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Only Sunday1 Paper The Oregow Statesman Is the only Sunday newspaper published in Salem, the onljr Sunday paper carry tag all the Salem new as -well as national and for eign press reports, v Meatier Generally fair today and probably Friday valley fogs In mornlnjr. Max. temp. Wednesday 54. mln. 41. IUv. er BJl ft. Soathwest wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAS Salon Oregon, Thursday Horning, December 21, 1939 Pries Zci Ntwastanda 6 No. 231 1 1 , i teas'.. Paul Hauter Column 12:15 p. m., shoe shine parlor Got a shine and the latest schol arly opinion on the international situation and the Rose Bowl game for. 15 cents. . . 12:80 p. m- Parker's sportery Imnarted our knowledze . of naval affairs to various members of the Any Noon Discussion and Debate - society. Including Chris Ko wltz, Jake Fnhrer, Doc Hlgglns and Jim Kichol son, sr. Was careful to see if any spies of . foreign gov ernments were aui tt. uuei. )i hiding behind the golf club dis play to catch our weighty words. - Ave were finally outranked by Brazier Small, an ex-sailor of the : sea and air. . - 1:00 p. m.r Commercial book store Where - we tried to play Home, Sweet Home on a toy xylo phone with only mediocre success, We are not very graceful on the grace notes and fall flat on the flats. v 2:30 p. m., Capitol building Where we watched three strong xaen delicately placing tinsel on sV big Christmas tree right smack In the middle of the rotunda. There are Christmas trees bloom ing all over. . 2:45 p. m., Capitol corridors Saw Max Alf ord, who is now state police captain, and congrat ulated him. He doesn't get to wear his pretty blue breeches so much In his new Job, because It's headquarters work. Wandered up . to the license bureau end of tbe building and found people buying those tin plates that come two for five. Nice Christmas gift. 3:00 p. m., Creech's chemist shop Where we discussed with J. Creech weighty problems con cerning the future of the linoleum Industry and how the tailoring business will measure up. Drank one coke and remembered to pay for It. 3:16 p. m., State street resort Where we saw numerous WU law students, who have their last classes before Christmas today, on their way to the movies. An am bulance went by and they all started. 3:30 p. m.. Courthouse grounds Walked past the illuminated Christmas tree and reflected that only God can make a tree but It takes the Cherrians to think up hanging lights on it. Saw what we thought was a Yuletide can dle shining In the window of the sheriffs office, but It was only the reflection of the sun on Sher iff Andy Bark's head. Moral Embargo Is Placed on Air Gas Bombing, Gun - Slaying of Civilians Leads to Extension WASHINGTON, Dec. 2Hff The -government extended Its Amoral embargo" today to with hold the means of producing high quality aviation gasoline from countries engaged in unprovoked aerial bombing or machine-gun ning of civilians. The state department announced that, after consultation with the war and navy departments, it "has decided that the national in terest suggests that for the time being there should be no further delivery to certain countries of plans, plants, manufacturing lights or technical information re quired for the production of high quality aviation gasoline. The countries were not named but were understood to be Russia and Japan,, and poslbly Germany, as a result of the Polish cam paign. The department gave two rea sons for its decision: .1.- "With a view to conserving tn this country certain technical information of strategic import ance." V - 2. "As an extension of the an sounced policy of this government In regard to the sale of airplanes. aeronautical equipment, and ma terials essential to airplane manu facture to countries the armed forces of which are engaged in un provoked bombing or machine gunning of civilian populations from the air." The decision has been commun icated by letter to the Interested American oil companies. A department official explained that the embargo was not made to apply to the gasoline - itself, " be cause the -countries involved might then seek to produce it themselves' from American or ther petroleum. . NLRB Quizzcrs To Take Holiday WASHINGTON. Dec. 2 (.