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COMP U, of 0. Library Eugene , Ore, raws WHO DOES WHAT LORAIN! AND THELMA ATKINSON, smiling In manner to make any toothpaste manufacturer happy, stand at the fountain of the Green Lake pharmacy In Seattle, where both are employed. The girls are students at Northwest Bible college, located near the Green lake district. Loraine graduates in June; this is Thai ma's first year. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Atkinson of Yoncalla, Oregon, and I spent a most enjoyable few minutes with them, over a Coca-Cola, recalling mutual friends. They have lived in Yoncalla for nine years. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS GLEANINGS from the teletype's chatter: Foreign submarines along our Pacific coast have maybe been taking off spiel who come out in boats . . . Taking 'em home to report, do you reckon? . . . Whaddya spose they'll report? NATIONALIST Chinese, strafing Chinese Communists, are al leged to have been shot down BY RUSSIAN PLANES, operated BY RUSSIAN PILOTS . . . Hmmmm! Might be the start of shooting war? . . . Berlin dispatch says western powers have organized an allied general staff to SPRING INTO ACTION in any emergency. MUTTERINGS of a General Eletcric missile specialist: . . . shoot a rocket 100 miles up into space . . . supposedly, at that point, gravity will BALANCE and the rocket will hang there, like the moon . . . shoot several of 'em out there into space ... by means of radar beams bounced off of 'em. I Continued on Page Four) 11 More Cities Yote Fast Time ' 'By The AuncUttd Pri Eleven more Oregon cities have decided to shift to daylight saving time April 30. City councils at Grants Pass and Bend approved the switch Wednes day. Lebanon's council granted au thority for the chance Tuesday, and the mayor proclaimed it Thurs day. The eight other cities and towns were in Coos county. The vote was 5-3. but the eight had previously decided to abide by the decision of the majority. Coos Bay. Coquille, North Bend. Randon and Myrtle Point favored the shift and Eastside, Powers and 'Empire opposed it. Councilman Earl Baltazar re ported the city council at Reeds port in Douglas county had voted to remain on standard time, but that he would put the Coos county decision before the council Mon day night. Port Orford in Curry county de cided to remain on standard time. Mayor Robert Marsden, Coos Bay, said he was advised. Thompson Denies Guilt In Clyde Dubell Killing EUGENE. April 7 James Lloyd Thompson, 24-year-old Oak ridge mill hand, was arrainged in Circuit court Thursday and entered a plea of innocence to the second degree murder charge brought in connection with the death of Oak ndse Police Chief Clyde Dubell. After Thompson had pleaded "not guilty" to the charge. Judge G. F. Skipwortb set May ( as opening date of the trial. Saturday Hauling Open To Logging Trucks Logging truck operators will be permitted to haul logs on Saturday afternoon on county roads until May 23, starting immediately, the Douglas county court announced today. This permission has been grant ed in conformity with the lifting of a state ban on Saturday after noon hauling during this temporary period, according to the court. -jr, Roseburg Lumber Company To Step Up Production The Roseburg plant of the Rose burg Lumber Co. will begin a sec ond shift and step up production with an enlarged crew starting Monday, Earl Plummer, office manager, announced today. An approximate 60-man crew will commence work on a 5:30 p.m.-to-2:30 a.m. shift. In addition about 20 men will be added to the overall mill production to step up the daily output by an estimated 100,000 board feet dally. v' The mill presently employs about 100 men on production and an addi tional 20 men on other work about I lilt mm. irie luiai numuer 10 ur employed will be brought to nearly 200. 1 Daily production on an eight-hour basis is about 120,000 feet. This will be stepped up to a total of about 1220.000 daily production. The sec ond shift will be on for an unde terminate period, said Plummer. More Logging In Plans I Logging operations will also be on the increase, he said. Roseburg Lumber is developing a large new timber tract, in what is known as the Emile area east of Roseburg. j This tract was recently purchased from the Umpqua National forest. Developing work was begun about ' March 15, and the company hopes to oegm logging proaucuon in me area by May 1. Except for the new development, logging operations are almost at a Ceak now, and the stepped-up lum er production will be supplied mostly from current logging. While the company had a huge log cold deck last