C apit al JlJ ou rnal
THE WEATHER
CONTINUED FAIR tonight, Turf,
day. Little change In temperature.
Low tonight, 28 ;hlgh Tuesday, Si.
FINAL
EDITION
66th Year, No. 32 Z;.Z'o,''::i Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 8, 1954 (21
Infermediale
Boy Institution
Opinion Due
Emergency Board to
Determine if Suit Is
To Be Instituted
By JAMES D. OLSON
Members of the state emergency
board will consider the possibility
of requesting to seek a declara
tory judgment opinion from the
state supreme court on the legal
ity of using funds appropriated
lor construction of an intermedi
ate institution in Marion county
for purchase of necessary land
on which to place the new insti
tution. Haley to Report
The board, meeting next Thurs
day, will receive an opinion from
Sam Haley, legislative counsel, on
the subject.
Haley was requested by the
board to determine if, first there
is any precedent for purchase of
land with funds im. uded in a
building appropriation, and it so,
what state agency or official
should file the suit, and finally
if there is any authority under
which the emergency board to
bring the svit.
The 1953 legislature appropri
ated $1,250,000 for construction
of an intermediate institution, to
be located in Marion county,
and to which older boys at Mac
Larcn school and young prisoners
at the penitentiary, could be com
mitted. No Procedure Outlined
However, the legislature, In
this connection, did not spell out
any procedure for cither com
muting or releasing inmates of
the new institution.
In order to have proper rec
omemndations on hand for con
sideration by the 1955 legisla
ture, the board of control, acting
on a suggestion made by Gover
nor Paul L. Patterson, are in
the process of appointing a com
mittee to work out a set of operational-regulations
for the inter
mediate institution.
This committee, which will
probably be announced the board
said Tuesday, will include Prison
Warden-Clarence Gladden, James
Lamb, superintendent of MacLar
en school for boys, reprcsenta
tives of -state association of Dis
trict Attorneys, Circuit Judges,
County Judges, and two members
representing the public.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 3)
300 Fired as
Security
WASHINGTON, UP Scolt
McLcod, top State Department se
curity officer, said today that 300 I
"security risks" resigned or were j
fired from the department last
year.
The former FBI agent, a con
troversial figure in the adminis
tration, also said that much of
the criticism aimed at him was
caused by the "generous endorse
ment that my friend Joe Mc
Carthy gave me right after my
appointment.
"As you know, there is an al
most pathological hatred of Sen
ator McCarthy in some quarters,"
McLcod said in a copyright in
terview with U.S. News & World
Report, a weekly magazine.
He said McCarthy (R., Wis.)
had "absolutely nothing" to do
with his appointment, which he
said was made on the recom
mendation of Undersecretary of
State Donald B. Lourie.
Pull Jap Ship
Out of Muck
ASTORIA Ifl The Japanese
freighter Showa Maru was pulled
Snnd.iv nieht after getting
stuck in the mud while loading logs i
Port engineers Monday began
taking soundings lo determine the
depth of the pier slip. They said
silt apparently washed in from
this winter's storm and reduced
the depth.
Che Japanese vessel was to have
laVcn on 800.000 board feet of logs
before heading home but after
getting stuck the captain decided to
load only B5.nno feet. The ship w is
being moved to another pier
Monday.
Sunny Skies, Frosty
Nights Continue
Salem and the valley enjoyed
sunny skies again Monday, and
the prospect is for more of the
same through at least Tuesday.
Nights continue cold, however,
the thermometer reading being
at 26 for the Monday morning
minimum, the Sunday minimum
reading 25 degrees. Another low
mark is due tongiht hut the fore
rast calls for fair weather through
Tuesday.
So far, February has not regis
tered a drop of rain in Salem
and the normal precipitation total
to this date it 143 -inches.
Report Says
Grant Store
To Open Here
Large Variety Chain
Expected in Salem
In Few Months
By STEPHEN A. STONE
From sources considered reliable
it is reported that W. T. Grant
company, operator of the third
largest chain of variety stores in
the United States, will open a store
in Salem this year or early in 1955.
The location has not been made,
known.
Other new units to be started in
the Northwest in the next year or
so, it is said, will be two stores in
Spokane and one in Yakima.
The W. T. Grant Company oper
ates stores in 39 states, and open
ed its 500th unit in September,
1953. The largest number are in
New York, Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania. Among stores to be
opened this year is a 100.000-square
foot unit in Philadelphia.
Sales by the Grant stores in
1953 are estimated to have totaled
$300,000,000, and the company ex
pects to duplicate that figure this
year.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 4)
Jimmy Goes
To See Mother
LOS ANGELES (UP) James
Roosevelt flies East tonight, pos
sibly to see his mother. Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, as behind the
scenes attempts were underway
to settle out of court his bitter
separate maintenance battle
with his estranged wife.
