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KKIHTY-NINTH YEAR
Salea, Oregon, Wednesday Hernia?, June 21 1939'
Priet 3e; Newsstands 5e
No. 74
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v--:. P8UND
English
Deputy Feared
Book Mistakes
Brought Error
Wouldn't Reveal to Kin
That ' Something Was
Wrong in Books
States He's Not Certain
Shortage Is Really
" in Existence
Reasons he chooses not to dis
close led W. Y. -York- Richard
son, ex-deputy Marion county trea
surer, to withhold from his broth
er and others that a shortage ex
isted on the county treasury books
in 1921. 1924 and 1925, he indi
cated at his trial in circuit court
shortly before ' another early ad
journment yesterday afternoon.
When Richardson left the of
fice for three or four months in
1921 to look after his interest in
the Rising Hope mine, which re
paid his Investment and ,3303.72
more, his brother. Warren, held
down his county Job, he said. The
brother substituted for him again
in 1924 when he stayed at the Sa
lem Mining company's mine at
Liberty, Wash., from July to Oc
tober or November. -
"In 1921, did yon think some
one was taking the money?" ques
tioned Francis E. Marsh, prose
cutor, on cross-examination.
"No, I thought there was some
mistake in my work or Mr. Dra
ger's work, the former deputy
answered. s'A f. S&S?
"Then why didn't you tell your
brother and, ask him, to help you
find ttrMarsIr inoulred.-"- , "
, "I didn't want anyone to know
it," Richardson declared.
"If yon thought that this was a
-purely bookkeeping mistake, then
why in God's name didn't you tell
-anybody about it?" the prosecutor
pursued.
"Just because I didnt want any
body' to know it," Richardson
maintained. "I wanted to check
that myself."
Warren Richardson in 192S as
sisted J. C. Siegmund, who later
became county judge, in auditing
the affairs of the treasurer's of
fice, further testimony disclosed.
The defendant Richardson said
that at the end of 1924 he had set
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Port Tie-up Held
Near Conclusion
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20-(Jp)
-Dr. Louis Bloch, U.S. maritime
labor commissioner, announced to
night union representatives had
agreed on a plan which he thought
would end a tour-day partial tie
up of San Francisco bay ports.
Dr. Bloch said he would submit
the plan to employers tomorrow
morning. Be began efforts to end
the deadlock "yesterday upon his
arrival from Washington, D.C
Earlier Dr. Bloch .reported
"progress, toward a satisfactory
solution" of the dispute wh 1 e h
grew out of the steamship line's
changing of ten members of the
. CIO Ship Clerks association from
an hourly to a monthly pay basis.
Harry Bridges, president of the
International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's union, with
which the ship clerks are afflllat
ed, said he had informed Bloch
that the underlying cause of the
dispute was American-Hawaiian's
Terminal - club composed of
monthly employes; v
"This so-called social organiza
tion is a company : union within
nor union." Bridces said. "Until
recently its 10 members domin-
Car
Five, None Badly
a fr crash at the Chemawa
four corners Intersection shortly
after t o'clock last night resulted
In minor injuries to four youths
in one ear and to Andy. Paris, son
of A. J. Paris, local merchant, in
Paris car, Witk the elder Paris
. at thm wheeL drove onto the Pa
cific highway from the east sad
was struck by a soninoouna ma
chine driven by Gordon , Rich,
Portland, according to a state of
vhti th accident. '
- Those injured in the Rich ma
tn. Rich. 22. skinned legs
and minor abrasions; Shirley Bon-
tracer, 17, Hubbard, tnree Meu
v.v. nn nt minor abrasions:
Gsorgift Bracken, 11. Portland,
lag and foot injuries; Vernon
Agte, 17, Peruana, euis aooui wo
Andy Paris sustained deeply
Former Federal V
' Judge Convicted
'
S.
MARTIN T. M ANTON
- - ..-;.;.' "... . ..
