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Mitmiu Woman's Xdltor
Perhaps we're bit prejudiced, but it seems that every citizen
Interested In public school education should spend at least one eve
ning a year listening to a concert given by the Salem high school band
and orchestra. Such a concert was given last night and to the larg
est audience assembled for such an occasion in a long time.
The concert was free, as a gesture of thanks to those who had
Witness Terms
Douk Leader
False Prophet
NELSON, B. C, Feb. 22 -(CP)
Michael (the archangel) Verigin
today was described as a "false
prophet with three faces and 10
roles," by a witness in the pre
liminary bearing of three Douk
hobors on conspiracy and other
Charges.
Verigin is leader of a 200-mem-Doukhobor
colony at Hilliers on
Vancouver Island.
Zakar Barisoff, brought here
from - the penitentiary at New
Westminster where ho is serving
seven-year term for arson, told
the court that nudism was blessed
nd became a . . commandment
when Verigin' came to Krestova
in the main Doukhobor commun
ity here in 1944.
"He Instructed us to disrupt all,
not to have . husbands or wives,
and to break all ownership ties,"
Barisoff said.
The witness said he tried to
f;et away from, wife-sharing be
ore Verigin's instructions but
"my wife is very religious, she
always undresses and listens to
these commandments.'
The Sons of Freedom, 'a 5,000
etrong group in the Doukhobor
community of , 13,000 have em
ployed nudism as a protest against
"man-made laws." The practice
has been discontinued, in orthodox
settlements of the sect which came
here from Russia in 1900.
'Barisoff admitted under cross
examination that he had dabbled
la wife-sharing for some time.
"But that was secretly so my
wife wouldn't know.";
. He said the Sons of Freedom
were mad at Verigin shortly be
fore his house was burned and
be moved to Hilliers in 1948 to
establish the new community.
- The 70-year-old Verigin
"wouldn't let. us own one single
thread. He is a false prophet with
three faces and 10 roles."
Today was the) third day of
the hearing which followed the
Doukhobor arrests after a two
fvar investigation of violence,
which included burning and bombing..-
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Pie Social
Successful at
Spring Valley
SUtiin Haws Sarrtc
ZEN A A pie social sponsored
by the Spring Valley Farmers
union netted $34.50 for the na
tional budget fund for educational
and organizational work. '
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Kolln were
admitted to membership and the
group voted to change its meet
ing place from . Zen to Spring
Valley.
W. C Daughton showed moving
pictures of Yosemite and Crater
.Lake parks, The Junior Farmers
union presented a program which
included a piano solo by .Ruth
Carlson; recitations by Carolyn
Whittington and Dorothy Dicken
son; singing led by Martha Wil
liams, Shirley Carr and Norman
Whittington, accompanied by Mrs.
K, J. Kolln. Hostesses were Mrs.
& E. Chard, Mrs. Harvey Mc
Laughlin and Mrs. B. McKInney.
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next morning. Luxurious chair cars, tavern, coffee
shop and dining cars. See the high Cascades and
lit. Shasta in their spectacular winter dress of lea
and snow. All chair car seats reserved but no charge,
for reservation. Children under 5 free 5 through
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I supported the organizations lor
these past years
The first portion of the program
was given by the orchestra and its
feature' was the Konserstuck, by
Weber in which Dorothy Pederson
played the piano solo. Victor
Palmason directed.
Dorothy has appeared a number
of times as soloist, but last night
she played her best. One of Sa
lem s most promising young pian
ists, Dorothy Pederson showed
technical skill far beyond that
usually displayed by one so young.
Grieg's Triumphal March from
"Sigurd Jorsafar" and a medley of
American tunes completed the or
chestra's numbers. The B band
played A March by Brockton,
Dear Old South selection by Lake
and several others.
The well uniformed A band,
directed by E. Donald Jessop, is
something to hear. Beginning
with two numbers by Bach, there
followed a medley from "The Red
Mill" ty Herbert, a Flotow over
ture. Skyliner March, by Alford
and the favorite Sempre Fldelis
by Sousa.
