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4 U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon Comp 1 POSSE mm m mm m WHO DOES WHAT Wn; MAURY VOCELPOHL, Sutherlin barber, is shearing the locks of Bruce Pope, senior In the Sutherlin high school who is, I strongly suspect, 'purtying' himself up for graduation. Maury's father, the late August Vogelpohl, started this shop just about the time the town was stared in 1910. For several years Maury worked in Roseburg for Waler Good, but has been in Sutherlin now for about 10 years, I believe. A year ago In April he nearly lost the sight of both eyes In an accident but recovered ts the extent that he now has about 50 per cent vision in one. Soviet-Type Constitution Adopted For East Germany, But Timetable Awaits Result Of Parley In Paris By DANIEL DE LUCE BERLIN, May 31. (.) East German Communisti threw a cloak ol mystery today about their timetable for Eastern Germany. "There is no necessity to establish an East German state," Prof. Hermann Kastner, head of the newly chosen People's Council, told a reporter. "Even if there were such an Idea it would certainly not be discussed now, while the foreign ministers are meeting In Paris and trying to reach an agreement on the unification of Germany." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A BRITISH court refuses to send Communist Gerhart Eisler back to the United States to face the music he dodged when he jumped hii bail a while back and fled. The British court's view of it is that sending him back to us would violate the right of political sanctuary. GOODY! Goody! It's good rid dance of bad rubbish, and not having to bring him back and chew it all over again will give us more time to run some of our other Communist hell -raisers ragged. THE latest on the academic freedom ruckus up at Cor vallis: The two "dispensed-with" pro fessors address a meeting on the campus. A student In the audience asks one of them to state flatly whether or not he- is a Commu nist. The professor refuses to say. (Continued on Page Four) Woman Decapitated By Train In Suicide Act KVW YORK. M.iv 31 P A young woman deliberately laid Supreme Court ruled such mar her head on an Independent sub-j riages were legal. Woods wheeled wav track in Brooklyn today, po-lhis intended bride to the marri lice' reported, and was decapitated 'age bureau three times before a 'bv an on-rushing ten-car train. i license was granted. The third "The woman was tentatively I time she brought along a physi idemified as Dorothy S. Klar, Ician's statement that she under about 35, of Brooklyn. 'stood the step she was taking. HOUSING FOR LOW INCOMES Legislation Launched To Aid 'Neglected Group' Of 30 Perct. Of Population WASHINGTON, May 31. ? A drive of undetermined strength developed today behind legislation for government encouragement to provide housing for middle-Income families. Sponsors describe these as families with annual earnings of $2,500 to $4,000. Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell (D Wash) told newsmen that 21 house members are Jointly sup porting a bill that, with federal loans, would help this income gr)up to get housing at payments of not over $55 a month. "This is the neglected group In the housing picture," Mitchell said. "It comprises over 30 per j cent of the population. Housing offered by privatp builders is be yond their means. The housing hill now being pressed before Congress neglects them, too, as it intends to aid the lowest in come groups." The West Coast member put In a plug for mindle-income housing administration Democrats threatened to force the admini corporative, mutual housing as tration's housing measure out of soriations and limited dividend the House Rules Committee and I corporations. The Communist - led Peode's Congress yesterday adopted a So- viei-iype constitution claiming to speak for all this country. They chose 400 members of a People's Council to serve as a government, including in the list. Gerhart Eis ler. Communist fugitive from American who hasn't been here since Nazi days. Kastner was named co-president of the coun cil. Kastner, who heads a splinter party of Liberal Democrats, de scribed the East German consti tution as "only a draft." The con stitution has been viewed as Rus sia's answer to the West German constitution ratified by the stales of the three Western occupation tones. "It i not a constitution which will become formally effective." Kastner added. "It isa product of all ideological and political (Continued on Page Two) White Woman, 90, Wife Of Negro, 28, Passes Away LOS ANGELES, May 31. !P) Last January, Mrs. Adriana Eu genie Nicholson, thrice-widowed and 90, married her young Negro chauffeur because "I want him to have my property. I don't have long to live." She died Saturday at her home here. Her husband, Allan L. G. Woods, 