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Bridges Files
To Be Handed
Oyer to Probe
Committee Investigates
Charges Bridges Gets
Labtfr Bureau Aid
'Rep. Mason Names Eight
Officials in "Front
Organizations" .
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (j!P)
The house committee ' on un
American activities, investigating
charges that labor department
officials gare Harry Bridges, west
crast labor leader, "aid and ad
vlce while deportation proceed
ings' were pending against - him,
received the department's prom
ise today to produce all its files
on the case.
Labor department officials ad
vised the documents would be
turned over tomorrow.
Delay Had in
File Delivery
The committee had waited ex
pectantly this afternoon for the
tiles to be delivered with what
members railed a "surprise wit
ness" ready to take, the stand
once they were at band. No rea
son for the delay was given.
Meanwhile, , the committee
filled in with testimony by Wal
ter S. Steele, chairman of the
American coalition committee on
national safety, charging wide
spread communistic activities In
this country, carried on through
"front organizations with "re
spectable names" but actually
"dominated by the communist
party."
Representative Mason (d-Ill)
a member of the committee gave
the names of eight government
officials who,, he said, were mem
bers, and, in some cases, officials
of one otjtbese "front organiza
tion," the'Araerican League for
peace and democracy.
Kight Official' L r
.Names Given ' ; v--.-, -.-'"tV'
'The names he gave were:
John Carmody and Harry La ni
ter ton, administrator and assis
tant administrator, respectively,
of the- rural electrification ad
ministration; Dallas W. Smythe
of the central statistical board;
Fred Silcox, head of the forest
service; Robert .Marshall, of the
man, assistant secretary of the
interior; Mary Anderson, director
of the women's bureau, and "Alice
Barrows of the office of educa
tion. Several of th?se promptly de
nied that the league was .com
munistic. The Bridges case first came to
the attention of the committee in
a report from its chief investi
gator, Edward Sullivan. Repre
sentative Thomas (r-NJ) forced
action with a motion for an im
mediate investigation, asserting
that at the time the labor department-officials
were asserted
ly helping Bridges, "patriotic
citizens were trying to have him
deported for alleged., communis
tic activity." - -
Botulism Attack
Threatens Fowls
LAKE VIEW. Auk. 17-UPV-A
fatal phenomenon! in the once
dry bed of Goose lake provoked
frantic efforts today; upon the part
of state police, US itiological sur
vey experts and sportsmen to save
10,000 ducks and geese from
death. About 5.000 already have
died.
organised and a truck was rushed
here from Klamath Falls to trans
port the birds there for treatment.
The fowl apparently were suf
fering from a form of botulism.
C. J. Fairchlld, manager, of the
Tule lake migratory waterfowl
reserve, said the cause might lay
In the fact that the lake bed, cow
Inundated after a long drought,
had been covered with vegetable
matter which rotted when sub
jected to constant Immersion.
Presumably the fowl, feeding
cn this spoiled tegetatlon, had
uttered wholesale poisoning.
They appeared to become para
lyzed after feeding.
Drowns First Day
In new Found Job
OREGON CITT. Aug. H-JP
On his first Job after long pe
riod of unemployment, Harold
Wires, 3 4, who started out tooay
as a pond man on a sawmill pond
near Wilholt, was drowned- this
afternoon when he fell into the
water while steering logs.
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Bank Executive Dies
As Operation Starts
PORTLAND. Aug. 17-pr-Charles
W. Parcell, 44, assistant
vice president of . the United
States National bank, died today
while he was being prepared
lor an , emergency operation.
Parcell was graduated from the
JJnirersitX of Qregoa-
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Briusriirmief Clumge Forecast
Street
Program Voted
In West Salem
Special ; Election Calle
for Septemher 30 on
$105,000 Bonds
All Major Streets Would
Be Paved Under Plan
With PWA Money
WEST SALEM. Aug. 17. Thi
"go" order for a 1190,096 city
wide, all-concrete street paving
project was given by the West Sa
lem city council at a special .meet
ing tonight at which its members
reached; what tiey believed would
prove a satisfactory solution to a
dispute over the surfacing of Cas
cade drive.
The council also called a spe
cial election for September 30 for
the people to vote on the neces
sary, $105,000 bond issue to raise
the city's 55 per cent share of the
PWA project's cost. The $5009 es
timated sponsor's cost of a WPA
project to be sought to grade the
streets preparatory to paving will
be paid from a reserve road fund.
