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i PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salea, Oregon, Friday Monunz," March 27, 1935 T ; t a. V v. BustStonals Obscuring Sun Blows Wheal Seed From ' : Ground Near Yakima; 4 - "IVafCc Hampered , ' (Continued from -pate 1) A searching part;, trareHIng hy icg tMin, act out to find two over- dso-tractor drivers who bad been breaking 14-foot snowdrift be tween the morle camp and Bearer creek, 29 miles sorts of Lowiston. ENID, Okla.. March, Jf-ttnA darkening- dut storm - billowed eastward from Oklahoma tonight while mid-winter weather nipped at the- west's budding sprint ' crops. ' Fruit Imperiled by ' Frosts is Soath " Freezing temperatures moTed "In oa the apple, peach and pear crops of Arizona. California or- chardists continued for the third J night a imudge pot battle against a killing frost menacing their ruit. Snow , fell in northern . Kansas, holding back dust from the south. ' But winds blowing In from the arid "dust bowl" carried clouds ; of grit as far east as Kansas City - and up into the Dakotas. Oklahoma a wheat crop 'was menaced as sharp winds continor ied to whick np top soil and send . it across the state in grimy clouds. Another swirl of silt and sand 5 cut - risibility to zero in Lamar 'and Springfield, Colo. Snow that ; bore in on the state from the : north, stopped at Pueblo on the - fringe of the "blow lands." - YAKIMA, March 26-(-Wlnd - today for the second time this sea ison blew the wheat seed, out of :C the ground in the Mabton-Blckle- C, ton and Horse Hearen hills dry : land districts, growers said today . as they faced the necessity for .5 the second re-seeding. Burglar Suspect j Arrested, Eugene i (Continued from page 1) tcdy of Vancouver, Wash., police I la January. He was suspected of "connection with the numerous . "rants pocket" burglaries which . hare occurred here since last fall. : Chief of Folic Frank . MInto has asked Eugene officers to question Collins as to his acthri : .ties. He is believed to be the same negro whom Albany officers - had in custody briefly recently. Cecil Edwards, Salem young : man who encountered and unsuc " eesgfully tried to hold a burglar In his home here late last year, reported yesterday the negro at i Albany carried scars on his shins, Edwards bettered his assailant i, suffered severely skinned shins .-In a fall over a sawhorse while --- h fled from the Edwards prop erty. " tSeareh in Sonora Region For Plane - . DOUGLAS. Ariz.. March 26.-.XPr-Search for a small cabin plane . which vanished in the night while transporting - four Phoenix bus- - lness men from Douglas to Phoe . nix swung 'suddenly tonight to the - desolate wastelands of northern ' Sonora, Mexico. .. Reports irere recelred tonight, ' after fruitless searching through- . .- oat the day in the Tucson region, .that a plane, obviously oft Us .coarse, fu heard orer the Ash 'Canyon CCC camp, not far from . Here, late last night. A short time later the shin ; headed into Sonora, was seen oTer iNaco, across the Mexican border ..from Bis bee. " Piloted by Paul OdneaL the plana took off from here at 11:15 tP. m. Wednesday for Phoenix. Andersons to Be : Sentenced Today t Judge I H. McMshan announ ced late yesterday that he expect- ed to pronounce sentence today or Saturday on John. Harold and 7 Robert Anderson, three Grand Is- The Call Board GRAND . Today "Every Saturday Night" with June Lang. Saturday "Charlie Chan at tha Circus" with Warner ' Oland. - ' v ELSIXORE ' Today Harold Lloyd In The Milky Way." -. CAPITOL Today Double bill, "Call J of the Prairie" with Bill Boyd, and James Cagney 'la ririsco. Kid.