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Softball Tourney f First complete reports of fttate Softball tonrnnmcnl ' games next week will be carried as usual In The Oregon Statesman. j The Weather . Clear today anil Stinday ad somewhat warmer. Max. Temp. Friday 77. J! in. SO. Hirer -3.7vXorthwrst wind. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning:, August 20, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 123 mitv audi -1 1 "KT Testify v Policy Bankers Say Campaign Funds Donated Thousands Contributed From Rackets to Go to Campaigners " One Told His Money to Go to 'JimmyHines Club' Weekly NEW VORK, Aug. 19-(JPy- T w o thick-chested, . chocolate colored former policy bankers of Harlem calmly told a supreme court jury today that Dutch Schultz, founder of the numbers racket to which Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines is charged with giving political protection, con tributed thousands of dollars from racket funds to election campaigns here. Well-dressed, dignified Alexan der Pompez, who once defied bu'- not for long the Dutchman's orders to surrender his bank to the racket, testified $10,000 was taken from his treasury in "the fall of 1933. Money for Campaign, He Was Told "George Weinberg say that they was going to use this money for a campaign," Pompez said. "He say that every bank in this combination was going to donate money for this particular cam paign." Another former policy mag nate whose business was taken over by the SchulU strong-arm gang in 1931, "Big Joe" Ison, linked the contributions more directly- to llinesagainst . w horn. Weinberg, who was indietedwith. "him, already" has testified- Every week, Ison said, $125 was deducted from the profit sheet of his bank as an expense item. - - "They, said to me," he testi fied, "that $125 13 going to Jim my Hines club." Other Deductions Ta Alii ttk winjiicrn A little later, with the same cool detachment, he related that be was told that twq deductions of $2,600 were for "campaign funds' to help elect a "democratic mayor and the democratic district attorney." That was in 1933 when Flo- .rello La Guardia was repuDJican mayoral candidate Opposing Jo seph V. McKeen, on the "Recov ery" party ticket, and John P. O'Brien, democrat. La Guardia won. .' .- f" 1 The democratic candidate" for dist. atty. was William Copeland Dodge, a former magistrate, and one of the three men named by Dist. Atty. Thomas E. ' Dewey as having been "Intimidated, bribed or influenced' by Hines in his al leged role as conspirator with Schultz and the others to provide protection" for the racket. Minister Starts Serving Sentence BISMARCK. N. D., Aug. 19 (JP) Less than 24 hours after he had confessed the murder of his 16-year-old house maid, the Rev. Heio Janssen, 51, Evangelical Lutheran pastor at Krem, near here, was in the state penitentiary here tonight serving a life term. In a hastily called district court session at Mandan, shortly after midnight, Janssen pleaded guilty to poisoning Alma Kruckenberg, the maid, because she had threat ened to reveal, that the minister was responsible for her pregnant condition. Hughes Takes off On High Zone Hop GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 19.-(JFy-Howard Hughes, wealthy world-girdling flier, hopped off tonight for a sub - stratosphere . . . . A- .... . IUgni lO ew ior iu uijficu breathing apparatus developed by the Mayo Brothers clinic. The flight, in which he said speed would not be an object, is the first of a series he plans at about 30,000 feet to test this pas senger equipment. Lost 3-Year-Old Found by Posses MEDFORD, Aug. 19. (JTj A posse of sheriff's deputies, CCC men, miners and townspeople to day found three-year-old Patsy Jonas, who strayed away 'om her home near the Ashland mine Thursday night and had been lost since. She was safe and sound and anconcerned about her long ab Iccce from horn Money o Labor Shortage Caused In Germ a ny Of i rmv Tor manpower Hitler Hurries From Maneuver to Maneuver While Manufacturers Worry About Keeping f Factories and Plants Going BERLIN, Aug. 19. (AP) While Reichsfuehrer Hitler is hurrying from training .ground to training ground to see whether all is in readiness for the autumn divisional maneu vers, Germany's industrialists today were hard put to find