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! ! ;: -;: :4: -x: i PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 3, 1938 Many Missing In LA Floods 26 or More Dead; Bridges - Collapse and - Several Are "Washed Away (Continued from page 8 ) j; flowing, but the count engineer reported all were safe, More than a hundred thousand workers were sent to their homes when stores, plant snd factories - closed until the flood emergency 1 over. , One man was dead and two oth ers f m ere missing., in Ventnra, where sheriff's officers went to the rescue of 30 other persons marooned in a lowland school house. : Twenty-fire hundred men. wom en and children were evacuated from four hundred homes in Azu sa in the foothills tonight as a - precautionary measure should it become necessary to release Hood " , waters Irom San Gabriel dam No. 1 in San Gabriel canyon. The American Legion was mo- - blitzed to assist the Red Cross in caring for the families, mostly from the Mexican quarter of the . , 'town.' '"'-- .r : '' All residents of Irwindale. ' be low Azasa, also were ordered from K their homes. More than 200 of them were cared for by the Po mona Salvation Army. : .William J. Fender, manager of . the. Universal City studios, said eyewitnesses told 'of seeing bodies la the flood, waters after a 250 foojt concrete bridge over the Los Angeles river near the studio was washed away. . Fender" said be saw ten bouses, a restaurant 'and the Lakeside golf course across the river from the; studio, washed away. A. southbound stage carrying 21 passengers to Los Angeles was partly buried by a landslide 12 - miles south of Gorman, on the IUdge route 60 miles north of t t city. No one was injured and tue passengers were being returned to . Bakersfleld. Four persons were reported missing when a power pole fell, crushing a section of a bridge at 'Suburban Bell. Sheriff's de puties sought a motorist who . was reported to have been swept way when he drove his car In to a wash at nearby Muscatt-1. Henry M. Baker, assistant man ager of Pacific Coast Red Cross headquarters here. said, tonight 4,600 .persons were being cared for by the Red Cross in the Los , Angeles area. Some 3,0 0 of these - were in the Long Reach section. SCO In north Hollywood and 300 ' . la Monrovia. , - I " ; . Three of the estimated seven to fifteen : persons "who were plunged, into the raging Los An geles river from a 300-foot ped estrian bridge as they watched the' twirling waters were rescu ed tonight. - ( : Adm. Claude Block told Long ' Beach police tonights an elderly man, whose name was not riven, was rescued by a shore boat of the, battleship Utah , three miles : at sea. He had grasped a Umber 1 1 from - the collapsing bridge and was catapulted into the ocean I by a river moving at the rate of 25,000 feet a second. t f In Seaside hospital at Long Beach were Lloyd Folkstead. 26, J and William Munholland, 48, of Long Beach, - suffering from ex posure after they were picked up ; by naval-shore boats, j - Police at the roast city iden f tif!ed . three of the missing peri-sons as John Croft,. CO; P. E. Kay, 24,. both of Long Beach, - and Ljnn Stewart, 24, a visitor from New York. i Eye wit.issses told varying ' stories of the , number dropped ?into the river when the center :. ot the bridge buckled and then 'dropped after .pilings gave way. Most of them agreed a woman and small boy and . two or three enlisted men of the navy were i among those who were engulfed . when the bridge collapsed. H. D. Mershon said there was a sharp , warning crack and the s crowd . watching the river, In Its race to the jsea rushed for the j approaches. Then i the center of "the span, which was 25 feet wide, atot up ; into the air and drop ' ped.. The victims were lost to sight immediately in the fcwirl- - ing waters. ! . -. ' - Heavy rains extended from Ventura, - to j the northward, to San Clemente, south of Lot An geles on the coast highway, and ' back te the coastal range to the east, necessitating the evacuation of many homes and toppled others into the flood waters.' Railway traffic out of Lo An Lreles was halted by undermined bridge and landslides that block ed their tracks. Principal . high ways in all directions were clos-'.