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'COBDOM'S 0 m PLAN AMY mm Lower Soap Prices, Wage Hike For White Collar Men In Mobilization's Program WASHINGTON AP The broadening home front mobilization program brought promises today of lower soap prices and higher wages for some white collar workers. Price and wage controls were still under heavy a t tacks. But there seemed to be a slight brightening of the outlook for peace in the big quarrel between labor lead- Wage Offer Of No Benefit To IWA, Fadling Declares PORTLAND UP) James Fad ling, president of the CIO Inter national Woodworkers ol America, says a wage offer from employers would mean no increase for most workers and a cut for many. The offer by the Lumbermen's Industrial Relations committee, representing employers in the Douglas fir region of Oregon and Washington, proposed a wage in crease within the wage stabilization formula. The committee offered to join in a recommendation to boost wages since Jan. IS, 1950, to the 10 percent permitted under the wage stabilization act. But this would limit the workers to an additional three-cent pay in crease, since employers included under the proposal the 7Vj cents now contributed to the union wel: fare fund and a S-cent hourly boost ranted last fall. Fadling said many workers would lose because employers pro posed to increase board and room rales in logging camps. The com mittee offer also hinged on union withdrawal of request for ad ditional vacation and holiday bene fits. Fadling, who called for a strike vote to support demands, said it should be complete by April 4. The union's contracts expire May 1. Earlier, AFL workers in fir an pine regions obtained a 7V4-cent hourly pay increase from employ ers, subject to government ap proval. The last central Oregon agree ment was reached Thursday when three mills agreed to the boost. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Suwon, in Korea, comes this dispatch: "General MacArlhur said in ef fect today that no one can win the war under present conditions. He added: 'As the war is being fought now, the battle lines can not fail in time to reach a point of the oretical military stalemate.' " That is to say, I presume: Both we and the Chinks will be all dressed up but will have nowhere to go. Remember Hannibal? He was one of the most brilliant soldiers of all time. He was sent by Carthage into Italy with a com petent, brave, SMALL army. For IS years he fought the Romans, dis playing military skill that has prob ably never been surpassed. He won every battle but the last one but it was the last one that HURT. It's a long story. There isn't room to go into it here. The gist of it is that Hannibal had back of him a (Continued on pagt four) Man, 111, Sore Because He Cannot Find A Job DALLAS, Ttx. p Frank P. Olivoras is indignant btcauso ho can't find a job because of his ago. Ho is 111 today. "Why, I can do anything," declares tho fivefoot two-inch cntonarian. "My vision and htaring are good and my health excellent." Besides a job, Olivores is worrying about his spring fever. Mild breezes have sot his fancy to wandering. But there he runs Into difficulty, too. Tho trouble with modern women, says Olivores, "is that they walk too fast. Because of my tender feet, I can't catch up with them." Ministers' Action Keeps Ban On Sunday Dances SILVERTON (PI The min isters won out over the square dancers here and the city of Sil verton will keep the law on the books which forbids dancing 6 n Sunday. The square dancers wanted to hold a valley-wide jamboree on Sunday afternoons and asked the city council to change its ordin ances to permit private, club or any other dancing on Sunday, if the proceeds went to charity. Rev. A. C. Bates of the First Christian church, president of the Silverton Ministerial association, requested that the amendment be defeated. The council tabled the amend ment and Sunday dancing remains illegal. The Weather Snow flurries today and tonight j with showers or rain or snow Saturday. Highest temp, for any March .. IS Lowest temp, for any March .... II Highest temp, yesterday 51 Lowest ttmp. last 14 hour 32 Procip. lart 24 hours .31 O Procip. from March 1 272 k Procip. from Sept. 1 37.M 1 Excess from Sept. I 13.24 Sunset today, :12 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6:34 a.m. I ers and the government At least Eric Johnston, the eco nomic stabilizer, said "we are making a little progress." And labor leaders said