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Guilty Pleas
Wind Up Old Cases
One of the most dastardly crimes in Oregon
history occurred in 1923 when three D'Autre
mont brothers held up a Southern Pacific
train near Ashland in an attempt at robbery
of the mail? The strongbox in the mail car
was dynamited. Killed by the robbers were
four trainmen and a railway postal clerk. The
men were not apprehended for several years.
After conviction on one murder charge they
greed to spend the remainder of their nat
ural lives in pnson with the understanding
that the remaining indictments would not b
prosecuted.
In the more than 30 years that have passed
efforts to obtain a commutation have been
misted by the postal authorities who held
over the heads of the D'Autremonta the re
training indictments. Special consideration
Jus been urged for Hugh, the youngest of the
brothers. Evidently in an attempt to clear up
the slate so he might get out of prison Hugh
fpeared in Jackson County Court Monday
tad plead guilty to two murder charges and
to a charge of stopping a mail train for pur
pose of robbery. He was sentenced to life
terms for the murders and to 20 years in
prison for the train stopping charge, sen
tences to be concurrent. Three other murder
charges were dismissed by Judge Hanna on
recommendation of the district attorney.
This clears the state records of pending
charges against Hugh. Remaining, however,
are some federal charges; and unless the
postal authorities have changed their minds
those charges will be pressed if Hugh is re
leased from prison. jThey have regarded this
crime as one of the worst in the annals of
the postal service.
In spite of this Hugh is entitled to consid
eration for release from state prison. He has
been an exemplary prisoner and appears to
have made a good rehabilitation. He works in
the pnnt shop and edits the prisoners' maga
zine " Shadows " The recent release of Nathan
Leopold in Illinois for crime more heinous in
its inception offers a precedent for the re
lease of Hugh D'Autremont.
- Reform and not revenge is the purpose of
Imprisonment Hugh D'Autremont is entitled
to have his case reviewed the same as those
of other prisoners.
"No Riders"
And Safe Driving
Often one sees a sign on the cabdoor of a
track; "No Riders." This looks like a means
of protection against knights of the road who
not infrequently assault and rob those re
sponding to their wigwag signals for a lift.
There is another reason, as explained in
OTTO. .the monthly bulletin of the Oregon
Timber Transport Operators. Their concern
to for log trucking and truckers, but the coun
sel the bulletin gives applies to all truckers.
TOTTO relates how a veteran driver of a log
tnick in Lane County took with him on his
trip one day a house guest from another state
who was curious to see how big logs are
hauled. When crossing a railroad track their
track was struck by a train. Both men were
killed. OTTO goes on to say:
"This if a wide open crossing with good vis
ibility and the train crew stater) that the truck
seemed to 'stall' on the track. This was an
empty unit and would have been moving at
road speeds, not starting from a stopped po
sition, we have investigated so many similar
accidents over a period of years there is only
one answer. Whenever a passenger is present
in the cab interest is divided there is conver
sation and this ts not easy in a noisy truck.
Theory and results say one thing, the driver
looked toward his passenger to say something
saw the approaching train and jammed on
his brakes to stop dead center of the crossing.
The remaining pieces didn't even look like a
log truck. There should be ample warning here
for the future but it will be Ignored on the
assumption that "it can't happen to me." It
can . . . and it will if your attention is di
verted. NO RIDERS NO RIDERS NO RID
ERSNO RIDERS . . . WORK ALONE AND
LIVE."
While the repeated advice of "No Riders''
can't be followed in the operation of a family
car, the incident reported serves as a warn
ing to motorists not to become so engrossed
in conversation that attention is diverted from
the road.
Worries Fade
On Arab Union
The Middle East is a good example of ' over
worrying " Time and again fears have been
aroused over a possible start of world war in
that area. The Arab-Israeli dispute provides
constant tension, but nations have learned to
live with it. relying on United Nations to sus
tain the truce. The Anglo-French-Israeli in
vasion of Egypt in 1956 posed a threat, and
the USSR verbally waved its IRBMs at Britain
and France Explosion was averted, again
through U.N. auspicies. In 1957 collapse of
Jordan to Red dictation and armed collision
between Syria and Turkey (purely synthetic,
made in Moscow) were likewise averted
Most recent alarm arose over the union of
Egypt and Syria, both of which have been
flirting with the USSR. Fears were expressed
that this offered a convenient setup for Rus
sian penetration of the strategic Middle F.ast.
