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1 Bargain Offer Tbi Capital Journal for a limited Urn only by mall to Omoo M OO (or out full year. Additional features make It tht bluett value ever of fered. Good for old u well aa new subscribers. Weather Fair tonight and Friday, morn ings fog; little change In tempera ture; gentle changeable winds. Yes terday: Max. 73.3. Mln. 47 J. Rain . Rlr. .4 ft. Southwest wind, part . ty cloudy. 49th Year, No. 251 bund m Moond elua matter mt fttvltm. Ornai Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 21, 1937 Price Three Cents mSEnTJSm Chinese Smash Lines in wn lh Chips. 1L "unnflrrr - Rebel Forces Capture Gijon Medicos Oppose Socialization Of Profession State Society Objects to y Proposal to Federalize Medicine as Unworkable The house of delegates, Oregon State Medical society, which assembled this morn ing for its annual 63rd con vention at the Marion hotel, went on record as opposed to "state medicine," although the resolution adopted did not ay so in as many words. Tak ing up consideration of Senate Joint resolution No. 188 in troduced by Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and which la now pending In the TJntted Statea senate, the house of delegates, upon the recommendation of the executive committee, declared the measure la "detrimental to the best Interests of the public, and the Indigent sick, would stimulate po litical chicanery and would create a gigantic and unworkable system of dealing with what la primarily a lo cal and state problem." 'The delegates also went on record aa favoring a mid-year meetings of the house of delegates in connec tion with the problem of "contract practice." Aa set forth In the committee's resolution Senator Lewis' resolution . would make every licensed physician and surgeon a dvll offlcer of the federal government and subject to punishment in the federal courts. It also requires that every licensed physician shall render needed ser vice to all Impoverished Individuals (Concluded Page 4. Comma I) No Money for Farm Program Washington. Oct 21 cm Ad. ministration officials showed atgns ex worry today over financing the proposed new farm program with out upsetting President Roosevelt's forecasts of a balanced budget next year. Despite the chief executive's ex pressed hope of balancing the bud get without Increased taxation, then waa persistent talk of estab lishing processing taxes to finance crop oontroi system at least par. tlally. President Roosevelt has not an nounced support of any particular farm measure. Some of Secretary Wallace's aloes have estimated the "ever -normal granary" system wouia cost 1700,000,000 a year. That would be 1225,000,000 more than the estimated cost of this year's sou conservation program. Together with the projected deficit ot sees ,000,000, it would make close to a billion dollars' to be taken care of in next year's budget, aside rrotn all other current expenditures. That the situation was causing some concern was evidenced by a conferenoe yesterday among the president. Secretary Wallace atr Secretary Morgenthau. How -de -Dot Sips for Supper By Don Upjohn We notice who the PTA ot the county Is planning on having the school children's fingerprints. Row times do change. We can remember back to the time, if we left a finger print around the school house, It let Of In for a beating. The water celebration committee la planning to Issue souvenir cups to visitors so tney may all have a swig of the new Salem water from Improvised faucets at tht reservoir and find out Just what they are m for. But Cuyler Tan Patten says n knowa where there are three gen uine souvenir cups which would be worth a place in the collection of anybody who has a hobby of collect ing souvenir cups from water dedi. cations. These are three old beer cans up on Stayton Island which the boys who worked up there all cummer used as drlnkini cuds. In- ddently, it seems that those boys nsve a prominent place in this celebration and maybe they'd lioaeiaqee: oa Page 14, Comma $449,680 Gain In Assessed Valuations Marion County Increased In All Classification Except Land Acreage Increase of $449,680 is shown in the assessed valua tion of Marion county as cov ered by the county assessor, according to a schedule issued by County Assessor Roscoe Shelton today. This does not include valuation of utilities and other .similar activities assessed by the state tax commission. The totl as sessed valuation for this year as assessed by the assessor is 34,295,320 as compared to 133,845, 040 a year ago. Increases are shown in an the classifications except land acreages, Improvements on lands not deeded or patented, and mney and ac counts. These are all comparatively slight, however. The most material Increases are shown on town and city lota which (Concluded en Pase 18, Column 1) Banks Named Dam Advisor Washington, Oct. 31 (P) Prank A. Banks, reclamation bureau engi neer, will represent the Interior department on an advisory board for the administration of the Bon neville project on the Columbia river. Secretary Ickea today appointed Banks, construction engineer at Grand Coulee dam In central Wash ington, to serve with other depart ment representatives. Banks has been with the depart ment slnoe 1909. He