissimo Francisco
Franco expects his army to reach
Santander possibly in the early part
of next week and that 8panlsh city
may be his before another Satur
day Today his two strong southern
columns hammered with almost
monotonous success at dwindling
government defenses, with but 29
miles of roadway to cover before
they can knife into Santander.
In the mountains on Santander's
southwest, with one of these col
umns, this writer witnessed a bat
tle as fantastic as anything in
Spain's fantastic civil war. It was
a battle of ghosts mud and blood
smeared ghosts struggling hand to
hand in a dripping fog.
For six days Franco's airmen, ar
tillery and Infantry had blasted at
the ever-receding government lines,
most of the time under the broiling
rays of an uncurtained sun, rout
ing the half-hearted Basques, the
more stubborn Santanderese and
the die-hard Asturian miners who
are the backbone of the northern
defenses.
Then down came the fogs,
shrouding the mountain tops, soak
ing everyone in mist and hiding at
tacker and attacked alike. Yester
day the Burgos road column of
shock troops thrust through the
fog at a point about 12 miles south
of Torrciavega.
Six battalions of Asturians
about 3,000 In all were waiting on
the mountainsides, protected by the
fog from both Franco's artillery
and planes.
The Insurgents went on like men
feeling their way in the dark and
I came fumbling along Just behind
the troops. Suddenly the milky air
was full of zinging bullets. Ma
chine guns chattered. Thus start
ed the battle of ghosts.
Legionnaires crouched and climb
ed from rock to rock. One straight
ened up and plunged face down
with a bullet through his throat.
He made a queer, gurgling noise
and a red froth bubbled over his
face.
Another, with a broken leg. tried
to hop to safety but slid off into
the murk down the hillside. There
were many casualties but the insur
gents pressed forward, groping al
most to the muzzles of the Astur
ians' rifles and machine guns.
Hand grenades started bursting.
Men were screaming. Bayonets
were used as daggers. The struggle
lasted for an hour, then the As
turians fell back into the fog.
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THUNDER OVER SHANGHAI. Troops, guns and
marching men of many nations rattled in increasing tempo down
Shanghai's streets as that international city of the Far East with
3,000.000 residents . . . 3,000 Americans among them . , , seemed
caught in the deadly Sino-Japanese conflict. Japan's mighty war
ships filled the harbor and Nipponese bluecoats unloaded tons of
munitions. These American troops at Shanghai were prepared for
"any eventuality."
SUSTAINED YIELD
PROGRAM LIKED
Washington. Aug. 21 (JP) Oregon
congressmen and interior depart
ment officials joined today in ex
pressing satisfaction with a bill
.setting up a sustained-yield man
agement program for some 2,500,000
timbered acres of revested grant
lands.
The measure, awaiting the presi
dent's signature, provides for re
distribution of revenue, giving grant
land counties approximately $400,
000 annually in lieu of taxes pre
viously received from the Oregon
and California railroad company and
the Coos Bay Wagon Road com
pany, from which the government
confiscated the land for violation
of grant terms.
Interior department officials said
the new plan would put the admin
istration "on a business basis,"
while Representative James Mott
of Salem, Ore., said he was "well,
satisfied" with the provisions which
include:
1. Sustained yield management
2. Perpetual payment of 50 per
cent of the revenue to the counties,
3. Payment of 25 per cent to
counties until delinquent tax loss
reimbursements have been liqui
dated, after which 25 per cent will
go to the government to clear a
deficit in the land grant fund.
4. Payment of 25 per cent to the
interior department for administra
tion. 5. A guarantee that the annual
revenue to counties shall never be
less than 78 per cent of the $500,000
received in 1934.
Automobile roads Ln Manchuria
have Increased from 400 miles to
4.000 since 1933.
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THOUSANDS IN
MANILA SEEK
AID IN PARKS-
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indicated the damage was not con
lined to Manila.
OlIlclaLs condemned Heacock's
Department store on the Escolta,
main downtown street, ana oegan an
inspection of the municipal pier,
largest ln the far east.
Guests who abandoned tne great
eastern hotel returned after Inspec
tors said the building was safe, al
though the foundation had been da
maged. A mass tragedy was averted by
minutes ln Paete, Rizal province.
Several hundred church goers had
just left the 200-year old Catholic
church when the roof collapsed,
strewing heavy debris over the floor.".
where they had knelt a moment be-
fore In prayer.
The 400 year old Catholic church
at Santa Maria, Laguna, was de
stroyed. Many other churches of
Manila and surrounding provinces
were damaged.
Atrocious Murdei
Admitted by Warner
Hutj.hln.vin. Kan- Aua. 21 (U.R
Authorities said today that Paul
(Dutch) Warner had confessed he
hacked to death his wife, Louise, and
their three children witn a aouoie-
bitted axe.
rvitmt.v At.tarnpv Weslev E. Brown
said Warner replied to questions as
to his motive:
"Vnii'vn ant me there. Mv mind
Just went blank. I'm sorry now I did
It. I guess I Just went naywire."
Wamer had tried to Mil hlmseff
by raising the axe above his head
and letting the blade fall. His scalp J
was cut in several places.
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checked. 8tart
them out with
the knowledge
they have per
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