f J-Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, Dec. 31, 1949
'fiiffs and Jewels
Pour In for Rita
Lausanne. Switzerland, Dec.
81 () Jewels, flowers and mes
sages of congratulations from
the world over are pouring in
tor Rita Hayworth, glamorousj
mother of three-day-old Princess
.Yasmin.
The jewels were from her hus
band, Prince Aly Khan, and her
in-laws, the Aga Khan and his
family. But Rita has asked that
they not be brought to Mont
choisi clinic for fear they might
be stolen.
Princess Yashmin had her own
celebration yesterday by getting
registered on a birth certificate.
She's listed as Princess Yas
min Khan, of Moslem religion
Sources at the clinic said Rita
and her baby are both making
good progress although the beau
tiful red-haired movie star is
said to be very tired after her
difficult delivery.
Rita is expected to stay In the
hospital another two weeks. She
is still unable to take phone
calls from her friends all over
the world who are besieging the
clinic switchboard.
It was reported a wet nurse
has been employed, as Rita has
decided not to nurse the baby
herself.
Convicts Stage
Prison Break
Tucker Prison Farm, Ark.
Dec. 31 (P) Four young con
victs, armed with five pistols
and a riot gun, broke out of
prison here early today. A
trusty-guard was killed in the
escape.
Arkansas state police head
quarters at Little Rock broad
cast a state-wide alarm for the
fugitives. Bloodhounds were
brought to the farm to aid the
manhunt.
Leader of the 1:15 a. m. (EST)
escape was identified as James
Perry Williams, 24, Pine Bluff,
Ark., a trusty.
Warren Hosmer, assistant to
Prison Supt. W. V. Lewis, said
Williams killed Trusty Bill Bo-
hannon, 36, and then disarmed
three other guards on duty in
the stockade.
Hosmer said Williams unlock
' ed the door to the stockade and
three other prisoners followed
him in the escape.
The stockade Is not surround
ed by a wall or fence.
r Hosmer reported another con
vict prevented what could have
been a riot when he jumped from
his cot and locked the stockade
do IT.
Apparently none of the other
812 prisoners attempted to es
cape, he added.
Bohannon, who was serving
a 21-year sentence for second
degree murder, burglary and
grand larceny, was shot four
times at close range.
Holiday Death
Toll Cut in Half
I (By the AMOclnted PreM)
With caution warnings re
minding the nation that death
instead of the New Year may
be just around the corner, the
1949-50 New Year week end
started out as a comparatively
safe and sane holiday.
Nineteen hours after the As
sociated Press began its sur
vey of fatal holiday accidents,
the entire country had only 35
deaths, less than half the num
ber totted up at the same point
in the holiday last year. Traffic
mishaps claimed 22 lives, fires
two more, and miscellaneous ac
cidents another eight.
With traffic accidents expect
ed to be the big killer, as usual,
safety groups and local officials
were urging New Year s eve eel-
ebrators to leave their cars at
home.
Only last week end, during
the three-day Christmas holi
day, there were 413 traffic fat
alities. Accidents from other
causes brought the total death
toll to 580.
For the New Year week end
the national safety council per
haps anticipating extra caution
on the part of the citizens esti
mates that 330 persons will die
in traffic tragedies.
idaulf Asks
3 More Votes
Paris, Dec. 31 VP) Premier
Georges Bidault asked parlia
ment tonight for three more
votes of confidence on his cab
inet's proposals for France's
1950 budget.
The votes will be taken Mon
day at 5 p.m. (11 a.m. EST).
Bidault already has won three
votes in a week for his record-
breaking budget, which calls
for expenditures of 2,257,000.
000,000, francs ($6,400,000,000).
What the legislators are balky
about is raising the revenue to
meet it.
The premier won two votes of
confidence yesterday on propos
als to up taxes to bring the na
tion an income of 45,000,000,000
francs ($128,000,000) from man
ufactured goods and 17,000,000,-
000 francs ($48,000,000) from
undistributed corporation prof
its. He won the first vole on
whether to debate his budget at
all.
Today's vote fills the required
gap of 35,000,000,000 francs
($100,000,000) to balance the
budget by taxing gasoline prof
its, business reserve capital, big
farms, truck transport and pur
chases by public institution.
A fourth victory for Bidault
also will end the threat of spec
ial elections before they are due
two years from now.