Specialty numbers were a clari
net solo by Lor en Bartlett,
Zieeunerweisen by de Sarasate
and a trumpet trio by Jim Todd,
Bob McConville and Dennis Han
cock. Ann Gibbens was accom
panlst.
Comedy was Introduced by a
novelty. Southern Wedding by
Letter in which Bud Llndstrom,
Glen Benner and Michael Deeny
with instruments and in costumes
acted out the ceremony.
The next concert for the or
chestra will be March 7 when the
choir will join. The band and
majorettes will perform March 9.
An interesting event will be the
concert by the combined Salem
high and Willamette university
bands April 17.
Trio Charged
With Knifing
Pregnant Qirl
PORTLAND, Feb. M-Three
men were charged with assault
and .armed robbery today after a
13-year-old expectant mother was
knifed and her purse stolen.
The young wife, Mrs. Shirley
Ann Verbeck, said a man Jumped
from a car last night aa she was
walking on the sidewalk. He
stabbed her, grabbed her purse,
and fled in the car. -
Nearby dwellers called police.
She later was treated for a gash
wound on her body.
Two patrolmen stopped a speed
ing car in the same area a few
minutes later and arrested the oc
cupants. Mrs. Verbeck later iden
tified one of them as her assailant
Jailed were Benjamin F. Baker,
29; Eugene Johnson, 22; and Rufus
D. Adams, 18.
Portion of Dallas
Mill Closed for
Remodeling Work
Statasaaaa News Srt1e
DALLAS, Feb. 22 - A small
portion of the Willamette Valley
Lumber company was shut down
for remodeling today, but employ
ment and production will actually
increase. ! ,
Closed down temporarily was
mill G. But the men employed
there will be transferred to a
swing shift at the main mill, ef
fective March 6. Paul Morgan,
manager, said the addition to the
night shift will increase product
ion about 10 per cent. I
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BOSTON, Feb. 22 The flshing trawler Crest makes pert at Boston, Mas, heavily coated with fee
after a frigid trip from the fishing banks la sub-zero weather. Three members of the crew (left to
right) Paul Berringer. Lee Doncette, the captain and Ernest Dobbins smile Juppily from the bridge as
the vessel docks. (AT Wirephote
Large Musliroom
Shipment Leaves
Salem by Airline
Enough mushrooms to smother
every steak in Los Angeles left
Salem for the southland on a Uni
ted airlines plane about midnight
Wednesday.
The huge cargo of mushrooms
2,822 pounds was shipped by
Westi Foods, Inc. of Salem. The
firm has been making smaller air
shipments regularly, according to
a UAL spokesman.
The southbound DC-G that pick
ed up the mushrooms was one of
several binding at McNary field
after 9:45 p.m. when fog "socked
in" the Portland port. There was
no fog in the Salem area.
Snow Storms
Slow Traffic
By the Associated Press .
Snow or sleet slowed highway
traffic to a crawl Wednesday in
a broad belt from New England
to Missouri.
Road conditions were the most
hazardous of the winter in ice
sheathed not them and central
Indiana. Three highway deaths
were blamed on the Ice.
Fresh snow over a coating of
ice made Chicago's streets so
treacherous that police officials
ordered all cruising squad cars
off the roads. .
The Washington weather bu
reau, in a special bulletin, warn
ed motorists of the dangerous
road conditions.
The snow was expected to total
five to seven inches in southern
New . York and northern Pennsyl
vania, three to five Inches in
northern Ohio and three or more
Inches in northern Illinois.
Flywheel Denudes
Satcmul Operator
HINTON. W. Va Feb. 22 UP
A flywheel on Silas Stanley's saw
mill stripped him of his pants
(two pairs), shirt, sweatshirt, and
underwear In a twinkling yester
day. Stanley got too close to the fly
wheel (2,300 revolutions a min
ute) and a screw on it snagged
his clothes.
Stanley landed in a pile of saw
dust, still spinning. There he was,
dazed but unhurt, in his soz,
shoes, and the wristlets of his
sweatshirt.
Dodd May Run
Against Morse
PORTLAND, Feb. 22 -(ff). A
possibility that Norris . Dodd,
director-general of the United
Nations food and agricultural or
ganization, may run for the sena
torial seat of Wayne 1 Morse,
arose today.
