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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.
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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.
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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.
Salem (U.R) A hearing on
the community college bill will
be held in the State Capitol here
at 7:30 p.m. next Monday.
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