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NAMED CITY RECORDER William D. Bollman, above, was
appointed city rocorder-treasurer by City Manager M. W. Slank
ard, after, the recent resignation of Mrs. Amelia J. Dick as
recorder-treasurer, t-ormerly ot Los Angeles, Bollman was em
ployed by a local office supply concern before his employment
) by the city.
County Candidates Receive
Bids to Talk at 'Town Meeting1
All candidates for elective office in Douglas County have been
invited to speak at the courthouse Monday, in a "town meeting"
arranged by a group of local women. The meeting will.be In the
Circuit Court room of the courthouse at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. Kugene A. Springer, chair
man of arrangements, said the
meeting will be preceded by a
band concert. The Roseburg High
School Band, she said, is to march
through the downtown streets
from 7, to 7:30. Several numbers
will be presented on the court
house lawn.
The town meeting will be
opened with a few words from
Mayor Albert G. Flegel. Modera
tor of the evening will be Gor
don Carlson, local attorney.
Kvery candidate for public office
in Douglas County has been in
vited to participate in the pro
gram. Mrs. Springer said that each
candidate has been sent a letter,
in which he has been informed
that he may speak for three
minutes in behalf if his candi
dacy. Following the talks, the
floor will be thrown open for
general discussion and question
ing of office seekers.
If candidates are unable to at
tend in person, they have been
asked to send representatives..
Candidates for stale and national
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THERE was going to be a rail
road strike. The country was
all stirred up. The stock market
had sinking spells. On the city
markets, prices of perishables
zoomed. In California and Florida,
early food crop workers were laid
off because there wasn't going to
be any way to get the crops to
market when they were har
vested. The country generally was in
a tizzy.
AS it turned out, the trains kept
on running.
The government took them
over and told the Army to run
them. A federal judge stepped
in with a temporary injunction.
The three unions concerned called
off the strike and their-men went
to work for the Army.
The public heaved a sign of
relief and hoped it wouldn't hap
pen again at least right away.
k UOULDN"r everybody really
' 5l have been better off if in
stead of all the hullaballoo and
hurrah and the upset and the
bitter talk and the angry passions
the case had been submitted to a
jury and the jury's decision ac-'
cepted as is done In the case of
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Alcoholics Being Cured Wifh
New Truth Serum1 Treatment
SEATTLE, May 13. (Alcoholics are benig allowed to talk
their way to a cure under the
so-called "truth serum", a physician said here today.
Dr. Paul O'Hallaren, assistant chief of staff of the Shadel
Sanitarium, said the treatment has been tried on 210 persons. Sixty
per cent have been cured.
It is particularly useful, he ex-
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holism results from nervous ten-
sion.
The work is done under spon
sorship of the Research Founda- j
Hon lor Alcoholism, ur. rreaer
ick Lemere, staff psychiatrist,
also helps in the work.
Persons treated thus far. Dr.
O'Hollaren said, were selected as
the most difficult of 4,000 per
sons surveyed.
If any results could be ob-
tained
in this group
ve
might expect even better results
in a more desirable patient," he
1 explained.
Four Effects Noted
t The sodium pentothal has four
effects that help bring about a
cure, he explained.
Information obtained while un
der the drug' influence U used
Picture by Paul Jenkins
Sen. Taylor Draws
Hot Denunciation
WASHINGTON, Mav J3-.'P)
Senator Knowland (K-Calif.), yes
terday wrathfully denounced
Senator Taylor (D-Idaho) in the
Senate after Taylor criticized
President Truman and called Sec
retary of Denfcnse Forrestal "a
potential Hitler."
Knowland, stepping down from
the rostrum where he had been
presiding, shouted that Taylor
"could not if he tried have given
more aid and comfort to the
Kremlin" than he did in his re
marks to the Senate.
Taylor is a candidate for the
vice-presidency on the third party
ticket of Henry Wallace.
Taylor opened a lengthy speech
by saying Mr. Truman had turned
down what Taylor called Russia's
willingness to confer on differ
ences between the United States
and The' Soviet.
"ft isn't a question of America's
bigness," Taylor told the Senate.
"It's a question of the smallness
of the President of the United
States."
Taylor said "it is too bad the
people of the United States and
the world have to have their
hopes dashed because we have a
man from Missouri who thinks he
has to live up to Missouri stub
bornoss, now that he has set out
to get tough."
