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6 Weather First in News Photos With the Oilmen Wirt Press ex clusive Tele-Mat aervloe, tha- Capi tal Journal U enabled to present photo of world events within lew noun of thatr occurrence. ' t Generally fair tonight and Frl. day, fogi on tout; slightly winner In northeast tonight; modern northwest wind. Yesterday: lln 104. Mln. n. Rain ft. River -13 lb North wind, clear. 50th Year, No. 172 n tared a oond elaw mttw at Salem, Oreton Salem, Orego-vThursday, July 21, 1938 Price Three Cents On Trains and Hnn Stavdt Fit Coot th J in r La. r ammes ii iri Anii ii 1 irxi iri is r nr- i 11 irrui i r 11 mi if 11 r-fTii i-xa AMuqil O l Q ig FI Pick-a-Back Airship Record Heat Spell of Year Likely Today Mercury Hits 101 at 1:30 as Salem Swelters In Torrid Wave At 1:35 o'clock this after noon the official thermometer at the Salem airport regis tered 101 degrees, a rise of 4 degrees in the preceding hour, as compared to a Wednesday reading at the same hour of 95 degrees. Hot? The thermometer boiled up to 97.6 degrees at 12:35 today and was still climbing, pointing to a new all-time high here. The ninth consecutive day of 90-degree-or-more weather today brought what was be lieved to be a new record for heat waves in Salem. On July 12, the thermometer read 89 degrees, and that was the last time the temperature dipped below the 90-degree dally maximum. There was apparently no prospect for a let-down from yesterday'! mark of 104 degrees, which was the highest recorded here in three years. The lingering spell of heat brought a restless night to Salem homes, as the minimum dropped to only 62. No Hope for Respite Balanites who were hoping for a respite found scant comfort in com parative hourly readings Wednes. day and Thursday. The heat wave Wednesday came after a compara tively cool early morning, the tern. peratui soaring 12 degrees between 11:35 and 2:35. Today, the morning was warmer, and the temperature gained 6 7 degrees in the hour pre ceding; 12:35. In the three hours preceding yes terday's record temperature, the temperature gained 9 degrees, from 96 to 104. Today's reading of 87.6 degrees was 6.6 degrees warmer than the corresponding reading Wednesday. The all-time record of 108 degrees was established In August, 1927. The weather forecast for Friday Is "continued fair. The hourly readings for Wednes (Concluded on Pub t, Column 4) Assassins Get Wan Shi-Sen Shanghai, July 21 m Wan 8hl Sen, Chinese member of the Japa nese-domlnated local government of the Shanghai district, was shot and killed by two gunmen in his home In the International Settle ment today. One assassin escaped but the oth er was caught by a watchman. Set tlement police questioned him and a series of widespread raids with numerous arrests followed. There have been more than dozen political assassinations in Shanghai since the Japanese army occupied the district. Most of the victims have been Chinese who had taken office in the Japanese-dominated regime. Wan was chief of the judicial department of that regime. .$10,750,000 Only Allotment Now Washington, July 21 (U.R Public works Administrator Harold I Ickes disclosed today that 110,750. 000 allotted this week for four Bonneville transmission lines was all PWA now contemplates spend ing In connection with the hydro electric project on the Columbia river. Asked whether the original re quest of Bonneville Administrator James D. Ron for 121,000,000 to construct transmission lines had been reduced, Ickes said, "Yes. Title Accepted to Land Near Crater Central Point. July 21 (v-The forest service announced yesterday the government had accepted title to i7oo acres or umbered land on the Crater Lake highway In the vl- clnlty of Prospect and Union Creek The area will be administered by tne Hogue river national forest. Auociated Prt Phott Owen Wister OwenWisfer Passes at 78 North Kingstown, R. I., July 21 W) Owen Wister, 78, famous novelist, died of a cerebral hemorrhage today at his summer home, Crowfield. He arrived there for the season on July 8 and became ill only yesterday. In recent years, Wister had lived quietly during the summers in South county and his last public appearance was at the "Animated Magazine," a charity entertainment in Narragansett, In 1935. With the writer at the time of death were his daughter, Mrs. Walt er Stokes, of North Kingstown and Philadelphia; and three sons, Owen J. Wister of New York City; Wil liam R. Wister and Charles K. B. Wister, both of Philadelphia. There is another daughter, Mrs. Andrew Dasbury of New Mexico, and four grandchildren also survive. Wlster's body will be taken to Philadelphia, his birthplace, for the funeral, the date of which Is un decided. Court, Summer Work Started Workmen for the Oregon Con tract company yesterday started their job of grading and paving the Court and Summer street ap proaches to the new state capltol and library when crews