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r .4 2 j 'y PAGE TWO Police Claim Description of Portland Killer PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 12.-0$) Detectives reported tonight they had a fairly good description of the bandit who killed Joe Mez rins. 64, a few days before the bar keeper was to appear as a witness against a jformer convict indicted in another shooting at the same tavern. I '. x Chief of Detectives James Flem ing said a sixth witness had add ed details to description! given by five others, three of them wom en, and that police were combine the city for suspects. Mezzina was slain early yester day as he pleaded with the gun man while reaching for i pistol with which he had promised "to kill onyone who tries to get me." The lone gunman shot first, the bullet , striking Mezzina between the eyes as he stood behind his bar. Ten months ago, Mezzina earn ed a reputation as Portlan d's "fighting barkeeper" when he shot it out with two armed robbers, killing one gunman and wound ing the second- The victim ijras to appear in court Tuesday to testi fy against George Fredericks, 48, Folsom, Calif-, state prison pa rolee, indicted in an attempt rob bery in the Dec. 5 shooting in which Mezzina was also wounded. Gangland reprisal motives were being investigated along withrob . bery clues in the barroom killing. City Patrolman Earl Meacham .declared today that Mezzina had , told him several times -of receiv . ing threats against his life and of being warned not to - testify against Fredericks. A $500 reward was -offered to day leading to arrest of Mezzina's -assailant and District Attorney I. B. Hanky announced ' trial of j Fredericks would be delayed only : a few days by the killing of the chief witness. . 3, . Congressmen Praise Work" Of Rep. Mott Congressman , James W. Motts death Monday occurred while Gov. Earl Snell and most o( the state's political leaders were away from the Oregon capital, but in Washington, DC, Associated Press representatives found his col leagues in congress ready to com ' ment on theirs and the nation's loss: i y "Jim Moft will be mourned by all who knew him," said Republi can House Leader ' Martin (R- Mass), adding: "He was an able, conscientious and valuable member of congress. with sincere convictions and the courage to fight for those convic tions. He possessed an intimate 'knowledge of naval affairs. His death, at a time when we are sur veying naval requirements for the post-war period, will be a great loss to the nation." Sen. Cordon (R-Ore): "His death leaves a very great gap in our ranks. This is definitely a loss, not only to the state but to . the nation. He was perhaps one of the best advised men in the na tion on naval affairs." Senator Morse (R-Ore): "The entire Oregon delegation is deep ly grieved by Mott's unexpected death. He was an intelligent fight er for the political principles in which he-believed and' enjoyed the great respect and confidence of the entire delegation." Rep. Blsworth (R-Ore: 'His was an able mind, whose loss will be felt keenly," Rep. AngeU (R-Ore) "All .of us will feel a great loss in his pass ' ing. I feel it personally because we served together in the Oregon - legislature: He was not only dean of the Oregon delegation in years ' of service but a man on whom we relied." (Lowell Stockman comment, - page 1). The booby bird is such a booby that it ! will allow men to. ap proach and club it to death. : Police finally rounded up missing iPlsworth ?Son ney Wlsecsrver, 16, and Mrs. Eleanor Deyeny, 25, wife ef asoldier stationed: in Japan, jwhe disappeared together from Long Beach November 7. Mrs. Deveay, who lived with her father. Mich ael Paster, left her' two small children, Rickey, I months, and Dennis, 4 years, fin her parents' - care. Wlsecarver figured la another elopement ! in IMS. when he was but 14. with Mrs. Elaine Manfred!, XL mother of two children. Mrs. Man nemiDiican Lnar Urged to Change Testimony WASHINGTON. Nov. 11 - Mi day he had obtained "proof was being "badgered" to change -attack, - ' Keefe said he would take assertions, A member of the senate-house Pearl Harbor investigating committee which begins public hearings Thursday, Keefe told porters that the officer is Capt. Alwin D. Kramer, now at the Bethseda, Md., naval hospital. Keefe has contended that Kra mer delivered the "winds mes-t sage" - - a decoded Japanese message - - on Dec. . 