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Beck Caught
After Kidnaping
Portland, Ore., Oct. 6 u.
Gordon Stewart Beck, 18-year-old
reformatory graduate, was
held by police on multiple
charge today in connection
with Portland-to-Salem abduc
tion of R. M. Dooly, prominent
Insurance company executive.
Beck, formerly of Mobile
Ala., was captured by three
tate policemen in a wooded sec
tion of Kellogg park after he
had freed Dooly near Salem at
Holman park.
Using a gun which he said
he had stolen from a Portland
department store. Beck accost
ed Dooly Wednesday morning
and forced Dooly to drive him
to Salem.
During the ride to Salem
Dooly said, the gun went off ac
cidentally and shot a hole in
Dooly's overcoat sleeve.
When he was freed, Dooly
made his way to Salem and re
ported to state police.
Beck faced charges of abduc
tion, larceny of an automobile
and a store, and assault and rob
bery while armed. Dooly's car
was partially wrecked in a col
lision during Beck's return trip
to Portland.
Beck had been released from
the Littleton, Colo., federal cor
rectional institution September
12 after serving two years for
violation of the Dyer act.
2 Car Wreck on
ire Builder
Emp
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 6
The Great Northern Railway's
Empire Builder was en route to
Seattle today after a two-car
derailment near the St. Paul
Union station in which six per
sons were injured.
Five persons remained in hos
pitals here, while the sixth, an
army lieutenant, continued on
his Journey after treatment for
a shoulder injury. None was ser
iously hurt.
Railroad spokesmen blamed
a defective switch for the mis
hap. The 13-car train, westbound
from Chicago, was leaving the
Union Station when its seventh
and eighth cars left the rails.
One of the cars, a sleeper, struck
a concrete bridge pier and was
split open.
Among the hospitalned vic
tims were Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
Blow of Olympia (cuts and
bruises); Mrs. A. L. Oswaldston,
66, Vancouver, B. C. (bruised);
Mrs. Nellie Fowler, 62, Vancou
ver, (leg injury), and Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Taylor, Vancouver
(leg injury). None was serious
ly injured.
Czechs Staging
Mass Arrests
Prague, Czechoslovakia. Oct
6 Of Mass arrests of Prague
citizens and new government
controls over the church were
reported in the Czech capital
last night.
Reliable sources said nearly
1,000 persons were arrested in
Prague Tuesday night. There
was no official confirmation and
reasons for the arrests were not
known.
The Prague press disclosed
that the country's communist
cabinet has voted to demand in
ventories of all church property,
and to give the government
power to dismiss from his post
any Czech priest whose citizen
ship Is questionable.
These, with other sweeping
restrictions on the church, will
be vested in a new cabinet min
istry for church affairs
There was speculation in
Prague that the mass arrests
might indicate forthcoming trea
son trials similar to the recent
Budapest hearing in which
Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian
foreign minister and two oth
ers were sentenced to death.
Trouble at Bonneville
Cuts Off Electricity
Electric power in Salem and
wide surrounding area was
off more than five minutes,
starting about 1:40 Thursday
afternoon because of a mishap at
Bonneville.
The Salem office of the Port
land General Electric company
was not immediately informed
of the nature of the trouble, but
said it appeared to be a "split"
covering the entire system.
Chicago, Oct. 6 VP Trustees
of the American Medical asso
ciation said today that the AMA
and 16 state and county medical
societies are being investigated
by the anti-trust division of the
Justice department.
The board of trustees issued a
statement protesting the use of
the police arm of the govern
ment in a campaign to discredit
American medicine and terror
ize physicians into abandoning
their opposition to compulsory
health insurance.
The board said that on Feb
10 the board room of the trus
tees in Chicago was broken into
and records of the board were
thoroughly searched.
Dr. George F. Lull, secretary
manager of the AMA, said no
accusations are made against the
department of justice."
But he called the incident one
of "real significance in the chro
nology of events since the AMA
decided to make a nationwide
campaign against compulsory
health insurance."
Yugoslavia Expells
Czech Embassy
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Oct. 6
(UPJ The government has order
ed the expulsion of five mem
bers of the Czechoslovak em
bassy and eight members of the
Polish embassy, authoritative
sources at the two embassies said
today.
The Yugoslav ministry of in
formation declined immediate
comment.
But sources at the two em
bassies said the expulsion de
mands were delivered yesterday
following Polish and Czechoslo
vakian denunciation earlier this
week of friendship pacts with
Marshal Tito's regime.