In the sequel, however, those fears seemed to
fizzle out. The Syrian pro-Communist leader,
Bagdash. packed his bags and dashed with
his family to Russia: The thought is emerging
that the new United Arab state Is not pro
Russian but pro-Arab, even if it is somewhat
anti-Western. And this union was countered
with the union of feeble Jordan with strong
Iraq. This is favorable to the West because it
offers some assurance of stability in Jordan.
Doubts arise whether Iraq will remain a mem
ber of the Bagdhad Pact, but its withdrawal
should occasion slight concern. Saudi Arabia
isn't a member either, but remains a strong
friend of the West.
So the worries over the Middle East which
have given statesmen ulcers for over a year,
have followed the usual course of worries;
they have diminished. It is not surprising
therefore to see the United States on Tues
day extend its recognition to the new United
Arab state and express its good wishes. (Too
bad the state department didn't take that
action on Feb. 22 immediately after being
advised of the favorable plebiscite, along with
24 other nations.)
This merging of countries is a reversal of
trends in the former colonial world. The
breakup of old empires Austro-Hungary,
Turkey, French, India resulted in creation
of many new states. Fires of independency
burned hot and local divisions became the
basis for separate states. Sometimes the retir
ing or controlling powers fostered the ac
tionizing of old territory Britain was respon
sible for setting up the weak Haskemite king
dom of Jordan, and is accused by Indians of
the partition of the subcontinent of India.
Now we witness the peaceful coagulation of
separate states in the Middle East, even when
boundaries are not common, as with Syria and
Egypt. This development can promote peace
and progress if it is headed right. Consolida
tion of Arab strength may free the Middle
East from some pressures from the outside,
by ridding the region of the power vacuum
which always invites an invader.
At any rate, while the late happenings in
that area do not solve its major problems,
they have composed some of the worries
which have beset the leaders of the Western
World. That is a source of real comfort.
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Commission
Reports Drop
In Employment
Oregon's Unemployment Com
pensation Commission Tuesday re
ported that 440.900 persons were
working in non-farm jobs in Ore
gon in mid-January.
That compares with 464.200 in
mid-December, and ,455,400 In mid
January of 1957.
Loggers and sawmill operators
employed only 40.900 workers in
the middle of last month, a drop
of 4.100 from mid-December, and
18,800 fewer than last summer.
Employment in retail trade was
73.600, down 5,000 from a year
earlier. Other Industries showing
declines were construction, food
processing, transportation and
shipbuilding.
The commission received 44,500
claims for unemployment com
pensation last week, a decline of
about 6,000 from the January
peak.
C. C. Edwards 4
Appointed to Fill
Coroner's Post
Charles C. Edwards, chief dep
uty coroner for Marion County un
der the late Coroner Leston How
ell, was appointed as Interim cor
oner by Marion County Court Tuesday.
Edwards has already announced
his candidacy for the post at the
Republican primary in May.
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by the party out of power. As to
defense, Truman's own record is
very spotty. He let Louis Johnson
strip muscle as well as fat from
the armed forces, neglected mis
siles and rockets, though he did
authorize work on the H bomb.
The last Congress, under Demo
cratic control, trimmed the presi
dent's budget for defense and
foreign aid.
The Eisenhower administration
for its part failed to apprehend
the significance of intelligence re
ports on Russia, let its long-range
weapons program get bogged
down. As for recessions, the pres
ent one has counterparts in those
of 1949 and 1953.
Subdivision
TOriTTip Veterans'
Colony Okehed
And the mechanics of popular
elections leads to use of similar
appeals and techniques. This is Leo Childs and Duane Gibson
revealed in the readiness of the j are subdividing 4H acres of the
Eisenhower administration to re-j former Veterans Housing Colony
sort to devices once labeled New property in Southeast Salem near
Dealish to avert the catastrophe ' Hlnt' nd 16th Streets.
0( 1932. Preliminary approval to the sub-
One need not be alarmed tiaiv's,on was granlea luesoay
Fact of the matter is that the
differences between Republican
and Democratic policies are rela
tively slight. No matter how much
the partisans orate, when things
are shaken down divergences on
such issues as foreign affairs, na
tional defense, budgets are not
very wide. Extremists of course,
like Morse for Democrats and
Malone for the Republicans, are
at opposite polls: but among the
decision makers, like Rayburn
and, Martin and Johnson and
Knowland, the accords are rela
tively close.
