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Newspaper Page TextU. Of 0. Library ' Cornp, Eugene, Oregon ecord Turnout of Voters Indicated n WW ;V, .-c r 4I raft if KNINC OUT TONIGHT AND TOMORROW NICHT Mrs. Lola Rics and her I I children have their dinner in the open after their eviction from a Chicago apartment. Lorraine, 19, ladles out soup to (left to right), Jack, 6; Mary Ellon, 4; Robert, I I; Tommy, 8; Bernice, 5; Helen, 12; Loretta, 9; and Ruth, 15. Mrs. Ries holds six-months-old Alice. Another son, Albert, 14, is not in the pic ture. INEA Teiephoto) 4 Killed As 2 Cars Crash ALBANY, Ore., May 21 f.T) A Klama'.h Falls man and three Lane County residents were killed almost instantly last night in a head-on collision at the city limits at Halsey. Both cars were demolished. Not an occupant survived. The dead: Ellis William Snyder, 47, Klamath Falls, alone in a car traveling south. Fred Earl Jackson, 27, Rt. 1,. Crcswell, owner o the north bound car. Robert Paul Fraser, 2G, Dis si on route, Cottage Grove, riding in Jackson's car. A woman, also in Jackson's car, who was tentatively identified by letters in her purse as Mrs. Frances E. Dooley, Cottage Grove. The bodies were brought here. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I S this is written, an Arab i League spokesman in Cairo in complete control in Jerusalem. He adds that all Jews in the Holy C'iiy have surrendered. In Tel Aviv, the Jewish war de partment says: "Israel's troops smashed through the Arab-held Zion gate to the old city of Jeru salem today, linked up with Jew ish defenders and widened a breach in the Arab ring in heavy fighting." ST certainly sounds like a few years ago, when the progress of the shooting war all depended on which side you were listening to. LET'S keep this war in the Holy Land straight in our minds. The Jews (with the place they had won for themselves in Eu rope destroyed by Nazi butchery and oppression) are fighting for a home in which to live and work. The Arabs are fighting for n land they have held so long they have come to think of it as theirs. If Jews pour into Palestine from all over Europe,' the Arabs will Ije crowded out. The Big Powers (including the United States, Russia and what is i left of France and Britain) are "not much concerned with the (Continued on Page Two) STUDIED FLYING IN COMIC BOOKS Two Fifth-Grade Boys Of Oklahoma Pilot Stolen Plane Almost to Texas OKLAHOMA CITY, May 21. .-P) Two fifth-graders who studied Jiving in comic books confessed to the state patrol last night they piloted a stolen plane almost to Texas. "There is no doubt about it," the patrol said. The plane was a two-place Ercoupe with simplified controls advertised as nearly fool-proof. "Thev said it was easy," trooper Arch Hamilton said. "They'd looked at some comic books that told all about it. They thought we were silly not to know how. "They made a perfect landing." Astonishment at the 120-mile flinht air distance almost drowned out talk of a juvenile court hearing tomorrow morning. "It's incredible . . .1 am astound ed. This is more than mere mis- chief." one of the fathers, attor - nev Burney P. Bodard, said. The grndo.erhool aviato-s are Jimmv Bodard. 11. and Robert i Ronald Peterson.. 12. Both families " are prominent h"re. Robert, the lnreest, weighs 85 pounds. Troopers cracked the case when all evidence pointed to an un- believable but unescapable con- 1 P J ' Boeing Plant Needs 1,000 More Skilled Workers WICHITA, Kns., May 21. (P The Wichita division of Boeing Airplane Company called today for 1,000 additional skilled work ers for its bomber modernization program for the air force. Of these, it said, 870 are needed within the next ten days. Already, its announcement re vealed, its payroll at Wichita has risen to 250 per cent of its March 25 level. Two types of four-engine bomb ers the B-29 and its post-war improved version the B-50 are being worked on in the wartime plant II, reopened under air force ownership. Already up 2,278 workers since late March, the Wichita nayroll stands at 4.000 and is expected to reach between 0,000 and 7,000 by August 1 for the two local Boeing plants. Traffic Ticket Takes Off Limit for Visitors OLYMPIA, Wash., May 21. f.T) The slate's capital city is wel coming its out-of-state visitors with a new type of traffic ticket. It permits them to park as long as they like. Sponsored by the Police Depart ment and Junior Chamber of Commerce, the tickets, signed by font uniei Koy l,. Kelly, read: "This ticket is to tell you as a visitor to our capital city you may park as long as you like, but please be reasonabie and please do not park in safety zones or near lire hydrants. "We hope your stay here will be a pleasant one. If there is any thing we can do to make it so, or any Information you desire, please call on us." R. H. S. Commencement Will be Held May 23 Commencement exercises for the senior class at Roseburg High School will be Friday, Mav 28, at 8 p. m. not Wednesday as previously reported, it was an nounced today by Alva Laws, principal. Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of business administration at the University of Oregon, has been announced as the commence ment sneaker. Accused Man Faints In Proof of His Timidity BIRMINGHAM, England, May 21 tP) Trembling Miss Jane Underhill, 57, told a Birm ingham court she sat petrified while a holdup man threatened her with a knife and ransacked her home. - "But," she told the court, he suddenly turned to me and said: "I am just as frightened as you are, really.' " There was a thud in the dock. James Battle, 34, accused of the holdup, had fainted. elusion. Hookey Provides Clue Jimmy and Robert played hook ey from school Monday, and were reported missing the next day. Tuesday night they were picked up in the little Western Oklahoma town of Cheyenne, due west of here and 18 miles from the Texas panhandle. Thev told a likely story of hitch-hikin" by road, and Wednesday their folks brought thme back home. But yesterday the sheriff of Roger Mills County found the ErcoUDe abandoned in a field , eight miles northwest of Chev- enne. i Inspectors from the CAA traced ! the numbers to Ted Golier. form- er Ercoupe dealer at the down town airpark here. It hadn t been seriously missed. "When we out it to them thev broke down and told us all about it, ' Sgt. Otis Hamilton said. The Weather Mostly cloudy with scattered showers today and Saturday; little change in temperature. Established 1873 Jerusalem's Capture by Defenders Of City Reduced To Thin Line Desperate Last Stand Of Jews Made in Synagogue; Truce Try Held Hopeless By DANIEL De LUCE WITHIN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM, May 21 (.OT The end of a four-day-old battle for old walled Jerusalem seemed to be in sight today. Arabs claimed last night that their forces controlled 80 per cent of the did city, seized by their forces or abandoned by the Jews. The Jewish Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi had been driven back to a thin defense line along the west side of the Jewish quarter. Midway of that line, they were holed up for a last stand In the Beit Yaacov or Hurva Synagogue, on a spot where Jews have wor shipped for 700 years and two earlier temples have been de stroyed. The Jews withdrew Into that synagogue yesterday with Arab capture ot the literet Israel isyn agogue, Jerusalem's tallest struc ture, to the east. King Abdullah's Trans-Jordan Arab Legion was at their backs, threatening-to block escape. The legion had most of the Armenian quarter, west of the Jewish sec tion. It was reported unofficially in firm control ot Zion Gate just below that quarter in the south ernmost of Jerusalem's 400-year-old walls. Legionnaires on the gate traded automatic weapon fire yesterday with Jews In a school on Mount Zion a few score yards away. (A delayed dispatch from Carter L. Davidson of the Asso ciated Press in the Jewish area of Jerusalem said that when 100 young Jews penetrated-Zion Gate Wednesday, It was the first time in almost 500 years the city walls had been forced. The dispatch was dated Wednesday. The Jews went in to reinforce defenders of the Jewish quarter.) In the new city outside the walls, the legion had thrust from the northern limits down Ramal lah Road to the Damascus Gate on the north side of the old city and last night was trying to clear the Jews from Allenby Square opposite the gate. West of there, legion gunners pushed back Jewish defenders Continued on Page Six) Commerce Head Backs Dad of Red WASHINGTON, May 21 OF) Commerce Secretary Sawyer to day rejected a congressman's re quest that he drop a high Com merce Department official whose 2-year old daughter works here for Tass, the Russian news agency. ' Sawyer said Rep. Crawford (R.Mich.) ' had suggested that Sawyer "request the resignation" of the official, John C. Virden of Cleveland, Ohio, head of the De partment's Office of Industry Co operation. But Sawyer, a Cincinnati law yer who took office as secretary only two weeks ago, released a letter to Crawford saying: 1. Asking Virion's resignation "is unnecessary, as he has al ready . tendered his resignation without suggestion from me." 2. Virden's daughter associated herself with a Communits group "against his wishes", and Virden is "vigorously opposed" to Com munism, and is "in no way dis qualified" to hold his government post. 3. I shall ask him to remain but if he feels that he does not wish to have his personal family atiairs tne subject oi lurther public discussion I shall acquisce in nis decision. Sentences For Contempt Given 2 Movie Writers WASHINGTON, May 21.