- , HOLLLTWOOD i Today Double bill, -East of Java" with Charles Bickford. and Jean'Autry la -Melody TralL" -: -t STATE Y ' Today First run double bill. "The Ghost Walks" and The Curtain Palls., Saturday only Zane Grey's -Nerada." - - a. or ' sTOMORROW! Ends Today "Erery . Saturday'. A. - Comedy Hit! Elevated ,vv .. . , , - . -. ' V, o 1 leWMSWl'weMassiiwiii.. X 1 kj i ;-; : ; v d-- n -A y- WW k. . ; Althooeh this railroad llrie was tracks at each end were uder land youths, who hare pleaded guilty to theft of 171 sheep in four counties. Roy R. Hewitt, counsel for. the Andersons, pleaded with the court far a parole. District Attorney Trmdl opposed a parole rigor ously, saying It would make con viction of other similar offenders extremely difficult. Judge McMa han took the case under sdrise ment. The three brothers are in ail here. Stringer Tries to Escape; Convicted VANCOUVER, Wash., March zC.-CTVSheriff Leland Morrow ordered guards doubled at the county jail tongiht, following con- rictkm of Glenn Stringer, Med- ford. Ore., youth, on first degree murder charges. Morrow said Stringer tried to escape twice. A superior court Jury recom mended the death penalty in re porting- a conrictlon today. Stringer as charged with the slaying of Herbert Caples, tobacco salesman, when Caples resisted a robbery near his home here March 10, 1934. The state Intro duced a confession which police said was obtained from Stringer last December while he was serv ing a term in the Oregon state prison for burglary. Station Invaded For Third Time Robbed twice preTlously with a recent months, the General Pe troleum station at 12th and State streets was burglarized sometime late Wednesday or early yesterday mominr by thieves who were so good at their job that they eren found $53. 7 cash hidden in an automobile tire. Entrance was gained by palling pins from hinges on a door to the tire room. It was thought that the money was located in the tire only after considerable search, as the room had been ransacked and left in confusion. The bag that contained the money was thrown away on the premises. Owyhee Reservoir Full, First Time ONTARIO, Ore., March 26-(Ai -Water flowed orer Owyhee Irri gation dam today for the first time-since lis construction. Engi neers said they have been assured there is an ample supply of water In the hills to fill the reservoir to its highest level, providing a two-year supply. One spillway was opened to al low additional drainage. The dam. at an elevation of 2.S5S feet, forms a lake 45 miles long. To tal capacity of the lake was esti mated at 712.000 acre feet. McNary Bill Backed PORTLAND, Ore., March 26.- (tfy-A day-long discussion of the Bonneville power project brought statement from Irving B. Lin coln, . Portland realtor, that the Portland realty board would go on record farorinr the MeNarv bin- - Last Times Today -" - 2 FEATURES , THE GHOST WALKS' plus The Certain Falls' SATURDAY ONLYl rj7Vi5sTi way te V I... ohk Lad..! i i . .- Actia-aach rasfls teatsscsl LASH arts ClABBt , r KtUcs Infes ' Meat llss fisttsa t-r: i ... v ' v- 1 Ml kailroad at Parkersb elerated at Parkersbnrjr, W. Van becanse of the bridge approach, the water, preventing traffic from traversing the line. Fourteen Killed When Plane Hits Seven Victims of Tragedy in Mexico Are German Tourists; 3 Titled AMECAMEA. Mexico, March 21 -(A-Ten German tourists, on their way home after a Mexican rislt, were among 14 persons kill ed today when a huge trl-motored ship crashed on the rocky "sad dle" between two rolcanoes. The four others were an aria- tion official and three crew mem bers. Hurtling down on the snow clad bridge between Popocatepetl and Ixtlacihuatl, the plane scat tered its wreckage orer the moun tainous plateau, caught fire and burned the bodies of its passen gers and crew beyond recognition. Officials said it was the worst crash in the history of aviation in Mexico. . Six women were killed. Three of the victims were titled, a prince, princess and a baron. The Hamburg - American line, which brought the tourists to this coun try, gare out this list of the Ger man passengers. Nobility Included Adolf P r I n ce Schaumburg Llppe. Elisabeth Princess