Slate Employes
Increased Pay
Effective July 1
Salary Boosts Range
From $10 to $100 a
Month or More
G apil A Journal
Soviet Russia
On Defensive
Four Northwest
Governors Rap
Says Acheson
Proposed CVA
61st Year, No. 150
Eottred u lieond elw
mttter at Stlem. Oregon
Salem, Oregon, Friday, June 24, 1949
(IB Pages)
Price 5c
By JAMES D. OLSON
Increased salary schedules for
state employes, ranging from
$10 to $100 a month, will be
come effective on July 1. At the
same time 66 state officials and
administrative heads will be
given .pay .increases .ranging
from a few dollars to as high as
$1500 a year.
The salary boosts were auth
orized by the 1949 legislature
and are effective for the 1949-50
Uennium. A total of $242,496
was appropriated to cover the
increased salaries granted to
the state employees.
$20 Raise in 1948
In the fall of 1948 the state
emergency board allocated suf
ficient money to grant all state
-employes a $20 a month "cost of
living increase," until January
1, 1949. The legislature passed a
special appropriation to carry
this "across the board" increase
until June 30, 1949.
The new pay scale, prepared
by the state civil service com
mission with the cooperation of
the budget department, included
the $20 "cost of living increase
and in addition provided for in
creases that vary according to
classification."
Scale of Fay Boosts
Employes in the lower classi
fications, such as clerks and be
ginning typists will receive an
additional $10 a month under
the new scale while professional
workers, such as doctors, engin
eers will be given increases
ranging from $40 to $100 a
month including the $20 Cust o'f
living boost.
Members of the ways and
means committee were told that
rr.en employed in the professions
f jr the state would not remain
linlesj the pay was increased to
something comparable to what
might be earned 'a private prac
tice. Raises for High Officials
Members of the state supreme
rourt will be paid $10,000 a year
under a new pay schedule. The
only state official receiving this
sum is the governor whose sal
ary was upped from $7500 to
$10,000 by the 1947 legislature.
The, next highest paid official
will lie the state health officer
whose salary was raised from
$7500 a year to $8400. The sup
erintendent of the state hos
pital and the Eastern Oregon
State hospital will each be paid
$8100 a year under the new
schedule. 1
Two members of the state
board of control, the secretary
of state and state treasury, to
gether with the attorney gener
al and the public utilities com
missioner will each receive $8,
000 annually, . the salaries of
these officials having been boost
ed from $7500.
Advanced from $6000 a year
to $7500 are the superinten
dents of Fairview home, the
state tuberculosis hospital in Sa
lem, the Eastern Oregon tuber
culosis hospital and the assis
tant superintendents of the state
(Continued on Pane 5, Column 6)
$30,400 More in
Hospital Drive
Twelve subscriptions totaling
$30,400 were reported for this
week by the advance gifts com
mittee of the Salem Hospital
Development Program. The
Oregon Pulp & Ptiper company
led the list with $15,000.
The reDort for this week. Gen
eral Chairman Ford E. Watkins
said, makes in all, up to this
time, 82 subscriptions totaling
$138,850 returned by the ad
vanced gifts committee.
In addition to this the doctors
have to date made 34 subscrip
tions of $45,620, which added to
the advanced gifts report makes
$184,470.
Among the recent subscrip
tions are three memorial rooms
in the proposed new hospital
building. Chandler Brown,
fWerner Brown and Mrs. Keith
.Powell take a private Bedroom
on the maternity floor in mem
ory of Elva Breyman Brown.
Donald E. Woodry takes the
office of the supervisor on the
maternity floor in memory of F,
N. Woodry.
Mrs. W. C. Keck takes the of
fice of the supervisor of surg
ery as a memorial to W. C. Keck.
WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Mostly cloudy with scat
tered ltPht showers tonight and
Saturday. Little change In tem
perature. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight. 53 degrees; high
est Saturday, 75. Showers and
moderate winds will hinder farm
work. Maximum yesterday 75.
Minimum today 51. Mean tem
perature yesterday 64. which was
1 above normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a.m. to
day 0. Total precipitation for
the month .77 of an Inch which
is .34 of an inch below normal.
Willamette river height at Sa
lem Friday morning -1 J feet.
Beran Isolated
From Catholics
By Czech Reds
Prague, Czechoslovakia, June
24 VP) Czechoslovakia's Prot
estant minority is reported pre
paring to support a traditional
antagonist the Roman Catholic
church in the latter's fight for
survival against the communist
government.
