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Dairy Operation
Melrose Plan of
Chit wood Family
Distribution of milk In Rose
burg from the new Melrose Dairy,
located on the former Dr. E. B
Stewart farm, will bepin about
June, 2, it was announced today
by L. L. Chltwood, manager.
Reoresentlng a total invest
ment of nearly $12,000, the instal
lation of equipment and construc
tion of a processing plant is near
ing completion, Chitwood said.
The new dairy will distribute milk
from Chitwood's herd of 28 Jer
seys and Guernsevs and Dr. Stew-
art's 12 cows.
"Eventually we hope to build
up our herds to 75 to 100 cows
producing approximately 300 gal
ions of milk a day," he said. "Our
milk will contain 5 per cent but
terfat." The new Melrose Dairy will be
a family operation. Under Chit
wood as manager, will be his two
sons, in charge of the processing
plant, and Clarson, distribution
manager.
In addition all three cooperate
in the operation of the dairy
farm, from driving the cows to
pasture to pitching in the hay.
A feature of the farm not com
monly seen elsewhere,. is its over
head Irrigation system. Almost
305 gallons of water a minute
are pumped from the South Ump
qua River and sprayed by means
of a piping system over the rich
clover pastures.
Until now, the farm has sold
its milk through other outlets. As
soon as its concrete block build
ing is completed, and all new pas
teurizing and refrigeration equip
ment Is installed, it will retail its
milk through the Melrose Dairy.
All treatment of milk is com
pletely automatic ahd under sani
tary conditions. The dairy is in-
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THERE are intimations from
Washington ' that no' more.
money for spending abroad will
be provided by the present ses
sion of congress.
Well, we've provided a fairish
amount already. Congress has au
thorized $400,000,000 for aid to
Greece and Turkey and is putting
the finishing touches on a gen
eral foreign relief bill that will
run up to about 350 millions
more. That is a total of three
quarters of a billion.
Indications are that we won't
stop there, but three-quarters of
a billion dollars Is at least! a good
start.
THREE-QUARTERS of a BIL
LION dollars still sounds like
quite a lot of money. It is. But
this is a big country.
Roughly speaking, it costs $1
per person every time congress
appropriates $140,000,000. That is
based on the fact that we have
approximately 140 million peo
ple. If you are the bread-winner
for a family of four, every con
gressional appropriation of $140,
000,000 costs you $4.
At that rate, three-quarters of a
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FISH CATCH POOR
ASTORIA" Ore., May 21. -P
Packers reported today the com
mercial fishing season closed yes
terday was disappointing.
No official figures on the catch
were immediately available, but
packers said the good catches of
the first few days after the April
30 opening did not continue.
The commercial season will
reopen June 10.
Use of Ten Per Cent of U. S.
Production to Build World
Peace Advocated by Sfassen
JEFFERSON, la., May 21. UP) Former Governor Harold E.
Stassen of Minnesota, candidate for the Republican nomination for
President in 1948, advocated today that the United States devote ten
per cent of its total national production of goods and food for the
next ten years "to building for world-wide peace and plenty and free
dom." ,
"It should not be a sharpster
lending program. It should not
be a light-headed giveaway pro
gram. It should be a practical,
sound, long - visioned business
like approach to the situation
that exists in the world today,
and what we can forsee In the
years ahead," Stassen said.
The former Minnesota govern
or, recently returned from a tour
of Europe during which he in
terviewed Russian,Generalisslmo
Stalin.
Stassen said he believed America
could find a "strong and wise and
humanitarian world policy" be
tween what he called two "ex
tremes" advocated by former
Vice President Henry Wallace
Picture by Paul Jenkins
NEW DAIRY TO START OPERATION Pictured above are the
cows whose milk will be distributed in Roseburg after June 2 by
the new Melrose Dairy. They Inspect the delivery truck, parked in
their pasture. Lower, left to right, are operators of the dairy: L.
L. Chitwood, Clarson Chitwood and hjs son, Andy, and Harold
Chitwood. The new dairy Is located on the former Dr. E. B. Stew
art farm on the Melrose road.
Independent Wins
Denver Mayoralty
DENVER, May 21. W) Den
ver's 20-year mayor, Benjamin F.
Stapleton, was swept from office
today by a ballot box revolt in
favor of Quigg Newton, Jr.,
youthful,' politically independent
veteran of World War II.
