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PAGE TWO- S ub-Zero Cold ; Hampers Russ Hundreds of Tanks Are . Loosed in Savage , Campaign (Continued from page 1 kl. Turku, Ran ma, Porroo, Salo. Matk. Haselka, Vartsila. Laskela, Sortavala and Janlsjokl. : A morning alarm In the capi tal lasted 111 minutes. Another tonight continued- for 40 min- utes. . ....... Russian Planes V Attack Railroad Sixteen casualties - were re fi'itrini) at L&skela and 11 at Janisjokl. The Finns reported a Russian air attack on the railroad at Kis-s ka. SOmiles north of Hanko on I the south coast, had failed. Work- men at one Kiska factory fled J to the woods when Russian bombers appeared oTerhead. On the Isthmus front, the Fin nish commonique indicated the Russians were following tactics employed yesterday when they loosed hundreds of tanks of all sites. J The Finnish communique said the red troops were beaten back after a series of savage assaults which had prolonged artillery preparation, but that the attacks were continuing. The communique indicated the heaviest fighting on this front was between Kaukjarri and Muolaarri, although strong Rus sian forces were reported attack ing simultaneously at other points along the line. 1 The Finns said the positions remained unchanged, and assert ed that the Russians had lost heavily in men and tanks., "Twenty heavy tanks advanced to our positions and were cap tured, besides which many were destroyed in front of our posi tions" the communique said. ' Eleren Russian and six Finnish 1 planes fought a thrilling battle behind the Finnish lines, but ob servers were not about to ascer tain the outcome. ' Summarizing the results of Russian air raids yesterday, which was described as "the most active day ' in the air since the start of the war," the Finnish communique 'said it was definite ly established that 20 soviet planes had been shot down. t Additional Russian planes were believed to have fallen behind their own lines, said the Finns, who officially fixed their own losses at two planes. The communique said that "well over 200" enemy planes appeared over Finnish territory during yesterday's raids In which, It declared, "many civilians" were wounded. Reports in Helsinki Indicated Russian aviation was as active today. 35 Awards Given i At Honor Thirty five awards were pre sented to 23 Boy Scouts at the December court of honor of the Cherry City district of the Cas cade area council, last night, i Awards were as follows: -! Life scouts Malcolm McLean, troop 11 and Dale Gordon, troop lp . : kStar scout Harry Jones, troop thr-e and Angus Edwin, troop 12. . a&dvrlstcivgov wazcMis First class merit badges bod McNeil and Don Norris, troop two; Con Bowers, Harry Jones aud Jack Finden, troop three; Glen A. Smith, Laverne Hopp, Bill Byrd and J. T. Hopp, troop sine; Angus Erwln troop 12, Clarence Conrad, Dale Gordon and w Cdward Porter, troop 13. - j Second class Harold Spaul eing, Albert Castillo and Roy Ifonck, troop 11; Darrell Rothen ftaca and Louis Lamp, troop six; and Bill Reinhart, troop one; Le Rby Blake, troop nine. Robert E. Lange chairman of the court of honor committee of the Cherry city district, presided, with Ernest Kumney and Ted Reschke as members of the court. . Demonstrations . were made by Rpy'Houek, troop 11; Darrell Ro then floch and Louis Lamp, troop 11 Anrui Rrwla. traan 1 2 and Jack Finden, troop three, Mr. G. W. Mason of the state parole board was the speaker . for - the evening-. i US Air Defenses : To Be Bolstered f (Continued from page 1) hensive plans for the national de- tense," Control of air raid defenses Is scattered now. The coast artil lery.: has charge of anti-aircraft -. guns, the air corps, of. quick climbing " interceptor pursuit planes already under construc tion, and the signal corps la con cerned with flashing warning sig- Hals.-.'' , . (The unified defense area ex- tends roughly .from Detroit to the Virginia capes, It- was indicated, ' aid inclades such important centers as New York," Pittsburgh. Buffalo ' and' the New England , arms manufacturing area. . jUpon its completion, the new tg.000,000 northeast ; air base Bsaf .-' Xlolyoke, Mass., recently named "Westover field, will- be come one of the most Important elements of the nw organization, the war department said. 