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"PEACE PILCRIM" Tryqve Lie
United Nations, it greeted by hit assistant, Byron Price, on arrival
i in New York from Europe. Lie said that "everything went in
order" on his "pilgrimage of peace" to the leaders of the big
three, including Premier Stalin of Russia. (NEA telephoto)
Truman's Friend In Race
In North Carolina Primary
RALEIGH, N. C., May 27 (D-Senator Frank P. Graham, tfood
friend of President Truman and one of his strongest southern support
ers, put his political fate in the hands of North Carolina voters today.
Seeking the Democratic nomination for the rest of the term he fills
by, appointment, the former president of the University of North Caro
lina was opposed by Willis Smith, Raleigh corporation lawyer, and
former Senator Robert R. Reynolds. The term, expires in 1954.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS , ' :
IN a day barren of any very excit
ing news, this casual paragraph
in a (dispatch from the island of
Guam meets the eye:
"The biggest concentration of
naval power in the western Pacific
since the war's end 33 U. S. war
ships is arriving at Guam today
and tomorrow under Vice-Admiral
Arthur D. Struble, commander of
ine sevemn iteei. r r , ,
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WHEN Struble arrived in Guam,
one of his first jobs was to hold
a news conference. This too was a
casual affair. Answering questions,
the admiral casually told the cor
. respondents:
There will be an aircraft carrier
with this new naval force arriving
in Guam ... it will carry two
squadrons of Grumman F9F jet
fighters . . . these will be the first
jet fighters ever seen in this part
of the world.
There will also be four, "snorkel"
submarines . . . ("Snorkel" is
German word its meaning is
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Scallon Elected
SOC President
Joe Scallon of Roseburg is the
associated student body president
at Southern Oregon college for next
year, He defeated Ardis Warren of
Ashland in a closely contested race.
They were survivors of last week's
primary election.
First vice-president will be Jack
Bolton, Lakeview, who tied in the
primary with Ralph Foster, Jerry
Bruce of Van Nuys, Calif., will be
second - vice president; Marvel
. Gage, Coos Bay, defeated Bara Hill
I for secretary, ana uiuora worn,
Medford, won the treasurer's office
over Harlan Weaver, Drain. Mary
Jane. Farr, Coos Bay .freshman,
was elected yell queen.'
The four .student body represen-tatives-at-large
will be Wendy Aus
ten, Coos Bay; Rosemary Baccus,
Drain; Tex Lewis, Dallas, Tex.,
and Stan Smith, Grants Pass.
Scallon, a teacher education ma
jor, has been very active on the
campus. This year he has served
as first vice-president of the student
council ana has been in charge of
the social calendar. He is a mem
ber of Sigma Alpha Sigma, hon
orary speech fraternity, and was
formerly president of the men's
dorm.
'Draft Eisenhower'
Advertising Starts
NEW YORK," May 27 -OP) A
paid advertising campaign to
. "draft Eisenhower for president"
has been started by a New York
publicity man.
The advertisement appeared in
the New York Herald Tribune in
the Dublic not ides column.
The publicist, John Orr Young,
said he started a similar campaign
in 1940 (or the late Wendell L.
Willkie.
Young said the paid notices will
blossom into large advertisements
in newspapers and magazines
throughout the nation as contribu
tions from Dwight D. Eisenhower
backers roll in.
"The general "cannot refuse If
the people insist," the ad said
A spokesman at Columbia Uni
vftrcitv uhfri F.iunhnu'er il ores-
ident, said the general had no com
ment on the campaign.
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(left) secretary general of the
Smith, former president of the
American Bar association and a
self-declared middle-of-the-roader,
criticized part of the Truman poli
cies. The bitter fight, one of the most
hectic primary - campaigns '-in
North Carolina history, has been
largely between Graham and,
Smith. Reynolds, who won two
terms in the Senate .with flam
buoyant, colorful campaigns, :
versed himself and went about
quietly seeking votes.
