. Back to Yon
The pennies you speed
for Christmas Seals come
back to yoa Increased many
fold in helping to free your
county of tuberculosis.
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The Weather. ,
Fair today and Sunday,
T alley toga. little change la
temperatures.' Max. temp.
Friday 43, mln. 23. River.
.0 ft. South wind.
EIGHTY'EIGHTH YEAR
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning:, December 17, 193S
Price Sc; Newsstands Sc
No. 227
Man of Many Identities Puts
Bullet Thrpugh Head as More
DevMopMentsFoundirobe
Coster, nee MusicaJ Shoots Self as
Federal Officer! Knocking
to Make Arrest
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Other, Officials of Dug Firm Shown
to Be Musica ; Brothers and
Are Under Arrest
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- NEW YORK, Dec. 16-U ( AP i-F. Donald Coster, an in
credible dual personality of evil financial genius, who wiped
out his earlier identity as Convi$ Philip Musica to become
head of an $87,000,000 drug concrn, killed himself today at
his Fairfield, Conn., country estaje.
He fired a bullet into his heir at the very moment a
squad of federal authorities was Blocking on his ornate door
to rearrest him in the investigaticfi of a great financial scan
dal involving his firm McKessoif and Robbins, Inc.
All Mnsiras
While . Coster was jdylng in. the
Connecticut mansion, authorities
In New-York identified George
Vernard, Canadian agent of tne
. corporation, and two: of its other
employes as Musicas all broth
ers of the financier. They were
"George Dietrich," assistant
treasurer of the firm, and "Rob
ert Dietrich, purchasing agent
for the firm in Bridgeport, Conn.
Late In the day, Vernard was
arraigned on a grand jury indict
ment charging him with filing
false Information on McKesson
and Robbins stock listings, and
'Robert Dietrich, youngest of the
brothers, was arraigned on a sim
ple charge of violating the SEC
act. They were heldfin $100,000
each. . .v. j - j ;
The same bail was required i of
George Dietrich upon bis arraign
ment in New Haven, j ; ; ; i
Coster,' Vernard and Dietrich
already were under Indictment for
making . false statements to e
New York stock exchange In con
nection with McKesson and Rob
bins securities sold to the public,
- and their bond f 5,000 for Cos
ter and Dietrich and $3,600 tor
Vernard had been pet at" com
paratively low; fignres-j; ; . vl i
But the hour of Coster's un
masking as Philip Musica; a man
with- a. criminal record going
" back 10 years or more, had come
Is st night, and this morning the
process of revelation hi d gone
on until the government decided
to re-arrest the three and ask
1100,000 bond. ' f
New Developments
Overshadow Theft
Piling on - top of , disclosures
that more than one Musica broth
er Lad made a new j name and
new life were other developments
that completely overshadowed for
the moment the' central purpose
of a four-sided investigation that
for more than a week has sought
to discover the reason for an ap
parent 118.000.000 overstate
ment of McKesson and Robbins
assets. j - " -j':-'
These developments Included
disclosures that Coster- who
was Involved 25 years ago In the
million-dollar collapse of t h e
United States Hair company
was suspected of shipping arms
to belligerents abroad In eases
labeled , "milk of magensla." . j ,
It turned .out, too, that he
might have' been the hidden
backer for the Spanish . govern
ment ship Cantabrica which was
sunk about a year ..go with a
cargo of munitions which the OS
'' government had vainly tried i to
keep in this country.
Third Identity
Is Discovered
It developed, too, that Coster
at one time In his life had even
a third Identity that during the
World war he was an Investigat
or iu the attorney generals of
fice, engaged principally ion
crimes of espionage under the
name of "William Johnson.!
From the description of : As
sistant US Attorney, Art Gorman
of the visit of the federal men
to Coster's home, j it appeared
the elderly promoter had made
his last decision just before their
arrival.
"I arrived about noon In com
pany with about 10 other men
connected with the Unite J States
marshal's office in New Haven.1
aaid Gorman. 4 J
"As we stood at the door we
heard a shot from Upstairs. The
- household was In turmoil. I have
, seldom - seen . such - hysteria -j or
heard such weeping as was set
up Immediately.
Body Is Found
In Bathroom
i "US Marshal Bernard Fitch
ran upstairs and found the body
of Coster in the bathroom, a
bullet through his head. He was
dead thoroughly dead when
Fitch found hini.
f'Mrs. Coster was panic-strick
en and hysterical almost beyond
control.