'Obituaries., Ut the- family residence, ; S20 Softith 14 th street, December 20. Ida May. at the" -age. of 51 years. Survived by widow ex, Edmund May of Salem; daughter, Mrs, Lil llin Lady; granddaughter, Patri cia Lady, both of Tuscon, Aril.; sisters, Mrs. Ella Morse of Los Angeles, Miss Pearl Macy of Sa lem brothers, Bert Macy of Sa lem, El and Frank "Macy of Port land. Funeral announcements lat ftf from Walker-Howell funeral heme.-- - -s- . Many Details Face Organisers of District Census Leaders; Office Arranged in Salem - : i V i t A. R. McCALL Wallace Gains Credit Control Speedy Appointment of Dr. A. C. Black Is Secretary's Gain . (Continued from page 1) ing the work of the FCA and pre scribing Its functioning of course remain unchanged," the state ment said. "Mr. Black and his as sociates in the FCA will be re sponsible to me for compliance with these congressional man dates." s The secretary said today's change Involved no alternation of administration policy of the FCA but was "necessary in order to Integrate the policies of the FCA and those of i the department of agirculture to the general policy of the government, of the United States in respect to all agricultur al problems." He added that the FCA would continue to have "ad ministratively ; the' autonomy which it requires for successful administration of the duties de volved upon it." Huge Fund Likely To Be Made Available High agriculture department officials said the change was ex pected to make available upwards of $700,000,000 FCA credits fa cilities for loans to distressed farmers unable to borrow else where. They also said that Wallace was expected to recommend .to congress changes in FCA legisla tion which would give farmers 40 years in which to pa; farm pur chase loans instead of the present 30 years. They also said that Wal lace may ask for a reduction in interest lates which now average about 4 per cent. President Roosevelt, in accept ing Hill's resignation, expressed his "very real appreciation" of the retiring governor's services. "I am grateful to you." Mr. Roosevelt said, "because I know you havo striven earnestly and un selfishly to make federal farm credit of greater service to agri culture." HIU issued a statement saying that "the sole' issue in the present situation, so far as I am con cerned, is whether the farm credit administration should be contin ued as an autonomous ., federal agency supervising cooperative credit facilities in the farm field or be absorbed and become an in tegral part of a large department of government responsible for the administration of a. great many other programs." Christmas Tree Built on Derrick HUNTINGTON BEACH. Calif.. Dec. 20-?P)-A Christmas tree 127 feet high, illuminated with strings of colored electric lights, gleamed over this oil field community to night. i . - It is composed of " 1100 large fir trees attached to an oil der rick.: ' Outlined in electric lights, tig urea of Santa Claus and his rein deer : have been fastened to the arms of other- oil wells. Aa the arms move up and down, the reindeer appear to be leaping through the air. .,' And to make the entire display convincing la temperatures that hover around the 80 'a in the day time, 10 tons' of lime have been scattered over the ground in imi tation of snow. . Day's Tune Given In Gambling Case Arraignment of Leonard M. Wagner,' proprietor ' of the Hoi man and Wagner card room at 35 1 State street, on a charge of permitting gambling was deferred a day in municipal court yester day. Judge A. Warren Jones said be bad granted Wagner until to day to answer the charge. " Clyde K. Anderson, who" signed the complaint against Wagner, sought taw withdraw the, charge yesterday but the court referred him to the city attorney's office. New Snow Falls -On Nortli Santiam ' Five Inches of new. snow fell on the North Santiam highway Tuesday night, .County Engineer N. C Hubbs reported yesterday. The fall at the summit was nine inches, . bringing the total, depth to 17 inches,'.