A western clergyman visiting
in Prague, who asked to remain
anonymous, quoted Protestants
in favor of the move as saying
We are next ani we are lost
if the Catholics succumb to state
subjugation."
There are 9,000,000 Catholics
in Czechoslovakia and 1,000,000
Protestants.
Also Under Pressure
The Protestants mostly Cal-
vinists (Presbyterians) also
have been under communist
pressure to submit to state con
trol. Church leaders suspect
that once the much stronger
Catholic church is subdued they
will have no chance of combat
ting a government scheme to
make all Protestant pastors and
parishes completely dependent
on the government for financial
suppport. Such a bill was before
parliament, once, but was
shelved temporarily.
Catholic sources, meanwhile,
reported that Archbishop Josef
Beran of Prague was now com
pletely isolated from his follow
ers. They said it was doubtful
if the 60-year-old pi elate could
again smuggle a communication,
such as Sunday's pastoral let
ter denouncing the government,
from the ever-tightening police
surveillance of his palace.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Lewis Increases
Wage Demands
White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va., June 24 VP) John L. Lewis
spun out his general contract
demands at three scattered ne
gotiating conferences today in
an atmosphere of mounting ten
sion over which soft coal pits he
raay shut down first.
The present contract expires
June 30. The 400,000 soft coal
diggers start a ten-day vacation
Saturday, so a strike in part or
all of the industry would not ac
tually begin before July 5.
Lewis is well into negotiations
with the three groups into which
he has split the industry this
year as part of his strategy to
get a favorable contract despite
poor soft coal markets.
He is meeting operators from
the north and west, plus some
steel companies with mines for
their own use, today. He would
like to attract all of the bitu
minous producers except the
southern coal producers associa
tion and U. S. Steel corporation
to this session.
The southern association is
meeting with United Mine
Workers negotiators, headed by
Secretary - treasurer John Ow
ens, at Bluefield. The confer
ence there recessed until Mon
day afternoon.
Several southern operators
split away from the SCPA and
joined the operators here. The
White Sulphur meetings al
ready represent an annual pro
duction of nearly 250,000,000
tons.
Oregon Wheat Harvested
Portland, June 24 VP) The
first wheat to be reported har
vested in the Pacific northwest
this season was in the granary
today. It came from the Melvin
Mikkalo ranch in Gilliam coun
ty, where the combines started
operating this week. The wheat
harvest will not become general
for several weeks more.
Airport Probably to Get
H Landing Facility by Fall
Salem's airport probably will get the "H" landing facility by
this fall but the complete instrument landing system could not
be installed until at least 1951.
This is the most recent information received from the CAA
by Jack Bartlett of Oregon's state board of aeronautics.
CAA representatives stated
that there was not a sufficient
amount of funds available for
the installation of the complete
system here during the 1950 fis
cal year. They indicated, how
ever, that it was possible that
it might be installed the follow
ing year if there was sufficient
traffic at the local field to war
rant its installation.
The "H" landing facility,
which United Air Lines pilots
have demanded Installed here
if they are to land when there
is less than a 3,500 foot ceiling,
is only part of the ILS. Accord
ing to the administrator of re
gion No. 7 CAA in Seattle there
will probably be sufficient funds
Senate to Vote
Next Tuesday
On Injunctions
Washington, June 24 (IP) The
senate today agreed to vote
Tuesday on the big issue of
whether a new labor law. should
provide for court orders to
block national emergency
strikes. With the agreement,
leaders called off a senate ses
sion they had figured on hold
ing tomorrow.
The present Taft-Hartley la
bor law authorizes injunctions
against emergency strikes. Sen
ator Taft (R-Ohio) and others
want to keep it in whatever new
law congress enacts.
Administration men want to
keep it out. They say they are
unified at last and will win yie
big test.
Plant Seizure Proposal
The unifyihg factor wss an
unexpected move yesterday by
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
leader of the senate democrats.
He introduced a new "plant
seizure" proposal which he told
reporters President Truman
would obviously approve."
Two other proposals for govern
ment seizure of plants to delay
national emergency strikes
had already been voted down by
the senate.
Lucas introduced his plan in
such a way as to make injunc
tions the Dig issue. He put the
proposal in the form of an
amendment to an "injunction-or-
seizure" proposal by Senator
Taft (R-Ohio). The Lucas
amendment would simply re
move the Taft injunction autho
rity and leave in the seizure
part.