- "Mrs. Coster kept repeating:
He told me he wouldn't do this.
He swore he wouldn't ;, :
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Stage Malioutt Negotiate
With Company Over Strike
PORTLAND, Dec 1 C .-iPV-Ne-
a-otiatlons between drivers of Un
Ion Pacific stages in tbe PorUand-
ban xa&o vx4j ui4i.w uu vuui
pany officials opened today In an
attempt to avert a smxe. -
- ; Drivers broke off contract ne-
c-otlatlons over the company's , re
fusal to rehire two discharged
drivers.
Ff)R and Garner
To Have Confab
p
twTiii m sr w m m
r WUI Mull Problems
of Legislation After
Luncheon
STASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -ff)-
Praeident Roosevelt and Vice Pres
ident Garner will hare a chat
abut legislative problems tomor
roy for the first time since con
grs adjourned last summer.
tjarner has a White House ap
pointment for lunch and a talk
wiVn Mr. Roosevelt afterward.
fhe conference will give them
aniopportunity to exchange pre
views of the new congress the
wa; revised party lineups will
fucltion and prospects for the ad
ministration program and for in
dividual measures.
pnee the senate, over which
Gainer presides, must approve
malar presidential appointments.
speculation arose over whether
Mrf! Roosevelt would consult Gar-
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Kennedy "Pan-Ameridon Nations Aimtove
VVfir Immitipnt JL JL
ton). US aaflop. broke into the
neon prospective ClftifaA'd BtK :WlSim- Francisco county hoepltal.
prn court selections.
preis conference today on his pos
sible choices. He gave no Indica-
UOU UI WUVU Lilts cyyumuucuu
might bO expected. i f
Eater in the day the chief exec
utive presided at a cabinet meet
ing attended by Daniel C. Roper
anf Harry I, , Hopkins, , who is
mentioned as a possible successor
to fRoper as commerce secretary.
Hcykins, who sits in ; on cabinet
meetings because he runs the
WA, remained with the president
afUr other cabinet members had
lef
Civilization End
Huge Droughty
: Prediction Made
foS ANGEtES, Dec 16.-(P)-Beause
of lack of water, western
civIiatlon : will go the way of
the Sumaria, Chaldea, Mesopo
taniia and the Inca and Astec civ
illation, J. C. Stevens, consult
InsJ engineer, of Portland, Ore.,
predicted today.
a a paper read for him before
theft hydrology section of the
American geophysical union at the
University of California at Los
Atieles, Stevens said, reservoirs
wiM be filled with silt, catchment
basins eroded flat, and trebeled
anj.i quadrupled populations will
tryo live off flood waters.
lAen, in S00 years he said, will
conxe the end of westers civiliza
tion except that wj,th aa inten
sive soil and water conservation
program, it could be postponed
another two centuries.
'3 challenge anyone,: said Ste
vens, "adequately to evaluate a
repfleve of 200 years to western
civilisation. '
To t'aveBge the asserted be Una
of his sitter, George Dally
critically wounded m poUceman
who barred bit way, then shot
down" bis sister's former hus
band, - Morris Cornpropet (be
low)." Cornpropst waa recover
ing from a bnllet wound : his
former wife Inflicted. '
Infection Threat
To Wounded Man
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. H-tiP),
-Peritonitis threatened to devel
op tonight in t h abdominal
wound of. Policeman Walter Sal
isbury, who was shot yesterday
while attempting to stop a hos
pital affray in which Morris
Cornpropst, 24, was slain as he
lay in his sickbed.
The accused perpetrator of the
brief terror reign, George Dally,
21, US navy sailor, pleaded in
nocent and Innocent by reason
of Insanity to a murder charge.
.. Dally, former brother-in-law
of Cornpropst, said he had pray
ed for the recovery of Officer
Salisbury, , who was shot . down
before he could draw his own
gun when he attempted to stop
the sailor from entering the hos
pital prison ward, where Corn
propst lay.
Unions Launching Drive
To Gain Sunday Closing
PORTLAND, Dee. 1.-V
Unions launched a campaign to
win public favor to a Sunday clos
ing of food stores last night.
The Independent Retail associa
tion, the Independent Retail Meat
Dealers association, the Retail
Grocery Clerks onion and fhe
Meat Cutters anion banded to
gether to seek public support of
Sabbath closing. .