fall, most of this was used up during the winter months when logging was suspended during the snow and cold weather. ' The present lumber market is strong and indications are that it i will remain that way, at least through the summer season, said j Plummer. Most of the crew has been I selected and will be entirely filled i from the local pool of labor, except for certain skilled employes not available locally, he said. Court Refuses To Block Student Expulsion Order SALEM, April 7 lPt The State Supreme court today refused to issue a temporary restraining order which would have blocked expul sion of 18 Salem high school stu dents. The expulsion question is before the court on appeal from a deci sion of Circuit Judge Dal M. King who held the Salem school board was within its rights in expelling the boys for membership in a se cret society. Today's refusal by the supreme court to put a delay on the expul sion means the Salem school board can, if it wished, put the boys out of school immediately. They had been allowed to attend under a re straining order which" Judge King dissolved last week.' Although the supreme court would not restrain the board from ! immediate expulsion. . it said it I would move the case up on its calendar and hear the appeal as soon as briefs are filed. War Prospect Worries Even Sub Teen-Agers WASHINGTON, April Senator Magnusefl (D-Wath) said today that even me sub teen aoert are worrying about war. He displayed a letter from June Leilan Stey, 12 -year -eld sixth trader. Written from her home. Rural Route 1, Bex 41e, Kent. Wash., she said: "For pity sakes lets not have eny mere wars. It sure is ceue ing a let ef trouble." The WionW Partly cloudy wltk occasional showers today and Saturday. Continued cool. Sunset today t:4 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 1:44 a. m. Established 1S73 New Borrowing To Up US Debt Treasury Plans To Meet Bills Due In April Spending To Top Income More Than $9 Billion In Next Fifteen Months WASHINGTON, April T.-(.,P)-The government, expecting to over spend its income' by more than $9,000,000,000 in the next 15 months, will start borrowing new money next week to make ends meet. That will add considerably to the government's debts, which al ready total nearly (256.000.000.000. The first step in the new borrow ing program, as announced by Sec retary of the Treasury Snyder last night, will take this form: The treasury owes about $900, 000.000 in 91-day bills falling due April 13. It will sell (1,000.000,000 in new 91-day bills that day to pay off the debt and leave it (100.000.000 extra rash. Except in scale, the "transaction will be the same as that of a man who has a (900 note falling due at the bank next Thursday and "takes care of it" by giving a new note for (1,000. The treasury will have a chance to pick up an extra (100,000.000 in each of the two succeeding weeks by identical transactions, for it has (900.000,000 issues of 91-day bills also falling due April 20 and 27. Next "week will mark the first time in seven months that the treasury has sought to borrow ex tra funds in the public money market, made up mostly of banks. Since last September, it has been paying off securities falling due by selling practically identical amounts of new securities. It has not, however, been heavily pressed for cash in that time, partly because the government has run only about (1.370.0O0.0O0 in the red since the 1950 fiscal year started last July 1. Hope Pinned On Income Tax Also, it could stall along by using cash on hand, borrowing from government trust funds (par ticularly the social security fund), and looking forward to heavy in come tax collections in March. As it turned out, income tax receipts proved disappointingly low, raising a threat that the gov ernment income may fall short of expenses by more than the (5, 5.13.000.000 total President Truman figured for this fiscal year. Worse still, nearly (4,200,000.000 of that deficit will be piled up be tween now and the fiscal year s end June 30, and the President has estimated that income will fall $5,100,000,000 short of spending in the following 12 months (fiscal 1951 ). The treasury already is paying out more than (5.700,000.000 a year i to cover interest charges on the out ana cumDing aent. Christian World Commemorates IRy Tht Associated PrM) The christian world commemo rated today the crucifixion of Christ. Many looked to the story of the Prince of Peace for com fort in a world divided by the stres ses and strains of a cold war. Thousands of pilgrims poured into Jerusalem and Rome. Busi ness was stilled in many parts of the world. City Cathedrals and country meeting houses