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ATET)FOT?'P TATL TTCTBTXNT:, TrET)FOTtn. OEGO, TTIDXT. 'AUCTjST 19, 1938. PAOF FIVE SENTENCE PASTOR TO LIFE T OF 51 -Year-Old Father of Two Confesses Crime 'Devil Overcame Me' Is Impas slve Explanation of Deed MANDAN. K. Aug. 10. (API Rev. Heio Janssen. evangelical Luth eran pastor at Krem. began a- life prison sentence today a few hours atter pleading guilty to. poisoning his 16-year-old housemaid and firing the parsonage containing her body. The minister, 81. admitted he killed Alma Kruckenberg because she was pregnant. District Judge H. L. Berry sentenced Janssen at a special court session shortly after midnight. He was taken Immediately to the state penitentiary. The arraignment came after Jans sen signed a confession before State's Atty. Floyd Sperry of Mercer county admitting he perpetrated the crime Monday and burned h Is ten room house that night. "The devil overcame me." the pas tor said Impassively. "I did wrong. I have a very good "Christian wife and two boys any father would be proud of and I feel only too sorry I bring such grief to th.em." Miss Kruckenburg was one of ten children in the family of and Mrs. John Kruckenburg, farmers near Krem which is located 60 miles north of Mandan. She had been employed at the parsonage since last January. Sperry and Special Asst. Atty. Gen eral James Austin began questioning Janssen Tuesday morning. During two days of incessant Interrogation, Sperry said, the minister denied any connection with the fire and burned body found In the ruins. Thursday evening the parents of the murdered girl confronted Rev. Women In Shorts Village Problem; Psychology Used MONTICELLO. N. Y., Aug. 10. (UP) Feminine psychology was tailed upon today to save this vU . age from the horrors of women wearing short on the public streets. Mayor Luis De Hoyos issued this proclamation : "Only old women, mothers, and ladles of mature age whose discre tion has ripened with the years will be permitted to wear shorts on Broadway.' Mayor De Hoyos aaid he did not anticipate many arrests. "If I know anything about wo men, it won't ever come to that," he said. KILLED BY BLOW Jatusen and pleaded that he "tell the truth." The confession followed. Feeling ran so high In the commu nity that trial was ordered Immediately. YOUTH ARRESTED ON CONTRIBUTING CHARGE Louis Pool, 30. of Medford, charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl In a complaint signed this morning by her parents, was arrested this afternoon at Roseburg by state polios and will be returned here for arraignment, probably to morrow. Pool, according to the complaint, and the girl, 13 years old, left Med ford last night bound for the nor thern part of the state. The girl's parents signed the complaint and a warrant for Pool's arrest was Issued from Justice court. (Continued from- Page One.) Pioneer Dies TILLAMOOK, Aug. 19. (AP) Mrs. Margaret Frances Jennings, 84-year-old Tillamook county pioneer, died at her home on the KUchls river northeast of Tillamook city this week. Mrs. Jennings was born in Nashville, Tenn., In 1843. She crossed the plaltn with her parents in 1860 and came to East Portland. Farmers' cooperative associations report the addition of more than a half million members in the last 10 years. MURPHY'S MART "Where Ma Saves Pa's Money" Free delivery Main and Grape St. Phone 143 Prices Effective Sat, and Mon., August 20 and 22 Try Our Phone Service J Pancake Flour 49c FREE TWO Packages of ALBERT Corn Flakes with Every Two Dollar Order of Groceries! PINEAPPLE TIDBITS Dole, fancy IK 9 oz. cans . ..2 for I JELL POWDER Royal Club 1 fif All flavors, 3 pkgs I WW SARDINES 3asco. Packed 9 En in oil 6 cans fcww FLOUR Pillsbury's Best. For per fect baking results. 