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62nd Year, No. 58
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matter at Salem, Ortaoo
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 9, 1950
Price 5c
Capital A
Sander Freed
Of Charges of
Mercy Killing
Jury of 9 Catholics
And 3 Protestants
Out 75 Minutes
Manchester, N. H., March 9
(IP) Dr. Hermann N. Sander was
freed today. An all-male jury
found the country doctor inno
cent of charges he murdered in
an "an act of mercy" a suffer
ing cancer patient he couldn't
heal.
It took the jury made up of
nine Catholics and three Pro
testants less than 75 minutes
li reach the verdict.
The 41-year-old Dr. Sander
showed not the slightest trace of
emotion as the words "not
guilty" echoed through the
small courtroom.
There was a chorus of "ohs"
from the women spectators.
Deputy sheriffs were forced to
rap for order.
Jury Discharged
When the jury was discharged
by Judge Harold E. Wescott,
chief defense counsel Louis E.
Wyman walked over smiling and
crying at the same time.
The 71-year-old white-haired
defense lawyer walked over to
Dr. Sander and threw his arms
around the shoulder of the phy
sician who then broke out in a
broad smile.
Crowds gathered around Wy
man and Sander and rushed over
to shake hands with Mrs. San
der, who has stood loyally by
her husband throughout the case.
Mrs. Sander looked happy
and for the first time seemed
to relax.
Charge to Jury
Judge Harold E. Wescott to
day told the jurors trying Dr.
Hermann N. Sander for murder
in the "mercy death" of a can
cer patient that they could re
turn one of three possible ver
dicts. He listed them as: Murder in
the first degree; murder in the
Mcond degree; acquittal.
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 6)
Blond Held for
Aiding Escapees
A 22-y e a r-old brown-eyed
blond, identified by police as a
girl friend of a murderer who
escaped from the Oregon state
hospital last Sunday, was
brought before district court
Thursday on charges of aiding
inmates to escape from the in
stitution. The young woman, Mary Eli
zabeth White, was nabbed in
Portland by state police Wednes
day. She was returned to Salem
and brought before the court on
charges signed by State Patrol
man L. T. Riegel, Jr.
Her case was continued to
Monday, and bail was set at
$500.
' The two inmates who figured
in the Sunday afternoon escape
are still at large. Ervin Enbysk,
28-year-old, who was committed
as a juvenile after murdering a
Pendleton cab driver, was be
lieved to be a close friend of the
woman arrested, according to
police information.
His companion in the escape
was Eugene Harshbergcr, 26,
who was committed from Port
L land and who had no police rec
ord prior to his commitment.
Salem police uncovered the
fact that the woman may have
figured in the escape when they
learned that she hired a taxi to
take her to Portland. At that
time, it was reported that the
trip was made with a male com.
panion believed to be Enbysk.
Both Enbysk and Harshberger
had ground parole at the state
hospital and were not consider
ed dangerous.
March 27 Set for
Airplane Hearing
March 27 is the date set for
the final hearing on the United
Air Lines - West Coast Airlines
being conducted by the Civil
Aeronautics Board in Washing
ton. D. C.
This information was sent to
Robert Letts Jones, who has
been selected to represent the
city of Salem and the Salem
Chamber of Commerce, from
Rep. Walter Norbiad.
The preliminary hearing on
the show-cause order of the CAB
on the discontinuance of United
Air Lines service to Salem and
substitution of West Coast Air
lines service was held in Salem
March 1. Examiner for the case
is J. tan cox.
Brilish Labor to
Stand Pat on
Sleel Policy
To Resign and Call
New Election on
Nationalization Issue
London, March 9 VP) The la
bor government made it crystal
clear today it would resign and
call for new elections if de
feated tonight on a motion op
posing nationalization of steel.
Herbert Morrison, deputy
prime minister and leader of the
slender labor majority in com
mons, said flatly "everybody
must understand that it involves
an issue of confidence as far as
the government are concerned."
All parties are making every
effort to ensure that every mem
ber is present when the crucial
vote comes.
Illness Cuts Down Attendance
One tory member, Lord John
Hope, has been running a tem
perature. It has been suggested
he might be brought by ambu
lance from his home for the
vote.
At least three labor members
are not expected to be present
because of illness but one tory
has not yet been sworn in and
four are ill.
These individual cases assume
importance because labor has an
overall majority of only seven,
with 315 of the 624 seats filled
at the general election.