' Democratic National Committee
man Monroe Sweetland said
Dodd's office had asked him for
information on filing procedures.
Dodd himself Is in Brazil at the
moment. - .
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Lenten Season
With Symbolic
By Conrad G. Fraage
Staff Writer. The Statesman
(Photo on page 1.)
Remember, man. that thou
return," murmurs the priest as be marks with ashes the forehead of
each kneeling parishioner.
Thus, the penitential season of Lent began yesterday. Ash Wed
nesday, in Catholic and several other churches throughout the Wil
lamette valley. For 40 days, until
Caveman Asks
$1,000,000 for
Modern Ark
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -fV
A Missouri cave man asked: the
Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion today to lend him a million
dollars to fix up a five-level hole
in the ground as a modern Noah's
ark.
It would come in mighty handy
if someone started flinging hydro
gen bombs around, Lester Dill,
owner of the Meramec Caverns at
Stanton, Mo., told the government.
While Dill said the cava would
be a good site for an emergency
teat of government or a war plant.
he emphasized Its possibilities as
an atomic refuge for scientific. In
dustrial, educational and medical
leaders. His loan application,
which was eagerly made public
by his press agent, said:
Those selected for admission
should be representatives of the
sciences such as Einstein, the nuc
lear physicists, medical experts,
chemists, engineers, etc.
There also should be a chosen
representative group of young
people who would Insure a future
generation. These youths should
be screened for their potential at
tributes in science, arts, agricul
ture, etc.
This subterranean community
could be the nucleus for an en
tirely new world in the event of
global wide bombing."
Dill's publicity man said that
Jesse and Frank James, the out
laws, used to ride into the cave
on horseback. A stream known
is Lost River flows through the
cavern, located about 63 miles
southwest of St. Louis in the Ozark
foothills.
Amity Church Women
Plan Prayer Service
StaUsaaaa Msws lenrlce
AMITY The Amity Council of
Church Women is sponsoring the
annual World Day of Prayer Fri
day at the Christian church from
2:30 to 3:30 pjn.
Baptist, Methodist and Christian
churches will all participate in the
program. Edith HsI, Chinese stu
dent at Lin field college, will speak,
and Celia Haynes, also of Lin field,
win do tne aoioisu
NO COKNEK ON BRAINS
LORETTO, Pa, Feb. 22 -(JP)
Both Dumm and Smart made the
dean's honor list . for the first
semester at St. Francis college to
day. Students Leo Dumm of Al
toona and Leo Smart of Cassan
dra, near Johnstown, are on the
roll.
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Religious Rites
art dust, and .unto dust thou shalt
Easter Sunday, the church will
stress penance and mortification.
as Christians are reminded of
their final end.
Like many of the other sym
bolic practices, the use of ashes
to express humiliation and sorrow
is something which was common
in other religions, even before
Christ
Many references are found to
it in the Old Testament. It is prob
able that the use of ashes was in
troduced in the early Christian
church by converts from Judaism
because it was an observance
with which they had been famil
iar In their former faith.
At first the ashes were imposed
on public penitents. In those aus
tero days of ecclesiastical discip
line, public expiation was always
exacted as a reparation for public
scandal. Those who sought recon
ciliation were required to appear
at the door of the church in pen
itential garb on Ash Wednesday
morning.
They were then clad in sack
cloth and ashes and were debar
red from the church services un
Ul Holy Thursday. Gradually it
became the practice for all of the
faithful, the clergy included, to
receive the ashes on that day. By
about the year 1200 the practice
had become universal.
The ashes which are sprinkled
onto the heads of Catholics are
obtained by burning the blessed
palms of th previous Palm Sun
day.
The Lenten fast, according to
ancient church practice, began on
the Monday after the first Sunday
in Lent The season then consisted
of only 38 fasting days,
But about the year 700 the per
iod was extended to 40 days to
coincide with the duration of
Christ's fast The beginning of
i-em was then set at Ash Wednes
day.
Quite a number of denomina
tions observe the season of Lent
with special services and obser
vances.
