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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1938)
Historian the pre.scr.t day is Mark fiullivan, ' famed interpreter of th news, whose informa tive column is regular feature of The Oregon Statesman. , . The Weather' Clear today and Saturday. Little change in tempera ture. Maximum temperature Thursday 80. Min. SO. River -3.5. Northwest wind. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, August 5, 1938 Price 2c; Newsstands 5e No. 112 e Peac , i POUNDOD 1651' ' I ' : : : i s . J: ...... . .. : . v.i . i Overl orrigan Ma'd at NY IrisKGoWild As Flier Hero Readies Port Corrigan Grins Through ' Roaring Greetings at ' Steamship Dock Jokes With Crowd Ahout His Wrong Way Flight to Irish Capital By PATRICK McORADY NEW YORK. Aug. 4-iP)-Doug-Us Corrigan. the daring young man ot the flying machine $900 bargain that rumbled across the Atlantic from here to Ireland last month instead of proceeding home all agrln today to a roaring welcome that was but a meek pre lude of what is ahead, l ife arriTed conventionally by liner, irrepressible as ever, thouch a flip little, tough little flier with a manner that delighted not only the large fond hearts of fel low Irishmen, north and south, but the others, Germans, Jews, Italians and all the rest, who had waited hours on the pier to scream a few greetings ahead of the official reception tomorrow. Parade up Broadway Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, Indeed, Is the big day, with a parade upthe old via fortissimo Broadway. Along that buoyant route of bedlam the stenographers, clerks and -executives downtown ia the "Wall . street district and. on up town ,were reading eTerything, tearing up telephone books, pull ing out the ticker tape and gener ally preparing tor loose such a shower of white as hasn't been seen here since Lindbergh came home from the most . famous flight of all. Corrigan was not able to leave the liner for some time after she docked, so persistent was the adu lation of the crowd for him. He had to go back to his cabin for a time to escape, member ot the official committee going' along to guard his door. Stanley Howe, the mayor's sec retary and representatlTe, ex plained that Brooklyn and Man hattan, rlrals for days for the honor- of celebrating Corrlgan's arriral, had "become one again to welcome you. Corrlgan's grin widened and he said. "I'm glad to hear that. Ho Delighted lie Giggled Frank Tlchenor, representing "all American aviation," was pushed through the crowd, lie said, "We knew you could do it, Douglas." "Then yon knew more than I," responded Corrigan with a chuckle. Much of the time he ap peared so delighted and over whelmed with the attention be re ceiyed that he ould only giggle. To Questions from2 the throng, he explained alternately, "I look ed out and saw some fishing boats. Then I looked for the biggest city. I thought it might be Los Angelea because of the breadth of It and the size of its buildings. But ima gine my surprise when I learned it was Dublin. Corrigan looked down upon the " parade of tugs that escorted the Manhattan. In apparent ecstasy he wared at the crowds. "There was n Canger at all," Corrigan laid of his flight, "far less than there Is right here. "The captain of the ship bring ing me back said we should be going the way we were going; but I thought It should be the other way." The crowd roared. Churches Fewer Than Barrooms, Speaker Claims SAM FRANCISCO. Aug. .-JF) -Miss Lncllle E. Hlnshaw of Ok lahoma City, told Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union conven tion delegate today there were almost twice as many saloons In the United States as churches. Miss Uinshaw, Oklahoma state director of scientific temperance Instruction, aald there were ap proximately 437.000 legalized lk quor store and only 245,000 churches In the country. ' "Repeal came In the name of rwowrr. but w have not recov ered." Miss Ilenshaw said. "Re- pel wai waged to balance the budget, .but It is more unbalanced than ever before. . we need a moral and spiritual recovery." Vsco Fire Loss Heavy TUB DALLES, Aug. 4-tfV Forest tire's unwelcome visit to Wasco county In July caused more loss than tor the entire 1937 season, IT. - R. Robinson, county fire warden, said today Fire got Into more than 2000 acre. - I Leads (Tennessee Governor Voting A'MBfr:fOwO''V'-Jfti PRENTICE COOPER Crump Candidates Ahead in Primary City : Vote Swinging Lead in Tennessee to Men 'h.'. Backed by Boss , J " .... ! . '? - . NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 4.-(P)-A slowly tabulated city vote began late! tonight to swing Ten nessee's democratic primary lead in favor i of three candidates backed by the strong organization of National Committeeman E. H. Crump, Memphis political leader. - After a ! seesaw battle on the face ot early rural returns. Pren tice Cooper of Shelbyville moved out In front of Gov. Gordon Browning, I seeking renomination and Tom Stewart forged ahead of Junior Sen.