waa chief en gineer for the American Falls dam project In Idaho and for the Owv- hee dam project in Oregon before going to urand Coulee. The advisory board win aid army engineers and the recently appoint ed power administrator, J. D. Ross of Seattle, in administering the ITS, 000,000 development between Ore gon and Washington. At his press conference today Sec retary Ickes said he planned con ferences with Ross, who has Just returned from the west. Banka la now in the west and will continue In his present capacity until the nam is completed. First Ransom Bill Found in Chicago . Chicago, Oct. 31 MD O-men said today they had been advised a woman had found the first bill in toe sw.ooo ransom paid. In a vain effort to obtain release of Charles S. Rosa, 73, kidnaped Chl- cagoan. Federal agents aald Mrs. Clara Ludwlg, 41, Bute Island railroad clerk, had found a $10 bill bear ing the number 023741M34, one of the numbered bills given the Ross kidnapers. Mrs. Ludwlg called a Chicago newspaper which had offered a 1100 reward for reporting the first ran som note and o-men said the news paper notified them. Details of where Mrs. Ludwlg got ne ransom not were withheld. Probe Mystery of Charred Body in Auto Edina, Mo., Oct. 21 (ff) Sheriff Charles Franke of Knox county, Mo., said this morning R. L. Johnson of the federal bureau of investigation had decided to investigate further Hie mystery oi an emnaimeq, cnar- red body found In a burned auto mobile Wednesday morning near here. Prank aald ashes found tn the ear revealed tarry this morning that a suitcase apparently eonUlntng articles belonging to a woman had been tn the ear when It burned. He listed beads, hairpins and a powder personal belongings of tht dead man were found, he said. The sheriff Indicated the govern ment's Interest was the possibility the body might be that of Charles Ross, Chicago kidnap victim, but James Roosevelt New Job for Son Jimmie Washington, Oct 31 VP) Presi dent Hooarreit set up hie son and secretary, James, today aa "a coor dinator of the executive work of In dependent government agencies." This description of his Job was given by young Roosevelt as heads of nearly a score of agencies sat down at a White House luncheon to receive from him an explanation of the new program. He told reporters the president hopes the plan will cut down his calling list and In crease the efficiency of the execu tive branch. At the request of the president, James said he will receive the head or acting head of each of the inde pendent agencies e set time each' week. All of Mondays and Tues days have been act aside for the purpose and each agency head will be given a half hour appointment with young Roosevelt If be desires. Those with problems requiring the president's personal attention win be admitted later to the chief executive's presence, but Mr. Roose velt expects his son to cull out many Irrelevant and unnecessary appoint ments. Kidnaping of Child Feared Jamestown, N. Y, Oct. 31 (U4 Authorities who have searched for 44 hours without finding a trace of 1-year-old Timothy Michael Heer, feared today that he had been kid naped by a degenerate. Volunteers dragged the bottom of Chautauqua lake In the vicinity of the Heer residence and found noth ing. Police, recalling that an eight-year-old girl had been seised last Sunday and attacked, rounded up all known degenerates for question ing. Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Heer were reported near collapse. The mother accompanied Jamestown police In a car equipped with public address system Wednesday calling the name of her son, but received no res ponse. The federal bureau of Investiga tion sent an agent from the Buf falo office to Investigate the child's disappearance. Operatives of the "Scotland Yard" branch of the state police also were at the scene. Floyd Marsh, carpenter of an es tate adjoining the Heer home, waa the last known person to have seen the child. He told authorities he saw him shortly before noon yes terday, walking with his dog. that nothing had been found to con nect the case with Rosa disappear ance. Coroner Keith Hudson planned a complete autopsy and Inquest after first examination showed the body contained embalming fluid and that cotton f Wed the mouth and throat The Missouri sheriff aald flames had destroyed most distinguishing features, but added examination showed three teeth In the lower Jaw and none tn the upper. (Carl J. Connelley of the federal force working on the Rosa kldnap (Coacladed a Page 1 Celaau 1) Defenders of Northern Port Capitulate Last Loyalist Stronghold In North Falls Asturian Miners to Surrender Irun, Spain, Oct 21 UP) Insurgent Generalissimo Franco, strengthening his grip on Spanish territory with cap ture of Gijon, today named a national council modelled aft er Italy's fascist grand coun cil to help him govern. Announcement that the de cree had been signed, naming the council, was broadcast by the insurgent state party along with first official re ports of the fall of the northern sea port. Pilar Prlmo de Rivera, daughter of the one-time dictator under the ousted King Alfonso, was among those named to the council, a step towards creation of a dvU govern' ment under Franco's dictatorship (he now controls about two thirds