Coronation of
Queen Patricia
Opens Festival
Seal of Oregon and
Key of Salem to Be
Presented Tonight
G apital jk Jowr al
Vishinsky Says
Western Powers
Suit Filed to
Break-up Huge
DuPonl Concern
Clark Would Force
Withdrawal from
Motors and Rubber
61st Year, No. 155
Bntirwl u teeoatf clui
matter at Siltm, Oregoo
Salem ,Oregon, Thursday, June 30.
Price 5c
Cherryland Festival
Program
Thursday, June 30
8 p. m. Coronation of Queen
Patricia and show at Oregon
State Fairgrounds grand
stand. Friday, July 1
10 a. m. Grand parade.
12 Noon. Bond show at
Court and High streets.
8 p. m. Horse Show at State
Fairgrounds grandstand.
Saturday, July 2
10 a. m. Children's Parade.
2 p. m. Preliminaries of
Drill team and Drum and
Bugle Corps contest at State
Fairgrounds grandstand.
8 p.m. Finals of Drill team
and Drum and Bugle Corps
contest at State Fairgrounds
grandstand. Fireworks Dis
play. Nightly public dances at
Oregon State Fairgrounds
grandstand, beginning at 10
p.m.
By MARGARET MAGEE
Salem's 1949 Cherryland Fes
tival will officially be opened
tonight with the coronation cer
emonies for Queen - Elect Pa
tricia at 8 o'clock at the State
Fairgrounds.
The queen, gowned in white,
will receive her crown from
King Bing Deryl Myers of the
Cherrians. After her coronation
she will be presented her scep
ter by Sidney L. Stevens, presi
dent of the Cherryland Festival
association, which annually
sponsors the festival.
Also presented to Queen Pa
tricia will be the seal of the
state of Oregon and the key to
the city of Salem. Gov. Doug
las McKay is to present the seal
and Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom
will present the key.
Four Princesses in Court
Preceding the queen to the
stage for her coronation will be
her four princesses, all of whom
are to wear gowns of orchid
colored marquesette designed
with a yoke with a wide ruffle
trim and a full skirt with a ruf
fle trim giving an apron effect
The four crincesses are Doro
thy Neufeld of Dallas, Jeannine
Bentley of Lyons and Stayton,
Katherine Specht of Jefferson
and Grace Kirk of St. Paul. Two
younger sisters of the queen
elect will be her junior attend
ants. Peggy, age four, is to be
the crown bearer and Maureen,
who is five years of age, will be
the train bearer.
Queen of '48 Present
Also having an honored place
on the stage during the corona
tion ceremonies will be Lois Eg
gers, queen of the 1948 Cherry
land Festival, Mrs. Arthur Wed
dle, chaperon for the queen and
members of her court; Mrs. B.
O. Schucking, queen of the first
Cherry Festival, which was held
in 1903 and Miss Martha Du
Rette, queen of the 1947 festi
val. King Bing Deryl Myers will
serve as escort for the queen
during the three-day festival and
Cherrians are to act as escorts
for the princesses, Mrs. Weddle
and the former queens taking
part in the ceremonies. In the
Cherrian group are Greg Lan
caster, Robert M. Fischer. Paul
(Concluded on Page 18. Column 4)
Lewis to Order
l3 Day Week
White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va., June 30 VP) Soft coal op
erators expressed the opinion
today , that John L. Lewis will
impose a three-day work week
on at least the northern and
western segments of the indus
try when the contract expires
tonight.
"If the mines work at all, it
will be for a three-day week,
probably Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday," one leading oper
ator said.
The operators themselves
were standing firm against ac
cepting Lewis' plan to spread
jobs by adopting the short week.
Mainly they fear the anti-trust
law.
"We are still opposed to it
from the legal standpoint and
because of the principle involv
ed," the operator who declined
to be quoted by name said.
"What would happen to our
mines when the non-union mines
could work six days? They
would get the business.
The operators running the ne
gotiations here insisted that they
have a contract in force until
Aug. 14.
George H. Love, of Pittsburgh-Consolidation
Coal com
i pany and head of the north-west
A negotiating group, asked, "Why
should we change or modify
that contract when it still is in
force?"
Daylight Saving
Law to Cause
More Confusion
By JAMES D. OLSON
If the daylight saving law be
comes effective on July 16 there
will be more confusion than at
present according to Attorney
General George Neuner.
