Sheriff Elliott Ousted by Big
Vote in Multnomah County
Portland, Oct. 22 (JPi Marion LeRoy (Mike) Elliott, the politi
cal unknown whose glib statements made him sheriff of Ore
gon's most populous county, had the shortest of political careers
' ahead of him today.
It will last until the first of the week. Then election officials
New Gold Fever
Grips Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct. 22 Wi
Gold fever has again gripped
this Alaska mining center.
A find of nuggets "the size of
peas" was reported from the Yu
kon river in the Fort Yukon
circle area. It is near the Arctic
circle about 125 miles northeast
of here.
Word of the find was brought
here by Gilbert Lord, roadhouse
operator; Jim Magoffin, a flier,
and the Rev. Edward Badten. a
flying missionary for the As
semblies of God church.
They said Clifton Carroll, a
fisherman, noticed nuggets in
the frozen sand and gravel on
the axle of his fishwheel.
The missionary said he stak
ed out a claim himself.
"Gold has been found for two
miles on each side of the original
strike," the missionary said,
"and from all appearances it's a
big strike."
Gold is the commodity on
which this central Alaska town
based its early growth. It is tak
ing news of the new strike in
stride.
The rush to the scene is re
ported to be of only minor pro
portions. Approximately 50 pros
pectors were reported working
the Yukon in the area with
picks, shovels and pans.
Temperatures in the area are
reported around 10 to 15 de
grees. The Yukon river now is
at its annual low stage because
of freezing tributaries. It is as
sumed the discovery was made
on ground usually under water
Felt A Blast
At Hiroshima
Ft. Lewis, Wash., Oct. 22 (A'l
! There's a private in the army
here who lived through the Hi
j roshima atomic bomb explosion.
He's Pvt. Kelly Nakashita, 21.
j He could tell his mates in
i khaki how it feels to go through
' an atomic bombing, but he says
i nobody's asked him as yet. Re
1 calling 9:15 a.m., Aug. 6, 1943,
i he says:
! "I was studying on the second
floor of the Hiroshima engineer
ing college. I heard a dull ex
plosion and looked out the win-
' dow. The tops of the buildings
, and houses were being pulled
1 up in the air.
"I saw the bomb wind coming
i toward the building and I duck
' ed under a desk. After the ceil
' ing caved in, those of us who
' were left crawled to a bomb
shelter. Five minutes later, 11
: of us out of a class of 56 were
alive.
' "We were covered with the
i blood of our classmates."
Nakashita was born in San
Jose, Calif., and taken to Hiro
shima by his parents at the age
of 10 .He returned to the Unit
ed States this year and enlisted
in the army.
"I don't give lectures on the
subject. I just happened to be
there when it hit and I was one
of the lucky ones who got out."
lily
Legion Night
Salem post No. 136, Ameri
can Legion, will be host for its
third annual "hospitality night"
Monday night at the American
Legion club with all veterans In
the vicinity of Salem invited to
attend.
Slated to begin at 8 o'clock
the annual affair will have as
i(s speaker Judge Joseph Felton,
who will talk on the history of
the post, which is now the only
World War II post in Oregon
All of the facilities of the club
will be open to the guests and
there will be a vaudeville show
from Portland. Other entertain
ment it also planned for the
guests with refreshments to be
served.
Kenneth Potts is the post conv
mander and serving on the gen
eral committee planning the af
fair are Floyd Pruitt, Boyd Bab
bitt and Jan Jinisick. Clinton
Standish is in charge of the en
terUlnment.
Reorganize Northern
Military Districts
From Sixth Army headquar
ters. Presidio of San Francisco,
has come word of the re-desig-j
nation of the Northern Military!
district as 6500 ASU Northern
Subarea headquarters.
The change is effective as of
November 1 and the Northern
Subarea Headquarters will in-'
elude the states of Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Area service units have been
organized ai of the same date
and organized reserve corps in-
structor groups. National Guard
instructor groups art also to be
"'will announce that he has been
recalled, and he will be out of
office.
The result in a suerial recall
election was decisive last night
59.059 to 44.810 in the uno
ficial count of the 512 precincts
in Portland and the rest of Mult
nomah county.
About 50 per cent of the coun
ty's voters an unusually heavy
turnout for a special ballot
went to the polls in the most
heated local contest in 17 years.
It wound up in less than a
year the spectacular public ca
reer of the young, rotund and
curly headed Elliott.
