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- - 7esi!ier - -r- ' ;- ' Uoaday aaaxlmmm tern-. peratore 44. mlalmaisi it, . Elver Jift. Occasional light rains j Tuesday : and scattered I yjw cods rvvv: ahewers . Wedisesday; , cooler ' .v . - '..--. - v ' ' .... . .r- 1 :.V c ' ... '' . ' 7:' -..... The appointment of Senator Homer T. Bone to the vacancy on : the ninth circuit court of appeals i "'. la regarded as reward for politi cal support of the administration by the senator from Washington, although Bone has sometime dev- t iated from the administration's .-' line. He is without experience on iV'the bench, ;and his reputation in Washington (was built largely on i his championship of public , own .. ership of power rather than his i professional attainments. - Private power Interests douDuess win pre ' f er to have him on the bench: ra- ther than in the senate. . i It seemii to me the appointment . is open to the criticism that! the : selection was apparently not bas ed on superior qualifications for ! this judicial post The federal ! circuit " court of appeals ranks . Just under the United States i su i i preme court. Very often it is the n final court of appeal because the ' supreme court often refuses to consider cases, so the decision of 1 1 the circuit court of appeals stands. i ' On this court in the several ju t dicial districts are many men of the highest Judicial attainments. t like "Judge Merrill E. Otis of Kansas City and Judge John J. ! Parker, of North Carolina. Vacant cies ought to be filled, it "would j i seem,' by selecting persons from " state or 'federal district courts ' who had proven their quality, or from practicing attorneys of dis- . ; tinguished attainments, , rather ' than by the route of political! re- , ward for party regularity. ' It may be that as judge, Sena tor Bone will prove a capable judge it is hardly to be expected that he wilt be a brilliant judge, like the late Frank Rudkin from his own state of Washington Hugo Black, for example, has ' proven" a far more industrious and able judge than was antici pated in his appointment. But it is guesswork (Continued on Edi torial Page) Willkie Looks To Wisconsin j For Test Vote - "By the Associated Press 1 The vote-laden farm belt of the ., midwest, became the No. 1 pre t convention political stage for re , j publicans and democrats alike; last sight. ; " " " j Ji-, -t 1 .t I , Wisconsin's voters were all set f or - Tuesday's preferential pri l mary, called "vital" by Wendell I Willkie and obviously signifi l cant to all republican presidential pbiUUes..;' T j! . r..- . ! . I '.With an-tbvious eye on Novem- " i ber. farm -votes, ' republican agrK ; cultural leaders -7 five governors and four congressmen met else- where in Chicago to draft a GOP - farm plank for the fall campaign. ' Gov. Bourke B. Hickenlooper of ; Iowa opened the meeting with the declaration: "Political explpiUtion - of the farmer must stop." : ' .Wisconsin's voters will, pick i 24. delegates to the republican nation '.' al convention today in the first .'clear cut test of ; Willkie's cam- paign strength. However the elec : tion goes, the result may be a barometer to republican sentiment in othe farm states. - . r :' There Is a full iWillkie slate! on ' the ballot but supporters of other republicans r Lt. Com. Harold E. : Stassen, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Gen. Douglas MacArthur all ; have delegate candidates. Willkie, f who stumped the state for his own r ticket, went on to Nebraska yes- - terday where republican voters will choose between him and Stas- sen in a primary! next week.- Stassen Might Run in Oregon PORTLAND, Ore., April 3-Cfl5) Lt. Com. Harold E. Stassen, for mer Minnesota governor, may be entered as a presidential candi date in Oregon's May 19 primary, the Oregonian said tonight The newspaper quoted Carl Mo- aer, manager of state republican offices here, as headquarters in saying Stassen St Paul tele- phoned him tonight for lnforma ; tion on filing procedure in Ore- ' gon . They were not sure whether I Stassen would be a candidate in - Oregon," Moser said. "They indi , rated they would go into a huddle ; and come out with a decision; late y tonight or early tomorrow.' ; Stassen could file by declara tion before the 5 p. m. deadline r tomorrow. Wendell WUlkie is the ; only republican presidential can didate who has filed. - - i Smuts Says South Africa I Not to Disarm for Years CAPETOWN, South. Africa, 1 Tuesday, April 4-P-Prinie I Minister Jan Christian Smuts told . the