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ElCUT-KICiHTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 24, 1938
Price Sc; Newsstands &c
No. 123
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TPapermdken
Play Klamath
As Meet Hits
Quarter Final
Square Deal Wins From
Astoria to Stay in
Tournament . .
Baker, Rosini Wine and
McMinnville Are Also
in 2nd Round
GAMES TONIGHT
Papermakers vs. Klamath Falls.
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RoUry Bread vs. Bend,-9 p. m.
Scores Last N'lght
Square Deal 6, Astoria .1; Ba
ker 3. Mt. Angel 2; Rosini Wines
5. Milwaukie 2; McMinnville ,
Bonneville 3.
Final first-round games of the
sixth annual state softball tour
nament concluded on Sweetland
last night and narrowed the cham
pionship race to eight teams
half the number which started.
But an estimated 2000, 800 less
than opening night, viewed the
four-game activity that sent As
toria, Mt. Angel, Mllwaukle and
Bonneville home. ,
Tourney Success .
Is Assured
With Salem's No. 2 , entry.
Square Deal, safely over its first
hurdle and assured of a spot in
the quarter-finals against Baker
Thursday flight, material -success
of the tournament was said by of
ficials to be virtually assured.
Should either or both the Dealers
and Papermakers survive to the
semi-finals, tourney heads .last
night predicted a record week's
attendance.
But one tilt, the Mt. Angel-Baker
fracas, was close enough to
prove exciting, o q u a r e ojeai
opened with a three-run blast to
salt its game away, Rosini Wines
hit safely seven times throughout
the fourth ana fifth frames to put
it on Ice and McMinnville pushed
five tallies across in the opening
canto to bag theirs.
Veteran Hank Singer- of the
Dealers turned in the top pitching
performance of the night, limit
ing the still tournament-winless
Astorians to two blngle3.
Berland Strikes
Out Eight
The . 37-year-old Rosini Wines
chucker, Mickey Berland, struck
out eight and allowed five singles
as but one earned run was scored
off him. Thrice an all-stater, the
cldster still has plenty "umph" on
his fast one.
Rosini Wines turned loose its
championship-of-Portland heavy
artillery in the fourth and fifth
frames, 'collecting seven of Its ten
hits and accomplishing all of its
scoring. Ash, Bisaccio and Gette
all hit safely in the fourth. Com
bined wita 1 pair of Milwaukie
boots thost. blows produced two
counters. E. Pascuzzi drove In
Swank and Bisaccio In the fifth,
while Bob Houston swung an out
side ball deep to right .field for
the circuit to account for. the
fifth tally. ;
Bigham's bingle to left, where
it rolled through Swank for a
three-base error, scored one f on
Minwaukie in the first, and his
blow In the sixth, along with a
pair of passes and an infield out,
produced the other.
McMinnville Has
Early Advantage
Four hits, by Mabee, Perkey,
Cameron' and Peterson, and an
error committed by shortstop
Whalen,. gave " McMinnville five
runs to start its hall game with
Bonneville. Outside of Perkey,
who socked for the circuit in the
third, Bonneville's" Miller kept
the Firemen fairly well tamed
from there.
: Bonneville earned a tally in
its halt of the opening frame,
Whalen in part making up for his
boot by singling, going to second
on Corey's infield out, to third
after Miller's fly out to right and
home on Reimer's one-base blow.
Corey, getting life on an error
and being batted to second by Rei
mer's hit, scored on Pinch-hitter
Baldwin's bingle to left.
Square Deal will meet Baker
at 8:30 Thursday night, and Ro
sini Wines will face McMinnville
at 9:30.
Rosini Wines ...B 10 1
Milwaukie 2 8 4
Berlant and Gette; Dorsey and
Mark.
McMinnville 6 2
Bonneville . 3 C - 2
Monismith and Price; Miller
and Relmer.
Aged Man Loses Life
When Trapped by Fire
EUGENE, Aug. 23.-CflVCar8on
Beebe, 72, lost his life in a fire
which destroyed his home at Co
burg last night. The quick spread
ing flames trapped Beebe before
firemen or spectators knew he
waa In the dwelling.
