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r ; I GOOD SERVICE - - Statesman delivery ' aer- . vice i guaranteed; It yo ' do not recelv your. paper K- - by :S0 . m. telephone 9101 ud one wUl tw eat - - to your home at once. THE j WEATHER Fair today and Wednes day; moderate temperature; Max. Temp. Monday 70, Min. S7, river 2.8 feet, clear, vari able winds. FOUIMDEP 1851 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 13, 1934 No. 301 - lJ I v !-- . .- '4' v7 V r- ' v Schoolmates; are Selected 4 , as ; Pallbearers for VA v Slough Victims Services to Be Wednesday : at 3 P. M.; No Inquest Required, Decided -; Twelve : Lincoln school class mates of, Anabel Xee Tooley, t, ndXaura E. ."Betty" Sarage, 1. whose bodies wera found in Min to slough shortly after 2 o'clock Sunday, afternoon, will serve as pallbearers at the double funeral to be held from the Clough-Bar-riek company chapel at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The two will be burled side by side in City .View , cemetery. ' Fourth and fifth trade girls who' will act as pallbearers were announced last night by Dorothy Daugherty, principal of Lincoln school: ; Geraldlne Wolf, Eunice Smith, Verna Johns, Betty Miller, Jean - Bates, Joan Donaldson, Ethel Williams,- Doris Hansen, Frances Helnlein, Floy Converse, Frances Murray and Susanna Schramm. ' - Rev. C. C. Haworth, pastor of the South Salem Friends church, and Rer. 8. Darlow Johnson, pas tor of the Leslie Methodist churen, will officiate together, represent ing the churches with which the two little girls were affiliated. Any Lincoln school ' pupils who desire to attend the services will be excused from classes at that time. It was announced from the office of Suprlntendent George W. Hug yesterday. Recovery of Bodies Ends Wide Search ,y - Recovery of he two bodies from the slough, at the foot tot West Wilson street, by flanlDn Bunt and Charles fM. Charlton, Jr., city firemen, ended a three day search that began last Thurs day night when Anabel and Bet ty failed to return Jiome from a flower gathering gipedtUojf. Hun dreds of war reterans, Boy Scouts and officers assisted In combing the district southwest of Salem without obtaining what appeared to be a single definite cine to the girls' whereabouts. A report by Mrs: R. C. Gamble, 826 West Wilson street, how ever, that she had seen the two girls in the vicinity of a log raft late Thursday, proved to be the accurate one out of the hundreds that the searchers received. The : two firemen, who had relieved other firemen 20 minutes before the bodies were brought up, dis covered the' bodies at the foot of this same raft, in about 15 feet of water, by the use of a grap pler made of fish hooks tied in a row along an iron bar. ' The spot where the bodies were found had been dragged over doz ens of times by relays of firemen and the numerous other parties that spent Sunday morning in the vicinity. At the time of the dis covery, the other parties had moved toward the mouth of the Slough. l R. C Gamble, S2 West Wil son street, and David Stewart, 205 Bellerue street, assisted in carrying the bodies op to the Ore - -on ; Electric company, grade, where they were held until Cor oner L. E. Barrick arrived. No Indications of " Violence are Found Examination of the bodies re Tealed no marks of violence, the clothing intact. Nothing further .was revealed by a physician's ex amination requested by the" par ents. As a result District Attor ney William H. Trindle announced the case was simply one of acci dental drowning and no inquest was necessary. r . The "generally accepted theory Is that one of . the girls slipped from the raft and the other fell Into the water in attempt to save her companion. The disappearance of the two ' (Turn to page 2, col. 1) : rarasiHT ' Employment of engineers .to i . prepare plans and specifications for a mountain supply and local y distributing system for the pro posed Salem municipal water sys i - -tern will be the occasion of a spe- ' clal meeting of the city council at the city hall at 7:20 o'clock to- Awarding the contract to Baar ft Cunnlngham,Portland engln eerlas firm which appraised the Oregon - Washington Water Ser vice company properties Caere la 19 SO for the city: and prepared eost estimates for tte mountain supply, . Is anticipated by council bserrers' - ; : : . ' ' r ' " ' i'-. City officials last night had not yet received any detailed instruc tions from the PWA regarding- re quirements the city must meet to obtain the $2,600,000 federal loan and rrant which Senator McNary and Congressman Mott last week reported had been allotted the Beggar Prince" no Longer Opera; I But Alms Aren't for His Own Us? ' 