- George L. Berry and Rep. Ridley Mitchell In the race tor the United 1 States senate CrumpV candidate for the public utilities commission had a sub stantial lead. The election was regarded as virtually without national signif icance from the new deal stand point, as the campaign was fought largely on personalities develop ing from a break between Crump and Browning. The governor had Crump's support two years ago but they split later for a reason never fully explained. Returns: from 1,210 out of,,?fr 271 precincts showed: V For, governor: Cooper 88,990; Browning S 2.1 9 5. '" For senator: Stewart 50,9 $4: Berry 44.S42; Mitchell 2&.14ttft $9740i Accepted By Zoe Stockton "State c a p 1 1 o 1 reconstruction commission plans to take the resi dence property of Miss Zoe Stock ton at 274 North Summer street by condemnation were dropped yesterday when she signed a deed for the land and accepted a check for $9740. Earlier this week the commission had ordered a con demnation complaint prepared. The commission also yesterday paid a $13,000 advance to owners of the Patton corner at Court and Summer streets. The balance will be paid after appeal to the su preme court from the circuit court judgment! for 542,000 has been completed. ' Ilukari j Resigns Post With Apple Growers HOOD I RIVER, Aug. A-JPf Arvo Hukarl, ;S a 1 e m, manager for the Apple Growers associa tion, today submitted his resig nation and asked to be relieved of his duties September 1. Hukarl; has been conspicuous In tho association for years and has represented it both in the domestic and export market. Jackie Coogan Meet in Office of -Lawyer LOS ANGELES, Aug. A-!P)-Jackle Coogan. and his "mother met today h i, lawyer' office for the first time since he filed his $4, 000,000" accounting suit against her and her second hus band, Arthur Bernstein. M rs. , Coogan began to weep. Jackie pat his arm around her to comfort her and kissed her affectionately. "Don't cry, moth er; I'm sorry this had to hap pen." he said. Jackie,' who skyrocketed to film tame as 'The Kid" in Char lie Chaplin' picture of that name, testified In today's depo sition hearing the Coogan were an unhappy family because of frequent f quarrels. . He said, however, this father, 'the late John Coogan, often told him that he was working as a child actor for his ewn benefit. Jackie said Actress Joan Craw- Youth Is Shot la Attempt to Strike Officer Patrolman Deacon Shoots ; Boy Who Admitted He Broke Into Store Loot From Bishop Store Found in Jungles and Culprit Nahhed Nineteen hours after Tom Cvlt anov, 17, of Sacramento, Calif., burglarized Bishop's clothing store, by his own admission, he was shot by City Patrolman Har old Deacon when he resisted ar rest in the "Jungle" at the foot of Chemeketa street, the officer re ported last night. ; - -. Cvitanov was caught at 8 p.m. by Deacon when he returned to the spot, in the brush of the river bank, where loot from the cloth ing store had been found two hoars earlier. Deacon said he shot when the youth attempted to hit him with his hand after being searched. Heavy Belt Slows Shot Taken to Deaconess hospital; in the city first aid car. Cvitanov was found to (have been shot at the waistline, '.apparently in the right kidney. His chance for re covery was believed good. A hea vy leather belt showed up the bul let. . - : The youth admitted on ques tioning at the hospital that he had broken into the store through an alley window about 1 a.m. yester day and taken two fitted, bags and a supply, of clothing, need for which prompted him to the act, Patrolman1 Claude Litchfield an nounced. Cvitanov also told Litch field he was released five months ago after serving 13 months in the California state reformatory at Sacramento for burglary. Claims Ho Was Seeking Job The Bishop break-In was Cvit anov's first misstep since his re lease, he declared. He had come north in search of employment, A forest service contract he carried indicated he had signed up at. Eu gene July 27 to fight fire. Chief of Police Frank A. Min to ordered the youth booked on a charge of burglary not In a dwel ling. When caught Cvitanov . was wearing shoes, trousers, shirt and jacket from the Bishop store. He was unarmed. ' Other loot found in the "jungle" included three other pa'rs of shoes, two pair of trousers, a sport shirt, 32 pairs of socks and the bags. Jack Oakie, Wife Are Living Apart HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4 Hi jack Oakie, film comedian, and his wife, Venlta Varden, former actress, have been living apart for a-week, his studio disclosed today. Friends of the couple