Acceding to protests voiced at a
citizens' meeting Tuesday night,
tbe council voted to pave Cascade
drive, from Piedmont to Alta
mont with concrete Instead of as
phalt, to a width of 20 feet. To
adjust costs to make this change
possible, pavement widths of
eiaht other streets were reduced
to sizes as follows:
Plaza, from Rosemont to Sen
ate, 20, feet; Senate, from Edge
water to Plaza, 20 feet; Sixth,
from Patterson to Senate, 24 feet;
Seventh, from Patterson to Gerth
24 feet; McNary, from Second to
Third, 30 ''feet; Patterson, from
Second t to third, 30 fee : King
wood, from second to sixth,- 40
feet; Ruge,- from Rosemont to
Senate 24 feet.
Other streets pavement widths
will remain as originally planned,
most of them 30 feet. City En
gineer Edward J. Himes said Sen
ate street from -Edgewater to
Franklin was virtually the only
one not to be. paved under the
present program.
All of the paving will be seven
Inches thick, of standard specifi
cation,4 the engineer also stated.
Application for an $85,543
PWA grant for the' project has al
ready been made, according to
City Attorney Elmer D. Cook.
$44,000 Is Price
Of Power Holding
CASCADE LOCKS, Aug. 17-
Mayor O. E. Manchester said to
day that New York representa
tives have agreed on a price of
$44,000 for the holdings of the
West Coast Power company be
tween Lindsay creek and Multno
mah falls. : '
The city wants the property for
utilization of , Bonneville jam
power and the price is $6500 un
der the maximum set by J. D.
Ross, Bonneville dam administra
tor, j . . ' -
The city will vote on the matter
of issuing revenue certificates to
buy the system and also the is
suance of $45,000 more in certifi
cates to provide working capital
and Improvements. Tbe mayor
said he was advised that the cer
tificates could be marketed with
Hop Allocations on Program
Today for Controlling Board
With organization of the Pa
cific coast hop control board com
pleted and the regulations govern
ing marketing of hops under the
recently approved AAA marketing
agreement worked out in detail,
the growers'" allocation commit
tee will get down to tbe real busi
ness of the program today the
working out of individual grow
ers' allocations.
What those allocations will be
however, the growers will not
know; except in a general way.
for some time. By tonight the
committee may be able to make
an announcement which-will give
them a fairly accurate Idea ap
proximately the percentage of the
crops' that will be-declared mar
ketable. This will be computed from the
total of all individual estimates.
In relation to the marketable vol
ume. '
But before individual alloca
tions 1 are finally announced, the
estimates will have to be sent to
the secretary of agriculture for
his approval and the growers will
have to be notified of their ten
tative allocations and be given
time to appeal from them.
Six of Eight Convicts
Dead After Attempt to
Break
Away
dWour Shot by Bullets of
$ - '
Two Others Drown
River; Murder Charged Guard
CROCKETT, Tex , Aug. 17. (AP) Six of eight con
victs who engineered a break from Eastern prison farm lay
dead tonight, the slaying of one leading to murder charges
against a prison guard, and the promise of prison board
members to investigate circumstances of his death.
Posse's bullets killed John Hendrix Frazier, 21, of Dal-
Monmouth Seeks
Block of Power
Mayor Bowersox Is Given
Power to Negotiate for
Electricity
MONMOUTH, Ore., Aug. 17.-(Jpy-This
city asked today for a
block of Bonneville power to be
furnished from the transmission
line planned southward through
the Willamette valley from Van
couver, Wash., to Eugene.
The council authorized : Mayor
F. R. Bowersox to negotiate for
the energy, which will be sold at a
wholesale rate of $17.50 per kil
owatt year for primary power.
Authority also was granted for
an Immediate appraisal of the
properties of 'he Mountain States
Power company and the council
asked J. D. Ross, Bonneville ad
ministrator, to assist In fixing a
fair price for the system, i
-To acquire tbe system, the
council agreed to amend the city
charter to provide for operation
of a municipally - owned t power
system, the proposal to be submit
ted to the voters at the 'general
election in vember. 1 :
The, city previously has consid
ered plans to build a diesel gener
ating plant and e-'ablish Its own
system but decided to forego this
after finding that power would be
available from the dam.
Eby States Drive
Need for Project
The next Oregon : legislature
must finance a drive to secure a
congressional appropriation if the
Willamette valley project is to be
started In the near future, O. D.
