10 The News-Review, Rosaburg, Org. Tuti,, Mor. 21, 1950
New Schools Training War Vets
Require Rigid Local Examination
.By PETftR EDSON
NEA WMhlnglon CorrDondnt
WASHINGTON (NEA) District of Columbia'! experience with vet
erans' trade schools may give a clue to what has gone wrong nation
ally with the GI below-college level
Last July the D. C. Commission
era p a r 1 1 e u 1 a r 1 y Commiss
ioner Guy Mason became con
cerned over complaints against
the mushrooming GI trade schools
in Washington. Over 300 academic,
arts and vocational schools had
been approved by the Board of
Education for GI training. The
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Board was required to certify only
that the schools had the faculty
and equipment to train veterans.
It had no responsibility over the
quality of the training.
Nearly 10 per cent of the district
vets were enrolled in trade schools
and IS per cent more were taking
college-level courses. The schools
were doing a $10,000,000 to $12,000,
000 a year business.
There was no complaint against
the old-time colleges nor against
the established correspondence,
trade and vocational schools which
had been in business 20 years and
more. All the complaints were
against the newer schools.
Disputes Snag Inquiry
So a 20-man committee was
named to investigate. Leon G.
Chatolain, Jr., an architect, w a
named chairman. Gino Simi of the
District of Columbia apprentice
ship office was made secretary.
The committee was made up of
businessmen, labor representativ
es and public figures. There were
no spokesmen for the trade
schools. But all the veterans' or
ganizations were represented to
look out for GI rights.
Almost immediately the comm
ittee bogged down in disputes on
what it should do. There was at
first a charge that the schools
had used fraudulent advertising to
attract students. Yet none of the
advertising was Investigated.
One feeling developed in the
committee that all these new
schools represented new business
enterprises in the community and
that they should be encouraged.
Also, there was some feeling that
the schools were being fought by
labor unions that-wanted to re
strict the number of men trained
in any trade to their own appren
tices. After six months of wrangling
over points like these, a number
of the members felt that the com
mittee wasn't getting any place
and ought to disband. The secre
tary re-signed. The chairman ap
pointed himself a committee of one
to write a report.
Local Inspection Needed.
The moral of this story, as It
can be applied nationally in all
the states, is that unless there is
good local inspection of vets
schools, there are bound to be
complaints of abuses and waste
of both the taxpayers' money and
the GI entitlement to educational
benefits.
There is a great congressional
fear of federal control over educa
tion. This was apparently what
motivated Congress in taking the
inspection and certification o f
schools, for GI training out of the
hands of the Veterans' Administra
tion. Everything was left up to
local authorities stale boards of
education and their designated
agencies.
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Jesuit Claims
Church Supplies
Forced Laborers
VATICAN CITY, (JP) The
Kremlin has turned the Roman
Catholic church in Russia into one
of fie biggest sources of manpow
er for its forced labor camps and
industries, the authoritative Jesuit
journal "Civilta Cattolica" declar
es in its current issue.
Therefore, said the magazine,
"Many thousands of Catholics must
face a long but glorious martyr
dom for their faith."
Writing on Russia and the 1950
holy year, the Rev. G. M. Schweigl
pointed out no pilgrimages
to Rome were being permitted
from Russia or other Communist
dominated countries. Yet, he said,
the return of Russia to the church
is one of the chief Catholic hopes
of the Holy year.
After 30 years of Communism In
Russia, Father Schweigl wrote,
"over the entire country there now
spreads a network of millions of
adherents to Communist ideology,
and over this, another lesa con
spicuous network of millions with
out faith, uncertain or indiffer
ent." Nearly the entire Roman Cath
olic hierarcy of Russia is in jail
or in exile, he declared.
Russia's population of 170,467,186
in 1939 included 500,000 Roman
Catholics, the Jesuit writer con
tinued. Of 23,000,000 persons add
ed to the Soviet population by ter
ritorial increases after world War
II, 8.000,000 were Catholics.
Administrative measures against
the Catholic church in the past
four years have "sharply cut" the
number of Russia'a Catholics and
will continue to do so, father
Schweigl wrote.
Britain Will Get
B-29s In U.S. Aid
WASHINGTON, March 20 -JPl-The
first batch of about 75 Ameri
can B.29 takes off for Britain to
day under the $1,000,000,000 arms
aid program to strengthen West
ern Europe's defenses.
The seven-year-old planes, once
the heaviest the American air
force could send aloft, now are
classed as "medium bombers."
The giant B-36 is alone in the
heavy bomber class now.
But the B-29 2,000-mile combat
range and 10-ton bomb load are
expected to add considerable strik
ing power to the British air force.
The British in linjt uitk -n;,.!
defense plans, have concentrated
on ouiiamg speedy jet fighters.
raving oomoer production to the
United States.
Forty eight American Hellcat
fighters and Hclldiver bombers
Were loaded ahnarrl th L- k.
aircraft carrier "Dixmude" at Nor-
toin, va., March 8. These were the
first American weapons actually
given to an Atlantic pact nation.