enough men to keep factories and plants going. ;4: and; watched troops of the second O army corps from Pommern and Mecklenburg engage in ' thunder ous sham battle. Later he spent several hours among a circle of officers and other officials in Steltin, northern German army center. The mobilization of practically every able-bodied man for mili tary purposes has created a dire shortage of labor. , This shortage has been further increased by the necessity of pro viding armaments and munitions, instruments, clothing, . motor ve hicles and other , paraphernalia and necessities for the nation's gigantic military establishment. ' The government's sudden deci sion, to speed up construction of fortifications at a rate probably unparalleled In history has meant a farther drain on the man power available for the ordinary pur suits of life. ; So great are the" military exig encies that naziism has been com pelled even to throw into the dis card one of its principal tenets, namely that of keeping women out of industry. ; Already ,000,000 women have re-entered economic life - of Ub nation since spring, according to a German correspondence service, and at present there is a big drive on for married women who were once stenographers to re sume that work. Fear Oiympia Man Victim Irving Baker Taken From Home by Men With Fake Arrest . Warrants OLYMPIA, Aug. 19-iP)-01ym-pia police aided by state patrol men and members of the sheriff's office continued", the search to night for Irving Baker, Oiympia automobile dealer who was be lieTed to have been kidnaped from his home shortly after 10 o'clock tonight. j ; ' What was expected to be an earlr break in the case appeared when police reported they thought they know where Baker was eith er being held or had been left by his alleged abductors. However after some time spent from the department office they had not returned at a late hour. Police refused to divulge from vhere they obtained the tip on Baker's whereabouts. , Police were called to the Baker home by his wife who said two "rough-looking men" appeared et their home and produced an al legedly faked arrest warrant and emanded that Baker accompany them in a dark sedan. She said she had not heard from her husband since he left. Gymnasium Sought .McMINNVILLE, Aug. H.-iPjr-AjPWA application for $149,800 was filed today by the McMinn villa school district. Among other things, the district wants to con struct a $130,000 gymnasium. Kidnap Hollywood Cops Put Finger On Child' lalent' 1 miners HOLLYWOOD. ; Calif., Aug. 19 -iF Parents who" brought their talented children to Hollywood and did j not ; get them in the movies caused a police raid to day on a talent school which re sulted in the arrest of four per sons on warrants charging grand theft bunko. : ; Detective M. B. Swan, who led the raid, said parents who signed the complaints charged National Talent Pictures, Inc., failed to ob tain film parts for their young sters as had been promised when they won talent contests .in their home towns. The parents com plained also they were charged tor many f 'extras' which the. heads of the; sc" ool claimed were ne cessary t obtain movie work. ; Arrested were Myrtle and L C. Overdorf, Edward Rose. W. A. Carrabrandt, Identified as a salesman for the concern also was named in a warrant, Their school mi nt to by Demand Franco Preparing General Offensive Insurgent General Hoping to Close War Before Winter Comes HENDATE, France (At the Spanish Frontier), Aug. 19. JP) Generalissimo Francisco' Franco today shifted his Insurgent legions for a new general offensive to bring the two-year-old , Spanish civil war to a close before winter. The preparatory maneuvers were accompanied by a new fury of aerial bombardments along the eastern coast in which British shipping suffered ; heavily. The actual war fronts were compara tively quiet. Barcelona was rocked by the heaviest bo m b 1 n g since March, when hundreds died. The assaults today on the gov ernment capital In Catalonia and on two Catalonian coastal villages. Si tees and Vail car ca, 25 miles southwest of Barcelona, were Te ported to have injured or killed more than 150 persons, l Government dispatches said in surgent airmen bombed and sank the 1,3 3-ton British freighter Stanbrook following reports of an unsuccessful bomb