-' ed. Air service was at a stand- Schools and, stores were elos - ed and thaasands of automobiles were stalled in flooded streets. Flood storage, reservoirs were overflowing.! releasing, their wa- . ters into already swollen rlvera. Should the heavy rainfall cob tlnue. it was feared -that all f checks en flood water would be - rendered f utile. The sheriffs office tonight or dered evacaatloa of appr xinxate- ly MOO families la suburban Fell Gardens, between - the Los Aneelee and Rio Honoo rivers f More than 500 of the refugees were fed at relief stations aet up s by posts of the American Legion and the - Veterans of- Foreign Wars la Bell. Cots and bedding were assembled and other pre parations for - their care were i, made. . ' . Gale in Roseburg Sector Damaging ROSEBURG. March summer home to the Susan Creek virion 20 miles east of here was wrecked, s forest service tele phone line snapped and 40 or SO trees strewn across the' North Vmpqaa road early Tuesday by a windstorm. V. V. Harp nam, su ervlsor ot the Umpqua natlona f oresU said today. The report was delayed by broken communica tion lines. ... Shovel-Leaning Is Denied as Griffith Replies o Board .;,..! . PORTLAND, March SL-iflV E. J. Griffith, Oregon WPA ad. . mlBbttrator, challenged today criticism from the state board of control oo the amount of work done by WPA worker. Be declared the criticism was "Incorrect and anfair to the mem and women who have been forced bjr circamstancea to work on WPA iproJects. 'a 'not a few instances we have taken over project that previously had been bid on by private contractors and we have actually done the work at a lower cost to the taxpayers than would have been the fase if the job had been under private con tract." Griffith said.! "We Oischarge professional loafers as rapidly as we dis cover them,-he added. Gestapo Continue To Hold Minister Continued from pa Re l SDokesman fori relieious onDosi- tioh elements. I 1 Niemoeller; was fined S600 for speaking disparagingly of reich personages, between thebattling pro testa nt churchman .and lib erty. If he did .not pay the fine, he would have tpeeirve three months in prison.1 Some members of ihis family thought if he were released now, the gestapo (secret police) might arrest him again. This fear seemed to have some fouadatioa in remarks dropped by certain nazis. They said that al though Niemoeller's t; r i a 1 was over and his sentence liquidated. it nevertheless would! be danger ous to allow a man so obviously opposed- to the nazi regime com plete liberty to resume bis ac tivities." It was pointed out that the gestapo at any time, has the right to take a citizen into ("protective custody" when public welfare seems to require such" detention, even If the citizen has just been released, from jail. File Initiative to Restrain Picketing i (Continued from page 1) i dues which labor unions could col lect, give members authority to inspect union books, and permit employers to operate an open shop If the majority of employes desire. Organizations and I individuals signing the new measure were Associated Farmers i ot Oregon, Inc., by H. L. Shoemaker Hood River, president Oregon Farm bureau, by Mac woke, Pendleton, president Eastern Oregon Wheat league, by George' N. Peck, Lexington, president. Hood River Growers club, by it. W. Hazeltine. nresident. Ralph W. Perry, master of the nne urove grange, Hood River, and candidate against Ray Gill for master of the state grange. John O. Farr, Jefferson, master of , the Marion county Pomona grange. J. C, Barrett Heppner, ex- president of the Oregon W o o 1 J Growers association and ex-state senator. 1 Chester Fitch, Medford. presl dent of the Southern Oregon Fruit Growers league. Earl Newbry, Talentg prominent member Oregon state grange. 80-Ton Block of Marble to Come : (Continued from page 1) road. Special derricks ! were used to lift it to a car on ithe incline cable railway, which carried It from the steen mnuntninalo The carved group will reaulrei tnree oiocks of Similar size. Allan H. Toole, 'clerk ot the construction works on th cani- tol, said the, 80-ton block ot mar ble-would he sawed Into several smaller blocks tor transportation nere. But Paul Traglio. who has had charge, of trucking all of the! marble nsed on the capltol to the construction, scene, ia readv to tackle the Job of moving the big mock II it comes all in one piece. ne said Wednesday. Astoria Busy as Troll Work! Nears ASTORIA, March 2-tfVDocks here hummed with activity to day as trolling fishermen repair ed , or rebuilt several hundred boats while others built new craft In preparation for the troll fishing season., expected to open oft the Columbia River's month in two or three weeks. , Meantime in Seattle rent eseo- tatlres met with buyers to set run prices and although some Seattle troUers already have started fishing, the bulk ot the Columbia fleet indicated it would not begin until the price settle ment was reached, j V Indian Seek Divorce, : It Unusual Occurrence THE DALLES, March The domestic happiness of In dians may not always be- sibllme but . if otherwise it rarely. Teaches the divorce courts. In an nn- nsual case here, Sam Starr. Cel- Ho Indian,' asked f or i a '. divorce, claiming Alice Charleyj Starr was jealous.