-.. : -: : . .. The road is being kept open by state - highway department snowplows. Dae to a breakdown of the county's light equipment the highway department will also clear sections of the road allotted to the county tor maintenance. .. . Many details Incident to the re cruiting of a business and indus trial census staff loomed immedi ately ahead of A. R. McCall, dis trict census supervisor, and his assistant, Mrs. Nathalie Panek of Salem, Wednesday after, they had completed arrangements for occu pancy of a suite of four offices at 229 Oregon building. Forms necessary for, the opera tion of the census office have not all arrived, but application blanks were being sent out Wednesday to persons who had applied inform ally for positions on the staff of enumerators. "For the business census how ever, only about 15 enumerators will be employed for the district which includes Clackamas. Colum bia, Clatsop, Marion, Polk. Tilla mook, Washington and Yamhill counties. Supervisor McCall, who is publisher of the Review, week ly newspaper at Rainier, said that while tho permissible range of enumerators' ages is from 18 to 65, mature persons with tome business experience will have preference for this exacting work. What, makes the immediate task of the supervisors especially difficult in view of the short time remaining before the business census Is scheduled to start Jan uary 2, Is the necessity for select ing tentatively the necessary staff and putting its members through a four-day school, which is sched uled for Christmas week. ' j Hundreds of enumerators, pos sibly IS 00, are to be selected for the regular census, which will be taken starting April 2. Applicants are required to have a high school education or its equivalent."" Cunard Ship Near Collision in Fog LONDON, Dec 2 0 - (JP) - The 19,597-ton Cunard White Star liner Samaria, with many Ameri cans aboard, which was forced to return to port for repairs, nar rowly missed disastrous collision with a Canadian troopship, it was disclosed today. The liner, which sailed west bound from a northwestern Brit ish port Saturday, passed so close ly to the inbound troopship that lifeboats swung out on davits of the Samaria were carried away or stove in. .The two vessels were navigat ing In dense fog which reduced visibility to a ship's length. Ad Club to Meet In Theatre Foyer Members of the Salem Ad club will hold their final meeting of the year Friday in the foyer of the Elsinore theatre at noon. Arrangements were completed yesterday for this meeting place through the courtesy of Manager Carl Porter of the Warner Bros. Salem theatres. This marks the second year the Ad clubbers have gathered at the theatre, and pres ent plans call for an outstanding program. Manager Porter has booked sev eral "shorts" for presentation and members of the entertainment committee have arranged several novel features Including a Christ mas carol sing and a "tree" for all attending. Luncheon will be served in the foyer with the staff of Schneider's Coffee shop arranging culinary details. All Ad club members are urged to attend. High Court Sets Periury Hearings J J O I The state supremo court Wed nesday fixed January 11 as the date for hearing arguments of at torneys in the appealed case of Hugh Reynolds, convicted of per jury In the Lane county circuit court. Reynolds prviously was convict ed on charges of riot and breaking glass in a building at Eugene but this decree later was reversed by the state supreme court. Officials said Reynolds was ac tive in Lane county labor anion circles for several years prior to his conviction on perjury charges. Treasure Hunters . Find Water Seep LOS ANGELES. Dee. 20.-(iTV-Searching for a' legendary $200, 000 In treasure in the Hollywood bowl parking lot, Henry Jones, Seattle mining: man, and his asso ciate, Ray Johnson, struck seen- ing water today. . They have dug 35 feet and have only five days more allowed them by the eonr in which to reach the fortune snpposed ' to have ; been buried there more than 70 years ago. Working frantically, they still expressed hope. 22 Indicted in Building Probe SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20-rV- In its second mass Indictment of alleged price fixing in the build ing industry, a special r federal grand jury today accused 22 men, seven corporations and two as sociations of fixing "unreasonably high prices' for hardwood . floors in the San Francisco bay area. r Thirty-six men, ten . corpora tions and two unions were charged Monday : with similar price fixing and restraint of trade in electrical contracting. Epidemic Closes Oak Grove School OAK GROVE, Dec 20-UPi- Clackamas county's second school was closed by influenza today. Classes at the Oak Grove grade school were discontinued by Prin cipal L. o. Rood because 41 of the 154- students were UL The Concord school closed last week after enrollment dropped - from I left to SI r - - llie OKEGON STATESMAN, Salem, MRS. NATHALIE PANEK Hitler Orders Liner Scuttled Columbus' "' Captain Says Destruction of Ship Demand of Fuehrer (Continued from page 1) time langhing and joking. There was no disorder, at any