Farm Program Message
Coming from Truman
WASHINGTON, May 13. UP)
President Truman said today
he hopes to send a farm program
message to Congress tomorrow.
He told his weekly news confer
ence, however, that he is not
ready to announce the appoint
ment of a new secretary of agri
culture. He'll do that, he added
as soon as he gets the man.
Clinton Anderson resigned Mon
day as secretary to run for the
Senate in New Mexico with the
President's blessing.
Mr. Truman gave no indication
what he will propose in tomor
row's message, regarded as a bid
for the farmers' vote.
Emmy Goering Indicted
As Nazi "Profiteer"
MUNICH, Germany, May 12.
(IP) Emmy. Goering, widow of
the reichsmarshal, was indicted
today as a major offender under
the denazification law.
Mrs. Goering, in jail near Augs
burg, is charged wiih "profiteer
ing" from Nazi connections. The
trial date has not been set.
Her husband, Herman Goer
ing, committed suicide in Nuern
berg jail a few hours before he
was to be hanged as a war crim
inal. influence of sodium pentothal, the
to make the person understand
and hjs p1,,,,,. the ..,ree
talking" induced by the drug gets
the patients problems olf his
chest
the urug-causea cairn
helps the nervous person "get a
grip on himself"; and sugges
tions passed to the drugged pa
tient are retained subconsciously
when the serum wears off.
The treatment, which requires
about a year, is given in connce-
,inn wlth the conditioned reflex
treatment which makes the pa-
,lr.nt sck at tne smPu of acohol.
The latter ts similar to giving
a small boy a cigar to end fils
desire to smoke.
A drug, emetine. Is injected by
hypodermic. It makes a person
sick any time his stomach is irri-
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Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 1 3, 1 948 hub
ChryslerJStrikers Prepare! for; Long Siege
Union Raising
$8 Million To
Finance Fight
75,000 Workers Out At
15 Plants; Government
Plans No Intervention
DETROIT, May 13 UP) An
$8,000,000 "kitty" being raised by
the CIO United Auto Workers
for their Chrysler Corp. strikers
today gave the auto industry rea
son to leaf a long walkout.
The big corporation's 75,000
production workers who walked
off the job yesterday morning
to enforce union demands for 17
cents more per hour were set for
a long siege on the picket lines.
"The strike of the Chrysler
workers is solid," declared Emil
Mazey, UAW secretary-treasurer
and acting president who is di
recting the walkout. "They are
set for the duration. The Chrysler
workers will win."
Some observers estimated the
strike might last as long as two
months. il
Orderly picket lines were set
up at 12 Chrysler plants In Michi
gan, two in Indiana and one in
California a short time after the
strike deadline yesterday morn
ing. Almost immediately effects of
the auto Industry's first major
strike in two years began to
spread. Briggs Manufacturing
Co., which supplies Chrysler
plants, laid off 11,000 workers
today and said the rest of its
work force of 13,000 would be
sent home Monday.
State Law Tested
With the strike a day old, It
was still uncertain whether it
would be used as a test of Michi
gan's new labor law.
The Bonine-Tripp legislation re
quires a strike vote. The UAW
contending it did not apply be
cause several Chrysler plants are
outside Michigan, took strike ac
tion without such a vote.
Gov. Kim Sigler ordered the
Michigan Labor Mediation Board
to find out "if the law is consti
tutional." Philip Weiss, chairman
of the board, asked Prosecutor
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V. J. Adair to Head
Community Chest
W. J. (Bill) Adair was elected
president of the Roseburg Com
munity Chest last night, at a
joint meeting of the outgoing
and incoming boards of directors.
Adair succeeds Thomas Parkin
son as president.
Directors approved the expendi
ture of $2,000 for youth recrea
tion purposes by the Citizens Rec
reation Committee. That amount
had been requested prior to the
fund drive last autumn. The
money will be used as it is needed.
Six new directors were wel
comed to the Roseburg Communi
ty cnest board last night. They
include Wilson Henson, Roy
Catching, J. V. Long, Eldoh
Clark, Frank Ashley, and Eu
gene Miller.
The new directors replace the
outgoing members of the board,
Lester L. Wimberlv Bob Franks,
Ken Bailey, and Parkinson.
