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    BEMD BULL
Help Win War
Turn In your used cooking fats
to your butcher and get free meat
points. Help win the war!
Weather Forecast .
Mostly cloudy, with occasional
rain northern portion today, to
- night and Thursday. Cooler east
portion today.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUN
Y. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 21, 1945
TWO U SL ARMIES LINK AND WHEEL TO EAST,
IrlU U SAIN US Vt NAZIS NEAR RHINE
THE
ETTO
Task Force 58
Into
Jap Home Waters Blasts
1 7 Warships, Hits 600 Planes
Surviving Ships of Nippon Fleet CrioDled
In New Air Blows From Carrier Armada in
Enemy Sea; Further Action Held Possibility ;
By Frank Tremaine .
(United Press War Conespondent) ' i
Guam, March 21 (UP) Dispatches from famed task force
58 today boosted the toll of two days of daring air attacks
on the Japanese fleet in its home bases to at least 17 warships
and 600 or more planes wrecked. . . : -
Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz said the raids SnnrW nnrl
Monday on Kobe, Kure and other bases in Japan's inland sea
had crippled the surviving remnants of the Japanese fleet
at a time when -it was rushing repairs to meet an anticipated
invasion of Japan itself.
' The carrier-borne fleet of 1,000 to 1,400 U. S. navy planes
Man Sought Here
'Found' in Prison
In the old ballad "Mose was safe
down In the cellar whea the
lights went out," and In a similar
position was Ray Fitzgerald of
Denver, Louisiana, resting in San
Quentin penitentiary, California,
when Deschutes county Sheriff
Claude L. McCauley issued a war
rant for his arrest.
The Louisiana native first
passed a bad check in Oregon in
1940 when he forged his employ
er's name, E. E. Butler of the
Butler ranch east of Bend, on an
sis.DU uckl'i, omcers said, mis
lice reports indicate, in the name
of Charles E. Chamberlain, Terre
bonne rancher, on January 22, 23
and 24 of this year when bad
checks cashed netted Fitzgerald
$515 in three days.
After Sheriff McCauley noti
fied state officials, he received a
letter from the sheriff at Cath
lamet, Wash., stating that an em
ploye of the Crown Zellerbach
company had received a letter
from the convicted man request
ins that he sell certain personal
belongings left at Cathlamet and
forward the money to him at San
Quentin.
Climaxing the exchange of cor
respondence between Sheriff Mc
Cauley and Clinton T. Duffy,
warden at San Quentin, the fol
lowing information was brought
to light: Fitzgerald was received
M the institution February 22
i- torn the county of San Joaquin
feting plea of guilty to the crime
of issuing fictitious checks upon
an undetermined sentence of
from 0 to 14 years.
Lt. Vic Whetzel
Visitor in Bend
Lt (j.g.) Victor L..Whetzel, for
merly a member of the J. C. Pen
ney store staff in Bend and man
ner of the Penney store in Cald
well, Idaho, when he entered the
service, has arrived in Bend from
nls station in New York to visit
Ws wife and their son, Ronald,
jn the service for the past year,
U. Whetzel was given six months
jf special training at Harvard un
iversity, before being assigned to
active duty.
Lt. Whetzel made the trip from
the east to Boise, Idaho, by plane,
ana was met there by Mrs. Whet
He will return to New York
jWlay by plane.
Czar of American Food Says
States Will Not Face Famine
Washington, March 21 IP)
Americans "will continue to have
Wenty of good, wholesome food"
(hough they have to take a
new hitch in their belts in order
L help starving peoples, War
;od Administrator Marvin Jones
said today.
The nation's food chieftain is
W a 300-word statement con
wiling the outlook for American
WtS. Tn fnort in,hn ho
'o, is a practical matter and a
' ui war itself.
AO nno v, i. t
... - v.it naa guilt? HUllgiy ill ! ciramcM m.- .
' , country," he said. "No one is their battle. Civilians during the
'"'IE hungry." war, he said, have eaten more
Of dire predictions that the na-! food per capita than they did be
2 faces a meat famine and , fore the war.
c"ies of other foods, Jones i Meanwhile, Price Administrator
? "We have heard these things Chester Bowles accused the Amer
"we." I lean Meat Institute of causing
"This storm will pass and cer- j "newspaper headlines of famine."
