, Valley Coverage
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"with news of happenings In
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Fair today and Wednes
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little change in humidity.
Max. temp. 78, min. temp.
51. River -3.6 ft. North wind.
PCUNDDO 1651
EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, August 1, 1939
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No. 109
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Sffjffted EMdi$ Bill Passed -1
: In Senate ami $&nt to Mouse
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Billion Dollars
Is Sliced off
FDR Measure
Passage Vote 52 to 28
"With Holman Voting
Against
$1,615,000,000 Remains
in Bill After Work
- by Senate
f- By RICHARD L. TURNER
WASHINGTON, July U.-m-The
admfnlstration lending bill,
stripped of more than a billion
dollars of DroDOsed loans, was
passed by the senate today and
moved to an uncertain fate in the
house.
Waiting there was Just such
combination of republican and
- democratic ecouuuiy mviKnin so
that which controlled procedure,
in the senate and reduced the pro
gram's total to 11,615,000,000
The original administration bill
had called for 12,800,000,000.
The .rote on final passage was
62 to 28. The prevailing rote in
eluded 47 democrats, two republi
cans and three others. . The oppos
ing : Tote included 17 ' republicans
and 11 democrats.
(The Tote of Pacific northwest
. leuaiurt was. u v,w
Schwellenbach of - Washington;
Clark and Borah of Idaho. Against
Holman of Oregon.)
'.Bill on Bom,
-'The house rules committee vot
: ed t'to 4 to eidTtue legislation
to the house floor tomorrow. Then
the subject of debate; will be the
version of the bill approved by
the house banking committee- -It
- cut the program . to 11,950,000,-
.- 000. v - ' ' -
The house leadership had
planned to bring up the adminis
tration's S80O.OI0.00O . housing
hill tomorrow, but decided to
make room for the lending mea
sure. There is extensive opposi
tion to the housing bill, and many
opponents contended it had been
abandoned for the session.
If that were the case, It ap
peared congress might adjourn
Saturday night.
This depended, however, upon
fairly rapid work on the lending
bill In the conference stage if it
should be passed by the house.
Differences between house and
senate versions would have to be
reconciled
' The bill as passed by the senate
calls for the Issuance of bonds by
the RFC to finance the following
' loans, by the RFC and other gov
eminent agencies:
. S350.000.000 for non-federal
public works.'
-
1500,000,000 for loans for rur
al electrification.
$800,000,000 for loans to ten
ant farmers.
$90,000,000 for western recla
mation projects.
' ' $75,000,000 for loads through
the export-import bank to finance
exports of American products.
Senate Cuts Much
From Measure
Cut from the bill by the senate's
bi-partisan economy bloc in - the
course of a week's intense debate
were; '.;
8300.000,000 for loans for high
ways and transportation improve
ments.
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RFC was to have purchased rail
road. equipment for lease to the
carriers.
' $25,000,000 for the export-im-
nort bank's foreign roans.
The economy bloc overrode the
administration leadership to write
into the measure a provision the
bonds issued by the RFC snouia
hA mihlect to state and federal in
come taxes. Many speculated
. whether this might not have a re
strictive effect upon the program.
because to obtain the money for
the loans the RFC would have to
float taxable bonds In competition
with? tax-free government securi
ties.
'AltbouKh the economy bloc was
beaten, almost two-to-one on the
, ,; question . of final passage, me re
Auctions made in . the bill depre-
aented " the ; rroun's ' greatest V tri
umph since the new deal began.
i -v In the Tfirstt place, President
Roosevelt asked f or a program to- they -itatedthey arose"; to; leave
taling $3.060,000,000, including a only to bo accosted by a young
half-billion . dollars ? tor., foreign woman employed by: the broad
loans. 6o great did the opposition ca8ting company, who asked them
to some provisions become - that, Wny tey were leaving so soon,
when the measure was intriduced : When the Gollobs informed the
fcv. Senator Barkley . (D-Ky), tne
total had dropped to $1,800,000,-
000,' Then, the senate Dancing were not much interested in pout
committee pruned another $310,- leal affairs, the plaintiffs said, the
000,000 from it. By comparison woman called f Or a bodyguard,
with the bill asked by the presl- who struck Mrs. GoUob down, re
dent, that enacted today had been f erring to her as a naxL
ait-by-$l,45,00r,OOe. a
Mail Car Crew Battles
B audits Who Tried
To Seise Army Payroll
One of Robbers Shot and
in Thrilling Gun
Mail Car
CHAMPAIGN, HI., July
attempted to seize a $56,000 army payroll on a speeding train
today but were routed after a gun battle with the mail car
crew.
