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The Emmoti News WEATHER NEWS Fair Nigh 72; low Ha At Midnight WIRE SERVICE Tli Herald anil Now suliarrlb lo lull leaanl wire ervlc if Ilia Associated I'rvu anil Hi United Preae, Ih world' greatest nevtagatlierlng organlaatlona. Fop 17 hour dally world newe come Into Th llorald Nwa office on teletype machine. z hour to ft p.m. , IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND bllM In rl-.- -11.77 -1S.0I I'MM year to data . formal precipitation KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937 Vol. 14, No. 213 rrice F lve Cents (Every Morning Except Monday) Editorial! on the) Day's News lly I HANK JKNKINH poKTliAM) hm a Ulmr dlaput In In lumber Induatry. It Uti'l Ihe old faahloned kind, be tween employer nd employe. I' follow a lh new faahlon, whlrh hai apruug up aim th Wagner labor relations act became a law. Tlia row la between th AKl and III CIO (rival labor organl aailona). wlih lh amployrra look ing on aa helpleae byatandere. 'T'HK nailnnal labor relation board, operating under th Wagner labor relallona art. offer ad Ha "aaalatanr" In aaltllni lha dlfpuie. It received ihla anaaar from Aba Mulr. vie prealdenl of lha AFL carpenter International union : "Tha brotherhood (of car pentetal haa had two raaea be fora tha regional (labor rela tional board, at Onala.ka and at Umak. and In two year tha hoard hna yet lo allow li haa offered labor any real relief. "Compared to III no-beneflta 7 tha board haa given labor It ha given th employer alao nothing but einuarraaauirnl. W. don I anl ANVTHINtl TO DO WITH IT. W will atralghl n out our own affalra." T-1IK Wacnor labor relation act haa been In operation aom- (Continued on Tag rival KLAMATH LOSES TO SALEM OUTFIT IN SOFTBALL TOURNEY ft At. KM. Or., Aug. !1 (CP) Th fifth annual Oregon alate aofthall lournainenl opened here tonlchl, with Albany edging out Dallaa In Ilia opening game. 3 to 1 s,or: K. H. K- Allmny - 1 10 I Dallna - ll Ailania and Aalihy; Laraon and lIlMH.ier. . f Val;a of Halim awarmed ovar 'Klamath Kalla. t In t. In lha aen onrt gam of th evening. M.ore: K. II. K Walla 14 Klamath Kalla 1 I I SK'lubork and Heard; llcinoa. Ilelvry and Qulnn. It. II. E Mllwankl ' f Bnnnevlll - 4 1" Itvlmer and Meyera; Martin and Mlntu. R. H. E notary Bread 11 0 Aalorla . 0 14 Htelnnnek and Collier; Oeorge aon anil Hood. Teama were entered from Dal laa, Albany, Klamath Kalla, Aa tnrla. Honnevllle, Mllwaukle, Mi. Angel, Kunene. McWInnvllle, llllla lioro, Morahfleld, Maker and two teama each from Portland and Salem. The alal women'a aofthall rhnmplnnahlpa will get under way Wedneartay afternoon, with all but the final rnunda gamea played aa preliminaries to tha men a alliea. NAVY' PLANE FALLS IN BAY. KILLING 4t INJURING 3 . M DIKCO, Cal.. Aug. 13 (UP) A two-motored navy fly ing boat crashed In flan Diego bay tonight while returning from a routine night flight at aea. Th officer of tha day at (he nearby dcatroyed haae reported that four men were killed and three Injured. Th giant plana rraahed In all feet of water near the rim of the hay, the officer reported. Th dead, whom the navy list (Continued on Pag Five) Four-H Fair Preliminaries To be Run Off Wednesday Preparatlona for the Klamath Junior Dlveatock aad Daby lleef ahow th flrat of next week aro In final alagea and (wo prelim inary evenla will be run off Wed nesday, Clifford Jenklna, county cluh leader, elated Monday. Trophlna and prliea for the ahow will be placed on exhibit In a window at Webb Kennctt'a atora at Seventh and Main today. A trial run of lha apeed conteat ponaored by th Kern a Imple ment company will be held next Wedneaday. Four-H clubhera will aaaemhle at 1:30 In (he company ahow room to tnat their ak 111 at hooking up and unhooking tractor and mowing machine equipment. Thla conteat la open to any Klamath county Four-H mombar who haa cropa or llveatock and final heat will take place during the big ahow next wenk. Following the machinery event, yNuh member! will take part In Hnlft and company'! meat Identi fication conteat. Thirty fancy cut! of beef, pork