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o O EIGHT MrDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rridiy, Mirch I. 1937 Schrunk Offers To Take Lie Detector lesi; busman mimics in dimuar lest Washington (UP) Mayor Terry D. Schrunk of Portland denied today that he took a $500 bribe from a gambler and offer ed to take a lie detector test to prove it. The 4.1-year-old former sheriff of Multnomah county, where Portland is located, told the Sen ate Rackets Committee he was not ''stupid enouch" to accept a bribe in the presence of three witnesses. Two policemen and a bartend er have testified that they saw Schrunk pick up an envelope gambler Clifford O. (Jimmy) Davis deposited behind a tele phone pole outside a nizht club Schrunk threatened to close down. Schrunk, sheriff at the time. said he had called city police to the scene to pick up a bicycle he had found. P4 Z'& ' 1 J f i VICTIM The body of Vic toria ZielinsU, 15, of Ram sey, N. J. (shown in skating costume) was found by her parents in a lover's lane area near Mahwah, N. J. She had been savagely J)eaten. The school girl dis appeared after leaving a girl friend's home late at night. Her parents searched for her all night Ion f. 'Iff fantastic that I would have called city police officers to watch me take a bribe." Schrunk said. "I don't know how silly you can be." Flunks Lit Detector Schrunk said he is willing to take a lie detector test from the FBI or the ' Secret Service to back up his denial. He testified after Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) read a letter from Secret Service Chief U. E. Baughman which said that an earlier witness natty Nathan busman, proprie tor of a Portland night club showed signs of "untruthful ness," in a similar test. Zusman had flatly denied tes timony by a bawdy house mad am that he encouraged her to open up for business and then shared in the profits. He sat poker-faced in the hear ing room as McClellan read Baughman's report on tests which Zusman had said would prove the madam was lying. McClellan has sent the con flictine testimony of Zusman and the madam, Helen (Big Helen) Hardy, to the Justice Depart ment for possible prosecution for perjury. Mundt Suggests Test After Schrunk's flat denial of the bribery charge, Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) suggested that the mayor follow Zusman's lead and submit himself to a lie de tector test. Schrunk volunteered to take one and McClellan announced that the Secret Service would administer it. Schrunk described the $500 bribe charge as a "fantastic frame." James B. Elkins. self-confessed Portland racketeer, gambler and bootlegger, testified earlier that Bennett, his partner in the 8212 Club in Portland, told him WHO IS "FISHING?' Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) Clyde Ashby, 31-year-old trailer sales man, was acquitted Thursday of charges that he fished without a license on nearby Lake Mead after a friend verified his fish story. The friend-told Justice of the Peace Art Olsen that Ashby was merely trying to "fish out" a fishing rod which had been lost in the lake. Automobile industry of the U.S. consumes 19 million tons of steel a year or about 23 per cent of the total supply, pro duced in this country annually. &-,-.A LU Urr last day - tomorrow I " V'Once-o-year event" t ' "'i ' A i v. :i ; s i" iircher I 1 he paid Sheriff Schrunk S300 on I cite him for contempt of Con- Sept. 11. 1955. Elkins said Ben nett told him he handed over the money to ward off a raid and keep his customers from be ing arrested as they left his illegal after-hours drinking and gambling club. Questions Refused Bennett refused to answer any questions about the inci dent. All he would tell the com mittee was that he now lives in Great Falls, Mont. The com mittee immediately moved to gress. The committee refused to let Schrunk put in the record an affidavit from Bennett because the latter refused to be cross examined. The mayor later showed the affidavit to news men. In it, Bennett declared he would testify that Schrunk "has never asked for money or any thing else and at no time ever made any promises that I could have protection to do anything illegally . . ." Legislature Briefs Salem (U.R) Five more House bills, all providing for the finan cial operations of board and commissions, have been signed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. State agencies in the group included the Board of Account ancy, Capitol Planning Commis sion, State Board of Cosmetic Therapy Examiners, Stale Board ot Engineering Examiners and the Oregon State Board of Optometry. Agriculture Department agron omists gained more efficient for age production and increased re turns per acre by applying nitro gen as ammonium nitrate to range grasses in North Dakota. Salem (U.R) The Senate vot ed to create a pioneering in terim committee to study any problems that might arise be tween sessions despite some ob jections that its powers might be too broad. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Legislature has taken final action on Senate joint memorial 2, urging Congress to deepen and widen the Columbia river chan nel from the river mouth to Portland. Vote in the House was unani mous on the measure. Salem U.B The House agri culture committee discussed House bills 411 and 412 which re-write provisions of the state'! fencing laws and provide that no money can be collected for damages caused by livestock on another's land unless the person can prove his land was fenced. Salem (U.R) Special con trolled hunts for deer and elk which are damaging agricultural crops would be set up under ! terms of House bill 366 which passed the House with little opposition. The bill now goes to the Senate. 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