Tho OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. February 6. 1940
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Drawing of Trial Panel,
. Uncompleted Monday,
Resumes at 9:30
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Salem. AH are to appear In court
at' 9:30 a. m. today.
Proceedings - came to a stand
still at about 4:16 p. m. when
Francis Marsh, special prosecutor
for the state, on a technical point
challenged the action of Defense
Attorneys Coster Ross and George
Rhoten : In excusing James A.
Scarth, Silverton merchant, from
dlt on .the jury.
The court adjourned to cham
bers, and on reeemergenee or
dered the recess until this morn
ing. In a brief openinsr statement
at the- beginning of the trial,
RosgSsreviewed the joint Indict
ment of Drager with W. York
Richardson, his former deputy,
and stated that the latter had
already been tried last June.
Later, in questions to prospec
tire jurors, the defense asked
whether the existence of the joint
indictment, and the outcome of
Richardson's trial, would hare
anr effect on Jurors' decisions.
Ross and Rhoten further in
spired whether any prejudice
would arise from the fact that
a bonding company had made np
the loss to the county of money
.allegedly taken by the defendant,
and from the additional fact that
Dt-ager had mortgaged all of his
property to indemnify the bond
ing company against its loss.
Prosecutor Marsh informed
jurors of bis status as a special
prosecutor, and asked whether
the fact that he is not a local
resident would affect their judg
ment la the case. He further
Inquired whether defendant's age
would make- any difference, or
possible stigma which might at
tach to his name should he be
farad guilty.
--"The state's attorney also in
formed the jury that proof of
larceny of any amount of money
would bo sufficient to convict the
defendant and that it would not
be necessary for the state to
prove that the exact amount
stated In the indictment had been
taken.
Marsh stated yesterday that
Connell C. Ward, former auditor
la-the county clerk's office and
now city school clerk, would
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After 15 years, John Barrymore returns to the
Broadway stage amid several unusual incidents
including a would-be actor's sudden leap across the
footlights onto the stage and a Barrymore kiss for
his estranged fourth wife, Elaine Barrie. The
Bert Freeman on stage
would-be actor, Bert Freeman, told police, above,
he leaped on the stage to impress Barrymore with
his "Hamlet" He was dressed in a "Hamlet" cos
tume. When asked to pose kissing his estranged
wife, Barrymore said, "It's a pleasure,"
Want io Buy
Entire or one-half interest
ia Insurance or other profit
able business in Salem. Will
invest up to 97500. As I live
oat of the state must have
full details which win be
'field strictly confidential.
Box 912 Care Statesman
Mrs. FDR Replies
To John Hamilton
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-P)-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt de
fended the American Youth con
guess against fresh charges of
communist domination today and
suggested that John Hamilton, re
publican national chairman, ac
quaint himself with its member
ship. Hamilton had said he would
not appoint a republican repre-
probably ne the first witness
called.
Thereafter Floyd Bowers, as
sistant state auditor in large part
responsible for the audit which
discovered the shortage In county
funds, will probably take the
stand. During the Richardson
trial last year he spent much time
introducing documents and other
evidence while a witness and Is
expected to do so again during
the present hearing.
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sentatlve to a citizenship institute
which the congress Is sponsoring
here this week "until the Youth
congress purges Itself of its com
munistic elements which, accord
ing to the Dies committee, dom
inate it."
Mrs. Roosevelt at her press con
ference said that as far as she had
been able to observe the congress
was not dominated by commu
nists. It has "members of all par
ties," she said, including the
young communistic league.
Property Damage
Heavy but No One,
Injured in Blast
WALLA WALLA, Feb. 5-(P-A
hot water tank explosion In the
downtown Pantorium cleaning
plant late today shattered plate
glass windows in several business
houses, buckled street sidewalks
but miraculously did not Injure
anyone.
The 60-gallon basement tank
burst just as Ted Kohler, an em
ploye, started downstairs but ho
was out of the way when the es
caping steam hurled the tank
across the basement, ripped out
sidewalk grillwork and buckled
the walk for several feet. The re
port was heard throughout most
of the city.
No estimate of damage was
available.
