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Th. OnTGO::i ETATZZllRlh Calesru Oryoa. Scriurdar . Momiag,' Ap&L 13. 1343 Recovery Suit : Recommended Expense Account Blatter Said Turned Over to District Attorney (Continued from page 1) - tinned, rhajj been Investigated in conjunction with check No. 211, dated Auroit 4, 1956, also pay- able to the' Oregon . Forest - Fire association, signed by Dwlght L. Phlpps. secretary-manager of the Southwest . Forest Protective as sociation. ; and countersigned by Floyd ; Hart, , president r of the Southwest Forest' Protective as sociation." . -f Check No. ill has been indi cated bythe auditor's off ice as "a duplicate ; payment of " state forester's check No. 885,r the re Port says. . The "latter check was received by the Oregon Forest Fire association and deposited to Its credit by piet association bookkeeper June 25, 19?V ac - cording to the report. A dis agreement Is Indicated in the report-to hare then arisen as to whether this check was. property deposited and the second check. No. Mil, was Issued and cashed, allegedly without repayment of the first. No. 885, and, assertedly. without " beintr entered In tie books of the Oregon Forest Fire association. ' Gasoline Purchase -Mileage Questioned " ; The report suggests that an ef- fort, be made to ascertain the exf act nature of the check transae- ' uons. , j . . V Going into the expense account Portion of; the investigation, the ' report .subtests inquiry Jbermede regarding the purchase of gaso line' for sute antomotjuea on. tne ": same days that -mileage was col lected'bcr the forester for opera tloa : of a private car on ; state , business. -; Exam pies are cited trtirn VibVuftr';i 193 7;'.:' to June. ". The ' firs t . examp) e ' ia the i re port, for instance, lists a claim - for $4.08 xalleage for a trip front Salem to Portland February 25, 1937, -and .the-return-on the next . dayf and. Cinder date 6f February 28, a -Toncher . for ' 10 gallona of gasoline to? "state car No. 2022" . signed: 1'J.W.F.,'Ja Portland. . : - . " - British Take Mail Off Boats for IIS . (Continued from page 1) -as a result of Germany's Invasion of Scandinavia. The president, at a press con ference, placed Greenland In . the western hemisphere geologically. However, lie brushed i aside quer ies as to , whether the United .-States would Invoke the Monroe doctrine . If Germany, having tak en control of Denmark,: should move to assert control of Green- ' land -also, - i - ..- ' - . Such questions, he said, were Very", vvery premature. Although he disclosed that he had been studying the subject of Greenland . intensively,- h) said he was work ing much more on humanitarian than on political grounds. , - . Hev lias Instructed the Red Cross, he asserted, to survey the situation to see whether Ameri can relief might be necessary for the Greenland people. Other developments resulting from rthe European war were: ' Reports circulated' that the A lles were about to seise the Dan ish merchant marine, which num- - bers. 705 ships. The Allies were . said to hold jtbat Denmark lost - her neutral - status when f she al lowed Germany to assume control . of her country. The. Danish lega tion advised Danish ship owners in neutral .waters to stay there. r Meanwhile, the Danish minister to the 'United States, Henrlk de Kauffmann, planned to confer with officials! at the British em bassy here, i After a conference . at the "White House, Chairman Walsh . (D-Mass) 0f the senate, naval committee . said another, eonfer- . enra would bo . held soon to rt- termlne , whether more T. money would be urged to speed np the nary k building program. Other sources said $18,000,000 might be asked (in , addition to funds now pending) but still others ex pressed doubt that any further money would be sought. . Greek Freighter ayS f or Damage PORTLAND, .Ore., April 12-(Jpy-Th Greek freighter George M. Livanos loaded t lumber at Longviaw today, leaving 18,0 00 bond here for small boats' dam aged In grounding. . r - : ; : A $25,0.00. libel action by U. S. Engineers, owner of the small boats r rammed , as the Livanos went aground on rocks near Port land's St. Johns bridge, was lift ed... - .