28, said of her yesterday, "Mommy had been ill for years but it was pneumonia that finally took her away she was a great woman, a great woman." The inter-racial marriage li cense issued to Woods and the wealthy white woman was one of the first after the California bring a vote on the House floor. This multi-billion dollar bill, al ready passed 57 to 13 by the Senate, calls for a vast program of slum clearance, low-rent pub lic housing and farm housing aids. Mitchell said Banking Chair man Spence iD-Kyt has promised public h earings on his middlein- come housinp bill when the con troversy over the administration's housing measure is cleared. He conceded, however, that It may be too late to obtain passage this year. "But," he added, "the ground can be prepared for early action next year." The measure proposes direct low-rate. 60-year loans for housing construction by The Weather Cloudy with intermittent light rain today, beginning portly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. Warm er Wednesday. Sunset today 7:45 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:34 a. m. Established 1873 Glide Boy Drowns In N. Umpqua Robt. Lovelace Meets Death While Angling Victim, 19, Swept From Little River, Only Male In Glide Senior Class Rody of Robert Andrews Love lace, i9, of Glide was recovered Monday night by a search party using fishing poles to drag the North Umpqua River. The youth had accidentally fallen into Lit tle River Sunday afternoon, 100 feet above the point where the stream joins the North Umpqua. The body was found approxi mately 80 feet downstream from the junction. The only boy in the senior class, young Lovelace was to have been graduated this week trom Glide High School. The body was found by Bill Parks, Gene Shrum, Beb Case beer Jr., Bob Casebeer Sr., and Herb Melvin. all of Glide. Sur viving are the boy's mother, Mrs. Zena Lovelace; one sister, two brothers, and aunts and uncles living at Glide. The Lovelace boy had last Been seen as he fished from a rock on Little River. He shouted a greet ing about 2:30 to two men cross ing the Little River Bridge at Glide. Although his tumble into the water was not actually ob served, he was seen to sweep around the rocks into the North Umpqua. Ranger Directs Search One of the men, identified as a teacher in the Glide High School, (Continued on Page Two) Man Confesses Guilt In Torso Murder Finding KLAMATH FALLS, May 31. (Pi Sheriff Jack Franey an nounced last Saturday that Wil liam H. Rice, Klamath Falls ce ment contractor, is held in the county jail on first degree mur der charges growing out of the discovery of the dismembered torso of a woman in Klamath River Friday. Sheriff Franey said that Rice came voluntarily into his office Saturday and confessed that he had killed Mrs. Rice and dis posed of the body In the river. On advice of his attorney, the contractor refused to divulge further information, the sheriff said. Franey immediately filed the first degree murder charges and lodged Rice in jail without bail. Sheriff Franey said Rice told him that the woman's head, arms and legs were disposed of in the river along with the trunk which was found Friday neatly pack aged and floating among tules near the Klamath River bridge live miles southwest of town on U. S. 97. The sheriff ordered further search of the river. City police revealed they had been investigating reports from neighbors about the alleged dis appearance of Mis. Rice from the family home at 304 South Rogers St., Klamath Falls, and the case immediately came up for further sifting when the dismem bered bodv was found in the river by M. C.'Cook. Grayson Back In Jail For Spree After 7-Month Stay HOLLYWOOD, May 31. (Pi Hal Grayson, who once earned S5.000 a week as a big time band leader. Is hack in jail again today for the umpteenth time for drunk eness. Grayson is just five days out of a county jail camp after serv ing seven months on drunk charges. Yesterday on his 41st birth day he was arrested after he shoved his fist through a window at his aunt's house trying to get in. He was taken to the prison ward of General Hospital suffer ing from loss of blood. Strike Settled At Ford Motor Factory 'Br The Attoeiated PrtMl Operations were resumed todav at the rord .Motor ( omnanv. A j strike Involving 106.000 prodtic i t ion workers ended in its 21th Idav earlv Sundav. The company and the CIO Unit ed Auto Workers drew up a plan for naming an arbitrator of a dispute over union charges of speedup on the assembly line. If they cannot agree on an arbi trator within three davs. each will select one member for a board which will deliver a "final and binding" verdict. Two weeks are expected to pass before full scale automobile building can be attained. ROSEBURG, INCREDIBLE MISMANAGEMENT' Charge Against Lilienthal, Head Of Atomic Energy Board, Will