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Paul
Hauser's Column
Old Mr. Valentine, who
one of the less ancient Romans
and a Christian martyr to boot,
started some-i
thins. Mr. Val-I
entine, who long
since has joined
the saints, used
to sit in bis cell,
when he was
waiting to be a
C h r istian mar
tyr, and write
notes to people
and some oblig-
inr doves. who
were hanging p a '
around the Jailhouse, used to de-
a . il m klm nAfli.
age.
Whether Mr. Valentine, who
was no relation to the late
Jimmy Valentine, ever both
ered to put his notes into verse
we don't know, bnt people got
that Idea. The Idea took, hot
like so many inventors. Saint
Valentine never cashed in on
It. The greeting card compan
ies did, though.
We have been thinking about
Valentines and with the aid of
some crepe paper, a crepe hair
beard, a pot of paste and a rhym
ing dictionary we wrote a few.
VALENTINE FOR AN ESKIMO
LADY
At fifty below
In the ice and snow
My blood runs bot for you.
On my parka park
Before it's too dark
And share my new igloo.
It it weren't so cold
I'd not be so bold,
My little fur-wrapped dove.
On the frozen brine
Be my Valentine
In the land of blubberly love.
:
Valentine for a native (female)
of East Borneo, Dutch East Indies.
Your hair is shaggy;
Your eyes are wild;
Your bonea are scraggy;
Your teeth are filed.
Your breath is like the turpentine.
Oh, won't you be by Valentine?
SPECIAL EVENT DEDICATED
TO MR. AND MRS. HARRY
GWYNN, WHO BOTH (2) CELE
BRATE THEIR BIRTHDAYS ON
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, FEB
RUARY THE 14TH, BEING A
SLIGHTLY SENTIMENTAL BAL
LAD. You needn't send forth frothy
lines
Made from a rhymester's monkey-
shines.
From those old days of crinolines
You've been each other'B Valen
tines.
Unhappy ode on the futility of
Valentines of all sorts, Debug e'
pecially prepared to leave a moral
and a strong taste of fish in the
mouth of the reader.
Candy's fattening,
Cards are common;
Verses flattering
Bards abomine.
So, dew still wet,
You roses leave her.
What does she get?
She gets hay fever!
Cold Wave Causes
Suffering, Europe
(By The Associated Press)
Europe's unprecedented cold
spread across the southeast Tues
day, taking a mounting toll of
lives, harrassing communications
and aing the British-French
blockade of nazi Germany.
Fifty died in Hungary alone,
trans-European trains were halt
ed in the Balkans by raging
blizzards, and distress calls pour
ed in from : Aegean and Mediter
ranean shipping.
A coal shortage added to Bal
kan hardships.
Oil and food trains bound for
Germany were stalled along with
passenger trains in gale-driven
snowdrifts. Telephone and tele
graph lines were snapped by lee
from Tain which froze as it fell.
Isolated on Danube river boats
were more than 2,500 central
European Jewish refugees. One
group, frozen in since Jan. 1
near Cladova, Rumania, was re
ported without food and heat.
Balkan residents slept in their
overcoats, their coal bins empty.
Sentence Commutations
Go Before Governor at
Conference Here Today
Numerous parole problems will
be discussed at a conference here
Wednesday between Governor
Charles A. Sprague, Gerald W.
Mason, member of the state pa
role hoard, and Fred S. Finsley,
state parole director.
Finsley said commutations of
sentence would be recommended
to the governor la a number of
penitentiary cases. He said the
names of those involved would
not be disclosed until Governor
Sprague had taken action.
Income Tax Hits WPA
i J. ' Griffith, state adminis
trator of the works progress ad
ministration, has informed Coun
ty Clerk U. O. Bayer that all
WPA ' workers are liable for pay
ment l of federal income tax If
their ' total incomes are over
$1000, if single, or, U married,
over $2500. The order also ap
plies to state income taxes, Grif
fith indicated, where the limits
are $800 for single and $1500
ftjr married people, ,
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Dragf 7 Says Money Is Repaid
On Each Accomodation Check
Demo Machine
Forces in KC
Show no Fight
Charter Change Booting
out Pendergast Men
in April Okehed
Five Propositions With
old Regime Support
Badly Defeated
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 13.-(P)-Tom
Pendergast's once-powerful
democratic machine was routed at
every turn in today's special elec
tion. It offered no resistance to a
charter amendment to end its rule
at the city hall in April and ral
lied little support for a proposal
to put firemen under civil serv
ice. Four other propositions
drafted by one of its councilmen
also were defeated.