- . T Farm Union Buys : Large Warehouse MOUNT ANGEL; Ore.; April 1 2 -Ey-The Motint. Angel, Farmers union purchased! the Schmalts warehouse here today in7 one of the largest farm property deals In several years. . - - Built la 11 3 at a cost of f 40, 000, the warehouse wlllbe used for seed and grain storage; Attend TII-Y Congress - Fred Smith, boys work secre tary at the Salem YMCA; and Dale Bates. Frank Miles,-Aubrey Holt and Ray. Farmer left- yesterday morning for Big Four Inn, Ever ett, Washington, where .they -will participate' in the annual north west area 'III-Y congress. v Violation . Charged j John Jack Stevenson. 130 Me-1 Nary street, West Salem, w as ar-jclub. Head rick said yesterday. Im rested last night' by cily police I provementu are also being made for failure to atop. ; la the lodjre's ftuartera. - i Slaying of American Yonth in Spain j To Hide Coinruiinist Activity Charged) 'And Denied," Dies Committee Hearing I WASHINGTON, April 12 (AP) A .witness' told the Dies committee today that he saw Tony Demaio of Hartford, Conn., officer of the Abraham Lincoln brigade which fought for loyalist Spain, shoot two other brigade members to death in a Barcelona cafe, toi May 2, 1938.. - : ; i,:, '. ; ; . A short time earlier .Demaio had been on the stand and. : - . ? -. . .i: ' Good morning. Mice. A special announcement of vital importance to every loyal Mickey Mouser: The Elslnore thetre will open at 10 o'clock this morning and run continuously all day today for the showing of Walt Disney's PI nocchlo." However, Mickey Mouse will have bis matinee at the regular time Ftage show and quiz at l p.m. MMC This Saturday marks the close of this series of quiz contests and at which time we give away that swell radio I showed you last week. Competing for this valuable prise are three people: Dorotny Smailey from senior nign scnooi Bill Ransom from Parrish.i and Alice Rose from Leslie. Now, want to see all you guys and gals out rooting "for your respective contestants and give them some real : moral support. . It 11 mean lot to them and they'll each do a better Job if they know that there' some real spirit behind them. Ifs going to be a lot of fun. j MMC ".Because of this quiz, we've bad to pat off our presentation of Miss EITetn. Fisher for your entertain ment. but with, a shorter quix, we'll be . in '. .'a " better position " to get back to regular schedule and present some of our better Known talent and make your afternoon's entertainment really complete. : MMC 1 - . Would like to I thank .all .those who appeared in last-week's show lor a v' perfectly marvelous" Per formance. And also those who ap peared' on oar contest. Those ap pearing were, Dorothy Smailey, 1' Squeek" N e 1 s o a and Dorothy Brunt for the high school and Bill Ransom; Darryl Salter, and Wayne Tripp for Parrish, r ? MMC Manager Porter has a special treat for all you "mousers" to day when he presents Walt Dis ney's "Pinnochio" on the screen. The other feature is Booth Tar- kington's "Little Oryie," starring John Sheffield, who played the part of Tarzan's son in the last Tarzan picture. The Mickey Mouse show will go on at the regular time; 1 p.m. Rehearsal Is to be held at the regular time, 10:45, but at the Capitol theatre, for this week only. MMC So, for a real full afternoon's entertainment, meet me at the 1 slnore around 12:30. Until 12:30, then, so long and good luck from DEAN, ! Mickey Mouse Chief. Woman Clings to Rope in Well for Over Eight 1 Hours VANCOUVER. Wash., April 12 -(ffNeighbors of Mrs. R. Zieg- ler, a widow residing near uamp Bonneville, related tonight a sto ry of courage and fortitude. - At 10 a.m. Wednesday, accord ing to Robert Sarber, Mrs. Zeig ler, who admits to "somewhere over 70, fell into her well when a floorboard broke. Unable . to summon help, she clung for eight hours to the rope, with some support from the bro ken board that had wedged: be tween the walls of the well. She waa discovered, weak and ill from shock, at 8 pan. She recovered rapidly. , ; Heat Wave Gets Its Second Wind (By The