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dj-mmd Jury Delays Bruno' 's
Dramatic Order Comes Just
At Time Set for Execution
Further Probe
Into Wendel's
Story, Reason
"Warden Takes Action at
'Request of Secret
Tribunal, Says
All Details for Closing
Celebrated Case are
Ready; Stopped
By SAMUEL G. BLACKMAN
TRENTON, N. J., March 31.
(Jp) Bruno Richard Hauptmann
was Bared dramatically from the
electric chair again .. tonight at
least for 48 hoars even as the
executioner waited (or him to en
ter the death, chamber. .
The hoar of death was at
hand. Hauptmann had written a
' farewell letter to Got. Harold
G. Hoffman, protesting anew that
he was Innocent of the Lindbergh
baby murder.
Then the Mercer county (Tren
ton) grand jury tooVthe perhaps
unprecedented action of asking
that his life be spared.
Col. Mark O. Kimberling, pri
son authority, complied with the
request by delaying the execu
tion for 48 hours. He could, on
his own authority, hare post
poned it until Saturday night,
bat not beyond that.
The warden later said:
I am staying the execution
at least forty-eight hours. It may
be Thursday or Friday. I am
making a further statement to
morrow.' He added that "I made the
- statement and assume all respon
sibility." Executions in New Jersey
usually are on Tuesdays or Fri
days. The delay was announced by
Colonel Kimberling at 8:05 p. m.
Hauptmann's execution was set
for 8 o'clock.
Wendel Inquiry is
Basis of Request
. The request was made, Allyne
Freeman, foreman of the Jury,
explained, because it was inves
tigating the repudiated confes
sion to the Lindbergh kidnap
slaying, made by a disbarred
Trenton lawyer, Paul H. Wendel.
Freeman said there were still
some, "interesting new angles in
the ease" worthy of inquiry. .
The "Wendel "confession" and
the circumstances which led Wen
del to become a prisoner, charg
ed with the. murder of the Lind
bergh baby, had. earlier in the
day, been discredited by Supreme
Court Justice Thomas W. Trench
ard. Hauptmann trial jurist.
"In rejecting an application for
a Judicial stay of execution, he
called the Wendel statement "in
credible and out of harmony with
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Funeral Is Today
For Miles McKey
Funeral services will be held to
day at 1:30 p. m. at the chapel of
W. T. Rigdon company for Miles
McKey; 39, assistant attorney gen
eral, who died Monday.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Major H. R. Behrens, CoL C. K.
Lawson, Major Van Swargnt, At
torney General L H. Van Winkle,
Mayor -Joseph. K. Carson, Hon.
Joseph E. Donne.
Active pallbearers will be Cap
tall Edgar R. Austin. Infantry;
Captain Louis B. Schoef, medical:
First Lieut. Clarke Durham, field
artillery; First Lieut. Alt. coast
artillery; Second Lieut. Cecil L.
Edwards, coast artillery; Second
Lieut, Stanley Price, coast artil
lery. " "... . ' " ' .
Bugler at the final military
ceremonies at the grave, where
taps, .will be. sounded, will be
Frank Jirak, sergeant in the regu
lar army, captain C. A. C. re
serves. The firing squad will be
from ' Lieut. CoL Clifton Irwin's
regiment, headquarters battery,,
under the' command of Captain
Bates.' :
Members of the coast artillery
reserre officers and officers from
the Oregon National guard will at
tend the serrkes in, a body. The
attorney general's office will be
closet during the funeral hour.
Bruno Saved by
Probe, His Case
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Siren Will Herald
Flood Fund Drive
Business House to Devote
15 Minutes at 12:45
to Relief Move
Long blasts from the fire de
partment siren, the Oregon Pulp
and Paper company whistle, and
Willamette Victory bell, at 12:45
o'clock, today, will mark the be
ginning of "zero hour", the 15
minute period In which Salem
business houses will cooperate to
push over the top the local con
tributions to the Red Cross dis
aster relief fund.
Every business house in the
city, of every kind, has been call
ed upon to give the 15 minutes
from 12:45 to 1 o'clock to an ex
planation to the employes and cus
tomers therein at the time of the
urgent need for money for the
eastern flood sufferers. Following
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New 'Confession'
Is Made by Phone
TRENTON. N. Y.. March
-Police tonight sought a man who
tried to telephone Governor Har
old Hoffman of New Jersey a plea
to stay Bruno HauDtmann's execu
tion and declared "I killed the
Lindbergh baby."
Assistant Detective Chief Frank
J. Leigh said the call was made
from an east side restaurant and
refused at Hoffman's home. The
caller then asked telephone oper
ators to relay the message to the
governor. Leigh said he believed
the man was a crank.