Schaum-burg-Lippe, Siegmund Baron Von Stieber, Frau Dora Theiir. Frau lein Victoria Thein, Adolf Frans Igler, Frauleln Marie Margarethe Harder. Frauleln Elisabeth Sc bro ker, Frauleln Ldeabet Pust, Elmer Von Rohencly. The party left Mexico City this morning for Guatemala in a ship chartered from the Compania Mexicans De Ariactipn, a subsid iary of Pan-American Airways, Twenty minutes later observers in the little town of Amecameca, at the foot of Popocatepetl watch ed the giant air liner falter as the pilot sought altitude to fly orer the pass. Then they heard the mo tors miss fire. A few minutes later, after the plane had circled the little moun tain Tillage twice, its pilot point ed toward Mexico City but slith ered down among the rocky crags. Seattle Youth Is Avalanche Victim LONGMIRE, Mt. Rainier Na tional Park. Wash., March 26. (JP) - An aTalanche killed ' Jack Northrop, 23, Seattle, at Narada Falls today and buried two other men who were dug from under five feet of snow and revived by park rangers and employes. Major O. A. Tomlinson, park superintendent, said Northrop ap parently suffocated beneath seven feet of heavy snow. . His companions, Forbes Wil son and Gordon Proctor, both Se attle, were semi-conscious when rescue crews found them. Wilson and . Proctor" apparently suffered no serere Injuries, although they (UI Afjwprt Theater T Today and HpilYlYOoP Saturday. TWO FEATURES 15c Radio's Singing Cowboy in a Koundap Melody ";. Ita TK-flU ft mm: aau 1 1 urg Submerged by were burled more than two hours. Ranger William Butler and his wife, who were following the three on foot from Paradise, about three miles above Karada falls, discovered the snow-slide victims plight by their tracks which disappeared In the snow. Butler summoned rescue crews from Longmire and Paradise. Hitler Boasts of Germany's Power (By the Associated Press) On the heels of a British plea for a conciliatory gesture, Adolf Hitler praised Germany's power Thursdsy night to get what she wanted through her own might Germany, Der Fuehrer declared in an election speech at Leipzig, now does not hare to reiy on "chance or a gift from the League of Nations." Hitler spoke only a few hours after Anthony Eden, Great Brit ain's foreign secretary, in a speech to the house of commons called upon Germany to" do something to allay the anxieties of Europe." Britain, Eden disclosed, pins Its hope for a peaceful solution of the admittedly - critical Locarno crisis upon some concession by Hitler. Although Eden reaffirmed Brit ish obligations under the Locarno treaty, he urged France to receive expected German proposals with an open mind and added: "It Is fantastic to suggest thst we be tied to the chariot wheels of this or that foreign country." He promised Hitler's proposals, due next Tuesday, will be given a "full and fair" hearing by Brit ain. Kenneth Bayne to Seek Justice Job Kenneth Bayne, farmer of tha Hazel Green district, long a prom inent democrat, tiled here late yesterday as a candidate for the nomination of his party as Justice of the peace for the Salem dis trict. Bayne announced that his plat form would be the fair, impartial administration of Justice. For the past three years he has served as a director of the school district in his home community. Heretofore Bayne hat been secre tary and later chairman of the democratic central committee for the county. He Is a graduate of ithe Willamette university law school and has been admitted to practice In the state. Bayne has long been a member of the Elks lodge here. CCC Blamed, Flood PITTSBURGH, March 2.