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Harry Lauder, World-Famed
Scottish Laugh Maker, Passes
STRATHAVEN, Scotland. Feb. 27. (API Sir Harry Lauder,
th beloved Scottish comedian, kit gon roamin in tn gloamin'
far th last tint. H died lest night at th g of 7t fr an
Illness of many months.
The mua who wrote "Koamin
In The Gloamin' " and turned it
ilmost into i folksong in populari
ty, drove himself with public ap
pearances until last year. Then on
the repeated advice of doctors he
reluctantly announced his retire
ment at Lauder Ha', his spacious
home in Lanarkshire.
Although Sir Harry had sung his
swan song on the commercial stage
more than a decade ago, he had
not ceased being a showman. Still
hale and hearty he skirled his pipes
and waved his knobby stick for sol
dier audiences in Britain all during
World War II, the same as he had
done a generation before for troops
at home and for charity.
With his niece. Miss Greta Laud
er, he went on recruiting drives
organizing shows and playing in
Scottish towns on behalf of
churches, schools, hospitals, clubs
and community projects,
Lauder was the oldest of seven
children. He went to work in a flax
mill at the ace of 11, when his
father died. Then h became a
coal miner.
Lauder always said the turning
point of his life was his marriage
at the age of 20 to Annie Vallance.
His young wife played the piano
and they started giving concerts at
small entertainment halls in Scot
land. Thence he went to the music
halls in London, became a success
there and his fame soon spread to
the United States.
He was knighted in IMS by the
late King George V for his services
in singing to the empire troops In
the trenches in Frsnce.
Billfold Larceny
Draws 20 Years
Homer White, 4S of Albany, was
sentenced today to serve 20 years
in the penitentiary, following his
conviction on a charge of larceny
involving a billfold containing ap
proximately $800.
Circuit Judge William G. East of
Eugene read the sentence after
calling attention to state's evidence
which indictated White had been
convicted on three other occasions
for felonies.
Prior to sentencing. White de
clared he would appeal his ease.
At the same time, Thomas C.
Hartfiel, court appointed defense
attorney, asked to withdraw from
the case. Judge East told White he
may still appeal, with another at
torney appointed to take Hartfiel's
place should that attorney actual
, ly withdraw. a
District Attorney Robert G. Davis
prosecuted for the state, charging
White with the theft of a wallet
from the Spot Tavern last month.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
AS these words are written (a lit
tle before noon on Friday the
British election is CLOSE. In the
POPULAR vote, which is a some
what more accurate barometer of
public opinion than the number of
seats in parliament, the Laborites
are running a half million behind
the combined total of the Conserva
tives and the Liberals.
There is a possibility that in
parliament the Labor party's mem
bership may be cut from the point
of decisive control to a margin so
narrow as to make effective Labor
control in the pinches impossible.
As to that, wa will know more
later.
llfHAT has happened already is
ff nothing short of amazing.
Unless you have talked to large
numbers of average run-of-the-mill
English, you can't imagine the dis
trust and suspicion with which they
regard the Conservatives ("Tories"
is the name U"ed in ordinary con
versation). The obvious distrust of
the majority ji our people in these
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Labor-Conservative Truce Is
Hinted To Permit Commons
To Deal With Vital Problems
LONDON, Feb. 27. (API Strong hints cropped up today
that a eoniervative-iebor "gentleman's agreement" may delay
new general election for the next few months. But final de
cisions are still to be taken.
Such a truce, perhaps unspoken, would permit the virtually
deadlocked House of Commons to deal with pressing problems
both at home and abroad. The Communist Daily Worker sourly
spoke of a "backdoor coalition" by labor and the Tories.
Most British newspapers applaud
ed Prime Minister Attlee's deci
sion to form a new government
and attempt to carry on with La
bor's thin overall majority of eight
aeats.
With two districts still unreport
ed, labor had 31S of the t?S seats.
The Conservatives and allied par
ties 295, the Liberals nine, the Irish
Nationalists two, the Independent
Liberals one. The speaker of the
house, who votes only in case of
ties, is listed as non-partisan.
