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BETHANY, Okla., Feb. 20-W)
-One little kiss has electrified the
1,500 folks in this ftown, just
west of Oklahoma City.
People of Bethany are split in-
to two camps over whether pun
ishment is necessary because the
basketball queen was kissed
Thursday night at her corona
tion ceremony. ' r-
- i The uproar all started when
Itiddell Riggs, 18, crowned Char
lotte McLain, 16, ass basketball
sweetheart then kissed her.
Things began popping Friday.
The students about 30 of them
walked out of classes. They
said they feared the kissing epi
sode would cause them trouble.
. The youths staged lan automo
bile parade downtown but were
stopped by police who said they
needed a permit They stormed
the mayor's office, but he refused
to grant permission for the par
ade. ;. ' f
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Defense
Civil defense chiefs and governors of California and Washington
were invited Monday by Gov. Douglas McKay to meet with him March
l tn Hismiss mir raid warning and ground observation setups.
The Oregon governor wrote that "it is important that we discuss
11 angles of the recent order of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.
He noted that the three coast states and part of Idaho are pegged by
1 i . the federal government as a criti
WDQDOra
. He saith among the trumpets,
Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle
afar off, the thunder Of the cap
tains, and the shouting." Job
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Like Job's warhorsef Lew Wal-
I.m Uninxth in tha vallpv" in sn-
tldpation of a return to the pou
tical wars. The new I high com-
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been busy counting him out of the
gubernatorial race, but the in-
oomiwpie icw nam mwivu .
count himself out. At the party
parley in Bend over the week end
Lew interrupted a discussion of
senatorial candidates to announce
that he would seek the! democratic
nomination for governor. Twice
defeated he hopes the charm of
victory will attend his third try.
What of the other hopefuls, Au
stin Flegel and Walter J. Pear
son? And what of Sen: Richard
L. Neuberger who has been under
pressure from the Young Turks
of the party? And what about Les
Pinky" Josslin who last week
held a finger to the political
breezes. Does consternation grip
them as they hear Lew's decla
ration? Or do they brace tot a
'primary battle? One thing seems
certain, Wallace will have oppo
sition in his bid for the; democratic
nomination. '
Republicans may snicker in
their beards over the prospect of
a contest in the ranks of the op
position. They shouldn't; for the
fact that a contest looms indicates
that many regard the! nomination
as worth going after. A stirring
of the dry bones is what the de
mocrats in Oregon need. Perhaps
competition will give L
The primaries the ! democratic
primaries will take on real In
terest if Wallace and ; Flegel and
Pearson and Neuberger and Joss
lin are in the fray. It would be no
Alphonse-Gaston performance but
real scramble for votes, with
Erhaps little blood-letting and
ir-pulling. All I can say is:
"Lay on, MacDuff,
And cursM be he who first
cries 'Hold, enough'."
Dayton Voters
Annrove Grade
JTi -
School Bonds
SUtesmaa Nsws ferrate
DAYTON, Feb. 20-A $249,000
bond issue for a new grade school
building was approved today, 203
to 90, by voters of the Dayton
grade school district. -y .
The new building will be local
ed west of Dayton near the pre
sent high school building and will
include 18 classrooms, a gymnas
ium and offices. It j will be of
frame construction with cement
floors and a brick veneer exterior.
Constuction contracts ' will be
let in late April on early May.
Frederick H. Eley of Salem is
architect. H i
Animal Cracltcrs
By WARREN GOODRICH
"You nd jrer big tamMtsIZ
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Then teen-agers took their
fight to the press Bethany is a
town where things like kissing in
public are not done. It even
frowns on cigarets, beer, school
dances and women in shorts.
Over the week end, everyone
in town took sides on the kiss
ing controversy. Some parents
charged school officials were too
strict. The students were back in
school today and received this
warning from Buford Ingram,
president of the school board:
"We're going to clamp down on
this thing we're going to rule
it with an iron hand."
The school board will meet In
regular session tomorrow night,
and Ingram said- the matter
would be taken up then.
Parents of the students "liave
railed a meeting for tonight at
thp home of W. E. Reavis.
3-State
Conference
cal defense area.
The meeting McKay suggested
would coincide with the next con
ference of the Pacific coast board
of intergovernmental relations,
set for March 3 in Portland.
Governor McKay also announc
ed that letters have gone out to
10 western state governors call
ing their attention to the Ameri
can Legion's western area counter
subversive and national security
conference in Portland Friday,
Saturday and Sunday of this week.
The letters recommended that the
officials and law enforcement
agency representatives be encour
aged to attend the conference
which will deal largely with the
communist problem and methods
of combatting communist infiltra
tion.