attack on the 2,600-ton Stanforth. The Stanhoit Shipping company owned both merchantmen. . . ; Copper Is Victim Of Car Marauder There's a policeman looking for a thief today. Perhaps that isn't news, but the fact that the thief got away with most of the accessories of the policeman's car while the latter was Investigating basehits and stolen bases at the Softball games last night at least smacks a bit of the man-bite-dog story. . ' Sergeant Don Nicholson, of the local city police, approached his car following last night's Softball games on Sweetland,- to find a locked window had been pried open and the mirror-clock, cigar lighter and gearshift knob miss ing. "Rammed Earth" House Puzzles Office PORTLAND, Aug. 19.r-(p)-Mrs. R. F. Schmoll of Portland gave Portland building Inspectors something new to puzzle over to day. She wants to build, a four room house of "rammed earth." H. E. Plummer, chief of the bureau . of buildings, expressed doubt that : an earthen house would be ; practical In Portland's climate but said he thought It might be a good Idea to let some body try it. i is quartered la a large colonial building in the heart of Holly wood. ; , : : ' ' . Some of the 125 mothers and their . children who were In the rchool at the time of the raid be came hysterical at the sight of the officers. One policeman re ported he was bitten, on the fin ger by an excited miss of seven wearing a hula skirt, The officers said "bedlam reigned": until the four heads, of the school were taken Into custody and explana tions were made by Swan. The complaint on which the raid was based, was sworn, to by Mrs. J. G. Moore of Salinas,. Calif., and Mrs. Harry L. Gross of Wich ita Falls, Tex. : S Mrs. Margaret Schmldtt of Manhattan, Has., told officers that she came here a month ago with . her 9-year-old. daughter Dora, after she had been notified the child had won a part in motion picture. 1 Hop Movement May Liven as Quotas Fixed Base Expectations : for Activity on Dealers V new Knowledge ;:' ; Board Declares Salable Quantity not Over 72 per Cent of Crop Contracting of If IS hops is ex pected to take a sudden spurt al most Immediately, following an nouncement Friday of the .tenta tive basis for allocation of mar keting quotas by the hop control board. The brief announcement declared that the salable quantity of hops will not be more than ap proximately 72 per cent of the to tal crop. . Expectation of considerable ac tivity In contracting for hops Is based in part upon the fact that dealers will now know exactly wljat to expect, and partly on the fact that some of them ad pre viously contracted the entire sup ply of certain growers. Those growers like the rest will be able to sell only about 72 per cent of their 'output, so that the dealers will have to look elsewhere for the remainder of their needs. Salable Quantity 72 Per Cent of Crop The control board's statement said: "On the basis of the field crop inspection reports now in the hands of the growers' allocation committee the salable quantity of 28,500,000 pounds fixed by the hop marketing agreement will not be, more than approximately 7 z per cent of the total 1938 crop in the three states of Oregon, Wash ington and California. t 'In other words the 1938 hop crop appears to be at least 28 per cent in excess of the quantity which can be marketed under the marketing agreement, with a re sulting expected reduction of har vest by each grower of approxi mately 28 per cent. These figures are subject, however, to whatever revision may be necessary after the rechecking of figures now in progress has been completed. The portion of the crop which apparently cannot be marketed Is somewhat higher than the grow ers expected, as the department of agriculture's August 1 estimate set the probable total at 37,920, 000 pounds. The control board statement indicates a total crop of 39,700,000 pounds. Estimate Blast Be Approved The estimate will not be offi cial until approved by the secre tary of agriculture, and each hop grower in the three states will be furnished an estimate of his crop and quota, from which he may ap peal to the department. The grower Is expected to mar ket only the hops for which he la allotted salable tonnage, but le gally it is possible for him to mar ket his entire crop except that the excess will be barred from inter state shipment. Appreciation of the spirit of cooperation which has prevailed between growers and grower dealers in conducting the work of the allocation committee was ex pressed Friday by C. W. Panlna, managing agent for the board. Check Shek PORTLAND, A V g. 1 9. -CSV-Yung Kow Shek, 52, was arrested today on a federal bench warrant charging violation of the narcot ics control law and was held in lieu of 125,000 tail. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. I9.m San Francisco .........3 9 1 Portland 2 8 : 0 - Gibson, Ballon, (9) and S print; LIska and Dickey. -Second game: . San Francisco M , ., 1 I 0 Portland 2 S 'T 1 Shores and Sprinz; Douglas and Dickey. Sacramento ......... ..0 12 Seattle .......... i.2 6 1 Walker and Grube; Turpinjuid SpindeL Hollywood ... ........ 4 11 S Oakland 1 Babich and Brenzel; BIttner, Olds (9) and Conroy. -, , , ; , San Diego 7 11 0 Los Angeles ......... .3 11. 1 ; Humphreys and Hogan; Berry, Bush 17) and CoUlns. WICHITA, Kas., Aug. 20.-(Sat-urday)-(jiP)-BaforV Ga ranners up in 1937 title play, went Into a first-place, undefeated tie with Mt. Pleasant, Tex., last night , in national semi-pro baseball tourna ment standings, defeating the Al geria, Iowa, negro nine, 8 to 3. ' A Theatre Ove Radical Witness Says ' :" ."" , 1 Woman Claims Project j.&gency for Spread : w oi Communism , Charges Employes Made "to. Join Communist ii? Organizations, WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-(JPy-Mrs; Hazel Huffman of New York city, testified in positive - terms before the house committee on un American ' activities today that the federal theatre project of WPA was dominated by radicals and using public funds to spread the doctrine of communism. Explaining she had obtained T er information from an extend ed personal investigation, she as serted that "propaganda plays were the rule," that employes of the project were compelled to join communist organizations end that the project was violating the law which created it by employ ing aliens. Charge O'Coi.nell Gave Red Satwte . In additior;,y-thecommittee re ceived testim4iy from two veter ans of the var in Spain that Rep resentatives O'Connell D-Mont) and Bernard (FL-Mlnn) repeat edly ,used the "soviet salute" the raised clenched fist when addressing members of the Span ish government Winy while on a visit j.6 that country. And on the basis oT the veter ans' testimony that communists had recruited them fo war in Knatn. the "oramittd mei,a Justice department to itChristiau, the question of whether th? been &sy violation of a II biddicr the enlistment of 'a' can Jrlasens for duty in , armlAt the Cartmeat, : said., the request would b giten careiul attention.' Claims 26 Weeks Stage Experience Mrs. Huffman, plump and ma tronly, a f registered nurse who said she also had had 26 weeks' experience in the theatre, told the committee her first contact with the theatre project was as an "un-der-cover Investigator' for ' the city relief administration in New York. Later she said, she contin ued her studies as the representa tive of 900 professional actors who objected to theatre project methods. Her testimony repeatedly link ed the "Workers' Alliance," which she called a communist or ganization, with the project. Ac tors and other employes were forced to become members and contribute to it if they were to keep their jobs, she said. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19-fPf-Congressman Jerry O'Connell of Montana declared today that tes timony "by two cheap soldiers of fortune" before the Dies house committee on un-American activi ties that he had used the com munist salute while in Spain was "completely false." O'Connell said "these simple, "ly, idiotic charges" were the answer of Rep. Harold Mosier, member of the committee, "to my participation In his overwhelming defeat Mn the Ohio primaries. HOT CAR it v.W This Innocent looking freight ear Is the canse of the recent closing of 25 San Francisco warehouse vihen . union men were ordered not to unload It. Officials of a. nationwide chain store loaded the car at their A strike-bound warehouse under guard, which, according to union headquarters, made the cargo "hot." . The freight car was moved from one .warehouse to another in San Francisco until finally a deadline was set for Its unloading. The deadline passed and the car was still loaded wherenpoB the ware ; houses closed their doors. The car was moved to Oakland, Cal., but waa not touched by the anion. A truce was called and employers studied unioa proposals, which. If accepted may bring au rod to the 60 Arabs Die in Bitter F ight With Tom as Jewish Six British Dead After Battle in Which Machine Guns , and Aircraft Strafed Retreating ' Arahs on Slopes of Palestine - - .