The British government tradi
tionally resigns if beaten on a
vote of confidence.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Tifo Persecutes
Roman Church
Vatican City, March 9 (IP)
The bloody phase of the fight
against the Catholic church in
Yugoslavia has ended but quiet
persecution to subjugate the
church continues in full force,
the Jesuit publication Civilta
Cattolica reports in its current
issue.
Marshal Tito's regime, it said,
"Sees eye to eye with all other
communist regimes" in the fight
against the church.
Civilta Cattolica's lengthy
correspondence from Yugoslavia
said that the "period of blood
and terror" that culminated in
the "shameful sentence to forc
ed labor of Monsignor Alojzijc
Stepinac, archbishop of Zagreb,
has ended . . . but that nothing
has changed in the Marxist goal
the fight against religion con
tinues in a 'tranquil but even
more fearful phase in which the
minds (of the people) are slow
ly 'worked' in genuine Leninist
tactics."
Bishops, said Civilta Cattolica,
are "methodically impeded in
their contacts with the faithful."
It declared there are frequent
arrests of priests, who are sub
jected to long questioning and
maltreatment to obtain "confes
sions of crimes never commit
ted."
South Salem Booms
O'Hara for Mayoralty
A south Salem audience applauded Wednesday nieht whpn
Alderman David O'Hara was boomed for mayor.
u nara, wno lives in the north part of the city and represents
Ward 5 on the city council, was not present.
It was a dinner meeting of the South Salem Proffress elnh hold
at the Clayton Jones Uphol-
stery shop, 1145 South Com
mercial.
"He has had a longer expe
rience in city government than
any other man, 25 years," Jones
said in a talk to the club. "And
he works the hardest of all of
them for the people. No one in
Salem would be a finer mayor.
And he is almost in the notion."
Alderman O'Hara said today
that he had been asked by a
good many people to enter the
contest for mayor, but that he
wasn't ready to make a defin
ite answer.
"There is still some time to
think it over," he said. "I feel
complimented to know that my
friends are thinking of me in
this way."
The club discussed city affairs
in general, but put stress on the
automobile parking problem.
Referring to t h e meeting of
last Friday when downtown bus
iness men endorsed Mayor Rob
ert L. Elfstrom's recommenda
tions that three downtown
blocks be widened and Water
street made accessible for in
creased parking facilities, Jones
$500,000 Check
Returned Lewis
Pittsburgh, March 9 (JP) Pre
sident Philip Murray of the CIO
United Steelworkers today re
jected John L. Lewis' proposal
for "a mutual aid pact for com
mon defense."
The rejection was included in
letter to the United Mine
Workers chieftain acknowledg
ing Lewis' return of the $500,
000 cheek which the Steelwork
ers sent the MW for strike aid.
Murray, who also heads the
CIO, said:
"Your proposal to negotiate 'a
mutual aid pact for common de
fense' has been considered by
the executive board of the Unit
ed Steelworkers of America. It
is the unanimous view of our
board, in which I join, that no
useful purpose would be served
by concluding any formal ar
rangement for such a pact.
"The United Steelworkers of
America, in conjunction with
the CIO, will always make its
resources available, as it did in
your recent struggle, for every
necessary and worthy defense
of organized labor. The same is
true of the CIO and of all its
affiliated unions."
Red Cross Report
On Drive Friday
Second report session in the
current American Red Cross
fund campaign is slated for Fri
day noon at the Senator hotel.
Robert Colton, fund raising
consultant from area office of
the Red Cross, who has been vis
iting chapters in the valley this
week, is to be special speaker
on the program.
Several county representatives
have indicated their intention of
attending the meeting. Walter
Musgrave, general drive chair
man, asks all division heads and
workers who can to attend the
report meeting.
"This second report listing is
the key one for the drive. We
are all working to make the re
port especially good," Musgrave
said.
said:
"We've got about everything
we want except one-hour park
ing."
The club believes the ordi
nance provision that parking be
limited to an hour even in me
tered districts should be en
forced, and there was talk of ac
tion against Chief of Police
Clyde Warren for non-enforcement
of the ordinance. Howev
er, the feeling seemed to be that
the city council rather than the
police was at fault. The police
were complimented for other
wise enforcing the traffic laws
C. A. Vibbert reported to the
club that he had been informed
by the contractors that the Ow
ens street traffic lights would be
in operation by June 15. There
had been delay in shipment of
the poles, he said.
W A. Barkus criticised a "city
limits" sign at Vista avenue,
which, he said, blocks vision of
approaching vehicles and could
cause accidents. He said it would
be impossible to change the lo
cation of the sign, but he thought
it could be lowered.
