i U. of 0, Library COMP Eugene! Ore. C0 M1K w JV L)U V WTO COS WHAT 'y P"' I s 1 c ELYA FORREST, employee of Lester's Gift and Model .hop, ti shown with two "befor" and "after" figurines a now typo which you finish at homo. Tho whit china-powder figures and jowol boxes aro colorful and shiny aftar an application of baia paint, ragular colors and Drasden china lacquar finish. Mrs. Forrost is holding tho fairy tala charactar "Tha Balloon Man." Tha figurines ara aasy to finish and won't (hack or datariorata, sha says. Crackdown Of Florida's Law Halts All Types Of Gambling Governor's "Get-Tough" Order Given Statewide Compliance MIAMI, He., Fab. 24.. (API At tha paak of Florida's wintar saason, gambling in avary form is at a virtual stand still throughout tha stata. In tha walca of Gov. Fuller to. all sheriffs, constables, county solicitors and law enforce ment agencies survey of the Is truly on. ' In the Day's News ' By FRANK JENKINS n did wa break diplomatic relations with Communist Bul garia? Well, here is an illuminating little tale: In our embassey at Soifa (Bul garia's capital) we employed a Bulgarian as a translator. A while back he was arrested by tha Bul garian police. He was questioned continuously for 32 hours and then was tortured into making false con- fessions of sabotage and spying mt which he implicated . personal friends and officials in the Ameri can legation. He was threatened with deatii, but was released after signing an agreement to return to the American embassy as a com munist police spy. He came back and told our peo ple all about what had happened. We tried to protect him. But a couple of days ago he was seized by the Bulgarians. We assume that death will be his fate. f . OUR State department tells of another pleasant little incident: Last summer the Bulgarian po- (Continued on Page Four) BODY FOUND IN WOODS NEWPORT, Ore.. Feb. 24--tPL-A search party yesterday found the bod of Delhert Hargis, 27, in a forest' where he disappeared the previous day. A heart attack was blamed. The body was found within a mile of Melco landing on the Siletz river. Service To Others Best Kind Of Happiness, Educator Says Dr. R. C. McCall Of U. Of O. Speaks At Annual Drain C. Of C. Banquet True happiness end satisfaction in life ara best found in service to others, Dr. Roy C. Me Call, head of the speech department of University of Oregon, told a large audience attending the annual meeting of the Drain chamber of com merce Thursday night. The banquet meeting was held in the grade school gymnasium, where the dinner was prepared by the Civic club and served by girls from the 8th grade. Commending Drain's civic work ers for their enthusaism and dili gence. Dr. McCall told of the work of his department in endeavoring to correct speech defects and of the satisfaction and pleasure re sulting from success. The same feeling of happiness is found by civic workers when they see their work for others bearing fruit, he asserted. The speaker described various speech defects and afflictions Warran's "gat tough" lattar state shows that the "lid" ' . ' v ' v - r ronv-rensacoia io Rey wen me picture was the same: gambling. if any, wis being conducted on a sneak basis. Slot machines had disappeared. Bookmaking activi tivities were practically at a stand still and the plush gambling casi nos of Jacksonville ana the "boia coast" were either dark or simply a rving dinners and cocktails. Sheriffs of almost every county in the state reported their county "clean" with little or no activity in the world of fast money. Operators of the expensive rou letter and dice parlors on the Flor ida east coast were reported high ly irritated at the governor's edict to shutter. It came at the very crest of the Florida winter season the last fl wjth iM.mmtyti vi,i. tors dodging winter snows. Several phases of the unprece dented gambling "brownout" were open to conjecture. Although many law officers re ported they bad not yet received the governor's letter sent (Continued on page Two) Homer Whitt On Trial On Money Theft Charge The trial of Homer White, it, of Albany, opened Thursday in cir cuit court here w i Jude William G. East of Eugene presiding, in th absence of Judge Carl E. Wim berly, who is reported to be ill. Selection of the jury was com