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ADOLPII won youS5 Nefl Blomenstela first place In the char
acter representation dlrisloa of . yeaterday Iternoon'a spirited
American lion Junior pwadew-Witb "Mein Kampr der Ma
nrxn, "neiT on his lips, a eater ai&ia side and bis boots tn goose
step gait, the characterization waa nnmistalcable. : '
Pittenger Named
Sheriffs Deputy
89 -Year -Old Legionnaire
to Be in ; Charge of
Crime Division
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Lawrence Lv Pittenger. 3 -year-aid
Legionnaire and i former Ore
gon state policeman . and . Kansas
City of leer, was appointed deputy
sheriff in charge ot criminal mat
ters by Sheriff A. C. Burk here
yesterday. He will assume his du
ties at once as successor to B. G.
Honeycut, whose badge was turn
d in-Wednesday. . .
i "Mr. Pittenger comes, to this of
fice with the highest recommen
dations ot the officers he worked
with and under and X feel he will
he a big help In this line, ot work
tn Marion county Bnrksald in
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County to Point Bridge
Over Breitenbush River
t Built more than IS years ago by
the federal government, the 15 Or
foot steel bridge span across, the
Breitenbush - river three - miles
from Detroit will be painted by the
Marion county bridge crew next
week. This will be the first time
it has - been painted since the
county took It over some years
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Silverton Red
Game in Wichita Semi-Pro
WICHITA. Kas.. Aug. 1
Two west coast nines Silverton,
Ore., and the Los Angeles Shells
rallied late to change apparent
defeats to slugf est victories over
midwestern teama t In opening
games of the national semi-pro
baseball tournament tonight be
fore 10,000 fans.,, v ..
The SilTerton Lumbermen trail
ed 1 to S nnttt a i 4-run eighth
inning, i then held : oft a closing
threat, to win S to 8 over Golden,
Colo. ' Husky Roy Helser ; let me
Colorado champions down with t
hitv and struck. out 14 batters
while his mates pounded. Bud
Rose and Warren Freshour, . who
relieved Rose ln.the fatal eighth,
tor 10 safe blows.
SILVERTON, Aug. 11 Total
darkness, didn't dim the joy of the
crowd that Jammed McGlnnis park
here rriday night to receive the
play-by-play wire account ot the
Silverton Red Sox'e S to victory
oxer the Golden, Colorado, Coors,
as the national semi-professional
baseball tournament opened ; in
Wichita, Kas. . .
They .reyeled as Roy". Helser
struck out 14 to give , Silverton
the victory that advances the Sox
into, second-round play, with the
clamor crowing ' loudest in .' an
eighth inning that saw the. Sox
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LEGION JUNIORS ON PARADE yesterday afternoon, as caught
by a Statesman photographer. From left, Drum Majorette Delores
Caldwell, who led the hip-swinging negro Junior band; Horace Beldln,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Smart, Salem route one, holding the nanny
EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR
Letch Quizzed
In Effort to
Learn Errors
I ueiense ruts w ltness
Through Long Probing
on Stand
Discrepancies Revealed
in Testimony of
House Painter
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug.
-The defense hammered away to
day at John I Leech in efforts to
bring out discrepancies In testi
mony of the Portland, Ore., house
painter at the deportation hearing
of Harry Bridges, west Coast CIO
labor leader.
- - Leech twiddled his thumbs. Tan
bis fingers over his face and hair
and teetered in his chair as he
snapped answers at Attorney Au
brey Grossman.
When Grossman brought the
questioning around , to Leech
working on painting and decorat
ing jobs while not a union mem
ber, Thomas B. Shoemaker, chief
of the government's counsel, pro
tested against the Interrogation on
"so-called scabbing."
Examiner " James M. Landis
ruled that it it could be shown
the witness was hostile to organ
ized Jabor the questioning was
relevant.
: "As I understand it." Landis
remarked, "this questioning is not
from the point ot anti-labor bias.
This is an attempt to Impeach
the credibility of the witness.