Eby, Oregon City, member of the
project advisory board, declared
before the Marion connty Demo
cratic society last night. The com
mittee's hands are tied unless it
has money to work for the project
in Washington, DC, he said.
: Eby declared the project, with
its seven dams, would control 75
per cent of the Willamette's flood
waters. . .'IV
The society voted to cooperate
with the democratic central com
mittee in a party picnic to be held
at the state fairgrounds next Sun
day, August 21. Democratic head
quarters will be opened at once
at 250 North High street, Connty
Chairman E. G. Neal announced.
Aim worker Killed
ASTORIA Ore., Aug. 17.-,!p-Elmer
V. Koski, 37, Svenson, was
fatally injured yesterday when he
was struck by a lumber slab
while working In a lath : mill at
Westport. ,1 : j
T h e growers allocation com
mittee is made up of the grower
and grower-dealer members of
the control board. It Is expected
to have all of the estimates be
fore it by tonight.
At the Wednesday session, the
control board drafted all of the
necessary rules and regulations,
governing marketing of 1938
crop hops and also "old hops" of
1937 and earlier, although these
older hops do not come directly
under the agreement. Jx
It was decided that in addition
to the main office in Salem,
branch offices would be opened
in Yakima for Washington grow
ers and in Oakland for Califor
nia growers. . -
Because of tje control program,
prices of hops are already advanc
ing but it is difficult to determ
ine what they will be by the time
marketing is in full swing. It is
generally believed they will be
above cost of production, declared
at recent hearings to be from 20
to 22 cents, plus at least a small
margin of profit, members of the
control board said. Dealers and
brewers have declared themselves
to be in favor of such a condition.
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From Posse
Posse When Cauzht and
in Trying to Cross
las, and Raymond Wilkerson, 24,
of Fort Worth, in the Trinity
river bottom early today. Two
convicts were found drowned in
the Trinity river, and two were
shot yesterday.
Sergeant Bob Parker said Fra
zier and Wilkerson were shot
when searchers caught up with
them as the convicts were at
tempting to kill bloodhounds em
ployed in the chase. He said the
fugitives resisted arrest.
Roy King, serving time for rob
bery, was the only one of the
eight who stabbed a prison guard
as they fled, to remain at large.
Another, W. E. Garner, of Beau
mont, leader of the break, was
captured yesterday.
'At Crockett, County Attorney
Leon Lusk of Houston coun'4
said Sheriff Arch Maples had filed
a charge of murder in Justice of
the Peace D. B. Long's court
against Parker of the Eastern,
farm in connection with the death
of Frazler.
Japanese Shake
Off Hull Speech
Spokesman Refers to Hull
as "Idealist" as War
Plans Intensified
TOKYO, Aug. 17-0T)-The Ja
panese foreign office indicated
today that Secretary Hull's sev-ven-point
program for "interna
tional order" would receive no
support from Japan. At the same
time, the government intensified
efforts to conquer China.
The foreign office spokesman
said the most Important state
ment in Hull's International
broadcast was that the United
States could . not remain aloof
from foreign conflicts.
He said the remainder of the
speech was a repetition of pre
vious declarations. He referred
to Hull as an "idealist", and to
his speech as 'idealistic diplom
acy." "
Meaen while, the cabinet ap
proved a broad program drawn
up by five of the most Important
ministers to speed the campaign
in China with more drastic econ
omic control at home and great
er pressure by armed forces.
The cabinet did not disclose
details of. the program, but an
official announcement said the
fighting - would continue until
Gen. Chang Kai-Shek's ; regime
has been crushed. This indicated
the Japanese wonld try to smash
further Inland along the Yangtze
river when and if Hankow falls.
Beauties Battle
Over Facial Bill
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 17-()-Offleer
L. V. Travers said
two women who couldn't agree
on a beauty shop bill went into
the alley to settle it with the
following result:
Adelia Harris, 25, Vancouver,
Wash . suffered a possible jaw
fracture. ." Martha Mackay, 19.
Portland, was treated for head
and face cuts.
Passersby separated the pair
after the - fight developed Into
fisticuffs and rock-throwing,
Travers said.
Miss Mackay, said Travers,
claimed that she and the other
woman began arguing about a
till rendered by Miss Mackay's
beauty shop.
