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PAGZTVO i Thev OSZGOUt STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 11. 1345 Cline Innocence in ' - Frisco Prison SAN lHANClSCp, Dee. 10.-C) Alfred Leonard Clin. 3, former Folsom prison convict ana one time choir linger, booked on sus picion of forgery at the San Fran- Maniac Kills WAVEl Leaves Note Asking Cajrtrire py Police X? J Jr;: Frisco stolen Auto Located that he was. "innocent of any crime. The statement, issued through his attorney. J. w. Ehrlicn. was the only thing that Cline has been will ins; to say since he waa i ap prehended last Friday. "He won't even tell us the time of day," asserted Capt. John Eng ler, chief of police department in spectors. Cline, was taken into custody at the request of Gerald Ryan, Chi cago attorney, who questioned the signatures on papers pertaining to securities in connection with the estate of the- late Mrs. E. Delora Krefee Cline, whom Captain Eng ler reported had died In Portland, Ore., Nov. 29. Mrs. Cline'a body was cremated and the ashes taken to San Francisco. , City toxologist Joseph Swim . examined the? ashes placed at the Cypress Lawn cemetery as those of Mrs. Krebs Cline and reported ' that a pivot tooth had been found in them, although Mrs. Krebs Cline had full dentures. CHICACO, Dec.! 10.-W-Polic reported today a "kill crazy- maniac thrust a 10-inch bread knife through, the neck of a pretty discharged Wave early today, pumped two bullets into her; body and then scribbled this note in lipstick on her apartment wall: "For heaven s sake catch me before 1 kill more. I camnot control myself -'t ;- , ; . The victim was Miss Frances Brownil33, a stenographer discharged from the Waves last septemoer.; tier oooy waa xouna by a maid iln the bathtub of her blood splattered, ransacked apart ment in the northside Fine Crest hotel at 8 a m. today. Police Capt Frank : Reynolds said the slaying appeared to be work of a f "madman" and close ly resembled the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Josephine Alice Ross, 43 in her home tin the same general neighborhood last June. Mrs. Roes' Six ! Fighters Missing on UJS. Show of Force Imouom SaleofSt.Paul new iving mng, Elect pi fibers Bank Control Here, Man Held " , I tranjporting a stolen! car across state boundaries, is in federal cus- today today upon information pro- jugular velf had been severed and Jj4W1 W Catfi aa1!a A watmsl In I At. m ? i a. s i T1UTM UJ tJivlU vsiv siavi a Roaeburg in a car allegedly stolen from Portland, Cooney is said to have admitted writing a worthless $15 check pissed to a Salem ser vice station operator. ; When that admission came out in the Salem nolice station Mon day night, . Cooney was charged a strip of adhesive tape had been plastered oyer the wound to stop the spurt of blood. 1 t ' f J A. -1 l iapi. nejnoias wiu wiw siaycra printed message showed peculiar ities including use of W for Mn' in the wont "cannot" and that the kV, were? incompletely formed PETPINO. Dee. ' 10-ttrVA show of force by American marine air power over strife-torn areas of North China may have cost the United States at least 12 lives. Six div bombers are unreported and have been overdue more than 48 hours, it was learned today. : The planes, each a late version of the Curtiss Helldiver and each carrying t least two men, left theilr basf at Tsingtao Saturday. They were scheduled to rendez vous over Taku, river mouth fort fort Tientsin, then sweep in form ation up he river and return. Marine 1 fliers said they had told? d (Picture on page 1) : W. W. Chadwick, capital eity betel owner, representaUve hi the. state legislature and former snarer. was elected. King- Tftusg- f the. Cherrtaas at the beostes organisation's annual , election meeting Monday aifht. s J E. Burr ' Miller was named Lord Geir. Weed; P. B. SchneU, marqvis of Mafaseblao; Gtesr Bturight, Queen Anne's consort; . Harry M. Lmeas, king's Jester: UeyeV C, Demaresi. dake of Lambert; Fred Carstenson, earl of -Waldo; John1 A. Meyers; keeper of the orchard; Barry H Wemleln, chancellor of the; rolls, and H..M. Randall, areh-l lahepef sUckrealL . Announced 4A1 li- ; tKaeo mvmum a wiik were to irave the American big I V dtflran i I oi Ir stick befote the noses of Chinese T--.V CXK communisfs and central govern ment forces and that most flights I XLQJXQ.QCT were scheduled over areas where I O local clashes were most prevalent I A i CAHA late wheth a clue. this might serve as ;Ask; Separatioh ;0i Air Forces iec. i . WASHINGTON, Dec 10.