Manton to Spend
Two Years in Jail
Maximum Sentence Given
Former Federal Judge
for Taking Bribe
NEW YORK, June 20.-(AV
Martln T. Manton, the only mem
ber of the federal judiciary ever
to be thus stigmatixed in all the
150 years of its history, was sen
tenced today to two years in pris
on and fined $10,000 for .selling
his integrity as senior Judge of
the second district US circuit eourt
of appeals. . ' r
From the same bench upon
which he once had passed judg
ment on the acts of other men, he
was coldly denounced by Federal
District Judge W. Calvin Ches
nut, of Maryland, as the betrayer
of "a sacred trust."
The punishment was the maxi
mum the law allowed. He was con
victed on June 3. specifically of
conspiring to obstruct justice in
accepting bribes to influence bis
judicial decisions.
The only one of his four co-de
fendants who stood trial with him.
George M. Spencer, an Insurance
broker, was sentenced to a year
and a day and fined 35,000..
Jobn Lotsch, formerly a minor
Brooklyn politician and banker.
was sentenced to one year and 1,-
000 fine, and Forrest W. Davis
an accountant, received a suspend
ed sentence and two years of pro
bation.
William J. Fallon, described by
the government as the former
judge's "bag man," or intermedi
ary for bribes, was ill and the dis
position of bis case was deferred
All three had pleaded guilty and
aided the prosecution.
Posse : Still Hunts
.. sr.'.- i.
ForKiUerofTw)
HAYWARD, Wis., June 20-Pi
-The woods ana waters nay ui
son ... "knows like a brak" be
friended the elusive badman to
night as be continued to keep
a field of 200 possemin deter
mined to get him dead or alive.
Olson, 30-year-old ex-convict.
has been in front in the grim
game of hide and seek through
the- green northern Wisconsin
Umberland since Saturday, wben
he - escaped ' v squad of deputy
sheriffs by killing two of them.
The deaths of deputies Fred
Scott, 4, and Cully Johnson, 37,
attested to Olson's quick-triggered
marksmanship. He killed
both when they went ' . Indian
John Blue Sky's shack to arrest
him r on a charge of possessing
stolen property.
Race :qf ' Supermen May Be
Produced by Special Diet
! MILWAUKEE, June 20-tf3)-Production
of some scientifically
minded nation of a superior race
of men, who will be leaders of
the world, was predicted today , to
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science by Dr.
Victor O. Heiser. of the Rockefel
ler foundation. - f ; v" T
It will be done, he said, by sci
entific use of food. The miracle,
furthermore will come from foods
o common and ordinary that the
cost of eating may be less than
that of present menus.UvK i 3 i
The -first step,' he said. Is Jaf
vitable, but ths prle will go to
the nation or people which devel
ops the food sense of. its individu
als This first, step Is to stamp out
the diseases which largely attack
man from within. How to start
this - has been discovered which
come from choice of food. -
Ttm v iitioratarr evidence.
Foremost was the experiment ct
Texas Floods
Batter; Down
.Road Bridges
I t " I ? M
One' Life Lost as Water
From Cloudburst Hits
Western Texas
Families Driven to Seek
Shelter; Railroad's
Bridges Go
COLORADO CITY, Tex.. June
20-(AV-C loudbnrst - swollen
streams of west Texas drowned
one person today, swept away
highway and railroad bridges, and
drovo between 200 and 300 fam
ilies from their homes here and
at nearby Snyder.
Ollie Morrow, CO, Snyder bus
iness man, was drowned by a flash
flood which swept him from a
bridge.
The Colorado river battered
down a railroad bridge and a high
way . bridge, and destroyed two
smaller spans. Rail and highway
traffic was at a standstill here.
Train Escapes
Bridge Washout
Only a few minutes before the
Lrailroad bridge washed out a west
bound Texas and Pacific passen
ger train was halted after train
men saw water lapping two feet
below the floor of the trestle.
