U. of 0, Library ' COMP
Eugene, Ore
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HOLD THAT TIOII Not reel tiqers. but clot to it ar thai
two cougar kittens, two-tnirds of a littar which Sutherlin huntar
Ami Popiot, abova, found aftar ha and John "Couqar Bill" Brat
ton killed the mother cougar about a week ago. Whan found
on tha North Umpque, tha kittens wara thought to ba about
a month old. All three kittant hava baan told, Popiot laid, with
ana of them dated ai a houi pet for a Portland man. Including
tha kittens, the hunten hava collected bountiot on 10 cougars
and 10 bobcatt tinea Jan. I at $1 for each bobcat and $60
for the cougart. (Staff photo.)
2-Month-Old Chrysler Strike
Appears To Be Nearing Close
DITROIT, March 15. im The way seemed open t peace today
m th tw-monrh-eld ChrysUr strlk.
A campiny alter, t put $M,M0,0N Int a pension trust fund
and the union's acceptance of th lda If nt the emeunt eve prmis
t breaking th dsdlck.
With both sides compromising, a basis far settlement appeared
at hand far tha return at 140,000 aura workers t th eb.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
AT Chicago:
Donsld Valsonis, who has Just
been selected as th outstanding
boy of th year in the nine-state
central region of the Boys' Club
of America, says that to him the
most important thing in the world
is to be liked.
He adds:
"When I grow up, I don't want
to be President of the United States.
Nobody would 1 '.I 'mkea dU
Nobody would like ." ' -
a
llfHAT he means, I think. Is this:
TV Nobody would LIKE HIM FOR
HIMSELF ALONE. Everybody
would flatter him. Everybody would
kow-tow to him. In every gathering
of two or more, be would be the
big shot
BUT EVERYBODY WOULD
JUST BS BUTTERING HIM UP
BECAUSE EVERYBODY WOULD
BE WANTING SOMETHING
FROM HIM. That would go, not
only for the United States, but in
these days for everybody in the
world. Throughout the world, at
this moment in history, Uncle Sam
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'Pure Luck' Led
To Drug's Finding
BALTIMORE, March 25 -OPi
Sir Alexander Fleming last night
ascribed the discovery of penicillin
which brought him the 1S4S Nobel
peace prise to "pure luck."
The grey-haired Scotsman told an
audience at the Johns Hopkins uni
versity school of hygiene and public
health the only important part he
had played in discovering the pow
erful, germ-killing drug was that
"I noted something."
"It was pure luck that a culture
piste of staphylococci got contam
inated with some mold spores, and
it did something to the staphylo
cocci which was very unusual,"
Fleming continued.
"There are thousands of molds,
but this happened to be the right
one. There are thousands of bac
teria, but this happened to be the
right one.
"I might have been in a bad
temper and missed it." Fleming
is in this country as a lecturer at
Gill Memorial hospital in Roanoke,
Va.
'Bring 'Em Bock Alive' Hunter Dies
HOUSTON, Tex., March 25.-f,f
Frank (Bring 'Em Back Alive)
PRANK RUCK
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6
Joint peac talks were in recess
until Sunday afternoon. Mediators
arranged it that way, hoping that
company and CIO United Auto
workers negotiators would come up
with still more fresh ideas after a
day to "think it over."
The 89.000 strikers meanwhile
went through their 60th day of idle
ness. Another 50,000 persons hsve
been idled indirectly by the walk
out. A union statement that Chrysler's
lateat offer was only half good
enough failed to dim hopes for an
early settlement. Fast-moving de
velopments in the past 24 hours left
peace prospects bright for the first
time.
Chrysler's lump sum offer of a
130,000,000 pension fund was re
jected a short time after it was
put oa th' bargaining table yes
terday. But it provided the basis
for the union's counter proposal
later in tha day.
Tha company said H would set
aside the money in a trust fund.
It claimed this was more than
sufficient to guarantee 1100-a-month
pensions, including federal
social security, to workers at age
65 after 25 years service.
Chrysler offered it as a five-year
contract. I
Air Safety Courses -Set
At Two Airports
PORTLAND, March 25 -im
New pilot training, intended to cut
down the number of cross-country
crashes, will begin soon at two
Oregon flight schools.
