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. 50,000 B. T. U. Oil Circulating Heater. Heats average 5 room home Formerly $109.95 It all depends en what you want and how many rooms you wish to heat. You can get 1948 er 1949 models of Lonergan oil circulating heaters in almost any capacity. 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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. 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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. McKESSON'S m Ammoniated Tooth Powder - DR. WEST'S mvl perfect Tooth Powder Brash Regular 110 valut REXALL STORE PKon 45 new Lonergan 69 95 H mm UDD'S FURNITURE CO. FINE FURNITURE FORE MORE THAN 25 YEARS .RBUCKIE'S Right on Jackson 321 N. Jackson St. Phone 26 A