Hundreds of bales of cotton and
other debris hammered at the
bridge pilings until the structure
collapsed. Eight cars of . fuel oil,
shunted to the bridge in an effort
to give it stability, plunged into
the torrent.
Colorado City, a town of 5,000
about 250 miles west of Dallas
watched flood waters back into
the residential district up a nor
mally small creek that empties
Into the Colorado.
Two hundred Mexican and ne
gro families fled to higher ground
here. Snyder Red Cross officials
asked aid for 50 persons left
homeless when flood waters
washed their houses away.
Flood waters -
Rise Rapidly
Thundershowers dumping up to
11 inches of rain caused the
floods. Water at Snyder, a town of
3,500, rose so swiftly emergency
crews were sent to warn residents.
Snyder is 35 miles northeast.
The river later receded four feet
at Colorado City and observers did
not believe the crest of flood wa
ters from trlbutay creeks would
cause another serious rise. Water
ten feet deep poured across the
eastern approach to the bridge on
U.S. highway SO and the town was
crowded with stranded motorists.
For a hundred miles south.
there are no major cities In the
path of the flood. Robert Lee, a
town of 800 Is about 60 miles
south.
From Gun Guards
Prison guards were combing the
woods and state police were watch'
lag the highways Tuesday night
in quest of Carl Houk, 22, convict
from Umatilla county who broke
away ; from a gun guard crew
which was working in thick brush
near, the prison annex about 4
o'clock in the afternoon. .' -
Houk was serving a four-year
term for forgery, having been
dressed in last December S. It was
bis third prison sentence. "
He is described as 5 feet 10 H
inches tall, weight 17S pounds.
faded light brown hair and blue-
gray eyes.
8ir Robert McCarison In India.
Sir Robert selected a diet eaten
by some North Indian peoples who
are among the finest specimens
of mankind. They eat whole-wheat
flour; unleavened bread lightly
smeared with fresh butter, sprout,
ed Bengal gram, a legume, fresh
raw carrots and cabbage in large
quantities, unboiled whole milk,
and a small ration of raw meat
and bones once a week.
'These foods Sir Robert fed .to
more than 1,000 rats. Not one rat
died of natural causes, although
each animal was kept until the
rat eq Bivalent of 40 to 50 Unman
yeant No rat became ill.
.. Two thousand other rats, living
in the same quarters, were fed
diets of Indian pecle who are not
Those ether rats. developed' tl
different diseases. Every disease
was similar to some human- ilk
ness. There were even two eases
Con Dashes Away
(Turn to rare . coluxn 2Jl
Sqnalus Chief
Says Speedier
Valves Needed
Better Ventilator Miit
Have Saved Suhmarine
if Valve Canse
Recommendation Made in
Earlier Disaster Is ;
Held Solution
PORTSMOUTH. N.H., June SI
-(P)-The commander of the sub
marine Sqnalus, which still is
the sunken sepulchre of 2 men,
told a naval board of Inquiry to
day that a recommendation born
of a submarine disaster nearly
19 years ago might . have pre-1
. ... . m . mm ia 1
vented me recent irageay u n
was caused by a faulty air in
duction valve. ,
Lieutenant O. F. Naquln, one
of the few undersea commanders
who has escaped from a sunken
craft to . tell his story, asserted
that Improved ventilating equip
ment might have saved the Sqna
lus and that current devices
might prove "fatally defective"
in time of war.
It was near the close of a
full day on the witness stand
tor Naquln that CaptUn William
R. Munroe, assistant director of
naval intelligence, asked the
Sqnalus commander if the acci
dent could - have been prevented
if there had been a device to
prevent the flooding of the ves
sel's ballast tanks, necessary be
fore a dive, until opened air in
duction . valves were closed.