The Civil Aeronautics adminis
tration said the schools selected
were Western Skyways service at
Troutdal and Salem Air service
at Salem.
Students, instead of starting out
on plana controls, will be taken
on cross-country flights, learning
first to resd maps, recognize land
marks, and finally bow to fly and
land th plane.
"The new course la designed to
teach a pilot to use an airplane,
not merely maneuver it," E. S.
Leach, senior safety agent for the
district CAA, said.
NO-FUND RfPUNO
MONROE, Mich., March
Th check the government sent
Cairl F. Meier yesterday hardly
seemed worth the trouble or
the postage.
It wss a refund on his income
tax, good for exactly one cent.
THRU WITHDRAWN
WASHINGTON. March 25 -IIP)
Acting in accord with a request
from Hungary's Communist gov
ernment, the Stat department
has withdrawn three military men
from the U, S. legation in Buda
pest. Buck, famed wild animal hunter,
died peacefully in bed today at Her
mann hospital here. He wss 66.
Attendants ssid a lung ailment
caused his death. Shortly before en
tering Hermann hospital a month
sgo, Buck was examined at the
University of Texas M. D. Anderson
hospital for cancer research here.
Services will be held at a funeral
home tomorrow afternoon. The
body will be cremated.
Death in bed overtook th man
who had lived a life of hair
breadth escapes in many parts of
uie worm.
From tha time ha was II. Buck
roamed the earth. In 1911 he made
his first Jungle expedition to South
America the first of a series m
search of rare animals and rep
tiles that built his "bring 'em bsck
alive" reputation.
Buck was born March IT. IS84. at
Gainesville, Texas, where his fath
er operated a wagon yard. In his
school days, he showed an interest
chiefly in animals and geography,
and he left school after th seventh
grade to make thoa imeersU his
Ufa.
TW
Partly daWy today with e
sesieaai Beat rota teaisnt; shew,
org Seealey. ,
Sua today 4:11 p. at.
. ittarbe ten-strew 4:01 a. as.
Establiskad 1173
Secrecy Shrouds Mass Flight
Of Czechs To West Germany
' IRDINS, Germany, March IS. Ttgsst military secrecy redey
surrounded marly M Ciech refugees wtt landed at this U. S. air
tare base yesterday In thr planes kidnapped tram their Cemmu-
Child Actress'
Mother Freed
In Cruelty Cose
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.,' March
251) Lore Lea Michel's foater
mother was free today of a charge
of unjustifiable punishment of tha
nine-year-old child actress.
A justice court Jury of eight wom
en and four men returned a verdict
of innocent last night after more
than seven hours deliberation.
Mrs. Lorraine Michel shed a few
tears of relief whea she heard tha
foreman announce tha verdict.
About 30 persons who had awaited
tha jury's decision cheered. They
almost smothered Mrs. Michel and
her husbsnd. Otto, 71-year-old cot
ton buyer, witn congratulations.
Mrs. Michel, 55, said they might
take Lora Lee to Europe for a
three months' vacation trip.
As to her future acting career,
that will have to be decided later,"
she told reporters. "We hava made
no decision on that."
The jury foreman disclosed that
IT ballots were taken. He said the
first one stood seven to five for
acquittal.' Most of tha prolonged
discussion was about the suffi
ciency of Lora Lee's diet and
whether she was brutally beaten,
he said.
The prosecutor charged that the
child actress was beaten and
starved and her health was Jeop
ardized by an insufficient diet to
keep her from, outgrowing juvenile
rolls.
Mrs. Ona Wargin. tha child's
drama coach, testified Mrs. Michel
admitted she spsnked Lora Lee
with a hair brush last Dee. 15
because the child hsd stolen food.
Other prosecution witnesses said
they saw bruises on the child's
body.
Mrs. Michel dented she used a
hair brush and aaid she spanked
Lora Leo only with her hand for
telling falsehoods. She testified th
child was neither hungry nor half
starved but that she had been put
on a diet that banned sweets, fats
and starches. Her physician testi
fied she was overweight and re
quired such a diet.
Spring Weather
Hits Wide Areas
' my The AaaoeLtled PraMI
Spring was mora like a fact than
a fantasy today.
