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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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?