4-, s fa - - - " X - 5 I 1 The world has changed indeed when a member of the mighty House of Hohenzollern begs at a Berlin street corner. However, Prince August Wilhebn, fourth son of the former Kaiser, Is operating the tin cop to aid a nad relief land. He fa a group commander In the 8torm Troopers. VARIETY OF TASKS El Kimball Building Damaged Slightly; Ammonia is One Enemy Faced City firemen participated 1 n four varieties of emergency work over tbe weekend: Monday afternoon they extin guished a fire that started In the basement of Music hall, formerly the Kimball college building, on the Willamette university camp us. The flames started from a quantity of ashes that had been dumped Into a paper carton. Stu dents using a garden hose had tbe fire partially out when firemen arrived. Damage was confined to slightly charred woodwork in the lajnienjL,... Earlier Monday afternoon fire men responded to an alarm com ing from 460 Ferry street where a crew of 25 women, paid by the CWA, were engaged In sewing for county and state institutions. Ar ter the women built a fire in a small stove there, smoke poured (Turn to page 2, col. 8) I VETS IS ESTIMATED Should the World War veterans compensation act, which passed the house of representatives o f congress yesterday, become law, Oregon beneficiaries would re ceive $22,976,704.74, declared Senior Vice Commander Bryan Conley, department of Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the annual rally of District No. 2 at Miller's hall in Salem last night at which Marion Post No. 661 of Salem was host. The counties comprising the second district, said Mr. Conley, would benefit, respectively, a s follows: Clackamas, 21,113,079; Linn, $595,023; Marion, $1,458, 432; Polk, $406,109; Tillamook, $284,840; and Yamhill, $530, 847. The total of over $22,000,000. which the Oregon veterans would receive, he pointed out, would mean $24 in benefits to every man, woman and child In the state. Over 200 members of the sev eral posts comprising the district and women of the auxiliary, were in attendance at the annual dis trict rally. Elf TO FIREMEN BENEFIT i Buildings Crack as Heavy Quake H its U tah and I daho SALT LAKE CITY. March 12.-()-Buildings were cracked today and some were condemned tem porarily following the heaviest earth shocks ever recorded in north Utah and south Idaho. -The disturbance was felt at points in southwestern Wyoming, Nevada and California. At Ogden, Utah, a young woman died, evidently of fright at the quake ; at Logan, Utah, the home economics build In; of the Utah state agricultural college was -damaged so badly it probably win be abandoned, and schools here and at Logan and Po catello, Idaho, were closed pend ing an examination of all build ings for possible weaknesses. The city and county buildings here also was vacated. ; Reports here said the Preston. Idaho, high school building was cracked, the west wall being; forced nearly six Inches away from the side -walls. -; School officials expressed the belief the building would hare to be abandoned. Large . office buildings here shook and trembled In the shocks, beginning at 8:05 and continuing L until 11:21 a. m. Windows and rwz ' 4 ,01 V..' FAILS; JE KILLED Home-Made Pistols Not So Useful There; Slaying Deemed Accidental SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Cal., March 12. -MP) -Three makeshift pistols failed to open the gates of populous San Quentln prison for four desperate convicts today but the freedom-bent quartet acciden tally killed another prisoner be fore they were overpowered by guards in a hand-to-hand struggle. Taking advantage of a heavy fog, the four-men boldly attempt ed to escape over the wall by a ruse and onee beyond the prison. guards said, they would bare been obscured to view. Guards said the attempted break apparently was led by Ethan A. McNab, 36, a convict, known as the "yacht bandit." He was as sisted by William Bagley. 42, Lew is H. Downs, 20, and George Fred ericks, 39. The convict slain was John Hu bert Arbnckle, 20, who was shot through the chest evidently by ac cident when McNab's crude wea pon exploded a shell. Working in secret, the convicts had fashioned three weapons and had made come shells. One wea pon had a two-foot barrel, anoth er a foot long barrel, and the third was a rebuilt automatic pistol. Armed with the weapons, the quartet suddenly confronted Guard Fred H. Miller, who was in an alley near the prison electric (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Single Men and Elderly Ones in New Job Leagues PORTLAND. Ore., March 12.