The law, as passed by the
1949 legislature, grants power to
the governor to "advance the
time one hour" providing the
economic condition of the stale
is affected by the time observed
in adjoining states. Of the four
border states, California and
Nevada are on standard time
while some cities in Washington
and Idaho are on "fast" time.
No power is granted in the
bill to nullify any daylight ordi
nances passed by cities or towns
but all state offices and county
offices operated under provi
sions of the state statutes must
observe standard time. .
City Laws in Effect
According to the attorney
general this will mean that thi
majority of offices in the cour!
houses throughout the state wii:
be required to be open to the
public during standard time
hours while the city govern
ment, if daylight ordinances
have been passed, will continue
on daylight saving, opening and
closing one hour later than the
court house offices.
Wherever time is an ele
ment in the state statutes, stan
dard time must be observed.
said Neuner.
The bill providing for day
light time only in the event
such time was being observed
in the adjoining states was in
troduced by Rep. Henry E. Pe
terson of lone who was opposed
to the daylight time but above
all else sought to have uniform
ity of time throughout the state.
However, as the law now
stands, Neuner declares that ci
ties and towns now on daylight
saving time cannot be forced to
go back to standard time while
the state and county offices will
be forced to do so.
Petitions are being circulated
in Portland to refer the daylight
saving law to the people but lat
est reports are that insufficient
names have been obtained thus
far to insure referring the meas
ure. However, the proponents of
the referendum have until July
16 to file the petitions. If not
filed, the bill passed by the le
gislature will become law.
Two Klansmen in
Tennessee Indicted
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 30
IP) Two men have been indict
ed under an 80-year-old anti-
Ku Klux Klan statute and
charged with terrorizing nearby
Dollypond citizens while wear
ing robes and hoods.
County Patrolmen A. W. Bart
lett and Melvin Burns last night
arrested Homer Blair, 39, a for
mer deputy sheriff, and Wil
liam Hardin, 33, at their Dolly
pond homes.
The two men were indicted
yesterday by the Hamilton
county grand jury, less than two
months after a group of hooded
men invaded the little commu
nity May 7, blackjacked several
men and frightened others with
pistol fire.
Sheriff Frank Burns ordered
Blair held without bond. Har
din's bond was to be set later,
he said.
Both men, the sheriff said
denied taking part in the alleged
floggings and both said they
were not members of the clan
Seek Change in Routing
Road up Little North Fork
Petitions with 66 signers were brought before the county court
Thursday by L. F. Myers asking a changing of routing: of the
Mehama-Elkhorn road up the little north fork of the Santiam
to make what is considered a better grade for an all-year road.
In addition the petitioners ask that where the big slide has
existed above Lumker s bridge-
the bank be sloped back to ehT
minate the future blocking of the
road by dirt dropping from the
bankside which nearly every
winter shuts off traffic and re
quires clearing.
The petitions ask that the
existing road be changed start
ing at Keel creek and crossing
tne river to the south side, fol
lowing up the south side to Lum
ker's bridge. This, say the pro
ponents, was the logical routing
of the road in the first instance
but for reasons existing at the
time of the original survey the
route was not adopted and the
road went on the north side in
stead. Myers said the sloping desired
he is sure would eliminate the
trouble had year after year at the
big slide above Lumker's bridge.
This slide started when logging
interests changed the routing of
the road which before had been
over a hill, but they cut a new
Senate Passes
New Labor Bill
By Vote 51 to 42
Washington, June 30 VP) The
senate today passed the labor
bill constructed by Senator Taft
(R-Ohio). The vote on passage
was 51 to 42.
It contains the basic provi
sions of the Taft-Hartley act and
marked a sweeping victory for
the Ohio senator in his duel
with the Truman administration
over repealing the T-H law.
It was a crushing defeat for
President Truman, who during
the 1948 campaign pledged re
peal of the measure.
Lucas Predicts Veto
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
democratic leader, predicted be
fore the vote that Mr. Truman
will veto the Taft bill if it
reaches him.
Senate passage sent the meas
ure to the house.
House action on any labor
Dill is doubtful at this session.
In any event there is a strong
ikelihood that the two-year-old
faft-Hartley act will remain
jnchanged until after the 1950
alections at. the earliest.
Before passage, the senate ac
cepted by a 49 to 44 vote a
Taft-written substitute for all
that section of the bill he had
not previously gotten amended
to his liking.
Injunctions Approved
Taft s plan for injunctions and
plant seizure in "national emer
gency strikes was approved
Tuesday.
