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Fires Chief Aide
Portland, July 8 (IP) Reports
of more discord in the Multno
mah county sheriff's office broke
Into the open today as Sheriff
Marion L. (Mike) Elliott and his
chief criminologist feuded pub
licly. The criminologist, Stanley G.
MacDonald, was suspended by
Elliott on a charge that he mis
used county materials and pho
tographic equipment.
MacDonald asserted that poli
tics was behind Elliott's action.
The crux came, he said, when
Elliott insisted that he take as
an assistant one of Elliott's
campaign workers. MacDonald
said his files showed this man
had been arrested several times,
but the files disappeared after
the man went to work in his
office.
MacDonald made his asser
tion after being angered by an
order to turn over keys to his
confidential files to the sheriff.
Elliott's jmarges were based
on MacDonald's testimony in
the past as sV criminologist for
cases in other counties. MacDon
aid said his pay for such testi
mony had been taken with per
mission of county officials. It
was a way of augmenting his
county salary of $355 monthly
he said, adding that he once had
offered to turn over all such
checks to the county if his salary
were raised. The officials dccid
ed the going arrangement was
best, MacDonald said. He added
that most of the photographic
. material he used in such testi
mony was paid for by himself.
Condemned Man
Cheats Gallows
Baltimore, July 8 (IP) A 23
year-old murderer cheated the
noose by killing himself less
than 90 minutes before he was
to have gone to the gallows early
today at the Maryland peniten
tiary. He was Roy Arnold Wood,
bricklayer turned holdup man.
Wood killed a Baltimore police
man last year and was sentenced
to death.
The Rev. Joseph J. Ayd, S. J.,
penitentiary chaplain, was in
toning Catholic prayers for the
dying outside Wood's cell late
last night.
The priest noted that the con
demned man failed to give the
proper responses.
Father Ayd called Warden
Edward T. Swensen, They found
Wood lying on the floor, limp
and bleeding, but still alive.
He died a few minutes later
from what Dr. Earl Royer, act
ing medical examiner, described
as a hemorrhage due to an incise
wound of the neck.
"Wood cut his juglar vein,"
Dr. Royer said.
The weapon he used was halt
of a safety-razor blade. It was
found lying in a hole in the
blood-soaked mattress in Wood's
cell.
Alberta Passes Law
For Exporting Gas
Edmonton, Alia., July 8 VP)
The Alberta provincial legisla
ture has passed its gas export
law, which may make it possible
for natural gas to be exported
to the Pacific northwest.
The complicated laws give the
government control over export
of gas. The government can
sanction the piping of gas to the
United States if all local needs
are satisfied first.
Piping of gas into the Oregon
Washington area has been pro
posed by private firms.
Under the new legislation, ap
plications for pipe lines will be
approved by a conservation
board, and then by the cabinet
of Alberta. The government
could shut off export of fuel at
any time that Alberta itself
needs the fuel.
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Fast Time Petitions
Almost Completed
Portland, July 8 VP) Daylight
saving sponsors were close to
success today in their campaign
to keep "fast time" in Port
land and other northwest Ore
gon cities.
They reported they needed
only 4,100 more names to com
plete petitions that must have i
total of 15,926 valid signatures
by July 16 in order to forestall
a state law banning daylight
saving time.
E. B. Bond Sales
Show Increase
Washington, July 8 (IP) The
American people bought more
of the government's series E
bonds during the first half of
this year than in any similar
period since the war.
Purchases of these bonds to
taled $2,250,000,000 for the six
months that ended June 30. This
topped lB48's previous postwar
record by 2V4 per cent, treas
ury officials said today.
At the same time that they
were saving more in E bonds,
people were spending less in de
partment stores.
The dollar volume of depart
ment store sales across the
country was shown in a federal
reserve board report for the
first half of 1949 to have fallen
four per cent under the first
half of last year. Lower prices
were a considerable factor in
the decline.
