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f SUTHERLIN, Picturesquely Surrounded Papers In Spy Case Banned In Open Court Government Refuses To Introduce Them For Reasons Of Security WASHINGTON, June 2. UP) Twelve papers found in Judith Coplon's purse are not being of fered as government evidence in her espionage trial "on the grounds of security." This was disclosed yesterday by John M. Kelley Jr., a government prosecutor. . Miss Coplon's attorney, Archi bald Palmer, asked T. Scott Miller Jr., an FBI agent, whether there were papers in the defendant's purse other than those introduced yesterday over Palmer's objec tion. "Yes. there were other papers in the purse," Miller replied. Kelley arose to sav that the gov ernment had offered all the pa pers it "has seen fit to introduce." He added that the others were nm ueinK oiierea on me grounas of security." Subsequently Kelley said "on the basis of security of the United States." Federal Judee Albert L. Reeves ruled that Mil ler might answer questions about additional papers but not their contents. Palmer argued that there "Is no such thing as security in a courtroom." For the time being, at least, however, the defense attorney will not be allowed to see the omitted papers. Miller said all 12 of the papers not introduced were known as "data slips." These slips, the gov ernment says, contain extracts from reports of the FBI relating to "security matters and to sus pected espionage agents in the United States. Twenty-two such slips were In cluded in the papers introduced by the government. Persons Named Show Ire Persons named in the papers Introduced expressed shock and anger at being linked in any way with Communists. One FBI paper introduced as evidence in Miss Coplon's trial The World Moves So Do We Packing Crating Storage See Us for Free Estimates Agent for Lyon Van Lines Phone 927 Evenings 329-J-3 Roseburg Transfer & Storage FOR One 1 0-foot Frederick Meat Cast Two Barnes Scales Two Meat Blocks One Meat Slicer . . . Display Plotters One Froien Food.Cabinet Two Used Cash Registers One 10' x 14' Walk-In Box One 2 h. p. airceoled Copelend Compressor and tubing $ne office safe and miscellaneous store equipment WILL SELL VERY Contact Established 1873 Sensational Escapes From Oregon Prison Recalled By Break Of Pinson And Benson (By the Associated Press) Oregon prison breaks have led, in the past, to sensational man hunts recalled by the current search for John O. Pinson and Wil liam P. Benson. I The 1902 break of Harry Tracy and David 'Merrill was a blood streaked affair that had the whole Northwest trembling for two months. They shot their way out on June 9, 1902, killing three guards and another prisoner who sought to block them. They made their way to Portland, where they crossed the Columbia River in a rowboat, then hid from troops who scoured the area north to Kelso. The two men quarrelled, and on the night of June 28 Tracy shot Merrill in the back, killing mm. On July 3 Tracy was in a gun battle with searchers at Bothel. He killed three men a deputy, a policeman and a game warden. When the trail got hot again a couple of weeks later, he moved quoted a "report" that the secre tary of former Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes was a "contact" for the Soviet Embassy. That brought heated denials from both the woman, Ruth Gruber, and the fiery ex-cabinet member. She said she was never a con tact for anyone. Ickes snapped that in the first place she wasn't his secretary and in the second place she wasn't a Red. "If that's a test of the accuracy of the FBI, they'd better disband," he com mented. Alvin SInderband, a Georgetown University law student who was discussed obscurely along with his wife In another, non-FBI paper found in the Coplon purse, ex pressed "complete shock" that they were mentioned in any way. He said: "Miss Conlon had never approached us with a view to do ing soy activity or to feel us out on our poltlcal views." The paner in her pocketbook didn't say that they had been so approached. But ranibled about their politics. Miss Coplon is the 28-year-old former Justice Department ana lyst being tried here on charges of pilfering secret government pa pers with intent to help another nation. She has denied all guilt, save that of "knowing" a Russian. The Russian is Valentine A. Gubit chev, susoended employee of the United Nations, with whom she also is under indictment In New York on charges of espionage con spiracy. Teacher's Ancient Auto Appreciated By Students LAWTON, Okla. WP Students who have