Evangelist Leading
Amity Church Rites
Statessaaat Ntws Service
AMITY The Rev. Frank Mc
Cray of Portland Is the special
evangelist for services which be
gan at the Amity Baptist church
Sunday.
He was also guest speaker Tues
day at the grade school and ad
dressed the high school student
body Wednesday. Services will be
neia eacn evening at the church
at 8 pjn. through March 3 except
on Saturdays. Children's meetings
win De at 730 pjn.
Swegle Quh Plans
Dinner for March 2
Statssaa Kawa Serrlea
SWEGLE Plana for a Avrrf-
dish dinner March 2 were mm.
pleted in a meeting of the Jolly
Neighbors club at the home of
Mrs. Wallace Seguin. Husbands
Will be guests at tha dinner, t
iresent jwere Mesdames Henry
Preim, John Jansen and Mary. Ed
gar Wilson, Ray Bernardy, Elmer
Currie, George Brown. Judith Se
guin and the hostess. The next
meeting will be held at Mrs. Cur
rie s nome.
AP WRITES DIES
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 22
-ttVW. A. (Archie) Wells, an
Associated Press writer more than
a quarter of a centrury and capi
tol correspondent at Sacramento
14 years, died tonight after a long
illness He was 61.
Income Tax Ilelcnu
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Spruce Budworm Tuhds
Pass Congress Hurdle
PORTLAND, Feb. 22 P)- A
federal appropriation needed to
combat spruce budworm in Ore'
gon and Washington forests has
moved past another hurdle in con
gress. Senator Guy Cordon (R-Ore)
telegraphed the Western Forest
Industries association today that a
deficiency subcommittee of the
senate appropriations committee
had agreed to add $880,000 to
funds marked for urgent passage.
Senate Orders
Probe of Red
Spies Charge
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -WV
The senate ordered its foreign re
lations committee today to inves
tigate a republican's charges that
communist spies are operating
from inside the state department.
, The charges were made by Sen
ator McCarthy (R-Wis) In a sen
ate speech Monday night. He said
there are or have been 81 card
carrying communists in the de
partment and that their operations
were directed by a Big Three"
two men and a woman. He refused
to name them.
Secretary of State Acheson hag
said there is no truth 4n the ac
cusation and that he is satisfied
with the operations of the loyalty
program in his department.
The investigators were ordered
to subpoena the secret loyalty rec
ords and files of all state depart
ment employes accused in the in
quiry.
The committee was instructed to
I hold public hearings on any for
mal charges of disloyalty made
against any individual.
The scope of the' inquiry was
broadened to cover former em
ployes of the department as well
as thosenow on the payroll..
Blaze Destroys
HngeCyclotron
PRINCETON. N. JFeb. 22-VF)
The 18.000.000-volt cyclotron
which helped make the atom bomb
was virtually destroyed by an oil
fire today.
The cause of the smoky, stub
born fire inside Princeton univer
sity's $400,000 a t o m-smashing
machine could not immediately be
determined. Dr. Milton White,
professor of physics, said that only
the magnets could be salvaged.
The machine currently was be
ing used on a nuclear research pro
ject for the ouice of naval re
search.
Parts of the 35-ton machine
were shipped to the Los Alamos,
N. M., atom bomb project during
World War II and returned here
after the bomb was completed.
Built in 1938, it was one of this
country's, first atom-smashing de
vices. I
Dr. White estimated It would
take six months to rebuild the
machine now.
Hotel Tenants Forced
To Flee Night Blaze
GLENS FAELS. N. Y Feb. 22
-iJP-A roarinff fire envelooed the
Hotel Towers witn terruying
speed today and forced guests clad
in night clothes to jump for their
uvea.
Fifteen nersons were Iniured In
the pre-dawn blaze, which gutted
the four-story, loo-room notel on
the 78th anniversary of its open
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ESFENAN WOK.SIT
SOUTH BEND, Ind Feb. 22
(P)- Football End Ray Espenan of
Notre Dame was placed in an
oxygen tent tonight and his broth
er said he is now "completely
paralyzed. Espenan, 24, suffered
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Chief Thaaderbird
Victoria, B. C-248 poaads
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LADY NELSON
Hollywood, Calif,
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SeatUe, Wash.
