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49th Year, No. 231
Entered second eliu
matter at Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, September 28, 1937
Price Three Cents
On Trains and News
Stand Five Cents
Roosevelt Starts Boooevilie&am Power
1
, Japs Ready to
Nippon Placed
On Unlimited
War Footing
'600,000 Troops Being
Mobilized in North China
To Face Russians
(By the Associated Press)
Japan was placed on an un
limited war footing today,
prepared for long conflict in
the far east.
The war ministry issued
military ordinance "No. 41,"
indefinitely prolonging mili
tary service for all officers
and men on active reserve
lists.
This development came as
military observers in North
China gave their estimates
that 60" ooo Japanese troops were
being mobilized In the event Rus
sia should become Involved In the
Sino-Japanese war.
Reports were current In Tokyo
that huge troop concentrations were
massing along the Manchoukuo-Si-beria
border.
From Moscow official Soviet or
gans warned: "We do not want war.
but we are always ready for war."
And at Nanking Dlmltri V. Bogom
oloff, Soviet ambassador to China,
suddenly boarded an Eurasian air
liner for Moscow, presumably on a
matter vitally affecting Russia's po
sition In the Sino-Japanese war.
Meanwhile Japanese armies
claimed advances on all Chinese
(Concluded on pane 9. column A)
League Votes
Jap Censure
Geneva, Sept. 38 WV-The league
of nations assembly condemned Jap
anese aerial bombardment of Chinese
cities today by a moment of drama
tic, solemn silencer
There was no formal vote.
The Aga Khan, delegate from In
dia and newly-elected assembly
president, Interpreted as a vote of
unanimous approval the silence that
followed presentation of the Sino
Japanese advisory committee's re
solution of condemnation.
The assembly acted swiftly on the
resolution. It had been adopted yes
terday by the league advisory group
on which the United States is rep
resented in an consultative capacity.
A letter accompanying the text
of the measure, from Foreign Min
ister William Muntera of Latvia,
president of the 23-nation Sino
Japanese committee, explained its
purpose was to give delegates not
represented on the committee an
opportunity to subscribe to it.
Alvarez Del Vayo, republican
Spain's league delegate, then took
the floor to support the resolution.
At the conclusion of his address, the
Aga Khan, chairman of the as
sembly, announced the body had ap
proved the condemnation without
dissenting vote.
How -de -Do!
Sips for Supper
By Don Upjohn
Both Jim Mott and Andy Burk
were among those at Bonneville to
make the president feel at home by
extending the glad hand of fellow
ship to him on his Oregon visit. We
hope the boys didn't cast a damp
ening effect on the proceedings by
glaring at one another when the
president was looking.
Incidentally Andy Burk evident
ly dldnt see any does to shoot at
on his deer hunting trip as he didn't
bring back a buck.
We wonder If the average chap
feels as cheap as he looks when he
finds himself in the middle of an
Intersection staring at a red light?
The blinker light at Center and
Commercial streets has been bol
stered up m Its work by the Instal
lation of two regulation stop signs
hi the center of Commercial street.
Polks didn't know whether a blink
ing red light meant to stop or was
Just an ornament the light that
failed, as It were.
J We encountered Leo Spltsbart
again this ajn. and he advised us
(Concluded on page fc column I)
I V "I'll A .IdcJ
Now Retiring Alter S3 years as postmistress at Shaw, Mary Lar
son, age 71, is recognized as Oregon's oldest postmistress. When
the fourth class office at Shaw Is discontinued October 1, Mrs.
Larson will retire from a post she has faithfully served since 1914.
When Mrs. Larson first became postmistress Shaw received mail
by train four times dally. Now a single dally delivery is made from
Salem. After Thursday the 27 families served by the Shaw office
will receive mall by rural carrier from Aumsvllle.
State Files Appeal
In Pin-Ball Cases
By Harry Craln
State supreme court determination of the legality of
pin-ball games and the validity of the 1935 legislative act au
thorizing their licensing by cities and counties moved one
more step toward realization this morning when Bruce
Spaulding, district attorney of Polk county, filed with the
court the transcript and brief In
his appeal from the order of Circuit
Judge Arlte O. Walker sustaining
demurrers to two complaints
against C. C. Coats, pin-ball oper
ator. .Coats was charged In one in
stance with "promoting and setting
up a lottery for money," and In the
other with operating a nickel-In-the-slot
machine.
Judge Walker sustained demur
rers of the defendant's attorneys,
who argued that pin-ball games
were exempted from the prohibitions
of the old slot machine law by the
1935 licensing act and that the de
vices do not constitute lotteries un
der lottery definitions laid down by
the court.
