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Eisenhower Says He's Republican, Witting To Accept GOP Nomination
By JACK BELL and MARVIN L.
ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower proclaimed himself
a Republican Monday and made
it clear he would accept that
party's presidential nomination if
It is offered. But he said he won't
actively seek it.
In a Paris statement, the 61-year-old
general swept away much
of the fog of uncertainty that has
swirled for the past five years
about his place in the picture of
presidential possibilities.
His statement was prompted by
the' week-end move from Sen.
Lodge (R.- Mass.) who announced
that Eisenhower's name would be
entered in the March 11 New
Hampshire presidential- primary,
and that there would be a "finish
light" to win the GOP nomination
for the general.
Won't Atk To Bt Rtlitvtd
Eisenhower, who has been talked
as both a Democratic and a Repub
lican presidential possibility, made
these main points in his statement:
He said Lodge was correct in
calling him a Republican.
He has no intention of asking that
he be relieved of his present as
He recognizes the right of others
to engage m an attempt 'to place
before me next July (when the
Republican Convention meets) a
duty that would transcent my pres
ent responsibility."
Republicans Cheered
Eisenhower's statement tremen
dously cheered Republicans who
have been working for his nom
ination and have felt themselves
handicapped by the general'i long
silence.
Some of them were getting rest
ive under the feeling that uncer
tainty as to Eisenhower's position
bidding for support from conven
tion delegates.
The "go ahead" which Eisenhow
er in effect gave his backers today
will let them press their campaign
for him with more assurance.
Two other candidates 'also are
formally in the race Gov. Earl
Warren of California and Harold
Stassen, president of the University
of Pennsylvania and former gov
ernor of Minnesota.
Democrats Upset
Another practical effect of the
statement was to pull the rug from
under those Democrats who have
been beating the drums for the
nomination of Eisenhower by their
party.
One New Hampshire group had
Elanned to enter Ike's name in the
lemocratic primary.
At the White House, aides said
President Truman had no com
ment on the general's statement.
Eisenhower already has the sup
port of Gov. Thomas K. Dewey of
New York, the 1948 Republican
standard bearer. The general also
has the editorial support of sev
eral newspapers among them the
New York Times, the New York
Herald 'Tribune, the Chicago Sun
Times and the Providence (R.I.)
Journal.
Eisenhower's statement was read
to reporters at the supreme Allied
headquarters by Brig. Gen. Charles
T. Lanham, chief of SHAPE'! pub
lice information division. Lanham
said Eisenhower does not intend to
say anything further.
He added that Gen. Eisenhower
"hopes that this statement will
demonstrate his concern, as an
American citizen, in problems that
the American people must solve.
He hopes also that it will con
vince our citizens and those of the
other NATO countries that he
views with the utmost seriousness
the responsibilities of the post to
which he ia presently assigned."
I
SALEM I Oregon's Eisen
hower for President Committee
will meet here Tuesday morning
tp decide when to file the peti
tions to place the general's name
on the Hale's Republican presi
dential primary ballot, W. L. Phil
lips, Salem, committee chairman,
said Monday.
Marx Hatfield, dean of students
at Willamette University who start
ed the move to make General
Eisenhower a Republican presi
dential candidate in Oregon, said
he got more than the 1,000 re
quired signatures several weeka
ago.
General Eisenhower already Is
entered as a Democratic candidate
in the May 16 Oregon primary.
These petitions were sponsored by
State Sen. Thomas- R. Mahoney,
Portland Democrat.
Oregon's election law says a
presidential candidate must be a
member of the party in which he
is a candidate. However, the State
Elections Bureau is accepting
Eisenhower's candidacy in both
parties.
In Oregon, the candidate can't
prevent his name from being filed.
Hatfield said he thinks the peti
tions will be filed in about 30 days,
as he would like time to get sig
natures from each of the 34
counties.
He said, however, the final de
cision would be made at Tuesday'
meeting.
signment as leader of the European
defense forces.
He will not take part in pre
I convention activities of those
i seeking the nomination for him.
was letting Sen. Robert A. Taft of
Ohio, first to announce as a can
didate, get off to a long lead in
WHO DOES WHAT
EARL BRIDGESS. counter man
motive accessory house on North Stephens street, takes an , Russian.buiit Mig.15 jets and dam
order for an oil filter over the phone. He has been dealing 8spd 12 in two davs of renewed
information ond fillina orders there for nearly four years. Mor-,
ried and with three children,
East Douglas street.