Be Answered By Him At Senate Quiz By OLIVER W. DE WOLF WASHINGTON, May 31. (fl") David E. Lilienthal will be called before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy to morrow to meet the charges of "incredible mismanagement" levelled against the Atomac Energy Commission by Senator Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa). POOL FOR $67,000 Other Cities Ask Slankard How He Pruned Cost The fame of Roseburg's Mu nicipal Swimming Pool, con structed at a cost of only $67,000, if. spreading to other Oregon cities. Already City Manager Matt Slankard has had requests from other city officials asking how it was done. La Grande's city manager wrote, sending his congratula tions, and asking for the Rose burg plans and specifications. He stated that city expects to start plans lor swimming pool very soon. A telephone call was received from the city manager at Baker, asking complete history on costs, specifications, and especially the procedure for raising funds. Coquille and Coos Bay also have shown considerable interest in the planning and construction. ledlord, which already nas a swimming pool under way, last Friday passed a special oono elec tion to raise funds for completion of the project, fcxact estimates on the cost are not available. . Russians Put Limit On Travelers' Jewelry WEISBADEN, Germany, May 31. W) The Russians decreed today any West German entering the Soviet zone of Germany can wear only one kind of ring a wedding ring. West German border police headquarters said the curb on jewelry for travelers ; was an nounced by East zone railway police, on Russian orders. A traveler from West to East Ger many, thev said, can wear no more than this: One wrist watch, one wedding ring, and, if a wom an, one pair of ear bobs. Bolivia Mine Strike Brings Siege Edict LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 31. UP) The government declared a state of siege throughout Bolivia last night as striking mine workers seized more hostages and the walkout spread through the tin producing area. Iwo more mines and a railroad were reported closed in the strife- torn Calavia area nigh in the An des where at least 27 persons. including two. American engi neers, were killed in a bloody weekend rioting. Color-Bearing Vet Stricken In Parade ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Mav 31. Wl Michael Abbin. 74-year-old Spanish-American War vet eran, suffered a fatal heart at tack while carrying the colors in the Memorial Day parade Mon day. He was a native of Queens County, Ireland, and had lived in Albuquerque 27 years. He col lapsed In the street and was pro nounced dead on arrival at a hospital. , 1 fi ; , - ' ' . ' i . . k i ! ' it f ' ,' i, I. t i i . - j HONOR THE DEAD Servlcei were conducted at the gave of the unknown soldier in the Roseburg Veterens Cemetery Mon day, by this honor guerd representing local veterans groups. M emorial Day observances Included a service in the recreation building at the Roseburg Veterans Hospital and a ceremony i honor of soldiers, sailors end marines lost at sea, at the Veterans Bridge spanning the South Umpqua River. This service in the cemetery concluded the observances. (Picture by Jerome Sheldon.) OREGON TUESDAY, MAY Meanwhile, Senator Taft, Sen ate Republican policy leader, dis closed that he has told Hicken looper "that I will support his stand." He said he voted against Lili enthal's confirmation as AEC head two years ago because "I didn't think he was the right man for the job and I don't think so now." The Federation of American Scientists, which includes many of the men who helped develop the atomic bomb, lined up in Lilienthal's corner. The Federa tion's five-man administrative commijtee said in a joint state ment: "We have come to the unani mous conclusion that from the evidence so far presented, not one of the present attacks on the management of the Atomic En ergy Commission is well found ed.'' The latest words between the two antagonists started with a series of statements made by Lilienthal to three newsmen yes terday in his office. Referring occasionally to a sheaf of pencilled notes which he had prepared, Lilienthal tore into Hickenlooper' charges as "calculated to arouse fear, un easiness, fright and ultimately panic." The gravity of the charges, he continued, is such as to "under. mine the confidence of this coun try and the people of Western Europe In the principal security enterprise oi mis country . . He also said some people, whom he did not identify, be lieve the inquiry will "break my health." Then he added that the AEC will get its work done "and mv health will take care of it self." Hickenlooper has asked that (Continued on Page Two) Holiday Deaths In Oregon Mishaps 8 (By The Anociatrd Preail The lone Memorial Dav week. end holiday claimed eight lives in uregon. Three