alike were thronged with worshippers. In Jerusalem, the pilgrims filed past jagged reminders of the Pal estine war to participate. They made their Good Friday march to the sacred Via Dolorosa in the j ancient part of the city occupied by Arab forces of Hashemite Jor I dan. I In Rome's St. Peter's Basilica, the world's largest church. Ro I man Catholic holy year pilgrims : knelt in reverence, i On far-off Formosa, under threat of attack by Communist Chinese, Chiang Kai-shek, who pro fesses Methodism, led Christian Chinese in prayer. He asked "God's blessing on the republic of Ihina which now exists only at a few scattered islands off the coast of sprawling Red China. Chiang interpreted his war as a holy war against Russia. Live Rattlesnake Serves Child As Teething Ring TURKEY. Texas. April l.-AJP) Sandra liaynes, 2, liked her new teething ring a real, live, and re markabl agreeable rattlesnake. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Haynes, found her sitting in tne yard, the snake in her hand and the tail in her mouth. Horror-stricken, the Haynes brought Sandra to Dr. M. F. Achor here. The doctor could find no fang mark or other injury. ROSEBURG, Walter Huston, Actor, Dies Day After Birthday HOLLYWOOD. April 7 .PI Walter Huston one of the nation's most eminent stage and screen actors, died today. He was stricken at his hotel suite yesterday, just before a surprise 66th birthday party planned for him by his son, direc tor John Huston, and others. He was unable to go to the party but celebrated his birthday at the hotel in Beverly Hills with Spencer Tracy, John Huston and other friends. Huston's physician, Dr. Verne Mason, said the ailment appar ently was kidney trouble or a blood clot. His most recent role which won him an academy Oscar as a supporting actor was as the hard bitten old prospector in "the Treasure of Sirra Madre," which was directed by his son, John. A native of Toronto, Ontario, Houston joined a roadshow at the age of 16. tourning the country with "the Sign of the Cross." But he gave up acting for five years in favor of engineering. The stage was in his blood, however, and he returned to it in 1909, with a Vaudeville act, and went back to the stage in "Mr. Pitt." Suspect In Texas Jewel Robbery Nabbed In Seattle SEATTLE, April 7 .T Lester Emmett Bennett, wanted in Dallas, Tex., in connection with a (40, ooo jewel robbery, was arrested by two Seattle detectives today in the washroom of a downtown tavern. He offered no resistance and was not armed. An early morning watch on Ben nett's apartment was unsuccessful in locating a woman companion, Tipton said. It was a telephone call made by the woman to her mother in Dallas that tipped off authorities that Bennett was in Seattle, Tip ton said. Bennett was indicted in Dallas along with William Trent Jarrette in connection with the (40.000 jew elry robbery of the fashionable w. w. snortai home tea. n. Dallas police reported both Ben nett and Jarette are escapees from the Cincinnati, Ohio, jail. Also in dicted with them in the Shortal jewelry robbery was Thomas J. Schwart, Dallas pawnbroker. Jarrette. arrested in Dallas after the robbery, told the Dallas Times Herald in an interview he and Ben nett were sent to Dallas by the head of a widespread crime syndi cate, headquartered in Chicago and specializing in jewel thefts. Homicide Capt. Will Fritz says the (40.000 in jewels taken from the Shortal home tfas recovered through Schwartz. TRAFFIC FINES Glen Arthur Wright and Homer Arthur Keene, both of Idleyld route, pleaded guilty to charges of viola tion of the basic traffic rule and were fined (20 each, upon their araignment in municipal court Friday, reported Judge Ira B. Riddle. WlStCARVER'S IACK AGAIN Sonny Witecerver, who eloped with a married women at 14 and followed with . second elope ment at 16 before he settled down with his present wife, wents to melte living without doing much work. Here, with clerk Joan Murphy, he checks results on went ad he ren in Lot Angeles newspaper. The ad: "sonny Wisecerver is tootling for a w.y of living without working or doing very little, Plees. tell jm. howl" H. is now 21. (AP Wlrephoto.) ! OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL ggjjfr. Is Convicted Manslaughter Verdict Against Harold Mohr Is Coupled With Mercy Plea ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 7 . Harold Mohr was convicted of voluntary manslaughter today in the so-called mercy killing of his cancer - ravaged brother, Walter, 55. The prosecution clamied the S6-year-old Tannery worker "stepped into the shoes of God when he shot Walter. Pleading temporary insantiy, the defense said