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.
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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.
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Unrip and Rnt Pais
. KALAMAZOO. Mich (UP) Strange
friendship has sprung up here be
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Refusing to eat from a large oat bin,
the white rat insists , on Joining
Denny, the horse, In the feedbox
when meal time comes. The horse
doesn't object.
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