Additional carloads of American
military equipment are now piling
up at east coast porta for ship
ment to other Western European
nations.
Gunshot Wound Kills
Seattle Cartoonist
SEATTLE, March 21. (.TV-Sam
Groff, widely known Seattle Timet
cartoonist, was found dead of a
gunshot wound in his Hunts Point
home here Monday.
Coroner John P. Brill said Groff
had been shot through the chest,
apparently accidentally while
cleaning a pistol. The artist has
been on leave of absence from ths
Times for more than a year be
cause of ill health.
His pen and ink cartoonings of
the Seattle baseball team of the
Pacific Coast league were widely
known In the Northwest.
of disabled veterans, the VA was
given this authority. That program
has been run off without much
complaint. But the fear of giving
the VA too much control over
local education may have back
fired in training vets not disabled
One trouble is that there are no
established standards for training
barbers, bricklayers or b e a u t i
cians. Schools approved in some
states would never have been ap.
proved in others. Barbering
courses for instance, varied from
11 to 104 weeks.
Too many new schools were ap
proved too fast. Thus 5600, or two
out of three trade schools approv
ed for vets, were established after
the GI bill was paased in 1944.
To correct these situations. Vet
erans' Administration, Budget Bu
reau and the President have re
commended that the federal gov
ernment be authorized to set min
imum standards under which these
schools can be operated.
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CAUSES OF DEATH The Newschart above shows how diseases of the heart, blood and kidneys
have grown as major cause of death from 39 in the Twenties to 81 in 1949 while deaths
from infectious and other diseases have declined. The development of "miracle drugs" to curb
Infectious diseases, and the fact that people live longer now, accounts for the rise of disease associ
ated with old age.
White Man On
Trial In Killing
Of Three Negroes
KOSCIUSKO, Miss., March 20
VP) A white ex-convict goea on
trial today for the massacre of
three Negro children.
Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Turn
er it accused of shooting to death
Nell Harris, 4, Mary Burnside, 8,
and Frankie Thurman, 12, in their
home near here shortly before mid
night last Jan. 8.
District Attorney Henry Rodger
said he would ask the death pen
alty. In Mississippi, the death pen
alty carried out in the electric
chair is rare for a white man
charged with murdering a Negro.
Rodgers described the slaugh
ter as "a drunken orgy of re
venge." Last week Windol Whitt, 24, also
accused in the three slayings, was
convicted of the murder of the Har
ris child and was given a life pri
son sentence. A brother, Malcolm
Whitt, 27, under similar charges,
is slated to go on trial March 27.
In Windol Whin's trial, the
Whitt brothers testified that Turn
er alone entered the Negro home
and come out declaring he "had
killed the whole damm bunch of
them." Turner did not testify.
State witnesses said Windol Whitt,
armed with a shotgun, blocked
the victims' escape.
The parent of the slain children,
Thomas Harris, 27, told the jury
that a bullet from Turner's gun
shattered his spine. Harris said he
lay halpless on the kitchen floor
while Ruby Nell uleaded for water.
The child died after officers ar
rived about dawn. The other vic
tims were his step-children.
Another step-daughter. Verline
Thurman, 14, testified in Windol
wnitt s trial mat Whitt flushed her
from under the house and that
Turner shot her. She has recover
ed from two bullet wounds.
Harris' wife, Mary Ella, clutch
ing an infant, ran out a side door,
shoved aside a gun barrel and fled
into the darkness.
Rodgers said the three white
men had forcibly entered the Har
ris home and had attempted to
rape the negro woman on Dec. 22.
After the Dec. 22 foray, the white
men escaped from jail. The Jan. 8
slaughter, Rodgers said, was
prompted by a mistaken idea that
the Harris family had caused the
arrest of the trio.
Malcolm Whitt surrendered the
day after the shooting. The other
two were taken after a 57-hour
manhunt. Bloodhounds handled by
Clarence Mullins, state prison trus
ty, led a posse to the potato hut
where Windol Whitt and Turner
were hiding. Turner was shohilv
wounded when Mullins fired into
tne hut.
Pay Increase Advised
For Portland Employes
PORTLAND, March 21. .T A
$426,288 pay increase for 3.230 city
employes was recommended to the
Portland city council today.
The recommendation came from
a city survey service agency hired
by the city to study the situation
The increase would bring Port
land in line with other west coa.it
cities, the agency reported.
Increases would range from $5
to $100 monthly. The average
would be St 1 a month more.
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Burned Spokane Hotel
To Be Rebuilt Soon
SPOKANE, March 21 (."PV-Owners
of the burned out Ridpath hotel
are working on tentative plans for
rebuilding the structure at a cost
of more than $1,000,000.
Thomas Gose of Walla Walla,
representative of the Ridpath es
tate, told the Chronicle in a tele
phone interview that it may take
from three to five months to pre
pare definite plans.
The Ridpath was all but destroy
ed by a fire which started early in
the evening Feb. 28, and was con
trolled the next morning. Damage
was estimated at $1,000,000. That
figure has not been confirmed by
the owners.