Japanese Ignore
French Protests
TOKYO. Feb. -(Tuesday)-i
-The Japanese army will continue
attacks on the French-operated
Kunning-Hanoi railway in south
western China as long as there
is a "military necessity," a for
eign office spokesman declared
Monday.
T h a spokesman, Yaklchiro
Suma, spoke as France was lodg
ing a protest over bombing of
the line Thursday and after the
United States had made represen
tations" about previous bombings.
Although Thursday's bombing,
In which the French said five
Frenchmen were killed and sev
eral "non-Chinese" wounded, pro
voked a stiffened French atti
tude which bulwarked the Amer
ican representations, Suma said
the Tokyo government "fully en
dorses" the operations against the
railway.
(Shanghai dispatches placed
I the number of killed in Thurs
day's bombing at 100, with an
other 200 wounded. They said
there were further attacks on the
railroad last Saturday but no cas
ualties were reported.)
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Lumber Workers
To Ask Increase
PORTLAND, Feb. 5-;p)-A 20
per cent wage increase or a cor
responding cut in the work-week
will be asked of the lumber in
dustry in the west, the Oregon
Washington council of AFL lum
ber and sawmill unions decided
yesterday.
Homer L. Haney, Tacoma,
council president, said negotia
tions would begin when operators
were ready. Most of the AFL mill
and logging camp contracts are
up for renewal next month.
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Spanish War Veteran
May Aid VFW Program
Members of Salem camp. United
Spanish War veterans, discussed
last night the possibilities of co
operation with the Veterans of
Foreign Wars in the building and
use of a new building. Comman
der A. Tyner Woolpert said that
no decision on the matter would
be reached but plans would be set
forth.
Young GOP to Meet
Mayor W. W. Chadwick and
Sigfried Unander, research direct
or in the executive department
at the state capitol, will speak
at a meeting of the Marlon
County Young Republican club at
the chamber of commerce at 8
o'clock tonight.
Idaho Pioneer Dies
PORTLAND, Feb. 5-iip-Augus-tlne
M. Slnnott, 88, member of the
constitutional convention that
made Idaho a state, died at his
Oregon City home today.
Public Power
Study Ordered
O'Hara Resolution Gets
Support; Bonneville
People Offer Aid
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rupted the sessions with occasion
al applause and a few amens, the
license was denied 10 to 4 after a
session in which Roberts' Rules of
Order went a-begging.
"Grog Shop" Reference
Resented by Pugh '
A peUUon from the residents,
referring to the proposed beer
store as a "Grop shop" was pro
tested by . David Pugh, owner of
the property.
"It is no more a grog shop than
a restaurant, Pugh asserted.
"Neither is it a place of moral
breakdown. I resent that .... I
feel we're being persecuted."
Several residents of the neigh
borhood, including August Mick-
elson, 1238 Broadway, spoke in
opposition to the transfer and a
group of about 20 young people
were presented to the council as
persons who would be affected by
the licensing of the "grog shop."
After Alderman E. B. Perrine
moved to take the license away
from the license committee and
deny it. Alderman C. F. French
attempted to attach a rider which
would have made It the policy of
the council to deny transfers of
licenses. French withdrew his
rider after objections by Alder
men Frank P. Marshall and
Chandler P. Brown, new council
man who was sitting in an alder
manic chair for the first time.
Hiring of Auditor
Is Committee's Job
The council also:
Passed an ordinance to set up
rates and regulations for sewer
connections outside of the city
limits.
Authorized the ways and means
committee to secure an auditor to
make an audit for 1939.
Instructed the city engineer to
improve by grading and graveling,
under the WPA blanket project,
the part of 25 th street near the
new Salem baseball club park.
Set aside for future park devel
opment five lots In Brooklyn ad
dition, near the corner of Lee and
22nd streets, and tVt lots in Uni
versity addition.
Clarified the authority of the
fire chief over first aid officers
and the first aid car.
Set February 19 for condemna
tion hearings of buildings at 109
South Commercial, known as the
Capitol hotel building, and at 550
Belmont street.
Rilea Attending
Command School
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6-;P)-Elghteen
national guard officers
from the Ninth corps area began
a two weeks' course in command
and staff functions today at the
Presidio.