been taught by Miss Lily Stafford and ridden in her old jallopy for the past 29 years are going to show their apprecia tion. A "Lily Stafford Appreciation Fund" has been started to pur chase the Lawton high school science teacher a new car. Miss Stafford now is driving "Joan." her 1930 car which has 71.000 miles. "Joan" is still being used by Miss Stafford to carry stu dents to meets and events. She said the car was named after Joan d'Arc because "she has risen to the occasion many times." SALE REASONABLE By Rolling Hills, 1 " lrf""','tn)'l1ft!iil, "I" Till Vl'l I ' ' " " - - V. .4 l-. f ROSEBURG, OREGON over Snoqualmie pass. He was tracked down in a wheat field near Creston, Wash., and shot it out for hours with five men. When dawn came, he was found dead his own bullet in his brain. Two Hanged, 3rd Is Suicide There was another big hunt when James Willos, Ellsworth Kelley and Tom Murray shot their way out of orison on Aug. 12, 1925. Two guards were shot and killed. A fourth convict was killed in the escape. They later took four hostages from a Monitor pool hall. They hid out for a day at the Charles New man farm home near New Era, holding the family at gunpoint, then forced a son to drive them to Portland where they boarded a freight train. At Bingen, Wash., Murray split off and was captured at Centralia. Willos and Kelley were captured by Multnomah county deputies. All - were sentenced to hang. Murray committed suicide in his cell and the other two went to the gallows on April 20, 1928. Hickman Case Recalled The Oregon role in one of the country's greatest manhunts the search for William Edward Hickman in December, 1927 in volved an out-of-state kidnaping and murder. Hickman, who was hanged Oct. 19, 1928 for the kidnaping Marion Parker, Los Angeles, and deliver ing her dismembered body on col lection of $1500 ransom, was cap tured near Pendleton. The search started Dec. 15, 1927, and spread throughout the coun try. Clues bobbed up everywhere. Reward money mounted. Then the 20-year-old killer's trail led through Portland to Seat tle. It moved back to Portland and a service station operator, Fred King, reported that he sold gas to Hickman. The word went east and at Pendleton, C. L. "Buck" Lieuallen, then state police ser geant, and Pendleton Police Chief Thomas Gurdane, stationed them selves in a car 23 miles west of Pendleton. When Hickman drove by they took out after him and headed him off. He stopped and came out with his hands up. The capture was the sensation of the country, ending a chase that had few parallels for public interest. Has Shown Remarkable Growth Since THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949 Bonneville Turns In Millions To U. S. In Profits WASHINGTON, June 2. OP) Bonneville power administra tion is making a net or-f' about $10,000,000 annually for the government, a Senaie u .pi-ia-tions subcommittee was told. Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville administrator, said the agency turned $122,889,572 into the treas ury from its beginning in 1939 un til July 1, 1948. He said revenues for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, are estimated at $26,000,000, of which about $10,000,000 shoul'1 be "profit," over and above all ex penses and charges. He stated that eventually the Bonneville Administration will be called on to pay off about $400,000 of Columbia Basin Reclamation project costs which are chargeable to irrigation benefits. Raver testified before a suheoro mittee on Bonneville requests In the Interior Der"trri-- tr priation bill for -the next fiscal year. The House, in oassins' the KM. allowed Bonneville $29,927,000 In cash and $15,725,000 conu'acr ru thorizations. Budget recommenda tions were $33.01)0.000 c - ! $18,500,000 contract authoriza tions. Raver asked the subcommittee to increase the House figure by $1,114,000 In cash and contract authorizations for new construc tion, and $300,000 for operation and maintenance of Bonneville works. Estimates on some new con struction arrived too lale to be considered by the House, Raver explained. Don Wilson, Radio Spieler, Seeks Divorce From No. 3 LOS ANGELES, June 2 WP) Don Wilson, Jack Benny's radio announcer, has filed suit for vorce from- his third wife on a charge of cruelty. The complaint claims his wife's conduct has been detrimental to his health and work. She is the former Marusia Radunska, Polish beauty. TAXI DRUNK O. K. CARDIFF, Wales, June 2. UP) A Cardiff court dismissed a chpr"e that a man had been drunk and disorderly in a public place namely, a