- . -I -; ;.' : ". . JERUSALEM, Aug. 19. (AP) British troops strug gled hand-to-hand tonight with Arab detachments fighting against a Jewish influx into the Holyland. ' The Arabs, reports said, have suffered heavy reverses, with' 60 dead and hundreds wounded. British troops, with the advantage of aircraft, suffered six dead and 12 wounded. 0 Northern Palestine bills echoed Japanese Driving Against Guerillas Campaign on to Wipe out 42,000 Chinese Fight , and Run Troops SHANGHAI, Aug. 19. -(Jap anese forces have started a large drive in Shantung to wipe out 42,000. Chinese guerillas reported operating in all quarters of the province. Japanese advices from Tsinan, Shantung provincial capital, said the initial Japanese thrust scat tered 10,000 of the fight-and-run Chinese close to the city. The Japanese said other expe ditions were expected to crush all guerilla resistance In Shantung. They admitted mobile Chinese units had carried on unceasing attacks. In the past week Chinese re ported a guerilla army had cap tured Tsinan. The Japanese ad mitted the assault, but said the guerillas were repulsed. , ) In northern Honan province. Chinese irregulars were reported to have Attacked Sinsiang and Siaochlehen, Inflecting JQ0 casnal-J lies- aoa capturing Japanese' supported officials-' - ' Paoting, capital of Hopeh prov ince,' was reported encircled by guerillas. In the Yangtze valley, still more than 100 miles from Han kow, China's provisional capital, Japanese forces struggled against Chinese regulars to widen the front of their drive toward Han kow. Sweetheart Shot When Love Waned NEW YORK, Aug. 19-(P)-Ma-rie Joyce, pretty 25-year-old priv ate secretary was shot to death today with a sawed off rifle her sweetheart carried in brief case while they dined, drank and quarreled. John Bellinger, 33, advertising clerk, who sorrowed at her wan ing love, confessed the crime to a priest and then accompanied him to a police station, where he surrendered and told of his last night with the young woman. They dined at a fashionable hotel, he told Detective August Gilman, and had several drinks. He said he urged Miss. Joyce to marry him. When she refused, saying she was not ready, they quarreled. I CAUSE . OF WAREHOUSE WAR Influx Resisted with rifle and machine-gun fire, Aircraft dived and circled, machine-gunning retreating Arabs who for days had sought shelter in orange groves, rocks and caves. Fightiag yesterday on the out skirts of Acre and today on the plain of Sharon was the heaviest the Holyland has seen in the cur rent wave of disorders, which be came serious July 5". The two battles began as Brit ish troops, taking the heaviest offensive yet, tried to force bill bands into the open. Airplanes scouted positions of organized bands, reporting them to army headquarters. Tonight the Nablus district thundered with the roar of planes and the rumble of tanks and trucks pass ing from village to village In a search for suspicious characters and armaments, r - """ Two small engagements were reported w,est of Nablus, but no details were given. Reports said many Arabs were attempting to reach Syria and Iraq with their wounded. - Several Jewish casualties were reported in scattered disorders. A German-Jew was found stabbed to death, t At Haifa, six were wounded. three seriously, when a Jewish bus.-was bombed. Gliamberlin Loads, Sails off at Last PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 19.