of Spain.) Irun, 8paln, Oct. 31 (if) Hun. dreds of war-weary government troops, beaten back to the sea by insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco's relentless army, laid down their arms to surrender the port city oi ouon at Boon today. - News that this last Important government-held city In all of (Concluded en Pase S, Column 1) Six Sportsmen Slain for Deer (By the Associated Press) Oregon closet the pages of Its 1937 deer hunting season Sunday with the "black mark" In the north west for the number of fatalities. Six sportsmen who entered the woods and brush for venison never returned. Only half that number died In Washington where the season end ed yesterday. Four of the Oregon fatalities oc curred during the first two days of the shooting period. Otto Smith met death on Mt. Hood, September 30, when his com panion "saw something moving In tne brush" and fired. Charles Oacy of Harper died at Baker on September 31. He was shot in the head while hunting with six companions. Two hunting partners mistook Ice land BuU, 33, for a deer in the rugged country along the Pistol river. One of his friend's shots killed him instantly. On the same day and In the same rough southwestern Oregon coun try, Pete Glasscock of Nyssa, was shot to death by his companion, who took the barrel of his gun for buck's horns. Albert John Brown, S3, of Bay City was killed In the almost In accessible Trask-Wllson divide when mistaken for a deer. The accident occurred on October 0. B. X. Clcerchl, 39, shot his hunt ing partner, Tolva Tuomi, 33, near Clatskanle, on October 11. Truck Companies Called to Account Charging unfair discrimination and violation of their tariff sched ules F. H. Chatas and R. J. Nlchol, proprietors of tht Quelle restaurant here, today filed complaints with the state public utilities commis sioner against the Willamette Val ley Transfer company and Silver Wheel Motor Freight, Inc. Commissioner Wallace set 10 a. m., October 39, as the time for the defendants to appear and show cause why their permits should not be suspended or revoked. The plaintiffs allege that the truck companies have refused to deliver freight to their place of business through a union picket line maintained In spite of the fact that no strike exists among their employes. The tariff schedules of the truck com pan lea call for door-to-door de liveries la Salem Italy Thanked By Eden for Co-operation Contribution in Spanish Crisis Appreciated To Open Mediterranean London, Oct. 21 UP) For eign Secretary Anthony Eden, addressing commons at the opening of the fall session, to day thanked Italy for making at "the eleventh hour" her new and "very welcome" con tribution to Europe's program of non-intervention in Spain by agreeing to preliminary steps for withdrawal of for eign fighters in insurgent ar mies. Eden reiterated, however, Brit ain's determination "to maintain a right of way on this main arterial road the Mediterranean. Britain Is united, he continued, in wanting the government to take no sides in a purely Spanish matter but "there will be no Indifference on the part of the British govern ment where it Is clear that vital British Interests are concerned," (such as protection of her Medlter (Concluded en Pare 14, Column 6) Effort to Kidnap Infant Foiled Providence, R. 1, Oct. 31 (U.I0 Two men, at least one of them armed, threatened a housekeeper's life and tore oft her' skirt today tn an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap the Infant son of Rhode Island's secretary of state. The object ot the would-be ab ductors waa IS month old John Cappelll, one of the seven children of Secretary of State Louis W. Cappelll. The baby at the tune chanced to be with a nursemaid three-quarters of a mile from the family's Smith street home In North Providence. The housekeeper, Mrs. Mary Ca bral, about 45, was In the yard of the Cappelll home when the pair entered the driveway In a green se dan. Out leaped one of the men, re volver In hand, and demanded: Where's the baby?" The housekeeper explained that the Infant was not at Uie house. The men grabbed and threatened her life. They struggled. "Plug her!" cried the confeder ate from the driver's seat. Her assailant did not shoot. They continued to struggle, Mrs. Cabral screaming hysterically. Her skirt was ripped oft as she battled the man. The man at the wheel shouted to the woman that she would be "bumped ofP unless she produced the Infant. The gunman suddenly tore free from the woman's grasp, peered In to an empty baby carriage, and scrambled Into the sedan. Woodburn Berry Suit is Settled The heavily contested suit of Wood bum Fruit Orowers association against Ray Mallng cannery has come to a final adjustment with filing In circuit court of a stipula tion under which the association agrees to take the Judgment of 12210.75 and 44.39235 plus 1338.30 costs In full satisfaction and settle ment. The stipulation also waives an appeal to the supreme oourt and spells finish to the case. The case Involved a contract for canning of the 1334 crop of logan berries of the Woodburn pool In which the cannery agreed to pay 3 cents a pound for the berries and pack on a cost plus contract. The association claims It wss underpaid. The cannery tendered the 12210.78, the