pleted Thursday and testimony was presented this morning. White is charged with the theft of a billfold containing some $800. from the Spot Tavern las'. January. Jurors include Keith W. Ronk, Margaret Reece, Vivian Harth, Margaret Ijurence, William Upde grave, Ethel Webb, Fred J. Porter, Earl Smith, Christina Micelli, T. P "usenbark, Beatrice Churchill, and Audrey Bellows. which, he said, affect one out of ten persons, with three out of 100 having defects of a serious nature. Causes and methods of treatment were discussed by the speaker who gave his subject much humorous treatment. The program, with Jim Whipple as toastmaster, included the invo cation by Rev. W. N. Byars. in troduction of guests, piano solo by Dorothy Randall, and vocal selec tions by a male chorus. Visitors were present from Cot tage Grove and Rose burg. Inelud- (Continued on page Two) TIm foatwot Chaoety with mind rale today SNtd Sertvretery, little Sunset toaky 1:14 p. m. Sunrise) tomorrow 4:St av m. Itfoblithoe 1173 Coal Strike Contempt Count Holds Court Refuses Union Request For Dismissal Trial Ordered Monday; Miners Standing Pat On "No Contract, No Work" WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 Judge Richmond B. Keeca refused today to drop contempt chargea against the striking coal miners union and ordered a trial on Mon day. Ketch told union attorneys they could have a Jury trial if they desired. Welly K. Hopkins, chief UMW attorney, said be would consider over the weekend whether to ask for a jury trial. Assistant Attorney General H Graham Morison asked that the trial start tomorrow. He noted that since the original court back to work order, issued Feb. 11, "there John L Lewis' Ailing Irother Kills Himself SPRINGFIILO, III., Feb. 14 MP Themes A. Lewis, I1", brother of John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, was found shot to deem today In his heme here. Deputy Coroner Catherine Rutherford said he had shot him self because of III health. She edded that Lewis, a retired lm mi rafen service employee, had been bt HI health far seme time and suffered e severe heart at-, teck yesterday. , has been no increase in production of the bituminous mines of this country." Urging the need for speed in the case, Morison said: "At least 20 states have adopted emergency measures to take care of the coal supply. "Virtually all of the nation'! ci- (Contlnued on page Two) Plunge Kills U S. Aide In Austria VIENNA. Austria, Feb. 24 UP A man identified by police as the U.S. Naval attache to Bucharest pljnged to his death in a railroad tunnel south of Salrburg yester day. Semi-official sources said to day there is "no hint of foul play." (In Washington, however, offi vials said they were not elimina ting the possibility that the officer m. v ave been slain. Formal com ment was being withheld pending further word from abroad.) U. S. army investigators tenta tively identified the man as Capt. Eugene Karpe, who was a close friend of Robert A. Vogeler, the American businessman sentenced on charges of being an American on charges ob being an American spy. rrom unofficial sources it was learned that Karpe's home town is Delhi, La. Karpe, 45, was a destroyer com mander in the Pacific during the war. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and th. Navy Commenda- ti i Ribbon for outstanding war service. Man And Wife Held As Suspects In Burglary A 90.var.Alr1 man and his vounff wife are being held in the county )ail in connection wun uie Bur glarizing Wednesdsy night of Po well's Snorting Goods store, 308 W. Cass. Chief of Police Calvin Baird re ported to day that city police, uiA.lrina nn a tin ohtained bv the sheriff's office, arrested Geroge Dully, ana nis wue, vena vuiiy, 19, in the Greyhound bus depot Thuridav afternoon as they were preparing to leave town. Sherifl u. T. oua wrier nu Deputy Dallas Bennett recovered the two pistols and a portion of tl . money allegedly taken from the -tore, earlier in the day, after they had received a reliable tip where the loot might be located. Duffy and his wife were schedul c f jr arraignment in Justice court today. Savings Bond Drive Will Commence May 1 S WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 This year's U.S. Savinge bonds campaign will begin May IS and run through July 4. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said today that the help of several million volunteers is expected to "assure the success of the drive." The Treasury department has adopted a campaign alogan of "Save for your Independence." The Liberty Bell is the drive symbol. LOGCIR KILLID CRESCENT CITY. Calif., Feb. 24 (.R Stephen W. Matthews, 40, logger formerly of Klamath Falls, Ore., was killed by a rolling log yesterday on a tree-felling Job north of Smith river. Aa the tree fell, it dislodged a to- which rolled downhill and crushed Matthews. He is survived by his widow and two children. ROSEBURG, OREGON Senate Committee Halves Truman's Housing Program For Middle-Income Groups WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (API Slashed in' half by the Senate banking committee,. President Truman's middle-income cooperetive housing program appeared today to be headed for still more trouble. Senator Bricker ( R.Ohio) said ho and other foes of tha bill intend to carry their fight for oven mora drastic revision to tho Senate floor.' "It is going to be quite a battle," Bricker fold a reporter, "and I have a feeling we may win it." ; ; 1 Faced with strong opposition Alleged Slayer Freed After 16 Years In Prison CHICAGO. Feb. 24 W Theodore Marcinkiewici, 41, slight and balding after serving more than It years in prison of a W year sentence for murder, was freed in criminal court yesterday. One of the first persons to greet Marcinkiewici upon his release was Joseph Majczek, who was con victed with him in the slaying of Policeman William Lundy in the attempted holdup of a delicatessen. Majczek, after serving 11 years, was pardoned in 1945 when he was d -lared to be innocent. Two years later he was awarded $24,000 by th . Illinois legislature as damages for unjust imprisonment. M jczek, whose fight for free don was protrayed in the film "''all Northside 777," now Is an i .surance salesman. Chief Justice Thomas 3. Lynch ruled that Marcinkiewici's consti tutional rights had been violated in that he had not been given a fai ' 1. He said that a statement to police by the owner of the de licatessen, Mrs. Walush Kasulis, was suppressed but if produced bv the state might have had a "very good influence on the jury." Mrr. Kasulis had Idnetified Mar cinkiewici as one of the slayers. But assistant Public Defender Kr- win Block told Judge Lynch that bifore the trial Mrs. Kasulis had told police in a statement that she could not identify the slayer. Fire Dept. Call Blocked, Flames Destroy Home CYPRESS, Calif., Feb. 24 -"Oh, that's an eld excuse to get trie line," someone laughed when John Ogle broke Into the conversation en his 10-perty tele phone line to call the fire de partment. While the conversation was resumed and Ogle ran to a near by ranch to use the phone there, his house burned down, leav In the Ogles end their five chil dren homeless, yesterday. 36-Hour Prayer Vigil Set To Protest Hydrogen Bomb NEW YORK. Feb. 24 WPV- A marathon meeting starts at the Community church of New York tonight to protest making of the hydrogen bomb. - A discussion session, sponsored by the interdenominational church and several peace groups, will be followed by a 36-hour prayer vigil. The church said some persons will remain at prayer throughout the night, all day Saturday and Saturday night, until shortly before services at 11 a.m. Sunday. GREw em THI AXS L. H. I till I Gregory, guest speaker at tha Peewee baseball benefit banquet held lest night in tho junior high school auditorium, received an unexpected surprise when herd of Paul Bunyens swooped down on th dean of Northwest sports journalism and initiated him into their ranks. Performing th rite were, left ta right. Bill Tipton, head f th organization, L. B. Hicks, and Al Melee. Gregory nervously shiver in th middle as tha cold blada of th sue tickles his neck. (Staff photo. I FRIDAY, FEI. 24, 1950 backers of the original program compromised and got a scaled down version of the administra tion's cooperative housing plan through the banking committee late yesterday. The vote was to 4, but some members reserved the right to offer amendments dur ing the Senate debate, expected next month. The original cooperative pro gram called for $2,000,000,000 in