commenced cutting trees that have to be re moved from the parkings to make way for the widened and relocated roadways. Grading, operations have been held by delays In completing the new city sewer along Court street from Church to 12th street, but that work was speeded up yesterday when a gasoline digger was put to work excavating the open trench between Winter and Capitol streets. When grading and paving gets under way through traflie' on the Pacific highway will be detoured around the job via Center street. The contractors expect to com plete the job by September 1. Ladybugs Feast On Aphis Pest Astoria, July 21 W) Two million hungry ladybugs, released from cold storage hibernation, feasted today on aphis threatening the Clatsop county pea crop. The Insects, hatched In lnsec torles, were released by the Burk pea cannery. Queen Margaret to Be Crowned Friday Stayton, Or., July 21 Queen Margaret Kimbrough will be formally crowned Miss Santiam at the big day of the third annual Santiam Spree here Friday morning. King Bing Tom Hill, assisted by his Cherrtan eoun-a" cil of nobles, will preside. The ceremony takes place at the con clusion of the Industrial parade which moves promptly at 11 o'clock. The royal party will be guests at a luncheon at noon. Dedication of the new city park will attract a large crowd of state officials with Governor Charles H. Martin making the dedicatory ad dress. U. S. Senator Charles L McNary and State Treasurer Rufus C. Holman will speak on the pro gram which will also be attended by Congressman Jamea Mott, the principal speaker for the Town send rally which will be held In the park after the dedication services. An afternoon of sports and con tests has been arranged and many water events art Included on the Novel Craft Spans Ocean In 20 Hours First of Series of Experi mental Hops Made With out Mishap from Ireland Port Washington, N. Y., July 21 (U.R) British Imper ial Airways Mercury, first "pick-a-back" plane ever to fly to this country, arrived here from Montreal at 4:08 p. m EDT today, 25 hours and eight minutes after taking the air from the back of its mother plane" over Foynes, Ireland, Montreal, July 21 (U.R) The British Imperial Airways seaplane Mercury landed here at 11:19 a. m. EDT today after 2850 mile nonstop survey flight across the Atlantic from Foynes, Ireland, and at 1:59 p. m., after re fueling, took off on the 330 mile hop to Port Washington, N, Y Its destination. Capt. Donald C. T. Bennett, the pilot, hoped to reach the landing base in Manhasset bay at Port Washington at about 4 p. m. The four-englned "pick-a-back" plane made the flight to Montreal, one of several survey hops planned by Imperial Airways this summer, in 20 hours and 19 minutes, aver aging about 141 miles an hour In the face of light headwinds. The Mercury took off from Its mother plane, the Mala, at I p. m EDT yesterday. Crowd Sees Landing A crowd of more than 500 persons watched the ship drop to the St. Lawrence river and glide to the Bouchervllle air base where a crew waited to refuel the plane for the 330 mile flight to Port Washington, N. Y. The plane, upper component of the Short-Mayo composite aircraft, was laden with half a ton of news papers and photographs and news reels of the "visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth to Paris. Officials of Canadian National Airways and Trans-Canada Air lines, government Inspectors and customs men greeted Pilot Bennett and Radio Operator A. J. Coster as they climbed out of the plane. Express and postal authorities took charge of that part of the plane's cargo of mail and pictures destined for Canadian points. Imperial Airways officials said the plans were for the Mercury to tune its departure from Montreal to make the time of arrival at the Pan-American Airways base at Port Washington about 4 p. m. Others to Follow The Mercury's flight is one of 15 experimental survey flights in which Imperial Airways plans to test three types of equipment de signed for trans-Atlantic commer cial service. The composite aircraft, invented by Major Robert H. Mayor, was designed to permit take-offs with heavier loads than would be pos sible If the Mercury had to depend upon its own lifting power to get into the air. The motor plane, modification of the four-englned empire flying boat, carries the smaller craft on its back In taking off, releasing It high in the air. program. A bathing beauty parade. displaying all the latest creations In swimming suits, will be offered and participants will give a demonstra tion of diving and swimming. Selection of the royal court was made at the opening dance Tues day night with the second and third dances Friday and Saturday nights. Four bands will be In the Indus trial parade which Is being staged under the direction of Orant Mur phy and Ward Inglla. Scores of youngsters are expected to take part in the pet parade which will be held Saturday morn ing. More