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WWTS IMP r Omura, on Kyushu, Raided 3rd T'ne, Nagasaki Also Pounded; Typhoon Slows Leyte Battle (By the Associated Press) ' s?.. Superforts bombed the heart of Japan's aircraft (ji today in the wake of a sea-borne air raid on Manila tha-. out 118 Nipponese planes and useless fleet of 100 bomb-wrecked craft that litter the pines harbor. The War department announced "a large task force aircraft attacked industries on pon s home islands. Tokyo radio said their targets were Omura, big aircraft center twice previously hit, and Nagaskai, west coast port city, Japanese propagandist claimed between 14 and 25 Superforts were shot down in an hour-long air battle fought above low. hanging clouds. They said the giant bombers came from south west China bases, now threatened by Japanese armies which have driven the 14th U. S. air force from all of its fields In east China. . 1 , . In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS RETAILED progress reports from the great battle to crash Germany's western gates before winter closes down are still lack ing, but what news we get Is encouraging. For ones, thing, the first clear, blue skies in a week are reported from the battle front, and our air force Is out In STRENGTH. OUR U. S. 1st and 9th armies, fighting a battle of "utmost Intensity," attacking In waves as many as 42 times in a single sec tor, are reported to have smash ed to within 25 miles of the Rhine (roughly halfway from Aachen to Cologne). They are meeting every ob stacle the Germans know how to devise earthworks, trenches, tank traps, VAST minefields, etc. PATTON Is making progress at Melz. , His GIs, crossing the Moselle BRIDGE (not yet destroyed, you Bee), are filtering into the city from the north. Others are re ported oozing In from the south. (Continued on page 2) Meeting of Biq 3 Not Likely Before Next Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) Plans for an earlv meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin appear to have hit a snag. De spite hones freelv expressed here and In London, the best prosoect now is for a parlev earlv in 1945. The whole schedule of postwar conferences and world peace or ganization evideritlv is having to be revised in consequence. Exactly what has happened to the prolected big-three meeting before the end of this year Is not certain. But presumably the way in which the European war is having to be fought full-scale in to the winter and the probability now that it will last into next spring has had a lot to do with it. Lowering of Voting Age In Oregon Requested PORTLAND, Nov. 21, (AP) A resolution asking the state leg islature to lower the Oregon vot ing age from 21 to 18 years was passed by the Oregon democratic clubs meeting here last night- "When men are taken into the army to take up arms they should be allowed to vote for the persons directing the affairs of the coun try for which they are fighting," said Mrs. Maude B. Thomas. Os wego, who introduced the resolu tion. Special Election on 3 Issues Dated at Salem SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21. (AP) The city council last night or dered a special election for Feb. 9, 1945, to let the voters of Salem reclde three controversial issues. The issues are whether the city shall pay $175,000 for 43-acre Bush pasture to be used for a city park; whether the Salem Electric cooperative shall be granted a franchise; and whether the city's boundaries should be extended. Colorful Parade Boosting War Bond Sales Campaign Will Precede Shrine Ceremonial in Roseburg Saturday A colorful parade Is scheduled In Roseburg from 7 to 8 o'clock Saturday night, when Hillah Shrine temple Joins with the Douglas county committee in charge of War Bond sales in promoting the event. The parade, led by the Shrine band, will Include officers and members of the order and the 50 or more candidates expected to be present for Initiatory work, which will be a part of the cere monial being conducted at the armory following the public ex hibition. The parade will form at the armory, which has been secured for the fall ceremonial being con ducted by the Shrine, and will march to the Umpqua hotel, where the patrol team will, pre sent an exhibition drill. Elbert Lenox, illustrious poten tate, will purchase a bond on be added three more ship Kyushu, southernmost of Nip . On previous B-29 raids against Kyushu, the big aircraft center Of Omura was the primary tar get. On Oct. 25 Omura was hit hard and then on Nov. 11 the B-29s returned In a mission to destroy all the center's structures still left standintr. Kyushu is the most southern of the Japanese homeland Islands. China Slashed In Half The Chinese high command acknowledged that, units