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rEDFOT?D MATL TT?TBT"yK rETVFOKT). OKF.fi C)NT.' RTTNT.AT, TVF.CFNiBF.T? 11. PA OF THRFE AL CAPONE GETS OUT OF ALCATRAZ STEEL CARS SAVE the bedroom floor of their four room home. Blood spattered the bed and floor. She had been badly beaten about the head, and attend ants at the community hospital at Redwood City whole she was luken said her condition was critical. To Represent State PORTLAND, Dec. 10 fl; T. Mor ris Dunne, chairman of the Oregon unemployment commission, and Ralph H. Campbell of the attorney-general's office, will represent the state at the social security board's hearing In Washington December 10 as to whether Oregon's new labor law Is at odds with the national social security act. - Ilutterfat ITIce SACRAMENTO, Dec. 10 Churning cream butter fat: First grade. 3i,c; second grade. 32'ic. Plan Radical Chance SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 10. iVTi A startling suggestion that narcotics addicts be placed on rations, under medical supervision, and the Sta'e hospital at Spadra be scrapped as a useless expense Is under considera tion by California's Democratic Gov Final Kites PORTLAND, Dec, 10. (,Ti Funeral service for Lloyd Jones, United Air Lines co-pilot who lost his life when an airliner wjs forced to land in the sea off Point Reyes. Calif., Novem ber 29. was held here tnrinv u- -. Capitol Bids LOW PORTLAND, Dec. 10. (AP) The state capltol reconstruction commis sion accepted two bids which were 1.310 under the estimated cost when it purchased 126,781 in furnishings for the new Capltol Group Library building In Salem. Y Horse and mule talis Identical. IN ERIE PILE-UP " ernor-elect, Culbert L. Olson. one of five victims of the tragedy. i 1 f CHICAGO, Dec. 9. (AP) Al Oa pone is coming back next month but not to the Chicago he left In 1933 to aerva a ten-year federal prison term tor Income tax evasion. The scarfaced Capone, onetime un disputed fuehrer of Chicago's gang land empire, la scheduled to leave Alcatraz In San Francisco bay on January 10, 1939. There is, however, a year's sen tence In Cook county Jail before he will actually be a free man. Then? "He'll come out a law abiding citizen," aver his , attorneys. "He's taken his punishment like a man, hasn't he?" State's Attorney Thomas J. Court ney's staff decline comment on its In tentions but Courtney's men have been very busy the past several months axing up the bookie gambl lng houses controlled by "the syn dicate" and reputedly directed by some of Al's surviving associates on the "public enemy" lists of the city, The group has been little In the public eyes as Individuals of late and the gangland slayings which brought death to 701 men during the 12 years the hoodlums battled over lu crative bootleg, vice and gambling territories have sloughed off to n dozen tills year. Capone, now 41, was boss of a puted $ 100,000.000 rackets kingdom here before the federal government put the finger on him. When he re turns he will find the lush money days of the prohibition era have disappeared. The huge profit of llllct breweries beer once sold at 1 a bottle have faded into insignificance. The ex tensive rackets to which the law- abiding citizen paid unwilling tribute have largely been stamped out. Most of the former ganglord's cronies, trtggermen, and leading chiefs of staff will be missing, too. They have been largely decimated by bullets, natural death and the law. E CLAMS OF STATE E SEATTLE, Dec. 10 (&) The de fense opened an Intensive attack at an abbreviated court court session today on the state's efforts to prove James Eugene Bassett. 33. Annapolis, Mr., missing 10 years, was slain by Mary Eleanor Smith, 73, and Decasto , Earl Mayer. 44. Opening arguments In behalf of a motion lor a directed verdict of ac quittal, Milton He t man. Mayer's at torncy, said evidence necessary to provo death was insufficient when the state its case today. "A confession is not sufficient," he added. "The only evidence it'a true they have a confession (from Mrs. Smith) but the only evidence Is that two persons saw the defendants out on a highway on the day of the said killing with gunny sacks In their car. - "There might have been stains on the sacks, but there Is no proof there was a body In those sacks." Mrs. Smith's confeslon (obtained hortly before she completed a five to eight year sentence last spring for theft of Bassett's blue roadster) stated her son, Mayer, slew Bassett to gpt poseFsion of the automobile: dismembered the body, and she helped him secrete the remains in the woods north of town. Mayer Is serving a life sentence as an habitual criminal having three felony convictions on record against him. SHOW CONCLUDED ROEEBURCH Dec. 10. fAPl The largest turkey show in the country came to nn end here today as gnaw ers beiran removal of more than S00 live birds and 500 dressed exhibits displayed throughout the week. The 530 birds In the dressed divi sion were sold last nlRht to the Capi tol Danes of Salem at an unan nounced price, the proceeds being distributed union? the exhibitors. An experiment this year in divid ing the display of live birds Into two departments, standard and market rvpes. was declared successful by Manager E. CI. Voting. Standard bred birds are Juclced on the Amen can standard of perfection rules for show birds while market types are indeed on fitness for market mthcr t-.an for display. 5rhumker Honored VENTURA. Calif.. Dec. 10 UP H. L. Shumaker of Hood River. Ore., was e:eeted president of the Pacific Coast Associated Farmers to succed Col. Walter E. Oarrlson. Lodl. cailf Holmes Bishop. Orange. Calif., was f leeted secretary. Lumber output SEATTLE. Dec. 10 3 A total of :jl western Wasliln-rton and Oregon D3-.'.zia. fir mi:is reported new busi ness of 105.906.475 board feet mst vrek. an increase of more than 15' intlil-n feet over the prevloua seven d.iv period. DEFIANCE. O.. Dec. 10. (API In a Jumble of shattered glass and de railed oars 80 passengers and 30 crewmen emerged today from a train wreck near here without a serious In Jury. . The Chlcago-to-Pittsburgh Fort Pitt limited of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was derailed by the tender of Its seond of two locomo tives. Two oars overturned and six came to rest at a crazy angle in a muddy ditch. Only three persons required hos pital treatment. Physicians treated a score of others for minor injuries. Most of the 100 persons received a bad shaking up before the heavy, Jolting cars came to a stop. Michael Shaughnessy of Wlllard, O.. a retired railroader . whose wife was one of those hospitalized, term ed the wreck the "worst I've seen." and said only the steel construction of the coaches prevented fatalities. Physicians attributed the lack of serious injuries to the fact that most of the 50 pullman and 30 coach oc cupants were asleep and relaxed as the train left the track at 3:20 a m Pillows and bedding protected the passengers as the cars overturned and tilted. Passengers said there was no heavy shock. The derailment was traced to the tnder because the two locomotives remained on the rails, but what caused it was not determined 1m mediately. FIIRFKA YDIITH ?(1 UUIILI II I VU I Mi LU I MURDERS FATHER 10 BEAT MOTHER REDWOOD CITY. Cal., Dec. 10 ( AP) Deputy Sheriff Thomas P. Maloney said William Rcichert, 58. was shot and killed today by his son. Richard. 20, after the father had beaten the boy's mother in their home at North Pair Oaks, near Red wood City. 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