Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, December 21, 1936, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY, DECEMBER SSI, 1936 THE CAPITAL" JOURNAL', SALEM. OREGON HUNDREDS DIE IN EARTHQUAKE EL SALVADOR (Continued from page 1) KILLED FIVE FOR 'REVENGE' tween the quake area and San Sal vador. Telephone and telegraph lines were ripped down by the quakes and information could be had only from those who (led inland from the scene. The quake, which first struck the sleeping city of San Vicente Satur 4 day night, crashed in buildings and shook the earth in villages nearby, eye witnesses said. Refugees, with their families and rural roads trying to reach safety household belongings fled along from the ever menacing volcano Santa Rita, southeast of San Vi cente which some refugees said was erupting. Adding to the fears of molten lava pouring from the volcano over the wrecked city was the specter of epidemics. Much of San Vicente's supply of drinking water was pois oned by sulphur apparently exuding from the smoking volcano after the quake. Government officials returning last night from the disaster area sold the widespread wreckage was impeding rescue work and making vitrualy impossible any accurate es timate of the property damage and loss of life. Among the neighboring villages damaged, according to radio reports last night, were Vera Paz, Guad alupe. Apasterpewue, Petttan, San Sebastian, San Lorenzo and Peco luca. A special Red Cross train, with rescuers and modern equipment, vac-sent from San Salvador to San Vicente. Those returning from the scene said the quake leveled all but one of the city's main buildings. Left standing, they said, was the tower In Central park, with the hands of Its clock stopped at ten minutes to ten. The president of Salvador, Gen. Maximlllano Hernandez Martinez, entrained for the scene to assume personal charge of the rescue work. Accompanying him was Minister of the Interior Caldcron. ' Army and navy physicians and nurses also were sent into the de vastated areas. The first shocks of the earthquake were felt at about 10 p. m. They diminished, refugees said, but began again Sunday afternoon. BOYS WRECK TRUCK ASH CREEK BRIDGE gaffe organize a rescue party, which must go on snowshoes into the mountains and Isolated country. By mid-afternoon. It was believed, the party can reach the ship. From reports received from for est workers and others it is believed the big Lockheed Electra plane, carrying mail from St. Paul to Spo kane. craslvJ about 5 a. m.. Pa cific Standard Time, Friday morn ing as Pilot Llvermore sought in fog to return to the radio beam he was following to Spokane. He was blown off his course. A rescue party was being organ ized at Kellogg, north of the ridge, go into the isolated area on loot. AU planes searching for the miss ing ship in the mountain country south of Calder were immediately called in by A. R. Menslng. division superintendent of Northwest Airlines. Salt Lake City, Dec. 21 Admit' The second transport plane to be lost in the rugged country of the West within a few days, a weat bound Northwest Airlines mail ship out of St. Paul was miaaing after it had last reported ice waa forming ting "every clue exhausted" In the en the wings northwest of Elk week-old hunt for a lost Western River, Idaho. It waa manned only Air Express plane, officials posted a J '"J t-ivermore (above) and ,000 reward and announced a new Gray-haired Martin Sullivan (eenter), 65-year-old Duqueane. Pa., policeman, ia pictured as he waa taken to jail for alaying five persons, three of them women. The district attorney aaid Sullivan admitted ahooting the five for "revenge," and feKow officers declared the police man blamed his victims for domestio troubles. (Associated Preas Photo) Christmas Illumination Contest Deadline Near; All Asked to Take Part Throwing down the bars to all comers, regardless of whether they have been prize winners in former years, the Salem Ad club is hopeful of greater response to their annual Christmas illumination contest. All that is necessary to enter the con- independence A pick-up truck ies in the bottom of Ash Creek at Independence, the result of an ac cident Thursday night about mid night, when a number of boys re. turning home from the basketball game at Independence, drove off the side of the bridge on Monmouth street, rolled over several times and landed up-side-down in the bottom of the creek, about 30 feet below the bridge level. Neighbors heard the noise and af ter some confusion and scrambling about the boys extricated themselves from the wreck leaving their car behind. Bloodstains on the ban ister of the bridge indicated that someone was injured, and a broken steering wheel waa found in the street above. This is the second accident near that soot in the past few days and at present there is nothing to stop cars from driving on tne ena oi pavement between the bridge and the sidewalk. There Is considerable water in the creek at this season of the year making it more hazardous. 