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- - -- . i , v r,i YY- - f I j, , '- , : . ' . WEATHER.. , aoMT toaar and Satm day, cooler; ' Max. . Temp; Thonday C8, Bftu. 89, rlrer 113 feet, partly.' cloudy, ovtherfy winds. - ..V- . ----- - v, Net paid, daily, Sunday 6739 t , Mgxsss a, b, 0. ;v -nVw. -.. r-. . POUMD.nD -1831 1 J ? ElGIITY-FinST vYE AR i Salem, Oregon, Friday SIornins; April 1' 1932 ' . - N0.SI8 OLICY STATED Their Fight is t -, :Mot Ended Yet Oil, STfl - nj njp -...--.( r 1 T K seaes'''- "TEH t US:? J. s , JtM iy.; M 1 IT- Vf - .;.Ihation7dvd" After Ji-. 'FcurrStatV AVitntsses -V' Tell of Accident : -V fi y - - - Sister of Franws Uonner, i U' Y . Crash Victimr Admits v -Si 'Some Beer Imbibed r Atter four iUU'i wltaesiea had reeoanted nacles of the accident at. South Commercial and Miller atreeta rebrnaiT ltslatVjwMeh. resulted in death of France Hear ner, SO, and flllnr t InTOluntary inanBlanshter eharcea against J. X8Urker, 11, defense attorneys , r ; waired - exanrnrtw.iiBrea no V id teatlmony i or .' atatement, - npon -whleh Starker waa boand orer to f tha grand jnry, t k ' S '" Preliminary hearing waa held 1 "- - before Justice of the Peace' MH v I .v ler Harden last' night, after post- subpoena state's witnesses. Al though ' there had been no ad v Yance notice of the night hearing, an unusual proceeding in Justice eourt, the court room was com fortably packed, many of those present being relatlTes of the de fendant and chief witnesses lor the sUte, - Agnes Monner, sister I .--V- of Frances Monner. Y, BaAffilaTai tat Ort FlCTire ' 'i r , : for starker remained, by it- - - - I rf oil nartlpa. at 11600. $V;-Jf iihrhls "Barents furnished when i'y-I first set. . .-' ''.- SY ;: j,!r-The fotir witnesses called last night by the state, represented by ' -lLv District Attorney John Carson, !l T " vwer-. Agnes Monner.'f II." Mrs. ' v Fred Wintersteen.. City Police Of ficers E. C. Charlton1: and George Edwards. Paul Boynton, snm rnqned. awltne". waa not pres- Tkt BArnton and Amea" Monner f :i "Tiwere occupants of the car dflyea I "a W-SUrker. . : ' . , 'i,An Inkling - of : tho,-defense , i V which W, C. Winslow'and Rollln 4 i Y KYPage, ' attorneys for Starker, t will attempt to. set np came when "Wlnslow attempted to get Mrs. Wintersteen, f, who testified she saw the . Starker car speeding down Commercial .and - saw it awerre into .the curb, to say she saw another car just ahead of the lirht crnrifl drlrea br Starker. I m . w I f ' Mrs.-Wintersteen testified that ' ' ... M ' 1 ' : . A. , anoiner car am noi pass ner as r: she stood on the corner of Lln- H'fY '5' watched i ' TTi . lanes aa 1 fmi anTa ha eoln ; and ' Commercial, ; and the Starker car go by speed, between 60 and 65 hour. She watched tho P aa.it proceeded another two ' n" hH blocks before., swenr w f-, ing Into the curb and' then lnng- .. VH- '-Ing across tho street, the recited. -Agnes Monner first to take tho witness stand," told how she Vi (Turn to pago 1, eoL 1) h JEFFHl HQV ' Ownership of the Jefferson Re view, published at Jefferson by Hugh D, Mars, changes hand this week, with purchase of the paper br Lester Shields, who nas nrta hero In recent months. It became known yesterday. Mars ha edited and managed the paper cor a num ber of Tears. . , ': ; -Shields steps Into the actlre newsoaser business - less than week after his marriage to Gladys Angell, at Vancouver,. Waslu, last Saturday. Mrs. Shields has been a linotype operator, for The States man for several years, ana wiu as sist her husband there. They are moTinr there now. and will as sume actif control of the paper after this week's Issue, off the nrei today.-'''''v;v''s'iY:ft-c-' Mr. Mars', health ha been poor for soma' time,- and" it Denevea hetnay take a rest tor a ume. a t Ljeuru unu rwy " - a TV TT ' - I ormisea and was taken to a bos- Time to Decide on Tleasffittfxz BJchard a OXearff reataurant . . . . . A . Vrfl m am A mm man acre rcw. sight , oa a .liquor possession charge, ana jrrancis . r th aame night on a charge -of operating a sUU. both asked 14 ' ' hours la which to consult aa at corner - before entering a plea f J V. when they were hrougu inio jns V 1 J Wee court ytertay. r - - - iTniio the two arresU . and ' Y charges are separate, and no eon- V" -nectlon has been' provea, quea- tlons asked ' Kreh yesteraay bj Deputy District Attorney Page In dicated a suspected relationship. r Ball for O'Leary, brougnt in in v. the afternoon from the Deaconess hospital where he was taxea aer (v 1 arrest because ef an influensa at- lacs, was set-ms awv, . tslttment Issued.