Hu nga& oi
Helgoland; Talks Over
Czechoslovak Pro blem
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Hitler and Hofthy Reported in Accord on Czech
j Situation, but Little Is Revealed
i From Councils of Leaders
! HELGOLAND, Germany, Aug. 23 (AP) Hungary's
ruler saw Germany's Gibraltar today in a state visit marked
by i official silence on political discussions between German
and Hungarian chief s of state. i- . r r ;
j When he inspected the fortifications of this island
stronghold with Chancellor Hitler this afternoon, Admiral
5 tli Arrest Made
In Baker Kidnap
Coroner's Deputy Is Held
on Harboring Charge
1
in Olympia Case
OLYMPIA, Aug. 23.-(jF)-Har-old
- Schars, a Thurston county
coroner's deputy who dispatched
the ambulance which brought
badly beaten Irving Baker to a
hospital last Friday night, was
arrested tonight on. a warrant
charging him with harboring two
of the four men accused of the
"torture abduction" of Baker.
Schars was arrested at his home
by Marsh Wardall, investigator,
and Ed Willson, state patrol in
spector. He was lodged in the
county jail in lieu of $25,000
bond.
: Wardall and Willson said
Schar-knew of the plot against
Baker by Dr. K. w. Berry and
three accomplices, and warned
two of Dr. Berry's aids, William
McAloon and Robert Smith, to
hide when Sheriff's Deputy Frank
Kenney came to Schars' home late
Friday night.
Schars was first held Friday
night on $500 bond on a second
degree assault charge, but offi
cers later said they believed him
exonerated.
But, Wardall and Willson said,
the statements of McAloon, Smith
and the fourth man held on $25.
000 bail, James Reddlck, taxi
driver for Schars, all Indicated it
was -Schars who helped conceal
McAloon and Smith and later ar
ranged for Reddick to drive them
to their distant homes at Braby
and Montesano.
1500 Legionnaires
Expected at Meet
J PENDLETON, Aug. 23-tfF-C.
D. j Franz, convention chairman,
predicted today 1500 delegates
would register for the state con
vention of the American Legion
here September 1 to 3.
He said 00 persons had al
ready applied for accommoda
tions. ' - ' fi m
Conclave officials revealed that
Daniel J. Doherty of Indianapolis,
national commander, would at
tend. i
WHERE
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A mother and! daughter lost their lives Monday when a north bound
passenger train struck an automobile and trailer at a crossing near
- Oregon City. The dead were Sirs. Mayme A. Fletcher, 46, of Port
5 ff Second
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Chief Vif 1VS
Ch ief Vie ivs
VNicnoias Hortny, tne Hungarian
regent, saw what even Premier
Mussolini wasn't shown on his
state visit to Germany last Sep-
tember 25-30.
Hungarian : and 1 German offi
cials did not disclose whether the
program, crowded with i military
display, gave Horthy and Hitler a
chance to resume political con
versations. Fate of Czechoslova
kia, however, had been listed as
one of the chief topics to be dis
cussed. The two statesmen were report
ed by nazi circles as in accord on
the '.Czechoslovak problem, whose
"satisfactory" solution might en
able Hungary to grant Hitler and
Mussolini their wish for Hungarian-Yugoslav
reconciliation.
Just as Hitler wants autonomy
or return to Germany of Czecho
slovakia's 3,500,000 Sudeten Ger
mans, Hungary was pictured in
favor of the autonomy of Hun
garians in Czechoslovakia, if sot
their return.
Should this come to pass for
Hungary, It was said, Hungarian
revisionist demands on sections
now belonging to Yugoslavia
growing out of the post-war Tri
anon peat treaty which "took
away a third of Hungary's J0,
500,000 i population migh t be
forgotten.
Warns Democrats'
Of Commonwealth
PORTLAND, Aug. 2 3 -)-Irving
Enna, member of the AFL
grocery clerks' union, warned the
democratic central committee in
a speech today that if it selected
a member of the Oregon Com
monwealth federation to replace
the late; State Representative El
lis Barnes,! "It will be vigorously
resented by union members who
may express the f resentment In
scratching of the democratic leg
islative ticket."
Enna declared that -"already
the democratic organization has
shown a tendency to yield to the
noisy demands of the the' Com
monwealth in a way that is dis
pleasing to members, of AFL
unions." J
Signals for Eugene
EUGENE, Aug. 23. - (JP) - The
city council approved a $5891 ap
propriation last night to Install
street traffic signals. ; The state
offered $3271 to complete finan
cing. . ; -
TWO LOST LIVES
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Discusses Czechs
With Nazi Leader
NICHOLAS HORTHY
President Scores
GOP Intervention
Sen. Pope Blames Defeat
on Republicans Who
Voted Democrat
HYDE PARK, NY, Aug. 23-JP)
President Roosevelt asserted to
day thai intervention by members
of one party In the primary elec
tion of another destroys a funda
mental principle of the American
party system.
; The president discussed partic
ularly, the Idaho situation where
Senator James P. Pope, the ad
ministration candidate, recently
was defeated for renomination in
the democratic primary by D.