Delayed returns from two remote
districts in Scotland gave the Con
servatives and the Liberals one
more victory apiece this afternoon.
One other district in Scotland
Inverness has yet to report. The
final district is Mossside in Man
chester, where the death of a can
didate made a bye-election neces-
aary. That will be beld March MM seats to the Conservatives.
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SIR HARRY LAUDIR
Prisoner Admits
1,000 Burglaries
To Hold Friends'
DETROIT, Feb. 27-f.W-To hold
friendships, 40-year-old Leslie Pot
ter decided long ago, you need
money.
So, Potter admitted to police Sat
urday, he broke into about 1.000
Detroit area homes and stores dur
ing the last seven years and came
out with nearly $100,000 in valu
ables and cash.
All this time Potter held a re
sponsible job as personnel man in
the Hudson Motor Car Co. factory.
The job pays $4,500 a year.
He told officers after his arrest
Saturday he felt he needed money
to keep his friends some 500 of
them and all male and spent near
ly all his loot on gifts for them.
"Burglary seemed the easiest
way to get money," Potter said.
"It is very easy and the danger
is little.
"I never entered a home unless
I was sure none of the family was
home. I never harmed a person in
my life. I never will."
Potter said all his robberies were
done st night, after he finished his
daytime work. A burglary warrant
against him has been asked.
Potter's roommate, identified bv
police as William Whitehead, 22,
gave officers the tip that led to
his arrest. .
Whitehead was arresled in con
nection with an electric appliance
shop brglary. He told Detective
Earl Miller he "robbed the place
to impress Potter" and show his
loyalty to his friend.
Police then arrested the person
nel consltant at the office of a
lawyer he had engaged for White
head. Potter told officers he had made
thefts in 22 states before coming
here and onca served a prison term
in Nebraska.
Prison Terms Meted To
80 Finnish Rioters
HELSINKI, Finland. Feb. 27.
IPi A Finnish court today sentenc
ed 80 participants in August's Communist-inspired
riots in the north
lumber town of Kemi to prison
terms up to IS months at hard
labor.
Two workers were killed during
the riots, inspired by Red elements
to discredit the government. The
riots engulfed all Finland.
The Kemi district court acquitted
30 defendants and exempted five
youths from punishment. Four de
fendants, regarded as ringleaders
of the riots received the heaviest
sentences.
TRAIN HITS ROCK
WASHTUCNA, Wash., Feb. 27
(JPt A six-car, S.P b S. passenger
train, traveling at better than a
mile-a-minute clip, hit a rock near
here late Saturday and jumped
the track.
As the train continued on another
600 to 700 feet, ripping up rails and
ties, only two of the estimated 75
passengers were shaken sufficient
I ly to require hospitalization.
Most newspapers also forecast
another general election in late
summer or early autumn. This
would give parliament a chance to
get the budget and other neces
sary money bills out of the way.
The labor and conservative parties
would also have time to rebuild
their treasuries and campaign ma
chines. Incidental to the embryo' revolt
witnin the labor party is the elec
tion post-mortem to be held at a
party caucus Wednesday when a
ruckus may be raised over the way
Deputy Prime Minister Herbert
Morrison and Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin ran the campaign.
As leaders of the moderate wing
these two men are getting most
nf the blame for Labor's loss of
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Anti-Lynch
Law Unlikely
This Session
Senate Not Expected Tu
Go Further Than House's
Persuasive Makeshift
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27,
Anti-lynch legislation third point
in the administration's civil rights
program, appears dead for this
session of Congress so far as
House leaders are concerned.
While there has been no formal
announcement to this effect. House
leaders said off the floor today
they are willing to stand on the
civil rights record already made
oy uie House in the Slst Congress.
That record shows two of the
three civil rights measures passed
and sent to the Senate, which
hasn't acted.
The House last year passed a bill
to abolish payment of poll taxea
as a qualification for voting in
elections for federal officers. Last
week it passed a bill to create a
Fair Employment Practicea com
mission (FEPC) to operate on per
suasive rather than compulsory
lines.