-. Powell -Has Operaiion HOIXTWOOD, March 2 -(jF) William Powell, movie! actor, un. derwent an abdominal operation today and late this afternoon was reported resting comfortably. 20 "Traitors" i 1! Krestinskyj Only One to Protest His Innocence; . Trotsky Is Named - MOSCOW, inarch 2-tP)-Twen- ty ot Zl defendants in Moscow's greatest treason-trial today plead ed guilty, to far-reaching charges which iiaJude- plotting to dis member the soviet union, over throw 'the retime, restore capital ism end murder Russian leaders. Bat the twenty-first. Nicholas N. Krestinsky, once soviet ambas sador In Berlin, pleaded Innocent in a desperate repudiation of a confession ot guilt ia which he and his accusers among the co-de fendants called each other "liar. Leon Trotsky, former bolsherist leader now living in exile In Mex ico, was named as one of the in spirers oi toe pioiiing, The trial ia before the military collegium of-JJhe supreme court. US AmbaVdor Witnesses Retiring juS Ambassador Jo seph . E. Davis was among the members of I the diolamatic cornn who. with representatives of so- Tlet P u b 1 1 fc organizations and newspapermeh, witnessed the pro- ceedings Those accused in the plotting. which the indictment traced back in part 20 i years when Trotsky sua was in power, included men once high in j soviet affairs. It was charged that upon in structions of the intelligence ser vices of foreign states hostile to the USSR the defendants organ ized a group of plotters under the name of the 'Ibloc of rightists and Trotskyites.;' i Confessions' were cited in which It was alleged4 there were plots in which: Nipponese Plot Charged Japan undertook to render arm ed assistance to overthrow the so viet power! ' in return for which she was promised the soviet mari time province; In the far east. An "independent" White Rus sia was to he breated under a Pol ish protectorate. Ukraine was to be surrendered to Germany after defeat of soviet Russia in a war with Germany and Japan. Uzgekistan and Turkmenia were to be separated from the soviet upion with one scheme for them to become protectorates of Japan ana uermanyior Great Britain. Georgia Armenia and Azer baldjan wfere to have been cut off for the "foreign stat2s." Y Swimmers Will is- ete in Meet The local YMCA plans to send several shimmers to the State In door mee at; Multnomah club in Pnrtlanrtfthia woaotiH Forbes Mack, present holder ofi the Northwest YMCA Junior breaststroke j title and also the1 state champ jln the same eventj will attempt ! to win the senior breast stroke! chamnlnnnhln. Jr. rv Mnlker. who holds the state tli tie In the backstroke for juniorst will defend hts title. i Robert Niemeyer, who won thi BO-ihXer outdoor freeatvl minimi phraship; last! summer, will comi- oete with the 16-vear-oldn: Burrls. ilocal ! freestvl star, will enter the 22 oi-yard race, and Heij- by Hoffman, another freestyler of note, w31 entir the 100-yard free style. Lewis Silent on i Martin Warnin S ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla.. March 2-Wohn t. Lewis had "rio comment" tonight on a statement by Governor ! Charles H. Martin of Oregon that the committee for industrial organization leader would I receive a "warm recep tion" If he visited that state. I hppe he! stays out of here." governor Martin naa said. Lewis arrives her etoday from Miamil and said he would leave tomorrow morning. He did not oiruige nis nesunauon Hie Call Board wni.T.vnrnnn I Today "London by Night"! with George Mnrphy and Rita Johnson and "Life Begins j With Love," Jeari Parker and Douglas Mont- a-'omerT.-' i . Friday Dbnble bill. ."Range ' rinfenM" with th nraa atesquiteers end "Hold 'Em Navy" with Lew Ay ers, Mary Carlisle ' and , John Howard. - ! 