4, 1941, to higher authorities and that they ignored the import that Japan was attacking. That message now is missing from navy files, Keefe said. Visited Hospital Keefe visited the hospital to day. He said he did not call on Kramer but that from hospital of ficials and others, he pieced toge ther this story: That Captain Kramer was ad mitted to the hospital Sept. 28 un der orders. He was relieved of his uniform and was there continuously until Nov. 7, the day after Keefe and Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif) charged in the house that the navy, was holding him incommunicado. On October 30, Keefe contin ued, a doctor at the hospital wrote a letter to the captain's wife, at Miami, Fla. "He said Captain Kramer was showing some improvement but they would like to have her come up," Keefe told reporters. "The medical men felt there was some thing preying on his mind and they could not interpret it." Arrived In Washington .Mrs. Kramer arrived in Wash ington last Wednesday. "Since then she has told some people and 'they have told me," Keefe said, "that the reason Cap tain Kramer wasn't improving faster was - - the thing that was worrying him - - he was being badgered to change . his original testimony." The navy had no comment to J make immediately on Keefe's Te- marks. Secretary of War Defends Doolittle WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 -P) The secretary of war told the protesting secretary of the navy tonight that while the army-navy merger debate should avoid per sonal digs, Lt Gen. James H. Doolittle had a right to express himself with "force and vigor." Furthermore, Secretary of War Patterson disagreed with the view of Secretary of the Navy Forres tal that "injurious acrimony' might be avoided by "elevating this whole deliberation" to the "level of a special inquiry by a presidential' commission.'' . The Sua Life Assurance Co. ; of Canada y takes pleasure in announcing - the appointment of EDT7ABD jomison of 929 North Winter SL Tel. 458J . as representative in association with his father ; STUART JOHNSON who has represented the company in Salem area for the past 18 years. ' : - : TW ? Honeymoon's Over ' -o ges utptaui - Rep. Keefe (R-Wis) gaid to that a riavy intelligence officer his story about the Pearl Harbor -3 the floor tomorrow to repeat his Legislation for Cheap Houses rams ort is ! WASHINOTON, Nov. 12 New housing legislation, embrac ing special inducements for pri vate builder! ! to construct homes casting 500q and less, was agreed dnj today by! democratic and re publican leaders of t the Senate banking j committee. ; ; j Chairman Wagner (D-NY) and Senators Taft (R-Ohio) and El lender (D-La)' reported after a conference that they had reached ajhj accord oa all major points. i Tne measure is a revision of in earlier Wagner-EUender . bill t0 meet criticisms advanced by Taf t and others and to incorporate some additional features, particu larly for lor-cost homesH J, -j Among its chief features In the low-cost field: ; ' , ;k :: 1 i. Authorization for the" feder4 ai housing administrator to' guar antee mortgages up to . 95 pee cent of the appraised value on Hi. Hove Latter s 11 t. ' ;' ; SB Supp it M olflHiiler Front 5 Continents I , A- , I,""- ' By DANIEL $ BERLIN, Nov. 12Hi?-Adolf from five cpntinents,i including called him fmy best beloved.' Those epistles, found tin the shook both German and British i I x Her scrawled exclamations, oisctosea mac sne naa naa a vision of an assasination attempt by three foreigners against Hitler's life, and added: I ' ' i f Please take care of my hero fo I must have thy personal safe tJ'J How caq I comfort thee? I Tme into thy arms a little while." She. signed herself "Yourj little frau, Jean." i " "i A black, folder recovered by al lied investigators from the ruins of :the Wilheljnstrasse contained a report from a GlasgoW police ser geant to the ' German consulate for; relay to gestapo headquarters. The report identified.-the writer as j the . daughter of a prominent suburban - family and married to a professional man of local Stand MAINLINERS TO r4 Y SAC FQnC(SDS li AC36GILGS And "All fho Easf NEW. LOW FARES urzittGD 1 Soton Airport QRCGON STATESMAN Salem. k'wwsa-v-y:- v 1 fredi was charged with child stealing and later pleaded guilty to eentribatmg 4 the delinquency of a minor. Note inscription on boy's arm niter ho married Mrs. Manfred!. (International Sovad photo) j if,!