the situation is somewhat more "encouraging." Johnston confers with industry leaders today. The developments on soap and white-collar salaries: Soap The government is shav ing soap prites a little. Price Di rector Michael V. DiSalle signed the order Thursday. The order it self was due to be issued today. Olficials said it would result in retail price cuts of one cent a bar on much household soap, though not all. White-collar salaries employ ers were given permission to raise the pay of large groups of workers, perhaps including hundreds o f thousands of non-union employees (nobody could estimate the exact number). Control Program Eased Johnston relaxed the wage con trol program by three new orders. The first okays "cost-of-living" pay raises until next June 30 even though they aren't provided for in a collective bargaining contract. (Johnston had already okayed such raises when provided for in con tracts). The new order, however, gives permission only in cases where the employer put the plan in writing and told the employes about it before Jan. 25. The second wage order sets up procedures for establishing wage rates in new plants opened later than last Jan. 25. The third order permits retro active pay raises for groups of workers presumably includ ing white-collar employes of coal mining companies who normally would have gotten raises between Jan. 25 and Feb. 9 as a result of raises allowed certain other groups during that period. Union ized coal miners got a raise on Feb. 1, under a contract agreed to before Jan. 25, but the white collar people (who normally arc given raises whenever the union ized miners get one) were frozen out at that time by the wage freeze. AFL Voices Criticism AFL President William Green criticized price controls in a radio speech. He criticized other things about the mobilization program, too. He said wage controls arc too tight, the rent control law is too loose, taxes weigh too heavily on the "plain people," the government is heading toward "dangerous exper iments with labor conscription," and defense agencies "are com pletely dominated by big business representatives." His speech appeared designed to answer defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, who has said he didn't know just what the labor leaders want Brothers Sought After Jailbreak In Oklahoma WICHITA FALLS, Tex. UP) Two tough Texas brothers who broke out of an Oklahoma jail may be using a stolen ambulance to elude police. Roadblocks were thrown up in this area Thursday night after re ports the big, black ambulance hart been seen at a night spot here near the home of Chester and Nor man Davenport. The Davenports overpowered a jailer, took his gun, and flod the Mayes county, Okla., jail Tues day. They fled in the jailer's auto mobile, later found abandoned. They had been held on an armed robbery charge in connection with the abduction Feb. 13 of an Okla homa highway Patrolman. He was released unharmed after a six-hour ride at gunpoint. Baldheaded Boy To Get Wig At Order Of Court CHICAGO UP) A judge has ordered a wig for a baldheaded boy in the hope that it "may make a new boy of him." The lad is 13 and a high school freshman. He is fatherless and his mother is destitute. He has been in trouble several times. A psychiatrist reported that ill ness had robbed the youth of his hair. He has been "ribbed" by other students. This caused him to seek solitude and eventually led him into minor escapades. "A wig would give him confi dence make a new boy of him." the psychiatrist said. Judge Robert J. Dunne, of the family court ordered a wig for the boy. Man Shot In Holdup But Saves His $9,000 ANDERSON, Ind. UP) Guy L. Mullen, 58, who had $9,000 in in his fist and 300 pounds behind it, won a battle with three holdup men here. He wound up in a hospital with a bullet in his neck, but his $9,000 was still in his hand. The extent of damage to the would-be robbers was not known, since they were abla to withdraw under their own power. Mullen, a poolroom operator, told police the three men were waiting when he and his wife en tered their home. He had the money in his hand, and the men demanded it. He fought. They shot him and fled. Police took the $9,000 from Mul len's clenched fist at the hospital. Established 1873 RFC's Loan Record Rotten, Senator Says Bared Corruption Dwarfs Scandal Of Teapot Dome, Assertion Of Capehart WASHINGTON VP) Senator Capehart (R-Ind) said today the Senate investigation of government