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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1941)
IJ OEEGOII STATESMAN. Salii. iOrqoa; Wxlaudar Mamin. Ion 55. 1S41 IPACE THBEE Hundreds Near Seattle Join in Hunt for Maniac Charged With Slayings, Shootings, Terror SEATTLE, June 24.-iiP)-Scores of law enforcement officers and volunteers pressed a desperate manhunt north of Seattle and in adjacent SnohomLsh county Tuesday night for the crazed man 01 men who killed two people, shot two others, attacked a wom an in her bed and frightened an other at her front door. , j Alarm spread inrougnoui ic two' county area as authorities Issued warnings to women to re main in locked homes at night unless , with escorts. u The" search for the kidnap killer was concentrated In the Alderwood Elinor district, across the Snohomish county line and about a dozen miles south of Everett. One house wife there reported she was threatened at her front door Monday morning- by a tall, (ray haired, shabbily dressed man who demanded a dollar but left without harming her The woman, Mrs. H. G. Wil liamson, said the man had a pis tol in his belt. The description answered that of the man who about an hour earlier shot three persons, one fatally, north of Se attle. The car in which he fled was discovered Tuesday Inside the northern Seattle city limits. ; Another woman In the same vicinity south of Everett reported a man entered her bedroom short ly after Monday midnight and tried to choke her. She said she fought back, screaming, and he fled. Police said about 1000 citi zens had called for permission to arm themselves to protect their families, and that three out of every five calls at cen tral headquarters concerned the manhunt' Newspaper switch boards also were flooded with calls concerning- possible sus pects, and anxious requests for assurances of safety1 while asleep. Prosecutor B. Gray Varner or dered a roundup of all known de generates, and issued warnings to all residents, particularly in the area immediately north of Se attle, to retrain from picking up hitch hikers; for householders to stay in their homes as much as. possible and to keep their doors lvlrort acrainct unknown intrud ers. ..Authorities were not unanimous on whether the man who Monday night raped Mrs. Arthur Link.j 43, widow or a cnicago mnogra pher, then throttled her with one - of her stockings and kicked her, breaking three ribs, was the same elderly, apparent maniac ' who Monday staged a slaying and two abductions in the same suburban neighborhood. ' Victims In those cases were , Edward La Fountain, insurance company . supervisor, shot to J a 4 W lLMmm V m SkMnl lit InAI through the neck seriously, and R. F. Bull, plumbing salesman, critically shot and beaten by his abductor Just before the La Fountains happened lonr. The nun fled In the La Fountain automobile, still missing. Monday night's criminal assault orphaned 9-year-old Howard Link. He started the hunt for his mother's body when he awakened at 4:20 a. m., and discovered she had not come home as wonted after leaving an uptown hotel switchboard where she was em ployed until 11 p.. m. An uncle, Robert Young, found the body and signs of a terrific struggle in the ferny undergrowth a short distance away and on the route from a bus line to the Link home. Howard was comforted by two ed tearless calm during which he tried manfully to discuss with interviewers his future. "I guess III Have to sen me house now, since mother's' dead," he said. "I guess 111 have to pot up a Tor Sale' sign. . . " He and his mother came here last July and had the home built with the Insurance money from the death, of their husband, and father. . - dcnoiarsiiip unereti UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, June 24 -(Special)- An annual scholarship of $100 to be awarded to aUniversity of Ore gon student "of broad human tol erance who will maintain re a sonable scholastic standing and work toward better understand ing between Americans of Cau casian origin and Americans of Japanese origin" - has been es tablished by the Portland ' chap ter of the Japanese American Citizen league, it was announced here by Dr. Donald M. Erb, uni versiiy president School Clerks New Low Bond Rates $4.25 per $1000 WHY PAY MORE? Phone or Write Our Office for Simple Application Forms. CHUCK Oregon s Largest Salem and 129 N. Commercial , Earns Degree V Paul G. Carpenter, who received his doctor's degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin on Monday. Dr. Carpenter is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Carpenter of Salem.; He Is a graduate of Willamette univer sity and obtained his master's degree at Oregon State college. He will begin work In the re search department at the Her cules laboratory at Wilmington, Del- in July. Inadvertently the photo of another Dr. Carpenter was used Tuesday morning. Will Abandon Garbage Dump In Two Weeks Abandonment of the present Salem municipal incinerator and dumping grounds will be made possible in about two weeks with the preparation of a new garbage disposal site in a ravine east of Cottage farm, William Schlitt, manager of the Sanitary Service company, reported Tuesday. SchJitt's firm holds the franchise for garbage handling in-lhe city. . Sanitary Service bought the Sight, ten acres fn size, from the state for $10 an acre. Extensive clearing and grading of 1500 feet of access road have been neces sary. Signs to guide the public to the new site will be posted along the road east from Salem to the ravine, Schlitt said. The public will be permitted to haul refuse to the new site as has been the custom at the old dumping grounds. The city incinerator is to be razed as an obstruction to avia tion. Vels Slate Meet NEW PORT, June U-pyTs- abled American veterans of the World war will meet here Wed nesday for their 20th annual con vention. Willamette Valley Briefs Valsetz Man 111 VALSETZ Fred Jungwirth is seriously, ill at Deaconess hospital in Portland. He is suffering from complications resulting from an automobile accident a week ago. Visits at Grand Island GRAND ISLAND Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kilpatrick and daughter, Betty, of Merrill, have arrived at the home of the latter's brother, Mr. and Mrs. Worth Wi ley and family. Where they will spend the summer months. The Kilpatricks- are former residents of this district , Takes Job at Banks UNIONVALE Fred Launer left Monday for Banks, where he will drive truck for the state. Receives Promotion SILVERTON HILL S C. V, Murray has been promoted to timber superintendent at the