Bidault has declared he would
resign if his budget wasn't put
through. His followers have
promised they would not sup
port any successor. And this,
according to the French con
stitution, could throw open the
general elections, forcing the as
sembly's deputies to risk their
seats.
Army Man, Wife
Die in Flames
Tacoma, Dec. 31 (IP) An army
officer, separated from the serv
ice Wednesday, and his wife
were asphyxiated early today in
a fire in their home at suburban
Lakewood, Coroner Paul Mcllin-
ger reported. Dead are ex-Lt.
Andrew D. Hanley, 35, and his
wife, Vivian, about 30.
Fire Chief Bruce White said
a neighbor turned in an alarm
when he noticed flames in the
small frame cottage across the
street at 4:20 a.m. White indicat
ed the fire started from a cigar
ette left smoldering in a living
room chair.
Firemen found the body of
Mrs. Hanley on the floor in the
couple's bedroom. She apparent
ly had been trying to reach a
window. Hanley's body was in
the bedroom doorway. White re
ported both would have probab
ly reached safety if the door,
impossible to close because of
furniture in the small room, had
Sabine Women
Win Their Strike
Monte Flavio, Italy, Dec. 31
(U.R) The 300 wives of Monte
Flavio won their Lysistrata-like
love strike today and agreed to
resume marital relations with
their husbands.
The husbands of this village
high in the Sabina hills outside
Rome persuaded the town coun
cil to grant the wives' demand
for the return of their favorite
midwife.
Like the women in Aristoph
anes' classic Greek play, Lysis
trata, the wives had taken a vow
of chastity to get their way. Un
less something was done to get
back Vanda Boscaeli as town
midwife, a government civil ser
vice job, there would be no need
for any midwife, they said.
The town council at an emer
gency meeting decided to retain
the pretty, 22-year-old Vanda
for at least two more months un
til her civil service status is set
tled legally. And it had better
be settled they way they want,
the wives said, or the strike will
be on again.
American Flier
Held by Reds
Hong Kong, Dec. 31 VP)
Chinese communists are holding
the American pilot of a Chinese
airliner forced down in Red
territory Dec. 4.
A spokesman for the Central
Air Transport Corp., said today
he learned the pilot, James Mc
Govern of Asbury Park., N. J.,
and his two Chinese crew mem
bers were safe and well. (This
dispatch did not say where Mc
Govern was being held).
The air line is attempting to
arrange for their release.
Wreckage of McGovern's plane
was spotted recently by another
CATC plane. Aerial observation
showed It made a belly landing
on a river sandbar about 200
miles northeast of Pakhoi, on
the Kwangsi coast.
McGovern's plane ran out of
gas on a night flight to Kun
ming during the nationalist eva
cuation of the southwestern
city.
The CATC spokesman said the
airline has applied to the U. S.
civil aeronautical administration
for permission to fly its planes
under the American flag. He
said CATC proposed to operate
only in non-communist areas.
The action is designed to per
mit continued use o Hong Kong
airport facilities after the ex
pected British recognition of
Red China. Hong Kong is a
British crown colony.
been shut.
The couple's Scottie dog was
also asphyxiated. Approximate
ly $1500 damage was done to the
interior of the home and its contents.
Hanley, formerly assigned to
the 4th regimental combat team
at Fort Lewis, was separated
from the service Wednesday,
Packed luggage found in the
home indicated the Hanleys were
preparing to return to his home
listed at Fort Lewis as Fitch-
burg, Mass.
Lack of Spruce Lumber
Shuts Down Box Factory
Astoria, Dec. 31 (U.R) The
Clatsop box factory will close
tomorrow because of a lack of
spruce lumber.
Manager Chris Olsen said he
could not predict when, if ever,
the factory would reopen.
The Clatsop sawmill, which
has been the only producer of
Spruce lumber in this area, has
been closed for several months.
3 Lynchedin
South in 1949
Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 31 VP)
Mob murder claimed three
southern Negroes In 1949, but
vigilance of the law prevented
16 other lynchings, Tuskegee
Institute reported in its year
end tally of violence.
Two of the lynchings, said
the institute report issued yes
terday, were in Georgia. The
third was in Mississippi.
New York state led the na
tion in attempted lynchings, the
report continued, with four white
men and one Negro being res
cued from mobs by police on
three different occasions.
