The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, August 18, 1949, Page 9, Image 9

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    Ex-GIs Out To Kill Pension
Plan By Taking Over Offices
Of American Legion, V, F. VY.
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
KEA StaM Correspondent
WASHINGTON.-Wiihln the
drastic changes in America's veterans organizations.
For the first time, veterans of World War II will take over lead
ership of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Ana a merger or Amvets and
the American Veterans Commit
tee, which Is in the wind, stands
a good chance of being accom
plished. Probably the most Important
result of these changes is a pos
sible death blow to Ihe expensive
pension plans which were defeat
ed in the 81st Congress and which
would have been of most imme
diate benefit to World War I vet
erans. Newest and most surprising de
velopment is the possible merger
of AVC and Amvets, Ihe only
strictly World War II vet orjam
zations still surviving. In 194o the
Amvet convention voted against
joining with AVC, because of tin:
tatter's left-wing taint, but Am
vet leaders, backed up by the
opinion of most experts on vet
erans' affairs, now feel that the
AVC has successfully purged it
self of the Reds.
Both Sides Agreed
Leaders of both organizations
say frankly that a merger would
be mutually beneficial especially
since both are agreed on prac
tically every big Issue.
Both Harold A. Keats. Amvet
national commander, and Gilbert
A. Harrison,-AVC national chair
man, claim that there have been
next few months there will be
no preliminary, high-level talks
en ine suDjecl.
They fear that a report of such
discussions would prejudice -nd
antagonize rank and file mem
bers, who will have the final say
In sanctioning it if the merger
materializes at their conventions
coming up in a few months. Talk
cf it, they say, has come spon
taneously but independently from
both groups.
Their successful side - by side
fights against the pension plan
and for the national housing bill
which was passed, coupled with
AVC's Red purge, has brought
the merger to a head. And an
analysis of the constitutions of
both outfits reveals practically
no basic differences of goals.
Both exclude members cf the
Communist party and both are
for world government, extended
social security, federal health in
surance an! other liberal plans.
Their biggest difference with the
Legion and VFW has been over
the pension plans.
Younger Heads Slated
Both the Legion and VW will
probably elect World War II vets
as national commanders at their
1949 conventions. It's a certainty
that Clyde A. Lewis. 36. a former
ri
"V-
El'GEN'E will be host to the
16th annual Oreton Slate Soft
ball Tournament Anr. IS-Srpt
1. and Diane Barnhardt will
rule as Miss Softball. The final
ist in the state beauty context
at Seaside recently is shown
here betas; crowned by Msurie
Jacobs, president of the host
Eugene Softball Assn.
Counter Suit Filed In
"Horseburger" Action
PORTLAND, Aug. 18 (.
A meat dealer sued yesterday
for $15,000 on a charge that he
sold a restaurant ground horse
meat as ground beef, answered
yesterday with a $40,000 suit al
leging that the claim was false
and designed to destroy his rep
utation.
Talmadge F. Staley, president
nd general manager of Holgate
Farms. Inc., filed Ihe $40,000 suit
against the proprietors of Wig
gle Inn. southeast district restau
rant. Their suit alleged that his
firm sold horsemeat to them.
They paid a $100 fine in munici
pal court for sale of unlabeled
horsemeat.
Staley's suit asked $25,000 for
damaee to his reputation and
$15,000 punitive damages.
Town Finances Spray
To Fight Polio Threat
ONTARIO. Ore., Aug. 18. (,P
This town emptied its pockets
to finance spraying with DDT as
an anti-polio measure.
Some $1,400 has been con
tributed for the spraying work,
which would not be financed out
of city coffers. Public health of
ficials hope to spray within a
week.
Whether DDT actually pre
vents the spread of polio is not
bomber pilot and Pittsburgh.
N. Y., attorney, will take over
VFW leadership. He has served
as Vice Commander this vear.
The Legion choice Is limited to
one of the three eligible candi
dates. They are Jim Green, an
Omaha attorney; Erie Coche, Jr.,
a farmer and railroad executive
from Dawson, Ga., and George
N. Craig, an attorney from Bra
zil, Ind. All three have held high
Legion offices since the war.
The Legion convention will un
doubtedly feature a fight over
whether or not to reverse the
Legion's pension stand. Key
members privately admit now
that the pro -pension fight has
hurt the organization with the
public, and is lending to drive a
wedge between World War I and
World War II members.
The switch to a World War II
commander Isn't expected to af
reet the Vrw very much in Us
traditional stand for a pension.
But if all goes as some of the
World War II bovs hope, the
VFW will be alone in supporting
a pension plan before the next
Congress.
BUSTER BROWN
(girl scoutT- 'IK
STYLE and COMFORT
for your active feet
Youll breeze along easily and smartly all
through the day in these tnm oxfords
that are made to meet Girl Scout
standards of comfort and wear.