Thomas J. Morrissey, former
U. S. district attorney, ran sec
ond to Newton with 77-year-old
Stapleton a poor third to the 35-year-old
attorney who won his
first political campaign.
Tueiling far back were District
Judge William A. Black and Wil
liam Dietrich, an avowed Com
munist. The count in 407 of the city's
412 precincts gave Newton 78,388;
Morrissey 34,829; Stapleton 17,
335; Black 5,125 and Dietrich 399.
Late returns ran Newton's vote
up to alomst 60 per cent of the
total cast which was the heaviest
for any municipal election in Den
ver's history.
Attaches at his office said New
ton never had voted in a regular
primary election. He was en
dorsed by.both Denver daily news
papers. Morrissey and Stapleton
are Democrats, Black is a Repub
lican. .-.
A native of Denver, the new
mayor graduated from Yale Law
School, served a year with the
Securities and Exchange Commis
sion and practiced law in Denver.
He went into the Navy as an en
sign in 1942 and was separated
last year as a commander. Me
never before had made a political
race, but had been president of
the University Board of Trustees
and was named by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce as the
city's "outstanding young man of
1946."
Last 1,500 of Gl Brides
Offered Air Trip to U.S.
LONDON, May 21. UP) The
United States Army, which al
ready has shipped 46,423 brides
and babies oi American service
men from England, is in a hustle
to transport the last 1,500 before
the transportation office shuts
down June 20.
Congress has voted an extra
million dollars so that brides who
wish can be transported by air
instead of by sea.
The Army gives up as full time
nursemaid June 20, although ar
rangements will be made for any
brides who remain after that date
to be transported. -
Girl Shot While In
Garden of Her Home
HOOD RIVER, Ore., May 21.
(JP) Eighteen-year-old Mary Lou
Sparks was in the hospital here
today with a gun wound in the
abdomen and attendants said her
condition was serious.
Officials reported the girl was
shot while in the garden at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. A. Sparks, and that the gun,
believed a .05 caliber pistol, had
not been fodnd.
and Robert McCormick, publish
er of the Chicago Tribune.
"As I see it the Wallace doc
trine would make of America a
nation of fellow travelers down
the wrong road," Stassen said.
It would centralize our
economic authority in America
and bring about lower and lower
production at home .
"The McCormick doctrine
would make of America a nation
of cold-hearted misers passing by
on the other side. It too would
lead to tragic results for our
country. It would make us hated
around the globe. It would lead
us to boom and to bust and fin
ally to a defensive war."
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Quit Grumbling, Striking,
German People Warned
BERLIN, May 21 UP) The
American and British military
governors warned the German
people yesterday to stop striking
and grumbling against the allies
and face the present food crisis
with "hard work and courage."
In a special proclamation, Gen.
Lucius D. Clay and Air Marshal
Sir Sholto Douglas sharply told
German political and trade union
leaders they "should face reali
ties and shoulder squarely their
obligations to their country and
fellow citizens.''
An even sharper warning was
Issued by Sumner Sewall, Ameri
can military government director
in Wuerttemberg-Baden, who said
that protest strikes against the
food shortage might cost the
Germans relief supplies from the
United States.
Cardboard Boxes Shelter
Impoverished Spinsters
WARREN TOWNSHIP, N. J.,
May 21. UP) Two elderly spin
sters whose great grandfath
er helped shelter the Colonial
Army at Valley Forge were
established today in an abandon
ed cabin : alter' spending five
nights under a pile of cardboard
boxes which they improvised as
makeshift living accommodations
rather than accept charity offers.
Forced to vacate the farm
house they rented for ten years,
the sisters, Misses Mary and
T.nilf0 Waanpr haH hnilf thpir
' cardboard hut in a secluded sec
I tion of rural Warren Township.
I They set up temporary house-
Keeping tnere, hoping somehow,
they said, to raise $45 needed as
three months' advance payment
on an old cottage they had locat
ed. '
Ford Motor Co. Faces
Strike of 3,800 Foremen
DETROIT, May 21. UP) An
estimated 3,800 foremen began a
strike at the Ford Motor Co.
today.
Initial reports indicated the
strike, affected only Detroit
plants.
There was no immediate com
ment from the company after the
Foreman's Association of Ameri
ca, (Ind.) ordered its members
off the job.
R. H. Keys, union president,
outlined the chief issues at dis
pute as raiding of ranks of the
unionized foremen at Ford, fail
ure to equalize the wage struc
ture, recognition, shift differen
ces and overtime pay, and what
he labelled "arbitrary actions of
the company."
