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The OBEGON STATESMAN Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning, February 13. 1812
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WALDEN, NY. Visibly
annoyed - at what he considered
excessive challenging of venire
men during a ' jury, trial, Justice
of the Peace Henry Wiley-ordered
the court room cleared, clamp
ed on his hat and departed. .
"There's too much monkey
business every time we have a
Jury trial here.'V.he said to the
offending attorneys. '
"You can take your case some
place else,"
pared for parking problems of
the future. i
"In anticipation of the car
riage trade," he petitioned the
city street commissioner for per
mission to place a hitching post
near his doorman.
CHICAGO A Valentine is
oh its way to soldiers at Camp
Forrest, Tenn. in a crate. .
It's heart-shaped," "five feet high
and filled with candy, cookies,
peanuts, cigarets, cigars, potato-
chips, shaving cream, tooth paste
and games. It weighs 1000 pounds.
It's from Mrs. Frank Bering.
CHICAGO (Jpy- Operators of a
club cafeteria placed small Amer
ican flags atop each table's sugar
bowl in honor of Lincoln's birth
day anniversary.- Ration-minded
customers, . they said, looked
twice, used less sugar. "
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (JP)- The
art editor of the Birmingham
News received a call from head
quarters or an exhibit of modern
surrealist art. The caller pleaded
"Will you please send back
that book we loaned you de
scribing these paintings? We're
trying to . hang them now, and
we don't know which is top and
which is bottom."
TALLAHASSEE,-Fla. (P)-The
persistent sounding of sirens in
downtown Tallehassee put the
Florida State college for .-women's
air raid alarm system into ope
ration recently.
Classroom bells, centrally con
trolled, were rung and students
who 'heard them went to shelter
areas to await the all-clear signal.
When it didn't come, someone
called the fire department and
learned that it wasn't an air raid
-nor even a practice.
A siren salesman was demon
strating his wares to city officials
BOISE, Idaho (JP)- Mrs. A. A.
Belk wonders if the wild geese
she saw. ever got back on the
beam.
Flying north in traditional for
mation; the geese suddenly' scat
tered when a bolt of lightning
flashed nearby. ,
The birds soon returned to for
mation, but the last Mrs. Belk
saw of them they were flying
south, i
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (JP)-.
It's all right with City Clerk
George Ver Wys if women have
to run the city's polling places at
next Monday's primary election.
Ver ; Wys said many men who
formerly did the work have no
tified him they would not be
available because they are mak
ing- more money on defense jobs.
"That suits me,said Ver Wys.
"Women write better."
CLEVELAND (JP)- Japan ave
nue SW is just plain W. 36th
street how.
. By unanimous vote the city
council slapped the cheeks of the
Nipponese by crossing from the
books forever the name Japan
avenue.
MARSHALLTOWN, la. (JP)
Iowa Republican Chairman Fred
B. Gilbert has protested to Rep.
Joseph Martin, national republi
can chairman, against "hiring
dancers" to "build morale."
Wired he:
"Taxpayers object to being
teased as well as stripped."
MILWAUKEE (JP)- Thinking to
save his automobile tires, Attor
ney Jerome Treis, 33, took his
family for a ride in a horse
drawn buggy.
He succeeded admirably in his
conservation purpose, but will
spend some time in bed as a re
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National. Defense Week February 12-22
J. cad J. COMPLETE FIRST AID KIT - 99
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25 DOUDLE SEAL DAND-HESIVO, 35's
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D. & D. STERILIZED COTTON, 2-OUNCE
25 WORTHY ANTISEPTIC, PINT ; -'
15 MERCUROCHROMEi Vz-OUNCE !
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (JP)- A su"
blacksmith recently received an
okeh from the -local rationing
board to purchase an automobile
tire for this reason:
."So I can drive to farms, in
this vicinity to shoe horses." '
ABILENE, Tex. (JP)- John R.
Clark, Bible salesman, bought his
gravestone 13 years ago. Several
weeks ago he finished paying for
his casket.
He died the other day, aged 99.
TAMPA, Fla. -(JP)- A Tampa
woman took a larger cage con
taining a big gray and black bird
to the humane society.
She explained it came from'
Brazil, that it was too mean for
her to keep.