Plane Crash Fatal to 15 Firemen and rescue workers
probe debris of home demolished when a Northwest Airlines
passenger plane crashed into it while trying to land at Wold
Chamberlain airfield in Minneapolis, Minn. All 13 persons
aboard the plane and two children in the home died in the
tragedy. (Acme Telephoto)
Plan Traffic Safety,
Off -Street Parking
By STEPHEN A. STONE
In the interest of better traffic regulation and public safety two
Salem agencies were especially active today. One is the city ad
ministration itself and the other the Salem Retail Trade bureau.
While the administration is getting set for an organizational
traffic safety meeting at the Senator hotel at noon Friday, the
Mercy Killing
By a Brother
Allentown, Pa., March 9 VP)
"He asked me to shoot him. 1
pondered it. He often had asked
me' to do the same thing. I fi
nally decidedilo"do it."
With those words, Harold
Mohrr 36, of nearby Coplay, was
quoted by District Attorney Ken
neth H. Koch as saying he shot
and killed his 55-year-old broth
er, Waller, last night because
he was incurably ill of cancer
and was blind."
Harold Mohr was charged with
murder after making his verbal
statement to Koch and a third
brother. Coplay Police Chief
Ralph Mohr.
The Lehigh county district at
torney said Harold told him Wal
ter had pleaded with him fre
quently to kill him and insisted
he would never submit to hos
pitalization. Dr.. George S. Boycr, county
coroner, said waller was Kiiiea
instantly by a .30 caliber rifle
bullet fired into his back. Wal
ter had been receiving treat
ment for cancer from a Coplay
physician for the last six years,
Dr. Boyer said.
Outlook for
Business Good
Washington, March 9 VPi-Thc
1950 business outlook badly
clouded by the coal strike, was
reported clearing nicely today to
a forecast of sunny and general
ly prosperous.
President Truman's council of
economic advisers, while not is
suing any statements, reportedly
felt that the mine shutdown
brought a bad fright but no last
ing damage.
The council, informed officials
said, is again standing on its of
ficial January appraisal that for
1950 "the economic outlook is
good."
Some federal economists feci
the pent-up production which
now is released may give an ex
tra fillip to business, sales and
employment, in the process of
catching up on deferred orders,
Others, who had feared a
slump after mid-year, now be
lieve a letdown may be post
poned possibly even until next
spring when the usual seasonal
upturn might cancel it entire
Emphasizing that 11 is too early
to gauge the force of indus
try's rebound, one top-ranking
economist noted the ambitious
schedules set for restoring out
put in the steel, auto and metal-
working industries. He com
mented:
"I can't sec anything except
a very favorable prospect in the
coming months."
s'Retail Trade bureau is sponsor-
ing a questionnaire on the sub
ject of off-street parking. There
is no connection between the two
movements.
The city council on Monday
night, Feb. 27, adopted a resolu
tion creating a traffic safety
commission composed of the city
manager, police chief and city
engineer, also a traffic safety
council of an unspecified num
ber of citizens'a't large. The res
olution was requested by the
state traffic safety division
through Captain Walter Lansing.
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom said
today he would appoint about
30 persons on the council, and
that the appointments would be
after the Friday noon meeting,
though probably not immediate
ly. Those attending the meeting
will include representatives of
all the service clubs of Salem,
several officials, and representa
tives of the Junior and Senior
Chambers of Commerce, the
planning and zoning commission,
the schools, the Salem Woman's
club and the American Legion
posts.
The resolution creating the
council states that "The traffic
safety council shall function as
an advisory and educational
group, conduct safety campaigns,
carry on educational work in the
schools and other groups and the
public in general . . . making
suggestions with reference to the
enforcement of traffic rules and
regulations, changes in the traf
fic code, elimination of haz
ards," etc.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
U. S. Task Force
Visiting Greece
Athens, Greece, March 9 (IP)
Five warships of the U.S. sixth
task fleet, which had been or
dered to stay away from Greek
ports during the national elec
tions, dropped anchor today at
Phaleron boy for a four-day vi
sit. '
Greece's royalist "caretaker'
Premier John Thcotokis enter
tains senior officers at a lunch
eon today. The visiting ships
were the carrier Midway, the
heavy cruiser Newport News
and the destroyers Thomas, Vo
gelsang and Glcnnon.
Meanwhile, Thotokis announc
ed to newsmen he would not re
sign his post until parliament
assembles, despite the tentative
formation of a middle-of-the-
road coalition government. Left
wing and center parties led by
Gen. Nicholas Plastiras, George
Papandreou and Sophocles Ve
nizclos began attempts to form
the coalition after it was found
that the slight election lead held
by the royalists was not strong
enough to keep them in power.