Morse Warns of Peril
Of United States Decline
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, May 21.
UP) The decline of the United
States will be recorded as" begin
ning in 1947 unless America ac
cepts "the price of peace," Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon said here
last night.
The present trend, he told a
University of North Carolina
audience, is "rapidly becoming a
course of economic isolation" and
if it continues, "time will pass us
by."
The people, ho said, must give
thought to the part this country
is to play In international affairs
a part to be determined in large
measure in the next six years.
This, he said, was why "I stress
the importance to our nation of
the present 80th Congress."
Morse alternately flayed the
Congress and the people for the
isolationist trend he said was de
veloping. Dying Editor Dictates
His Own Death Notice
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.,
May 21. P William Green
wood Naylor, 73, retired busi
ness representative of News
paper Enterprise Association
and former editor and publish
er, called his wife to his bed
side Sunday and dictated:
"Retired by death, William
Greenwood Naylor, known as
the Bard of Skaneateles, for
the last 20 years a devotee of
floriculture, died at his home
today." He died yesterday.
He was a former managing
editor of the magazine Puck.
28 White Men
In Lynch Case
GREENVILLE. S. C, May 21.
(iW A South Carolina jury
was summoned today by Circuit
Judge J. Robert Martin, Jr., to
give an ultimate verdict In the
unprecedented mass-trial of 28
Southern white men who are ac
cused of lynching a Negro.
Final arguments in the lengthy
case were concluded yesterday on
a note of sectional prejudice.
Public prosecutors Samuel
Watt and Robert Ashmore de
manded conviction but not the
death penalty for 21 who are
charged with murder, and for
seven others who are accused of
conspiracy and of being acces
sories before the fact. Although
the state did not ask for the
death penalty, a verdict by the
jury of murder without recom
mendation of mercy would make
a death sentence mandatory.
The state reminded the jury of
eight fertile workers, two sales
men, a mechanic and a farmer
that they represented the public
conscience of South Carolina in
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Wife Kills Co-Respondent
In Husband s Divorce Suit
NEW YORK, May 21. UP)
A frail Bronklvn housewife today
shot and killed a pretty, brunette
mother of two children she had
befriended for two years, police
said, and then was pointed out
as the slaver by her own husband
who had been named co-respond
ent in the dead woman's divorce
suit.
Mrs. Margaret, Jannazzo, Si,
was killed by five revolver shots
in a hallway off a busy Brooklyn
street.
Deputy Chief Inspector Will
iam T. Whalen said that as he
and other police examined the
body, Rocco Scavone pushed
through a crowd gathered out
side and told him his wife, Philo
mina, 41, mother of his three
children, had shot Mrs. Jannazzo
and was' at the moment across
the street in the crowd.
Mrs. Scavone said calmly:
"I'm now at peace with the
world and my maker. I'm glad
it's over."
Ted Chambers Named to
Higher Education Board v
SALEM, Ore., May 21. (P)-i
Ted Chambers, 52-year-old Salem
meat packer, today was appoint
ed by Governor Snell to the State
Board of Higher Education, suc
ceeding Mrs. Beatrice Walton
Sackett, who died Sunday at her
home in Coos Bay.
Chambers will serve the rest of
Mrs. Sackett's torm, which ex
pires March 2, 1951.
Born in Pennsylvania, Cham
bers came to Oregon in 1910,
graduating in mining engineer
ing from Oregon State College in
1916. He engaped in engineering
work a few years, and has been
in the meat packing business here
for 27 years.
Chambers has been active In
civic and community affairs, hav
ing been president of the Oregon
State College Alumni Association.
The Weather
Clear tonight and Thursday;
cooler Thursday.
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ANNUAL CLEAN-UP DAY Members of the Roseburg Kiwanii
Club, above, gathered at Kiwenis Park on the South Umpqua
River yestarday evening for their annual clean-up day. A picnic
supper was served. Purpose of the annual affair is to make the
park ready for summer recreationists.
Radioactive 'Cloud' Prospect
Tangles Underground Hiding
Plan as' Atomic War Defense
; WASHINGTON, May Sl.-l-UPJ-The deadly potentialities of a
"radioactive cloud" weapon are complicating plans for hiding men
and machines underground In event of atomic age warfare.