Lindberghs Stop
At Moscow Field
: MOSCOW. Aug. n-iP)-Coh
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
arrived here In their orange and
blue monoplane tonight after
stops at Minsk and Mohilev on
their flight from Warsaw.
They were met by soviet civil
ulrport officials and representa
tives of the American embassy.
To the foreign press Lindbergh
gave a tour-word statement: "I
have no plans."
Soviet air authorities were
planning to show him a sample
of soviet aviation at tomorrow's
air show in connection with avi
ation" day....:-':
Rift Between
Chamberlain,
Halifax Seen
Foreign Blows at Policy
I of England Is Cause
of Rift Rumors
Report Halifax Believes
Firmer Hand now Need
for Dictators
LONDON, Aug. l7-iiP)-Italy
and Germany have struck three
blows at British foreign policy
which today started rumors of
cleavage between Prime Minister
Chamberlain , and Viscount Hall
fax, foreign secretary.
Insurgent Gen. Francisco Fran
co, presumably on the advice of
Italian and German dictators, was
said to have balked at Britain's
plan for getting foreign fighters
out of Spain.
Premier Mussolini has resumed
anti-British propaganda in spite
of the British-Italian friendship
agreement.
Hitler Still
Gives Jitters
Chancellor Hitler, despite
avowals of devotion to peace, gave
Europe continued jitters with a
program of army maneuvers some
Critics regarded as a dress re
hearsal for war.
As a result mainly of the Span
ish and Czechoslovak - German
problems, informed quarters said.
Lord , Halifax now is convinced
that it is impossible to save peace
without taking a firmer stand
against dictators.
Chamberlain's policy has been
to try to moderate rather than
oppose completely Germany's
ambitions toward 'central Europe.
To do this he sent Viscount
Runciman to Praha as "unoffi
cial" mediator to appease Ger
many's desire for control of
Czechoslovakia's 3,500,000 Ger
man minority by some means
shorj of granting them autonomy.
Halifax Believed
Swayed by Eden
Lord Halifax recently has been
seeing Anthony Eden, his prede
cessor who resigned Feb. 20 In
protest against Chamberlain's
policy of dealing with Italy and
Germany. Informed sources ex
pressed the opinion that Lord
Halifax has come to believe
Eden's -stronger policy against
dictators is right r
It was not suggested- that
there would be an open break
between "the prime minister and
the foreign secretaryt but Lord
Halifax was believed to have
asked to be relieved from his
portfolio as soon as it Is oppor
tune. There mven was some discussion
of Chamberlain's retiring this
fall. In that event, Sir Samuel
Hoare, home secretary, probably
would move up to the premier
ship. Large Principles
Behind Problems
Everywhere In Europe it was
recognized that the Spanish and
Czechoslovak German ' questions
were symbolic of , the larger doc
trinal and economic conflicts be
tween democracies and dictator
shins. :The deepening cleavage be
tween the two also was shown by
comment in Germany and Italy
on United States Secretary Hull's
appeal tor peace, regarded among
democracies as a warning to dic
tatorships. - .
Fascists in Rome saw Hull's
address last night as an attack
upon Germany and Italy.
There Is a tendency in Great
Britain now to discuss not if.
but when a war will start. One
high British foreign affairs offi
cial is being quoted in London em
bassies as predicting Hitler would
move eastward about Sept. 15.
Wliales off Coast
FrigKten Fishers
ASTORIA, Aug? 17-P)-Flsher-men
off the Oregon coast are
getting prepared tor anything.
Recently they began making
big- hauls of tuna and since then
several have had narrow escapes
when whales rose to the surface.
Enroute from Kewport to As
toria, Mauri Pesonen, Newport
troller, and companions donned
lite-jackets when a whale rose
and nearly upset their 30-foot
boat,: A party of sportsmen seek
ing albacore were frightened
when whales rose near the boat at
the Columbia river mouth.
. Courthouse Sought
McMLNNvTLLE, Aug. It-iJPr'
Another courthouse project for
Oregon was started today when
Yamhill connty applied to the
PWA for a grant for $29f,000,
three-story building. Voters first
must approve a bond Issue to pay
for the county's share.
Convicts Face Death Penalty
For Kidnap of Youthful Pair
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Captnre of two ex-convicts, Otis Jones Meredith, 21, and John Coach,
23, near Effie, Minn., was announced by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The men were arrested by federal agents for the
kidnaping of Miss Peggy Gross and Daniel Cox Fahay Jr. of Kt.
