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Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, March 25, 1939
Price 3c; Newsstands 5c
No. 311
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Durand Felled
By High School
Youth Aged 17
Wounded bad Man Slays
Self; Bank Employe
Is Final Victim
Bank Holdup Is Closing
Episode of raw Meat
Eating Desperado
POWELL. Wyo., March 24-tfV
Earl Durand, renegade ranch band,
killed himself today after trying
to rob a bank in bis bome town to
day while more than 100 men cau
tiously closed In on what they be
lieved was bis hiding place on
Sawtooth mountain about 40 miles
away.
The 26-year-old Tanan put a
bullet through his head with one
of his six-shooters after bank em-
ployees and townspeople had
Svounded Mm, Verne St. John,
Powell druggist, said.
John Gawthrop, 20, a bank clerk
Durand used as a shield when he
shot his way from the First Na
tlonal bank, was wounded fatally
either by Durand or by misdirec
ted r.hots of Powell residents.
St. John said Durand and Waw-
throo went down together. The
raw-meat eating fugitive then
ciawled back into the bank and
killed himself.
After Durand had fired a pistol
bullet into his head. Bob Nelson,
the bank president, picked up the
rifle Durand had dropped and put
a rifle shot Into the man's head as
he lay on the bank floor.
Posse Still Hunts
While Bank Bobbed
Durand had been hunted for
nine days, after he kidnaped a
deputy sheriff, broke from the
Cody, Wyo., Jail to avoid serving a
(months sentence for gsme poach
ing, and killed two officers who
tried to capture him.
When his stronghold was rushed
late yesterday, It was learned he
sad escaped,- taking tns.aranm
nltion and boots from the7 bodies
of the two possemea he had slain.
Shortly after noon today a re
port came that be had been sight
ed high on Sawtooth mountain. A
posse rushed In pursuit.
While the posse still was seek
ing Dnrand on the mountain top,
the shaggy-haired slayer, who had
circled back towards Powell, kid
naped Harry Moore, a abort wave
radio operator, at the Hopkins
ranch and forced him to drive to
Powell.
Durand walked into the First
National bank. In which there
were four employes and five cus
tomers, j
"Hello Nelson," the hunted man
. said to the president of the bank.
tSUck up your hands."
Durand backed, his command
with a .30-.30 rlfje in bis hands,
a six-shooter In his holster, and
.? pockets bulging with ammunition.
"I won't kill you if you do what
I say, but no monkey business,
x ' "Get over here and line up."
Nelson said Durand stood the
nine employes and customers
against the wall, and then
scooped up all the cash about
12,000 or $3,000 into some
money bags.
The mountain Tarzan then or
dered Cashier Maurice Knudson
to open the vault.
Shoots up Dank
But Not at People
y Then, Nelson said, Durand
"started shooting with his rifle."
The bank president said the, fugi
tive shot at least 40 or So times,
but never shot at any person in
" . the bank.
, "He Just kept on shooting
around the building. He knocked
out the windows and tired into
the walls."
Dnrand tied Nelson,- Knudson
and Gawthrop together with
.rawhide thong he took from his
pocket.
- "Come on boys, we're going,?
Durand announced.
' Nelson said Durand pushed the
. three ahead of him through the
door for protection. Gawthrop was
, shoved first, with Durand slightly
: behind him and to one side.
Durand fired several shots np
and down the street.
Tipton Cox. 17-year-old Powell
high school Junior, hiding in
filling station, said he shot Dur
and in the chest as th desperado
. stood Jd front of the bank
- , Durand staggered back Into the
building, drew one of bis plstojs
I and fired m bullet into his head.
, Durand's body was taken to the
, Powell mortuary That was the
return address be put on a letter
be left earlier this week for Sher
iff Blackburn as be fled into the
- mountains.
Mussolini Speech v
On Radio in Morn
NEW YORK, ff arch itPf-
Amencan radio networks, are
opening at the early , hour of 2
a. mA(Pbt) Sunday to relay Pre
mier Mussolini's speech to the
. fascist grand council in Bome on
the European situation. There
will be-English interpolations as
well as an English summary. Sta
tions of the combined NBC chain
and cf the CBS and ME J network
wlil 'oe la. operation. . .