time. All the men knew what they had to do and did it quickly and well. Captain Daehne declared his crew was "perfect," it had been "trained for weeks and knew just what to do." Captain Daehne and his crew arrived in the day aboard tho US cruiser Tuscaloosa, which had picked them up as they sat gloom ily in their lifeboats watching the old Columbus settle slowly in flames some 400 miles out at sea. The seamen were taken from the Tuscaloosa by coast guard cut ters and transferred to Ellis is land, harbor refuge for immi grants and aliens, and made com' fortable for the night. Tomorrow they will be given a hearing to determine their exact status, which in the ' meantime was presumed by the authorities to be that simply . of seamen in distress victims as -much as though the Columbua bad simply foundered in a gale. If they pass the test and if it is formally determined that tho vessel was no more than a mer chantman and no sort of belliger ent they will be permitted to stay in this country for 60 days. Dial Telephones To Be Installed (Continued from page 1) the state. The improvement Is being made In line with the com pany's long established policy of giring all possible cooperation to rural line customers. As a result of this cooperation. which has taken the form of periodic inspections of lines owned by the farmers, special farmer line meetings and the test ing and inspection of telephone instruments at open house pro grams, there has been a substan tial increase in the number of rural line telephones throughout the state since January 1 this year, the Increase being greater SeVs?' For som any similar period in years. some time the Salem ex change has held top honors in the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company in the number of rural line telephones served, and as of October 1, this number for Salem was 978. Confession Made By Accused Boxer NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-4TfV-Ea- nest Kehler, accused as the slay er of Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, first secretary of the German con sulate, was questioned on his ar rival from Toronto today as a sus pect in the bludgeon killing a year ago of Dr. Max Morgenstern, foreign exchange expert. District attorney attaches said the 24-year-old Canadian born boxer signed a IB-page confession in which he said he beat the con sular official to death because he was infuriated by "improper ad vances." Jury Exonerates State Patrolmen MEDFORD. Dec 20-UPY-The fatal shooting of Zera Edward Dahack, 71 by two state police officers was justifiable homicide, the Jackson county grand jury reported last night. . Dahack, Lake Creek district mountaineer, was killed by State Police Game Warden Ed Walker and Patrolman George Albright after Dahack held them up with rule in an attemnt to recover 187 pounds of venison taken from his cabin. Meier Appointee To Bench Dead ONTARIO, Ore., . Dec -V Jndgo Charles . W. Ellis of the ninth circuit died here tonight, a few hours after being stricken in a restaurant. - ' He was appointed to the bench by Governor Julius Meier in No vember, 1934, to succeed Judge W.. W. Wood. f was elected for a six-year term in 1938. A native of Illinois, Judge Ellis came to Oregon SO years ago. set tling in Burns, where he , prac ticed law. He moved to Ontario la 191. - Oregon, Thursday Mornin. Marion County To Keep Lights State Highway Commission r Refuses Request to . Take Blaintenance - Marlon county must continue to care for and maintain the lights on the Willamette river bridge. The state highway commission, which met here yesterday, denied a request from the Marion county ocurt that the state assume this responsibility. The commission went on rec ord as opposed to purchasing, ad ministering" cr maintaining his torical sites within cities after it had , been advised that its au thority was : restricted to taking over scenic : sites. The ' question was raised by a proposal in con nectlon with A historical site owned by Robert L. Burghardt of Albany. The commission ordered an in vestigation to determine the cost of widening a bridge over Bea ver creek on the Oregon Coast highway in Tillamook county. A committee composed of Ray Conway, Lewis McArthur and Walter Meacham, all of Portland, was authorized to designate his torical locations on state high ways where special markers are to be erected. A request of Donald M. Gra ham, Prlneville, that local log gers be allowed to truck logs over state