Neglect by Health Service
Cited by Grand Jury Here
Evidence of alleged "neglect"
on the part of the Marion county
health unit in handling a severe
case of illness culminating with
the death of a child of eight years
in the Liberty district, was criti
cized here late yesterday in a spe
cial report by the Marion county
grand Jury to Judge L. G. Lewel
ling. The grand jurors reported that
a middle-aged widow, living on a
county pension of $10 a month
and supporting a child, bad ap
pealed to the health unit twice be
fore a nurse came. A doctor was
not sent until the following day,
the jury declared. He brought no
thermometer, left no medicine
and prescribed no treatment.
The next, day a private physi
cian was summoned by the widow,
he pronounced the child . gravely
111 of a communicable disease and
within 24 hours the child died,
.yrhile we know in this parti
Jurors Taking
More Time to
Sift Evidence
Steady 12-Hour Session
Ends, to Meet Again
Today, Announce
Prosecutor is Excluded
for Unknown Reason;
Mystery Deepens
TRENTOX, N. J., April 1
( Wednesday )-(yP)-The Mercer
county grand jury whose request
for a delay in the execution of
Bruno Richard HauptmaDn gave
him a new lease on life, adjourn
ed early today with the announce
ment that it would meet again
later in the morning.
The grand jury had been in
session for nearly 12 hours, one
of the longest meetings in the
memory of court attaches.
The grand jury had considered
the case of Paul Wendel, who
"confessed" the Lindbergh kid
naping only to repudiate the
statement, for 12 hours.
Prosecutor Erwin E. Marshall
would not say if the Wendel case
would be further considered in
the afternoon session.
"The Investigation is not fin
ished," Marshall said. He declin
ed to elaborate on this statement
although asked if this meant that
the Jury would continue to work
on the Wendel case.
TRENTON, N. J., March 31.-
(P)-The Mercer county grand Jury
struggled through the night to
solve a perplexing phase of the
Lindbergh case tonight after pro
bably setting a precedent in halt
ing the scheduled execution of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
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Five Are Injured
In Auto Smashup
Five Brooks boys between 12
and 14 years old received minor
injuries at 3 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon when a coupe in which
they were riding sideswiped an
other automobile and then rolled
over twice on a gravel road one
mile south of Donald, the coupe
driver, Carl Goode Steelhammer,
25, of Brooks, reported to state
police last night. He said he be
lieved none of his passengers,
three of whom were riding in the
rumble seat, was seriously injur
ed.
The five boys were Ivan McCoy,
Buster Dowen, O. G. Lowery, Ray
mond Potts and Dick Galberson.
F. E. Miller, of Hubbard, was driv
ing the car with which the coupe
collided.
Mrs. W. Proieau, 42, of Port
land, suffered minor hurts here
yesterday afternoon when a car
driven by Hugh R Prareau, Port
land, collided at Commercial and
Ferry -streets with a machine
driven by Tbelma Bedd, 859
North Liberty, and then hit a
parked car.
cular case that there was no crim
inal Intent on the part of anyone,
nevertheless there Is every evi
dence of real neglect on the part
of the people with authority to
act," the jurors reported.
The jury rapped the existing
public health system In the coun
ty by declaring that It took seven
telephone calls to get the child
admitted to a hospital when phy
sician's examination showed her
to be gravely ilL
"There Is immediate need for
a county hospital with a detention
ward for communicable disease."
the Jurors recommended. "This
hospital should be open at all
times to unfortunate suffers fi
nancially unable to avail them
selves of private hospitalization.
Home aid and medical advice
should be Immediately available.
Such service would prevent many
minor Illnesses becoming serious
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Grower Action
On Hops Issue
Being Awaited
Crop's Inclusion in New
Conservation Program
Isn't Decided Yet
Considered as Depleting
to Soil; Allotment
Angle Only Hope
WASHINGTON. March 2l.-iP)
-Farm administration officials
said today they were awaiting
formal action by growers before
deciding whether hops are to be
brought under the soil conserva
tion act.
The question has not been pre
sented to the AAA.
A spokesman said they had
been informed hop growers of the
Pacific northwest suggested con
sideration of hops as a soil de
pleting crop at a recent soil con
servation meeting in Salt Lake
City.
"We must have more definite
information," the spokesman said.
"Also, the department must have
formal recommendations by com
mittees set up in each hop grow
ing state before a special ruling
can be made by the secretary."
Would Determine
After Application
Should the growers In any one
state organize and apply for bene
fits under the act the department
then would determine the crop
classification for hops.