said a re-, conciliation is likely, - Both re fused comment but they previous ly have denied rumors that they were contemplating a separation. I Miss Varden was at their home and Oakie was said to be living with friends. German Flier Completes 20-Day Round World Hop BERLIN, Aug. 4 -JP- Capt. Hans Bertram landed at Temple hof airdrome tonight to complete a flight around the world cover ing 24,594 miles in 20 days, 21 hours and 35 minutes 24 hours longer: than he calculated- when he left Berlin July 14. and Mother foiM, Cameraman Frank Good and the entire cast of the movie "Old Clothes," heard a conver sation in - which his father took him to task because he didn't want to work. - Father became angry, said Jackie. "He began talking in a loud .voice. He said: 'I cant un derstand why you want to boot a chance like this. He said it was all for my benefit and that that was why he went to the ex pense of getting people : 'to han dle your investments.' , " Jackie said that was where Bernstein came into the Coogan picture. The elder Coogan hired Bernstein as business manager. Some time after Jackie's father was. killed near San Diego in an auto accident. Mrs. Coogan mar ried Bernstein. Young - Coogan brought suit to recover $4,000, 000 he -said he had, earned a a minor. Lumber Trade Agreement Is Being Shaped Secretary of State Tells McNary in Wire That Nothing Definite , Senator Urges Action to Save Oregon Industry From -Breakdown Reciprocity trade negotiations with relation to lumber have not reached the point where it will be possible to tell the Outcome, Cor dell Hull," secretary of -state, yes terday wired Senator Charles Mc Nary in response to a message from McNary urging action that will prove satisfactory to this im portant American industry. "No effort will be spared to find a solution which will be fair and equitable to all concerned," the secretary of state's reply said. McNary, in his wire, urged that "If we are to continue our lum ber concessions to. Canada, we must exact equivalent concessions of American lumber from Great Britain." The telegram which Senator McNary sent to Secretary of State Cordell Hull: "During the month I have been at home in Oregon, I have given much study to the forest products situation in the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific coast states. "The industry is dislocated, suffering from a complete break down. If we are to continue our lumber concessions to Canada, we must exact equivalent concessions to American lumber from Great Britain. "This Industry to the far west Is what the cotton industry is to the south and cannot survive as to Canadian competition at home and trade barriers abroad. Re cent press reports of surrender in Anglo-American reciprocity trade negotiations discomforting tor the industry and the public. ""Sour strong, influential atti tude Is appreciated and I have confidence that negotiations will prove satisfactory to this impor tant American industry. Kindest personal regarde." The full reply from Cordell Hull: "Negotiations in relation to lumber have not yet reached the point where it is possible to tell what outcome will be, but I fully appreciate import ance of this matter to lumber industry and to your state, and am giving it my personal attention. No effort will be spared to find a solution which will be fair and equitable to all concerned. " Kindest regards." Heat Dominating Nation's Weather Rain Falls in Scattered Sectors; Heat Deaths Thought Numerous (By The Associated Press) Heat and cool weather check erboarded the United States last night hut high temperatures and dryness held the upper hand. Rain from light to heavy fell in " numerous sections but skipped Missouri, a state where moisture was needed badly to pre vent serious crop damage. Warm er weather was predicted there.' Higher temperatures were fore-east,- also, in Maryland, the Great Lakes regions, Minnesota and oth er scattered areas while the south in general experienced normal summer weather. California Cooler California was cooler after a three-day heat wave. Thunder showers brought relief to Indiana and southeastern Pennsylvania. Other scattered showers low ered the mercury in various areas. Cooler weather came to Iowa af ter three days ot heat and New York state found slight relief af ter showers. ., -i Washington, DC, sweltered in a 10-degree temperature and the mercury hit high levels in Arizo na, several California spots, Utah, Kansas and Texas. . t A number of deaths were at tributed to the heat, - but exact figures were not available. v :. Indian Held in Washington Death YAKIMA. " Aug. 4-flV-Sidney L. McLain, British Columbia Indian, was lodged in the Yakima county jail tonight under sus picion of murder, Vernon Knight, federal agent, said, after the finding of hU wife's body in a car at their ranch near White Swan. 50 miles from here. - Knight said tho woman head had "been crushed. Mrs.