Most observers agreed the real
battle was between Graham and
Smith, with the possibility neither
will receive a majority and a run
off will be necessary June 24.
Nomination is equal to election n
this state. ... J -
E'ection officials forecast vote
ot 4i'5,000 to 475,000. The polls
opened at 6:30 a. m. (EST) and
will close at 6:30 p. m.
A fourth candidate is Ola Roy
Boyd, si .all town hog breeder who
is a perrenial candidate and here
tofore has received few votes.
Typhus Threatens City
After Quake Disaster
CUZCO, Peru, May 27 UP)
Threat of a typhus epidemic hov
ered today over this ancient An
des capital, still reeling from the
effect of last Sunday's earthquake
in which at least 8 persons were
killed and another 200 injured. .
Already eight cases are being
treated in Cuzco's only hospital.
Pneumonia also is prevalent.
Thousands of persons, terrified
by recurring minor tremors, have
fled to the Andes mountains. Oth
ers have been kneeling in the city
square praying before the statue
ol the Lord of earthquakes..
The U.S. Caribbean command
announced today it is flying 42.-
000 pounds of blankets and first
aid supplies to the quake victims
"contract AWARDED
Roseburg Paving Co., Roseburg,
was the successful bidder for pav
mg and grading Oak street in
Myrtle Creek. The State Highway
commission awarded the contract
on the company's low bid of $15
862, opened by the commission at
its meeting Friday in Portland.
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GtNERAL VIEW OF ACCIDENT SCENE Firemen pull bodies
from street car (left I after it collided with gasoline truck (rear,
right) on Chicago's south side during evening rush hour. Streams
Th WtotW
Mostly cloudy today, to
night aid Sunday. Cooler to-
Sunset today 8:42 p.m. '
Sunrise tomorrow 5:38 a.m.
Established 1873
Rep. Lesinski, Champion .
Of Labor, Dies Suddenly .
On Return From Congress
.-, DETROIT, May 27, m U. S. Rep. John Lesinski (D-Mich), one
of labor's champions in Congress, ditd suddenly early today. Ha
was iS.
The veteran congressman, who had served nine successive terms
in the House, succumbed to a heart attack it his home In suburban
Dearborn.
: . Only yesterday Lesinski had
Sen; MTarthy,
Probers Argue
Over Evidence
WASHINGTON, May 27 '-(.-A
striking new development in
volving tbe 1945 Amerasia case
brought a fresh dispute today be
tween Senator McCarthy (R-Wis)
and , the Senate group investigating
his ' charges of communism in
the government.
The new development came in
the form of a statement by a for
mer government prosecutor that
the Justice department case
against the Amerasia defendants
all but fell apart when some of
them learned that the major evi
dence against them had been ob
tained illegally ,
Called Unlawful ...
The defendants were ' charged
with unlawful removal of hundreds
of secret government documents,
some of which wre found in the
offices of Amerasia magazine! a
now - defunct publication which
dealt with far eastern affairs.
The government prosecutor in
the case was Robert M. Hitch
cock, who read his statement be
hind closed doors yesterday to the
Senate foreign relations subcom-
mitee studying . McCarthy's
cnarges.
No Tim To Prepare
in releasing the statement later
Chairman Tydings (D-Md) said
additional testimony by Hitchcock
was not being made available be
cause there was no time to pre-
pare-ll. : , ,.-.;-.. t..
That prompted a sharp comment
from McCarthy, who has called the
Amerasia case a key Dart of his
charges that the State department
harbors Communists and Commu
nist sympathizers.
"The new practice of hearing a
witness in secret session and care
fully selecting the parts of his tes
timony which will be made public
and the parts which will be kept
secret is tantastic beyond belief,"
McCarthy declared.
