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Chinese Smash Lines in wn lh Chips.
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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