Not. that party orientations are
the same. The Democrats still
cater to labor; Republicans favor
business. But the spread is not
nearly as wide as in former pe
riods. The fact is that present day
political forces are centripetal
rather than centrifugal. External
danger forces internal cohesion.
Time Flies
this situation and the prospect of
a dull political campaign. They
are the distillate of our times. We
still are under the shadow of
World War II and its tense after
math. The USSR remains a pole
for political orientation. Neither
party is ready to challenge that
polarity by -some proclamation of
fresh policy in international af
fairs though Tuesday Stevenson
proposed pooling foreign id with
Russia. The party orators thresh
old straw. Their speeches really
are declamations, recitals of old
stuff, depending on the smart
phrase for a register with audi
tors. Nor should we lament that the
country is not. torn asunder over
men of issues. Better to have a
large measure of internal unity
in these times than to be split
wide apart'as we have been at
times in the past.
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London Charming on Surface,
But 'Defeat Attitude' Prevalent
By JOSEPH ALSOP
, LONDON, Feb. 23 In the
pale March sunshine. 13 years
after the great victory, London
hardly seems,
the same'" V ;
wounded hero ff
f a city that it I'
used to be for I ''.
so long after! j
the war. The? T" JS
outward surface! 1
is more pro-., , T , I :
peroui t h a n ) F"Y '
ever. The mag- .1 JSSL
leal LondonffY .
combination oil I aaTT I
'green ope nU A L I
oVd.7.v',HM
Hue, of Intimacy and public
splenetic, of double polished
glossiness and carefully pre
served patina of age, is also
more magical than ever, be
cause it it to unchanging in a
fast-changing world. And Lon
don is more than ever the most
agreeable of all the great world
Cities for a foreign visitor.
These reflections on London's
urf act may seem more appro-
priate for a postcard for the
homefolkt, showing tome such,
. familiar tourist sight at the
changing of th guard. Yet
they art necessary, in order to
put into proportion the fairly
brutal thing that also needs to
M said. In sum, this London
with its rich tad charming sur
face, whose shining courage so
recently set an example to the
. world, is bow a city that all
.Vut stinks of defeat
' ' The fact, U It it a fact, la
f Infinite Importance to all
tk at lira of tat West Bat
Judgment! of stoMtphers art
nartidably persoaal; tad I
hall tpeak store pen sally la
tka pretest re part that Is cat
tMMry la tilt space.
. ' la the postwar years, I fcsvs
. Btaaa st let it mm visit ! Ia
jvlry to Lsadoa each year. Ia
all that aertod. whether aader
Labr gavermnaeat sr Conserva
tive gtveraateatt, the essealial
London 4 r a a hat heea the
tame. It hat heea the drama tf
the British people grimly ttrog
gliag Is maintain Britain's hit
tori rale at ae ef the great
world powers, after the fear
ful a a a i a and material and
ttrategle losses ef the Second
World War.
It has been a pretty moving
drama to watch, but now it
seems to be coming to an end.
There are just too many tigns
of the disarray that alwayt, in
every army, foretelli the ac
ceptance of defeat
For example, the feature of
British political life that has
alwayt mott amazed me wa
the fact that any given mo
ment, almost everyone from the
Prime Minister downward!, at
every level and in every
sphere, somehow struck the
tame note. It might be a bel
ligerent note or a friendly note
or any other kind of note. But
it was always the same.
It asea to make me feel like
a . geologist . dlmblag . about
over an enormoos rock, topping
with hit hsmmer everywhere,
and alwtyt getting exactly the
same "ping or "pong." wher
ever he tapped. But all thit It
ver now. The most extraordi
nary and discordant variety of
notes it now to he heard, from
the different leaden of the two
major parties, from the civil
servants and tht Ministers they
are charged with advltlag, even
among the higher permanent
ttafft of tingle Ministries.
i m caute oi mis wholly
There is Britain's economic
problem, which keeps Britain
on a permanent brink of dis
aster. For example, approxi
mately twenty-two per cent of
Britain's lifeblood. the hard
currency revenue of the Ster
ling area, comet from two
highly unstable ex -colonial
countries. Chana and Malaya.