The eldest son of the late
President was not available for
comment on his scheduled two
day trip, but his brother, Elliott,
said "it is entirely possible Jim
my will sec mother after all,
that's where she lives." Elliott
said he did not know whether
James would meet with brother
Franklin, Jr., a New York con
gressman. Mrs. Roosevelt, according to re
ports from New York yesterday.'
was on a speaking engagement out
of thel city but her son is not sched
uled to arrive at New York's Idle-
wild airport until tomorow morn
ing via Trans-World Airlines.
Roosevelt, charged with whole
sale adultery in a suit filed by his
wife, Romellc, cancelled a speak
ing engagement tonight and said
publicly only that he was "called
East."
Sizzling Heat
In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (UP) Southern'
California's winter heat wave con
tinued riding desert winds today
and threatened to equal yesterday's
sizzling 88 degrees, the highest of
the eight day hot sepll.
The mercury in Los Angeles
soared to its record high for Feb.
7 at 1:25 p.m.. after rising from
a minimum of 55 degrees, recorded
at 7:05 a.m.
Culver City recorded 92 degrees,
making it the hottest spot in the
nation.
Coastal cities from Santa Bar
bara to San Diego reported that
temperatures in the high 80s at
tracted thousands to the beaches
and hundreds into the surf. County
lifeguards made 25 rescues at Her
mosa. Redondo and Manhattan
beaches.
Weather Details
Mfttimum TtttrrdiT. Ui minimum U
Jit, Ifl. Total 21-hour prrrlplUMon: u:
(or menlh: tit normal. 1.4.1. Sraiti prr
rlpltatlon. IHAAt normal. ?SWi'. Klvrr
(fttpart hr 1 . 8. Wrath
Senate Opens Probe of
High Cost of Coffee
WASHINGTON L'P' A senate
subcommittee opened formal hear
ings today on soaring coffee prices
but Sen. J. Allen Frear, Jr., said
American housewives arc the real
key to the problem.
"Housewives can do more than
we can ever hope to accomplish
if they will use more coffee sub
stitutes and milk," the Delaware
democrat declared. "The coffee
people know it and it worries
them."
Frear, a member of tlie special
Banking Subcommittee' handling
the investigation, suggested that
Americans eliminate coffee from
at least one or two meals daily as
the sure fire way to drjve prices
down.
Subcommittee Chairman J.
Glenn Bcall 'R., Md.' called Gus-
tavo Lobo. Jr., president of the i ligation by the Federal Trade corn
New York Coffee Exchange, as the i mission is in full swing, lt has
lead off witness at today's hear-1
ings. '
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5000 Families
Quake Victims
MEXICO CITY Fears of a heavy
death toll in the earthquake-shattered
region of Chiapas stale in
southern Mexico, diminished today
as new reports trickled in from
the remote mountain region. But
5.000 families were believed home
less following the severe shock Fri
day. The quake centered in a 50-milo-
widc coffee producing area 60 miles
west of the Guatemalan border.
Four towns were reported devas
tated. Chiapas state Gov. Efrain Aran
da Osorio said yesterday telephone
reports from four mayors in the
hardest-hit region did not list any
fatalities.
Officials said the lL.it construc
tion of village houses probably ac
counted for the lack of heavy cas
ualties although damage was esti
mated at 20 million pesos (23 mil
lion dollars'.
Locate Diesel
In Deschutes
MAUPIN. Ore. W Railway
officials think they have located a
huge dicsel locomotive unit which
plunged into the Deschutes River
last week after crashing into a
landslide.
The bodies of two men. engineer
F.rnest Barton of Portland, and
fireman r'arl Sutton of Wishram,
Wash., arc believed imprisoned in
the 125-ton engine.
Divers have not been able to
enter the river because of its swift
current. On Saturday an electronic
device that indicates the presence
of metal was swung out on a boom
over the river. It registered at a
point about 200 feet downstream !
from the scene of the crash. j
Workmen, using probing bars. ;
were swung out over the area and
they reported they hac1 found
scrapings of paint similar to that '
used on the Spokane. Portland and j
Seattle engine. ;
A freight car. loaded with canned I
goods, is believed to be about .100'
feet downstream from the diesel.
SI'iS officials reported Sunday
they probably will have to build
a coffer dam to get the engine out
of the river.
Leon Israel, Jr.. vice-president
of the New York Coffee and Sugar
r.xciidiige. iuiu .icnaic Banning j
subcommittee nc crop crippling i
Brazilian frost last July 4 has en-
abled growers to demand and get ;
more favorable prices
He also indicated that current
coflec consumption conceivably
could strip Hrii7.il of all its corn
ice supplies by next June.
The Beall subcommittee investi
gation is the third wave in the of
ficial attack on zooming prices,
now over $1 per pound for most
brands.