and lamb will be on dlaplny at the plant, with name attached. After atitdylng th PARTY FUTURE LEFT IN HANDS OF PRESIDENT Demo Leaders Say Roose velt Must Tick One of Two Lines of Strategy WAHIIINHTON. Aug. II (API Democratic leadera. worried by th atrlfe within their party, pre dicted today that befor cougreaa reconvenes I'realdent Roosevelt mint rhooae on of Ihea far rearhlng couraea of atrategyt I. Itecnnrlllallnn, at tha coat of abandoning anma of hla moat cherlahed objerllvee. with lha party lactlona whlrh hav rj fuacd to aupport all of hla pro grain. I. A new campaign lo rally public aupport and hammer llliough hla rontroveralal laauea. riakliig diartiptlon of th party beyond all repair. "Trial llallooiia" On of the new deal'a moat truated alraleglala aald privately today that Mr. Ilooaevell will ha hla derlalon on the trriil of public opinion within th neat few week. II described aa "trial bal loon' I w rontl llillrlory eM-erhel mad almoat almultaueoualy laal week by nien often regarded aa Whit lloua epokeameu Poet niaater tieneral Farley and Hen atnr (iuffey ID I'a.) In a aavagely-worded radio apeerh Gulfey predicted that tha "rebel" aenatora notably Wheel er Ill-Mont l, Hurke (D-.N'eh). and O'Maboney D-Wy) would be driven from th party. Iteactton to the pronounce menta, demorrata predicted, will guide. In large meaaure, th preaident'a futura atrategy. Rebel Nure of HupMrt The flrat reaction waa prompt ly aupplled by th thre aen alora tiuffey had denounced. In their laat major addreaaea to th aeaalon they defied anyone to ouat them from the party and bluntly told tha administration they ware ready for open war. If tha ' fight cornea, their frlenria aald. Ui "rebela can count on strong aupport ' from other dlagrunlled aleuienta with in th party. " With them would atand the "old-lln" democratic leadera, who are determined to nam an anti-new deal prealdentlal candi date In 1940; a hoat of aoulhara congreaamen. perturbed by th admtnlatratlon'a wage-hour leg (Contlnued on rag Klre) 2000 JOB-MARCH PILGRIMS PITCH CAMP ON POTOMAC WASHINGTON. Aug. il (AP) New arrival awelled to nearly looo today the ranka of the Workera Alliance Job-Marchers camped In Potomac park. A group of about a no from New York, New Jeraey and Penn aylranla arrived at th ramp Sunday, and David l.aner. preal dent of th alliance, aald 700 mora were expected from th weat today. Leadera aald the Job-marcher would parade through downtown Waahlnglon Tueaday aa a dem onatratlon agalnat cute In th work progreaa admlnlatratlon employment rolla. I.aaaer aaaerted th alliance acored on victory when WPA Admlnlatratnr Harry Hopklna aent a letter lo congress Satur day atatlng no further reductlona In WPA rolla would be made "except for caua" until after next winter. H aald th Job-march would go on, howvver. bcaua th al liance aim hoped to win an agreement from WPA lo reln atata thouaends h aald war dlamlaaed from th WPA In re cent month and were unable to find Joba In private Induatry. dlaplay, contaatanta will attempt to Identify from memory the plr tnrea of theae cuta In a pamphlet laaued by flwlft and company. All Four-H club member are eligible for thla conteat, the win ner of which will be aolected from among entrlea from all over the atate, for a trip to the Pacific In ternational Llveatock expoaltlon at Portland. A problem on the meat yield of varloua anlmala and an eaaay are Included In the conteat. Meanwhile, tha fair board la at work at lha fairground getting equipment In ahap for what la expected to be a record number of entrlea In tha llveatock ahow and auction aale. Rntrlea tnuat all be In by I p. m. Sunday. Premium! thli year are ar ranged ao that flrat place wlnhera will receive icholarahlpa to the Four-H mmmer arhool, with olhar awarda ranging up to tenth plane In the larger exhibit!. Other conteata, In ahowmanahlp and Judging In varloua dlvlalona. have iperlal firliea, In the form of merchandlie and free trip! (o th late fair. In New A Jack AtmetiT, mintipr of th fIrl rmployntnt bureau, ( tihfrwn try inn out ih nnw tWcphonit In hti QfTlrc In th Klk