11 n Proposed Insurance Plan
I settlement of : liability in
surance premium dispute on the
baa of WPA labor's being KO
percent efficient, was proposed
to he Salem water commission
las vj night. : ,v. .
- T)xe Insurance bill, $2325, waa
recently objected to by the commission-
because It Included more
tba?i 11000 in premium claimed
duejlhy the company ' for; protec
tion of the water department on
theiWPA projects it sponsored
thisyear and last.
icinting out that Manager
CuXjer Van Patten of the' water
department ' had maintained the
work done by WPA crews; could
haVj- been carried out by con
tract or day:; labor at approxi
mately half the cost . in wages,
Merrill - D. Ohling, Insurance
eget, suggested a settlement on
thaf basis. He also pointed ' out
thef company had paid , several
claims arising from the WPA
program. '
TJie premium, which is deter
mined ty the department's pay
rollft, would under Ohling't pro-
r-osal be eut In half as far as
it, applied to WPA work.
The commission v named the
manager and Commissioners .
B. Grabenhorst and Van Wleder
a " committee - to confer - further
with. Ohling and report back at
a special meeting next week.
, - The r -department last month
earned a 113,257.93 operating
I-rofit, the greatest for Novem
ber in the three years the -city
has owned the water system, the
manager resorted. Gross earn
ings aggregated 16,: 3C.80 and
operating "-expenses. S34T80.87.
Van. Patten pointed out that the
operating expense with the pres
ent gravity linpply tanged from
11600 to 12? 00 lower than with
the old pumping system.
Surging . of seven test wells
on Stayton Island to remove sedi
ment from around the casings
and clear , the way for pumping
tests beginning . next week was
ordered. If the tests show a large
volume of water available, the
commission plans to develop
large shallow wells to augment
the present water supply.
War Imminent
For Europeans
Envoy Reports to Chief
That War Is Possible
. in few Months
Denies Report That He'll
Quit Post; to Return
in February.
WASHDSGTON, Dec 16-ff)-
Joseph P. Kennedy, United States
ambassador 'o London, paid a
flying visit here today to report
to President Roosevelt that he
thinks the possibility of war In
Europe within a few months Is
very 'great. -'n-He
brought a pessimistic view
of political developments there
to the White House and to state
department officials whom he
saw during a busy eight-hour
stay here. Swift-moving develop
ments centering around Germany
were uppermost in his mind.
The ambassador smilingly de
nied reports that he would re
sign and said he would return
to his post in February "unless
something happened before
then."
Recent Events
Change Ideas
Kennedy, who was in daily and
some times hourly contact with
British leaders throughout the
September crisis over Czechoslo
vakia, - Indicated that recent
events had changed his mind
about the prospects of peace.
"Last summer I predicted there
would be no war In Europe.
Well, I'm going out of the pro
phet business on December SI,"
he said grimly.
Foreign affairs occupied much
of the nresident'e attention
throughout today. At the White
House reception last night he
asked Sumner Welles, acting sec
retary of state, to report to the
White House early this morning.
They conferred for about half
an hour and Welles later de
clined to eomment. William C.
Bullitt, ambassador to France,
entered the presidential study
for a talk as Kennedy was leav
ing.
The latter said he had re
viewed the entire British and
European situation with the
orenldent. tellina him of man -
Interesting and intimate episodes.
"The - sHnation Is ... changing
fast and not tor tn' better,;- ne
said. The Munich accord as
not slowed things 'down any.
Treasury Sleuths
Waiting for Spies
Department Has Its Men
Available to Spy
Reductions in Trade Barriers
PARTY LINES FORGOTTEN AT SESSION
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Seated side by side Cordell Hull, left, and Alf Land on J right, listen Intently to speakers during sessions
of tbe eighth annual Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru. Mr. London, President Roosevelt's op
ponent at tbe List election, was appointed a delegate to tbe convention by the presidents (Acme Tel-ephoto.)
on
Foreign Spies
NEW YORK, Dec. 16-UP)-El
mer L. Irey, chief of the treasury
department Intelligence unit, said
today he had advised secretary
Henry Morgenthau that his 3,060
investigators were "thoroughly or
ganised and ready for any assign
ment in counter-espionage."
Irey made the disclosure after
conferring with a number of ag
ents In several treasury - depart
ment units here, many of them
veterans of World war counter
espionage investigations.
The trained criminal investiga
tors, located throughout the Unit
ed States and Its possessions, in
clude. 1,400 alcohol tax agents.