Louis. Officers said the ex-convicts apparently kidnaped Miss
Gross and Fahay in St. Lools merely for the use of their car to flee
the St. Louis area, where they were "hot. The victims were found
near Champlln, Minn., bound with .wire and gagged. Meredith
was seriously wounded as he attempted to elude officers. Photo
shows Miss Gross and Fahay. (UN)
Albany to Enlarge
Staff of Faculty
Religious Education Will
Be Increased, States
Trustee Head
PORTLAND, Aug. -(Liquidation
of the current obliga
tions of Albany college, which
will be transferred from Albany
to Portland this fall, has enabled
the college to enlarge its teach
ing staff and the activities of the
department of religious education.
Dr. Perry J. Hopper said today.
Dr. Hopper, president of the
college board of trustees and pas
tor of Westminster Presbyterian
church here, said he would give
up his part-time classes, assigcin3
work in Bible literature to the
Rev. John D. Furnas, of San An
selmo Theological seminary, who
will also provide a program of re
ligious education.
Back from a California trip. Dr.
Hopper said he was impressed by
the "swing back to the small col
lege church all over the country."
He said four or five candidates
tor the college presidency, vaca
ted by Dr. Thomas W. Bibb, were
under consideration. Dr. Bibb has
gone east as president of Missouri
Valley college.
Two From Salem
Are Fund-Raisers
PORTLAND. Aug. 17-()-A
committee to raise a war chest
for the. democratic party for the
general election in November was
named today by Frank Tierney,
state party chairman. It will be
headed by Charles H. Leach and
among the members are Tom Hol
man and Mrs. Cora Cooter, Salem,
and E. E. Wilson, Corvallis.
Missing Port Or ford Meteor
Is Apparently Still Missing
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 17P)-A
hope of scientists that one of the
Intriguing mysteries of the hea
vens had been solved rediscov
ery of the long lost Port Orford
meteor appeared doomed to an
other disappointment today. .
Dr. H. H. Nininger, national
meteorite expert of Denver, wrote
Dr. J, Hugh Pruett, -western di
rector of the American Meteor
ological society and University ot
Oregon astronomer, that a frag
ment sent him as possibly from
the meteor was "not in the least
meteoric."
The sample was found by. Ro
bert Harrison, a miner, who
claimed to have stumbled on to
the meteor years ago.
Told of in ancient Indian leg
ends, the meteor was proved
more than a myth nearly SO years
ago when Dr. John Evans, gov
ernment geologist, discovered it
la 1859 but he died before be had
Ume to map its location, some
where near Port Orford.
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Better ; US -Nazi
Trade Is Sought
German Economist Pleads
for Bilateralism in
German Trade
BERLIN. Aug. 1 7. - (JP) - The
secretary of state In the German
economics ministry pleaded to
night for better economic rela
tlons between the United States
and Germany. -
In an Impassioned address be
fore the American chamber of
commerce in Germany, Secy. Ru
dolf Brlnkman said he believed if
relations were, better, America
could sell at least three million
bales of cotton as well as metals,
manufactured goods, wheat, lard
and canned goods in Germany an
nually. .
He expressed hope the United
States would "depart from rigid
dogma" In trade relations with
Germany as she did In the cases
of Brazil and Italy, and give
"greater consideration to the
principle of bilateralism (ex
change between two nations) In
trade with Germany."
- "Like Mr. Hull . (Secretary of
State Hull) we believe the reduc
tion and leveling of tariff rates is
an important factor for the revi
val of world trade, and like Mr.
Hull we consider a most favored
nation clause an' important means
of attaining this aim." -
Gambling Forgery Cause
KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 17
(ff)A study of four years of
forgery and bad check cases here
bas showed that 71 per cent grew
directly out of the attempt to get
cash to 7y gambling debts. Cir
cuit J n d g.e Edward B. Ashurst
said today in instructing the
county grand Jury.
Harrison said that years ago he
came upon the meteor but lost in
terest in it when no one offered
financial assistance to recover it.
His curiosity was again aroused
when he read an article recently
about It by Dr. Pruett. He sent
Dr. Pruett a sample.
Since then Harrison injured his
back but he said he would lead an
expedition to the meteor when he
recovered.