highways, in that vicinity Saturday afternoons and Sundays for the next few weeks was ap proved. The commission designated the Sunnyslde - Uma pine secondary state highway in Umatilla county a through highway. No action was taken onan en gineer's report on the cost of widening the highway pavement on tho Oregon Coast highway through the town of Taft. Com missioners said this would be con sidered at a future meeting. Officials who will represent the highway commission at a meeting of the Western Association of State Highway Officials in Santa Fe, Mi, next month, will be an nounced later, the commission de cided. Americas Protest Zone Violations WASHINGTON. Dee. 20-UPW joint aeciarauon accusing: Euro w . -' pean oeiiigerenis of repeatedly violating the western hemisphere neutralltv zone and warn In- them agamsc iuture violations was bein gdrafted tonight by the 21 American republicans in common aipiomatie consultation. The declaration, which will be communicated to the belligerents by Don Augusto Boyd, president of Panama, will contain a clear cut Indication that the American republics will be forced in future to laxe more than diplomatic ac tion to see that the zone is re spected. It may be Issued Friday. The document almn will atata that the American republics will noia further consultations to de termine a common nollcr in deal ing with belligerent warships wnicn put into their ports. Deb With Most 'Plus' Is Chosen NEW YORK. Dec 20-UPWRv a Jury of her peers, pretty blonde i-aincia riunaett has been named "the number one debutante of the season the' dnhnt.nt. with the most plus. Tho debs who elected her in a poll at the Coq Rouge night club yesterday said thev didn't wth her to be called a "glamour girl oecause glamour is vastly over done "Leave that to Brendn." M they. "She can hare it." (Miss jsrenaa Frailer was tho much talked-of clamour deh u.t son.) Miss Plunkett is the daughter oi Mrs. uanoar Plunkett. Ranked second and third. reentiviv in "plus were Patricia Suydam and xviageiy vermuye. British to Order American Liu Washington t n.mL The Washington Post said today that British interests have offered to buy a Urge quantity of Ameri can lumber, costing between. S 16. 000,000 and 130,000.000 and also want to nnrchsjuk in i , - miuvikmi ships to transport the lnmher and American eotton. The ShlOa In.nlr.I I.' ti.: gotiations are old ones, and the POSt Said it had learn !.. .v. sale depended only on obtaining- T ea s a a. a e?t a a a . . aa imcaoiei government approv al of the sale. Ann Shirley Edward Ellis ; tm "Career - 6 'Mysterious Miss X With Michael Whalea 2 Big Features "IceFonies ' of 1939" With Joan Crawford - James Stewart O'Btiea 1 in Timber Stampede' Hey Kids! FREE Oranges & Balloons Saturday Decern ber 21, 1939 d dlt! oo in the Netcg IIACON, Gju, Dec 20-4P)-Patrolman O. P. McDaniel re ported today a burglar entered his home last night, obtained no loot and left aa 18-poand MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 20-iAV rourteen-montns-oia uoiorti Langnlckel, made her -mother prisoner in her home for an hour and, IS minutes and a very cold prisoner too. ' When Mrs. Erich Langnlckel went to her second-floor attic, Do lores pushed tho door shut, mak ing It impossible to open. Mrs. Langnlckel called to the child. Dolores answered with a long "wash, in a tone of extreme excitement. Dolores was in a sim ilar predicament. She had locked herself in a hallway that was as unheated as the attic. Mrs. Langnlckel took up a vigil at the windows in the attic. Finally a woman passed and Mrs. Langnlckel attracted her at tention. The woman called police. ATLANTA, Pec. 20-aVA. It. Kaplan went about hie work im pawnshop depressed by theft or sv suit of clothes from bis apartment. His humor improved greatly when two men walked la and tried to pawn his salt. They were Indicted for burglary after Kaplan got bis suit back. CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-(flV-Traf flc Judge John Gutknecht an nounced today that Santa Claus was not in Jail for drunken driv ing. The question arose when the Trainer - children, Tully, 14: Peggy, 10, and Bobby, eight, wrote as follows: "Dear Judge Goodneckl: Our daddy said Santa Claus is in jail for drunken driving. Please don't make him stay in jail for Christmas." Their, father, Edwin Trainer, explained It was a joke which had gone a little further than he had expected. Replying sp the children. Judge Gutknecht wrote, "we did have a Sandro Clausy