An obscure deputy sheriff, he
made a last-minute switch to
democratic registration last year,
and told voters he was a 32-year-old
war veteran who had
played football for the Univer
sity of Michigan.
He beat out long-time Sheriff
Martin Pratt by 800 votes be
fore it came out that he ac
tually was 28. had ni-ver finished
high school, and was discharged
from the marines before the
war. He spent the war as a
shipyard guard here.
He took office in January,
feuded with the newspapers,
with leaders of the democratic
party and with his own office
staff.. Within weeks after he
was eligible for recall, petitions
were out against him.
His opponents charged his
campaign mis-statements and his
later actions proved him unfit
for office. Elliott asserted pro
fessional politicians were trying
to remove him because he want
ed to expose graft.
He will leave office, possibly
Monday, when the official count
of the election is announced.
County commissioners are pledg
ed to name s democrat in his
place.
In private life, Elliott will have
at least one feud left. That is
with the Oregonian, the news
paper he sued for $500,000
charging he had been libeled.
Elliott conceded his defeat last
night when 80 per cent of the
votes were reported, comment
ing, "I gave the people of Mult
nomah county the best I had
I am sorry they felt it wasn't
enough."
Elliott was the 25th official
recalled in Oregon since the re
call act went into effect in 1908.
He was the first here since 1932.
Fast Ccrist Dork
Strike Averted
New York, Oct. 22 ilP) Fears
of an east coast longshoremen's
strike evaporated today after
the union approved a new two-
year contract with east coast
shipping companies.
Joseph P. Ryan, president of
the AFL International Long
shoremen's associ a 1 1 o n, an
nounced last night that a major
ity of the ILA's 65,000 members
voted to accept the agreement.
The present contract expires
October 30.
The new agreement sets up a
pension plan, with the companies
to contribute five cents an hour
for each worker without em
ploye contributions.
In return the union agreed to
a company request for smaller
rigging gangs.
Peace Reigns on
Hawaii Docks
Honolulu, Oct. 22 (IP) The
way for peace was opened today
on Hawaii's strikebound water
front for the first time since
May 1. CIO longshoremen were
expected to return to work Sun
day Monday at the latest.
The log-jam on fringe wage
issues that blocked reopening of
the docks was broken yesterday.
Employes and the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's union settled on pay boosts
for non-stevedoring workers in
three of the territory's five outer
island ports.
The break came 15 days after
the ILWU and the seven steve
doring firms settled the main
issue a wage boost for long
shoremen. They agreed Oct. 6
on 14 cents now, seven cents
more on March 1. The union
struck May 1 for a 32-cents hike
In the $1.40 basic wage.
The ILWU refused however
to send Hawaii's 2,000 long
shoremen back to work until
the fringe issues were settled
for ports outside Honolulu
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Dallas Churches Cooperative Nine Dallas churches are
cooperating in the third biennial evangelistic crusade which
is being held through October 30. Shown here is a meeting
Friday afternoon at the new Dallas Evangelical Mennonite
Brethren church, with Dr. Paul W. Rood, evangelist and Rev.
George L. Edstrom, soloist and song leader. Pastors of the
nine churches seen above are, front row, left to right, Rev.
J. J. Reiger, Grace Mennonite; Rev. Edstrom; Dr. Rood; Rev.
R. William Elmer, Evangelical United Brethren: Rev. A. P.
Toews, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren; Rev. G. E. McGar
vey, Christian and Missionary Alliance; second row, left to
right, Rev. Alfred R. Brown, Assembly of God; Rev. George
H. Jantzen, Mennonite Brethren: Rev. Henry G. Loggan,
Church of God and Rev. E. Wolff, Salt Creek Baptist. Services
are being held at the high school auditorium and the Evangeli
cal Mennonite church of Howe street. (Photo by Abel)
STARLINGS' BIRTH CONTROL TO SLANTEYES
Some of the Stuff Congress
Talked About
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Oct. 22 U.R) Congress has packed its duffle and
headed for home and it's a pity.
The law-givers took a lot of
some pretty interesting copy.
For example, there was the
Ohio stood on the floor of the
senate and defended the impo
lite starlings, which have ruined
practically every building in
town.
Thev eat mosquitoes, he said.
thereby killing a bill that would
have made it legal to kill a
starling on sight.