, The meteor is one of the larg
est ever found and would be ot
highest scientific value, ' experts
say. However, Dr. Pruett said
that Dr. W. F. Foshag, curator of
minerology al petrology at the
Smithsonian Institute contends
that even upon rediscovery of the
meteor the Institution would not
be obliged to pay anyone for it
because -it already belongs to the
institution.
"We should likely be willing to
pay a reward for its discovery but
this would not be in the nature of
a purchase," Dr. Foshag wrote.
Hines Agreed
To Take Cut,
Says Witness
Former Schultz Member
Says Tammany Chief j
Got $500 a Week
Courtroom Hushed While
.Witness Tells of Plan
to Protect Racket
NEW YORK, Aug. 17-W
James J. Hlnes, one of Tam
many's most Influential district
leaders, was named by a witness
In supreme co rt today as tbe
man who agreed to throw tbe
cloak of political protection for
S500 week around the op
erations ot a multi-million dol
lar a year policy syndicate head
ed by the late Dutch Schultz.
The witness, George Weinberg,
husky, tanned, former 'buBinea.
associate ot the slain racketeer,
Schultz, rescribed before a hush
ed courtroom a conference in
1932 at which he said plans were
made to run -the policy racket
without too much police later
ference. Defense Objects,
Asks Mistrial
His testimony brought heated
objections from Lloyd I'aul Stri
ker, chief defense counsel at
Hines' trial on conspiracy charg
es, and a demand that a mistrial
be declared. 1
Stryker, who earlier had de
nounced Dist. Atty. Thomas K.
Dewey's prosecution of the Tam
many chieftain as being made up
of "diabolical falsehoods" and
"the rankest perjury," lost his
motion.
Dewey sent a flurry through
the Crowded courtroom when !
charged, in his opening addrewi,
that the Schultz gang had con
tributed money and "thousands
and thousands" of votes toward
the election of former Dist. Atty.
William C. Dodge, Dewey's pre
decessor, a Tammanyito.
Weinberg, who was indlctfd
with Hines but who pleaded
guilty and agreed to testify for
the state, was the second witness
called by Prosecutor Dewey la
support of charges that the gon
ial, ruddy-faced Hlnes was the
political liaison man between tbe
Schultz mob and law enforce
ment agencies. ;
Negro's Story
Interrupted n
.The first witness, Wilfred
Brunder, a giant West Indian
Negro who set out to give a
first-hand explanation of how
policy bankers work, was asked
to step down when supreme
court Justice Ferdinand Perora
demanded that Dewey produce
testimony which would link
Hlnes with tbe conspiracy charge.
Brunder was scheduled to re
sume his story tomorrow, land
Dewey said Weinberg probably
would be recalled later to give a
more complete story of now
Schultz and his aides reaped a
fortnnn from the nennle 'nlnkela
and dimes of poor but trusting
policy players. I 1
Weinberg, a brother of j the
long-miaeing Abraham f Bo)
Weinberg who is popularly be
lieved to be encased In cement
at the bottom of the East river,
said' the conference with Hlnes
took place at Schultz's Manhat
tan apartment early In 1932.
Weinberg State
Huge Hums Paid
During the conference, wbfrh
he said was attended also by his
brother and "Julie" Rosenkranz,
the Tammany district leader re
ceived thousands of dollars from
Schjltz, the witness added.
He said he was ordered to
pay Hlnes $500 a week, plus any
additional turns, up to $1,000,
required for protection.
Weinberg said he explained to
hlnes that he and his associates
wanted policy cases settled in
magistrates court tnd not sent
"downtown" to special sessions.
"I was, told bv Schultz to males
my arrangements to get In touch
vith Hlnes whenever I netdVd
him." Weinberg said.
. The witness pointed directly
at the defendant when asked to
Identify him.
lines, who has confidently
predicted victory In the case
which he describes as a "polit
ical battle," let his gaze roam
from Weinberg to tie Jury and
back again, and occasionally to
ward the celling j
Fred Steele now
Father of Champ
SEATTLE, Aug. 17.-(T)-A rob
was born today to former middle
weight boxing champion and ?.'r.
Freddie Steele of Tacoma. The
youngster, named David Edward,
weighed In at seven pounds.
"Gee." said Freddie, "he looks
Just like me. Homely as the devil.
Big mouth and everything."
The son was named David aft
er Steele's one-time manager, the
late Dave Miller, and Edward for
Eddie Miller, Dave's brother.
Steele lost the title to Al Ilos-
tak ot Seattle last month.