Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, June 20, 1949, Page 2, Image 2

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    :2 Capita Journal, Salem. Oregon, Monday, June 20, 1949 T L'lJ
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Die in Fire
iCity and County Confer
iOn Courthouse Parking
' City and county official! are conferring Monday afternoon ai
to what the atatui of parking in the courthouse ground! will be
when ( new law become! effective in mid-July giving the coun
ty court definite control over the lituation.
I Inasmuch as Salem Fire Chief Roble had asked the county
court to keep the situation from
Court Upsets
Decision of 1804
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Washington, June 20 (
"Disagreeing supreme court jus
tices resorted to hot words and
fven a wisecrack today in a vain
effort to clear the tribunal's
locket for this term.
Still another decision day was
set for next Monday. The court
then hopes to adjourn until
October 3.
Today's mass of opinions de
cided no momentous Issues al
though the tribunal did rule
Unanimously that even under
the GI bill of rights, veterans'
tcniority may be cut by a new
Union contract.
I That opinion, delivered by
Justice Frankfurter, uphold the
layoffs of three veterans by
Lockheed Aircraft corporation
bf California within the first
year after they resumed their
Ivar-interrupted jobs. A war
time contract provided that
union chairmen of various com
parry departments were to have
Seniority over other workers.
regardless of length of service.
J Lack of general Interest in
ether cases decided today did
pot cool the judicial tempers.
J In another action today the
ourt split 5-4 in upholding the
legality of a 1940 law giving
pistrict of Columbia residents
the right to sue and be sued in
federal courts outside Washing
Ion, D.C.
I The justices used some 26,000
ords in expounding their vary
ing views on the act designed to
Overcome an 1804 supreme
ourt decision. This prompted
Justice Jackson, who delivered
(he majority opinion, to quip
from the bench:
i "That Is the judgment of the
Court. But as to its opinions, I
oan only paraphrase Stephen
Lecock: 'The court has mounted
its horse and ridden off in all
directions.' "
The U.S. district court at Bal
timore and the circuit court at
Richmond had held, as did the
tjupreme court in 1804, that the
district is not a "itate" for law
suit purposes.
' Today's opinion decided that
it Is.
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Mother of Justice
Belt Dies
becoming fire hazard he will
be a key figure at the confer
ence and whatever his wishes
are will pretty well determine
any decisions made, states Cuun
ty Judge Grant Murphy.
The question of whether tiie
courthouse grounds should be
kept free from night parking
altogether will be put up to the
chief, and also whether it will
be satisfactory with him if onlv
the roadways are kept clear in
Boring. Ore., June 20 W
Two small children burned to
death today in a fire that destroy
ed a bunkhouse on the Ezra Mun
son farm near here.
They were Beverly Ann El
liott, 5, and Frank Elliott, 4, part
of a family of seven which had
come here only yesterday to pick
berries.
The fire burst out just after
the mother, Mrs. Hazel Elliott,
stoked the stove and left the
bunkhouse for a minute to speak
to a relative in a nearby trailer.
Her children were still asleep.
Four older children ran to
safety, but the smaller ones were
caught by the rapidly-spreading
flames. Other berry pickers, al-
the daytime and parking still ready in the fields, rushed back
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Lonely Hearts Father's Day
Fan in Jail Brings 3 Babies
Lakeport, Calif., June 20 Wi Father's day was observed In
-A lonely hearts club fan isjfact,BS wc " lanAc.y b" Jee
, . . local men with Allen Elder,
tn Jail today accused of mur- 4158 Battlng , he,ding the list by
dering his bride and her two- the arrival of a son at the Salem
year old daughter and burning General hospital at 5:15 o'clock
allowed in the circle around th?
building.
Circuit Judge George R. Dun
can also will be called in to dis
cuss the question of what to do
about the jurors who spasmodic
ally create a congestion when
called into Jury duty. The jur
ors consider it is up to the coun
ty to provide space on the block
because they arc mandatorily
summoned in sometimes for long
sittings. Suggestion will be
made that possibly they may be
asked to serve parking places in
outside lots and the county re
imburse them for the charge, the
jurors turning in their cost slips
to the clerk.
District Judge Joseph Felton
also is expected to be present to
discuss the matter of offenders,
against whatever parking rules
are adopted being haled Into his
court.