It reminded veterans of the
80th congress that no starling
control bill was passed then,
either, even though a serious
little eastern scientist appeared
before a committee and advo
cated birth-control for starlings.
He said that these birds don t
have any sense. He said that if
vou put pans of oil around
where the starlings roost and
flake the oil with food, the
mamabird will oil her tail feath
ers and close the pores on the
eggs when she goes home to
set. Then the eegs won t natcn
The oleo tax repeal came up
again.
And once again Reo. rieid r.
Murray, R., of Ogdensburg, Wis.,
was in the thick of the figm.
The bill never got through, but
Reid created a stir when he ap
oeared before a committee to
plead for the butter states which
don't think much of oleo.
Chinese children, he said in
all sincerity, never get any but
ter to eat and they have slant
eyes
"Do you want your children
to grow up with slant eyes!" he
asked the committee. It all went
into the record.
Sen. Bill Langer R.. of North
Dakota livened things in the 81st
congress just the other day by
breaking rules. He complained
of sore feet or something and
started to give a speech sitting
down. Senate Democratic Lead
er Scott W. Lucas of Illinois soon
uo-rightod the gentleman from
North Dakota.
This same Lucas got his dan
der up when he excused him
self from a uncommonly long
night session and went to the
senate restaurant for a snack.
But the place was closed and he
couldn't even find a candy bar.
He made a little speech about it.
Also in the senate, one of the
members referred to a colleague
as "honest" and was ruled out of
order. The chair said if one sen
ator was called honest, that was
a reflection on the honesty of
the rest of the membership.
The house likewise had its
moments.
One day, a congressman sug
gested an investigation of Fort
Knox "To see for sure if the
gold is still there." He was set
down proper by colleague who
thought this sort of thing should
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punishment, but they produced
time Sen. Robert A. Taft. R., of
be followed by a sawing opera
tion cutting the gold bars in
two to make sure they aren't
half lead.
One day on the house floor
with the press gallery cleared.
there was a Hollywoodian one
punch fight. It was between
aged Rep. Adolph J. Sabath, of
Illinois, dean of the house, and
Rep. E. E. Cox of Georgia. No
body seems to know exactly
what happened. Nobody hit the
deck and, after it was all over,
nobody was sore.
3,000 Homeless
Chungking Fire
Chungking, Oct. 22 (IP) Fire
raged through Chungking's poor-
class Changpei district today,
leaving more than 3000 persons
homeless. No casualties were re
ported in the city's fourth bad
blaze since Sept. 2.
Two employes of a tobacco
drying shop, where the fire was
believed to have started, were
arrested on charges of negli
gence. Lack of fire-fighting appara
tus and the tardy arrival of
fireboats on the Chialiang river
gave the fire free rein. Only
frenzied tearing down of build-1
ings to create fire lanes limited
the flames. Some 217 homes
were reported destroyed.
The Changpei district is across
the river from Chungking's
downtown area which was hard
hit by a fire Sept. 4 which killed
1700 persons.
The overcrowded city was
proclaimed the Chinese national
ist refugee capital Oct. 15.
Solomon on Bench
During Recess
Portland. Ore Oct. 22 u.R -
Gus J. Solomon, Portland, nom-
inated by President Truman for
a new federal judgeship in Ore-
I gon, has been qualified for the
bench and for salary while con
gress is in adjournment.
A telegram from the White
House yesterday informed the
43-year-old attorney that Mr.
Truman had signed a recess com
mission appointing Solomon U,
S. judge for the district of Ore
gon. The appointment is good un
til congress reconvenes next Jan
uary. When approved by the
senate, federal judgeships are for
life with pay of $15,000 a year.
O'Reilly Rites
Held in Portland
Funeral services for Mrs. H.
H. (May) O'Reilly, 73, mother of
Mrs. F. H. Kromer and Kather
ine O'Reilly, both of Salem,
were held in Portland Saturday
with burial in Riverview ceme
tery. Mrs. O'Reilly was active in
the League of Women Voters for
many years and served as an
observer at Portland city coun
cil meetings. For more than 20
years she was a board member of
the Women's Convalescent home
and also of the Children's home.