Taft was caught by surprise,
as he later acknowledged to re
porters. But he fought back hard
and swiftly.
Issue Narrowed Down
He staved off a vote yesterday.
Then, with his support, Senator
Holland (D-Fla) and three oth
er senators Hoey (D-NC),
Bricker (R-Ohio), and Schoep
pel (R-Kans) introduced a new
60-day injunction proposal, with
seizure taken out completely.
This was offered under such
parliamentary conditions as to
be voted on before the Lucas
amendment.
Thus the issue was narrowing
down in the senate battle over
strikes imperilling the national
health or safety. The big choice
now is between the Holland and
Lucas amendments. The decision
will be close.
Lucas told reporters: "What
happens here may determine
the whole course of the labor
bill."
U. S. Aid Asked
On Horseburper
Portland, June 24 VP) The
federal government has been
asked to make sure that Port-
landers who order hamburger
are not getting horseburger.
In an unprecedented action,
City Commissioner Fred L. Pe
terson asked the U.S. department
of agriculture to put all plants
selling meat in Portland under
federal inspection. Ordinarily,
only plants shipping in interstate
commerce are federally inspect
ed.
Peterson, who led Wednes
day's raid on a wholesale horse
meat operation, said Portland's
inspection "is not as rigid as I
would like." It is not only horse
meat, but also immature veal
that is the problem," he added
The USDA, which never re
ceived such a request from a city
before, is considering the matter.
Portland would have to pay for
the service.
Meanwhile the city laboratory
continued its horse meat hunt.
for the installation of the "H
facility this summer, should it
receive CAA approval, and every
effort will be made to have it
installed before October 1
Should the "H" landing fa
cility not be installed at Mc
Nary field by fall, Salem would
have only about 30 per cent of
its regularly scheduled airliner
stops from October to April, if
weather conditions remain
they have been the past few
years. This was the figure given
by United Air Lines after check -
ing past weather conditions and
statistics which showed the ceil
ing to be under 3,500 approxi
mately 70 per cent of the time
Heads Kiwanis J. Hugh Jackson (right) of Palo Alto,
Calif., dean of graduate business school at Stanford university,
was elected president of Kiwanis International at Atlantic
City, N. J., and receives the presidential gravel from J. Bel
mont Mosser (left), outgoing president. Jackson defeated John
Gorsuch, Denver, Colo., attorney for the top job. (AP Wire-photo)
Street Sale Starts of
Cherry Festival Buttons
By MARGARET MAGEE
Button! Button! Who's got the button?
If it's Cherryland Festival buttons it will be a small army
of women who have volunteered as salesmen who will have
them. The date will be this Saturday and the place the downtown
streets of Salem. r
The buttons for this year's fes-
tival officially went on sale last
Saturday, but the intensive sell
ing campaign is slated to start
this Saturday with the buttons
to remain on sale from then un
til festival time. The buttons, as
in the past, will be used for ad
mission Jo all of the events con
nected with the festival.
First event will be the coro
nation ceremonies for Queen Pa
tricia the night of Thursday,
June 30 at the Oregon State Fair
grounds at 8 o'clock. That night
following the entry of the queen
and her princesses, Grace Kirk,
Dorothy Neuf eld, K a t h erine
Specht and Jeanmne Bentley and
the two Junior attendants, Peg
gy and Maureen O'Connor,
younger sisters of the queen, a
special program will be given
for the royal court.
The Thursday night program
will include a specialty revue by
a group from the Merlaine
Dancing school and the annual
dance revue of the students of
the Paul Armstrong school of
dance with over 200 students
participating.
Other events listed for the
three day festival are Friday
The grand parade at 10 a.m., and
the horse show at the fair
grounds at 8 p.m.
Saturday: Children's parade
at 10 a.m.: drill team competi
tion at the fair grounds at 2:30
p.m.; and statewide drum and
bugle corps contest at the fair
grounds at 8 p.m. The entire
three-day program will be
brought to an end Saturday
night with a display of fireworks
in front of the grandstand at the
fair grounds.
Cost of Living Noses
Slightly Downward
Washington, June 24 VP) The
cost of living nosed slightly
downward during the month
ended May 15.
The bureau of labor statistics
said today its index declined
three-tenths of one percent for
the month.
In mid-April the index had
advanced slightly, one-tenth of
one percent, over mid-March.
Officials said actually there had
been no really substantial
change for the past two months
m the consumers price index co
vering large cities.