Dionne Quints, 16 ' 1
Sunday, Dislike Boys
CALLANDER, Ont., May 27 UP
The Dionne quintuplets, 16 years
old tomorrow, are not interested
in boys. So says their dad. He
adds that the five girls won't be
permitted to go out alone with
boys until they graduate from
school in two years.
"Some people think I should give
the girls more freedom," the fa
ther, Oliva Dionne, commented in
an interview today. "But I feel it
is my duty to keep a close check
on them, and I intend to do so
until they have finished school, at
least."
The quints Annette, Cecile, Em
ilie, Marie and Yvonne now are
in grade 10. Their 10 girl school
mates in Callander will' be among
the few guests at tomorrow's quiet
birthday party, which is to be
featured by a single cake with 16
candles.
ROSUUKG,
left his duties in Washington to
com home for the congressional
recess.
Lesinski, in private lit the
head of a lumbar company, held
influential position in Congress
as chairman of the House Educa
tion and labor committee.
Organized labor was his enthu
siastic supporter and Michigan's
labor-minded 16th district had kept
mm in congress since bis first
election in 1932.
Fo Of T-H Law
On that occasion he achieved to
Congress in the Franklin D. Roose
velt first presidential election. He
intended to run for a tenth term.
He was a foe of the Taft-Hartley
law.
The congressman's death
shocked friends and associates.
He apparently had been in good
health and had made the trip home
from Washington by motorcar.
However, after retiring about
midnight following a social eve
ning with friends Lesinski com
plained about difficulty in breath
ing. Dr. Thaddeus Stokfisz, a neigh
bor, was hastily summoned, but
Lesinski died about 1 a.m. (EST).
Wife At Bedside
His wife, Estelle, 40, was at the
bedside. A family member said
she took the death "pretty hard."
Mrs. Lesinski was the congress
man's second wife. His first wife,
Barbara, died about 15 years ago.
He married again in 1938.
The congressman was the father
of seven children, five by his first
marriage. A native ot trie, fa.,
he came to Detroit as a child.
His election to Congress followed
business success.
Two small children, by the sec
ond marriage, survive. They are
Beveriy jane, 10, ana Edwin, 7.
The others are Raymond, 18. a
cadet at West Point: Delphine. 21:
ilohnA -Lesinski, 35,-. and Mrs"
Joan Heidenreich, Daggett, Mich.,
and Mrs. Maxine Pityns, Dear
born. Funeral services have not been
arranged.
Two Killed In Try
At Erecting Video
FAIRBORN, O., May 27-fff)
James A. Ryan, 31, father of four
small children, tried to erect his
own television aerial yesterday. It
cost his wife s life as well as bis
own.
He had the aerial on a pole. He
tried to raise the pole to slip one
end into brackets he had fastened
to the house. The aerial hit a 12,-OOO-volt
power line. The shock kill
ed Ryan. His wife, Lois, 26, ran
from the house toward him. She
stumbled against a fence on which
the aerial lell. She too was electro
cuted. Their children range in age from
seven months to six years.
Weyerhaeuser Strike
Fund Up For Ballot
PORTLAND, May 27 UP)
A strike support fund is up for a
vote in the CIO Woodworkers un
ion. Voting is being conducted by
mail on a proposal to assess each
working member $2.50 for support
of the 9,000-odd Weyerhaeuser tim
ber company employes on strike.
The balloting is to be completed
June 12.
of water ar being poured on
fir. An ttimated 32 parsons
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OREGON SATURDAY, MAY, 27, 1950
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FOCAL POINT OF THREATENED
man police, backed by the armed forces of the United States
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their respective areas in the sectors around amous rorsaamer
against threatened mass invasion
Czech Consulate
In New York City
Ordered Closed
WASHINGTON. Mav 27 UP)
The United States today ordered
Communist Czechoslovakia to close
its New York consulate.
At the sam tim, th Stat
department announced that th
American consulat In Bratis
lava is being closed. Th U. S.
said it it yielding to a dtmind
by the Pragu government to
reduce total U. S. diplomatic
staff in Czachoslovakia from 26
to 12 Americans by Jun 4.
