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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1939)
; First! Look to the Statesman for tint news. With ita ear 'if morning press time this newspaper leads an ethers distributed lm this territory. Weather Fair with moderate tem perature today and probably Monday. Local morning fogs. Max. temp. Sat. 66, min. 40. River -1.8 ft. North wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 29, 1939 Price Sc; Newsstands Se No. 186 Ik Celelbratioim PSUNDOO 1631 .Four TTD (ui ii u u ii Paul Hauler's Column This is a day when we can't think of anything' to write so we will write about, anything. -It -will be Hallowe'en next Tuesday and e can't haunt any more houses than are at pres ent on the reser vation list. - -'- After Hallow e'en' comes All Saints' day, All Souls' day and Martin mas, In the order named. Hallow e'en is also Ad- rj a. Btiw. it. mission day in Nevada. That's something you never knew be fore. r Yesterday was the 53rd anni versary of the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty. It's been car rying the torch a long time. There ls a sign at Court and Liberty streets that says "Bus Stop No Parking." The space painted yellow where parking is prohibited is hardly big enough to park a wheelbarrow, let alone a bud. ! Bnnny Bennett, the Willam ette footballer, got bis nick name In the first game he played for Willamette. Ken Shoemaker, who ' was sitting alongside the press box, be stowed the monicker as the scribes were scratching their heads for a whlzzer. It's a good mame, for everybody has forgot ten that his -real name is Paul. Two cigar stands in Salem are operated by blind men. When cur rency is given them they always make change from a dollar. If the bill was a fiver, the customer squawks and they then know what the change should be. There is a federal law that prisoners .being transported on trains in Interstate commerce mast travel deluxe. They have to be In compartments, shut away from the general public. , Joha Lardner, sports col wjnnlst son of the great Ring, said after Chicago's fll to 0 de feat by Harvard and 80 o O , defeat by Michigan that the , Chicago end Bone,, was the busiest .crossroads hi the coun try? : J . , ' ' ' RHYMES OF A RADIO QUAR TERBACK WITH APOLOGIES TO SHAKESPEARE: UCLA If, Oregon C Double, double toil and fumble; -Tex boils and stalled ones grum ble. When C. E. Wilson was at the Louvre In Paris he was ap proached by a young man who asked him if he was an American. Wilson said he was and the boy, whom he had never seen before, asked him then in drawling tones, "Have yon seen my fa ther." Wilson, not knowing the boy's father anyway, directed him to, the statue of Venus di Milo, where many people congregated. Shortly afterward Wilson went to the statue himself and found the boy gazing at the classie figure. The boy had found . his father. Wilson . asked the . young man what he thought of the statue. The boy-looked at the "ideal fe male form" and then said: V Shucks. I know heaps o' gals la 'Bam a that can beat that." A New York hunter fired at what he thought was a pheasant and killed a cow and was fined 115. He has decided that a bird In the bush Isn't worth a Hoi stein. v .: - ' We are strictly neutral far this war. We dont care which side licks Hitler, Overalls, Old and Ripped, Prevent . Serious ' Injuries Because his overalls were old and ripped easily Glen Sparks, route four, escaped serious in jury yesterday when his clothes caught on a set screw in the shaft of a woodsaW. ; The revolving shaft not only stripped Sparks overalls and uderclothes voff - hint : hot also took off a wide swath of skin : all the 'way. around his torso.: Had not his clothing ripped lie would have been twisted Into thesaw.V-. Sparks, walked in to the first - aid depot at ' the central fire station and Was treated by Cap ' taia : Percy , L. Clark..:.,- -f .