died in hishwav crashes. Three were drowned, logging equipment crushed a youth at play, and a toddler choked to death on a crayon while visiting nis granuparonis nome. Arthur E. Demning, 40 Prine ville lumber company employee, and his 8-year-old nephew, James Raclior, were drowned In the Ochoco reservoir yesterday. Dem ning was stunting a hoat, which overturned when he turned sharp ly. His widow and an unidenti fied visitor from Portland clung to the side of the boat and were rescued. The body of Robert Andrew Lovelace, 19, Glide, was taken from the Umpqua River late last night. Three-year-old Johnny Baker, son of Mr. and Mis. John E. Baker, Route 1, Venela. died yes lerday afler shoving a crayon into his niouth. John Gamble, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gamble, Route 1, Lorane, was crushed when a piling loader frame fell backwards and pinned him down. Killed previously in the high way accidents were W. D. Hedge, 61, Portland; John Eldiidge. 19, Eugene, and Leonard P. Larsen, 28, Yamhill. 31, 1949 Tribute Paid War Dead At Services Here Twofold Meaning Of Memorial Day Told By Rev. Hugh N. McCallum Tribute to those who sacrificed their lives In war was paid by local veterans groups, In Memo rial Day services at the Rose burg Veterans Hospital Monday. The Rev. Hugh N. McCallum, pastor of the First Christian Church at Eugene, gave the prin cipal address at the Indoor chapel service. In a ceremony held at the Vet erans Bridge, flowers were tossed on the waters of the South Umpqua River In memory of sailors, soldiers, and marines lost at sea. These rites were conduct ed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Gold Star Mothers. Prayers were read over the grave of the unknown soldier in the Veterans Cemetery, in a serv ice sponsored by the American Legion. Salutes were fired, both at the bridge and at the ceme tery, by an honor guard repre senting Co. D, 186th Infantry. Music was provided by the Rose burg Municipal Band. Day's Two-fold Meaning In his address at the Indoor chapel service, the Rev. Mr. Mc Callum pointed out that any Me morial Day service that "carries out the remembrance of those who have died that a people might live, must also review the firinciples for which that people ive. "Our Memorial Day Is an In- (Continued on Page Two) Accidents Claim 413 Lives Over Weekend Holiday (By the Associated Press) At least 413 persons were killed in accidents over the three-day Memorial Day weekend, tradi tional opening of the summer re sort and travel season. The score: 253 killed in traffic crashes. 87 drownings. 73 deaths in fires, falls, air plane mishaps and other acci dents. The period surveyed was from 6 p.m. in all time zones Friday until last midnight. I he toll on the highways jammed with some 30,000.000 automobiles over the extended holiday period exceeded the esti mate of 215 deaths by the Na tional Safety Council. Sunny skies lured millions to outings In the first long weekend of the spring season. This year's accidental death toll compared to an unofficial 404 over a similar period In 1947. The 1946 count was 292. California's 47 violent deaths led the nation. Illinois ranked second with 36 fatalities, while Ohio was third with 26. HISTORIC CLOCK 90 LONDON. May 31. Of) -Big Ben, the giant clock that booms the hours above the House of Parliament, Is 90 years old today. Big Hen has failed only once In these nine decades a, broken pendulum spring put It out of action In 1944. The clock was named afler Sir Benjamin Hall, chief works com missioner in 1858 when the clock was built. It started service In 1859. 127-49 A t 8 v , DIES IN CRASH William Al exander Julian, above, treasur er of the United States since 1933, was killed Sunday in a head-on automobile collision at nearby Bethesda, Md. He was on his way to the Burning Tree Coif Club for Sis customary Sunday morning foursome when his car collided with another auto driven by William Ellis, 37-year-old Negro. Ellis suffered severe lacerations. Daylight Saving This Midnight To Be Confusing IBy th Auoclaled Preiil Davlieht savings time descends In all its turmoil on the Pacific Northwest this midnight. In daylight time zones, clocks will move ahead one hour at midnight and will remain on fast time until midnignt facpt. do. All major Western Washington cities will jog their timepieces. East of the mountains, only Pasco will follow suit. Nclirly all Southwestern Wash Ingotn cities already are on day light time. They joined Portland. Northwest Oregon and a few scattered Central Oregon towns In moving the clocks up on April 15. The future of daylight time In Oregon Is in doubt because of a recent law, effective July 15, ban ning daylight time in that state unless both Washington and Cali fornia move up their watches. California stays on standard time this year. Bus, train