"2 facts win stand out," he said, i He told the senate banking com-
e pointed out that in 1943 food j mittee that "the facts do not Jus
wouction was expanded 32 perWify the scare stories."
in Bold Strike
Droke off its attack late Mon
day. A Japanese communique
said the task force, including
its escort from the Fifth fleet,
was "fleeing southward" to
ward the Marianas with Japa
nese aircraft in "close pur
suit." . ,
May Renew Attack :
Radio Toky said, however, that
there were "plenty of possibili
ties" the task force might renew
its attack. . : . - .
Nimltz's communique on the at
tack listed 15 to perhaps 17 war
ships as damaged, but late radio
dispatches from task force 58
said at least 17 and possibly more
warcraft were left smoking and
bomb twisted.
The toll included a minimum of
seven aircraft carriers, probably
all that remained in the Japanese
fleet, and two or more battleships,
dispatches said. In addition, six
freighters were sunk and seven
damaged.
The number of Japanese planes
destroyed or damaged was re
vised by late dispatches from 575
to at least 600.
"Japan's hopes of rebuilding
her crippled air force and fleet
were smashed," United Press war
correspondent Lloyd Tupling re
ported from the flagship of Vice
Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, com
mander of task force 58.
Results Listed
The toll of enemy warships was
the greatest since the second bat-j
tie of the Philippine sea last Oc
tober, when 24 Japanese warships
were sunk, 13 possibly sunk and
21 damaged. Later reconnaissance
may reveal that some of the war
ships hit in the inland sea later
sank.
The Japanese resisted the de
fiant American challenge to their
persistent air attacks on the task
fleet with the heaviest and most
force and its planes since the air-
sea battles off Formosa last Sep
tember.
Guns of the fleet and carrier-
borne fighters broke up most of
the attacks, but dive-bombers
slipped through the barrage to
put one ship out of action. It was
able to head toward port under
its own power, however.
Other American ships which
suffered minor damage remained
fully operational, Nimitz said.
PROWLER IS REPORTED
Mrs. Kendall Franklin, 1217
Fresno street, today reported to
Bend police that a prowler shortly
before midnight last night loitered
around her home for almost half
an hour, and tried the windows of
the house.
cent over pre-war levels and in
1944 boosted another five per
cent, and this year farmers them
selves set goals that call for an
even greater acreage. (A report
of farmers' planting Intention re-,
leased yesterday indicated, how
ever, that this year's crop acreage
will be slightly less than last year
and considerably below the goal.)
The United States has the best
fed army in the world', Jones
ntatfvl nnrl
American iooa nas
nnnMiu1 Iia nllloa tn mrrv nn
Salutatorian
Beverley Wennerstrom, honor
student with a erarte overfly at
Ul, has been selected as Bend
high school
torian.
senior class saluta-
,1 fJ hi 1
Bend High School Class of '45
Makes Plans for Graduation
Bill Lane Named Valedictorian, Beverley
Wennerstrom Salutatorian; Date Is Set
- Bill Lane has been named valedictorian and Beverley
Wennerstrom salutatorian of the Bend high school class of
1945, it was announced here today as final plans for com
mencement exercises, to be held on May 25, neared comple
tion. Bill, son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Lane, won the right
to represent his class as valedictorian by virtue f a four-year
grade average of 1.29. Beverley's average, 1.81, was second
highest of the class. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Wennerstrom.
, ... A total of 115 students are tentatively scheduled to receive
8 Feet of Snow
Covers Summit
Travelers to and from the Wil
lamette valley grumbled today
about traffic conditions in the Cas
cades, but eight feet of snow
which covers the Santiam summit
brought smiles to irrigationists of
the Deschutes valley.
Reports to the state highway
department headquarters here to
day as the storm had subsided,
told of the measurement of 96
inches of snow, which, however,
had settled to a depth of 82 inches.
A total snow depth of 63 Inches
was noted at the summit of the
Willamette highway.
At the Santiam junction a total
depth of 60 inches of snow was re
ported, and this had settled to 38
inches by noon today.
The south Santiam highway re
mained closed to traffic today, but
highway maintenance crews re
ported that the north Santiam
artery was clear and almost bare
of snow.
