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Alabama Newsman Beaten Up
We on 'Hooded Mobs' Sjtory
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 20-CP-A reporter was beaten up to
day while on-an assignment to investigate activities of hooded and
robed mobs. r I
The reporter, Clarke Stallworth of the Birmingham post, said he
was roughed up by two men at a filling station-general store in the
nearby mining community of Sumiton. He was not hurt seriously. "
Several floggings
had been re-
ported in the area recently.
Stallworth told Walker County
Judge P. E. Day at Jasper he was
"decpyed" into the store.
Judge Day issued warrants for
two men on assault and battery
charges. .
Meanwhile, a delgation of Am
erican Legion members demanded
In a sharply worded resolution
presented to Sheriff Holt McDow
ell that he act to halt mob vio
lence. '
The legionnaires charged that,
despite numerous "crimes and acts
of violence" by white robed gangs
recently, not one person had been
arrested. The sheriff answered he
was doing all in his power.
Civic,, 'leaders of Birmingham
scheduled a meeting tomorrow to
organize a "committee of 500" to
fights night raiding activity.
Starr Elected
Commander of
Legii
ion Post 9
$ir-yf. (Seph) Starr was elected
commander of American Legion,
Capital post 9. at the post elec
tion and program meeting Monday
ntM in Legion hfill.-
Sarr, who moved up" from the
first vice-commander .jpot, suc
ceed Charles Huggins. retiring
commander. Other officers elect
ed included John Kerrick, first
vice -commander and James Turnr
bull, second vice-commander.
John C'rockatt was elected ad
1ntnt: Ted Brabec. finance of
ficer; the Rev. George Swift, chap
pUin; A. G. Worthington, ser
geant -at-arms; Lloyd Hockett,
quartermaster: Irl McSherry, his
torian; Orval Lama, building com
mittee; Walter Nystrom and Law
rence (Merman, cemetery commit
tee, and Charles Huggins, Conrad
Paulson, Dave Hoss, James Gar
vin and Chet Zumwalt, all on the
executive committee.
An amendment to the post's by
laws was approved. It defines
the specific duties of the execu
tive committee and sets up a board
of trustees to replace the present
builcfitig committe. ?
Entertainment after the election
wa provided by the local Mer-
lain School of Dancing and by re
presentatives of the Sweet Home
American Legion and Veterans of
Foreign Wars pests. The 16-member
pot drum corps team appear
ed for the first time.
F.lertrd as delegates and alter
nates to the legion state convention
here on August 4 to 6 are' Huggins,
Starr nd Ir Picher, PaurtGem
mel, John Cro: katt. Harlan Ander
son, Luther Jensen. Claude Martin,
Al Feilen; ).Ae Iloss, Lawrence
Overman, Frank CJrimir:. Marion
Lamb, Don Dili, Don - A p person,
Dygla MKay. Walter Kirk,
James Turnbull, H. E. Saalfeld.
Oregon PEO
Opens Meet
REDMOND, June 20 - MPs - The
state PEO chapter opened its an
nual convention here today,
awarding five scholarships to girls?
Meredith Rae Goodrich, Baker,
received the $450 Veda Jones
scholarship to Cotter Junior col
lege. Four $123 scholarships to
Oregon schools of higher educa
tion went to:
Emma Louise Red bird, Ashland;
Joe Ann Louise Brady, Milwau
kie; Marie Maudie Howard. John
Day; and Emily Jane Knecht,
Vida.
Approximately 200 delegates
were here for the three-day ses
ton. Officers will be elected to
morrow.
Dr. Withey to
Remain atWU
Dr. Raymond A. Withey will re
main at Willamette university as
(K-an of students and counselor on
religious life rather than accept
ing tha offered chancellorship at
Nebraska Wesleyan college, he
did Monday.
Withey, who has been at Wil
lamette the past two years, said
he preferred to rUr here because
he felt his work there is not yet
completed and that he wants to
see the program further along.
Chin Up Club
Board to Meet
A special meeting of the board
of directors of the Chin Up club
or Oregon has been called for Fri
day night by President Beth Sell
Wood, Salem route 2, box 336.
The meeting will begin it 8:30
Vat the Sellwood home seven miles
north of Salem on the Pacific
highway. Purpose of the session la
to appoint a club advisory board
and staff for The Beacon, club
publication.