-SV Mayor William N. McNalr said to day the east's disastrous floods could be traced to the work of the civilian conservation corps In re moving trees, logs and underbrush which absorbed water In the mountains and acted as a flood preventive. CHARLES BICKFORD BITTEN BY LION in- SfTTSa rra : ", " L C a universal w untvorsal 0 it v m Ji If AdvtnturtKnancl Added . ; Cartoon Comedy - "News -Chapter One of New Serial i V tailspin T05nrr Floodwaters floods rose to such height that the Color Films Made Here Shown Group Fire reels of natural colored motion pictures of Oregon were shown last night to an Interested local audience by Miss Kathleen Gunnell who was hostess for the showing at her studio in the Bliga building. Miss Gunnell took the films during the past year. A pan orama of the high points of scenic Interest in Oregon was revealed to the onlookers who Included Gov ernor and Mrs. Charles H. Martin. Outstanding showings included the harvesting and processing of flax in this area, views of the Mt. Jefferson park country, the recent Chemawa Indian school celebra tion and a reel devoted to the pic turesque and colorful Pendleton roundup celebration. In the opening riews Miss Gun nell portrayed in natural colors the basic industries of Oregon, in cluding a graphic depiction of the logging industry in eastern and western Oregon and the catching and canning ot fish at Astoria. Police Board to Convene Tonight Chairman Walter Fnhrer last night called on the city council police committee and Mayor V. E. Kuhn to meet in his office at 7:30 tonight to decide what should be done regarding the positions of in dicted polico officers and also, he said, to discuss wsys to make the police department more efficient. He declared this meeting; had not been tntentially delayed. "We will consider the Individ uals Indicted (Chief Frank Mlnto and Sergeant Orey G. Coffey) and all other matters relating, to the department,' Fuhrer said, if there's anything wronr la the po- lice department we want to hear about it and act. , " AS ill ... : r - i' .i . l "Ijlii-i'L Mill - ,. SSI. - 1UHBR CAPITAL Of AMIRICA1 1 , t f'.r " -fT VkNI of the most fasdnating dues of tht T' '" 2d&cliox&yirtstbTtxxmi.ApUMttt ' - v city, it is today a place of boiding commercial t ;, I -'i- T'' tn'd the gatewiY to that mountain wonder- ; . 1 I . ' V..' : :') land, Raloier Nadooal Park. When yott risit . 7 "- I . V; it .tTacma or whererer yoo dxirego with ; y : , ',J -. V tong-mileage Hi-Octane gasoline, fill op-at : ; r joutneighhothoc4 Richfield atadoa , n. wmmmMmmm Further Delay LoneyR quest Governor Has No Power lo Stop Execution; Board Slay Confer " .. ' (Continued from page-1) Ion of Loneythat the disputed rail was not part of the flooring. 1 It did not fit, Loney told tao govern or, and Hoffman himself added he would continue hia . lnrestigailon of the board, . Despite this, statement Hsuck quoted the governor as saying in New York, after an examination of attic Joists is a Columbia jini- versity laboratory, that he was "satisfied- that State Trooper Lewis J. Bordmian, of the. New Jersey state police, and Arthur J, Koehler, federal wood expert, "told the truth when they said the hoard was nailed to the Joist, Hauptmann, once saved from the electric chair, by Governor Hoffman's repriere. Is under sen tence to die next Tuesday night If the court of pardons decides to hear Hauptmann's second plea for clemency, it will meet either Sat urday or Monday.- -', Hauck,-plainly irritated by the gorernor's activities in the ease and more particularly by the Bronx visit today, said he would fight any farther attempts of the gorernor to repriere Hauptmann. "The fact is his investigation is not impartial and Is very unfair," Hauck said. "He has constantly leagued himself with the defense and so far he has shown us noth ing of Importance that would lead us "to believe Bruno Richard Hauptmann Innocent, or that oth ers hare been Involved In the crime. No Profit, Claim Of Area Manager (Continued from Pace 1) to me were approximately S1.S00 to $2,100 a month. "Brand this statement as false. Commissions paid to me run $500 or $100 a month more than Sul livan claims, but from these com missions a salary la paid to 20 employes in the state