Highway Icy
Icy conditions prevailed on the
Willamette highway this morning,
when the temperature stood at 17
degrees above zero. It was expect
ed, however, that the ice would
vanish as the sun struck the pave
ment. Reports were lacking from The
Dalles-California and the Wapini
tia highways, indicating, accord
ing to highway officials, that con
ditions were normal on these
routes.
Clear conditions were reported
in the Willamette and Santiam
highway sectors.
Diphtheria Closes
Molalla School
Molalla, Ore., March 21 HP)
Because of the prevalence of
diphtheria in this Clackamas coun
ty town of 99b population, the
grade school and theater were
closed today.
The school was closed for a
week and the theater closed as a
precautionary measure after 19
cases had been positively identi
fied as diphtheria and 17 other
cases diagnosed as "probable."
Said Dr. Dan P. Trullinger,
county health officer:
tor a town of this size, It
amounts to an epidemic."
Small Boy Dies
Under Milk Truck
Portland, Ore., March 21 'lr
A little boy's whim to-stand
hind a milk truck cost him his !
life.
Ten-year-old Ernest F. Schaferl
was killed when Robert C. Perrin
backed his delivery truck over theireeular flow of distribution under
lad after making a house call.
Valedictorian
Bill Lane, whose grade average
, on u
" ' 7 ' " 71
torlan of the Bend high school
graduating class of 1945.
Ttheir diplomas at the May 25
graduation exercises, at which
Rex Putnam, state
supenn -
tendent of schools, is to be the
speaker. Last year, 104 were
graduated.
Both Bill and Beverley are
Torch Honor students. Bill took
all his high school work here, and
Beverley entered from Hope,
North Dakota. Both have been ac
tive in student body affairs.
Honor Students Named
Grade averages this, year are
slightly below those of the class
of 1944, school officials have an
nounced. The ten students high
est in scholarship will be en
titled to wear the gold honor
cords. They follow:
Bill Lane, 1.29; Beverley Wen
nerstrom, 1.31; Ed DeGroot, 1.54;
Patsy Scott, 1.61; E. B. Hogan,
1.62; Bob Lintz, 1.68; Connie Lo
ree, 1.74; Iris Thomas, 1.77; Au
drey Bright, 1.79; Norman George,
1.79.
Other honor students of the
class of 1945 whose grades range
up to 2.0 follow:
Sally Schilling, 1.83; Evan
Johnson, 1.86; Shirley Meagher,
1.87; Phil Brogan, 1.88; Helen
Hudson, 2.00; Joyce Armstrong,
2.00, and Gerald Henderson, 2.00.
Snowplow Victor
In Moose Battle
Moran, Wyo., March 21 (IP)
Undaunted by unsuccessful
brushes with a car and a snow
plow, "Moody the Moose" roamed
the mountain fringed Jackson
hole territory today, looking for
new worlds to conquer.
The roving hatrack attacked a
car driven by Dr. D. G. MacLeod
and came off, at best, a draw. He
bruised his knees and nose In a
head-on charge Into the vehicle,
but the car also suffered some
minor damage.
His next encounter was with a
snowplow driven y George Melcoe
who wasn't a bit disturbed by the
"banzai" attack. Melcoe just
opened the throttle a little wider,
scooped the moose up and dumped
him unceremoniously Into a near
by ditch.
Food Stocks Low,
Churchill Says
London, March 21 (IP) Prime
ItTinfetAt. r-l.,,Fv.t.lll 1 .1
today that Britain's food stocks
.Knmv i,. .' jww
have shrunk to less than 6,000,000
tons, and prospects were for more
shrinkage to a point barely suf
ficient to maintain regular sup
plies for the nation.
Shipment of foodstuffs to the
imeraiea countries or Europe will
be-cause stocks to go down to some i
4,750,000 tons by the end of June.
(Churchill said.
"This latter figure is no more
than is necessary to maintain the
present conditions," he added.
Berlin Reports
New Action on
Eastern Front
I
t Germans Say Reds Now
i Ready to Start Drive
? On Capital of Reich
i London, March 21 nil Nazi
Broadcasts said today that the red
sjrmy has resumed its attacks 30
ridd miles east of Berlin prepara
tory to a full-scale assault on the
bomb-devastated capital.
'.An attack by upwards of 1,000
soviet troops southwest of the
r river crossing town of Klen-
itz, 33 miles northeast of Berlin,
was "warded off," the German
Transocean agency said.