loans has turned up "corruption and rottenness" for which Presi dent Truman should "apologize and take appropriate action." "A scandal that makes the Tea pot Dome scandal look like Sunday school stuff," Capehart told report ers. Capehart is a member of a sen ate banking subcommittee which has been looking into charges of influence in lending by the Recon struction Finance Corporation. He said the inquiry shows "mil lions upon millions of dollars" of public funds have been loaned on a basis of political favoritism "that traces right back to the White House itself." "It's time now," Capehart added, "for the President to speak out and act." He said he will urge senate Democratic leaders "to do their best to show the President that this is true I have no access to the White House." President Truman last month de scribed as asinine a subcommittee report to the Senate charging the RFC has been guilty of influence and favoritism in which White House aide Donald Dawson had a hand. Diary Names Truman The committee's inquiry was in recess today but the members had new trails to follow from a clue filled diary of an RFC director. One entry in it said President Tru man once intervened through an aide in behalf of an applicant for a big loan The diary came from the desk of Walter L. Dunham, a Recon struction Finance corporation director. H e quickly became one of its chief targets at a closed door hearing before a senate bank ing subcommittee conducting the inquiry. The group later made pub lic a stenographic record of his testimony. Subcommittee members 'dug from the diary word that John R. Steelman, a top White House aide, had quoted Mr. Truman himself in telephone calls to RFC directors last June 30 after some of them balked at a proposed $12,000,000 loan to construct a garage and bomb shelter under Boston com mon. Greyhound Bus Strike Settled SAN FRANCISCO UP) Pa cific Greyhound buses rolled on western highways again today, ending a week-long strike of 3,600 drivers and station employes. A spokesman for the AFL Motor Coach Employes union said 92 per cent of the strikers voted to accept a new contract, including ten per cent wage increases. The vote came from employes in California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Texas. They walked out last Friday. The new contract provides Ion.? distance drivers mileage rate in creases from 6.6 cents to 7.23 a mile and a boost in hourly rates for local drivers from $1.43 to $1,573. Station employes' wages go up 10 percent with the top salary in creasing to $345.73 from the present $314.30. Big Income Tax Lien Hits Reputed Gambler WASHINGTON UP) The iv ernment has filed a $4,167,328.31 in come tax lien in federal court against Sam R. Beard of this city, reputed big-time gambler on the east coast. The action, which also is directed against Beard's wife, followed up a criminal complaint charging Beard with evading $478,007.02 in federal income taxes for the year 1944. Beard was convicted in 1933 of criminal evasion of taxes for 1930 and prior years. He was sentenced then to 18 months in prison. That prosecution involves taxes and pen alties totaling $106,405.36. Frank Monk Fined $100 On Charge Of Gambling Frank Herman Monk, 34, Rose burg club manager, pleaded guilty to a gambling charge Thursday and was fined $100, reports Dis trict Judge A. J. Geddes. A sec ond charge, running a gambling game, was dismissed. The two charges involved an il legal card a me at the Vets loue on Jan. 23. ERNEST BEVINS QUITS LONDON UP) Ernest Bevin, 70 today, is quitting as Brit ain's foreign secretary because of ill health. Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morison, 63, probably will succeed him. I' ' SLAIN Ali Razmara (above), premier of Iran, was shot and killed by gunman identified in a communique only as "a cer tain man." Razmara was shot as he entered a mosque in Teh ran. An informed source said the killer was a member of a small, fanatical religious sect. The killing was followed by demonstrations against the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Razmara was collaborating with the United States In his foreign policy. (AP Wirephoto) Bad Check Charge Draws 3rd Term In Penitentiary Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly sentenced one man to serve three years in the Oregon State peni tentiary Thursday and postponed sentences on four others. All pleaded guilty to district attorney's informations. Sentenced was Forrest