2 SO customs' agents, 600 border
patrolmen 225 narcotic agents,
250 secret service agents, zbo in
ternal revenue agents and an un
disclosed number , of coast guard
intelligence agents, , -
,"We proceeded-immediately on
the president's order on counter
espionage a week ago to pat our
house in order," Irey said. "Now
we are ready to cooperate wltn
all other federal agencies is track
ing down foreign spies. Our agents
were quite successful la this wort
during the World war. We antic
ipate even greater success in view
of our large trained staff and
thoroughly modern lied equip
ment. - .j -
"Thanks to Secretary Morgen
thau's reorganization of all units,
the adaptation of treasury intel
ligence units to counter-espionage
has been swift and easy. v
Increased Bounty
On Cougars Asked
OREGON CITY, Dee. 16-UPV-A
demand that the legislature in
crease bounties on large predators
was ffiade yesterday by Clackamas
couni sportsmen,-who charged
cousins and timber wolves were
preventing Increases in the coun
ty's 150 elk. .
Sportsmen asked the bounties
be boosted from $20 en cougars
and $36 on timber wolves to $50
for either. :
The Oregon State grange adopt
ed a similar resolution recently.
Sportsmen and forest service of
ficials said proposed plantings of
Roosevelt elk from. Clatsop coun
ty in the Mount Hood forest could
not be carried out successfully un
less predators' depredations were
curbed. They blamed cougars and
wolves with desUuction - of deer
and domestic stock as well. ,
State Representatives Herman
Chindgren. Jack Greenwood and
E, W. Klrkpatrick promised their
cooperation in thi program
Delay Sentencing
CCC Extortionist
Lawyers Plead Young Blan
Was Kicked by Mole, ,
Is Mental Case
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 16-tip)
-Declaring "we have a problem
on our hands," Federal Judge
James A. Fee delayed today pass
ing sentence on Hinton C. Hardi-
son, CCC worker from Tipton,
Ga., who admitted attempting to
extort $10,000 from. Shirley
Temple, child film star.
John Mowry, attorney appoint
ed deffsd the 24-year-old CCC
boy pleaded for probation ton Che
ground that Hardison had been
kicked by a mule when he was
three years old and consequently
was mentally deficient. He eon
tended Hardison was not equip
ped to carry out any threats.
Judge Fee ' expressed belief
that a - penitentiary se n t e n e e
would not teach Hardison a les
son. At the same time, the Judge
declared he had a duty to pro
tect society.
Hardison was Indicted on a
charge of using the malls in an
effort to extort money, and plead
ed guilty. His letters warned
Shirley's family that ir you
want your Shirley to live, get
her off the stage and screen by
December 1. The alternative
was payment of $10,006.
Propose Changes
In Billboard Law
A compromise noon some of
the provisions of the proposed
new billboard ordinance was sug
gested at a hearing held jointly
before the ordinance committee
and the building and regulations
committee of the city council JTri-
day night. However a represen
tative of Foster A Klelser, prin
cipal billboard firm operating
here, declared the :. compromise
would not be satisfactory.'
The.? proposal was - that the
tighter regulations outlined In the
original ordinance would, be made
to apply only to billboards erect
ed in the - future, provided that
the billboard e o m p a n y would
agree4 to remove several boards
that, are especially objectionable
Alderman .- David O'Hara pre
sided at ' the ; meeting, attended
also by Aldermen ,L a u g b 1 1 n.
French, Perrine and : Williams.
Oklahoma Orphans
To Get Nut Gifts
ROSEBURoi Dee. 16-(jP)-OkIa-homa
orphans, will have. walnuts
for Christmas despite a California
border" ban on a shipment of
nuts from that state. . ;-
The junior chamber of com
merce and. Douglas- county, grow
ers stepped into, the breach fol
lowing aar appeal by Acting Gov
ernor James E. Berry,' Oklahoma,
and notified Berry Umpqua val
ley growers would donate an
ample supply. ..
Dorothy Lee Head
Of Alultnomahans
PORTLAND, Dec. 16.-WV-Mult
nomah county legislators elected
State Senator Dorothy MeCulIough
Lee, their chairman yesterday In
a meeting to organize- for the
coming legislative session. -
Mrs. Lee, a veteran 'of both
house '.' and senate service, was
appointed to the senate ' to till
the unexpired term I of Homer
Angell, who was elected -to
congress. . . -
Water Body Gets
Bouquets Instead
Of Usual Bricks
Used to brickbats, the Salem
water commission was surprised
last night when it received a bouquet
The city water system, Mrs.
