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'page two Witness Told , To Name Price Alleged Leech Statement TelU of Visiu by ' " 'Detective" (Continued from Page 1) Leech I the statement Miss Gold man Identified aa the one she took and typed. . Leech's statement declared the offer was for information linking the Australian-born Bridges with the communist party. k Leech could not identify the Oregon man who allegedly of fered him as much as 910,000 for Information about Bridges, the statement said. The statement rare details of three visits De tec tire Browne al legedly made to Leech's Los Ange les home, and also related the vis it of the second man from Oregon. Leech could only Identify this man. the statement said, as "sec retary of the Oregon Joint chamber- of commerce., or the Oregon associated chambers of com merce. He said the man had a peculiar name, . beginning with S.T - , -.' - The statement by Leech. Hiss Goldman testified, qnoted the housepalnter . as - saying the man showed . him . two checks, one for $2,000 and the other blank, and ,told him they needed only hU sig nature to make them ralld. "I told him that as far as I was concerned It was not a question of money." Leech said. "There was only the question of my personal honor, pins the fact that I had no Information that would do the government any good. 910,000 Offered for Information Leech said he demurred and the man asked him: "Would $5. 000 would $10,000 help me to make up my mind?" An affidavit by A. C. Bundy, a fellow painter friend of Leech corroborated Leech's statement and told of a conversation be bad overheard while hidden in Leech's home. Bandy said he heard the detec tive "raise the ante" In efforts to get Information about Bridges and qnoted the officer: ' I have hired fellows before to set me Information. One of them did not get the information f paid him off. Of course,, when they left the courthouse a couple of guys picked him up for vag rancy and he done two or three years." - Bundy said Mrs. Leech was "pretty peeved" because her hus band would not accept Browne's offer. New York Rations Out Milk Supply Shortage in Metropolis Grows Worst Since ; Strike Began," NEW YORK. Aug. 18-()--The nation's metropolis, whose popu lation of more than 7.000,000 con sumes 4,400,000 Quarts of milk dally, went on 00 per cent rations tonight as the Dairy Farmers on ion tightened an upstate strike to enforce demands for higher prices to producers. The New-York milk distributors bargaining agency estimated the shortage '- tomorrow morning would be 1,700.000 carts, great est since the strike began Tnes . day. i The supply tor makers of Ice cream, condensed milk, butter and chees was drastically erutallerf hv the bargaining agency, while bak eries ana coniectioneries were struck off the delivery list in an effort tO Insure tdeonata atnfc tor hospitals and other public in stitutions. - Restaurants also were allotted scantier supplies to. permit more earlv normal home diivrtc With the CIO actively support ing tee strikers, Archie Wright, chairman of the Dalrv Farmers anion, predicted victory "in three or iour aays. : Portland Lawyer Defends Giinese . TIENTSIN, Aug. lS-iS-Barry j. kuuuu, u attorney from Portland. Ore- todY interriawauf the tour Chinese whom the Brit tab have screed to teen nr Japanese officials here on charges fi lerrorum ana said he had ob tained direct information neces sary for a writ of habeas They annotated Eastman in a.f for them, thus fulfilling one of the formalities which had prevented Issuance of a writ so far. ' A habeaa corona netltlon dismissed by the British supreme court tor China Thursday at Shanghai because neither of the two Britons who made the anneal vera friends or relatives of tit prisoners. i ; - . ' The men. wanted for altered complicity la the killing of a cus toms official la the Japanese-dominated north China government, took asylum la the British eonces- . sion. British refusal to yield them at first brought oa the Japanese .blockade of the British and French concessions at Tientsin. Tree Kills Loer GRANTS PASS, Aug. lt-ttV A falling tree killed James "Hicks' Bartle. about IS, logger. near Glen dale today. Opening Uoppfc'tcro Dance 2 riiLEs Noirra of independence 7on:n!D SoUino'o Orchestra 9 MEN AND A GIRL J ; . nop Queen Candidates Presented Tonite " t Interaission ACXXSSXOX 50 - .'4DMXSSI0 SSo d d It I o o . . In the Neu$ ELIZABETH, NJ.. Aug. lMff) -Detective George Craig noticed a youth wandering through s the streets today with a two-toot Iron chain clanging from bis leg. J -What's the Idea, son?" Craig asked.