"I believe such a device would
have prevented this tragedy," the
lieutenant answered slowly and
quietly.
o Difficulty Had
In Closing Valve
Earlier, Naquln had declined
to concede directly that a me
chanical fault in the air induc
tion valve caused the disaster,
telling the court that while there
had been a failure of a latch to
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1 -"i-
Burgunder Would
Be Own Attorney
Judge Refuses to Allow
Accused Slayer to
Defend Self
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 20.-6P
-Robert Burgunder told Superior
Judge Howard C. Speakman today
he wanted to defend himself at
his trial for murder, but C. T. Mc
Klnney, who had just withdrawn
as defense counsel, was appointed
by the court as defender.
Standing before the bench, the
22-year-old former college student
said, "I have a legal right to de
fend myself."
"You will not represent yourself
in this court,? Judge Speakman
replied in measured tones.
"I want you to understand that
right now," the court continued.
We will have no motion picture
show here. You are on trial for
murder." . . ..
"I realize . that." the accused
slayer of two Phoenix automobile
salesmen responded. .
Burgunder was brought into
eourt when McKlnney filed a peti
tion to withdraw as defense coun
sel, stating in an affidavit that
Burgunder had Informed him he
did "not wish any counsel what
soever to appear for him and. in
his defense.",.
Burgunder, the affidavit contin
ued, "steadfastly refused to coop
erate with his attorney in any par
ticular in preparing what affiant
(McKlnney) believes to be a prop
er and necessary defense. . . . "
. :( Fire Labels Needed ; :
i EUGENE, June 20-ffVUnlon
members may find it convenient
to conform to American Federa
tion of Labor principles in fact
as well as in . thought. A resolu
tion filed at the state federation
of labor convention - suggested
each delegate display five union
labels on his clothing before being
permitted ;to.vote f"
bits
I SDVERTON. June Scap
pose defeated Forest Grove in a
semi - pro pre-tournament ball
game here tonight t to C, scoring
tour runs la the first inning and
four In the sixth. Forest Grove
threatened In the seventh, loading
the bases after two runs had come
in, but the rally ended. wi throne
more tally. -
The Portland Redmen-defeated
Canby I to 1 in the second game,
blanking the- Willamette valley
league team until the seventh in
ning. The Redmen drove in four
runs in the fifth.. : .
Portland ., ' , 1 ..10 J, X
Canby . , ; , ...v, . 4
Reisbeck and Fecela; Anton and
Scappoose ... .,, ,,. ... t 10 S
Forest Grove S t
. Coan. .Evans and LaMear: "H.
Zimmerman EahnoV and B He
Sp
TEN KILLED
Hi
A tornado, generating out of a sultry afternoon, roared across a 25-mile long area northwest of Minne
apolis Jane 18, sailing lO persons. Injuring' more tbam OO and leveling hisdreds of fans bouses and
other buildings. It raced through seven small towns, hit worst the wheat town of Anoka, Minn. Photo
above shows a farm barn near Osseo, Minn., wbicb was partially demolished In foreground can be
cattle lolled by force of
Labor Denies 3rd
Term Move Made
Fight Against Changing
Primary Law Is Held
not Related ,
EUGENE, June 20-AVThe
Oregon Federation of Labor de
nied emphatically todi.r its fight
against changing Oregon's pri
mary election date to September
was an effort to start a third
term movement f jr President
Roosevelt in this state.
A resolution embracinc the de
nial appeared before the conven
tion after Ray W. Gill, state
gratige master, address eld
delegates.
"Our joint and successful cam
paign to place a referendum on
the fall primary bill should be
a lesson to those in public office
who seek to restrict voters' rixhts
at the ballot box." Gill said.
Gill assured the laborltes of
the grange's friendship, as did
Barley Libby, president of the
Farmers' union.
Federation Attorney B. A.
Green pleaded with delegates to
recognise that Oregon's union
control law made "all labor
meetings illegal."
He said the statute was an at
tempt to revive the principles of
ancient English and American
conspiracy laws which prevented
labor organization until 1848.