of the 250,000 Japanese troops in south east China effected a junction, thereby cutting the nation In half and preventing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Inland armies from joining a potential Ameri can Invasion force. U. S. carrier planes attacking Manila Sunday (Philippines time) found the harbor turned into a shipping gravevard. Like tombstones, 100 half-sunken dere licts testified to the effectiveness of nrevious U. S. attacks. The attackers Tokvo said there were 300 of them were al most unopposed. They wrecked 100 Nipponese aircraft on the ground. Counter Blows Reported Japanese planes did attack U. S. Sixth army troops on Levte island and struck back at Vice Adm. J. S. McCain's carrier task force. Seven Jaoanese were shot down over Levte and eieht over the fleet, without inflicting any announced damace. The navy announced the recent loss of ten craft, ranginc from a destroyer down to four PT boats. American air raiders bombed a destroyer at Borneo's Brunei naval base, and set fire to six small enemy freighters in sorties ranging frpm the northern Kurile (Continued on paere 6) Park Ordinance Changed; Alleyway Paving is Planned The Rosebure park commission ordinance was amended last night at the regular mid-monthly meet ing of the city council to provide the final form of commission membership and outlining details of operation. The ordinance changes membership from seven to five members, who will direct parks, playgrounds and recrea tional activities. The principal ef fect of the amendment will be to authorize acceptance by the city of any gifts, contributions, be quests, etc., either in money or land. The council adopted a resolu tion authorizing the city engineer to prepare plans and specifica tions for paving the alleyway from Lane to Mosher street in the Rose hotel block, where plans are being considered for an addition to the hotel and construction of a stage terminal. The council, act ing upon a petition recently filed bv property owners, ordered plans prepared on a basis of con crete pavement without curbs and with center drainage. Renewal of beer licenses was aDproved for Henninger's Marts, The Spot, Sandy's Place, Mono gram Cigar Store, Umpqua hotel and Elks club. . Two New Polio Cases Reported at Portland PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (AP) Two new civilian infantile paraly sis cases In the same family and one at the naval barracks here were recorded today by Dr. Thomas L. Meador, city health of ficer. Nine cases have been listed at the barracks this month, four of them fatal. half of Hillah temple from the Roseburg Minute Maids, who will be prepared to sell war stamps and bonds to spectators. Several truckloads of equip ment to be used In connection with the degree work at the armory already have arrived In Roseburg and the building is be ing made ready to entertain hun dreds of members expected to gather from Lane, Coos, Jose phine and Douglas counties. Established 1873 l3Xirench Sb&txer Nazis' ' Lime W Vosges of Nip- V 4oerman Oil Centers Given Air Bombing LONDON, Nov. 21. (AP) A record fleet of more than 1.100 fighter bombers destroyed at least ' 52 German planes today while the 1,250 heavy bombers they were escorting plunged 4, 000 tons of explosives onto three zealously guarded synthetic oil plants- . V Lancaster bombers of the RAF during the afternoon smashed a synthetic oil plant at Homberg In the Ruhr. ,20 miles southwest of Kassel. Spitfires and Mustangs Hew as escorts. . First reports of the American attacks showed 21 hazte felled by a single eighth air force unit, and this prompted a spokesman to comment: "Something big happened over there." Clouds were scattered over the targets and at Hamburg and nearby , Warburg the. flak was "very Intense." Ground fire was reported moderate at Merseburg. Score may Increase. An eighth air force spokesman said the score of the swirling bat tles over Hamburg, Harburg and . (Continued on page 6) Price Reductions Planned by OPA WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (AP) Action to reverse recent price rises described as small but disturbing, is expected shortly. designed as an assurance to work ers that Jiving costs will not.out- run pay scales. ' ,l Climaxine a series of adminis tration moves all pointing to a decision to hold on to the prin ciple of the "little steel" wage for mula until after V-E day, the OPA prepared to take specific steps to hold the price line. . trice . administrator Bowies called a conference after Sun day's statement by Economic Stabilization Director Vinson that ."disturbing" advances in costs of living, especially In tex tiles and clothing, "must stop." Observers believed Bowles, was ready to: . First, tighten controls over