-' v- Dies Says People ; Must Determine . . . . , . WASHINGTON,. Oct Chalrman Dies (D, Tex.) de clared tonirht : "the time has come' tor the people to deter mine whether his committee in vestigating un-American activi ties shall "be constantly handi capped, embarrassed and thwart ed -by -Washington officialdom." TTla radla address, a renlv to eritclsm from President . Roose velt, topped off a stormy day. m which the committee heard hus ky ' Joseph Currao, president of the National Maritime anion (CIO) charge the maritime com mission with "subbing seamen In the back. . - Marshall Raps Publicity on Jones' Audit Statement Issued Regrets Act of City Council and Mayor No Official Effort Made to Locate Missing Recorder Regret that "publicity" was giv en to the audit of the books of City Recorder A. Warren Jones, ordered yesterday by the ways and means committee of the city coun cil and Mayor W. W. Chadwick, was expressed last night in a state ment which Alderman Frank P. Marshall said nine aldermen be side himself concurred in. Jones has been missing since a week ago Saturday. No official ef fort to locate him has been launched. Meanwhile Lester W. Barr, Sa lem accountant, was going over the books of the recorder's office. Barr indicated a report could be made on the office by tomorrow night. Alderman's Statement Says Audit Is Reasonable The alderman's statement said "Under the circumstances of his (Jones') absence such an audit is a reasonable, prudent, business like-procedure even though there is no evidence to substantiate even a suspicion of irregularity ..." It was pointed out in the state ment that Jones had been suffer ing from a severe cold and had told his secretary on leaving Sa lem Saturday that he intended to "hole in" until it improved.. It also pointed out the possibility of foul play and urged the public to "form no conclusions until all of the facts are known." Aldermen who Marshall said 'concur substantially ' in- the statement .are: .. Harold Pruitt, Glenn Gregg, C. F. French, Ross Goodman, Lawrence Brown, J. H. Nicholson, D. O. Lear, H. M. din ger, E. B. Perrine, Mrs. G. F, Lob dell and Marshall. Marshall said he had been unable to contact oth er aldermen, O'Hara Says Audit Ordered Because of Absence David O'Hara, chairman of the ways and means committee, said the audit was ordered "due to the continued absence of the recorder, Mr. Jones." Jones was last seen by Salem people a week ago Sat urday in Eugene after the Oregon- Gonzaga football game. A preliminary investigation re (Turn to page 8, col. 1) State Department Again Raps Soviet Non-Cooperation Charged In Dispute Over City of Hint WASHINGTON, Oct. M.-iffV- Tne state department issued iresn charges of soviet non-cooperattlon in the dispute over the City of Flint tonight while conflicting re ports of the captured American freighter's whereabouts were final ly resolved by word that she had sailed from Murmansk. A brief dispatch from Tass, of ficial soviet news agency, said the vessel left the Russian Arctic port Saturday night, Moscow time, pre sumably; for Germany, after re pairing her engines, whether the German prise crew which brought her there still held command and whether the American crew was aboard was not stated. A state department official said the Tass report 'was news here. The dispatch was viewed as em phasizing a departmental state ment issued earlier charging that Moscow had "withheld adequate cooperation." Ambassador Laur ence A. Steinhardt had complained that Information on the vessel was released to Tass before being made available to him. Barnstorming IndianaAvialor Confesses to Mid-Air Shooting INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2 8. -)-Ernest Pleteh,. 29-year-old, barn storming Indiana aviator, confess ed to the mid-air shooting of Carl Bivens, Missouri flying instructor, after slightly more than two hours questioning. State Police Superin tendent Don . Stiver announced tonight -Clad in dirty blue overalls, Pletch was brought here after he landed a yellow monoplane in' a field south of Bloomington, Ind., early tonight. The plane. Stiver said, was the one in which Bivens and Pleteh took off from. Brook Held, Mo. Here is the story the state po lice head related: c -''Pleteh and Bivens had been taking flying lessons In Missouri and they agreed to to aouth. Aft er they went aloft the two men started to argue.- ? - "Then Pletch took out his pis tol and shot Bivens In the bead twice. He had difficulty In landing They Scored for College Beavers ... .