On-Again-Off-Again Blockade Trucks halted by guards
at Russian check-point near Marienborn await clearance to
proceed from Berlin to West Germany after Soviets imposed
new restrictions on western truck traffic in their on-again-off-again
blockade. Russian gestures toward a new all-out
Berlin blockade began after U.S. authorities in Berlin in
voked a law permitting idle space to be requisitioned and
occupied the vacant 600-room headquarters of the Soviet
controlled railway administration in western Berlin. The
Russians removed rail restrictions after the U.S. ordered re
turn of the building to the Soviets. (Acme Telephoto.)
Oregon Editor Tells Reaction
To Verdict in Hiss Trial
(Editor's Note: This delayed dispatch by Robert W. Ruhl,
editor of the Medford Mail-Tribune, gives the impressions of
probably the only Oregonian observer at the trial of Alger
Hiss. Because of Ruhl's reactions, his column in the Medford
paper is reprinted).
"New York City, N. Y., Jan. 22 Well it's all overl
"The Hiss verdict is guilty on both counts and we must con
elude somewhat regretfully that 'Alger Hiss is on of the
greatest actors since Edwin Booth and one of the greatest liars
since Ananias .
"We must also grant this:
Alger Hiss remained a great
actor and liar to the end.
"Mr. Hiss maintained the same
air of self-assurance, dignity and
stoical calm when the jury's
fateful verdict was announced,
as he had for the 40 days his
inquisition lasted. As far as he,
his reputation, his future, his
place in history is concerned
if any it was a death sen
tence. With that one word
"guilty," all he had accomplish
ed, all he had done, all he had
hoped for, fell around him in
ruins.
"Yet as far as anyone in that
courtroom could determine, Hiss
was no more disturbed or dis
mayed, no more crushed or cast
down than he had been since
the trial started. Outwardly he
left the courtroom in the same
quiet, unassuming way, with the
same perfectly self - controlled,
fluid-flow drive and self-respect
ing manner, maintained last No
vember when he entered it.
"Frankly, we are stumped.
'The Hiss trial is over, but
the mystery lingers on. In one
direction your correspondent
agrees with Whittaker Chambers
who, when interviewed doing
his daily chores on his Maryland
farm following the verdict said.
with customary complacence:
"I do not see what else the
jury could have done."
'After the evidence presented
and the story told by Chambers
which in its main contentions
was never refuted we agree.
"The only hypothesis that
made sense in view of the evi
dence and particularly the type
writer, was the guilt of Mr. Hiss.
"Nothing else added up
nothing else was at all con
vincing. "We admit our SYMPATHIES
were with Mr. and Mrs. Hiss
and still are. Throughout the
trial we tried to arrive at some
reasonable explanation based up
on their innocence, but had to
admit when the trial ended, the
attempt had failed.
...
"And yet the mystery re
mains. The feeling that people
like Mr. and Mrs. Hiss (for if he
is guilty she was surely an ac
complice) could ever have done
what the evidence proves they
did, still refuses to jell in our
consciousness. We could not
credit it when the trial started,
Middle Grove
Society Guest
East Salem, Jan. 27 An all
day meeting of the Middle Grove
Women's Society for World Ser
vice was held at the home of
Mrs. Emory Goode. Devotions
were led by Mrs. Cleo Keppin
ger, followed by a report on the
book "Japan Begins Again,
also by Mrs. Keppinger. Mrs.
will bchars gave a talk on
"Stewardship."
A covered-dish luncheon was
served at noon. Twelve ladies
attended including two guests,
Mrs. Plane and Mrs. Reynolds.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Lawrence Hammer
on Silverton road.
Auburn The Monroe Ave
nue Sewing club met Wednes
day afternoon at Mrs. John
Meiers on Osborne avenue. Sew
ing were Mrs. Willis Holt, Mrs.
Steve Irving, Mrs. Henry Han
son, Mrs. Wilfred Wilier, Mrs.