Standard Logging company at Cochran. Murray was formerly with William and Sager, of the same place, and before that with the Silver Falls Timber company as taller, scaler and grader, - CMrXT 1 INSURANCE Upstate Agency Marshfield Salem Dial 4400 Qty to Build Culvert Over Next Holiday . Utilizing the fourth of July shutdown of paper and woolen mills, the city of Salem will re place a wooden culvert at 14th and Ferry streets with one of re inforced concrete, completing the Job in 54 hours, J. K, Davis, city engineer, said Tuesday. Water from the millrace will be diverted down North Mill creek and work is to get under way at midnight, July ' 3rd, he said. Meanwhile, on North Mill creek the North 18th street bridge near Chemeketa is rapidly becoming thing of the past as work of demolition started Monday con tinues. Construction of a $5345 reinforced concrete span will keep the streets closed approximately Hitler Seen as Trying to Deal Russia Swift Knock Out Blow In Vital Ukraine Sector By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Special To The Statesman Germany is clearly trying to deal Russia a swift knock-out blow in the vital Ukraine sector of the 2,000-mile eastern war front. . Creditable, if unconfirmed reports from. Turkey say, that the nazis and Rumanians have ad vanced on three fronts in that area ranging in depth from 80 to 125 miles. Whether that means that the red army is already crumbling or is merely engaged two months, Davis believes, al though only about 30 actual work ing days will be required. A foot bridge has been left to accommo date pedestrians. ' ' c i p "AvTu .p V UVJ THE labor unions have made their demands upon the railways of the United States and through the railways upon the PUBLIC. These demands are vastly larger in proportion than any they have ever made. The economical and efficient operation of the railways is vital to the nation's defense effort, therefore, the Western Railways pre sent to the public the following facts: The labor unions representing engineers, fire men, conductors, brakemen and switchmen are demanding a 30 per cent increase in wages, amounting to 190 million dollars a year although their present rates of pay are the highest in history. Other unions representing a greater number of railway employees are demanding wage increases ranging as high as 95 per cent averaging 47 per cent and amounting to 580 million dollars a year although their present rates of pay also; are the highest in history. Thus tho wage increases being demanded by the labor unions amount to 770 million dollars a year, an average increase in excess of 41 percent. ran T in a strategic retreat to absorb the initial force of .the nazr; attack is not certain. Such retreats were the ancient and never - failing strategy of old Russia - against western foes. ' . Yet so far as the German-En-manian stab can.be discerned from Euearrc and conflicting re ports, there la grave danger of virtually all of the Ukraine be ing swiftly engulfed. Odessa, Union Russian left flank bastion en the Black sea Is already threatened. , The Dnelster river forming the Id ' Russian-Rumanian frontier and probably the first sovletde- tensive system for the Ukraine may already have been crossed ' from Bessarabia; anLin Poland ominous twin thrusts north and south of the marshes of the Prl pet river are developing. ' In partial offset to these grave threats, of a. swift and stunning nazi victory in Russia, Britain's sustained air offensive In thewest can be cited. It has been pressed day and night against the inva sion coast and German industrial centers with ever mounting fury. London contends that it has tak en' a four-to-one toll" of the nazi air force in these encounters and adds that the nazi air resistance is steadily decreasing. " British fighter-protected bombers are reaching their. targets even, in broad daylight, extending day light air mastery outside England for the first time in thewar. . The obvious explanation is In addition, certain of these labor unions have demanded advances in their pay not included in the above figures, and more rules for the creation of unnecessary fobs. The situation, then, is this: The total cost of complying with all the demands made would be approximately 900 million dollars a yearl The average weekly earnings of railway employees are now 15 per cent higher than in the peak year 1929, while the cost of living is 12 per cent less; The demands of the railway labor unions are being , made when the entire nation has fust been asked to make a supreme effort for National Defense. - 1 - : -- ; v,; The railways cannot meet these demands without a great increase in the cost of transportation. Thoy exceed by more than 700 million dollars thb incomo that the railways had left after paying their annual expenses, taxes and charges in 1940. The railways have a vitally important fob before them. They need' all their resources to continue adequately to serve you and contribute effectively toward the National Defenso Program. Station, Chicago, III. concentration of the nasi loft- , waffe eastward for the attack, n Russia. The equally obvious , necessity being forced en Hitler - Is to shift a substantial part of his air force westward again to meet the British attack. Yet It is upon air power he is relying primarily to break or par alyze Russian resistance swiftly. Lack of absolute air mastery there could leave him bogged down in a long two-front war that ultimate ly .would destroy him. Speed Bulletin Out ' UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, June 24 -(Special)- A detailed bulletin on the new Ore gon speed law which became ef fective J une 1 4, . containing the act and just how it ' works; has been prepared and distributed by the League . of Oregon Cities, it was announced here . by . Herman Kohrli. executive secretary of the league and head of' the Univer sity, of Oregon bureau of muni cipal research. ' Evergreen Woman Taken by Death i SILVERTON Essie May Becfr, 52, died Tuesday afternoon at her. home in the Evergreen district. Her body will be sent Thursday to Waverly, la., for services and bur ial by Larson and Sons, SQvarton. Survivors Include the widower, Charles Beck; mother, Mrs. Emma Snyder, Omaha, Neb and two sisters and three brothers in . the midwest. . " '" The Becks had recently pur- , chased the Stadeli service station in the Evergreen district Big Cougar Is Curfew v SWISSHOME, June 2H)-A large cougar was seen lurking near the train depot at night re cently, and since then there has been no need for a curfew in this coast range village. '