-(iP)-Single men and men on the shady side of 50 have organized here to seek jobs. In war. the single man is the first taken, but in peace the last, said Carroll E. Sweet, represen tative of the single men's relief unit. It's a case of the first shall be last and the last first, with re verse English, he said. The "Oregon Half-Century lea gue" has incorporated to see that men and women who have passed the age of 50 years are accorded their "Just and proper places in public and private employment" The league also seeks to elimin ate graft, dishonesty and special privilege. plaster were cracked, "chandeliers swung several inches and furni ture and dishes rattled. Some plaster fell from ceilings and a few chimneys were toppled. Delegates to the western gov ernors' conference, in session here during the latter tremor, made It the occasion for some good natured chaffing. Charles Bithell, 55, an em ploye of the city waterworks de partment here, was burled in the cave-in of a. six foot trench. Fore men of the construction work blamed the quake, although the cave-In occurred some time after the first shock. Bithell was taken from the debris to a hospital. His condition was said to be critical. Seismologists said, the quake, centering In the western moun tains or desert, was heavier , than that which earned great de struction at Long Beach last March. They though it was caus ed by the slipping of a fault in the Wasatch mountains running north and south through eastern Utah, or of one of the basin range faults between the Wa satch and tbe Sierra Nevada mountains. , ' I . ;;::A:vy,:v:;y. '- -, SHI OEM BREAK RESCUE THREE FROM CAPSIZED E 110 Others Still Trapped but Hope for Saving Them Increases All Believed Dead at One Time as Tapping From Within Died Away (Copyright 1934, by the As- , soclated Press) TOKYO. March 13.-(Tuesday) -(ffThree seamen were rescued early tms arternoon irom me Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru, which capsized with 113 officers and men aboard. The rescue workers renewed their efforts in the belief ethers would be saved. Officers believed a third of her crew might be alive. A hammer ing sound which was heard for five hours while the cruiser Tat suta was towing the boat to port yesterday was again audible to day from within the Tomozuru. Rescue workers tried desper ately to lift the hull and force air into the suffocating Interior. The Tatsuta towed the helpless little craft to the small port of Tawagaura, tire miles southwest of the Sasebo naval base, off which the tragedy occurred dur ing a heavy storm. "Retcue work was immediate ly started," navy officials an nounced. Mechanics and steel workers frantically started cut ting an entry through the Tomo- zuru's steel hull. An official announcement at 8:60 a. m. today said "it was considered certain" that the men aboard the ill-fated boat, which had anti - capsizing devices and was considered the last word in craft of its type, perished. Among them were six officers. Officers aboard the Tomozuru 's sister ships, the Manazuru and Chldorl, which, with the Tatsuta participated In the ill-fated man euvers, said the practice began at 1 a. m. Monday in the midst of a heavy storm. nrAirM ta h. tnr. pedo boats and washed small deck fixtures overboard A naval board of inquiry, In cluding outstanding ship design ers, was organized to study cause of the disaster. Its findings were expected to have a vital in flu ence on the navy's future prin ciples of design, ES IS EKED PORTLAND, Ore., March 12.- (iP)-IllIcit prospecting for gold in jewelry boxes of private homes was under scrutiny of police here who today arrested Mike Fadeff, 26, on burglary charges. Police confiscated numerous articles of smashed gold which were tentatively identified as articles stolen from at least fire Portland homes. Fadeff insisted he bought the gold a short while before he was arrested. A check of gold buyers re vealed the frame of a watch which Ted Thye, heavyweight wrestler, identified as one pre sented to him. He reported an $80 fur and $20 in cash also were stolen from his house by an Intruder who smashed a pane of glass in tbe front door. Anti-Patriotism Stand o Church Group Regretted PORTLAND, Ore., March 12.-()-"Dismay and regret" that the social . service commission of the annual conference of the Metho dist Episcopal church decried the "nationalism" of respect for the flag, patriotic holidays, anthems and historical documents, was ex pressed here tonight by the Ore gon Daughters of 1812. "Jason Lee and his followers who came early to Oregon and whose memorable journey west we are about to commemorate were patriots as well as Christians and Methodists,' stated a resolution of protest which the society directed against the announced stand. Monster Egg Is Leghorn Output PORTLAND, Ore., March 12.