- 5 My father put. It- on so we wnn't rft in more trouble." re- niiai n.TMr4il Domenic Na tur tle. "My brother, Frank, is home with one on his leg. too, ' At hum Cralr said, he found the older boy. aged 15. The father, Joseph, a gravedigger, was out on inh. The detective said the two youths were on probation on char ges of stealing auto mo owe- acces sories. Mrs. Mae V. Lynch. Union coun ty probation officer, ordered the father hrnirhl In to take Off the chains, which were padlocked to one leg only so aa to lmpeae oui permit movement. Mrs. Lynch filed a complaint of cruelty to children against the father. : SIOCX CITY, 1A Aag. 1S-(JPf-A calliope this afteraooa blared oat the last requiem for Mrs. Iresw Ledgett, 4, aerial 1st and animal trainer who died la DaavfDe, Va after she fell, from a clrcsts track.; The tastra eat was set ap ' outside the faaeral eetabHwhmeat where re ligiou services were held, at the reqaest of aa official of the drew wit which she had heea worklmg. : RENO. Nev.. Aug. lMflV-A ne gro couple was applying tor a marriage license hero today. The clerk: -Married before:" The bride-to-be: "Yes." ? Clerk: "Husband deceased or divorced?" - Bride-to-be: " I deceased him.' WATKRBUR f . Cosusv An. 18-P)-The society editor of the Waterbary .American tele phoned Mbe Thelka Matoae, daughter of Jadge and Mrs. William Maloae of Brlston, to day, aad iatqutred: ' "Do yoa know any social newa today?" "I'm very, sorry, but I cant talk with yoa sow," was the re ply. "Yoa see, I'm getting mar ried la five minutes." -. And she was to William Morrissey of Hartford. ALGONA. Ia.. Aug. 18-(ffVLike mice into a trap raced 200 motor ists who followed a speeding Al gona fire truck into the county fairgrounds. Police were burning a pile of old tires there when the fire got slightly out of hand. Once the motorists were inside the fairgrounds fence- where it wasn't easy to get away the po lice gave them tickets for follow ing the truck. 4500 Roam Banks In Alabama Flood (Continued from Page 1) in the Alabama basin and 250 along the Cahaba. So scnte were crop losses throughout south Alabama - that the state agricultural extension service called an emergency con ference at Montgomery for Tues day. P. O. Davis, director,: said the prospective cotton harvest had been reduced one half and corn crops lost completely in sooth counties. A tropical storm which moved in from the gulf last weekend dnmped rainfall measuring from S to 16.91 Inches over central and south Alabama by dawn today. At npstate prattvllle. where Au tauga creek swelled to record heights, rehabilitation waa start. ed. Citizens were warned against possiDiuties of disease. Governor Greets Order of Moose (Continued from Page L) dency at the election session. . Delegates nresent yesterday In eluded four past state presidents W. H. Fitagerald. Portland, first head of the order in Oregon; F. ;W. Merrick, Tillamook; C. P. rooie. Eugene, and B. E. You- mans Portland. -. Hiehliahta of today's nrnrnm are: Nomination of .officers at 9 a. m. business session, aeeretarv. dictators'. luncheon at Marion ho tel at noon, ritualistic contests ai rraiernai lempie at Z p. m., alumni bano.net at 7 n. . witn Senator Charles L. McNary. mem- oer or tne Portland lodge., as principal speaker, grand ball at Fraternal temnle at . m. and the Legion frolic, fun feature of the convention, at 11: 30 n m The convention will close Sun day afternoon. Southern Tornado .Kills 1, Hurts 2 RALEIGH. NC. Aug- lS-(3)-A tornado tor through MeM alien, a Tillage : south of hero, today, killed aa invalid negro woman, in jured two persons, and damaged a few small bandings. Heavy rains falling; throughout the state daring the past 24 hoars sent many streama toward flood stage, no serious damage was ex pected, except to crops la bottom- iaaoa ana io oin roaaa. Hague Intends Keeping Laws New Liqoor Administrator Plans Cooperation With - Law Men - PORTLAND, Aug: 18 OP) Joseph . J. Hague, aew 65-year- old admlnistor of Oregon's $10,- 000,000 a Year; light r business, said today no would administer 'every liqoor law ' "It will be my purpose to bring the department Into closer contact ' with law intoreemeht officers,- Hague said. "Enforce ment la best learned where U quor Is sold. "I want to administer the Knox law with every degree of firmness enforce every law that has been enacted on liquor but at all times keep the respect of the public. The commission's bu siness is the public's business." Assistance neagea The new liquor commission pledged assistance today after the Portland Golf and Country Club complained of lack of as sistance from former commis sioners. , The former commission, Clnb President A. If. Work testified at a license cancellation hearing;. worked against the clnb when It wanted "assistance or inform ac tion. - The club bartender waa arrest ed during fleet week by commis sion agents, who charged