- opement9 of y,VeeVife Ends in Jail l OROVILLE, Calif., Nov. 12 -JP) KUworth "what a man" Wise carver, 18, was in Jail tonight awaiting the arrival of his moth er. while in a nearhy cell a 25-year-old woman added' another chapter to the Wisecarrer legend by 1 declaring to police she would divorce her soldier husband and marry the youth if he "still wants tMrs. Eleanor Deveny, Los An geles, mother of two children, said she "eloped" with Wisecar verf from Long Beach last Wed nesday, Deputy Sheriffs K. Pearl and Mrs. Leota Masteller report ed." - ' " j Last year. Sonny, as the youth is known to .his. friends, eloped with Mrs. Elaine Ludlum Mon fredi, 22, also the mother of two children. They married, at Yuma, Ariz., and were found honey mooning at Denver after Sonny's mother appealed to police. They were returned to Long Beach and thelmarriage annulled. ; Mrs. Deveny said she and Son ny, whom she had known only twq and . a half weeks, left the home of friends in Long Beah Wednesday night and went y busj to Oroville. Sonny, recently a merchant seaman, was to have started work today in a lumber mill . ' . low-cost homes. The interest rate could not exceed 4 per cent (plus onehalf or 1 per cent insurance charge), and amortization could runi for as long as 32 years. Were Mailed to If, j ... i DE LUCE Hifler received admiring letters some from a Scotswoman who files of the reichschancellery, police in 1936. oh blue tinted stationery, first ing! but admitted mat she was regarded as "eccentric and pecu liarin manner" by acquaintances. I More subversive were messages sent by Americans to the. fuehrer during the period when he seized Austria, broke Czechoslovakia and sent his brown shirt idolaters out to slaughter German Jews. i k . - From Charlottesville, VaM came this radiogram Dec. 24, 1938, to Hitler's office: j "A majority of the American people approve your conduct re garding Jews. Be not deceived by the present office holders. This comes from the i home of. Thomas Jefferson." ass Lorans Telephone SMI 5 . f Ortgon. Tuiar Mocnlag. NaTwnbw 13. IMS Rep resentative Pride in U. S. Contentment By ISjABEL CHILDS . . City Editor. The SUtesmaa . Congressman James Wheaton Mott, whol died unexpectedly Monday at Sthe U. S. naval hos pital in Bethesda, Md., (story page 1) had two great interests in his life, fit seems to this 're porter. He lpved his country and Oregon, but he believed that a great navy had helped to build and would Help to keep the Unit ed States secure; and he was sure that Oregon! was a greater state because his -family and his home were here. S The admiration and keen per sonal concern Mott '.had for the navy grew 5 with the years, al though theyfmay have had their birth during World -war I when he wore its uniform.' y But the attitude 1 toward his family was, so far as I could ever note, unchanging. My first news beat included the congressman's office, then jin the old poatoffice building, where his handsome dark-haired wife and littta daugh ters frequently went! calling, too. There was unmistakable pride and affection' in hii voice-as he spoke of them. H used also to tell those of us who happened to be In the office about his boyhood homo in Salem, and when the Motts built f their new residence near. Brush College his friends al ways believed he liked the -setting especially well because It had been the- home of his wife's people. Named la lilt J A" young attorney not long out of the service, he married Ethel Lucile Walling on Dec. 14, 1919, Three daughters were born to them: Frances Anne, now Mrs. John L. Sullivan; Dorothy, now Mrs. Benjamin M. Wtadsenand, and Beverly. ; i Mott, born, in Clearfield county, Pa., Nov. 12, 1884, was educated in Salem's public schools, the Uni versity of Oregon, Stanford uni versity, Columbia university, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in the arts in 1909, and Willamette university law school. from which he was graduated with a' bachelor's degree in laws in 1917. He was a Sigma Chi, and a member of the Oregon bar, prac ticing law at Astoria from 1917 to 1928, withe the exception of his period of