-(Ji)-Egg that in size resemble a hand grenade are laid by a White Leghorn hen belonging to J. P. Hambrecht ef Portland. The eggs measure as large as 9 Inches by 7 inches and weigh close to halt a pound each. The hen weighs iV pounds. ARREST CLUB MANAGER PORTLAND, Ore., March 12. (AVA charge of possession and sals of hard liquor was faced to day by Richard Ewlng, manager of the Cotton Club, where ne groes entertain with songs and dances. BOAT GOLD PRO! IN BOM Arrested After Dillinger Break Sam Gaboon, turnkey a t Lake comity Jail, Crown Foint, ma., who was placed under arrest following investigation into es cape of John Dillinger, notori ous bank robber and killer. De puty Ernest Blank was arrest ed with Cahoon and charged with "aiding and abetting' Dll linger's escape. mm GONE Rehearsal of Break to Be Staged to Determine if Aid Was Given CROWN POINT, Ind., March 12.-Wr-AH the cast but the prin cipal was assembled here today for opening the case of the Peo ple against John Dillinger, killer, so the opening was postponed. But, meanwhile tbe ease plan ned a rehearsal tomorrow before a grand jury audience to determ ine how Dillinger became the modern vanishing American. Edward Barce. assistant attor ney general for Indiana, said wit nesses in the county jail presided over by Sheriff Lillian Holley would re-enact before a grand jury of six, the wooden pistol es cape of the notorious desperado, March 3. Concluding its re-enactment, the jury will deliberate In efforts to find it collusion entered the jail break. FINDLAY, O., March 12. 6fV- The Buckeye State Sheriffs' asso ciation radio station WPGG to night broadcast an alarm to po lice in northwestern Ohio to be on the lookout for an automobile containing three men, "all heavily armed." Officers here expressed the be lief John Dillinger, ' escaped des perado, might be one of the men. Th car (Chevrolet 1933) was reported to have entered Ohio from Illinois. It bore license plates Issued in the latter state, the station reported. Fireman Suing Fire Chief and Commissioner PORTLAND, Ore., March 12. (P) Contempt charges in federal bankruptcy court were filed today against a city commissioner and Fire Chief Edward Grenfell who suspended seven Portland firemen for failure to pay their bills. The action was brought by Fireman Walter E. Lenneville who charged the suspension in terferes with his right as a cred itor to appeal to the federal court for relief. Some of the other sus pended firemen had not entered bankruptcy. The fire chief and the city com missioner were cited to show cause March 19 why they should not be punished for contempt of court. Record for Tax Payment Broken PORTLAND. Ort., March 12. (JPy Issuance of 3600 receipts for payment of $250,000 taxes broke previous single-day records for Multnomah county, collectors re ported. Citizens of Portland are being made "tax conscious" by banners and placards posted by the Jun ior chamber of commerce in a "pay your taxes" campaign. The placards explain tbe discounts for prompt cash payment of taxes In full. Rental on Bridge Greatly Reduced PORTLAND. Ore., March lt.-(ff)-A saving of approximately f 25,000 a year was represented in the $47,090 annual rental fixed today for Multnomah county to pay the O. W. R. ft N. and South ern Pacific railroads for use of the steel bridge across the Wil lamette river here. Tbe railroads own the bridge and use a lower deck for trains. The old rental was 172.122. - t (- ; . ' ' V l v - y I " " ' stir & Z " v - I 1 i I DLLiEflS TRIAL POLITICS ABUZZ 'S Fl Thomas and Marks are Not So Certain Now They Will Not Run Dunne, Charley Hall Will; 0s West Returns, Says He's for Brown Politics buszed with a capital "Bee" at the statehouse Monday when state officials reported at their offices for the first time since the Saturday night declara tion of Governor Meier that he would retire from politics. Governor Meier himself was in his office, and seemed quite cheer ful, as though a load was oft his mind, and pleased too over the fa vorable comments he had received on his review of the achievements of his administration. State Treasurer Rufus Holman, who has been "gunning" for the governor for months, maintained his hands-oft policy with respect to the governorship, insisting that he was "trying to make a good state treasurer." Charles M. Thomas, public util ity commissioner, whom political soothsayers credited with guber natorial aspirations, was frankly non-plussed at the turn of events, repeating that he had said he was not a candidate for governor, but non-committal over whether with his chief out of the field, he would try the flight himself. He did say