One of the robbers was
he was captured.
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It Was Surprise
To Find Balloon
In the Backyard
LONDON, July 31.-P)-Lon-
don's balloon barrage backfired
today with a loud "pouff" when
one of the huge sausages defla
ted and dropped into a subur
ban backyard and another was
destroyed by lightning.
The housewife behind whose
home the one . balloon dropped
endeared herself to all lovers
of understatement by remark
ing: "I was quite surprised to see
a balloon in my backyard."
Nine of the captive balloons,
which are attached to cables
and ring the city as a trap for
raiding aircraft In case of war,
have been destroyed by light
ning and other causes since the
idea first was pat into opera
tion. . ... . '
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July Rain Normal
Despite hot Wave
Salem was about as dry as the
Sahara every day of the month
of July except the 3rd, when a
pre-holiday shower netted .41
inches of rain to account for most
of the .47 Inches rainfall meas
ured.
This rainfall, together with .05
inches on the Fourth and a trace
the following day, gave the month
just closed a reading slightly
above the .40 mean average for
July.
The paucity of rain was regis
tered In Willamette river read
ings which dropped two feet by
months' end from the -1.9 foot
reading at the beginning of July.
The month was not unusually
dry, however. There was less rain
in 1938 with .36 Inches and in
1937 with .13 inches. Wettest
July on record was in 1916, when
2.72 Inches of rain fell.
Bombay Goes Dry
With Last Spree
BOMBAY, Aug. l.-(Tuesday)-
(AV-An expanded police force
Cleared Bombay's 8,500 bars and
liquor shops early today to inau
gurate the first new prohibition
law since repeal in the United
States.
As midnight strikes the date of
enforcement, agents with report
books immediately took inventor
ies of the stocks of all liquor es
tablishments and sealed them for
excise officers who will cart tbem
to government warehouses.
For the natives of Bombay and
suburbs it was prohibition; for
Americans, Englishmen and other
Europeans it was rationing. Li
quor flowed freely in the nnai
celebration.
Cantor Sued by
Who
LOS ANGELES, July Zl.-Jf-
An echo of a March 27 disturb
ance in a Hollywood broadcasting
studio was heard today, with- the
filing of a $751,000 damage suit
against Eddie Cantor, screen and
radio comedian. . r
. Plaintiffs in the actio n .were
Charles Gollob, apartment house
manager, and his wife, Mrs-.Tllsle
Gollob, - who stated, they went to
the studio, to hear Cantor broad-
When the. broadcast, ended,
I Tonnr woman thev had seen after-
broadcast programs b e f o r e and
- . UOIIOO, me compiauu cnarscu.
Say They
Captured, Other Escapes
Battle in Speeding
of Express
31 (AP) A pair of bandits
shot and broke his leg before
His companion was believed
wounded but escaped in an auto
mobile driven by a confederate.
State highway police immedi
ately formed a road blockade in
an effort to intercept the fugitive
and his chauffeur.
Earl Boothman, mail clerk who
played a heroic role In the gun
battle, gave this account of the
wild west foray:
The bandits, in overalls, board
ed the "blinds" of a four-car 1111-
n o i s Central passenger train
bound from Chicago to Cham
paign, at Onarga, 111., 83 miles
south of Chicago.
As the train pulled out, they
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Farmer Gives up
Self to Sheriff
Besieged Man Who Killed
Police Chief Is Held
in Lexington
LEXINGTON, Ky., July Sl-tP)
-Tall, hollow-cheeked 70-year-old
Charles Allen, wealthy retired
farmer, surrendered today ending
a 30-hour manhunt by possemen
following the shooting to death of
Cynthiana Police Chief George
Dickey and wounding of eight oth
ens Saturday night at Allen's
barn.