- v.: -'.v. - " " f : i ; . I msSS?.' . - s Two of Oregon State's gridders who starred in yesterday's 13-0 defeat of Washington State, thus keeping the "country cons ins" as the only undefeated, un tied team in the Coast confer ence. Top, Big Jim Klsselbvrgh, who spurted 84 yards for one touchdown, and below, Leonard Younce, big guard who convert ed Substitute Fallback Dow's second quarter touchdown. Oregon State Wins FromWSC13toO Corvallis Team Keeps Ita Conference Grid Slate Clear of Losses By RON GEMMELL BELL FIELD, Corvallis, Oct. 28.-(Special)-Oregon State's bur ly Beavers broke through, aerlaled over and romped around a cou rageous but outweighed, out maneuvered and outplayed Cou gar football corps here on sunny Bell field this afternoon, to win Coast conference clash number three and establish the Orange in an enviable position relative to next. Saturday's all-important Joust with mighty Troy. The 13 to 0 score, accomplished on second and final Quarter touchdowns the first by Full back Ken "Rowdy" Dow to cli max a 65-yard sustained drive and the second on a 34-yard blast through tackle by Fullback Jim Kisselburgh was but small Indication of the supremacy of the state of Oregon's so-called "country cousin" football ma chine. j That grid sang, which has moved over Stanford 13-0, Wash ington 13-7 and now Washington State 13-0. carries the north west's aole hopes for a Rose Bowl representative. And, your corre spondent Is happy to report, there were expert analyists , here this afternoon who opined all would not be milk and honey for Troy next Saturday . Although the Cougars clawed hard all the way, the Beavers didn't have to take off the wraps to tame them. They, played elose-to-the-chest football, and It was good for a two-touchdown victory that carried with it a. huge mar gin also in the vital statistics column. '.The Beaver were equally ef ficient straight ahead on power, around the ends on speed, or up and over with passes, and the huge, tough line was almost im pregnable on defense. They rolled to 208 yards from scrimmage, or a net of 182, and added 48 from passes on five completions In 10 tosses, while holding the Cougars to a net of 23 yards from scrlnt- . (Turn to page 8, coL 1) the plane near Cherry Box, but managed It and left Bivens' body there." .-" " r I Stiver said Pleteh, who had been free under 3500 bond pend ing outcome of a trial next week on charges of airplane theft at Frankfort, Ind.; had planned "to crack up his plane at the Pletch family home." - - He related that Pletch "wanted to die In that fashion." Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pletch, the aviator's par ents, live on a farm near Frank fort, la North Central Indiana. Stiver notified Missouri author ities that Pletch had waived extra dition.' He said the Missouri high way patrol would notify him to morrow when officers would be sent here to return the prisoner, who Is held on a technical charge for them, to that state. - "Bivens was hard up , and we had agreed to steal the plane and fly south together,, said the cur .(Tnrn to page 8, coL 3) . Saturday Gun Accident Kills Salem Youth Bertram Jones "Wounded Fatally Entering Automobile Tragedy Occurs on North River Road Near Grocery Bertram Jones, 16-year-old son of Mrs. Minnie Jones, 1760 South High street, was almost instantly killed about 2:45 o'clock yester day afternoon when his shotgun discharged accidentally as he was getting into an automobile near the Hilltop grocery on the North river road. The discharge from the 12 gauge single shotgun riddled his right side near the heart. Fred and Earl Jaeger, 260 Liberty road, who were with the Jones boy, told Coroner L. E. Bar rick that Jones sat down on the front seat with his feet on the running board and was holding gun between his knees, muzsle BP. Neither of Companions See Accident Happen Neither of the boys saw the ac cident. They heard the shot and turned to see Jones topple from the seat to the ground. He died almost Immediatly. Both the coroner and Sheriff A. C. Burk said It was probable that the hammer of the gun, an old model shotgun which had be longed to the boy's father, caught on the running board and fired. The Jaeger boys said that the three youths had been hunting In the river bottom since about 10:30 yesterday morning and had Just returned to their car, parked near the Hilltop grocery, when the ac cident occurred. Salem Vfrmt Aid ' .The Salem first aid ear vm called, but the boy was dead when it arrived. Jones Is survived bv his mother. a widow. Sheriff Holds Two For Walnut Theft Rinehart Smith, L. Colosky Arrested for Stealing Over 600 Pounds Rinehart Smith. 