senate today that South Africa would not disarm after the war for, "although there will be a great expense, the country must , be kept in a state of preparedness i' for years." - . ' ' v iniTETY-THTRD YEAH US Seizes Jap Atolls American Flag Flies Over 14 Marshall Isles By LEONARD M HUMAN - Associated Press War Editor United States forces have oc cupied ten more atolls in the central Pacific Marshall islands, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an nounced last night. The American flag now flies over 14 of these Japanese-mandated atolls'. Four others Jal it, Mili, Maloelap and iWotje ; are . still held by the enemy - and are under daily bombardment, by army, navy and marine planes.: ' All of theRalik or western chin of the Marshalls, except Jalult, is now occupied by American forces. Little or no resistance was encoun tered by reconnoitering forces which landed and established sov ereignty over the 10 new atolls Ujae, Lae, Lib, Namu, Ailinglap alap, Namorik, Eban, Kili, Arno and Bikini. Kwajalein, the first atoll to come under American rule, was invaded January 31 and since then the conquest of Eniwetok, Majuro and Wotho was previously announced. Majuro and Arno are adjacent atolls in the eastern chain between MiU and Maloelap, the most im portant of that group. ' Seizure of two more islands In the Admiralty group in the southwest Pacific was an announced today by Gen. Dong las Mae Arthur. They are Kor vnlat and Ndrilo, lying between American - held Loa Negros and Hanwel off the northeast coast f Manas. Two more raids on Truk, mak ing 10 bombing 'attacks within 10 days were announced. Nimit re- turned to their central Pacific bases after a raid on Truk's Du blon island Sunday night (Satur day . US " time) : and MacArthur told of a dawn attack, by south Pacific bombers that started big firer Other south Pacific aircraft carried out round-the-clock raids (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Salem to Get Mexicaii Help PORTLAND, Ore- April Thirty Japanese laborers from Colorado arrived at Walla Walla, W6, today lor seed work, the regional office of labor of the war food administration (WFA) an nounced. ' A trainload of 850 Mexicans from California will arrive at Walla Walla about April 10 for the asparagus harvest the agency saia. Another group j of 850 from Mexico City are scheduled to ar rive here about April 21, 140 for Wyoming, more than 100 for Ida ho and 600 for Yakima, Wash, area. A day or two later 243 are due for Salem, 33 for Grants Pass and 140 for Dayton, Oregon. ; Supreme Court Rules Texas Negroes Cah Vote By EDWARD H. HIGGS WASHINGTON, April 3-(P) The supreme court today upset a decision of nine years' standing and ruled that negroes have the right to vote in Texas democratic primary elections, prompting Jus tice Roberts to protest that the tribunal's opinions-are getting to be like a railroad ticket, good on ly for one day in one train. The eight-to-one decision, stat ing that "the - great privilege of choosing his rulers may not be denied a man by the state because of his color," , overturned the court's unanimous opinion in 1835 sustaining the exclusion of ne groes from participation in a Tex as democratic primary. .y-is The decision has far-reaching implications for the south, where success in a primary usually is tantamount to election,, but whe ther it will lead to any great ' in crease immediately in the number of n e g r o voters is considered doubtful. The decision does not touch upon other -barriers exist ing in various parts of the south, such as poll taxes, educational tests, etc. , Specifically involved in today's litigiation was Lonnie E. Smith, a negro who contended he was de nied the right to vote in a 1840 primary by Houston, Tex, elec- 10 PAGES s-v d .ratroops r Prime Minister Winston Churchill scent during a recent inspection s ' - - 1 v , 1 , - " - ' ' "5 : t r - 5 , - v - . - - . - s - ' I , . . , " " ' j ' 1 , " ' ! r 7 -w w i i- MqnagerPlan Off Ballot Firemen's Pension On Salem voters won't cast their ballots for or against a council manager form of government at the time of the May 19 primaries, although they will be faced with a charter amendment providing for a firemen's pension and retirement fund and a three-year three-mill tix levy for sewers, playgrounds and parks. With; four votes against presenting to the people .the proposed USfTakesHuge Toll on Reich j In March Blitz ! XONDON, April "s-ffAmer-ican air forces blasted Germany and occupied Europe with 30,172 short tons of bombs and destroy ed 1081 