COME TO THE NEW
Paradise Islands
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New Madera Dressing Rooms
Swimming Pool Landscaping
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Reservations
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Babich Ruled
Guilty in Death
OfWife's Sister
MILWAUKEE, June 20-OTV
Milton Babich "was convicted of
first degree" murder tonight just
three months after the weighted
body of his wife's pretty sister was
pulled from the' Milwaukee river.
It took the municipal court jury
just one hour and 15 minutes to
decide the 10-year-old defendant
deliberately shot Patricia Birming
ham, ; IS id death last February
10. Life imprisonment is manda
tory. 1
That was some five weeks be
fore he eloped to Michigan with
his victim's pregnant sister, Kath
leen, now 18.
Municipal Judge Herbert Stef-
fes gave the jury its choice of
three verdicts: guilty of first de
gree murder; guilty of fourth de
gree manslaughter; and innocent
Milton has maintained since he
was charged with murder that
pretty Patricia Birmingham, 18,
was shot to death when a revolver
discharged accidentally during a
struggle. He said he had tried to
frighten Pat out of tattling on
Kathleen's condition. He said he
trussed and weighted Pat's' body
and pitched it into the Milwaukee
river out of fright
Grains Turn in
Another Firm
rmance
CHICAGO. June 2$ -UPs- With
July wheat advancing nearly 3
cents, grains turned in another
firm performance orj the board of
trade today. The market got off
to a steady start and inched ahead
all through the dav. endih at
the session's best levels. .
July wheat reached $1.97i. At
that point it was only lt cent be
low the high touched last Wed
nesday, which .in turn was the top
price since February. M ar c h
wheat, in iwhich trading started
only last month, got to 1 cents
under its seasonal high.
Wheat closed 2 Mi -2 Vu higher,
com was higher, oats were
higher, rye was l'i higher,
soybeans were 2 to 3Vi higher
and lard was 7 to 10 cents a hun
dred pounds highen
Chief reason for the wheat up
turn, traders said, was the re
ceipt of more pessimistic crop re
ports. School Merger
Pl an Discussed
At Hayesville
HAYESViLLE Possibility of a
consolidation of Hayesville dis
trict with Salem school district
loomed here Monday night as vo
ters gathered in a meeting follow
ing an election.
In the voting Everett Brown was
re-electd to his third year term on
the school district board. The vo
ter also approved (30 to 15) $4,
000 for purchase of a new school
site and $2,000 for : special im
provements of the present school.
Overcrowded conditions of the
school and noise made by highway
traffic prompted the group to
name a committee to explore the
possibility of merging with Salem.
A similar proposal was defeated
several years ago.
Unioiis Need
Salesmanship,
AFL Meet: Told
EUGENE, June 29-4P-Laboring
men have got to learn to be bet
ter salesmen, the State Federation
of Labor was told today.
President J. D. McDonald told
the opening of the 46th annual
state AFL convention ; that labor's
immediate job is one of salesman
ship. He Urge unionists to Join
civic activities and exchange dele
gates with other organizations, so
that the general public will hear
the labor side.
"We have a selling; job to do."
McDonald said in his keynote ad
dress, "and every member is a po
tential salesman." I
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WASHINGTON. June SO-WV
Rep. Keating (R-NY) demanded
that cash refunds to veterans on
GI life insurance policies be start
ed on October 15. 1849.
Veterans Administrator Carl R.
Gray, jr., said that the checks
would start going out "sometime
in January, 1950." But Keating in
troduced a bill Tailing for the Oct
ober, deadline.
The New York lawmaker as
serted that veterans were "over
charged" on their governmnt-is-sued
life insurance policies,, and
he told the house:
"This money should be refunded
to them immediately, not a year
from now. Many of them need the
money now. It is their money. It
does not belong to the govern
ment." .
Keating said the supreme court
ruled early in 1948 that such re
funds were lawful, but VA failed
to act. I
Rep. Davis (R-Wis) said it was
"a, national scandal" and said he
suspected the delay was political.
Congressional elections come in
1950.
Described as a "dividend. the
money to be repaid is from tvf
sources:
L An $8,000,000,000 surplus
which developed from the fact that
GI j insurance premiums were
based by law upon a standard mor
tality (death-rate) table which
turned out to be higher than need
ed, i
2, Earnings from the surplus.
In general, the administration
said every veteran who took out
national service insurance and
three months will be eligible
provided the policies were not is
sud after Jan. 1, 1948.