-1JP) Movie writers John Howard Law-son and Dalton Trumbo were each sentenced to a year in jail and fined 51,000 today for con temnt of Congress. Federal District Judge David A. Pine sentenced Trumbo, script writer of "Mi Seconds (iver Tok yo." Judge Edward M. Curran imposed the penally on Lawson author of such films as 'Sma-jhup' and "Blockade." The sentencing came after both were denied new trials. Lawson was convicted April 19 and Trum bo Mav 5. Both were accused of refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities committee last fal whether they were Communists Eight other Hollywood figures were Indicted on similar charges. All have announced plans to ap peal their caies to higher courts, ROSEBURG, Jury Awards Patient $1,200 From Surgeon Who Left Gauze, Pin OKLAHOMA CITY. May 21. (P) A yard of gauze and a safety pin left inside a patient after an operation are worth $1,200 damages from an Oklahoma City surgeon, a district court jury decided here yesterday. The jury overrode medical tes timony, from as far away as Harvard university, mat me ma terials could not have caused a second cancer for Thomas F. Winston, McAlistcr, Okla., con tractor. Winston, the plaintiff and pa tient, said Dr. Raymond L. Mur- dock left a yard of gauze sponge, a safety pin, ana a nemosiat in side him. He sued for $84,000. Dr. Murdock conceded the gauze and pin were taken out in a second operation seven weeks later, but denied the hemo- stato was in tne collection, a hemostate is a scissors-like clamp used to block blood vessels in a major 0eration. Union Shop Votes Barred In 13 States WASHINGTON. May 21 (P) The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that it can not hold union shop elections in 13 states which have bans or regu lations covering tne subject. The ruling is based on a ma jority opinion of three of its five memDers. The agency said the Taft-Hartley act "in effect removes all fed eral restrictions upon existing and future state legislation pro- niDiting compulsory unionism . . . even where such legislation may affect employees engaged In interstate commerce." The Taft-Hartley law bans the "closed shop" but allows a union shop if a majority o workers vote jor.it. .. - , ... ,v .. .. In a closed shop, only union members can be hired. In a union shop, the management may hire a non-union man but he must join the union after his employ ment. The NLRB had no estimate of the number of workers who would be unable to obtain union shop elections under the ruling. The affected states are Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia; Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, North Carolina, iorin uaxoia, souin uaxoia lennessee, Texas, Virginia. Threat to Kill Charge Filed by Grand Jury Murle S. Medford of Myrtle Creek was indicted for allegedly "threatening the commission of a felony,' in the only true bill returned mis week oy tne Doug las County Grand Jury. Four secret indictments were returned, and four not true bills. Medford was accused in the in dictment of threatening to kill a Myrtle Creek police officer last reo. zb. his case may oe tried at tne coming term ot cir cuit Court Not true bills were returned In the following cases: Charles H. Hunter, accused of assault with a dangerous weap on March 26, in allegedly strik ing iynn cioua witn a billiard cue. Andrew John Taylor, accused of soliciting a prostitute at Reeds- port Feb. 21. George Parks, accused of rape, allegedly occurring last Sept. 20, a 15-year-old girl. Michael Mattes, accused of threatening the commission of a felony, in allegedly threatening to his wife to kill their infant child. Officers Elected By International Rotary RIO DE JANEIRO, May 21 (JP. Delegates to the Interna tional Rotary convention here wound up their work last night with the election of officers. Charles G. Tennent, of Ash ville, N. C, was elected first vice president of the world organiza tion and a mcrriher of the board of directors. Angus S. Mitchell, of Mel bourne, Australia, was Installed as international president, suc ceeding S. Kendrick Guernsey, of Jacksonville, Fla. Harry F. Russell, of Hastings. Neb., was named director for the western United States. Next year's convention will be held in New York. Schools' Money Plight "Disgrace," Truman Says PHILADELPHIA, May 21. (JP President Truman yesterday termed the financial plight of the country s puonc scnool system "a disgrace." Speaking before 1,300 students of the Girard College the Presi dent deplored the fact that "the richest country in the world" lacks public educational facilities to meet Its needs and "underpaid teachers" to instruct its youngsters. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY End of Meat Strike Looms In Union Vote (By the Associated Press) The possible end of the pro longed meat strike and removal of a strike threat at International Harvester Company plants were origin spots in tne nation s indus trial strife today. Results of the vote by the striking CIO packinghouse work ers on whether to end their 67 day old strike were expected to be announced today at the union's national headquarters in Chicago. Herbert March, strike director, predicted the vote to end the work stoppage on company terms will lavor return to an plants except Wilson and Company. He pre dicted a close vote for returning to (work at plants of three other major packers Swift, Cudahy antl Armour. s the votes were being tabu lated, National Guardsmen con tinued to patrol strike-bound plants in Waterloo, la., and in Albert Lea. South St. Paul and Newport. Minn., scenes of recent disorders. The big Rath packing plant, at Waterloo, la., closed for 24 hours after rioting in which a CIO pack- ingnouse union picket was Killed, reopened for limited production under protection of nearly 1,000 National Guardsmen. The reopening went off calmly. Last week state troops were sent into the violence-ridden pack ing plants at South St. Paul, New port and Albert Lea. The guards men were called out in both Min nesota and Iowa after issuance of court injunctions banning mass picketing. Pay Boost Accepted The estimated 100,000 striking Continued on Page Six) Social Security Law Exr4nsion to be Asked f WASHINGTON, May 21. President Truman will ask Congress in a special message to extend benefits of the Social Security law. Senator Barkley, Senate min ority leader, said after a White House conference today that the message will go to Capital Hill within a few days. Presumablly the message will recommend extension of social security benefits to farm labor, domestics, self-employed persons and other groups not now cov ered. - Barkley Raid that in addition to the extension of coverage to new classes, the question of in creased benefits to those already covered was discussed. As to whether there is any chance for congressional anion, Barkley said, "Ihe. president hopes so." , Bill Provides U. S. To Pay for Meat Inspection WASHINGTON, May 21 -W) The House passed and sent to the While House yesterday a Dill pro viding that the government snail pay the $12,000,000 annual cost of meat inspection. iThe inspection cost now is paid ny pacKers. The Senate previously had act ed on the bill. U. S. HITS BACK AT SOVIET TABOO Entry of Russians Into American Zone, Germany. Restricted to One Point BERLIN, May 21. (IP) United States occupation authorities retaliated today against Russian border crossings taboos. They re stricted the entry of Soviet missions to the American zone of Ger many to a single frontier point. American officials said iast night's ruling was made by Eu ropean command headquarters at Frankfurt because the Russians decreed that the American mili tary mission stationed at Potsdam could cross Into the Soviet zone only at Helmstedt. The Americans responded by notifying members of thefour Russian missions in the U. S. zone that they, too could cross only at Helmstedt. Helmstedt Is in the British zone on the Soviet border and Is on the highway linking Berlin with the west. The American mission pre viously was allowed to cross the Soviet zone border at any point. American authorities emphas ized that the action does not mean a closing of the borde between the U. S. and Soviet zones. They called It merely a reciprocal move affecting only official soviet mis sions. The American mlll'.ary govern ment In Berlin announced that Germans In the U. S. sector will be "protected against molestation and intimidation" by persons seeking signatures for a Com- 21, 1 948 Arabs Imminent Child of Plane Crash Victims to Have Home With Lookingglass Kin BOGOTA, Colombia, May 21. (P)- Leon Luther Adams, whose missionary family died in a plane crash in March, will be taken to his maternal grandparenls In Lookingglass, Ore., in December. U. S. Vice Consul Thomas Fav ell said their name te Andrus, hut could supply no further iden tification. The Rev. and Mrs. Luther Charles Adams, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, another son and daughter were killed March 10 with 10 Colombians when their transport plane hit a mountain. Young Leon had been left at the Open Bible Standard Mis sion School at EI Centra when his parents took off for Bogota. He Is now being cared for at El Centro by the Rev. O. L. Turner, an associate of Adams at the El Centro mission sschool. Mrs. Adams was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Andrus of Melrose. The Adamses were lo cated at Lookingglass prior to going to South America in 1A46 as missionaries for the Church of the Open Bible Standard. The two Adams children who died in the plane crash with their parents were Joy Belle, 16, and Charles, 14. Attempt To Settle R.R. Issue Fails WASHINGTON. May 21 OP) Negotiations to settle the 11- month-old railroad labor dispute broke up in failure today. No further meetings are sched uled, it was announced after four days