nasi - planes during 28 raiding; days in, March, the US strategic air -forces in Europe' an nounced tonight. - - l In these operations 369 bomb ers slightly . less than three per cent of; those, dispatched -and 178 fighters slightly more than 1 per cent were lost. - During the month the'US stra tegic air forces bombed Germany proper ilS times and Berlin five times. The US bombers made their debut over Hitler's capital March - I." - r- The f summary of the month's activities of the Eighth and 15th air forces caid that on March 30 the largest i number of ; aircraft ever dispatched over Bulgaria at tacked rail and industrial targets in Sofia and communications to the eastern front ; The : bombing offensive against nazi aircraft, production and ope rational bases was continued dur ing the month with nine attacks on factories and 34 assaults on bases In Germany, France, Hol land,' Italy, Yugoslavia and Aus tria. ... tion judges. There are an estimat ed 571000 negroes of voting age in Texas. Of the present members of the court, 'only Chief Justice Stone and Justice Roberts were on the bench at the time of the earlier decision. Justice Roberts, sole ; dissenter in today's decision, protested that the court's present policy "indi cates fan Intolerance" for the conscientious and deliberate opin ions of former justices and. "in volves an assumption that knowl edge and wisdom reside in us which? was denied to our prede cessors." . --IJ; " - -7- Amplifying his complaint that today's ruling tends "to bring ad judications of this tribunal Into the same class as a restricted rail road ticket, good for this day and train only, Roberts- said: 77 . "I have no assurance in view of current decisions that the opinion may not shortly be repudiated and overruled by Jus tices who deem they have new light on the subject Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) said the court's decision leaves 'congress as "the last hope of constitutional government, as we know it Jus tice Roberts dissenting opinion in this case is unanswerable. (Turn to Page 2-S-Story D) Salem, Ortyoa. Tuttday r ill any at Review and . Gen. D wight D. Elsenhower of paratroopers and gliders somewhere' In England. (AP Wirephoto) change in the city's government and only 11 aldermen present, the measure was the only major mat ter considered in Monday night's 3 H-hour session which failed to pass. Eight votes! are required for passage of an ordinance. 7 Howard Maple, Claud Jorgen sen, LFwLeGarie and R. O.! Lew is opposed- tbc measure.. David O'Hara, most ardent and eloquent spokesman' against It, said he had promised, to-cast his vote to re fer the bill to the voters.' -. LeGarie - called . for submission of several different plans to the voters. vO'Hara. maintained the council - manager plan was the "same old proposition' referred twice during my term of office here . . , political and not prac tical,' maintained the - council would do well to care for the bus iness at hand rather than "shad ow boxing with city managers and all kinds of rainbow," and con-" eluded his argument with a de claration that any major change should be held until the i city's population is once more stationary. The council bade farewelL last night to two aldermen as it ac cepted the resignation of J. H. Ni cholson, veteran from the first ward, and v adopted . a boundary change for the sixth ward which automatically ma keg Elmer O. Berg ineligible to serve that sec tor. Both positions will be filled at the May 19 elections, but inter im - appointments are expected from the council at its next regu lar meeting, April 17. Praising Nicholson's long rec ord of service to the city, Mayor I. M. Doughton declared that the alderman had made real sacrifices to attend council meetings during a period of ill health. Berg, who has been an active committee member, resides in new precinct 27 which the county court re cently carved out of wards two and six. Voting with other coun cil members to rebound the two I wards so that the entire new pre- cinct xaus in tne second. Alder man O'Hara said be had no choice, but challenged i the right of the county court to "jerrymander pre cinct lines in such a way that a of removed before his term of office expires.' . The postwar ! financing bill, which was born in a planning commission meeting as a way of guaranteeing completion of . the (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Hit, Run Driver Kills Silverton Boy, 5 SILVZRTON, April 3 Kenneth Joe Reiling, five years old, was killed by a hit and run driver In Portland Sunday. Funeral ser vices will be held Wednesday aft ernoon : at 2 o'clock from St Paul's Catholic church with burial in Miller cemetery.' t - 7 Vj ; He, was the son" of Joe Reiling, who died as the result of an acci dent in the summer of 1942 at an Albany butcher shop. Survivors include his mother and a broth er, .Larry Norman, who will be two years old in May. - No details of the accident were received in Silverton. Mrs. Reiling and her two children have been living in Portland recently. Morning, April 4. 