- McLain, 23. was the daughter of Jim Puyette, Yakima Indian, and had a ranch in the Medicine Valley district. . Knight " declined to comment further on the case. Deadlock in Rail Wage -Scale Dispute in Hands Of Boa rd of Media tors Negotiations Close With - ... ..... . . . . w . ... ,jv Wages Must Be Reduced 15 per Cent Lest Cost Wreck Railways , CHICAGO. Aug. 4. (AP) The task of attemptinsr .to' break a deadlock between the employes over a proposed 15 percent wage cut rested tonight with the national mediation board. . Protracted negotiations ended today with railroad man agement insisting wages must ' be reduced lest their cost O Guerillas Qaimed an Army Spokesman Reports Hit-Run Campaign Is Nearing Close SHANGHAI, Aug. 5. -(Friday) -JP)-A band of 3,000 Chinese guerillas was reported surround ed and facing annihilation today by Japanese forces In the Hang chow area, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, territory nominally un der Japanese control. A Japanese army spokesman said that additional scattered guerilla forces had been crushed In that sector and that the Chinese-hit-and-run campaign there was doomed to speedy termina tion. On the other hand, Chinese mil itary leaders reported their mo bile forces were dealing Increased punishment to the Invaders mov ing up the Yangtze river toward Hankow, provisional capital, and in other main centers of combat. Yangtze river floods aided the Chinese, who said dikes broken by rising waters 30 miles above Kiuklang . had Inundated - large areas and threatened to block the Japanese advance. J - Japanese naval authorities re ported their air ' force had sunk another Chinese gunboat and 14 munitions-laden Junks above Kiu klang. Movement Starts To Split Utilities December 1 Set Deadline for 66 Firms to Make Change Proposals WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-p)-The securities commission made a major move today to carry out the Roosevelt administration's program of breaking far-flung utility holding company networks up into geographically "integrat ed systems. The agency set December 1 as the deadline for 66 companies to come forward with proposals for revamping their structures under the Integration and simplifica tion sections of the holding com pany act.: . The latter section limits the ex tent to which companies may be pyramided; that Is, only one in termediate holding company and one top holding company may be superimposed on an operating company.' Chairman William O. Douglas wrote executives of the com panies requesting that "sugges tions, plans and programs' on both points be submitted to the commission even though they are tentative. He said the develop ment of programs for. integration in many cases will require action by twr or more systems and sug gested a committee of utility exe cutives act as a "clearing house of ideas." The overlapping terri tories of some of the companies will require their mutual atten tion in order to obtain concentrat ed geographical service areas, commission employes, said. Mrs. Brite to Be Returned to West ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Aug. 4 -P)-Kock Springs Red Cross of ficials said Mrs. Margarita Brite, 66, the mother of two convicted slayers, would be started tonight on a return Journey to her home in Sacramento, Calif. - They said she would he return ed to the care ot Horace Frye, a Sacramento attorney. - s r. lira. Brite became ill here yes terday! while on a hitch-hiking trip eastward to seek aid of Pres ident Roosevelt for her two sons, John and Coke Brite, under death sentence for killing two Siskiyou county, California, officer and a tourist a year ago. ' Drowns in Willamette EUGENE, Aug. 4 .--Jesse E. Rogers, 28, Eugene, lost his life last night while swimming in the coast fork of the Willamette riv er, several miles south of - here, the coroner office reported to Trapped by Jap Managements - Insisting nation's railroads and 840,000 break the back'! of the industry. , Hain-oad labor remained ad amant in its stand that the cnt was unjustified and would not be accepted. - The carriers voted in May to make the cut July 1 and. save $250,000,000 a year Conferences with the brotherhoods had been carried on intermittently since June 28. The carriers joint conference committee headed by H. A. En ochs negotiated with George M. Harrison , head ; the Railway La bor Executives association, cen tral body of 18 brotherhoods num bering 700,000 workers. Enochs group held separate conference with Alexander F. Whitney, pres ident of: the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, numbering 140, 000, which withdrew, from Harris on's association last year., Enochs announced today that Harrison said his association : de cided not to Join in the carriers' request for mediation. Yesterday Enochs and Whitney said they each had asked for it. The railway labor act provided these steps toward settlement ot a dispute: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, appointment by the president of a fact finding com mission. Navy Ends Search For Lost Gipper Ships and Planes Return to Bases After Hunt Over Ocean Area MANILA, Aug. 5.