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I U of 0 Library Eugene, Ore COHP mm. WOT : WO" mm WHO DOES WHAT VS?) Aft .Mo.i ETHEL OLSON it pictured as she sits at the workbench in the room at htr ham where she demonstrates the ert of fashioning ceramics and where she conducts classes while instructing others. A graduate of a Portland school where this Interesting hobby was taught, she not only utiliies it as vocation but derives vast per. tonal pleasure from its pursuit. Molding innumerable articles from clay, the first firet these in a kiln, to harden dhem, then glares and reheats them., Lo! There are beautifully colored figurines, ash trays, wall ornaments and what have you, for the decoration of a home. Mrs. Olson is the wife of Loran Olson, who is connected with Howard Cooper corporation. They live at 541 Alameda street in Cloverdale. House. Senate Committees In Split On Foreign-Aid Money WASHINGTON. March 22. (AP) The House and the Senate were apart by one billion dollars cash today in their plans for European aid spending next year. Foreign committeei of both I chamber! yesterday approved bills providing for $3,100,000,000 of Mar ihall plan economic help in the 12 monthf beginning July 1, 1950. . But the House bill direcU that $1,- 000,000,000 be in the form of surplus U. S. farm product! whereas the Senate bill calls for all cash. Effort! to compromise that dif ference are almost certain to lead to some sharp clashes and some reduction in cash when and if the two chambers pass the bills as approved in committee. An earlier battle for further cuts appeared shaping up. Rep. Vorys (R-Ohio), who spon sored the auccessful move to sub stitute farm surplus for cash, hint ed he would lead a fight to cut another $1M.0U0,DU0 out of the bill when H reaches the House floor next month. Vorys said there was general evidence of determination in the House to call a halt tn high-level foreign aid spending in view of an impending $4,000,000,000 budget de ficit. Chairman Kee (D-WVA), on the other hand, told reporters he would go down the line for the committee measure. Senator Conally fD-Texas) indi cated the Senate might stand on its committee's proposal and try for a compromise with the House. "We decided we would let it come to conference and act on it then," Connally said. Earlier, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee had predicted Congress would re ject the House plan described by ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman as a "strait jacket." The bill approved by the House committee is a one-package wrap up of all foreign aid for 1951, total ing $3,272,450,000. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS OVERSEAS in Belgium, the gov ernment COLLAPSES AND RE SIGNS over the question of whether or not to bring King Leopold back to hii throne. There are two horns to the Belgian dilemma: 1. Hit surrender of himself and ' his army to the German. i. ma marriage muring ma cum foruble internment as a royal F. 0. W.) to a commoner. THE first we can understand. In that awful moment when he faced the thundering German horde. Leopold made the SOFT AND EASY choice. He threw in the sponge. Churchill, facing the same grim situation, made WORSE by Leo-1 .m-. a', -K... ,k. way. His people backed him to the last man and the last extremity. The British bled themselves white in the county jail upon ftilure to and had to face the problems of post $1,000 bail in the justice court peace weakened and debilitated by!? BGdd'- "P0" Sheriff their long struggle that took not ! T' B"d ?! a only their blood but their tressure. Belgium (thanks to the choice tContiaued on Page Four) Wrir. Paroled Kluxer To Abandon Politics D. C. STEPHENSON MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., March 22. (JP) D. C. Stephenson, who expects to leave prison on parole soon, plans to leave Indiana also and to stay out of politics. Hia phenomenal career as In diana grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan ended with a murder convic tion when he was 31 years old and he spent the next 25 years fighting to get out of prison. He recently won a parole authorization. "With the utmost good will I am going to a section of the country where members of my political party (Republican) are as scarce as hen's teeth," he said. "This means I have no intention of par ticipating in politics.'' He plans to live with a daugh ter, Mrs. Katherine Thompson, in Tulsa. Okla. Stephenson was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1925 for the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of In dianapolis, a statehouse employee She took poison during a weekend trip to Hammond, and the state contended Stephenson caused her death by withholding medical at tention. UmpqUd Flood Control puld neu0-e(1 , B; Allocation of $50,000 for flood control construction on the Urns qua