Temperatures over most or th
nsSon were up to normal levels at
least, and were even higher over
the gulf states and as far north as
Tennessee, Arksnsas and Kansas.
A heevy rain has ended the threat
of another drought in tha rich San
Joaquin valley of California. The
moisture which measured well over
an inch at most places were de
scribed by Agricultural Commis
sioner John Dixton at Fresno as
worth a million dollars.
The- rainfall was widespread. It
extended from San Diego north
ward into the ranchlanda of Idaho
and Wyoming where it was mixed
with snow at higher elevations.
Light rsm also was reported at
some points in Pennslyvania and
western New York. . . .
TRAD! MIITINO SIT
SEATTLE. March 25 UP The
Pacific Northwest Trade associa
tion will hold its 23rd general con
ference at Vancouver, B. C, April
17-18, Dick Knapp, executive secre
tary, announced today. -
MISSINC KIMS Missing on a flight from Lekeview to Port-land ar these (our persons, who wore returning from the Oregon
good-will tour to Cuba. Loft to right., they are: Mrs. W. B.tund.trom, II; Lao BleHolb, 47; Mrs. Leo Blekltolb, J; W. I.
Lundifrom. It. All are PortUndors. Tky left Lekeview Tuesday in the plana beside which thay stand. Tha picture was taken
aa tha flight ta Cuba. IAP Photo.) - .
nltt-ruled homeland. '
It was the biggest mssa escape
so far from behind the iron curtain.
American intelligence officers at
tha base near Munich quisled the
Ciechs. U. S. authorities remained
tight-lipped about details of the
flight until they could complete
their Investigation.
As a result, there was no con
firmation of a series of speculative
reports, such as one that a high
Ciech government official was
aboard one of the planes.
Nor was it known whether the
planes had been stolen from Czech
airports by the plotters or if their
pilots had been forced to turn
toward western Germany after the
aircraft were aloft, as hss been the
case in soma individual aerial es
capes in the past.
An sir force source, however, in
dicated that some of the passen
gers on the planes left their home
land unwillingly and wanted to
return. This could indicate that at
least one of the planes may have
been seised in midair.
An official announcement, which
identified the group simply as refu
gee persons, said:
"Three unauthorized, unsched
uled Ciech airplanes of the DC-3
type lsnded at Krding air base.
The airplanes, lsnding st different
intervals during the morning, car
ried approximately 8S refugee per
sons from Czechoslovakia.
"The refugees are being held for
investigation by U. S. authorities.,
Results will be announced at the
earliest possible hour."
The successive landing of the
three planes coincided with a flood
of rumors in Prague, the Czech
capital, of asssssinations, palace
revolutions and major developments
in tha Red-led government there.
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Deer Creek School
Plans Expansion
Sealed bids will be received by
Dear Creek school district No.
up to g p. m. Friday, April 14, at
the school house for the construc
tion of sdditions to the present
school, an official notice submitted
by Marybelle Beckley, district
clerk, states.
The pioposed improvements call
for two new class rooms, separate
heating plants, a storage room for
janitor supplies and a lounge room
for students who msy become ill
or need first aid.
The additions will be constructed
of tha same type of fireproof ma
terial, including concrete blocks
and fireproof shingles, as the re
mainder of the building, which was
completed a year ago. The school
enrollment up to March 10 was 117.
The construction shall be in ac
cordance with plans and specifica
tions prepared by L. W. Tyler.
Copies of the plsns may be obtain
ed from Charles E. Smith, princi
pal, at the school in Dixonville, up
on tha usual $10 deposit.
MINISTERS MfET
PARIS. Msrch 25W Minis
ters from eleven Marshall plan
rountriea met here today to
streamline the Organization for
European Economic Recovery
(OEEC).
They are members of tha con
sultative group of the OEEC, which
is made up of the 18 areas getting
Marshall plan money. .
Dirk U. Stikker, named six
weeks ago as "political concilia
tor" for the OEEC, is to report
on his first series of visits to
member nations and to the United
States.
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ROSEBURG. OREGON SATURDAY, MAR. 25, 1950
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HAROLD J. LASKI
Leber Party Leader Dead
Pneumonia Kills
Famous British
Socialist Author
LONDON, March 25
Harold J. Laski, a chief spokes
man for British socialism and a
founder of his country's Labor
party, died last night. He was 56.