Hops probably would be put in
the same classification as corn
and grains, it was explained.
Whatever the classification, the
percentage of crops that would
not be harvested and the acreage
allotments would depend upon the
soil productivity rating.
Senator Steiwer (R-Ore.) "said
he conferred with Porter Taylor,
chief of the general crop section,
and that Taylor, while recogniz
ing the. need for extending aid to
hop growers, not "not at all en
couraging as to the prospects for
formulating a workable plan un
der the new act."
Domestic Allotment
Is Only Prospect
Steiwer said the soil conserva
tion provisions of the act offer
no material aid to hop growers.
The only possibility for aid ap
pears in the act's domestic allot
ment provisions, he added.
A number of hop growers. In
letters to him, contended they
were misled and grew full crops
in 1935, assuming they would be
aided by marketing agreements
approved under the old agrlcul
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Ask More Details
In Pollution Case
The City of Salem, through Its
attorney, Paul Hendricks, yester
day asked for more specific in
formation on the charges made
against it by the Columbia River
Fishermen's Protective associa
tion. The city made its Inquiry in
motions filed to the association's
complaint of last week In which
the municipality and three local
industries were named parties de
fendant. Hendricks asked that the plain
tiff specify the type of pollution
the city is held to have caused,
the specific amount of the dam
ages assessed against the city and
the exact portion of the Columbia
river the city Is said to have pol
luted. The city attorney asked the
protective association for fisher
men to specific the claim to title
which they made over fish In the
Columbia river. t
Government Buys
2500 Tons Prunes
The government has purchased
2500 tons of Oregon prunes at
74 a ton through the surplus
commodities corporation. Senator
Charles L. McNary late yester
day afternoon wired the chamber
of commerce here.
The government win purchase
(000 additional tons of which S,
500 will be Oregon prunes, or so
much as is needed for relief pur
poses," the wire states. ?
. The purchase .was made under
section 32 which" McNary bad in
serted in the agricultural adjust
ment act..
Brown's Talk
Cancelled For
Untold Cause
Senator Sam Brown's
threatened excoriation of
the Townscnd club area
board of 21 scheduled to
go out to the state tonight
at 9:1)0 o'clock over KOIN,
Portland, faded out late yes
terday. Brown cancelled the
formal announcements of
the talk and the Portland
radio station reported late
last night that the scheduled
talk of the senator had been
suddenly "scratched." In
stead of the senator's foren
sic a staid wrestling match
will occupy the broadcasting
half-hour time set for the
candidate for the republican
nomination for the United
States senate.
Unofficially, It wa re
ported that Townsend club
groups had urged Brown
not to proceed with his talk.
He had promised to tell hi9
radio listeners the behind
t he-scene story of the recent
Portland conference where .
Brown's name was passed by
the Townsend higher-ups
and Theodore Nelson of Sa
lem was picked as the coun
cil's candidate for the re
publican nomination for the
senate.
Pension Campaign
Fund Plan Rapped
Roseburg Group Won't Go
Along; Self -Seeking by
Leaders Seen
ROSEBURG, Ore.. March 31.-(jp)-The
finance plan of the Ore
gon Townsendites' campaign man
ager received the adverse vote of
the Roseburg Townsend Club No.
1 today.
The club unanimously tabled
the proposal of "Charles L. Paine
of Eugene that each member be
assessed five cents a week for six
weeks to aid state Townsend can
didates.
Ray Compton, president of the
Roseburg club, termed the pro
posed campaign chest that of
"self-appointed leaders with per
sonal ambitions."
Violated Spirit of
Movement, Asserts
Paine, state campaign manager,
is candidate tor national republi
can committeeman.
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Last Payment of
Pension Is Today
Marion county will issue Its
pension checks today to nearly
S00 men and women over 70
years of age but no pension
checks will be forthcoming from
relief headquarters until late In
April, officials announced yester
day. Some confusion exists in the
minds of pension recipients be
cause ten counties In the state are
reported to be paying pensions
through the relief organization
this month. Officials stated that
these were pensions for men and
women who had received March
payments a month ago and had,
to have assistance at once for
their April expenditures.
No payments will be made
from relief offices until all cases
have been Investigated. Applica
tions for old-age assistance should
be made to the relief offices but
checks will not go out for nearly
a month.
Legal test of the right of the
county here to pay a lump sum
to the county relief committee for
the latter to use with state and
federal funds In paying pensions
is possible. County court offici
als here said they did not think
they should pay a lamp-sum war
rant to the relief authorities until
an attorney general's opinion or
a court decision had been return
ed, upholding inch a procedure.