hotel I bulhltnn oo .Main atrM't. Thi bureau moved into the orrtr Mon- day mm n In a; Wh"n th plrtur waa jkkn Tprhntrlan Hill Heck waf I atlll at work ttiatalllnit th tnl)honii at Aln.etrr' denk. CRIPPLE KILLS AGED MOTHER Jobless Portland Drafts man Ends Argument by Assaut with Bludgeon PORTLAND, AttK. JS Calmly and with an occasional ami). Howard Flmtead, 17, un employed draftaman. told Port land liollre how he nded an aiuntm with lla mother laat nlRbt by knocking her unron sciuus wUl hi 4tl. rhoktnn her with hla knee and beat In t; her to death with a hay aet-acrew from a bench viae. Th younn man, left a partial crlppla by Infantile paralyala, had attended church Sunday morning and attended a ptcnlc In the afternoon. Wanted lo All Hummer Itrturnlnt: home about 4 p. m. he found hla mother, Mra. Gurtn Klnatcad, i, atlng dinner alone In the kitchen. A Norwegian lltbl lay open beaide her plate. At her other elbow waa a church (amphlet under a bowl of airing beana. She had written a not, preaiimably for her eoni: "I went hack to church. Detective, Walter Petraon quoted Finn trad aa aavtnK he got In an argument with hla mother when h returned. He waa hair aa to Its origin hut in (Contlnued on Page Five) WILKINS CROSSES POLE IN HUNT FOR SOVIET FLIERS FAIRBANKS, Alaaka, Aug. IS (AP) A terae meaaage. Inter cepted hy the Pacific Alaaka Alr waya radio atatlon here today, re ported Sir (leorge Hubert Wil kin, noted explorer, had flown over the north pole In hla aearch for the mlaalng Ruaaian trana polar fllera, who vaniahed a week ago on a flight from Moarow to the United State. Wllklna' meaaage gave no de talla. He left Coppermine. N.W.T., In the Canadian arctic, yeaterday and waa expected to baae at Aklavlk, a trading poat at tha mouth of the MacKcntle river. IlARnOW', Alaaka, Aug. 8J (IT) Reporla from Moarow that radio algnal on th wave length of Slglamtind Levaneffay' mlailng trnnapolar plane had been heard apurred rnacue fllera, grounded yeaterday by fog, to prepare to take to th air again today In aearch tor the all loat aerial ad ventnrera. The algnala, heard yeaterday, could not he Interpreted but anvlt offlrlul aaked northern Ruaaian atatlon In hroadraat rearu plan In an effort to en courage the fllera If (hey are itranded In aom Isolated arctic point, AIRLINER CRASHES, BURNS; THREE DIE 8AM I.UIS, Argentina, Aug. IS (UP) Three membera of the crew of the Pan-American Orace Air waya airliner Santa Elena were killed today when the big plane craahed and burned IS mllea from here. The dead were Pilot Pnraoly, ro-Pllot 1)1 Ceaare and Steward Thomae. There were, no paaaen gera aboard. It waa believed th plan ex ploded after craahlng. The liner waa flying It! regu lar run from Mendoia to Cordoba, a dlatanre of S00 mllea, when the accident occurred. Offices apweerwji ui inia.iai I'lw v: . en--.:- - a Klamath Gets Sample Blast Of Fall Cold It waa a fine summer while It .anted. Remarks like that were com mon on Main alreet early Mon day aa shivering Klatnathitcs went were not many dgrs above to work In temperaturea that (reeling. The overnight minimum re ported by the reclamation service waa 38 above zero. The govern ment thermometer at Tulclake showed 31, one degree below freestng. Heporta to th reclamation of fice, from agricultural diatrlt-U varied aa to the da mare done lo rropn In th baaln. Pronpect of another cold nicht caused aom amlety Monday evening. POltTLANI). Aug. 23 (VP) Rain spared no one, not even the scores of golfers competing for the national amateur championship, at Portland today. Sparse patches of blue sky dis appeared with heavy showers. Trannfornwr lllown Out A low pressure area spilled nearly half an Inch of rain Sun day In half an hour. Lightning and thunder accompanied the downpour. The storm blew out a transformer and for a time crip pled apcial wire facilities from the Alderwood Country club where the tourney Is underway. ASTORIA. Aug. 13 Hall and heavy rain storms In the low er Columbia river district threat ened damage today to the unhar vsted half of the Itent grass crop. Ten threshing machines are oper ating