The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon Wednesday Morning, August 30, 1939
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Traffic Deaths up
Long Slump
Improvement Which Began
'..V. Late in 1937 Ended;
l Warning rVoiced
. CHICAGO, Aug.- 2 9-(jA new
Increase la tralilc deaths altera
: 1 9-month tlnmp flashed the , red
light of .warning to American mo
torist! today. .-v .-is
. The national safety council re-
ported fatalities rose one per cent
In Julj in the wake of a two per
cent upturn in June, --n
It stated the upward trend, in
. those two months broke a' record
oi sustained improvement "which
. began in November, -1937, and
confirmed the ' "fear that Amer
ica's most successful traffic safety
' drive definitely has stalled." r
Daring Jnly the council counted
2,760 deaths on the streets and
highways compared with 2,720 in
Jnly, 1938. During the first ser-
. en months of 1939 it recorded 16,-
250 fatalities four per cent few
er than the 11,880 who died dur
ing similar period last year; '
. Y- " Rural Deaths Gain '
, ., Deaths in rural areas increased
for the fourth successive month,
offsetting gains . that - had been
made in the cities.'
. The safety leaders in the var
ious . urban : groups, f with death
rates for the first seven months,
were listed thus: , ;
Group 1 (over. 500,000 popula
tion) Boston 7.8; Milwaukee 8.3;
Pittsburgh 8.8. "
v Group 2 (250,000-500,000)
. Providence, Rl, 4.7; KanBas City.
Mo.. ,7.9 f Rochester, NT, 9.3.
Group 3 (100,000- 250,000)
New Bedford, Mass., 3 : Duluth,
Minn., 3.4; Des Moines, la., 3.5
Hidden Firearms
Held BnimfieldPs
SEATTLE, Aug. 29-yP)-Om-cers
unearthed a firearms cache
near Renton today, and Supt.
George W. Roup of the state re
formatory said burial of the four
- pistols and ammunition was at
trioutea to Alien Brumiield, re
cently wounded at, Portland and
accused or Killing a nurse in
hospital escape attempt. -
Brumfield escaped . from duty
outside the walls of the state pri
son at Walla Walla, where he was
serving a term for a Seattle rob
bery.
Roup said the buried "arsenal1
was found on a. tip from a re
formatory inmate who said Brum
field had led him to the firearms
when they planned a Portland
holdup. Roup said the informant
told him he later lost his nerve
and left Brumfield. .
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Depoe Diver Hurt
' In 25-Foot Leap
. NEWPORT, Ore., Aug.
-Ted Kendall, Depoe Bay, was in
a. critical 'condition at a hospital
at Toledo today, his skull frac
tured in a dive at the Newport
natatorium.
Disregarding warnings, witness
es said, Kendall dived 25 feet
Into the plunge yesterday and his
head struck the bottom.
Lulu, world's premier woman clown who'll make her Salem debut
IbnndaT as one of the lOO clowns with the Rlmgling Bros, and Bar-
nam & Bailey circus. The "Greatest Show on Earth1 restyled ana
air conditioned, brings to town 1,600 people. Nine hundred of them
re performers. Lulu, who hails from the Olympta circus, London,
KrurLand. Is makinc her first American tour. Her brand of fun-
making is said to stack up well with the big show's other funsters.
Grctis Due Here Early Tomorrow
At new Grounds in North Salem
Hey, fellers T Better practice up with those water bucket
arms.
The circus is coming Thursday.
Where? To a new stand in Salem, at Baker and Market
streets, east of the Southern Pacific tracks, City Treasurer
Paul H. Hauser was advised yesterday.
O The big show, the combined
Auto Gets m Way
Of Police Bullet
PORTLAND, Aug. 2-flVCitJ
officials listened with sympathy
today but declined to do anything
about the bullethole in E. A.
Schanen's automobile.
Tbe car was damaged during a
police fight with Allen Brum
field. alias Hulen Presley, a con
vict who later killed a nurse ana
wounded a doctor at Good Sa
maritan hospital. Deputy City At
torney Alexander G. Brown said
the oficers acted in the line of
duty.
Local Banks Following
Discount Rate Increase
PORTLAND, Aug. 29-flP-Fol-lowing
the trend of other coast
financial firms, Portland banks
increased the discount rate on
Canadian money today because of
the international , situation. The
rates ranged from 1 to S per
cent.