The contentions of the state that
the machines are illegal gambling
devices and lotteries, and the legis
lature had no power to license them
are brought squarely before the su
preme court in the appellants brief,
which carries In addition to Spauld
(Comiuded on pwre 10, column 2)
Hearst Sells Out
Omaha News Bee
Omaha, Neb.. Sept. 28 (U.R The
Hearst-owned Bee-News suspended
publication with Its home edition
today, and announced that Its cir
culation list and publishing plant
had been purchased by the Omaha
World-Herald.
The Bee-News published morning.
evening and Sunday editions. Its
new service, reports and many of
Its features will appear In the
World-Herald, it announced.
The World-Herald's editor-in-
chief, Harvey E. Newbranch, will
continue In that position, and there
are no changes in ownership, the
world-Herald announced.
$15,000 Damage
By Fire at Gervais
Gervais, Or., Sept. 28 Fire that started from an un
known cause in a warehouse about 1 :30 o'clock this morning,
destroyed or damaged half a
and caused a total loss estimated at
$19,000, partially covered by Insur
ance.
A complete loss, with no Insur
ance, was the Oervala Star, weekly
newspaper plant and building. The
newspaper has been published for
a number of years by I. V. McAdoo
and the plant was owned by a group
of five Oervais business men. The
building was owned by Prank H.
Cannard, merchant, who was prob
ably the heaviest loser In the fire.
The fire started in a warehouse
and shed owned by Cannard, back
of the Mangold hardware store, op
erated by Cannard, The warehouse
Fight
Franco Prepares
Aragon Drive
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, Sept. 28 OP) Generalissimo
Francisco Franco today was massing
a huge offensive on the widespread
Aragon front of eastern Spain, with
250,000 men under the new com
mand of Gen. Jose Moscardo, hero
of the Alcazar.
New major engagements loomed
as the great concentrations took
form to the north, in the Jaca sec
tor near the French border; In the
Zuera sector, north of Zaragoza,
and southeast of Zaragoza.-
Oen. Moscardo assumes the com
mand of the fifth army, relieving
Gen. Ponte y Manso de Zunigw, re
ported as wounded.
(Just a year ago Moscardo had
emerged from the horrible 72-day
siege of the Alcazar fortress he
commanded. There he defied gov
ernment assaulters to blow the his
toric fort and Its 1,700 occupants to
bits. His son, held as a govern
ment hostage, was shot when Mos
cardo refused to surrender at the
price of the youth's freedom.)
Along the Aragon fronts today
there were Insurgent counter offen
sives. In the Zuera sector an ad
vance cost the government 300
prisoners. Some 400 dead and 180
wounded were left behind in the re
treat.
Near the French frontier, the gov
ernment tried again to isolate Ja
ca, but the Insurgents asserted their
lines held.
A fresh Insurgent assault south
west of Madrid awoke that city to
day.
dozen Gervais business houses
and shed with their contents of
dressed lumber, oils and other
building materials were a complete
loss. From this warehouse the fire
spread to another warehouse, which
was burned, but Its contents of
lumber saved, and thence to the
Star building.
The hardware store, the Reuben
Cutsforth confectionery, the Warden
Beer parlor and the Stevens bar
ber shop were all damaged by wa
ter from the fire hose, and the In
terior of the Oervais State bank
was slightly damaged by water.
(Concluded on page s, column 1)
Russia
FDR Dedicates
$650,000 Lodge
At Ml. Hood
Timberline Project Held
Test of Government
Recreation Projects
Timberline Lodge, Mount
Hood, Ore., Sept. 28 (IP)
High on the slopes of Ore
gon's most majestic moun
tain, President Roosevelt ded
icated today the new $650,
000, government-built 'Tim
berline lodge for the use of
the prospective thousands of
"Americans who are fulfilling
a very desirable objective of
citizenship getting to know
their country better."
Congratulating the people of the
nation for having great areas of
the outdoors "In the permanent
possession of the people them
selves," he described the Mount
Hood project as a new venture,
made possible by emergency relief
work to "test the workability of re
creational facilities Installed by the
government Itself and operated un
(Concludrd on page X, column 4)
Duce and Hitler
Pledge Peace
Berlin, Sept. 28 P) Peace, Pre
mier Mussolini of Italy and Reichs
fuehrer Hitler of Oermany. told
600.000 Germans and world wide
radio audience tonight, will be the
Issue from Nazi-Fascist collabora
tion. Dor Fuehrer spoke first and brief
ly at the gala festival In May field
and Olympic stadium, declaring
that peace for Oermany and Italy
is the meaning of the mammoth
Fascist-Nazi demonstration of the
past four days.