Allen, placed in the Lexington
city jail after daybreak Bald he
would have given up after the
chief was killed but he "was
afraid." He was brought here by
officers for safekeeping after he
had telephoned Harrison county
officials from the home of a broth
er at Jacksonville, 10 miles south
of Cynthiana, that he would sor
render if given protection. j
The shooting. Saturday night
followed an attempt by Chief
Dickey to question Allen regard
ing reports he had enticed a young
girl into a barn in the rear of the
Allen home.
Today at Cynthiana Assistant
Chief of Police Ray Flghtmaster
made public an affidavit of 15-year-old
Evelyn Castle saying she
was in the barn when officers
sought to arrest Allen. The affi
davit added that Allen bad fired
at her when she attempted to flee
after Cheif Dickey appeared. The
girl also told of alleged Instances
of Allen's improper relationships
with her over a period of several
months.
Tot Begs to See
Ganie; He's Killed
BRUNSWICK, Ga., July 31-
(JFy-Thiee-yeiT-ote Paul McMil
lan begged his mother, Mrs. J. M
McMillan, to let him watch his
older brother and other small
boys play baseball today. She fi
nally gave him permission. 1
- One of the youngsters swung
at a pitched ball and missed. The
bat struck Paul at the base of his
skull, kUling him instantly.
Studio Fans
Were Beatein
attempted to protect his wife but
was set upon : by Bert Gordon
Cantor's assistant, known profes
sionally as the "mad Russian."
The alleged assaults, the Gol
lobs charged, occurred in spite of
their : faithfulness in applauding
during the regular broadcast: at
the instructions of a "cheer lead
er." In applauding,' . the Gollobs
said, tney were willing to overlook
the circumstances . that Cantor's
offerings ..consisted f of , "ancient
and not very funny gags." .-
f . They .demand $500,000 general
damages, $250,000 punitive sdam
ages and $1,000 to cover medical
expenses.'
t The complaint includes as de
fendants .Gordon, the, Reynolds
Tobacco company, sponsors of the
program, and the Cola m b 1 a
Broadcasting system.; - ; :-;k
Cantor was sued under his pur
ported true same of Isador Iskl-
vitch. - I-
Strike Rioting
Causes
To 46 Persons
Crowd of Strikers Mill
About Fisher Plant
in Cleveland
200 Non-strikers Under
Siege in Huge "Works
of Body Finn
CLEVELAND, July llP)-
Thousands of strikers, sympa
thizers and spectators milled
about General Motors' huge
Fisher Body plant here tonight
where more than 200 workers
were besieged following rioting
which sent 46 persons to hos
pitals.
Anthony Peterson, chief of
company police, said the over 200
nonstrikers trickled out of the
plant one by one during the night
and that about 230 remained
inside.
The situation was tense follow
ing Safety Director Eliot Ness
order to clear the area within 500
yards surrounding the plant by
S a. m.
Food supplies were taken into
the factory tonight in a mail
truck as special delivery parcel
post packages.
Pickets said those who came
out of the plant were "mostly
office and maintenance workers
and we don't care much about
them." They expressed determina
tion to "keep this plant closed."
Strikes . have been under .way . in
ten other Genera Wlotors plants.
Crowd Dwindles
By Midnight
At midnight the crowd dwindled
to less than 1,000 and unionists
said there would be no serious
physical resistence to police
orders.
Ness said 150 policemen would
stand guard throughout the night.
Police Chief George J. Matowitz
ordered police on 12-hour duty.
Ness declared his proclamation
curbing picketing would go Into
effect at 8 a. m. tomorrow, and
would limit pickets to five at each
gate. Several union leaders con
tended he had no legal right to
limit the demonstrators.
The company filed suit asking
limitation of picketing, and a ban
on violence. Hearing was set for
tomorrow.
Workers Fed
In Cafeteria
The besieged workers were fed
in the company cafeteria and cots
were provided from the stock that
was used during the labor trouble
of 1937. Many of the men slept
in their autos parked in the fac
tory grounds.
Mounted police stabled their
horses in the plant and laid in a
store of tear gas and supplies.