Other new officers of the board
for the' coning year include Har
rison Winston, vice president;
Roy Catching, treasurer and
David J. McCarroll, continuing
as secretary. Holdover members
of the board are H. T. Hanson,
Bruce Elliott, and V. V. Harpham.
One vacancy exists on the
board. It is that of Carl Moser,
who was recently transefrred
from the Roseburg Veterans
Hospital, where he was adminis
trative officer, to the VA office
at Billings, Montana.
The new president of the Rose
burg Community Chest has been
active In community affairs. He
is employed as superintendent of
transportation for the Roseburg
Lumber Co. He serves as mem
ber of the City Council and is
chairman of the City Fire Com
mission. He is a member of the
Roseburg Rotary Club.
Federal Aid Sought To
Widen Little River Road
Federal aid in widening the
Little River Road to eliminate
'hazardous conditions has been
! asked of the U. S. Public Roads
I Administration, it was reported
today by County Commissioner
H. B. Roadman.
Because the road is heavily
traveled bv logging trucks, its
narrow width is considered dan
gerous. A number of accidents
have occurred on the road.
The road was formerly main
tained by the PRA under a fed
eral forest road nropram, but
last year the road was turned
back to the county for mainten
ance. County Commissioner Lynn V.
Beckley went to Portland Tues
day to confer with PRA officials
over tte county's request, Road
man aid.
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BANANAS 'MUST' This 19
month old youngster, Peter
Buescher, munches bananas In a
Berlin hospital as doctors fixed
a diet which they hope will save
his life. Peter was stricken with
an intestinal ailment at his home
in Frankfurt and when his con
dition became serious, a U. S.
Army plane flew him to Berlin
where a banana diet was ar
ranged. Peter will have to eat
six or seven bananas a day for
several weeks, doctors say. IAP
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Douglas Lumber
Firms Buy Timber
PORTLAND, May 13. UP)
Auction of public lands timber in
Washington and Oregon again
has pushed prices to near record
levels in the latest bidding, the
Forest Service reports.
Demand for Douglas fir In a
Washing;on tract of 25,000,000
board feet of "peeler" timber
near Packwood, Wash., put the
price at $34.10 a thousand.
A new stumpage record price
was set for all species in sale of
117,472,000 feet of Oregon-California
timber in Western Oregon.
Total price was $1,685,930.
In the Oregon deals, Pucket
and Scherer of Keno, Ore., bid
$28.50 per 1,000 feet for sugar
pine and $27.50 for ponderosa
pine in Klamath and Jackson
counties. The prices set new rec
ords on O-C timber.
The McPherson Lumber Co.,
Lebanon, bid $27.50 for Douglas
fir in Linn County, another O-C
timber record.
Successful bidders for the vari
ous tracts include: Blue Mountain
Lumber Co., Cottage Grove; Coos
Bay Lumber Co., Coos Bay; Ben
Diercks Lumber Co., Murphy;
Robert Dollar Co., Glendale; Elk
Lumber Co., Medford; Fischer
Lumber Co., Marcola; Frores
Frank Lumber Co., Lyons; Gar
diner Lumber Co., Gardiner; R.
D. Gates, Corvallis; Fred A. Hills,
Springfield; Kissling Lumber Co.,
Yoncalla; E. A. Kruse, Drain;
Long-Bell, Eugene; Murtin Bros.
Box Co., Oakland; Modoc Lum
ber Co., Klamath Falls; North
Umpqua Timber Co., and Rose
burg Lumber Co., Roseburg; Ore
gon Caves Lumber Co., and S. H.
& W. Lumber Co., Grants Pass;
Pacific Mill Co., Creswell.
Truman Defies Congress
To Get Secret Files
WASHINGTON, May 13. UP)
President Truman today defied
Congress to get confidential in
formation from the White House
or the cabinet.
He told a news conference that
Congress has no right to confi
dential records of members of his
cabinet.
He said he would veto anv leg
islation requiring such records,
and that he did not believe the
veto would be overridden.
The courts have held repeat
edly he said, that the President
and his cabinet cannot be forced
to divulge confidential informa
tion. Congressional committee work
ers and officials In executive
agencies appear likely to be the
only persons subject to Jail terms
under a so-called "secrets" bill
now pending.