Vernon Swiney, 53, an unemployed tran sient. The complaint against him stated that Swiney pretended he had an account at the United States National bank and had passed a $10 check to J. B. Bailey, employee of the Monarch Cigar store. This was Swincy's fourth term in prison, according to District Attorney Rob ert G. Davis. The sentence of Wilbert Orville Series, 35, a Brockway truck driver, was postponed until arrival of FBI records. Series pleaded guilty to a charge of grand lar ceny. The information, accused him of stealing a McCulloch chain saw on Oct 1, 1950 belonging to Ray Barrow. Time of sentencing will be set later on James Floyd Watson, 22, Robert Ellis Watson, 19, and Les ter John La Bonte, 18, all of Glide. The three are charged with grand larceny, but further investigation is being made by the state police of several additional thefts in tho Little river area. The information stated that Rob ert Watson and La Bonte stole two truck tires on Jan. 15 belong ing to the J. C. Compton Con. struction Co., at the instigation of James Watson. The older Watson will be sentenced on a separate charge. According to the district attorney, Watson, while hauling lumber for the Sheldon and Burr Lumber Co., took approximately 4,200 board feet of rough lumber and made a deal to trade it for finished lumber to build a house. Concert Assn. Dates Annual Member Drive The Roseburg Community Con cert association will hold its ninth annual membership campaign be ginning April 9 and closing April 14. The board is now making plans for next season. The members are given oppor tunity to vote on the type of con certs desired as a guide to the board in the selection of artists for next year and also to renew their memberships. Every member is urged by Presi dent Gladys H. Strong to renew his membership before the cam paign as an aid to the officers whose services are given without remuneration and to the workers so that their time can be spent recruiting new members. Season tickets are $6, including tax, for adults, and $3.50, including tax, for students. Baby Sitter Splits Time To Burglarize Homes SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. lP) Police say they have uncovered a 16-year-old girl baby sitter who had the baby sit while she ran sacked neighboring homes. Police said she would wait until parents left, then take the baby ,. , '.,,! When she came to a house with- out a response, whe would force entrance, place the infant on an easy chair or sofa, and take what ever valuables appealed to Jrer. Police said she told them she en tered as many asthree homes a night while gifting paid to care for a child. A suspicious housewife provided authorities with a tip that led to the girl's arrest. ROSEBURG. ORECON FRIDAY. MARCH Ranks Of Reds Badly Ripped BY U.N. Drive Foe's Casualties Upped By Thousands; Han River Bridgehead Enlarged By OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO UP) Allied troops ripped gaping holes in Communist lines as they drove ahead as much as four miles today in their big new Korean offensive. Thousands of Red casualties were added Friday to the more than 17,000 killed or wounded in the first two days of the allied northward push. A U. S. Ninth corps spokesman said "the enemy seems to be high tailing it" along the entire west-central front. He indicated a general with drawal from the U. S. Eighth army's major offensive was in progress. Ninth corps troops pushed north ward up to four miles Friday through rough country. They met little resistance. U. S. 25th division troops killed or wounded an estimated 2,000 Chi nese in gaining a bitter mile on the western end of the thrundering 80-mile Korea front. The gain deepened the 25th's Han river bridgehead to five miles. The division made three assault crossings Wednesday about 15 miles east of Seoul. Chinese Eager-to Quit Thirty prisoners captured Fri day said they were short of food and ammunition. They said also that other Chinese soldiers were eager to surrender, mainly be cause their officers almost invari ably fled when artillery barrages hit their defense positions. An officer of the first cavalry said the Chinese may have suf fered so heavily in battle and from disease and cold that "they are withering on the vine." "The Chinese soldier is a poor, uneducated, ill-fed, ignorant man who. . , . fights only because he is told to fight," said Lt. Col. Jacob Shacter of Rochester, N. Y. , "This soldier is faced by a pre