In addition, Czechoslovakia
had expelled the Yugoslav am
bassador in Prague.
Railway Express
Seeks Higher Rates
Oregon's public utilities com
mission will begin its hearing
Friday morning on the applica
tion of the Railway Express to
increase its commodity rates.
The hearing set to open at 10
a.m. will be in City hall before
Examiners Art Harvey and John
Carkin. Application for the
rate increase, which in most in
stances would amount to about
10 percent, was made in Sep
tember.
Railway Express representa
tives coming to Salem for the
hearing are R. E. Johnson, at
torney for the Railway Express
L. R. Burke, traffic manager
from San Francisco; S. P. Vic
tor, auditor for disbursements
from Chicago; J. C. Taylor of
Seattle; and J. E. Hore. super,
intendent for the Washington-Atlanka-Yukon
division.
Damage Suit
For $42,685
Another $42,685 damage ac
tion was filed in circuit court
here Thursday growing out of
an accident on the Pacific high
way north of Salem, Novem
ber 5, 1947, when a truck oper
ated by the Journal Garage com
pany of Portland and a Pacific
Greyhound bus collided and two
people were killed and several
others injured. The accident al
ready has been the cause of nu
merous actions filed and several
trials being held.
The latest complaint is
brought by Gerald W. Jones
against the Journal Garage com
pany. Plaintiff Jones was the
driver of the bus and claims he
sustained multiple injuries of
a permanent nature which will
prevent his following his usual
occupation as a bus driver for
which he received $14.61 a day,
and he says will reduce his earn
ing capacity.
Donald Billings, driver of the
Journal Garage company's
truck, was killed in the smash-
up.
This is the second action filed
by Jones for the identical
amount. The other is directed
at the Journal Publishing com
pany and was filed May 9, this
year.
Still another case growing out
of the same accident, that of
Beulah Carpenter against the
garage company, is now on trial
before a jury in Judge Kimmell's
court here. She asks for $25,000
damage. A case with the same
plaintiff against Pacific Grey
hound bus lines was tried some
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Blame Crash
On Bus Driver
Ontario, Calif., Oct. 8 UPl
Negligence of the bus driver was
the cause of the wreck which
cost 16 lives on a railway cross
ing last Sunday night, a coron
er's jury has ruled.
At the inquest, Union Pacific
Engineer Albert A. Hall testi
fied he was going 73 miles per
hour when the bus crawled onto
the crossing only 100 feetn
front of him. Normally, he said,
it takes nine-tenths of a mile
to stop at that speed. - He added
it was his first accident in 43
years of railroading.
The jury was unable to deter
mine who was driving Corp.
Doyle Hall. 24, Hobbs Island,
Ala., regular driver, or Corp.
Gordon Crimin, 20, Baker, Ore.,
his relief. Both were among the
10 March Air base soldiers kill
ed.
Other victims Included five
young women and a chaperone
returning from a beach party in
the air base bus.
A first report that 17 were
killed was reduced to 16 after
complete investigation of the
crash.
Girl Sign Boards
Advertise Game
"No hits, no runs, no errors."
Telling the story of the World
Series became the task of two
Willamette university co-eds
Thursday as they strolled around
Salem dressed in baseball suits
and carrying a portable radio
and a placard headed:
"Ask Me the Score."
The placard was on the back
of Fern Ingram of Albany while
Mary Thomas, 1 6 4 5 Roosevelt
street, Salem, carried the radio.
The pair, following the in
stincts of the fairer sex so far as
clothing was concerned, donned
never-before used Bearcat uni
forms for the stunt.
The object was to publicize
the local broadcast of the games.
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Portland, Ore., Oct. 6 (U.R) A
bolt of lightning hit a main
Bonneville power transmission
line today, cutting off electric
power intermittently through
out most of the Pacific north
west for 20 minutes.
Governor Designates
Newspaperboy Day
Gov. Douglas McKav today
designated Saturday. October 8
as national Newspaperboy Day
At request of Maurice T. Mil
ler of the Klamath Falls Her
ald and News, chairman of the
Oregon state newspaperboy
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oasic qualifications for our fu
ture business or professional
man of tomorrow and the lead
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"The newspaperboy or inde
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trans of nonesty, courtesy, punc
tuality, thrift and self suffi
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I, Douglas McKay, governor
oi me state of Oregon, in rec
ognition of the fact that news
paperboys of today will be our
future leaders of tomorrow, do
hereby designate Saturday, Oc
tober 8, 1949, as national News
paperboy Day and do earnestly
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