-- -:- .- Krebs appeared before Judge ' Hayden of Justice court yesterday morning. His bail was set at $750, which was furnished at 8 o'clock Thursday night and f Kreb :jre ".. Iased.:- .V..-:.,.,;,..:. '-r:A.;....-j.-;;---"'i Krebs, a son of Nick Krebs of - TT6oaburn, r maintained - he was Supposedly Harmless Patent Medicine Poisons i'K&erjCljrC ; JUsed Same Preparation Ailing - i "VTEW YORK, Mar. 31 (AP) A patent medicine eon- JL1 tainino; radium, taken two arm which kept him from playing golf, wasblamed for the ueaiu MJwijr w xiBea j. joyers, ox, nuaDurgn aieei man wno I was national amateur coif ehamoion fn 1906. I He showed signs of radium poisoning supposedly from FOUR EIRESTBt AS Possession and Sale Cases Unearthed by Sheriffs Men are Unrelated A quartet of alleged liquor law violators, all arrested and charged separately, was haled be fore Justice of tho Peace MUler Hayden yesterday following ar- rests y prohibition operators at the sheriff s office. The four: j. W. Mays, at whose homo a drink Ing party was staged recently, aft ermath of which was shooting of fwJ r7. irZ a MPv dolph . Mclnturf f and John A. Jones, 66. AH took 24 hours In which to enter 'pleas. Mays, charged with possession of mash, is in jail with 1600 ball'set. McPeak who lives at 1875 South Capitol and faces sale charge, is in jail, following failure to raise $350 bail. Mclnlurff, youngest of the four and said to have two children .at home dependent upon his care, was allowed to go upon his own recognizance until this morning. recognizance until this morning. He is charged with sale of 10 gal- Ions of .beer, and was arrested at bis home. 2 8 0 Mission street. Jones, 1541 Front 'street,, also charged with sale, is in Jail with bail set at $250." - " - V Mays was held as material wit- ness for awhile after the' Lloyd Eddy shooting, for which Harry Erpelding has been Indicted . by the grand jury. Arraignment yesterday did not show any connection between the four cases. -1 n JHIESE SHANGHAI. March tl--(AP) Ill-feeling between Chinese and attackr of Chinese ruffians on .a Japanese man w me auki iu international settlement, inreai- enea . xurmer irouoio - lor iuo peace z negotiations : here today just as they made definite prog ress. :--:-v'J f ' i U . -The Japanese, who was walk ing down Edward. yn street, was seriously Injured by the Chinese crowd that set upon him. Appar ently only a quick rescue by the French police saved him from death. Japanese consular officials said they considered the Incident .a grave illustration that the Japa nese here could not walk through the' streets without danger of at-r tacks from ; the- Chinese. - They planned to protest the attack to the French ; authorities, under whose jurisdiction it occurred, urging precautions against a re- enrrence. " A breakdown of the peace par leys, expected in . some quarters, over the - major Issue of with drawal of , Japanese troop from the Shanghai area had ; been averted. But the delegates still had many questions to decide be fore complete harmony could be reached. xvf vys xjl ukc running the still tor himself when tne oeputy district attorney nut tho question to him several times. He said he had been operating it a week or II days, but would not eay how much liquor, he had run eft. He said lta capacity was about XI gallon a day, though officers say it waa considerably higher. - Askedboat a girl friend, Krebs made no statement. The womas-in question "he declared Wednesday night to be his wife. However, she w wa m oaro aammea to orr cers -i nursaay morning uat she is not, and that her real name la Jean Brown of Toledo. Krebs. said he made the till. YY v . i Asked by CapUla W.