fabrics and wearing apparel, the items singled out by Vinson as inflated; and Second, announce more rigid standards for ruling on requests for "extraordlnary'r " price in creases not provided for in the price conrtol act and otner laws. Father With His Stolen Daughter Is Sought PORTLAND, Nov- 21. TAP) Authorities still were searching today for Marshall Crowell, 52, charged in a felony warrant sworn out by his divorced wife with stealing their 41-year-old daughter. Mary Amelia. The child. Mrs. Delia Evans told police, was taken from her nome i-naay, tne same aay a Portland auto court manager said Crowell registered without the girl. Sgt. Virgil Weckert of the sheriff's office said that Crowell showed him an old court order eiving him custody of the child. Th district attorney's office, how ever, said that Mrs. Evans had permanent custody and that Crowell's order was apparently temporary. Slayer Asks Snell to Commute Death Penalty SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP) Plchard Harry Layton. 39, former Monmouth noliee officer sentenc ed to die Dec. 8. has annealed to Governor Snell for commutation of his sentence to life imnrison ment, the governor said todav. The governor did "o indicate what action he would take, al though It has been his policy not to commute sentences unless a miscarriage of iustice Is proved. Lavton was convicted in Polk countv circuit court of the ran laving of Ruth Hildebrand. 17, Dallas, and he was sentenced to die in the prison's gas chamber. Oregon's Unemployment Fund Totals $61 Million SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP) The state unemployment com pensation commission reported todav that lt reserve fund now totals Sfil nnonno, comnared with onlv S1 6 000.000 when the United States went to war. The commission said thp legis lature must determine whether the fund is large enough to deal with unemployment which might XoUow. the war. Clever Motto Sparks . War Bond Campaign of Nazareth College Girls KALAMAZOO, Mich., Nov. 2i (AP) Nazareth college students are conducting their Sixth War loan drive with the mottos "Dip in your pocket for the boy In your locket." Nazareth college is a Catholic school for girls... -. :? WICHITA FALLS, Texv, No 21 (AP) W. T. Knight told sot. dlers in a war , bond rally auoH ence he would buy a $25 war-Dbhd for each G. I. who would buy pne for himself. He had 68 takers. Cost of the gifts to Knight: $1,275 In war bonds. , . , - . . , 100,000MoreWar Workers Needed CHICAGO, Nov. 21.--(AP) The CIO convention today was urged by Lt. Gen. Somervell, army supply chief, to help recruit another 100,000 workers for war plants to turn out the fighting tools needed In Europe and the Pacific. , ... "We must have these workers at once," said the general In an address to the delegates who yes terday cheered their president, Philip Murray,- after he urged a revision of the little steel formula limiting wages and said "we have no quarrel with business." Somervell told the convention that production in some items is 40 per cent behind, adding, "It all boils down to this: we are calling on American productive power for a supreme effort to meet a supreme :' crisis. The doughboy has fought his way ahead of schedule and we have to catch up with him." Thanksgiving Day to Be Observed in Roseburg Thursday, Thanksgiving day, will be observed as a general holi day in Roseburg. All retail stores will be closed together with pub ic of f ices, '' bank . and postoffice, the latter observing the usual holiday procedure. No edition of the News-Review will be publish ed Thursday. ..-'' Thanksgiving church services will include a union service at the First ' Christian church at 7:30 p. m- Wednesday; Lutheran church 10 a. m. Thursday, Holy Communion, St. George's Episco pal church 9:30 a. m. Wednesday and 9:30 a. m- Thursday; Chris tian Science church 11 a. m. Thursday. Statement on Oregon Logging Mishaps Nailed SALEM, Ore., Nov. 21. (AP) State Industrial Accident Com missioner Dunne termed "un true" today a statement made in Portland yesterday bv Roland P. Blake, Washington, D. C, senior safety engineer for the U. S. Department of Labor, that Ore gon had 60,000 logging accidents in 1943. Dunne said Oregon actually had only 4300 logging accidents, and there were onlv 56,000 acci dents In all industries. Woman Dies of Wound Received in Gun Fight ASTORIA, Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP) Mrs. Florence Paulsen, wound ed at Warrenton Saturday nieht in a gun squabble that left Jess Dilleshaw shot in the foot, died last night. Police said he and Mrs. Esther Goodrich were visiting Mrs. Paul sen when a dispute arose. No charges have been filed. Teacher Lack Closes School of 21 Pupils OREGON ' CITY, Nov. 21. (AP) Fir