No refunds ' will be made on
policies issued after that date,,
The administration urged vet
erans not to write 4n about their
rebates, explaining that a flood
of letters would "only cause the
payment to be delayed."
Application blanks ar being pre
pared and may be available in
August in postoffices, Veteran's
service organizations and VA cen
ters. Gray said holders of policies; is
sued after Jan. 1, 1948, may get
later dividends which may be de
clared annually if a surplus deve
lops. .
Man Knocked
Into Log Pond
A man working at a West Salem
log pond narrowly escaped serious
injury Monday when 440 volts, of
electricity knocked him from a log
into the water.
M. G. Burdick, Gervais route I,
told city first aid men he was
walking .over the floating logs
carrying an aluminum pole about
2 p. m. Tlya pole touched an over
head power line and the next in
stant Burdick said he was Slapped
into the water.
First aiders, who said Burdick
was "very lucky," reported he was
not seriously injured. He was re
moved to Salem General hospital
and then taken home.
Terry Riffe, 5, of 540 Leslie at,
was treated by first aid men Mon
day when he broke his wrist while
playing at Leslie school play
ground. Coal Miners
At Work Again
PITTSBURGH, June 20-WV
Coal flowed from the nation's
tipples today after a week-long
"stablizing" walkout by 480,000
United Mine Workers. Absentee
ism was virtually nil as the min
ers trooped back to the pits to get
in the five days' work before they
began their 10-day paid vacation
June 25. The diggers get $100
vacation pay.
The walkout reduced the na
tion's coal stored above ground
from an estimated 70,000,000 tons
to about 60.000.000 tons. That's
about 0 days supply for the coun
try's coal-burning industries.
Tomorrow UMW Chief John L.
Lewis will resume negotiations
with the southern operators at
Bluefield, W. Va., and begin wage
talks with a big bloc of northern
and western operators at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
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VFW Hall, Hood & ChorchSL
New Methods and Shortcuts in
Food Processing Will
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evaluate legislation directly affecting the country's teen-age youth.
supplemented their meeting with first-hand studies of the mechan
ics of natronal government and visits with senators and representa
tive front their respective states. James Cooke of Salem. Ore., la
shown oatslde the senate office building, where the youths carried
n snost of tneir oeuoerauons. ivw nprw m wm-
aro appearing in The Statesman.)
Ex-Associates
Testify for
Hiss Defense
NEW YORK. June 20-(;P-For-mer
associates of Alger Hiss in the
state department came to his aid
today as his defense on perjury
charges got underway.
Hiss, once high in the state de
partment, is scheduled to take the
witness stand later this week.
The defense resumed a line of
questioning intended to convince
a jury of 10 men and two wo
men that Hiss Washington office
was open on many occasion to his
department associates.
Whittaker Chambers, self-styled
former Soviet spy ring courier,
has accused Hiss of feeding him
rewar state department secrets.
Hiss denied the accusation and
dded that he had' not seen Cham-
rs since Jan. 1. 1937. A federal
and Jury In New York indicted
m on two perjury counts as a
result.
As the trial entered its 15th day,
Harry C. Hawkins testified that
he ofen entered Hiss Washington
office in his capacity as chief of
the trade agreements division of
the state department from 1938 to
1943.
Hawkins, now a professor at
Tufts college in Medford, Mass.,
said he never heard Hiss spoken
of as a communist, although Cham
bers has so branded him.
Restoration of
Camp Pioneer
Nearly Done
Despite the winter's heavy snow
damage Camp Pioneer will be in
excellent condition and will fea
ture new facilities for Cascade
area Boy Scouts when the camp
opens July 10.
A work party of 38 local scouts
and leaders repaired most of the
damage and completed a pre-camp
cleanup last week, Gordon Gil
more, scout executive,- said Mon
day. The party left Thursday and
returned Sunday night.
Summer registration is nearly
complete, Gilmore said, and the
week beginning; July 31 is the only
period available for troops which
wish to attend jthe camp.
John Klapp iof Dallas, water
front directorat the camp this
summer, and his assistants Dick
Wyatt and Jerry Bachle, both of
Salem, returned Sunday from the
National Aquatic school at Camp
Meriwether near Astoria. The
school is one of two on the Pacific.
Six new canoes and six new)
rowboats were added to the wat
erfront equipment during the past
year.