military service. City Attorney His first political office was that of city attorney at Astoria, 1920 22. He served in the Oregon legis lature from i Clatsop county in 1922, 1924 and 192S. and in 1928 was an unsuccessful candidate for congressional nomination. He came to Salem to practice law in 1929 and was elected and served in the legislature , from Marion county in 1 930. Gov. Julius Meier appointed him state! corporation commissioner! to succeed Mark McCaUister in March, 1931, and in 1932 he ran successfully for con gress, where I he continued to be re-elected until his death. Although he served on a variety of .committels whose work af fected his constituency, including those dealing, with roads and pub lic lands, in recent years he made a career of the naval affairs com mittee on which he was ranking minority member. During the years which preced ed 1941; he had urged building a strong navyr.although he frequent ly . opposed , as impractical other 'military might" legislation. Naval Installations His state may long remember Boy A Victory Bond! ENDS TODAY! (Tne.) , -. Gene Tierney "BELLE STARR" Sonja Henie "WINTERTIME . Opens 8:45 P. M. Tcnonw! $ I MtOUM stowosq ' V &9w " 0 so3CAs?J j m jjtljOOIMJJ Co-Hit! j f V i kpot I -, 'Mn c AUskl rr V ' ..- ' J jj saaaaaaaBsseas J Mqtt Took Navy, Found in Family Life him for; his efforts in securing permanent naval installations for the Oregon coast. ' j Mott was a member of the Ore gon nad Marion county bar associ ations. Capital post No. 9, Amer ican Legion and- Marion -rounty voiture of the 40 et 8, of the Sons of the1 American Revolution, grange. Elks and the Presbyterian church, j - ' - ' One brother. Dr. William Mott of Salem, survives besides the widow and daughters. Mrs. Mott went east several weeks ago when her husband was first removed to a hospital and was with him at the time of his death. " j Parents to Visit Fairish School ': i ' , '. Every day this week is a school day for parents, of Parrish junior high school pupils who have been invited to attend classes. A spe cial open house, arranged for par ents; and friends Thursday night from 730 to 930 o'clock will fea ture a school day's activities, opening with a general assembly in tho gymnasium with instru mental music The regular -schedule six classes (cut to .seven min utes each) will be run through for visitors. ' I A student assembly at 10 -a. m. Wednesday aloe will be open to the public: Ma), Martin Hie, as sistant state superintendent of schools, who has recently returned from overseas .service, will be the speaker. Music under the direc tion of Gretchen Kraemer and Leslie Carson is promised. j Teachers in charge of the apo dal National Education week ob servance at Parrish are: Mrs. Florence Emmerson, chairman; Mrs. Wanda Clarke, Agnes Ruth Hansen, Albert Johnston, Miss Kreamer, Mrs. Wilma Wright and Mathilda Gilles. Fighting Lad Hero Perishes I BEACON, N. Y Nov. 12 -P) Commodore Dixie Kiefer, Pacific war hero who once was called the "indestructible man," was found dead today amid the twisted wreckage of a navy plane near the summit of Mount Beacon. j Five others, their names undis closed until . next of kin can be notified, died with, the famous naval hero, who was widely known as Captain Dixie of the documentary film "Fighting Lady." The commodore, who lived through 10 major wounds in two wars and was hit 65 times by shrapnel in a single Pacific bat tle, died on a routine peacetime trip of 160 miles, a scheduled hour's journey. TRAFFIC TOLL EISE8 PORTLAND, Nov. 12-P)-The 1945 traffic .toll climbed to 59 here today after Nora Crowe, 74, was fatally injured by an auto with Eleanor M. Rieneckers as driver. ; Boy A Victory Bond! ENDS TODAY! (Tne.) Olivia DeHavffland "GOVERNMENT GIRL" Buster Crabbe "STAGECOACH OUTLAWS" UMdshiV. Opens 8:45 P. ML- Tomorrow! v.? JEAN ARTHUR JOHN WAYNE "Lady Takes A Chance" CO-FEATURE! Jin Ilewill Tex O'Brien V cr Witness Tells Of Prisoner Killed hy Jap . MANILA, Tuesday, Nov. A Japanese guard wantonly shot an unoffending American at Los Banos internee camp and left him to lie for hours without aid be fore he was dragged out to his death, a witness testified today at the war crimes trial of Lt pen Tomoyuki Yamashita. -. Clvde Dewitt, well known Ma nna lawyer, (wife New . York City), described the slaying of the