-()-Wllliam Green,- president of the American Federation of Labor, aid today that evidence already produced by the house committee Investigating the labor relations board "tends to support" AFX charges that the board has. been partial to CIO. V ; Green volunteered the state ment In discussing with newsmen a conference he had held with Edmund M. Tolandr - committee counsel. The two men discussed AFL witnesses who subsequently will testify st the inquiry, but did not disclose their names.; The committee recessed yesterday un til after the first of the yean. IIB I 4,? M7 Wallace Gets , Greater Farm Credit Gc sj-il I f v, Speedy Appr gg A Dr. A G a Is of SecretP 0 am Resignation . . Hill on Heels of FCA Break 1 Leaves Opening f - "' - WASHINGTON. Dee. 20-OP)- President Roosevelt made change today in the governorship of the farm eredit administration giving Secretary Wallace a great er control over the 35,060,000,- 000 agricultural lending agency and opening, the way for mora ibountitul credits to farmers.; :. . jr. urn, governor ounng ine past year, tendered his resignation to the chief executive, who imme diately apponited Dr. A. G. Black, director of the agriculture : de artment's marketing and regula tory work, as his successor. Reports of sharp difference! be tween Wallace and Hill over farm credits policies became current af ter the FCA was placed under the agriculture department by a presi dential reorganization order last July, r . Wallace was represented as be lieving that the FCA was follow ing a "hard-boiled" policy in fore closures and was too conservative in making loans. The secretary was also said to have objected to FCA resale of foreclosed farms which the agriculture department deemed unsuited for cultivation. Functions of FCA Remain Unchanged Wallace isued a statement after Hill's j resignation declaring that; "either through misinformation or deliberate desire to mislead." there had been conflicting inter pretations of his intentions n specting the FCA. "The acts of congress authoriz- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Trainmen Killed In UP Accident Locomotiye,. Derailed, As " Farkedi3 Ii Hit; One Body Found RICHLAND, Neb., Dec 20-UP) The body of Engineer David Jones of Omaha was taken late tonight from the wreckage of a Union Pacific locomotive, and of ficials said there was no donbt the body of Lee Roberts, fireman, Council Bluffs, la., was buried underneath the mass of twisted steel, i " The locomotive on the UP's mall train ' No. C. eastbound, struck a stalled automobile driv en by W. D. Wilson of Schuyler, Burlington engineer, who jumped out of his car as the train bore down on him. A worker in the baggage ear. which overturned, escaped injury. Train crews were rushed from nearby towns to the scene of the wreckage. There were 14 cars on the train, j seven or eight of which were I derailed. Tracks running both east and west were torn up for a considerable distance. The locomotive came to rest against a grain elevator 200 yards from the depot. Passengers in the automobile tot out before the train struck their vehicle. Homes Imperiled By Luzon Floods MANILA, Dec. 2 1-( Thursday )- (-Torrential rains which over flowed the Cagayan river made thousands homeless in north eastern . Luzon island today. caused heavy property and crop damage and aroused fears the death toll might run high. First meager reports to the Red Cross from I lagan, capital of Isabela province, said that 1,800 i families were made desti tute in that city alone. The mes sages said the flood at its peak reached house tops In some sec tors, but ws now receding. Kind Hecirtedness of Salem To Provide Dinner for Needy Only through the aid of a kind- hearten nnblie and volunteer as sistance by local organizations and businesses will all families in and near Salem be supplied with adequate Christmas dinners next weekend. Adjutant John Allen of the Salvation Army declared yes terday after surveying the aid al ready available to his welfare agency. Large donations of food such as will be gathered at the States man-Capitol theater Santa Clans matinee. Friday - morning are needed ' to bolster the Army's supply of provisions for Christ mas baskets, Allen said. More families are In need this year than last, the adjutant said. Many are families whose heads were certified to the ' WPA. then told they were no longer eligible or direct reliefs Delays in as-? slgnment to work project jobs made their situations more jerU Stalin Is 60- And a Crooner! - i - I i : l ' i Among nice things said about Dic tator Joseph Stalin by Soviet celebrants on the eve of his 60th birthday anniversary was that no bas a "fine tenor" voice a compliment paid him by an actress friend. Stalin demonstrated his ability, she said In a newspaper article. when no one else at a party knew a folk song he wanted to near. (LEV) US Air Defenses To Be Bolstered Northeast Industrial Area to Be Placed Under Single Command WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.