16 Capital Journal, Salem,
Slot Machines
Hit by Hoover
Washington, Jan. 27 U. J,
Edgar Hoover has endorsed a bill
to forbid interstate transport of
clot machines as a way to crack
the gambling "nest egg of the
criminal underworld."
But the FBI chief told Con
gress it should be combined with
gome kind of warning to local
authorities to break off deals
which protect hoodlums from
the law.
"In all too many communl
ties," he said, "the local author
ities are subsidized and paid to
allow certain of these things to
operate."
Hoover gave Congress his posi
tlon on the slot machine bill at
a hearing January 13 before a
house appropriations subcommit
tee. A record of the hearings
was made public today.
Rep. Prince H. Preston, Jr.
(D., Ga.), has introduced a bill
to stop sending slot machines
across state lines. Hoover rec
ommended that it also include
disassembled machinery.
Hoover said slot machines are
"the basis for gambling and for
other illegal activities," in many
places. If they were stopped, he
said, "it would certainly slow up
the operations of those various
gambling groups and syndi
cates." "Gambling today is the nest
egg of the criminal underworld
which operates throughout the
country," Hoover said.
Crime, Hoover said, is worse
now than at any time in the past
10 years. All phases of criminal
activity are on the upgrade ex
cept murder, manslaughter, and
auto theft, he said.
Sackeff Buys
Seattle Star
Seattle, Jan. 27 (P) Sheldon
Sackett, veteran Oregon and
Washington newspaper and radio
station owner, has entered into,
a preliminary agreement for pur
chase of the former Seattle Star,
Fealtor Henry Brodcrick said
last night.
The transaction is expected to
be completed about Feb. 10, said
Broderick, who added that "both
aides are committed."
Sackett told the Post-Intelli
gencer from Oakland, Calif., he
would call his new venture the
Seattle World and that it would
follow a liberal editorial policy,
He said he did not know when
publication would start nor
whether it would be weekly or
daily.
The reported price was around
$150,000 and Includes land,
presses and buildings. The prop
erty presently is owned by the
Northern Publishing Co., owned
principally by David Stern of
Philadelphia and Tommy Stern
of New Orleans.
Sackett, who told th Poit-In-
lelligencer he planned to be mar
ried in Oakland Jan. 30, took
over the Star In 1947 but let his
option lapse after four months,
Edgar Possehl Has
Part in Ibsen Play
Reed College, Portland. Ore.
Jan. 27 A Salem high school
graduate has copped an Impor
tant part in the next Read col
lege dramatic production, "Ro-
mersholm," by Ibsen,
Edgar Possehl, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Possehl, formerly of
Eaiem now living at 0206 S.E.
17 St. In Porltand, will be fea
tured as Ulrlc Brendel In the
play.
"Rosmersholm" will be di
rected by Reed drama coach.
Sanford Wheeler. Although it
is not one of the playwright's
Setter known works, it is rep
resentative of Ibsen's attitudes.
Possehl started Reed in the
fall of 1947 after his graduation
from high school. He is now a
junior, majoring In the field of
chemistry.
'DaylighTatizen'
Tax Plan Dropped
Portland, Jan. 27 P Port
land isn't going to tax its "day
light citizens."
Mayor Dorothy McCullough
Lee yesterday dropped her pro
posal that all persons who work
In the city but live elsewhere
be taxed $25 a year.
The proposal aroused strong
protest. Mrs. Lee said the $25
tax was offered as an expedient
to get the city out of its finan
cial hole, but she believed bud
get cuts and other new revenue
sources would do the job.
The council today continued
Its series of budget meetings.
FOR SALE
WALNUT SHELLS
makes hot Fuel
15 Sacks for SI
$3 per ton.
MORRIS KLORFEIN
PACKING CO.
460 North Front St.
Ore., Friday, January 27, 1950
Famed Apple
Tree May
Survive Cold
Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 27 VP)
Vancouver's famed apple tree
is a sorry sight. It looks all of
its 134 years or even older,
Last week's ice storm, it was
learned today, tore the historic
tree's forked trunk. The larger
fork broke off. Only the strag
gly-lookmg smaller fork re
mains.