Again, the loss of the Middle
Eastern oil sources, which are
now in ever-greater danger,
will add a cruel billion dollars
a year to the debit side cA Bri
tain's national balance sheet. A
single individual, the Sheikh of
Kuweit, contributes very near
ly ten per cent of the hew capi
tal annually available in the
Sterling area, which is desper
ately short of capital. And so
the story goes.
There it Britaln't ttrategle
problem, which it insoluble he
cause of the economic problem.
For example, the so-called tup-
Krt costs which the Germans
ve been paying for the Brit
ish divisions ia NATO amount
to lest than one bnndred and
thirty million dollars. Bat be
cause the Germans are refusing
to pay tbete cortt, the British
government it thinking of rut
ting itt NATO contribution be
yond the point of arnte danger,
la a war that will pre I ud ire
all Britaia't rrlationt with the
aew Ed rope, and for a torn
really hardlv larger thaa the
British pig subsidy.
There is the Middle Eastern
problem.
One could continue the recital
almost indefinitely. But I have
said enough to illustrate the
tragic point.
el dltcord of Idea, 'and attitade. ,J ?rXTZ fViS!
Brl-
It really simple enough.
jam today It squarely con
fronted with at let it half a
dotea major problem! which
Britala alone does sot have the
meant to solve.
sin; for Britain's defeat will al
most surely mean the West's defeat.
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FROM STATESMAN FILES
10 Years Ago
, Feb. 26, 1948
Portland's "First Negro Citi
zen for 1947" was chosen by the
Progressive Democratic Club.
The honor went to Edwin C.
Berry, executive secretary of
the Portland Urban League.
Plans for a $325,000 combin
ation dormitory-school building
at the state School for the Deaf
in Salem were approved by the
State Board of Control.
25 Years Ago
Feb. 26, 1933 '
A crowd which packed every
foot of available space in tho
House chambers enjoyed the
biennial "third house," put on
my lobbyists, attaches of the
legislature and newimen. Jack
Eakin, state commander of the
American Legion, wat tpeaker
of the mock members.
Five-cent rides on the Salem
buses will be made easier
starting March 1, when the com
pany will sell 10 tickets for SO
cents.
40 Years Ago
Feb. Z. 1918
The younger music ttudents
of Miss Elms. Weller gave a re
cital at her studio. Miss Mabel
Marcus sang. Othen taking
part were Clarence Hamilton,
Nancy Thielaen, Billy Cupper,
Dorothy Livesley, Louise Pou
jade and Gwendolyn Jarman.
Richard Davis, a schoolboy
of Union County, soli $727
worth of thrift stamps,! rec
ord that is not equaled by any
other members of State Super
intendent's Churchill's Junior
regiment.
Better English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this sen
tence? "They found a gun on the
criminal and confiscated it."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "menage"?
3. Which one of these words it
misspelled? Allegedly, allegoric,
alienation, allegience.
4. What does the word "pro
fanation" mean?
S. What is a word beginning men poured a steady stream of
wster contained about 100,000 gal
lons of benxol and motor vehicle
fuel.
James F. Belt, Gssco executive
vice president, said tho blaze ap
parently was caused by a leak in
a giant pilch tank. The fiery ma
terial is combustible on contsxt.
with air.
Loss was confined to two 14,000-
gauon pucn tauu
Saes Tax for
Schools Not Favored
To the Editor:
The report carried in Tht States
man of my testimony before the
Legislative Interim Committee on
Taxation, might leave the impres
sion that the Marion County
Farmers favor a sales tax Tor
school aid to reduce property
taxes. In answer to a question by
Representative Kerbow as to whe
ther the Farmers Union would
support Senator Pearson's pro
posal for a sales tax for school
purposes. I made the following
statement: "We believe there are
ample funds available or can be
raised, without damage to any
part of the economy, within the
frame work of the present state
tax structure."
The reappraisal program being
carried on throughout the state
at thisytime is probably a good
thing, but it doesn't touch the
basic problem of property tax
payers. That problem is that the
ownership of land or other prop
erty, of itself, does not constitute
ability to pay taxes.
School standards as to build
ings, courses of study, qualifica
tions of teachers and etc., are set
on a state level, therefore it is
only logical that the majority of
school taxes be equalised on a
state basis. This would take them
out of the property tax field.
