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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1941)
TAGS TWELVE Vm OniGON STATESMAlt Scdea, . Oregon. Sunday Morning, Sepfmber 7. 1S11 in the Newt - , .... .. . . ! t - - . ... Mi,,BM.MMMBBMMgMSMMBSMSSSSSMBWWSSSMMSaBSM ONEONTA, NY.--Last fall someone hurled a ripe tomato at republican Presidential Candidate Wendell L. Willkie's picture in a .rindow of the Donald B a i r d .home." ' t--:C:'-i-C ' v..f' , Now a healthy plant under the window provides . fresh tomatoes for the Bairds' dinner table. . ST. LOlIS,-(ff)-Leonard Wch rle is only an unarmed clerk in the traffic bureau at police head-' quarters, but he is now the toast of the marksrten. A bat Dew in a window and disrupted office routine as patrol men and clerks attempted in vain to shoot it out. Finally Wehrle fa shioned a rubber band sling shot, inserted a bent pin and took aim. Bingo, the pin felled the bat from a chandelier the first shot BRIDGEPORT, Conn.-K)-- Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, -Tex., gave this advice to Jasper McLevy, Bridgeport's so cialist chief executive who plans writing a letter to President Rpo tevelt on a matter connected with federal housing here keep it to half a page.! Said Maverick, a former con gressman and now special agent for the US housing authority: That's the trouble with a lot cf congressmen and mayors. They (. ' write a damn long letter and ex pect the ' president, to read the whole thing through." WASHINGTON. - (JP) - Those smart dogs which act as , eyes for blind persons who operate vending stands in postoffice buildings, hereafter may lie 'round in postoffice any old time because "Lady'' out in Kingman, Ariz., is "a lady." . ' Postal inspectors barred "Lady" jfrom the Kingman postoffice, where her master, E. H. Hill, operates a stand, but today Post ' master General Frank C. Walker ruled that seeing-eye dogs on lash might remain with their mas ters in postoffices. "Lady" was described as " all that her name implied a "symbol of good man ners.' . ' 4 WASHINGTON-(-The war department has ordered enough neckties and cap braid to supply every man in the army with two ties and a yard of braid and have some left over. . Orders were placed for 1.400,000 black ties, 2,300,000 khaki ties and 1,740,000 yards of cord braid for caps. ' T1FTON, Ca.-tfPHere's some thing else the boll weevil (cotton pest) is not good for. An electric company's meter reader couldn't" understand why an educational institution here used no current during the month. . Checking further, he found a boll weevil had attempted to use disc in the meter for a merry-go-round and stopped it- ' JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-P)- A man shoved a leather bag full of money across the counter to a bank teller. Suddenly five shots rang out and sulphurous fumes poured from the teller's cage. The teller staggered back, three customers flattened to the floor and others fled to the street 's Calm was restored when it de veloped 'the money bag was one of those j trick satchels designed to foil anyone trying to snatch it "The teller, new on the Job, didn't know- about the gadget and set It off. PORTLAND, Ore.-UPVFloyd Patton has seven sons in the US navy but that's only part of the story. Patton has decided to follow in the footsteps of his boys. .Although he Is 53, Admiral G. W. Nimitz, chief of the bureau of navigation, held Patton was not too old for duty and sent him to San Fran Cisco for enlistment ; " He probably will be placed In recruiting service. - TACOMA, -JP)- There's a bot tleneck ' in Jurymen in Tacoma and It looks as if -priorities might be required to keep - the courts at full production. Take the case in federal court recently. Four separate jury calls were .necessary to empanel man power enough to handle next week s cases,. rx:. Fortnight ago, 43 jurors were summoned for duty. The list was riddled by discharges for such reasons as public service 4and de fense jobs and a score more had to be called. . .' The same story appeared again. Judge Lloyd L Black found he had to make two more jury calls. So if -you know 12 good men and true ,. TILLAMOOK, Sept. -(J Button, button, who has the but ton? can. be answered .by L. W. Jidd of Milwaukie. - Two years ago he started col lecting buttons as a hobby to pass the time which hung heavily his hands' , since being con fined to a .wheel chair because of an accident 19 years ago.' In the two years he has col lected. 