-iip) -The W. R. Chamberlin, Jr., her pllmsoll line awash, slogged down the Columbia to the sea tod-y with a cargo of lumber she wait ed almost two months tn load. She idled at the West Oregon lumber dock during the labor dis pute that shut down the mill and barricaded the dock. Upon the "truce settlement" of the dispute, longshoremen last week jammed the Chamberlln's holds and decks with 2,500,000 feet of lumber for California. Scarcely had the W h e e 1 e r steamed downriver than another vessel, the Oakmar, tied up at West Oregon to load 500,000 feet Two more freighters are due Mon day to load nearly 2,000,000 feet between them. Gondola Rider Scraps Face on Railroad Bed SPOKANE. Aug. 19-(PV-Edgar Bald wrick, 4, McMinnvil (innville, Ore., was riding in a gondola today when the bottom opened. He skid but escaped the wheels, lie was treated for facial lacerations. Increased Use Is Reason for Bigger Supply Fifty per Cent Increase During Summer Was not Expected Filter Bed Left Undone With Idea Its Need not Immediate An unexpected 60 per cent la crease in water consumption tn. Salem this summer makes com pletion of the source of supply Stayton island during the coming winter virtually a necessity, Maa ager Cuyler VanPatten Informed the water commission last night. The Increase, he said, does not in clude the 2,000,000 gallons or more surplus water sold dally to the Oregon Pulp & Paper com pany. The commission last night re ceived the first request for new service to a state Institution, Kalrview home. An offer to swrve this institution at the Initlde-the-city rate was proposed by Com missioner "E. B. Grabenhornt and adopted with the explanation that the home is located on the gravity pipeline route and the mate la entitled to consideration because it donated . the right-of-way loi the line. Low Schedule For Fairvlcw Based on a state estimate of water use, the home would re ceive water at the lowest prlre the commission's rate schedules, five cents per 100 cubic feet, after the first three days of rack month, the manager estimated. The commission also suggested the manager inquire as to the pos sibility of the city's selling water to the state hospital end other institutions now. using well sup plies. - , No tto "'ioHTo 1 sourta ef supyfV ..jMlil.i. . .ts recalled during discussion that a year ago a large filter bed oi Stayton island was left uncom pleted because it did not appear fthat it would be needed for two or three years. Three Alternatives Face Commission Three alternatives fare tha commission, the manager aalj. They are: Complete the existing filter bed. Install a mechanical filu-r or further explore the possibilities of obtaining underground water. Saying he favored the last al ternative, VaaPatten declared the underground system at present ia adequate by itself to serve the regular and paper mill surplus demand for water throughout at least six months of the year. ..Commissioner Grabenhorst said he was opposed to any further un derground work. Acting Chairman J. M. .RIckman .said he believed more water could be taken from underground, based on his obser vations last summer. A contract to build a two-ear garage to house a truck and to.l on the' island was awarded to Sandner and Humphrey, low bid dens at $385.48. Other bids were: Ralph L. Hein, - $490, and Holla Southwick, $59. The commission sent back to the city council for recommenda tion a $145.79 bill from the pub lic utilities commissioner for its recent appraisal of the water de partment hydroelectric plant. Millman Says AFL Forced Mill Close PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. J9.- W)-Walter Raines, proprietor of the Carnation Lumber company of Forest Grove, testified In a na tional labor relations board bearing- today that he had been forced to close bis plant last fall due to an AFL boycott against hit prod uct, then produced by CIO work ers. lie said he had nothing to do with formation of an AFL loal which now claims to be sole bar gaining agency for the mill. Twenty seven CIO men. iaie since a strike call of last October, are seeking reinstatement, recog nition and back pay. Mail Must Go Through Even if 21 Year$ Lcle PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 19-(,T1 Half a. dozen postcards mailed to II. B. Fogarty in .the Electric building here in February, 1314, were delivered today. Postal authorities were In a double Quandry. They couldn't explain the delay and they couM n't find Fogarty. Bicyclist Dies After Crash With ?,loloritl ASHLAND, Au?. li .-(.Vt-VA- gar B. Wagner, 26. ho.;;ital en. ploye, died last night of injuii suffered when bis bicycle wai struck by a car driven by Dai. Jorgenson, 17, Ashland.