Harold I cracked under the strain of car- ing for his blinded invalid brother I who repeatedly pleaded to be "put ! out of his misery." A Lehigh county jury of four women and eight men returned the voluntary manslaughter verdict, which carries a penalty of six to 12 years in prison, 16 hours and 21 minutes after it received the case. Defense Attorney Harry C. Cre veling promplty made an oral motion for a new trial and sen tencing was deferred. Mohr stood to hear the verdict with no visible display of emo tion. He stared, dully, at the floor just as he had done much of the time since he went on trial Tuesday charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter. Like Cases Recalled The conviction marked one of the few times in history that a so-called mercy killer was found guilty. Carol Paight, 21-year-old Bridge port, Conn., girl who killer her policeman father with a pistol, was acquitted on grounds of tem porary insanity. The mercy killing issue did not come up at all in the trial of Dr. Herman Sander, at Manchester, N. H. although the physician report edly had told of injecting air into the veins of a patient, the defense maintained Mrs. Abbie Borroto, the patient, was dead when the in jection was made. Both Paight and Mrs. Borroto, as well as Mohr. had cancer. Judge James F. Hrnninger gave the Mohr jury four alternative ver dicts: first or second degree mur deer, voluntary manslaughter or acquittal. The state did not ask the death penalty. The jury's verdict waa accom panied by a plea for mercy. The judge, in thanking the jury for its "fine" verdict, said he will "give consideration to your recommen dation." District Attorney Kenneth H. Kock said he is "completely satis fied" with the verdict. Miami In Clutch Of Its Coldest April Weather MIAMI. Fla.. April 7 -IPi A I spring cold spell sent the thermom- eter plunging down to 44 degrees I at 5:30 a.m. today, the coldest I April temperatures ever recorded i bv the Miami weather bureua. Previous low for any April day in the 39 years temperatures have been officially recorded here waa 45 on April 4, 1915. High for April 7 was set in 1935 when the mer cury hit 88. The weather station at Miami International airport outside the i city reported a 42 degree reading, I while temperatures in some low I areas in the central portion of the I state got as low as 33. 7, 1950 Use Of Existing Private Road For Timber Access New Govt. Plan Affecting PORTLAND, April 7. (API policy was announced Thursday, revested lands. It will, Interior Secretary released here, assure access to wishes to buy it. I he policy provides that system is adequate or can be . . building a duplicating road system, the government will try to obtain the right to use it. In return, the government will assure Blumint t Ik-a rtimA kulldar s t m fair fkarA nf thai et4 tit ika. road and it, maintenance, end government land. The stetement seid this was - il. ...i a.,.i. 1 Z Y . .V ' 1 purchasers access to the timber eoequere compensarion. Chapman said the new policy did not follow in .11 respects recommendations of the O & C advisory board nor did it meet .11 objections ef the industry. He said, however, he thought it would be . solution to . very Bolsters Sustained Yield Policy Some 35,000,000,000 boerd d. . . , , ,l l r ministered by the bureau of accessible by the new policy he said. Daniel L. Goldy, regionel administrator, said the new reguletions authorize long-term roed use .greements, giving com munities dependent on O i C timber assurance of . supply of logs on . sustained basis. The new reguletions do not cancel old agreements, he said, nd changes ere to be made gradually en . case-by-case negotiation. Copies of the reguletions will be available in .bout 10 d.ys, he seid, in the bureeu's offices et Portlend, Coos Bay, Eugene, Medford, Roseburg and Salem. Requested Dismissal Of Asst. Coach At Glendale School Awaits Decision Of Board After Meeting Of Citizens A Glendale citizens' committee wes told by its school boerd yesterday that the requested dismissal ef an assistant coach would b. "taken under advisement." Gun Belches In Triangle Affair PORTLAND, April 7 GP An apartment house gun battle last night put one man in a hos pital with critical wounds and an other in jail. Eugene E. Morgan, 24, was held under (10.000 bail on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Forgey B. Jackson, 29, waa in Emanuel hospital with bullet wounds in the chest, shoulder and thigh. Hospital attendants ssid this morning they thought he would live. Mrs. Beatrice Morgan and Orel Pierson were held aa material witnesses. Morgan waa arrested at his home and told this story: Hearing that Jackson was going with his estranged wife, ha visited Jackson's apartment. Pierson ac companied him. At the apartment he found Mrs. Morgan. He said Jackson readied for a shotgun and he started shooting. The shotgun went off, too, but hit no one. Mrs. Morgan's story was a bit different. She said her busband lired five or six shots while Jack son waa aeated in a chair, and Jackson reached for the shotgun only after being wounded. Pierson said he didn't know there was going to be any shooting and fled when it started. Repentant Bible Student Returns Stolen Money LOS ANGELES. April 7 I, TV A repentant Bible student from In diana has returned money he says he stole here three years ago with interest. Sheriff Eugene Biscailus aaid he received two money orders yester day from Albert Luscumh of Fort Wayne, Ind. Luscumb wrote that he embraced religion after the armed robberies. He sent (5 plus M cents inter esthe said he took from a bus driver, and (150 with (20 25 interest for the holdup of Robert Gray, Tarrana feed atore owner, in 1947. The sheriff was moved by the belated display of honesty, but said he will confer with the local police involved and the district attorney to determine whether Luscumb will be forgiven, or returned here for trial. Church Marriages 'Must' For Catholics, Rule Made I BOSTON, April 7 .) All Cath 'olic marriages in the Boston arch ! diocese must be celebrated in . 'Church beginning next Monday. ! Archbishop Richard J. Cushing 1 laid down the rule last night. He ss:d "weddings have become mere social ocrasiuns (and) men and (wnmen of our day need to be re ! minded of the religious character of the marriage contract." I He gave instructions thst "all ' marriages celebrated by priests in ithe archdiocese of Boston take place in the proper church and not , in a private home, rectory or even sacristy of the church." I The rule applies "even to the arriage ot a Catholic with one who is not of our faith." 82-50 O. & C. Tracts A new timber eccess rood affecting Oregon end California Chapman said in a statement O 4 C timber to anyone who where an existing private road i made so more economically than I ... ' will grant rights-of-way .cross expected to overcome the ob- . ... ...... J: J .-4 j j. 7 7 . . j"" and did not give roed owners complicated problem. feet of merchantable timber 1 1 . ii J land management will be made The committee of four, repre senting uienaaie parenta and residents aroused over alleged gambling activities on the part of tne assistant coach, Howard r.dson Jr., were told by the school board that the matter would be "con sidered." No indication was given as to when the decision would be announced, according to Mrs. B. E. Mouchett, committee member. The committee, headed by J. D. Sanders, requested the school board that Kelson not be Included on the high school faculty for next year. The request followed several weeks 01 discussion by Glendale residenta who objected to a poker playing incident which occurred March 4. Kdson is alleged to have engaged in a poker game with five of his charges, all members of the Glendale basketball team. County School Supt. Kenneth Barneburg, who also attended the meeting, said the reauest for dis missal is now out of the hands of the Glendale school board and rests with the assistant coach involved. The school board has already re newed Kd son's contract for the coming year. He is the son of Howard Kdson Sr., chairman of the school board. Mrs. Mouchett said no mention was made at the meeting of rein stating G. W. Line as head roach at Glendale. Line was notified re cently that his contract was not going to be renewed, but no official announcement as to his successor has been made, Mrs. Mouchett said. Members of the citizens commit tee are Sanders, Mrs. Mouchett, Blaine Johnson and E, S. Skiliings Jr. 4th Ambulance Needed To Finish Hospital Trip BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 7 i.T) When an ambulance picked up Henry Bryant after he was stab bed yesterday on a downtown street, he thought his troubles were over. Ullt ln,kl,l.n.a Va 1 -- 1 ...... 