court holding the association was entitled to the 44,392.34 extra which the cannery has paid. Wells Takes Lunch At White House Washington, Oct. I OJR-H. O. Wells, Cngllsh author and historian, paid a luncheon call on President Roosevelt today to check up on five years of the new deal "I saw the new deal and the brain trust In the early days, and wanted to take another look," Wells said. He described his lunch with the president as "friendly, private." Identify Montague As One of One of Four Members of Gang that Committed Crime Says Hollywood Golfer was "Muscle Man" Who Slugged Resort Keeper and Did Fighting Elizabethtown, N. Y., Oct. 21 (U.R One of the four men who robbed Kin Harm's roadhouse in 1930 swore today that John Montague, the mysterious master golfer from Holly wood, was a member of the gang that committed the crime. The witness was Roger Norton of Cleveland who served two years in prison for the robbery. Not a flicker of recognition came Into Montague's face as Norton strode Into the courtroom where the mystery man Is being tried on charges of first degree robbery. Montague, dressed In a gray suit, sat quietly aJuing at the witness who kept referring to him as "La veme Moore." which was Mon tague's rtunt before he found fame as a golfer In California. The positive identification came (Conclude oa Pare la. Column 4) Barograph to Explain Crash Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct 31 U.B A recording barograph found In the wreckage ot the United Air lines' "Mainliner," contained the best evidence today of why the transport plane crashed in the Uinta mountains Sunday night with a loss of 19 lives. The barographs, which chart a log of a plane's altitudes, were ln stalled on all United Airlines planes a few weeks ago and now, for the first time, one of the instruments waa available with the flying log of a wrecked airliner. If the barograph was working properly, it showed how long Pilot Earl Woodgerd had been flying at 10,000 altitude before he ' crashed Into the. mountainside. That alti tude waa too low for crossing the mountain range and Woodgerd knew it. He was a veteran on the western route and be was known to be a high altitude filer. That Is, he always rose several hundred feet higher than necessary to clear the mountain tops, as an extra precau tion. The recording barograph was ex pected to prove one of two things: If It showed a sudd end drop to 10,000 feet Just before the crash, It would mean either that the plane was caught tn a down-draft ot ab end Woodgerd was unable to gain elevation to clear the mountain, or that some mechanical defect of the plane forced it down. Judge Recesses Poison Trial Cincinnati, Oct. 11 VP) Judge Charles S. Bell recessed the mur der trial of Anna Marie Hahn this afternoon, announcing he would reserve until Friday his decision as to admissibility of testimony con cerning deaths of persons other than Jacob Wagner, 78. Judge Bell's announcement came at the conclusion of three hours of argument by opposing counsel. Earlier in the day, the state heard testimony from A. O. Sprlggs, Springfield, O., chemist, that I hardening compound used in em balming Jacob Wagner was free of a poison later found In his body. Judge Bell Indicated last night that once this was established, the state would have proved that Wag ner, a 78 year old acquaintance of the woman, died of poison. Mrs. Hahn Is charged with first degree murder in his death. Sprlggs testified the compound contained none of the poison which was detected, the state claims, In a post-mortem performed 60 days after Wagners death on June 3. Girl Tells Story of Shooting A ttacker New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 21 (P) Her voice breaking at times and her eyes filling with tears, pretty- Margaret Drennan told the jury trying her for murder today that she took a revolver witn ner on a ren- detvous with Paul Reeves to pre vent a repetition of an earlier at tack. As Reeves' widow watched her In tently from a spectator's seat di rectly In front of the witness stand, the 30-year-old secretarial school student declared that Reeves, the father of two children, assaulted her first In his ear the night of Au gust T. She learned that same night for the first time, she said, that he was married and a father. A month later, she testified she aareed M meet Reeves at hit Iselln Robbers Track Owner Held for Libel Providence, R, I- Oct. 31 (U.F0 Managing Director Walter S. O'Hara of "besieged" Narragansett park race track was found "probably guilty" of criminal libel today and was ordered held for the Dec. 6 grand Jury. District jadge Maurice Robinson released OHara In $3,000 ball. OHara was charged with calling William E. Beehan of Larchmont. N. Y, counsel for a billboard com pany, a "briber" of politicians, in his Providence Star-Tribune last Sept 4. O'Hara already had been held for the grand Jury on a charge of crim inally libelling Governor Robert X. Qulnn by calling him a " liar" In the same edition. Conviction on a criminal libel charge carries a 10-year Jail sen tence or a 49,000 fine. Only four witnesses testified dur ing today's 10-mlnute hearing In the crowded courtroom. Counsel for O'Hara offered no witnesses OHara, nattily attired In a blue suit, sat his