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": Famous Comics , The funny paper la ma American - Institution. ITae Statesman carrlea the best : Polly Toot and Casper, Popeye, and Blondle, in col ors, j The Weather Cloudy Sunday with scat tered snowfall. Much colder Sunday night, Monday fair. Max temp. Saturday 45, min. 88. Hirer 8.1 feet. South winds. POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, November 20, 1938 Prkt Sc; Newsstands be No. 204 Naslk in Auto Accident iv VUU ) r l I II I ILK .BfflKit .Die 9 - Army Bomber Wife of Berry States Baker Violated Her Olympia Doctor's Wife Tells Jury She Knew of Berry's Plan Denies She Was Scorned Woman After Grilling From State OLYMPIA, Not. 19. -(-Elizabeth Kevin Berry, 27, told a su perior conrt Jury here today Irv ing Baker, 37-year-old retired coast guard officer, raped her In me iront Beat oi a paraeu auiu- mobile July 4, and admitted she thought bier husband's plan to "give, him a retaliatory beating August 19 "was a good idea be cause he had it coming." She- appeared as a defense wit ness for Dr. Kent W. Berry, 60, who with three others Is charged with first degree kidnaping and assault of Baker. William K. Mc Aloon, 50; James Reddick, 2 7, and Robert H. Smith. 32, are co-defendants. Takes Stand After Berry - Mrs. Berry went on the stand Immediately after her alte.i ately weeping and , shouting husband had declared he could not remem ber details of torture he 13 charged with inflicting on Baker. Mrs. Berry, once fighting off tears herself, testified Baker had raped her in an automobile in which she thought he was taking her to Olympia from a beach party. , , f - Under searching cross-examination, she denied haying invented the story of the rape because Baker had scorned her plan to divorce Berry' and jnarry Baker. Denies She Was "Woman Scorned" "I was not the woman scorned," she said in answer to a qnestion "Never in my life did I say I wanted a divorce." , She also denied . emphatically that she had called Baker "six or eight times a day" prior to the July 4 party or had visited him at his Olympia auto agency re peatedly. Mrs. Berry insisted she had fought with all her might when she said Baker attacked her and had been severely injured, al though no bruises or scratches had appeared on her body when she saw her husband eight hours later. - "I wouldn't say I'm an Ama son," she declared when Special Assistant Prosecutor J. W. Gra ham, of Shelton, asked if she were not athletic enough to have suc cessfully resisted rape if she chose to do so. Says Met Baker Only Few Times She told the Jury she had met Baker only a few times before the party, to which he had been in vited by his own cousin, Roberta Davis, office nurse for Berry. "Did he show you any disre spect during the first two days of the party," Graham asked. "No," she replied. "Was he under the influence of liquor?" "No." "Were you drinking!' "Not much. I had some beer and some other drinks. Nobody got drunk.' "How did Raker harnipn tn leave for town the morning of July 4?" "lie said casually he was going in to open his business." - "Did he invite you to go with him?" "No, I Just asked it he would take me In so I could get Dr. Ber ry's breakfast" (Dr. Berry testi fied later be left the party the previous midnight to attend pa tients). . - "You got in the car without in vitation?" "I Just asked it he would take me to town.' - :"He had always been a gentle man before, but he became amor ous within a quarter of a mile?" "Yea, he did." SONS Stars Waive Preliminary Trial MEDFORD, Noa. 19-(ff)-Ac-cused of grand larceny t f clothes from a . Yreka, -Calif., laundry wagon, James D. Bailey, 19, Harold W. Wigen. XI, both of Portland, William T e e r. 19. Kerby, students and athletes at Southern Oregon Normal school, and Clifford O. McLean, 24, former . student, waived a pre liminary neanng today District Attorney F. J. New man said he understood the quar tet would plead guilty He said the theft occurred while the truck was parked before a Med for - nigh) club. - - Nazis, Call Home American Envoy Va Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, German Am- basador to the United States, who was recently recalled to Berlin to report on the "cur ions attitude" of America toward developments' in the reich. The US government re buked the nazls for the latest wave of persecution of Jews in a Statement by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Jinricksha