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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1947)
Oregon H Emerald WORLD NEWS SECTION JIM BANKS, BERT MOORE, EDITORS All Set Free In Lynch Trial GREENVILLE, S.C., May 21 (AP)—A Greenville county jury freed 28 white men Wednesday night of charges that they lynched a South Carolina negro, returning straight acquittals in 98 separate verdicts on a four-count murder and conspiracy indictment. The crushing rejection of prose cution allegations, which had in cluded unsworn statements by 26 self-acknowledged members of the mob, closed an historic case which began here nine days ago. The men were accused of taking Willie Earle, 23-year-old negro, from Pickens, S.C., jail last Feb ruary 17, and butchering him on a lonely roadside for the alleged stabbing of a white taxi-driver. Education Program Receives Support WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP) — The house foreign affairs commit tee unanimously indorsed Wednes day a measure paving the way for state department operation of an information and educational pro gram in foreign countries. The action came just six days af ter the house denied funds for op eration of the program after June 30 on the grounds that it never has been formally authorized by con gress. In 1898 the medical school be came a member of the American Medical association, accepting the entrance requirements of that body and the enrollment increased from 29 in 1893 to 89 to 1902. CLASSIFIED NEW SMITH CORONA type writer for sale, $65.00. Norman Degner, Vets Dorm. No. 1, Ext. 395, FOR SALE: 1939 Plymouth Tudor Sedan, good condition inside and out. Radio and heater. See Mr. Walter, 450 E. 14th, house in rear, 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. FURNISHED APARTMENT in Portland available to reliable couple, no children, nor pets, in exchange for apt. in Eugene, preferably near campus. L. M. Boylen, Osburn Hotel. Ph. 891. NEW MERCURY Convertible to trade for late model 4-door se dan. 4795-W. I , ' Before ymt throw away a pair of shoes brinjj them to us for a repair job that will make them look like new. The PROGRESSIVE SHOE SHOP 75 W. Broadway i_ Committee Agrees On Union Changes WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP) —A senate-house committee was reported informally agreed Wed nesday night on putting a ceiling on initiation and membership fees of unions. Senator Robert Taft (R., O.), i told reporters that while no final action had been taken, senate con- j ferees seemed in the mood to ac- ! cept a provision of the house labor ! disputes measure which would J limit the fees to be fixed by unions. Filipinos Locate Plane Wreckage MANILA, May 22 (AP)—Presi-! dent Manuel A. Roxas' personal luxury plane was found wrecked Thursday on a Mindanao mountain side, and the 12 or more high Fili pino government officials and crew of eight aboard were feared dead. Roxas was not aboard. Air searchers, spurred by Roxas himself in one of the biggest air hunts in the island’s history, found the unburned wreckage four days after the plane vanished. Mrs. Truman Better GRANDVIEW, Mo., May 21 (AP) — President Truman’s 94 year-old mother began passive ex ercise in a new mechanical bed I Wednesday night after the White \ House physician gave her a i “chance” for recovery. May Defends Garsson Aid WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)— Former Congressman Andrew J. May testified Wednesday he went to the rescue of the munitions-mak ing Garsson brothers in 1942 be- > cause army ordnance officers called 1 them “a bunch of kikes” and re fused to let them bid on contracts. "I thought men who wanted to make munitions in time of war ought to be permitted to do so without regard to color, race or creed,” May told the federal court jury in his trial on charges of sell-' ing his influence to the Garssons. Stassen Encourages Contributions Abroad JEFFERSON, Ia„ May 21 (AP) —A ten-year program of “produc tion for peace” was advocated Wednesday night by former Gover nor Harold E. Stassen of Minne sota, avowed aspirant for the 1948 GOP presidential nomination. 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