1344 in England watched this mass parachute de- Supply Roads Gut by Japs By CHARLES A. GRUMICH NEW DELHI, April 3-P)-Ja- panese invasion forces have cut supply roads into the big allied base at Imphal, capital of Man!- pur state in eastern; India, it was disclosed today as fighting raged in the wild hills of the Naga head - hunters east of Kohima, 60 miles north of ImphaL An iliM mnkMmiin whiu mn. ceding, that Imphal had been tem porarily 'isolated by main road, declared the crisis would be ov ercome shortly v and t that there wbuld.be no neecsaitr for suddIt- ing the great advance base by air. A full-scale battle had been joined east of Kohima, where a Japanese column was driving de terminedly toward f Dimapur on the Assam-Burma, railway lifeline the Assam-Burma) railway lifeline to Xt Genl Joseph W. SulwelTs Chinese and American forces in northern Burma. Dimapur is 44 miles across the Naga hills from Kohima. : ' A second Japanese force, thrust- Imphal Ing toward Imphal from the Tirpitx. iasi capital oawiesnip m Chindwin river area to the east, Hitter's furtive navy, has been hit was reported thrown back by de- by several bombs . from. British fending British and Indian troops, naval planes, atr admiralty corn Southeast of ImphaL near the munique said today. vv,. j lower end of the 200-mile invasion - This fresh blow to ..neutralize fronV Japanese artillery continued German sea.powerwas dealt as to shell the Tamu-Palel road. wesiern aiues ruwea u! Dispatches from northern Burma preparations for a continental. in reported "that StilWeU's Chinese vasion in which dommaUon of the troops had broken! through the ea wdl be vital. T.-l Japanese defense line just south of The communiaue gave f ew de Laban and had : driven another 'of the attack on theJng (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Gas Still Low Says Ickes - j . WASHINGTON, April 2-JP) Secretary Ickes said tonight that "contrary Tto the impression held In some quarters' there is no pos sibility at this time: of increasing civilian gasoline ration! in any section of the country. 1 "Despite ' any statements made by so-called formed sources,' stocks of gasoline for civilian use are tight all over the country,1 M,u " "r"?" ' ministrator for war, in a state- and products in the; United States are at the lowest level they have i 4m ift 9n lr Th. i. locations for the second quarter of 1944 have been made to the office of price administration.' It is not ejected that these will be chang- a- ! .. Deoutv PAW Chief Ralph K. Da- vies, in a supplemental statement said east coast petroleum supplies are generally in better lotion than last year but finis noes noi mean that there is an abundance of gasoline supplie Two Willamette Valley : Men Missing in Action- WASHINGTON, ; April 3. The war department ; today an- nounced the names of 568 soldiers missing in action. ' - ' ' One of the three Oregon men missing in . the European area is yfm h. Baillie, manager I the Tech. Sgt Alvin E. Dilts, whose Salem office of the US employ. wife. Mrs. Martha E. Dilts, resides ment service, was elected 4 vice at 224 Third street Independence, president of the cnapter; which Cpl. George E. PCug, son of named C V. McDonald, manager JohnPflug, route j 1 Yamhill, Is of the USES at Eugene, as presi one of thrhe listed' as missing in dent and Norma Ivins, Oregon O- the Mediterranean area , ; Hiiiigary: I Bombed ; By Night? Raid Follows i Daylight Blow 1 On Budapest ; LONDON, Tuesday, April 4 (AV '.Allied bombers were re ported in a Berlin broadcast early today to have made night thrust into Hungary fol lowing up the heavy daylight raid upon Budapest yesterday by Italy - based US fleets. I Soon after' midnight, the Ger? man station said "a small number, of, planes", was .. approaching the Hungarian eapitaL : : .: i. I 4 Xarlier it had warned of jingle enemy aircraft approaching south east Germany suggesting a foray by British Mosqudtos', which lately have been dropping 4000-pound blockbusters. 