CITY EDITION
CITY EDITION
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CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 24,521
EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947
NO. 141
" LANE COWirs HOME
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U vot here w
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felid voters may partici
Kereareno property
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Vfi includes $15,000
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f "ijrmnroval of the budget. .. i7 -
r- .,,. Anlv have more
fetetter trained personnel in
P . . nt hut we also
leased revenues have made
total
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"Y.inwr inn January deii) ana city Manager Dearie Seeger
, was voted last year.
PARK AND PLAYGROUND Director Don January (left) and City Manager Deane
watcn tne nrst turning of dirt at Lawrence St. playground, where J. Ira McNutt of McNutt Brothers
- " . nui. iui me wauiiig poui. tvivic ciuuB, uiwr unions ana
other croups will donate money and labor for making the two-block area into a park and play
ground. (Wiltshire photo and engraving.) '
For Continuing War
Student Troubles, Military Reverses
Bring Forth Statement on Status Quo
NANKING (AP)-Chiant. Kal.Siiek. beset with new
elisor, over city problems demands for peace, new student troubles and new military
Have money in ;sciuai.ua, ucnaicu we guveiiiiiieir, is reaay to ena ininas
Itt new m "7 , ' icivii war u tne communists mi! snow tneir sincerity bv
Lv and increased salaries; uj. ' '
Eeirpe J AaL Aff A ew feet outside the con-
KaXmanager, account! WnnnC WfirKPK ference hall police and 6000
tteM6,43S increase in the new ( wwesas " w" ".defiant students battled with
Lnting budget over the current: ' .
LritT officials say. m 1- H? It MAP
W Lane, manager or tne . r-. . ... y Mr
- rT.T.-.T. . .
Lm war. Part of the budget:
Elbe for a city manager, ana
Lfict mat ne -
of - the
Vmbef of Commerce, reminded
hot who lack transportation
fall the Chamber office and
b trill be provided to taice mem
md from the pons-
MUnar olaces are: ward One.
Wit High" School on Mill St.;
irdTwo, City Hall; Ward Three,
IMst Episcopal Church, Sixth
HC Sis.;" Ward Four, ' Union
School, Tenth and H Sts.;
ftd five, Brattain School, Tenth
Low humidity is resulting in
some stoppage of logging opera
tions In Lane County, the Willam
ette National Sorest said Wednes
day. State law, applying to all
timber activities in western Ore
gon, requires that operation's stop
when humidity, falls to 30 per cent.
During hazardous fire weather,
logging operations are shut down
ardless of the humidity, and
c in.; vweafevrare
id v bis. r- .
iihvc uueu siiuk uuwu n tcw iiuuts
a day. . .
Operators Check . '
Humidity is forecast by the
weather bureau,, and ' is alsov re
corded on instruments that each
logging operator is required by
state law to keep at the scene of
his operations. Readings are taken
through the day, and operations
cease as soon as humidity falls to
the 30 per cent mark.
The Willamette office declared
that a fire hazard exists now on
exposed south slopes, in slash
areas, and in old, dried out burns.
The hazard is not bad yet in green
timber areas. ...
Streaks of low humidity are ex
perienced each spring, the Wil
lamette spokesman said, fend are
not unusual this early in the year.
At Salem, State Forester Nels
Rogers said the forest fire situa
tion in Oregon was' "critical,"
United Press reported. He said the
situation was particularly dan
gerous in long slashes and old
burns such as Tillamook.
Low humidity Tuesday was
combined with high temperatures
oyer the state as Medford reported
92 degrees; Portland, 80; Eugene
and Roseburg, 83; Bend, 84;
Brookings, 86; and Klamath
Falls, 82.
Mfourteeath ani
jrt Case Goes
Male Jury
i nEENVuXE, S. C. (U.R)
Mt J. Robert Martin,- Jr.,
irfi a jury of white textile
mim and farmers at a mass
ta trial Wednesday not to per
il tare prejudice to enter in their
txritionj of the guilt or in
kain'bf 28 men' charged with
kbl a Negro.
Statin read slowly and dis
ntly from a 40-page charge be
ll lending the all-male jury to
mine the fate of the defend-
pi accused of beating, gun
teping, stabbing and shooting
pEarle to death the night
Feb. IS.
'i court of .law recognizes no
' no creed," he said. "There-1
p I instruct you that under
"oatns as jurors you aire not
lilOW allV UMallarl venial I-...
later into your deliberations in
weue in any respect."