14,
,000
Orcasii Veteran
Look
ing for Employment
SALEM, May 13. UP) More
than 7.1 per cent of Oregon's war
vpterans are unemployed, the
State Veterans Department re-
i ports.
this is almost three limes tne
national average of 2.6 per cent
of veterans unemployed.
The department estimated
there are 200,000 veterans in Ore
ton, and 14,000 of them are look
ing for Job.
Debate Plans
Shaping For
6-0. P. Rivals
PORTLAND, May 13 UP)
Republican leaders Harold B.
Stassen and Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey headed today into the
home stretch of their clear-cut
race for this far west state's presi
dential preference vote.
Both candidates thumped on
the topic of Communism last
nigfit.
Stassen Initiated his final drive
In an address here in western
Oregon. At the same time his
New York opponent appeared
before a crowd at Pendleton, In
the eastern Oregon wheat region.
Each has a full schedule of ap
pearances through the state be
fore the ballots are cast May 21.
The election Is the last direct
primary before the party's na
tional nomination convention in
June. Both candidates alone in
the race have to a great measure
their presidential chances at
Rtake in winning In Oregon.
Debate Plans In Making
Still undecided is the time and
place for the unprecedented de
bate the two have agreed to
stage.
Stassen said on arriving back
in Oregon yesterday he hopes the
dlscusion on Communism would
include vital national Issues. At
Pendleton, aides of Dewey in
dicated that Stassen's view had
been transmitted to the governor
and that ho mav have it under
consideration. Aides are to meet
today on the debate arrange
ments. The Mlnnesotan reiterated last
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Truman Opposes Plan To
Outlaw Communist Party
WASHINGTON, May 13-fP)
Pr(t;ident Truman expressed On-
position today to outlawing the
Communist party m this country.
He gave this view at a news
conference during discussion of
the Mundt bill to require Com
munists to register with the gov
ernment. Mr, Truman said he was not
forecasting his action on that bill
if it should reach him, but that
he thought there were ample laws
to deal with persons who advo
cate overthrow of the govern
ment. He added that he thought log
islation outlawing a political
party is contrary to American
principles.
Oregon State Employes
Voted Salary Increase
SALEM, Ore.', May 13. UP)
All of Oregon's 10,000 state em
ployes, excluding those who re
ceive board and room at state in
stitutions, will receive a $20 per
month cost-of-living pay increase
on June 1.
The increase was voted Wed
nesday by the State Emergency
Board. The Board of Control had
recommended the increase be giv
en only to employes getting less
than $400 a month, but the Amer
gency Board made it effetclve in
all brackets.
The Emergency Board appro
priated $233,000 from Its fund to
put the increase into effect.
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'IT S AGAINST THE LAW There's no law against sleeping In an
automobile Mrs. Mary Current, 58, tells Pasadena, Calif,, Police
Sgt. Jerry Wilson here, but she was wrong. After thumbing
through the books the police came up with a 46-year-old ordin
ance which prohibits lying or sleeping in an allay, street, sidowalk
I or other public place. She was arrested under the old law. Mrs.
Current has been living several months In hor expensive converti
ble because she said her home
'the mortgaga. IAP Wirephoto)
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FIRST PRESIDENT Italy's first
president, elected by its parlia
ment this week, is former Vice
Premier Luigi Einaudi, above,
74-year old governor of the
Bank of Italy, who is hated by
the Communists. His son, Mario,
is a professor of political history
at Cornell University, Ithaca,
N. Y. The elder Einaudi, inter
nationally known writer of fi
nance and economic history,
was forced to flee Fascism in
1942.
Gov. Hall, Sen. M'Kay
Will Debate Issue Of
Sale of School Lands ,
PORTLAND, May 13.-(.TV-S1ate
Sen. Douglas McKay of Ma.
rion County and Gov. John H.
Hall will debate the issue of. sale
of school lands. .
McKay' issued1' the ''chnrUmge
yesterday und the governor was
quick to accept.. Bolh are candi
dates for the Republican .guber
natorial nomination.. .:,'.
McKay's headquarters anniuttfp
ed the topic will be "Shall- Ore-
on's School Lands Be Sold.' dr
eased?" A date has not beennftt.