20. and Robert L. Colosky, 29, both of whom gave their addresses at route one, Aumsville, were arrested yester day by sheriff's deputies on a charge of stealing over 600 pounds of walnuts from Dempsey Glover of Sublimity. They admitted the charge. The nuts were stolen directly from Glover's nut grove before having been gathered for drying. The young men, who apparently bad no accomplices, will appear in Justice court tomorrow morn ing to plead. The sheriff's office was also in formed yesterday of the capture in Vancouver of Ray Sturgess, who has been wanted here since late In August on a charge of ob taining money under false preten ses at a local eating place. . Vancouver police were also re ported to have several charges against Sturgess, Including one of forgery. It was thought that he would be held to answer there ra ther than be brought to Salem. Nazi Plane Victim Of English Force LONDON, Oct. 28.-P)-A large German reconnaissance plane ap parently seeking information on Britain's great naval base at Rosyth fell victim today to the royal air force In a spectacular sky battle witnessed by hundreds of scots. Two German - airmen were killed and two captured when the German plane was forced down east, of Dalkeith, about six and one half miles southeast of Edinburgh. , . ; The invading plane seemingly was headed for the strategic Firth of . Forth and ' the Rosyth base. objective of previous nasi raids. In announcing the air battle. the air ministry also said British airplanes carried out successful reconnaissance flights over "cer tain areas in southern Germany' last night and all returned. News Man Named Bonneville Aide PORTLAND, Ore., Oct 18-(fl- Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonnevuie ad ministrator, said today John L. Wheeler, formerly the Associated Press , northwest , correspondent at Washington, DC, had been named chief . of the Bonneville administration's Information de partment Wheeler will take over his new duties here next week. MAN AND MACHINE COMBAT OU MAN RIVER HERE i ml hi mhhijii niiiiim wimui www.'JWilLWlli raupm, wo-ww.f-twii, iihm :rtfllili:wlliimrtiirl-lwirnnmviiiin,-r . Acres of valuable hop land are being protected by Grey Eagle bar re vetment project (pictured above) now In progress on east bank of Willamette river above Salem. Top photo showe water and land dredges at work on site of serious "wash." Toe" rock, foundation for revetment wait Is being dumped by truck In middle photo, and rip-rap experts are piecing the stone wall together in lower pnoto. French Expected To Release Men PARIS, Oct 18. -(ff)-Despite Indications of an Imminent Ger man offensive on the western front the French government pub lished an order today which was expected to release 100,000 men, from war service. The order provided that many older men and those of any age who have four or more children may return to their homes.. It followed an unofficial report that the French had sunk' a Ger man submarine, apparently in the North sea although the location was not specified. The report was given some support by a semi official announcement ., that French vessels and seaplanes had carried oat "several direct at tacks . . . and It appears one of these at least has been success ful." British Loss on Pacific Related HONOLULU, Oct iX-iflVThe Honolulu Star-Bulletin today pub lished the first report of a war time, loss to British shipping in the Pacific. ' The newspaper quoted a letter from "William William, saying he was the survivor of the coastal ship Dolphin which was sunk by mistake by British fort Suns as she entered Lyttleton harbor In South island, New Zealand. . The story said the Dolphin was entering the harbor In daylight when a fort gun was fired to warn the ship to identify herself. The ship did not answer and the tort fired a warning shot which ap parently ricocheted and struck the ship. The Dolphin sank quickly. Expects Session End WASHINGTON, Oct It-iJPf Representatlve Walter M. Pierce (D-Ore) indicated today that he expected the special session of congress to adjourn soon. He an nounced plans to return with Mrs. Pierce to their LaGrande home by automobile via California, possib ly late next week. J -J. V . V 1 .dan" Rumania Arrests 44 of Iron Guard BUCHAREST, Oct 2.