Associated Press) A premature summer heat wave getting Its second wind .after; the year's highest temperatures Thursday, pushed the tempera tures as much as 10 degrees high er In the Pacific Northwest Friday 7. Continued warm was predicted for today. - : . . . Rosebnrgv Oregon, . again re ported the region's peak with 87 degrees, " compared with 79 :yes terday. Portland, Eugene and Medford itrwestern Oregon, had highs of 82, Salem had 81, while Baker had 82 and Pendleton 78 in eastern Oregon. . . -; Tie west side was warmer in Washington, too, with Seattle re porting an 83, maximum, 10' de grees np from the previous day's peak, and a new April 12 record. Olympla reported the state's highest highest, 8 4 degrees, while Aberdeen and Hoqulmhad 78. Jessel arid Child 7 To Be Wed Today DETROIT, AprlLJlJ-HflVCome-dlan George Jessel,- 43, will take his third wife tomorrow: : The actor," about to complete a night club engagement here, announced today that ne and 18-year-old : Lois Andrew, New Tork showgirl, would speak their rows In a hotel before a common pleas JUdge. ;?. . - i;---:,. Hits Yisioiijig Year A- ! The newly-chosen Salem Elks entertainment committee cooper ating with the exalted ruler, Mar vin VBrlck"" Headrtck, is planning to have s. number of surprises soon for members of th Elks v in response to questions, said he had never heard .of the two. men in question. ; ! The witness who told of the al leged shooting was -William C McQuIsiton of Frederick, Ml, who said he also was a member of the brigade. His story was given as the Dies committee heard ac counts part of them quickly de nied of privation and death suf fered by American youths who joined the brigade. The commit tee is seeking to learn whether the communist party-was respon sible for recruiting the youths, f McCnlstion. a seaman, testified the shooting took place while De maio was conducting a roundup or stragglers. ; - The men killed,' the witness said, were an American named Matthews, traveling : nnder the name of Aronfsky, and a Canadi an named Moran. He did n8t fur ther identify them.: The American, McCnlstion as serted,-died on the spot. Moran, he said,' was taken to a hospital where McCuistion nresumed he died. (Earlier he said flatly that the men had been shot to death.) The witness said he had walked into the cafe just as the shooting took place and he believed that it followed resistance' by the two to Demaio attempt to arrest them. Stragglers were being rounded np.'i the witness said, because many men were trying to flee the brigade.-' - ? Another witness. Maxwell Wal lace, Detroit lawyer, said that his son, Albert, was slain in Spain be cause communists did not. want youths to return - to , the United States and tell what communists were doing there.': tie said he "un derstood": that Demaio was the one .who killed his' son. ! - - Deaaata then-took the stand and said he never heard of young Wal lachj He failed to Identify Wal- Iach s two pictures shown by J. B. Matthews; .committee lnvestlga-. tor. - v , ; ' -1" . 'f Theft Suspicion - Arrest I8 Made Salem police 'yesterday after noon attested" Leif : M.- Baardson, San - Francisco,' on suspicion of theft. Baardson. a . Norwegian, aroused the suspicions of service station operators when , he at tempted to sell a new portable typewriter for $10.- Questioned by police, he admitted stealing the . machine from a , Portland store. Police quoted him . as Say ing he tried to pawn It In that city, but, falling to get enough money, hitch-hiked to Salem where be again tried to dispose of It. He was released to Port land police last night. - Northwest Norwegian Apply for Enlistment PORTLAND, April l.-4jpi- Emil P. Slovarp, Norwegian con sul, said several Norwegians at tempted to enlist here today for defense of their fatherland. He has not been advised by his gov ernment whether to accept pros pective soldiers. ; . - . '4 ' 4f? I I .i . 