Jemen on trial stretched in
"f row before Iho
R ives and a few of v.i
o-sat quietly as the jurist
Pompany, City Ready Area
P n -
or inllux of Mill Employes
RflPH &D ADCTJ A til
L" Coffee Pot Creek area
POalrndge fallers and buckers
ri work for Pope and Talbot,
r tender, choker setters and
rf Pinks clamber over rough
gs are snaked up the
K57ard!d beside the spar
Rtaed on trucks and taken
V ZL pond near Oakridge.
Fta'tany mill pond.
LTata are building i
ne (or winter oneroiin...
canes,
fire hoses, bamboo
stones and fists.
An Associated Press correspon
dent, mistaken for a student, was
Chdnqchun Encircled -
NANKING A Besieged
Changchun, capital of Man
churia, is now completely en
circled by Chinese Communist
forceSiK-Nationalist dispatches
reports Wednesday,
, Government troops, however,'
' were credited with reentering
Kwichulihg?- 3 miles ' id -IBS'
southwest. Fighting was report
ed in the streets. .
In Changchun ' itself, Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's
forces began digging trenches
and .setting up machine-gun
nests. They made other prep
arations for a possible fight in
side the city.
Mrs. Truman
May Recover
Doctor States
GRANDVIEW, Mo. W
President Truman's personal
physician Wednesday gave his
94-year-old mother a chance for
recovery, if she , maintains her
present gradual improvement. .
' Brig. Gen. Wallace H. .Graham
said everything depends on Mrs.
Martha E. Truman's will to live.
The presence of the President
at her bedside, he said, has been
an important factor in the slight
improvement noted in the past
48 hours.
Graham In a newsronference
In nearby Kansas Cuy, empha
sized over and over again that
he was "an optimist." ;
He said the elderly patient had
a very tired heart and a gener
ally weak body and that she was
fighting a terrific uphill struggle
against overwhelming odds..
He said that if the, ipreserit'';
rate, of progress can be main
tained for another two days th
Jjossiplhty-of-tht President's re
turn to Washington might even
be considered. : ,
Foreign Relief Funds Bill
Approved, Sent President
Further Cuts
In Agriculture
Budget Urged
Loan Tenth of Output,
Abroad, Stassen Bids,
Schools Levy
Ruling Puzzles
Budget Makers
The county court and budget
committee felt like cheering for
awhile Wednesday but later their
faces took a more serious turn.
Cause of their temporary jubi
lation was an announcement by
the State Tax Commission that
the usual tax levy of $10 per cen
sus sshool child would not have to
be made this year, as there is sul-
r ' . i v. . " . .
iiciem munc in me mtuiue ma
surplus for the state to "bail the
counties" out and put up this
money itself.
Four Mills
.JJSTJrE U22 rPproac7o thrsiruaUon s
and would be the equivalent ol
GOP Candidate
Urges 'Realism'
JEFFERSON. Ia. OP) Former
Governor Harold E. Stassen of
Minnesota, candidate for the Re
publican nomination lor President
in 1948, advocated Wednesday
that the United States devote ten
per cent of its total national pro
duction of goods and food for the
next ten years "to building for
world-wide peace and plenty and
freedom."
"It should not be a sharpstei
lending program. It should not
be a light-headed give-away pro
gram. It should be a practical,
sound, long-visioned business-like
beaten by police and some 80 PO'
lice and students were injured .
Chiang; said the Communists
need merely "to abandon their
attempt to seize power by armed
force, to halt their military op
erations for restoration of na
tionwide communications."
A truce embracing all of those
points was signed by the govern
ment and Communists 16 months
ago but quickly was violated and
the civil war increased in inten
sity. Each side accused the other
of having signed with no intention
of living up to the agreement,
Students Demonstrate
As Chiang addressed the. peo
ple's political council, a solely ad
visory body holding its final ses
sion, the 6000 defiant, striking
students demonstrated outside.
They sought futilely to present to
the council their demands for in
creased food allowances many
are partially government support
ed; IS per cent. of the national
budget for education, and imme
diate cessation of the civil -war.
Their demands were Inspired in
part by China's terrific inflation,
in part by appropriation of con
siderably mdre than half of the
budget for military purposes, and
in part, government officials
charged, by the Communists.
The demonstrators dispersed at
dusk after an appeal by a liberal
elder statesman, Shao Ll-Tze.