government-guaranteed loans to cooperatives made up of families whose income ranges generally from (2.400 to $4,700 a year. The committee voted to cut the loan figure to tl ,000.000,000 and to change the financing plan to bring it in line with a recommenda tion by tha federal reserve board. Other Slashes Agreed On The group also agreed on deep slashes in other bousing programs the bill covers. It decided, for example, to au thorize Federal Housing admin istration (FHA) insurance of an additional $1,750,000,000 worth of home loans by banks and other private lending institutions. The original figure was $2,750,000,000. That FHA program, in operation for years, is entirely separate from the proposed new cooperative plan. The committee also made a 50 percent cut in the FHA loan In- (Continued on pago Two) Gun Kills Negro. v In K-Falls Chase KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 24.-WP) A man accused of threatening a girl here exchanged shots with police last night, then apparently took his own life. Police said they found the body of Robert Mclntyre. 46. Negro. plumber's assistant, in a shed in uie oroaa aireei negro aisirici, where they had chased him after answering a girl's call for help. Dr. George H. Adler. county coroner, said Mclntyre apparently had snot nimseit through the head with a .38 caliber revolver. Patrolman Carl Kelley said he end patrolman Bud Switzer went to the scene when a 17-year-old girl, Troy Mae Peters, reported Mclntyre had threstt.ied her with the gun. The man fired a shot at them, then ran for the shed, Kelley said. There he fired another shot. Switzer fired back. A final shot was heard in the shed, Kelley said. Po lice fired tear gas at the shed, entered and found the body. SHOPLIFTER FINED Nina Burr. 5, Brockway, charg ed with shoplifting, was fined $25 upon a plea of guilty in justice court Wednesday, Judge A. J. Ged des reported. She was arrested by city police Tuesday on a com plaint filed by a local store. 4e-50 Loyalty Files Demand May Reach Courts Senators Trying To Find Reds In State Dept. I red By Truman's Attitude WASHINGTON. Feb. U.-iJPt Republicans today threatened a court fight to get secret loyalty files into the hands of a Senate committee ordered to hunt down any Communists in the State de partment. That cast some doubt on wheth er Senator McCarthy (R Wis) will furnish the committee with a full list of the tl persons he said are Communists who either had been or aro now working for the de partment. McCarthy said he doesn't know whether it will be worthwhile to go ahead with the investigation if the filea remain locked up. The Wisconsin senator called the President's decision "an obvious attempt to cover up Communists in the State department," adding: "The adminislratin is afraid to face the facts. I don't think the Senate will take this as final." The Senate voted previously to clothe the foreign relations group wun autnority to subpoena the loy ally files. Chairman Connelly (R-Tex) told a reporter he doesn't think Con gress has the power, to get files (Continued on pago Two) Uncle Accused In Death Of Infant LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 -UV-A coroner's jury recommends that L- lie 3teele, 21-year-old truck driver, stand trial in the beatini deth of his niece, Starlen Jean Bevan, aged I. The baby'a mother, Mies -Helen Iverson, 20, testified at the inquest yesteraay mat ane loanea uie baby to ner sister, Mrs. Dorothy Steele, 10, "because it wouldn't mad me." she added: "I don't think she knew I was the mother," The L " nt died at the one room Steele apartment Sunday. Neigh bors testified that "three or four times w week" they heard the b oy being beaten so that "sharp cracks" resounded through the walls." Policeman Robert L. Barham told the jury that Steele admitted whipping the child with a leather strap because she disturbed his sleep. The officer produced pit tures showing Starlene's body b-isied from head to foot. The report of autopsy surgeons Frederick Newbarr and Victor Ce falu showed that the baby'a vital organs were so broken she bled to death internally. Bail Posted By Woman On Drunk Driving Charge Phyllis Wellman Jennie, 33, Rose burg, charged with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, was released Thursday