: Lane Rites Thursday
SILVERTON The funeral senr
Ices for O. E. Lane will be held at
the Larson and son chapel here
Thursday at 2 p.m.,-wlth burial in
the Belle Pass! cemetery at Wood-
burn.
Twenty-Thirtians
Open Convention
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-UP)
The seventeenth annual conven
tion of the 20-30 clubs opened
here today with a meeting of the
board of trustees,, an afternoon
golf tournament and an evening
entertainment with a play lea
turing Sally Rand of fan dance
fame.
Tomorrow the convention will
elect officers. Pat Emmons of Sa
lem, Ore., and M. Abbe Strunk
of San Antonio are candidates
for president.
Hero of Jailbreak Try
Dies at Age 80 Years
MEDFORD, Aug. 29-i!p)-Eighty
year old Edward D. Collins or
Goldhlll, who foiled a jail break
here in 1920, died at his home
fonr davs aro but the body was
not found until last night.
Twenty years ago Collins, al
though slugged with a window
weight, rushed a prisoner back
into a celL He locked the jail and
collapsed.
His widow is visiting in Minne
apolis.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum &
Bailey affair, will roll into town
early Thursday morning from
Portland on four trains of double-
length steel cars carrying 1800
troupers and roustabouts, 50 ele
phants, 1009 other menagerie an
lmals and hundreds of horses, the
circus' advance man said yester
day. i
Unloading animals and erection
of the show's air-conditioned "big
top ' will get under way at day
light, if advance schedule is fol
lowed. Forty one tents, nine elec
tric light plants and eight air con
ditioning plants will dot the
grounds.
Gargantua the Great, giant gor
illa, is the big show's "super feat
ure" this year. Opening spectacle
will be "The World Comes to the
World's Fair," reputed to include
in its cast 2000 people and ani
mals.
The circus will present two per
formances, one at 2:15 p. m. and
the other at 8:15. Reserved seats
will go on sale downtown at the
Central pharmacy at 9 a. m.
Thursday.
Eastern Oregon's
Fire Makes Gain
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Over Thousand Men in
Malheur and Whitman :
' . National Forests .
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 19-tJPi
More than 17,000 acres In' brash
and timber were afire tonight in
eastern Oregon's. 'Malheur and
Whitman national forests. -
. The fire, increasing its size 10,-
000 acres since the last survey.
taxed the efforts of 700 men on
the Whitman side and 400 to 500
on the Malheor sector.
Days of 'constant fighting con
trolled the 2000-acre Medical
Springs . fire near Baker. The
Chicken Hill and Cornucopia
biases were also extinguished. '
The first casualty among the
00 men employed on TJmpo.ua na
tional forest lines occurred today
when Carol Dill, Days Creek, suf
fered a fractured skulL He was In
the path Of a falling snag. Improv
ed weather conditions permitted
release of 400 fighters last, night
and another 100 wUl be discharg
ed tonight. .
Baker, the coolest spot on the
weather map, forgot summer and
prepared for autumn' after the
temperature dropped to 33 degrees
at 4:30 a.m. It was only 34 at
Bend. Even Alaska was warmer
than Oregon, Barrow reporting 34
degrees.
Bonneville Calls
For Bids on 100
Snake Bite Kits
Call for 100 snake bite kits
has been issued by the Bonneville
project.
Recent start of new survey and
land clearing operations east of
the Cascades, where the anti
social attltnde of the reptilian
population is universally respect
ed, has brought about the op
portunity for medical and drug
supply houses to obtain a slice
of Bonneville's 128,000,000 busi
ness.
Bids will be opened on Wednes
day, August 30, at the BonneviUe
administration offices. The invi
tation is the 600th call for bid-
contracts on supplies, materials
and equipment to be issued by
Bonneville's procurement division
since the project's organisation.
The snake bite kits consist of
knife, suction tube, tourniq.net.
ammonia ampoule, and iodine, ac
cording to Logan C. Stewart,
Bonneville's procurement officer
Europe's 475fl00J)00 Await Fate as Drums Roll
j GERMAN SOLDnSSWIoM of 'oi'UMIMli
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ALLIES' MAN-POWER, UNDER ARMS
France .... 2,000,000
Poland ...........V........; 1,000,000
Great Britain 600,000
Lincoln County is Host
To "Barefoot Burglar
PORTLAND, Aug. 29-0(p)-Port.
land s good-fortune in getting lid
of a youthful barefoot burglar
apparently is Lincoln county's
tough luck. Tom Burns, Portland
architect, reported to the sheriff
a shoeless lad robbed his Nelscott
beach home of $75. 1
The Invader is believed the
same one who has sneaked
through homes here for more
than a year. ! " .
