Oregon W Emerald
WORLD NEWS SECTION
JIM BANKS, BERT MOORE, EDITORS
May's Excuse:
'Racial Bias'
WASHINGTON, May 20 -(AP)
—Andrew J. May, former con
gressman accused of war fraud,
testified Tuesday he posed as own
er of a Kentucky lumber firm be
cause woodsmen or mill hands
there would not have worked for
“outside people who were jews.”
The 72-year-old defendant off-;
ered this explanation as he con
tinued his denial to the jury at his
federal court trial that he realized
any money benefits from the Cum
berland Lumber company, a con
cern financed by arms manufac
turers Henry and Murray Garsson.
The former chairman of the
house military committee main
tained in his third day on the wit
ness stand that he was only the
agent for the firm but that he
represented himself in his home
area around Prestonsburg* as the
owner-to-, attract workers during
the wartime manpower shortage.
Morse Censures
U.S. Isolationism
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., May 20
(AP)—“America either must ac
cept the price of peace or history
will record the year of 1947 as the
beginning of the decline of the Unit
ed States,” Senator Wayne Morse
Tuesday night told a North Caro
lina audience.
Speaking under the auspices of
the Carolina Political Union, Morse
alternately flayed the American
people and the 80th congress for the
isolationist trend which he said
was developing today.
“If we follow our present trend
—rapidly becoming a course of eco
nomic isolationism—time will pass
us by," he declared.
'No Death' Penalty
GREENVILLE, S. C„ May 20
(AP)—State prosecutors Tuesday
asked conviction but no death pen
alty for 28 white men accused of
lynching a South Carolina negro,
and defense counsel countered im
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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 20
(AP)—The United States charged
Tuesday that Yugoslavia, Albania
and Bulgaria were attempting to
obstruct efforts of the United Na
tions security council to settle
strife in the Balkans.
U.S. Deputy Delegate Herschel
V. Johnson told the council that
the Soviet satellites would estab
lish a “dangerous precedent” if
they persisted in “defiance"” of the
U.N.
“In the view of our delegation,”
Johnson said, “It is entirely in
admissable that this council should
accept their refusal to cooperate,
whether or not they sent represen
tatives to act as liaison officers
(with a U.N. subsidiary group on
the Greek border.)
mediately with demand for acquit
tal to convince Northerners that
“It’s no use meddling in Greenville
county.”
Major Settlement
Signals Strike End
WASHINGTON, May 20 (AP)
—The last major dispute in the
telephone industry was settled
Tuesday, signalling the end of the
cross-country strike.
The settlement was on the basis
of an liy2-cents-an-hour average
wage increase (or an estimated
$4.60 a week) for 20,000 members
of the Association of Communica
tion Equipment Workers, employ
ees of the Westfi-n Electric com
pany in 42 states.
Former Shackrat
Revisits Eugene
Elinor Henry Brown, '34, writer
and poet from North Hollywood,
Calif., paid a brief visit to her
former home in Eugene and to the
journalism shack Friday on a trip
into the Northwest. Saturday
morning Mrs. Brown autographed
copies of her book, “Dream Awake
and Remember,” at the Co-op.
In Portland last week she spoke
at the May meeting of the League
of Western Writers and was guest
of honor at the Lake Oswego Writ
ers’ club, where she read selections
from her book and recently-pub
lished poems.
One of her verses and a photo
graph she took of a buck deer ap
peared in the May issue of Nature
Magazine. Her verse appears in
The American Bard, a national
poetry magazine, and in “The
Human Side,” a column in the val
ley Times, a daily paper published
in North Hollywood.
Bible Studies Continued
In Gerlinger, YMCA
The UO Fellowship weekly Bible
studies will be held as usual in the
men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall from
8 to 9 a.m. and in the committed
room of the University YMCA from
11 to 12 noon, Thursday.
“For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world; and this is
the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith. Who is he that
overcometh the world, but he that
believeth that Jesus is the Son of
God?” (I John 5:4, 5) will be the
topic.
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