Boss Tom himself couldn't help
his organization. He and several
of his lieutenants are in Leaven
worth prison for dodging income
taxes.
More than 110,000 of 192,000
registered voters struck with bal
lots at the political organization
which boodled the city of millions
of dollars. They ordered, by a
five to one majority, an amend
ment to end the terms of all elec
tive officials April 17 by reducing
their tenure from four to two
years. They smashed four machine-fostered
amendments by the
same majority.
The firemen's civil service plan
failed of passage by almost two to
one.
Claim Civil Service
Already in Charter
Anti-machine forces opposed
the proposition on the theory the
city charter -ignored under Pen
dergast rule -provides civil serv
ice and the measure under good
government would be merely a
hindrance.
Unofficial returns from all of
the city's 462 precincts gave:
For the ouster 95,855; against
17,235.
For civil service 39,335; against
74.421.
Hal W. Lnhnow, chairman of
the united anti-machine campaign
forces, said the result is "the de
cisive answer of an aroused citi
zenry against 14 years of machine
misrule. ... It is a victory for de
cency and honesty and an answer
to 14 years, of graft, corruption,
stolen elections and tho national
shame which the machine cast on
Kansas City."
Anti-Machine Forces
Vow to Stick Together
Observers speculated freely
that the machine either intended
to contest the election's legality
or to wait until April to do bat
tle In the hope the fused forces of
republicans, ndependent demo
crats and business men would
split in the scramble for office.
But the anti-machine forces
say there will be no discord in
their ranks in April. They plan
tentatively to select a democratic
cardidate for mayor and an equal
numbejr of democrats and republi
cans for the council seats.
For the first time in eight years
the police force which patrolled
the voting preeincts today was not
controlled by the Pendergast ad
ministration. It is operating now
under a board appointed by Pen
dergast's bitter democratic foe.
Gov. Lloyd C. Stark.
Crete of Scuttled Liner
May Visit Portland Soon
PORTLAND, Feb. 13,-iA3)-Robert
G. Clostermann, Portland
German consul said today it was
"not improbable" that crew mem
bers of the scuttled German liner
Columbus would be brought here
in an effort to find a ship willing
to return them to Germany.
The crew is interned at Angel
Island immigration station at
San Francisco.
Nearly Billion for Navy Is
Asked in Bill Before House
" WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. -(JP)-A
bill providing $966,772,878 for
the navy a record peacetime ap
propriation despite a slash of
$111,699,699 below President
Root evelt's recommendations
started through the house today
amid warnings that to guard Its
wealth the United States must
have greater naval power than
any other nation.
While cutting deeply into esti
mates for ship construction, ord
nance and naval aircraft, the ap
nrnnriatfona committee urged
that the projected battleships and
new cruisers he restudied with a
view to making them the most
powerful in the world.
The committee also recommend
ed a $1,000,000 start on a harbor
project for the Pacific outpost of
Guam, near Japan. The navy's
proposed development of the is
land aroused a storm of contro-
varirr last vear. .
, Ot $$$,028,021 lopped from the
State Completes Its
In Trial ot
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The state rested its case Tuesday in the trial of D. G. Drager, Marlon
county treasurer, on charges of larceny of public funds. Key testi
mony for the prosecution was given by Floyd Bowers, left, and Ber
nard Davis, center, of the state department's auditing division. At
right la Francis Marsh, special presenter. Statesman staff photo.
Tammany Official
Under Indictment
William Solomon Charged
With Extortion, State
Printing Contract
NEW YORK, Feb. 13. -(JP)-William
Solomon, an influential
Tammany district leader, and
Charles H. Mullens, a republican
assistant deputy state comptroll
er? were arrested today on an in
dictment accusing them of hav
ing extorted $34,833 for negotia
ting $750,000 in state contracts
for the Burland Printing com
pany, Inc.
They were taken into custody
in the office of District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey when they ar
rived there, with counsel, at the
prosecution's request. Both plead
ed innocent to a seven-count in
dictment, specifically charging
bribery, extortion and taking un
lawful fees, and bail for each was
fixed at $10,000.