II Duce, speaking In the Ger
man of his host, followed:
The whole world Is tensely ask
ing," Mussolini said, "what will be
the result of the Berlin meeting:
'Peace or war?' Both of us, Der
Fuehrer and myself, can answer
with a loud voice, 'Peace.' "
11 Duce 'a voice was hoarse, his
German perfect but the pronuncia
tion showed a certain stress.
Mussolini spoke twice as long as
Hitler, who said but a few words
in prefacing the carefully prepared
address of his guest.
Hitler bitlnaly denounced the
"democratic, Marxistlc internation
al" communlst), while 11 Duce pre
dicted that Europe would go Fas
cist, "not through our propaganda,
but the logic of things."
Both II Duce and Der Fuehrer de
clared thefr determination to stand
by each other, warning that attempts
to shake their friendship are bound
to fail, because, said Hitler, "of the
desire of IIS.000,000 persons who
compose this meeting tonight (he
referred to radio listeners as well as
those present) and the will of the
two men who stand before you.
"Germany's and Italy's alms are
similar In economic as well as other
fields," Mussolini said, "and without
economic independence, political In
dependence of the nation Itself Is
likely to fail."
To Tell President
"We Want Ross"
Portland, Sept. 28 UP) Waving fir
boughs, and banners bearing the
slogan, "We Want Ross." will greet
President Roosevelt at the west end
of the Ross Island bridge as his
motor caravan enters Portland this
afternoon.
Members of the Oregon common
wealth federation, workers' alliance,
unity council, people's power league,
the maritime federation and other
labor groups will form the reception
committee.
Plans were made last night at a
"welcome the President" rally here,
at which speakers, headed by Dr.
J. P. Hoech of Bend, voiced support
of J. D. Ross of Seattle for Bonne
ville dam administrator and attack
ed Oovernor Martin for his advo
cacy of a low switchboard rate for
Bonneville power.
Speakera also condemned the
Portland chamber of commerce for
allegedly naming the "blackest
torles, republicans and big shots"
on official Roosevelt welcoming
committees.
President Visits Yellowstone On Trip In near freezing weather President and Mrs. Roosevelt stop to
admire the great falls In Yellowstone canyon from Artists' Point during a drive through the Na
tional park. (Associated Press Photo.)
Soviet Envoy
Leaves Nanking
Nanking. Sept. 28 P Dlmltri V.
Bogomoloff, the Soviet ambassador
to China, left suddenly for Moscow
today on what' was believed to be a
vital mission affecting Russia's posi
tion in the Sino-Japanese war. .
The Russian ambassador left
aboard a special Eurasia air liner
for a direct flight to Moscow after
raiding Japanese warplanes had
been driven off by Chinese pursuit
planes before they could damage
their military objectives.
Bogomoloff was flying the north
western route and was expected to
reach the Russian capital In four
days for an Important conference on
the future Soviet course.
Russia has declared Japan's re
peated bombardments of Nanking
to be "Illegal" and warned Japan
she' would be held fully responsible
for any Injury to Soviet citizens or
property. The Soviet warning was
believed to be In response to a
Chinese appeal for aid.
The fleet of 30 raiding Japanese
planes bombed the military airdrome
on the outskirts of Nanking for 10
minutes before Chinese pursuit craft
rose to the attack. In apparent re
action to foreign protests against
bombardment of civilians, the Jap
anese avoided the thickly populated
areas.
Chinese Report
Victory in North
Shanghai, Sept. 28 AJ.R) Chinese
sources reported persistently today
that the Japanese have suffered a
heavy defeat in northwest China
by the new 8th route army.
It was asserted that two crack
Japanese columns In the Tatung
area, 170 miles west of Pel ping, had
been routed and that considerably
larger forces were In danger of be
ing cut off and annihilated.
The 8th route army consists of
upwards of 100,000 veteran soldiers
who for 10 years had fought the
national government as the Chinese
communist army under their famous
leader, Oeneral Chu Teh. A few
weeks ago they declared their al
legiance to the government to fight
Japan.
Two days ago the Chinese cen
tral news agency asserted that the
8th route army under Oeneral Chu
had killed or wounded more than
3,000 Japanese near Kwangling, 70
miles southeast of Tatung after sev
eral earlier successes.
Today the central news agency,
in a dispatch from Taiyuan, as
serted that "remnants" of two crack
coulmns were fleeing In great con
fusion from Hungyuan, 35 miles
west of Kwangling. toward Ying
slen, which la south of Tatung.