Worth Clark.
Pope, who has been considering
an independent race for reelec
tion, conferred with the president
Sunday. He told reporters his de
feat had resulted from interven
tion by republicans in the demo
cratic primary.
Mr. Roosevelt, talking with re
porters in his Hyde Park home,
said in response to questions that
it was a question of simple polit
ical morality that members of an
opposition party should not par
ticipate in another party's pri
mary. ' Besides Idaho, he referred to
Georgia and Maryland where he
said republicans were being
begged to vote in the democratic
elections. .
Searchers Filter
Lake for Pair
EUGENE, Aug. 23-(P)-Search-ers
dragged Woahink lake near
Florence today for two CCC
youths who have been missing
since Sunday. Camp officials said
they were considering the possi
bility th'e boys were away without
leave.
Their ' names were withheld
pending further investigation.
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land and
her daughter, Mrs, Lorraine Ilea, 22. Mrs. Fletcher hns-
band, son
and granddaughter were
TonigM
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Junk Man Held
In Cleveland's
hn ' ci
.torso oJaying
Quilt in Which one Body
j Wrapped Traced to
: Junk Dealer V
Bedclothing First Clue
"! Since 1st of Dozen
Mystery Deaths
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 23 -(JFy-
Detectives picked up a 5 9-year-old
Junk dealer tonight for question
ing in connection with 12 butch
eries here ascribed, to a "torso
killer."
Quick action followed identifi
cation of a quilt wrapped around
parts of the latest woman victim's
body found on a dump here last
week. A barber gave police a de
scription of the junk man to
whom he said he sold the old
quilt.
"There are lots of quilts like
that," the man said when con
fronted with evidence, Acting De
tective Inspector Charles O. Nevel
reported.
Persons who believed they naa
seen the Junk man were summon
ed to view the peddler in the po
lice line-up. - J
Acting Detective Inspector
Charles O. Nevel said the toeing
of the quilt was an "Important
link" in the search for the mad
man who has decapitated five
women and seven men in the last
three years. The city has offered
a $5,000 reward for him.
Remains of the most recent vic
tims,' a man and a woman, were
found a week ago today in a dump
between the downtown section of
Cleveland and Lake Erie. The
quilt was wrapped about the torso
of one. The barber, Charles
Damyn, lives less than a half
mile from the dump. The torn
quilt changed' hands behind his
apartment.
Damyn said he could not be
mistaken about the quilt.
"The torn spots on the patch
work are exactly the same as
those on the quilt I gave away."
German Diplomats
Say Things Great
PORTLAND, Aug. 23 - (ff) -"Funny
things" are thought and
said by Americans concerning the
Berlin government, . E d u a r d
Vorckel and Karl Sasse, represen
tatives of the German foreign of
fice, agreed in a brief and diplo
matic interview last night. .
They were en route to New
York to sail for home after a two
weeks' undisclosed mission to
Tokyo.
"You say funny things because
you say so many things that are
wrong. Vorckel said. "In Ger
many conditions are fine, busi
ness is good, workers are happy
but . that you do not say. No one Is
witi it work. We need more
workers."
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tnjnrcd. (AP photo.)
Frank Hawks,
Famous Flier,
Dies in Crash
Tiny Safety Plane Hits
High . Tension Wire;
V Falls in Flames
Companion of Ace Also
Dies; Held Many of ,
Air Records
EAST AURORA, N, Y., Aug.
23 t- (PJ - Frank Hawks, Interna
tionally known flyer, was fatally
Injured tonight in a flaming plane
crash less than a year after he
gave up speed flying. '
His companion, J. Hazard
Campbell, East Aurora socialite,
was also fatally injured when the
tiny Gwinn aircar they were fly
ing smashed' Into a high tension
wire and fell to the earth in
flames. He died an hour after
Hawks.
Die few Hoars
After Crash
Horrified farmers in the area
pulled the two men from their
burning craft but they died a
few hours later in a Buffalo hos
pital. The aircar burned to a mass
of twisted wreckage.
The fire extinguisher in the
plane exploded, adding to the
danger to those seeking to aid
the two men.
: "Hawks and his companion
were taking off from the polo
field on the E. H. Rogers estate,"
J. M. Gwinn,' president of the
uwinn Aircar corporation, sadL
"Hawks was demonstrating the
yiane io uampDeu," ne continued.
"Wind conditions were against
them. They had to take off the
long way of the field and appar
ently they were no In th ha.
fore they saw the wires and it
wa iuo iaie io avoid tnem.