American, George Lewis, last January 29, as the trial focused on events at the camp, just south of Manila. Lewhjh -was. inside the fence when a guard shot him, Dewitt said. The internee was not killed and the Japanese camp comman der, Major Iwanaka, was peti tioned for medical aid. Iwanaka replied, Dewitt said, that the guards had orders to "shoot until they kill" and there could be no Intervention. After two hours Lewis was dragged outside- the camp and shot through the head, Dewitt concluded. Late yesterday an American businessman who was interned at the camp said tho Japanese had followed a program of gradual starvation at. Los Banos on pre text that food was scarce. But, he said, after the Japanese fled, so much food was brought in that he . gained 10 pounds in seven days. I A weeping Chinese child and a bayonet-scarred Filipino mother told how their families were butchered by the blood -crazed Japanese in the final days of Yamashita's Philippines rule. Parents Espy Son in Movie Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Douglas, 255 Salem Heights, who saw their son, PFC "Floyd Douglas, in the film "Orders from Tokyo," which con cludes its run at the Capitol the atre today, now have as souvenirs two tiny clippings from the film which they are having made up into still pictures. The prints will show Douglas and his buddy resting after the 37th regiment's attack on the walled city in Manila as tho Yan kees retook the Philippine metro polis. Manager Csrl Porter, learn ing that they had recognized their son, had the picture re-run for them and the clippings taken. Asks Younger : NUERNBERG, Germany, Nov; 12.-fP) -Justice Robert H. Jackson, United States prosecutor seeking "a live Krupp" irrthe court room, today asked that the son of the nearly dead Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach be substitute Bay A Victory Bond! Cont From 1 T Jtf. - Now Showing! STEELE And A Gay Ce-Featvre!' 7 Krupp be Tried ed as ac defendant in the war crimes trials.; - - ..-'?-."-... ' '-. Conceding that the granting of such a request wouTd mean a de lay of "a few days" in the opening of, the trial scheduled for Nov. 20, Jackson filed a motion with the international military tribunal ask inging that Alfried Krupp be tried t - LI. - 4 U mjiae piace ot ius muici. . CoL Robert Gill, executive of ficer to Justice Jackson, said no action would be taken by the tri bunal on the American motion un til! it meets tomorrow morning. t i y Sonja Henie, an Johnson That 9 a Way CHICAGO, Nov, l2.-(P-SonJa Heme, ' blonde . ice skating star, said today she hoped Van John son, bobby-sox Idol, would be able to come to Chicago to join her in celebrating the Christmas hol idays. "He is planning to come east for! the holidays," she said, in an interview, "but he's working on a picture right now so may not be able to get away." MisS Heinie, who met Johnson two months ago at a Hollywood party, said she had had several long distance calls from him since she and her troupe have been here rehearsing for thia season's ice show, and added she is "very fond" of him, 1 Rumor Puts Missing Hoy In Los Angeles LOS. ANGELES. Nov. il-jJPt- The- possibility mat three-year-old; Dickie turn Suden. misslns from his parents home near Downievule, Calif, since Novem ber; 1, was in this area-was beina- checked by police today. The investigation was started when a piece of child's underwear bearing a laundry mark which Police Sergeant Al Ortiz said looked like Tom-S," was found in a motor court near Van Nuys yesterday. The letter "o" was broken at the lower loop how ever, making it an inverted "u." The owner of the court said that a man and a woman regis tered Saturday night. She told Ortiz ! that when the man and woman checked out the net morning, a soldier, carrying a child of about three with golden hair, left by a rear door the same court in which the couple stayed. j How Showing t9ttmo.miwviiam eaavinnirN lli UL r3 J Co-Feature '4 WARNER BAXTER mm j Last Times Today i mil ft. k CJtl! osj sm ,Th x; ctroatl Co-Feature rtID MecMUXIAT ; JOAN USUI JUNIHAVIR TIXZRBO tlTCOITlOM ueot;- Starts Wednesday TEKSC3 is loose i : ; : lit - CO -FEATURE - Splne-Chilling! 1 1 I Love a :) Ilyskry" Based nnoa Uut Chapter No. 11 "Black Arrow" i ry 7 CBS Badio Chill Show Portland Branch U 615 Pub. Sem Elds. r rr '