Taft's program to make 28
changes in the Taft-Hartley act
but preserve its "essential now
has been substituted for the en
tire administration labor bill.
Preliminary to taking the
second section of Taft's plan, the
senate beat down an attempt to
nullify all state laws which out
law the union shop.
Weyerhaeuser
-Taeoma, June 30 VP) The
Willapa Harbor lumber mills
and White River Lumber com
pany will be merged in a $10,-
000,000 stock transaction, Wey
erhaeuser officials announced to
day. The merger agreement ap
proved this week in Enumclaw
and Raymond by stockholders of
the two companies was announc
ed by J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr.,
president of the company.
The act, in effect, completes
absorption of the two compan
ies by the larger timber firm
Weyerhaeuser has owned ap
proximately 70 per cent of the
Willapa company's outstanding
stock since the latter was form
ed in 1931 and 59 per cent of the
White River company since it
was organized in 1929.
Stockholders of the Willapa
company received one timber
company share for each five
stocks in the Grays Harbor con
cern. One White River share
was exchanged for three Weyer
haeuser shares. "
The 180,000 Weyerhaeuser
shares issued in exchange for the
300,000 Willapa Harbor and 40,
000 White River shares are
worth approximately $55 each.
The merger, Weyerhaeuser
said, will "provide operating
economies through the integra
tion of forest management, re
search, logging, sawmill and pulp
mill operations."
roadway at the bottom of the
hill. Water from a creek, rains
and snows, for many years, have
formed a seepage in the hill bank
causing it to crowd over onto the
road. Myers said this crowding
has ceased and the sliding is a
thing of the past. But, he added
the high bank above is so steep
that nearly every winter great
loads of dirt break off of it and
drop onto the road requiring the
use of caterpillars to clear it
away. He says the clearing
doesn't take as much time as
getting the caterpillars into the
work.
He said he is certain if the
court will approve the change
in routing of the road and also
sloping of the banks that loggers
in the area will furnish their
caterpillars free to do a large
share of the grading work.
He says more petitions are in
circulation and will be filed
soon.
They Decided Judith Coplon Was Guilty Members of the
jury holding the fate of Judith Coplon file out of municipal
court in Washington during a luncheon recess in their deliber
ations. She was convicted of stealing government documents
with intent to aid Russia. She is liable to a maximum penalty
of 13 years in prison and a $12,000 fine if convicted. (Acme
Telephoto)
Judith Coplon Guilty
Of Being Spy for Russia
Washington, June 30 VP) Judith Coplon was convicted today
of being a spy for Russia.
The jury convicted her on
against her. She faces a maximum sentence of 13 years in
Shooting Girl
Sent Hospital
Chicago, Juno 30 VP)n rapid-
fire disposal of legal routine,
the 19-year-old girl admirer who
shot First Baseman Eddie Wait-
kus today was adjudged insane
and committed to Kankakee
state hospital.
The girl, Ruth Ann Steinhagen,
appeared in felony court with the
man she shot. After preliminary
pleadings she was bound over to
the grand jury.
A true bill was immmediately
voted and the indictment return
ed before Chief Justice James J.
McDermott of criminal court.
This was shortly after Waitkus,
sitting in a wheel chair, confront
ed the girl for the first time
since she shot him in a hotel
room June 15.
Then a jury of six men and
six women adjudged the girl in
sane. She was committed to the
state hospital at Kankakee, 111.,
and will be taken there later to
day. Waitkus went to the criminal
court in a wheelchair today to
confront the girl admirer who
shot him with a rifle June 15
His assailant, 19-year-old Ruth
Stenhagen, was held to the
grand jury on a charge of as
sault to commit murder. Judge
Matthew D. Hartigan set her
bond at $50,000.
State's Attorney John S.
Boyle opened the arraignment
with a statement that Waitkus
had to be back in the Illinois
Masonic Hospital in 45 minutes.
It was the first time Waitkus
had left the hospital since Miss
Steinhagen shot the Phillies
star after luring him to her ho
tel room.
Seeding Clouds to
Avert Hail Damage
Medford, June 30 VP) Cloud-
seeding experiments to protect
the pear crop from hail are be
ing conducted over the Rogue
river valley.
The hope is that by seeding
clouds with dry-ice pellets, the
peak formations can be lowered
to an altitude where there no
longer is danger of hail.
Two former navy pilots, Har
vey M. Brandau and Eugene K
Kooser, have been seeding cum
ulus clouds at 15,000 feet or
more. Unusually clear weather
has made results inconclusive
The tests are being sponsored
by the Rogue river valley traf
fic association.