Plane Ironically
Was Safety Type
The stubby biplane with Its
three landing wheels and simi
larity to an automnhllA In
tion was designed for safety and
simplicity in operation. Hawks
was a vice-president in th ir.
car company. r
iu it. carnn, a transport pilot
Who flew UD from New Ynt-V wlK
Hawks yesterday, said Hawks
uau Kiven un an ini n.i..
about a Vlr urn an1 i
- o " v uccii
concentrating on "nntctv a
vwui-
NEW VOTHf ao
Lieut-Commander Frank Monroe
xaiajiy injured Jn the
crash of his airplane tonight at
iaoi Aurora., jm v rnA 4. s
. ,9 a uuc vu lain 8
ucvaae ago as one of .the na
uuui rreaiear ,naai
uciiiUUBt
A native rT MiniiiiKn.. t. -
he won renown in February, 1929
when he and. a mechanic flew
Z, p lrom ioa Angeles to
New York in 18 hours. 21 minutes
new iranscontinental rec
ord. i
For the next five years he was
continually in the headlines with
breath-taking exhibitions of speed
flying that bronrht htm a -l-i
to no fewer than 214 point-to-point
records in North America
Europe, line arter. time he
had narrow brnahaa t. . .
but only once before his faUI
crckuP was he injured seriously.
That was in Worcester, Mass.,
when he crashed in a takeoff and
spent weeks recovering ln a Bos-
fftn ft aW1 y i
Basketball Coach
Saves Boy's Life
KLAMATH TAlAJt a.
(Dwlght French, Klamath
mm uiga e n o o i oasketball
coach, annlied hia VnnwiM,. ,
first aid and saved the life of Moll
mcuoiiougn, uut: youth from
Ohio, at C a m ti Lav Tin a n
northern California yesterday.
' French, ranger at Indian Wells
station, used a tourniquet to stop
the flow Of blood from a wn
arm. A piece of wedge pierced
McCollough's artery when he was
splitting wood. Companions driv
ing the youth 14 miles to a camp
physician, stopped at the ranger
station. The doctor said French's
action nndoubtedlv nrvn t a
death,'
Reckless Driver
In Recent
Crash
PORTLAND, Aug. 23-OPV-Les-
ter L. Satterwhlte. Hi was con
victed today of reckless driving
by. speeding 65 miles ait hour, de
spite an involuntary tnanslaur li
ter charge still hanging over him:
tit was nnea szs, sentenced to
five days in jail and! municipal
court recommended that his driv
er's license be revoked perman
ently.." .V : - ! :f
Satterwhlte was Involved in a
collision recently in which Elmer
S. BelL a passenger, , was killed,
and Glen R. Metiker, St. Helens
attorney and driver of the other
car, was seriously hurt.
Speed Flier Dies
In Plane Mishap
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FRANK HAWKS
Weinberg Accuses
Hines of Grafting
Ex-Convict Says He Paid
$500 Weekly to Leader
of Tammany Body
NEW YORK, Aug. 23-V
George Weinberg, a soft-spoken
ex-convlct of 37 who Quit a dubi
ous career of petty gambling to
share the riches offered by Dutch
Schultz, today accused James J.
Hines, veteran Tammany district
leader, of accepting 1500 a week
or more to protect the - slain
gangster's 120,000,000 Harlem
policy racket.
Imperturbedly, Weinberg said
he personally paid Hines the
money, sometimes at Hines' own
home, sometimes on the sidewalk
outside, and In return saw Hines
keep a promise that police raids
would drop off and that the few
racket eases which reached court
would be "taken eare f."
The Tanndany district leader,
charged with conspiracy and con
triving a lottery, even managed to
"break" six police officers who
persisted in raiding the policy
combination's "banks ' and "drop
stations," Weinberg testified.
Weinberg, under the gentle
prodding of District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey, named Magis
trate Hulon Capshaw . and the
late" Magistrate Francis Erwin as
two of the judges Hines called on
to dismiss policy arrests.
Osborne Scores v
Anti-Union Bills
Says Initiative Measure
Threatens Labor Move
, Throughout State
EUGENE, Aug. 23.-Pr-Ben T.
Osborne, executive secretary of
the State Federation of Labor,
condemned a November election
initiative measure to regulate la
bor unions in an address before
the central labor council last
night.
"If the law passes 'union men
need not worry about the ills of
the labor movement because there
won't be any labor movement left
in Oregon to worry about," be as
serted.