though that he had felt all along that his duty was to strengthen public utility regulation along lines on which he has been work ing. Hansen Says Hell Go Back to Farm As for Henry Hansen, the gov ernor's political mentor, it Is back to the farm for Henry; at least that is what he says; and he has a farm out of town on the river road to which he can retire. There was a parade of political figures calling at the statehouse. Along came Willard Marks, who is the "white hope" of the now distraught Meier appointees. Newshawks cornered Marks, who as president of the senate, served a spell as governor when Al Nor blad was out of the state. "I would like to be governor. because I am human," frankly stated the Albany lawyer, "but I am not In position to sacrifice my business to conduct a campaign. But Mr. Marks did not make his denial final; in fact' admitted he was giving the matter considera tion because of many urgent re- (Turn to page 3, col. 1) OlD-Tlffi OFFICER SEATTLE, March 1 S.--Sur-viving the bullets of 14 gunmen, Joel E. "Eagle Eye" Warren, one of the last of the peace officers of the west when it was young and wild, died today in bed, his boots off. When he was five years old, the year after the Civil war ended, his famUy crossed the plains from Sullivan county, Missouri and set tled at Walla Walla. Fifty years ago tomorrow he became Spokane's first policeman. Two weeks later that was when Spokane was a roistering town, full of bad men, roaring ranchers and miners he arrested a notor ious halfbreed, William Jackson, out where Gonsaga college was being built. "When I got the drop on him," Warren recalled, "he bared his breast and told me to go ahead and shoot. I had a hard time get ting the cuffs on him without us ing my gun." State Police Many Into Twenty-one cases, almost a rec ord day, were brought before Jus tice of the Peace Miller Hayden here yesterday, with the bulk of them arrests by the state police. Fourteen Of the eases came through in an hour, from 1:30 to 2:30 o'clock. Four of the men haled before the judge were arrested early Sunday morning In a raid eon ducted by atate officers. C. W. Kelly of Silverton admitted eon ducting, maintaining and operat ing a slot machine, and was fined $25 and costs, the sum 'of the fine- being specifically recom mended by the deputy district at torney, inasmuch as Kelly claim ed in court that the city of Sil verton had licensed him to oper ate the machines. j L. D. HcKe of Playmore park pleaded not guilty to a similar slot machine charge, and is at liberty on $100 bail. His case will be let later. J. H. Stein berger of Silverton pie ad e d guilty to using vile and obscene language In a public place, and paid a fine of 825 and costs. Lawrence Lannera denied selling AFTER MEIER 1 REFUSAL DIES PROSAICALLY boBbilS try compromise House Leaders Call Insurgents Together and Induce them to Permit Sending Bill to Conference With No Instructions; Eventual Victory for Roosevelt is HeIdK Possible; Passage Over Veto Doubted Measure Approved 295 to 125 but Many May Change to Roosevelt's Side on New Vote; Mott and Pierce of Oregon Vote With Majority, Martin Supports F. R. on Final Roll Call; Bourbons Decide Issue WASHINGTON, March 12. (AP) House democrats dared a promised veto late today to pass a bonus bill, then quietly agreed in caucus to support a plan to send the $354,000,000 of veterans pay the senate to seek a compromise lne bonus bill goes to the senate which so liberally amended the independent offices supply bill with veterans benefits as to bring upon it too the threat of a veto if it were not changed. Beaten on the bonus issue by a 295 to 125 vote for passage, house leaders hurriedly assembled the democrats into a caucus behind closed doors. There the insurgents or most of them heeded th plea of Representative Byrns, and agreed to send the supply Ohlll to conference without in PROTEST IS FILED Delegation of 30 is Heard at Headquarters Here; Will Resume Work The first organized protest against the recent reduction In wages paid CWA crews In Marion county appeared yesterday when approximately 30 laborers from tbe Schaeffer hill road project east of Gervals presented their complaint to CWA Administrator Glenn G. Niles in his office here. The protestants, however, after hearing the situation explained by Niles, said they would return to work this morning. Niles told the Schaeffer hill crew that the county CWA board had sent into state headquarters a recommendation for restoration of wages to levels in the various classes near those that prevailed until a week ago. The state board's approval or modification of this recommended scale Is an ticipated by local officials