-OP- xne army general stair disclosed today that the air raid defenses of the industrial northeast would be placed under a single com mand like those protecting Lon don, Paris and Berlin. Anti-aircraft guns, interceptor planes, and warning signals for an area which produces some 10 per cent of all American war sup plies will be put under the direc tion of Colonel James E. Chaney, now commandant at Hitchel Field, LI. - His promotion to brigadier general was Announced today. With no hint of a belief that the Atlantic seaboard had come within the lengthenlnr ranee of bombers, the war department said the new arrangement would "pro vide experience and the basis for future developments of this na ture." Secretary Woodrlnc described the move as "an Important step toward the completion of compre- ITurn to fage z, col. l) Hoover Implores Aid for Finland NEW YORK, Dec. 2 0-OPy-FoT- mer president Herbert Hoover said tonight that in Finland "the world witnesses one of those he roic stands for freedom of men that comes but few times in the centuries. "It is a star illuminating the No Man's Land of civilization." Mr. Hoover's speech was pre pared for a "Let's Help Finland' rally in Madison Square garden. "Unless you have seen the mov ing of vast numbers of refugeees over threatened railways and roads,' he said, "your imagination cannot rise to the suffering that comes (to Finland.) Already some of them have begun to reach Swe den and Norway, and they are ap pealing to us for help. "At the moment there is no ac tual shortage of food in Finland. But the thousands of destitute need funds to buy it. They need shelter. They need bedding. The sea-blockade and the destruction of their ' commerce 1 will bring famine later on." Paterson Named SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20-tfP. ooumern t-aciiic company an nounced ' the appointment - today of George C. Paterson as assistant to J. H. Dyer, vice-president in charge of operations. Many other of the cases on the Salvation Army lists, which are cleared through the relief office and Red Cross to avoid duplica tion, are of new families, "One, hard-working people from the east who came here and picked up what work they could in the summer and fall," Adjutant Allen added.- - t '- s - r : . Declaring that "all the food given makes possible that many more baskets," ' Adjutant Allen said he hoped attendance at the Friday morning show, at the Capitol theater at 10 o'clock, would be large. ' One or more . cans of - food fruit, vegetables r meat will be the price of admission. A fea ture length Joe E. Brown comedy and entertaining short subjects. Including - a Charlie McCarthy film, bare been booked by Man ager Carl Porter, - ; AlliedNaval Leaders Meet To Map Drive Strategic Measures to Meet Nazi Threat in Air Object Session Is Surrounded by Secrecy as High Officials Convene ' LONDON, Dee. 20.-ffV-French and British naval leaders met to day to map new strategic meas ures as German war planes eontln- ned to harass the fishing fleet upon which England depends for a considerable portion of her food supplies. In ,an atmosphere of strict se crecy. Admiral Jean Darlan, su- I preme commander of the French naval forces conferred for several hours with Winston Churchill, Britain's first lord of the admlr - alty. No official announcement eon - cernlng the conference was Issued, but observers noted that it coin - elded with more vigorous allied nval operations and growing anxiety over the saiety or urn - ain's fishing Industry. Aberdeen trawler Star of Scotland was towed into port with two of her crew dead as the result of ma- chine gunning and bombing by German planes. Two other fishing trawlers the Strathalbyn and the 8trathrannock were unscathed SHt,V 7h JiuT tV fnr- during the raid, though the for- mer was