-WV u Tne cnairmen oi ; ine nouse raiu tary and naval committees intro . duced bills today to make a sep arate department of the army air forces. ?This is our answer to the unl fication proposals," Represents lives May (D-Ky) and Vinson (D . Ci) said in a Joint statement. We believe that unification I of f the army and the navy is not the j answer to the problem of nation' , el , defense under modern meth ods of warfare. In our opinion the answer is to be found in the cre- . L sUon of a separate and indepen- l t deot air force." with having abandoned a car stol en from W. B. Wagnon last week in San Francisco at the Shell sta Hon, Court and Capitol streets. work trying to locate the Wagnon J f fi ffin fff tf11 1 car, which they were notified by v&r' -mm"? San Francisco officers had been reported abandoned here.! Lyle I Ertsgaard, station . operator, said he had wired wagnon the cars whereabouts after it ' had stood several days in his station.1 .They had found it only a few minutes before Portland officers stopped at the, Salem police station to pick up another prisoner held here for them. They bad cooney, nana- cuffed, in their car. , and the bottom of the Ts" curled if. T?T 1 backwards. I He declined to specu-1 ViOlUIt V J!i IjOIIQ lings INMATE ESCAPES HOSFfTAL - Robert Arzner, 37, an inmate of t tho state hospital, was reported to ' the police as missing Monday : morning. Arzner"s home is Lakeview, Ore. Final StaiK In Queen Race Final standings in E bond sales for the Marion county queen con test entries, accountable for a to tal of ir.412,725 in E bonds (ma turity value), results were as follows: J Beth Greenlee, statehouse, 41?Q JKn in T. hnndn. Jean Wolcott, Miller's store, I Y nvob in Inva i iisv v vp ui u v SalesiTop 1944 WASHINGTON! iec,;10. ;fjp)V Oregon Independent retailers re ported October sales IS per cent above those last year witn cu- gene dealer! marking up a 39 per cent gain, the census bureau said today. : ; I . Salem's increase was 20 per cent; i Portland's, 11 per cent for the'' year.' department store sales were 12 pei? cent higher. . Returning veterans' rush to buy 'dvies" brought a Sim per cent sales? booit to . men's . clothing stores. Other gain s. furniture stores, 37 per cent; lumber-building materia dealers, 28 per cent; motor vehicle dealers, 25 per cent; hardware stores, 13 per cent. Sales Mount The total -of I bond . sales : in Marion county continued to &xW Monday as : Saturday purchases were tallied. With a quota of $1,- 150,000,1 Marion bond buyers had purchased ?SUU,4S9 worth of E bonds. li.i . Grand total of all issues was $3,435,159.f 5; quoU was $2,390 000. All bbnd sales made by De cember 3f will count in Victory Loan total!, although the campaign officially closed last Saturday: at midnight I ! ; Vn i British Censor $327,375. Ki- Too 1 f BevilakJitt Junior Chamber of I M WAjrTID; Ocanina i wk. im. s 4 WANTID toa thru ill , WoJwn kltcben. TOe. dtahwuhec, lunch Cook-houMkMper, thru dkMwr. S adults. 1 chitdren. 771 WHX ft sarty who rurchaa4 tha mm Cockrr TudcU" Saturday mm-nlnf bInm call Kinalaad'a iNet PVRCBKFJD Cerman Stevpherd pup 'fx sale: an black-silver; two wutti black aaddir; on mala WCtaltalr how trp. PricM SS to ta. tut Yi. lth 8t .. -J, j : Betty Lou Kayser, Salem warns club, $272,725. j ' 'Faye ' Larkins. Salem Lions club. 1227,875. -VLeuna; JSngelstad, j Hollywood LiOns flut 228,825. BATAVLC Java, Dec lO.HV The BritishJ command clamped wartime aeorecy on iruup hiuye- m e n t s and communications in strife-ravaged I Java today as a prelude to a full-scale military PfJiKE XOCATED PORTLAND, Ore Dec 10-P)-A logger reported from the Silver lake sector of Washington late to day he had found the wreckage of an airplane in the snow-bound mountains, the army' air base re ported tonight The wreckage is in the general vicinity! of where a navy Ventura crashed during a storm November 29. i " Tension mounted in the turbu lent island, I amid reports that large : concentrations of natives were massinjc In the suburbs of march upon : the British troops Batavia for Javanese ca were 5 alerteou t . Rising British -anger witn na tionalists was apparent as rumors persisted thai the insurgents plan ned a new uprising- on" large scale by the week's end. i r:i . Artemus Gates gns WASHINGTON, Dec 10.- The - resignation of Artemus L. Gates as undersecretary, of the navy effective December 31 was announced! today by the , White House. 