Louis E. Starr, head of the Ore
gon civilian defense organization,
is now in Washington, D. C, at
tending conferences with the sec
retary of defense and his aides.
In the meantime. Jack Hayes, as
sistant civil defense director, is
setting up the air raid observation
plan.
uovernor McKay empnasized
that the new air raid observation
organization would be active and
not just a "paper organization."
Said Pro-Red
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2(MV-
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) told
the senate tonight that a White
House speech writer, whom he did
not name, is a member of communist-front
organizations.
McCarthy made his charge at an
angry session during which the
senate sergeant-at-arms was in
structed to go out and arrest ab
sent senators to provide a quorum.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, dem
ocratic leader, repeatedly tangled
with McCarthy, who also said he
has case histories of 81 subversives
including what he called a "big
three' who are working in and
with the state department
Lucas challenged McCarthy to
name names. McCarthy refused,
saying Lucas or any other inter
ested authorities could get the
names at McCarthy's office.
.Concerning the White House
speech writer, McCarthy said:
"-Both he and his wife . . . are
members of communist-front or
ganizations." He added that the man "has a
relative who has financial in
terest in the Daily Worker," of
ficial publication of the commu
nist party in this country. But the
senator said that "cannot be held
against him."
McCarthy said he was "doing
Mr. Truman a favor" in telling
him about the speech writer.
"I do not think he knows it,"
McCarthy said. "I do not think he
would have , this individual writ
ing speeches for him if he knew
it" : .
Winnie's Paintings
To Appear on Cards
, NEW YORK, Feb. 20 -(P)- Win
ston Churchill's paintings are go
ing to appear 'on' American Christ
mas cards next December.
The Hallmark Greeting Card Co.
said today it has arranged to use
18 paintings by the former Brit
ish Prime Minister, long an, ama
teur painter.
Speech Writer
ForTruman
G. H. Vickerson Appointed to Silverton Council;
Glenn BriedwelT Joins Planning Commission
SUtainua New Srrlc
SILVERTON, Feb. 20 C. H.
Vickerson, onetime mayor of Sil
verton, was appointed to the city
council at a special meeting called
by Mayor Errolc Roos Monday
night
The mayor also appointed Glenn
Briedwell to the planning com
mission to take the place of I. B.
Alfred whose term expired In Jan
uary and who refused to be con
sidered for reappointment Both
appointments were ratified by. the
city council. A resolution was
adopted asking the state highway
commission to help rebuild the
Jamea Ktrwt hririffa ivhirh fiaa
I been onen to verr restricted traf-
Ific in recent years. - .
The state highway commission
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Severe
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"Miners
UMWToldto
Explain Failure
To End Strike
By Harold W. Ward
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -(JT)-Federal
Judge Richmond B. Keech
today hurled a criminal contempt
of court citation at John L. Lewis
striking union for defying the
court's order to dig coal.
The United Mine Workers,
Which twice before has paid heavy
fines for flouting a judge's com
mand, must appear Friday and
explain why 372,000 soft soal
workers have refused since last
Monday to obey.
If the union's story doesn't sat
isfy the court, a trial will be held
next Monday.
Lewis himself was not named
In a government petition which
asked the court to take action
against the union for civil and
criminal contempt. The UMW
chieftain has publicly called on
his men twice to bow to the court's
directive issued under the Taft
Hartley act
10-Day Supply
The action came as the east
suddenly found itself in the grip
of bitter cold with many a house
holder's coal bin nearly empty.
The nation's pile of bituminuous
coal for all purposes was below
a normal i 10-day supply.
Keech signed the citation at re
quest of the Justice department a
few hours after he had renewed
his back to work order for an
other 10 days.
Extension of Order
The original restrainer was
signed Saturday, Feb. 11. The
extension allows time for the Judge
to rule on President's Truman re
quest for an 80-day national emer
gency injunction against the strike
under the Taft-Hartley law. The
renewal followed a two-hour con
ference in the judge's chambers
with both sides.
: Elsewhere another session of the
extended negotiations between
union and operators over a new
contract ground to a fruitless re
cess. Federal Mediator Cyrus S.
Ching, and observer, said he saw
no sign of progress.
Technically the citation is a
"rule to show cause" why the
union should not be punished.
A venae Left Open
' Assistant Attorney General H.
Graham Morison indicated that
the union could "purge" itself of
the charge by returning to work
before Friday.
Apparently the only chance of
this was an unexpected agree
ment between Lewis and the op
erators. The miners were angry
and defiant. Insisting on a con
tract to replace the one that ex
pired last June 30.