attacked twice. Swedish Steamer Sunk; Six Rescued The Swedish steamer Mars, 1, 449 tons, was sunk off the north-1 east coast by a mine and seven persons were missing from the ship. Six were rescued lusio aispatcnes saia tne Es tonian steamer Uko was sunk in the North Sea Tuesday by a Ger man plane. The crew of 14 was brought ashore by a Swedish ship. (A ship of unidentified nation ality was mined off The Nether- lands coast. A passing ship picked op an unknown number of surviv ors.) Meanwhile it was intimated that the British government, apparent ly, committed to a more vigorous naval policy, feels the royal navy baa a right to fight battles any- where on the International seas. irrAi or rhm Pan-AmHan I SOO-mlle "safetv zone." i Xen trail ty Discussion I CarfenllT Avoided I ntaonaatan f wiiaffcai. tiia kat-1 tia between ti Belittled fltrniM pocket battleship Graf Spee and" big day, too,- with yr three British cruisers off the coast I nt nmmav la t weev -riniated th I American neutrality position bas I been carefully avoided here. News of fresh aerial attacks upon BrlUin's fishing fleet pro- aucea angruy-woraea articles in the British press, asserting that the Germans had committed "a I flagrant breach of International law" and accusing nazl planes of machine gunning the crews "as they swam for their lives." The admiralty said German aircraft had attacked 25 vessels, including two neutrals, in the last three days. Only three of those attacked were naval vessels, it said, and attacks on them were unsuccessful. The admiralty announcement cited as an act of "senseless in humanity" an attack upon the Trawler Isabella Greig, during which it said nine bombs were I aroppea ana two or tne crew i wounded by machine gun bullets. I Bean Approves Rate Reduction PORTLAD. Dee. 10 iJPi- H, duced rates proposed by two major power companies were tatively anoroved today bv Or-1 mond R. Bean, stat nubile ties commissioner. . I The rates, established at the re-1 quest of the Portland General I Electric and the Northwestern Electric . companies in connection with Bonneville dam contracts, will become effective January ' 1. Immediate savings to seven Oregon 'counties and three Wash ington counties were estimated at 1560,000 for PGE customers and 2140.000 for Northwestern pur chasers. . Similar savings may be provid ed for commercial and industrial VJ vV -SZ, "ST -Vf5 y. 4 , . mmmtrmm U J BV ayra mJmm mm--fm rflninmiin will Ta affoetA fn I - J I Multnomah. Clackamas, Yamhill, I Marlon, Polk and Columbia I counties and Vancouver. Wash . I nmt id prui eb.nii. I Northwestern's eats cover users In I Multnomah. Washington and Co- j lumbla counties, Oregon, and I Clark,, Cowlitz and Skamania counties, Wash. BASKETBALL OSC 57, Brigham Tonus; SO. Nebraska 48, Stanford 47. F80 SS, Pnrdoe 84. ' Wniamette 81, Signal 41. HOCKEY. ' SEATTLE. : Dec 20-6P)-' Seattle snatched a 4-1 lead over Vancouver midway la the second period of thetr Pacific Coast Hockey league game here tonight and then bogged down aa the Canadians spurted to a 7 to 4 victory. .- .. r- , Add War Notes: ... , Paner Protects . a, - : . io.Day)id Tot STOCKHOLM, Dec. 20w-6P- Swedish authorities, examining paper parcel carried by a sev- en-year-old Finnish girl who bad traveled several days with refugees arriving aboard ship. found It contained her 10-day old sister. Tbe infant was taken to i hospital, where ft was given an even chance for survival. Tbe mother was believed to have perished. Nazi Captain Follows Ship I l-ommander Langsdorfl Takeg Life as Tragic End to Graf Spee Saga BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 20. - () - The commander of the scuttled l German battleship Admiral Graf I Spee, Captain Hans Langsdorf f, l today wrote a tragic epilogue to I the war's greatest naval battle by 1 committing suicide. I The 45 -year -old commander, 1 veteran oi me worm war ana I leader of numerous nazl sea ex - I pioiis. snoc mmseu wun a revoi - 1 w u mj wur VT. n WID.: , . I lit,?'" v w" I . . . ..Icial communique to hare stopped I Z, vf,m ""v.J ""Ma soviet thrust to cut the coun- TfJP. at the Argentine naval arsenal. 