Film Starlet Injured
Hollywood, June 30 VP) Film
Starlet Anne Sterling was in
jured early today when her auto
mobile struck a parked car, the
California highway patrol re
ported. Attendants at Temple
hospital said the 24-year-old ac
tress suffered a concussion and
head bruises.
Vi I CRIMINAL SI
lillliltS
both counts ol tne inaictment
prison and a line of $iz,uuu
The jury announced its ver
dict shortly after 1:30 p.m
(EST) after having her fate in
its hands for almost 27 hours.
It reported ready to give its de-
cision at 1:10 p.m., 26 .hours
58 minutes after receiving the
case, V
The jam-packed courtroom
was deathly silent when the
jury began filing in at 11:33
a.m. (PDT).
The former justice department
employe was tense as she stood
up to receive the verdict.
"The defendant will rise,1
marshal cried out.
Her attorney, Archibald Pal
mer, demanded that each juror
be polled and this was done by
the clerk, Paul A. Roser.
Palmer announced that the
verdict will be appealed to the
U. S. circuit court of appeals,
and if necessary, to the supreme
court.
When the jurors had taken
their places, Clerk Roser asked
"Have you reached a verdict?"
"We have," Foreman Andrew
H. Norford, 34, a' telephone com
pany employe, replied.
"What say you as to count
one," the clerle asked.
"Guilty," Norford replied.
He made the same answer
guilty when asked how the
jury found on count two.
Miss Coplon, 28, a Barnard
college honor graduate, still Xac
es trial in New York along with
Valentine A. Gubitchey, a Rus
sian, on espionage conspiracy
charges.
Under count one of the in
dictment under which she was
convicted today the maximum
penalty is 10 years and $10,000
That count accused Miss Cop
lon of taking secret reports
from FBI files on countcr-es
pionage and subversion with in
tent to benefit a foreign power
(Russia) and injure the United
States.
The second count, with a top
penalty of three years and $2,
000, merely charged removal
and concealment and made no
mention of an intended use for
it.
Raymond P. Whearty, assis
tant chief of the justice depart
ment criminal division and i
prosecutor in Miss Coplon's
trial, told reporters:
"We definitely intend to try
the New York (conspiracy)
case." " '' '
WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Fair tonight and Friday
with warmer daytime tempera
tures. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight, 49 degrees; high
est Friday. 82. Conditions will
continue favorable for all farm
work. Maximum yesterday 68.
Minimum today 40. Mean tem
perature yesterday 58 which was
6 below normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today
.01 of an inch. Total precipita
tion for month. .97 of an Inch
which is .33 of an Inch below
normal. Willamette river height
at Salem Thursday morning,
-1.5 feet.
Housing First
Major Success
For Fair Deal
Washington, June 30 VP) The
house discovered today that by
mistake it had passed a housing
bill calling for construction of
1,050,000 public housing units.
This is just what President
Truman asked, but the house
was under the impression it had
cut the figure to 810,000 units
House Speaker Rayburn said
house-senate conference com
mittee will trim it to 810,000.
The mistake occurred during
the parliamentary back and fill
ing that preceded house passage
of the big bill yesterday, 228 to
185.
How It Happened
When clerks untangled all the
parliamentary red tape they
found one series of steps had the
effect of wiping out an earlier
action cutting down the number
of public housing units.
The senate passed an 810,-
000-unit bill on April 15. There
ire minor differences between
the senate and house measures
:hat must be worked out.
Rayburn said the committee
to adjust these would fix the
figure at 810,000.
Both democrats and republi
cans in the senate predicted lit
tle difficulty in reaching a com
promise. There was a chance the
measure might go to the White
House before the end of the
week.
Last-Minute Switch
Supporting the vast program
on the final house showdown
were 193 democrats, 34 repub
licans and one American labor
party member. Opposing were
131 republicans and 54 demo
crats.
The bill authorizes grants and
loans up to more than $14,000
000,000 over the next 40 years
for: slum clearance, 810,000 pub
licly owned city dwelling units
and farm housing aids.
Passage of the bill was greet
ed by a great road from the dem
ocratic side.
Opponents, mustering all
their strength in an effort to kill
the bill if possible, or cripple it
in any case, succeeded at one
point in reducing the measure
to a skeleton of the program Mr.
Truman had requested. 1 .