'Girl Cheer Leaders Upheld as Dignified Albany, N. Y. (Ufa Cheer leading among high school girls is ladylike dimmed, expressive and modern, says Walter A. Cox, Albany's d'rect- or of health education. He assailed certain mldwesttm educators for "frowning upon it as undignified and unladylike." "Girls' today," Cox said, "are in terested In sport and why should n't they lead the cheers?" Monmouth Teachers Enjoying Vacation Monmouth Miss Bertha Bratnerd, registrar at the Oregon Normal school, whose vacation comes when the work of her office Is lightest, Is visitinn in Salem and in poruano She will resume her work December Miss Henrietta Wolfer, supervisor in the Independence Training school, Miss Florence Beardsley, Miss Ruth McClure and Miss Martha Taylor, aurjervlsors in the Monmouth Train. ing school, and Marion Beardsley are planning a vacation trip south dur ing the Christmas holidays. They will travel by motor as far south as Mexico City. They will return In time for the opening of the winter term. Miss Hilda Swenson, director of the dormitories. Is anticipating her first visit home in Colton, South Da kota, during the Christmas holidays. Miss Swenson will leave Saturday, December 10, going over the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul. She will ar rive at her home on Monday. De cember 31. and plana to return by way of the Union Pacific reaching Monmouth January 16. NEBRASKANS .VISIT Stlverton Mrs. Hans Jensen and Annabelle accompanied their house guests, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Roth and Harlan of Hennlngford, Nebr. to Portland during the week for business and social trip test la to clip the coupon which ap- peara in the papers of the city, fill it out and get it in the hands of the Salem Ad club before Tuesday noon, the deadline fixed for this season's participation. Sunday found a number of resi dents completing their decorative schemes and in a few instances pre views were permitted motorists who drove about the city. In order that JESSE OWENS PUTS MOM IN NEW HOME Cleveland (U.R) Jesse Owens, hero of the Berlin Olympics, has bought large home for his parents with the first money he has earned since the events. - For Cleveland and Emma Owens, Jesse's parents, the new house, of 11 rooms, represents a move Into much more comfortable quarters than the humble home they had occupied. Jesse plans to buy the furniture and all "fixings." too. "I'm really going to make 'mom' comfortable. There's be about $2,000 worth of new furniture when I get through," he grinned when announcement of the purchase was made. The runners sister, Luverne, and her husband and three children also will occupy the new home. Jesse and his young wife, Minnie Ruth are "looking around" at houses too. But Jesse said they weren t sure they would buy right away. Jesse is going to Hollywood for a time. There, radio and motion picture contracts await him, he said. the small home owner may have an equal chance with the person who possesses a more elaborate resi dence, the contest is divided into two sections. A grand prize of S10 will be awarded first place in each division. In addition to the grand prizes there will be awards for first and second place winners in each of the six districts Into which the city has been divided for purposes of competition. Firms contributing the prizes include Hogg Brothers, electric toaster; Eoff Electric, elec- trie clock; Ward's, electric lamp; George Allen, sandwich toaster: Bosler Electric, coffee maker; Sa lem Hardware, electric waffle Iron Sears, coffee maker; Portland Gen eral Electric, coffee service set- PERFECT WOMAN OFFICER SOUGH London (U.R) Scotland Vard looking for the "perfect polio woman." The qualifications are