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Mussolini y jftdress Sunday
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Spanish War's
End by Today
Isn't Certain
Peace Negotiations not
Completed; II Duce
Speech Awaited
Coalition for Britain's
Defense Talked; new
Tax for Germans
(By the Associated Press)
The Spanish civil war appeared
headed toward its long anticipa
ted end today.
A republican peace mission re
turned to Madrid from Burgos.
the nationalist capital, with Gen
eralissimo Franco's terms for i
republican surrender and the Ma
drid regime met immediately to
consider them.
Informed sources said that the
negotiations were still incomplete
and that the mission likely would
fl back to Burgos in the near fu
ture. They denied earlier Italian re
ports that Franco would enter Ma-.
drid today.
There was no confirmation of
the peace negotiations in Burgos
where it was said the nationalists
were ready to launch an end-the
war offensive against Madrid un
less the republicans surrendered
unconditionally.
Italian Territorial
Aims in Limelight
The sudden turn of events In
Spain shoved Into the background
for the moment ;the backwash
from Adolf" Hitler's latest gains
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Henry W. Meyers
Called at Age 69
Formerly Merchant Here,
More Recently Head of
State Prison
Henry w. Meyers, former su
perlntendent of the Oregon state
penitentiary and a retired Salem
merchant, died at the age of 69
years yesterday afternoon at the
family residence, 430 North Sum
mer street. He had been ill for a
long period.
Funeral services were set by
the Clough-Barrick company, In
charge, for 1:30 p.m. Monday
They will be held from St. Paul's
Episcopal church with Rev.
George H. Swift officiating. Inter
ment will be at Mt. Crest abbey.
Henry W. Meyers was born
June 2, 1869, in Glenn ville. Kern
county, Calif., the son of Joseph
and Ellen Harvey Meyers. His
father was a native of Germany,
coming to California in the early
'SO's. His mother, a native of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, sailed for
California around Cape Horn in
the early '80's.
The family came to Oregon and
settled in Salem January 20, 1880.
the father buying the old White
Corner general store, which he
operated for a few years in part
nership with Jacob Rosenberg.
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MASARYK WARNS US,YQUTH GUARD LIBERTY
Jam llaaai-Tk. soa of Caccho-loTakla's founder, and Pr. lIunroe E.
provost of the University of California, are shown together on the speakers stand : at the campus
. wtt kefAi Uasarrk delivered bis address on democracy. The occasion for the speeclt was the 71st
. MnhrXnar tt th mlWe's Charter Day. Crrln rou children of
I democrats pHvUeeea fnranted by tha Declaration Of Independence. Uaaaryk pointed owt tha him "lit
tle country paJd the fullest possible prico for democracy." Te tbowaand student attended tha color
ful ceremonies and fcaaSreds wept nasaznel when. Uaaaryk departed from bis prepared tyeecb to
-appeal dramatically for America
Mar'lmdLmkt
Slovakia and
Continue Border Scrap
As Boundary Disputed
Bratislava Reports Say Magyar Troops Are Bombed
Effectively: Permission From Germany for
Seizing Territory j Cited in Letter
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March 24. (AP) Continued
fighting along the Hungarian-Slovak
today by the Slovak defense? ministry which announced Slovak
planes had bombed Hungarian troops near the town of
Sobrance. ;
(Sobrance is in eastern Slovakia, about seven miles north
Demand for Farm
Labor Is Heavier
Brick Plant's Reopening
Creates Work; 5000
Are Registered
Calls for farm and other spring
time workers are on the Increase
in the Salem district, Ralph M.
Coleman, district manager for the
state employment" service, report
ed yesterday. He said a marked
pickup in labor inquiries had been
noted in the last week.
The employment office yester
day completed filling an order for
a crew to operate the Columbia
Brick works. Preparations for re
opening of the plant,' terminating
the winter shutdown, have been
in progress for two weeks. Man
ager Phil Corbet anticipates a
good spring and summer business,
Coleman said.