He said the Associated Farmers
(backers of the bill durinz the
November election) was com
posed of "people who are 'farm
ing' the farmers" and asserted
most of the money for the cam-
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Protest Is Made
Against Bombings
Representations Against
Amoy Blockade Given
to Japanese
WASHINGTON. June 20-P-
The state department took two
steps today to back up the admin
istration's contention that the Jap
anese blockade at Tientsin might
damage foreign rights and inter
ests throughout China.
The first was a protest to Tokyo
against the continued Japanese
bombing of American property in
China. Coupled with the protest,
which" was presented , by : Eugene
H. Dooman, American charge d'af-
fairs, was a request for permission
to publish the exchange of pre
vious notes on the same subject
permission which the -. Japanese
foreign minister has not yet grant
ed. V: - ' v, v '
The second was a representa
tion made by Dooman against the
Japanese blockade at the interna
tional settlement lat Kilangsu,
Amoy. - Secretary of State Hull
said this was not a protest and
that Dooman and the head of the
American section of the Japanese
foreign office had .merely dis
cussed phases of the situation. at
Amoy. An official said, however.
that Dooman had objected to the
blockade the Japanese had estab
lished against food transport from
the mainland to the island of Ka-
langsu.
Hull .said nothing was' men
tioned by Dooman. concerning
Tientsin, but some officials here
were of .the opinion that the two
steps ' at Tokyo were closely con
nected with the Tientsin incident
Harlan Operator
Goca Union Shop
HARLAN Ky., June 20-flV
William jTaxablaser, Harlan - dis
trict president of t h e , United
Mine Workers (CIO) announced
tonights the .Creech Coal com
pany had signed a "aJom shop
contract i with the unioa, : "the
first - member ' .of the Harlan
County Coal Operators' , association-to'
do so."
The company win put ISO men
back to work tomorrow, Tum-
llazer.cald : i.-v, ...
AS TWISTER HITS
the storm. (UK).
Trio Is Arrested
Due to Grocer's
Garbage Hunting
ALBANY, June 2 0-(,)-Th.ree
Portlanders were arrested today
on bad check charges because
Grocer Reese Dooley pawed
through the city dump for hours
until he found a note on which he
bad jotted an automobile license
number.
With the aid of the number
Chief of Police Perry Stellmacher
said he traced the car to Portland
and arrested Claud Rlsley and Mr.
and Mrs. Grant Allen on charges
of cashing nearly $100 of bad
checks.
Dooley, one of the victims, be
came suspicious and jotted down
the license number but lost the
memo in his delivery truck. Later
the truck was swept out, sweep
ings put in the garbage can and
ultimately taken to the dump. -..
Dooley said finding the note In
the heaps of refuse wasn't quite
as hard as locating a needle in
a haystack but the two jobs were
comparable.
Martin Declares
Opinions on War
a
Ex-Governor Says Being
"Poltroon Nation" Is
More Horrible
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 21-
(AVEx-Gox. Charles H. Martin
of Oregon took the platform In
the Institute of International
Relations at Reed college to
night and declared "there's
something more horrible than
war that's being a poltroon na
tion."
He admitted a new war would
leave the U n 1 1 ed States a
"changed and ruined" nation but
asked If internationalism might
not prove to be a "blind alley.
In answer Gerald Heard, Bri
tish publicist, declared v ar was,
useless to both sides "the ag
gressor may destroy the very
thing he seeks." Prof. Alexander
Goldenwelser of Columbia uni
versity said he doubted the value
of armament limitations and
urged complete disarmament V as
a means to end war.' '
Retorted Martin, a retired gen
eral USA himself:
"Soldiers don't bring on war-
it's pacifists and statesmen. War
Is a continuation of diplomacy.
We'll hare war until all. the peo
ple of the. world are cn .he same
moral, cultural and economic
level. That will come when Ga
briel . blows his horn.?