1 ; ""t:: ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Naples, April 3 -0P- US heavy bomber fleets ' bombed Budapest! for the first time today, smashing hard at railroads linking Germany with the Balkan front already punctured by Russian armies,: and at an aircraft factory making Mes- serschmitts for the luftwaffe. A great, force of f our ' engined I bombers made the round trip of nearly 1000 miles from Italy to strike at the nazi war machine in the Hungarian capital astride the Danube, one of Europe's most beautiful cities. j It was the first large - scale air attack ever made on Hungary or I Budapest, although the city; was I bombed by the Russians earlier in the war. I The bombers drove home the closest blow yet to the front lines of the advancing, i red army. Budapest Is enly seme 359 miles from the Carpathian Tatar pass, nearly ''reached 4 bf the sevtets, and about 489 miles from the- Russian spearheads, driving late Rumania. ' : ' ' Budapest is one of the 7 most ; (Turn to Page 2 Story B) i j jry ' ' V s s AllieCt Ij01i11)S ' rwi ' ' ' ' ' '- Piin n 11fllt7 ' A UUlltl. x i MX WLVMa ' ' ' ' ' ' " ' " ' :- LONDON, April 3 rC- The battleship which has been hiding for months in Alten fjord in ar northern Norway, but it did say "several hits were obtained."! Her hideout is more than 1000 miles from the nearest British air bases so it , was obvious the at tack was carried out by planes from carriers. American-built craft may have been used since it has been announced that -Grumman and other American naval types have been in use . by the British fleet air arm. .. -. ; NEW YORK, April 3 -()- The nazi news agency DNB acknowl edged tonight the German battle ship Tirpitz had been attacked by aircraft at a northern Norwegian i - V,,. .XA 4,. oHarlr wa TZ'' Z "a am The German broadcast, report- d,' by' the US foreign broadcast intelligence : service, foUowed .a British 7 admlialty ajmounnent mat several .oomus aa already-disabled 7 warsnm. , "The enemy suffered considerable losses in destroyers" dunng convoy operation Incidental to; the attack, said DNB, Employment Service - 1 . Me Convention tXtre in 40 Salem will be host to the Ore gon chapter of the International Association of Public Employment Services' annual convention dur Ing the first week of April next The invitation extended by Sa J i-m chamber of commerce- was ac lcepted Sunday by the association as it closed its convention in Xu- gene, attended by 125-150 person. Ity, secretary-treasurer, Prlct Sc - - , i . -. . - ... ' - : I : j i --i Re mam aims ; J : --w t., . . . - " - . , ' . j Figltit Mazis;:! Deserlt Reds Ask Satellite Nation To Capitulate as They Move 13 Miles in Country NEW. YORK, April 3-(P)-Rumanian soldiers are deserting "by the thousand" and skirmisher are occurring in many regions between these deserters and German troops, the Bulgarian horn radio said tonight, quoting an Istanbul dispatch. - 4 "Between Braila and Harsova in the Danube delta, 30,000 Ru manian soldiers are hidden, armed 'with rifles, machine-guns and, rnine throwers, and are successfully resisting the punitive . detachments sent against them,' said the i broadcast recorded by the FCC. . '. ("-r ' .CT 1-1 r 7 5 Harsova is 90 miles east of Bucharest and Braila " 40 miles north of Harsova: J : ! 4 : ' Allied Troops Take Peak Near Cassino By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 3 JP Italian troops fighting with the allied fifth army have captured a third peak northeast of Cassino, it was an nounced today, and an attack by 150 German infantrymen against allied defenses on the Anzio beach head was thrown back with los ses. i Thenew hill seized by the Ital ians was identified as Point 1344. Previously this allied force was disclosed ' to have occupied 3800 foot ML Castelnuovo and ML Mar rone, about 13 miles northeast of Cassino," without opposition. (The Rome radio, with j no al lifdconfirmation, broadcast Mon day night that German troops had regained.. all .of: Cassino and its suburbs except - the railway sta tion v south of the town. It . said the Germans throughout Monday "continued , to. .wipe out the last remaining Anglo - American pock et of reaistaBce among, the ruins of Cassino. Other groups of hous es outside the town also have been incorporated into the German line of defense. Thus, only the ruined railway station, remains in allied hands". .7 . (The Berlin radio also claimed Cassino success, reporting the re capture of "Height 435, where a garrison if Indian troops was killed to the last man.") " Led -by flame - throwers, the nazis launched their latest attack against the left flank of the beach head just before dusk oh Friday, today Y announcement said. r By midnight the attackers either were dead w routed, though mortar fire thundered through the night. Nu merous patrol clashes were re ported around the beachhead and a tentative nazi tank thrust west of Cisterna was discouraged by al lied artillery. - v ' . There were indications the Ger-t mans had made their last major assault against the beachhead and had decided to try and seal it off. They were installing elaborate de fenses around the perimeter, in cluding fields of barbed wire en tanglements, signs of a purely de fensive attitude. -. 