- H. Me Clain, state officer and -private prosecutor, if he hsd been arrest ed last December for posseMion of intoxicaflnc ltanor. TCrsbk admlu ted. he had. Ithongh, previously he had refused to admit this. He I denied that he had ever faced fed eral charge. Jostias court records show he pleaded guilty to posses- Blon la December and was fined UDIfDR WTOBS IB I years ago to cure an ailimr ntlnued use of tho medicine' and a year ago faced the prospect ef a lingering death. , , . . . . : Pneumonia contracted tn the last few -day speeded an inerita-1 Mo death. Dr. Freaenck runn of I Columbia uniTerslty reported. - - I The medicine which , waa sold I commercially . two rears ago, I since has been withdrawn from I the market. Dr. Flina understood. I Dr. Flinn in discnasina the ef-l fects of the malady said more than a hundred patient ef a Pittsburgh physio-therapist, who recommended tho treatment to Mr. Byers, are known to b af flicted and that one of them died last September. The other were so frightened .by the death, he V ' Y JT" .T I Mlif tfiaf Him km .Imaaul I Uanced sUeea of the toiaoninr. The preparaUon has been on sale seven or eight years, he eon-1 IT . 7 " " r? many faUllties may tinned, and it Is impossible -to ee-1 have occurred through its use. Radium poisoning Is almost im possible to diagnose until it I reaches mortal stages. Eini GLUE nfflnt n Philarfplnhio k "" . -,.T" ' Claim; Lead Obtained After Dope Raid -, .,(.; .rf-. .... NEW YORK. Mar. 31 (AP) Brooklyn detectives said 'to- I night that search for the kidnap-! I ed Lindbergh baby had been cen- tered in the outskirts of Phila delphia and that "there may be developments before morning. Morton Burnstine and Samuel Krasnow, private, operatives who visited the Lindbergh estate to night, went from there to Phila delphia, it was disclosed. HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 31 (AP) Morton Burnstine and Samuel Krasnow of the Central Detective agency, a private bu reau In Brooklyn, visited the Lindbergh estate tonight and con ferred with a representative' of tho famous aviator. When they they oped t0 -eoBCinda jgoUa- tlona for return - of te child i hortlv. They said they obtained their "lead" after a series of raids had been conducted on several houses in Brooklyn last week. One of the houses was a narcotic den, they said, and a few days after it had been raided, two suspicious char acters came to their office at mid night and cay them information I which they .said led them to be- Ileve they would soon establish I communications "with the kldnan - era. ociujli, ure- jaarcn si -l At-1 Tt t, Y. - lujurcu. fatally by a tree which crashed down upon them while they were I of Bend today. . uu mwu iu. uig wuuub aouio Perry O. Sumpter, an employe of the s Shevlin Hixoa Lumber company, died within a few mln ates ef the accident. His com panion D.D. Prise, was torn and braised and was taken to a hoe- A gust of wind broke down the I tree, I ROSKBDRO, Ore.r-M ar. 31 (AP) Jas Huntiey, lfYwas crushed to 4eath undef - a, tree hear Caayoaville today. .Y - Huntley and v Reuben Du bell. employed as woodcutters, had felled a large tree, the butt ef which had remained resting on the stumps Huntley was caught under tha tree aa it was raiiMi front : the stump. He died in- I stantly. Brookings Llill v ro be Removed GOLD BEACH. Ore., March 11 J AP)The ;CalifornU t Oro- gon Lumber , company -nas sold It mill at Brookings to the Zlm- merman-WelbvBrowa company ef J Portland. The mill will be dla- mantled and shipped to Portland. The mill was built in 1114 SLEUTHS TWO ARE CRUSHED mm BlfflEES 1 V Mo ;Uore Will be:Emp!oyed,! tenure "law; Barrier, tol " Eliminatina all .: : Those now Single Will not - da ' Dat'iTnAfl If Thaw - 09 neiauiCU II , iney Wed, isDecision A. definite policy In regard to married women - teachers la the Salem publle school has been de termined upon by Superintendent George w.. Hug, It' was learned yesterday. . The . teachers' tenure law. enacted by the last leglsia- tare and granting teachers . of three years' standing the right to a trial hearing before "being ais- missed, presents a barrier to aor solute . ' elimination of married women from the school faculties. But Superintendent Hug repeat edly ha maintained