Mrs. O'Reilly was born in
Bristol, England, April 12, 1876
and came to Portland with her
family when she was four years
old, and continued to make Port
land her home with the excep
tion of three years when she at
tended a private school in Bris
tol. She married H. H. O'Reilly,
a retired navigation executive,
Oct. 3, 1898. She is also survived
by two other daughters, a son,
brother, sister and five grand
children. Plan Biggest
Radio Station
Seattle. Oct. 22 "P Plans for
the world's most powerful ra
dio station, to be built at the
navy's proposed $10,000,000
communications station at Jim
creek in Snohomish county,
were unveiled by 13th naval dis
trict headquarters Thursday.
The proposed one million watt
transmitter will be 20 times
more powerful than the nation's
largest commercial radio sta
tion.
Navy officials said the trans
mitter will send out strong, very
low frequency radio waves, pro
viding a positive means of com
munications in any kind of wea
ther with ships and planes
throughout the north Pacific
area. Navy officials would not
reveal its exact range.
Bids for the transmitter will
be opened in December. It is
expected to cost about $1,800,-
000.
The Jim Creek site was cho
sen for the station because of
the natural contours of its val
ley, formed by 2,000-foot moun
tains, which permit the suspen
sion on antenna spans with the
construction of relatively short
200-foot towers. These can be
built to withstand high wind.'
and the weight of ice on the
antenna, the navy said.
New Independence
Buildings Proposed
Independence E. D. Alger,
city building inspector, issued
only four building permits last
UFM.tr This ie a itntnhln rlnnroca
M compared to its issued
in !,,. .i,.
Those receiving permits are
Roy Foster. Grand and Log Ca-
bin, repair house and garage,
Carl Pennington, 715 Fifth1
street, remodel house and gar
age; Buzz Sloper, 361 North
Main street, reroof house; and ;
Wade Mills, 976 Monmouth
street, repair porch.
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Claim Doctors
Refused Patient
doctors virtually went on -trike
against a number of pre-paid !
medical plans after Dr. Morris!
Fishbein of the American Medi-
pal Msncialion visited OreeoJ
mPVMTiiio. the Eovernment!
charged yesterday.
A witness in the government's
anti-trust suit against the state
medical society asserted there
was a sudden change in attitude
of the physicians then.
C. C. Bechtold, general mana
ger of the National Hospital as
sociation, said they stopped ac
cepting patients from his associ
ation.
t As evidence he introduced a
letter from the Coquille, Bell
Knife, Mast and Bandon hospi
tals, notifying the association
they would not accept patients
after March 1, 1940.
In part the letter said, "It isiception of Los Alamos." (Los
considered against the best in-
terests of the patient to have a
third party (that is, a layman) I
come between the physician and
his patient. Hereafter, only hos
pital associations owned and op
erated by physicians will be ac
ceptable to us."
The government charges that
the state medical society at
tempted to monopolize the pre
paid medical field through 1 1 s
Oregon Physicians' Service
Bechtold also listed individual
doctors he said had refused his
patients. They included seven
of the eight physicians named as
defendants in the case. They
were:
W. W. Baum, Salem; John Bes
son, Portland; J. P. Brennan,
Pendleton; John H. Fitzgibbon,
Portland; Gordon E. Leicht,
Portland; K. H. Marzloff, Port
land; and E. H. McLean, Oregon
City. Bechtold said he had no
information on the eighth doctor
named in the indictment, Charles
E. Hunt, Eugene.
Military Claims
Seasick Remedy
Seattle. Oct 22 W) Been de
laying that ocean excursion be
cause of seasickness? Well, for
get it. Military authorities said
yesterday they can cure 95 out
of 100 cases with dramamine
pills.
The Seattle port of embarka
tion said the tests were made at
the request of the army surgeon
general on 600 green-at-the-gills
passengers on six ships on Alas
ka and Japan runs.
Half of the sick passengers
were given the yellow drama,
mine pills. The others were giv
en a sugar-and-starch pill which
they thought was dramamine.
Within an hour or less, 95 per
cent of those receiving drama
mine said they felt better. Fifty
seven per cent of those getting
the sugar-and-starch pill also
said they felt better, a reaction
taken by the SEPE to indicate
that a cure can be psychological
in many cases.
Those getting no relief from
the sugar-starch pill were la
ter given dramamine and 96 per
cent of this group then reported
themselves cured.
Seal Killing Banned
In Arctic by Canada
Ottawa, Oct. 22 f) The Can
adian fisheries department to
day banned the killing of seals
in Arctic waters except as food
for Eskimos.
The ban applies to Ungava
Hudson and James bays and to
the territory north of 60 degrees
latitude the northern boundary
of the four western provinces.