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Marcel Boachet
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Stadents lac Tax:
Labor Move Would Hand Coal
Mine Profits to
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striking coal miners, a move started In congress today for - federal
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The proposal, sparked by Chairman Lesinskl (D-Mich) of the
house labor committee, is to give President Truman power to take
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 Dr.
Peter Venter, charge eTafalres
of the Bturarlaa legaUea la
WaaUagtoa. leaves the State
Department with the white
paper he received la which the
United States broke diplomatic
ralasiona with Cemmnniat Bnl
garia. The nation was directed
to withdraw Its small dlplotaaUe
mission here. (Ar wirepbete
to The SUteoaaaa.)
Mechanic Dies
In Jet Crash
MAMHATTAW WEACH Califs
Feb. 22 HAV An aircraft technic-
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van was anitti in utm xtanutia; crasii
of a jet night fighter plane today
which
started a spectacular oil
fire.
The pilot, however, bailed out
sufiering leg and arm rractures in
his parachute descent which end-
ed with him dangling unconscious
in a tree.
xne aeaa man was menunea as
Arthur Turton of nearby Redondo
Beach. His body lay amid scat
tered wreckage of the two-place
F-89 plane.
. The pilot, Charles Tucker, SO,
of La Crescents, Calif., has been a
tt rtUnt fnr YJnrthrnn irw
ana iormeriy was wiin ljocxneea
and atu. Aircrait companies.
ed to explode in the air at about
sou ieet eievauon. naming
wreckage set fire to oil in a drain
age pit on Standard Oil Co, prop
erty at El Porto Beach.
a dislocated neck vertebra In a
gymnastics mishap Monday. He
has been In critical condition
since.
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Government
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rKa) Mmfamfiv oyia oi.Jl.i
wver ui mines, wiin any profits
zrapi operations unaer seizure go
ing to the federal treasury. That
would tend to put pressure on the)
operators. In put seizures the
profits have gone to the owners.
Meanwhile tha government mw.
ed in for more active mediation In
t dispute as cooling furnaces
drove new thousands of non-mine
workers out of their Jobs and chiH-
ea more public places such aa
schools. The threat of cold hearths
hi homes grew too. -
While the chill spread, John L.
Lewis i and the operators ground
through two nvin im
.vtur
ordered bargaining sessions. Fed
eral meoiators called the morning
one fruitless. They wouldn't talk
at all at the end of the afternoon
meeting.
Leaving others to carry on the .
afternoon talks, Lewis was closet
ed for an hour with federal Con-
uuauon wu uyrus 5. Ching and
David L. Cole, chairman of Presi
dent Truman's coal fa-tir.i-
board.
I just cannot discuss it," Colo
said of the Lewis meeting.
Operators held a brief huddle
after the close of . the afternoon
talk which ended only minutes
after Lewis and tha federal medi
ators came back in. The next ses
sion comes at 11 a xa tomorrow;
It all added up to no solution.
And the rank and file of the
United Mine workers stay pretty
much on the sidelines, still cry
ing "no contract no work" and
paying scant attention to the stop
strike injunction, work orders
from Lewis or the threat of con
tempt action against their union.
1. Jones & Laughlin steel mills
where 23,000 men were ordered
laid off with the banking of fur
naces at Pittsburgh and Aliquip
pa. Pa. That pushed unemploy
ment In allied industries, result
ing from the coal strike, well past
73,000.
T. New York state where Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey got unanimous
legislature approval for new em
ergency powers to seize even pri- -vate
coal stocks and to damp
price controls on supplies already
dangerously drained. Dewey said
New York city dealers had only
six days' supply of soft coaL He
called the situation desperate'
and said president Truman had
"mishandled the coal situation'
by not moving in firmly sooner.
There were prospects of an order
for shorter Industrial work Knura
and curtailment In amusement
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BERT J. MEHL DIES
Bert J. MehL a dvH enf nM
nd. ,nnfr roaident of Salem,
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rriendl were Informed this week,
The body is being brought to the
Eckman Funeral home at Silver-
" wa wo
toter son of Mrs. W. M. Bushey,
ton for services. Mehl was the
1760 S. High st, Salem.
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