of talks between railroad operators and heads of the en gineers,, firemen, and switchmen. Alvanley Johnston, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers, told reporters: "We've been endeavoring to reach an agreement with the railroads and we have failed. I do pot care to comment beyond that." D: P. Loomls, representing the western railroad companies, told reporters when today's fruitless session ended: . "Let's put it this way. The rail roads are not willing to go be yond the recommendations of the nresident'8 fact finding board. The. employes are not willing to accept that report. The president's board recom mended a wage rise of 15 13 cents an hour and certain changes in working rules. Most of the changes would increase the workers' "take home" nay. Tim unions first asked a 30 per cent wugc increase, but agreed finally to the 154 cents proposed by the president's board. The settlement efforts broke down over failure to get together on working rules. ADAM, EVE TO WED WATERBURY, Conn., May 21 (JF) Adam and Eve will be married here Sunday. Invitations have been sent out for the wedding of Miss Eve Shkymba and Adam Hlhailoff at St. Mary's Greek orthodox church. munlst-inspired national plebiscite on a unllled Germany. The petitions already had been Austrian Peace Efforts Of Two Years Collapse LONDON, May 21. fP Four-power efforts to write a peace treaty for occupied Aus tria hit dead end today, after nearly two years of futile negotiations. Official United 8tates sources said the negotiations broke down completely Wednesday, after a two-week temporary suspension during which efforts were made to compromise the differences between Russia and the western powers the United States, Britain and France. As a result, these informants said, It was decided last niqht to call off the confabs Indefin itely. banned In the western section of Germany. The announcement said the plebiscite is "needless and pointless. lew 121-48 City's Voters Trek to Polls At Brisk Rate Although cloudy skies threat ened rain in Roseburg this morn ing, voting was brisk at the eight city polling places, precinct work ers reported. By Mid-morning. from five to 10 per cent of the registered voters had cast ballots, which was considered "average" participation in the election. Polling places will remain open until 8 o'clock tonight. Voting on the city budget, which also takes place today, will end at 6 o'clock, according to provisions of the city charter, which limit miindcipal elections to the hours ot u a. m. to b p. m. Local issues and local candi dates in the election have been almost completely overshadowed dv tne Republican presidential preference primary. Yesterday saw the close of one of the most strenuous campaigns ever waged in Oregon that of Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and ex-Governor Harold E. Stas sen of Minnesota for the 12 dele gates to the Republican national convention. To remind the voters to go to the polls today, several business houses and the Chamber of Com merce were answering their tele phones, "Good morning! Have you voted yet?" The get-out-and-vote reminder was painted on sldewelks by the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. Several groups were offering free rides to the polls to those who lacked transportation. County and City offices, banks, taverns, and the state liquor store are closed today, and political activities have ceased while tne voters decide the various issues in the election with their ballots. Slayer His Own Lawyer OLYMPIA. May 21 P) For the first time in the memory of court attaches, a convicted slayer was to plead his own case before tne state supreme court today. The slayer, Jake Bvrd. was con victed in Pierce county superior court of killing a Tacoma woman. Subsequently he confessed several other slaylngs across the country. Attorneys who represented him In the lower court and another law firm which handled prelim inary matters before the supreme court have withdrawn from the case. Two days ago Bird rejected the services of u third atturney, court-ussigned. Bird's scheduled appearance be fore the high court tills after noon is to seek an order direct ing the lower court to prepare a transcript of his trial at county expense. The transcript is neces sary liefore Bird can perfect ills appeal from his ilrst degree murder conviction. Lovers Infest Square Holding FOR Statue LONDON, May 21-(P Gros venor Square, beautified to be a fitting setting for the newly un veiled statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt, has become infested with lovers, according to com plaints to the ministry of works. They sit on the grass in great numbers, and even lie on it, to the dl.sgtist of some Mayfnir neighbors. One of the neighbors is the United States Embassy but, according to a spokesman, no complaint has come from there. "The state