1. collided a block away, a rush call waa sounded lor another. No. 2 broke down before reach. ing the injured man. No. was summoned, but the driver mis understood the address snd never showed up. Bryant finally made the operat ing room in ambulance No. 4, dis- patched by the same company that a, in, II I III lilt. Doctors said the Negro was not wounded seriously. Daylight Saving Up To LaGrande Straw Vote IjGRANDE, April 7 IJPu. This city's voters will tell the city com mission whether they want day light saving time. They will do it in a straw vote held in connection with the May 19 primary election. Commissioners, who approved the plan after the Junior Chamber of Commerce asked for DST. said they would ask county commis sioners whether they wanted to make it a county-wide opinion sam pling. About to percent of union cotinty'a voters live in La Grande. Although daylight saving time will be adopted generally in cen. tral and western Oregon. It has not been approved for any eastera Oregon cities. f Senate Probe Verdict Given By Tydings Senator McCarthy, Who Made Red Spy Charge, Fires Back In Dissent WASHINGTON, April 7. (P Senator Tydings" assertion that FBI records fully clear Owen Lattimore of "Communist spy" charges left Senator Joseph McCarthy com pletely dissatisfied today. Tydings, Maryland Democrat, heads the senate committee invests gating the contentions of McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican, that La tit. more is Russia's top espionage agent in the United States. Lattimore, an American author ity on Far Eastern affairs, venter. ay ..pent more than three hours in ',ns chair blasting at Mc ( arthv arriisatonnK Hi iwwii testimony boiled down to saying McCarthy had uttered "base and contemptible lies. tJn rj"". And Tydings told him: "I think as chairman of this committee I owe it to you and to the country to tell you that four ot in, five members of the committee. in the presence of J. F.dcar Hoover. head of the FBI, had a complete summary of your files made avail able to them. "Mr. Hoover himself prepared these data. It was quite length and at the conclusion of the read ing of that summary, in great de tail, it was the universal opinion " x"v iNciiiwria ui me commit- tee present and all others in the room, of which there were tw more, that there was nothing In that file to show that you were a Communist or ever had been a Communist, or that you ever were connected with any espionage In formation or charges. "So that the FBI puts you com pletely, up to thia moment at least, in the clear." McCarthy Volleys Back McCarthy, out of the hearing room at the time, later fired back to newsmen: "Either Tydings hasn't seen the files, or he is lying. There la na other alternative." Tydings had said the committee saw a summary of the FBI record on Lattimore not the so-called "raw" file. McCarthy retorted be does not know what Hoover gave the com mittee, "but 1 know what ta in the files." Tydings, commenting on Mc Carthy's remark about him, da da red; "I'll let my reputation for ac curacy stand. It is aignificant that no member of the committee con tradicted the statement when I made it in the presence of the committee. , 2 Unions Accept CIO Bid To Labor Unity Proposal WASHINGTON. April T (flV The International Association of Machinists today accepted the bid of CIO President Philip Murray to join in labor unity talks. President Al J. Hayes of the in dependent IAM wrote Murray that this union is ready to discuss co operation of the big labor organisa tions. He also pledged efforts to ward eventual merger into one fed eration. It was the second such accept ance in two days. John L. Lewis said yesterday he will recommend to his international executive board April 18 that the miners accept Murray's invitation. The Murray proposal Is for es laDllsnmem 01 a joint commiurv to cooperate on legislative, politi cal and economic problems. The same committee would work to achieve a merger of labor union, into a aingle powerful federation. AFL President William Green greeted Murray's idea cordially and said he planned to talk it over with the CIO chieftain. The rail road brotherhoods also were invited to join and are consideting their replies. Together, the unions claim about 16.000.000 members. A pledge to act as a team could be the begin ning of a labor party in America with unified action in national elec tions, "The machinists claim about 30. OOO members and Lewis' United Mine workers about 600.000. Death Claims Woman Who Wrote Her Own Obituary SEATTLE, April 7 (.f Mrf. Anna Mane (Ma) Foster, who wrote her own obituary in 1947 and picked out her burial dres. back in 1940, died yesterday. May kept the statistics brief. iSn, w ,. m Sweden in 1872 became Mrs. Emory Foster here in 1910 and operated Foster', pavilion at Soap lsk. for many years. Then, she added: "God has been very good to m. and whatever I have been able to do has been with his help. So may all my good friends think of me as one who loved you all. God be with you till we meet again." evity f act ant By L. F. Retzeneteht Jupiter Pluvius, pl.aia stay away, On Easter Sunday anyway! Eggs ta bunt, new hots ta wear! Lot eld Sol reign, our eantett prayer.