Thus there was a, prospect of
another heavy fine on the United
Mine Workers. Their treasury.
now worth between $13,000,000
and $20,000,000, has given up $2,
130,000 for two contempt convict
ions. The first fine was $710,000.
The next one was doubled.
The federal court can make the
fine as heavy as it likes, but there
was a question whether a fine
would get the mines back into pro
duction. There was some talk that
President Truman might ask con
gress for powers to seize the
mines, although he said he does
not want such power.
New Lawyers Denied
Delay in Coplon Case
NEW YORK. Feb. 20-MP)-Jud-ith
Coplon's new lawyers asked
today for a 60-day delay in the
Coplon-Gubitchev spy trial and
sought to withdraw from the case
when their request was denfed.
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan
refused to let them withdraw,
however, and ruled that the trial
must be resumed next Monday.
will be asked to furnish $15,000.
The city already has $7,000 ear
marked for this and will have to
raise another $4,000. The council
expressed hope that the bridge
could be rebuilt this coming sum
mer. Mahlon Hoblitt editor of the
Silverton Appeal-Tribune, pre
sented a petition asking for re
zoning for a portion of Water and
First streets, and Jersey and Main
streets. While a portion of this
area is already in the commercial
zone, the remainder is in a resi
dential zone.
' Although the petition which the
council referred to the planning
commission did not say so, it was
understood thSt the Hoblitts plan
to build a new plant for their pa
Gold
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Cited for Criminal Gonte:
Salem IKligh School Youths Deny Societies
Aimed at Secrecy; Court Testimony Starts
Bridge Project Idle; Eastern Strikes Blamed
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Fate of the new brldse between Marlon and Folk eennties at Independence still lies vncertaJa aa coal
shertages ties np prednetlen of structural steel needed for the spans. The Marlon county approach
shown, here has been virtually completed since last fall, and steel beams for the Polk county ap
proach are also In place. At the left, extending across the Willamette, can be seen the concrete piers
ready for the superstructure. (Statesman photo. ,
Court Holds
Search Legal
During Arrest
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -Wi-The
supreme court ruled today
that when police legally arrest a
man they may also search a lim
ited area under his immediate
control for evidence of a crime.
But the court laid down no
sharp guide as to how far they
may go. The vote was 5 to 3.
Justice Frankfurter, who dis
sented, protested that the deci
sion "makes a mockery of the
fourth amendment" of the U. S.
constitution, which bans unreas
onable search and seizure.
In a somewhat similar case, the
court ruled 6-2 that a home own
er, may refuse to admit a city
health inspector who does not
have a search warrant. The case
arose here.
In the first case, which invol
ved a New York, stamp dealer,
Frankfurter said the court had
overturned a long series of unan
imous decisions, some of them
handed down in recent years.
The court should show "respect
for continuity In law," Frank
furter said, in a seeming refer
ence to the tribunal's newer
members. But the majority opin
ion in the case was written by
Justice M in ton, the court's new
est member. Also in the majority
was Justice Clark. Minton and
Clark were appointed last year
following the deaths of Justices
Rutledge and Murphy.
Also in the majority were Chief
Justice Vinson and Justices Reed
and Burton. Justice Jackson join
ed In Frankfurter's dissent, and
Justice Black wrote another dis
sent. Justice Douglas took no part
per which has grown rapidly in
recent years.
The retail trades committee of
Silverton Chamber of Commerce
asked that some plan be devised
by which the chamber might take
care of parking meters for March
18, the market day of Silverton's
spring opening.
The council agreed to settle for
$40 for the day, reporting that at
this figure the city would take a
slight loss but wished to cooperate
with the merchants in their spring
opening. .
The regular meeting of the city
council will be held March ( at
which time bids for the new addi
tion to the city hall will be opened,
Mayor Ross stated.
its Coal-H
PUDs Plan Attempt to
Buy PP&L Properties
! PENDLETON, Feb. 20-(P)-Spokesmen for l4 Washington and
Oregon Electric Co-ops and people's utility districts voted here to
night to try to buy properties of the Pacific Power and Light com
pany, a private utility.
All of the public distributing systems involved are east of the
Cascades and most of them are in Oregon.
Eric A. Johnson, chairman of
the meeting and manager of the
Wasco Electric cooperative, said
the public power group commit
tee planned to negotiate immedi
ately with the private power com
pany buyers. He said the aim of
the public power .group was to
acquire the properties that they
may be operated by "the people
of the northwest"
The common stock of the Pa
cific Power & Light company
(P. P. & L.) was recently purch
ased for $16,125,000 from the Am
erican Power li Light company.
Representatives of the investment
firms buying the company arriv
ed today in Portland for a week
long inspection of the utility pro
perties. They reported the com
mon stock of the P. P. & L. would
be up for sale in six to" nine
months.'