Train Carries Refugees Procession of Vehicles From Hankow Reaches City of Ichang ' , CHUNGKING. China. Nov. 19. (JP)-The vanguard of a proces sion of jinrikishas bearing refu gees and scrap iron from fallen Hankow was reported today to have reached Ichang, having trav eled 250 miles west of the former provisional capital of the Chinese. Before Hankow fell Oct. 26, 7,000 of the two-wheeled, coolie- drawn vehicles were comman deered. They carried whole fam ilies and quantities of manhole covers, sewer gratings, stove parts and other iron articles. The iron was.said to haye been removed to prevent the Japanese from using it as war material. Delayed dispatches telling oi the broadening of Japanese aerial warfare said the French Catholic mission at Ichang was damaged in a bombardment on Thursday. Ten bombs were said to have hit the mission hospital an the cathedral, killing 40 Chinese and wounding 30. No foreigners were injured. Beaver Directory Selection Is Good CORVALLIS, Nov. 19-OP) -Those fellows who find It pleas ant to hunt through directories for odd names looked over the latest Oregon State college book l?t today and found out the school has a Farmer, Butcher, Gardner end Usher, a Cherry and Vanelll for flavor. Dodge, Nash, Packard, and Ford for transportation, and for physical possibilities, Young, Smart, Hale, Hardy, Noble, Pleas ant, Short, Stout and Strong. - Dock Worker I Killed PORTLAND, Not. 19-(,!P)-In-jured by an automobile as he crossed Sandy boulevard, Michael Blaclch, 50, dock worker,, died 'ast night as Portland's traffic fa tality list for the year neared 50 victims.- Anti-Jewish Current Rises In France; PARIS, Not. lS.--An anti Jewish eurrent in France con tinues while Toices are raised in protest against the government's silence on the German Jewish issue, . Anti-semltism was brought to the surface by extreme national ists when Jewish Leon Blum be came premier two years ago, anl has been growing apace especially in regions near the German fron tier.";:,' 'f . y In the new attention focused on the "question by ..the slaying of Ernest Von ' Rath, .German diplomat, by a young Polish Jew, certain newspapers again have attacked the socialist ex-premler, calling him a "foreigner." . . Blum, in reply, published a statement declaring his family had been Trench for generations. The former- premier, however, In a speech last Sunday at Lille. Indicated that a Jfew, even If called 1 in rash Six Aviators Die in Worst Army Tragedy Seventh Flier Gravely Injured; Eighth Is Missing Bdmher Plunges Through Forest, Cutting Down , Great Trees LaG RANGE, Ga., Nov. 19-()-Tossed by a battering rainstorm, a big army bomber smashed up in a, west Georgia forest last night killing at least six fliers in one of the worst tragedies In the his tory of military aviation. A seventh was gravely injured and an eighth missing. The ship, a new two-motored, mid-wing Douglas, was on a rou tine flight from Mitchel Field, NY, to Maxwell Field, Ala. So Isolated was the spot where it crashed the news did not reach the outside world until today. Bad Weather Explanation Major W. A. Maxwell, Maxwell Field operations manager who came here to investigate, said from what he was able to piece together from a crew member con scious until his death in a La Grange hospital, "bad weather was the only apparent explana tion." The crew member was Pri vate Joseph J. Nanartowich. "We were flying low to get un der the ceiling," Major Maxwell said the soldier related. "It was raining. Suddenly he hit a rough spot (apparently a downward air current) and bounced. Next thing I knew, the plane was ploughing through the trees ... No mechan ical defects so far as I could tell." Brought to the hospital also by a rescue crew that slithered over muddy roads and lip a wooded slope to reach the plane was Sec ond Lieut. John D. Madre. He was still alive tonight but unconscious. Plane Going; 200 MPH The plane, the investigators said, apparently was going about 200 miles an hour when It rammed the forest seven- miles northeast of here. It cut a path 150 yards long through, trees, some of them as big around as a man's body. Four bodies were found within a few yards of the smoking debris, two others in the wreckage. One apparently had made a futile at tempt to use his parachute. It trailed open beside him. (Turn to page 2, column 4) 200 Said Perished In Barcelona Fire PERPIGNAN, France (at the Spanish frontier), Nov. 19--Between 200 and 30 