office, rent, telephone, telegraph, radio, print ing, postage, supplies, and a dozen and one other charges besides people that are paid in the field. "All the commissions received plus special contributions are not enough to pay the current over head .... -Tell "Sullivan for me that no body is afraid of the big had wolf." o SSUESjI! O TONIGHT & SATURDAY Clnrewee Mal ford's Roarlns; Drama of the Westt!! n!?rr -AUI w fflLLUa C3YD jMsarv cujsosj aWOEL EVANS AND 2ND HIT ILJ C a nn tin m Here and There . in Oregon ''-:-' Associated Press Leased Wire Service j : V Charles Redding Heads Portland Junior Chamber , PORTLAND, Ore., March 2IP)-Th Portland Junior cham- lvsn afh SAM Vi A tvmltt' ahAsa: as nvAaMaat " ft a w 1 ,v TXT Tf .A A f y arv wa. vuiutctvy viuau fcuvoM ay a voiuvm vuavi aces iwcuuiug, Portland attorney and graduate ot Willamette university. . succeeds Worth W. CaldwelL "Smithfield" and "Franklin" R6w Revived '- EUGENE, Ore., March 2 .-a3)-The state highway commis- Blon'i action in tacking up a alga -Smithfield" at a cross roads and store northwest of Eugene brought a protest from' a faction who demanded the nam be chanced to "Franklin. The srg-n- meat orer the'name has progressed for several years. The Frank- Unites lodged a protest at the Lane county courthouse. Labor Dispute at Estacada is Settled '. ' OREGON CITY, Ore., March 2,HSVttda!s of the Esta cada high school construction project said today a labor dis pute had been settled and carpenters 'had returned to work. The r -carpenters struck In protest against alleged employment of noa : union, plumbers. - 1 ' . . . 4 1 - y - .. MdreVWorkers Join Marshfield WPA Strike , MARSHFIELD, Ore., March 26.-flVForty-eIght WJA -work-, ers on a road project Joined the WPA strike for a 120-hour month and higher wages today. Total on strike is 215. A vote showed 185 to 5. in faror of continuing he walkout. Three men returned to work on a sewer project today but rain halted operations. Logger Killed "When Tree Falls Upon Him ASTORIA, Ore.. March 2 S.-a3)-Inuries received when-a tree fell on him resulted fatally today to Gustare Sigford HJerp?, 39. employe at the Dolley logging camp. Oasis as Memorial to Bill Hanley Talked BURNS, Ore.. March 26.-(A-Members of the state highway commission, during their recent rislt here, said it possible a ' memorial would be erected to the late William L. Hanley, pioneer stockman. Friends would pay for the tribute, which would be constructed' as an oasis on the Burns-Laker Jew highway, and the state would provide water, grass and trees. Medford Smudges to Protect Fruit Trees MEDFORD, Ore., March li.-JPj-K low mark of 26 degrees compelled fruit growers to resort to smudging early today. The county agent reported no commercial damage. Sanitation at Indian Camp The Dalles Demand THE DALLES, Ore., March 2.-(flVThe Dalles chamber of commerce, declaring conditions at the Indian fishing settlement ! at Celilo Falls were haaardous to public health, directed a de mand for a clean-up to the federal government today. Chamber members said If immediate action is not taken they win attempt to work through the state department of health. Nelson Will File For Senator Race (Continued from page 1) levying an unfair tax on the poor or on the wealthy. I will, protect and promote the "Say folks, don't mis show ... it's the best IKIefldl vei?2 ON THE STAGE -Tonite at 9 o'clock 5 Mickey Mouse Spring" Follies 75 KIDDIES 60 BriNTJTES OF JOY AND FUN! OX THE SCREEN'. e STARTS SUNDAY ... He interests of sgriculture snd labor as the cornerstone of the nation's prosperity, believing that what ever Is best for the nation as a whole Is In the end best for each of Its citlxens. Nelson said. he would ssk for the following slogan on the bal lot: "Put our country on a pay-as-you-go bisis. this great ever . . TODAY AND SATURDAY America's No. 1 Comedy Kin at His Best! VJ 3UDMGHT FREYTE BAT. NIGHT - 11:80 rr it it mnmn v