counsel's table. In the first of a series of radio addresses, Qulnn declared last night that O'Hara would "ruin racing In this country" If permitted to continue as managing director of the 43,000, 000 track. Preparing for Labor Parley Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R Pres sure from minority groups In the American Federation of Labor for trade union unity, as well as com mittee for Industrial organisation Internal differences, were reported today to be largely responsible for convocation of the Joint peace con ference scheduled for next Monday. C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis, neutral sources reported, has had difficulty placing his claimed mem bership of 3,700,000 on a sound, dues paying basis. Threats of secessions by small groups and rumbles of dis satisfaction have been beard from within the C. L O. In the A. P. of L., a powerful group of leaders In the miscellane ous and railroad trades Is making a secret effort to bring about peace with the C. I. O. rebels. It wss learned. This move hss been ac celerated by a feeling among both groups that labor's "civil "war" Is detrimental to many workers, and that the public and government are disturbed over Its ramifica tions. Two of the three A. P. of L. lead ers who meet a C. I. O. peace com mittee of 10 Monday were believed to represent the unity group. They are Oeorge Harrison and Matthew Woll. The third, O. M. Bugnlant, was believed to be adamant in op position. Thief Steels Bible Eugene, Oct. 31 (P The thief who robbed a parked automobile In front of a local church here last night should know better now. A brief case, taken from the car, con tained only a Bible, police were In formed. w- bungalow when his wife wss away to tell him she believed she waa preg nant. "Why did you want to see Psul Reeves?" Defense Attorney Oeorge Burton asked her. "He was married. He was older than I was. He waa the one who got me the way I waa." "Did you take anything with you?' "I took my father's revolver." "Why did you take It?" "I took It to protect me. I re membered what happened In Linden and I didn't want It to happen (Concluded Page 4, Celesta Win Smashing Victories on Shansi Front Red Army Launches HugeOffensive and Cap tures Key Positions (Ooprrisht by United Mel Chinese Field Headquart ers, North Shansi irovince, Oct. 21 (U.R) Chinese forces in Shansi province have launched a huge scale counter-offensive program and have won smashing victories against the Japanese, it was apparent today. Chinese, Mongolian. ' Mo hammedan, White Russian and Japanese troops are lock ed in the fiercest, bloodiest sort or fighting all over the long. Irregular northwestern front. Not only have the Chinese aban doned defensive tactics but they have risked frontal attacks In fore against the Japanese in two bat tles, one in the Yuan ping sector, to miles north ot Talyuon, the other In the Nlangtse mountain past 130 miles east of Talyuan. These two (Concluded on Pase 14, Column t) Major Battle Shanghai Area onangnai, Oct. 31 w.pj uasuaiues mounted Into the thousands on both sides tonight as Chinese and Japa nese troops struggled for .possession of Shanghai In the most decisive battle of the war. Matching man power against modernised Japanese units the Chi nese launched a general counter of fensive against the front wide shock attacks directed by General Iwana Matsul, commander In chief of the Japanese forces In central China, The assault of the North Railroad station In which Japanese shock troops fought their way through fires started by their own artillery, was repulsed by the Chinese. Chinese authorities estimated their own casualties along the Shanghai fronts today at 1,500 and said Japanese casualties were equal ly heavy. A third raiding party of Chines planes flew over the city and bomb ed Yangtsepoo causing scattered fires. Indicating that the Japanese mil itary leaders are ready to open the second phase of their Shanghai campaign, apparently believing th Chinese stand In Chapel, Klangwan and Taaang Is n earing an end, th Japanese forces launched a smash ing offensive west of the Kawangf u front. Novelties in the News (By Associated Press) No Breakfast Michigan City, Ind. Refusal of a wife to prepare breakfast Justifies a divorce for her husband, Superior Court Judge Russell W. Smith held. He granted a divorce to Oliver D. Ewlng, who testified that his wife, Rachel, had refused to prepare his breakfasts from their marriage, July 11, 1936, until she abandoned htm last March 33. What's in a Name Baltimore, Md. John Carter, negro pedestrian In court to tell about running into an automobile, said the accident happened on James street. Police said It happened on Oeorge street. Carter said he had it written down, and looked at th note. "You know. Judge," he said, "It says here that accident happened on John street." The court decided th automobile driver was not to blame, anyway. Persistence Salmon, Idaho Twice Legion naires saw voters defeat bond mea sures to remedy crowded Salmon school conditions. Then they started a new frame school building on their own lot. Members are doing moat of the work themselves. Gold Diggers Anchorage, Alaska Orlzxled pros pectors at Platinum, In the Oood (Cose hided Page 14, Celaau SI