-I think we all realize that the
testimony of this witness if be
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Sox Win 1st
score four times on the strength of
singles by Kirsch, Pesky and
Schwab, a triple by Andy Hurney
and Bonneys sacrifice fly. -
Up to the fifth it was 0-0, and
as the Coors crowded a tally home
in that Inning on two singles and
an error the Silverton faithful
held their breaths. The Sox, with
Pesky, Schwab and Hurney all
singling.! drove one across in the
first of the sixth,, but the Coors
went out in front. with a run in
their half, accomplished on two
blngles. . ':j .- .
: The - seventh was ': uneventful,
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Non-ffi District
Audit Is Okehed
: The Marion ' county non-high
school board wound up its busi
ness for the 1938-39 school year
yesterday afternoon by accepting
the completed audit of the non-
high district's books and ordering
tuition and ether bills paid to the
regular school districts.
The board also tentatively ap
proved district contracts for the
1839-40 year. They will ; carry
light revisions from those of the
pas V it was Indicated '
Local
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Fires Possibly
National Office
Grand Parade
Climaxes big
ion Event
Two-Hour Long Event Is
Viewed by Thousands
on
Streets
Eugene Radiators Given
First Prize as Best
Marching Unit
By WALLACE A. SPRAGUE
"Marche milltaire" was the
dominant motif of downtown Sa
lem last night, with a dash of
1812 Overture" and "Egmont"
thrown in as seasoning, as an es
timated 2000 marchers wound
out to Sweetland field along
crowd-lined streets. in the elimac-
tical parade event of the current
American Legion convention.
From Petty-clad drum major
ettes to real McCoy top sergeants
of the Seventh US Infantry, every
marcher and every member of the
crowd was stirred by military mu
sic played with enthusiasm by
some 25 bands and drum corps
from Legion posts all over the
state which participated In the pa
rade. The theme continued to be
carried out during a twohour
military and drum corps demon
stration on Sweetland field.
The military note was set at the
start of the line of march by the
appearance of Brigadier General
Thomas E. Rilea, grand marshal
of the parade, and his staff, who
passed mounted In front of Gov
ernor Charles A. Sprague, Sena
tors Charles L. McNary and Ru-fus-
Holman, former Governor
Charles H. Martin, Representative
James Mott, National Command
er Stephen F. Chadwick, Oregon
Department Commander John A.
Beckwith, and other dignitaries
seated on the reviewing stand on
Sweetland field. , ,
Reserve Officers . '
Form Unit ''"",
Immediately following was the
band and contingent of the Sev
enth Infantry - from Vancouver
Barracks, succeeded In turn by a
company Ot 85 officers of the re.
serve corps from Portland, Salem,
Corvallis and other valley cities
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RFD Lads Gather
In National Meet
- PORTLAND, Aug. llJPy-Th
43ra t anniversary of me unitea
States' rural free delivery service
will be observed here when dele
gates from all sections ot the na
tion gather Sunday tor the na
tional convention ot the National
Rural Letter. Carriers' association.
The conclave, opening Monday,
will run through Friday. -
The Weather
Fair today and Sunday
with morning cloudiness in
-valley, fogs on : coast. Max. '
temp.-. Friday 79, mlm. 69,
river : ,-8.9 f W northwest
wind, . . .,.
Leg
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goat that -won him the "largest pet award; "Care Man" Lynn BIu
tnenstein, of 667 Knapp street, who took the award for the most un
usual costume; Emu Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James 8. Da
vis, 109O North Sth street, with her Mexican Chihuahua that won her
POUNODO 1651
Salem, Oregon, Saturday
Incendiarism Is Held
Likely iii BoiSeBlase
As Gasoline Can Found
Wenatchee's Fire Shows
Linked With Northwest's Strug of
Mysterious Conflagrations
' BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 11, (AP) Ashes of conflagra
tion that caused nearly $1,000,000 damage and threatened
the lives last .night of 600 boxing fans smouldered today
while police and fire officials probed possibilites of in
cendiarism. Police Chief Austin Utley reported tonight that a two-
gallon can containing some gaso-O
line and covered with finger
prints was found in the street in
front of the buildings including
the Falrvlew sports arena de
stroyed in the blase.
"The police department is as
sisting Fire Chief Frank Pulaski
in investigating the cause of the
fire," Utley announced.