whom we had to send to jail for mixing alcohol and gasoline." "That was to make things east ler forthelr father," the Judge said. 14 Indicted for Loan Firm Fraud LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20-(P)- Fourteen men, including the for mer head of the $50,000,000 Pa cific States Savings and Loan Co., and a formei state building and loan commissioner, were Indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and mall fraud. Those named included Robert S. Odell. ousted president of the concern; Andrew E. Falch, former tsate building and loan commis sioner; two deputy state building and loan commissioners and 10 former officers and executives of the company or Its affiliates. Canada to Send Airmen Overseas OTTAWA, Dec. 20-(Canadian Press) -Defense Minister Norman RQgers announced tonight In a radio address that a squadron of the Royal Canadian air force and auxiliary units totllng more than (000 men would be sent overseas to support the first Canadian di vision In the field. Landing of the first Canadian division in England was an nounced Monday in London. In tho present army organization division numbers, about IS.000 men. Rogers said that after consulta tion with the British government, Canada had decided to "despatch overseas a due proportion of corps troops ra addition to the division itself" so that it "may carry Its full weight in the army corps of which it will ultimately form a part- Nazi Wags Chide Statesman .With Gift of Umbrella BERLIN, Dec 2MAV-German filers, sallying acrosa French lines, dropped an umbrella aa a gift to Prima Minister Neville Chamberlain, who visited British troops in France last week. DNB, the official news agency. said the following note was at tached to tho umbrella: "The German air force rerrets that Mr. Chamberlain was forced to go around in such bad weather without an umbrella, and dedi cates to him this useful instru ment of protection. Proposal Scored PORTLAND. Ore.. Dae lA- -D. E. Nickerson, executive secre tary or tne uregon state Federa tion of Labor, criticised tenlrht the DrODOsal to create a atata Ha. partment of justice.; CfoCejDOOCE) Last Day - Randolph Hcott - Margaret lonasay In "20,000 Men a Year - The Starr of iAsaerlca'e Stndeat Pilot a. iTOMOituowir r Us. . X Zfv Features t r V f&iaey Toler Nazi Captain Follows Ship Commander Langsdorff Takes life aa Tragic End to Graf Spee Saga (Continued from page 1) war prisoners, took, his own life exactly a week after the Graf Spee engaged In a 14-hour running battle with three British cruisers off the South American coast. Forced to seek refuge in Mon tevideo harbor, the commander on "orders from Adolf Hitler blew up his ship rather than face in ternment or run the gantlet of al lied warships off the coast. Instead of going down with bis ship "be postponed fulfillment of his design" until he had seen to the safety of 'more than 1.000 young seamen In hla crew and bad Informed bis - superiors of the fate which bad befallen the Gra Spee. the embassy communique said; - An aide found his lifeless body In his arsenal quarters at 8:30 a. m. (3:30 a. m. PST). Presumably .the sea warrior used his own German pistol to end hi life. In mid-afternoon seamen of the Graf Spee, who previously had been happy despite their confine ment, were marched into the park before the. Immigrants' ho tel. Argentina's Ellis Island. They formed a three-tiered hollow square and in a hushed quiet an officer announced the death of their commander who bad shown remarkable solicitude for his men and had sought to cheer them by a cheery, 'joking demeanor. As the announcement was fin ished, the sailors at a muffled command of an officer, broke ranks and formed small, silent groups. Capt. Langsdorff himself had given the men his own farewell the day before by speaking pri vately to them in three groups. Then he called all his officers about him last night and talked with them for three hours. Shortly after, midnight he rose and made a-circle of the room for a last handshake with each man. Germans said there was no doubt In the mind of any man at this conference that he was speaking to his commander for the last time. Morgan Partner Sees Trade End WASHINGTON, Dec. Russell Lefilngwell. white-haired partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., told the monopoly committee to day that unless tho government allowed more freedom "I guaran tee business will go bankrupt." Lefflngwell, who recalled his service as assistant, secretary of the treasury during the World war, protested against "managed money and planned economy" as threatening eventual doom of "the profit system." He also said busi ness could not exist without some price increases in the face of an lncreaslnr tar burden, hirher wage costs and similar factors. "I thing we out to give the 130000,000 la this country more rope," Lefflngwell said. Byrd Takes News Of War to Isle WASHINGTON, Dec 2 -)- Tiny Rapa island, French posses sion In tho South Pacific, received Its first news of the war in En rope from the Byrd Antarctie ex pedition flagship, the North Star, which called there Sunday. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd reported to Washington today that most of the Island's 232 Poly nesian Inhabitants received the news calmly. The only native Frenchman on the Island, Vlscomte Rene Des Champs de Verneix, eagerly ques tioned Byrd about the war's pro gress, showing particular In ter est in the' effectiveness of modern fighting planes. Tears ago the Vlscomte was an aviator In France but his flying career ended when he settled as a coffee trader on Rapa island. Truck Load Limit To Protect Roads HILLSBORO, Dec 20-OFV-Be- duced truck load limits were con sidered by Washington county authorities today to protect rain softened market and secondary roads. ; Dairy creek. Gales creek and the Upper Tualatin river over flowed at lowland points. No seri ous damage has occurred. T O. D A IN PERSON On the Stage 'CHITA" T O D A Y Y Famous Movie Chlmpanaee, Comical Ape Companion of Tarsan tn lams Finds a XAirDCTTf CrlAaLU ' rv v V if HANOAROOI Myopic Mallard Amuses People; Hurts Own Pride BEND, Dec 20-()-Tbe wild duck's technique was perfect but the execution drew chuckles from hundreds of Christmas shoppers. The drake dropped down to what appeared to be the calm wa ters of a pond and spilled end over end on the wet, shining pave ment. Pedestrians laughed and the duck waddled sorely Into an alley to cover bis embarrassment. Polish Benefit Is Huge Affair WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (4)-Two former first ladles, four supreme court Justices, several ambassa dors and cabinet members did their bit for Polish relief tonight at a benefit performance bjr Ruth Draper, monologiat. Ten boxes were aol&v at SI SO apiece. One unidentified man care a debutante a ISO bill for a pro gram. A woman who couldn't at tend mailed a check for 1 500. Mrs. Frank D. Roosevelt, away from the capital, headed the list of sponsors. No social event this season has brought together such an array of notables as the benefit, spon sored by the local committee of the commslslon for Polish relief. Altlen Kin Dead NEW BRITAIN, Conn.. Dec. 29 -(P)-Mlss Marion R. Ellis. 90, a direct descendant of John and Prlscllla Alden of puritan fame, waa found dead In bed today at her home. Call Board CAPITOL Today John Garfield and Prlscllla Lane In "Dust Be My Destiny." "Three ' Sons" with Edward Ellis and Kent Taylor. Saturday "The Dead End Kids", in "On Dress Par ade." Gene Autry in "South of the Border." ELSIN'OIIE Today Anna Neagle and Mae Robson in "Nurse E d It h Cavell. "Show Boat" with Irene Dunne, 9 Allan Jones and Charles Winnlnger. Saturday "Four Wives" with the Lane sisters, Gale Page, Claude Bains and John Garfield. Virginia Wledler and Frank Mor gan in "Henry Goes Ari zona." GRAND Today "20,000 Men a Year" with Randolph Scott. Preston Foster. Mar garet Lindsay. Friday Charlie Cban In "City of Darkness" and 8tuart Erwln, Marjorle Weaver la "The Honey moon la Over." HOLLYWOOD . Today Ann Shirley and Edward Ellis in "Career." "Mysterious Miss X" with Michael Whalen and Mary Hart. Friday George O'Brien in ' "Timber Stampede." "The Ice Follies of 1931' with Joan Crawford and James Stewart. ' . STATE Today TovarlchH with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer. "Wild In nocence" with Chita, the monkey. Saturday "Chicken Wagon Family" with Jane With ers, Leo Carl 11 o. Today and Friday a Hits ou.Ywo aacav wait swaatai yKssa air m mill . itttii iTisasssj tsirrrrs Cosnpaakm Featare -SHOW BOAT with Irene Dnnne Atlaa Jones COMING SATURDAY . A Fonr Bell Picture FOUR WIVES Tonight and Friday - 9 Hits ctjield Boys nd Girls , . DONT FORGET Capitol Theatre-. Oregon Statesman FOOD I1ATIIIEE Capilsl Thcalro FrL, Dec 22nd - 10 A. M. Joe E. Brown in "POtO JOE" rLrs Chas. McCarthy. Comedy Henry Armeta Comedy ADMISSION 1 Can of Food or as many cans as yon wish to bring.' mm 7-