PP & li serves 102 communi
ties in southwestern and central
Washington and northern Oregon.
Farmer Offers to
Post Warning if
Water Blocks Road
Unwary motorists, many of
whom have been stalled in high
water over South River road near
the new Independence bridee.
were given a lift Monday in a pri
vate offer to put out "road closed"
signs when necessary.
Marion county court readily ac
cepted the proposal, which mem
bers said was highly gratifying
Eugene P. McCarthy, of D. P.
McCarthy and Sons, Salem route
3, wrote that their ranch's trac
tors had often been summoned to
retrieve cars in over their depth,
when- the river rose suddenly.
Noting that he realized the county
could not check constantly on con
ditions in that area, he asked the
court to provide proper signs and
a flarepot, which he would see
were put out when necessary.
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FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly
cloudy with a few ahoweri today and
tonight. Little change In temperature
with high today near SO; low tonight
near 36.
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Tricky Thief
Outsmarted
By Housewife
TOLEDO, Feb. 20-(P)-A man
who thought up an odd trick to
steal $19 was thwarted by a police
man's wife who thought up a bet
ter trek to catch him.
According to the story told in
municipal court here, Keith Rom
mel went into ,a house to use a
telephone, took $19 from the
housewife's purse, and slipped it
Into a crack in the table, intend'
ing to come back for it later.
Unfortunately for him, the
housewif was Mrs. Dubs Mulkey,
whose husband is a state police
man. She found the money in the
crack, guessed what had happened,
put yellow pigment on the bills,
and put them back in the crack
again.
Rommel came back the next day
and took the money. But Mulkey
arrested him, pointing to the yel
low paint on Rommel's bands as
proof.
Rommel was fined $50 and
given a 30-day suspended sentence.
Nine Members of Jury
Chosen in Sander's Trial
, MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 20
-flVDr. Hermann Nelson Sander
kept his head high today as he
watched the seating of nine of the
13 jurors who will try him for
murder as an accused "mercy
slayer.
Appearing calmly confident of
acquittal, the 4 1-y ear-old country
doctor broke through a poker face
with an occasional faint smile as
the stage was set for a trial that
has already rocked the medical
world. - '5
Dr. Sander is specifically accus
ed of killing Mrs. Abbie Borroto,
59, Manchester housewife, by giv
ing her air injections to cut short
her suffering from cancer.
Of the nine jurors 1 seated six
are catholics. Catholic doctrine
is Irrevocably opposed to euthana
sia. Of the other three jurors
chosen one is a protestant episco
palian, one a baptist and the third
a presbyterian, 1
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By Winston IL Taylor
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Three Salem high school stu
dents denied Monday their club
had held secret meetings, as the
trial of 18 students against the Sa
lem district school board opened
in Marlon county circuit court
The 18 plaintiffs were expelled
from school last October by school
board action alleging secret society
activity. They were reinstated
under a temporary injunction,
pending trial of the injunction
proceedings.
Origin and program of the boyr
club were described on the wit
ness stand by Jim Kroeplin, Gene
Lebold and Eugene Wegner. They
said they had planned to ' seek
school board approval for the out
of -school organization.
Plaintiffs attorneys Lawrence
Osterman and Reginald Williams
said they expected to call to the
witness stand all 18 boys and some
pf their parents. The defense ex
pected to call school officials as
witnesses.
Not Questioning Law
Counsel for the plaintiffs said
they did not intend to question the
constitutionality of the Oregon law
forbidding secret societies among
high school students.
More than 100 spectators crowd
ed a Marion county circuit court
room all afternoon, and scores
were turned away. The trial will
resume at 9:30 a.m. today and will
continue several days, it was in
dicated by attorneys.
Circuit Judge Dal M. King of
Coquille is hearing the case. He
gave notice Monday he expects
tne attorneys to stick to issues in
volved in the proceedings, t
Parents Knew - ' -
Kroeplin, Lebold and Wegner
testified that all of their parents
knew about their group, which
was formed in Salem last July as
an offshoot of a Portland high
school group, known variously as
Alpha Beta Chi or American Boys'
club. They said all meetings were
held In local members' homes,
with parents In the meeting or at
least in the house.
The ABCs purpose, said Kroep
lin, the president, was fellowship
and promotion of social activities,
with its rules Including bans
against drinking and profanity.
Planned to Get Advisor
In response to cross-examination
by defense attorneys George
Rhoten, Robert DeArmond and
Donald Young, the youths said
they had planned to get a faculty
advisor when better organized,
and hadn't told school officials
about the club when school open
ed because "we weren't ready yet"
They said their parents had plan
ned to meet with school officials
to seek approval for the group.