Included in the group were
Major General Walter P. Storey
and Brigadier General Harcourt
Hervey of Los Angeles, and Brig
adier General Thomas -E. Rilea of
Salem, Ore.
Skiing Accidents
Cause 2 Injuries
MEDFORD, Feb. 6-(p)-Two
persons were seriously Injured
in weekend skiing accidents at
Crater Lake national park. .
Samuel T. Young, 15, Medford,
fell and struck a rock, cutting
his ear in half, while Harold Lar
sen, Medford, suffered a leg frac
ture in a fall.
Late Sports
VANCOUVER, Feb. $-&)-Vancouver
Lions scored twice in
the third period to beat Port
land Buckaroos 3-2 in a Pacific
coast hockey league game here
tonight and move Into a first
place tie with Seattle Seahawks.
CORVALLIS. Ore., Feb.
The Oregon State rooks came from
behind in the last six minutes to
beat the Booth-Kelly Independents
of Wendling, 37-24, in a basket
ball game tonight.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 6
(p Multnomah college of Port
land rallied tonight to defeat
Clark Junior college, 44-34, in a
Northwest Junior College con
ference basketball game.
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MatU Halme of Los Angeles was on his way to war, but it looked as
though he'd been through one. He was In a New York cafe brag
glng of his intention to Join the Finnish army when men he saM
. were reds attacked him. Halme Is shown getting a farewell kiss
from his sister, Mrs. Martha Gromdahll, jutt before be sailed for
Finland.
Ask Federal Help
In Aberdeen Case
Delegation Including Law
to Request Attorney
General to Act
SEATTLE, Feb. t-p)-A plan
for a three-man delegation. In
cluding Dick Law, to call per
sonally upon Attorney General
Robert Jackson in Washington
with a demand for federal investi
gation in Grays Harbor county
law enforcement activities was
announced tonight by Howard
Costlgan, executive secretary of
the Washington Commonwealth
Federation.
Costlgan said he. Law and Ir
win Goodman of Portland. CIO
union attorney, would leave for
the national capital Friday or
Saturday. He said the decision
to make the trip immediately was
reached after the coroner's in
quest Into the January 5 killing
of Mrs. Law at Aberdeen was re
cessed today for the second time
without any testimony being
taken.
ABERDEEN. Feb. 5-;p-Inves-tlgatlon
of the slaying of Mrs.
Laura Law reached the one
month mark today with the bit
terness it has engendered boiling
over at official sessions here and
at Montesano, the Grays Harbor
county seat.
At a heated meeting at Monte
sano, the county commissioners
appropriated $4,000 for the work
of Special Prosecutor Paul O.
Manley, who has been assigned
solely to the case, and Manley
accused the family of the slain
woman of "obstructing" the in
vestigation. Her widower, Dick Law, CIO
woodworkers' union leader, has
criticised the action of Grays Har
bor authorities in the case in
statements here and at meetings
in various Washington and Ore
gon cities.
The commissioners' action at
Montesano followed continuance
by Coroner John W. Stevenson of
the recess of the coroner's jury
inquest in the case. The jury
dismissal was "until further notice."
Sheriff Found Dead
OMAHA, Feb. 5-;p)-The body
of State Sheriff William F. Flake,
clad only in underwear, was found
in a hotel bedroom late today and
Detective Inspector Frits Franks
said he believed Flake had killed
himself.
Odd Accident Fatal
BEND, Feb. 5-(yP-Charle E.
McUne, Deschutes rancher, be
came tangled yesterday in the
halter rope of a stallion and was
dragged to death.
Pedestrian Killed
MEDFORD, Feb. 1-JP)- Mrs.
Belle Farrell, about 70, a pedes
trian, was killed by an automobile
while crossing a residential street
last night. She was the mother
of City Attorney Frank P. Farrell
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Russian Prestige
Greatly Damaged
Balkan Entente's Actions
Show Slight Respect
for Soviet Might
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
The way in which Russia's ill
starred Finnish campaign has dam
aged her prestige elsewhere In the
world in illustrated by the doings
of the Balkan Entente conference
at Belgrade.