The official German DNB agen
cy said a ".certain flare-up" in
fighting In the Kuestrin area, 10
miles southeast of Kienitz and 38
miles east of Berlin, indicated the
Russians soon would attack in
strength.
Nazis Give Version
German artillery was credited
with scattering "major enemy de
ployments" southwest of Kues
trin, whose capture was announc
ed by Premier Marshal Stalin
March 12. Moscow has reported
soviet troops across the Oder well ;
beyond Kuestrin on the Warsaw
Berlin superhighway.
The nazi reports followed by
less than 24 hours the capture of
Altdamm, directly across the Oder
river from Stettin, and the conse
quent elimination of the last ma
jor German pocket on the east
foahk of the river north of Berlin.
' The clearing of the northern
flank along the Oder was believed
1 one of the last Items on Stalin's
battle schedule before sending his
armies Into action in frontal and
flanking offensives against Berlin.
Altdamm Seized
Marshnl Gregory K. Zhukov's
First White Russian army cap -
tured Altdamm after slashing up
behind the city from the south-
west and cutting its three bridge
links with Stettin, three and a half
miles across the Oder estuary.
Overrun In the advance were
Podejurh, four miles southwest of
Altdamm, and Finkonwald, site of
Stettin airfield a mile and a half
southwest of Altdamm.
The Germans fought for every
block In Altdamm and thousands
were slain, the soviet high com
mand announced.
Far to the northeast, the Third
White Russian army under Mar
shal Alexander M. Vassilevsky,
red army chief of staff, trimmed
the German pocket southwest of
Koenigsberg to 50 square miles
and captured Braunsberg, 1 1 s
principal stronghold.
Man Is Held on
What started as an asserted
liquor party evolved into a free-for-all
brawl, climaxed by a stab
bing when Lee B. Ellington last
night visited his lormer wne s
home an'd attacked Henry Lutz
hoft, employed there as a painter,
Sheriff Claude L. McCauley re
ported today.
Accompanied by Albert Shipley,
Ellington headed for the home of
Pauline Donnelly, his former
wife, about one mile south of the
citv limits, with a quart of whis
key, officers said. The pair arrived
at 6:30 p. m. and lnvlteu Mis.
Donnelly and Lutzhoft to partake
of the liquor with them. Kciusing,
Mrs. Donnelly was said by the
sheriff to have showed Ellington
the door and when he remained
adamant, requested Lutzhoft to
act as "bouncer." Ellington, the
sheriff said, then pulled a knife
and lunged toward the painter, in
flicting several light cuts and one
six inch slash in the abdomen. The
men then fled, according to the
sheriff.
Man Arrested
Later that evening, Sheriff Mc-
I pu'ti .u"n. .n,i rhnier
i Robert Houtchens and Chester
Nordstrom, arrested Ellington at
a Bond street tavern on a chnrge
of drunkeness.
The sheriff reported that El
lington will be transferred from
I the city jail to the county jail to-
a,A i f..pir,t nnlhle
rhnran nf .-.'sennit with intent to
kill. The extent of the charge will
be determined at a conference be
tween Sheriff McCauley and Dis
trict Attorney A. J. Moore.
Lutzhoft is undergoing treat
ment in a local hospital.
Yanks, in
ReachC
(United frees Wer
Manila, March 21 (U.P) American troops linked with
strong Filipino guerilla forces on Panay today in an offen
sive that burst into the suburbs of burning lloilo and swept
through more than 250 square miles of the island.
The lightning strikes of Maj. Gen. Rapp Bush's 40th
division, which threw the Japanese into disorder on Panay's
south central plains, ripped through three key road towns and
tumbled Mandurriao airdrome, with its big 4,500-foot run
way. The rapidly developing campaign on Panay, sixth largest
of the Philippines, was dis-
closed in Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's communique which
also revealed new important
gains on Luzon and continua
tion of neutralizing air at
tacks on Formosa and Japan's
shipping lanes in the China
sea.
Beachhead Widened
Brush's seasoned troops over
ran Japanese machine-gun points
and small arms resistance in a
two-pronged offensive that carved
out a beachhead 18 miles deep and
14 miles wide on Panay's south
ern coast.
One column raced seven miles
In one day. along the hard-surface
coastal road, captured the seven
span carpenters bridge across the
lloilo river and stormed into the
suburbs of the capital, already
aname zrom large tires.