The local office of the employ
ment service, at 710 Ferry street,
now has approximately SO 00 men
and women registered on its ac
tive files, indicating they are
available for hiring. Coleman de
clared the office could supply
workers tor virtually any type of
employment.
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Free Press Mural
At Fair Is Veiled
MILL VALLEY, Calif., March
24. (IP) A y r e s Houghtelling,
young murali8t, heard with wrath
tonight of the veiling of his paint
ing, "The American Free Press,1
in the Golden Gate Exposition
press building amid a dispute as to
whether the work would anger
visitors from totalitarian nations.
"It's a masterpiece dedicated to
an American free press," he said
"I cannot change it."
The Impressionistic painting in
the press building dining room at
Treasure Island was covered with
draperies today by order of ex
position officials. They said some
diners had complained the artist's
conception Included a scene of too
much carnage, and also objected
to the depiction of a dictatorial,
red-mustached figure some critics
though resembled Adolf Hitler.
The murallst, however, identi
fied it as Mussolini.
citizens to CKsjt tzcxr teruM.
on
Hungary
frontier was reported
of the east-west boundary between
Hungary and Slovakia and the
same distance west of the Slovak
boundary with Carpatho-TJkraine,
now a part of Hungary.
t Budapest dispatches made no
mention of fighting and said
Hungarian troops controlled a
"rectified" frontier with Slovakia.
(It also was announced a mixed
commission would meet Sunday to
fix definitely the frontier between
the two nations.)
One of two communiques issued
by the defense ministry said Hun
garian troops were "slowly re
treating under pressure of our air
forces. Our fliers are very active
and have had important successes,
ine Hungarians are putting up
neavy resistance."
The Slovak official press bureau
said a Hungarian officer had sent
a letter to the Slovak border
guard before the invasion started,
in which he asserted Germany had
given Hungary permission to take
a strip of Slovak territory,.
California Makes
Berry Box Ruling
Oregon Shipments There
Must Co in Hallocks
Allowing Checkup
Berry growers of Oregon must
use specially constructed boxes
this year If they ship Into Cali
fornia, the state department of
agriculture was Informed Friday.
California weights and mea
sures officials telegraphed that
the standard Oregon hallock
would be subject to seizure on the
southern market under a new
ruling of their attorney general.
Only minor changes in design
are necessary to meet the Cali
fornia requirements, officials de
clared. These consist of the stand
ard Oregon hallock with portions
of two opposite sides cut away In
order to show the bottom.
The standard hallock is made
with a raised bottom and with
the four sides extending below
this level. The purpose is to pro
tect berries in shipment. Califor
nia officials said this construction
facilitates fraud and deception.
Countryman Killed
MOLALLA, Ore., March 24.-JP)
-John L. Countryman, 63, was
killed in the Meadowbrook section
today when struck by a falling
tree limb. He was falling timber.
Dentch (left), vice-president and
this country' to watch ever the
ju pnowy ;
Future
Peace Outlook
e now
Much Brighter
Hitler's Rapid Success
Believed Near End;
Duce May Decide
Each Aggression Creates
new Foes; Opponents
Bloc Is Hopeful
By JOHN EVANS
(By the Associated Press)
Adolf Hitler triumphs again,
but a slowly forming "halt Hitler"
group of nations thinks his victory
will evolve into ultimate defeat.
Benito Mussolini, n Duce of
Italy, very likely may determine
the future. He is the other end of
the "Rome-Berlin-axis" and what
he may say Sunday morning in
Rome can make history.
If Mussolini peacefully settles
with France, he may swing away
from Germany eventually and
help Europe maintain peace. If
France tries to drive a hard bar
gain, Hitler may help Italy fight
for her share of what the allies
got from the great war.
All Europe talks of war, but
there are many reasons why there
may be no war. Hitler Is pictured
as en aggressor in British and
French parliaments, but his nasi
supporters reply that he seeks
only what once was Germany's or
belongs In Germany. Because of
that program, Hitler established
a protectorate , over . his part , of
what was Czecho-Slovakia, re
fraining from the-annexations ha
executed in German-populated
districts.