Investigation, of Fith
Ladder at Willamette
Falls, Union Request
PORTLAND, Ore., March 11-iffy-X
request for an Investigation
of the Jish ladder at Willamette
falls came today from Adrld Matt
son, secretary of the Columbia
River Fishermen's Protective un
ion. , ' ' .
. He said it was generally con
ceded the ladder Is Inadequate to
permit spawning, salmon to get
out the falls. He also declared
"large quantities of water are be
ing diverted from the falls for
commercial uses
Death 48' Hours
Soviet Sounds
Warning Over
Border Affair
Advises Japan Situation
Doesn't Permit Mere
Waiting, Learned
Tokyo Foreign Office is
Wholly in Ignorance,
Disbelieves Story
fCiipTri'ht. 1936. It Ash iat. d Prm)
MOSCOW. April 1 ( Wednes
day ) (-Reports from Ulan Ba
tor, capital of outer Mongolia, said
early today that heavy fighting be
tween Mongolian defenders and
Japanese-Manchoukuoan invaders
was continuing.
The invading troops, whose ac
tions caused a sharp protest to be
delivered to the Japanese ambass
ador at Moscow, have not yet been
forced out of Mongolian territory,
the reports declared.
The Russian foreign office pro
test, made by B. S. Stom&niakoff,
vice-commissar for foreign af
fairs, informed the Japanese flat
ly the situation "does not permit
pacifically waiting for develop
ments of events."
Stomanlakoff's deel a r a 1 1 o n,
made to Japanese Ambassador Ta
meklchi Ota, followed first reports
of the Invasion which began yes
terday when a force of Japanese-
Manchoukuoan troops pushed into
Mongolia after capturing the bor
der post of Adykdolon.
Stomaniakoff declared it was
necessary to take "energetic mea
sures' to put an immediate end to
the attacks by Japanese troops
against Mongolia. He said "seri
ous responsibility" would fall on
the Japanese government in case
the actions of Its "dependent or
ganization" might lead to the ex
tension of conflicts In Mongolian
territory.
TOKYO, April 1 (Wednesday)
-JPf-A foreign office spokesman
today professed complete ignor
ance and disbelief of the reported
Japanese-Manchoukuoan invasion
of outer Mongolia.
He said, when told of reports
from Ulan Bator:
"It Is impossible. I do not be
lieve It. Is true. Possibly it is only
rash propaganda."
An authoritative source close to
the army pointed out that a press
ban prohibits publication of de
tails of the border situation ex
cept official Japanese - Manchou
kuoan communiques.
Recent Indications, however,
were that Japanese forces in
northwest Manchoukuo have been
preparing for action of some kind.
Armory Program
Still Sans Funds
PORTLAND. Ore., March 31-(P)-Oregon's
$838,749 armory
construction and repair program
is still without funds. E. J. Grif
f 1 1 h. state WPA administrator,
said today. The 28 projects were
tentatively approved but money
was never allotted, the adminis
trator said.
Brigadier-General Thomas E.
Rilea, commander of the Oregon
National guard. Is in Washington
to attempt to obtain other than
WPA funds for the work, Griffith
said.
Old Parties Dead, Declared
At jF armer-Labor Meet Here
Senator Peter Zimmerman of
Yamhill county embalmed and In
terred the republican party last
night, declared the outlook for the
democratic organisation exceed
ingly disheartening and while
disclaiming any wish to run again
for office, announced f he "was
willing to tell the troth to the
people of the state If no one else
can be found to tell it"
Zimmerman's Averments came
as a climax to bis spirited address
to the newly formed Farmer-Labor
association which attracted
ISO listeners to the labor temple
ball.
While the new group, which Is
to meet here again April 14 to
forma, permanent organization
has not yet reached the status of
a political party, Its leaders re
peatedly emphasized their desire
last night to encourage a "move
ment towards Independent politi
cal action." . ' ,
Wouldn't File foe
Precinct Leader
Zlmmi rman encouraged the
Martha Walp Shot
Fatally; Had Told
Deputy of Threats
Tragedy Occurs at Home of Parents
on Union Street; Attacker Had
Entered, Awaited Arrival
Former Spouse Reported by Officers
Confessing; Pair Divorced
Recently; Charges Filed
as
fflWO shots from a .32 calibre pistol killed Mrs. Martha
Walp, 27, at 10:45 o'clock last night a few momenta after
she had returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Walker, 835 Union street, where she resided. In
an automobile outside slat Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honeycutt,
whom she had called at 8 p. m., to guard her from her ex
husband, Harry "Bill" Walp.
