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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.