Creates new Foes
With Each Success
The "Halt Hitler" group feels
Hitler's rapid success is ging to
end. The more Hitler does what
they don't like the more he stirs
fear and fighting emotion among
countries over which Germany
might wish to stretch her power.
When Hitler took over Memel
city from little Lithuania on
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Minder Car Found
But not His Body
OREGON CITY, Ore., March
24 (if) A three-day search of the
Clackamas river bottom was par
tially successful when the car of
Fred W. Minder, 41, Logan farm
er and disabled war veteran, was
found and pulled ashore late to
day. Minder's body was not in it.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Steenson,
who said he believed Minder was
drowned in the accident, stated
dragging operations would be re
sumed tomorrow in an effort to
locate the body.
The car plunged over a 150
foot embankment into the river
Tuesday morning at Cape Horn,
about five miles from here. The
current carried It 800 feet down
stream.
The door on the driver's side
was open and Steenson said he be
lieved Minder's body bad been
carried out by the current He said
the ignition switch was off.
Hint Referendum
On PUD Measure
Reports were current bere Fri
dav that a referendum petition
might be filed against the people's
ntlltt, district measure aouroved
at the recent legislative session.
: The (bin, as originally passea
by the senate contained the emer
gency clause, but this was elim
inated in the bouse. -
riii aa an nf tha most con
troversial measures of the legis
lative session and was the subject
Of. several public hearings.
Identity of the referendum
sponsors was not divulged.
Firecrackers Go .
TOf f Und er Judge; 1
v-No Que to Case
" KIW; f ORRV March Us-jpfi
An. unbelievable sound assaulted
the ears of Magistrate Overton
Harris today.' ; Two doxen fire
crackers went off under bis bench
of aU places. : . i
Some e men dashed out of. the
courtroom," thinking an attempt
was being made to assassinate the
judge. . The magistrate himself
rushed to the chief clerks office,
shouting above the din:
.."Start an investigation. Get tha
fingerprints : on those firecrack
ers." .... -. .,.V . .
No dus to the prankster was
found ' ' ' - I
InEurop
Security Fund
Reserves May
Be Abandoned
Morgenthau Cites Plans
to Defer Increase in
Tax for old Age
-; i .
Republicans Jubilant at
Proposal, Democrats
1 Reserve Comment
WASHINGTON. March U.HJPl
-A proposal to defer at least part
of the 50 per cent Increase in so
cial security; taxes scheduled! for
next year and to abandon the
plan for a huge reserve fund for
old age pensions was - advanced
by the administration today as a
business recovery step.
Secretary Morgenthau outlined
the suggestion to the house ways
and means committee, linking: It
directly to recovery by saying it
would lift a burden from "Amer
ican productive enterprise."
Subsequently, President Roose
velt made clear at his press con
ference that the proposal had! full
administration backing and word
was given out that It had approval
of the social security board. ';
The proposal apparently caught
members of congress by surprise.
Democratic members of the house
committee, which is studying pos
sible changes in the social secur
ity act, deferred comment as did
most democrats on Capital Hill.
Republicans Point to
Earlier Criticisms
But republicans, most of whom
have been critical of the present
social security setup, hailed the
suggestion With delight and were
quick to point to their earlier crit
icisms, f
None of the suggested changes
could be carried out without: con
gressional action.
Under the social security act as
it stands, an employe now j pays
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Road Prbjecte tp
Continue, Report
Supplementary Grant Is
Received; to Provide
Work to June 30
Continuance of Marion county's
WPA road projects, as far as funds
are concerned, was assured yester
day when the district WPA office
here received notice thAt a $310,
743 supplementary grant of fed
eral money had been approved at
Washington, DC. The county will
contribute an additional 164,690
in supervision, equipment and ma
terials. WPA engineers said the new
grant would provide for the coun
ty's road work at least-until June
30. j I
Although j press reports - from
Portland have stated that a reduc
tion of WPA payrolls might be
Boon ordered, no 'word of any
changes in quotas has yet been re
cived at the district office; here.
The quota remains at 1900 j work
ers with the restriction that job
assignments may be given only to
workers who quit the WPA to take
private employment since last
June or who have been laid; off on
account of sickness or injury.