that he Is ab- i solutely opposed . to dismissal ox ; the married women merely De cause they are married. Many of (the best teacher in the system if. nvrfAt wnm.il n. MTi. v ' if.i ' TMtehen Accented Point in tho poUey which the superintendent says win prevail hereafter are as ioiiows: No more married women win be hired as instructors. - Single women teachers now em ployed will not be permitted to retain their positions if they get married The administration will seek to eliminate as far as possible those women teachers who are deemed Inefficient. The economic question of the married woman teacher will be considered from the standpoint of whether or not she ha depend ants to support. 49 Teachers art Married. -Leaned Check of all women teachers now employed by the Salem dis trict yesterday revealed that ap proximately 49 of the 165 are married. Of these, three are grade school principals and one a Junior high principal. . One-third, or IS, of the teach ers in the nine grade schools are married women. On the two jun tor high school faculties are 15 married women and 35 single ones. . The senior high school faculty has nine married and 31 single women teachers. This question of married wom en's teaching In the public school has been the source of agitation time and again. In general, the Salem school board has not been favorable to hiring married wom en, but on tho other hand It has refused to dismiss women teach ers .for. the speclfle reason that they are. married. Obtaining effi cient instructors for the schools : ; i Suffering f r o m a broken houlder, Helen W; WUhelm, age I aaugnier oi Mr. ana Mrs., r. jc 1 Wllhelm, 5C9 North 23rd street. was rusnea wt eueqi general dob- pltal by Golden ambulance at 7: so o'clock- last night, following col-, lislon- of . WUhelm's automobile and another driven by H. R. Mei- segler, said to be connected wlth the Holly wood. Press, at High and Center streets. - Mrs. Wllhelm , and 5 Vi o I a Rodgersv 18. were taken to a phy sician's office for treatment of minor bruises and cuts. Viola , was i i i jk v. m iriiii.li.. I kt'k- v-. w t. rested as a result of the accident, According to police reports, the wnhelm car going 'west on Cen- iter, was track- on Tne leit rear wheel by the Melsegter machine, northbound on. High. R. T.Dekringer ; Dies", of Injury, Crash at Union Word was received here Thurs day that R. T. Dearinger. of 711 I North Commercial i street '- was killed tn an automobile accident at Union, Ore near Ja Grande that morning. He was enroute to Nampa, Idaho. - c-' - He is survived by his , widow, five daughters and two sons. He was born in Pella. Iowa, in April 1854, and was a retired resident ef Salem."- $. y-$;U-i-;- YHY "i;"-,; ' ;... r,CY' Chinese Aviator : : r Is Visitor Here ?v The first, licensed Chinese pilot to land at the Salem airport sat his - ship down there yesterday. Millard Chung, holding a private pilot's license, stepped here in company with his instructor. Charles Hanst of Portland. 7 V i The instructor said his students will begin, using the local, airport as a base tor practice in cross GIRL H HURT . Ill 1UT0 SIP 'eoaatry;.flytag.-.:- Above. Representative LaGaardia of New York, who led the sac eessfnl fight against the sales tax in the boose. Below, Repre sentative Crisp of Georgia, chairman ef the way and means committee, who also has had a leading role in the bad-get-balancing ruction in the boose. Tho revenne bin Is about completo bat It was .indicated yesterday that the sales tax natter would come op again. Large Concrete Building at S. Commercial, Kearney For Chain Grocery A Spanish typo, concrete build ing 60x150 feet In size, is to bo erected at once oh South Com mercial and Kearney streets by D. B. Jarman, local capitalist, it was announced yesterday. Jarman said the structure would bo oc cupied by a chain grocery concern whose name he was not yet ready to announce. The structure has been leased for a ten-year period Mr. Jannan said that razing of old buildings on the property ould bo begun soon and that bids would be called for promptly on the new building. The new building will run east and west and will front on Com mercial street. The