rivor it included in the house appropriations commirhM's report for flood control and rivor and harbor project during ItSl, the Associated Press reports. The bill would else provide $750,000 for harbor construction work at Coos bay. Alleged Felony Threat . - . . Jo" Oakland Resident Mike Miller, 60, Oakland, charged Tuesday with threatening the com mission of a fplnnv Wat Inriff.! town Oakland br Deputies Ira Byrd and Dallas Bennett sfter he is alleaed to have threatened to shoot his wife, Carter si id. I The WmHmt Partly densely with shwrs becowlstej cloudy wftfc rata re light. Parrly clewdy with dnw era Thursday. Same today 4:27 Sunrise) tomorrow 4:12 cm. establish) 1173 Truman Attempts To Save Housing Bill From Defeat Plea Rushed To Party Chiefs In Congress Republicans Fight Plan, Poll Shows Democrats About Evenly Divided WASHINGTON. March 11 (Pi Trying to save hia $2,000,000 co-op housing program from prospective defeat. President Truman declared today this plan to provide homes for middle-income families is above party politics. A telegram from the President at Key West, Fla.. reached Demo cratic leaders as a snot noil in- aicatea mat almost half of bis own party members in the House may vote against the co-op idea. The Senate already has turned it down. The House will vote on the bill late today or tomorrow. Mr. Truman said the plan "will stimulate home ownership througn the use of cooperative methods which have long been successfully used in other fields of endeavor." He added: "It will be of particular value to those of our veterans who are atiU seeking adequate Housing, and who should not be required to pay an excessive share of their income in order to obtain it." Mr. Truman went on to say that middle income families those with incomes of $2,800 to $4,400 a year are "the backbone of the coun try" but that they can't afford to buy or rent auitable homea at present prices. Of over 100 Democrats checked by a backer of the proposal, the score for and against the bill was just about even. Several were non committal. - - J- :. -- r Republicana probably will line up almost solidly against the co op idea and, unless there is a sudden shift in Democratic op position ranks, it is bound to be defeated. The House GOP policy committee has voted unanimously to oppose it. - The measure proposes a $2,000, 000. TOO government corporation. It would borrow most of its money from the public and make loans to co-op or other non-profit organiza tions at about S percent interest with mortgagee to extend up to 60 years. The co-ops would build dwellings for families with annual income from $2,400 to $4,700. Opponents contend the plan is discriminatory and socialistic. They point out that veterans must pay 4 percent on housing loana and that home mortgage insurance for other cltizena through FHA ia at 4V percent $2 Million Firt Sweeps Abbey On Rhode Island NORTH CUMBERLAND, R. I., March 22 (PI A fierce $2, 000.000 fire wrecked four buildings of the half-century old Cistercian community of Our Lady of the Val ley last night. The flamea destroyed the main chapel, the infirmary, the guest house and the monastery where the monks live in bare cells. Fifty of the 160 residents and guests of the cloistered order were nearly trapped as the flames spout ed with lightning-speed through the four structures. Priceless manuscripts snd rec ords, including files of every stroyed. The community wss established in 1900 by monks directed by the late most Rev. Joseph Mary Mur phy. It became a full-fledged ab bey in 1945. Logging. Accident Kills Lone County Operator EUGENE, March 22. UP) Ben jamin Scott Lefever, 45, well known resident of Walterville, was fatally injured in a logging accident late Tuesday on his own operation about four miles east of Saginaw, the Lane county coroner's office re ported. Lefever and a crew of his men were working near a main line which suddenly snapped, hit him beneath the chin, and killed him almost instantly, the coroner aaid. Lefever had gained a statewide reputation for hia work of teaching Red Cross first aid classes. He op erated a Red Cross highway first aid station at his Walterville borne. where he had lived for the last 20 yeara. He is survived by his widow snd two children. Drunken Driver Draws $100 Fine, Jail Stretch Clarence Emmett Connolly, 49, of Roseburg, pleaded guilty in municipal court today to drunken driving charges, reported Judge Irs B. Riddle. Connolly wss fined $100 snd given a 30-day jail aentence to be sus pended on condition of fine pay- . T- k .. J,VA I. cense was revoked for one year. ROSEBURG, Roads Outlay Lists $1,761,000 For Two Douglas County Jobs Two Douglas county projects, aggregating an expenditure of $1,741,000, are included in this year's forest highway program for the four Pacific Northwest states announced by the Bureau of Public Roads. The program