ponderance of machines, men and equipment. Ha is blasted from the earth and sky "Even a mule will reach a point where even the whip will persuade him to go no farther. Perhaps we have found a breaking point of a Chinese soldier." Burmese Appeals Court Frees Doctor Seagrave RANGOON UP) The Burmese court of appeal has ordered the re lease of Dr. Gordon Scagrave, famed "Burma surgeon" who was sentenced Feb. 17 to six years in prison on a charge of aiding rebels in this country. The appeals court confirmed the forced labor sentence against Sea grave, but reduced the term to the nearly six months he already has spent in ja it. lhe reduction in sen tence was made in view of his age and in gratitude for the services he had rendered to Burma. TIMBER SALES HALTED PORTLAND IPI Regional forester 11. J. Andrews said that timber sales have again been halted until price ceilings are set up. Sales were first halted Jan. 29 but resumed Feb. 8. They have been stopped again to permit re examination of price regulations, .Andrews said. Sales will continue to be advertised, n Country Club Renovated Members To Celebrate Saturday Night; Style Show Slated March 13 . Saturday nifftit will mark the grand openinp; of a reno vated Roseburg Country club. Members will celebrate the event with a dinner and dance. Hal Hardin's orchestra from Eugene will be on hand for the occasion and Mrs. Lynn Bcckley will play the Ham mond electric organ as special entertainment. Several new members will be introduced at the affair. Dinner is from 7 to 9 p. m. with dancing afterwards. It is for mem bers only. There is no cover charge, the cost to be determined by dinner selection. According to Club President Hor ace Berg, the clubrooms have been completely redecorated with new furnishings and drapes. An indirect lighting system has been installed. Done in knotty pine, the rooms have acoustic tile ceilings, and a cw Roman brick fireplace graces the establishment. The cocktail lounge has been refurnished, as h.Uo ih inHin.' iw,m. Th nr. pro fessional's shop, under the direc tion of Club Professional Norman Tauscher, is now complete. Greens Keeper Walter BridWs has supervised improvements i n the greens and fairways including landscaping and planting of trees. Style Show Scheduled New club policy will make the premises available to civic clubs on certain days of the week. A style 9, 1951 5 V A 1 ,- 9 f. Mf ' - (f HOME TO DIE Dr. Napoleao Leaureano I above I, 36-year-old Brazilian physician, closes his brief case as ha announces ha is qoinq horn to die. The young surgeon has lymph cancer and said that ha gave himself an other few weeks, a month or so at most." Cost of his trip fo Mercy hospital, New York, maior cancer research center, was paid out of fund raised by his patients and friends in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, to where he Is returning. (AP Wirephoto I Mobs In Tehran Stage Anti-U.S. Demonstration TEHRAN, Iran UP) Crowds of leftist "peaca partisans," ob viously Communist-inspired, dem onstrated loudly for two and I half hours in front of the U. S. embassy today. They shouted "death to MacArtiiur" and other anti-Americans slogans. The demonstration came in the wake of new demands by national ist factions that the government take over the oil industry here. Premier Gen. Ali Razmara, assas sinated Wednesday, was a foe of oil industry nationalization. The British controllers of the giant Anglo-Iranian Oil company now face a fight for their busi ness lives. The parliamentary pe troleum commission is reported al ready to have approved unani mously, in principle, the nationali zation of the industry. A big dem onstration for nationalization was announced for this afternoon. U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady watched the demonstration of leftists from his embassy win dow. The crowd, estimated at 5, 000, shook fists at him, shouting "we want peace." The demonstration was organ ized by the women's movement to "Stockholm peace appeal." Women and children carrying placards moved up and down in front of the embassy while men formed lines three blocks long. One banner said: "We don't want tanks give us bread Recently 25 American tanks were shipped here in the U, S. military aid program for Iran. show March 13 will be the first major activity of this kind. Other improvements include a road to the river from the club proper so that swimming will be convenient in the summer. Plans are underway, pending easing of building restrictions, to provide housing for the greens keeper and professional. All work and materials in the renovation which started last June, were donated by members. M e m bership of the club at present t4ls 240. Club Caterers, Mr. and Mr.i Harry Harriman, formerly with a club in Son Mateo, Calif., serve daily except Monday from 12 noon to 9 p. m. In addition to Berg, new officers of the club are: Kay aims, vice president? Dr. Bruce Hctrick, treasurer; W. A. Gilchrist, secre tary; and directors, Clyde Knight, Maurice Hallmark, Roy Scdcll and Herbert Vuine. 