Patrols of the 8th route army, the
agency asserted, were constantly
meeting and harrasslng fleeing Ja
panese troops.
Japanee Warplanes
Continue Bombing
Wuhu, China, Sept. 28 Jap
anese warplanes today bombed the
Wuhu airport, five miles outside
this Yangtze river city, which Is
30 miles southwest of Nanking.
The city Itself was not harmed.
Hongkong. Sept. 28 (4V-Chinese
sources declared tonight that 200
were killed In Japanese aerial bom
bardment of Chingyuan, north of
Canton, and that a number of
buildings were demolished.
Hood River
Cheers FDR
Hood River, Ore., Sept. 28 (Pi
President Roosevelt passed slowly
through Hood River at 11:20 a. m.
today.
In the bright sunshine, more than
3000 persons lined Main street to
see the first president ever to visit
the famed Hood River valley.
Mount Adams and Mount Hood,
where the president will visit Tim
berline Lodge, stood out like cameos
against an azure sky, catching- the
eyes of the presidential party.
Residents of Prlne Orove, Odell,
Mount Hood, Parkdale and the
Mount Hood loop highway turned
out en masse to cheer the president.
Hull Endorses
League Censure
Washington, Sept. 28 (U.B Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull today
In effect endorsed- the League of
Nations resolution condemning Jap
anese bombing In China by calling
attention to the American govern
ment's similar protest against aerial
attacks on undefended civilian areas.
Hull did not directly endorse the
league pratest. However, he point
ed out that he had been Informed
of the action of the league assemb
ly and In that connection called at
tention to the American protest
to Japan, couched In language simi
lar to that employed by the league,
"The department ol state," Hull
said, "has been Informed by our
minister to Switzerland of the text
of the resolution unanimously adop
ted on September 27 by the advis
ory committee of the league of na
tions on the subject of aerial bom
bardment by Japanese air forces of
open towns in China."
"The American government, as
has been set forth to the Japanese
government repeatedly and especial
ly In this government's note of Sep
tember 22, holds the view that any
general bombing of an extensive
area wherein there resides a large
populace engaged in peaceful pur
suits is unwarranted and contrary
to principles of law and of hu
manity." Hull said this government has re
ceived no reply from Japan to its
September 22 note.
Quake at Manila
Manila. Wednesday, Sept. 28 0I.B
An earthquake of moderate Inten
sity awakened Manila residents
shortly after 2 am. today, rattling
dishes and swaying chandeliers.
Text of Roosevelt's
Bonneville Speech
Bonneville Dam, Ore., Sept. 28 (P) The text of Presi
dent Roosevelt's address at Bonneville dam follows: Today I
have a feeling of real satisfaction in witnessing the comple
tion of another great national pro-
Ject, and of pleasure In the fact
that tn Its inception, four years ago,
I had some part.
My Interest In the whole of the
valley of the great Columbia river
goes back to 1920 when I first stud
led Its mighty possibilities. Again,
In 1833 I visited Oregon and Wash
ington and Idaho and took occasion
In Portland to express views which
have since, through the action of
the congress, become a recorded
part of American national policy.
Almost exactly three years ago, X
Inspected the early construction
stages of this dam at Bonnevllls. .
m a
Truce Called in
Union Warfare
San Francisco. Sept. 28 WP) Ab
andonment of mass demonstrations
on the part of AFL teamsters and
a call for a round-table discussion
of San Francisco's current water
front dispute brought a new calm
to the recent tense situation at the
docks today.
About, 1200 longshoremen were at
work on all ships tn the harbor.
Several hundred, meeting- at their
hiring hall, were told to scatter when
it became evident AFL teamsters,
protesting CIO control of ware
housemen, would not hold a mass
protest. More than 8,000 men mill
ed around in yesterday's demon
stration.
Meantime, Henry Schmidt, presl
dent of local 38-79 International
longshoremen and warehousemen
union, told newspapermen: ' We are
willing to sit down around the con
ference table with the teamsters
anytime and settle this thing."
Teamsters maintained only skele
ton picket lines on the waterfront.
They moved no cargo to or from
the docks, however.
In Oakland, Clifford Lester, oust
ed president of the AFL teamsters
local, said 135 teamsters had agreed
to recognize him as president and
give 100 per cent support to CIO
longshoremen. Charles Real, of
ficer of the Oakland teamsters' un
ion, scouted the claim.
Teamsters throughout the bay area
were back at work at all points
not on the waterfronts.