calls for an expenditure of $1,011,000 for grading surfacing and bituminous top surfacing 2.4 miles of Pacific highway extending southerly from 1.2 miles south of (.enyonville, to connect with construction now underway on Can yon mountain. The bids will be called this season. This is by far the largest project of eight itemised for Oregon. The other project calls for a $750,000 allocation to grade 4.5 miles of the North Umpqua highway, beginning about 35 miles northeast of Roseburg, just beyond the forest service boundery, end ending et Steamboat creek. Bids will be celled in May. VV. H. Lynch, division engineer, said the state highway de partment1 and the forest service had agreed to the program, which will be handled by the Bureau of Public Roads, the As sociated Press reports. GOP Chairman Raps Brannan Plan LINCOLN, Nebr., March 22.-UP) The Brannan agriculture plan was compared to .the "old ahell game the suckers used to play at county fairs" in an address here by na tional Republican Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson. "Now you see it, now you don't," Gabrielson told 1,300 fellow Re puplicana last night st a Nebraska GOP Founders' day rally. "This plan waa not written by farmers to help farmers make a better livelihood, but is an instru ment for the destruction of free farmers, framed by the radicals who surround your secretary of Ag riculture, Gabrielson said. He also attacked Communism, declaring: "We hsve . too , lung .tolerated Con'imumum within bur country and within our government. The time is past due when we must recognize these Communists for what they are men and women guiltv of high treason against our people. We must drive them out." Colorado Reformatory Escapees Recaptured GRAND JUNCTION. Colo., March 22 (JP) Six young es capeea from the Colorado reforma tory were recaptured Tuesday at Moab, Utah. In (he 13 hours of freedom after they slugged a guard in a carefully-planned breakout, police said they kidnaped one man, stole three vehicles, committed two arm ed robberies and drove 330 miles. About 9 p.m., last night 64-year, old guard Ed Murdie waa slugged with a lead pipe while making bed check at prison farm No. 1 near Buena Vista, Colo. Warden James Thomas said earlier the youths had stolen civilian clothing from the farm superintendent's home. NOT WORTH HOLDUP PORTLAND, March 22. (JP) A gunman who intended robbery of a northeast auto service station early today was either sympathetic or disgusted. Charles Seymour said a man pull ed a gun on him and forced him to open the cash boxes. The gunman looked in each and then said: "I don't think that's a big enough take to bother with." THESE SMILING CIRL SCOUTS, all members ef Troop 2, Riversdale, or shown above with the wares they hop to sell to Roseburg housewives Saturday morning. This cookie sal is en of two money making projects allowed the Girl Scouts each yeer end the proceeds are to go for their Cirl Scout camp. -The houso-to-hous sal sterts Saturday at a. m. Mrs. Virginia OH it leader for th Riversdale ejirls. OREGON WEDNESDAY, MAR. Sweden Refuses To Join Atlantic Defense Pact STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 22 Iff) Foreign Minister Osten M. Uden said today traditionally neutral Sweden would stand firm in her refusal to join the Atlantic, pari. Unden declared that Sweden doea not wish "to conduct a foreign po licy that would contribute to turn ing our corner of the world into a center of unrest and a point fol friction between East and West." He also turned thumbs down on talk of military cooperation with Norway and Denmark, both mem bers of the Atlantic pact. Such cooperation, Uden said, would "greatly compromise Sweden's pro claimed policy of neutrality." Medford Bond Vote Set -For Bigger Water Supply MEDKORD, March 22 (JP) Expansion of this city's wster supply system is planned if voters here approve a $2,800,000 bond is sue proposed by the city council last night. Councilmen said the bonds would not require new taxation. The mon. ey would pay for a new 20 to 30 inch water main to be laid the 30 5 miles from Big Butte springs and repair the existing main, for emergency use. A new dirt dam on Willow creek would provide ad ditional storage for aummer use. The existing system was plan ned in 1926 when the city had 9622 residents. Present population ia estimated at 23,913. Cops Accused Of Beating Negro Prisoner To Death LAFAYETTE, Ala., March 22 P The atate called two white policemen to trial here today on charges of beating a teen-age Negro prisoner to death after he let the air out of a tire on their squad car. City patrolmen Doyle Mitrham, 21, and Jamea R. Clark, 29, are charged with mauling 18-year-old Willie B. Carlisle until he died. Carlisle was arrested and taken to jail Feb. 18. He died in a hos pital the next morning. Mitcham and Clark had picked him up for letting the air out of a tire on their car after they had put him out ol a dance. litatf phot I. 22, 1S0 Fate Of Rent Control Law Is Uncertain Funds Slash Indicates Extension After June 30 Up To Congress' Verdict WASHINGTON, March 22.