It was the second serious accu
sation made thi3 week against
Solomon, who has been one of the
most powerful Tammany bosses
since Dewey convicted District
Leader James J. Hines last Feb
ruary for conspiracy in the opera
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Winter's Heaviest
Snow Is Recorded
PORTLAND, Feb. 13.-JP)-A
blanket of new snow, heaviest of
the winter In some sections, cov
ered parts of eastern and south
ern Oregon today.
Plows operated on the Siski
you section of the Pacific high
way. The Diamond lake second
ary highway in eastern Oregon
was closed. Fifteen inches were
reported on Sun mountain, high
pass between Bend and Klamath
Falls on The Dalles-California
highway.
The fall reached a depth of two
feet in some mountain sections of
eastern Oregon. Two inches fell
at Bend.
Roads to Crater Lake national
park remained open despite 15
inches of new snow that brought
the total depth to 96 inches.
The snow melted as it fell In
the Med ford section of the Rogue
river valley, replenishing irriga
tion water reservoirs.
Rain doused western Oregon
and more showers were forecast
for Wednesday by the government
weather bureau.
shipbuilding program, all but $5,
522,521 was for four 45,000-ton
battleships and four new cruisers.
First funds for two of the cap
ital ships which would be the
navy's biggest and two of the
cruisers were provided last year.
The committee said plans for all
eight still could be changed to
make them bigger, adding that
under present plans they would be
practically the same as to speed,
armor and guns as ships now be
ing built abroad.
President Roosevelt told his
press conference he hoped the
battleship funds would be re
stored. Meanwhile he signed a
deficiency bill providing $252,
240,776 for defense and neutral
ity functions of the navy, army,
coast guard and federal bureau of
investigation in the current fiscal
year.
The hill would provide funds to
start work on 19 new combat
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Testimony
Treasurer Drager
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Resurfacing Gty
Pools Is Ordered
School Board Lets $3000
Job; Leslie Play Area
Project Studied
A bid of $3000 from Judd
Beardsley for the resurfacing of
Leslie and Olinger swimming
pools was accepted by the Salem
school board at a short meeting
last night. It was the only bid sub
mitted. The two lowest bids for wood,
submitted by Henry Fern of Dal
las and Harry Edwards of Salem,
were referred to the supplies com
mittee for action. Fern's bid
ranged from $3.25 to $3.40 and
Edward's from $3.25 to $3.40.
Four other firms submitted bids,
ranging from $3.44 to $3.98. Sec
ond growth four-foot fir is called
for.
The board will gather Thurs
day morning at 9 o'clock to go
to the Leslie school grounds to
look over property acquired for
additional playground there about
a year ago to see if clearing of
the property will furnish a pro
ject for the national youth ad
ministration. Chester Nelson, NYA
administrator here, has asked the
school board If it can supply any
projects at this time. Superin
tendent Frank Bennett reported.
Other possible projects suggest
ed were moving the dirt by the
new underpass to the high school
football field and cutting the
grass on the Richmond school
playground.
A letter from the local Wom
en's Christian Temperance union
was read expressing appreciation
at the policy of the school board
expressed last week protesting
against extension of beer and
wine stores in school and resi
dential districts.
Late Sports
WALLA WALLA, Feb. 13. JP)
Pacific university took the up
per hand tonight with a 55-4 S
victory over Whitman to even
the two-day Northwest confer
ence basketball series here.
Whitman spurted Into an early
lead but Buffered a relapse just
before the half when the visitors
led 29-28, coming back for a
hair-raising last half which saw
the count tied up three times.
Center B. Cooney of Pacific
hit the ring with Increasing regu
larity for 21 points, while Bul
lock paced the losers with 11.
McMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 13.
--Portland university decl
sioned Linfield college's Wildcats
in a basketball game tonight, 40
to 32, although Linfield's for
ward, Monroe, was high scorer
with 15 points.
High School Basketball
Parkrose 39, Beaverton 10.
Astoria 43, St. Helens 25
Tillamook 38, Oregon City 30.
St. Mary's (Eugene) 37, Cot
tage Grove 28.
McMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 13.
CfP) The wrestling team from
the University of Oregon defeat
ed Linfield college matmen to
night, 23 to 11 points. The Web
foots took four matches on falls
and one on decision. Linfield
grapplers won two decisions and
a fall.
SEATTLE, Feb. 15.-VWild
Bill Boyd, the sailor man whom
Jack DeBipsey took under his
wiug, Kvrea m i-rvua oecuivu i
here tonight over towering Chuck I
CxoweU, of Los Angeles.