he sold drinks over the bar for cash to non-members. The bartender pleaded guilty and was fined la the Hills boro Justice court. No Immediate action waa taken by the commission, which sug gested the club management dis cuss the situation with Hague, Martin Confident In US Airpl anes GLENDALE. Calif.. Anr. 18- (tf)-Glenn L. Martin, returned to the scene of his aircraft pioneer ing today, on the first flight he had made In 15 years. Accompanying him was his mother and business advisor, Mrs. Monta Martin, 75. It was her first transcontinental flight. "I'm back from Europe with my chin up." said the Baltimore man ufacturer, "because I know now the United States ia the eanal of. if not better than, any other coun try in building airplanes. "Germany is still ahead in air- craft production, but England and trance are coming forward rapid ly and crowding her." Martin built his first Diane in Santa Ana and waa the first to open an aircraft factory In Los Angeies. Try to Ease Over Actor Fight Fails ATLANTIC CITY. N. J Anr l&WJPy-Ef forts of the AnerlMn Federation of Tjthnr tn utu m jurisdictional dispute among; ac tors' unions blew up tonight, with president William Green of the AFL announcing they would not be resumed until the federation holds Its national convention in Cincinnati next October. The Associated Actors and Art ists of America (4H) had called on the AFL to foree the Inter national Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (IATSE) to re voke the charter It gave to the American Federation of Actors after the 4A expelled the union or vaudeville and circus per formers. The AFL last week ordered the IATSE to revoke the charter, and also proposed that the A AAA take back the AFA, headed by Sophie Tucker. Rejecting the recommendations. a special committee- of the AAAA tnreatened to withdraw. ? 0.0 00 screen,, stage and radio actors from the AFL ranks. - n ; 0 Coatlaaoae -P erforatance The Three Mesquiteers la . ' : "OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS" - . with Joha Wayne . 8tar of "Stage Coach , Also News, Colored Cartoon aad Chapter 7 of "Red Barry, - r - v 'tarring Larry (Buster) Crabbe On Our Stage at 1:30 P. M. - Set Jayne and the Hollywood Bnckaroo Program Broadcast SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY TWO BIG FEATURES . gC CONTUfTJOCS PXRTORMAXCE SUNDAY 2 TO 11 P. M. j--7 mm i a""--. asiaasuxmf Added News & Pcpeje Cartoon, "Ghosts Is the Bczk The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Lumber Men Plan Lockout, States dO Labor Chief PORTLAND, AuT. IS - () -Northwest lumber operators are "planning to lock np ahop on Sep tember 30, Harry Bridges, Paci fic coast CIO and longshore lead er, told an Interviewer today. "Lumber operators are already kiting prices on the basis of a po tential . strike, Bridges asserted. "The only ones who are talking trouble are the operators." Bridges, who, was en route from Seattle to San Francisco by airplane- to resume attendance at his Angel Island deportation hearing, also "foresees a lockout" of long shoremen when the union contract expiree September SO. Immoral Life in Bund Testified Girl Who Quit Because She Waa "Disgusted" Tells of Camps (Continued from Page 1.) s tractions oa the technique to be used.' America System la Criticised Instructions given la both the camps here and to the group in Germany, she said, were replete with criticism of American Institu tions and with praise for Adolf Hitler and the nasi government of Germany. They 'were filled, she said, with propaganda against the Jews, the Masons and the Catho lic church. At aa interim ia her testimony, John C- Metcalf, a former commit tee investigator, who once joined the bund to obtain information on it, displayed a aeries of charts, showing what he said were direct connections between the nazl min istry of propaganda and public enlightment, and the bund and its affiliates and subsidiaries here. Miss! Vooros amazed the com mittee with tales of strange mid night ! rituals and of all-night marches by bund youth members, undertaken to encourage hardi ness and fortitude. Bramble scratches were badges of honor. and pain waa to be borne in si lence She spent some time at Camp Siegfried on Long Island, she said, where the girls and bosa camps were situated in close proximity The boys and girls were seen to gether, she said, "doing things they should not do." Protests from parenta and others resulted, she continued, only In warning to youths to keep out of sight. The men among the leaders made plans to attack her, she said, and would not let her alone. "In other words," put la Rep resentative Starnes (D-Ala), "the immorality of the entire move ment appalled you to suclt? an ex tent that" "It -disgusted me," ahe