property Jar man owns fronts 180 zeet on Commercial end runs back 150 on Kearney.. The property not used by tho building will be macadam ized'and will accommodate many automobiles for parking purposes, Mr. Jarman .purchased - a por tion of his land from TJ. St Page, a portion from Mr. Humphreys o Stayton and a portion from James Alexander, painter. -. t " Construction of the now build ing was determined upon 'by Mr. Jarman not only to provide devel opment for the south part of Sa lem and to afford himself a rea sonable rental return but. to pro vide work for men who need jobs this summer. Mr. Jarman said the Idea of providing work -was one which - appealed to him strongly In undertaking the work. - The plans for the new-building call for a strong, durable struc ture ' of concrete but : also one which will be modernistic and at tractive In" design. Loot From Fire Being Sought as S Cleanup Goes on So eager were bystanders to get something for nothing from thci debris In tho Breyman and White buildings they followed .removal trucks yesterday to the dump ground In West Salem and there went over the trash to see If. any goods of value could be recovered, Workmen on the Job also dug tn to see what could be had. Several of the men were reporte&4o have quit their Job at noon, withjtheir coats bulging with "loot and to have promptly received "walking orders", from -:. their.' boss The cleaning up of the wreckage' oc casioned by last Thursday fire will go on for another week be fore plans can be made ready for rebuilding. . X- .--.V First Twnonrf Santiam Line to Uake Trip Today Ti PORTLAND; Ore., lfarch "tr IAP) Officials of the Oregon Electric railroad announced today that the first irain in the new service to be Inaugurated over in Santiam extension of the road will leave Albany at 7:30 o'clock Fri day morning. It will be a combin ation work and general freight train and will carry rails, ties and ballast to be used la bringing tho roadbed up to service standards. ' Tho' lino was - . completed - last year."- r -c-.v- There HI! Te no" ceremony in celebration of the new service but several official? of tho line il make the. urst trip. IN TO BID STORE STRUCTURE Reyenue; Heasyre; s; Mearfy; . Complete, Held up. fof ' More Amendments Crisp Seeks" Elimination of Surtax Rates on Lxirge "; Incomes, Reported : WASHINGTON. ' March. YlJ (AP) A weary but determined house pushed the total of the new revenue bill up.to IJII.OOO.OOO today and girded itself for a fin al battle over taxes before final passage la reached tomorrow With a united effort it approved sale tax substitute offered by tho way and means . committee amounting to - $255,500,000 - in cluding a levy on stock transac tions to yield 175.000,000 and making administrative changes on credits for losses in market trad ing to yield $100,000,100. Although leader felt that with expected savings in government expenditures the bill would fur nish revenue adequate to meet an anticipated 11,241.500,000 treas ury deficit In 1933. they kept the bill open for further amendment to meet any unexpected shortage. They awaited a revised estimate of the yield of the entire bill re quested by tho ways and means committee from Secretary Mills Savings Expected To Meet Balance Savings in appropriations and post office administration changes are expected to total $272,500,- 000, bringing tho whole to $1, 271,500,000. With this In pros pect a surplus or ?30.500,ooo ap pears In the offing. An effort will be - made to re instate tho defeated $600,000,000 manufacturers' sales tax provi sion that caused the spectacular revolt In tho house. Representa tive Johnson (R., So. Dak.) in formed acting Chairman Crisp of tho committee ho would demand a record vote on the 2.25 per cent provision. It was defeated last week 223 to 153, on a teller vote. Crisp will make an effort to havo stricken from tho measure the swing amendment restoring war time surtax rates on incomes in excess of $100,000. This pro vision is estimated to bring in $17,000,000 naore than the com mlttee's proposal tor a 40 per cent maximum on incomes orer $100,000. E . MONMOUTH. " . March 11. Shouts of pedestrians as he drove