Gose said the tentative plans call
for an eight-story building with ap
proximately 200 rooms on the same
downtown site as the old building.
Sentenced To Die,
Man Only Laughs
NEW YORK, March 21 -(.'Pi-Convicted
wife slayer Lewis Wolfe
broke into peals of laughter Mon
day when sentenced to die in the
electric chair the week of April 23.
The wealthy 42-year-old Montreal
contractor was sentenced by Kings
County Judge Louis Goldstein, wtio
had adjudged him sane.
Permitted to address the court
before sentencing, Wolfe spoke in
coherently of his "beautiful love"
for his slain wife and of voices that
"whispered" to him on the night
she was bludgeoned to death with
a steel-tipped shoe.
"No jury in the world would call
me insane," Wolfe said, agreeing
with the sanity finding of Judge
Goldstein.
Wolfe was convicted of first de
gree murder for slaying his acress
wife in 1944. The state charged that
he did it in a fit of rage when she
confessed infidelity.
Portland Bank Takes
Meadows Race Track
PORTLAND. March 21. UP)
The First National bank of Port
land took over the $2,000,000 Port
land Meadows horse race track at
a sheriff's saje here Monday.
The bank ocquired the plant with
the only bid submitted. It was for
$476,092. The sale resulted from
mortgage foreclosure proceedings,
started by the bank.
William P. Kyne, California rac
ing promoter who built the track in
1946, made no bid, but said he
would talk with bank officials later
about a possible lease for racing
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SALZBURG, Austria, March 20.
4JP Two American soldiers were
sentenced to long prison terms
Friday after being convicted of
kidnapping a Romanian-born mys
tery man and banding him over to
the Russians for pay.
Cpl. Paul Abel of Bolivar, Mo.,
was given 20 years at hard labor
and Sgt. John Frankey of New
York City 15 years. Both also were
ordered aisnonoraoiy oiscnarg
from the Army and to forfeit all
pay and allowances.
ine veraici ana semence. were
announced by Col. M. Tharr o H
San Antonio, Texas, president of
the court-martial which heard the
case.
A detailed confession by Abel, in
which he described how their vic
tim, Oswald Elder, was kidnapped,
was read to the court.
The confession said Eder was
taken from his home in an army
jeep by Abel and Frankey and
handed over to five Russiaas near
an old factory outside Vienna. They
were paid 7,000 Austraian schillings
(about $700).
The prosecution has described
Fder as a mysterious former sol
dier In the Germany army who has
been suspected by several nations
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 20
UP) Dock and shipyard work
ers at Belgium's largest port, Ant
werp, quit work today to back up
the Socialist fight against King
Leopold's proposed return to Bel
gium. In Brussels, Premier Gaston Ey
skens began negotiations seeking a
solution to the political crisis pre
cipitated when his cabinet resign
ed Saturday.
Eyskens seeks new coalition
which will call a joint session of
parliament to vote Leopold's re
turn from exile.
But Leopold's chief opponents,
former Premier Spaak's Socialists,
announced yesterday they would
call waves of strikes until Leo
pold abdicates in favor of his
son, 19-year-old prince Baubpuin.
Socialists criticize Leopold's sur
render to the Germans in World
War two.
The Liberals brought on the cab
inet's fall when they refused to
join the Social Christians in spon
soring a parliamentary session to
invite Leopold back to his throne.
The king a week ago won 57.68
percent of the vote in a country
wide advisory referendum, held to
advise, parliament of the popular
feeling with regard to Leopold's
proposed return.
Public Hospital Issue
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FOREST GROVE, March 21
iPl Sponsors of a public hospital
proposed for Western Washington
county said today the issue proD
ably will be on the May 19 pri
mary oauoi.
chairman Joseph M. Loom is
id petitions calling for a vote
on the proposition now have 1,-
son names, signatures of 1,031
registered vot era are needed.
The proposal to construct the
public hospital at Forest Grove is
opposed by the Washington Coun
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Beef Tenderloin Seized
CHICAGO, March 21,
Seisure of 12,000 pounds of horse
meat stored here as beef tender
loin was reported Monday.
The seizure was announced by
Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, presi.
dent of the city board of health,
which impounded the meat March
10 in cooperation with the stale
health department and the federal
Food and Drug administration.
Dr. O W. Seher, inspector in
charge of the Chicago federal meat
inspecting station, said the horse
meat was shipped to Chicago from
Southbend, Ind., by truck, in boxes
marked "tenderloin." He said it
was stored as "beef tenderloin"
and that government labels had
been removed.
4-Wheel Drive Vehicle
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MEDFORD, March 20 CP)
A new four-wheel drive vehicle
has appeared here.
Ivventor E. M. Tucker, presi
Inventor E. M. Tucker, presi-
is the envy of motorists having
parking problems in small spaces.
Tucker's latest machine steers all
wheels. It is fast on curves and
he claims it is almost impossible
to overturn.
He plans production in the fall.
The first model is a work machine.
Tucker ultimately hopes to turn
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