Hugh Williams, Mrs. Stuart
Johns, a guest, Mrs. Ralph
bteinnett and the hostess.
Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Stuart Johns of Monroe avenue
were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Len
ninger and Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred
Wilier and Freddy and Dorothy.
Gunshot Fatal
To George Love
George E. Love, who served as
state commander of the Ameri
can Legion in Oregon in 1927
and 1928, died in a Portland hos
pital Thursday as a result of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He is reported to have been
despondent over ill" health re
sulting from a back injury last
March. He underwent a spinal
operation January 9, leaving the
hospital a few days ago.
Love took over the home sales
department of the World War I
veterans state aid commission
Portland office in 1936, a posi
tion he held four years. Later
he operated his own home-selling
office and then joined the
staff of the Metzger-Parker Real
Estate company in 1939. He was
appointed one of the 16 senior
appraisers in the Portland chap
ter of the Society of Residential
Appraisers in March, 1948.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret E. Love, and a son,
Rollin George Love, both of
Portland. Funeral services will
be held from the J. P. Finley &
Son mortuary in Portland at 11
o'clock Saturday.
Teacher Quits Again
Lyons Mrs. Leora Stevens,
principal of the Mari - Linn
school in Lyons, has announced
her intention to quit teaching
at the expiration of the present
term. She has given this early
notice to permit others to apply
early. Mrs. Stevens has been
announcing her intention to stop
teaching year after year but has
Hiss Sentenced Alger Hiss, former state department ex
pert who advised the late President Roosevelt at Yalta, and
his wife, Priscilla, leave subway exit under the Federal
Building in New York, where he appeared for sentencing
on two perjury convictions. Sentenced for lying about his
1938 co-operation with a communist spy ring, Hiss receiv
ed five years on each perjury count, the sentences to run
concurrently. (Acme Telephoto)
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Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, January 27, 195011
Proud Sons of Texas Just
About 'Killing' Newest Star
By JOHN ROSENBTJRG
(United Press start correspondent
New York, Jan. 27 U.R) The proud sons of Texas are killing
lovely Kate Murtah, Broadway's newest star.
She said today that after each performance at the Mark Hel-
linger theater, they knock down her dressing room door, play
fully crack knuckles with a handshake and roar:
"L il gal, ah ust know yo
Family at Trial Carol Ann Paight (left), 21, is on trial
in Bridgeport, Conn., for second degree "mercy" murder of
her policeman father, who was ill with cancer, in a Stam
ford, Conn., hospital. The penalty on conviction is life im
prisonment. During recess her mother, Mrs. Mary Paight,
holds her daughter's hand. Brother Carl W. Paight, Jr., at
right. (AP Wirephoto.)
Blonde, 21, Keeps Stony Calm
In Her 'Mercy Killing' Trial
Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 27 (U.R) Blonde Carol Ann Paight, 21
who killed her cancer-doomed father because she felt sorry
for him, listened with stony calm Thursday while the state's
first witness at her murder trial testified that the fatal bullet
was fired from a distance of only "between two and five feet.
The states case is the first
mercy killing" trial of this New
England manufacturing town,
began with the testimony of Dr
John G. Snavely, pathologist at
the Stamford hospital. He per
formed an autopsy on the body
of Stamford Police Sergeant
Carl W. Paight, 52, soon after
his daughter fired a bullet
through his brain with his own
service pistol.
from Texas bah the way yo ed, they re
tawk!" truth.
'But," she said, "I'm from
California. Furthermore, I in
vented my accent the day I tried
out for my part. I tried to pro
test, but after the first 14 fail
ures I gave up. Those Texas boys
are so proud!
Miss Murtah, a busty brunette
who stands six feet in her ny
lons, said her size also led the
Texans to believe she was from
the Lone Star state. Then too,
the title of her vehicle "Texas
L'il Darlin' " lends authenticity
to the illusion.
If the title carried the name
of any other state, like New
York, or California, or Dela
ware, it would be all right," she
said. "But no. It had to be
Texas!"