J persons were reported today to have per ished in a fire and explosions which wrecked a Spanish gov ernment munitions factory yes terday at Barcelona. Maay were wounded. This estimate of the total was brought into France today by travelers from government Spain. Authorities at the government capital strictly censored reports of the ' disaster. The travelers said the fire started from the explosion of a shell dropped by a worker. Many of the victims were said to have been asphyxiated, trapped in air raid shelters at , the plant by emoke and chemical fumes. They had fled to the shelters, believ ing the factory was be.n& bomb ed. The fire set off other shells and the explosions added to the casualties. Blum Is Target to head the French cabinet, would refuse because "it is not his dutv to Increase the International diffi culties of his country." "But will that continue al ways," he asked. "Are we destined to submit even in the free acts of our International life to the pressure of foreign ideologies?" French merchants loudly com plain that German Jewish refu gees and other "foreigners are raining their : business by com petition. Premier Edonard Daladier. whose cabinet Includes two Jews, is ' reported worried bv Relcha- fuehrer Adolf Hitler's displeasure against German refugees finding havens in France. - The antl-semitic royalist news paper Action Francaise asserted a campaign against , nai: anti Jewish measures was "started by American bankers who want a world war," - - -" -- - County Chief s Ask State Aid Be Increased State Asked to Assume 90 per Cent of Costs of Prograi T Trouble Predicted Ahead if Burden Left Same on Counties The Association of Oregon Counties yesterday recommended assumption by the state of 90 per cent of the cost of the old age assistance, aid to dependent children and blind assistance pro grams in a resolution adopted at the closing sessiot of the organ ization here. Made up of county Judges and commissioners, the association suggested that the remaining 10 per cent be left as a county re sponsibility in order that local government would retain a voice in the administration of all phases of the relief program. No change was asked in the present ratio on which the counties and the state share in financing the gen eral assistance, or direct relief program. Predict Trouble Lies Ahead Members predicted there would be trouble ahead If the present burden were not lightened for the counties, asserting county road funds had already been nicked too deep for the support of social security. This resolution drew the most heated debate of the session, al though it carried by a clear ma jority. Judge David F. Graham, Malheur county, asserted "too much Elmer Goudy (state relief administrator) was the trouble with the situation now." Other opponents agreed too much power had already been lodged with the state relief com mittee and that the resolution woujd further increase it. Shifting Policy Is Rapped Chief sore point with the asso ciation was the asserted practice cf the state relief committee in shifting aged, blind or depend ent children from one county to another. Three other resolutions were referred to the executive commit tee for action. All present officers were reelected and Portland was chosen as the place for holding the 1939 convention. Officers of the association are Judge Earl B. Day, Medford, pres ident; Judge Charles E. Baird, Baker, vice-president; Commis sioner Roy S. Melson, Salem, secretary-treasurer, and F. L. Phipps, The Dalles, executive secretary. Referred to the executive com mittee were resolutions making the county school fund levy a spe cial levy outside the six per cent constitutional limitation, reallo cating funds given to the county by the state highway commission, and reconsideration of a motion approved Friday to return Inter est on retired bonds to the coun ties. Under, the resolution dealing with highway funds all counties eventually would be equal con tributors to the cost of the high way system. Seven Boys Drown In Auto's Plunge WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 19 -(ffJ-Seren crippled boys and a young man driving them to a clinic for treatment drowned to day when their automobile plunged into 30 feet of water in a mine cave-in. A hole about 100 feet across swallowed the car as It plowed through a barrier of ash piles guarding the cave-in. The dead, all from Wilkes B&rre or vicinity, are: William Mcintosh, 23, the