75 Trainees Due At Oregon State ';: CORVALLIS, April 3-OP)-Sev- enty-five 17-year-old induction trainees : have been assigned to Oregon) State college for the spring term under the new army specialized training program Dean E. ' B. ; Leman, director . "of military programs, announced, to day. They will study a basic course consisting of military classes and mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, . geography.- and history. Cot .Glen Webster commandant said they will -be in the reserve and not actually inducted,-hence will wear ROTC uniforms.- - ' Corclon Will Speak Oii, State Network 1 V PORTLAND. April 3-OPhSen. Guy Cordon said, today he has accepted an Astoria chamber of commerce invitation to make a re-. port to the people of Oregon there Wednesday night-' 4. . ; The senator,- appointed by Gov ernor Snell to succeed the late Charles L. McNary, said he would give a non-political talk over a statewide radio" network. He will be introduced by: Merle R. Chess man, publisher st the Astoria Bud- ft- .-..- r i) . ." No. 323 to Reds LONDON, Tnesday, April 4 1 (IP)- The Moscow radio. In a 1 broadcast in the name of the 1 Soviet government called en j the Rumanian people today to 1 abandon the Germans and "ca- I pitnlate at once. . " 1 The broadcast recorded by j the London DaUy Mail, said: j "Unless yea (Rumanians) de sa, j this whole ef your eeantry will become a battlefield and yonr towns and villages a heap of rein.- The call went ent while the battle for Rumania was : ap proaching a climax with the : spearheads of the red army al-j ready well beyond the Prut riv- l er, , . LONDON, Tuesday, April A(Jf) Russia's ; second Ukraine army; striking 13 miles into Rumania, has captured 50 villages and dri'v en to within nine miles of the rait citjr of Iasi, a Moscow communi que announced last night while to the north the first army -credited with killing capturing 208,260 axis troops and encircling the rem nants of 15 divisions in a sull rolling offensive near the borders or l German-occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia. ' U . - .. .' i Marshal Ivan S. Koney's second army, attacking on "3 70-miIe front inside Rumania, cut. the- 80-mile railway linking -Dorohoi and last at the village of DengenL on the east bank of the Jijia river miles west of the Prut rive der, said the daily Soviet H Dengenl is 25 miles aout Dorohoi. t- A special annennce- med s short tiane lai (Turn to Page 2 Finns Slai : 7- ! 1 v Peace Plai: . : : .. ' f ' STOCKHOLM,. Sweden a-vn-A aecision on jnnlancA peace crisis appeared to have been postponed tonight until af ter Easter, while some pessimism prevailed . in Helsinki on ' the country's chances of 'findskg way out of the war with Russia.' j Finnish political quarters here said that while there were reports of some modification in the Rus sian armistice terms following Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi's trip to Mos cow, the belief now prevails that the terms are as harsh as ever and even, more precise. .'".'- j - The earlier reports had said the Russians made some frontier con- 7 cessions, but placed high repar ations demands on the Finns. ! 7 In political circles In Helsinki, it ' was presumed the peace question hardiy can be solved within the next few days. V-.V ! Although; some clarification of the situation had been expected ' tonight when parliament, met it was declared send-officially that nothing special happened? at the . session. Z. '' .. ' " " , A similar , convocation fs to be .; held tomorrow, morning bef ore the 7 members adjourn for Easter. 'V ' Tks Easier St:ry As a modern reporter: miqrht hav told it if . he. could have been lri . " . Jerusalem 1900 7. years ago. ; nci:rl Gclrjcr . AP Features Writer ' Has the first of a series of six stories leading' up to Easier Sunday, written in modern language on page 5. ' ;