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George Birrell, left, and Harry Broadbent of the Salem
high school faculty were presented Hi-Y pins at assembly
Friday. The presentation was In recognition of their seven
years of service as advisers.
Death Penalty
For Sex Crimes
Sacramento, Calif., Dec. 17 VP)
The state legislature decided to
day to invoke stricter penalties
including the death sentence
against sex criminals.
The senate gave unopposed ap
proval to a series of bills aimed
at psychopaths who prey on wo
men and children. The assembly
already has passed similar or
Identical measures.
Under these bills the death of
a child under 14 as a result of a
sex offense could be defined as
first degree murder. As such it
could be punishable by death in
the gas chamber. Prosecutors
would not be required to prove
premeditation as a necessary
factor in the first degree murder.
These measures also would re
quire registration of sex crimi
nals, send second-offense moles
ters of children to prison for five
years and double the present 10
year sentence for crimes against
nature.
Confesses lo
Theft of Wool'
Salem detectives were remin
ded of the nursery rhyme about
"Ba Ba, Black Sheep" Saturday
as they studied the records of
the arrest of William Hector
Lovejoy, 675 South 12th, on
charges of grand larceny.
But instead of a story of
"Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags
Full," detectives were confront
ed with a case dealing wtih the
theft of wool valued at approxi
mately $200 from the Nelson
and Fitzmaurice firm at 350
North Front street.
Lovejoy admitted the thefts
in a signed statement.
Detectives were called in on
the case when the firm noted
that the wool had disappeared.
Detective Wayne Parker, told
only that the wool had (lis
aappeared and that some of it
had been in a hop sack with
K383 stenciled on it, set out to
solve the case.
He found the sack at another
wool buying firm and the name
of the man who sold it. The
name was Lovejoy.
When he returned to Nelson
and Fitzmaurice, he found that
the suspect was employed there
and had been considered a good
worker.
At police headquarters. Love-
joy's record was found to date
to 1920 when he received his
first penitentiary sentence. He
received others in 1927, 1929,
1935, 1939, 1942 and 1944 in
Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Ht was released from the Ore
gon state penitentiary in March,
1949, after serving four years
and eight months for larceny.
London Power Strikers
Return to Work
London, Dec. 17 ffl Work
ers at London's Littlebrook pow
er station marched to their posts
this morning, ending an unoffi
cial strike that had threatened
London's power supplies for five
days.
In two other plants workers
went back last night and gener
ators were normal by dawn. At
a fourth station, where the men
walked out Tuesday because the
government moved troops into
the struck plants, the men had
resumed work on Thursday.
The men had left work first
over a pay dispute, then refused
to return after a settlement
when signs were posted calling
their return to work "unconditional."
20 Years Prison
For 10 Rapists
Tacoma. Dec. 17 (flV-All 10
defendans in the Tacoma mass
rape case today received maxi
mum sentences of 20 years in
the state reformatory.
Sentences were passed by
Judge Max Church of Jefferson-Clallam
superior court.
Nine of the defendants, most
of whom are In their early 20s
were found guilty of the rape of
fcrjrs. Mtirie Charlton, mentally
ill Tacoma housewife, since de
ceased.
The 10th, Harry Christel. ,
was found guilty of attempted
rape.
A shocked gasp and a curse
echoed throughout the court
room as Judge Church slowly
read the first sentence to Law
rence Meyer. Parents burst into
tears as each defendant rose
from the bench and stood be
fore Judge Church of hear the
sentence.
Preceding the sentences,
Judge Church emphasized that
the state statute prohibited de
ferring or suspending sentences
in cases involving rape.
The 20-year term is the low
est maximum term that can be
imposed, Judge Church infor
med the spectators.
The jurist denied an appeal
by Defense Attorney Frank
Bannon lo defer the sentence of
Christel. Judge Church re
marked, however, that he would
recommend to the parole board
special consideration in Cliris
tel's ease.
Maximum terms will be set
by the state board of prison
terms and paroles. Attorney
General Smith Troy has said his
office is divided over whether
the minimum term would be
at least five years or whether
it could go lower
The parole board can review
the cases within three years
after the term is begun.
Tree Lights on
Next Tuesday
Plans were completed Satur
day for the lighting of the Cher
rian Christmas tree on the
courthouse lawn Tuesday night.
Committee Chairman Fred G.
Starrett said the Howard Miller
Most Worshipful Brother Shalor
would sing. There will be music
by the Elks quartet, and a his
torical talk by Judge Rex Kim
mell. While candy canes are
being distributed recordings will
be made of the music. The cer
emonies will be opened oy
County Judge Grant Murphy.
The program will start at 7:30.
Starrett said many contribu
tions of labor and effort have
been made in preparing for the
event. The Walton-Brown Elec
tric contributed labor Friday.