The treasury-federal reserve
data confirmed commerce de
partment findings that, although
their income shrank somewhat
in 1949, Americans saved more
than they had when they were
taking in a larger total.
Furthermore, treasury offic
ials said, people hung on to their
savings more tenaciously.
Cash-ins of E bonds, totaling
$1,702,000,000 for the first six
months of this year, dropped a
solid 10 'A per cent under the
record for the first half of 1948.
For the first half of 1949, new
purchases of E bonds exceeded
cash-ins by $548,000,000, pro
viding a "net" to the govern
ment that topped the mark for
the same part of last year by
86 per cent.
Forest Fire Menace
Increasing in State
Portland, Ore., July ' 8 (U.R)
Falling humidity coupled with
rising temperatures increased, the
fire hazard in Oregon today.
Fire fighting personnel of the
district fire warden's office at
Forest Grove was alerted for the
week-end.
One fire was burning in the
Siskiyou forest area of south
western Oregon. It apparently
started from logging operations
on private land west of the Red
wood highway, south of the
town of O'Brien near the Cali
fornia border.
The Mount Hood national for
est closed certain areas today
because of fire danger. These
areas are the Bull Run, Sandy
river, Three-Six, Oregon City
watershed, Fish creek, Pup
creek, Big creek, and Johns
Creek regions.
Britain to Purchase .
Grain from Russia
London, July 8 (IP) Dollar-
short Britain has secretly agreed
to buy nearly 1,000,000 tons of
coarse grains from Russia in the
next year, official sources dis
closed today.
The informants added that
part of a barter deal agreement
was installed in private in Mos
cow last week a few days be
fore Britain's economic planners
announced a three-nionth stand
still on dollar spending.
oUancing.
Ask Action in
Hawaiian Strike
Washington, July 8 VP) The
senate labor committee will meet
Monday to discuss a bill au
thorizing presidential interven
tion' in the Hawaiian shipping
tie-up.
The bill was introduced yes
terday by Senators Knowland
(R) and Downey (D) of Califor
nia, Morse (R, Ore.), and Ives
(R., N.Y.)
A companion bill was intro
duced in the house today by
delegate Farrington (R., Ha
waii).
Chairman Elbert p. Thomas
(D., Utah), of the labor commit
tee, told a reporter he would
like to hear from both sides in
the labor dispute.
Senator Morse (K., ore.), one
of the sponsors ot the bill, voiced
the same idea.
"I should like," he said, "to
see Harry Bridges (head of the
striking CIO Longshoremen's
union), and a representative of
the employers brought here to
testify."
Both senators said a public
hearing in itself might serve
to bring about a settlement of
the strike.
Morse said he would expect
the hearings to be limited to the
union's demands for changes in
hours, wages and working con
ditions.
"The issue is not the political
philosophy of Harry Bridges or
the economic policies of the em
ployers," Morse said.
Manhunt On for
Jail Escapee
Albuquerque, N. M., July 8
UP) Fifty city, state, county,
federal and' military officers
combed the rugged Manzano
mountains east and south of here
today for a man believed in
volved in a Corvallis. Ore., Jail-
break on June 4.
The manhunt followed an all-
night "cops and robbers" chase
through the streets of Albuquer
que during which police fired
15 to 20 shots in an effort to
stop the fugitive.
City police identified the man
as William (Billy) Haynes, alias
Bill Brady.
The search was first launched
when a second man, Marshall E.
Huff, 47, was arrested at Moun
tainair last Saturday and
charged with car theft and bo
gus checks.
A man known as Richard
Howard Hall, alias Richard
Brady, escaped from the Ben
ton county jail in Oregon a
month ago, aided by two men
who broke in from outside.
Justice of the Peace John H.
Garrison, Mountalnair, who ar
rested Huff when he asked him
to cash a check, said Huff gave
him the alias of Richard How
ard Hall.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Jackson,
Albuquerque, said today Haynes
was first seen last night by two
deputies driving a black 1941
Cadillac sedan with California
license 4B995.