The court formulated rules
governing parking several years
ago out an opinion by the dis
trict attorney held it could not
enforce them by penal methods,
so the legislature was asked to
pass an act extending such pow
ers to the court which It did.
to help but could not rescue the
children.
The father of the victims is
Lawrence H. Elliott, a section
hand at Klamath Falls. The
mother, six children, and an
uncle had come here to work in
the berries.
Harry
, Portland, June 20 (JPi Mn
Hacklcman Belt, a SO-year-old
t other of State Supreme Court
istice Harry H. Belt, died in
Portland Convalescent home
jestorday.
! Funeral services will be held
here tomorrow.- Mrs. Belt was
horn In Albany, daughter of
Oregon pioneers.
Fidel Named As
Deputy Constable
! Announcement was made by
Oounty Judge Grant Murphy
Monday that the court has ap
proved the appointment of John
iyt- Fidel as deputy constable by
James M. Fowler, constable of
the Breitenbush district, effec
tive July 1 and to extend to
Jhntiary 1, 1053. ij
'This ts part of the law en-'fl
forcement scheme being work-io
en out for the district and
naming of Fidel as deputy con
stable as an emergency man at
$25 a month to be called on
when needed will open the wv
for Fowler to become a full
time oficer from July 1 on.
In an unincorporated area
such as the Breitenbush
trict a constable is clothed
all the powers of a peace
Croisan Road
Closed for Week
While one of three bridges to
be replaced on the Croisan creek
road has been finished the road
from about at the end of the
pavement to the Salem Heights
road will be closed for another
week while the county bridge
crew replaces other bridges
there, states County Commis
sioner Ed Rogers. The road will
probably be reopened next Sun
day or Monday, he said.
In the meantime, he stated a
crew Is making progress putting
in fills at the two ends of the
new McKee bridge on the Ger-
vals-Mt. Angel road and this will
probably take a week or so but
the road Is not closed as the old
bridge is still in use. Parts of the
new fills are just temporary as
before the permanent fills are
put In there is to be a realign
ment of the road to cut down
some curves and this will be
done Inter In the summer.
Reports also came Into the
court Monday that a bridge on
county road 828 south of Liberty
is breaking down. Not only is a
plank out, said one report, but
but another said the undcrpln
nlng is breaking down.
4 1st Reviewed
At Fort Lewis
Camp Murray, Fort Lewis,
Wash., June 20 Governors'
Day, Saturday, found approxi
mately 2000 spectators here to
witness the first all-division for
mal review of the 41st division
held since1' September, 1941,
when the division was called for
federal service.
Now beginning their second
week of summer training the
troops of the division Saturday
passed in review before the act
ing governors of both Oregon
and Washington, William E.
Walsh of Oregon, and Lt. Gov.
Victor A. Myers of Washing
ton, and a group of army offi
cers. Also having a part in the re
view were the air National
Guardsmen of the two states,
who flew here from Moses Lake
Air Force base, 200 miles away.
where they are now undergoing
summer training. Both P-al
fighters and B-26s participated.
The weather was sunny for
the first formal review held in
almost eight years but gusts of
wind kept the division's artillery
liaison planes grounded. The
light craft had planned to
provide aerial cover over the
review.
cer and for the time being will
be "the only full time peace of
ficer there unless Sheriff Den
ver Young adds a full time de
puty to the force, or more, ns
he has asked for. Need for
more law enforcement officers
there Is predicted on develop
ments in connection wtih the De
troit dam.
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Car Wrecked, Four Injured Car operated by Charles
Hill, 16, Sunday evening hurtled over 12-foot embankment
near Eola and comes to rest in a grain field 50 feet from
the highway. Injured were Delores Rule, 17; Charles Hill,
Peggy Moberly, 15, and Rudy Frykberg, 18; all of Independence.
Governors Warned to Set
Their Own States in Order
Colorado Springs, Colo., June 20 (Pi A freshman democratic
governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois said today that all
government costs too much and the states had better set their own
house in order before quarreling about federal aid.
Stevenson, who has gained mention as a democratic presiden
tial possibility in 1952, told a
reporter he doesn't agree with
some of his governors' confer
ence colleagues in demanding
Wildlife Group for
New Game Board
Bend, June 20 'Pi The Ore
gon Wildlife Federation wants
a brand-new game commission.