CONGRESS MEETS TUESDAY
Legislation May Weigh
Heavily On Presidential
Election Next November
WASHINGTON (AP) The 82nd Congress starts
its election-year session Tuesday, with politics likely to
weigh heavily in all major actions.
The ;iext six months are expected to bring forth de
cisions, oie way or the other, on such major matters
as universal military training, foreign military and economic
niH. economic controls at home, and defense spending.
Football Player Dies
In Snowslide Trap
GARDINER, Mont. ( Don
Morris, about 22, of Fort Benton,
a member of the Montana State
College football team, was killed
late Sunday when he was trapped
hv a snnwslide near the ton of a
mountain about two and one-half i
miles southwest 01 corwin noi
Springs. . ...
The young athlete was hunting
in the area with two companions,
Tom Parac and Holgrim Hollo.
Bolh are members of Bobcat ath
letic teams.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Truman
announcing
a sweeping shakeup in the bureau 1
of internal revenue says:
"Some persons in the bureau ot
internal revenue have betrayed ae I
public trust reposed in them. The
revelation of that fact has come as
a shock to all decent citizens. 1
have directed that every effort he
made lo expose and punish such
persons, wherever they may be
found."
Then he adds: ;
"WHOEVER, my administration:
was wise to the wrongdoers and !
would have ousted them even if j
there had been no congressional 1
investig tion." j
i
You know, 1 think that's exactly
(he answer I'd have been tempted
to make in similar circumsiances.
Id know it wasn't a competent and
strvtly truthful statement, but
lif I were a politician) I'd HOPE
it would fool a lot of people.
President Lincoln covered this
business of fooling the people about
as effectively as it has ever been
(Continued on Page 4)
The Weather
Moitiv riiu.Hv with idiiimii
rain mixed with snow today. Shew-'
ers tonight and Tuesday. I Cross postal receipts of the
Roseburg Post Office in (he cal
Highist temp, for any Jan 77 endar year 1951 were $190,321, re
Lowest temp, for any Jan -a ports Postmaster L. L. Wimberly.
Highest ttmp. yesterday
40
D
Lowest temp, last 24 hours .
Prtcip. last 24 hours
Precip. from Jan. 1
Excess -
Prtcip. from Sept. 1
Sunset today, 4:54 p.m.
Sunriia tomorrow, 7:45 a.m
" .10
1.10
4.49
21.71
at Specialized Parts, big auto-
Eorl and his family live at 408 1
1 Leaders are hopeful the session
can wind up in time for the July
political conventions so members
can go home afterward for the fall
campaigns.
All House seals will be at stake
in the November voting. So will
32 Senate seals, as well as the
Presidency and the vice-Presidency.
Truman Program Forecast
President Truman will blueprint
his legislative program in his Slate
of the Union message Wednesday.
The President is expected lo re
new his request for civil rights
legislation, compulsory health in
surance, and tougher wage, price
and rent controls.
He may ask for more taxes.
Investigations, providing heavy
ammunition for political cam
paigns, will constitute a major leg
islative activity. Committee prob
ers will delve into charges of graft
in high places, scandals in tax
law enforcement, wasle of public
money ana and
to'LMi.e.rirJd?
nave provi(i(K Republicans with
campaign slogans dealing with
mjnk toals and non)e frc(.zcrs (0
toss at the Democratic administra-
tion.
Oregon Man Among
Killed In Air Crash
FAIRBANKS, Alaska I All
four men aboard a Transocean Air
Lines transport which crashed on
Chena Dome were killed in the
crash, the Tenth Rescue Squad-
ron reported Saturday.
An Air Force helicopter sent to
J investigate
ite pla
landed
lane wreckage sighted
1 earner
on the Dome and
'discovered the bodies, squadron of-
hcers said
Aboard the transport when it left
Point Barrow Dec. 30 to fly to
Fairbanks were the pilot, Robert
Warren of Fairbai.ks, the co-pilot,
Richard Erwin of Oakland. Calif.,
and two passengers, Joe Weiler of
Nyssa, Ore., and Dick Cross of
Fairbanks.
Roseburg's Postal
ReeeiDts Increase
The total receipts represents a
lfi RJIQ innrfacA m-or the nrovimic
year, or a percentage gain of 9.7.
In December. 62.000 outgoing
letters were canceled for a new
record. The previous peak was
exceeded ny 4.0TO letters.