Residents persons who have
resided continuously in the area
for a year may kill seals for
food in those areas. Scientific
researchers also may kill them.
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Military Secrecy Delays
Atomic Energy Progress
Philadelphia, Oct. 22 (IP) A Nobel prize winning scientist
Pitched a verbal bombshell at the American people today. He
said the Russians are moving faster than the U. S. in atomic
development and soon may be ahead . of us.
And Dr. Harold C. Urey, the scientist honored for discovering
heavy hydrogen, had a ready--
made reason
The U. S. is too concerned
about military secrecy.
"It is time that we take stock
of this situation and recognize
it for what it is." Dr. Urey de
clared, "and it is time that we
stop witch hunting about the
'secret' which obviously now
does not exist."
He gave his views at a press
conference yesterday. So did Lt.
Gen. Leslie R. Groves, wartime
atomic research chief.
Dr. Urey said, "I would fire
every security officer in every
atomic plant and laboratory in
the United States with the ex
Alamos was excepted, he said
because of its military detail
value.)
"Childish," scoffed Gen.
Groves.
The general said U S. Atomic
secrecy since World War II was
needed to give European nations
"breathing time for recovery
We would have shortened the
time for Russian discovery of
the atom bomb by making our
information available."
Dr. Urey said that if the U. S.
doesn't abandon (1) atomic se
crecy and (2) congressional
"witch hunts," the Russians will
soon forge ahead of the U. S.
in atomic know how and the
number of atom bombs.
Regarding congress, Dr. Urey
said:
"It has been very difficult
to take any courageous stand in
regard to anything connected
with atomic energy as long as
committees of congress of the
United State continually im-
pune the integrity and motives
of scientific groups
'As long as attacks are made
against a group, of a most un
justified character, the group
cannot do anything to try to de
fend itself."
As for secrecy:
"The question of the 'secret
is utterly unimportant as com
pared with getting some work
done. Receptionists and ordi
nary guards (at atom plants)
should keep loiterers out of the
laboratories and plants.
East Linn Teachers
nvited for Talk
Lebanon The Linn County
Central Teachers' association
will meet the evening of Octo
ber 26 to hear Mrs. Faye Knox
and Mrs. Ruth Lautenbach of
the Oregon College of Educa
tion speak on teaching rhythms
and a program for keeping rec
ords for the physical education
program now in use in elemen
tary schools. The meeting will
be held at the Santiam school
and all teachers in the central
Linn area are invited.
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Father Divine
Opens Big Hall
Newark, N. J., Oct. 22 U.P
Father Divine took over man
agement of a 300-room hotel to
day and ordered that men and
women guests be accommodated
in separate rooms even though
married.
"It's one of the rules of the
Bible," the pudgy Negro evan
gelist told 100 permanent guests
of the Riviera hotel who said
they had no inkling the hotel
was going to change manage
ment. It was one of the city's
leading hotels.
Divine paid $550,000 in cash
for the Riviera yesterday. His
followers brought the money
to the Federal Trust company
in eight bulging suitcases and it
took employes three and a half
hours to count the $5, $10 and
$20 bills.
Brother Germaine, a white
member of the cult, greeted the
guests with "Peace, it's wonder
ful!" and informed them of two
other new rules: No smoking
and no drinking. He said the
guests could move out if they did
not care to conform.
Workmen removed two cigsr-
et machines from the lobby and
closed the bar. Divine's "an
gels" began to check the hotel
register to see if any married
couples were registered togeth
er. Bette Davis Surprises
With Suit for Divorce
Hollywood, Oct. 22 P) The
film capital was surprised to
day over Actress Bette Davis'
sudden divorce action against
her third husband, Artist Wil
liam Grant Sherry.
Charging cruelty, the 41-year-old
Academy Award winner
filed her suit late yesterday at
nearby Santa Ana, Calif. Su
I perior Judge Robert Gardner
granted her request for an order
restraining Sherry from molest
ing her until the suit is settled.
Miss Davis evidently kept her
plans secret until the last mo
ment. Her mother, Mrs. Ruth
Favour Davis, said she heard of
the divorce suit on a radio
broadcast. Friends of the couple
expressed complete surprise.
Miss Davis accused Sherry of
threatening her with bodily
harm, adding she was fearful of
injury unless he is restrained.
She asked for all community
property and custody of two-
year-old Barbara Davis Sherry,
her only child.
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