-(Friday) (-The United States navy today abandoned its vast search for the missing Hawaii Clipper, which disappeared over the Pacific with 15 occupants one week ago. All navy ships-and planes par ticipating in the hunt, which cov ered over 100,000 square miles of ocean . and shoreline east of here, were ordered to return to their bases in Manila. Naval authorities , said they were halting the search only aft er exhausting every possibility and probability that the giant fly ing boat was afloat or that she ever would be found. . The 26-ton craft disappeared while enroute here from Guam on a regular transpacific flight from California after radioing her po sition some 500 miles over the ocean east of here. . Seamen Let Go as Lahor Truce Fails PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. -The crew of the schooner Cham berlin was discharged today as truce In the . CIO-AFL Jurisdic tional fight at West Oregon saw mill " failed to materialize. The Chamberlin has been prevented from loading 2,500,000 feet lumber manufactured by-AFL la bor. CIO longshoremen refused to go through a CIO mlllworkers picket line. ' . The CIO offered to withdraw pickets if the AFL would tear up its contract with West Oregon. AFL countered with an Invitation to CIO mlllworkers to return to the AFL and take advantage of the contract. The AFL offered t waive inltaltlon fees. - . Ken tucky R iva Is Hit rl Cha rge Relief Fund Used for Votes LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 4-P) -Renewed charges that public funds are being used for political purposes in Kentucky came today from rival democratic campaign camps. . " : . - y i" The new deal' champion,! sen ate majority leader Alben Bark ley, up for re-nomination in Sat urday's voting, said Gov. A. B. Chandler, hi opponent, had failed to keep his 193 5 promise to re duce state expenses. -i-. "Instead the senator shouted to a home-town crowd at Padu cah. "he ha increased bureau and added hundreds of persons to the state payroll for political purposes. - At Bowling Green, Gov. "Hap py' Chandler charged Barkley with; "using relief funds to get himself elected."" Says Japan Musi Evacuate Border ltsSsissssssMrsMas:eA GMtesMssisMswssssssM MAXIM LITVTNOFF Growers to Hold To Alinimum Rate Blackberry Pool , Members, '. Woodburn, to Discard Rather Than Cut Members of the Woodburn blackberry pool, meeting yester day afternoon, voted almost 5 to 1 to support the state blackberry control t board In Its minimum Price o'f 3 cents for the 1938 crop, and also said they would rather leave the berries on the vine than sell below the 3 cent figure.; This Information was received here late yesterday from John Ramage, president of the Wood burn berry growers, by William Linfoot, secretary of the black berry control board. The Wood burn meeting was called to dis cuss the situation, inasmuch as that pool has made no sales and has no place to put its berries, the first picking of which hangs on the vines spoiled. Few Sales Reported The Woodburn. pool has nearly half the? 'blackberries' grown in the state- i- - i A f ew;salea have been- reported by other growers at the control board price, but in the main canners appear to be holding out for a half cent, or In an extreme Instance a cent, less than the figure seU .. Linfoot report that while there Is nothing definite yet, blackberry growers of Oregon and Washington, following a conference in Seattle last Sun day, have hopes that the federal surplus commodities corporation will purchase the crop surplus for relief supplies. Information on the crop situation was rushed to the FSCC this week, with an appeal for aid. Practical Jokers Go a Bit too Far PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4- -W. L. Swearingen, Portland, en dured an epidemic of practical Jokes with forebearance but the perpetrator went too far today and Swearingen called police. Last week several taxlcabs called at his home. Angry drivers said they bad been summoned by telephone'. Several commercial ve hicles and moving vans followed the taxis. Finally a truck load of lumber arrived and had to be sent away. . Today an insecticide company truck drove up, the driver Inform ing Swearingen he had been summoned to "rid the premises of rats, ; . . '" . Swearingen called the "police. Nudists Arriving i For (tTogelher ESTACADA, Ore., Aug. 4.