49 lb. bag $1.57 TOMATO SAUCE Add taste to any dish. 7 oz. cans. i O 3 for lUC HERSHEY'S COCOA For hot drinks and bak ing, i J-S lb. tins. 4 C 2 for.. I 3C Alber's No. 10 bag . A 50-cent Frying Pan FREE With Each Bag COFFEE Monarch 9Cf Your Choice....lb. GOG 3 lb. tin 75c BUTTER OQ. Grade A lb. C3C MILK Standby 9E 4 tall cans fcvU Ginger Ale, Lime Rickey, Canada Dry. 1 C 28-oz. bottle 1 OU From the point of Impact to where Waguer fell to the hard conct.te pavement was 183 feet, police said. He waa carried on the right fender and bumper of the car most of the distance, police explained, then thrown 18 feet, landing on his head. Police stated that, according to witnesses of the crash, the bicycle rider was entirely In the right, that he was on his own side of the street and had crossed the center of the intersection when the car struck him. The bicycle was completely de molished, while the automobile re ceived a caved-ln right front fender and headlight and a broken wind shield. Wagner was an x-ray technician by profession and had been em ployed In Ashland Community hos pital for the past 10 rtavs In that capacity. With his family, ho come to southern Oregon about one year ago, and the Ashland hospital posi tion was the first work he had been i able to obtain In that time. Immediately following the acci dent the two boys in the machine picked Wagner up and rushed him to the hospital. Every possible at tempt was made to save his life, but the extent of his Injuries was so great that there was no possible hope. Funeral services will be held from the Perl chapel In Medford Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Elder Adolph Johnson officiating. Burial will be In a Medford cemetery, to be named later. Edward B. Wagner was born at Bowdle, S. D., May 34. 1903. He Is survived by his wife, Mary Esther; three children, Orvln, Delmer and Elaine, all at home; and by throe brothera Theodore of North Da kota. Arthur of Montana and Ben jamin of California. GOLD II. VET IS GRANTS PASS. Aug. 10. fP Only I two veterans of the Civil war, but neither of them feeble, were present here yesterday when the Southern Ore- j gon Soldiers aud Sailors association j held Its annual reunion. j Sirenus Vroman. 01, of Gold Hill j was elected colonel-commander, and J. C. Woods, 00, major commander. Other officers were chosen from or ganizations affiliated with the O.AR.: Mrs. Madge Dorman, Gold Hill, lieu tenant-commander; Dr. H. S. Relch ard, Grants Pass, chaplain; and E. A. Pelletier, Gold Hill, adjutant. Gold Hill will be host to next year'a reunion. TREACHEROUS CHIWAWA CLIMBED BY MAZAMAS PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 19. (AP) Treacherous Chiwawa mountain, the great, glacier-torn peak that folds around two sides of Lyman glacier, has been climbed for the third time In recent years. A party of 13 Mazama club mem bers ascended the peak, which is located near Wenatchee. Wash., on Tuesday, friends here were advised today. The climb took 11 hours ami the mountaineers said they found a region more heavily glaciated than in any other part of the United States. Railroads Would Retain Coal Rate WASHINGTON. Aug. 19. (AP) The Association of American Rail roads asked the interstate commerce commission today . to continue in effect freight rate Increases on bitu mlnuous coal which were granted Oct. 19. 1937. The rates win terminate Decem ber 31 unless the request Is granted. The A. A. R.'s statement to re porters explained no new Increases were contemplated in the petition. Blaze Threatens , Old Eureka Hotel FTJREKA, Calif., Aug. 19. (AP) Fire department officials sought the cause of a fire which swept through a cafe, mission, two vacant stores and threatened the old-time hotol Metro pole early today. As firemen fought the flames, 40 to 50 guests of the hotel fled to the street. Department officials said they would not estimate the damage untl! after their investigation. To Carriers' Convention SALEM. Aug. 19. (AP) Lyman McDonald. Salem, president of the Oregon Rural Letter Carriers' asso ciation, will leave tonight to attend the rural carriers' national conven tion In Washington, D. C, next week. The Oregon carriers have Invited the national convention to meet In Port land next year. A Burma n. aged 110, has had alx wives but was never hen-pecked, he claims, and the simple life ts the long one. Roosevelt Will Take a Look At Neighbor Heaven HYDE PARK. N. T.. Aug. 10. (ff) President Roosevelt Is going out on hit front lawn and tako a look at Father Divine's new "heaven" across the Hudson river. Asked at a press confirmee what he thought about establish ment of the negro religious re sort. Mr. Roosevelt replied he would take a look. The new "heaven" waa sold to Father Divine