The deputies, joined by other
patrol cars, pursued Haynes off
and on throughout the night. He
gave them the slip toward mid
night.
Soviet Zone Police
Double Patrols
Berlin, July 8 (IP) The British-licensed
socialist newspaper,
Sozialdemokrat, said today Sov
iet zone police have douf ed
their patrols at Russian-operated
uranium mines in Saxonv to
prevent German workmen from
fleeing.
The newspaper said the new
Saxon minister of interior, Ar
thur Hoffman, had ordered po
lice to "shoot to kill" whenever
conscripted laborers escaping
from the mine area refused to
halt,
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Building Front Collapse Kills Four Firemen and rescue,
workers clear the rubble of bricks that crashed to the street
In Pittsburgh, Pa., killing four persons and injuring eight, four
critically. A large neon sign weakened and collapsed the brick
parapet atop the qne-story building, showering the bricks
onto the street below. (Acme Telephoto)
Sydney Police
Raid Commies
Sydney, July 8 (IP) Police
raided Marx House, headquar
ters of the Australian commu
nist party, today and took away
two truck loads of documents
and files.
There were 50 police in the
raiding party. The raid lasted
nearly three hours. Uniformed
state police and plainclothes
commonwealth invest igators
waited until communist em
ployes were at work before en
tering the building.
Thousands of people watched
the raid from the street: Several
communists tried-to make phone
calls as the raid began, but a
police guard was placed on ev
ery telephone in the building.
Police said no large sum of
money was found. In Canberra
a government source said the
raid was made in a search for
54,000 (approximately $174
400), drawn from the banking
accounts of unions last week.
The government has frozen
all union funds to prevent fi
nancial -aid to Australia's 24,-
000 coal miners who have been
on strike for two weeks. An
arbitration court ordered unions
to pay their funds into court but
thus far none has done so.
Lucky Luciano to .
Be Exiled to Sicily
Rome, July 8 (IP) Charles
Lucky" Luciano, onetime New
York vice king, will be "exiled"
to a village in Sicily "because
his presence in Rome is a crime
threat," Italian authorities an
nounced today.
The 51-year-old Sicilian was
picked up yesterday in his fash
ionable Rome apartment. He was
questioned in connection with
an international drive -on drug
traffic, but "no evidence was
found against him," police said.
Nevertheless, they said, he
will be sent to the tiny village
of Lereara Friddi, near Paler
mo. The village was his home once
before. When Luciano was de
ported from the United States in
1947 and arrived here, he was
restricted to Sicily. Later, how
ever, he was permitted to circu
late freely.
Jurors Drawn for
District Court
County Clerk Harlan Judd
and Sheriff Denver Young Fri
day afternoon drew 15 names to
serve as jurors in district court
to report in that court at 9:30
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Syrian Nationalist
Faced Firing Squad
Beirut, Lebanon, July 8 (IP)
Anton Saadeh, president of the
outlawed Syrian national party,
was executed by a firing squad
this morning, after being sen
tenced last night in a secret court
martial.
Saadeh was arrested early yes
terday even as Syrian and Leb
anon troops intensified their
drive to stamp out guerillas of
the national party who have
terrorized outlying areas for
more than a month.
. The party has been accused of
attempting to incite revolt
against both the Syrian and Leb
anese governments. Its ultimate
aim was said to be a "greater
Syria" under Saadeh s leader-
Ship, , incorporating Lebanon,
Syria, Trans-Jordan and Arab
Palestine.
Memorial Board
Not to Be Moved
Portland, July 8 (IP) The
World War II memorial board
will continue to stand in Port
land's park blocks.
An appeal by the Gold Star
mothers caused the city council
to vote yesterday to maintain
the memorial, reversing an ear
lier decision to tear it down.
The memorial is a large sign
board listing the city's dead
from the last war.
The mothers pleaded that
though the "board is not suit
able, it's all we have and we're
afraid that our war dead might
be forgotten."