upon posting $150 bail, Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter report ed. George Pichette, 42, Roseburg, charged with assault and battery, was relessed Tuesday upon post ing $50 bail. Carte, added. British Conservatives Trcil By Close Count In Election After Even Standing At Four Periods LONDON, Fab. 74 (API The Labor party has won a plurality over tho Conservatives and Liberals in tho Now House of Commons. With 27 districts out of o2S still to report, Labor hold 310 seats against 211 for th Conservatives and seven for th Liberals. An absolute majority of tho new houi Is 313. For time, th Leborites and th combined oppoiition war all even. Four times in IS minutes of counting th opponents were dead level, and four times Labor went on seat ahead. Then th Laborites forged ahead by several saats again. Th Conservatives cam back sharply in today's counting aftar overnight results had cast pall of gloom over head quarters of Winston Churchill's party. When a recess tn th count was taken early today, th Laborites held lead of 41 seats. In th old House of Commons, which had 440 seats, th Laborites outnumbered th Conservatives 381 t 202. A Labor spokesmen said his party needed majority of 30 teats to function effectively in th new Houi. Roseburg Folks To Join Tour By Air Four Roseburg folks are join ing the "Look Up, America," da scribed as the "world's most am bitious air tour," which will take oil tomorrow on a flight from Port- una, ore., to Havana, Cuba. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Winston and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hull are planning to leave Roseburg early Saturday, flying to Klamath Kails for refueling and thence to Las Ve gas, where they will join some 250 aerial ambassadors of goodwill from Oregon, Hying then own light planes, US of them. ine route will take them to Phoe nix, tl Paso, Dallas, New Or leans, Jacksonville and Key West, then 100 miles over the ocean to Havana, Tha round trip, which is scheduled for Feb. 25 to Mar. 4, will cover a 7500-mile route. Purpose of the tour is to spread the fame of Oregon, with lis Port land Rose Festival in June. Pen dleton Roundup, its scenery and its old time western hospitality. ina winstons ana riuita will ny in the same plane, a four-place Ry an navion. Also listed among the flyers are Dr. R. E. Williams. Myrtle Creek. and Omer Larson, Reedsport. Reformatory Housekeeper Murdered; 3 Inmates Held IONE. Calif.. Feb. 24 UP) V a. Anna Corbln, 52, head house keeper at the Preston reforma tory, was found slain in her office yesterday and today authorities an nounced three Inmates had been placed in isolation wards. The three not identified, had spots on their clothing which ap peared to be bloodstains. Tha cloth ing was found In a systematic check of belingings of the school's 657 inmates. Superintendent Robert A. Chand ler said the woman'a death was "definitely murder." Mrs. Corbin had been beaten so brutally about the head and face it was impossible at once to tell whether she had been bludgeoned to death or stabbed, the coroner said. A rope had been cinched tightly around her neck. The attractive housekeeper had b. model in a matrons' group at a fashion show here the night before she was slain. Price Cuts Announced On GMC Trucks, Cars DETROIT, Feb. 24 UP) Price cuts ranging from $10 to $40 on the prices of all ita cars and trucks were announced today by General Motors Corp. The reductions are eflective immediately and come with announcement of downward adjustment in the cost of living allowance to be paid GM employes. An adjustment of the cost of living allowance given GM employ. es is part of the contract between GM and ita hourly and salaried workers. It is revised according to the cost of living Index of the Bureau of Labor atalistics. Under the terms of- the adjust ment formula, there will be a two cents an hour reduction in the cost-of-living allowance for 290,000 hourly rated employes and a $10 quarterly reduction in cost of liv ing bonuses paid approximately 72, 000 salaried workers. This revision will be effective Marrii 1. Oregon Fish Board Raps Four Proposed Dams PORTLAND, Feb. 24 -WPV- Op position to four dsms proposed for the Lower Snake river was reiter ated yesterday by the Oregon