Named Mill Manager
MARSHFIELD, Aug. 29-4P-The
Inman Poulson Lumber com
pany, Portland, announced today
the employment of Henry Leaf,
Coos Bay Lumber company pro
duction manager, as general man
ager. Leaf has been here 17 years.
Poland's "Big Three" inEurope's Present Crisis
gd AXIS MAN-POWER, UKDER ARMS rfp h
w !f!f2 . F-H
ilai Total .....100.000 MS
llTAHAN AfiMT-ver tenth Italian mate U in U I J L m 1 lijLlaitt ULAll
-POLISH INFANTRY A big army protecU a small country ;
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Total 3,600,000
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BRITISH TROOPS Empire's mENCH FIGHTERS Two mil-'
fuaxdlans, ready for doty again lion march t tune of "Marseillea.
New OSC Plant
Set for Opening
OREGON STATE COLLEGE,
Aug. 29 Work on the big PWA
chemistry building is rapidly Hear
ing completion so that plans of
this department of the school of
science are to begin moving in
soon after Labor day. This will
permit having everything in rea
diness by the opening of Fresh
man week, September 25, and
start classes October 2.
Rebuilding the interior of the
old "chem shack" is In progress
but will not be completed before
the second term. '
34 Counties Have 4H Qubs Entered
In Various Competitions During Fair
Thirty four of Oregon's 36
counties will be represented In
the 4H competition at the Ore
gon state fair which opens in Sa
lem Labor day, state 4H leaders
said when they appeared on the
fairgrounds this week to open the
4H buildings. Grant and Jeffer
son are not represented to date.
Livestock entries will total
about 750 head, 50 more than
the 1938 record, and will include
the first full carload of stock
from Klamath county, and also
a full canoaa eacn irom .i season
coast points will also make large
entries, and smaller shipments
will be made from other sections
of the state.
Clubs Register Sunday
Club activities on the fair
grounds will begin Monday, with
delegates to register Sunday af
ternoon. Highlights In the pro
gram will Include two new events,
the club livestock auction sale
Friday morning in the club barns.
with Ben Sudtell of Albany as
auctioneer; and the dairy cattle
judging contest to select the Ore-
tional Dairy Show on Treasure
Island this falL Sixteen counties)
are entered in this judging eon-
test, slated for Monday, Septem
ber 4.
Also three demonstration team
to represent Oregon at this na
tional show will be selected.
and Union counties. Valley and gon team to compete at the Na-
Eugene Valley District
3 For Power Setup Urged
EUGENE, Aug. 29-(ff)-Allen P,
Wheeler, county grange master,
said today petitions were in tire
lation proposing a people's vtilltx
district for the valley area. All
sections served by the Eugene mu
nicipal plant were excluded.
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SnaeTioscickl Is the president of Poland. Mar- J Josef Beck Is the foreign minister, key man m u
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"Attention I" cries the Guardsman true,
'Trust me! Ym looking out for you!
Tm h"Fz 'neath your motor's hood
Aid brothers, is my memory good!
fre got your number, and I know
When you changed oil how long ago
You 'had 'er greased.' Depend on me
To keep books on your battery !
"Relax! No need to stew or fret
For fear some day you might forget
And for such service, what's the fee?
Just skip it, pal! The treat's on meF'
USE OUR NATIONAL CREDIT CARD
GOOD M YOUt NEIGHBORHOOD AND
ROM COAST TO COAST
HE'S NOT on the tax rolls. You don't
pay him a cent in wages but no
one protects your interests more tire
lessly man the Standard Guardsman
tacked under the hood of your car.
True, he's just a slip of paper just a
record of your car's lubrication needs
....BUT he guards your pocketbook!
This hawk-eyed little "Guardsman"
enables Standard Service Men to watch
and accurately report when Safety First
is shomt"g for any one of a dozen ur
gently needed attentions. It is truly the
guardian of your motorcar investment.
a guardian against needless failure of
parts, against cosdy repair bills and de
preciation.
If you haven't one. already, ask your
Standard Service Man to put a Standard
Guardsman in charge of your car the
next time you have it lubricated or
the oil changed. From then on, youll
drive a sweeter running car and youll
be armed to the teeth against trouble!
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