Wendell E. Bamett, Chairman,
Leg. Comm. Marloa Coaaty T.V.,
Roate 1, Box 1S4, Brooks, Ore.
night by Salem Planning Com'
mission
Commissioners also turned over
to City Council with their endorse
ment the necessary city variance
permit for two new church con
struction projects St. Vincent
dePaul Catholic. Church at Myrtle
and Columbia Streets NE and
Peace Lutheran Church at Glen
Creek Road and Parkway Drive
NW.
The planners held for further
study the proposed vacation of a
steep, little-used and unimproved
block of Lefeile Street SE. be
tween Winter and Summer adja
cent to Bush's Pasture. City parks
officials want to use the property
for access to a proposed amphi
theater ia the park. Neighbors
want the street closed and con
fined to park use.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brandner
were informed the commission is
opposed to commercial toning of
a lot at 2150 Hazel Ave. NE so a
garage there can be converted to
beauty shop use.
Final approval was voted for two
residential subdivisions a three
acre, 15-lot area owned by Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Knox near Park
Avenue and D Street NE and a
1.4-acre, seven-lot area being re
platted by the Marvin Girrards
and Harry Irvines in vicinity of
Rivercrest Drive and Cummings
Lane N.
Salem Man's
Son Killed by
Hit-Run Car
Word was received in Salem
Wednesday of the death Saturday
in California of A. 2C. Max I. Vo
gan, apparently the victim of a hit-
run driver. He waa 24.
Vogan was a Salem resident
from about 1937 until joining the
Army some six years ago. After
a two-year enlistment with service
in Austria, he entered the Air
Force.
He was believed to be hitch-hik
ing from Edwards Air Base to
visit relatives at the time of the
accident.
He leaves his parents, Orval Vo
gan, Salem, and Mrs. Edna Hamp
ton, Yakima. Wash.; three broth
ers, Army Sgt. George Vogan in
Germany, Rex Vogan. Hayward.
Calif., and James Vogan, Salt
Lake City; one sister, Mrs. Wanda
Contrars, San Leandro, Calif.
Arrangements are pending
Clough-Barrick mortuary.
Board Suggests
New Name for
Commodity Unit
The state Board of Agriculture
Tuesday recommended that "Pro
ducers Marketing Service" might
be substituted for the name "Com
mission" now used by Oregon's
self-help commodity groups. This
came from the first session of the
board's two-day meeting at state
department of agriculture head
quarters in Salem.
Agriculture Director Robert J.
Steward will submit this suggestion
to the heads of Oregon's seven
commodity commissions for ap
proval. At their first joint meet
ing lasi week, commodity group
representatives unanimously
agreed thatt they should change
tne term commission which
seems to confuse them with
governmental agencies, but did
not corns to decision on a new
name.
The board reaffirmed a
November action to petition the
legislature to amend the Qualifica
tion section of the Oregon Com
modity Commission Act by sub
stituting a single 51 per cent
majority for the present two-thirds
now required to form a commis
sion. Don Parker, assistant attorney
general with the department ad
vised the board that the law could
be amended without changing
other sections. The board will re
commend no change in the re
quirement that the total votes cast
must represent at least one-third
of the total state production of the
commodity.
In further action, the board en
dorsed the capital gains study of
the interim tax committee and
urged additional emphasis to the
impact of capital gains on agri
culture. O. K. Beals, department foods
and dairies division chief, snd J.
D. Patterson, chief chemist, were
asked to continue a study on the
advisbility of dating agricultural
sprays ana ousts.
Tht board has invited Burton G
Wood, head of the agricultural
economics department at Oregon
State College, to meet with it
tomorrow to discuss the farmer's
role in current economic trends.
Death Takes
Frida Tredup
. Miss Frida E. tredup, former
Salem resident, died Tuesday in a
Salem hospital at the age of 17
after a lingering illness. She hsd
returned from Seattle two weeks
ago to be with her parenti and en
tered the hospital Sunday.
Miss Tredup lived in Salem from
1937 to 1945, was a Business Col
lets student and later an American
News Co. employe. She moved to
Seattle 13 years ago where she was
employed as a bank secretary
She was born Aug. I, 1920, atUXCeUjve
Saratoga springs, m. y.
She leaves her parents, Air. ana
Mrs. Charles Crawford. Salem;
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. John
Pichachek. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
aunt, Mn. Margaret Deuell, and
uncle, John , Parker, Dots oi
Saratoga Springs.
Arrangements are penaing at
Virgil T. Golden mortuary.