through' Monmouth today called the attention of H. B, Hitson to the fact that the truck which he was driving was ablaze. He was engaged,. In . moving household goods for. Everett Sample, recent ly of Klamath Falls, who Is mov ing, onto a farm near here.. The truck contained a complete, out fit of household-furniture, as wen a clothing,, book and canned fruit. - As soon as the driver was made aware of tho fire the truck was stopped and tho local fire depart ment aided . In putting . out the blase. The truck and some minor articles were saved. Hitson was quite badly burned about the face and hands. - - The goods were completely cov ered by insurance. fc YV SLATER BOUND OVER;; BAKER. Ore.. March ll (AP) -Ward Holden, accused of the first degree - murder of -Milton Hopkins, waived preliminary ex- aminatioa In Justice eourt ' today and wae bound over 16 the grand Jury. ".. ' . " - . : WHEN TRUCK AFIB Mister There's The 1 .Bv OLIVE M. DO AK Ofr. Smith, this 1 the police department ealling. Will you see 2 the street light on your corner burningf A familiar gag with which' to catch the unsuspecting tn the last hours, of April Fool's day. i" V - A queer, custom April ' Foot day. Why April 1 should be unan imously dedicated to the gentle art of ooiihg". Is a fact buried so deep under the dust of centur ies that there seems no traco of its ;origin like-Topry.i It -"Just gTOwed", -T - M -,- ' Y C i But It is perhaps the most cher ished of all the lesser days which observe " customs ' banded down from the dimpastTIt is-partlc-ularly dear to tho hearts, of chil dren, and - as. most, people never quite outgrow ; their chUdishpess, April Fool pranks are indulged in both by old and young.- - - f ';- wee Jad of four told the writer In serious Innocence that he was "going to mix the salt and 'uder April Fool'a day", and the Three-Year-oid : Gerald Collins Pulled out Apparently Uttie; Hurt After Crews Work to Exhaustion -iVfcsa Day; Physicians' not Certain of Effect Exposure "may Have; Pneumonia Feared 1 ; " : ; s Little Feliovv Keeps up Cries Feverish Digging Goes on; men .Work "so Rapidly new ; Shift Needed at end of Each Ltinute; Parents Weep As Imprisoned Child Brought to Them PICHER, OldL, Mar. 81U(AP) Three-year-old Gerald Collins was returned safely to his mother's arms to night by a sweating; crewof rescuers who dug throogh solid rock to pluck the boy from a narrow drill hole iato which he fell nearly 12 hours earlier. ' While thousands of spectators cheered, the boy, suffer ing from exposure and a few bruises, but to outward ap pearances not badly hurt, was placed in an ambulance and hurried to a Miami, Okla., hospital Gerald was found wedged v tightly in the tapering hole into which he had tumbled, about 20 feet from the surface. The drill hole was at the Mary Ann lead and zinc mine, two Omilea from Plcher. ICE FOR ROWS JOB Portland Business man, war Veteran, Files , to run For.Treasurership A new candidate for the office of state treasurer came to the fore, yesterday and W. Milton Scherping of Portland filed for the republican nomination against Rufus C. Holman. Scherping is a Portland business man, legion naire, and active In Portland civic matters. He is a native of Michi gan, coming to Oregon after the war. During the war .he was in the air service and is now. a. ecn ond lieutenant In the air service reserve corps. - Scherping ' Is president of the Trane company, dealers In heating and ventilating equipment; presi dent of tho Progressive Business Men's club of Portland, director of Rotary club; and active In .east side clubs. His platform Is: "As a business man who recog nises the importance of applying sound bu sines principles In gov ernmental affairs I am asking tho dtlsens of this state to permit me to serve them as state treasurer.'