Fluctuations have been wid
er, however, between the indi
vidual cities, than in the nation
al average.
Decision on Wheat
Control Delayed
Washington, June 24 VP) The
agriculture dep a r t m e n t will
wait until next month to decide
whether to recommend rigid
production controls for the 1950
wheat crop.
Secretary Brannan announc-
ed yesterday he will receive
, opinions on the subject through
July 5. He said he may not de
cide until after the department
makes its next official wheat
crop estimate on July 11,
,1l
SP Abandons
Mill City Line
L. P. Hopkins, superintendent
of the Southern Pacific com
pany at Portland, has advised
the county court by registered
mail that in connection with
the Detroit dam the railroad
company is abandoning all of
that portion of the Mill City
branch lying roughly east of
Gates and turning it over to the
United States. Definite time of
the prospective abandonment is
not given in the letter.
The reason for the notifica
tion was an agreement entered
into between the railroad com
pany and the county June 20,
1932, in which the railroad per
mitted the county to lay a 12
inch underground drainage cul
vert under its tracks which was
done. The letter advises that it
serves as notice effective in 30
days that the county should
make arrangements for removal
of its property before the ter
mination date of the use of the
road is effective, in case it
wishes to salvage any of it. The
court doesn't consider the pipe
of sufficient value to attempt
to dig it out, so it will be al
lowed to be covered by water
and disappear in due course as
the dam is put into use.
'Framed' Cries
Julia Coplon
Washington, June 24 VP)
Judith Coplon screamed "I"ve
been framed" over and over to
day at the end of cross-examin
ation in her espionage trial.
When Prosecutor . John M,
Kelley, Jr., finally said "that's
all," Miss Coplon remained seat
ed on the witness stand. Then
for nearly 10 minutes she shout
ed that she had been "entrap
ped" and "framed."
"This case is so smelly that it
smells to high heaven," she cried
in hysterical tones.
Earlier, in another emotional
outburst, she had shouted that
"I'm not a communist and I've
never been a communist."
When she shouted there was
"this conspiracy to frame me'
she named those she said had
taken part.
She leaned forward in the
witness chair, and obviously di
rected her remarks primarily at
Kelley and Raymond Whearty,
another prosecutor who used to
call her Judy" when she work
ed for him in the justice depart
ment. "I don't understand this
whole case," she screamed. "I
am innocent. I will always say
that I'm innocent and that I am
being framed."
She said that she did not know1
whether Valentine A. Gubit
chev, the, Russian with whom
she Was arrested, was in the
"conspiracy" but she screamed
that Gubitchev had left her to
make a phone call only 10 min
utes before the FBI seized-them.
otope
jTifBe Used for
11 Ml I
jei vvdipidiitt
Washington, June 24 VP) Ato
mic Energy Commissioner Lew
is L. Strauss protested again to
day that an Iron 59 radio iso
tope sent to the Norwegian mili
tary establishment several
months ago over his objection
could be used for development
of Jet warplanes.
Strauss said in a letter to
Chairman McMahon (D-Conn)
of the senate house atomic com
mittee that one of Norway's re
search objectives is developing
alloys for jet turbines to be used
at high temperatures. He added
'It is my understanding that
the primary present use of jet
turbines is for high speed mili
tary aircraft."
The committee is studying
charges of incredible misman
agement" made against the SEC
by Senator Hickenlooper (R
Iowa). Used in Research
Radioactive Isotopes, also
known as "bombarded" or "tag
ged" atoms, are used in re
search, both military and non-
military, as "tracers."
Strauss said testimony be
fore the committee last June 13
"minimized" the fact that the
Norwegian military establish
ment which he did not actual
ly identify by name, but which
was identified at the time also
engages in contract research for
industry.
Also minimized, he said, was
the fact that the particular re
search program for which the
radio isotope sent to Norway is
to be used is to improve the
performance of turbines for gen
erating water power.
Hickenlooper renewed his at
tack on what he called the "mo
nopolistic" controls under which
private enterprises are allowed
to go into business in Richland,
me community lor workers at
the Hanford plutonium plant.
Cites GE Bulletin
He cited a bulletin put out
last summer by the General
Electric company, general con
tractor fo the project, listing
various types of stores in the
town and the number of addi
tional ones that would be per
muted.
Hickenlooper said they were
'far below a small percentaee
of the average" for a commun
ity of the size of Richland, (add
ing they furnish "extremely fer
ine grounds lor monopoly and
concentrated profits."