long hours In an effort to save the stand, already suffering from had weather earlier in the season. , lOO WHAI-KH GOLD HKACH. Aug. 23 (.TV The uneipected appearance of nearly 10U whales near the beach a few miles north of here provid ed unscheduled entertainment for hundreds of residents and visitors Saturday afternoon. Night Wire Flashes APPKAI. RAN 1'RANCISl'O. Aug. 8-1 (l) Harry French, Altliraa, condemned lo death for nmnler In the aln J lug of Claude Mr trarkill, altlirna newapnncr puhllalier, appealed lo t alllor nla'a anpreme court lodajr lo re verae hla conviction. COMPIJMKXTS SAI.KM. rr Aug. 28 (TP) H. II. tilalayer, arcn-tary of (lie Oregon tllglmay roniiiiUalon, aald today Ihe department hail received nuinerolia letter rum pllioentlng l hem on the recent pairchaae of tlnlherlnnd along the Klaniath Kalla-ljikevlew highway. IONU SWIM AI.UVNY, . V., Aug. IM (IP) lliarley .Imni). year-old I e g 1 a a endurance awliiiuier, aaed Van Wle'a point llirre mile aoulli of Albany at 10 o'rlmk tonight on hla non-alop MH-nille awlm to New York. .Iniiny'a prog reaa waa alow hecauae ho waa wlmiiiliig agnlnat the tide. HOKVMIH)N rTII.HO.M PKIStiN, Cal., Aug. UI (IP) Krneat llooth, con vict fiction writer mined for "Ijidlea of the ,Moh" and other lalea, went forth free man to day lo begin Ilia belated honey moon after 18 )-rara behind prlaon walla. 14 DEATH IN BIO FOREST BLAZE Twenty-three Others In Hospitals After Wind Whips Fire Over Crew CODYWyo., Aug. H (L'P) Th death toll elected by Ihe worat foreat fire In Wyoming' hlatory mounted to , 14 tonight when Ambroclo (jarsa, a CCC en rol lee from Corpui Chriatl. Teg. died In a hoapltal her from e ver burna. Garza'a death came only a ahort time alter memorial aervlcea for the dead had been held at the .Methodtet church her and had been broadcaal over a national radio hookup. Thought Controlled Meanwhile, the fore fighting th fire which had ravaged 2000 acre In Shoahone national foreat 36 mllea weat of here, waa d creaaed tonight to 4U0 men. Be tween 60U and 7u0 workera have been battling the blaze which waa Marled laat Friday, preauinably by lightning. I-ark of wind and the effective neaa of fire lanea dug to turn the path of the fire toward the moun tain top where It would die out for want of fuel appeared tonight to have brought the blase under control. Bodlea of the men who burned to deaih yeaterday were aealed In raaketa at Cody mortuariea to night. It waa thought the bodle of come of the CCC enrollee from Teiaa might be tent to their home tomorrow. CODV. Wyo.. Aug. !S t.PV The Shoahone national foreat fire claimed Ita thirteenth victim today with the death In a hoapltal here of William Whltlork. CCC en rollee at the Tenaleep, Wyo.. camp from Auatln. Texaa. Whltlork a death occurred Juat after a hunt through amouldering mlna of the charred mountain foreat had failed to yield up any additional bodlea. . . p "Ve feel now that we have brought out all the bodle and that all our dead are accounted tor." aald John Sleker, auperviaor of the Shoahone national foreat In which the blase occurred. CODY. Wyo.. Aug. 23 (4V Grimy reacne workera hunted through amouldering rulna of a mountain foreat today, aeeking more vlrtlma of a gale-whipped fire which burned 11 of their companion! to death. Two acore others were Injured S5 so aerloualy they required hoapltal treatment. All the victim, many of them CCC enrolleea from Tetaa. were fir fightera. trapped while battling th blase In the Shoshone (Con- on Page Five) VIC MEYERS LAUDS PATRONAGE IN PICNIC ADDRESS , PORTLAND. Aug. 53 (JP1 Lieutenant Governor Victor Myer of Waahington apoke a word tor Ihe Importance of patronage In building a party organisation in addressing the Oregon state demo cratic picnic at Oaks park Sunday. "I, for one. sure do believe in the apolla system." Myer said. "We've got to take care of our own; the republican won't do It." He denounced "reactionary democrata, poalng as llberala. who flew Into office on Roosevelt's coat tails-' and are now opposing administration policies. The more than 1000 persons attending heard pleas