Washout Disrupts
Service, Montana
GLASGOW, Mont., March 24.
(JP) Transcontinental train service
across northern Montana was dis
rupted tonight when a section of
the Great Northern railway's main
line was washed out at Nashua, 15
miles east of Glasgow. j
Another lection of the roadbed
was threatened with destruction.
George Lane, Great Northern
agent here, said. , . .
The rail line was damaged by
Porcupine creek, which roared to
flood stage today after an irriga
tion dam 40 miles north of Nash
ua broke. The creek rose seven
feet In two hours, but was falling
rapidly tonight. r
Log-Rolling Charges Hurled
- WASHINGTON, March 14-AV
Amid brusque charges of .."log
rolling"; and "vote trading,
coalition, of farm and city -members
slowly took form in the house
today, bent;: upon appropriating a
full $150,000,000 for relief and
$250,000,000 fori farm- parity
paymentsii-wrv 5 ?-vs t
- Up tor consideration was the an
nual appropriation bill for the ag
riculture -depart m a n t carry
ing $750,000,000 for farm benefit
payments. Pending la committee
and soon to be considered was the
much-disputed supplemental, relief
bill, requested by President Roose
velt, to provide' an additional
$150,000,000 for WPA in this fis
cal year.-i" - 'j - -f
(Of the $750,000,000 In farm
ptrmentf, 5OO,CO,O0O wai pro-
HisGrandchild
Is Threatened
BISHOP MANNING
Strangled Spouse,
Man Tells Police
Mystery jn Oklahoma City
May Be Solved; Search
Is Made for Body
OKLAHOMA CITT. March 25
( Saturday )-VP-County Attorney
Lewis Morris announced early to
day that Roger Cunningham had
signed a statement declaring he
strangled his socially prominent
wife March 6.
Morris, said Cunningham, a 33-year-old
federal housing authority
inspector, said in the statement he
buried his wife's body in a partly
filled sewer in Oklahoma City.
Officers sped to the site to hunt
for the body.
Cunningham's statement, wit
nessed by Morris, Sheriff George
Goff and County Evidence Man
Claude Tyler, follows: .
"Monday night, March at 7:30
p.m., I strangled my wife Eudora
and buried her in a partly filled
sewer between 11th street and
Park in the 1600 block.
"JAay JJod Jbave jotrgx j..py.
soul.
"After this I drove to the post
office building and stayed until 12
o'clock, and then I went home and
packed three traveling bags with
her clothes and took them to the
south end of May avenue bridge
and threw them off on the west
side by the squatters' shacks.
Fire days ago when a search for
her was started, her husband went
voluntarily to jail, saying he want
ed to be of aid in the search tor
his wife's body.
Hours Held Okeh
In Western Union
Women employes in the tele
graph department of the Western
Union Telegraph company in Ore
gon, are not compelled to work
more than eight hours in any one
day nor more than 44 hours in
any one week, Charles H. Gram,
secretary of the state welfare com
mission, announced Friday.
The report followed investiga
tion of a complaint filed by the
American Communications associ
ation. Gram said the investiga
tions showed that exclusive . of
time oft for lunch, each woman
employed by the company is paid
for and given time off for two
15-minute rest periods each day.
Cray Is Arrested,
Murder Suspicion
PORTLAND. Ore., March 24.-(Jfy-
Joe "Bad Eye" Gray, for
whom a murder warrant was is
sued last week in connection with
the butcher-knife killing of
Charles Howard, 58, was arrested
today near Estacada by Captain of
Detectives Jack Keegan who said
he was suffering from a knife
wound.-- - '..-" - - - - - -'
Howard waa slashed to death in
a hotel last Friday.
Keegan said that Gray refused
to discuss the killing. He was hos
pitalised for treatment of the ab
dominal wound. ;;- :- .
Tided for in. the president's bud
get. Representatives from farm
states won approval from the ap
propriations committee, however,
for an additional $250,000,000 for
payments to bring farm Income np
to "parity with the prices of pro
duets farmers buy.)