Fish commission. The group sent word to Sen. Guy Cordon (R-Ore) that it considers the dams a death sentence for sal mon runs in the Snake. The commission also said it could not aell an acre of ground at the mouth of Herman creek to army engineers for use aa an Indian fishing aite, since it would destroy the value of a fish hatchery on the creek. The engineers sought the site to replace sites flooded by Bonneville dam. Daughter Of Lost Filer Stricken With Pneumonia FORT WORTH, Feb. 24-(,P-Peggy Ascol, 18-month-old daugh ter of one of the five B-3t fliers missing off British Columbia, is ia Harris taspital with double pneu mr 'a. Her condition is "critical." Lieut. Holiel Ascol, vetersn of 21 years service, was bombardier on the lost B-M. Twelve of th IT me aboard th plan were rescued. Churchill, reelected In his own district by a big margin, spoke to his constituency at Woodford. The wartime prime minister said: "We cannot tell and I am cer tainly not going to pronounce what ia going io nappen, but it la ob vious parliament ia going to b in a very unstable condition. "All we can do ia to keen our eyes steadily fixed on the main purpose to bring our country back to the forefront of the nationa and to make her a home for all our people." The popular vote at S p. m., was: Labor 11.S98.099. Conservative 10.938,204, Liberals 2,318,247. With the race to close It wn possible that votes in four con stituencies in the remote parta of Scotland could have an Important ueanng on me issue. Because ol travel difficulties they will not re port on how they voted until next Monday. Many of the districts still to b (Continued on page Two) Czechs Free, Expel 2 More Mormons PRAGUE. Feb. ft. t!P- Two American Mormon missionaries held by Czech police since Jan. 2a on charges of entering a "pro- nioitea area" were released from jail today and expelled from tho country. Th missionaries ara Stanley C. Abbott of Lehi, Utah, and C. Aldoa Johnson, . of Idaho Falls, Idaho. They were released at a time when the Mormon church ia withdrawing all its American workers here in accordance with Czechoslovakia' new church law. Eleven other missionaries, two of v horn also have been expelled on chargea of constituting a "dan ger to the safety and security of the state," left Prague Monday to take up new missions In the United States, Great Britain, and Western uermany. Czech church laws decree that all officiating clergymen must be Czech citizens, swear an oath of loyalty to the government and re ceive their salaries from the stata. In all, 17 Mormon missionaries. Including Johnson and Abbott, hav been expelled from Czechoslovakia since last May. Johnson and Abbott were arreat. ed as they traveled through Mo ravia to visit church member living near the Polish border. Mrs. Alexander Thompson Ex-Legislator, Passes PORTLAND, Feb. 24. OP) Mr. Alexander Thompson, one of Ore gon's first woman legislator and leaHee in fni-miil-tintf h.-hh -J the stale's educational laws, died ai ine iroutaaie tuberculosis boa- nilal Wilnul,v eh ia Mrs. Thompson first plunged in to politics in tha battle for wo men's auffrage, heading the Wasco county suffrage campaign in 1912. In 191$ she was elected to th stata legislature for the first of three She was instrumental in passing the eight-month minimum school bill, a minimum salary for teach ers, an elementary education tax, and a child welfare law. Mrs. Thompson is survived by the widower hera a Hanchta,. miA two grandchildren. ' Prayer-Song Marathon Lasts Eleven Hours WILMORE, Ky., Feb. 24-WP Their religious ferver still at high pitch, students of little Asbury col lege planned to meet again today to take part in the world day of prayer. An outburst of songs, testimo nials, confessions and prayers last ed 11 hours ycterday, ending at 11 p.m. It began at a regular chapel service when one student got up and said he wanted to offer a testi monial. His act of faith was infectious. Before the service ended last night most of the 900 students of tho inter-denominational religious school had taken part. Separata prayer meetings were held in dor mitories. Levity fact jj ant By L. F. Reiiensteln Now that Portland's council bat liftod tit ban (legally) tm Hi colored race, orhaot Ola Mae Oregon will follow by lifting the bee J