McMinnville Firm
May Remodel as
Shopping Center
McMINNVILLE. Feb. 25 iff) - A
large hardware and farm machin
ery business may bo re-modeled
as a shopping center.
Tht L,A. Courtemanohs Co. re
fused to comment on whether tho
firm might drop ita hardware and
machinery business.
Employes tsid, however, they
have received letters saying a
changeover may be mads in a few
months if conversion costs art not
Minister to Take Tour
VIENNA. Feb. 25 uB-Foreign
Minister Leopold Flgl it leaving
Thursday on a month's tour of
the Middle East and South Aslaa
nations to promote friendly rela
tions for Austria.
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Fire Quelled
In Portland
PORTLAND. Feb. 25 UV Fire
in liquid petroleum pitrh-Janks at
Portland Gas k Coke Co. plant
imperiled nearby tanks of volatile
fuels before it was quelled by fire
fighters on land and water today.
The blaze finally was brought
under control when Air Force fire
fighters, wearing asbestos cloth
ing, poured thousands of gallons
of foam on the blazing liquid. At
the height of the blaze, more than
100 firemen and 25 pieces of equip
ment, including three fbreboats,
were at the scene. Just before the
fire was brought under control, a
heavy rain began to fall.
The nearby tanks on which fire-
with er that means "hidden;
cret, occult"?
Answers
I. Say, "They found a gun IN
POSSESSION OF the criminal."
2. Pronounce may-nahzh, accent
second syllable. 3. Allegiance. 4.
Act of profaning, especially sac
red things- "His profanation was
shocking to the people of the
community." f. Cryptic.
Pearl Miller
Of Salem Dies
Mn. Pearl Miller, 75. a Salem
resident for the past 20 years, died
Tuesday morning at her residence,
2390 Liberty St. NE. She had been
in ill health for two months.
Mrs. Miller was born In Indiana,
Sept. 22, 1881. and moved to Kan
sas at an early age.
She was married to Charles Mil
ler and the couple farmed in
Kansas for many years before
moving to Salem.
She was a member of the Bap
tist Church in Kansas, the Town
send Club in Salem.
Survivors besides her widower
are daughters, Mrs. Jessie House.
Colorado Springs. Colo.. Mrs.
Rheta Hilderbrand, Salem and
Mrs. Eula Weir, Ashland, Ore.;
Brothers. Luther Centwell, Hous
ton, Tex., and Ralph and Trent
Cantwell, both of Sterling. Kan.i
sisters, Bessie Walker, Hutchin
son, Kan. and Delia Sorineer.
Woodward. Okla.: five grand
children. ,
Arrangements are nendinc at
the Clough-Barrick Mortuary.
Falls City Woman
Injured in Fall
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FALLS CITY, Feb. 25 Mn. Al
Travis suffered a fractured hip in
a fall thia morning.
The accident will delay Indefin
itely the opening of a new cafe
she and her husband were sched
uled to open Wednesday.
She slipped on a walkway in
front of her home and was taken
to Salem General Hospital after
J x-rays in the Dallas hospital
Father Blasts
Convent Life
In Court Case
HILLSBORO. Ore., Feb. 25 OPV
Ivan Miller of Milwaukie, Ore.,
who seeks the return of his daugh
ter from a Roman Catholic con
vent, testified in circuit court here
today that "Life in a convent is a
life of limited prostitution."
When Miller later was asked by
defense attorneys about the re
mark, he said "One is commer
cial, and the other is religious."
Circuit Judge Glen Hieber said
, in court that "It is inconceivable
such an unfounded charge could be
made against an order which has
done so much for humanity."
The two-day trial ended today,
and Hieber said he would take
Miller's plea under advisement.
Miller petitioned the court for
writ of habeas corpus to have his
daughter released from the con
vent and returned to him.
The daughter, Alice Miller. 19,
testified yesterday that she did not
wish to leave the convent, oper
a ted by the Sisters of St. Mary of
Oregon Inc.
After Miller made the comment
about convents. Judge Hieber told
two newspaper reporters "The
court hopes it will die In this
court."
Miller also testified today that
"God is available to all of us with
out anyone in between directing
our approach to God."
Judge said it might take
several weeks for him to reach a
decision in the esse.
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north of the mouth of the Rogue
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mile south of where his daughter's
body was found last week.
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his wife and their 5-year-old son.
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