The name alone, she said, was
too much to cope with. She gave
this example:
'A stagehand whistled The
Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
just before the curtain went up
one night. You know what hap
pened? Everyone in the house
stood up."
But the clincher to Miss Mur-
been taking one position then
another. She says this time it
is for good.
Four Corners Grade Pupils
Present Program at School
Four Corners, Jan. 27 The second grade students with Mrs.
Katharine Toycen as teacher presented the first of a series of
programs at the Lincoln school (Four Corners) before the
school, parents and guests. Flag salute was led by Bill Grief,
with Miss Shirley Payne leading the singing, accompanied by
Mrs. Toycen. Piano selections-
we can't emotionally now. It
all remains unbelievable.
". . . And that is what con
victed Hiss the doubt that
Chambers in this particular in
stance was lying. And the
strength of that doubt made any
ItrjAoUlM Ai3LiJ dOUbt Of Hiss'
guilt, difficult if not impossible.
So at last we find ourselvc
in agreement with former Sen
ator John Foster Dulles a rare
experience.
Dulles, who appeared against
Mr. Hiss near the close of the
trial, on being informed of the
verdict said:
' 'The conviction of Alger Hiss
is a human tragedy.
' 'It is tragic that so great
promise should have come to so
inglorious an end.
' 'But the greater tragedy is
that seemingly our national
ideals no longer inspire the loyal
devotions needed for their de
fense.' "
were given by Linda Lee Capps,
Sherrill White and Rita Holman;
readings by Lois Smith, Patty
Backe, Kent DeBerry and Ken
neth Brant; a skit, "Clemen
tine," was given with Danny
Yarnell as the miner and Arlyce
Slack as Clementine.
Arthur V. Myer, principal,
welcomed the parents and visi
tors. New Monitors appointed
for the entire school are "Butch"
Kleen, Tony Carnine, David
Larsen, Faye Futrell, Judith Edi-
ger, Edward Williams, Paul
Schaberg, Janice Phillips, Jo
Anna Weekly, Jean Chrisman,
Marilyn Snook, Twila Rickman,
Jo Gannon, Ruth Stryker, Dar-
rel Stafek, Denice Miller, Carl
Edwards, Mike Whitman, Paul
Stone, Patsy Etzel, Randel
South, Carol Evans, Ronald
Coulter, Eric Pedersen, Gary
Pedersen, John Zimmerman,
Roger Weils, Clifford Granski,
Donna Meyer, Barbara Kleen,
Otha Rouse, Vernon Vogt, Judy
Scott, Mary Salisbury.
Hobby Club Meets
The "Hobbyists," a club fea
turing textile painting, met with
Mrs. Ross Chrisman on Wednes
day evening. A guest was Mrs.
Ted Stook, instructor in textile
painting at the YWCA. Others
present were Miss Marie Lip
pold, Mrs. Morse Stewart, Mrs.
Waldo Miller, Mrs. Jesse Mcll
nay, Mrs. Harold Snook, Mrs.
Warren Shrake, Mrs. L. J. Stew
art, Mrs. E. E. Walker.
going to learn the
Charles B. Minor
Finds Answer to
2-Car Problem!
Charlie B. Minor, employed for
10 years by Pacific Plywood
Corporation, Willamina, Ore
gon, which is near 5alem, C re
gon, choses a new Kaiser Trav
eler afrei looking at all other
maks of cars.
"I purchased a Kaiser Traveler
from Teaque Motor Company
at Salem, Oregon, because oth
er owners, living in our vicin
ity, praise their cars so highly.
only a Kaiser
and because only a
tah's antecedents as far as herjTraveler will give me a dual
purpose automobile. I am cer-
Young Gambler Startles Crowd
By Handing Out $3000 in Tips
Cannes, France, Jan. 27 U. A tall, thin gambler from Argen
tina left fellow gamblers and croupiers of the municipal casino
here goggle-eyed early Thursday when he handed out more than
$3,000 in tips and gave away millions of the francs he had won.