But the problem of sealing off subterranean sites against poi
soned air is under study, according to an article in the current un
official service publication, Armored Cavalry Journal.
Yoncalla Sawmill
Owner Suspected of
Suicide in River Here
Search by relatives and po
lice began yesterday for Har
old W. Thorpe, 25, sawmill
owner of the Yoncalla vicinity,
who is suspected of having
committed suicide.
Thorne was last seen locally by
a saw-filer in Roseburg last Wed
nesday morning, stating that he
would call In the afternoon for a
saw, but failed to return, i His
pickup truck was found bv state
police Monday on the Umpqua
Park road.
Directed by Thorpe's father,
W." C. Thorpe, and his two sons,
the city fire department and state
police began search of the South
Umpqua River for the body, on
the theory the missing man may
have drowned himself.
Thorpe was reported to be dis
tressed by financial difficulty in
the operation of his sawmill. His
wife and young daughter left the
family home nine miles south of
Yoncalla two weeks ago to visit
relatives in the midwest. .
End of Sugar Rationing
Asked in Senate Bill
WASHINGTON, May 21. OP)
Senators McCarthy (R.-Wis.)
and Bricker (R.-Ohlo) yesterday
introduced legislation to , end
supar rationing immediately.
"I am confident congress will
pass this," McCarthy told report
ers. "There Is already such a sur-
filus of sugar that it Is now back
rijr up, in warehouses."
" Under present law, sugar ra
tioning is slated to end Oct. 31.
In a separate move, Senator
Dworshak (R.-Idaho) asked Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson
today to lift sugar rationing to
housewives Immediately.
School Levy on Census
Basis Need Not be Made
SALEM, Ore., May;21. (0)
Counties again won't have
to levy the county. sohool levy
of $10 per census sohool child
during the fiscal year begin
ning next July 1, the 8tate Tax
Commission said today In an
nouncing there would be
enough surplus income tax
revenue to offset the county
school levies.
The school levies for all 36
counties total $3,189,120.
The. commission will an
nounce the state tax levy late
In July.
BABY SURVIVES ORDEAL
PORTLAND, Ore., May 21.
UPh-Patricia Sullivan, the two-months-old
baby critically injured
when two girls thought she was
a doll and dropped her in their
play, is home again.
Hospital attendants said she
was expected to recover fully.
Picture by Paul Jenkins
The article was written before
Plane Maker Glenn L. Martin's
disclosure last week of experi
ments by the Army and Navy to
create radioactive clouds. These
clouds, covering a mile-square
area, could be formed by a burst
of radioactive matter released
from an airplane.
Martin's disclosure was made
before a congressional commit
tee, and he declined to go into
detail on the method.
It was recalled, however, that
several possible methods for
spreading radioactive death have
been suggested unofficially, In
cluding the release of dust or oil
spray impregnated with radio
activity. Revealed In Bikini Test
The armed forces have been
aware of the menace of radioac
tive air since last summer's
Bikini atom bomb experiments.
It was discovered there that even
the use of a welder's torch or a
grinding wheel would release
into the air radioactivity which
had adhered to solid objects such
as warship fittings. .
The Journal, in reviewing
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Amelia Earhart Seized
By Japs, Mother Believes
NEW YORK, May 21. UP)
Mrs. Amy Otis Earhart, 79, of
Boston, Is convinced that her
daughter, Amelia Earhart, was
taken prisoner by the Japanese
after her disappearance over the
Pacific ocean In 1937.
Mrs. Earhart said her daugh
ter, at the time of her round-the-world
flight attempt, was on a
government mission "bo secret
that it was even kept from me."
"I think my daughter landed
and was taken prisoner of the
Japs," Mrs.. Earhart said.' "I
have letters, documents and mes
sages addressed to me that con
vinced me thoroughly that she
landed on land."
Boys Sell Their Blood
For Spending Coin, Claim
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 21. UP)
Authorities of at least one
Memphis high school are Investi
gating reports that schoolboys
were selling their blood to get
spending money.
The Rev. John A. Elliott, prin
cipal of Catholic High School,
said 23 students from his school
sold blood to a clinic for $10 a
pint and that they reported that
students from other schools are
doing the same.
Jobs, Pay Lost by Strike
Against Govt., Ruling
WASHINGTON, May 21. UP)
Employees who strike against
the government forfeit not only
their jobs but their right to un
delivered pay for work done be
fore they walk out, Comptroller
General Lindsay C. Warren ruled
today.