mo mentarily. (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Heat Record of 29 Years Falls; Mercury at 76 PORTLAND, Ore., March 12. -(jTV-The only remaining sign of winter wss January's fuel hill as the thermometer reached 76 de grees here today. It was the warmest day of the year and the warmest early March day since 1905 when the weather bureau recorded a temp erature of 77 degrees on March 9. Oregon's heat parade was led by Wolf Creek at 82 degrees. Rose burg and Medford had 80 degrees. Albany and Umatilla had highs of 74 degrees. Other temperatures included Lengview, Wash., 72 degrees, Marshfleld 68 and Baker (8. Raids Bring Justice Court liquor to an Intoxicated person (Stelnberger) and preliminary hearing will be set later. He is out on $100 bail. J. T. Johnson paid a $10 fine and costs for violation of the P.U.C. tag laws and a similar charge against Mike Mignocco was dismissed when it was found his case came within the exemp tions of the state law. Several were brought In - for alleged false application for regis tration of plates: T. W. Parmele took 24 hours to enter plea and will be. back at 2 o'clock today and meantime Is held in tbe county Jan In, lieu of $25 ball. Ralph Bloom was fined $S and eosts and Paul Wlnslow admitted the charge bat his case was con tinued for sentence until-today. Jack Boening paid $2 on com mitment, as did also Walt Finn Walter Fisher paid a fine of $S and eosts for the same offense and C. J. Lehman took 24 hours in which to enter plea. Elmer Lander pleaded not guilty. Driving a two -wheel trailer without license cost Albert Hilke (Turn to page 2, coL 6) HTC1WS increases to conference with acceptable to the president. structions from the bouse. There were 74 dissenters to s n e k a course but 165 favored it. This means a compromise satis factory to the White House may be worked out in the unlet ef the conference room. Then, before taking the modifications np in the house, the democrats will hold another caucus. Byrns and his lieutenants will attempt once more to get the majority to agree to support the compromise,.- if it is satisfactory to the White House. If this should happen Mr. Roosevelt may win all along the line. Senator Robinson of Arkaa sas, the majority leader, predicted after a talk with the president late in the day the 2,200,0. 000 bonus measure would sot pass the senate. The house vote on the bonus measure was sufficient to override a presidential veto but many members who voted for cash pay ment during today's tumultuous session undoubtedly would change their position after Mr. Roosevelt formally disapproved the bill. Proponents of the measure who worked machine-like inhara mering down amendments, lost some ground on the ballot on fin al passage as compared to the 3 12 to 104 tally to discharge the ways and means committee from con sideration of the measure. A large majority of the demo crats were joined by about half the republicans and the five farmer-laborites In voting for the bill. Speaker Rainey did not vote on the measure but Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the democrat ic leader, told the house he had "no criticism of any member of this bouse for whatever action he may take -with reference to this bill" and said he regretted he could not vote for It. "I had hoped that some com promise could be worked out that would be acceptable to the presi dent." Byrns said, "but he says flatly that he will veto it. In voting for this -bill we are jnt making an idle political gesture." On final passage. 231 demo crats were joined by 69 republi cans and five farmer-laborites for tbe measure, with 74 democrat (Turn to page 2, eoL 8) SUPPLY CONTRACTS WASHINGTON, March 12.-ff) -A District of Columbia grand jury today refused to return in dictments In Its Investigation ff an alleged conspiracy to defraud ' the government on war depart ment contracts. , By a rote of 15 to I, it dropped the proceedings, but a transcript of its nearly lire weeks of hear ings Immediately was made avail able to the house military affairs committee which already has be gun investigating all war depart ment expenditures since 1921. Word of the grand Jury's rote was transmitted Immediately the department where Secretary Dern said: "The action of the grand Jury la a complete vindication of tbe war department. This Is what I expected."1; j.-'. ' , ', The grand Jury inquiry waa in- 1 stituted by order-ef tbe jnstlc department after a series of con ferences between war department i and Justice officials. - Aawaf -those heard as witnesses were the. assistant secretaryof war, Harry - H. Woodrlng. and General Doug las MaeArthur, chief of -staff- . NQ FRAUD FOUND IN J-