"It now is up to the Senate to
do something," a high House De
mocrat told a newsman, "we have
made our record and, while the
FEPC bill is not what we wanted.
we are off the spot politically."
About the only thing that could
change the minds of House leaders
regarding an anti-lynch bill would
be for the Senate to pass the other
two bills. If that ahould happen,
the House might decide to go all
the way on civil rights and try
to pass an anti-lynch bill.
May Net Reach Truman
The threat of a Senate filibuster
makes it unlikely that the poll
tax and the FEPC bills will reach
the White House.
The three political groups in the
House-Republicans, administration
Democrats and southern Demo
crats feel that they are off a po-
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Fight Launched To
End Rent Control
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27 -ilf-
The administration was confronted
today with an unexpected and pow
erful challenge to its hones for
keeping federal rent controls.
A proposal to force the rent con
trol agency to prepare for its own
end by June 30 waa hooked to a
money bill in a surprise weekend
move by the Senate appropriations
committee.
The appropriation measure, tag
ged as urgent because it contains
authority for a stepped-up atomic
program, is due for early action
in the senate.
If the rent control rider is ac
cepted, it would seem to end any
chance for another year's renewal
of the program as urged by Pre
sident Truman.
In asking Congress last month
to continue rent controls for a year
beyond June 30, Mr. Truman said
they still are needed in many areas
to prevent severe hardships and a
cut in consumer buying power.
About 11.000.000 housing units in
353 areas throughout the country
stil! are under rent control.
Oregon Welfare Aid In
January Sets Record
PORTLAND, eb. 27 UP One
of every 25 Oregonians received
welfare assistance last month. It
was a record total for the atate.
The state public welfare commis
sion said there were more than
40,000 cases with costs booming
to a new high of S2.230.S19.
Included were 31.915 who applied
for straight telief, 13 5 percent
greater than in December. It cost
$691,338 for these alone. Aid for
children, blind persons and others
took the rest.
Despite this, the commission re
ported it was able to remain within
its budget. The commission voted,
however, to rut able-bodied single
men from relief rolls starting April
1. when more work becomes avail
able. Speeder Crash Survivor
Critical; Four Men Killed
LONGVIEW, Wash., Feb. 27 OP)
Dewey Merritt of Castle Hock,
one of aix men who survived the
crash of a Weyerhaeuser Timber
company speeder Friday, waa still
in poor condition in a local hos
pital today. He suffered internal
injuries in the crssh which claim
ed the lives of four men.
The other five injured are mak
ing satisfactory recovery. They in
clude Donald Tollefson of Castle
Rock, disclosed aa the one who
walked more than a mile, despite
his injuries, to csu assistance.
West Coast Building
Supply Burglarized
Cash and tools were taken from
the West Coast Building Supply
over the weekend, according to
city police. Located at the corner
of Mosher and Mill streets, entry
was evidently made through an ad
joining building. Owners reported
a small amount of cash and a few
tools missing.
tOSEBUKG.
Seeking Office
Of Commissioner
A. O. "Hop" H EL VET (above!
of 1 137 -Rainbow Una, Rosa
burg, Saturday filed his nomi
nation for the office of coun
ty commissioner on the Repub
lican ticket.
Helvey, native of Oregon,
born in 1895, has lived the last
18 years in Douglas county. He
has been a logger practically all
of his adult life, is a veteran of
World War I, a member of the
American Legion, Evergreen
Cranga and Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Plans For New
Douglas County
Home Prepared
Plans for the new Douglas Coun
ty home will be presented to the
county court for approval some
time next week, according to an
article appearing in the Feb. 27
issue of the (Portland) Dally Jour
nal of Commerce, quoting William
Laing, Medford architect.
If the plans are approved, a bid
will be issued for construction
work.
Located on the same general site
aa the new Douglas Community
hospital, the county home will con
tain approximately 18,000 square
feet. Included in the structure will
be 64 beds, isolation ward, kitchen,
and refrigeration, laundry and boil
er rooms.