Grove school was emotv today, closed by the teach er shortage. Officials could not find a suc cessor to Miss Masreie Hampton, ''ho resigned because of Illness. Thp 21 oupil mav be transported to Oregon Citv for school. Weber's Bakery, C. of C. Reach War Bond Goals Sixth War Lion camoalen head- nuarters was advised todav bv Weber's bakery that the payroll deduction goal for that firm has been achieved. Erich emnlovee Is htiving an extra $100 bond. In ad dition to the repular deductions. The Rosebure chamber of com merce staff also is in the 100 per cent list. Bmbr Crh Kills 4 BOISE. Ida.. Nov. 21 (API- Four men were killed last nlfiht In the crash of a B-24 bomber from Gowen army air field and Col. John R. Kane said today iden tification is not yet complete ( ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1 , 1 944. Flood Control Bill Beset By Controversy I WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) -Plans for quick passage of a billion dollar flood control bill ran today Into an argument over the St. Lawrence seaway recom- T ended by President Roosevelt. Insiead of acting on the bill in a matter of hours preliminary to taking up a $500,000,000 rivers and harbors authorization, the senate faced the prospect of a controversy that might run into next week. The plans were snagged when Senator, Aiken tR.-Vt.) insisted on presenting his amendment au thorizing the seaway. Even as the senate moved toward debate, Aik en kept his colleagues in doubt as to whether he would offer his amendment for the flood bill or the rivers and harbors measure. ;: Should Aiken hold his amend ment for the latter bill, the St. Lawrence controversy would .be removed from the flood control measure, but there would still re main arguments over states' rights, hydroelectric power devel opment, and irrigation as' well as several big projects. ; , -Huqe Program Offered . The house-approved bills call for postwar construction of flood (Continued on page 6) McElligott Nominated For Land Office Post President Roosevelt today nom inated Richard McElligott to be register of the U. S. Land office at Roseburg, according to word cWved from-Washington: Mr.: Mc Elligott already has assumed the duties on temporary oasis pend ing action on the appointment. He came to Roseburg from Grants Pass. '. ') 1 Trains Collide on Bridge, Nobody Seriously Hurt : MEMPHIS, Nov. 21 (API Two outbound' passenger trains collided today on the Harahan bridge which spans the Mississip pi river but none of the passen gers was injured seriously and damage to the trains was slight. Durrazo Seaport Freed By Albanian Partisans ' NEW YORK. Nov. 21 (API- Albanian partisans who earlier liberated their country's capital of Tirana have taken the seaport of Durazzo 20 miles to the' west, the Free Yueoslav teleuraph ser vice said in a dispatch today. . . Chancellor of K. of P. To Visit Roseburg Lodge Penn C. Crum. grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Ore- gon, will pay his otticial visit to Aloha lodue. No. 47, Roseburg. at the K. of P. hall tonight. The Pvthian Sisters, Temple No. vd. will furnish a turkey dinner for the occasion. . Committee for Senator Cordon Spends $23,623 RAT.TTM. Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP) The Cordon for U. S. senator committee reported to the state deDartment today that It spent $23,623, while two committees working for election of Wayne L. Morse to the senate spent $24,-082. Modern Romeo, With One Legal Wife, Three Other Consorts, Plus Several Children, Lands in Jail in Montana GREAT FALLS, Mont. Nov. 21. (AP) Lester Logan Martin, 34-year-old mechanic and truck driver of Great Falls, today was lodged In the county Jail pending unraveling of a Casanova trail across three states and Alaska which brought him one legal wife and entaglement with three other women living as his wives. Sheriff John Bradley of Fort Benton, Mont., arrested Logan on charges of "living in open and notorious adultery" and gave this version: Martin Is reportedly legally married to Beona Martin, for merly of Whltehorse. Yi T., and Is the father of their nine-year-old son. She is again an expectant mother. Bradley said questioning had disclosed that Martin declared he was the father of three other children, born out of wedlock to two women, and the expectant father of another child to an un wed mother. Four years ago, Bradley quoted Martin, the. mechanic met a woman In Bremerton, ' Wash., to whom two children were born eut ol wedlock. "I Want More Supplies Than We are Getting," Gen. Eisenhower Advises; Sees no Sign Yet of German Crackup By EDWARD KENNEDY ' SUPREME . HEADQUARTERS. ALLIED j EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Nov. 21. (AP) Gen. Elsenhower declared today his