State Exhibits
Are Identified
And Explained
Payments in Connection
With Mining Venture
Included in List
Hewlett Testifies Upon
Treasurer's Refusal
to File Reports
County Treasurer David G.
Drager took the witness stand to
defend himself yesterday at his
trial in circuit court on a Charge
of larceny of public funds.
County check after county
check. Dragef identified as "ac
commodation checks" issued by
him as treasurer and drawn oh
county funds. In every instance,
he declared, he received the mon
ey from the person for whom the
check was Issued and placed it
with the county funds.
Questioned carefully by one of
his attorneys, Custer E. Ross,
Treasurer Drager admitted more
than 100 such checks were writ
ten on the county treasury but he
insisted that in every case the
e o u n t y had been reimbursed
promptly from his own pocket
book or from other private sour
ces. The checks utilized by the de
fense were the same ones that
Special Prosecutor Francis E.
Marsh introduced into evidence
last week to bolster the state's
charges against the treasurer.
Repayment Claim
Made for Each Oieck
At that time it was pointed out
in cross-examination that Drager
had never denied drawing the
checks but had always asserted
his immediate repayment. The
defendant repeated this claim of
prior payment In each instance
yesterday afternoon.
The checks at which Drager
testified included a number drawn
to pay obligations in connection
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Conductor Killed
Under Own Train
Nathaniel Swain Falls off
Caboose in SP Yards;
Jolted by Coupling
Beneath the wheels of his own
train, Nathaniel Jf Swain, 60, met
death yesterday morning at 8:19
o'clock, the time indicated by hisH
uroKen railroad watch.
Swain, 448 University street,
fell from the rear platform of
the caboose of a train on which
he was conductor, as the train
was being made up, and was de
capitated beneath the wheels.
The conductor apparently fell
when a first impact failed to cou
ple the cars. The second impact
apparently pushed the caboose
and possibly two other cars over
his body. The accident occurred
opposite the American Railway
Express office in the Southern
Pacific yards.
Dave McRae, 2242 North
Fourth street, a switchman, told
investigators that Swain made an
attempt to roll between the rails.
McRae Baid he tried to reach
Swain to pull him to safey.
Swain has been an employe of
the Southern Pacific company
since July 30, 1909. .Other mem
bers of the train crew, none of
whom saw the accident, are: A. A.
Look, Portland, engineer; J. A
Reilly, Beaverton, fireman; Eldon
Vaughn, Dallas, and Clarence V.
Woolery, Salem.
Coroner L. E. Barrick was
called and took charge of the
body. There will be no inquest.
Survivors are the widow, Flora
E. Swain of Salem; sons, Glenn
N. of Omaha, Neb., Ivan E. of
Fargo, ND, and a stepson, F. R.
Fitxmaurice of Spokane, Wash.
Funeral arangements are being
made by the Clough-Barrick com
pany. Giant Liners yill
Be Convertible to
Aircraft Carriers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. -(JP)-The
maritime commission made
public today details of two giant
trans-Pacific liners, eapable of
being converted quickly into air
craft carriers, which it plans
shortly to place under contract.
They will be 759 feet overall,
with beam . on the water line
of 98.2 feet larger than any
any ships ever buUt in an Ameri
can yard.
Intended for operation between
San Francisco and the orient, the
luxury liners will have a dis
placement of X 5,5 00 tons and
speed of 24 knots. They will, carry
1000 passengers and a ship's per
sonnel of abont 600.
The commission called the de
sign 'unique," adding that con
struction ot such ships had never
hefore been undertaken tn any
couatrr. ,
Troopers Save
Women Seized
By Angry Mob
5 Policemen Halt Crowd
of 1000 and Rescue
Mother and Girl
Negroes Are Questioned
About Slaying; Other
Prisoners Are Hid
SNOW HILL, Md., Feb. 14
( Wednesday ) (JP) Five state
troopers overtook a crowd esti
mated officially at 1000 at near
by Stockton, Md., early today and
in a brief melee rescued two ne
gro women who had been dragged
from the Worcester county Jail
here several hours earlier.
The women had been taken
Into custody yesterday afternoon
for "investigation" in connection
with the Sunday night slaying of
Harvey W. Pilchard, Stockton
farmer, and the wounding of his
wife, Annie.
Pilchard was killed instantly by
a shotgun blast Into the stom
ach, fired by one of two maraud
ers point-blank range. Uia wife
was shot in the back as she fled
toward ; the attic to escape. She
was reported recovering.