Commenting on the recent drive
to rid the state of labor racketeer
ing, the .secretary said be was
willing to bet a larger percent
age of racketeers would be found
in business than in labor unions
during the purge." ' . V
He said cities which passed
antl-plcketlng ordinances brought
confusion to the voters studying
the anti-labor movement. He also
predicted the Eugene antl-plcket
ing law, which has been taken be
fore Circuit Judge G. F. Skip
worth, would not be ruled upon
until after the election.
School Board
Of Slate Extension Course
The Salem school board threat
ened to discontinue providing
rooms for state college and unl
versity extension classes, conduct
ed bere for many winters, when
a .question of expense developed
last; night but finally compro
mised by offering requested quar
ters at 2 a night, "cost of light
and. heat." The state extension
division had offered to pay $1 it
necessary. .
"College work is not our func
tion," - declared Chairman - E. A.
Bradfield.; "We ought to drop it."
Director Lr E. Barrlck said he
"understood we were concerned
only with grade and high school
education."
Mrs. David Wright blocked a
move by Director Percy A. Cup
per to give the employment com
mittee unrestricted authority to
fill teaching vacancies between
now and school opening. She de
manded and the board agreed
over Cupper's "no" vote that the
committee should do the hiring!
only providing its actions be
Coroner Says
Prison Deaths
Steam Result
25 Hunger Strikers Were
in Group Steamed in
Air Tight Cell
Man; Who Turned Steam
on Known; Higher up
not yet Found
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 30-T)
-Coroner Charles H. Hersch was
quoted by The Philadelphia IUe
ord ln a copyright story tonight
as saying that steam turned Into
an "air-tight cell block" by or
der of a prison official killed
four hunger-striking convicts.
The battered, naked bodire
were found on the floors of ad
joining punishment cells early
yesterday In the Philadelphia
county prison.
Hersch was quoted that the
dead quartet were part of a group
of 25 Inmates given the steam
punishment. Six hundred prison
ers rebelled Friday against fo4
served at the prison tables.
Coroner Kays
Official Known
"We know the Identity of the
man who turned on the steam la
the air-tight cell block and he
will be arrested," the coroner
was quoted.
"All . we do not know is ta
name of the official who gave
the order to turn on that steam.
"They took these prisoners aid
put them si the cell block. Tkey
stripped them. They saw to It the
block was air tight. And thra th
steam was turned on.
"They did everything thty
could, to, keep alive. They were
desperate. They crawled to the
toilets and scooped up water to
try to drink it. And that made
them so sick, they retched."
Two Live Prloners
Give Information
Hersch said Morris Spats and
Joseph Forte, two prisoners fouad
in the same cells with the bodies,
were seriously III. Ills Informa
tion, be said, came from the
two prisoners.
Earlier the coroner said au
topsies indicated suffocation.
Two state Inspectors were la
vestlgatlng a revolt of the pris
oners against "monotonou" food.
The four-day strike was climaxed
with discovery of the bodies yes
terday. The dead men. described by
Warden William E. Mills ss "agi
tators," were among a Innt-diwh
group of 13 prisoners who refused
even bresd and water.
After' viewing the bodies, the '
convicts' relatives accused prisoa
officials of "beating and tortur
ing" the men. James McQuade
said "the look of agony" on the
face of bis brother, Herbert, was
"horrible."
Appeal Is Filed
In Rosser Case
DALLAS, Aug. 23 Appeal cf
Albert E. Rosser, 44, from his cir
cuit court conviction on an arson
charge here was filed st the court
house today by his attorney.
Charles Robinson of Portland.
Willis Moore, assistant attorney
general, was present at the filing.
At McMinnville today Circuit
Judge Aril G. Walker granted
Rosser a certificate of probable
cause and delayed signing in exe
cution under the 12-year peniten
tiary sentence he recently lmponed
on the former teamster union
leader.
Judge Walker also heard argu
ments as to bondsmen for Uoser,
then denied their sufficiency to
pledge themselves for the $25,060
bail required here.
Talks Refusal
unanimous. She Intended, she la
dlcated later; to preserve the pre
rogative of the superintendent, a
member of the committee, to have
a part ln teacher selections.
The committee's first job will
be to fill the place of Maurice I..
Ballard, senior high woodworking
Instructor, whose' resignation wits
accepted last night.
The board received an offer
from the Petsel estate to sell prcp
erty immediately north of liar
field school for $3200 but de
ferred acceptance berausn of a
legal question as to its right to
buy school sites without an lo
tion. The dlrectrrs referred to thtir
building -grounds commits -c a
request from Val Clear, m Art
center director, for a Jctttr fn.m
the board rather than representa
tions from the school clerk re
garding a request that the ceat r
substitute another room In the e! i
high school for Us p resent south- "
west room, wanted by tbe trard
for other use.