Democratic Leaders
Greet President
Bonevllle, Sept. 28 (IP) Democra
tic leaders of Oregon and Washing
ton were received In the President's
private car at :05 a. m. Hand
shakes and warm conversation
marked meetings with E. J. Grif
fith, Oregon WPA administrator;
Howard Latourette. democratic com
mitteeman; Mrs. Emily Edson, de
mocratic national committee wom
an; Governor and Mrs. Charles
Martin; Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman,
Oregon's congresswoman: C. J.
Buck, regional forester: Major Gen
eral Oeorge Simonds of San Fran
cisco; Major General George Mar
shall, commander of Vancouver
barracks; Congressman Walter M.
Pierce. La Orande; Senator Charles
L. McNary; B. F. Irvine, editor
emeritus of the Portland Journal;
Colonel T. M. Rovlns; Congressman
F. Smith, of Hoqulam, Wash.; Sen
ator Lewis Schwellenbach, of Wash
ington. The more we study the water re
sources of the nation, the more we
accept the fact that their use Is a
matter of national concern, and
that In our plans for their use our
line of thinking must Include great
regions as well as narrower locali
ties. If. for example, we had known as
much and acted as effectively twen
ty and thirty ar.d forty years ago as
we do today In the development of
the use of land In that great semi
arid strip In the center of the coun
try which runs from the Canadian
(Concluded on pate 4, column II
Pledges Policy
OfWidestUse
By Diffusion
President Opposes Indus
trial Use and Champions
Regional Control
Bonneville Dam, Ore., Sept.
28 (U.R) President Roosevelt
stood today in a natural am
phitheatre formed by jagged
fir-softened hills and linked
with the power policies of the
new deal a program of wider
diffusion of population to dis
courage the over-growth of
vast industrial communities.
He pledged the "policy of
widest use" of the surging
power which soon will flow
from this lovely spot In all direc
tions. He foreclosed the possibility
of new Plttsburghs in these moun
tain-shaded valleys. He promised
these northwestern descendants of
pioneers that there would be more
dams on the Columbia river to
amplify the energy already planned
from the turbines of Bonneville
and the vastly greater Grand
Coulee dam.
Upwards of 10.000 persons were
assembled here by the time Mr.
Roosevelt spoke. They cheered and
applauded approval of further pow
er development In the Columbia
basin.
Instead of vast new concentra
tions of Industrial populations, Mr.
Roosevelt pledged his administra
tion to diffuse power over the coun
tryside as widely as possible to the
smaller communities and to the
farmsteads as well as to great cities
already established.
(Concluded on pane fi, column 71
Lumber Ship's
Crew Rescued
San Francisco, Sept. 28 (P)
Twenty crew members of the lumber
schooner Casper were rescued by the
coast guard today before the ves
sel was beached in Drake's Bay, 33
miles north of here.
One man was Injured slightly dur
ing the rescue, and five others were
left aboard the ship to attempt re
pairs of a hole in the starboard
side.
Captain John M. Buckley, In
charge of the coast guard station
at Pt. Reyes, said the crew was
taken off by the cutter Shoshone.
The Injured seaman, Hans Hen
dricks, 59, first mate, was taken to the
office of Dr. Leonard Larson at Pi
Reyes for treatment.
The steel ship was listing 40 de
grees to the port, or left side, and
a salvage barge was standing by.
The sea was calm and crew mem
bers were able to remove their per
sonal effects from the ship.
The Caspar, a vessel of 478 net tons
owned by the Caspar Lumber com
pany, sailed from San Francosco at
9 p. m. yesterday for Caspar, Calif.,
a lumber port on the northern Cali
fornia coast.
Novelties
in the News
(Bp the Associated Press)
Who Would?
BaltimoreThe dignity of Patrol
man William Knight received a set
back when he stepped from a street
car and was knocked down by an
automobile.
It received another when a police
magistrate dismissed charges that
the auto had inadequate brakes on
the grounds the officer had not
Inspected the brakes after the ac
cident. "But." said the slightly puzzled
officer, "I didn't feel much like
testing brakes after I was run over."
Accuracy
Buffalo. N. Y. Under the head
ing "miscellaneous expenditures" in
his financial statement for primary
campaign expenses, Burt 8. Mag
glo, unsuccessful candidate for
councilman, listed:
"Six weeks of headaches."
Armless Penman
York, Pa. Lark of arms did not
prevent John E. Oreen, 2. from
signing his name to an application
for a marriage license.
The prospective bride placed ft
pen between Oreen' Jaws and ha
(Concluded m pat a column $)