Humble Scribe Fills His Eyes,
Ears At $5 Million Gem Display
By ED CREACH
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 PV If you really can't decide what to
get me for Christmas, there's a little doodad on display over at the
Waldorf-Astoria that would suit me like chestnut dressing suits
roast turkey.
Not that I'm hinting, mind you. As a' matter of fact I'm not
sure what I am doing. I've just come back from that $5,000,000
Jewel show at the Waldorf and frankly, friend, I'm glitter-happy.
The American National Retail
Jewelers, whose baby it is, says
it's the biggest display of precious
stones and baubles ever hem.
0j
Acres of diamonds. Bushels
rubies. Pearls by the peck.
In one word: Golly!
Anyhow, there I was, holding
a cigaret and wishing I had
match, when a big, happy look
ing fellow hell out a tricky little
gadget, touched a button and
presto! there was flame.
"Thanks.", I said, lighting up.
"That's quite a lighter.
"You like it?" said the man,
Carl Begemann of the Ameri
can Safety Razor Corp. "Well,
sir, you can have this lighter, . ."
"Gosh, thanks. But. . . ."
"... for $5,000," continued
Begemann, looking even happier,
I didn't say anything. I could
n't. "Of course," Begemann said,
'this tray and that little urn go
with it. All 14-carat gold. There
are 36 diamonds and 2 rubies
in the set. Just right for a
Christmas stocking, wouldn't you
say?"
This last remark was not aim
ed at me but at another gawker
who at least looked as if he might
have money, so I drifted away,
puffing gingerly at the cigaret
which Tiad Just had a $5,000 light.
It tasted like any other cigaret.
Bum Guess On Pearls
Then who should come along
but a well-proportioned, brown
eyed blonde named Roma Paige,
all decked out in a white nylon
bathing suit with pearls drip
ping from every thread.
"Don't I look expensive?" she
asked brightly. "You're supposed
to guess how many pearls I'm
wearing. If you guess right you
win a magnum of champagne."
I guessed 2,315 but that could
not have been right because -i
woman's handbag I examined a
lew minutes later turned out to
he covered by 14,000 pearls, and
Miss Paige's swim suil was much
larger than the handbag.
Well, little larger, anyway.
"Actually," whispered Miss
Theresa Jacohson who was guard
ing the handbag, there are only
13,999 pearls. Somebody dropped
it and one pearl fell off.
'But there are 20 carats of di
amonds and 30 carats of rubies
and the setting is pure palladi
um." "Gosh," I said. "And the ah
price?"
Miss J. looked elaborately
casual. 'Twenty thousand dol
lars," she said. "It's the most ex
Mom Mulkey Plans Annual
Dinner For 350 "Brats"
COUGAR, Wash., Aug. 18. .D
Mom Mulkey is having her 350
.kids back to dinner again.
Mrs. P. A. Mulkey, the Cougar,
Wash., woman who is "Mom" to
several hundred world war II
veterans, scheduled her third an
nual barbecue picnic for Aug. 21.
Mrs. Mulkey got started writing
letters to servicemen particu
larly servicemen without families
during the war. After the war
ended she decided to Invite them
all to dinner.
Hundreds of the "Mulkey
brats," as she calls them, turned
up for that first dinner In 1947.
She's been having them annually
ever since.
The picnic starts at Mulkey
park, six miles east of here, at
12:30 Sunday.
known for certain: but officials
here think it is worth trying. One
theory is that Ontario's custom of
spraying has kept the disease
from Infiltrating here Irom
Idaho.
pensive handbag in the world.
We've sold three just like it
! one each in Memphis, Miami and
That did it.
If a woman can pay 20 per
fectly good G's for a pearly old
handbag that she'll probably
leave behind in the movies some
day, who says a $5,000 lighter
set is too good for uncle?
So as we were saying about
that Christmas remembrance. . .
But don't let me know you're
ordering it, will you? 1 want It
to be a surprise.
West Germany
Will Be Ruled By
Conservatives
BONN, Germany, Aug: 18. t.P)
The new west German govern
ment, dominated by conserva
tives, will be forged here this
weekend.
Leaders of the Christian Demo
cratic Union party, which top
ped Sunday's voting, were sum
moned to a series of conferences
with these goals:
1. Forming a coalition of right
wing parties which think large
ly like the Christian Democrats
to establish an unchallenged ma
Jority over the Socialists who
still are a major party.
2. Selecting the first chancel
lor, (prime minister) in Germany
since Hitler and recommendinii
a president.
The calls went out from Dr.
Konrari Adenauer, chairman of
the CDU, who emerged from the
voting for a parliament as the
most powerful single Individual
in west Germany's politics.