Taft Applauds Passage
Shouting "socialism" and ar
guing that the housing costs-
would imperil the nation s fi
nancial stability, a coalition of
republicans and southern demo
crats mustered 168 votes to the
administration's 165' in a drive
to kill the publicly-owned hous
ing program.
Two hours later administra
tion leaders asked for a roll call
on the public housing section,
which accounts for about five
sixths of the money authoriza
tion in the bill.
They won by a five-vote mar
gin 209 to 204.
Among those who applauded
the victory was Senator Taft of
Ohio, chairman of the senate re
publican policy committee, who
had fought for the bill in the
senate.
Jefferson Caffrey
Envoy to Egypt
Washington, June 30 (IP)
President Truman today nomi
nated Jefferson Caffrey as am
bassador to Egypt to succeed
Stanton Griffis. Griffis is re
signing. Caffrey has been ambassador
to France.
At the same time, the White
House made public correspon
dence in which the President
acepted the resignation of Grif
fis, who attributed his action to
"continued ill health."
ine uriiiis resignation was
made effective today. The Presi
dent said he was accepting it
"with very real regret."
Salem May Lose UAL Service
And Get WA Coast Service
Discontinuance of United Air Lines service to Oregon's capital
city with Western Airlines, a feeder line replacing it, was one
of the proposals offered at a meeting of the Civil Aeronautics
Board in Washington, D. C, Wednesday.
That proposal was made when the board acted on a five-year
extension in the operating au
thority of West Coast Airlines.
Also proposed was discontinu
ance of Western Airlines' Serv
ice to McMinnville, and investi
gation was authorized on wheth
er service to Everett, Anacortes
and Mt. Vernon, Wash., should
be discontinued.
Substitution of Western Air
lines service in Salem would
mean that persons leaving Sa
lem by air would have to trans
fer to another airlines if going
outside the area served by West
ern Airlines.
United Airlines, which in
augurated service here in 1941
with two flights daily and now
has six flights into Salem cac'i
day with four of these flights!
Beating Retreat
Russian Asserts Mar
shall Plan's Failure
Shown at Paris
Moscow. June 30 (UP.) Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Vishin
sky said today that the western
powers have abandoned their
firm policy toward Russia be
cause the Marshall plan has
failed.
He claimed a total victory for
Russia in the recent Big Four
foreign ministers' conference in
Paris in a statement published
in the official newspapers Prav
da and Izvestia.
Vishinsky also said:
Says Marshall Removed
1. U.S. Secretary of State
George Marshall was removed
from his post because of the
failure of the Marshall plan.
2. It will be necessary in the
future to make "certain mutual
concessions on the Potsdam
agreement just as mutual con
cessions were necessary to hold
the Paris conference.
3. Russia withdrew its sup
port of Yugoslav claims to Aus
trian Carinthia and Austrian re
parations because it learned that
the Yugoslavs began "secret ne
gotiations behind the back of
the Soviet union" with Britain
on this issue two years ago.
Refutes Acheson
Vishinsky rebutted point by
point assertions by U.S. Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson at a
recent press conference.
Ridiculing Achcson's conten
tion that the success of the Mar
shall plan led to agreements at
the Paris meeting, he said:
"I consider to state that it is
not the successes but the failures
of the Marshall plan one should
talk about, if you consider facts
known to the whole world.
"Actually, if the Marshall
plan was successful, how do you
explain the fact that the author
of this plan was relieved of his
post as secretary of state of the
United States and replaced by
another?
Claims Soviet Victory
"I believe that precisely the
failure of the Marshall plan was
one of the reasons for the de
parture of three western minis
ters from their original so-called
firm policy . . .
"No matter how strongly the
western government may try to
deny it, jthe fact remains that
tne lour-power agreed commu
nique was drafted in the spirit
of the Soviet proposals.
Congress Drops
Probe of Klan
Washington, June 30 VP) A
congressional investigating group
washed its hands today of fur
ther inquiry into Alabama's
hooded nightridcr troubles.
After a brief hearing yester
day, Rep. Byrne (D., N. Y.) said
he had no plans for continuing
an investigation into flogging in
cidenls which already are under
study by FBI agents and Ala
bama law enforcement authori
ties.
Byrne is chairman of a house
judiciary subcommittee which
heard testimony from three Ala
bama newspaper men yesterday
The newsmen witnesses re
lated accounts of violence by
hooded mobs. But they sugges
ted that congress let the home
folks handle the situation.
Edfiard G. Brown, director of
the National Negro Council, de
manded that the committee call
in Alabama Negroes for testi
mony on floggings and "terror
ism" at the hands of whitc-
sheefed mobs.