for party harmony from Oregon leaders. View expressed from th plat form Included: Willis B. Mahoney, Klamath Falls; "Democrat In Oregon are o busy getting themselves Jobs and preventing somebody else from getting a Job that they for get about doing anything for Ore gon." Dr. R. M. Irwin, Multnomah county coroner: "I'm more Inter ested In the living than I am In the dead, because you can't vote after you're dead." IDAHO'S SINKING LAND DAMS RIVER BUHU Idaho. Aug. IS (P Slaba. of lava rock and fractured earth, giant ehavlnga from Buhl's famous "moving wall," cascaded today Into th Little Salmon river, forming a 15-foot high dam. Backwater Immediately formed In the valuable farm area eight miles northwest of here which has been plagued by queer geo logic disturbances the past thre week. Anxious farmers gathered to aee whether the river would cut a channel through the debris. TAXtil.KD IN PKNCK MEDFOHD, Aug. S3 (i?) Dis covery of the body of Alvln U Blake, 76. an Inmate of the Jack son county poorfarm, ended t two weeks' search. The body was found entangled In a wire fence near the Institution, where he disappeared August I. Portland Sawmill Employers Reject Petition of CIO to Open Plants Closed by AFL PORTLAND, Au. 21 iVP) M M mployra dnid a mass petition from CIO lumber workers to op'n srn closed plants In the Port land district today. The CIO men, oat of Joba since last wck when mills shut down with the appearance of AFL pick ets, were on hand at company doors this morn ins; to resume their old stations but they turned away again when they failed to gain admittance. "Kvery one of our men ahowed up to no back to work." aald Har old Pritchett, president of the CIO International Woodworkers of America, "but none of the mills is opened yet." "I don't know If any of our mill committees are making head way In negotiations with employ ers. We are awaiting the arrival of Charles W. Hope, represen tative of the national labor rela tions board, from Seattle." The Building Trades Council, the AFL spearhead In the more to close operations In protest against CIO labor, eased the dead lock with requests for the release of building materials to meet or ders on hand. B. R. Mathis sec retary, said no work underway will be held up. The request In cluded release of fuel. Six May Seek State Demo Chairmanship By PAIL W. H.IRVKV. JR. SALEM, Aug. 21 (AP) The climax of a summer full of poli tical actlrlty, something unusual in an off-year. Is expected to occur within two or three weeks when a successor must he named for Claude McCollocb, democratic atate chairman who will reaign his post before becoming federal district Judge. Democratic leaders assume Mc Colloch. after his return from Washington, D C. will call the 3t stat committeemen together and will tender hi -resignation. Hut if McCollocb does not call a meeting. Nadie SI raver of Baker county, vice-chairman, would rise lo the post for the rest of the term. Gnaalln lo Withdraw Six prominent democrata are reported to he after McColloch's Job. One of the leading candi dates is John Beckman. Multno (Continued on Page fire) EASTERNERS LEAD IN FIRST ROUND OF GOLF, TOURNEY ADLKWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Aug. 23 (UP) Darkness halted play tonight In the national ama teur golf championship as two crack eastern golfera led the field with par ahattertng Tl's in the flrat lS-hole qualifying round In wind-driven rain squalls. Young Frank Starlacl. former public links champion of Brook lyn, N. Y., came home one under par before flood lights were turn ed on the lsih green to tie Ar thur L. Doering. Stanford uni versity junior of Chlrago, for low scoring honors of the blustery day. They were the only two players to break par. Kight goiters. Including the veteran Walker cup player Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland. Ore were caught by darkneas as they came to the 16th tee and were un able to finish. They will finish their first round early tomorrow (Continued on Page Five) GRASS FIRE HITS " GREENSPRINGS NEAR TIMBERLAND City police held two small boys for Juvenile