About 700 die makers had been
working on tools for new 1940
model autos when the strike
started. The factory was sched
uled to go into production tomor
row. Total employment would
range between 5,500 and 6,000
workers.
A police-estimated 5,000 to
6.000 CIO United Automobile
Workers and sympathizers, wear
ing papier mache helmets, over
turned non-strikers automobiles
and fought with about 100 police
men as the factory reopened this
morning after a weekend shut
down. A new clash occurred late to
day in full view of Ness and Mayor
Harold H. Burton, inspecting the
turbulent strike scene. Mounted
police charged the picket line to
clear the way for a company car.
A brief melee followed, the crowd
smashing windows of the auto
mobile with a shower of rocks.
Three men were arrested amid
boos and catcalls.
Tear gas clung thickly over the
east side strike area this morning
and fire hoses were turned on
the crowd before the fighting
ended.
Sailor Falls of f
Cruiser, Strokes
Iiito "Dry Dock"
: PORTLAND, July ZlPf
Naval recrmlting station here
. said Charles J. Schmitt, mem-
ber of the USS Nashville's crew,
" feU overboard today, as the ves
sel passed . Cathlamet, Waslu,
4 durante down' the Colambla riv
er to Los Angeles. . '
Schmitt swam ashore and
went into "drydock" at a CCO
camp, the station reported. He
.will be sent here by army truck
pending Instructions from the
Nashville.
' The Nashville and four other
cruiser sailed at the end of
Portland's ten-day fleet celebra-
Injury
FARM. LOSS
O
Move in Veteran
Case not Certain
Hayden and Wife of Man
Committed to Agylum
Talk With. Judge
What action may be taken re
garding tne war veteran over
whose hasty commitment to the
state hospital Saturday Justice of
the Peace Miller B. Hayden pro
tested remained uncertain yester
day after Hayden and the man's
wife bad conferred with County
Judge J. C. Siegmund.'
Hayden asserted Saturday the
veteran was taken into custody
and committed to the hospital two
hours later without any notice
being given his relatives as re
quired by law in non-violent In
sanity cases.
Attention In. the case was
turned yesterday toward arrang
ing for the care of the! man's wife
and ehildren- HaffeiJ said; and
the decision as to what might be
done about the commitment left
up to her. He said two courses
were available, habeas corpus pro
ceedings, or presentation of the
matter to the grand jury, but
stated he did not know which, if
either, might be followed.
Declaring the commitment pro
ceedings were regular, Judge Sieg
mund yesterday said he did not
care to go into details of the case
but felt he had acted properly in
taking the word of Dr. V. E.
Hockett, county physician, in de
ciding the man should be sent to
the state hospital.
Attached to the files in the case
were notes and letters written by
the veteran.
Crews
For new Trestle
The 1000-foot Oregon Electric
railway trestle at WUsonville that
was destroyed by fire Saturday
night will be replaced at once,
E. B. Nelson, Salem freight agent
for the line, said yesterday. A
construction crew went to work
Sunday clearing away debris left
by the blaze and Is expected to
complete a new trestle within
three weeks. i
Meanwhile the Oregon Electric
freight trains are being routed
over the Southern Pacific tracks
between Albany and Portland and
are giving "service as usual,"
Nelson said.
The trestle, constructed more
than 25 years ago when the elec
tric line was extended to Salem,
was extensively rebuilt during
the past year. '
Storm Halts Job
On Sunken Craft
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., July 31.
-VP)-A sudden electrical Btorm,
accompanied by a 60-mlle-an-hour
wind, slowed salvaging of the
sunken submarine Squalus today
as- navy men bent their efforts to
ward a second attempt to lift the
$4,000,000 vessel and her ZS
dead.
Weather permitting, officers
said, a second attempt to lift the
submersible from which 33 men
were rescued after she plunged
240 feet to the ocean floor , May
23, may be made "la about ten
days." . ; - j'
Carter, Sentenced
To two Year Jolt
.' Robert ' Carter,' 35, of . Salem,'
was sentenced to two years in
the state penitentiary when he
went before Circuit Judge L. H.