In reply, Carleton Shuee. de
puty general manager of the
AES, said the store limits set out
in the bulletin were "not in
tended to be a long-range, per
manent, Solomon-like decision."
He testified the commission had
"to control the rate at which the
town was opened up."
OK Minimum Wage
Raise to 75 Cents
Washington, June 24 VP) The
senate labor committee today
unanimously approved legisla
tion to increase the present 40-
cent-an-hour minimum wage to
75 cents.
The committee abandoned the
idea of broadening coverage of
the wage-hour law on a big scale,
and voted instead to bring about
only 100,000 additional workers
under the statute, Senator Pep
per (D.-Fla.) said.
"I think we have a bill now
which 'we can get through both
the senate and the house," Pep
per added.
The house labor committee has
approved a bill which would
hike the minimum wage to 75
cents an hour and also broaden
the coverage considerably.
Police Raid Hoboes' Jungle
Arresting 15 for Vagrancy
Salem detectives and patrolmen cleaned out a "jungle" en
campment in the Southern Pacific freight yard area in the south
east section of the city Thursday
The raid on the transients' quarters was staged following tele
phoned complaints to police headquarters from residents in the
vicinity of South 14th and Ox -
fora streets. Police records set
the time at 9:20 p.m.
Twelve of the men were book
ed on vagrancy charges and or
dered out of Salem by the mu
nicipal court when they appear
ed for hearings Friday morning.
Three others were committed to
jail for failure to pay $15 fines
under drunk sentences.
The total of vagrants in the
city jail reached 14 later in the
night when an arrest at 11
o'clock added another man to
the lockup on that charge. There
had been a similar arrest for
vagrancy earlier in the day.
All of the men were listed as
transients, although some of
them advised the court that they
Dare Not Follow
West's Example and
Release Berlin Grip
Washington, June 24 VP) Sec
retary of State Acheson is con
vinced that Soviet Russia is now
on the defensive in "the strug
gle for the soul of Europe" and
must be kept that way.
He said yesterday the Paris
meeting of the big four foreign
ministers showed that Russia
does not dare follow the example
of the west by relaxing Its grip
in occupied Germany.
Acheson s prescription for
keeping the advantage is to drive
ahead steadily with the measures
already in effect or proposed-
Marshall plan aid, the North At
lantic treaty, and the adminis
tration's arms-for-Europe pro
gram. Two days following his return
from Paris, the secretary de
tailed at a news conference his
thoughts on "where we go from
here."
He denounced the attacks of
the communist-led regime in
Czechslovakia on Archbishop Jo
sef Beran as a violation of the
"rights of conscience and the de
cencies of civilization."
The big four conference, Ache
son said, served like the gauge
on a steam boiler to measure
the pressure between Russia and
the west.
"I think that the recording of
this conference is that the posi
tion of the west has grown stead
ily, greatly, in strength and that
the position of the Soviet Union
in regard to the struggle for the
soul of Europe has changed from
the offensive to the defensive,
he said.
"The significance of this is
very important in explaining
why no agreement was possible
about Germany.
"Being on the defensive, the
Soviet Union was forced to take,
or did take at any rate, the atti
tude that it would not relax its
hold in any way whatever upon
any area which it controlled in
Germany. It would not relax its
hold on the eastern zone of Ger
many or on the eastern sector
of Berlin."
By contrast, Acheson said, the
aim of the west has been to re
turn self-government as quickly
as possible, under a system guar
anteeing basic human freedoms
and containing the necessary
safeguards for European and
world security.
Strikers Urge
Boycott on Reds
Berlin, June 24 VP) West
Berlin's rail strikers, rebuffed
by the Russian appointed rail
way management in efforts to
run an "emergency service" in
to Berlin, urged a retaliatory
Soviet zone blockade today.
The anti-communist union
prepared telegrams to be sent
later in the day to the west Ger-
m a n union headquarters at
Frankfurt, asking all German
unionists to refuse to handle
freight destined for east Ger
many. The Berlin union styled its ac
tion a retaliation. Earlier the
rail management had turned
down the union's offer to work
trains run on an emergency ba
sis. In Frankfurt, union headquar
ters declined comment on the
suggested Soviet zone boycott
until the formal request is re
ceived. The anti-communist strikers
had offered to clear the way to
ward restoring interzonal freight
movements by trying to clear
the clogged marshalling yards
in the U.S. and French sectors,
where dozens of trains have lain
idle since the stoppage was call
ed five weeks ago.