Mounted police withdrew simul
taneously. '
mountain and being ground by a
crusher to build these roads. In
side the city of Oakridge on a
40-acre site work has started on
building two-bedroom houses
which will be sold unfinished to
Pope and Talbot employes at
$2000 to $2500. They can finish
inside and paint them and save
money, Pope and Talbot believe.
Spar Fashed '
Work of constructing a railroad
spur to link the mill with the
Kuiun- -""sr operations, southern Paciiic main line is db-
ttamri f- " ory out inside uaKriage, ltsen, is ousy wim a
wuraaries a hue rnld rl v sfwer nrniert and nther nreDara-
Li1 ft of logs is! Hons for the anticipatPd increase : otnef soldiers were wiled Tuesday
foifo.S .u d ozers' shovels, in, population. - ' j I night when a B-25 crashed in a
!.- . "u,er equipment are. raeanwnue engineering ana
Pfikilr l'rds of ear,h to form 8es forward under direction of
n-irk " " wl hold the Larl Blakley, chief engineers.
L ""'nth. nnnj i. . nrrl.r.
rpr ami fin, r u ""ca ine,
"moat. I At prtlon Hillmiin T.llpHde-
."me work h..!i.i, ., J ... .j -m.t
manager for the Northwest area,
Two Colonels Among
Seven Killed in B-25
CHAMPAIGN. 111. (IP) Two
I top Army flying officers and five
Soviets Demand
Outlaw Atoms
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. W)
Russia was expected to renew
her demand Wednesday that the
United Nations security council
outlaw immediately the use of
atomic weapons.
This move was . indicated by
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko when he told
the American-Russian institute in
New York that after atomic
weapons were outlawed the Sov
iet Union would agree to inter
national control and inspection.
The United States and Great
Britain are Insisting that before
there is prohibition of atomic
weapons there must be a system
of international atomic control.
A new attempt to reconcile
American and Russian views on
this issue faced the working com
mittee on the Atomic Energy
Commission, when it met behind
closed doors Wednesday for the
first time in three weeks.
Meanwhile1, a' big five subcom
mittee of the commission on con
ventional armaments was called
into closed session in an effort to
iron out a program of work. Here
again there is disagreement be
tween the United States and Rus
sia. The United States is insisting
that emphasis be given to control
and safeguards in any arms re
duction plan.
Wounded Drain Man
Said in Good Shape
equipment are Meanwhile engineering ana; fjed durine: , violent thun
scene, moving other planning by Pope and Talbot . derstormi the Army announced
Wednesday.
The dead Included Col
mond t(OTO,V''.,j;;,":iof bootlegging liquor.
Army veteran of both wars andr
AAF balloon, expert, ana y-ou
Whatlev. 45. who had
keeps in touch with developments, j served in the Army since 1925 and
n Z?.01? m'U at one end
David R. Dickson, Drain, was
reported in "good" condition Wed
nesday at Sacred Heart Hospital
after being treated for gunshot
wounds resulting from an alleged
quarrel between Dickson and
Drain's city marshal, Richard
Knight.
Knight is being held In the
Douglas County jail at, Roseburg
on charges of assault while armed
with a dangerous weapon, accord
ing to the Associated Press. Dick-
... son allegedly accused Knight,
. Mnu I an.4 Mh enrria nnaralnc
Baseball
From San Francisco George Pope hd.d lne mobile t-aining unit at Nattonai.
Jr., president of Pope and Talbot,' rh..,f. jpi.w nar Champaign. PhiiadHphu
. B. E,
AM OM Ml 1 0
..000 110 OOk S S 2
h """nil inn . . it it, . - ... i.-niraaa
FWmih.V n are now I wnicnea progress on una iicy., cpi,, wn0 was a Dngaaier - jur,,(Pl, ,nd stmuncki Lade, Rush ()
Ms ui'5 laoor otj ilia i;uiiiKaIJ. j general in WOriU war IWU, win- ana ocneiung. .
At Eueene ana uaKriase ror- i.j r-honni. r m from tutu
T llrHllUCU
r;e.