said. without waiting for Starnes to fin ish the question. Recognize Robber In Artist Sketch LONG BEACH. Calif.. Aug. IS-(JP)-A woman artist present at the If, (00 holdup July 21 of a Secur ity First National branch bank went home and drew a sketch of one of the robbers. Today Deputy District Attorney William Brayton issued a com plaint against Morris Kreasler, SO of Chicago, with robbery. Acting Police Capt. Otto Faulk ner said the subject of the sketch was recognized by law enforce ment officers and Identification waa completed today with arrival of photographs of Kreasler from Chicago. Faulkner said the sketch also had been recognised by per sons when a Los Angeles bsnk was robbed -Aug. 7. He withheld the artist's name, he explained, for her protection. LAST TIMES TODAY Two Big Features Today 2 -to 11 P. M. Fraaci&ka Gael Fraacbot Toae la "THE GIRL DOWNSTAIRS" Tbst Smile StSff BSMsS SMI fftL.aSlSrtl ...TCT1KSI.. asmaTntaii m .asws o wo faaafBacSdb r I sub snares r i Oregon, Saturday Blorninjr, August 19, 1939 Queen Elaine I Rules Flaxaria Queen's Ball Is Finale for. Coronation at - iiax Feto (Coft tinned from Page ) n m.. sonv polo game at 2. tug of war between creamery and bus iness men at S:SI p.m., races at p.m..' and tho , thTee-act piay. So -Y6are 'From, MlssoarL" , by th Salem Community Players at 8 o.m.V there will be a number of special attractions to interest -the visitors, to. the festival. . The attention will be drawa to flax, the cause of all the celebrat ing, by a" flsx aad linen weaving display at.lhe city halL Looms will be. la operation both Satur day and, Sunday, and hand made linen towels and other linen goods will be on exhibit. ' Father Alcuin Is In chsrge of the wesving proj ect. - - - - - Also at the city hall will be a flax exhibit from Oregon State college which shows the process of the industry from seed to the fin ished, article. A special basketry and weaving exhibit will be shown In the base ment of the school gymnasium, across the street from St. Mary's school. Baskets, traya, and other articles will be on display during the festival. A carnival will likewise be 'in operation daring the entire cele bration and "Oscar Hopeless," thi clown, will provide laughs for all comers. Printer's Union Dropped by AFL if Failure to Pay $16,000 Assessment to Fight CIO Reason ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.. Aug. IS Mt The International Typograph leal Union "the printers" was declared "automatically suspend ed from the American Federation of Labor today for failure to pay about lis, 000 in special assess ments for organiatlon drives. William Green. AFL president, said the organization s executive council made the declaration at the close of its annual summer meeting today, but that the print- era could obtain automatic rein statement by paying np the assess ment. The special assessment of one cent a member per month waa lev led by the AFL's national conven tion in its 7 at a time when rival' ry with the Committee for Indus trial Organization was extremely high. Seats to Be Denied Green asserted that unless the payment was made, the printers would be denied seats at the AFL's national convention open ing- in Cincinnati. O.. October 4 He said "Article 10. sections S and 3" of the AFL constitution provided automatic suspension of any union three months overdue in payment of special assessments, The ITU Is listed as hsving 92. 000 members. Green said it waa the only one of 10S AFL "Inter nationals" that had refused to meet the assessment with the ex eeption of David Dubinskya Inter national Ladies' Garment Work ers' union. A fight over the ITU's seating took place at the last AFL con vention in Houston, Tex., but Green said the ITU delegates were finally seated with an understand ing the assessment would be paid. Youth. Unblamed In Death PORTLAND. Aug. lS.-CtfVA coroner s jury rreea jonn i. Ken nedy, 25, of blame in tho death of June J. Potter, 20. today. The girl waa killed August 11 when she fell from the tnrtleback of Kennedy'a automobile and was run over by another car. (s fflSID OVER t" ' i 'II KATHERINE, , vcaaa 1 : : Call Board : " BTATB i Today Retaraefthe Cisco Kid" starring War- ner Baxter, Lynn Bar! and Caesar RomeroVnd Off tie Record" with Joan Blondell andTFal TOBrIen; " Saturday Midnight show. "King of the . Tador- .World" starring Humphrey -Bogart snd Kay Francls. .SLSINORBi;- Today Double dHL Irene Dunne and Charles y Boyer In "When Tomorrow Comes atta" They Asked For If with Michael Wha- lea and Joy Hodges. ' ; .Saturday Mickey Mouse matinee. Double bill stags show, chapter S "The Ore- goa TralL" " Mirfnirht Breme Glacer Ro gers and David Ntvea In . la "Bachelor Motner. Today Ana Sheridan la "Winter Carnival" aad Joha