-(Sun-day)-P) - Rumanian authorities early today announced the arrest of 44 former members of the pro-naxi Iron Guard on a charge of plotting to assassinate Gen eral Gabriel Marinescu, minister of public order. The arrests were made at Po test!. In the heart of the Ru manian, oil fields. ' Marinescu has been accused by members of the outlawed Iron Guard with responsibility for the execution of several hundred members of the organization since the assassination of . Premier Ar- mand Calinescn September 11. - Racing Pigeon Found PORTLAND, Ore., Oct A dead pigeon. found here Friday was identified today by an alumi num leg band as a racing bird re leased about two months ago at Lewiston, Idaho. It had been en tered in a race by Fred Paulsen, Portland, at Lewiston. 1, y J - - . J 6 - - W Friends of McNary Lose No Time in Promoting His Cause By RALPH C. CURTIS . Oregon friends of Senator Charles L, McNary who are con fident that he would, If nomi nated, be afpowerf ul candidate for the presidency and, If elected, a most capable national executive, are losing no time in promoting his cause, now. that he has raised the barrier by announcing that he will permit his name to be placed upon the Oregon ballot A. R. McKlnley, president of the Oregon Charles McNary-for-Presldent club, announced on Sat urday that Slant McNary rally would be held at the municipal auditorium In Portland on Wed nesday night McKlnley said Gov ernor Charles A. Eprague and Kern CrandaU, ebairman pf the republican state central commit tee, would be Invited to speak. Although the state central com mittee as such can have no part fh a primary campaign, Crandall ' " i . : ' 1 TV ""'"iL"'i - - "am fArmy Engineers Work on Project Crew Races to Beat Rise Of Willamette at Grey Eagle Bar A fleet of trucks, two dredges. and a crew of 65 expert workmen , are hard at work racing to beat ' Marion county's 01' Man River, ' the Willamette, to the winter rise. at Grey Eagle bar, site of another of the US army engineers' revet ment projects. One of the most serious "wash" spots along the river is located at this bar, a quarter mile above Eola bar on the east bank near the Roberts hopyard. The revet ment job is designed to block the river's threatened return to ''the old channel to the east. Kuckenberg Construction com pany, private contractor, is utilis ing the river dredge Kentucky as well as a land dredge to clear the channel and build up the bank in preparation for laying a heavy stone rip-rap protection wall .85 mile long. Rock for the wall is be ing quarried on the Glenn Creek road in Polk county and hauled through Salem to the Marion county side of the river. Twenty six thousand cubic yards will be required. i Frequent blasting heard in Sa jlem comes from the revetment I project where workmen are using I powder to break up the rock to needed size. Revetment construction is the only work shared by Marion coun ty at present under the Willam ette valley project. Strategy Ready to SHdeBfflThrough Foes of Embargo Repeal Say They Will Not - Be 'Stamps' WASHINGTON, Oct ll.-(JPf Seldom-used parliamentary strate gy waa put In readiness tonight to slide the administration's neutral ity bill through the house without change next week bjit militant foes of arms embargo repeal served notice that they would not Serve as a "rubber stamp." Administration leaders expressed confidence that they had the strength to steer the measure safe ly through, some placing the mar gin of victory as high as 50 vots However, Representative Fish (R- NT), leading the fight for reten tion of the embargo, hotly con tested such claims. . He asserted there was a good chance to reverse the verdict of the senate, which passed the bill containing the re pealer last night. Whatever the outcome, a floor fight of major proportions appears assured when the house leadership (Turn to page 2, column 2) revealed on Saturday that ' since Governor Sprague advocated the McNary candidacy at the state republican clubs' : meeting two weeks ago, and especially since McNary's acceptance, be had bees receiving letters and telephone calls from citizens desiring to vol unteer as members of a state wide MeNary club. . - . : This organization, according to Its leaden, will be unusual in that there will be no