E'T buntli "asea t0T:
L built e unl" newi nsngtr Bill Luraimra, in
P Novels are bitin Oakridge District the mill will be,
f".iiu ,0 build losoino and Ranger Ivan Crum of the Rig-
big
"w industry at!
ester L. L.Stewart directs forestry.- .944 nd !ater was executive FORD FOREMEN STRIKE
aspects oi tne project, ouperviour officer. He was born in fori
jJUtndg. CCC camn' J. R. Bruckart of the Willamette Tnns,nd. wash. Whatley was a
l4 been leased fnr! National Forest takes an interest ',;. Texas.
in developments. Their ship was bound for Cha-
Ranger Bill Cummins, in whose 'nute Fjeid from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
at the time of the cracKup. :
The Army did not make pupnc
fl('to;i!!ain,'0aiwin costidon District in which is most of
la 0.0ooini I the Forest Service timber which
""Wamitedfroin,
DETROIT (P) An esti
mated 369 foremen began s
strike at the Ford Motor Co. at
10 a. m. Wednesday. Initial re
ports Indicated the strike af
fected only Detroit plants. There
was no immedate comm"-' from
it. , nther five vie-1 the company after the Fore-
tims pending notification ol next man's Assn. of Am'.
ot 1 ordered It nemberi oil tht Job.
I
about four mills on the tax ra'e,
figuring the county's assessed val
uation at an estimated $57,000,
000 Investigation disclosed that ap
parently the -county must budget
the $235,660 and make the levy to
raise that amount but that tne
money, actually will not be col
lected ' from ' property taxpayers
because the state will contribute
this sum as a tax offset.
See Doubt V;
The court and 'committee were
happy about that because it ap
parently means 4 mills of tax re
lief to property owners, but they
are in doubt as to how it affects
budget-making.
Is this levy outside or Inside the
six per cent limitation? The group
seemed to feel it is inside, and
thus must figure in the total
amount that can be levied, so that
no headaches for the court and
committee would be cured, be
cause they are having a hard time
to stretch the levy they can make
to cover necessary expenditures.
If it is outside, there still would
be no relief for the budget-makers
on this score, If it were just ex
tra money and did not need to be
offset bv an equivalent lew. that
Would havn.glv4a)f-sosie4ewa9rt''
about 4 mills, .with which, to meet
growing costs; y
Pending a decision on this point
the court and committee decided
tentatively on a general' policy of
leaving salaries of county em
ployes where they are. They in
dicated they could see no way of
making increases unless the new
school money gives , them some
leeway, which they believe is
doubtful. ,
The court and budget committee
also have decided to allow the
county assessor three additional
field deputies .to bring assessed
valuations of property up- to date,
Crickets Invading'
Umatilla County
ORDNANCE, Ore. UP)
Housewives wielded brooms and
mops here as millions of Morman
crickets threatened Wednesday to
strip this tiny community of the
few green ithings residents work
ed so hard to grow.
The horde of hopping insects,
advancing on a 12-mile front,
were within 11 miles of Hermis
ton and endangered a large por
tion of Umatilla County's west
end crops, Leroy E. Fuller, assist
ant county agent at Hermiston,
reported.
The crickets, ranging in color
from light green and tan to black
and in size up to two incnes long,
were eatiny practically every
thing green in their path and
many women recalled husbands
from Jobs at the Umatilla Ord
nance depot to help combat the
invaders.
Fuller,, who described the
crickets as "definitely out of
hand," called for more volunteer
poisoned bait spreaders and. scour
ed the surrounding area for more
trucks .and equipment.
Crickets blackened U. S. High.
wav 30 for two -liles between
Board and Ordnance Tuesday, he
reported.
Weather
V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast:
Eueene and vicinity, fair Wednes
day night and Thursday. Light
northerly wind, slightly cooler.
Oregon, fair Wednesday night and
Thursday: slightly cooler north
portion except coast today and to.
night and over state extreme east
portion Thursday; local morning
clouds or fog near coast; gentle
north to norhwest wind off coast.
Local statistics: Highest tern
perature Tuesday, 83 degrees; low
Wednesday, 47 degrees; no rain
fall in 24 hours ending 10:30 a.m.
total for month, .09 inches; nor
mal for month, 2.33 inches; stage
of Willamette River at 7:30 a.m.,
minus 1.4 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m.,
North 13; - prevailing Tuesday,
North 11.
8anrle and sunset (PST)J Thurs
day, 4:39 a.m. and 7:38 p.m. Fri
day, 4:38 a.m. and 7:40 p.m.
SIVSLAW TIDES
Tfcarijav
Hlah ll:i.a. . lVtvm. tin.
Low :0aja. -UO. titlpA Mft.
ists in the world today, and what
we can foresee in the years
ahead," Stassen said.
The former Minnesota governor
recently returned from a tour of
Europe during which he inter
viewed Russian Generalissimo
Stalin.
Cites Extremes
Stassen said he believed Amer
ica could find a "strong and wise
and humanitarian world policy"
between what he called two "ex
tremes" advocated by former Vice
President Henry Wallace and
Robert McCormick, publisher of
the Chicago Tribune.