But re p o r t e d disagreement
over the allocation of the min
istry of foreign affairs was caus
ing some delay in the coalition
talks and could possibly hamper
its formation.
Judith Coplon Gets
Russian Ordered Deported
'Partisans of
Peace' Plead
With Russians
Moscow, March 9 VP) O.
John Rogge, a former U. S. as
sistant attorney general, asked
here last night that the east and
west explore the possibility of
"unlimited inspection" not only
of all atomic installations in the
world but of all armed forces
and armaments.
Rogge, now a New York at
torney and a policy maker for
Henry A. Wallace's progressive
party, spoke in the Kremlin be
fore an audience consisting of
representatives of the supreme
soviet (parliament) and the So
vict committee for the defense
of peace. It was a ceremony for
the presentation to the supreme
soviet of a petition from the
World Congress of Partisans of
Peace.
Wants Arms Inspection
Rogge asked if it would not be
possible to set up a body of
large and small nations within
the United Nations to inspect
but not control armaments,
atomic installations and military
bases everywhere in the world.
(Russia has rejected the Bar-
uch plan for international at
omic control because it calls
for unlimited inspection of at
omic installations. Rogge's pro
posal appeared to be an elabora
tion of the Baruch plan, extend
ing it beyond atomic installa
tions to all military facilities.)
Rogge said some proposal such
as his would relieve nations "of
most of their current intclli-
gence and counter-intelligence
activities" and decrease the
number of spy trials.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
French Strike
Not Effective
Paris, March 9 (IP) Thousands
of utility workers struck
throughout France today but a
government draft of key person
nel kept the lights and gas burn
ing.
The only immediate noticeable
effect of the stoppage was a low
ering of gas pressure. Household
ers found it took a long time to
cook breakfast.
Industry did not appear to be
hit by the walkout which had
been scheduled to begin at mid
night (6 p.m. EST) last night.
At least ten per cent of the
100,000 workers in the nation
alized utilities were at their
posts, drafted under the war
powers act of 1938. Though all
utility workers were subject to
the "requisition," which pro
vides jail terms for violators, po
lice yesterday delivered the draft
notices only to 10,000 key men,
government spokesman said.
A spokesman at the ministry
of commerce and industry said
no worker had rebelled at the
draft. The ministry said it had
no immediate information on
how many of the other 90,000
utility workers had struck.
Bitter Ro w Features
McCarthy Spy Probe
Washington, March 9 U.R Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, (R-, Wis.),
accused a senate investigating group today of being "a tool of the
state department," and was denounced for making statements
"unworthy of a senator."
Sen. Brien McMahon, (D., Conn.), said he was "profoundly
shocked" by McCarthy's state
ment, and warned angrily
When you start making charges
like that against me, you better
reflect on it."
McMahon said McCarthy's re
marks were "unworthy of any
senator."
The angry exchange followed
McCarthy's adamant refusal to
name the "high" state depart
ment official who, he says, cover
ed up for a bad-security risk in
the department.
The senate foreign relations
investigating subcommittee hear
ing McCarthy's charges that
there are 57 communists In the
state department was almost In
an unroar following McCarthy's
refusal to name the official.
Chairman Millard E. Tydings,
(D., Md.), pounded again and
again on his gavel in an attempt
Anti-Aircraft
Troops Guard
Atomic Plant
Fort Lewis, March 9 VP) Per
manent deployment of 1,000
anti-aircraft troops in the area
of the Hanford atomic plant near
Richland has been ordered, Maj.
Gen. Harry Collins said today,
General Collins, Fort Lewis
commander, said the movement
has been under consideration for
some time. It became possible to
day through the coooeration of
the Hanford works and the do
partment of the army, the gen
eral said.
A request has been made to
congress for funds to provide
permanent facilities for the gar
rison. The units will be housed
meanwhile in tents, trailers and
some facilities now available at
Hanford.
Goons Busy in
Chrysler Strike
Detroit, March 9 VP) The
first violence in the 44-day
Chrysler strike was reported to
day at the company's plant in
Marysville, Mich.
John R. Scribo, assistant ac
countant at the plant, was beat
en as he drove into the parking
lot.
Chrysler, in a statement at its
main office here, said Scribo was
dragged from his car twice by
pickets and beaten, then left on
a highway.
There was no comment from
officials of the CIO United Auto'
Workers.
Chrysler said pickets smashed
the windows in Scribo's car and
also those in an auto carrying a
girl employe to work.
The Marysville plant normal
ly employs about 1400 persons.
Only yesterday it was the scene
of a pep demonstration which
had its lively moments.