While the witnesses said they
had never had an open meeting,
they stressed that they had "never
had a secret meeting," and were
never told to keep anything sec
ret (Additional details on page 9.)
Dr. Mclntire
Due in Salem
Dr. Ross T. Mclntire, native of
Salem and graduate of Willamette
university who now is national
administrator of the American Red
Cross blood program, Monday
helped the Portland blood bank
observe its first anniversary.
-Mclntire, who was the late Pres
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt's
physician, expects to visit friends
in Salem either today or tomor
row. Wiping his glasses and rubbing
his eves as the day-long court
session wound up at nightfall. Dr.
Sander left the courthouse " with
Mrs. Sander to spend the night
at home, still free under 125,000
bail.
Both Sanders and his wife look
ed tiredand yet somewhat re
lieved as the court adjourned for
the day after examining 40 ven
iremen. 1
While feeling has run high in
this predominantly catholic indus
trial city of 80,000, only a handful
of curious braved bero tempera
ture, and a blustery wind to get
a glimpse of the Sanders as they
came and left. I V .
Sympathies Covered a wide
ranee, leading Judge Harold E.
Wescott, who is presiding' at the
trial, to give a stiff warning to
prospective jurors against taking
atock in "hearsay evidence or
something someone said outside.1
Court
Frost Deals
By the Associated Press
Severe cold hit. coal hoarding
eastern states Monday.
New England bundled up for
15 to 25 below zero weather ex
pected early Tuesday.
Even Florida was chilly. Week
end frosts dealt heavy damage,
to truck crops after 53 frost free
days.
The Florida forecast was for
27 above in the extreme north
and a low of .40 above in the south
before warmer weather Tuesday.
Subzero weather was . common
in New England states and in
northern New York state all dar
Monday.
Snb-Zere Night Dae
New England, with Its lowest
temperatures of the winter, braced
for a sub-zero night . Monday
night readings were expected to
hit 15 to 25 below in New Hamp
shire and Vermont, 10 to 20 below
in Maine, five to 15 below In the
interior sections of southern New
England five above in the coastal
eBAcaae
New York state faced its second
sub-zero night, with predictions
of readings as low as 20 below
along the Canadian border. The
southern portion of the state was
expected to have five to 10 below
temperatures.
38 Below Zere
Owls' Head, New York state's
coldest spot, had 38 below zero
Backwaters of the Red, Black
and Mississippi rivers continued
rising slowly in east central Loui
siana. A million acres are flooded
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homes.
But flood dangers declined in
unstream areas between r Cairo.
111., and Memphis, Tenn. Warmer
weather cheered the 'homeless. -The
Wabash river, along the
southern Indiana-Illinois border,
surged upward again Monday. It
drove 200 from homes they had
re-occupied only a short time)
after January floods receded near
ML Carmel, I1L
Dreyer Files
For Congress
PORTLAND, Feb.
Dreyer. 29, state representative,
today became a candidate for the
democratic nomination as U. 8.
representative from the third
(Multnomah county) district.
Dreyer is a World War II vet
eran and a member of Portland's
Central Labor Council.
The congressional seat is held by
Rep. Homer Angell (R).
Holiday to Find
Only Dog Tag
n
Public business is going to the
dogs in Salem. Unless you want to
license your pup, you might as
well stay home Wednesday. Other
city, state and county offices will
dose in observance of Washing
ton's birthday.
But County Clerk Harlan Judd
said a worker will be on hand In
his office to issue dog licenses
which, he added, are running far
behind last year.
City buses will operate on their
Saturday scneauie, according w
R. J. Davidson, manager. Fire
men, the city first aid crew and
law enforcement agencies will be
on duty as usual.
' The Salem postoffice will be
closed and there will be no city
or rural Nmail delivery. The city
library also will be closed.
Ray Smith, In charge of 12eg
state income tax division, said he
had hoped to keep state tax com
mission offices in " Salem and
Portland open because of taxpay
ing time. The closure was neces
sary, Smith said, because the state
civil service board had ruled
against overtime pay for. auditors
who receive in excess of $285
month.
The services of auditors art
necessary in making out income
tax returns, Smith added.
Dolls Due with
Built-in B.O.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 -W3)- And
now a doll that "smells like a
baby." -
, This word comes from Benja
min F. Michtom, official of a New
York toy company, who returned
tonight from a European trip. .
He said he had arranged with
a French perfume company to
manufacture a perfume essence
which, molded into the dolTs skin.
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wouia give n a lueui amen.
Heavy Blow to
Florida Crops