1 GRAND Today Special return en gagemeht Will Rogers la ''County Chairman.' Sattardav-t-rtalnrM Ttl Rla lii tlnternatlonal Settle- raent.' SXSIXORE Today Double bill. Alice Vava In "Ynn'r. twt heart" f with George Mur Tfliv anil "Donhle nanror" with Proof nn Vnvter ' CAPITOL T o;d a y i-Donhle hni b the Mauchj twins In "Penrodt and His Twin Brother and Bill Boyd in "Cassidy, ef Bfi!.M - i i STATE Told ay Walter Wangers Vogues of 193$" feature . ldg Warner . Baxter t and; : Joan Bennett. S i Friday Four sets eastern circuit jrandevllle and War-; ner. 0 1 a n d in "Charlie Chan In "Charlie Chan on Broadway." Saturday! midnight William Powell! and Myrna Loy in "Doubts Wedding." Plead Guiltv t i i Comp i a Deer Counted by i Kariger in Plane PORTLAND. March 2-UPWThe forest service eaid today Eldon Bait, ranger on the Ochoco for est j at Prlnerille, had-.demonstrated feasibility of using an airplane for annual deer , census work in open eastern and. central Oregon country. It said Ball covered approxi mately. 125 miles of winter range in a small monoplane and count ed 197 deer and-7 coyotes. He al so (reported 16 coyotes had been killed from the air near . band of J sheep, and tire or six were killed each flUht. 1 Schaffer Pleads Guilty; Paroled (Continued From Page 1) enough, one of Schaffer's attor neys. ' iw--. Judge McMahan declared that sncn oincers snouid be "indicted for malfeasance in office" and Dist. Atty. Lyle J. Page paid that if Goodenough. would present the witnesses' names, they would be called before the grand Jury. j ! Goodenough saidthe witnesses eferred not to testify but would so if compelled. I ' "It the facts are proved as stated," Dist. Atty Page said, re garding the statements about the officers, "I can assure you indict ments will be forthcoming." j The picket-chasing incident was prearranged by A. N. Banks, Teamster agent, the district attor ney declared. Judge McMahan remarked that from testimony he had heard 'tBanks started the whole thing" and should be indicted on a riot charge. Schaffer stated to the court that Vhile he was pleading guilty to Jhe assault and battery charge, he id not actually beat anyone "in that sense ot the word." Referring to statements that the CIO had inspired the brewery picketing, to which the AFL Teamsters objected Schaffer as serted he had never believed in radicalism which destroyed things" and said he did not have any local record "of assault and battery against anybody." Dist, Atty Page agreed that Schaffer's "record here has been good." Boycott in South Is Branded Bluff PORTLAND, March 2.-iP)-Don Helmick, executive board member of the CIO International Wood workers of America, returned to day from San Francisco, where he said the CIO had "completed plans for a broad retaliation war against the AFL lumber boycott. Meantime. Kenneth Mcintosh, official of the West Oregon Lum ber company, said the plant, scheduled to reopen tomorrow, would remain closed, until next Wednesday nnless its CIO. plant committee could lift an AFL boy cott on its products. Locar No. 2532 of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union here issued a statement to day terming a threat of a CIO boycott on AFL lumber a "bluff." and said CIO longshoremen dared note refuse to handle it because they would "break their contract" with employers. SAN FRANCISCO. March 2.- (")-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi today was handed by an AFI committee a two-page explanation of the AFL's refusal to meet with CIO union leaders for a discussion of the San Francisco bay region boy cott of CIO lumber from the Pa cific northwest. Academy Awards Banquet Delayed HOLLYWOOD. March 2-UP- Storm conditions tonight caused postponement for one week of the annual awards banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. , The postponement from tomor row night to March 10 was an nounced by Howard Estabrook, first vice-president ot the aca demy, -after it waa ascertained many of the 1.300 movie actors. directors, producers and techni cians who had reservations were marooned by flood waters and would not be able to attend. Tilley to Retire; 20 Years With AP PORTLAND. March 2-(f)-Tom C. Tilley, who has served 23 years in the traffic' department ot the Associated Press, will re tire on pension Saturday to his SO -acre ranch on the Sandy river. A telegrapher since the early 0s. Tilley served ta Cnba ia the Spanish-American war. His field maintenance dntiea win be taken over by C E. Han son of the Portland bureau. Mr. Tilley was at one time As sociated Press telegrapher. ia The Statesman office. Mrs. D. Campbell Called by Death : EUGENE, March :2-65V4Irs. Dngald Campbell, known tor her friendship to University of Ore gon students and faculty, mem bers, died today. She was born In Scotland. Sur viving are two children. Dr. Ian Campbell