The senator earlier this wwk
protested sale of a parcel of, Cobs
Bay tidelands'fo a lumber. com
pany. The firm plans a $100,000
dock on the site; McKay said tne
sale reverses a long standing. land
board policy of leasing school
land Instead, of selling. He nilded
that this opens the dour to.' "tool
ing of the- state's irreducible
school fund tracts."
Gov. Hall yesterday explained
that, the state gains by thdisale.
He said the $250 a year lease rent
would more than be made urby
taxes from the Improvement and
real estate taxes. Furthermore,
Hall said, the dock provides for
community developmetn and jobs.
OREGON BIRTHS UP
PORTLAND, May 13. UP)
Live births in Oregon durin"
1947 set a new record, the State
Board of Health reported todav.
The total of 35,020 births, a
rate of 28.5 ner thousand nonula
tion, was a new high for- the
state. A preliminary study indi
cates the state's mortality rate
for the year may be the lowest
in the nation.
ITh . .fur' I 1 .'V I -i.V
was rented so she could pay off
Hope for Peace
Not Increased,
Truman Says
WASHINGTON, May 13. UP)
President Truman said today
that his hopes for eventual peace
have not been increased by the
recent exchange of notes with
Russia.
The President told a news con
ference he Is supporting to the
limit Secretary of Slate Mar
shall's statement that what is
needed is action, rather than gen
eral talks. Marshall said yester
day that If Russia desires to pro
mote peace she can act through
the United Nations and other al
lied agencies. The secretaiy of
state ruled out any two-nation,
Russo-Amerlcan talks on matters
of concern also to other nations.
President Truman said Mar
shall covered thoroughly the sit
uation as left by the exchange
or notes between itussia and the
United States.
In response to questions, the
President repented what ho has
snid often before that he would
be glad to meet with Soviet Pre
mier Stalin In Washington.
Asked what the two would talk
about at such a meeting, the
President snid he would let the
newsmen know If such a meeting
ever came anoui.
Soviet Must Alter Policy
The whole reaction here to
Russia's publication of the notes
suggests that the chance for any
real improvement In relations be
tween Russia and the United
States hinges on whether there
will be a haste change In Soviet
foreign policy.
That is Indicated strongly by
the statements of all top officials.
At Mr. Truman's conference,
the questioning which led to his
statement on peace prospects
went in this manner:
.A reporter recalled that the
President told a news conference
some weeks ago that his confi
dence in eventual permanent
peace had been somewhat shaken
by developments abroad. He asked
what the President thought were
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Phone Operators
Fix Strike Plans
WASHINGTON, May 13 UP)
Plans for a nation-wide strike of
long-distance telephone operators
were set up today by the CIO
American Telephone Workers
Union but the date for a walkout
was left open.
The union, hended hy John J.
Moran, has been engaged in a
wage dispute with the American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. The union represents 23,000
longdistance workers In 42
states. Union and A. T. and T.
representatives came here yes
terday for conferences with con
ciliators of the Federal Mediation
Service in an effort to reach an
agreement.
Moran said actions of the A. T.
and T. and "failure to find some
method of effecting a peaceful
settlement leaves us with but one
choke a nation wide strike."
The union wants a 30 cents
an hour wage boost, a shorter
work week and larger pensions.
It says workers now average
$1.21 an hour.
Moran and his bargaining com
mittee planned to leave at onee
for Boston to confer with CIO
President Philip Murray, attend
ing the steel workers' convention.
New Program for Farm
Price Support Approved
WASHINGTON, May 1X-4JP)
A new permanent program for
government support of farm
prices wus approved 8 to 0 by the
Senate agriculture committee
yesterday.
The committee thus Jumped In
ahead of President Truman who
Is planning a furm message to
Congress this week.
Senator Aiken, principal author
of the bill, said ho expects Con
gress to pass It before the sum
mer recess.
The bill Is designed to provide
for government support of the
prices of basic agricultural com
modities at 75 per cent of parity
when there Is a normal supply.
The support price would range
from CO to 90 per cent of partly
as the supply of anv commodity
varied from 130 to 70 per cent of
normal.
Funds Asked for Sleuths
To Halt Evasion of Taxes
WASHINGTON, May 12")-
presiuent Truman asked Con
gress today to give the treasury
money to hire 10,000 more agents
to break up Income tax evasions.
His request to the Senate for
$27,323,000 came after a similar
plea by Undersecretary A. L. M.