His decision came in a case
involving three union carpenters
who were employed by the Vet
erans Administration in remodel
ing its Waco, Texas, center.
Washington Flier Among
7 Killed in B-29 Crash
SEATTLE, May 21. JP Col.
Raymond E. O'Neill, Chanute
Field., 111., native of Port Town
send and University of Washing
ton graduate, was one of seven
men killed In the crash of a B-25
near Champaign, 111., last night,
the Chanute Field chaplain re
vealed today.
Surviving, besides his mother
and brother are his widow, Mrs.
Edith O'Neill, and a son, Bar
rett. AUTO BLOW FATAL
NEWBERG, Ore., May 21. OP)
Hugh Davis, 69, who was struck
in downtown Newberg Sunday
night by a car which failed to
stop, died today in Willamette
Hospital.
Davis, a widower, lived just out
side the city. Police are Investigating.
Excise Levy
Repeal Asked
By Phone Lines
WASHINGTON, May 21. UP)
With the Senate ready to open
debate on the House-approved $4,.
000,000,000 income tax cut, the
telephone industry asked Con
gress today to repeal the excise
levies on communications.
This would save taxpayers an
other $400,000,000. The excise is
levied on telephone, telegraph
and other communications serv
ice. The recommendation was
placed , before the House Ways
and Moans Committee in state
ments submitted by the American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, A. T. & T.'s associated com
panies, and the United States In
dependent Telephone Association.
It was the first recommenda
tion for a new tax cut in the
committee's move toward general
revisions of the tax structure,
which Chairman Knutson said
should mean "substantial" tax re
ductions bevond the current $4,
000,000,000 bill. The committee
plans to write the general re
visions Into law next year.
' The telephone industry asked
that the communications excise
repeal be made a part of the 1948
revision. The industry described
this excise as a tax upon a neces
sary business and social service
and not a "luxury" tax.
In the Senate, Finance Chair
man Millikln predicted that op
ponents of a 1947 income tax cut
will reach their "high water
mark" on a postponement vote
but that the mark won't be high
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Social Security System
Expansion to be Sought
PORTLAND, May 21. UP)
Social Security legislation to ex
pand the program for new groups
and nay larger monthly pensions
is being prepared, Watson B. Mil
ler, Social Security administrator,
said here.
Miller said the purpose of the
bills, soon to go before Congress,
would extend the ( coverage to
agricultural,- domestic and sell
emnloved workers, including busi
ness and professional men; ex
tend benefits to totally disabled
of any age and lower the age
maximum for female benefici
aries from 65 to 60 years.
The proposals would lift the
taxable salary base from $250 to
$300 a month, raising the maxi
mum retirement payment fur a
single person from $44 to $74.25 a
month.
The family m iximum payment
is now $85 and the proposed maxi
mum would be $120. Miller said
the expansion couhd be put into
effect without an immediate in
crease In the payroll tax.
Drain City Marshal Held
On Charge of Assault
Richard Knight, 30, Drain city
marshal, was nooKeo at tne
countv iall this morning, pending
nis arraignment on a charge of
assault while armed wltn a dan
gerous weapon, Sgt. Lyle Harrell
of the state police reported.
The charge to be lodged
against Knight Is the result of
fracas Monday night at Drain, In
which Knight was reported to
have shot David R. Dickson, 35,
through the shoulder, after Dick
son allegedly accused Knight of
bootlegging. Sgt. Harrell said.
Arraignment was being delay
ed tins morning until tne com
plaint against Knight could be
signed by a witness to the shoot
ing, whose name Sgt. Harrell
gave as W. H. Blomberg.
Mysterious Explosion
Blasts 'Jim Crow' Car
FORT WORTH, Tcx May 21.
UP) A mysterious explosion
blasted windows from a Santa Fe
"Jim Crow" passenger coach a
few miles north of Ardmore, Ok
lahoma, early today. Two persons
were injured.
Lem ihomas, special agent
here for the railroad, said the
blast apparently originated from
the top of a water cooler built
into a toilet compartment.
Filipino Plane Bearing
Government Officials Lost
MANILA, May 21. (.IP) Presi
dent Roxas tonight announced
the loss of the presidential plane
Lily Mariene In the wlids ot Nor
thern Cotabato in Mindanao. The
greatest local air search got un
der way today.
The plane was carrying Irom
12 to 15 government officials.
