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- a ITliV CW!emcaa; So2d; tirades, Thntd&y. MarcV33:-frS3i Solon Charges Bribe Attempt At Olympia OLYMPIA.' March 7 -V charge was made on the floor Hm hnM of rem; cscntatlves night that a member-bad been of- lerrd i bribe for bis vote ana rui influence in swirigin votes to pass A of to- - OLYMPIA. March 1-4JP)SUtm Patrol Chief James A. Pryde disclosed tonlxht J. J. TJlemaa. nat 5. box 598. Tscoma. was arrested tonirht en a enarre ef rrerint; a bribe to a public el fleer. the so-called Spokane power bill. The measure was aeieateo, sa-n. Th rhr. made during nearly two hours of heated, bitter and sometimes tearful argument, was , made, by Rep. Kenneth Simmons, Sumner democrat. , Simmons, reading from a paper lie said was a transcription oi i tmman bad' offered him $25 for OtltT VUkC UJU AMU MUU AfcA M... .i.m. mtiv hi organization, will Day as high as $300 to $500 apiece for a vote." ' The steenographer who took the -r- conversation, Simmons said, was hidden behind a committee room bookcase. Simmons then said that 'not ten minutes ago Mr. Kno blauch and I walked into the men's lounge and .approached a man there whoasked us.to come off :- the 'floor. -I said "what's the deal? The man said there were two envelopes and there will be $25 in each for both of you if you vote yes on bouse bill so 7 as ll came irom uw i. . senate. ! acVixf him where the money came from and he replied this . 1 I not my money, xi is opo&uc - power money." . . Knoblauch is a Sumner demo cratic house member also. - TV Cimmnni remarks came aft er the battle opened over approval of nouse dui wiui a kuic amendment attached. This amend ment would forbid any public util ity district or group of P.U-D.'s from buying the Washington Wa f Pnvw Cn - facilities in Sdo- kane without a vote of the peo- Ashland to on Issues ASHLAND, March 7-ff-The Ashland city council has tentative ly agreed to submit five issues to ity voters -in a mid-Anril elec tion. City Attorney Harry Skerry aid today. . . '. V He listed the issues as fl) the city budget, which requires a levy In excess ox me o per cent iimiia- tion; (2) a one-mill levy for the ' JJthfa park improvement plan; (3 ra new chamber of commerce building; (4) annexation of the Walker school district and 9 a proposal to shift responsibility for - improvement of intersections from the city to property owners. CAKD PARTY NETS $45 ROBERTS - Mothers club of Roberts school netted $45 from the card party Friday. Prizes went to 8. Millian, Joan Haney, Gail Wil liamson. Mrs. Gail Williamson, Mrs. - Glenn Bidgood. Herbert Miller, Nina Castor and Glenn Bidgood. Proceeds will be used for schoolhouse equipment. Mrs. Harry Eyerly, Mrs. Carl Heyden and Mrs. Alfred Kleen were in charge of arrangements. No adequate explanation has been found for the annual migra tions of birds and animal. s y Byron Steela yaa Count Ahnarira fcr Bossinfs Gay Opera BilDBSB OF Salsa niVScHscl TONIGHT A Qiarlea L. Wagner production Translated Into English by Georae Mead - All Star Cast. New Set' . tings and Costumes Complete Orchestra end Male Chorus '- ; - Ctadente $L5i Adnlts $2.41 " Iteaei ted $Xt ' : Tlfxeta an malm at TfeUea. VVUa Music. Etevens Jewelry. fponsored by Associated Sta- cts ef VTIamette University. - - 3 .5 -1 . . . $ ' ' " ' 1 - I j . !: ' yc- '-y uv U A y ,y T ll f Jf 4::- . y : : r( v " J Jy-1 V . "w,. i' "w r 1 6TH CENTURY CUSTOM - Members ef Coa fraternity af Saecoal wear sackcloth garmeats la Leaten eeremeay :t Kerne. Confrateraity Is composed largely of Berne's leading famnifi aad sackelata tradlUaa dates back te 16th ceatary. Doctor Put OnWoshingt on Relief Rolls WALLA WALLA, Wash, March 7-4tp-A Walla Walla doctor and his wife have been added to the state's relief rolls much: to their surprise and consternation. Dr. George Herbert offered the proof today. He displayed checks of $54.47 and $54.48. One was for him and one for Mrs. Herbert. With' the checks ' came ; a notice from the state