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Hollywood
Beats Padres
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 20-(JP)
-The Hollywood Stars pounded out
10 hits, including four home runs,
to defeat San Diego, 8 to 6, in a
Pacific Coast league game tonight.
The contest was a playoff of the
season's opener between the two
teams.
Hollywood 110 500 001 10 1
San Diego 000 033 0008 10 0
Maltzberger, Olsen (8), Salve
son (8) and Sandlock; Jurislch,
Savage (4) and Moore.
Stocks Score
Sharp Advance'
NEW 'YORK, June 20-(JP-The
stock market scored one of the
largest overall advances of the
year todays
In a highly sensitive response to
late buying, key issues advanced
fractions to around 3 points.
The increase in the market va
lue of all shares listed on the ex
change approached $1,000,000,000.
A pronounced pick-up in trad
ing accompanied the rise. Busi
ness in the last hour alone, when
the market made its best showing,
amounted to exactly half the en
tire day's business of 780,000
shares. The Associated Press aver
age of 60 stocks Jumped .9 of one
point to 59.6, a;; rise topped Just
twice this year. The utility com
ponent failed to move either way.
Of only 927 individual stocks
traded, 563 advanced and 174 de
clined.
Children Burn
In Farm Fire
BORING, June 20-(vP)-A fire
broke out in a farm bunkhouse
near hero this morning, and
brought death to two small mem
bers of a family of seven that had
just arrived to pick berries.
Beverly Ann Elliott, 5, and
Frank Elliott, 4, caught in their
bedroom asleep, burned to death.
Two other children managed to
run out of the bunkhouse.
The mother, Mrs. Hazel Elliott,
built a fire in the bunkhouse stove
this morning, and left the place
momentarily. Within minutes, the
bunkhouse was in flames.
Mrs. Elliott, who is an expectant
mother, and her six children, had
come here from Klamath Falls for
the berry-picking. The father is a
section hand in that city.
SEEK C-HOUK DAY
EUGENE, June 20 -Jf- The
Oregon State Building and Con
struction Trades council wants a
6-hour working day. to prevent
hynemployment. The proposaH' was
epaorsea ai me-ciose ox wscoun
cil's 23rd annual convention here:
Phone 3-4311
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Texan Meets
Hohenzollera
Future In-Laws
HECHINGEN Germany, J tine
20-(iP-The royal relatives of Prin
cess Cecelia of' HohenzoUern met
her American husband-to-be to
night and beamed approval.
Clyde Harris, 31, Amarillo, Tex.,
Interior decorator; was Introduced
to his future in-laws at a pre-wedding
reception in ancient Hohen
zoUern castle.
That's where the tan, good
looking American former army of
ficer will take as his bride tomor
row the grand-daughter of Kaiser
Wilhelm. She is direct descend
ant of Queen Victoria of England.
"We love Clyde," Prince Louis
Ferdinand, brother of the bride
and spokesman for the family, told
reporters.
"He is such a sincere, likeable
and genuine chap. I can tell you.
we are happy about this match.
The bride s mother. Crown Prin
cess Ceceilia, displayed a similar
fondness toward the young Amer
ican. None of the family appeared at
aU concerned that the blonde Ce
celia, a descendant of one of the
oldest families in Europe, was not
marrying a title.
The 31-year-old princess, court
ed by various royal swains, in
tends to become typical Amen
can house-wife.
She said her husband would re
turn to America about 10 days
after the wedding to go back to
work - - and find a home.
"We probably will live in an ap
artmeht at first in Amarillo," she
said, "then Clyde is going to build
a house - - of his own design."
PGE Begins
Work on New
Sub-Station
Construction of a $15,000 Port
land General Electric company
sub-station has begun at 355 Jeff
erson st. the company reported
Monday.
A permit for the one-story
structure which, with grounds,
will occupy nearly a full city
block, was issued by the ! Salem
city building inspector's ' office
Monday.
Two houses which were stand
ing at the site have been removed.
The building will extend along
Jefferson from North Liberty to
North 4th street. The grounds are
to be landscaped.
The new sub-station is to be
part of the company's 57,000-kva
system for this area. It will en
able local facilities to meet a
heavier power load for that dis
trict. Other permits Monday included
those going to Stan Baker to build
a $1,350 office building at 595 N.
High st, and to L. W. Schrunk to
erect a $10,000 house at 1080 N.