plan for future operations is to increase pressure steadily all along the western front until the Germans are crushed. - To do this, greater supplies are necessary,, the supreme com mander of the western front said. "I want more supplies than we are getting and I think the sol dier wants more than he is get ting, both now and in the future," he said. "To get peace, we have got to fight like hell for it," the com mander said, "now let's do it." The general told correspond ents that his plans were to hit and hammer, the Germans with Increasing pressure, reaching Its peak on the day the nazls finally surrender.) "Unless evorvone all the way through the nations those at the front and those at home keen on the Job everlastingly and with mounting intensity, we are only postponing the day of victory, Eisenhower declared. "The very maximum effort must be made on the day of sur render." . No Prediction On End ' : Elsenhower declined to make any prediction as to when the war would end and said his call for an all-out effort both at the front and at home was his "pre scription for victory." . He said the weather had pre vented a full effort in the air in the current offensive but added: "One thing that continues to grow to my Intense satisfaction is the teamwork between the ground forces, navies and olr forces." He gala that while ha saw no (Continued on page BV Wine Retailers Seek . Removal of Legal Snag PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2t (AP) Oregon wine retailers may be prevented by a federal law from selling their stocks of des sert wines to wholesalers lor re sale to the Oregon liqoor control commission. , Retailers, under their federal tax stamp, are limited to the sale of no more than five gallons at a time. Dealers here have enter ed a plea at Washington for re laxation of the regulation in or der . to clear . their shelves of fortified wines before the Burke bill takes effect December 7. The bill limits sale of that type of wine to state liquor stores. . Cabinet Level Post Given Donald Nelson WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) Donald M. Nelson has been des ignated "personal representative" of President Roosevelt, with rank at the cabinet level, and will oc cupy offices in the White House. The appointment was confirm ed shortly before Nelson, former WPB chairman. left this country on his second mission to Chung king to create a Chinese war pro duction board, It was ascertained today. Alaska Senator Dies; Special Election Set JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 21 (AP) Alaska will hold a special election snortiy to select a suc cessor to territorial Senator A. P. Walker, whose death Sunday in the naval hospital at Shoemaker, Calif., was announced here last night. Two years ago, Martin pursued a courtship with a student nurse from North Dakota, to which as sociation a child was reportedly born five months ago. The couple lived recently In Fort Benton More recently, he declared he associated Intimately with a woman formerly of Bremerton, but now of Great Falls. She is reported an expectant mother. Bradley said he was told, de spite the maze of extra-martial affairs, Martin's leal wife was unaware of any entaglcments. Martin also asrerted none of the three other women knew there was anvone eke Involved. The sheriff said Martin wag be ing held also for the FBI for questioning on violation of the wann act. ' j Broin" J - ' V i ,' ConcuMion f vfcjajf SJ nftammahonl... & t.. ...fij- I Throat k ft jnmmrf p. . a.;-:. Damaged EX; VorolCtfrdtr; Ku 2 Mm Coronary. iTfiromboiis OH, DOCTOR! If rumors are true, Adolf Hitler suffers from all the ailments shown In the above picture of Dor Fuehrer. Your guess U at good as ours n. . L j?.- i.t Cigarette Sales Halt in England LONDON, Nov. 21 (AP) The halting of cigarette sales at all U. S, army post exchanges In Eng land except at air force combat stations led the army newspaper Stars and Stripes today to de mand an answor from Washing ton "to the question which is in the mind of every GI smoker where are tne cigarettes.' ' The armv said a critical short age and priorities for combat forces on the continent caused the ban on sales, Hospital patients and combat personnel will still be able to smoke their favorite brands from. the states. British cigarettes cost about 50 cents for a package of 20. British Tommies are rationed 45 English cigarettes A week. In Paris supreme headquarters promised a report on the ciga rette situation in the French cap ital and many other rear areas, where U. S. soldiers were also told they could get no cigarettes. American cigarettes were sell ing on the Parts black market at $4 per package. (The Tokvo radio. In a broad cast, said it was virtually impos sible to find a package or popular-brand cigarettes anywhere in the United States, and cited this as an indication that collapse on the U. S. home front was near.