social security de partment that their monthly wel fare ; payments had been approved. Just like that. No . questions asked. ' ; f f The If mildly Indignant doctor said ill he'd done was send a no tice to the department of a change in his home address. . His only dealing with the department had been treatments of welfare pa tients. , i The checks will go back, he said, with a "proper letter to send under such circumstances.' He didn't say whether he'd re mind, the social security depart ment, that one of its announced goals is to trim $50,000,000 from state welfare costs la - the next two. years. Salem Air Police : - I May Get Plane for Civil Defense 'Use : Possibility that Salem's aerial police may get a light plane for use in civil, defense popped up Wednesday. ' ij ' The city of Salem has come into possession of three Lusoomb two seater planes in satisfaction I of hangar space and license fees owed to the city by a commercial operator. The past-due i bill bad amounted to nearly $3,000. jj One of two 65-horsepower planes has been sold by the city for $800; the other and an 85 horse power plane are being held tor offers. i j . However, civil defense leaders have their eye on one of the re maining planes for emergency work, and this possibility will j be suggested to tne city council. City Manager J. L. Franzen said Wed nesday. ecrees JiirvD - . u ,- ... 1 Collazo to Die WASHINGTON. March 7-6PV-A federal jury decreed death today for Oscar Collazo who stormed President Truman's home Novem ber 1 in the name of Puerto Rican independence. Actual fixing of sentence in a federal court is in the hands of the judge but the jury found the little 37-year-old revolutionary guilty on two counts of. first de gree murder. The . law .makes death in the electric chair manda tory on each such count. ; Both the charges were based on tne deatn or Private Leslie Coff elt of the White House guard, shot to death in the furious gun play outside Blair House on Penn sylvania avenue. Police Catch Car Prowler A city policemen caught a car- prowler red-handed Wednesday night. A patrolman said he arrested the prowler after watching him take fishing tackle from a car owned by James B. Crenshaw. 335 South st It was parked in tne downtown area. ; Held on a larcenv charee is John William Howard, 39, a tran sient. !: Reds Want to Renarvle Peak HONG KONG, Thursday, March 8-4P)-Red China wants to re-name Mount Everest, highest peak in the world. The Peiping magazine. "Open Minded Youth, contend, the 29,-002-foot mountain should be call ed Chu Mu Long Ma Tibetan for "Mountain of the Waters of the Sacred Mother." : , r; The magazine said the peak was discovered by Tibetan explorers in 1717 "135 years before it was seen by Everest." It was named for Sir George Everest, British military engineer and surveyor general for India, 1830-43. NOW SHOTTING - OPEN : COMEDY .CO-FEATCSE i -TKIPXJE TROUBLE" - 1Y18a the Bowery Boys Iran Premier Assassinated TEHRAN. Iran, March " 1-Ph Premier Gen. All RazmaraJ a tough anti-communist whose re form program was backed by the United States, was shot td death today by a religious fanatic at a funeral in a Tehran mosque. The assassination was the cli max of weeks of political agita tion in which nationalistic Iran ans showed growing resentment against the premier because !he opposed nationalization! of the Anglo-Iranian Oil company. The best sources, however, ; believed communists were not involved. The gunman, Abdulla Rastegar, a 28-year-old carpenter, and three suspected accomplices were ar rested on the spot. ! Informed sources identified Rastegar as a member of Fada yam Islan (Crusaders of Islan), a fanatical Moslem sect.! i Speakers at a Fadayam rally last Friday cursed Stalin, Presi dent Truman and King George; VI in demanding an end to foreign interference in Iran. j j Young Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi immediately named acting premier 70-year-old Khalil Fah imi, who ordered the armed forc es and all officials