Pneumonia, following attacks of
bronchitis and influenza, was list
ed as the cause of his death.
A member of the Labor party's
executive committee since 1936,
he wss the psrty's chairman in
1945-46 when it won control of the
British government by a large ma
jority. Laski was widely known in the
United States, where he had taught
and lectured at leading colleges
and universities. A prolific writer,
his espousal of socialism and his
advocacy of "Anglo-Russian solid
arity" had made him a constant
target from conservstivea on both
sides of the Atlantic.
In a statement last night Prime
Minister Attlee spoke o( his "deep
regret" at the death of Laski,
whom he described as "a man of
outstnading gifts, who has done
great work for the Labor and Soc
ialist movement."
"HIS brilliant intellect illuminat
ed many of the social and politi
cal problems of our time, the
Prime Minister said.
Though a pioneer in the Labor
party, Laski never held a govern
ment post. But many Of the gov
ernment's officials had studied un
der him at the London school of
economics of London university,
where for many years he had been
a lecturer.
Laski was a member of a Jewish
family which had come to England
several generations before from
Russia. Born in industrial Man
chester, he was educated at Ox
ford university. He began his ca
reer as a university lecturer at
Canada, after he was rejected by
th British Army in World War I
because of a weak heart.
His widow and a daughter sur
vive him.
Largest Mill Closed
TOLEDO. Ore.. March 2S.-
Oregon's biggest sawmill, the C. D.'
Johnson Lumber compsny mill
here, remained closed todsy with
employer-union negotistions in
weekend suspension.
It was learned employers propos
ed terms for settling the week-long
shutdown yesterday, and that the
AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers
union rejected the terms. Details
were not disclosed.
The shutdown began a week ago
yesterday with the union walking
out in protest to dischsrge of three
workers. The mill employes 700.
Negotiations are scheduled to re
sume Tuesdsy afternon.
Dynamite Digs
Huge Crater; 2
Killed In Blast
NASHYJJ.E; Tenn., March 25
(P A truck loaded with 10
tons 'Of dynamite caught fire and
blew up a highway 20 miles north
west of here last night. Two per
sons were killed and the country
side was rocked or 50 miles
around.
The spectacular blast dug a 15
foot deep crater through the pave
ment of U.S. Highway 41-A, tore
down power lines, and threw most
of the sparsely-settled mid-Tennes
see area into darkness.
The explosion occurred only a
few minutes after the truck, oper
ated by the Hercules Powder com.
pany of Bessemer, Ala., caught
fire as it labored up a hill en
route to Clarksville, 45 miles from
Nashville.
One of 4he two dead, both of
whom had left a car to look at the
burning truck, was identified as
John L. O'Guin, 63, a Nashville in
surance man. Efforts to identify
the other msn were not immed
iately successful. .
Trucker Signaled
The tmck driver, listed as Lloyd
L. Brsntley, 39. of McCalla. Ala.,
brought the big vehicle loaded
with 400 caaes of explosive to
stop on a ligh signal from E. E.
Minis, 27, of Nashville, driver of
a two and one-half ton truck pull
ing up behind.
"I saw his truck smoking and
flashed him a signal," Minis told
newsmen.
"The driver stopped his tr rk
and when he got out it started
flaming up.
"He (Brantley) shouted out,
'This thing is loaded with dyna
mite. Let's get out of here." '
"He went north on the road and
I went south, stopping cars and
telling them to turn around.
"I was about a fourth of a mile
down the road when it exploded
with a big white and red light.
I was in the service overseas and
saw plenty of bombs go off but
l never saw antning like that."
Other Truck Deetreyed .
"- m uvn. m auv: inviiffii-
die vehicle heavily loaded with
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'Full Amount" Vott
Urged By President
KIY WIST, "la., March 25
President Truman today
celled upon Cenaress r vr the
"full amount" of administration
fereian aid requests and strike
a "maer blew" far peace.