driv er; Gerald Alta villa,' 10; Vincent Wajers, 10; Frank Yankowsky, 7; Francis Zlonkoski, 11; John Pomlonek, 9; Edward Pomionek, 7, his brother ; Lawrence Dress, 12. . : A railroad crane on tracks ad Joining the hole yanked the car to the surface. All the bodies were inside, the positions of some giving mute testimony to a fran tic struggle for freedom. Effort to Settle Wage : Dispute Again Failure PORTLAND, Not. 1 9-(-An-other effort to settle the 49-day-old wage-hour dispute which has resulted in the Idleness of 1600 furniture workers failed when a meeting of union and manage ment . representatives broke np without establishing a basis for egreement, Fred Manash, union executive, said. ' AS HUNDREDS SOUGHT MISSING CHILD Search of nearly 1000 men, including a battalion of soldiers of the 25th infantry from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., was ended yesterday when the body of five-year-old Jerry Hays was found. He had died of hunger, exposure and exhaustion after wandering from the hunting camp of his parents eight days ago. Farmer's Income Is Held Unequal Grange Master Declares Farm Income out of Line With Others PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 19-OP) -Farm incomes are out of bal ance with those of oiber occu pations in the United States, Louis J. Taber, master of the national grange, told delegates attending the 1938 convention today. The farmer, he said, if present ed almost 30 per cent of the nation's population, f-.ums rep resent almost 20 er ccLt of the nation's wealth. The farmers comprise 18 per cent of all per sons gainfully employed. "Yet during the patt decade the farmer has received hrely 10 'per- cent of the nation's in come." Ervin E. King, master of the Washington state grange, advis ed delegates to distrust interna tional trade because it led to foreign entanglements and pos sibly war. "Foreign countries are exert ing every effort to become self sustaining," he said, "and it be hooves the U.S. to do likewise." He said the grange h.id insisted upon retention of the American market for the American farmer. Convention officers said . the national grange probably would express Its attitude on the Anglo American trade agreement in resolutions next week. Perkins Forwards Reply to Legion Letter Explains Attitude of Labor Department on Bridges WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-(Jpy-Secretary Perkins made publie a letter today to Stephen F. Chad wick, national commander of the American Legion, explaining the attitude of the labor department toward the deportation case against Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader. Chadwick had sent the sec retary copies of resolutions adopt ed at the Legion convention in which she was accused of failing to enforce the law, because the department had not yet deported Bridges under the immigration act of 1918. This stipulates that aliens who are members of an organization "which advocates the oerthrow of the United States government by force and vio lence" must be deported. The de partment has received charges that Bridges was a communist. Miss Perkins wrote Chadwick that "I am in entire agreement with your thoughtful and respon sible expression of opinion with regard to promp, proper enforce ment of law by orderly processes." Then she reiterated the posi tion of the department that the proceedings against Bridges were being held up pending adjudica tion this winter by the supreme court of questions that have aris en regarding interpretations of the 1918 act. CGC Adviser Dies OfSelf-Wounding MTCnurmn v mLvri I S. Griffin, 41. CCC National advisor at Camp Win.er, near the town of Rogue River, died of self-inflicted wounds Satur day, Coroner Frank A. Perl re ported tonight. Griffin was despoa J nt ' over ill-health, the coroner tid. There will be no inquest. .'ha tragedy occurred in the Griffin borne at Rogue River. ; . Griffin was a former student at Orjegon state eolleg; at Cor- Taius, - V ".. -'." " ' o Actor Dies -While Playing "It Is Finished for You" NAPLES, "Italy, Not. 19-(JP)-Agostino Clement, 53 -year -old Italian actor, died on the stage of the Apollo theatre tonight during a performance of the Neapolitan comedy, "E Finlta per Te" It Is Finished for You. Clement was known throughout Italy and was especially beloved in Naples. He had appeared be fore United States audiences as a comedian in a touring company. Detectives Work On Mystery Death financial