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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.
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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.
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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.)
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OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL
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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
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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
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will grant rights-of-way .cross
expected to overcome the ob-
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and did not give roed owners
complicated problem.
feet of merchantable timber
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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.
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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.