But a committee of horticul
tural experts examined the tree
today and decided it may live.
The tree grows on part of the
old Vancouver Barracks proper
ty, outside what was the stock
ade area of Fort Vancouver in
the early days.
Accounts of its genesis vary,
but the consensus has settled on
this as the like story:
The sweetheart of Aemillius
Simpson, a young British naval
lieutenant, gave him a packet of
apple seeds to take from England
to the new world. Simpson gave
them to Dr. John McLoughlin,
Hudson's Bay company factor
here. Dr. McLoughlin, either in
person or by emissary, in 1826
planted the seed that became
the tree that long has been
pointed to here with something
approaching mingled fondness
and pride.
Food Prices
Tumble in West
San Francisco, Jan. 27 U.R)
Food prices tumbled in Decem
ber In every major far western
city, the U.S. department of la
bor's bureau of labor statistics
reported today.
In Portland, Ore., food prices
fell to two-year lows last month,
the bureau reported.
The agency uses the figure 100
to represent the "normal" period
of 1935-1939. Based on that scale,
the food price index for vari
ous western cities in December
included:
Portland 206.3, Seattle 203.1,
Salt Lake City 196.6, Denver
196.2, San Francisco 210.1 and
Los Angeles 197.2.
The December national food
index was 197.3.
Larry Parks Welcome Baby
Hollywood, Jan. 27 M-Mu-
sical Comedy Star Betty Gar
rett, wife of Actor Larry Parks,
gave birth yesterday to their
first child, a seven-pound 14-
ounce boy who was named Gar-
fett Christopher.
Announcing - 1950s First and Foremost Fine Cars
The NEW
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Morse Opponent
Talks Optimism
Medford, Ore., Jan. 27 U.R)-
Fred E. Robinson, Medford busi
ness man who is seeking the re
publican nomination for United
States senator, returned from
Portland with word that his can
didacy has started something in
the nature of a crusade among
those up-state republicans who
hope to oust Sen. Wayne Morse.
The Medford man already has
gained considerable backing, he
declared, with interest snowball
ing rapidly since his formal fil
ing. Regarding his recent statement
that he would withdraw if Ore
gon republican leaders would
center on some "true republican,
a man of courage and convic
tions, who will fight for those
convictions," Robinson said he
was urged by Portland friends
not to withdraw unless a candi
date, who could also boast state
wide prominence and backing, is
Drougnt lorward.
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15 Escape Death at Sea as Yacht Breaks Up When Ha
waii's worst storm in years smashed the auxiliary yacht
Mokuola (right) against a Honolulu breakwater, lives of
15 persons aboard the craft were endangered. With aid of
the Honolulu fire department a line was attached to rocks
of the breakwater. (Left) male passengers help women
leave the lunging craft by a human chain. The yacht was
reported a total loss. (W) Wirephoto)
Aged Treasure Seeker Digs
For Loot in Heart of Miami
Miami, Fla. Jan. 27 (IP) George B. Mobley, 83, is busy dig
ging a big hole in downtown Miami and says he is looking for
$40,000,000 in gold.
So far the hole, now about 20 feet deep, has yielded a blue
glass mason jar patented Nov.
1853.
Mobley gave both antiques to
spectators.
'I don't want any antiques,"
in there." '
he said. "I want the gold that's
A handful of onlookers watch
ed as Mobley demonstrated his
glass, metal and wooden divin
ing rod. It leaned toward the
hole, partially filled with water.
Mobley said pirates hid the
gold in springs here when they
came to get fresh water in the
16th and 17th centuries, but he s
leaning heavily on his rod for
the exact location.
WARNER MOTOR COMPANY
North Commercial
20, 1858 and a wine bottle dated
Two years ago Mobley sought
$4,000,000 in gold in Green Cove
Springs, Fla., but found only
some old timbers and brass glob
ules. He said the diggings cost his
backer, Dr. H. H. Humphreys,
Jacksonville physician, $3,800.
