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.-. PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 29, 1938 Levis' Death Grieves Many Governor Martin Declares Replacement Task Will Be Difficult Stat official were shocked when advised of the death of Warden James Lewis of the Ore gon state penitentiary here. Fri day. Governor Charles H. Martin said: "I always have found War den Lewis sound, sensible and familiar with prison discipline. He was firm but jast and free from ' that misdirected emotion alism which at times wrecks such Institutions. It is going to be a difficult task to find a war den so thoroughly equipped hy character and training to suc ceed him.' Holraan Shocked State Treasurer Holmaa: "I was deeply shocked at Jim Lew is" death. It is a serious loss to the state. Lewis was a splendid gentleman and an honest and courageous warden. Lewis was at all times a square shooter with the eonvicts and they re spected him I considered Lewis my' personal friend. Secretary of State Snell: ' Jim Lewis was not only one of the best wardens Oregon has ever had but b was outstanding in much service In the entire United. States. He had the unusual fac ulty of gaining the admiration and respect and absolu.9 -confidence of the prison inmates. His word was as good as his bond. Oregon has suffered a serious loss." Charles P. Pray, sueprintend ent of state police: "The public has lost a faithful servant. The institution entrusted to Warden ' Lewis care was In safe hacds. It caused no worries to those who entrusted him. It was his life and to its administration, he gave himself without stint." Poles Don't Want Jews Sent Them WARSAW, Oct. 2S-HP)-Poland tonight announced "energetic Po lish: intervention" in Berlin against Germany's deportation of Polish Jews. Xt was reported In Warsaw that negotiations were under way by which Poland hoped to get Ger many to rescind deportation mea sures taken against Polish Jews and to permit those actually ex pelled from Germany to take their r property with them. if Cermany rounded up several thousand Polish Jews today to send them back to their home land and as many more were ex pected to he started toward the Polish frontier soon.) An authoritative informant de clared , the drive against Polish Jes resulted1 from "a misunder standing' jof Poland's new citi senship law which requires re Tattdation of ali Polish passports held . by residents abroad. Doris Kenyon Wed To Albert Lasker NEW YORK, Oct. 2 8-(p)-Doris Kenyon, blonde star of the silent , film era, and widow of Milton Sills, film actor, was married to dar to Albert D.: Lasker, former chairman of the US shipping board and Chicago advertising ex ecutive. Immediately after the cere mony, performed at the Waldorf Kstoria hotel with only members of 4he families present, the couple ailed aboard the French liner lie dev France for a wedding trip broad.- ' Lasker is a principal stockhold er f Lord and Thomas, advertis ing; firm, and recently announced hi, retirement from active man agement. Lasker Is 58, his bride, 40. V, Puckett Is Held In Hospital Room - Arthur Pickett, 21, will be held in the county detention room at a local hospital pending his arraignment in circuit court on charge of larceny. Sheriff A. C. Burk announced last night after Deputy B. G. . Honeycutt arrived: here with Puckett and Lloyd Baker, prisoners he was sent to California to get early this 'week. 'Baker faces a morals charge: : - . - Puckett was shot recently while attempting to evade Eure ka," Calif., of fleers' who sought to arrest him on a warrant from Salem. Baker was apprehended at "Madera, Calif, . ' Star Injured r Lyle Talbot, film star, who was seriously injured . and badly burned wheat he played the part of a real-life hero in a recent fire at his Beverly HiJla, CaL, home. Trapped on the second floor of the borne, Talbot drag Ked, Franklin - D. - Parker, his house guest, to a window ledge v from where firemen rescued the unconscious man. Talbot leaped 20v feet to the ground. Both ' men were in critical condition. Canton now Mef xjt- - h7 i". Mew ef the dry Here is a view at the Chinese southern metropolis. Canton, bow reported in flames following its cap ture by Japanese troops. - The principal business fFhatM Doing in the (Continued from paje 1) will spend the coming week In the upper - Willamette j vtlley, with Silverton and ML Angel Includ ed in his Itinerary the first of the week, according to Informa tion by telephone to democratic headquarters lere. 'The date for the democratic rally in Silverton will be. announced tday, but as surance was given that Mr. Hess would attend it. He will also at tend the big democratic rally at the armory, here Wednesday night, November .2. Democratic headquarters reports that accord ing to. a survey conducted by Hess workers during the past two days, the sentiment generally is similar to that in the Roosevelt campaign of 1936. i Undoubtedly the Salem Ad club does not comprise a cross section of public sentiment In Oregon, nor necessarily of sen timent in Salem. But here are the results of its straw vote: - Hoi man 13, SI a honey 2. 