-&P)-Suntanners from California, Washington, Montana and more distant out-state point began ar riving at Camp Hesperia near here today for the west coast confer ence of the American Sun Bathing association. , ;. . Some 200 nudists are expected for the conclave, beginning Sat urday. - "The other day Chandler said, "I got letters showing where he Barkley) tried to assess a re lief worker making S22 a month for his campaign." Chandler said Barkley had for gotten the people of the state' dur ing his 26 years at Washington. "Why, X know more people in this county, by accident that Bark ley ' doe on purpose, Chandler said.: - :N The; senate campaign- expendi tures committee - issued a state ment .Tuesday charging federal and state funds were being used by candidates for the senate nom ination. The investigation is to continue with the possibility that the successful candidate in the November': election may find a hearing awaiting him In Washing ton before he takes his seat. " Russians Send Japan Answer To Peace Pica Soviets Say Border Peace Wanted but Japan not ; to Dictate Terms Lityinoff Tells Japanese Envoy Present Limits" : Must Be Retained MOSCOW, Aug. 4. -(Soviet Russia . Informed ' Japan tonight that she could have peace on the . Manchoukuoan border but eould not dictate the terms. In conditional acceptance of Japanese proposals for diplomatic .settlement of the dispute, Foreign Commissar 'Maxim LItvlnoff told Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigmutsi that If Japanese soldiers got back where they be longed, soviet military activity in the disputed area would end auto matically. (Tokyo dispatches said Japan suggested mutual with drawal from the area.) LItvlnoff assured Tokyo's .rep resentative the soviet government always was willing to discuss peaceful settlement of frontier disputes, but any such discussion must be based on recognition of soviet boundaries as established In existing treaties. Manchuria Conquest Not Valid Reason Japan's conquest of Manchuria, he emphasized, was no valid rea son for :- altering the Russian Manchoukuoan border. The tone of LItvlnoff 's reply was regarded in foreign circles as an indication that Moscow not only was convinced of the legaHty of its claim to the disputed area, but confident of the ability of red arms to repel any attack on, the far 'eastern frontier. . ' Once again, the next move -in the course of the Changkufeng hostilities was left to Japan. Litvlnlff declared Russia would be willing to ' ent?r negotiations for peaceful settlement, but only on condition that all Japanese soldiers evacuate soviet territory and that Japan recognize the "In violability" of soviet borders as established by the Russian-Chinese treaty of June 26, 1886. : Russian Claim Based on Treaty ; It is on maps attached to this treaty the Hunchun agreement that Russia bases her. claim to the Changkufeng hills, f occupied . by soviet troop .Jul yf 11, and where there has ' been heavy fighting since Sunday. (J ; 4 The ambassador was quoted as saying this was the first Japan had seen of the map appended to the Hunchun treaty. . The outcome of the conference and the fact that the Changkur feng fighting had not spread In dicated the Incident would not develop into a major conflict. i s. - erage Plant Goes up in Flame PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4-TV-The Pacific Cooperage Co.. plant and three or four small adjoining buildings in a northeast Portland industrial district were destroyed tonight by a spectacular fixe seen for miles. .Firemen, who brought the blaze under control were unable immediately to estimate the loss. The adjoining buildings, .be lieved to have been occupied, were fired when the flames Taced across dry: grass and brush from Ahe mill yard. Power poles took." fire and current In high voltage lines had to be cut off. The top of a car parked nearby was burned ofr and several others were reported damaged. . i The blaze threatened Port land's municipal terminal No. 1 and the Eastern & Western Lum-. ber company sawmill. , Knapp Hanged for r Part in Slaying i WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug, 5.-(Friday)-,!p)-Stanley Knapp,? 20-year-old convicted slayer, was hanged at the state penitentiary early today for Jil part In ths killing of ; a 5 customer during a bank holdup. - Knapp, calm and sober faerd, walked into the eexcution cham ber at 12:05 a. m., and the trap was sprung a minute later. I ria on doctors pronounced him lead at 12:20.30. : j The young slayer bore notrace of the arrogance he showed when convicted by a Spokane jury. In a final statement written In Ma own hand, he pleaded With authorities to spare the life of Herbert Allen, Implicated In the same slaying. Allen Is scheduled to tang Aug ust 1 . Coop