Wayne In "New Frontiers' with Ray Corrlgan and nay- mond uatton. , tinf.i.wnrnon Today Double bilL Tho Tare MesQalteers ia "Over- land Stage Raiders' with Joha Wayne and Frandaka Gaal aad Fraacbot Tons la The Rlrt Dawnatatre. GRAND Today "Blondie Takes a Vacation." with Penny Singleton aad Arthur Lake and "Western Caravan," with nharlea StarretL Carbon Monoxide Plan Held Unsafe Yale Prof Says Alcohol Mixed in Gas Won't Eliminate Peril WASHINGTON, Aug. 1H?V A Tale professor said today a Portland. Ore., civic club's con tention that alcohol mixed with gasoline would eliminate car bon monoxide from automobile exhausts was "false" and "dan gerously misleading. In aa article Inserted la the Congressional Record by Rep, Shanley (D-Conn.), L. a Lightly, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tale, said testa had shown "not only the com plete lack of truth of propagan da that alcohol will eliminate carbon monoxide, but points to the vicious danger that such propaganda might lead to a false sense of security." Lighty referred specifically to a resolution by the Multnomah Civic club of Portland, inserted in the Congressional Record by Rep. Angell (R-Ore.). proposing a law requiring- the blend. In introducing the resolution. Angell said the Portland propo sal waa "first, to relieve the pub-' lie rrom being exposed to monox ide poisoning; and second, to aid farming communities in the use of waste fruit and vegetable products in the manufacturing; pi aicoaoi. Chinese Bishop Foresees Victory ; PORTLAND, Aug. lS-(ff)Jap-anese conquest of Asia will be fol lowed by conquest of America aad then Europe, aa exiled Chinese Catholic bishop told interviewers todsy. Bishop Paul Tn-Pia of Nanking, China, predicted the Sino-Japan-ese war would bo over ia two years, with China the victor, bat "it the . Mikado gets control of Asia, then the Japanese will be gin the conquest of America first, snd after that, Europe." Troops Ebtpand On Pole Front Slovakia Action Enables Nazis to Put Heat . --on Hungary " (Cos tin tied from Page 1.) Foirster Reviews Daazis; Parade In Danzig the aazl district lead er, ".Albert Forster, reviewed - the first, parade of the newly militar ized home defense force and said "Poland Taas become" the7 only possible attacker" of the free city. Guns and trucks and field cars "and rolling soup kitchens were in the - parade, despite Danzig's de militarised status n a d e r the League of Nations. When Forster presented a new red and black regimental flag the troop com mander replied: rwe do not want to parade. We want to fight. We want to fight for that which is sacred to ns for German blood and the home land. LONDON. Aug. ll-(Saturday) -JF-Gtrminr'n "military posses sion of Slovakia." aa reported from Bratislava, was viewed in diplomatic circles hero as a stra tegic move which was only to be expected. Such a step was regarded as likely to enable Germany to ex ert greater pressure oa Budapest by having soldiers oa Hungary's northern front, at a time .when mysterious talks are going on be tween the Hungarian foreign min u loj u -on KnmiBifc cjioufconiL'V imrf iptt Last Times Today Warner Baxter "THE RETURN OF THE CISCO KID 3 WHIT f I L r J I ' SBSSSSBSBBSS I ACTION-PACKED c.. J laS Ha g KAY FRANCIS James SUoKsMrson Jchn 0 ini$9 - Penny Slngltiofi SS5 m::::iirD ister and German and Italian of ficials. The laborite Dairy Herald as serted "Hitler has made a coup. Not tor the moment In Danzig but la Slovakia. Country Postmen Convention Ends St. Louis Is Chosen as Next Meeting Place of RFD Men PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug lZ-Pl -Thirty-five hundred delegates to the National Rural Letter Car riers' association convention left for home tonight after selecting St. Louis, Mo., for their 140 convention. a Last act of the session was re election of national officers, with Raymond H. Coombs. Church ville. N. Y., president; Leland M. Walker, Waukomis, O k 1 a., vice-president: Max B. Llghtner, Duncannon, Pa., aecretary. and William L. Fletcher, jr., Ham lin,. Tex., treasurer. Re-elected members of. the executive committee were Wiley M. ! Riedel, Madison, Ind.. Tho mas Gordon Walters. Toccoa, Ga. and Alvia . Honston, Northfield, Minn. Mrs. Ralph E. Fifield, Thet f ord Center, Vt.. was elected presi dent of the women's auxiliary, succeeding Mrs. H. G. Courtney of Norwslk. Is. Resolutions adopted asked a civil service court of appeals, increased funds for county roads and prohibition of top-opening mail boxes which subject the carriers to "injury from poinson ons spiders, wasps and others in sects which inhabit this type of box." tr JEATP Pat O'Brien Joan Blondell "OFF THE RECORD 11 (BOH. aa m m m m m STARTS SCREEN - SCREAM Y Ma Efo. ah ' f -.2 , ill P n )