5 if "7 ? . : . : , t : . X f i - ' - - - Nazi 7arships v Shoot Down 8 ElngUsh . Airmen Help to JIaintain ; Blockade, l- Norway Coast .. - (Continued from page 1) ' German warships, planes and anti aircraft defenses. The air ministry aid the Royal air force lost eight planes in the day's engagements while search ing Danish and Norwegian waters for units of the-German fleet re turning to their home bases.' Ear lier the Ministry bad said the five bombers. Included in the day's to tal were downed in a single en- rarement with two warships In Kristlansand fjord. Another air battle was fought near Stavanger. Two British planes alighted on the sea. Their fate was not disclosed. The British also reported that four Messerschmitt fighters were shot down, two more German fighters were believed destroyea and others were damaged. ' v The British announced that at least two German supply ships had felt the blows of their aerial attack. Ammunition Ship Reported Blown np An 8000-ton ammunition ship went np In a thunderous' explosion under the bombs of British night raiders while a 6000-ton supply ship wasi "probably damaged by two bombs seen to burst close to her stern. British fliers roved, last night over a wide area "extending from Oslo fjord to the Baltic coast of Germany." . attacking ships and bombing a Germanseaplane base on the Battle coast, . ' - With the Skagerrack - and the Kattegat mined and the navy keeping watch on German . North sea bases, -the British are seeking to( halt the, flow of food jand . am- muniuon p Norway's nan invaa- ers while the Norwegians strixe down from the" hills at German garrisons. --- - Four areas In all were mined In the North sea, the Skaggerack and" the. Kattegat, the - admiralty an nounced,' .., touching - Norwegian, Danish." and 'German coasts, and also", territorial waters of Sweden and The Netherlands. , - The well-informed press asso ciation said the Held was the larg est' ever laid, extending. 420 miles northward ; at its westernmost limit, - -: -, .' Nazis Are Balked In Treaty Effort (Continued from Page 1.) air policy. The British bombs were said to have been the first to fall on a German rail line dis tant from the front. (British sources in London, however, denied any such raid.) In their comment on the faint possibility of any agreement with the existing Norwegian, govern ment, Germans turned thumbs down on any regime In any degree lnflnenced by Carl Johan Hambro, president of the Norwegian par liament. ' ( Hambro is disliked by the Ger mans because he is a member of the Norwegian branch of the Jew ish family which founded Ham bra's bank In London a century ago.) . - . t nswt-iew-T?rieoe9 WGSLGY PjJG I- n t.r.'.:- r; o o . . j..n -Uif-M ' - yj ,.'o .. . o , L ; j." in One Ear . , (Continued from page 1) ty), and Burmese New Tear ' Day la Rangoon. Might as well call It Angler's New Year's Day In Oregon. 4-f - This one Is a Bote ' reminding ns tnat sometime we ought to take a ride on a caboose and we won der why we. haven't done it yet. We. used to visit the freight ca booses as a youngster and-, remem ber that, some of the choicest se lections of feminine art ln-cantlv. ity are hung on the walls of the crnnunles. . , Which reminds us that Vic Dal- laire, one of the local XUP repre sentatives, saw a lot of .the coun try in his y o n t h from sidedoor Pullmans. Once he spent two hours mowing, a lawn for a meal and got -a whopping bis dinner, eon sisttag entirely of mashed pota toes. . . ...... . , .:-;; 1 Note of one of the more dis tasteful war gags : One inquires, "Sprechen sle Deutsch?" The other says, "Well uh no- don't, And the' first one snaps back, "Well, you'd better hurry up ana learn.'' . Ecribole that Salem Is one of the few towns which is winter headquarters for two carnival companies, both named Browning. The carnies will soon gather round and j they'll all move out on the circuit to amuse the local yokels at each pitch. . And we hear the Nazis are re writing Hamlet to read: "Who goes Tv , "Friends to this ground and liegemen to the Dane, lie II Hit ler 1" Reciprocal Trade Extension Signed WASHINGTON. April li-OPh- Tne nouy . lougnt. Din extending the- administration's reciprocal trade program for three years was signed today, by. President: Roose velt who called it "powerful instrument" for peace and eco nomic