Interest than usual being taken In this event and youngsters have already registered their pets, distinguished (hlefly by um great variety. Lands Army Power of France Seen by British Ruler Fifty Thousand French Troops Parade in Demon stration of Friendship Paris, July 21 (U.R) France gave King George VI a vivid picture of her military might today, to back up her demon strations of friendship and her expression of willingness to co-operate in the problems of European diplomacy. Fifty thousand soldiers, sons of the men who at Ver dun immortalized the phrase "They shall not pass," parad ed in the king's honor up the broad Avenue de Paris at Versailles. It was the biggest military pro cession In France since the victory parade after the World war. It was the biggest ever accorded the head of a foreign state, and It matched In Its lmpresslveness the gigantic displays which the totalitarian countries have made familiar. It Is sometimes forgotten that British and other military experts have called France s army the most formidable, in its fighting efficiency. In Europe; that Franoe has a regu lar army of nearly 700,000 men and 5,500,000 reserves. In Marshal's Uniform It was to put these facts clearly in the mind of the British public that France held its parade today la the king s honor. King George, In the uniform of a field marshal of the British army, stood beside President Albert Le- Brun and Gen. Maurice Gamelln, vice-president of the superior war council, and took the salute as the troops marched by, representing every branch of the fighting ser vices. Diplomatic activity was oversha dowed today by the parade, but It was understood from French sources that French-British policy as the result of recent negotiations and talks here Included: 1. The fullest political, economic, military and technical collaboration. 2. An effort to persuade Czechos lovakia to speed up delivery to the German minority of the new minori ties statute, in order that advan tage might be taken of the good atmosphere created by Adolf Hitler's voluntary assurances to Great Brit ain that he hoped for a peaceable solution. Mediation Desirable 3. Postponement of any French-Brltlsh-German-Italian talks on colonies, arms limitation and finan cial and economic cooperation with the Czechoslovakian and Spanish civil war problems had been clari fied. 4. Pursuit of efforts to hasten the evacuation of foreign troops irom spain, and to mediate If pos sible between the loyalists and the nationalists. 5. To postpone the effectiveness of the British-Italian friendship treaty until the evacuation of Ital ian troops from Spain was well un der way. 8. New efforts to Improve French Italian relations. Merchants Warned Of Forged Checks Merchants were being warned to day by Constable Earl Adams that an unusually large number of forg ed checks are In circulation, his office receiving 18 complaints in the last two or three days. In at least one Instance the check passer presented a driver's license to serve as Identification. It is not known whether or not he was the rightful owner and a check-up is being made. Because of the large number of complaints being received. Consta ble Adams urges all merchants to use every precaution In cashing check presented by a stranger. Radiator Going On Hottest Day Portland. July 21 P D. T. Wll- lemln, chief clerk of the municipal court, stiU doesn't know how hot It wss yesterday. The thermometer said 101 degrees, hottest day since 193S and then Wlllemln discovered the steam radiator In his office had been turned on full blast for sev eral days fire Fighters Drop Tools, Flee Olympic Blase With the giant Campbell river, B. C, forest fire threat ening other Canadian settlements on the Olympic peninsula, north of Seattle, these fighters found the flames sweeping too close and were forced to drop their tools and flee. The flames already have covered 30,000 acres and were threatening between 30 and 80 million feet of bucked timber stored near Comox landing camp 3. Associated Press Photo. Uniforms Put On Hoppers Sidney, Mont., July 21 m Eight thousand grasshoppers winged freebooters of the grain fields were painted silver and gold today In the Interest of science. The bureau of entomology of the TJ. 8. department of . .agriculture wants to know how far and how quickly the 'hoppers fly. In an effort to obtain this infor mation, 4,000 'hoppera found In the area 12 miles northwest of Sidney were painted a bright gold color. Another 4,000 trapped 12 miles west of WlUlston, N. D., were painted silver. Harold Willis and Ells WesUake, bureau of entomology representa tives, asked persons finding the painted Insects to send them to the bureau of Montana state college, Bozeman, giving the exact locations where they were found. Injury Fatal to Charles Drury Charles Drury, IT. son of Mr. and Mrs. George Drury of Sublimity, died at a hospital here today after breaking his neck