The idea, presumably, was
that clearing the yards would
make it possible for the Russians
to allow trains to come in from
the western zones of Germany.
night with a total of 15 arrests.
-
were from localities as far dis
tant from Salem as Oklahoma
Several of the men said they had
been seeking work in cherry
picking, but few reported any
actual time at work in orchards.
One of the drunks found in a
railroad boxcar had to be car
ried to the patrol wagon.
A possible sign of the eco
nomic trend could be seen from
a check of police records. The
total arrests for vagrancy in
May exactly equalled the num
ber of hauled in from the hobo
jungle Thursday night,
The one-night raid swelled
the June arrests for vagrancy in
Salem to 29, almost double that
for the preceding month.
President and Con
gress Told People Op
pose Columbia Plans
Washington, June 24 VP)
Four northwest governors told
President Truman and congress
today they and the people in
their states oppose his plan for
Columbia valley administra
tion.
Governors Arthur B. Langlie
of Washington, C. A. Robins of
Idaho, Vail Pittman of Nevada
and Douglas McKay of Oregon
called on Mr. Truman after tes
tifying before congressional com
mittees. The senate and house
public works committees are
considering bills to set up the
new agency to develop resources
of the Columbia river basin.
Speaking for the four, Gover
nor Langlie told White House
reporters that they feel a CVA
would encroach upon state and
local rights.
Admits Change Warranted
He said President Truman told
the governors some changes in
proposed legislation "might be
warranted" after the congres
sional hearings end. He did not
elaborate on this point.
Langlie said the governors
recognize the federal -government
has a vital interest in the
area development, but empha
sized that state and local bodies
also must retain a say to pre
serve the age-old practice of
checks and balances.
He said it is not a public
private power fight at all, add
ing: "It is superimposing on a re
gion an agency that has all the
powers of a private business and
none of the checks and balances
that go with it."
No Comparison With TV A
Governor Robins said CVA
cannot be compared with the
Tennessee valley authority.
(Continued on Page 5, Column 5)
Claim Russians
Licked Germany
Washington, June 24 (U.F8
Weary of hearing Moscow tell
how it won the war, American
officials today cited evidence to
reject a new Russian claim that
Soviet arms and Soviet equip
ment" alone whipped Germany.
These authorities said the re
cord shows clearly that the Red
Star was painted on these items
of material made in the U. S.:
14,795 airplanes, 7,056 tanks,
427,386 jeeps and trucks, 8,218
anti-aircraft guns, and 345,735
tons of explosives.
This equipment was listed in
addition to billions of dollars'
worth of food, clothing, raw ma
terials, locomotives, ships, oil,
construction, machinery and
other equipment lend-leased to
Russia. And officials pointed
out in defintie terms the equip
ment and men of the western
powers that battled the nazis.
The retort was prompted by
a Soviet broadcast beamed to
North America and intended for
"Americans of Slavic origin."
The broadcast said that a recent
issue of a Soviet magazine told
how "The Soviet Union . . .
fought and defeated the Ger
man aggressor with Soviet arms
and Soviet equipment."
The new comment from Mos
cow prompted official specula
tion here that it was part of a
possible Soviet maneuver to get
out of paying for some of the
$11,000,000,000 worth of Amer
ican equipment shipped to Rus
sia during World War II.
Refrigerator Slayer
Captured in Cornfield
Grundy Center, la., June 24
(U.R) Sheriff John A. Meyer said
today that a 27-year-old factory
worker had admitted to his
mother that he killed Mrs. Har
vey Stalhut, 22, and left her
nude, mutilated body in a tav
ern refrigerator.
Edwin Beckwith was captured
in a cornfield last night, 20 hours
after the slaying, as he hid from
a posse.
Meyer said that one of Beck
with's brothers reported to po
lice late yesterday that Beck
with had admitted the slaying
to his widowed mother. The
posse began to search for Beck
with immediately.
The body of Mrs. Stalhut, who
had been raped, was found by
her husband in a walk-in cooler
in a tavern they operated at
nearby Morrison. Her throat had
been slit, her breasts severed,
and her body "cut down the
middle," Meyer said.
Churchill Sells Painting
London, June 24 VP) Winston
Churchill, who paints for a hob
by, put a painting on the block
today for the first time. It sold
for 1250 guineas ($5,250). The
signed painting, called "The
Blue Room, Trent Park 1934,"
was auctioned to raise funds for
the Young Women's Christian
1 association.