Police also averted two lynch
ing attempts in Georgia and
North Carolina, and one each
in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina and
Tennessee, said the summary by
the famed Nego institute.
Actually there were 17 at
tempted lynchings during the
year, but the law was involved
in the prevention of only 16.
The 17th potential mob victim
escaped his tormentors by jump
ing in a river while they argued
over who would kill him.
Included in the total was
Howard Unruh, who shot 13 per
sons to death when he went ber
serk in Camden, N. J., Sept. 6.
Uuruh was threatened by an
angry mob which rushed police
lines in an effort to seize him,
Tuskegee said.
Tuskegee classifies as a lynch
ing only those murders which
involve three or more persons.
Gasoline Sales in
November Higher
Gasoline sales in Oregon for
November ' were slightly higher
than for November of a year
ago, the fuels tax division of the
secretary of state's office re
ported today.
Taxes of $2,304,128.60 were
paid on $38,410,750 gallons.
Sales for the first 11 months
of this year totaled 439,629,819
gallons, bringing in gross state
taxes of $24,105,174.47. The
division noted that about 14 per
cent of taxes paid is returned in
refunds to non-highway users.
Joy McLaughlin
Held a Suicide
San Marino, Calif , Dec. 31 VP)
The gunshot death of Divorcee
Joy McLaughlin is on sheriff's
records tentatively as suicide,
pending a coroner s inquest.
The attractive 39-y e a r-old
blonde was found shot in the
chest in her bedroom yesterday.
After six hours of questioning,
investigators released Oilman
John A. Smith, 55, and said they
were satisfied with his story
that Miss McLaughlin had taken
her own life.
Dr. Frederick Newbarr, chief
county autopsy surgeon, report
ed that gunpowder smudges had
been driven into the woman's
chest from a gun exploded at
very close range. Sheriff s la
boratory tests showed gunpow
der sediment on Miss McLaugh
lin's left palm and right hand,
Capt. Garner Brown reported.
Smith told a story of a round
of partying with Miss McLaugh
lin which ended at her home
about 3 a.m. Detective Chief
Norris G. Stensland quoted
Smith as saying there was a
quarrel, and immediately after
he left her, he heard a shot. He
rushed back to find her lying
on the bedroom floor, and pick
ed up a gun which discharged
into the wall, the story contin
ued. Smith, whose wife is known in
western horse show circles, sur
rendered to officers later in the
day.
Miss McLaughlin was divorc
ed four years ago from Robert
Stark, Pasadena business man.
In 1933 she sued the late auto
dealer, Don Lee, Sr. for $500,
000 in a breach of promise suit,
which was settled later for a
reported $11,500.
Coroner Ben Brown will pro
bably set an inquest date Tues
day. Rent Control
Expires June 30
Washington, Dec. 31 VP) Two
senators who voted for the pres
ent rent control law said today
they doubt that congress will
extend the federal program be
yond the expiration date, June
30.
Both the senators Fulbright
(D., Ark.), and Long (D., La.),
said they believe .the general
sentiment at the capitol is that
the states and local communities
ought to set up their own rent
curbs for areas which want them
continued.
The two lawmakers noted with
approval a report that President
Truman might go along with that
idea in his expected request for
continuation of some form of
rent control. The president's
plans on the matter almost cen-
tainly will be outlined in the
state of the union message he
sends to congress next Wednes;
day.
In taking a dim view of pros
pects for any extension of the
federal rent program, Fulbright
and Long differed with Senator
Lucas of Illinois, the democratic
floor leader. At a news con
ference late yesterday Lucas said
the adn.inistration "shouldn't
have too much trouble" getting
a continuation of controls. But
he said he did not know what
kind of a program Mr. Truman
would recommend.
The low income groups, Lu
cas added, have a tremendous
amount of Interest in keeping
rne leaerai program alive. He
said there might well be an
other round of wage increase
demands and an inflatoinary
spiral if rent ceilings were not
continued.
Municipally-owned stores pro
vide mOSt flf the Wol !!..
revenue in Minnesota.
Spain Boosis Rates
On Telegraph Tolls
Madrid. Dec. 31 VP) The
Spanish government today au
thorized a 30 percent increase,
effective tomorrow, on all tele
graph and radio messages leav
ing Spain.
The government order said
one-sixth of the "supertax"
would go to the government and
five-sixths to the communica
tions company.
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