McMahan yesterday, waived , in-,
dictment and pleaded" guilty to a
charge of contributing to the de
linquency of a minor boy. He had
been bound over to! the grand
jury earlier in the day from Jus
tice court. i
1 - City police arrested Carter Sun
day on complaint of the hoy's
parent I . -r-v
Open Work
HEAVY IN EASTS DROUTH
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Hot and rainless days brought heavy damages in eastern states, where
no rain had fallen in more than a month. The typical scene In
the top photo above show calves nuzzling dry dnst in the bed of
what was once a stream as they search for water. They had to drink
from buckets filled from storage tanks and carted across the farm
land. Lower photo shows Sylvenns Dumond, fanner of Poughkeep-
sie, a x, and nis six children contemplating a dried np welL
Local Work Waits
Layoff Decisions
New Projects May not Be
Started if Dismissal
Plan Followed
When work will begin on the
state tuberculosis hospital and on
Mehama and Keizer schools de
pends upon the action taken con
cerning lay-off of long-time WPA
employes, local WPA officials said
yesterday. Advice from Washing
ton, DC, has been asked concern
ing whether to start these pro
jects, for which money has been
appropriated. .
From Washington Commission
er F. C. Harrington Saturday tele
graphed all state work relief ad
ministrators to suspend action in
dismissing persons who had 18
consecutive months or more, of
WPA employment until final ac
tion is taken by congress on a
proposal to modify the relief act's
requirements.
No dismissals had been made
In Marion or, Polk counties and
it is not known locally how many
WPA workers . in these counties
would be affected by the action,
since lists for dismissals were be
ing prepared in Portland.
In case the act is not modified,
it might result in the lay-off of
enough workers in this vicinity
to make it inadvisable to start
many new projects until others
are completed.
Nobody Wants to Take Over
Job as "Death's Hired Man
OSSINING, NY, July 31-P)-No
one stepped forward at Sing Sing
prison today to take the place of
the ailing executioner, Robert .G.
Elliott, who has thrown the elec
tric switch of death on some 340
felons. - "
: The. two prison employes . best
qualified to act as deathhouse un
derstudies of .''death's hired-man"
who never Uked. his , work de
clined tot be considered for the job
In the', even t : Elliott . Is j unable .to
conduct "the execution of Arthur.
Perry.or wife-killing; on Aug. 24.
- "Not interested,'! they said. ;
- The' hours, are. short and work
is paid for at the rate of $150 per
head. Elliott has made as. much
as $600 in one night and. $1,150
In one. week, which , included" the
execution of .Bruno , Richard
Hauptmann In 'New Jersey for the
Lindbergh baby kldnap-murder.
. While the v Sing - Sing experts
were "not interested," the Massa
chusetts prison which is on El
liott's six-state execution circuit
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Police Wound Man
In Making Arrest
Four Portland Policemen
Battle With Fugitive
Held to Be Mix
PORTLAND, July 31. (JP) A
man Portland police tentatively
identified as Robert Richard Mix
26, was shot and seriously wound
ed tonight in a gun fight with four
Portland detectives, during which
Detective Leonard Shaffer was
wounded.
The officers were attempting to
arrest the man on auto theft com
plaint and a charge of having
broke Jail twice at St. Helens, Ore.
However, St. Helens authorities
said they "had heard that a man
believed to be Mix had been picked
up at Sioux City, Iowa.
Detective W. L. Brian said the
officers had received a "tip" Mix
was living at a northeast Port
land residence. They encountered
the man in a car, which had been
reported stolen yesterday, near
the house. He fled into the house
and officers surrounded it.
He emerged from the front, fir
ing. A bullet struck Shaffer in the
left forearm. Brian said the man
turned and ran toward the rear of
the house still firing whereupon
Brian opened fire, one shot pene
trating the victim s abdomen, an
other striking him in the leg and
another in the wrist.
Mix was jailed at St. Helens lest
winter on a larceny count and
broke Jail Dec. 31.
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had applications from several un
employed master electricians for
the .'executions this week of two
Boston youths for a $3.50 hold-up
killing, a $300 Job Elliott had to
pass because he is ill at his" home
in Queens, New York.