58-51 Oleo Debate Staged Before House Group Referendum Threatened If Legislature Puts Ban On Yellow Coloring By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM UP) The house food and dairy committee, which must choose among three proposals to aiiow coiorea oleomargarine, will go to work on the problem next aionaay. lhe committee heard the oleo margarine industry threaten to carry its battle to the Deoole un. less the House passes the Senate bill to allow colored oleo of any shade or color, but with restrictions to prevent restaurants from serv ing oleo and calling it butter. K. C. Eldridge, the Portland food wholesaler who represents the oleo industry here, told the com mittee he is unalterably opposed to the bills of Reps. John lloun sell. Hood River, and Herman Chindgren, Molalla. lhe tiounsell bill would allow oleo to be colored any shade of yellow below 12 micrograms of carotene per gram of fat. Chind gren s bill would have colored oleo a paler yellow, keeping it below 10 micrograms of carotene, and Grange Backs Oleo Bill Portland (Pi The ban en the sale of colored oleo and the operation ef the state milk con--trot law are opposed by Friendly Grange of Portland. The Grange said In a resolution that the milk marketing admin istration had consistently failed to consider consumer interests. butter above 12 micrograms. This would make a little wider margin between the shades of yellow, and make it easier to enforce, Chind gren claims. Various Brands Explained ' Dr. G. A.' Richardson, chemist in the dairy department at Oregon State college, told the committee now we two bills would affect col ored oleo. Of the 29 known brands of colored oleo, he tested 12. He found that Uirce of those brands would be barred by llounscll's bill, and that four would be prhlbited by Chind gren's measure. He said colored lco ranges from 8 to 12 micrograms of carotene, and admitted it often is hard for even an expert to distinguish be tween the shades of yellow. Elridge called the Hounscll and Chindgren bills "unenforceable and unfair." He also opposed the new idea to allow colored oleo but to tax it five cents a pound. Milk Bill Withdrawn Sen. Thomas R. Mahoncy, Port land, author of the Senate oleo bill which that body passed with only seven dissenting votes, withdrew his bill to let the people vote in the 1952 general election whether they want to repeal milk control. Sen. Richard L. Ncubergcr, also a Portland Democrat, accused Ma- honey at the committee hearing of making a "deal." But Mahoncy answered that he didn't think his milk bill would pass anyway, and that he withdrew it as a gesture to aid in restoring peace between the oleo and dairy industries, Belgium Hands Prison Terms To Nazi Criminals BRUSSELS, Belgium UP) General Ernest von Kalkenhauscn, Germany's wartime military com mander of occupied Belgium, and Hans Rccdcr, the civilian adminis trator, were sentenced to 12 years hard labor for war crimes. A Belgian court martial found both the 72-ycar-old general and Rccder guilty of ordering the cxe - cution of 240 Belgian hostages. They also were accused of the arbitrary arrest and deportation of Jews and other Belgians. Lt. Gen. Gcorg Bertram, nazi military commander of the Liee area for seven months in 1942-43, was sentenced to ten years. March Snowfall Sets New Roseburg Record The Roseburg snowfall record for the month of March was topped last night when a light snow brought the month's total to 11.8 Inches. The local waathar bureau said the new record surpassad a March snowfall total of 11.3 inches set in 1894. Roseburg has had some snow every day ef this month ex cept March I, the bureau said. Continued snow was. forecast by the weatherman Tor today and Saturday. Drunken Driver Draws $200 Fine, Jail Term Marvin Russell Hettrick, 37, a Eugene salesman, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 days in the county jail