He pitched tnt th Have ket
tle ever hew much should b
spent rh next fiscal yar tar ft
repeen and ether aid with a tele
gram to Chairman Kee (D.-Va.)
f th House foreifn afefir com
mltto asserting:
"Pasaao Mils set will
strengthen all nations threatened
with intimidation, subversion er
aggression." He said It would be
an attack en th poverty, misery
end insecurity" en which Cam
. munism thrives." .
Cuban. Millionaire Die
HAVANA, Cuba. March 25 -J.1P)
Senator Jose Manuel Aleman,
minister of education, died today
followina a lone illness.
Alemsn was president of the pro
vincial assembly of the Cuba Re
volutionary party ( Autenticos). He
waa a member of former Presi
dent Ramona Graa San Martina
cabinet.
Although of the same political
party as President Carlos Prio So
carras, Aleman was critical of the
Prio administrstion. He retired
from politics last November be
cause ot in nesitn.
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JAMES R. OARFIILD
Former Cabinet Member Dead
Son Of President
James Garfield
Dies At Age 84
CLEVELAND, March 25 fP)
James Kudolph uarfield, 84. son
of former President James A. Gar
field, will be buried Monday at
nearby Mentor, his home for more
than 50 years.
The onetime secretary of the in
terior died yesterday of pneumon
ia, following a year of failing
health. He was born at Hiram,
unio uci. 17, lass. .
Funeral services will be held
here at 2 p.m. (EST) Monday in
Trinity Episcopal cathedral,
where Garfield was an executive
committeeman. The burial service
in Mentor will be attended by
the family only.
With Gariefld at his death was
his son, Newell, of Concord, Mass.,
another son, James A. of Glen
Cove, tang Island, N.Y., also sur.
vives. There are 12 grandchildren
and seven great grandchildren.
During the last three years of his
life, Garfield lived with his broth
er Abram, an architect, in subur
ban Bratenahl. Abram and Irvln
McDowell Garfield, a Boston at
torney, are the last surviving chil
dren of the assassinateed Treni-
dent.--. .
With legal career which start
ed nera in 1IW3 and lasted more
then M years, James R. Garfield
coupled a briefer political career in
which ha rose to secretary of the
interior in President Theodore
Roosevelt's cabinet. Ha held tha
post from 1907 to 1900.
18 Salem Students
Again Suspended
SALRM, March 21 (Eigh
teen Salem high school boys again
found themselves suspended from
school todsy because of member
ship in a secret society.
A ruling by Circuit Judge Dal M.
King of Coquille upheld tha school
board's suspension of tha youths,
including a few athletes,- although
no key team players.
The boys originally were expelled
Oct. IS, but stsyed in school under
a temporary restrsining order is
sued while parents appealed to the
court.
An attorney indicated aa appeal
also would be taken from Judge
King's ruling.
King's decision dissolved the re
straining order. He found that the
secret society Alpha Beta Chi was
"an organization banned under the
laws of Oregon." He held it wss
"patterned sfter a Portland club."
He further ssid the school board's
action was not 'arbitrary, officious,
oppressive and discriminatory." as
charged, and that the parents have
been given "sufficient notice of the
lew" in advance.
In previous suspensions from the
school here, students hsd to trans
fer to school in another town in or
der to complete high school educa
tion. Cloudless Sky
Aids Air Search
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., March
25. (iP The search for a missing
airplane with four persons aboard
centered today in a large triangu
lar area in South-Central Oregon.
The area is bounded by Lekeview
on the south, Bend on the north
west, and Bums on the northeast
point of the triangle.
Report Indicate that the missing
plane, which left Lekeview for
Portland on Tuesdsy, got almost as
far north as Bend, then turnd east
trying to fly around a snowstorm.
Reports from Millican, Brothers
snd Hampton indicate it followed
highway 20 toward Burns as the
snowstorm chased it. Those towns
lie along highway 20.
Search planes began taking off
Into almost cloudless skies todsy to
scan assigned areas.
Aboard the plane were Mr, and
Mrs. Lee Blakkolb and Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Lundstrom. all of Port
land. They were returning in their
yellow biplane from Cuba, where
they flew in the good-will air tour
of 250 Pacific Northwest business
men three weeks ago.