B. L. Steeves wrote in a letter to
the commission, supplies cold,
good-tasting water and its water
bills are reasonable. That was the
bouquet.
"Well, that makes a fellow feel
pretty good, after the criticism
we've gone through," Commis
sioner I. M. Doughton commented.
"Girls"5 Give Party
For Eleanor Smith
King County Jail Scene
of Delightful Affair
for "Wolf Mother"
SEATTLE, Dec 16.-(ifH5ome
of the girls got together and had
a party at the -King county Jail
tonight in honor of Mrs. Mary
Eleanor Smith. The 73-year-old
mother of Decasto Earl Mayer
was sentenced this week to life
imprisonment. -
Other "guests. of honor" were
three women convicts from the
state prison at Walla Walla who
were brought here td testify for
Mrs. Smith Florence Snell, Mar
Jorle Clark and Ethel Willis
but who did not testify because
Mrs. Smith changed her plea to
guilty after her son's suicide. ..
Other women prisoners In the
county. JalL, led byj. Claire Rich
ardson, under a life; sentence her
self in the "bathtub murder case
of the .former Clara Compton,
were the hostesses, Mrs. Jean
Jackson, jail matron, - provided
cakes, sandwiches and coffee.
There was only one inmate of
the.' women's ' ward I- who did not
attend. " - - - -
She ,1s Mrs.- MUUcent Paddle
ford Fawcett. to whom Mrs. Smith
made the confession that reopened
the 10-year-old James Eugene
Bassett ease. It ' seems she was
not invited.' !
i Whales Seen Spouting .
DE LAKE, Dec 16-iP)-Lincoln
county beach community resi
dents, aided by a calm sea which
afforded an excellent view, sight
ed a large school of whales spout
ing just beyond the breakers. ..
Memory of Shots
Denied by Blonde
"Office Wife" Says She
Can't Remember About
Attorney's Death
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Dee. 16-(i"P)-Blonde
Mrs. Fern Patricia
Dull insisted today she remem
bered nothing of the fatal shoot
ing of William Holbrook, her
employer and sweetheart, under
vigorous cross-examination by the
prosecution at her murder trial.
Edward A. Westin. Berbien
county prosecutor,, rapidly fifed
questions aU Mrs. Dull tbuf she
answered- eacixjone coaly jtid;' de'
liberately, s usually - asserting' . "I
can't " Temember." s '!''
Mrs. Dull contended she could
remember "practically nothing"
until she was at the county J-il
many hours after the shooting
on October 17. Westin read a
lengthy Question and answer
statement he said Mrs. Dull made
to Sheriff Charles L. Miller but
the admitted "office wife" of the
slain attorney said she could not
remember giving any of the an
swers. "I loved "him I worshipped
him," she said of Holbrook when
asked by Westin why she did
leave after repeated beatings.
Mrs. Dull testified under cross
examination that "even now" she
did not know that Holbrook was
married and had four children.
She said that all she knew of his
past was rwhat William told
me that he was divorced.
Burke Maintain
FR to Run Again
OMAHA. Nebr., Dee. 16.-UrV
Senator Edward R. Burke (D-
Nebr.X" said 1 6 d a y he believes
President Roosevelt will seek a
third -term as the candidate of a
third party: in 1640.
. Burke said be thinks the presi
dent will run again because he
believes no other man could carry
ont his objectives, because he
Would like to break the third
term' precedent, and because "he
likes the Job.
If . real democrats' are in
charge of the p it t y in 1640.
Burke told a chamber of com
merce group here, the president
will be forced to run as a third
party man, and added that
"ground work" for a third party
Is being . laid "all over the
country. . '
junior High Student Admits
String of Home Burglaries
Salem's "Bedroom Burglar,"
who has operated over . a period
of six weeks and entered at least
eight homes or apartments, was
nabbed about 1:30 1 last night by
City Officer Claude Litchfield. :
Donald Hugh Baker, lS-y ear
old ninth grade student, admit
ted to eight break .and entries
after being apprehended ' at the
rear of the apartments at 405
Division." streets, where he had
attempted to enter the apart
ment of Lester Wray, Jr.