The department said the Ameri
can action was taken in a note
presented by Ambassador Ellis
Briggs to Czech Foreign Minister
Viliam airoky at Prague today.
The American note was in an
swer to a Czech note of May 23
saying that the united States
should cut its official personal to
12 persons the numbed of -Tzech
diplomats now officially permitted
in this country.
Th Czch demand, had an
grd Stat department officials
sine this country has for sv
ral yars maintained a larger
staff in Pragu than th Czechs
hav maintained In Washington.
The action came within 24 hours
after the United States had re.
stricted Romanian diplomats to an
area of 35 miles around the city
of Washington. That move was in
retaliation for Romanian rostne.
tions on U. S. officials in that
country.
Two Die- As Plane
Falls In Coos Bay
COOS BAY, May 27 P Two
men died in the crash of light
plane into Coos Bav last right
Both were thrown free as the
plane hit the water. The body of
Vernon A. Buzzard. 41, a dairy
rancher on Willanch inlet, was re
covered last night. This morning
coast guardsmen found the body
of Kenneth Murray, 26, of Mc
Minnville and Coos Bay, in six feet
of water near the plane.
Murray was the pilot. A witness.
Matt Dragvich. said the plane had
been stunting and made a loop but
instead of coming out of it, plunged
straight down from an altitude of
about 200 feet. He said the wings
collapsed.
Buzzard Is survived by his wid
ow and a daughter, surviving -Mur
ray are the widow, a daughter and
a son.
nearby buildings which caught
perished in the tlaming wreckage
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RED YOUTH INVASION Larq
by 500,000 Communist youth
Public Invited To See
Selection Of Rodeo Queen
The public is Invited to be at the
fairgrounds Sunday when selection
of a rodeo queen for next year
ill take place.
uueen selection committee chair
man Del McKay announced the
start of judging will be at 2 p.m.
The girls and their horses will be
put through their paces, and judg
ing will be Based on beauty, norse
manship and equipment.-
There are eight candidates for
the honor, but the field is not yet
closed, and additional entries are
welcome, McKay said.
Girl Has Close
Call In Wreck
Miss Betty Hedge, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hedge, narrowly
escaped serious injury, when the
vehicle she was driving Went over
15-foot embankment on South
Main street about 4:30 p. m. Fri
day. Chief of Police Calvin Balrd re
ported that Miss Hedge, driving
her parents' new panel truck, was
headed north. It is believed she lost
control of the car in loose gravel.
The truck angled across the road
and rolled down the steep embank
ment. An officer called to the scene.
assisted Miss Hedge out of the
rear doors. The vehicle was 1 ing
upside down, and started to roll
again, just after Miss Hedge was
freed.
An ambulance was called, but
she was not hospitalized. .Her in
juries were confined to a cut leg,
shock and bruises. The car, badly
damaged, was taken .out by a
wrecker.
The scene of the accident was
the gulch on South Main, just north
o Nioi.cn s market. The gulch is
more than 20 feet deep, but the
vehicle stopped before rolling all
the way to the bottom.
Poison Source Hunted '
BILTON, Staffordshire, England
May 27tl') Billon police were
trying today to find out who left
400 pounds of deadly sodium cy
anide in the town dump.
Authorities said they thought the
poison, in six steel drums, was
from nearby steel plants and had
been dumped by mistake. The fac
tories use cyanide to harden the
steel.
The cyanide was discovered by
children playing around the dump.
I'olice said the drums contained
enough poison to kill 860,000 peo
ple if spread properly. Hilton has
population of 31,430.
CIVIC LEADER DIES
HARTFORD, Conn. (Pi -Dr.
George A. Harlow, a civic leader
in Milwaukee prior to his retire
ment in 11)37, died last night. 11c
was born in Augusta, Me.