Ona report came from the one
house town of Fremont, where a
yellow biplane was seen flying at
tree-top level in heavy snowfall at
1 p. m., Tuesdsy. Fremont is an
the course between Lekeview and
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FBI Records
OnOnsCese
UnderStudy
Senate Investiaators
Con J. Edgar Hoover
For Monday Meeting
WASHINGTON, March XS.-tfV.,
Senate investigators appeared to
dsy to be nearing a showdown .
with Senator McCarthy on th
"spy for Russia" case which ha
calls a test of his communum-in-the-State
department charges.
Thst impression developed at tha
capitol after a justice department
announcement late yesterday. It
said confidential FBI data on "ona
principal case" had been given ta
tha Senate foreign relations sub
committee which is looking into
the Wisconsin Republican's
charges.
It was learned that th Informa
tion provided waa about tha man
McCarthy contends is Russia's top
espionage agent in this country.
McCarthy has aaid tha individual
is connected with the State de
partment. Th department denies
it.
The Senator haa declared ha la .
willing to let the credibility of hia
general charges hang on tha out
come of the "Russian agent" case.
Last Tuesday McCarthy gsv tha
name of the man in tha casa to
the committee in secret session.
Tha committee immediately as
signed the case top priority.
The individual's name haa not
been made public by the commit
tee, but his identity is widely
known in Washington.
There was speculation that there
may be information available Mon
day on whether the FBI data on
the case hacks up McCarthy'
charge. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover
Is scheduled to go before th com
mittee at a public hearing then
He will be accompanied ty At
torney General J. Howard Me
Grath.
Sea stery page Z
Local Workers
Not Affected
In Strike Vote
Roseburg welding and machine
shops will not be affected by tha
threatened strike ot Oregon's 1.50
AFL Metal Tradea workers whose
working contract expires in a week.
Spokesmen for the five local eon-,
cerns contacted this morning aaid
there would be no walkout ot workers-
Iff thi area. Thay- said soma
Roseburg shops are "open shops"
with the question of union affilia -tion
left up to individual worker.
None of the local firms hava union
contracts to fulfill, according to
their spokesmen, and in soma .
esses, these shops are now paying;
well abova tha union minimum
scale. ,
According to a Portland ' Asso-'
elated Press dispatch, a federal ,
conciliator will join negotiation! -in
that city Monday in an attempt '
to head off tha possible strike in
Oregon foundries, boiler works and
machine shops.
No strike data has been set but
the present working contract ex
pires in a week and a strike haa
been authorised. Tha metal trade
workers are asking a 15 percent
pay increase, eight paid holidays,
a health and welfare program and
vacation schedule changes. A un
ion spokesman told the AP that
negotiations had been of littles avail
so fsr.
Roseburg shop owners aaid ef
fect of such a strike would ba
felt her in a short-go of soma
key msterials manufactured by
the state's larger shops and found
ries. Something Hoc Happened
To Stalin, Station Says
ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 2S
iJXH U.rnM ST U, .U:l-
that "something serious" has hap.
prnea io josepn Stalin.
In a talk to Young Republicans
here last night Stassen comment
ed on a recent report of a "faked"
picture of Stalin used in Soviet
Russia's last election.
Stassen said he saw Stalin on ,'
his visit to Russia within tha last
year and that he knew the elec
tion picture put out by the Krem
lin wai "at least ten yesrs old.
. "I know Stalin would hava vot
ed if he could," Stassen said, "and
if he did vote there seems to ba
no reason for putting out that
picture."
Se BILLION SAVCD '
WASHINGTON, March 25 -OfA-Americans
saved more than st!,.
ooo.ooo.ooo last year, the Home :
Loan bank board ssiu todsv.
The sgency said total 194k sav
ings deposted in "leading type
ot financial institutions" and in
vested in government bonds
amounted to 1169,000,000,000, a ra.
cord.
TRIAL SITTHURSOAY
NORFOLK, Vs., March 15
Capt. William D. Brown, former
skipper of the bsnleship Missouri,
will go before ageneral court msr
lial Thursday instead of Monday.
The delay wss requested by his
counsel.
Levity fact H ant
ByL.r lUlseaMMta
Ne known oq wlH prevent
the erayinq of haer ef human
balnqt, American Maateef as
sociation ceniurrcmtt say. At
aay rata not ourlaej the ax 1st
aaca ef the peasant tax str