1 Spragne 15, Hess O. Mott 11, Burk 3. ;-. Chadwick 12. Olson 8. . Transactions tax, yes' 1, no IS. - Antl-picketing bill, yes 9, no 4. 1 This column mentioned a day or so ago that there 'would be no free dane- to connection with the democratic rally next Wednes day night, this feature having been Called off because of conflict with the firemen's Christmas toy campaign benefit j dance; ' but somehow this fact j hasn't gotten around to everybody, so , we're repeating the announcement that the democrats called off their dance out of deference to the firemen. ':;:.' A noisy Willis Mahoney-for-Senator caravan of Salem, Stay ton and Portland ! cars, with a sound track, made big circle through Marlon county Friday. Stops were made and Sir. Ma honey spoke at the following places : Jefferson; T n r nje r , Marion , AnmsvUle, Stayton (where luncheon was held with the Federated Women's club). Sublimity. Silverton, Mt.k Angel, - Gerrals, Hubbard,' Aurora. Blr. Mahoney then went to Hills bo ro where he ' spoke at a major democratic rally, f ; 'A straw ballot taken on the streets of Jefferson Friday . indi cated trends decidedly different from those which this column has reported .heretofore. Thirty-two persons were asked to vote and the only republicans shown, win ners were Charles A. Sprague for governor. Earl Snell for secretary of state, Ronald Jones and Doug las McKay tor state senator, Han nah Martin and Walter Fuehrer for. the legislature.' Here are the figures on the major offices: - Sprague 17, Hess 15. t Mahoney 29. Holman 12. Bark 24, Mott 8. - :SneU 21. Cdson 11. ' ' ' ' Jones 22, McKay 19, Llvesley 13, White -1 9. - -TTT ' r. Leaders in the 1 representative list were Richards 29, Cooter It, Martin 24, Fuehrer 20. Veteran Engineer Retires From Cab v j' S !':- SACRAM1SNTO, Calif.," Oct. 2S -ff)-Wllllam -Wild Bill Kop ka, one of the two remalnltLg members of the crew of the C. P. Huntington Engine No. 1 a weed burner when-Kopka's hand was at the throttle retired from service today. The locomotive weighed 43.000 pounds. As Kopka stepped from the cab of the SO 8,00 0-pound mogul on the Southern Pacific's Shasta at Oakland pier today, ha com pleted 41 years of service, with out 'being' in serious -wreck or ever being held J up by train bandits. - 'j..-" -' Kopka got t h title "Wild Bill" la the old days through his reputation tor nearly always bringing a train in on time. He la f years old and eligible for a pension under the railroad tlrement act." ' i ; : aoTnoiTis! riiuams mmnuTisa Xu4 Bouk tbl to infapiaiBSthMwaadaf A oatcar4 Wiass rom a FSII copy iatot edi Uum TIM Umt MrrUm t M.hwwtmtlmm em3t4 mm4 rottsatd Addrcaa th mxAhor today H r Clearwater fa Xs5S-BtHaUawcB U in Hands of Japanese Invaders t v H jr.- - .V " ' . it : mi 'It at Canton, China, fas flames after sections of the city were wiped out by fire. Jap anese soldiers spread through the city to halt loot lug of abandoned shops. Customs Agents Continue Search NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-p)-Cusi. toms agents continued tonight to inspect the wardrobe of the wife of State Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer, searching, they said, for Parisian finery allegedly smuggled into this country by a commercial attache of the Nlcara guan government. Mrs. Lauer visited the federal appraisers' stores for two hours and stood by while agents exam ined the contents of four large valises taken from the Lauer apartment last night. Federal officials' declined to comment, except to say no charge had been made against the jus tice or his wife. Their apartment was raided by eight agents after a warrant was Issued at the request of Assistant US Attorney Joseph L. Delaney. The commercial attache, Albert N. Chaperau, was held under 120,000 bail. He was accused of posing as a personal representa tive of the Nicaraguan consul to avoid a customs inspection of nine pieces of luggage he brought into this country from France Octo ber 7. Anti-Americanism Felt by Arabians JERUSALEM, Oct. 28. (Jpy A ware of anti-Americanism is spreading among holy land Arabs because of their feeling that the United States government and people are sympathetic toward the Jews in the Palestine conflict. Arabs went so far as to assert that the United States would be In. danger of losing Its prestige and trade throughout Arab coun tries It it persisted in the alleged favoring of Jewish Interests to the detriment of the Arabs. The widely-read Arab newspa per Falastin urged all Arabs to boycott American churches, mis sions, schools and other institu tions. It advocated such action as a reprisal for what it called Amer ica's championing of the Jewish side In the Palestine controversy. There is only one American church, however, which has a small congregation of Arab Pro