I Ten years ago the gross postal
receipts were $51,270.
EstoMMwd 1873
Yank Planes
19 Ms in 2
Enemy
Arteries Also
Heavily Cut
U.N. Infantry Hurls
Back 2 Red Assaults;
No Peace Progress
By William C. Barnard
L,sli0Hh' JJ"? V
furious air fighting high over
Northwest Korea.
and damaged two on Monday. The
day before, U S. planes blasted
five of the Red Jets to eartn ana
scored hits on 10.
U. S. losses, if any, were not
reported. Under a new policy the
U, S. Air Force will announce any
losses only once a week. . . ..
Allied ground forces on the West
ern front fought fiercely in sub
freezing weather toward a prize
outpost lost to the Reds Dec. 28.
Army Scores Gains
United Nations infanlrymen
made slight gains against stubborn
Chinese resistance early Monday
after hurling back two Red thrusts
Sunday. The oulpost is west of
Korangpo and only about six miles
from Panmunjom site of the dead
locked armistice talks.
At sea. Allied warships main
tained their tight blockade of both
the East and West Korean coasts.
Carrier planes hammered com
munist coastal supply routes and
cut east-west rail routes in 109
places.
Rail Arteries Cut
Land-based Fifth Air Force
bombers made 96 cuts in main
rail ' arteries in Northwestern
Korea Monday. They destroyed two
locomotives.
The U. S. Navy announced Sun
day that its ships and planes in
1951 destroyed or damaged 7,028
railway cars or locomotives, 4,519
Communist motor vehicles, 2,379
bridges and cut rail lines 4,674
times.
MUNSAN, Korea I The
United Nations' chief truce nego
tiator said Monday there are grow
ing indications that the Commu
nists do not want a stable armis
tice in Korea.
The report from Panmunjom
was the now familiar "no pro
gress." If the Communists "are acting
in good faith and sincerely want
.peace, there can be no reason
for them to construct military air
fields during the period of an
armistice," said Vice Adm. C. Tur
ner Joy. He flew to Tokyo for
conferences with Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, supreme allied com
mander. "If, on the other hand, the Com
munists are acting in bad faith
ana are, in tact, preparing tor
war, the construction of military
airfields becomes, and is, a mat
ter of great urgency to them, '
Joy added.
Communist delegates again re-
i jected a six-point allied plan lor
exchanging prisoners of war and
civilians
Bank Robbery Effort
At Union Fizzles
UNION. Ore. Ifl The FBI
Monday investigated Ihe attempted
burglary of a First National Bank
branch here.
A janitor, discovered the break
in early Sunday.
The thieves had used an acety
lene torch lo cut a hole through
Ihe first door of the main vault.
They were unable to burn through
the second door and apparently
left empty-handed, FBI agents in
Portland said. Bank officials said
llh,r.e ' '' $15,000 in
the
! vaul'-
I Police speculated the burglars
I may nave taieen ine acetylene
nearoy names wnere
a Saturday night hardware store
1 burjlary waa reported.
ROSHURS. ORECON MONDAY, JANUARY 7,
R. W. Bellows
In Coroner Race
Robert W. Bellows has entered
the race for county coroner.
He is the second man to file
for nomination on the Repub
lican ticket in the May 16 primar
ies. The other is L. L. "Jim"
Towers, who filed his nomination
Thursday.
Bellows has been deputy coro
ner in Douglas county for a year
and a half. Prior to that, he
studied pre-medicine at the Uni
versity of Oregon.
For the last several years he
has been in business with his
father. Roy E. Bellows, who oper
ates Roy's Men's Store.
His campaign platform will be
"Conscientious, experience, with
out personal gain."
Negro Housing
At Eugene Stirs
Controversy
EUGENE 11 ' A formefprtsl
dent of the Eugene Realty Board
said the group was not responsi
ble for moving negroes into inade
quate housing in the Eugene area.
M. S. Christianson. board presi
dent in 1949, said Saturday that
the board "sympathizes with the
plight ' of the negroes.
Christianson s remarks were
made in reply to Edwin C. Berry
executive secretary of the Port
land Urban League. Berry was
quoted as telling the Slate Fair
employment Practices that Eu
gene realtors in 1949 had made a
"deal" to move several negro
families from the Ferry Street
Bridge area into swamplands out'
side the city.