taxicab with this rul ing: "When he has paid his fare, an Englishman's taxi is his castle." R. D. BRIDGES Savings Representative Equitable Savings and Loan Ass'n. Phone 442 ' Oakland, Ore. Walking Duel With Horse Plan Of Lebanon Man, 64 LEBANON, June 2. W i Paul Smith, the 64-year-old walk ! ing man of Mill City, plans to pit his legs against a horse's next month, Smith, who has walked from New York .to Los Angeles and made innumerable short jaunts of, say, . at) miles, contends lie can walk 75 miles before a horse can. He and the horse will covr the 75 miles around the Lebanon Meadows race track some time in mid-July. Spies Alone Working In U. S., Soviet Paper Says MOSCOW, June 2. m The Soviet government newspaper Izvestja says the only profession in the United States not suffering from unemployment is that of spies. The article quoted the American Legion Magazine as saying all persons qualilied lor intelligence work should report to Washing ton. And Izvestia added It was ap parent ordinary Americans were not eager for such work. No Windshield Squirts For State-Owned Cars SALEM, June 2. (ff) The two little squirts which wash the mud off windshields aren't neces sary for state cars, . the State Board of Control has decided. The State Highway Commission asked the Board for permission to install the squirts on 18 oi its cars, at a cost of $9 each. But the Board turned Its thumbs down on the idea. And Governor McKay, an autO' mobile dealer, sells them, too. Ml UMPQUA VALLEY APPLIANCE 120 W. Oak Phone 1218 The Establishment Of Several Expansive SECTION TWO 129-49 Bolivivan Army Quells Riots In Mining Strike LA PAZ. Bolivia. June 2. UP) Reports reaching here said the Army was "in control of the situa tion" In Bolivia's strike-torn tin mine region, scene jf bloody riot ing for the nast five days. Army reservists from 19 to 50 were ordered mobilized last night as the cabinet met in emergency session to cope with what It calls state of civil war. The government said the mobil ization was justified by the grav ity of the present situation In which striking tin miners have seized mine officials, including Americans, as hostages and fought Dioooy Dauies against troops sent to the area. Two thousand dvnamltehurllnp miners yesterday battled 200 troops for control of the Patlno owned Huanuni tin mines. The mining area is in the high Andes, about 200 miles southeast of La Paz. The government previously had decreed a state of siege, suspend ing normal civil rights lor 90 days under semi-mart Ial law. Two American engineers, In cluding Albert Krefting of Seattle, have been reported killed and the superintendent of the Huanuni mines. Howard Keller, a U. S. citizen, was held captive by the miners. The Grand Canyon In some places descends from four to live ana a nan inousana leei below the surrounding plateau, Alabama normally raises about one tenth of the nation's cotton. Ml Ljlju mm 5 llll'"7 -' CVA Would End Confusion Slowing Construction. Krug Tells Senate's Committee WASHINGTON, June 1. UP Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug , told a Senate committee Wednesday that If a Columbia Valley Administration is created Congress should provide it with $200,000,000 annually to carry on development of the Northwestern area. Krug said that at President Truman's request he was testifying in behalf of the chief executive's proposal that the new agency be set up. He urged the Senate Public Works Committee to approve Mr. Truman's program for develop ment of the Columbia Klver Basin in seven Northwest states. The secretary said the CVA would absorb Reclamation Bu reau and Army engineers activi ties In the Pacific Northwest and the Bonneville Power Administra tion. These agencies received at) proximately $125,000,000 in appro priations for the current fiscal year, he said, and will get more for the year starting July 1. creation of a CVA, Krug said, would do away with confusion, conflict and misunderstanding that now slows down construction work In the valley by the En gineers and the Bureau. "I am here today to advocate a proposal which would carry out the responsibilities of the federal government for development of the resources of the Pacific North west in a more effective, a cheaper and a speedier fashion than Is now the case," he said. "This bill provides for a re organization of the resource functions now exercised by the federal government to secure their more effective administra PIANOS Baldwin, Wurlltier Gulbraneen Ott's Plane Dept. 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