7000 unusual buttons and added 600 to . the collection, he said at . Nehalem wLUe vacation' lag there recently.' v - WASHINGTON JP)- The gov ernment wants to use jwariene nirtrirh's lcrs. - ' rnhrt Wnnrton. Dublicitv man f -r the office of emergency man- .'r :ment, that something has ts te" done to popularize substi; tu 3 lor tux. sioaungs. ; , ' ,7e ere erased in correspon v:r,ce ca that subject "with Mar lene Dietrich, he said, "We could use her legs . (However, the government will have to wait awhile, because Miss Dietrich fractured an ankle when she. tripped over a toy fire en gine on a Hollywood movie set recently.) - MIAMI, Fla.-(PHt' wouldn't have surprised JJorotny uoie, iiia leah park race track employe, if someone had suggested ;moving the grandstand to California. A telephone call from! Holly wood went something like this: This is the Alexander Korda studio. We need some flamingos. Pack up all you have end send them right out We'll buy them of rent them. .. . i Hialeah spent years of effort developing the only flock of the pink birds in the US. The 400 flamingos are still wading in the infield lake. ' McGREGOR, Ia.-(i93),-Do you suppose' iliere ever will come . a time when dandelions will be cul tivated instead of exterminated? W. H. Ewell, herb buyer here, has added dandelion roots to his list. He says 25 cents a pound is1 being, offered for them. The roots, have medicinal value for the treatment of digestive dis eases, he declared. WOOD RIDGE, NJHP)-Depu-ty Tax Collector Peter Post has been charged in a civil suit with breaking into, a home, raiding' a bedroom bureau for the amount he was supposed to collect . and leaving behind the correct change and a duly executed receipt. Mr. and Mrs. August W. Strei chert seek return of $23.72 as the amount of taxes and $476.28 in trespass damages. BROOKFIELD, Mo.-(ff)- Prairie Mound rural school where General Pershing held his first job as a teacher has been closed. The few children in the district will be brought by bus to near by Brookfield. NEWARK, NJ--Ambrose F. Dougher, locked up for two days while police suspected he might be an automobile thief, won scant apology when the real thief con fessed he had put stolen registra tion plates on Dougher's car in exchange for the rightful pair. Said the police: It was Dougher's own fault that he was "caught with the stolen plates. He had ieen driving with them, but not see ing them, for eight days. INDIANAPOLIS (fl3) As Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Cumings stood at a window of their apartment admiring their new convertible coupe parked on the street be low they saw two boys gazing at it ; "Those boys seems to like our car, too," said Mrs. Cummings. "Well, let them have if said Cummings jokingly. As he spoke, the boys got in the car and drove away. CmCAGO-lAVA woman in vestigator for the Illinois de partment of registration breezed into a beauty shop to have her hair washed and asked inno cently: "Who's the man shampooing those two girls?" . "Oh, he's the bartender from next door," she was told, "ffe can him when we need help." The story was recorded in Cook county court today as a warrant was issued charging unlicensed practice of beauty culture. HARRISON, N J - (A5) - Without any intention of sabotaging Great Britain's V for victory" cam paign, RCA Manufacturing com pany is going to put reverse Eng lish on the .. which stands for V in the telegraphic code and turn it into the w-., that means "b. The idea of the Mb" campaign is- to "beat the promise' on na tional defense deliveries. OKLAHOMA CITY-UPV-Fear lesslyV County Treasurer Wil liam F. Vahlberg strode Mnjly to the bank with office funds.: : . He was sure no one timid get the money. -I--- ' ' ; , But the other day the official reached for his trick money bag a bit too carelessly, i Bang." The explosive charge secreted in ; the bag to frighten away any potential, thief shattered the glass top of Vahlberg's desk to say nothing of his aplomb, : ; McKEE8PORT, Pa.-p)- uandreds of tin cans littered a ' street Intersection here recently because of a false rumor. Fifty youngsters got the idea from somewhere that a eollec - tlon of cans" would earn them free admission to a ' theatre. ; When the theatre management explained, the report was n . true, the children flung the ?cans Into the streetand a few of them at a policeman sent to the scene. ALLENTOWN, Pa.-(ffj -Th Rev. Alfred S. Smertz's two-week vacation trip won't keep the con gregations of his two Reformed churches from hearing him preach, . . He's going to take his congre gations along for one day at least. TheyH accompany him by bus to New. York : Sunday, then by steamer up the Hudson to Indian Point -park where hell conduct services."' . y. ... . 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