"If there was a deal, it was
not made by the realty board
Christianson said. "We urged help
and some kind of citizens' com
mittee was formed but action was
not decisive."
Berry said the shacks where the
negroes now are living have no
sanitary facilities and water must
be carried half a mile.
Pleven Cabinet
Of France Down
PARIS I Premier Rene Plev
en's five month old Cabinet col
lapsed Monday niht.
The French National Assembly
ousted the Coalition government
after hearing a final plea from
Pleven for a freer hand to deal
with the economic situation in this
hard-pinched country.
The defeat came on his demand
for power to cut the 140 billion
franc (400 million dollar) deficit
of the nationalized railway sys
tem. The Socialists, which have sup
ported the Cabinet on most issues,
broke away on this one.
Many of the railway workers are
Socialists and the party leadership
fears economies on the roads would
result in large scale firings.
Sen. Kefauver's Name
To Go In Ohio Primary
WASHINGTON I Rep. Hays
(D.-Ohio) announced Monday a
complete slate of delegates will be
entered in- the Ohio Democratic
primaries for Sen. Esles Kefauver
(D-Tenn.) for the Presidential
nomination.
The announcement was (he first
open move to get the ball rolling
for the Tennessee senator, who
: achieved nation-wide prominence
! during hearings of the Senate
crime investigating committee.
Kefauver was chairman of the
committee.
Christmas Celebrated
In Russian Churches
MOSCOW lifl Christmas was
celebrated
simple village
churches and
gwMJ . "L
throughout Russia Monday, 13 days ;
after Western observances of i
1 Christ's birth. The time la? was
due to differences between the old
Julian Calendar used here and the
I Gregorian Calendar of the West.
Smash
lays
Ex-Marshal
Says He Slew
Three Men
Story Of Ex-Mental
Patient, Now Arson
Suspect, Stirs Check
EVERETT W A former small
town marshall'i strange story of
having killed three men was being
nh.in .mi Hhi.J.h.i,.j
day by Snohomish County author
ltics in a search for inconsist
encies. Sheriff Tom Warnock said Har
old G. Chase, 22-year-old ex-mar-shall
of Darrington, had told the
story three times without any im
portant variations.
One of the deaths involved a
patient at the Northern State Hos
pital at Sedro Woollcy while Chase
was an inmate in-that mental in
stitution in 1949.
Chase said he strangled the pat
ient and made it look like a sui
cide. He also said he strangled
Dr. Russel R. Bradley, 50-year old
Everett optometrist, Dec. 12, 1950.
It was listed as a heart clot death.
Chase said he killed the third
man, named only as "Joe," at
San Francisco last fall and threw
the body over a bluff into the
ocean. San Francisco authorities
said their records fail to reveal
any cases of missing persons or
recovered bodies which tally with
the story.
Anon Charge Faced
Chase's bizarre story came after
ha failed in an escape attempt at
the Snohomish County jail.
He is in jail on an arson charge.
He was convicted of arson in 194S
and was given a 10-year suspend
ed sentence. He was committed
later to the Stale Hospital for ob
servation and treatment. He be
came town marshal at Darrington
later, but was arrested in Califor
nia late in 1951 in connection wiln
$40,000 fire at Darrington. War
nock said he had confessed to set
ting the fire, after which he turned
in the alarm and helped fight the
blaze.
Snohomish County authorities
prepared to exhume the body of
Dr. Bradley, the Everett optome
trist, to perform an autopsy.
Warnock quoted Chase as saying
he took $538 from Dr. Bradley aft
er they had driven together from
1 Lverett bar.
The hospital patient named by
Chase was Leonard M. Lewis, 50.
Chase said he strangled Lewis,
then hanged him with a sheet from
. bed to make the case appear to
be a suicide. The death, in Jnnuary
1949, was listed as a suicide by
strangulation.
Churchill Talks
With Truman
On Vital Affairs
WASHINGTON 11 President
Truman and Prime Minister
Churchill opened 1 'detailed survey
of world affairs Monday. Inform-
anls said the talks began with
an inquiry into Western defense
problems.
Churchill appeared for his first
While House visit of his current
trip accompanied by Foreign Min
ister Anthony Eden and Sir Oliver
Franks, British ambassador to the
U.S.
Some informants said an agenda
for the two days of While House
conference was agreed upon at a
private talk among the two lead
ers and their foreign ministers
aboard the yacht "Williamsburg"
Saturday night.