Wondering what to do with the
bird, society officials were re
lieved when a Hillsborough coun
ty, farmer came in and took it
off their hands.
"Why that's just a plain old
Florida buzzard," said the farmer.
FORT RILEY, Kas. lJpy- A
jackrabbit's kick blacked the eye
of Pvt. Woodrow Kirkpatrick of
Ripley, Term., and sent him to
the infirmary for treatment.
The soldier's stealth in creeping
up on an imaginary enemy was
so expert that he . surprised the
rabbit, which he wasn't stalking.
HOUSTON, Tex. -(JP)- John
Mayo, drilled 118 dry holes in
search of oil.
His 117th attempt brought In
a producer in Jackson county and
The horse, frightened when the
harness broke, bolted. The buggy
sideswiped a tree and turned over.
pinning Treis beneath. Now he
was laid up with a fractured left
arm and a shoulder injury. His
family escajJed unhurt.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.W-Charg-
ed with parking overtime, the
negro preacher told the judge
that:
He had taken a Bible to a con
demned negro In the county jail
and had remained to pray and
sing hymns with the prisoner.
The judge let him off without
a line.
COLUMBUS, O. (JP) The ice
cream merchandising institute, in
session here, came up with this
one "Victory sundae."
Just pay an extra dime and get
a defense stamp with your sun
dae and flavor.
DUBUQUE, la. -(JP)- Andrew
Poulos, remembering the numer
ous thefts of federal automobile
tax stamps, stuck his on the rear
view mirror.
So a thief took the mirror, too.
opened a new field : which has j
been named for him.
IRON RIVER, Wis--A Su
perior (Wis) newspaper photog
rapher who prefers to be name
less has decided to let someone
else take the best news picture
of the year.
Armed with his camera and a
flash gun, the photographer set
I out to take pictures of two 400
BATAVIA, O. (JP)-: The bees in
Thurman Trees' trees brought
sugar' rationing . ease., --
Workmen cut down a towering
sugar maple in Trees' front yard
in. nearby Felicity t- and found
therein a wash tub full "of wild
honey. '
BOSTON (JPh Whoa.
- Manager Walter E. Seaver of
the Lenox hotel, worried by auto
mobile and tire rationing, pro
pound, bears said to be sleeping
in a cave near here.
A friend had reported the bears
were sleeping so soundly that
when prodded with a stick they
did not stir.
The photographer stepped into
the tunnel entrance. He shot a
flash bulb hoping to see the ani
mals. Five feet in front of him, and
not sleeping, was a massive bear,.
lunging toward him in no un
certain steps.
The photographer got out fast
Radio Man Js Hero in Sinking
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Kenneth Maynard, ' hero of the torpedoing of the tanker, China
Arrow, tent to the bottom by a U-boat off the AUanUe eoast, la.
shown at Lewis, Del, seated beside the captain of the snip, Cap
tain Paul Hoffman "Browne of New York. Maynard. radio operator ..
aboard the vessel, stuck to hia post aa two torpedoes struck the
tanker. Ha rigged up an emergency transmitter d k'Pt seudtag
distress signals. Before ordered to abandon chip, he placed a book
over the key of his set to that a continuous aignal would-be aenr
imtll the vessel sank, The entire 37-man" crew was rescued from
: lifeboat by a coast guard cutter. .
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Scent O Lite Colognes are. delightfully scented.
These exquisite flowers of frail and delicate beauty
are excellent Valentine gifts for Milady's boudoir.
$1.75 EVENING IN PARIS ' $1.25
Cologne and atomiser . . . gift of good taste.
Houbigant Quelque Fleurs Perfume M.50
In a key to her heart gift box.
LENTHERIC BOUQUET $1.10
Miracle, Shanghai, Gardenia, Abientot and Confetti
$1.00 REX FIFTH AVENUE COMPACT 50
Gold finished all-metal cases, decorated tops.
YARDLEY GIFT SET
Distinctive lavender fragrance talc and soap.
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Three fragrances in gold encrusted bottle.
CUTEX "EYES RIGHT" SET
Compact travel kit with six manicure essentials.
APRIL SHOWERS GIFT SET
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Pints, 39
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