"As I see it the Wallace doc
trine would make of America a
nation of fellow travelers down
the wrong road," Stassen said.
"It would , , . centralize our
economic authority in America
and bring about lower and lower
production at home . . .
"The McCormick doctrine would
'For Peace and Plenty'
make of America a nation of cold
hearted misers passing by on the
other side. It, too, would lead to
tragic results for our country. It
would make us hated around the
globe. It would lead us to boom
and to bust and finally to a de
fensive war."
Pageant Chorus
By JEAN W.6RTH ' '
Th. Cfntenntat Paffeant phfirna.
like all the other features of the
Centennial Pageant, promises to
be "bigger and better" .than any
which has sung before.
Glenn- Griffith, director of the
1941 Pageant vocal music, has
been named to act in the same
capacity this year, according to
Horace.. W, Robinson. Pageant di
rector.
Wants 500
Griffith has announced that his
goal this year is a mighty vocal
organ of 500 voices. The last Pa
geant had a musical accompani
ment of 350 voices.
A pinch-hltter for John Stark
Evans during the last Pageant,
Griffith proved himself so pro
ficient at the mighty task of weav
ing and blending the voices of
several hundred singers into a
beautiful unit that Robinson said
of him, "This was one of the
easiest director-choices I had to
make." ,
Begins Calls
The young superintendent of all
vocal music in the Eugene school
system began his chorus recruit
ing campaign Tuesday night by
calling or. the Eugene Gleemen
during their rehearsal.
"It was a small group," he re
ported Wminesday, "but of the 40
Gleemen present, 21 signed regis
tration cards and turned them in
at once, and most of the rest took
registration cards and said they'd
turn them in as soon as they check
up on their summer's plans."
Dean Theodore Kratt, director
of the Gleemen, said Wednesday
that "we are very much interested
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
Choker Setter Killed
In Woods Accident
Grover Wesley Rhodes, 25
choker setter at his father's (John
R. Rhodes) logging operations
near Booth, was killed late Tues
day afternoon in a woods accident,
Rhodes left a wife, Janice, and
two children, Patrick, two and a
half, and Dennis, 10 months old.
A brother, John, and a sister,
June, also survive. He was a vet
eran of 26 months in the Air Force
and had lived in Boise, Ida., prior
to entering the service.
The accident was investigated
by the Douglas County coroner.
The funeral will be in Boise with
p-elimlnary arrangements being
made by the Unger Funeral Home,
reedsport.
Orlando, Now 88, May
Head Italian Cabinet
ROME (U.p Victor Emmanuel
Orlando, 88, one of the Big Four
in the first world war, agreed ten
tatively Wednesday to try to form
an Italian cabinet.
Orlando came to the front in the
Italian governmental crisis after
Francesco Nltti, 79, announced his
inability to bring the country's di
verse political elements together
in a cabinet of aational unity.
Gypsy Rose
With Clothes
Gypsy Rose Lee Is. ho anajto
take a postman's holiday, ,
Famed for her "daring" reve
lations of unsheathed epidermis,:
Miss Lee confounded,, hopeful
McKenzie-area peepers by don
ning long underwear and saw
ed ; overalls, leaving not a
square inch exposed below the
neck, while she pursued the
river's rainbow trout in a four
day visit whlcb ended Wednes
day. Gypsy may have been com
fortable, but she caught no rain
bows. She did bag tome chisel
bills. .' '
. The noted elothes-shedder,
staying at Log Cabin Inn with
her two-year-old son, gathered
material for sports magazine
articles before leaving Wednes
day for further fishing near
Spokane and in Wisconsin.
-o : :
SOLUTION' SEEN FOR INDIA
LONDON dan The Daily
Herald, official organ of the Brit
ish Labor Party, said Wednesday
that, Viceroy Viscount Louis
Mountbatten would return to New
Delhi. Monday with the ."final
draft" of Britain's "partition so
lution - of the Indian problem.
Health Insurance
' Proposal Reappears '
WASHINGTON (AP)
Congress sent to President
Truman Wednesday legisla
tion authorizing a $350,000,000
foreign relief program.
Action was completed when
the Senate which' had held
out for $350,000,000 approved
compromise legislation fixing
the program at that figurei it
acted minutes after the
House, ' giving up demands
that the program be held to
$200,000,000, approved a $350,
000.000 bill by a. vote of 288
to 86. - :.