and fined 1200 for drunk driving, reports Myrtle Creek City Recorder 11. E. Hale. Hettrick wos arrested by a sheriff's reserve of ficer. B Senate Kills Amendment To Draft Bill Senate Also To Decide Today On Controversial Universal Training Plan WASHINGTON UP) The Sen ate today refused to knock out of its manpower bill a plan for defer ring 75,000 outstanding college men annually from military service. A proposal to eliminate the pro vision for educational deferments was beaten, 68 to 21, as the Senate pushed toward a final vote later in the day on the bill to aet up a universal military training pro gram and draft of 18-year olds. The measure would exempt from the draft 75,000 young men in each of the next three years to study to be doctors, scientists and technicians. They would be se lected on a competitive basis by a five man bi partisan commission. Under the existing selective serv ice act, draft deferments or ex emptions for students are made by local boards although the Presi dent also has authority to order them. The senate bill would continue this although setting up the special national standards for scientific students. "Not Justified," Cordon Senator Maybank (D-NC) was the only Democrat to support the proposal by Senator Cordon (R Ore) for striking out the college student deferments. The other 20 votes favoring it came from Re publicans. Forty-six Democrats and Republicans voted against it. Cordon told a reporter in ad vance he opposed deferring the stu dents because: "No one can say that this bor will be a genius and this boy will be cannon fodder ... the new dis criminations in this bill cannot be justified." Cordon said he didn't believe la any exemptions "other than those that nature requires because ot physicial defects." Cain Makes Strong Plaa Senator Cain (R-Wash) urged passage of the UMTS measure. Declaring that he spoke "as a parent and as the father of a 'teen age boy a boy who I believe de serves every reasonable chance to live," Cain, a combat veteran of World War II, said: "Too often in the frantic, end less hours of waiting, frustration and blood-letting in the last war I saw young men who had received too little training who had seen too little of the hard side of life lose their senses purposely injure themselves in a desperate effort to escape from the tragic reality of war." "It takes training to live," Cain said in a speech prepared for sen ate debate on the bill. "Universal service in America proposes train ing for life not for death," 4 Murderers Die In Electric Chair OSSINING, N. Y. -UP) Lonely hearts killers Martha Beck, 31, and Raymond Fernandez, 36, died Thursday night in Sing Sing prsi on's electric chair, calm and dig nified and pledging an undying love for each other. The 200 - pound murderess, her fat bulging under the straps, was the last of four persons executed in the space of 24 minutes. Four minutes earlier, the prison doctor had muttered "I pronounce this man dead" over the body of her partly-bald Romeo, her part ner in murder-for-profit. It was Sing Sing's first quad ruple execution in four years. The parade of death began with John J. King, 22, of Long Island city, sentenced for the holdup- murder of William H. Hupe, 29, airline radio operator, last March. Richard Power, 22, sentenced for the same crime, was the second to die. Mrs. Beck and Fernandez were electrocuted for bludgeoning and strangling Mrs. Janet Fay, 63, an Albany, N. Y., widow, on Jan. 4, 1949, at their apartment at Valley Stream, N. Y. Mrs. Fay had entrusted $5,900 of her life savings to them after she had met Fernandez through a lonely hearts club correspondence. l Prriko Of LiflllAr war w Board Ordered SALEM (Pi Governor Douglas McKay has ordered a grand jury Investigation of Hie Oregon State Liquor commission. In a letter to District Attorney John B. McCourt of Multnomah county, the governor directed McCourt to ask the Multnomah circuit court to call a grand lory. The governor said "recently published newspaper articles given large circulation Indicate that crimes have been commit ted in connection with the ad ministration of the Oregon Liq uor control aet." Governor McKay said Attorney General George Neuner had ad vised him he has power to In struct McCourt to investigate, and then have the grand jury look Into the matter. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Rclzenstein United States, It appears, cultivates "friendly" nations by ,1 being a "lend-ly" nation.