. Four women's purses were re
covered, o a . yet containing
66.48 that the youthful burglar
had overlooked, as young Baker
showed officers where he had
hidden them under . shrubbery
and atop garages. -
; Officer Litchfield, aeeompen
iel by E. W, Hewett, went to
the apartments at 415 Division
street,, owned by. Sgt. Don Nich
clson, from where a man 4 residing-
over the apartment inhabited
by ' Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Craven
had telephoned the police, sta-
tion. Tonng Baker had attempt
ed to get in the Craven ' apart-;
ment. :"v - -
.Seeing a light down the street
at the apartments owned, by Lu
cretia Hoover, 405 Division street.',
Litchfield Investigated and,
caught Baker as he was attempt
ing to enter the Lester Wray
apartment there. The .youn gster
had the tools with which he ad
mitted to officers he had - used
in - previous burglaries, ; a huhU
ing knife with which to slit the
screens, and a. . stick to open
windows. - , -
Police said' Baker admitted to
entering the following places: v
- G.'H Quigley's apartment. In
Hawthorne Court.: 1000 North
Capitol, where : a purse belong
Ing, to Mrs. Roy Kelson was tak
en, the ' only one not recovered
last night. ' - .-'-V .
.' Pauline Manarch's apartment
in Hawthorne Court.
The -Alfred Alue home at 870
Shipping, where a. purse was
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Defense Plan
To Go Before
Parley
Today
Bolivia Demands Oulleti
While Ecuador Seeka:
Peru Settlement
TUT
va -ia a -M- ivmu s,t a c-wv
Nations to Stay With
Democracy
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 16-MFV-The
Pan-American conference took its
first concrete action tonight, una
nimously approving a United
States resolution for reduction of
international trade barriers.
Two deep-rooted Latin Ameri
can controversies, however, came
to the fore.
Eduardo Dies de Medina, Boli
vian foreign minister, demanded,
outlets for which his land-locked
country fought unsuccessfully la
the Gran Chaco war with Para
guay. Ecuador, desiring to settle
her border controversy with Pern.
filed a resolution to set up two
permanent commissions of Inves
tigation and conciliation.
Seven Nations
Keep Reserves
The United States economic re
solution was presented to the full
session of the conference with sig
natures of all Pan-America a
states attached. But seven coun
tries filed reservations on points
which the conference held did not
Impair the resolution.
United States delegates circa
lated among other delegations to
night the final draft of a. contin
ental solidarity and defense plaa
preparatory to presentation before
the deadline tomorrow night.
adoption of a declaration for the
solidarity of the Americas against
any foreign threat appeared as
sured. -r
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
was said to be convinced that all
could agree on a "dynamic draft.
St a aeciiration.
Such a declaration, Hull was
said to believe, could be framed-
and adopted merely by linking
together sentenced out of antl-
aggresslon speeches by - himself
and other delegates. ; J .
Mexican Urges
Democracy Way:
This evening au delegates garn
ered to hear Francisco Castillo
Najera, Mexican ambassador to
the United States . and chairman
of the Mexican delegation, declare
that all American nations must
follow the way of democracy.
The delegates some of whom1
have been avoiding the subject
ustea in suence or-ppiauaea
Najera declared:
"Democracy in substance end
spirit is the very being of Amer
ica ... in the popular conscience
of all our peoples democratic as
pirations are. : deeply laabeddeds
and nothing and nobody will sue-
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As for a mutual defense meas
ure. Hall has definitely ruled ont
the possibility of anything in tbe
nature of a Pan-American league
of nations or a military pact. .
Dread Infection
Is Death's Cause
PORTLAND, Dee. 16. -TV-Un
aided by repeated blood transfu
sions from a man who had sur
vived the dread - disease, . Brook
Gale, 36-year-old electrical engi
neer, died yesterday of a staphy
Iecocous infection. .
Gale's fortitude and resistance
io the infection was amazing. Dr.
Donald Nlckelson said. Gale had
received 16 ; blood transfusions
and dally vaccine injections dur
ing the past week. . 1
Surviving are his widow, and
young son. u :
Warehouse Blaze
Slakes Hot . Syrup
PORTLAND, Ore., DeW 26-UPV
A" fire in a Wilhelm company
warehouse tonight '- converted
2000 sacks of sugar, Into what
firemen called $10,000 worth of
hot syrup. .
Firemen kept the burning mess
controlled and although the sugar
was ruined the building was only
slightly damaged.-- - - -
1
More days to
BUY and USE
CIIRISTLIAS
SEALS
. .FBOTECT . :
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tuberculosis regarding proPf Pr
cautions te protect thoee with whet
they some In contact..
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