Exterior walls will be of concrete
and the interior partitions and roof
trusses will be of light steel. Floors
will be concrete with asphalt tile
and rubber base. Hot water forc
ed circulation with unit heaters in
each room will provide heat All
windows will be of steel sash The
main entrance will be styled with
ceramic veneer.
Douglas county voters bave ap
proved a four-mill tax levy for a
two-year period to raise $225,000
for construction costs.
Youth On Toboggan Slide
Pierced ly 2x4 Board
DETROIT, Feb. 27 A two-by-four
board alongside a steep to
boggan slide drove through a De
troit youth's thigh like a huge
sword as he scooted down the slide
late Saturday night.
The victim, Robert Poller. 22,
was reported in serious condition
at St. Joseph hospital, Mt, Clem
ens, Mich.
A police order closed the slide
at Green Glen park at nearby Uti
ca. The park has been the scene
of two fatal accidents in the past
two years.
State police, working by flash
light in near-zero temperatures,
sawed off six feet of the board to
get Polter into an ambulance. The
remaining two-foot section was re
moved by surgeons in an emergen
cy operation.
Two Boys Held Here
On lad Check Charges
Police Chief Calvin H. Baird to
day reported the arrest of two
Aberdeen, Wash., youths on bad
check charges.
Floyd Eugene Martin. 20, waa re
leased to Montesano, Wash., auth
orities on a warrant charging lar
centy by check. "
Now held in the Douglas county
jail is John Floyd Thomas, 22,
wanted by Sweet Home authorities
on a charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. Thomas lists
both Sweet Home and Aberdeen as
his home. Chief Baird said Monte
sano authorities are also interest
ed in Thomas.
Starmer Quits Police Job;
Jean Bowies Succeeds '
Don Starmer, who has served for
the past two years with the Rose
burg police department, has re
signed his position to accept em
ployment in Alaska.
Police Chief Calvin Baird an
nounced today that Jean Bowies, a
member of the. city police reserve,
will fill the vacancy left by the
resignation of Starmer. Bowles
served as enlisted man in army
intelligence during world war two.
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OREGON MONDAY, fit.
Leopard Still
Balks Search
In Oklahoma
Mote Lures Him Back To
Zoo For Brief Period;
Dogs Refuse To Trail
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27 UPu
The first attempt of mountain lion
hunting dogs to trail Oklahoma
City'a missing leopard failed to
day. Two dogs were taken to the
fence under which the animal was
reported to have sneaked back
into the too grounds in the night
They were walked up and down
ttte fence a couple times without
success.
Then Byron Denton of Laveta.
Colo. one of two men who were
flown in today with seven dogs
trained in mountain lion hunting
said it waa no use to keep them
there.
He said the fence was so close
to the pits and cages of other 100
animals there were too many cents.
it was decided to shirt the hunt
ing scene from the zoo to a snot
northeast of the zoo where the ani
mal was reported seen yesterday.
A helicopter from Fort Sill ar
rived and landed on the zoo
grounds.
It will be" used in the hunt.
William Kent, Colorado Slate
trapper, flew in with Denton and
the dogs in an air Diane chartered
by the Denver Post.
Two guards reported the animal
just a few weeks out of an India
jungle reentered the zoo grounds
aoout l a.m.
But a search of the grounds
failed to disclose him.
At daybreak zoo director Julian
Franer and others searched the
Bit from which the wild animal
ed. But he was not there, either.
Frazier warned the cat hadn't
eaten since Saturday and said his
hunger will make him even more
dangerous.
' Besides that ms nature leads
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Motorist Fires
On Police Auto
State police and Douglas county
peace officers continued to main
tain a strict watch over roads and
highways of this area today, fol
lowing a tip that a trigger happy
motorist waa headed this way
early this morning.
I he local state police office was
advised early Monday that a Cot
tage Grove police car waa fired
upon as it attempted to stop a
passing car. The speeder outdis
tanced the police car and authorit
ies south of Cottage Grove were
immediately notified.
An early morning vigil failed to
nab the offenders but police and
the sheriff s of lire were continuing
the search today.
EUGENE. Feb. 2?.-4m-A Sal
em taxi driver's report that a fare
"looked like John O. Pinson," es
caped penitentiary lifer, set off
road blocks in this area last night.