Hans Christian Andersen,
Danish fairy tale writer, as a
youth wanted to be a dancer.
AS PURE AS MONEY CAN BUY
Storm Toll Taken
At Lebanon Garden
Lebanon, Jan. 27 High winds
took their toll of the lovely
country garden of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Dillard. It was the set
ting for last year's annual herb
tea of the Lebanon Garden club.
Most serious damage came to
the ancient incense cedar in the
front yard, admired last sum
mer by hundreds of guests from
all sections of the northwest.
The old landmark, quite unlike
any other cedar of the section,
is divided about 12 feet above
the ground into separate trunks.
The north trunk was split off
during the high wind.
Another casualty occurred in
the Dillard's rear garden, where
a 12-year-old Japanese purple
plum was blown over.
INCOME TAX
Returns Prepared
LEON A. FISCUS
4947 N. River Rd.
295 Pine St. Dial 35285
ON DISPLAY
Salem, Oregon
Polk County Wildfowl Fed;
Birds Need Clear 'Runways'
Dallas, Jan. 27 Starving birds, thwarted by the storm, raven
ously ate feed dumped over a wide area of Polk county under the
sponsorship of the Dallas Lions club, according to Virgil Long
of the committee in charge.
Long and Tommy Tallon scattered 21 sacks of feed, including
assorted screenings, wild seeds,
rye grass screenings, oats, corn
and wheat, all donated by the
Farmers Cooperative warehouse.
Farmers who watched the
dumps reported that pheasants,
robins, quail and all manner of
birds native to this country ga
thered in large flocks to devour
the feed.
Area covered extended from
Falls City on the west, Rickre-
all on the east, the Lewis corner
north of Rickreall on the north
and Monmouth on the south.
In their hungry condition, the
birds were considerably tamer
than normal. At the approach of
a human, even the most flighty
ones would merely hop off a
few feet, perhaps to the nearest
clump of bushes, rather than
fly away.
O'ne strange sight was ob
served when three pheasants
approached a dump. They appa
rently had had their tail feath
ers frozen fast in the storm and
attempted to fly without them.
Without the feathers, needed to
control ascending and descend
ing, the birds wavered through
the air in a drunken manner
rather than with the usual
straight, smooth flight of the
pheasant.
Special Sale!
Through Tuesday, Jan. 31
The
TH0S. KAY WOOLEN MILL
260 South 12th St.
WILL
OFFER
100
MEN'S
2 for t
PI
the
us
(All suits regularly $50.00 during this sale get two for
$60.00)
Open All Day Saturdays
FRIDAY
Nothing could be finer inside or out than the beautiful new 1950
Lincoln and the magnificent new 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan on
display starting tomorrow in our showrooms.
Outwardly, their superb new body styling stamps them as being
the most distinctive fine cars in America.
Inwardly, their rich new upholsteries and appointments make
them the most luxurious, too. For their brilliantly fashioned new
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And on the road, their new range of performance is unquestionably
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If you haven't yet made an appointment with us, by all means do
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At the same time, a candidate
for "meanest man" honors was
found. A game officer arrested a
Falls City man who, had, ap-
proached one of the grain dumps '
with a .22. Lions club members
had asked the officers to watch
the dumps for possible poachers.
Many local residents have
been putting out feed for the
birds in town and obtained the
unspoken gratitude of the birds.
A common sight In heavily
populated districts during the
snow is to see a bevy of quail
foraging among scraps put out.
One farmer near town reported
that quail had come up on his
back porch to eat food put out
for the cat and dog.
Three Miners Killed .
St. Eloy, France, Jan. 27 VP) '
A violent underground blast
killed 13 coal miners yesterday
and sent 20 others to the hospital
with gas poisoning. The explo
sion was believed by the mine
director to have been set off dur
ing regular rocK Diasiing opera
tions. The miner who touched
off the powder charge was found
burned to death. The mine was
reported only slightly damaged.
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