court Monday after noon after they started a fire near the city dump with a mag nifying glass. The fire burned over 16 or 20 acres of grass and brush land, hut was controlled under direction of Cy Combest, county fire warden. Fire broke out In a grass area south of Gristly mountain. In the (Ireensprlngs country, at 11 a. m. Monday, 'according to reports reaching the Klamath Forest Protective headquarters here. Thla blase had covered six aore by mid-afternoon. It was about a mile from timber. A crew of 10 men with a tractor was rushed to the. scene. A small fire developed beside Ihe road near Bnnanta Sunday, but waa quickly itopped. DRAINING OF LAKE REVEALS BODIES MADRID, Aug. II (AP) Spanlah government officials said they discovered more than 1000 bodies when they drained a lake today In th eastern section of the city, near the Case d Campo park. Moat of the bodies, they said, were of Moorish Insurgent troops who died when an attack on government positions were re pulsed last November. Pritchett said that If "all par ties concerned" would cooperate, mills would be In full operation within the current week. KKFI'HK TO LOAD NEWPORT, Aug. Z3 UP Longahoremen refused to load the steamer Corrales here Saturday with lumber picketed by the Lum ber and Sawmill Workers' union. The aawmlll men are protesting the C. D. Johnson mill's agree ment with the Industrial Em ployes' union. Lumber barges brought along side the Corrales departed when the crews refuted to take the mooring lines aboard. Shipments from the mill are go ing forward by rail. T.tCOM. MILL RKOPFXH TACO.MA. Aur. 23 yp Unmo lested by pickets, most of the 1300 employes of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber company return ed to work In the mill and camps today tinder a working agreement between the management and the Woodworkers of America, a CIO affiliate. The mill announced Friday It would reopen today and proceed ed with the actual resumption of operations schedule. FOOD-HANDLERS ACT POSTPONED Month's Delay Ordered In Enforcement to Clear Up Question of Exams Enforcement of the city's new ordinance on food-handlers' ex amination waa suspended for one montb by the city council Mon day night. The ordinance was to hare gone into effect September 1. The 30-day Interim will afford time for a study of taiioua fea tures of the ordinance to which members of the culinary alliance and the butchers' union have ob jected. A meeting of representa tives of these groups, the health board and the city council baa been called for September lo. Monday nights action auto matically called off a threatened refusal of culinary alliance mem bers to go to work on Septem ber 1. The organization had voted to abstain from going on the Job that day because of the danger of arrest for not' having examina tion certificates. E. E. Drlscoll. attorney, opened the discussion of the health ordi nance before the council. He said he had been asked to repre sent the culinary alliance, and that a meeting had been held Monday afternoon of Interested, groups. The members, he said, did not like the Idea of "striking" In connection with the health or dinance, and hoped that some (Conttnued on Page Five) BLACK ARROWS IN DRIVE TO TRAP 50,000 LOYALISTS WlTH TUB NATIONALISTS STORMING SANTANDKR, Tues day. Aug. 24 (UP) Thousands of vlctorloua Italian ' Black Ar rows." taking advantage of an almost full moon and the enemy's disorganisation, smashed six mllea beyond Cactro Urdiales down the Biscay coast today to within IV miles of Santander. The vanguard of the Italian brigadea. having captured the (Continued on Page Fire) TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST LOCAL City council suspends enforce ment of food-handler ordinance one month to Iron out difficulties over which culinary workers threatened not to appear for work September 1. Prisoners' meals fund overdrawn by heavy run of sentence. Page 1. Four-H fair preliminary con teat! set for Wednesday. Page 1. Klamath folk shiver In low August temperatures. Tulelakc thermometer registers II abovo. Minimum here 38. Page 1. District attorney to ask high way department to establish 46 mlle an hour sone along South Sixth street outside of city limits. Page i. Keith Hargraves, telephone employe. Injured In accident on highway south. Other weekend mishaps reported. Page 8. Lakevlew lumber employes vote 4-1 for Independent union agalnat CIO group at mass meeting Thurs day. CIO claims its members largely refrained from voting. Page I. GKNKKAL Fourteen killed, 23 In hos pital i after gnle whips forest fire over crew In Wyoming. Page 1, SHELL BLASTS AREA; 400 DIE Three Americans Among Wounded ; Japs Resume Bombing from Planes Copyright. 