WASHINGTON CO. The
House Appropriations Committee
members Wednesday reported ad
ditional cuts have been ;recom
manded to reduce the Agriculture
Department's 1948 budget of 11,
200,000,000 by almost 40 per cent.
The subcommittee in charge of
the bill met in closed session.
Members told reporters privately
they were asked by GOP party
leaders to find new places in which
to make cuts.
Bealth Insurance
New version of the Wagner-
Murray-Dlngell compulsory health
insurance bill was introduced in
Congress meanwhile. ' '
Like its predecessor which died
last year despite the endorsement
of President Truman, ' the new
legislation provides for' a-nationwide
system of prepaid medical
and some dental services and fed
eral grants to states lot expanded
public health care. i : ; .
Sponsors ot the bill, all Demo
crats, are Senators Wagner (NY),
Murray ? (Mont),' cnavei . tNM),
Pepper (Fla), Taylor (Idaho): and
McGrath (RI)r and . Rep,, Dingell-
(Mlch). -- ,,.
' The program would be financed
primarily by an annual approprla
tion equal to three per cent of the
earnings, up to $3600 a year, -of
every employed person;.. The
money presumably would come
from social insurance premiums to
be levied half on employers arid
half on employes, but this point
would be left to later legislation.
Merger Flan
' Chairman Gurney (R-SD) said
the Senate Armed Service Com
mittee has "tentatively agreed" to
a provision setting forth the baste
alms of President Truman's bllV
to unify the armed forces.
He hopes the committee will act
finally upon it Thursday, Gurney
told newsmen after a committee
session- behind closed doors.
"No specific .amendments were
actually adopted," he said, "but a
clearer definition of the secre
tary's power was, quite generally
tentatively agreed to."
The section of the bill' under
discussion deals with the author
ity of a proposed secretary of na
tional defense.
'Oregon Boot' Used on Boy
To Prevent Escape f rom Jail
Fifteen-year-old Herbert
Hjggins, who has twice escaped
from Lane County's aged jail, was
wearing !'the Oregon boot"-Wed
nesday after using - the hacksaw
blade of a well-wisher to sever
one-inch bar in his cell.
Sheriff C. A. Swarts ordered the
18-pound weighted "boot" put on
the boy after Higgins managed to
pound the county's oniy,.set of leg
shackles so badly out' of shape they
had to be cut from his legs before
his arraignment -earlier this -week
on five felony charges.
Used Gun
The first time he escaped, he
used a gun. The second time he
wriggled through a 7 by 11-inch
rectangular space in his cell door.
He tried to get out a third time, by
sawing through a window bar, but
was caught before he could even
start to saw through the two-inch
bars In the second of the two rows
guarding his window.
It was after the attempt with the
hack-saw blade, slipped to him by
an unknown visitor, that the leg
shackles were used. He bent the
shackles by pounding them togeth
er.
Said Humane
The sheriff said the "boot" was
scientifically designed to be abso
lutely humane, but it would "slow
the boy down" if he started any
where again. Higgins was lying on
his cot Wednesday morning' with
the metal ring on his leg and the
"boot" on the floor. He refused to
comment on the "boot" or to be
photographed.
The space through which he
crawled to make his second jail
break is used for putting food
through the bars and was one b-
Leo.fore used at a means of exit.
Sheriff Swarts said that elght years
ago a man who has since served
his time and "gone straight": man
aged to squeeze through the same
space. . . ' . v
Higgins Is scheduled to enter his
pleas In circuit court Monday, ' ', -
5-
May Claims Calls
Were Part of Job;
WASHINGTON M Andrew
J. May told a federal Jury Wed
nesday that his wartime author
ity as chairman of the House' Mili
tary Committee gave him the
right- to intercede at the War De
partment in behalf of Munitions
Makers Henry and Murray Gars-
son, , ;
May's counsel placed In evi
dence at the former Kentucky
congressman's war. fraud , trial
copies ot House resolutions em
powering the military committee
to investigate various phases ot
the war program. ;
"Under authority of the 'com
mittee and as Its chairman I made
all the telephone calls and wrote
the letters referred to in this ease,
as well as many other similar in
quiries," May declared. ; '
The government charges that
May took $55,000 in bribes from
the Garsson brothers, co-defendants
at the trial and former key
officials of a $78,000,000 munitions
empire. i
May also told ' the jury that
checks received from the Gars
sons and deposited to his personal
bank account were used to pay
expenses ot Kentucky lumbej
ccannanT.
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