This was described as listing for
discussion first a number of mat
ters such as organisation of an
European army and the structure
1 " . ,, '.: 1
01 the INorth Allanlic Ireaty or-
1 ,he defense of Western Europe.
ine groundwork lor the full-dress
meetings was laid in a series of
get-acquainled-again talks which
the President and Prime Minister
held Saturday, after Churchill's ar
rival here.
1952
Douglas County, Beginning Its
100th Year, Plans Celebration
Today marks the bceinninsr of Douglas county's cen
tennial year.
By act of the Territorial Legislature, Douglas county
was created Jan. 7, 1852.
. Umpqua county lay to the north, south of Benton and
Lane courtics, embracing what is now the northern half
of Dougla? county. Umpqua was incorporated into Doug
las county in 1863. The area south of Douglas county was
organized as Jackson county on the date of Jan. 12, 1852.
Douglas county was named for Senator Stephen A.
Douglas of Illinois, one of the prominent political figures
of that day.
Elaborate plans are being made for the celebration of
the county's centennial during the Labor Day weekend.
A local oommittee has been incorporated. Material is be
ing gathered for a pageant which will depict the county's
history.
The News-Review plans to print historical material
during the months preceding the celebration and is ap-
iii-Hiing id us readers lor cooperation in supplying Infor
mation from existing records, together with previously
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pictures will be used as space
unpuuiisp.pci episodes and incidents. A limited number of
1- in uin- uuiaiis appear on
fcews-Review.
POTATO GROWERS IRKED
Price Rollback Branded
OPS "Doublecrossing,"
Act Of ''Discrimination1'
By The Associated Press
The base price of potatoes in three Pacific Coast states
under the new rollback order would be $3.65 for a 100 lb,
bait of U.S. No. 1 grade, the District Office of Price Stabili
zation in Portland has reported. The price of Idaho pota
toes would be $3.85, officials said Saturday.
LlJZ b.
FACES TRIAL Charged with
accepting bribes to influence
tax coses, Denis W. Deloney,
55, (above), former collector of
internal revenue for Massa
chusetts, as he appeared in
Boston at start of his trial. In
dictments accuse Delaney of
accepting $12,500 and with
falsely certifying tax liens of
$180,000. He is the first tax
official of his rank to stand
trial in a nation-wide investi
nnt'mn nf inlprnnl rpvenue He.
I arfmen, (AP Wirephoto)
y r
Apartment Fire
Kills 7 Persons
WESTFIEI.D, Mass. Ifl At
least seven persons perished in a
$1,000,000 five story apartment
business block fire Sunday night.
Firemen slill poured water into
Ihe smouldering ruins more than
12 hours after the blaze, punc
tuated by three distinct explosions,
remained after Ihe enlire five
floors collapsed Into the basement
of the building in a tangled mass
wreckage,
EXAMINER SCHEDULED
A drivers license examiner will
he in Roseburg Thursday and
Friday, Jan. 10 and 11, at M3
N. Main St. between 9 a.m. and
S p m.
Persons wishing licenses are
asked to contact Ihe examiner
early lo insure completion of their 1 port. He is being held in the
applications with a minimum of 1 Douglas county jail pending ar
delay, , raignment.
5-52
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permits.
pages 3 and 4 of today s
Ben Davidson. Redmond, rhnir.
man of the Oregon Potato Com
mission, branded the new order
"discriminatory".
He said that under the order
a grower would get Just about
parity for his product after he
bought bags and paid shipping and
loading costs. Parity, he said, now
is $3.20 for 100 pounds.
"It is a gross oversight to pick
ou poiaiocs aneaa 01 omer agri
cultural commodities," he said.
Other potato men also were
critical of the new order.
Walt Jendrzejewski, Klamath
County agent, said the rollback
would cut the price of his county1,
top quality russets 31 per cent.
He said that was unfair.
George C. Burger, a Klamath
potato shipper, said "the OPS
doublecrossed everyone." He said
shippers should declare a holiday
"until this mess is straightened
out."
Randall Pone, president of the
Klamath Potato Growers Associa
tion, said the OPS should establish
"realistic ceilings, well above par
ity prices." He said the agency had
acted against the advice of its
own potato advisory committee and
over the protests of the entire
potato industry.
Further Snow,
Rain Forecast
In Oregon Areas
Br The Atiocltttd Prist
A new storm front moved into
Oregon Monday, bringing more
isnow to Portland and Eastern
Oregon and rain to most of the
rest of Ihe state.