Investigator Is Killed From Ambush in New York NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-p)-Fifty detectives worked today on the apparently pointless mystery slaying of John F. O'Hara, a young financial investigator who was shot to death from ambush at the entrance to his apartment house In Sunnyside, Queens. Two men fired the shots which felled O'Hara. They paused in their flight to fire twice more at his body and then escaped in an automobile. Captain Edmund Burke said after a preliminary investigation that "the more we go into the case the more we are satisfied it was the result of mistaken 'dentify.'' Two pistols found at the scene were the only substantial clues. There was no indication of the motive. O'Hara, 26, was employed by Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. He was graduated In 1933 from Syracuse university and lived with his sis ter and widowed mother In the 500-famIly apartment house in front of which he was slain. Jubb Defense not Admitting Slaying BEND, Nov. 19 The de" fense in the murder trial of R. Kenneth Jubb, Portland memory expert, will neither admit or deny the state's accusation that Jubb fatally injured Delmont Lawrence, a jail janitor, last June while Jubb was incarcerated on another charge. The state claims Jubb struck Lawrence with a stick of wood. Jay Upton, attorney for Jubb, said in an opening statement to a jury of six women and six men that Jubb bad no knowledge of Law rence's death. Jubb's wife and 16-year-old son appeared in court as the trial neared the testimony stage. Three Battleships Ordered To Cost Navy $150,000,000 WASHINGTON, Not. U-yp)- The navy gave new impetus to the administration' rearmament program today with orders for the construction of three 35,000 ton battleships at an expected cost of 1150,000, JOO. v Officials said armament and ammunition outlays no Included la the construction costs, would raise me toiai expenauure ior dr88dnaushU lo 8"'- 009,000. Beginning of work on a fourth battleship was delayed pending further study of the bid receiv ed, which was said to be con sidered high by ; naval experts. Secretary , Swanson awarded contracts for the construction of two ships by private rUpbulTd ers at Newport News, Va., and Qtrfncy, Mass. The third ship will b built - In the Norfolk, Va.. navy yard. x . J Find Child's Body In Arizona Canvon y Child Who Wandered From Camp Probably . Froze to Death DOUGLAS, Ariz., Noa-. li-(Jfy-Five - year - old Jerry Lays was found dead today. Lis body high on a canyon side where he fell exhausted after wandering from his parents' hunting camp in Rucker canyon, 50 mi as north of here, eight days ago. The child probably froze to death the first night be disap peared, Sheriff I. V. ruritt said when he brought the body here. A search in which sevt ral hun dred men participated for a week fnded "when - three forest service workers came upon the boy's body about four and one half miles . from., the hunting camp where Mr. a.id M.t. Lauren Hays of. Bisbee and tlieir four small sons were vacationing -Jerry's father, with another party of 15 men, reached his son's body within a f jw minutes. The child's body bore only a few scratches from underbrush through which he stumbled. Jer ry had taken off his shoes and stockings and overcoat. In his wandering the lost boy climbed approximately 1.000 feet up the canyon side. Mrs-FDR Defends Youth Congress NEW YORK, Nov. 19.--Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said tonight that she did not believe the world youth congress was communistic, as has been charged. Her statement, she said, was made as the result of letters warn ing her that she had become a "tool of the communists" by ac cepting an invitation to address the congress meeting at Vassar college last summer. She said only a few of the mem bers present told her they desired communism in this country. "We who are Interested in the future and know that its prob lems must be solved b these youngsters, shouldn't accsp state ments that the congress Is communist-controlled," she said. Insurgent Bombers Deal Death to Five, Hurt 40 HENDAYE, France (at ' the Spanish Frontier), .Nov. 19-(P)-Five Spanish insurgent bombers killed five persons and wounded 40 today In a raid on the towns of Badalona and Mongat. Both insurgent and government communiques reported all battle fronts were quiet. , Two other battleships now are under construction In govern ment yards in Philadelphia