Chicago Crash
CHICAGO. May 27 HP) A i
half dozen separate investigations
were being made today in con
nection with the street car-gasoline
truck crash in which 32 per
sons were killed Thursday.
borne ot the points tne investi
gators are attempting to clear ap
peared to be the rate of speed
the crowded trolley was moving
and th discrepancy in passenger's
accounts on the operation of car s
rear doors.
Driver Killed
Thirty-one of the estimated 48
persons In the trolly including
the motorman perished min
utes after the car crashed into
the big grspline truck. The driver
of the double trailer truck, which
contained some 8,000 gallons of
gasoline, also was killed.
Thirty others were hurt. The
spreading flames touched off (ires
near the accident scene at 62nd
and State streets, on the city's
southside. Five two-story buildings
and several automobiles were des
troyed.
The death toll of 32, the Na
tional Safety council said, was the
123-50
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Fire Damages
Roseburg Home
Fire damage the roof and up
per story of the home of Marie
Martens at 1032 No. Jackson about
5:45 D.m. Friday.
A general alarm was sounded
and firemen were on the scene
within a few minutes, but the en
tire roof was ablaze, witn names
shooting ten feet into the air. by
the time water 'could be brought
into play.
The house Is a large structure
with an upper story, to which the
flames were confined, but water
damage is expected to be consider
able. An estimate of the damage
was placed at $4,000. An exact fig
ure cannot be determined until I
more thorough check is made. The
entire roof was destroyed. The
place was partially covered by in
surance.
Much of the downstairs furniture
was snared by use of salvage cov
ers. However, furnishings of the
upper . story were oaoiy water
soaked.
All of the city equipment was
brought into play, and many vol
unteer firemen were on hand to
handle the hoses. The flames were
brought under control within half
an hour.
2 Youths Face
Slaying Charge
TRUCKEE, Calif.. May 27-UP)-
Two teen age boys James Mc
Kay, 18 and Robert Sturm, 19
were held in jail today accused of
slaying two deputy sheriffs -who
were returning them from the Pa
cific northwest to a California re
formatory from which they had
escaped on April 29.
Highway patrolman William
Gautsche said the - boys . admitted
overpowering the officers, shoot
ing them Thursday night with their
own guns, hiding their bodies in
the brush and fleeing in the depu
ties car. ...
The Shasta county,, Calif., depu
ties were Earl Sholes, 54, and Dan
Heryford, 54, who were escorting
the boys from Seattle.
Patrolman Guatsche spotted the
boys McKay of Sacramento,
Calif. , and Sturm, of Orland, Calif,
hitchhiking yesterday about an
hour after the bodies were found
near Redding, some 200 miles
away. The pair had abandoned
the officers' car after the gas
gave out.
EYE SURGEON DIES
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.,-P)-Dr.
Harry Scarls Gradle, 66, in
ternationally known Chicago eye
surgeon and leader in prevention
of blindness who retired in 1941.
died Friday. He was a former
president of the American Acad
emy of Opthalmology and Otolar
yngology.
Probed; Conductor Arrested
largest to result from a motor
vehickle collision in the nation. It
had been 33, but coroner ffficials
revised it last night after a com
plete examination of the charred
bodies.
Thirty Id.ntlfitd
Thirty of the dead had been
identified. They included 15 Neg
roes. All were from Chicago.
Police, who started their probe
of the accident immediately after
the crash, arrested the trolley
conductor yesterday on a charge
of leaving the scene of an ac
cident. The conductor, William C.
Liddcll, 28, a Negro who escaped
the fiery car with several passeng
ers, was released on $100 bond
posted by the Chicago Transit
authority, which operates the city's
street car and elevated lines.
Tstlfld at Haaring
Liddell, who disappeared after
the crash, testified at a hearing
held by the CTA yesterday. He
said his attempts to open the rear
doors of the flaming car were
blocked by the panic-stricken rid
ers trying to smssh down the
doors.