Cliff B. Baity, the Salem cabbie.
drove a man to the south city
limits of Salem. There the man
left the cab and got into a car
with some other people.
Baity reported to police tnf man
"might possibly be Pinson." and
state police sent out an alarm,
A little later a similar car. trav
eling through Cottage Grove, fired
at a policeman when he ordered
the car to stop.
Road blocks were set up, but did
not cstch the car.
Four-Way Attempt At
Suicide Is Successful
ARCADM, Calif., Feb. 27 m
Police said that William E, Scott.
76, a race track clerk, quarreled
with his wife Sunday and then:
1. Drove his car at high speed
into a concrete wall;
2. Apparently not seriously in
jred. he then climbed atno a
railroad lumber car and dove off
head firt onto the tracks:
i. Still alive, he climbed atop
tne car again ana dove once more.
This one killed him.
Police said they arrived on the
scene as he was making his final
jump. They then discovered that
he had also cut his throat.
Retired Physician Dies
In Ten-Story Plunge
SEATTLE, Feb. 27 m The
raja ma-clad body of a man identi
fied as Dr. Thomas Benjamin Cur
ran, 75 year-old retired Tacoma
physician, was found en a side
walk outside the New Washington
hotel early today.
Coroner'a deputies ssid he p-
psrentiy tell to nil death from a
window on the iOth floor.
Flt DAMAGES HOMf
Fire Chief William Mills today
reported the second house fira in
two weeks when his department
extinguished- a blaze Saturday
morning at the E. S. Downing re
sidence, 243 Ctieatnut street.
Damage was estimated at ap
proximately Si .200. The fire was
believed caused by a burning cig
aret igniting an overstuffed chair,
Mills said.
Th lost was insured.
It, 1950
Kiss Hands Jolt
To "Slue Law"
tfDBElt' UiaSS, 14, at top)
split the town of Bethany, Okie.,
in two when ho kissed basket
bail queen Charlotte McLein,
14, do war photo) at a corona
tion ceremony. Bethany ts a
biua law city with a large
population who a t o n d the
Naxareno church. Because of a
tabu on kitting, thirty students
anticipated repercussions and
staged a walkout from school.
Five leaders wore suspended.
Angry parents now threaten
court action egeinit 1 1 H t
school authority, i At wira-
photoi.
Dragging Wife To Death
With Auto Charged To Man
LAKEVIEW, Ga., Feb. K-tm
A 40-year-old man is In jail today
on charges he murdered his wife
by tieing her to the rear bumper
of his car and dragging her to
death.
Sheriff J. M. Moreland aaid
Charles W. Standi dragged his 28-
year-old wife Opal to death be
cause she had been reported keep
ing company with another man,
Mrs. Stancil's battered body was
discovered Saturday on an unpav
d road near her North Gerogia
home.
Coroner Gail Emberson reported
that blood stains and other marks
indicated the woman had been
drasged 50 feet along the road
The sheriff said a length of chain
and a piece of heavy wire rope
were Found in Stancils car. A
noose fashioned in one end of the
rope matched marks on the wain
woman's neck, the sheriff added.
American Freighter
Attacked Off China
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 im -The
Pioneer Dale. .000-ton freigh
ter of the United States lines, was
bombed and strafed off TJinsiao
China, today, an official of the line
reported.
The snnkesman said the captain
James F. Knowlton, had cabled
from Tsingtao:
"Attacked by bomberi one bomb
dropped six lengths astern this
vessel while approaching break
water. Ship badly strafed. One
slight casualty. Now preceeding
seawards awaiting orders,"
The United Slates lines ordered
Knowlton to take hia ship to Japan.
The shin hss a crew of 50.
Wild-Running Train
Raxes Depot, Creamery
MEHOGPANV, Pa , Feb. V-UPl
This small farming town's train
station and a creamery were
wrecked when 20 cars of a Buffalo
New York freight train ran wild
yesterday.
The derailment occurred less
than an hour before workers were
to report for duty at tha Dairy
men's league creamery.