The federation, which met
here yesterday, said that the
present commission has done an
"outstanding" job, but suggest
ed that a new commission would
be preferable once the new game
law goes into effect.
The law, which becomes op
erative July 16, converts the
commission into a policy-mak
ing body.
Bruce L. Yeager, Roscburg,
was elected president of the fe
deration on a nomination from
the floor. The nominating com
mittee had submitted three oth-
names: Ole Larson, The
Dalles; Carl Hill, Days Creek;
and John Amacher, Roseburg.
greater control over the spend
ing of U. S. money.
Government is too expensive
at all levels," he said. "We need
economy from the township up
to Washington. But until we
can do a better job in govern
ment at local and state levels
we ought not to he damning fed
eral interference at the same
time we are asking for more
federal funds."
The- 41st annual governors'
conference, beginning its offi
cial sessions today, has before
it a proposal for a 20 per cent
cut in federal aid grants to
states to be made up by in
creased state tax ( collections
from theater admissions, gaso
line sales, electric and telephone
service, if the federal govern
ment would withdraw from
those fields.
Gov. James H. Duff, Penn
sylvania republican, has com
plained about too much Wash
ington interference in adminis
tering relief and other pro
grams. Gov. Earl Warren, California
republican, said he doesn't think
federal aid can be cut until
some definite agreement is
reached to give the states a big
ger bite of tax collections.
"When you get down to cases
and try to decide who is going to
give up what in the way of
taxes, that's when the difficul
ties begin," he told a news con
ference yesterday.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York, the 1948 GOP presi
dential nominee, will be head
man when the governors get
down to cases on the federal
state government questions to
morrow. Dewey, who hasn't
seen Warren since he and the
Californian lost last year's elec
tion, arrives from the east to
day.
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Oregon AFL Meets
In Annual Session
Eugene, June 20 IP) Some
400 delegates of Oregon AF of L
unions gathered here Monday
morning as the week-long con
vention of the Oregon State
Federation of Labor got under
way with the. promise that labor
will be deeply interested in the
1950 political campaign, begin
ning now.
Federation President J. M,
McDonald declared the conven
tion officially open in his charge
to the delegates to observe the
fundamental principles of union
ism in cooperation with all or
ganized labor, and to place ir
public office men who will sup
port labor's program.
McDonald appealed to the au
dience to forge a program in the
coming business sessions which
will "protect us from lifc-de
stroying opposition in the field
of politics."
The convention will run
through Friday, with Ralph
Wright, assistant secretary of
labor, coming from Washington,
D.C, for the featured address
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their cabin to hide the crime.
The accused man, Stephen
Brusnahan, 34, a mechanic, had
a dossier of 31 women with
whom he had corresponded,
District Attorney Levett K.
Fraser said.
Last on the list was Mrs. Vir
ginia James Brusnahan, 26, for
mer wife of a Chicago police
man, who died in the blaze last
week. She and policeman
Charles Wiltgen were divorced,
and Brusnahan married her in
Hutchinson, Kas., last March
31.
The hefty mechanic was ar
rested Saturday after he had
attended a double funeral for
his wife and daughter, Agnes.
The district attorney said;
Brusnahan suddenly was con-,
fronted at an inquest with dis
crepancies in his account of
the cabin fire. His wife's bro
ther, Eugene C. James, who
came from Chicago for the fun-j
eral, preferred the charges.
Fraser said "no doubt there
was foul play." I
He said Brusnahan made
large purchases of fuel oil the
week before the fire, and that
unbumed oil was on a rug near
Mrs. Brusnahan's body. The
district attorney quoted neigh-1
bors as saying Brusnahan was!
reluctant to fight the fire with'
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Sunday morning.
Two other babies, both boys,
were born before the book! were
closed for the day. The parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Homer Welty,
Rt. 6 Box 411-J and Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Seguin, Gervais.
The stork absolutely refused
to cooperate with prospective
parents at the Salem Memorial,
for there were no births there
Sunday.
Arriving inadvance of the day
was a daughter for Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Phillips. Jr., 10SS Electric
and Mr. and Mrs. James Hayes,
3Z43 Knox, une day too late was
the son to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Richards. 1334 S. 12th.
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