Lions Select
:. As 1940 Convention Site
Oregon Lions elected three new
district governors for district 81
and designated Marshfield aa the
1140 convention site during the
closing session of its 15th annual
convention here Tuesday morning
Harry Scott, Salem, Elton Schroe
der. Myrtle Point and -Walter Up
Shaw, Tlgard were those elected
governorship adopted by the state
last year. . . f
h Scott1 who has heen s member
of Lions ' for IT years and has
served as president and secretary
of the Salem dub and as district
governor, win service district 31
R, which includes ' much ' of the
Willamette valley and the coast
counties. ' -t v, ; .. ." J ,
' Schroeder, postmaster at Myrtle
Point, win serve district 3 1-3.
composed of southern Oregon. He
is a charter member of his club
and has served as sons chairman
the past year.- . " .
I Upshaw win be In charge of dis
trict IS-0, Including Portland and
eastern Oregon. He is Portland
branch manager of the state de
partment of agriculture and is
serving his second term as presi-
Aitt rf tie Tiyartf ela!i. - -
MINNESOTA
Delay Threatened
By Monetary Bloc
Advocates of Expanding
Currency May Hold up
Important Bills
WASHINGTON. June 20-OPr-
Senate advocates of a 1 2,0 00,-
000,000 expansion of the cur
rency, threatened to delay the
enactment of highly Important
legislation today unless they re
ceived administration concessions
on their demand for issuance of
new money.
Carefully avoiding the word
"filibuster." but making their
strategy none-the-less obvious,
they pointed to the fact that
certain bills must be enacted by
June 30 to avoid serious conse
quences to the government and
added that many speeches might
"block procedure - '
Senator Tho m a a (D-Okla)
counted the tax bill, the relief
appropriation, and the monetary
bill now before the senate on his
fingers and added that his con
victions and responsibilities made
it necessary that he take advan
tage of the opportunity present
ed. On the senate floor. Senator
MeCarran (D-Nev), his colleague
in the currency expansion battle,
was holding up action on the
administration's monetary mea
sure by the use of man- of the
litue devices of deity familiar
to senate filibusters.
He broke up an apparent agree
ment to limit debate on an
amendment to abolish the presi
dent's power to devalue the dol
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Two Doctors out
At Fairview Home
Impending resignations of two
members of the Fairview home
medical staff were announced
Tuesday by Dr. H. G. Miller, re
cently appointed superintendent.
Friction among staff members is
reported to have culminated in a
fist fight In the superintendent's
office.
Physicians who are to leave the
organization are Dr. G. W. Rltte-
man, assistant superintendent, and
Dr. J. O. Matthis, part time em
ploye. Both were candidates to
succeed the late Dr. Roy Byrd as
superintendent ...
Dr. Bruce Titus, Salem, has been
recommended to succeed Dr .Ritte
man while Dr. John M. Ramage,
also of Salem, has been recom
mended to succeed Dr. Matthis.'
1 Titus previously was director
of the Marion County Health asso
ciation. ; . .
-Marshfield
A memorial program opened
Tuesday morning's session. Seven
Lions who have died 'during the
past year were honored. . -
,. Securing a flagpole for the new
state capitol , was adopted as
part of the club's activity urogram
at the Tuesday morning business
session. , ,-,. -
A resolution . was passed urging
the International officers to secure
Dr. Brace' R: Baxter as a national
convention speaker. Dr. Baxter
spoke at the luncheon Monday
noon and so impressed the dele
gates that they accorded him
standing ovation.-- '-" s t '
Salem Lions club was voted a
resolution of. appreciation tor its
part la making this year's conven
tion a success.
The final event of the conven
tion was a steak dinner at Silver
Creek park Tuesday noonr ; ' C
Among members honored at the
Key members 1 breakfast Tuesday
morning at the Marion hotel were
five Salem Lions: '
Glenn Gregg, president elect
Ernest .Lents, Ed Majek, Daniel
Sehulse and C F. Putnam. Carl H
Mason," master key member from
Klamath FaUs,' presided. .'.