to carry with the "utmost care' strength as a precaution against inspired disorder among Iran's 15,000,000 people. Telephone Toll Technicians Delay Strike 1 SAN FRANCISCO. March 7-4JPI Long line! technicians of the la cific Telephone & Telegraph com pany agreed tonight to another day-to-day extension of their contract, which had been ached' uled to expire at midnight. The agreement barred the possibility 01 a strike tonight. :i Leslie Monahan, Seattle, presi dent of the Independent' Order of Repeatermen and Test boardm en said the continuation was gran tea at the request of the state and federal mediation services, and in recognition of the "vital service performed by the union members in our national defense."; I Salem telephone toll' test' men. Whose union; is involved in con tract negotiations with JT&T, wm continue on the-Job today pnd In the future unless contrary orders are received from the un ion, ; Ronald V. Miller, area vice chairman of the union, said Wed nesday. -.: ' I, ' Salem experienced no difficulty Wednesday as some other cities did, according to Elmer Berglund, local manager. :! The only long distance techni cians here who are involved are five toll test men concerned with maintenance and operation of radio circuits, teletype : circuits and long distance lines. : Lebanon Girl in Scholarship Contest Finals ! PORTLAND, March 7-(P)-Ore-gon winners to compete in a na tional scholarship contest were an nounced today by the state board of directors of the Oregon council of churches. t They include Ronald H. Bayes, Freewater; Susan Fox McAndie, Eugene: Donna Plymale. Lebanon; Joan Wood, Portland. The four will be entered witn other state winners in a national contest for $400 scholarship awards. on and BUDWORM ON DECLINE PRINEVTLLE. March 7 -flP- Oregon and Washington will be free of spruce budworm within three years, members of the Cen tral Oregon chapter of the Association- of American i Foresters were told here last night. I Secret Cache Discovered In Stone Lion LONDON. March 7-CffV-A la borer proved today that It pays to be fnice to animals even an eight-ton; stone one. i He scratched the back of the famed old "Lion of Hungerford" now being refurbished for ex hibition at the Festival of Britain and discovered a secret com partment. The niche, long sealed by dozens of coats of red paint, yielded a bottle containing some coins dating back to William the Fourth (1830-1838) and a note which hasnt been deciphered yet. For more than a century and a quarter, the red lion graced the roof of a Thames-side brewery. EDITOR RECALLS LEAN DAYS ; NEW HAVEN -((P)- A frank furter and beans dinner for 10 cents once was a luxury to Sin clair Lewis, famed novelist who died recently in Rome. Arthur J. Sloane of New Haven recalls the days when he and Lewis, fellow employes of the New Haven Journal-Courier, felt fortunate to be able to afford such a meal at their nightly dinner hour. Sloane Is now managing editor of the paper. There are more than 20.000 spe cies of trees in the world. John -Wayna j, OPERATION I PAC3FICT Mrs. OTtfalley i And Mr. Malone 1 arm ! HURRY - MTJST END TONIGHT! .. Dana Andrews Farley Granger Jean Evans - la Samuel Goldwya's ''EDGE iOE DOOM" ... t . MGfilHIHL 'UMHU it arsaa wsysssj AND! t vfxRxza Csos. f DOROTHY HARIyY lil EDWIN LMAJv!HC. m - w-n I UUUIUU1 ' 4 .A1S0!..;, POPEYE CARTOON Tha Fry's Ust Nlghr 1 LATEST VARfiCl NEWS Court Continues Washington Power Sale Injunction COLVTT J.K. Wash.. March l-UPS A court order restraining the sale of the Washington Water Power company to a group of public uuiity districts today jwas. con tinued temporarily. ' Judge B. B. Horrigan continued the temporary order br two or three days" until he can render a decision on today's hearing on a show cause order. ' The restraining order was issued February 26 after seven Spokane citizens filed suit against the Chelan. Pend Oreille, Stevens and Douglas county PUDS to stop the sale on grounds it is illegal. . GrasH Throws 3 Children