recovery. Capping the administration's biggest victory in the present ses sion, the chief executive affixed his signature at . a Whf te House ceremony attended by, Secretaries Hull and Wallace . and . Chairmen Harrison (D, Miss.), and Dough- ton (D, NO of the committees in charge of the legislation In con gress. Four pens were used and Hull, W a 1 lace, Harrison and Dough ton received them as sou venirs. " '! ; . -V; ),: The chief executive said In a statement that the program had brought 'demonstrable benefits to, our. nation as a whole and to every Interest directly concerned," without Inflicting injury on any group of producers. Plan Stamp Show Plans were formulated for a Willamette valley get-together and stamp exhibition, May 6. at the chamber of commerce rooms In Salem -were made at the reg ular meeting of the Salem Stamp society Monday night. Five valley stamp clnb will participate In the exhibit which will be open to vis itors from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. No admission will be charged. Club 14 to Meet Townsend flashes from Wash- ngton, DC, will be read at a meet ng of Club No. 14 at Liberty hall, Wednesday, April 17 at S p.m. The public is invited. -.7' . A ' W KJ J S '' -v ' Y8( str sir . ...... . ' ! , I , f rev, i - f S FDRDefends Revamp PI ans Says AYiation Safety, to - V - - . v. 1 . 4 Be Promoted Through Consolidations ' . - WASHINGTON. April n-esiaeni uooseveit asserted : to day that it was nothing but spin- sch to say that bis plans for re-' Tamping aviation -regulatory ag enciea would Imperil air safety.' abort time later. Senator Mc- Carran ' (D-Nev),! critic of the plans, snapped back with the statement that they would spell a return to a system which brought ('disaster after disaster" to com mercial aviation. - - The reorganisation plan -would put the civil aeronautics author ity,! now . Independent, Into the commerce department structure, but the president has explained that the fire-man civil aeronautics board would perform Its rule making, adjudicative and Investi gating functions i Independently The air safety board, would be abolished and Its accident Investi gation and other duties would be transferred to the civil aeronaut ics board. 1 .. ? ' Saving Proposed ; Mr. Roosevelt said today that every present effort to make atr travel safer would be continued and added that existing; adminis trative machinery1 would remain intact. Some top CAA salaries will be eliminated, he j continued, and the. general effect of the reorgan isation will be to reduce the nam ber of agencies which now report directly to aim, , : - McCarran, sponsor of the CAA legislation,' told reporters that he did not wish "to bicker with the president.' But he added: Let it be remembered that aeronautics regulation formerly was In, the department of com merce,, and that . congressional hearings disclosed the utter.lnade quacy ' of - the department to. cope witn , tne industry's rapid prog- -I' Water Reservoiiv JNeed Is Mudied (Continued from page 1) ' six-Inch main 4 SO. feet south on 16th street In order to afford fire protection: zor, tne i ueprge E. Wa ters ball parkC -' , - : The bid of Knight L. Pearcy of I11B for landscaping about the Johns street reservoir was ac cepted. . Last night's meeting - was -the first attended by Commissioner Gene Grabenhorst since he be came 111 last December. . Laundresses Walk Out Here Friday (Continued from page 1) until the discharged women were reinstated. "The decision not to return to work was voluntary on the part of the employes," the union state ment asserted, denying reports of ficials, of the. labor council, had circulated a paper among the laundry workers pledging them selves to stay away. IT'S UPROAMOUS Jf Ocr Lnsband toolt a trip A tjpboon Avrcclicd his el Ho tvss en an Cat cho isiiziiccl iio'd passed away A wife yon Emoiv -r Co c!:o cicrrled Her T7crry ! j fmf40 Republican Jury " Frees Lawrence, Conspiracjr: Case HARRISBURO; PaV April lz- (JPr-Xn all-repnbllcan jury, after four hours deliberation today, ac quitted Pennsylvania Democratic Chairman David L. Lawrence and seven party associates of conspir acy to force political contributions from state employes. , . j . It was the second .time in four months Lawrence Wfis cleared of charges in his association with the. state government during the democratic administration of Gov ernor George H. Earle, from IS 3 5 to lilt.