of the California Insti tute of Technology' faculty, and Dr. Flora Houck of Los Angeles. Warner TODAr. Joan . Baxter" Bennett "VOGUES OF 1938" IN TECHNICOLOR Teamsters to Defend Rosser dainu Much of Trouble i 1 5 r Inspired by Agents of - Business Men - 11 " (Continued Strom page 1 fended by Vanaerveer, he said. The attorney said Rosser was "no more guilty of arson than you or I, and added,! or course we will defend him.M "But as to the others, I . can not . aay," he declared. "We cer tainly, will cull the sheep .from the rats. These who have in dulged in unauthorized violence, and none has been authorized to use such tactics, must shift for themselves." SEASIDE, re., March 2-(JP)- Monroe Sweetland, executive sec retary of theil Oregon Common wealth fededatlon, cha"ged to day in a speech to 70 sawmill and timber workers that gover nor Charles H. Margin and Port land's Mayor f Joseph K. Carson were responsible for Industrial strife. i Sweetland declared both men, "Sworn to uphold the law of the land, flouted 4nd-condemned fed eral agencies jholding the key to peace. ; PORTLAND. March 2 - -While trial on two union leaders got under way here today, four men were bound over to the grand iury it The Dalles. Fred B. Upson, business agent of the AFL ! teamsters at The Dalles; David Rutz, teamsters' business agent in eastern Oregon; Bill Larose and Arthur Lowther were arraigned in justice court and bound ovr to the grand jury at The DalleSjUndr 115.000 bond each on charges of malicious de struction of property. Dist. Attyi T. Leland Brown said Larose and Lowther admitted participation In a plot to damage tractors by placing abrasives in the motors. Damage was estimat ed at nearlyfSOCO. A union demand for a closed shop on a certain project was re fused. Brown! said, by a contrac tor who owned the tractors. Levi Martinson, shoe repair shop employe, testified here to day he was told. "Boy, you're go ing to get hurt," and was struck from behind. . "I felt like a pile driver hit me," Mertlhson told a jury of eight women and four men in the trial of Matt Klein, business agent ot a local AFL shoemakers' union, and Roy Hardin, union member, charged with assault with a dan gerous weapon. Martinson was employed in a! shoe store involved in a labor dispute. The defense said it would plead self-defense claiming Martinson attacked the defendants. Nine Ai-e Injured In Thick Mishap EUGENIA March 2 Nine men were Injured, four seriously, when a truck operated by the San Orino Construction company, used in building the new Willamette Pass highwayy east of Oakridge, "jack-knifed" this afternoon, throwing the nine men out Into a ditch. Sj One of the Injured, John A. Ar naldo, wa run over by the truck and was expected to die, accord ing to physicians in attendance. Others seriously hurt were E. F. Johnson, R. E. Embry and Keith Thompson. All the injured were brought tp Eugene for treatment: . Details i of tne accident were meagre. WPA! Worker Held Guilty I on Count ROSESURGL March 2-JP-A circuit court Jury's verdict on file today convicted William Chand ler. S3. WPA worker, of assault with intent tol commit rape and contributing tp the delinquency of- a five-year-old Reedsport girl. He was accused of luring her into a vacant building and giving her liquor. Chandler said he had no recollection ofi the acts. Chamber Meets Tonight WOODBURN the Woodburn Community Chamber, of Com merce will meet Thursday night. March 3 in the American Legion room at thai city hall. Qoincy Scott, cartoonist of the Orefton- lan, will be the speaker. Dinner will be: served at :30 by the American Legion Auxiliary. ' Demos Lead, Multnomah PORTLAND March 2-(Ar-De- mocratlcj registration In Multno mah county, climbing to 82.271, topped the republican roll by 2, 012. '1 ! ! ....... ' vcrc oir-riiafc TUU ; u.av srar : WAMtWJOiSUAOAINl Tn4COUfTTY CHAIRMAN ey Geerfc M. KENT TATlOt! CVarN VENAfiU ttKXFt KOONEY LOUISE DRESSER eariON osjrchbj. yv I sTsWfircftrr : Li CdilJJIjJl West Navy Yards May Be Assistec WASHINGTON, March A ctop of Pacific coast repre sentatfves joined today in a move to improve navy yards in the west iad to obtain for them a shore lot new naval construction contemplated m the 1800,000,000 navy bill. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) oif the house naval affairs commit tee tbld the group, headed by Representative Magnnson (D WashJ) he was in accord with their requests for a six per cent differential for the Pacific coast navy yards. Vinson said he would propose the - amendment to - the navr P"! Rate Tentatively Fixed, Says Ross ?Ki owatt Year" Is Basis ansmission Line to Dalles Promised THE DALLES, Ore., March 2 -(JP)t-J- D. Ross, Bonneville dab administrator, said at a mass meeiing last night that a power distributing line would be ex tends das fir east as this city as soon as survey and construction crews could start work. His 1 speech stimulated interest in Hood River, Wasco and Sher mad county people's power dis tricts. : Ajt Portland, Ross said today! a powjer rate had been set subject to approval of the federal power commission. j "I cannot divulge the ite un til it is reviewed by the commis sion but I promise you this: It is a low rate, a very low rate that . shohild please everybody." Ross declared. j &e said power would be charg ed jon a "kilowatt year" rate base, that is, a thousand watts taken continually throughout the year to encourage "long-hour us4." The rate will be a simple one. eaiily figured, ; and will all6w "ample room for public power districts to pay a fair tax," he added.' Ross 8 aid he opposed any 6b je tive of power districts paying out "unreasonable amounts I of taxes to support all governmental functions." Boy's Writing on 3rd Ransom Note NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., March 2-UP)A note In the school boy handwriting of 12-year-bld kidnaped Peter Levine, begging -dad" to pay out the S 60,000 ransom demanded, turned up to day as the father continued his fruitless efforts to communicate with the abductors. J "Dear dad," he prote. "please give these men the money. I hive bad cold. Peter." This, the boy's first known ommunication with his father, as scrawled on -the back ot a ihird ransom letter, reported ood authority to have been lound on a vacant lot adjoining he synagogue ot Rabbi Abra- am Nowak, and in its very re- itraint had a throat-catching Quality. North California Gets Heavy Rains SAN FRANCISCO. March 2-Ja4 h-More rain was in prospect bight for northern and centtal California where torrential own- Lours last nieht flondpd mihv jareas and halted transportation to southern California. I. Storm signals flew along the California coast, warning of stronr southerly winds which sent high seas battering against shorelines during the day. The Southern Pacific company cancelled all through trains to night between here and Los An geles because ot flooded tracks ana aamagea bridges. Woman's dub to Meet Friday at Paul Acton Home, Salem Heights SALEM HEIGHTS The Wom an's club will meet Friday at the home or Mrs. Paul Acton for the regular monthly meeting instead of at the community hall. Prof. James Mathews will be the speak er. ! i Mary Elixabeth Kelis will sing. All women of the community and especially the newcomers are Tlted. i I'.ttlHU'A'V.Mil.-a J40 !wn FIT TWO FEATURES Jeam. Parker Donslai Moatgotiiery x -Life Besrins with :.. Love "London by Nfehtr with. George Murphy Ritas Johnson - ; Two Featnrei' J&$Sg AE5QU ITCEat mmyy jtLi eS And 2nd ajaiai Feature pT, Mteiyliglit Possibles White Object and Earth Scar Also Reported in Same Region j f Continued from page 11 the ecar clue highly important. pointing out it was in direct line with the! plane's flight fa reported last night by Mrs. C. G. Landry, wife ot a power: company official who said ahei, . j a V aLK SMI j i 1 at :30 last nlg-ht. Apparently Mrs, the hut person to report sigh ting the big. twin-motored j craft. caught in a sudden ! fierce storm and turning back from ! a flight to Los Angeles to seek haven at Fresno. The plane, with six pass engers and a crew f three, left San Francisco last night for Al buquer,Vue. but headed j for Los Angeles instead of Las Vegas. : Nev., its regular course, because of bad weather. i j I Despite storm conditions and soggy terrain, at least four planes and a small army of foot search-j ers deployed over, a wide area a round . Huntington land Shaver Lakes. 