From; Auto Three, youngsters bounced out of a moving auto Thursday in a col lision on North River i road, but all escaped! serious injury. First aidmen said Sherry Boy- er, 3, tumbled out first and skin r.ed her hips, head and elbows. Jimmy Boyer, 4, landed on Sher ry. He suffered a cut lip. Terry, 5, flew out last. He land ed on his brother and twin sister and didn't get hurt at all. State police said the children were riding with their mother, Mrs. Marie Boyer, 4119 Filbert st, when her car collided with one driven by Lloyd Stoltenberg, Ger vais route 1. Neither was cited. Fire Atop House Caused by Paper Flames leaping from the top of a house near the east Salem fire house startled city firemen Wed nesday night. - Firemen,: who first noticed the blaze, sped to the Charles Sumner home, 1725 State st, geared for action. But r there wasn't much. Someone had! burned some papers in the fireplace and they shot up through the l . chimney, firemen said. i " Mat. Daily From 1 P. M.a New! Love! Laaghter! And Liltiag Masie! j CO-FEATUREI a A Picture For All Free Peoples! TAREWEU TO YISTEJtDAY HELD OVER! Ami Moved to Tha OPEN 6:45 P. M. 110V SHOWING! nrwi It if ir Stcrycfiha Greet 'V mill lllf flrillll 1 'III ttiu M WW I III - y CO-FEATUa i mm 3 f : ta! I C0I1TE T0TTEPJ RFC Director Dunham Admits Being Used7! ': WASHINGTON, March i7P) Walter L. Dunham, a director of tne , iteconstrucuon finance cor poration, acknowledged today that some members of a White! House social : circle in which he ! moved tried to use him in angling for huge government loans. ! "Somebody took me in, I 'guess," he told the senate ; banking- sub committee, which is investigating alleged favoritism and political in fluence in RFC lending, f 'i "I think I am entirely lacking in political sagacity." . ; 1 Dunham, a 68 year old IDetroit banker who has been a republican all his life, said the soda group he referred- to ' included Donald Dawson, one of President Tru man's aides; William E. Willett. another RFC director; E. Merl Young, wellrto-do husband of a White House , stenographer, and Rex Jacobs, a Detroit industrial ist who Dunham described as hav ing some degree of White House entree." ; - - . But Dunham stated "I am posi tive no one has succeeded In exert ing any improper Influence upon my decision on any RFC matter." Senator Capehart (R-Ind), a subcommittee member, commented to reporters at tha close of the hearing: ; . - : I think he was used, but they didn't have to twist his arm Very hard.. ; -.,f Vty, - A- - - Dunham ; acknowledged ' in I his statement that WiUiam M. Boyle, jr democratic national chairman, had sent him . many loan appli cants, and that at least one came to him from the White House. St. Paul Lions Club Organized gUUsaaaa - Ktws f wvlea ST. PAUL, .March .7 A St Paul Lions club was organized to night under sponsorship of the Sa lem Lions club. The charter-night meeting is slated for May 12. - Officers elected were J. Ri chardson, president; William Bowers, first vice-p resident; George Settelmeyer, second vice president; Claude Smith, third vice-president: Jerry Connor, secretary-treasurer;' Carl Smith, lion tamer; John Smith, tail twister; Lee Dugger, Lester Ernst, Leslie Weatherd and Karl J. Kuhn, dl- rectors.'.. , , Salem Lions who attended were Edward Kajekr R. W. Land, Ei Burr Miller and Charles Schmitzi James TindaH,- Hollywood Lions member and Lions zone chairman, also attended. " 1 ll ! NOW SHOWmG! 'open :45, Starts 7:15 : Fred MaeMnrray ; Irene Danae , - Andy Devlae ! -NFra A DUU MOMrNT- ' Aadle Murphy , Brlaa Dealevy -i - la , TechnleoUr - ICaiuas Raiders" S3i j """ 3 (ft" N TffiMfHtiij InlMiViv AVi1tti Vyillu. 1 : I 3 STEP-ON CAN and WASTE ; BASKET j r s - - t - : - " if f ' " I All natal' step - on can with n-titij wataiaacet, in lovely springtlma bouquai ottam ! t Fancss Feci Chopper AH metal construction Willi strong clamp ond cam-dzip Ifeatura '4i: DIG CLOTHES BASKET I 0 ?A 0 6 V '! 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