and New York. The navy also an nounced today that the" 10,000 ton cruiser Wichita, built at Phil adelphia, had been flni-bed and was being fitted out U Join the fleet. . . " - Simultaneously, from an in fluential house member came the prediction that the rreatly In creased air force proposed for the army would be ready within four years.: The new battleships will not be ready; to join the fleet for at least fivj years. Rep. Snyder (D-Pa), chair man of the .military appropria tions subcommittee, assorted af ter conferences with war deert ment officials thut President Roosevelt's expanded nitional de fense program would provide the world's strongest air ' force by i a A Rob't Kitchen r 11 t hired ttacuy l n i - - - - Five Others Hurt When Truck and Car Hit Near Brooks Young Kitchen Is Killed Instantly; Nash Dies 2 Hours Later Marshall William' "Billy" Kit chen, star Salem high basketball player, met death instantly, and Glen Nash, prominent Salem busi ness man, died later of injuries sustained in a head-on auto-truck crash near Brooks last night. Five others were injured, one seriously, in the collision about a itlle north of Brooke at 6:30 o'clock as Nash's loaded car waa returning from the Oregon-Washington football game in Portland. Robert Kitchen Uadly Hurt v Robert Kitchen, elder brother of "Billy," sustained the severest injuries of the other four. He was reported by Salem General hos pital physicians late last night as in a "serious though not critical" condition, suffering from head in juries, general shock and bruises. Mrs. Robert Kitchen was alee injured about the head, but not severely. Mrs. Glen Nash, who sus tained numerous cuts and bruises about the legs, was not hospital ized, nor was Lowell Kern, who also sustained minor injuries. , W. T. Dunn, driver and sole occupant of the truck, was taken to a Woodburn hospital, but in the opinion of Vern Hill, state police officer who investigated, was not seriously injured. Kern, like young Kitchen, a Salem high basketball player, said after the accident that Nash, who was driving, swung out when a car Immediately in front . slowed suddenly to make a right hand turn, and met ' the truck looming ahead. Nash's car was thrown into the ditch and al most entirely demolished on oae side. Truck Driver Returning Home Dunn, a Cathlamet, Wash.', contractor, was returning in kit truck to his home from Junc tion City, where he had been Ldoing construction work. "Billy" Kitchen. 17, a junier at Salem high, is survived- by Robert, the brother Iijured in the wreck; another brothec, Lome, "Squee"; two sisters, Zelma and Ruth, and his -mother, Mabel, a widow. Nash, about 30, who operated the Nash Furniture company, died from a fractured skull. M ;& succumbed at 8:30. tro hoars after the collision, in the Gen eral hospital. He is survived by the widow and a two-year-old daughter, Sandra Lee; his moth er, Mrs. Cora M. Nash of Sales, and four Bisters, Mrs Georgia. -Anderson, Salem, Mrs. Rettaa Lewis and Mrs. Lottie Wolfe, both of Portland, and Mrs. Alda Mae Perry of Los A ngeles. Nash was a member of the j Salem high schol basketball team a number of years ago. playing in at least one state tournament, and was on the Willamette uni-! versity basketball squad, one year. Since : his sclrool days be has remained active in amateur sports, playing independent bas ketball and bowling. Columbia County Seeks Property Of Agnes Ledford ALBANY, Not. 19-)-Co1ubi-bia county, seeking to liquidate a $7501 bill for the costs of the murder trial of Agnes Ledford, filed , a priority claim in circuit court here against the property of the woman, who was sentenced lat spring to life Imprisonment ft r the poison death of a step daughter. The county's action was in an swer to a suit of Carl K. Peder eon vs. Mrs. - Ledford, Roscee Hurst, Portland lawyer, and oth ers. Hurst obtained a mortgage when he was retained to defend 'Mrs. Ledford. The county eon Unded its claim was superior te the mortgage, a Mrs. Ledford was tried at St. Helens but she formerly lived in Linn connty. " Estabrook Denied Judgment Arrest HILLSBORO, Ore.,' Not. lf.-(JPf-J a c k Estabrook, Portland AFL warehouse rnion officer, wa denied an arrest of judgment and' a . new trial by Circuit. Judge R, Frank Peters. He was ordered to appear ; Wednesday for. sen- tencing. i ... - - - . Estabrook was convicted . et complicity In a beer dispute bomb- : ing incident at Rockton on Mu-f mortal day, of 1935. .. . -