The Massachusetts authorities
chose a substitute to spin the
rheostat but refused ' to idenUf y
him other than to say he was from
"out of town." ' .;
. Kevi of .Elliott s illness grape-
vined-Into ; the .death-bouse here,
where 1 9 men await the walk" to
the chair. Some were reported to
be heartened by. this . turn,' hope
ful' that if Elliott does not resume
his nerve-shattering occupation no
substitute may be found and they
may be reprieved. - v
. Elliott, a veteran of IS years at
the switch. Is said to have become
unnerved daring, an execution in
Massachusetts some time ago at
which he found the electric chair
faulty and dangerous for bystand
ers and. the executioner, .
Maintenance
Chief Raised
To top Post
Department Employe Is
Selected From Field
of 24 Men
Takes Over Post Just 4
Years After 1st Job
With Bureau -
Four years to the day from the'
time he became maintenance su
perintendent of the Salem water
department Carl E. Guenther to
day will assume the managership
as a result of action taken by the
water commission at a special,
executive session last night
The commission elected Guen
ther to succeed Cuyler Van Pat
ten, manager from August 1,
1935, until his death last July 4.
His salary was left undetermined
and no successor as maintenance
superintendent was named. Com
missioner O. A. Olson said the
maintenance post would be left
vacant "Indefinitely."
Decision "Not
Unanimous
While the vote by which Guen
ther was elected water manager
was not revealed, Commissioner
E. B. Grabenhorst said he felt it
should be made known that the
commission's decision was "not
unanimous."
Chairman I. M. Doughton, who
was known to favor Guenther's
election, said the appointment
was considered as "a promotion
for a faithful, proven employe."
Commissioners E. B. Gabriel and
Van Wieder also were present at
the meeting.
Lee A. McCallister of the state
engineer's office was understood
to have been the other principal
contender for the manager's posi
tion out of a field of 24 appli
cants. Guenther and McCallister both
were applicants tor the manager
ship when VanPatteh' was ap
pointed to the position in 1935.
Guenther received one vote and
VanPatten four when the matter
was settled. His appointment aa
maintenance superintendent fol
lowed a few days later.
"I'll try to carry on as I have
for the last four years for both
the department and the citizens,'
Guenther said last night after re
ceiving notice of his advancement.
Manager Native
Of Nebraska
The new manager is 51 years
old, a native of Grand Island,
Neb. After engaging in the con
tracting business with his father
and in the electrical business, he
served as city electrical inspector
in East St. Louis, 111., in 191
and 1911, and also was employe
at the electrical plant of the East
St. Louis & Suburban Railway
company. Enlisting in the United
States navy as electrician's mate
in 1913, he served in the Medi
terranean during the World war
and advanced to the rank of chief
machinist's mate before he re
ceived his discharge in 1921.
From 1921 to 1928 Guenther
served as manager of the munici
pal water and light plant at Hor-
ton, Kan., installing two diesel
electric units, and from 192.8 to
1932 he managed the municipal
water and steam-electric plant
and served as city engineer at
Wellington, Kan. His wife before
their marriage was city clerk at
Horton.
Guenther came to Salem in
1932 and was employed In con
struction and surveying work un
til his appointment to the water
department maintenance superin
tendency August 1. 1935.
The Guenthers live at 1890 Fir
street.
She's not Child
Bride, She Says
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.. July
Sl.-iflVKathryn Kratzdom Mal
lette is no "child bride," she as
serted in Justice court today when
she declared she was 18 years of
age.
She was arraigned with her hus
band. Jack, and Ray Dunbar, on
fugitive warrants Issued in con
nection with larceny and kidnap
ing charges In Colorado. Mallette
and Dunbar are charged , with ab
ducting the girl. Colorado 'auth
orities assert she is only 14. The
three have waived extradition.
:They were arrested while work
ing on ranches in this district.
GOI? Picnickers
OREGON CITY, July. 21.-flV .
Oregon ; wni . be J the spear-head
of a nation-wide swing to the re
publican party in 1940, Kern
CrandalL republican state chair-
man, predicted : yesterday at a .
Clackamas county republican
picnic. '
Crandall praised leadership in
Clackamas county where only one
democrat survived a 'county re
publican : landslide In the lasfc.
elections.-