3 a miles northeast f ot here, where the liner was believ ed to have crashed. . f I'ysterious radio voices picked up in Oakland and a report that the plane had been! sighted un der conditions indicating little in jury to its occupants heartened the searchers for a time but neither apparently had any con nection with the mfssing ship. The big plane, a Transcontin ental Western Air Liner, fief t San Francisco last night for! Al buquerque with tli passengers and a crew ot threeJ I Because a storm jwas coining in from the south, the glane headed toward Los j Angeles in stead of Las Vegas, Nev its regular course. It met the skorm over the Tehachapl mountains, the natural dividing ine between northern and southern Califor nia. ( ! Pilot John D. Graves, receiving directions to hunt ah emergency landing, turned back northward. Apparently the plane havered over the Fresno area for an! hour or more, and then began making widening circles as the jfctorm crowded it gradually eastward, into the craggy peaks of the Sierra Nevada, only a few miles from the ordinarily ; safe and warm valley., I Numerous persons , reported sighting' a plane, presumably the distressed ship, to the eatof Fresno. A highway crew at Sha ver Lake reported hearing "a loud crash" and thought it .knight be a clue to the plane's fate. Aboard the luxurious S 10.5,000, 2 year old skyllner were pas sengers Tracy uiriam ana; Mary Lou Dirlam. Stanford University students: Mr. and Mrs. L. B Watts of San Francisco; -Victor Krause of Lincoln, Neb., and H. N. Salisbury. TWO pilot oni leave. Besides Graves the crew was made up of first officer C. W Wallace of Tucson, ! Ari, and Stewardess Martha Mj Wilson, of Philadelphia. Board Demurs Sn Retirement Case (Continued From Page) 1) Grant, respectively, have f joined as plaintiffs. - . The suit is pending; under a temporary injunction order with the possibility the Salem? school board may decide to agree to its being determined on the basis of a similar action which has already been appealed from Multnomah county, where the retirement act was ruled unconstitutionality Cir cuit Judge H. D. Norton. Dist. Atty. Lyle J. Paee Is rep resenting the local school board in defending the action, f Today 4 Friday Double laughs, double thrills, double trouble when Penrod leads his gang into another fun-for-all, all fnr-fim adventure! - ' . 'i'r- i mm RS3 CSa gsa tfSSTW saay sr jjjy Tim- d SMASH HIT , A rl Certif icate i a: No m This Certificate entitles you to one week's Set of Four Pictures upon payment of only-39c (46c if by mail). i j - . . -IMPORTAST- Be sore to order, Set No. t II yon hare that or snb seqaent eta, order the next a umbered Set of Four ft to W.W.Chatyick In Mayor Race O'Hara, McSherry Think of Running; Council j Field Wide Open . (Continued from page 1) Williams. Ward ; and Merril D. O hi lag. Ward 7. Ohling recently said jhe. bar rinr;, a drastic chance of mind, was not a candidate. Williams reiterated Ohling's observation. Evans said he waa going to rnn again,, at tfee same time; expres sing a high regard for j his col league from Ward 4. Gertrude F. l-bdelL It Is understood that Marshall will be up for i re-election, and Perrine recently said he was uncertain about .running but rather thought he would. Members who are ..filling out unexpired terms, tL ongh ap pointment by the council, are James H. Nicholson, Ward 1. who recently intimated that he wasn't particularly desirous' of running but might consider doing: so; L. F. LeGarle. Ward, 2, has intim ated that he expects to be a can didate; Dr. W.: A. Johnson could not be reached Ia3t night, butit is understood he expects to be in the I running; and Clifford O. Daue, Ward 3, said last night he has : no intention of running. Ralph H. Kletsing. advertising manager of The Statesman, has indicated that he expects ,to run in Daue's place. 1. f Ex-0NS Students j Freed of Charges) (Continued from Page il) I ! i 5 Rice got out, and went jto thej rear' and later fell into a nearby ditch. Cagle, Hearn and Bordenf were described as going to hist assistance out of which a disputel developed and Rice claimed he; was' struck in the face. j In- their testimony, the stu-5 dents said they received the . money but were unable to explaiti, what caused the dispute except that Rice's attitude was dislikedi Bice did not appear to (testify. J The state contended Rice turnt ed over his money to stop the alleged attack upon him. ; . 1 i Chinese Losses in 1 Shaifci Said Heavy (Continued from page 1 anese were killed in a single eii eagement near Llngshih. In northern Honan province the Chinese eaid they were making advances on Taokow and ;Sunh sien after recapturing HwihslenS , - The Chinese also said they re captured Changyuan in southern Hopeh in a surprise attack. ( ' i . From Canton came a Chinese report that a fleet of 41 Japanese planes bombed the eastern out skirts of Canton, including jTieh ho and Paiyun airdromes. j r Today and Friday V has. Winnlnger Andy Derinej Frank Jenks! Preston Foster la Toable Danger Watch Out! He's Coming! "THE BUCCANEER'! BIG HITS and Saturday n Open 6:45 25c 118 m Hi . I