1 ! There was no official intimation as to who! would succeed him. Most Drominentlv mentioned in unofficial speculationwere John L. Sullivan, assistant secretary for air, and Ed Pauley, U. S. mem- . . f 1 Der oi tnej; reparauons comnus sioo. Sullivan succeeded Gates as assistant secretary for air when Gates was; made undersecretary last July 3l -... '--Ci: ' The White House said Gates of fered his resignation . September I hut President Truman asked him to remain until the end of the year. A. Kremen, who late last week exchanged an army major's , uni form fori civilian garb, Monday took over his new duties as man ager of the Salem Montgomery Ward store. He succeeds F. G. Leserer, who left the company to go with the C. C. Anderson stores the first of this month. In the in terim Elliott Munger. : assistant manager, has been-the store's exe cutive. ' - h ' j ; In the army 3V4 years, Kremen was with service forces' at Prince ton university, Fort Dix, the pre sidio at San iFranciscOi the re placement; depot at Pittsburg, Cat, and at Camp Beale, Calif. Tar i 17 years prior to that he had served in various capacities with the Montgomery Ward organ ization in the war west He was manager at various times' of stores in Longview, Boise, ! Phoenix and Burimgame, was district; manager in two districts' and left the man agership" of the Spokane, Wash. llll si 4a '. assntake 4 VkA -L avinw av4v vi uw.t tuv ausut .. y I Sale oi his controlling interest in the State bank of St. Paul to William C. Christensen and asso ciates of, Hillsboro was announ ced Monday by S. J. Smith, cash ier of the St. Paul bank for more than a Quarter of a century. ' County Commissioner Jim E. Smith, president of the .bank, and the , institution's vice - president, J. G. Gooding, sure original stock holders in the bank winch wa organized in MIL S. J. Smith said Monday he had seen Its resources mount from $791,000 to S L500.000. Raymond P. Smith and Frank Bernards arc other members of the board. S. J. Smith, who said he sold because of failing health, will continue to serve on the board. " : ' Christensen,' president of the Commercial National bank of Hillsboro, announced the St Paul bank would be operated as an in dependent institution. A. H. Flick er, associated with the Hillsboro bank as auditor the past year, will be new cashier and manager of the St Paul bank.; Before com ing to Oregon), he waa for more than 18 years with the Farmers & Merchants bank of Pierre. Minn of which he became assistant cashier. Say Deplores Lack of Tourist Accomodations PORTLAND, Dec 10.-iAVXrt-tdde competition will win In the raee - to attract , tourists, unless; Oregon men expand their facili ties, the director of the state high-! way commission's travel and in formation bureau said today. Harold B. Say. Salem, told the SUte Hotel association that Ore gon's tourist business would boom next year, but hotels and cabins are inadequate. - ; workers back at work today, after accepting a 12tt-cent hourly wage boost 2V cents lower than union leaders authorized. PORTLAND, Oreil Dec 10-WH Operators of two 'AFL manned mills in the Medford area reported Steel workers to Set Date of Walkout Pittsburgh, Dec 10.-flV-A CIO ; United Steelworkers spokesman said tonight the union's' 175-man wage policy committee will meet tomorrow to decide the date of a nationwide steel strike.? The spokesman, . who declined use of his name, said the strike decision will be announced to morrow afternoon. He added the walkout ' likely .would , be ' called 'sometime in January." ' . Sgt.Emil Bauer Held as Agent Washington; Dec 10 - vt) - Attorney General; Tom C. Clark today ordered the internment of Sgt Frederick '. Emil Bauer, de scribing him as "a full-fledged German spy who came to the United States on an espionage mission, for Hitler. Clark announced that the jus tice department arrested Bauer at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indian apolis, InL, today just as an offi- er board of the Fifth service com mand issued him a discharge with out honor. - He will be held at an alien ene my pending a hearing on his repa triation to Germany. The order for his arrest termed Bauer' dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, Clark's announcement said. BTaT AT BUSH HOME . Fire equipment was called to the home of Sally Bush, 600 Mis sion st, Monday evening. A short in the hotWater heater caused the alarm.:: h; FLUE ALARM v:.?r-l.i A fire alarm called the fire de partment to 2348 Lee st, to ex tinguished a flue fire late Monday. Ends Today! (Tee.) ' ; Bette Davis CON IS GREEN - ., " Kath Hassey "BEDSIDE MANNER" ' i-r rri rr Opens 1:41 P. M.- Tcacrron! 'Tcc..:::r,m FIELD VOOLLEY ::.cDoyhii Ends Tedsy! 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