The women were booked under
the names of Martha Blake, 81,
and her daughter, Lillian Vir
ginia Blake, 14, when they were
placed In Jail.
Women Are Being
Taken to Baltimore
The rescue party started imme
diately' toward Delaware, about
50 miles distant, and announced
the women would be brought to
Baltimore today for safe-keeping.
Sgt. W. H. Weber of the state
police was painfully injured when
the rescue party clashed with the
crowd, Governor Herbert R.
O'Connor announced from Annap
olis. The governor said be had
received a report that 'JVeber,
guttered on the head with a club,
managed to load the women In an
automobile and drove away.
The governor said an official
report to his office placed the
crowd at 1000.
Police said the women were
not mistreated at any time and
that the crowd brought them food
and clothing "in an effort to get
them to tell" about Pilchard's
slaying.
The; crowd dispersed after the
rescue and police indicated the
situation was under control with
reinforcements ordered by the
governor arriving.
Two of Mob Injured;
Jail Is Stormed
It was reported that one mem
ber of the crowd was shot in the
leg and another suffered head
Injuries.
The governor also announced
that two negro men who had
been taken into custody had been
removed from the jail at Salis
bury and taken to some undis
closed place.
Early in the evening the crowd,
noisy as it stood about the lawn
of the jail here, had battered in
a window, attached a rope to a
cell block door and ripped it
from its fastenings.
The women then were placed
in automobiles and taken to
Stockton, where the crowd was
met by the police detail.
Philadelphia Has
Edge, GOP Meet
WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. -")-Officials
at republican headquar
ters are of the opinion that the
party's national convention pro
bably will be held at Philadelphia
some time between June If and
the end of July.
The situation can change be
tween now and Friday, when the
national committee meets to de
cide upon a time and a place, but
preliminary Iniormation is said to
point very strongly toward the
Pennsylvania city.
The prediction is based upon
word from Philadelphia that an
intensive drive for contributions
probably will enable that city to
offer the party something ap
proaching $200,000 for the con
rention. Bids of varying amounts are
expected, too, from Chicago, St.
Louis and San Francisco.
Finns Claim Lost Positions
Regained but Aid Is Needed
(By The Associated Press)
Finland told the world Tuesday
nigh that she was holding her
own against Russia despite fight
ing which "surpasses" the most
strenuous battles of the World
war"; but the little republic once
more appealed to "civilized na
tions" for help.
The Finnish high command in
a statement reported the Manner
heim lines defenses on the Kare
lian Isthmus remained unbroken
arte. IS days of terrific fight
ing at Summa. It added that con
servative estimates placed Rus
sian losses at between 20,000 and
0,000 men, presumably includ
ing wounded. Finnish officers
said their own losses were sur
prisingly small.
"The series of battles here (at
Summa) may be called something
like the 'Summa miracle'," the
statement said, "comparable to
the Somme sad Verdun, hat sex
Bill Allowing
Loan to Finns
Passes Senate
Bloc Led by George Fearing Trend to
Involvement Resists Measure
but Is Voted Down 49-27
"Entering Wedge" Decried; Effort of
Taft to Halve Lending Permit
Fails; May Also Aid China
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (AP) Voting 49 to 27, the
senate today approved legislation to make possible additional
loans of $20,000,000 each to Finland and China.
The bill, passed over the protest of a group which heat
edly contended that the action was an "entering wedge" for
later loans to Great Britain and France, now goes to the
house.
Without naming either Finland or China, the legislation
would increase the lending authority of the export-import
bank by $100,000,000 and permit it to extend future credit
grants to a maximum of $20,000,000 for any one country. The.
money would be used for the purchase of non-military nup-
He's Temporary
Head of Canada
4
Sir Lyman Duff, chief JuMlce of
Canada supreme court, auto
matically txvame administrator
ot Canada upon the deatli of
Lord TwrodMiiuIr, g o v e r nor
general. He will wn pending
appointment of a fcuccesMr.
1IN photo.
Kennedy Refuses
Presidency Race
Work as Envoy too Vital
Just now, Ambaaaatlor
to England Asserts
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-JP)-Joseph
B. Kennedy flatly re
fused tonight to enter the presi
dential race, declaring that his
job of ambassador to England in
these times of strife "involves
matters so precious to the Ameri
can people" that his energies
should not be diverted.