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Russian Dead
Draw Tribute
On First Day
Demonstrations
To Climax Sunday
With Big Parade
BERLIN, May 27. UP) W'.tn
pomp and fanfare reminiscent of
the Hitler era, East Germany'i
Communist youth brigades paid
homage today to Russia's war
dead. Western troops and V.est
German police patrolled the west
ern sectors on watchful alert as the
long-heralded Whitsuntide rallies
steamed into high gear.
There were a few minor Inci
dents here and there, but mainly
ine city was cairn ana orderly.
Threi East German police, armed
with old German army carbines.
BDaucteo a uerman from the
American sector during the noon
hour and fired on western police
when they attempted pursuit.
aecona mount
That was the second such Inci
dent in 24 hours. The first was
forestalled last night when British
f ctor police seized two alleged
Communis, agents as they were
pushing a political refugee into an
eastbound elevated train.
But all the eastern police were
not happy. Eight young conscripts
fled to the western sectors, allied
officials reported, making a total of
14 such deserters so far.
3,000 At Attention
More than 3,000 blue-shirted
youngs.ers of the Free German
Youth Freie Deutsche Jugent
(FD J) stood stiffly while wreaths
were laid at the foot of a Soviet
memorial made largely of marbla
wrenched from Hitler's former
chancellory.
The . .-emony was highlight in
the three-day Free German Youth
demonstration which will be clR
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Martin Brothers
Strike Continues
Approximately 300 AF of L union
employees and an additional 100
plant employees were still out on
strike at Oakland s Martin Bros.
Box company today.
aen martin, one of th owners
and manager ot the company, said
no negotiations nava yet been
made.
In issuing a statement from th
company for the first time sine,
thu plant was struck at 6:30 a.m.
Thursday,- Martin aaid:
"The first time that a demand
was made upon the Martin Bros.
Box company for an increase ot
lOH cents per hour was on Thurs
day, May 23. The union requested
at tnat time that uie company give
them an answer within 24 hours."
Weuld Ceapcrat
Martin said his "company indi
cated it would cooperate with tbe
union but that the company' felt
it should nave enough tint to
check and see that all competi
tors were served with the same
demand and were also paying the
104 cent increase. .
"The company's only request
was that we be given until next
week, and the union would then
have a definite answer," Martin
declared. "The union committea
turned this down, stating there
would be pickets placed around
the plant May 2a."
Ts Support. Negotiations
M. E. Taylor, business agent
for Local 2814, AF of L Sawmill
and Lumber Workers union, said
Thursday the strike was called to
support negotiations for the waga
increase. He said the vote to striko
was taken Sunday and that other
employers under this union's juris
diction agreed to the wage in
crease request.
The present minimum wage paid
by the company is $1.45. The un
ion is asking S1.55, retroactive
to May 1. .
Klamath Girl Drowns
. KLAMATH FALLS, May 27-CP)
An 8-year-old girl at play on a,
pond shore stumbled yesterday.
She slipped over a 20-foot bank
and plunged into the water.
Her father, Jack L. Adams,
plunged in after her, but she
died before he found her body in
the muddy water 10 minutes later.
The girl, Brenda Jean, was play
ing beside a logging camp pond
at Klamath marsh, 70 miles north
of here.
A brief preliminary hearing was
held by Coroner A. L. Brodie,
who adjourned the Inquest until
June 1. He said he will Impanel a
blue ribbon jury that will include
experts on traffic, explosion and
other factors involved in the trag
edy. Mayor Martin H. Kennelly also
ordered the city's corporation coun
sel to compile a report on the
disaster. Investigations also were
underway by the fire department
and' the state's attorney's office.
Levity Fact R
ant
By L. P. Reizensteln
Clouds frowning again; look
out, straw hat!
Judo Pluvlus may bo starting a
fit!
Those plans far outdoors
Should bo basatt onco mora
On tho provision "If wtothtf
armlts."