and plane schedules will remain on standard time, heightening the confusion. U. S. Orders Closing Of Consulate At Mukden WASHINGTON, May 31 UP) The United States has ordered the closing of its consulate at Mukden, Manchuria, which the Communists have kept isolated from the outside world for the last six months. The Stale Department said to day orders have been issued for the recall of Consul General Angus Ward of Chassell, Mich., Mri. Ward and the consular staff of nine personR. Ward was deprived of his ra dio communications when the Chinese Communists captured the city last November. Since then, he has been unable to com municate with the State Depart ment or other American consu lates In the Orient. Orders for the consulate clos ing weer Issued two weeks ago. The Department was still with out word today whether Ward ha received them. Barefoot Pair Scale Prison Wall J. O. Pinson, Slayer Of State Cop, W. P. Benson, Three-Timer, At Large SALEM, May 31 (PI Theft of two complete outfits of men's clothing hinted that two des perate escaped convicts still were in Salem early toda-'. John Omar Pinson, 31, and William P. Benson, went over the prison wall early yesterday clad only in overalls and shirts. They were barefoot. Bishops' a men's clothing store, was entered last night and some $300 worth of cloth ing and luggage stolen. Two complete outfits of suits, shirts and other apparel were In the loot. This was regarded as the best clue although many hours old to the whereabouta of the men. SALEM, Ore., May 31. WP) A hundred possemen, baffled In their search for two desperate convicts who sealed the stata prison's south wall early yester day, pressed after clues today. But at mid-morning they ad mitted not a single one that might stand up had been re ceived. They were after John Omar Pinson, 31, Pasco electrician serv ing life for shooting down a state patrolman, and William P. Ben son, 43, doing a five-year term for armed robbery. . Prison Warden George Alexan der said the men, who fled In bare feet, wearing only overall and shirts, are dangerous. One prison guard said, "I don't think we'll take them alive." And a state patrolman said, "I don't intend to do much talking If I see either of them." State and city police, sheriff's deputies and volunteers made a l.ouse-to-house search of the area south of the prison yesterday. Efforts to establish road blocks were hampered bv heavy Memor ial Day traffic. But police stop ped some cars. Reports that the men have been seen have come all the way trom the coast to eastern Oregon. in one nas stood up. A Portland home was prowled and a .25 caliber pistol stolen. This was one clue that police had to work on in seeking the men who sawed their way out of correction cells and escaped un der a guard's gunfire at 1:25 a. m. Monday. Escape Tried Before They were In the correction cells because of previous escape attempts Pinson in last Novem ber's flax plant fire and Benson for trying to break through hli (Continued on Page Two) Council Bans Call From Red Puppets PARIS, May 31 P The Western powers voted down to day Russia's proposal to Invite a delegation from the Communist dominated German People's; Congress to appear before the Foreign Ministers Council, French sources reported. Soviet Minister Vlshlnsky made the proposal during a two ami a half-hour speech in which, once again, he denounced the West ' German state established in the American, British and French zones of Germany. In anticipation of Vslhinsky'i request to the Council, the Peo ple's Congress of Soviet-occupied Germany yesterday had named a 22-man delegation which was ts present a case to the foreign ministers. Eisler Reaches Prague, Out Of American Reach PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May 31. (iP) Gerhart Eisler landed In Prague today, safely out of Ameri can reach, and gave Americans some free advice to get rid of "that damned fool, Tom Clark." Clark, attorney general of the United States, tried hard to get Britain to extradite the Commu nist leader as a fugitive from two Jail sentences. Kisler slipped secretly out oi Britain in a Czech airlines plane. He was afraid to let his planned departure he known, hp told re porters here, because of the risk of American "monkey business." He Is enroute to the Soviet zone of Germany to become a professor. Bathers Jump Gun On New Corvallis Pool CORVALUS, Ore., May 31. (JP) Warm weather has made the new municipal swimming pool popular hut officials have order ed the water drained. Police explained the pool was filled to test for possible leaks and the formal dedication is plan ned for a week or two later. Too many went in before the dedica tion. Lvity Fact Rant By L. F. Relrensteln Speaking of the weather forecasts of showers the last few weeks, Isn't it about time to bear down on the "scat" In scattered?