Fire Chief Pulaski said:
"We are. making a thorough
investigation, but hare not
learned, the cause of the fire. It
broke out so suddenly and pro
gressed so rapidly and Intensely
it is difficult to find out what
started it. We may never know."
WENATCHEE, Aug. ll.-(ff)-Still
fighting a "water resistant"
340,000 Biles-Colman - fruit box
warehouse fire that has been
burning 18 hours, Fire Chief H.
W. Bryson and State Fire Marshal
William A. Sullivan tonight
agreed that "we hare no evidence
involving . incendarism in any of
three fires last night."
Police Chief Carl Hansen de
nied widespread rumors here that
a pyromaniac suspect had been
Jailed.
Mrs. Ella Jones, her four chil
dren, and Miss Vernol Smith all
sleeping, were routed from beds
as flames licked at their rooms
at dawn this morning when two
newspaper photographers saw the
blaze while developing pictures
taken of the box warehouse fire.
No Air Raid Fear,
Declares Johnson
PORTLAND. Aug. 1 l-P-Am-eriea's
defenses are "adequate for
this hemisphere," Louis A. John
son, acting secretary of war, said
tonight on his arrival in a giant
army air transport plane, v
. He said there would be "plenty
of bombers and pursuit planes to
protect the north Pacific coast In
event of an Invasion" and asserted
America's air defenses were far
ahead ot the rest of the world. ;
"Why England : and -France are
waiting , for our i engines : before
they can make routine crossings
of the Atlantic ocean, he sald.v
- He said all air .bases of the na
tion Including the newly ap
proved base, at Tongue Point at
the mouth of the Columbia river
in Oregon were to be improved
under the expansion program au
thorized ty congress and the pre
sidents J -
v - if
Morning, August 12, 1939
Fight Foreseen
no Evidence It Could Be
2 Youths Confess
Mclntire Robbery
Robert Carter and Friend
. Held at Reading for
Local Officers
Two young men under arrest
at Redding, Calif.,' have confessed
that they were the pair who last
Saturday afternoon bound and
robbed Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mc
Intire at their residence nine
miles south of Salem on the Pa
cific highway. District Attorney
Lyle J. Page announced yester
day afternoon.
One, Robert Carter, 22, was
released from the county Jail the
day before the holdup after serv
ing 75 days for 6 reckless driving.
He is still on parole from a six
months jail sentence for larceny.
The other was identified only
as Dewagne E. Lee, who visited
Carter frequently while the lat
ter was In Jail here, Kenneth
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John Ridgtcay Has Plenty
Of Cash for Hit old Age
; John N. Ridgway, Portland, had
plenty ot money today, the state
inheritance tax division i said.
Ridgway, 109 years old. Inherited
$78,000 from his daughter; who
died last December. - .
Ah Jenkins9 Records Quest
Ends as Gas Overcomes Him
- BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS,
Aug. ll-(!P)-Ab Jenkins' quest for
new world automobile endurance
records ended at 10: 08 "p.m.
(MST) tonight, halted by of fa
cials of the American" Automobile
association who declared Jenkins
and Rex Mays, relief driver, un
able to continue 'after both had
been overcome by monoxide gas.
The .order came after Jenkins
had been overcome in the 14th
hour of his projected 24-hour run
when 'i the , cockpit cover ef his
"Mormon Meteor Srd" loosened
and fumes swirled np from a split
elbow on left exhaust manifold. :
- The veteran, ptah speed driver,
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first place in the smallest pet division; and Drum Majorette Jean
Crittembe of Portland, whored the Bandon band. Story of the Junior
parade with complete list of prize-winners appears on Page Two, alone
with additional pictures. (Photos by Statesman staff photographer).
Price 3c; Newsstands 5c
Mcepcllaary
Departmental
Elections End
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Session Today
National Committeeman's
Job Hotly Sought by
3 Candidates
Assistant War Secretary
to Address Veterans
This Afternoon
CLOSING DAY'S PROGRAM
OF LEGIOX CONVENTION
All day Registration; carni
val; entertainment on downtown
streets; Streets of Paris.
8 a. m. Reveille, Seventh In
fantrjr, courthouse square; auxil
iary session, state senate chamber.
