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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1939)
Rxdlng-Hors lounded Are Imp Riding School Operators Missing; so Is all of Equipment . i. Nine riding hones were taken from the Wagon Wheel rldins academy on the South RUer road . Wednesday night under chattel mortgage proceedings against james ana Kum Bell, proprietors of the academy,' by Eena company as assignee onder the mortgage by Ladd and Bush. The horses were held by County Sheriff A. C. Burk. and were in the Immediate possession of Dep uty Kenneth Randall at his barn on the South Twelfth street eat off to the Pacific highway- Ran dall reported yesterday that seven of the animals were riding mounts, but that two were unbroken rodeo horses. The mortgage was said to be for $450 and covered six riding saddles and 14 bridles as well as .the horses themselves. Only the horses were taken yesterday by the sheriff's men, since none of , the equipment was found at the riding academy. " ' Disappearance of the horse ac coutrements is paralleled by the disappearance likewise of their erstwhile owners, whose where abouts Is likewise unknown to officers. Charges, are expected to be tiled against them, thoarh in exactly what terms is not known. ine cnattei mortgage was given . uwu h oum last june t. according to- documents in the sheriffs .office, which this after noon also held a warrant for the arrest of the Bells on a charge of larceny by bailee, with bail fixed at xzooo each. : Midget Racer I $ Killed In Crash; Three Injured DETROIT, July 20.-P)-One driver was killed and three others injured tonight in a pile-up of midget automobiles in a race at the motor city speedway. mil Mitchell, 34, veteran De troit racer, was the dead man. Hero oiRiver Rescue Gets Police Scotting ...... r j. tv J4 ii 'if ' A f, "' I K X. f , ' i , :i:.;;.x:. .w J ' , ' U CUT - " r ConeratiiLitimia and a acoldlns came' to Arthur Parker (rizht). 4S-Tearold Washington, D. C govern meat clerk, following bis darlns rescue of ZO-yrar-oia joia bisk tiexti. xrom we rotomac rivers Witnesses oralsed Parker after seeing him lower himself 40 feet from a bridge to reach the strug gling woman. The scolding came from police who disciplined Parker for walking from the scene on no-pedestrian part of the bridge. Parker and woman are snown just alter rescue. Calif ornia Battles Go-Between Feudists to ' 8AN FRANCISCO, July 10.-(ff) Under' a blistering mid-summer sun, more than 1,000 men fought fires from the eoast rang to tha Sierra " today, ' : as thousands of acres were turned to blackened waste. r v ; ' Beteral of the blares were be lieved started by carelessly thrown elgaret stubs or matches, and fire wardens pleaded for Increased caution from campers, fishermen and picnickers. In Colusa county, Fire Warden A. J. Atran at Arbuckle called out all available fire fighters and vol unteers to help ranch and farm hands battle a blare which broke out on the 10,000-acre Swanson ranch, swept down a mountainside into Jackson canyon along the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, and men aced farm buildings and livestock. Several thousand acres had been burned over by late afternoon. .- The 102-acre estate of Tehudi Menuhin, the violinist, was threat ened for a time today by a brush fire which burned 75 to 100 acres southeast of Los Gatos, but a crew of 200 men succeeded in getting it under control late today. No houses were damaged. : Reported Meteor About Vancouver VANCOUVER, July 20.-(CP)-Hundreds of reports that a mete or fell tonight in the mountains across Vancouver's har bor reached newspaper offices here, and a group of youths from a Grouse Mountain forestry camp were sent to the area wbere It a as supposed to be. The boys began their hike through the rocky North Shore mountains when some early re ports said the falling "ball of fire might have been an airplane. La ter informants discounted this theory. The party of. four youths - re turned to their camp Just before 10 p. m., PST three hours after the meteor was supposed to have fallenand reported they found no trace of It, although they walked more than five miles. Most distant report of the mete or's fall was received from Inter lor Williams Lake, B. C. 200 miles northeast of here, where an amateur radio operator said he had seen what "looked like a fall ing airplane." tlnulng the life of the municipal bankruptcy act until 1942, and added an amendment to extend privileges of the law to counties and parishes. " The act permits taxing units to file voluntary petitions in bank ruptcy after obtaining the con sent In writing of 51 per cent of tneir creditors. Senate Judiciary Okehs Municipal Bankrupt Act WASHINGTON, July .20 (ffV 11 DO Belittle juoicwrj wiuuuuun approved today a house bill con- i I FRED MEYER LOWER LEVEL 'Bat Man' Plunges 7000 Feet as Air Show Stunt Fails OTTUMWA, la., July 20. -fly-Walter Thief" Thatcher, about 2C, Indian appearing as a "Bat Man" performer in an aerial cir cus, was killed tonight when his parachute failed to open properly as he leaped from an airplane 7, 000 feet above the municipal air port here. "Three thousand persons were Hi' ! Aiury Sessions (Continued from page 1) In the controversy- yesterday, but both Indicated that they were not opposed to appearing before the grand Jury. r Judge MeMahan, In his charge to the grand. Jury, stressed the need of an investigation to aeter mine whether Marlon county de partments had been annually au dited after proper fashion Judge Siegmund's letter to the governor indicated tnat maiieas- ance In of flee might exist la Judge McMahan's "department " ct the circuit court. ' H In tetter written Wednesday Governor Sprague wrote to Judge MeMahan that he did not see why an able and informed 'grand jury, with the assistance of the district attorney's office, could not make a thorough investigation and re port of conditions in the Marion county court. To Judg Siegmund he declared that, In rase a state Judicial officer is chargeable' with malfeasance in office, proceedings against him should be by the me thod of Impeachment and trial as provided by the state constitution and laws of the state." J. M Brown , ' J. M. Brown, who acted as contact man between Dr. James Monroe! 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