testants. Roosevelt Is Held 'Amateur' at Meet NEW YORK. Oct. 28-0!p)-Pres-ident Roosevelt, who recently helped draw plans for his "dream house" at, Hyde Park, " was de scribed at the State Architects as sociation convention today as "a well-intentioned amateur, practic ing, however, without a license." - The description was applied by Charles C. Piatt, a member of the American Institute of Architects. Urging architects te play poll tics aa it should be played." in the interests of their profession. Piatt aaid: ' - r : - r ' "Who knows but we may hare an architect in the White House some day, and not merely a well intentioned amateur." , . Services Monday ForD.RMcGrath SILVERTON Commitment services will be held at the Sil verton cemetery Monday for D. H. McGrata. (0. who died at the family home at Olympia Thurs day. Funeral services will he con ducted at Olympia Saturday. Mrs.. William MacNeill of Sil verton Is a daughter. Other mem bers of the family are the widow; a son, Harold McGrath of Wash ington, D. C: daughters. Mrs. William C. Loft of Cotton Wood, Idaho; Mrs. Robert Nath of San Diego. - - wain fl) (Olii f n -.--. w. v ' -t ' - i t . i . x - (,'. Japanese capture d d i t i c o ... in the New i BOSTON, Oct. 28-(ifV-A gold rush was on tonight in a heap of discarded telephone directo ries. The claim was staked by Jo seph V. Harkios when he learn ed that in one of the thousands of directories was a wad of $100 bills $1500 In all which he bad brought home late Saturday night. The money was receipts of a Boston Jewelry firm. Harkins' brother, just to be on the safe side, slipped the bills between the leaves of the family 'phone book. But then The telephone company came around Monday morning to col lect old books in exchange for a new issue. Out went the Har kins' book, and a little later, up went Harkins' blood pressure. FALLS CITl", Xebr., Oct. 2 -j"P) Sirs- Jesso Bandy of Falls City got bit by a lion at a horse and mule show here to day. She was the first to enter a cage containing several small cuba when the animal trainer asked for volunteers. One of the cabs seized Sirs. Bandy's bands with its month. NEW YORK, Oct. 2-(P-A pig, a donkey and a goat were awarded to three of the na tion's best known artists and illustrators tonight after a strenuous election held by 10O pretty models. The girls decided to let their bosses know how they stood, so they elected Peter Arao the beat dressed and presented him with the- donkey. Brad shaw Crandall, named the most beautiful, won the goat, and Arthur William Brown, chosen most popular, received the pig. SEATTLE. Oct. 28-P)-Today Was fish day. and many persons who hadn't planned to have fish for dinner had it anyway. T The tail gate of .a fish truck broke loose out on marginal way and hordes of slithering salmon "swarmed" around ' the street, in the rain. Numerous persons "landed" their "catches" with bare hands. The truck driver, returning lat er, salvaged what was left. Fred Kohler Dies; Was Film Villain HOLLYWOOD. Oct." 28.-iP)-Fred Kohler, who was a villain of the blackest hue on the screen but a good-natured husband and father in real life, died today in his sleep,, apparently of a heart attack. Pending the arrival of his widow, Mrs. Marjorle Kohler, from a mountain resort, funeral services for the 57-year-old actor are being held in abeyance.; 'Kohler's body was found in his bed by his nephew, who was a house guest, FreL Jr., the actor's son son. - Kohler was a heavily-built man aad stood six feet two ( Inches. Recent films in which he appeared included "Blockade" andfTha Buccaneer. r- . ' - : ":' i? Hayward Field Bid Will. "Be Opened Arjnittice Day EUGENE. Oct. 28-"P-Charles Byrne, secretary of the state board of higher education, said to day bids on remodeling the Hay ward; field grandstands at the University of Oregon, a I2Z000 project, would be opened at 10 a. m., November II, in Portland. T. X. ba, X. D. & Caaa, ST. D. Herbal ' remedies for aliments of stomach, liver, kidney, skin, blood, glands, St urinary sys tem of men 4k women. 11 years In service. Naturopathic Physi cians. ; Ask yonr Neighbors about CHAN LAM. - ' in. ennn log CHINESE MEDICINE CO. 293 Court SU Corner Liber ty. Office open Tuesday ft Sat urday only. 10 A. M. to 1 P. M 0 to T P. M. Consultation, blood pressure 4k urine tests are free of chsrge. Bill Mat Show at Liberty Carnival LIBERTY An ' added attrac tion to the carnival feature Satur day night will be heavyweight wrestling bouts hy Fred Graf of Seattle and Dare Johnson bf Dal las. Both are professional wres tlers of considerable experience and hare been secured by the car nival committee to hold exhibi tion bouts during the . evening. There will.be no charge to the public to witness the . wrestling matches. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gray of Se attle are spending several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Browning. The Grays are enronte home from California and will leave here Sunday. Mrs. W. R. Dallas is visiting her narents. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Behn- ke in Florence. During her stay the birthday anniversaries of her narents will be observed the 78 th for Mr. Behnke. 3-Year-OId Child Victim of Bombs WASHINGTON. Oct: 28. -(P)-The state department heard today from Ambassador Johnson at Chungking.- China, that .Phoebe Nyphus, three-year-old American girl had been killed and her mother and sister wounded by bombs which destroyed a flag marked mission. Press dispatches from Hankow said Japanese planes were re ported,, to have destroyed the mission. Department officials asked ad ditional information and refrained frojn public comment pending its recejpt The Nyphus family were connected with the Lutheran Brethren mission, which was de stroyed. Nyphus and his wife were bojth born at Fertile, Iowa. Phoebe was born at Hankow. The father escaped unhurt. fs- Must a girl choose between Lo ve and Family ? ' ' s V:;'' or . :v Released ' 4 Elmer H. Cole, Portland, Ore., counterfeiter, who was recently ., released from Alcatrax island, . federal prison to San Francisco , bay. Granted 1,300 days for ' good behavior, - Cole took a : pauper's oath before the United ; States comnaiaatoner. With Pat . F. Reed and Cal Young, Cole : was sent to McNeil's Island pen . itentlary from Portland, secret service agents said. They es caped May, 1931, were recap tared and transferred to Alca trax. Cole Is returning to the Pacific northwest where a Job is . awaiting him. Monday Is Date For Batch Rites SILVERTON Funeral serv ices for William H. Balch, 64. who died at his Evens Valley home Friday will be held from Ekman Funeral home Monday at an hour to be set later. Mr. Balch was born in Illinois, but had lived at his present home for 17 years. .Survivors are his widow, Anna; a son, Almon of Portland; a brother Vern of Port land and two grandchildren. .4 -.: t " - f .v vi-.-;.i,.:-2s- ' .i. :::: v:r i:i-, . - yyi. :-.'-v.w:-.---':' . ; : tr' - '---:. ....... t?&; - --- -- f , ' -t j. x.-.-t; X : ::..( : . v ' ' : -'.': THE NEW SERIAL BY HAZEL LIVINGSTON ......... . . Begins Thursday Morning in the REGiOH swates. if - ' 'X- Lodge Won't Talk Of President Job NEWARK, N.J, Oct. 28-;p)-U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.r Massachusetts republican, de clined tonight to' discuss the in corporation of an association with an arowed. purpose of urg ing the "nomination f and elec tion" of Lodge as president of the United States. "I am Tery Incky," Lodge said as he arrived here. by train to attend a republican meeting in Hackensack, . "to be In the sen ate. I am giving up and intend to give up all my time to be a good senator. . It's a full-time Job." A certificate of incorporation of the Henry Cabot Lodge . as sociation was filed yesterday with the Hudson county clerk in Jersey City. David J. Allen, prominent Hudson county repub lican, and four others were list ed as trustees. DeliciOUS Chinese Dishes . Oog Opocial&sr! At Salem's Foremost Oriental Restaurant Pork-Chow Meln for 1, 35c; for 2, 50c; . for 3, 75c Chicken Chow Mein, 75c Pork Chop Suey 35c Fried Rice --35c Home-made Noodles, 25c BEST MEAL FOR New SHANGHAI CAFE F. Louie, Proprietor S3 Tears in. the Business 121 S. Commercial Opposite Ladd & Bash Bank Special Today Only Fricassee Chicken Dinner 25c To Margaret came this bitter problem! Every girl must answer thivital ques- -tioa: "Which comes first love or loy alty? To lovely Margaret Wickham, this age-old problem became ar bitter tragedy her own family, suddenly bankrupt, depending completely on her calm effideoxy ... the man she loved, handsome, and selfish, too stubborn to compromise, too anxious for marriage to accept her family loyalty! Mar x garet's gallant fight for love is now told in Hazel Livingston's most thrilling and provocative full-length romance. faeit 't thiJJ 4 tecrcf off 29.50 Pension Every Saturday Is Reed Scheme PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 2S-(JP) Reed college students, in a mood t t parody today, inaugurated the "Saturday evening movement." which, the yaaid, advocated a pen sion 'plan to be known as ' the $2 9.50 every Saturday" plan. They claimed! that California's 430. every Thursday" was an "in sidious attempt . . . to undermine American tradition by transfer rins tfiA TdftBAf1 tfi0 and the blow-out from Saturday to Thursday night. Fire Controlled .' MEDFORD, Oct. 2S.-0F)-Rain. pouring down on the forest lands as the winds died, enabled fire fighters to- control a stubborn though small brush-Umber blare in the Rogue national forest yes terday. The fire-covered 25 acres in the upper Applegate district. We cater to banquets and private parties. Ph. 7082. Special Sunday Chicken Dinner 50c Ot course, Tarkey Dinner 60c Special Merchants' Lunch 25c prepared by expert Chi nese cook. Orders to take out any time. Open Day or Night! S Sanitary Kitchen. 25c IX TOWN Wickham MAN