Meantime on its 44th day the
Chrysler strike gave no sign to
day of arriving at an early set
tlement. Only trifling progress was re
ported from continuing negotia
tions over a stubborn pension
dispute which has idled 140,000
auto workers.
The direct cost to the city of
Detroit's treasury was rising.
State Game Bird
Farm at Adair
Corvallis, March 9 (IP) A
1,600-acre tract of the wartime
training Camp Adair will be
turned into a state game bird
farm.
The Eugene game farm will
close down after this year's
pheasant chicks are distributed.
Equipment from that farm will
be transferred to the Adair tract,
and the Eugene site sold.
Later the Corvallis game farm
at Lcwisburg may also be moved
to Camp Adair.
The state game commission
said the change was to provide
ample room for expansion. The
Camp Adair farm will be used
both to raise pheasants and to
conduct field studies on upland
game birds.
to keep order.
The McMahon-McCarthy out
burst came after McCarthy said
he had no evidence in his own
files to back up his charges
against the "high" department
official. But he said his infor
mation came from government
files and was "absolutely true
The subcommittee threatened to
subpena McCarthy's files.
McMahon said he was "left
with the unfortunate opinion
that the senator has material
which he refused to turn over to
the committee." The burly Con
necticut democrat said ho was
"very much disappointed."
McCarthy replied that "I know
what you want . . . you re not
following me. The department
of state wants to find out who is
giving me (information) ... so
that heads will fall."
15 Years
Gubitchev to
Be Sent Home
Within 2 Weeks
New York, March 9 (IP) Ju
dith Coplon was sentenced to 15
years in jail today for plotting
to spy for Soviet Russia. Valen
tin A. uubitchcv, her partner,
received a 15 years suspended
sentence and was ordered de
ported to Russia within two
weeks.
Miss Coplon was sentenced to
five years on a charge of con
spiracy and 15 years on the count
of attempted espionage, the sen
tences to run concurrently
Gubitchev received a suspend
ed sentence and was ordered
deported by Federal Judge Syl
vester J. Ryan at the recommen
dation of the government.
Claims lie Was Framed
Before the judge spoke Gubit
chev declared in a courtroom
statement that the case had
been "artificially manufactured"
against him.
The dour-faced ex-pal of Miss
Coplon read his statement in
federal court before he and she
were sentenced by Judge Ryan.
The statement in English was
issued to reporters by his attor
ney before delivery.
As he had at the beginning of
the trial, the diminutive Gubit
chev declared:
"The mere fact of bringing me
to trial constitutes an unprece
dented violation of rules of in
ternational law and of the na
tional law of the U. S. A. itself. . .
Is Soviet Diplomat
I am a Soviet diplomat of
the rank of third secretary of
the ministry for foreign affairs
of the U. S. S. R. . . .
"The arbitrary and the pro
vocative character of the action '
of the U. S. authorities againi
me are ail tne more aggravated
since I violated, in no way, any
laws of the U. S. A.
"This was established during
the proceedings in this case ar
tificially manufactured against
me.
No proof of my guilt was
offered despite the fact that the
prosecution worked hard to
show my very ordinary actions
meeting with a girl, entering
a subway, walking into a food
store, etc. as actions which con
stitute a threat to the security
of the U. S. A."
Without a Warrant
Gubitchev went on to say that
he was arrested without a war
rant, and subjected to hours of
grilling by F. B. I. agents who,
he said, sought information
about Russia from him. He as
serted that his telephone conver
sations were Intercepted and that
the F. B. I. deliberately de
stroyed the records because, he
said, they would have shown that
he did not wrong.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 7)
Deportation
Avoids Clash
Washington, March 9
Deportation to Russia
rather
than a prison term was decided
upon for Valentin A Gubitchev,
convicted spy ploltei, to avoid
endangering Americans in Soviet-dominated
eastern Europe.
The state department noted
today that the United Slates and
Russia have been at odds over
whether Gubitchev should have
been granted diplomatic immu
nity.
Concerning this and the rea
son lor llie accision to aeporc
him the department said in a
statement:
It is considered important
that any misunderstanding by
the Soviet government in regard
to the Gubitchev case should
not have the consequence of
prejudicing the situation of
American citizens in eastern
Europe including diplomatic of
ficers and other officials."
The statement said the state
and justice departments decided
it would "best serve the public
interest" to deport the Russian
United Nations official.
Gubitchev identified himself
as a third secretary in the Rus
sian foreign ministry
In ordering the deportation of
the Russian, Judge Sylvester
Ryan said in New York that he
acted on recommendations of
the state and justice departments.