The craft was formerly the per
sonal plane of Lord Louis Mount-
Dattcn.
Minister Ordered to
Trial on Arson Charge
MILWAUKEE, May 21. UP)
Municipal Judge Herbert Steffes
today ordered Dr. John Lewis,
pastor of fire-swept Calvary Pres
byterian church, to stand trial
June 9 on charges of Arson, aft
er three alienists had testified
that the prominent clergyman
was sane.
The state charges Dr. Lewis
started a $150,000 fire at his
church last January,
Melrose Rood
Temporary Makeshift
Advised to Avoid Costly
Detour on Tenmile Route
Logging trucks coming Into
Roseburg from the Landers
Mountain area were denied the
use of Melrose road Tuesday by
an order of the County Court,
due to a 5-ton load limit on the :
Melrose Creek bridge,- County
Judge D. N. Busenbark said.
Unless the construction of a
temporary bridge for logging1
trucks is approved by the county
roadmaster, Judge Busenbark
said, the logging trucks must con-,
tinue to use the route via Tenmile
and the Coos Bay highway. In
order to reach their Roseburg
mills.
The County Court's order was
issued the next day after the
Roseburg City Council had estab
lished a route through the city,
which the logging trucks might
use to proceed to mills north and
south of the city limits.
Alternative Suggested
Bill Evans, president of the
Loggers and Truckers Associa
tion, who conferred with the
County Court yesterday after
noon, offered the suggestion that
the log truckers who use the Mel
rose road throw a temporary
span across Melrose Creek with
several big trees.
The temporary bridge would be,
only for the use of logging trucks.'
both loaded, incoming, and out
bound to the logging operation.
The bridge would be removed at
the end of the summer logging
season. v
"It's definitely a summer show,"
Evans snid. "We would naturally
remove the bridge at the end of
the season. That would be one of
the stipulations. The route by way
of Tenmile is 20.4 miles longer
than coming In by way of Meli
rose, and It will break the boys
if they have to operate by that
route."
Up To Roadmaster
Judge Busenbark said Xi
county would approve use of the
Melrose road for loggers if the
county roadmaster reports favor'
ably on the construction of a tem
porary bridge and the truckers
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Heart Attack Cheats
Death Chair of Slayer
CHICAGO, May 21. UP)
Julius ( Dolly) Welsberg, a for
mer Chicago night club owner
and convicted slayer, who had
lost all court appeals to escape
death In the electric chair and
who was to have been executed
early Friday morning, died yes
terday in his death cell, apparent
ly of a heart attack.'
Welsberg, 50, who was con
victed a year ago of the slaying
of an automobile salesman, died
less than two hours after he was
transferred to' the death cell
about 25 feet from the electric
chair.
Convict Flees With Only
60 Days Left to Serve
SALEM, Ore., May 21. UP)
A 21-year-old state prison convict
who escaped yesterday when he
had only 60 days left to serve of
his four-year sentence for burg
lary was still at large today.
The prisoner, Harry W. Octil
lion, escaped from a prison gar
den work crew. He was sentenced
from Marlon County Feb. 14,
1944.
Detllllon would have been re
leased in two months because of
time off for good behavior. If re
captured, he would lose the good
behavior credit.
10 Perct. Price Cut Plan
Given Up by Merchants
NEWBURYPORT, Mass., May
21. UP) This old seaport com
munity has virtually abandoned
its widely heralded 10 per cent
price cutting program a month
after it became effective be
cause, merchants said, they did
not get cooperation of suppliers.
Sponsors said they were still
receiving inquiries about the
plan, but In reply they were
stressing that a 10 per cent
across-tlic-board cut cannot be
sustained until prices come down
all the way from maker to con
sumer. Solution Found to Keep
Bread Fresh for Week
KANSAS CITY, May 21. VP)-.
Members of the American Asso
ciation of Cereal Chemists In con
vention here learned that soon
week-old bread may not worry
the housewife.
Research Chemists H. H. Favor
and H. F. Johnson of East Nor
walk. Conn., reported discovery
of a paste solution, known as
poyioxethylene sterate, a fraction
of an ounce of which will keep
bread fresh for seven days.
Shortage of raw materials for
the paste has prevented wide
spread use so far.
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Political loaders and econo
mists are urging that the Unit
ed States 'sell Itself to other
nations. So far, however, none
of these advisers have suggest
ed a 10 per cent reduction in
the price.