In July by Huwland Spencer, an opponent of Mr. Roosevelt's policies. TELL-TALE TRAITS IS F SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 19. !P A wandering freight car of "hot" cargo was shunted to a hardware ware house here today, thus spreading the employer-warehousemen 's d Ispute to a third Industry, Twenty-nine San Francisco and Oakland public warehouse and gro cery firms wre lnvolvpd previously. More than 1 .000 warehousemen were involved In the dispute over handling the freight, consisting of children's school supplies. Operators of the Baker Hamilton and Pacific warehouse said the BO men refused to handle the cargo and would be paid off immediately. Union warehousemen, assorting the car contains cargo loaded by "strike breakers," have refused to unload It Employers, contending the ware housemen must unload the car or be guilty of violating their working con tract, have shunted it from warehouse to warehouse, closing each establish ment where men refused to handle the cargo until 29 plants have been closed. McMI N N V ItiLE. Aug. 19. (AP) Fred Erl'kson, 85, a brakeman for a logging company, was killed today near Cedar Creek, about 10 miles west of Carlton, when he slipped and fell beneath a train. , v Conlrts Buy Bus JEFFERSON Q1TY, Mo. (UP) Prisoners at the Missouri penitentiary have bought and reconditioned a second-hand bus to carry their ball teams to "outside" games throughout rural Missouri, OAKLAND, Calif.. Aug. 19. (AP) The way to tell a communist. Ed ward Vandeleur told the national labor relations board. Is by his mis trustful attitude and hls "guilty looks" And "communist I cally In clined" persons, In the belief of the secretary of the AFL state federation of labor, are "weak minded." Vandeleur disclosed his personal system for Identifying radkals dur ing cross-examt nation yesterday st a NXRB hearing into CIO charges ol Wngner net violation by lfl northern California canneries. The CIO claim ed the AFL schemed with cannery operators to break up CIO cannery workers' unions. After his day on the witness' stand, Vandeleur issued a statement de manding California congressional rep resentatives investigate practices of the 39th regional office of the NLRB. which Is conducing the hearing. The hearing now Is In Its fourth month. Vandeleur asserted the hitrlng was a waste of public fund. Trial Ex aminer Charles A. Wood and board attorneys were showing favoritism to communists, and the hearing was a ";mvftv on Justice." GRANTsTPASS TO VOTE ON BRIDGE BOND ISSUE GRANTS PASS. Aug. 10. (tf) Grants Pass residents will be askd to vote on a $40 000 bond Itsue foi construction of concreto bridges In the city and to provide drainage frr the northern part of town floodrc; last winter by a record downpovr The city council ordered application to be made to federal acnclea a the eame time, when It met last night. The bond issue would bo predicated on an application fur a PWA grant, and on county and WPA aid on drain YAMHILL COMMITTEE AGAINST COURTHOUSE McMINNVILLE. Aug. 19. (AP) A committee of business men informed county officials today that they were withdrawing their support of a pro ject for a new 1300.000 courthouse ond thuy asked the county court to cancel an application made two days ago to the PWA. Dr. H. L, Toney, head of the com mittee, said the request was based upon opposition to the project from other communities In the county and also because the business men con eluded that the financial condition of the county would not permit ex pendlture of $133,000, the county 'a share, without a bond election. Captain Cake Baker DALLAS, Tex. (UP) Capt. Millard Gardner of the Highland Park polios department, la an expert cake mixer and baker. He frequently treats other members of the force to cuts of his pound cake, for which he Is famed among his friends. SO. OREGON EAGLES WILL PICNIC IN GRANTS PASS GRANTS PASS, Aug. 10. (API Grants Pass Eagles will be hosts Sun day to a city park picnic with mem bers of Medford. Ashland and Rose burg aeries as hosts. W1M animals In Alaska are valued at $03,000,000. Unrip and Rnt Pais . KALAMAZOO. Mich (UP) Strange friendship has sprung up here be tween a black horse and a white rat. 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