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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. .
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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. ' : - :
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' -o
ges utptaui
- Rep. Keefe (R-Wis) gaid to
that a riavy intelligence officer
his story about the Pearl Harbor
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the floor tomorrow to repeat his
Legislation for
Cheap Houses
rams
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! 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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Telephone SMI
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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
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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
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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. ;
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Buster Crabbe
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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