In a diva Into Silver creek yesterday. The youth misjudged the depth of the water and crashed his skull into a submerged rock. He was brought to the Salem Deaconess hospital here In the Salem first aid car. His arms and legs were para lysed before he arrived and he died during the night. He is survived by his parents. two brothers and three sisters, Jess and Wllber of Sublimity, Mrs. Ra chel Jones of Dorrls, Calif., Mrs Etra Eades of Klamath Falls and Mary Drury of Sublimity. Two Nations Sign Gran Chaco Treaty Buenos Aires, July 21 (U.R) Repre sentatives of Paraguay and Bolivia signed a formal treaty today ending 100 years of dispute between the two republics over possession of the Oran Chaco border region. The signatures were affixed In the government house In the presence of delegates of the six mediating na tions, Including the United States, After a plebiscite In Paraguay and a constitutional assembly In Bolivia to ratify the pact, the mediators will begin fixing an arbitrary boun dary In the Oran Chaco. Orders for Special Edition to be Taken Off Reserved List Those who ordered copies of the Capital Journal's Gol den Anniversary and Capitol Dedication edition must call for them at onae before they are sold. A number of these copies which have been reserved are still In the office. Because of the large demand by the general public, they will not be reserved after Saturday, and will be placed on sale. bW Envoy of Brings Peace Hint London, July 21 (VP) Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today Chancellor Hitler s confidential envoy renewed assurances of the German government "of their desire to achieve a neace- ful settlement of outstanding said these assurances had been- given to Viscount Halifax, foreign secretary, by Captain Frits Wied emann, the German Fuehrer's rep resentative. Chamberlain gave this reply to a question as to what was discussed at Monday night's confidential dis cussion between Lord Halifax and Hitler's envoy. "In the course of his recent visit to London, Captain Wiedemann had an informal conversation with the secretary of state for foreign affairs. Captain Wiedemann did not come prepared to discuss any particular aspect of political affairs, but the conversation enabled him, owing to his contacts with authoritative circles in Germany, to renew the assurances already given by the German government of their desire' to achieve a peaceful aettlement of outstanding questions." Visits Secretary at Home The German visitor saw the for eign secretary at his home just the evening before Lord Halifax left for Paris, accompanying King Oeorge and Queen Elizabeth on their visit of state. This lent added Importance to the talk, which Is understood to have figured vitally In Lord Halifax's conversations with Premier Dala- dier and Foreign Minister Bonnet in Paris. The prime minister's statement was Interpreted here as an lndica- tion that Wiedemann's visit might lead to the reopening of negotia tions for a broad Anglo-German political settlement. One of the most difficult ques tions Involved Is that of Czechoslo vakia s Germanic minority, over which Hitler has declared himself "protector." Informed persons be lieved this was one of the subjects of the Halifax-Wledemann talk. Bureau Eyes Canby Lands Washington, July 21 P Recla mation bureau officials said today they hoped Investigations north snd west of Canby, Ore., would dis close suitable lands for extension of Irrigation In the district "at reasonable cost." They aald many farmers near the little community on the Molalla river, south of Oregon City, were anxious to bring more land Into cultivation by irrigation but sur veys of other sections In the district showed costs "prohibitive." "We cannot permit the water uses to assume an undue burden," one official said. Two Sentenced In Arson Case Portland, July 21 MV-One year terms In the state prison were or dered yesterday for Clarence H. Wilson, 85, and Fred J. Worden, 87, who pleaded guilty to an arson plot. The aged men admitted an attempt to burn Wilson's horns to collect (3500 Insurance. Hitler that Britain had received from questions." The prime minister Labor United For Barkley Washington, July 21 (U.R) Or ganized labor united today to sup port Senate Majority Leader Alben W, Barkley for renominatlon against Governor A. B. (Happy) Chandler In the Kentucky demo cratic primary. President William Green and the American Federation of Labor Join ed President Roosevelt, the Com mittee for Industrial Organization, the Railway Labor Executives' as sociation, and labor's non-partisan league in urging Barkley's re-election. The primary Is August 8. The contest between Barkley and Chandler will be an outright test of new deal strength Inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt gave unequivocal en dorsement to Barkley during his re cent trans-continental trip. Green's action marked one of the few instances in