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 (AP) From the Pentagon went this word of cheer today to GL's In London where cigaret sales have been halted at all but air force combat stations: It's only temporary. "Sufficient cigarets are going over," authorities here asserted. 'There is no question about that. What happens after they get there is another matter." Vandal Defaces Windows Of 3 Reedsport Stores : REEDSPORT Three plate glass windows In front of Reeds port mercantile establishments were wrecked Saturday night by a vandal deliberately using a plass cutter to deface the win dows. The windows damaged by the net of vandalism were at the Frank Tavlor hardware store, Dunn's Outfitting store and the W. M. Burdlrk drug store. Offi cers believe the work to have been done bv an adult rather than a Juvenile. 14 Days, 14 Votes ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. Nov. 21 f AP) Ifs 14 dvs since the Nov. 7 election and final returns show that Earl C. Borchers. democrat has defeated Lieut (.Iff) Lewis Wallace, republican. In their con test for the state legislature. The margin; 14 votes, . ! ' v. r I f", , - - 44-187 Yonks Capture Saorebourgm Drive to Rhine Foe Resists Bitterly In Effort to Stem Allied Push Toward Cologne (By the Associated Press) ,: The whole German position in the Vosges mountains of astern France was collapsing today as French armor drove Into the out skirts of the industrial city ot -Mulhouse and the U. S. Seventh army to its north captured Sarre bourg, 32 miles from the Rhine. ' swirtly exploiting tne eeuon breakthrough the French already may have entered Mulhouse, 16 miles above the Swiss frontier, in a rush undermining the Ger mans position for 100 miles to the north. Above them the Amer leans of both the Third and Sev enth armies were meeting weak ening rearguard resistance from Germans retreatiner toward tha Rhino. . . - DI44.. D..l.,.n.. Mf Allied armies shattering the nazl grip on eastern France pour ed men and guns into the upper Rhine valley through the Belfort Bun and to the north edged for ward against bitter resistance on the Cologne plain. ' British troops on the left flank: of the allied Invasion of Germany drove three and one-hall miles northeast of captured Geilenklr chen and almost to the Outskirts of Wurm. - ' South of the British drive tne Germans threw 20 to 50 tanks against U. S. Ninth army unita at Schlctden, seven miles south jeast of Gellenkirchen. The blow 'was -repulsed and the Americana advanced 1J miles northeasc, cap turing Aldenhoven, ' three , miles (Continued on page 6) U.S. Munitions Program Called Partly Critical WASHINGTON. Nov. 21-(AP)' Terming 28 per cent of the mu nitions program -cnticai," j. a. Krug today said General Eisen hower has notified Washington ' that his progress against Ger many will be paced by delivery ot arms. "The big push now on against the west wall Is entirely depend ent upon the flow of materials to those six armies," Krug, chair man of the war Production board, told tRe National Press club in an address. "Not long ago General Elsen hower laid It flat on the table," Krug said. "He earned us saying: 'You tell us what you can deliver and we'll tell you when the war will end.' "We have tried to tell him. He has used the information to plan nis attacK. n is up to us to malts good." This Is the "most critical Phase" of the war, Krug observed, with tne European drive coinciding with progress in the Pacific run ning several months ahead of schedule. It finds 60 per cent of the munitions program on sched ule or ahead, he said, the other 40 per cent lagging. Folkes Loses Composure On Failure of Appeal SALEM, Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP) Robert E. Lee Folkes, young ne iro cook under death sentence for the slaving of Mrs. Martha Virginia James, lost his compo sure vesterdav when Deputv Pris on Warden Halley told him the United States supreme court had refused to review his ease. ' Hallev said that until vester day, Folkes "made lots of wise cracks and walked around i his cell." confident he would be sav ed from the gas chamber. "But now he lust sits on his bed. He isn't Interested In wiso rracks and walking any more," Hallev added. Folkes' only hope Is for Gover nor Snell to commute his sen tence. Mrs. James was slain, her throat cut. on Jan. 23, 1943. while she was sleeping In her berth on a Southern Pacific train as it sned through T tnn enitntv. The omening erqy of Jirvtnlk shoplifting, in Portland uggtr that whil It may bo wis to "spore th rod," it may pro rtmedial to try a 4H flub, LvByFatnnt irkii ii