The extent of the blazes Indi
cated the Japanese were attempt
ing the same destruction of Hollo
and its 90,000 inhabitants as they
did at Manila.
At the same time, Brush's sec
ond force speared inland to seize
Janiuay, 18 miles north northeast
of Hollo. From there it made a
sharp turn to the east, raced
seven miles to the big road junc
tion of Potoan and continued an
other eight miles eastward to cap
ture Barotnc Nuevo, l(J!i miles
northeast of Hollo.
The drive inland enabled the
American troops to join with Pa-
; nay's strong guerilla forces, said
jto be the best organized in the
entire Philippines,
Deschutes Quota
For Drive Is Set
Deschutes county's overall
quota for the Seventh war loan
drive, to open on April 1, will be
$1,141,000, it was announced this
noon at a special luncheon meet
ing in the banquet room of the
Pilot Butte inn, with county fi
nance committee members and
executives from the state office
present. The "E" bond quota will
be $654,000, It was announced by
Kenneth Martin, executive man
ager of the state war finance
committee.
The quota assigned Deschutes
county was officially accepted by
A. L. O. Schueler, county war
bond chairman.
Martin In Speaker
Martin pointed out that money
flowing into the treasury via "E"
bond channels comprises the in
flationary dollar which will bo
safely out of circulation awaiting
active duty during the post-war
period in laying the groundwork
f 0r a stable economy.
Conferring at the session with
Schueler and W. A. Bingham,
chairman of the payroll sav
ings division of the state war fi
nance committee, were officials
of the latter's staff and chairmen
of the Deschutes county commit
tee. C.J; " f
OUUfclTO VCI UruerS TO l-eUVe i
New York Taverns atMidnight
New York, March 21 (Hi May -
or i. H. La Guardm stuck by his ,onSi ssu,,,, n hLs w,My rll,0
ta? regard! ' Sunday. New y0rk had
less of the wishes of President become the first and only large
Roosevelt and the army, "I'm run- city to defy war mobilization di
ning the city." rector James F. Byrnes' midnight
Asked for comment on Prcsl- curfew request,
dent Roosevelt's statement yester- The army's order hit New York
day favoring a midnight curfew
on entertainment, i.a uuanna
said- "He's running the country,
I'm Just running the city."
Asked for comment on the war
department order that all soldiers
evacuate saloons and other night
spots by midnight an order that
went into force hpre last night
and led to the spectacle of civlll-, Guardla's "hour of tolerance" had
.... .. 11.11... I
ans continuing with their drink-iDeen nit a nouy mow.
ine while soldiers were ordered, Several saloon keepers, already -
away from the Dars, L,a uuaruia
sal,!:
I'm running the city, I tried fn,mld they would probamy return lo
run the army but they woijlWft ',
lot mc." 1 '
Swift Blow,
QUICG
CarreeiHtnrientl
Killed By Japs
Major .General Edwin Patrick,
commander of the 6th U. S. lnfan-
try division on Luzon, was killed
by a Jap machine-gunner who hid
behind the American Ifnes east of
Alanua
Brilliant Planet
Fools Sky Gazers
There were stiff nocks around
today, just because some sky gnz-
er discovered a Bllvery object In
the eastern heavens late this
morning, far above fleecy clouds
of spring. Binoculars and tele-
scopes were brought Into use, but
the mystery of the sliver disc was
not solved until Don Williams, at
the Brooks-Scanlon plant; brought
imiu niBHiieijKiinimi
- C ' "I
out a copy of The Bend Bulletin, first army exploded a new often
dated last Saturday. i8ve northward from Its Rcmagen
On the editorial page was J , bridgehead and swept out into
clipped editorial from the Grants opcn tnnk country less than a
Pass Courier announcing that the j ttoZen miles from the southern
brilliant planet Venus Is now visl-, Uank of tne Ruhr basin,
ble Just east of the sun. Further-1 0n the hees of tne First army
more, the editorial had directions break-through, Gen. Dwlght D.
"""i iiuiin j-iui-n, KJ lliv.'inliv
of Oregon astronomer for the lo-
nH'm P'nn,t;,PV(,nlnb,;l,1t
sunlight. Right In the spot where
Prof. Pructt said Venus could be
found was the "silver disc" that
had mystified Bend.