On Saturday Robert Baker, Har
old Alderin, Samuel Saunders,
Lee Cline, Arnold Fast, Arnold
Finseth, Paul W. Silke, Jack
Schiller and Clarance Bueller,
all of Walton-Brown, donated
labor on Saturday.
A new star at the top of the
tree was designed by Silke, and
built and donated by Silke, Al
derin and Baker.
Also Friday and Saturday four
men from the Portland General
Electric company donated their
services. They were E. H. Barn-
holt, C. T. Klingler, W. T. Buz-
bee and A, F. Boytana.
Cherrians are to attend the
ceremony in uniform.
Schools Close
Next Thursday
The Salem public schools will
suspend class work for the
Christmas holidays next Thurs
day afternoon and will not re-
Isume until January 3.
Next week's curricular pro
gram will include a number of
Christmas assemblies and the
annual homecoming at senior
high. This latter event is slat
ed for 1:45 Wednesday afternoon.
Monday's activity schedule
calls for the pantomine "Why
the Chimes Rang" at 1:10 p. m.
at Leslie; Christmas program at
Richmond, 1:15 p. m. P. T. A.
meeting and Christmas party at
Richmond at 7:30 p. m. and a
band dinner at Senior high at
6. p. m.
Christmas assemblies and pro
grams for Tuesday will include:
Grant, 10:45 a. m.; Highland and
Bush 1 p. m.; Auburn, Washing
ton and Garfield, 1:30 p. m Par
rish and Pringle, 2 p m.; Swe
gle at 7:30 p. m. and Englewood
P. T. A. meeting at 8 p. m.
Grant will hold Its Christmas
party at 10:45 a. m. Wednesday,
Garfield at 1:30 p. m., Middle
grove at 7:30 p. m, Liberty at 8
p. m. and senior high at 8:15 p.
Thursday's observance will
consist of an elementary Christ
mas party at West Salem at 10:15
a. m., Leslie at 1:10 p. m., Lin
coln at 1:15 p. m. and Hayes-
ville at 8 p .m.
The high school honorary so
ciety will hold a dinner at 6
o'clock Wednesday evening.
Patricia Pearcy
Dies in Portland
Silverton Patricia Lee Pear
cy, 19-month-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Pearcy
of 806 South Water street, Sil
verton, former residents of Sa
lem, died late Friday at the
Doernbecher hospital in Portland.
Besides her parents the child
is survived by a brother, William
Pearcy of Silverton and grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Knight
E. Pearcy of Salem and Mrs.
Philene Putnam of Huntington
Cubs Sell Trees Members of West Salem's pack 15, Cub
Scouts, line up with Santa Claus for a picture before launch
ing their sale of Christmas trees. Holding forth at Kerber's
West Side Market, the youngsters are, from left, Allen Had
ley, Sandy McGregor, William Perkins, David Bell and Dale
Karnes. The man behind the whiskers is actually Cubmaster
Ed Williams.
Little Boy Victim of Pervert
Started on Redemption Road
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
A little blue-eyed blond boy, with tears of gratitude in his
eyes, was started on the roaa to renaDiiuauon oaiuraay oy
Juvenile Officer Allan McRae.
The youngster, who scarcely looked old enough to be in his
early teens, tried to hold back his emotion as he was fitted with
a brand new pair of shoes, pur--
chased for him out of the juve
nile fund created by members
of the Salem police department.
Left behind at the shoe store
were his wet and tattered foot
gear. And from the look in his
eve. it was easy to see' he was
eager to leave behind the sordid
life into which he had been lea
by a 29-year-old man.
The man was identified as
Burnell A. Raphael. He was
arrested Friday evening on
c.iarge of contributipg to the de
linquency of a minor. Saturday
morning, a charge of sodomy was
added. His total bail was ?HUuu,
The child was one of a fam
ily which included 13 children.
and was considered by sympa
thetic officers as an easy tar
get for favors and money of
fered by an adult
Raphael, known as . "Swede"
lived at 797 South 25th street
He was employed by the Pa
cific Rendering company. In a
two-page typewritten account of
his perverted activities, he told
of meeting boys in Salem and
Independence. He lured youths
to his apartment with offers of
money. Ages of the boys ranged
from 11 to 15.
His confession told how he
had a life-long urge toward un
natural acts, yet he said he only
began turning to little boys aft
er he had acquired a veneral dis
ease.
Raphael said his mother re
sided in Beaverton and that his
father was living in California
In his long account, he told of
picking berries in the Silverton
area and of working in Inde
pendence. He said he came to
Salem to live only after field
work ended.
He told officers he had been
honorably discharged from mil
itary service after serving four
years and seven months. He had
operated as a Browning auto
matic rifleman as well as an
air force cook.
N. Y.
Funeral services for Patricia
will be held at the Clough-Bar-rick
chapel in Salem Monday
December 19, at 1:30 p.m. In
terment will follow in Belcrest
Memorial park, Salem.