-He. was a member! of Earle's cabinet. i' Danish Motorslrip Stops at Hoquiam HOQUIAM, Wash.. April 11.- UP)-Crew member of the Danish motorship Nordtest .reported -today that two Canadian : gunboats bad been sighted off the Washing ton coast yesterday on the vessel's run from Rsymond to Grsys Har bor.. . -. I , t, ' .f . Capt. Valdemar i Lockenvlts re fused to comment en the report. f.. .VI. & ... , . . u, luiy t,iua vera iu tutu j 500.000 feet of lumber for Bhane- nau in view or uermany's "pro tective" mandate over Denmark, the possibility of the S, 500-ton vessel . Setting but on . the trans pacific trip was a topic of water front speculation here even be fore the Canadian gunboat report was circulated. -n---,,-. Loading of the vessel started this morning, then ceased abrupt ly. Captain Lockenvlts attributed the interruption to a broken gear. Several days would .be., required for loading of the lumber cargo.- amite Sticks Used for Suicide PEREIRA, ColombU. April 12 -iJVy-A. young couple blew them selves to pieces by exploding dy namite sticks held in their mouths,' cigar fashion,' today, and police. opened an Investigation In to reports of a fantastic "suieide club".- whose 11 ' members, have pledged themselves ' to self - de struction la the same manner. - The death of 18-year-old Maria Arboleda .and J 1-year-old Mar tlnlano Zapata ln today's blast followed a similar incident last night In which Mauel Mariri. a miner, lighted' a fuse which set off a piece of dynamite in his mouth, killing"- himself and in juring four others. The explosion wrecked the cafe which Marin picked for his suicide. - " '', Senorlta Arboleda and Zapata ended their 'lives In an embrace in the Union hotel. - - ' '. j s OPEN EVERY NIGHT Salem's V J 7? Fried fit; 1 SHATTUC'S 1 Mile East on 811 verton Road Floor Show Dyn S77I ir r'i jj Special ActFrl.at. ii ' ' 1 1 ' - pw i Saw 1 1 1 1 ii i 1 i 1 . I l2la.r-SJ' t'. Islcnd cnsl nwny- CcTjyTp psl Mm': 1, -b tcTjlfcT .11 : yy: :m vw rn- UmU -- ii . - 0 -- '.. ' . I aid tzcrZizrcLZzziicizi -W jnAnn1) , .. - . t. . : Sedrch for Banlc Robbers Goes on TACOMA, April It-iAVThe nation's- number one bank j rob- blng team two brothers-in-law who committed at least eight ma jor bank holdups la the past five years-f-was sought tonlgbt ia tbe timber and brush covered reaches of lower ' Puget Sound following their idarlng escape late yester day from McNeil Island federal penlteptlary. ' 1 ' Oaa of the I escapees, Joseph Paul; Cretier, 28, was ranked as "public enemy number five" by the federal bureau of Investiga tion When he waa arrested; last August 28 In Chicago. The! sec ond man souaht Is Arnold Thom as Kyle, 2 , brother of Greteer's wire. Search for the prison-garbed i men, each serving 2 S years for rob bj nig the Bank of America at Los Aingeles la It 22. was con centrated la brushy regions of McNeil .Island as Warden E. 11. Swnna JIlln In lh, ihannl III. escapefes i had not yet sttempted to swton the 400-yard stretch of frigid water separating tbe Inl and fffom the Olympic peninsula. ' Salem Man Named ll nrACtnr lct m. uivoivi a voi (Continued from page 1) son, Martin appointee and SlIC- cessor to t(S trrrmut ir inejDoara or loresirv inaicarea - - M - m .-..J . . Rogeri woall have fall autkorltv to select bis personnel and fix salaries, within budget limits. Others matters taken tin! b the board Included discussion-! of ap pointment ' of - standing commit tees tp consider land classifica tion.' reforestation, finances.! and adoption o. a resolution indorsing a Mil, recently introduced br Senator Charles L. McNary to Prevent forced liquidation of tim ber. The bill 1 would enable the reconstruction finance corpora tion te lend Its funds to timber owners. , j lecasisio 110 GOOD i f lilSTEIl DREW) WED. THRU SUN. 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