A surprising lone of concilia
tion was noted in the eastern
press as German communists still
leeled from the election trounc
ing. Despite a loud and vigorous
campaign, featuring tirades
against the unpopular allied dis
mantling program, the commu
nists won only 15 of 400 seats.
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Formerly $109.95
It all depends en what you want and how many rooms you wish to heat. You can get 1948 er 1949
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you wish. Darned handsome, too . I
Any of the obove heaters moy be purchased en terms or through lay-away
plan. Thermostats and forced air circulating systems ovailabla for heaters
at estra cost. Get your heoter now from Judd's Furniture.
Double Murder
For Money Told
By Summers
TACOMA, Aug. 18. (JF
John E. Summers related here
Monday that he shot Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Easley In their outlying
home after lying In wait to rob
them.
The 32 year-old prisoner re
peated an hours-long narrative to
newspaper men after Sheriff Lee
Croft said he had signed a 16,000
word confession of the July 16
crime.
When he was picked up by the
F.B.I, in San Francisco, after the
elderly couple's bodies were
found on a side road near Chi
nook pass, he insisted the shoot
ing was accidental In an alterca
tion over a suit of clothes.
Prosecutor Patrick Steele said
Summers probably will be ar
raigned on a first degree murder
charge today. He said tne trial
will be In September or October.
Steele said he would ask for the
ocath penalty.
Describes His Crime
Summers said he gave -up his
attempt to "go straight" aboit
two months after his parole from
the state prison.
"About 2 o'clock that Saturday
afternoon, I pried open the back
door of the Easlev home with a
small knife," he related In a matter-of-fact
manner. "I had been in
the house the Tuesday before
looking for money, but found
none.
'I hal remembered seeing two
rifles there. I was goln? to take
them and pawn them, so I could
buv a revolver and start robbing."
lie told of returning home, then
coming back to the Easley's and
waiting for more than an hour
His intentions, he said, were to
tie them up and put them in a
clothes closet. He said he didn't
intend to hurt them.
'Easley got out of the car and
came in through the back door.
Mrs. Easley went Into the back
yard to feed their rabbits. Easley
sat down at the kitchen table, it
was a table Just like this one,"
and he pounded the round table
in '.he jail
Summers came out of hiding
and told Easley to sit still.
'Mr. Easley Jumped up, whirled
about and faced me," Summers
luted. "I was going to tell him the
lille was loaded and not to make
trouble. But he threw the whiskey
bottle and Jumped at me. My re
action was to pull the trigger. He
fell to the floor. At the same time
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Navy Recruit To Get Niftier
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. UP)
Navy enlisted men can look for
ward to some Improvements In
their dress-up blue uniform by
mid-1952.
The new uniform will have hip
and side pockets, Instead of Just
tne tiny watch pocket in the pres
ent uniform. And the drop front
win oe replaced witn a zipper.
Bell bottom trousers will be re
tained in the new style.
The Jumper will have coat style
sleeves Instead of the tight but
ton cuff of the present Jumpers.
Aiinougn tne navy already has
Mis. Easley came In the door. I
turned the gun toward her and
told her to stay still.
"Instead she jumped back and
screamed. Of course, I shot. She
fell over."
Summers said he "felt kind ol
weak." He could tell Mrs. Easley
was dead, but he wasn't sure
about her husband so "I shot him
once again, while I sat there. I
ha-1 gone that far, so I went all
the way."
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127 N. Jackson
Remember the
Snow, the fee, the
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IT S HIGH TIME YOU WERE
PREPARING FOR A WARM
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COMES
you can buy a brand
The bald faced truth about
this $69.95 heater is that its
a 1948 model. The manu
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we have too many.
Originally priced at $109.95 we knocked the price down
to $89.95 some months ago and we've still too many.
It's a 50,000 B. T. U. oil circulating heater that will
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Dress-Up Uniforms
begun manufacture of ths new
uniform at its Brooklyn clothing
depot, the new mode) won't be
authorized lor wear until July 1,
1952.
Knights Of Columbus
Retain Supreme Heads
PORTLAND, Aug. 18 iV
The Knights of Columbus unani
mously reelected all the organi
zation's supreme officers at the
national convention here Wednes
day. John E. Swift, Boston, wai
elected to his third erm as su
preme knight. William J. Mulli
gan, Hartford, Conn., was re
elected deputy supreme. knight;
Joseph F. Lamb, New York City,
secretary; Francis J. ' Heazel,
Asheville, N. C, treasurer; Luke
E. Hart, St. Louis, Mo., advo
cate; Clarence J. Malone, Tope
ka, Kan., warden; and Dr. Ger
ald J. l.unz, Hamilton, Ontario,
physician.
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