Health Clinics
For Next Week
Immunization clinics will pre
dominate in next week's activity
program of the Marion county
health association. Most of them
will be held in the interest of
school pupils.
The schedule:
Monday: Immunization at
Clear Lake in the morning; Mc-
Kinley school 9 to 9:30 a.m. and
at health department for chil
dren, 9 to 11 a. m and 2 to 4 p. m.
Tuesday: Immunization at
Mission Bottom, Eldridge and
St. Louis schools, 9 a. m. to 3
p. m; Richmond school, 9 a. m.
Wednesday: Immunization at
Lincoln school 9 a. m.; Mill City
grade school, 10 a. m. to noon;
chest fluoroscope by appoint
ment; child guidance clinic
health dept., by appointment.
Thursday: Well child confer
ence, health dept. 9 a. m. to noon
Friday: Clinics for food and
milk handlers, beauty operators
and immunizations for adults at
health dept. 9 to 11:30 a. m,
to 4 p. m.
Saturday: Immunizations, ad
ults and children, health dept.,
9 to 11:30 a. m.
Scouts Sell
Yule Trees
Members of Pack 15 of West
Salem's Cub scouts turned sales
men this week in an endeavor
to raise funds for their club
house, manual training tools
and materials, it was announced
by Phil Kerber, sponsor of the
drive.
Kerber, proprietor of the West
Side Market, has donated space
around his store, as well as ad
vertising and Christmas tree
standards to the group.
Headed by Pack Master Ed
Williams, who also doubles as
Santa Claus to sell trees, the
Cubs will continue sales as long
as the demand lasts. Trees will
be delivered to purchasers Sat
urdays, or may be called for at
Kerber's store.
The trees are harvested by
the youngsters from a farm near
Pedee. Approximately 60 boys
from eight to 11 comprise the
West Salem pack.
Ivan B. White
U. S. Adviser
Ivan B. White of Salem is
announced by the state depart
ment at Washington as having
assumed the duties of economic
and labor adviser for the bureau
of inter-American affairs.
White will be immediate ad
viser to Edward G. Miller, Jr.,
assistant secretary for inter-American
affairs.
He was born in Salem in 1907.
He graduated from Salem high
school and received his AB de
gree from Willamette in 1929.
He is a foreign service officer
of many years standing.
White has just completed an
assignment in the free territory
of Trieste where he was director
of finance and economics for the
allied military government.
In the international field
White participated in the Bret
ton Woods conference of 1944
as special assistant to the sec
retary general. He was a U.S.
delegate to the Paris reparations
conference in 1946. He was ad
viser to the meetings of the
board of governors of the In
ternational Bank and the Inter
national Monetary Fund in Sa
vannah, Ga. .
His foreign assignments in
clude Mexico City, Yokohama,
Paris and Trieste.
will spend the Christmas holi
days in Atlanta, Ga., with an
other daughter and son-in-law.
Mr. ana Mrs. E. K. Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. A, B. Browning
of Newport are visiting here
with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knep
per and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Roland Seeger and family, and t
the l red Brownings. J
Two Bodies in
Wrecked Plane
Redding, Calif., Dec. 17 UPhZ.
The bodies of two young fliers
were found today in shattered
wreckage of a small private
plane.
The ship crashed and broke to ,
bits among the lava rocks north ,
of Glen Burn late yesterday.
Sheriff John Balma said it
bore the registration numbers
568-65 carried by the plane in
which two Washington State
college students left yesterday on
a flight south.
It was a two-place converted
training plane, a BT-13.
At the college at Pullman,
Wash., it was said Tommy Dye,
24, of Clearwater, Calif., owner
of the plane, was accompanied
southward by Robert W. Finch,
23, of Phoenix, Ariz. ,
They were on their way home
for the holidays.
Mrs. Knepper Leaves
For Holiday Visit
Liberty, Dec. 17 Mrs. Ada
Knepper on Hruebetz Road has
left on a trip to the east where
she will visit friends and fam
ily. She will visit her daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
James Browne in Omaha, Neb.
A son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Burton Knepper, and Marcella
of Schuyler, Neb. Mrs. Knepper
Walt Disney's
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MR. TOAD"
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Kells and Gus Moore who have
taught classes in citizenship will
bring greetings from the YMCA.
The new citizens include
Ralph Harvey, Virginia Clark,
Go!da Wodaege, Norma Bacon,
Vivienne Hanson, Marie Law,
Rudolph Weber, Agrifino Rod
digues, Jean Collette, Wilbur
Collelte and Olga Kercher.
New Citizens Guests
Of Honor, Y Dinner
A number of persons who be
came citizens of the United
States during recent weeks will
be guests of honor during a din
ner to be held Saturday night
at the YMCA.
The new citizens will receive iM
their certificate from Mrs. Ches
ter Mulkey of the county clerk's
office who will represent Har-
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