"We don't agree that every
thing is all right in Alabama,'
said Brown, a white-bearded
Negro. It hasn't been for 80
years." r
Byrne adjourned the hearing
without comment on Brown's
demand.
cither through flights from Cali
fornia to Seattle or having con
nections with planes going each
direction, has service to 70 cities
in the United States.
Also affected would be air
freight leaving Salem.
During the first six months
of 1949, a total of 3,425 persons
planed and deplaned at the Sa
lem UAL station, and in addi
tion approximately 1,400 addi
tional persons received service
through this station by having
reservations made for them for
boarding planes leaving from
Portland. Receipts from passen
Rer revenue during that period
has totaled $111,000.
(Concluded on Fan 5. Column 8)
Washington, June 30 U.R) .
The government sued today to
force the great DuFont inaus- .
trial empire to give up it alleg
ed controlling interest in Gen
eral Motors Corp. and the Unit
ed States Rubber Co.
It described the three indus
trial giants together as the
"largest single concentration of
industrial power" in the nation.
The government suit said that
for the year 1947. the three
companies held combined assets
of $4,259,000,000, made combin
ed sales of $5,189,000,000, and
had a combined net income, af
ter taxes, of $429,000,000.
Civil Anti-Trust Suit
It asked in a civil anti-trust
suit that the DuPont company
be forced to sell all its stock in
General Motors and that mem- .
bers of the DuPont family be
required to sell all their stock
in U.S. Rubber.
The suit, filed in federal dis
trict court in Chicago, said the
DuPont company owns 23 per
cent of the General Motors com
mon stock, the rest of which is
split up among 436,000 stock
holders. It said members of the
DuPort family own 17 percent
of the U.S. Rubber stock, the
rest being split up among 14,
000 stockholders. This division
of stock, the suit said, gives
DuPont control over the two
companies.
128 DuPonts Named
Named in the suit besides the
three big companies were 128
members of the DuPont family,
the Christiana Securities compa
ny and the Delaware Realty and
Investment c o r p o r ation, Wil
mington. The latter two com
panies were described as per
sonal holding companies of the
DuPonts.
Filing of the suit, believed to
be one of the biggest anti-trust
actions in recent years, was an
nounced here by Attorney Gen
eral Tom C. Clark.
The suit charged that the E.
I.' DuPont De Nemours compa
ny, General Motors, and U.S.
Rubber sell their products to
each other at preferential pri
ces and in closed markets.
Hold Controlling Interest
It said that the DuPont- farm-
ly, through its personal holding
companies, Christiana and Del
aware, holds a controlling stock
interest in the DuPont compa
ny, which in turn controls Gen
eral Motors. It said that mem
bers of the DuPont family also
hold controlling interest in the
U.S. Rubber company.
The suit charged the defen
dants with "combining and con
spiring" to violate the anti
trust laws in the "development,
production, manufacture, distri
bution and sale" of things pro
duced by DuPont, General Mo
tors, and U.S. Rubber.
Sheriff Jails
Self As Slayer
Pembroke, Ga., June 30 VP)
The case of the sheriff who ar
rested and jailed himself for
murder was set for a hearing
Friday.
In jail charged with the mur
der of James K. Strickland, 43,
was Sheriff E. W. Miles of Bry
an county.
Miles arrested himself yester
day on a murder warrant sworn
to by Strickland's son, James
Lee.
Prior to arresting himself.
Sheriff Miles said he sought to
jail Strickland on a drunken
driving charge and became em
broiled in a fight.
During the fight, said the she
riff, Strickland gritted in his
ear, "One of us is going to die
now." A few minutes later,
while Strickland had one of his
arms pinioned, Sheriff Miles
said, he managed to free his gun
and emptied it into his oppon
ent. Miles said Strickland had
threatened his life repeatedly af
ter the law enforcement offi
cer had sought to arrest him on
bootlegging charges.
Marsh Appointed
Regional Director
Washington, June 30 VP)
Cyrus S. Ching, director of the
federal conciliation and media
tion service, today announced
the appointment of Ernest P.
Marsh, regional director at Se
attle, as a special representa
tive. Commissioner Harry H. Lew
is, who has been with the serv
ice at Seattle for more than sev
en years, was named Marsh'i
successor. The appointments are
effective tomorrow.
In his new position, to be held
until his retirement Nov. 30,
Marsh will be available for spe
cial assignment throughout the
service, Ching said.