Wiggins to a Senate appropria
tions subcommittee.
Wiggins estimated tax evasions I
are costing the government $1,-1
000,000,000 a year. I
For Invasion
Of Holy Land
All Trained Jews Being
Mobilized; Mandate Of
British Ends Tomorrow
: (By the Associated Press)
Jewish forces called upon all
trained Jewish men and women
today to mobilize- for the zero
hour in Palestine when a Jewish
state is proclaimed. Reports from
Syria told of Arab tanks and ,
troops closing in on the Holy .
Land.
The Jewish state will be pro
claimed early tomorrow night,
effective after the British man-
date ends nt midnight. The Arab '
league is preparing an Arab civil i
administration not a state to .
take over in Palestine with coop. .
oration of occupying Arab troopii.
Observers said the Jewish mo-'
blllzation call was a precaution
against possible invasion from
surrounding Arab countries.,
Egypt has a martial law decree
ready to take effect when Egyp- .
tlan troops move in, and officials :
In Damascus predicted Syrians
would invade Saturday. Lebanese
reports said southern garrisons '
wei! reinforced und motorized
units were moving southward.'
Travelers from Trans-Jordan re
ported 400 Iraq brigade vehicles 1
and some Trans-Jordan units
moving on the Palestine frontier.
Jaffa Surrenders
The Arab port city of Jaffa
surrendered to Ilaganah, the Jew
ish militia, adjoining Jewish Tel
Aviv. Jewish milltury forces aro
to control it.
A five-man committee In Tel
Aviv prepared a draft of the dec- ,
Uiration proclaiming the Jewish
state.
"For the first time In almost '
2,000 years this sabbath Friday, :
candles of the Holy Land Jewry
will burn on the soil of a Jewish
state," a memtier of the provl- '
sional government said.
The .battle for the Jerusalem
Tel Aviv road still swirled around
Bub El Wad gorge outside Jeru-.
suiem. Arnbs drove tne Jews ironv.
the western end of the pass yes--etrday.
,
Jerusalem was quiet, although
rifle and machlnegun fire during
the night marked the second
breach of the cease fire opera-'
tion. '
' Forces ot Egypt, Iraq, Trans-1
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Child May Sue
For Pre-Natal
Injuries, Ruling
LIMA, O., May 13 tP) A
child has a right to sue after
birth for pre-natal injuries, the '
Ohio Third District Court of Ap
peals held yesterday.
The decision was handed down
In a $50,000 damage suit filed '
for Mlna Margaret Williams by .
her father against Marion Rapid
Transit Co., Marlon, O.
The court said an infant has
cause for action If Injuries oc .
curred beyond the embryo stage.
The appeals court reversed a
ruling by the Marlon Common
Pleas Court that Ohio law does
not allow for recovery of dam-
ages for pre-natal Injuries to an
unborn child.
However, since his decision Is
In conflict with one by the Sev
enth District Appellate Court, the
Third District Court certified thu
case of the Ohio Supreme Court
for review.
The petition contended that on
April 4, 1941, the plaintlif, al-
though unborn, was capable of ;
living. On that date, the petition
said, the mother, Ruth Williams,
was paying customer on a ,
Marion bus. Negligent operation
caused her to fall on the steps,
the suit continued, adding:
Mrs. Williams suffered ln-t
juries which caused her deatli
and the two-month, premature
birth of the plaintiff.
Wading Pool Planned In
Spot Near Benson School
Location of a children's wadlni;
pool in the center parkway of E.
Commercial St., near the Benson
School was discussed Tuesday at
a meeting of the City Park Com
mission. The city manager was
directed to prepare plans for thu
pool.
Purchase of playground equip
ment for the Umpqua Park area.
Including such apparatus as
swings, slides, and teeter-totters,
was authorized. The city manager
was directed to supervise repair
of the grounds. Winter flood wa
ters caused minor damages to thu
park.
Purchase of necessary swim
ming pool equipment was also
authorized by the commission and
the city manager was asked to
prepare plans for construction of
a dressing room to be erected be
side the pool.
Ievity pact ant
By L. F. Relzensteln
Unci Sam Is missing a great
opportunity In spurning Russia's
"outstretched hand." He might,
like Finland, get an "invitation"
from Comrade Stalin to send
delegates to Moscow to draft
a peace treaty.