The Weather Bureau said Port-
land, where some 5 inches of
snow already has fallen, might
have some rain mixed with the
snow Monday, but the forecast of
a 30 degree temperature Mondav
night will turn any rain to snow
and again coat city streets with
ice.
Klamath Falls in Southern Ore
gon had an inch of new snow in
the 24 hours ending Monday morn
ing and it was snowing in Baker
and other eastern Oregon points.
The storm brought rain to the
coast and the Willamette Valley,
where temperatures Monday morn
ing were in the low and middle
30s. East of the Cascades tem
peratures were generally below
freezing.
Redmond and Burns reported
low of 11 degrees, the lowest in
the state.
DRUNK DRIVING CHARGED
Fred Theodore lxing, Roseburg,
was arrested Sunday on a drunk
driving charge, slate police re-
Bridges' ILU
Loses
Appeal
On Damages
Supreme Court Upholds
$750,000 Award Under
T-H In Alaska Cast
WASHINGTON UWThe Supreme
Court Monday unanimously upheld
a $750,000 Taft-Hartley Act dam
age award against Harry Bridges'
International Longshoremen'a Un
ion. The judgment won by the Jun
eau (Alaska) Spruce Corp. was the
largest to date and the first to
reach the high court.
It grew out of a suit charging
that Bridges' union damaged the
company's business by setting up
picket lines and making "coercive"
statements during a jurisdictional
row between two rival labor or- .
ganizations more than two years
ago.
The firm had a contract with
the CIO Woodworkers of America
but the longshoremen tried to force
the company to give barge loading
work to the Bridges men.
Bridges' union has been expelled
from the CIO on the grounds that
its leadership followed the Com
munist party line.
Bridget' Appeal Pndlng
- Bridges himself ia free on hall
after his conviction on charges that
he lied in denying membership in
the Communist party when he ob
tained American citizenship. Tha
Australian-born labor leader has
appealed the conviction, but it has
not yet reached the supreme court.
in ine Juneau case, Bridges' un
ion appealed on the srounds that
the Federal District Court in Alas
ka should not have accepted the
corporation's damaee suit until the
National Labor Relations Board de
cided ine jurisdictional dispute.
Rejecting this argument. Justice
Douglas, who wrote the high tri
bunal's decision, said there is noth
ing in the- Taft-Hartley Law to
support, such a claim; !.T "V : V
College Students
Admits Series
Of Burglaries
PORTLAND m A 20-year-old
former Linfield College student,
object of a week-long search last
month, has admitted stealing $3450
in night burglaries of Portland
homes, police said.
The youth, Harold Lawrence,
walked into the police station with
his pastor Saturday night and turn
ed over $2350 which he said was
left from the burglaries.
Lawrence disappeared three
weeks ago. His wrecked car was
found on a road near Tigard. When
he returned heme his parents said
he had run away because he had
wrecked the family car.
Police said Lawrence told them
he had stolen the money in a
series of burglaries in the Grunt
High district of Portland. He
bought a car with $1100 of the
money and then hid the rest under
the floor of his room at Linfield
College, McMinnville, police said
he told them.
Lawrence said the thefts had
preyed on his mind and he had
fallen behind in his studies,
police reported, He withdrew from
school just before Christmas.
He was charged with burglary '
and bail was set at $3000.
Convicted Oregon
Slayer Will Appeal
PORTLAND I The first de
gree murder conviction of Morris
Lcland will be appealed to the
U. S. Supreme Court the week of
Jan. 23.
Leland was accused of holdine
teen-ager Thelma Taylor in this
St. John Distict overnight and
then slaying her. He was convicted
in November, 1949, after pleading
not guilty by reason of insanity.
His court-appointed attorney aaid
he would appeal the constitutional
ily of Oregon's insanity plea law.
The attorney, Thomas If. Ryan
said that Oregon law requires that
a person, pleading insanity, prove
he does not know the difference
between right and wrong.
ROTARY CONCLAVE SET
BENI), Ore. Ufi Rotary clubs
of Southwestern Washington and
Oregon will hold their 1952 conven
tion here April 27-29, district of
ficials said Saturday.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Relzensteln
Our major hope for the new
year: That economic develop
ments verify the flowery fore
casts of "experti" better than
the home gordner's crops re
semble the pictures in the
seed catalogue. ,
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