'From the first moment he P tIa mind to share the f . M mairnifieent .hin " said I fiorman emhav annnnnpmTit declaring he had died "for the fa - therland." Langsdorff, who won the ad- miration of friend and foe for the humanitarian treatment of his (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Highest Mailing Record Scored 106,900 Letters Handled by Canceling Machine Here in One Day Most letters ever mailed at the Salem potof flee went through Tuesday, a final check yesterday morning revealed. Over 108.900 ieers were recoraea oy nm can- collation macnine, a material gam OTr the peak day last year. Tuesday the 20th, when tf.000 I.were recorded. Yesterday looked '"' "ea oj ; w. Carelessness of hurried holiday mailers ProbIm of lff"Lv . l'vlfTl "" " I e Christmas card mailed yes- lrdX Tee simply to "Aunt Elva. About 60 letters to Santa Clans have been mailed at the local postofflce, Postmaster H. R. ell" .v" ; v most youthful mailers, evidently believing that Santa has a pull with the postofflce department. omit the stamps. All are turned over unopened to the Elks lodge Rumania Doubles g g ! r "I German Uil bale BUCHAREST, Dec. 20.-P)- Rumania tonignt agreed to dou ble her oil shipments to Germany. The government consented to a new trade agreement with the reich after hard-fought negotia tions which several Umes broke I down ana precipitated tne tail or one Rumanian cabinet. The new pact calls for Ruman-1 ia to sena oermanr iw.wuu on A MAAAA A Ul tll lUVBUUJi . AIlO 111 Dl. UgUl months of this year Germany ave- ten-lraea izu.uuw tons, out since tne start of the war the figure bad ntUi-lbeen cut to about 80,000. The curtailment in shipments had been due to the lack of trans- poriauon iacuiues. I Alumni of Salem High Meet Today It's homecoming today at Sa lem high sehool. with a special assembly at 12:50 p.m. to which all alumni are invited. 1 Principal Fred Wolf and Student ifresiaeufc sm ouiuu, woua ouyer- n f . & mil 1 vii . f , Jt AVI Vm.V V 1 I I luicuusiit . s;umm. nm be the principal speaker. Dayton I Robertson ana uean jsuis, zormer i student ooay presidents, win aiso i sneak. ' I The alumni guest book. In use since 1927, will be out for alumni to sign. Master of ceremonies for the program Is Wesley McWaln, alum nus now attending Willamette university. The high school band i will play several selections, the Pep club will author a number of features and there Is scheduled a violin soloby Mabelle Lllburn, alumnus " - ' School Closed TONASKE T, Dec. 20. ct I School was out. today, but scarlet I fever not Christmas was the! reason. - County and tov Conntr and town health I officials' declared the disease had I reached epidemic proportions and I Telephone company representa n laced a ban on school and all I tires are meetlnr with rural line Lpnblle gatherings. I Cl "7 CIA ulurfJVlw WiU l-w ht w Hampers lortti I ITt A 1 I smmriaaT a T"ri nl" I KJJ f Ivt 1 Wl,HAjk Hundreds of Tanks Are Loosed in Savage Campaign Finn Air Force Rises to Meet Invaders Over Isthmus HELSINKI, Dec. 20-i?n-FIerce fighting surged across the Kare lian Isthmus in 'sub-zero temper atures today as Russians loosed I hundreds of tanks in savage drives and directed 200 Ted air force planes in widespread bomb ing attacks on the rest of Finland. The roar of artillery could be 1 heard from one side of the 65 mile wide Isthmus to the other. Finnish aviation rose to meet Russ army aviators in fierce dog fights and battled in the winter sky. The Russian drive was stalled I n the far north by blizzards and I temDeratures 25 decrees below 1 Eero Tne Finns said they had 1 withdrawn to Kornettljarvi, but mentioned no fighting. A little farther south. Just forces were reported in an offl 8aUll.U. capturing "muc5 booty" en route, including three n"; rui iru"B- ,Jr " , machine guns and considerable I ammunition 1 Men 40. YeT. old Called by Finland While battles ragea along Fin- I land's eastern and southeastern frontiers, the nation moved to strengthen Its defenses by call-H lng to the colors all able-bodied men 40 years of age. All reserv ists under 40 already had been summoned. (The call adds an estimated 15,000 men to the Finnish army. estimated by authoritative sources I Estimates have put the Russian at 400,000 at the start of the war. forces attacking Finland as high as 1.500.000.) For the second successive day air raid alarms sounded in' U any Finnish cities, including Helsln- (Torn to Page 2, Col. 1) Aged Woman Hurt In Car Accident Companion Braised as Two Struck; First Aid Car Kept Busy Two women were injured, one, Mrs. F. G. Stearns, 