The man registered at the Carleton hotel as Alfonso Renald
Rosen, 24, of Buenos Aires. 8
He sauntered into the Casino,
played number 32 at three roul
ette tables simultaneously and
within three hours had won 2,
500,000 francs (about $7,000).
When he came back after din
ner he lost $10,000 right off the
bat. Playing the maximum sum
on the last 12 numbers of the
roulette wheel, on three tables
simultaneously, he recouped in
the next, two hours.
Then turning to his compan
ion, Madame Alvarez Salvador
with a smile, ordered number
26 played on all tables.
In one spin of the wheel he
won about $3,500.
Turning to the croupiers, he
said in French: "Play 26 again
Birthday Celebrated
Mrs. Kenneth R. Miller, 4117
Foster Ave., complimented her
daughter, Terry Lee, upon her
eighth birthday anniversary
January 24. A birthday cake
was featured. Covers were laid
for Sheila and Billy Miller, their
grandmother, Mrs. H. O. Gar
retson of Salem, and the par
ents.
Unit Meets Monday
The Four Corners home ex
tension unit will hold their Jan
uary meeting on Monday at 1:30
o'clock at the Community hall.
Eleanor Trindle, Marion county
home demonstration agent, will
present the topic, "Giving Home
Sewing a Professional Look."
Child care will be provided in
the home of Mrs. Anna Ruhl,
4030 Mahrt Ave. Anyone inter
ested may attend. Hostesses for
the day: Mrs. C. R. Osborn, Mrs.
Merrill Tucker, Mrs. Stan Bra
den, Mrs. Gerald Tucker.
A superior court jury of nine
middle-aged mothers and three
middle-aged fathers was com
pleted an hour and 40 minutes
after court opened for the third
trial day.
Two alternates, both middle-
aged mothers, were selected. The
jury was sworn in five minutes
later, and then States Attor
ney Lorin W. Willis called his
witness.
Snavely said Paight's death
was caused "by a bullet wound
of the head with fractures of
the skull and traumatic lacera
tions of the brain."
The pathologist said a "sub
sidiary diagnosis" was -that
Paight had a cancer of the peri
toneum which was impossible
to remove surgically. The peri
toneum is the sac which holds
the internal organs of the abdo
men.
Carol killed her father after
a surgeon told her he could not
be cured and had only six
months to live. She will plead
temporary insanity.
A conviction on the second de
gree murder charge on which
she was being tried, would make
it mandatory for Presiding
Judge John A. Cornell to sen
tence her to prison for life.
Kiwanians Pick Seattle
Seattle, Jan. 27 VP) The 1952
national Kiwanis convention
will be held here June 8-11, Se
attle Kiwanians were informed
yesterday.
Parisian audience is concerned
is her role. She plays the part
of a Texas temptress who makes
passionate love to the leading
man so he will forget the hero
ine. As one of her admirers put it:
Shug-uh chile, they ain't no
love like love of a Texas gal.
Miss Murath said she didn't
mind the misrepresentation for
while, but now she's getting
worried.
You know," she said, "I've
never had so many dates in my
life. And these Texas boys are
so, well, nice.
But, sooner or later, she wail-
for the same amount, and if
win the money is yours."
Number 26 won again and the
croupiers collected 1,246,000
francs.
A French countess who was
about to leave the tables sud
denly had a wad of 500,000
francs (about $1,300) thrust at
her by Rosen.
"I don't know you," she said.
He told her she could have
the 'money if she played it on
number 21. She did, and won
about $6,000.
"He is either the devil or
Santa Claus," one of the croup
iers murmured as Rosen left the
Casino at dawn.
Gardeners to Meet
The Four Corners Garden
club will meet on February 2
in the Community hall at 7:30
o'clock. Mrs. David Behm will
present the program. Hostesses:
Mrs. Andrew Messman, Mrs.
George Bixler, Mrs. Roy Case,
Mrs. Frank South.
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