Lame Quantities of meat and but
ler were scattered about as tha two
small wooden structures were
i wrecked.
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Retention Of
Draft System
Asked Of House
Only Registration Is
Provided; Colleges Hit
'Militarism Research
WASHINGTON, Teh. 27 t.W
A bill to continue the machinery
of the draft, but without any power
in iiseii to pui m man iiuu uniiorm,
was ready for the House today.
Ren. Vinson (D-Ga ), chairman of
the House armed services com
mittee. Is the author. He predict
ed House approval.
President Truman's military ad
visers asked for a straight-out ex
tension of the present law, which
expires in June. Under this law,
men could be drafted in peace
time although none tias been for
more than a year. Military men
urged it aa insurance against any
waste of time in an emergency.
Vinson's bill doesn't go anywhere
near as tar. It would extend the
registration and classification sys
tem of selective service for three
years. However, no one could act
ually be drafted unless Congress
passed a separate law to that ef-
tect.
Meanwhile, the National council
against conscription, a private or
ganisation which has opposed var
ious aspects of a military draft,
came up with a blast against
"miltarism in education."
Cetleoes Unite In Pretest -
Under that heading, ft council
deplored a situation which it des
cribed in these words:
"Already in some colleges Mil
itary subsidy of research has led
to government investigation of stu
dents and faculty directly involv
ed; It has placed some schools
in the position where they are in
creasingly dependent upon mili
tary funds for their existence.
"Military training and large mil
itary faculties have in some other
schools tended to bring the disci
pline and attitudes of west paint
and Annapolis into the normally
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Ex-Cool Miner
Becomes Boron
' LONDON, Feb, 27-CPI-A one
time coal miner whose wife work
ed as a housemaid to put him
through college has become a Bri
tish baron.
He ia 63 year-old Jack Lawson,
for SO yeara a Labor House of
Commons member until he gave
up his seat last December to take
the vice chairmanship of the Na
tional Parka commission.
The new peer said he intends to
go right on living in hia little
terrace house among his miner
friends at Beamish, in County Dur
ham. "Living here it is easy for any
one to tell me what they want,"
ha explained to a reporter. "They
walk In and out as if they belong."
Announcement that Lawson had
been made a peer waa published
this morning.
Lawson went into th coal pits
at the age of 12. He was a miner
for 12 yeara, working 10 hours a
day. Early in their marriage, Mrs.
Lawson decided he should go ts
Oxford. She became a household
domestic in order to support him
while he studied.
Lawson was secretary for war
in 1995-46.
Asked what title he would take.
Lawson aaid.
"All I have thought about so far
is 'Lawson' and I hope they will
let ma put 'Jack' before it."
Girl In Auto Accident
Still Unconscious
EUGENE, Feb. 27 UP) Pat
ricia Ann Callahan, IS, of Routa
2, Junction City, was still in poor
condition at Sacred Heart hospi
tal today. She was injured in a Fri
day night auto accident at the
junction of highway 99 and the old
highway in Junction City. The girl
haa not regained consciousness
sine the accident,,
Laura Harper, 15, also of Route
2, Junction city, injured in the
same accident was dismissed from
the hospital Sunday,
Former Police Chief,
Fugitive, Nabbed By FSI
EUGENE. Feb. 27UPA for
mer police chief of Sand Springs,
Okia., was ht Id here today as a
fugitive from Oklahoma in a case
involving the wounding of a couple
there Feb. 12.
f BI Agent F. A. Fletcher said
Lawrence T Carmen. 40, was ar
rested on a tip he would be found
at an Oikrtdg residence. H did
not resist.
Medford Union Agent Out
For Congress Nomination
MEDFORD, Feb. 27 AF1
Teamsters business agent Robert
Rurker haa announced he will seek
the Democratic nomination for Con
gress from th Fourth Oregon dis
trict. A former mortician and past
president of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, Rocker has had m
previous political experience.