73, of 180 South 19 th street, severely, when they were hit at State and Church streets about 9:30 last night by an automobile belonging to Claude ff; Kinney was: ridtag in the car, but said he was not driving at the time. City police held him on a charge of intoxica tion, but he was released on bail later. Mrs. Stearns suffered a broken arm, badly bruised hip and knees and severe shock. She was taken I to tne ueaconess nospitai alter LatbAh "L?Id "r- beth Foster, 21, of 633 Ferry, was also knocked down, but re ceived only abrasions and bruises. Police request that anyone who saw the accident or can give any information about the driver of the car let them know lmmedl- .tsiv George Robert Hurd, 78, of Ihoa nir iirpt. vm t routed hw thm .M bail . " " .mm w v gd his right wrist with raxor. Also treated was a guest at the Walter Mills home, 178 South Church street, when she gashed her head in a fall down basement stairs. " . Mrs. Leo Poppe, 2300' North Fourth street, bruised her back when she fell through an automo bile door to the curbing. Mrs. Annie Wilson, 78, of Brooks, collapsed from fatigue while shopping on Liberty street. Dial Telephones for Rural Salem Trade . .... .. - iiouern oiai operation 01 a ma- M A - 1L . fl A V . jgiui UL llio icivvuuuei ui tuv rural area around Salem, largest rural system on tne racmc coast served out of one ezenange, is an imminent prospect, it was re- iveaied Wednesday by uarry V. Collins, district manager for the Facxric Telephone ana Teiegrapn company.' Intensive work preliminary to a conversion to dial operation has been under way for some time, Mr. Collins announced. All rural line telephone custo mers own their own lines ana their own telephone instruments, these rural lines connecting with the telephone company's lines, usually at the city limits. At present the Salem rural lines all are on a manual basis, with tne telephone instruments all being of the magneto type. The new dial type of service, Mr. Collins said, will give the rural line customers taa most modern and nn-to-date 1 telephone service now available. customers for the purpose of cis- Head of Narcotics Smuggling Ring Is Convicted by Jury Lepke, Top Man of 10,000,000 Narcotic "Syndicate," Faces Two-Year Sentence, 310,000 Fine Object of Nation-Wide Man-Hunt Last Summer, Three Aides Found Guilty In Federal Court in New York NEW YORK, Dec 20 (AP) Louis (Lepke) BuchsJ ter was convicted in federal court tonight of conspiracy to violate the narcotics laws as a top man in what the govern ment called a 110,000,000 Interntional Bmugglinz syndicate. Lepke, accused of "cutting himself in" on widespread operations of illicit narcotics dealers in many foreign ports, faces possible maximum penalties of two years in prison and $10,000 fine. Nine other indictments are pending against him in con nection with narcotics violations, conviction of which might bring 168 years in prison and fines of $180,000. A co-defendant, Max Schmuckler, also was convicted, ' Hitler Orders Liner Scuttled Columbus Captain Says Destruction of Ship Demand of Fuehrer NEW YORK, Dec. 2MPV-Tbs German liner Columbus was set afire and scuUioA "under orders,' her master, rapt. "Wllhelm Daeh ne, declared on his arrival here tonight with (78 rescued nazl sailors. This was understood to mean the Columbus was sent to the bot tom at the direction of Adolf Hit ler, who had ordered similar de - traction last Sunday of the Ger man pocket battleship Graf Spee, whose commander committed sal- ; dde in Buenos Aires today. indication that scuttling was ordered In advance under blanket Instructions from Berlin was added by Henry Lamps, 27, the Columbus third officer, who said: "As soon as the destroyer (the British craft which t cornered tbe liner off the Virginia coast yes terday) was sighted the alarm was siren on the Columbua we were already under orders what to do." The Columbua' survivors iden tified the British destroyer as the Hyperion. Lampe said that when the Hy perion was within half a mile it fired a warning shot across the bow of the Columbus. The men of the Columbus ran immediately to their stations, he said, and group in the engine room began opening the sea valves while oth ers took drums of benzine and soaked parts of the ship. Behind them came sailors with signal torches. Meanwhile," Lampe added, the crew members got away from