Only a short time before,
friends of the Bostonlan had an
nounced that a slate of delegates
pledged to him would be entered
in the Massachusetts democratic
presidential primary April 30.
Nomination papers for such
pledged delegates were taken out
by John F. McCarthy, Boston at
torney, -who said Kennedy would
file the authorization necessary
under Massachusetts law.
But Kennedy, financier and
business man who long has been
prominently Identified with, the
Roosevelt administration, made
plain that he would not file the
authorization. He said "the para
mount consideration of public
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ertheless, despite the fact that
the soviet men are falling by the
thousands and tens of thousands,
that's why we need help in aU
forms men, material, especially
airplanes.
'Thus far the Finnish army
is able to hold its own but we
really rely on civilized nations of
the world to relieve as in this
situation."
As If to emphasize Finland's
cry for airplanes, soviet Russian
bombers resumed extensive raids
on cities and towns behind the
lines. The town ot Porvoo, north
east of Helsinki, was wrecked and
Laatl, Heinola and other com
munities were damaged by high
explosive and incendiary bombs.
Russia has reported the cap-
ture of 84 "defensive fortifies-
Uons". on the Karelian isthmus
in the last five days bat the Finn-
lah high command said last night
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vpnet in mis country.
In the course of the debate, tee
senate rejected two amendments
one by Senator Taft (H-Ohlo)
to cut the proposed Increase la
lending authority to $50,000,00e
and a second by Senator Danahtr
(R-Conn) to forbid the bank te
make loans to governments.
Meanwhile, the senate forelga
relat:cns committee received front
Secretary Hull a letter opposing
the application of the neutrality
act to the undeclared war betweea
China and Japan. Although the
letter's contents were not made
public, the administration la
known to feel that Invoking the
act would help Japan and hurt
China.
At the same time, the sens,)
banking committee postponed ac
tion on a proposal that the trea
sury abandon its program ai4
policy of purchaxing foreign sti
ver. A subcommittee bad ap
proved the proposal, but many
committeemen felt that the tlews
of the state and treasury depart
ments should be studied before
action was taken.
Senator George (LMJs) took a
leading part in the opposition to
the Finnish proposal. Pending
was a measure to Increase the
lending authority of the export
import bank ' by $1 00,000,00.
with authorization to lend up to
$30,000,000 t? any one country.
Finland already has borrowed
110.000,000 from the bank. Chi
na Is also expected to seek addi
tional credit If the bank's lending
authority is increaiel.
"There Is already a feeling
growing up that we may bedraaa
into the European war," George
aid. For this reason, lie contend
ed, the United States should lata
extreme care about any step that
could be interpreted abroad as un
neutral Senator MrCarran (D-Nev) de
nounced the proposition as aa
"entering wedge," which sets "a
precedent under a subterfuge and
a guise." He asserted that event
ually under the policy Involved,
the United States would have to
lend money to France and Eng
land. II. M. Smith Will
Seek County Job
Homer M. Smith, Jefferson
farmer, yesterday announced' his
Intention to file for the office of
county commissioner on a plat
form offering "dependable, unbi
ased cooperation."
Associated with t b e Kentos
Traction company of Portland for
18 years, during 14 of which be
was superintendent. Smith indica
ted yesterday that he had had
much experience with office man
agement and road maintenance
and road maintenance problems.
He has lived in the southern
part of the county since 1934,
though as a child be attended
grammar school In Jefferson
when his parents were located
near there. Smith is 43 and was
born in Astoria.
Youthful Bandits
Given Life Terms
Soon After Crime
SANTA FE, KM, Feb. 12-V
Two youthful bank-robbing breta-
ers. their bravado shattered, were
sentenced today to spend the rest
of their lives in the state peni
tentiary, less than Sf hoars after
they held up and robbed the Es
panola State bank of $1181.
Bill Rowse, 20, Santa Fe ga
rage worker, eollapeed In the
courtroom after pleading gulrty
to an armed robbery charge car
rying a mandatory life sentence.
His brother, Herble, 22, unem
ployed carpenter, pleaded guilty
to the same charge.
Sam T. Davit Dies
BOISE, Idaho. Feb.- lt.-iJPY-
Sam T. Davis. 71, a great-nephew
of Jefferson Davis, confederate
states president daring the civil
war, . died here tonight Davis
was born at Jacksonville. Ore.,
the son of Ben T. Davis, Jeffer
son DavU nephew. :