-CPV-Little immediate change in fed eral rent control policy waa fore seen today despite a congressional cutback of funds requested to run the program. Whether there1 will be any fed eral controls sfter July 1, how ever, remained in doubt. Housing Expediter Tighe Woods made no official statement con cerning future plans of the rent control agency he heads. Other sources close to the sit uation said that the $4,000,000 voted by the House and Senate for rent control will enable Woods' atatf to continue operations at the pres ent level. "We think the sgency will now have enough monry to carry on until Congress decides whether to extend controls for another full year," one housing official aaid. Funds to continue federal ceil ings through June 30 were in cluded in a $738,000,000 money bill which passed the Senate yester day. The measure earlier had won House approval. The $4,000,000 earmarked for Woods' agency had the effect of a heavy slash in funds since Con gress specified that $2,600,000 of the total be used as severance pay for employes a strong indi cation that the lawmakera now feel that nationwide controls will be dropped when the present law expiree June 30. "The $1,400,000 voted for op erating funds should enable ua to meet our payroll until Congreaa decides whether controls will oe continued next year," the housing official said. Woods has been lifting ceilings in about a doten communitiea every two weeks. This action ia taken when Woods finds, as provided by federal law, thai .the "demand for rental housing has been reason sbly met." Ceilings still are in force on more than 13.000,000 rental units across the nation. Noted Contractor Slaying Victim ' KINGSTON, Tenn., March 22. UP) Robert Grant, widely known construction man, was slain by a burst of gunfire in an ambush at his home near here last night. The well-to-do contractor was lured outside his home near here and "deliberately murdered," Sher iff Marvin Stinecipher aaid. Grant's body wss riddled by eight bullets while he apparently went down fighting. Beside the body on the lawn was Grant'a own pistol jammed, with three shots fired. Grant, about 55, headed Grant Construction Co., which haa han dled many major building jobs in Tennessee. He alao had worked on projects in Florida, Kentucky Virginia, Maryland and California. The aheriff said Mrs. Grant told him her husband was called out doors by someone asking to bor row an automobile jack, and that at her auggestion he slipped a gun in his pocket before leaving the house. A few moments later, said Mrs Grant, she heard rapid shots, too close together to count. M-50 Sister Not Sorry She Killed Twin t : 1 ALICI RICHARD, 14, at top said she killed her twin sister, Sally, lower photo, beceuse she heted her since sixth grade school deys and thet she was not sorry. The deed was com miHed with rifle at the femlty home In Fresno, Calif. The court in which Alice was arraigned ordered a mental examination for her. Charge Of 'Witchcraft' Stirs Court Criticism WILMINGTON. Del.. March 22. (JP) Judge Thomas Herlihy, Jr., haa postponed for one month Wilmington's "witchcraft trial" and at the same time expressed displessure the esse has gone ao far. In ordering the postponement yesterday, the jurist said he found it unbelievable that a charge of practicing the "art of witchcraft" could be pressed In the "enlight ened state of Delaware." The case centers around Mrs. Helen Evsns, 21, accused of taking money from a young woman after telling here she wss under a curse that could be cured for $10. The charge of practicing the art of witchcraft was brought sgainst Mrs. Evans under a law datini bark to colonial days. Mrs., Evsns' attorney yesterday produced a letter from a doctor that the woman la bedfast aa the result of a heart ailment. Missing Vancouver Girl Feared Kidnap Victim VANCOUVER, Wash., March 22 CP) Police searched woods near here today for a clue in the disappearance of a teen-age girl believed carried oft by two men. Jo Ann Dewey, 18, vanished Sun day night. City detective Robert Brown aaio it ia presumed her terrified acreama were those heard near St Joseph's hospitsl st a time when she wss due were to meet a friend. Brown said a number of per sons ssw a girl struggle with two men under a street lignt Sundsy night and heard her acream for help. Misa Dewey was described as a nretlv -curly haired girl. S feet 4'4 inches tsll snd weighing 170 pounds. Helicopters Go To Aid Of Flier In Distress SEATTLE. March 22 (JP) Two helicopters planned a take off today in an effort to rearue Victor C. Roberts, a Spokane pilot last reported inching hia way pain fully along a frozen Cascade moun tain stream on his handa and knees. Roberts, missing since an at tempted flight from Ephrata to Seattle last Sunday, waa located by a aearch plane late yeaterday. He was three miles from Lske Wsptus where his overturned plane waa found earlier. LARCINY CHARGED State police reported today the arrest of George Francis Train, 21. on a warrant from the sher iff's office at Albany charging lar eenv not in a dwelling. Train was arrested Tuesday at Myrtle Creek, where he moved re cently from Albany. A, J ; V. ' v : . . "v ' . f s r .' Ouster From Federal Job Receives O.K. Court Rules, However,. Against Ban Imposed Or New Govt. Position WASHINGTON. March 22.