22nd st.
Soldier, Wife
Hurt in Wreck
At Rose Lodge
SHERIDAN, June 20-(Special )
Sgt. and Mrs. R. C. Baker, Ft.
Lewis, Wash., were in serious con
dition in a Vancouver army hos
pital today' from injuries suffered
in an auto accident west of here
Friday night
The accident occurred at Rose
Lodge on the coast highway about
11 p.m. Willamina police said the
couple was brought to that city by
passing motorists. Unable to se
cure an ambulance, the officers
took them to McMinnville General
hospital.
Physicians said Baker was suf
fering fractures of the pelvis, right
leg and skull and possible internal
injuries. His wife incurred a jaw
fracture and internal injuries.
MAYFLOWERS TO DRILL
The Mayflower Milk team of
the Junior B league will practice
this evening, 6:15, at Olinger. All
team member are asked to turn
out
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Lasky on School
Board at Keizer
KEIZER, June 20 Ray Lasky
was elected to a three-year term
Qn the Keizer school district board
in an election, at the school Mon
day night
A total of 12 voters were pre
sent and Lasky received 8 tallies.
He succeeds Andrew Beardsley.
Also approved were n $5,500 sink-
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Magazine Says
RussOperatin
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Atom Furnace
NEW YORK, June 20-(rVRus-sia
probably has an atomic fur
nace working and may be able to
make atomic bombs soon, says an
article in Look magazine.
Nat Finney, the author, says
these are two things which "we
can conclude" about Russian atom
ic energy work.
Soviet . scientists have at least
"reached the point we reached in
1942 when our first atomic mach
ine began to work at the Univer
sity of Chicago." Some scientists
believe Russia is a little farther
along the atomic road than that,
he adds.'
Finney continues:
Russia doesn't yet have the
atomic bomb, but "will be able to
make- an atomic bomb something
like ours before many months
have passed." That "doesn't mean
that Russia can suddenly have a
lot of . atomic bombs something
we already have."
Finney says the United States
may be turning out one atomic
bomb a week, and the bmobs are
more destructive than those used
on Japan.
(In 1945, Dr. Robert J. Oppen
heimer, wartime head of the Los
Alamos laboratory, ptedicted this
country could produce 200 bombs
a year.)
AEC officials in Washington de-
cunea comment on t inney s ar
ticle. Lincoln County
Changes Mind
In School Vote
NEWPORT, June 20-fT)-Lincoln
county voters changed their minds
today and passed a special tax
levy and bond issue to bring coun
ty schools up to state standards.
The issues were defateoVin an
April election.
The $1,350,000 bond Issue was
passed today, 2278 to 673. The
$598,049 pecial levy was approv
ed, 1947 to 786. The figures were
compiled with only three small
precincts unreported. The three
had about 150 votes.
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Czech Catholic
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From Church
By rhfllB Clarke
VATICAN CITY, June 20-TV-The
Roman Catholic church struck
back at its enemies in Czechoslo
vakia today- and excommunicated
all catholics who join the communist-sponsored
Catholic Action,
rival to the church's lay organiza
tion of the same name.
It was a blow in support of the
60-year-old Archbishop of Prague,
Msgr. Josef Beran, whose sermon
was broken up at SL Vitus cathe
dral yesterday by hecklers.
The excommunication was an
nounced in a decree of the Sacred
Congregation of Holy office, an
ancient body charged with defend
ing the faith against false doc
trines. The decree declared the
new Catholic Action group "schis
matic" and accused its founders of
frauds
Even as the church acted with
one of the most powerful weapons
at its disposal, Czech police tight
ened their guard over the palace
of the archbishop. He has declared
a fight Jo the end against efforts
to make the church a communist
puppet.
Railroads Seek
Expense Cuts
PORTLAND. June 20 A
hint that railroads are' suffering
from declining economic conditions
came today from A. E. Stoddard,
president of thee Union Pacific.
Stoddard told an interviewer
that all rail lines are stfiving to
reduce operating expenses. He
spoke of a new turbine, to be
tested by the 7nion Pacific soon,
which may greatly reduce costs.
The railroad executive suggest
ed that the government might
stagger its European shipments to
ease the feat or famine'' prob-
i lem which always Dlazucs rail
roading.
"There is either a lull or you
have more business than you can
handle," he said of freight ship
ments. The jam, of course, comes
at harvest time.
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