1J37, by United Preas SHANGHAI. Tuesday. Aug. S4 (I'Pr Japanese war planes en gaged In merciless bombing of Chinese artillery batterlea thla afternoon. Huge bombs rained from the sky for more than an hour as eight Japanese, seaplanes droned over the Nantao, Pootung and Lunghau areaa from which the Chinese have been pouring a de structive fire. Meanwhile up the Whan n poo river Japanese army regulars, landing from transports for a su preme effort to drive the Chinese out of Shanghai, met stubborn resistance from entrenched de fenders and heavy land fightlnx waa reported. 500 Killed Aerial bombing brought new terror to the International settle ment where some 3500 civilians have been killed by misdirected bombs. A tender took 112 more Amer ican refugees from the settlement to the Dollar liner President Pierce during the height of the Japaneee bombing. The Japaneae aerial attack fol lowed two morning bombardments of the Pootung area serosa the Whangpoo from the international settlement by Japanese warships anchored near the settlement. By MORRIS J. HARRIS SHANGHAI, Aug. 23 (AP) An estimated 400 persona were killed and perhaps 1000 wound ed, including three Americana, by a heavy artillery shell that amashed into a crowded depart ment store section of she Inter national settlement today. Scores of Americans marvel ously escaped death when a seo ond projectile pierced the six story United States naval ware house' and crashed through to the bottom but failed to explode. The wounded Americana were (Continued on Page Five) VALENTINO PLAYS TO PACKED HOUSE ON ANNIVERSARY HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY. Aug. 34 (UP) Rudolph Valen tino played Jo a packed house again today, exactly 11 years after his death. A steady stream of women, mostly elderly, filed into a mauso leum here and piled flowers be neath the bronse plaque, whlrh read "Rudolpho Guglielimi Val entine." Photographera anapped picture after picture and lamented the lark of pretty girls. They finally spied one, a red-head In a white dress, and persuaded her to pose. They knelt below the crypt, pulled her dress down to cover her bare legs, held her hands at her breaat In a poaltlon of praye.-, and waited while the cameraman flashed their bulhs. She aald she was trying to break Into the (Continued on Page Five) IIKI.KN KT9 DKCRKE CARSON CITY, Nev.. Au. 21 (JPt Helen Wills Moody, .who reigned as queen of world tennla for mora than half of her thirty years, won a divorce decree here today from Frederick S. Moody, Jr.. San Francisco broker. The decree waa granted by District Judge Clark J. Guild at a brief, private trial. She charged mental cruelty. Four hundred killed, 1000, In cluding three Americans, wound ed, as shell explodes In center of Shanghai's crowded shopping dis trict. Page 1. Democratic leaders predict pres ident must decide to abandon some of objectives or permanent ly disrupt party befbre congress convenes again. Page 1. Six prominent democrats re ported planning to aeek Claude McCollocb job as party's state chairman. Page 1. Portland mill operators refuse to reopen seven plants picketed hy AFL. despite plea by CIO lumber workera. Pag 1. Howard 'Instead, 17, Portland draftaman. attacks and kills moth er in culmination of argument. Page 1. IV THIS I.HSUE City Briefs Page 1 Comlca and Story Page R Cnurthouae Record! Pan 4 Editorials Page 4 Family Doctor Page 4 Market, Financial News Page 4 Recreation Note Pag ' Snort Pg t Veterans' New ....., Page S