that she must not be younger than 24, and not older that 35; single; with good teeth, eyesight, feet and complex ion; not less than S feet S inches tall; good-natured, sympathetic to the "under-dog," well educated and cheerful. An advertlsment for 70 such wo- men has already brought more than 1,000 replies. School teachers, social workers, nurses and college graduates make the best policewomen, officials de- rlare. WW vV.J - ' doninern raciuc sions '. V ' ' m UGE AIRLINER CRASHED RIDGE IN IDAHO WILDS (Continued from page 1 Mail Pilot Lost C3 i, search today "on our own" The air liner offered the reward, effective until noon January 4, for discovery of the Los Angeles-Salt Lake transport lost with five men and two women since last Tuesday. The ship, last reported over Mil- ford, In southwestern Utah, Is sought in that vicinity and north ward and in east central Nevada. Five hundred miles northwest ward, a statement by Ranger M. T. Olmstead turned to a new sector In north Idaho the hunt for Pilot Joe Llvermore, Co-Pilot A. A. Hald and their northwest airlines transport, missing since 3:10 a. m. Friday. Llvermore last reported over Elk River, Idaho. The search had cen tered between there and Spokane. Olmstead said, however, the trans port flew over the forest service station at Calder, 40 milea north of Elk River, about 4:15 a. m. Friday, then turned westward toward Spo kane. Similar reports by those other Calder residents prompted extension the land aid air search to the region today. But Pilot Roy Shreck, saying "We combed every ridge and canyon in the Calder area," dis counted the lead. In all other respects, hopes of Co-pilot A. A. Hald. (Aaaoeiated Press Photo) MRS, MUENCH IS HELD GUILTY St. Louis, Dec. 21 WPi Red-haired Mra. Nellie Tipton Muench, 44 year old former society matron and sis ter of a state supreme court judge, and three others convicted with her in another episode of Missouri's long drawn "gift of God" baby scandal, pinned their hopes today on an appeal to escape possible 35 year prison sentences. With little show of emotion the glamorous key figure in five sensa tional trials within the past 14 months said sharply, "If the worst comes to the worst, I can take it." Mrs. Muench, her husband. Dr. Ludwig O. Munech; Wilfred Jones, an attorney, and Mrs. neien uer royer, a friend, were found guilty of mail fraud by a federal court here Sunday. The government charged they used the mails In an effort to extort unspecified sums of money from Dr. Marsh Pltzman, wealthy bachelor physician, by duping him Into believing he was the father of a child Mrs. Muench claimed she had borne. The defendants face maximum penalty of five years in prison and fines of il.000 on each of five counts. Federal Judge George H Moore game them until midweek to file a motion for a new trial. find" in either search diminished as one clue after another failed to develop. MAD GRAYE DIGGER BREAKS UP STONES Gravesend, England, (U. This is a story all about graves, even In cluding the name of the city where the incidents took place. Joseph Waghorn, a Gravesend Corporation grave digger, argued with his foreman over how deep a grave should be dug. Unable to con vince the foreman about the pro per depth, Waghorn gave an hour's notice. An hour later he returned to the cemetery with a large hammer and engaged in a smashing party. He broke three moving machines. 12 gravestone blocks and a large num ber of flower pots. As he was leaving the graveyard he hurled a flower pot at the fore man; William Lear, who success fully dodged. with the Oregon not yet reached a exact time. fair. They have decision on the ZIMMERMAN BUILDING Aurora A. J. Zimmerman is ouilding a house on his farm in the Meridian section. It will be 24x28 feet In size and a one story build ing. Zimmerman la assistant posU. master In tha Aurora office. Yoder Mra. Jesse Wyland, who haa been ill for several weeka at the home of her alster-ln-law, Mrs. Nora Taylor, waa able to return to her Canby home the latUr part of the week. COUNTY FAIRS IN DATE SCRAMBLE Portland, Dec. 21 (P) Managers of county fairs scrambled for favor able dates today after the Oregon Fairs' association scheduled the state fair for September to 11. The ninth annual Oregon Fairs association convention reelected Herman H. Chlldgren, of Molalla, named J. T. 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