department has taken no notice, but as Individuals we have of course noticed a few things," he said. Tbe Works Ministry has as signed uniformed attendants who chase all the lovers into Hyde Park. Hope About Abandoned For Missing Anglers BEND, May 21 (I') Hope for tne two uaKriuge men wno van ished while fishing in the Wicki up reservoir last Tuesday was virtually abandoned today. A search for the two men Fred Rlchter, 57, and J. P. Hand ley, 53 still continued, however. Searchers discovered Handley's fishing rod, reel and line in the water yesterday. The hunt started when the men's boat was found capsized. Begins Prison Term For Theft of 2 Sticks of Gum SALEM, Ore., May 21 P Walter Brokus, who began serv ing a two-year prison term today, doubtless thinks the crime was hardly worth it. Brokus was sentenced for the burglary of a warehuose. The burglary netted him two sticks ot gum. Good Weather Points to Big Oregon Ballot No Prediction Offered By Dewey or Stassen; State Races Eclipsed PORTLAND. May 21 UP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen came to an end of the Oregon political trail today in their race for uregons Republican presidential favor. H was a photo finish to a fu rious and sometimes acrimonious three weeks ot campaigning. Neither the New Yorker nor the Minnesotan was bold enough to claim victory In advance or today's voting. As polls opened at 8 a. m. over cast hut generally favorable weather was In prospect through out the state. As a consequence, a record turnout was Indicated. Republi can registration was at an all time high ot 322,490, of which 65 or 70 per cent were expected to cast ballots before poll closing time at 8 p. m. Obscuring the outcome are two factors new to this year's elec tions. One is a 39 per cent Increase in Oregon's population since the war. The other, a corollary, is a 30 per cent Increase in registra tion since the 1944 elections. The count was expected to be slow. Closeness of the contest made it probable the final out come might not be known before Saturday evening. Candidates Depart In keeping with Oregon tradi tion, both Stassen and Dewey were to leavo the state today without waiting for the final re sults. Stassen was scheduled to fly to Minnesota in preparaton for a visit to Springtield, Mo., next Monday or Tuesday. Sometime next week he Is duo back on the West Coast to pay a call on Gov. Earl Warren of California. Gov. Dewey flies to Spokane and Seattle today. Tomorrow he calls on Warren at Sacramento and spends the night in Reno, Nev. He then goes to Salt Lake City Sunday, Poeatello and Butte Monday, New York City Tues day, and Trenton, N. J., Wednes day. State Races Eclipsed Almost lost in the fanfare of the presidential primary was the largest stale ballot in uregoq nis. toXy. , For the"'flrst time slnce 1916, ' Oregon nominates a governor, " secretary of state and state treas urer all at the same time. In addition nominees are to be named for four congressional (Continued on Page 3) In Killing Of Police Head NEWARK. N. J May 21. (JP) A Newark police captain was killed today in nis neaaquarters office by a bullet from his service revolver, and a 39-year-old red haired waitress was held for questioning. Police Capt. Thomas J. Rowe, 55, a veteran of nearly 33 years on the force, succumbed about an hour after being shot at first pre cinct headquarters, which he commands. Essex County Prosecutor Duane E. Minard said the woman, iden tified by police as Mrs. Ann Pow ers, formerly of Uniontown, Pa., was being questioned by city and county detectives. No charge has been made against her. Police Chief John Haller said Rowe and the woman walked in to first precinct headquarters shortly after 4 a. m. and went to the captain's office. Ten minutes later Lieut. Wil liam Vlllle, on duty at the infor mation desk, heard a single shot and saw the woman running from the office, Haller said. Haller said sHe was employed as a waitress in a local bar anil apparently had joined Capt. Rowe after finishing her work early this morning. Baby Killed in Auto Accident Near Eugene EUGENE, Ore.. May 21 UP) Bonnie Thompson, (J-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Thompson of Los Angeles, was killed this morning when the Thompson car, traveling south from Everett. Wash., struck a bridge abultment near the Junc tion of highway 99 and the Irv ing road north of here. Mrs. Thompson, 21, is suffer ing Jrom cerebral concussion; Thompson, 26, from facial lacera tions; Fern Anderson, 16, a pas senger, a broken nose, and Tom my Thompson, 18 months, was only slightly injured. Mrs. Thomp son is the most seriously Injured. evity pact fant By L. F. Relzenstein Portland City Council Is to vote on a proposal for daylight saving. A lot of it will bo needed particularly to ar.commodato the Beaver baseball club, re posing in the Pacific Coasr League cellar.