Union Ydvc-5
Right To Arrj2
Case in Court
Negotiations Toward '
New Contract Indicate
Lack Of Any Progress
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. (1
John h. Lewis United Mine
Workers today pleaded innocent to
contempt charges resulting freas.
uie iauure oi aiz.uuu miners to re
turn to work under court order. ,
The union waived its right to
argue its case before a jury, tnd
decided to let Judge Richmond B.
Keech rule on the evidence aa wall
as the law.
The hit question it whether th
union is reiDonsible lor th refusal
of the coal miners to go back to
wora.
Keech issued an order Feb. ii
for a return to work, bat the Buoert
have ignored it.
The union's attorneys have con
tended that the miners are acting
inasvtouaiiy mat tne union itself
has nothing to do with the present
strike.
Once the union's plea was form
ally entered, the government begaa
attempting to show that the uaioa
is responsible for keeping the mines
idle to the point of a katkmal coal
famine.
The government bad done Uttio
mora than enter documents ia the
ease when it asked tor a recess.
Government attorneys explained
that they wanted to csli as wit
nesses some of the men thea a
jaged is renewed contract negotia
tion!. "W don't want to pull theim
away from the bargaining negotia
tions." Joseph U. Fried man, ape
ciai assistant attorney general saia.
A aession of talks between the)
operators and union representa
tives nao segua at a a, m.
Welly K. Hopkins, general coun
sel for Lewis' union, said ho was
waiving a trial by jury for "reasona
which need not be entered is tit
record in detail."
Hopkins then moved that JudfS)
Keech dismiss the proceeding.
in judge immediately deniM
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Truman Ncmei
Fact-Finders To
Defer Rati Strike
WASHINGTON, Feb. K.
President Truman Saturday
named a three-man emergency
board to mvoatigate a labor diaputa
which had threatened a railroad,
strike beginning today. - .-
1 An order creating th board auto
matically held up a. atrike for (0
days. . ,
The board members trt: ,
Roger I, McDonough, chief Jus
tice of the Utah supreme court.
Gordon S. Watkins. professor of
economics at th University of CaU-
lornia at uu Angeie.
Mart J. O Mallev. hide of thai
Indiana supreme court. . -.
A chairman will b designated
later.
Tha almost year long dispute in
volves the Brotherhoods of Con
ductors and Trainmen, and th
Eastern, Westers and Southeaster
carrier' conference committees.
Under the railway labor art tho
board has 30 days to report. No
sin can o eauea tor another Jo
days after that.
Among other things the union
seek a 40-hour week for some IS..
000 yard service employe without
a cut in pay. They ar now oa a t
hour basis. They alsa wast It
changes in operating rules, white
tne carriers are asking 17 changes.
Fugitive Rebel Chief
Of Indonesia Caught
SINGAPORE. Feb. 27-iP)-Capt
R.P.P. Turk) Westerns. Indone
sia's chief rebel leader was recent
ly boasted that with enough arm
ha could take tha capital city of
Jakarta, waa arrested without a
struggle here yesterday by British
police, .
united Stales of Indonesia offi
cials immediately demanded th
30-year-oid former Dutch army
commando's extradition os charge
of leading a guerrilla revolt. If re
turned, unarmed sources said he
will face the death penalty.
One of Westeriing's friends said
he came her to get arms for hia
rebel movement. Presumably h
hoped to contact smuggler and
gun runners.
Teen-Agers Arrested n .
Series Of Burglaries
OREGON CITY. Feb, 27 J"
Six teen-age boys were held in the
county jail today for juvenile court
action on their arrests in burglar
ies of store her and is Casey
and ifolalla.
Deputy Sheriff Bud Williams said
an arsenal of weapons valued at
720,60 had been recovered from
shed sear kolalla.
Three of tlie boys wer caught
Saturday night in a car. They had
knives stolen from the M fc at
Trading post her. The others wer
implicated and picked up at their
rural some. Burglaries of at least
five stores and one residence wer
cleared up, Williama aaid.
Lvlfy jpact Refit
By U F. Reizenatera
Altheuqk the "Third WerW
mme" H !. )hnMCd hy ay
teriens or e tot paw, there Je
ttm tine te form e Lett Mea's
club.