. "I have been engaged la eivlfl and state activities tor many years . (Turn to page 2. coL 7) Hulet Backers ' I Are to Gather ' Here Saturday Charles C. Halet will open his campaign for congress at a county wide meeting to be held in Salem on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. The meeting will be held in a courtroom at the courthouse. . Hulet will be the principal speaker, and will tell his position on. the issues before the people of the first congressional district. A Marion county Halet-for-Congross dub will: be Jormed at. the meet ing, - off leers elected, : and plans made to have a Hnlet committee in every precinct of the county. Hulet is running on a progressive platform, vand seeks to wrest the republican nomination from the veteran W.'C. Hawley. . " on glee of his laugh' was half the Joy a week ahead of the Joke. A weary clerk la a busy gro cery store ' smiled .with anticipa tion as he reminded that --tomor-nnc,l April. Fool's day. last it? There will he a lot ef foolishness, and XT1 he saro te get eanght; X always do." ' But even - being tho "caughtee" is fun if It la April Fool'a dgy,"- :; ..." A waitress apoa being remind ed that "tomorrow Is April Fool's day- chuckled . and said. ."Thank goodness somebody warned me, or I would hare walked into more than one Joke upon myself." The great selling point for this day Is that It stands for laughs on the other person and en one's self if all the same. Any event which can create- whole-hearted laughter in this day of sopblatl catlon and econom'e worry Is one to be saluted.- So hall April Fool's day let tho laughs be many and the Joke none but auch as will add a smile to the memories of the years.. . for "Mama and Daddy" as Physicians attending the child refused to discuss his condition at length, saying it would be morn ing before they could tell defin itely if he was badly injured. Pneumonia Feared Doe to Exposare There was a possibility of pneu monia from tho exposare. - and they planned to take x-ray pic tures to see if there wero any fraetnres. He was talking a blue streak," Paul Collins, tho 25-year-old fath er of tho boy. said after a ?Wt at the hospital. God love you, the bine-eyed. 21-year-old mother whispered as she cuddled the boy in her arms and wept over him. Tho child waa brought to tho surface at 8:40 p. m. (C.S.T.) af ter miners and other volunteer workers had struggled their way through a stubborn rock ledge. Three doctors went down into a 22-foot shaft sunk beside the drill hole, waited there until res cue workers dragged the little body loose from its rocky prison1 (Turn to page 2. coL I) SHE OF GRADE G ' JDIV ILLEGAL Grade O'milk Is now taboo aa regards Its sale for human con sumption in Salem. " .The' ordinance : banning . this grade, which waa passed by the council, vetoed by -Mayor P. M. Gregory, and passed over his head ' on March 21, Is effective for the first time today. The 16-day per iod between passage and going into effect of the measure elapsed last night. 1 r J. B. Blinkhorn, county dairy and food Inspector, reported yes terday that he had warned all of the .18 milk distributors of . the terms of tho t new - ordinance. , Three of the distributors, who are said to have over one-half of, the city's milk business, - fought tho passage of tho ordinance. -Tho in-" spec tor said, however, that he- be lieved the new. law would bo ge ' orally obeyed. .-; . "I anticipate cooperation from the distributors In this matter," he said.. ,v :v. : t :t The banned grade of milk con sists of tho uninspected grade D milk pasteurised. Use of this pro duct has been fought by elUaens and officers - Interested : In the' community health because they believe it unsafe, .and. liable te spread disease. , .; - . Danube Nations : Relief Will be i Considered Soon LONDON,- March llv (AP) The fsur-power conference eaUed by Prime v Minister Ramsay Me Donald to consider means ef help- r lag the five nations el the Dannbo basin out of their economic difO eartlea, will meet aezt week, la London. r'u-v.:.i'iV--. ; The placo. and date were ax nounced by the British foreign of fice today. Great Britain,-Franco. Germany and Italy will partici pate la the conference. Austria, Hungary, CzechO Slovakia, Ru mania and Jsgo-Slavia aiw the countries whoeo plight will be dls- eussed. : Y !;-vi-i-Vi-rrrt j '. ".-i'j -.. - - - - - ; - SKITK BOARD .WHEAT ; PENDLETON. "Oer., .March 21. (AP) The Umatilla Rod Cress ehaptar hopes to obtain flvo car loads ef farm board wheat to bo icv.i.waea.xorlocs; ieea ls.tnis eounty. .;U"' -f ;