-UP The United Statea court of appeal today upheld the constitutionality of the government'! employe loyauy program. 1 he three-man tribunal ruled that any government worker may b fired by a loyalty board actina un der an executive order from Preai dent Truman. The decision wss handed dowa in the case of Dorothy Bailey, former W.OOO-a-year employe of uie ieoerai aecurity agency. Miss Bailey waa ausoended from her job in November, 1948, on grounds her loyalty was question able. In February, 1949, sh was dismissed. She aued for reinstatement In h job, raising among other points. in. cunienuon mat tne wnoi loyalty program waa unconatitu. tional. At th time Miss Baile etmm under investigation she waa presi ueni m local no. iu or ine viu Government Workers union. She denied any Communiat party mem- ocrinip or aiiinauon. In the U. S. district court. Judg Alexander Holtzoff ruled th pro gram ia constitutional and that ha lacked authority to aet aaid fed eral loyalty board findings. Mis oauey appealed. in Its 2-1 decision, th anneal! court's majority said: "it is our clear opinion that th President may remove from gov- ernment service any person of wnose loyally ne is not completely convinced." N.w Job Ban Ousted The court msioritv threw out a part of the loyalty board decision which banned Miss Bailey from any government employment for three years. in effect the ruling on that point waa this: the court upheld the right of the loyalty board to dismisa Miss Bailey but aaid the board had no right to forbid a government agency from giving her a new job if that agency felt it had a spot where she could be properly employed In uie ugni oi ine record. Since the Bailey case originated, the CIO haa expelled the United ruonc workers on grounds it fol lowed Communist party linea. Attorneys for Miss Bailey said the caae will be appealed to th supreme court. Another teat of the loyalty pro gram already is before the auprem court. That tribunal agreed March 13 to consider an appeal brought by the joint Anti-Fascist Kefuge . committee of New York. - - The committee ia one of soma 130 organizationa listed by the attor ney general aa aubveraive. It con tends the loyalty program give the attorney general a free hand to "define what ia orthodox and proper in th area of thought, . speech and association." Three CorvaKis Firms Suffer Damage In Firt CORVALLIS. March 22 (IP) Fire caused an estimated Sso.OoA damage to three businesa firms last night. Fire Chief Percy Tallman aaid the fire broke out in the Fashion dresa shop just after the closing hour. Most of the store merchan dise and fixtures were burned and stoves and refrigerators of th Heckart's hardware were damag ed. The Lillian beauty shop had alight smoke damage. A portion of th roof was burned away. Paroled Chicago Gunman -Found Shot To Deo CHICAGO, March 22 (JP) The bullet-pierced body of Edward Murphy, 48, identified by police as a paroled bank robber and west aide gambling boss, was found yee terday draped over a wire fene near Hartsdale, Ind. A .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver, fully load ed, waa found in his pocket. Police expressed belief Mur phy's attempts to expand the (am bling operationa they aaid he eon-, trolled in the weat aide marked ' him for gangland execution. Ruling On Rood Favors Cemetery District SALEM. March 22. UP) A county does not have the right to condemn land in a cemetery dis trict in order to build a road, even though the land ia not presently being used aa a cemetery. Attorney General Neuner ruled today for Dis trict Attorney Robert G. Davis of Douglaa county. OUR Dll IN FIR! GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn.. March 22. (JP Four small Negro girls perished here yesterday when flamea awept their home. Mary Pirtle. mother ef the chil dren, aaid she had left them alone to go a short distance into town to get' some laundry. The father, Jessie Pirtle, was at work. vity fact ant By L. T. Retaeewtet Th propoMd federal spend ing bill for the nxt fiscal yar is causing a lot of scheduled bnficiaris to rjaie In owe breath and thee xcoeiat government 'extTOvogonc' In the next. 'Coaiisreney thee art e ewV TImsj art aba a rarity.