British Women
Evacuate Area
With Children
No Let-up Sign Is Seen
in Japan's Pressure
on British
Food Situation Is Still
bad, Though Japanese
Promise Aid i
. TIENTSIN, June 21-(Wednes-day)-ffVOne
hundred British
women and children were evacu
ated from Tientsin's blockaded
British concession today as the
second week of Japan's "siege" .be
gan. v i
The women and children began
a 200-mile voyage to Peitlaho,
north on the China coast. ,
With their departure the Brit
ish male community in the Iso
lated British and French conces
sions considered itself in a better
position to take care of Itself fnv
the long-drawn test of patience)
that was foreseen. The women and
children had been most incon- .
venienced by the lack of milk and
fresh food.
General Gen Saglyama, com
mander-in-chief of Japan's expedi
tionary forces in north China,
charged Britain had forfeited her
rights as a neutral by what hs
called policies designed to assist '
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
In a statement issued from bis
headquarters at Peiping, General
Sugiyama declared forces under
his command would follow a "res
olute" policy toward the Tientsin
British concession until Britain
recognises Japan's "new order in
east Asia" and cooperates in es
tablishing It
Refugees to Quit
Tientsin Today ' o
, Some of the British refugees
boarded a steamer last night and
arrangements were completed, for
the whole party to leave todav.
The women and children-were
to sail from the British buud
aboard a small British river beat
for Tangku. port of Tientsin at
the mouth of the Hal river. There)
they were to transfer 'to tho
steamers Wingsang and - Sheng
king for Chinwangtao and Peh
talho, beach resorts about 2 0t
miles north of Tientsin.
Most of them, it was pointed
out, bad planned previously to gs
to summer homes there but had
been delayed by the blockade fan
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Wire Hits Truck;
One Dead, 2 Hurt
11,000 Volts Go Through
Truck After Guard on ;
Pole Backed Into
ST. HELENS, Ore.. June 20-OPl
-An 11,000-volt electric wire
knocked down by a truck killed
one man here today and Injured
two others so badly they may die. -
John Brady, 40, of Forest
Grove, Ore., who was learning
against the truck as the wire fen
across It was killed outright Her
bert Scbnider, 23, of Hillsboro,
Ore., driver, was thrown 40 feet
from the cab of the truck, and
Douglas McPherson, 36, who was
opening the door, was knocked to
the ground.
Witnesses said Scbnider had
backed the truck, loaded with
peas, to a warehouse door. The.
vehicle struck the guard on a pole
that carried an electric transform
er, and the wire fell across the
body of the truck. '.. -.
Dr. A. C MeCown, who attended
McPherson and Scbnider at a hos
pital, said both men were in cri
tical condition, but he gave both
a chance for life. The condition at
McPherson, he said, was bad.
Neither man was badly burned,
he said. - -
WA Help Is Not
Wanted by Vista
The Vista Heights Crater com
mission is not considering and
does not Intend to consider u tills-,
lng WPA labor to lay its distri
bution mains system, according to
William R. Newmyer, chairman-;
.Newmyer declared yesterday,
that reports to the contrary were
entirely erroneous and Paul Grie
benow, commissioner : and secre
tary, agreed with blm. .
The report arose last week from
county court sources ' after the
court bad Indicated It would set
approve the water district's re
quest tor permission to lay its
mains la the county shoulders of
county roads which they win fel
low. The court indicated it woul 1
require that the pipes be laid two
feet below the bottoms of rosdda
ditches so as not to cut up tie
shoulders. " - ' r
. The new district, locate i t::th
of Salem, - recently iuna&lmc : :!y
approved a bond issue -.to flziacs.
construction, cf a water tjtUi.
gashed -py