" A sulphurous . " debate- On the
bouse floor found the ' farm bloc
and the city bloe alternately scold
ing each other for withholding
mutual support In the past and is
suing open suggestions ; that all
throw their united strength behind
both appropriations.
Although no question of admin
istration strength. was Involved
since the' president's budget bad
not recommended, the parity pay
ment appropriation the demo
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Negro Butler
Rejects Bribe
Police Report
Would-Be Abductors Xrc
Frightened Away hy
Employe in Home
Artist and Daughter of
Manning; Parents of
Child Imperiled
NEW YORK. March 24.-JP)-Police
reported that the three
year granddaughter of Episcopal
Bishop William T. Manning was
saved from kidnaping tonight by
the butler In her home, who
frightened away two would-be
kidnapers after refusing a $1,0 It
bribe.
The child is Elizabeth Coa':,
daughter of Griffith B. Coale, an
aitist, who lives at 125 West 11th
street in Greenwich village.
Bishop Manning is leader of the
5.000-square mile diocese of New
York, reputedly the wealthiest li
his church, and is rector of the
huge cathedral of St. John the
Divine on Mornlngside Heights.
Coale Is the husband of the for
mer Elizabeth Manning, one of tha
bishop's two daughters.
Both of Parents
Socially Prominent
Both parents are socially prom
inent, being members, respective-,
ly, of the exclusive Colonial Lords
of Manor and National Society ef
Colonial Dames.
The butler who foiled the ab
duction was a negro, Thomas Wil
son. Police said two men rang the
doorbell of the Coale home about
4 p. m. (PST) while the Coales
were out at dinner with Newbold
Morris, president of the city coun
cil. A special police guard was Im
mediately thrown around the
home.
The Coales were married ta
May, 1933, In the chapel of St.
John the Divine, with Bishop
Manning presiding. 1 -- " ;
Prominent landscape artist,
Coale, 48, has paintings on exhi
bition in the city's largest bank
buildings, in the Maryland histor
ical society, and at Johns Hop
kins university. A native of Bal
timore, Md., he studied abroad in
Munich and Paris.
Shelling Resumed
At Chinese Forts
SHANGHAI. March 2 4. -)-Japanese
warships, after four dayo
of Inaction, today resumed shell
ing of Chinese forts off. Nlngpo,
south of Shanghai, causing the
population of the vicinity to flee,
in fear of a Japanese landing.;
Ningpo, in Chekiang province
on the south side of Hangchow
bay. is roughly in the center of
China's long coast. The Japanese
have won the coast northward
from Hangchow bay. but from
there south to the Canton region
the coast Is In Chinese hands ex
cept at Amoy.
Foreign reports of the Japan
ese naval action stated the Chi
nese were replying vigorously, ap
parently making an immediate
landing unlikely.
Higher Education
Only for Apt, Is
View of Sprague
MEDFORD, March li.-(JPr
Higher education only; for those
with "special aptitude and a burn
ing desire" was advocated here
today by, Qeyernor. Charles A.
Sprague. i
Addressing- "5 00 senior. students
in the education and vocational
conference of the high school
here. Governor Sprague declared
"education is a tool to be used
wisely, but education as an end
in Itself la useless."
. At a luncheon, the governor
told Jackson county republican
leaders one of the alms of his
administration was "to promote
efficiency in state . government,
rather than to see bow many new
appointments could be made."
Czech Announcer
f Is IMderf Arrest; f
Newscast Vexixm
w . . : . r
PRAGUE, March 24 (py-Frana
Koconrek, Csech radio announcer -who
amused Czech listeners but
vexed German authorities . with
his description of last Sunday's
German military: parade in Prague
waa said by his friends today te
bare been arrested for baring
been too flippant. . - .:.
' Hia Itvely descriptions, lat m '
with politically delicate allusions.
Included these Items: '-: '
"Here income the ? taaksi T Big
tanks, more big tanks, email
tanks, still smaller v tanks, and
smaller stilL They sound like sar ;
dine cana. .t,-.-
"Do you hear that eheeringt
That comes : from , Germans ta-"
tioned by the honor tribuDe.',