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99 Years Prison
For 16 Year Old
Roanoke, Va., July 8 (U.R)
Eagle Scout Lee Goode Scott,
16, today was formally senten
ced to 99 years in prison for the
parish house murder of pretty
16-year-old Dana Marie Wea
ver.
The handsome, husky choir
boy and high school wrestler
who admitted he killed the girl
May 8, heard the sentence calm
ly in the chambers of hustings
(municipal) court Judge Dirk
A. Kuyk.
Scott was convicted of first
degree murder Saturday and
the jury set his punishment at
99 years.
Judge Kuyk today formally
passed sentence as the Jury re
commended.
Under Virginia law, Scott can
apply for parole after 12 years
Thus he would have a chance to
be free at the age of 28.
The dark-haired wrestler
claimed he slugged Dana Marie
with a pop bottle and strangled
her in the Episcopal church par
ish house after she said his ath
letic hero, another schoolboy
wrestler, was "no good.".
"Something swept over me,"
he said.
The ' state claimed, however,
that lie tried to attack the high
school beauty and she died fight
ing for her honor.
6,219,000 on V. S. Payroll
Washington, July 8 VP) The
number of government employes
federal, state and local -reached
a three-year high in April, the
census bureau reported today.
The total was 6,219,000. Public
payrolls rose to an unprecedent
ed level of $1,375,000,000 in that
monthv reflecting higher pay as
well as more employes.
Nebraska has a larger percent
age of land area in farms than
any other state.
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Salmon Catch
Reported Light
Astoria. Ore.. July 8 (IP) Ex
tremely light catches of salmon
were reported again today as
the Columbia river summer
fishfng season went into its
third day.
Only half the 1200-boat fleet
fished at all, and these had only
light catches to show when they
docked yesterday. The top boat
had 200 pounds.
When catches are good, the
top boat brings In about 2000
pounds. The average then is 500
pounds, compared with the av
erage of 100 pounds weighed
yesterday.
Taft to Oppose
Atlantic Pad
Washington, July 8 (IP) Sena
tor Taft (R-Ohio) said today he
may vote against the North At
lantic security treaty, because
he thinks it probably cannot be
separated from the proposed
foreign arms program.
Taft made this statement to
reporters after he had told the
senate that he is "absolutely
opposed to providing arms for
Europe."
The administration expects to
send to congress soon a propo
sal to authorize a $1,450,000,000
foreign arms program. Of this
amount $1,130,000,000 would be
spent to help rearm European
pact signers.
"I may vote against the pact
but I have not finally decided,"
Taft said. "At one time, I
thought it could be separated
from the arms program, but
now I am beginning to think It
cannot."
A final decision by Taft to
oppose the pact would likely
build up other opposition to the
treaty. As chairman of the GOP
senate policy committee, thed
Ohio senator wields strong in
fluence among his party's mem
bers.
Fire Hits Streamliner
Afton, Calif., July 8 UP) Fire
swept through two cars of the
east-bound Union Pacific
streamliner City of Los Angeles
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'Glacier Priest'
Off for Alaska
Seattle. July 8 U The Rev.
Bernard Hubbard, the "Glacier
Priest," was scheduled to leave
here today for Alaska aboard
the coast guard cutter Citrus.
Father Hubbard has 10,000
feet of color film which he will
show to service men in isolated
bases throughout Alaska. . The
globe-trotting priest hoped to
fly over the north pole during
one of the air force's weather
flights.
The Citrus will stop in Ketchi- -kan.
From there, the Alaska air
command will fly Father Hub
bard northward. He planned to
return to Seattle in mid-September.
Commenting on China, the
priest said the fall of north
China made Alaska's strategic
position more important than
ever,
Dulles Sworn In
Washington, July 8 (IP) John
Foster Dulles was sworn in as .
New York's second republi-an
senator today. He said he would
serve only until Dec. 1. i
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