the ship in 22 lifeboats, all thai (Turn to Page 2, col 4) Dispute Hampers Tongue Point Job ASTORIA. Dec. 20-6P)-A nine- day-old wage dispute continued to hamper work on the Tongue Point naval base's $1,500,000 sir ata tlon today. The American Federation of Labor's piledriver.' union walked pay double time for overtime and i-hv.. i.w broken shift" labor. The contractor, Walter Makela, Insisted there wss no dispute ml'T''l w.r. it. jiwiirM th waiv. I freighter, the Hamburg-Americas, wages. HO declared tbe walk' out was the result of a Jurlsdlc- Uonal dUpYte Tetween JilVdriver. and the building laborers' union. also AFL. Area Imminent cussing the new type of service. In some cases, it was pointed out. the rural line users are planning I to srrenginen ana reouua ineiriln th international Longshere- jrBi w'f"Bi i ail cases it will be necessary to !oB anl the Wsterfront Employ exchange the present magneto erg MgocuUon of the Pacific type telephones for dUI telephone eo,t were taken under adTlse- "7t," .... I telephone service for rural lines. Mr. Collins explained. Include Im proved and better talking quality on most lines; no necessity for special batteries, as power will be furnished direct from the Salem ' central office; and automatic ringing, rather than the preaent hand ringing. Special central office equip ment will be Installed In the Sa lem telephone building to provide this new type of service for the Salem rural telephone lias custo mers. ' - Already in Oregon the Pacific Telephone and Teiegrapn com- pany Is providing dial services to hundreds of rural line customers la exchanges at various points la (Turn to Page J. col 4 ?wauc a third, Dald Kardoslek I wss acquitted. Both tbe lstter denied from th witness stand any psrticlpatloa 1 the syndicate's actlrltles. Ltpkc did not take the aland. Defenae couniel offered brlel character testimony for Ltpkt and made a summation InsUtina that thm Inrr AiurrmrA Inii.', I reputation aa sn Industrial rac keteer in reacmng us decision. Several Others Indicted For Coivvplrry District Attorney Thomas E Dewey once described Lepke aa "public enemy No. 1" and ss "ibe nation's No. 1 Industrial rack eteer." Lepke and his co-defendants were among SO persons. Includ ing several women and dis charged US cuatoms agents, woo were Indicted for conspiracy. Most of them are either nsdar sentence after pleading guilty er I awaiting sepsrste trials. Government witnesses SKalnat the trio principally were - mwu urns nailiun wo rr I ap ed details of Intricate operation of the ring from francs, Japaa. China and other countries to the United St tea during 1936-11. Prosecutors unfolded a compli cated story of the ring's actl ti tles, contending that forbldd narcotics were often shipped la trunks brought into this country by attractive women la tbe pay of the ring's leaders. Federal Judge John C. Knoa set sentencing for January I. Lepke, 42, a silent, swarthy man, was the object last summer of a nationwide msnhunt for both tbe New York county attorney and the federsl bureau of in Tern l- gatlon. Rewards totalling $50,009. the county and the government each offering half, at one time were placed on hla bead. A fugltlre.for two yeara aftrr running out on a $10,000 ball. he surrendered quietly last Am- 4 guat 26 to J. Edgar Hoover, mi director. He was wanted by federal au thorities on tbe nsreotics cbtrxs and anti-trust Indictments, and by District Attorney Dewey la connection with racketeering In the garment, fur and bakery bul nesses. Dewey estimated that Lepke'a rackets brought In $6,000,000 a year In extortion money. Charges based on these accusations are I still pending. Texas Sugar Firm Attaches Vessel D ' w,X VrTur hM.rTi! ?ACw ,if.Ui'!-h,fn".t' FORT LAUDERDALR. Fla.. German frelght- I ... ,.. , ,v. Isel under attachment of lbs IS district court today. A l 1. I ........ Aw. merchantman Aracua, to remain J First Officer Kurt Ludwlg, until the $28,461 claim of a Teiaa sugar company wss settled. The Imperial Sugar company Galveston declared in libel pro ceedings thst other ships of the Hamburg-American line collected for large cargoes but did not make deliveries. Strike Studied LONG VIEW. Dec. JOHTW- guments of attorneys represent- men's and Warehousemen's on- meat here tonight by Dean Wayne L. Mone, coast arbitrator, after a day-long bearing. Shopping BAys TILL