9 a. m. Legion business ses
sion in hall of representatives;
address by Louis A. Johnson, as
sistant secretary of war; election
ot officers following recess at. 10
a. m.
9 p. m. Dance, Crystal Gar
dens. Dance and Streets of Paris
close at midnight.
By RALPH C. CURTIS
They may have taken time out
to see part of the big parade, but
otherwise the American Legion
convention politicians worked
overtime Friday night with good
reason. Most of. them were totally
in the dark as to the trend in
the outstanding political battle of
the session; and if any of them
knew all the answers, ' . they
couldn't prove it, for nobody was
conceding anything. -
' The big convention battle In
volved the national committee se
lection, and on the face of things
the contest lay between Ray H.
Bassett of Salem, Joe Chamber
lain of Corvallis and E. L. "Buck"
Knight ot LaGrande. Predictions
as to who was in the lead, or even
as to who were the top pair, de
pended entirely npon the numbers
on the cap ot the veteran who
ventured the forecast.
". There were hush-hush reports
that ' one candidate - would with
draw, but these reports from vari
ous sources mentioned all three
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groggy from the; fumes, pulled
into the pit and was' lifted from
the machine. Mays jamped Into
the Meteor and roared around one
lap of the 12i-BiUe coarse before
he, 'too; waa orercome. : P i
f Mays recovered-1 partially "and
tried the high speed 'again; but
tailed to shake off the gas effects
and Jenkins appeared enable to
continue. vv
The' Jinx that has halted two
previous runs had struck again.
4 But4 this - time Jenkins had
achieved at least part of his goal
to capture tee endurance re
cords held by Captain George E.
T. Eystoa. of England. .-,
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No,119
Flames Break
Out as Salem
Viws Parade
Youth Says He Saw Fir
Downtown StartedfTiy
Three Men
One House Is Destroyed,
Others Damaged in
Series of Fires
Incendiarism was scented by
the Salem police and fire depart
ments as the cause ot at least one
of five fires that broke out be
tween 7:30 and 8:30 o'clock last
night while the- American Legion
convention parade was moving
through the business district and
past the central fire station.
One house was destroyed, the"
roof and attic ot another rained,
the kitchen ot a third damaged
and the rear ot a downtown beer
parlor gutted by the almost simul
taneous fires. Losses were believed
to have, exceeded 87000.
Flames flared brightly against
adjoining buildings and attracted
throngs of parade spectators when
fire broke out at the rear ot the
Foreman & LaBranch beer parlor,
130 Jiforth Commercial street
shortly after 8 p.m.
Three Men Tossed
Matches in Rubbish
Three, young men threw lighted
matches into the pile ot waste.pa
per and other rub Dish piled
against the frame wall where the
beer parlor fire started, Harry
Phillips, 16, ot box 225, , route
four, Salem, reported at The
Statesman office a few minutes
later. They dashed down the al
ley and disappeared into the pa
rade crowd on State street, he
said.
"I think there's something to
It," commented Patrolman Claude
Litchfield after a Statesman staff
member had -notified the police
department concerning Phillips'
report.
- Instructions were left at the
Phillips residence for the youth to
report to Chief Minto this morn- '
ing. ,
He described the three men aa
between 18 and 21 years old, dark
haired, wearing dark trousers, 1
one wearing a red sweater , and
the other two in shirt sleeves..1'
Litchfield said possibility ' of
Incendiarism also was being in
vestigated In connection with the
second fire of the series, one that-
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"Am l a Sucker?"
: Asks Joe Singer, .
Refusing to Talk
PORTLAND, Aug. ll(p
Talkr "even little bit oft the V
record' f a 1 1 e d to : interest
j Joseph F. Singer, United States -:
senate doorkeeper, on bis re-!-
tarn to Portland today.
; "1 :cant say a word about
.: polltlt, the veteran senate -
figure - protested. "Don't yon -'
know about the Hatch hUI?
Don't yon know the penalty for -
" violation of it Is removal from - -
office? Am I a sucker? Ton .
ask mer :-.-'- - v v' j' t 1
Singer wOI remain here until
the senate convenes In January,