dues nor assessments: all services will bo voluntary. - Actually, there is little prospect that McNary will have any seri ous opposition . for - the preferen tial vote in Oregon; the real tight will be to line up support . for him in other states, particularly 1b the east It may be that the effort win be confined to the west and middle west, where Mc Nary's espousal of farm relief (Turn to page 2, coL 1) Aiiniversaryof Republic Basis For Violence Police Clash' With Many Daring Ohservance of Holiday Numerous Shots Heard in Various Parts of Prague PRAGUE, Oct. 28-(P)-An un determined number of Czechs and Germans were reported wounded tonight in violent clashes resulting from demonstrations in observ ance of the twenty-first anniver sary of the Czecho-Slovak repub lic. Reports persisted, but without confirmation, hat four persons bad been killedrs Shots were heard in various parts of Prague. The demonstra tions Increased in violence until midnight when the crowds began to disperse-graHually. Once the disorders subsided po lice began to relax some of the re? curity measures to enforce the nazi ban on public observance of the national holiday. Streets Blocked oft Earlier In Day Streets blocked off earlier in tbe day were reopened, but .heavily armed police continued to patrol the main thoroughfares. A cordon of police was thrown around the center of the city, iso lating that section. Although German police and storm troops had clashed with pa triotic Czechs during the day, first reports of shooting came tonight The wounded were said to have been taken to two hospitals. Authoritative figures were lack ing on the number of persona ar- (Turn to page 8, col. t) King Carol Holds Secret Meeting Shadow of Soviet Deepens Over Southeastern Capitals BUDAPEST, Oct. 28.-tiJVAs the shadow of soviet Russia deen-' ened over the capitals of south eastern Europe, King Carol of Rumania met in secret confer ence today with his foreign min ister and his envoys to Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia. (Bucharest informed sources said Russia had expressed to Ru mania through diplomatic chan nels the hope that she would reach a "means of understand ing" with Bulgaria over the prov ince of Dobruja.) Fears that Russia may be back-'' ing Bulgaria's campaign to re gain Dobruja from Rumania were said In authoritative quarters to have prompted Carol to call his ministers back to Bucharest for urgent 'talks. There was intensive diplomatic activity throughout the Balkaaa. .Diplomats saw nurrled con ferences as last-minute moves be fore the special session of the supreme soviet called for next Tuesday to clarify Russia's ob jectives in southeastern Europe. Premier Constantino Argetol- anu of Rumania and Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich of Yugo slavia conferred for four hoars in the tiny village of Vrsac on the Yugoslav-Rumanian border. Diplomats in Belgrade said that Yugoslavia had agreed to warn Bulgaria that flirtation with Rus sia might result in disastrous con sequences for the -whole Balkan area. . At Sofia, the Italian minister was closeted for several hours with the Bulgarian premier, George Klosseivanoff. He was re ported to have expressed tbe fascist government's advice against allowing Bulgaria to come under exclusive soviet in fluence. Greece, allied with Turkey, watched all moves with Interest and some concern, mindful et Bulgaria's territorial claims on Grecian soil. - Hungary, close to Italy, took a keen Interest in the jtlplomaUe maneuvering. i ' Reward Is Offered ; For Winnie Judd 1 i PHOENIX, Arix., Oct t.-m-Governor Bob Jones offered tie ' reward tonight for inf ormatkm leading to the' apprehension an4 return of Winnie Ruth Judd, in sane killer, while relatives and the ' Arizona state hospital from which she escaped Tuesday broadcast di rect appeals for her to surrender. .Jones, who has maintained he believed Mrs. Judd, 24, trunk mur deress xt two friends, to be hid ing somewhere In Phoenix, auth orised Dan Garvey, acting, gover nor, to post the reward. . v EAGLE PASS; Tex.. Oct 28. (flBorder police tonight kept a . sharp watch for the escaped Ari zona murderess, . Winnie Ruth ' Judd, after a woman answering her description, last night asked ' Dr. E. F. Gates to analyze medi cine which she claimed made beKZ2 "act crazy." - ------