City Officers W. R. New and George Edwards arrested
Walp at a local hotel at about 12:30 this morning and took
him to headquarters. There after 10 minutes of questioning,
he made a full confession, District Attorney William H. Trin
die said.
"It was just one of those things," Walp was quoted as
saying. "Please wire my mother at Eugene." .
O A charge of first degree mur
Practical Joker's
Annual Day Dawns
Custom Is Widespread But
Not Ancient; Caution
Rule for April 1
Today is fraught with hazard
for those lacking in a good sense
of humor. On the other hand, it
is the practical joker's delight.
"Fooling" other people on
April 1 Is referred to in English
literature during the 19th and
20th centuries but is not men
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Brabec Is Named
Sheriffs Deputy
T. J. "Ted" Brabec was named
deputy sheriff in charge of tax
collections yesterday by Sheriff
A. C. Burk. Brabec, who has been
cashier of the tax collector's of
fice for the last two years, suc
ceeds L. E. Neet, who mysterious
ly disappeared February 22 and
has not been heard from since
that date.
At the same time fiurk an
nounced that Lee Ohmart, deputy
in the office, had been promoted
to the position of cashier.
Brabec was In the Insurance
business in Salem before taking
a position In the tax collection
office. Previous to his connection
with the Willamette Insurance
agency here he was employed in
the banking business In Nebras
ka. Burk said Brabec'c work bad
been excellent and declared he was
pleased to make the appointment.
Glenn Savage has been added to
the staff to help with the rush at
the time of heavy tax payments.
plan. "I don't think the republi
can party worth saving," he de
clared. "The quicker It sinks the
better. Why, I wouldn't even file
for republican precinct committee
man in my own district.
The Yamhill county senator de
clared he understood why people
might become Townsend club
members, grasping at some cure
all for economic ailments, but he
indicated he had no favor for that
plan and was willing to do so if It t
became necessary. Zimmerman
said that taking of money from
one class and giving it to anoth
er would not solve the country's
distress repeatedly he declared
"production for use" with profits
banned, was the "way out" of the
country's economic morass.
Production, for Us
Frequent rhrase
In sounding the keynote for the
Farmer-Labor group, which had
attracted members last night from
Linn. Polk-and Yamhill counties
as well as a nucleus of studenta
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der will be filed against Walp
this morning, the district attor
ney announced.
City police, first to enter the
house, found the young woman's
body lying on its side in the liv
ing room in a position indicating,
they said, she feU while running
from her assailant. Four empty
.32 calibre pistol cartridges were
found on the dining room floor
adjoining the living room.
Was Awaiting Her
Arrival. Believed
The slayer had forced open the
kitchen door at the rear of the
house and moved a dining room
chair into the kitchen, where he
sat awaiting the return ef Mrs.
Walp, police said it appeared. A
spent bullet had dropped just in
side the dining room near the
door leading to the kitchen. An
other bullet had gone astray and-.,
pierced wainscoting .below a din
ing room window on the east and
the other two apparently bad
struck the woman.
District Attorney William E.
Trindle immediately directed
state and city officers to hunt for
Walp.
Mrs. Walp had first requested
city police protection early last
night and, denied that, had tele
phoned for Deputy Honeycutt. She
told him, Honeycutt said, that her
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Hearst Attacked
On Senate Floor
WASHINGTON. Mareh Sl.-()-A
bitterly-worded attack' noon -William
Randolph Hearst during
which he was termed an advocate
of fascism and as publisher of
stolen documents- was loosed In
the senate today, with Hearst soon
afterward replying in court to al
legations of the senate lobby com
mittee. Senator Scbwellenbach (D
Wash.) a member of the lobby
committee, accused the publisher
of running his newspapers on a
"sweatshop" basis and of a long
record of "stealing papers, of se
curing papers by bribery, or secur
ing papers by intimidation, et se
curing papers by forgery.'
Hearst's attorney, Elisha Han
son, late in the day urged the
supreme court of the District of
Calumbia against dismissing an .
injunction suit brought to restrain
the committee from making' any
use of Hearst telegrams subpoen
aed from the telegraph companies
and from attempting to obtain
more such messages.
Florence Bridge
Open to Traffic
FLORENCE, Ore., March sl-(P)-The
whistle of an outmoded
ferry signalled the opening ef the k
Sluslaw bridge ' on : the Oregon
Coast highway - today. ; A large
caravan of cars crossed. Ferry .
service was suspended. '
The Sluslaw bridge, which was
not scheduled for opening until
April 15, is the first of the five .
coast highway bridges .to bear
traffic,- Dedication ceremoniea
hare been set for May 23-24.