which the divided labor camps have united for politi cal action. The other case Is In Maryland, where all labor groups are backing Rep. David J. Lewis against Sen. Millard E. Tydings and the democratic nomination. Umpqua Highway Closed by Error Roseburg, Ore., July 21 (flV-The Umpqua highway between Drain and Reedsport, closed yesterday be cause of the Smith river fire, was reopened this morning upon orders from the Roseburg division office of the state highway department. The road was closed yesterday upon an erroneous report concerning the proximity of the fire to the high way, it was reported. Oregon Social Aid $2,147,700 in Year Washington, July 21 IP) The social security board re ported today Oregon received $2,147,700 from the federal government for public assistance during the year ended June 30. or the total, 81,029.900 went to the aged needy, $153,300 to depend ent children of needy families, and 164,500 to indigent blind. In a statistical study of April, the board found 206 of every 1,000 aged persona in the state received old age assistance, compared with the na tional average of 214. This old age assistance totaled 8359,417 during the month and was spread over 16, 907 persons. Of every 1,000 children under 18 years In the state, 12, or nine less than the national average, received help. The benefits for this group to taled 946.047 for the month of April and went to 1,851 children In 1,262 families. Smoke Rolling From 20,000 Forest Acres Three Deaths Recorded; 1300 Men Guard Smith River; Siskiyous Suffer (Br AHocUUd Prtu) Heat and its unmanageable and far more dangerous com panion, fire, began the second week of Oregon occupation to day with three persons dead and smoke still belching from more than 20,000 acres of forest. The northwest continued to wallow in the trough of low pressure and the government weather bureau promised only slight relief from tem peratures which soared well over 100 degrees In many sections yes terday. The bureau forecast scattered thunder showers for the Siskiyou and the middle and southern Cas cade mountains, where hundreds of men battled to prevent the spread of flames from the thousands of acres already charred. Forest offi cials feared the passible showers would be accompanied by lightning which would set more fires than the rain would extinguish. A brick mason collapsed and died at his job in Corvallis yesterday where the temperature blistered the countryside at 103 degrees. A farm er at Sllverton suffered a fatal heat prostration last week and a fir fighter lost his life In Clatsop coun ty earlier this month. Scottsburg Believed Safe Scottsburg, haze-hidden commun ity on the beautiful Umpqua river, appeared out of Immediate danger from the Smith river fire. Highway authorities reopened the Drain Reedsport route after they learned the blaze was nearly two miles away. The Smith river Inferno, fought by 1300 men, has consumed 6000 acres. Scottsburg was safe as long as the wind did not shift and send the flames crowning through the trees. An uncontrolled fire swept within four miles of Oak Flat on the Illi nois river of southern Oregon and forced abandonment of plana to es tablish a women's vacation camp. The Chetco tire, still defying effort to control It, spread to MOO acres. The fire fighting crew has been In creased to approximately one man for every nine acres afire. The Dal les and Nome creek fires, both In the Siskiyou area, had reached a combined total of about 1600 acers. Three specialists In fire fighting tactics were dispatched by airplane from Seattle to the Redwood ranger station In the Siskiyou National forest. A gasoline explosion destroyed about 115,000 In equipment at the hidden Treasure mine near Baker and Injured one man. Lightning is Menace The forest service quenched two lightning-set fires In the Diamond lake region. Incendlarlsts, taking advantage of poor visibility, were giving fire war dens trouble In several districts. Suffering Oregon residents had little opportunity to cool off during the night from yesterday's wither ing temperatures. The minimum, In many Instances, failed to drop be low 75 degrees. A Weyerhaeuser Timber company fire on Hayden mountain, between Medford and Klamath Falls, was controlled yesterday by crews rush ed from the Deschutes National for- (rnnrlnded on Paxe 10, Column 4) Forty-two one more than the national average of every 100.000 persons In the state, received blind benefits during the month. These benefits, averaging $2535, totaled 111,028 and went to 435 persons. The board, during April, received 182 claims for old age Insurance and made 168 certifications. Of the cer tifications, which authorized aver age payments of 834.68, 104 were filed by persons who had reached the retirement age of 88 and 82 by heirs seeking death payments. The state 'l file of employe ac count numbers mounted to 319,220 by the end of April, a gain of 1.879 during the month.