Fooled Once Ileforo
Paul Hosmer, who took part In
solving the silver disc mystery
this morning, recalled that It was
the second time In a little more
than a quarter of a"ccntury he
has been fooled by Venus. At the
start of the first world war, "sig
nals" were reported sighted In
the Cascudes, near the divide, over
a period of a week or more. An
Investigation revealed that the
"mystery light" was Venus.
The lustrous planet will be visi
ble tonight for two hours after
sunset.
I
I I
1 Under La Guardla's
Instnic-;
; suddenly last night when military i
: ponce, accompanied oy snore pa -
j trols as "observers," made the
rounds of bars and night clubs at
I midnight explaining to cluh own-1
ers that they must clear the prcm-;
:lses of service men.
! The first reaction from night
spot owners was that Mayor La
nunious unmn iuk-iik uuvrtnmnci m ...... . -
jof the mayor's one-hour extension, hain't got the gas to be chasing
the midnight closing "to be on'
the safe side."
'AH OraaniZed
In Region Ends
Not Single Bridge Is in
Use as Americans Hit
At Fleeing Nazi Hordes
Paris, March 21 nn Lt Con.
George S. Patton's troops
entered Ludwigshafen today,
virtually concluding the Soar
Palatinate campaign which de
stroyed two German field ar
mies totaling some 80,000 men.
Paris, March 21 (IP All organ
ized German resistance in the
Saar-Palatinate collapsed today as
the American Third and seventh
armies joined forces. The com
bined forces wheeled In to the
Rhine to annihilate a iew thous
and nazi survivors along a bridge
less, 29-mlle stretch of the river
bank from Ludwlgshafen to the
Karlsruhe crossing.
'-- In one of the most decisive vic
tories of the western war, the
two American armies had wiped
out all but about 10,000 of the
80,000 or move Germans who held
the vast Saar-Moselle-Rhine tri
angle at the start of the offensive
one week ago.
Cities Seized
I Saarbruecken, Zwelbruecken,
Kaiserslautern, WIssembourg, Ma
inz and Worms, the keystone! of
I the German defensive system,
I were ln American hands or on
the verge of capture this morning,
A slxth Hnd even areater prize,
the sprawling Rhine chemical cen
ed by two armored columns of the '
Third army that raced to within
six miles west and northwest of
the city.
The last major German escape
port across the Rhine at Woerth,
opposite the east bank city of
Karlsruhe, also was Imperiled by
Seventh army troops who smash
ed through the Siegfried defen-
ses beyond WIssembourg, 15 miles
t0 he southwest.
Not a single Rhine bridge was
standing as the Americans struck
for the river this morning. The
panic-stricken Germans faced the
prospect of mass surrender of a
suicidal crossing In boats and
" , ' "
I Now Drive Opened
! Far to the north, the American
i tl cnt. Iiiivnp hrnnHmiu u orrim
warnlng to the German civilian
population and the thousands of
''. s,v wm.k,rs ,n!(kle the
nazi lines to get out of the Ruhr
Immediately. Eisenhower declar
ed that the entire Ruhr was about
to become a battle zone.
U.S. Sub Barbel
Lost in Action
Washington, March 21 (IB The
navy announced today that the
American submarine Barbel has
been lost, presumably In the Pa
cific or Far Eastern waters.
Forty American undersea craft
have been lost during this war.
Less than a month ago, the navy
disclosed that the submarines Es-
colar and Shark were overdue
f
om patrol and presumed lost.
The Barbel was skippered by Lt.
Crndr. Conde L. Raeuet. of Nor-
folk, Va. It carried a normal com
plement of 63 men. All of Its crew
were listed as missing In action
and their next of kin have been
notified.
Bandits Use Trolley
In Making Getaway
Los Angeles, March 21 (IP
j inuiu i" k""k .B,
humble trolley today had a new
use as a getaway car for bandits.
F. S. Blayncy told police that
two thieves took $235 from the
;rirug store he managed and hop
ped a streetcar. Blayney jumped
on the running board of a passing
car and tne driver gave cnase.
ft! - . 1. n ,J nlmAI twnlrllUl IhO
urej wu ai.i-...-.i n-n.u.u ..
streetcar when the motorist said:
.your company s uuugii.
uiayney saoiy waicneo me iroi-
ley puu out oi signi.