The four countries, Rumania,
Greece, Turkey and Yuogslavia,
contended they were and would
continue to be strictly neutral in
the war between Germany and the
Franco-British allies. They made
no public mention of the Rusao
Finnish war.
Yet the obvious effect of the de
cisions taken at Belgrade, howev
er stated of ficiallyi was to put
Russia on notice that If she moves
against Rumania she may find
several nations in southeastern
Europe presenting a united front
against her. A wide door for Ital
ian cooperation to check Russia
in the Balkans was opened at Bel
grade. Moscow can hardly doubt
that Italy s axis mate, nazi Ger
many, Is a silent partner in
Rome's effort to preserve the
Balkan status quo and forestall
any territorial or economic ad
vance by Russia in that direction.
No Concern Reflected
Had the red army crashed
through Finland on schedule, the
Balkans might by now have been
under the shadow of an approach
ing Russian bear. As it is, the
conclusions of the Balkan en
tente conferees at Belgrade seem
based on an expectation that Rus
sia has been stopped indefinitely
in the southeast because of her
plight In Finland.
A diplomatic and politico- eco
nomic stalemate has developed In
southeastern Europe that la hard
ly less of a deadlock than that Im
posed on the German and allied
armies on the west front by the
Maglnot and Siegfried line de
fenses. Nor can that be wholly
disappointing to the allies, even
if their major strategy of strang
ling Germany economically could
perhaps have been more quickly
served had Russia precipitated a
conflict in the Balkans and there
by disrupted trade with Germany.
Presumably the maintenance
of the status quo in Rumania and
in other Balkan or Danublan
countries from which Germany
British Losses
At Sea Mount
Canadian Beaverbura Is
Torpedo Victim; Crew
Is Believed Saved
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vessels sunk since the start ot
the war. The Beaverburn was
the first Canadian ocean-going
ship reported sunk by torpedo
since the start of the wsr.
Fiftyfour of the ldO men
aboard were feared lost. Five
were known to have been killed
by nasi bombers which ranged
British east coastal waters Satur
day attacking at least 11 ships.
The minesweeper's engines
were disabled and she was being
towed into an eastern port. The
tow-line snapped and the 8phlnx
capsized.
Built in 1938 at a cost of about
$500,000, the Sphinx was the
third minesweeper Britain has
lost. The other two went down
in November.
Naval observers regarded Ger
many's three air attacks last
week on shipping off the exposed
east coast as a prelude to sharp
er efforts to establish a real
"bomb blockade" and to renewal
of the nasi submarine campaign,
in an effort to offset allied marl
time strength.
Clemency Denied
To IRA Members
LONDON. Feb. 5-;p)-Tbe home
office tonight announced its re
fusal to grant reprieves tor two
condemned members of the out
lawed Irish republican army, as
has been asked in Irish mats meet
ings. Earlier In the day the attorney
general had refused to take the
case of the two men, Peter Barnes
rand James Richards, to the house
of lords for appeal, as the defense
had asked.
The prisoners are In Birming
ham Jail under sentence to be
hanged Wednesday for their part
in a bomb explosion in Coventry
last August 25 In which five per
sons were killed.
California Storm
Doing big Damage
REDONDO BEACH. Calif., Feb,
5-.P)-Tbe heaviest seas in years
battered the 8trsnd walk, under
mined homes and apartment
houses, and caused sections of
streets to cave in today.
Property owners and friends
labored tonight, filling sandbags
and placing them under weakened
residence and store fouadatlons.
They said they feared further
damage from a high tide at S
a. m. tomorrow.
Small beach shops collapsed to
day and porches aid balconies ot
several beach honiVs tell into the
sea.
In the past few weeks the
waves have taken out a 100-yard
stretch of sloping sand which lay
in front of these homes and shops.
Most ot the homes have been deserted.
National Cemetery Asked
WASHINGTON. Feb, 5 - (JF) -Representative
Anrell (R, Ore.)
today offered a resolution au
thorizing the secretary of war
to establish a national cemetery
in the vicinity of Portland, Ore,
draws oil and food supplies means
that the German-allied war will
continue there as a war of eco
nomics. There has been little to
indicate that London and Paris
actually desired any other out
come so far as southeastern Eu
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