The Agriculture Committee fin
ished its limited study by approv
ing a bill to put the coffee ex
change under federal regulation
A White House endorsed inves-
centered thus far on coffee
change operations.
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CHURCH WRECKED IN QUAKE
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4. o.
Front of this old stone church in Petlancingo in southern
Mexico was wrecked by quake which shook area Friday morn
ing. Priest, only, person in church at time, was slightly injured,
Trcmblor left 5,000 families homeless but apparently caused no
deaths. Four villages were reported virtually destroyed. (AP
Wirephoto)
US Gamblers Tax No
Bar to Local Penalty
WASHINGTON Uft The Su
preme Court split 5-4 Monday in
upholding the bookmaking convic
tion of a Californian who claimed
his purchase of a $50 federal
gambling tax stamp barred city
police from prosecuting mm.
Rescue Crew on
Grounded Ship
LONG BEACH. Calif. (UP)-The
Panamanian freighter Harry Lun
deberg ran aground off Lower Cal
ifornia early today, forcing its
cicw to abandon ship.
The Coast Guard reported that
the S. S. Flavia of the Grace Line
picked up all men from the strick
en ship shortly after they took to
life boats. The vessel was report
ed "a total loss." ;
The Flavia and several small
Mexican fishing boats approached
the scene within an hour after the
Lundcberg sent out a wireless that
it was "taking water."
The. Flavia was within five miles
of the Lundeberg when it went
aground on shoals located in the
Cape of ban Lucas.
Number of
men aboard was not immediately
known.
Coast Guard spokesmen here
said the Flavia and several small
Mexican fishing vessels were I
standing by until tho Coast Guard
cutter Perseus, en route north !
from Acapulco, Mexico, arrived on
the scene.
Idle Ships for
Grain Storage
ASTORIA. (UP) Capt. E. E.
Tlmrne, superintendent of the
reserve fleet at Cathlamet Bay
here, said today he had been
notified by the Maritime Com
mission at Washington that
ships here and at Olympia, Wash.,
had been r.ppmved for storage of
surplus grain from Pacific North
west wheat fields.
Capt. Thornc said approval al
so had been siven for dredging
a mooring basin to accommodate
! the ships.
Some 100 ships in the Astoria
reserve fleet and 35 at Olympia
will be used fur storing the
grain, according to the Astoria
tham'brr of commerce which said
jt ot lhc (if,ure, from hc Si
department of agriculture. Each
(ship would store about 400,000
bushels of grain.
Convicted Pastor
Not a Methodist
PORTLAND i-Church officials
pointed out Monday that the Rev.
Edwin L. Heem, who was convicted
here of statutory rape.
was a
pastor in the Christian
Church,
instead of the Methodist Church,
as erroneously reported by he
Associated Press Feb. 4
Formerly at the Cornell, Ore.,!
rhurch, he was sentenced last
week to three years in prison. Thei
'rase involved a 15-year-old girl of
his congregation.
31
But every member of the court
raised questions in varying de
grees of sharpness over the meth
ods used by Long Beach police in
arresting the gambler, Patrick
Irvine.
Irvine related that after he
bought his gambling tax stamp
city police had a skeleton key
made so that they could get into
his house. He said they then in
stalled a microphone and other
listening devices, recorded his
telephone conversations, and
placed fluorescent powder on his
papers.
Justice Jackson, who wrote the
majority opinion, said he and
Chief Justice Warren favored
sending the. whole record of the j lime the executive director of the
case to Ally. Gen. Brownell to de-1 League of California Cities, wcath
tcrmine whether Irvine's civil cred criticism as a "40-day Demo-
l rights had been violated.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 3)
Commies Go
Underground
Yrtaniijiui, ui' rm i.niei
j. r.ogar Hoover warned in test -
mnnv mnHr. nnhlir Irwlni- fhnt fhi.
Communists are destroying party j
cards, staging loyalty tests, and
even avoiding-old vices to con-
cc.il their subervisivc activities.
"They communicate . through !
couriers and avoid the use of
wriUcn communications," he said.
"They have instituted loyalty
lests for all prospective under
ground personnel. They rotate the
underground personnel to avoid
detection."
The new "stealth" has "in
creased the difficulty with which
we are faced in trying to han
dle' these investigations." Hoover
said. It now takes about 10 men,
he reported, to trial Communists
hcreas it used to take nnly one.
Other Developments
Hoover made the .statements In '
testimony he gave before the
House Appropriations Committee
Dec. 9. The testimony was rc-
leased amid these other develop-i
espionage front.
Benson Asserts !
Farm Plan OK'd
WASHINGTON W" Secretary
of Agriculture Benson said Mon
day he hclicvcL a "big majority"
of the Republican members of
Congress and some Democrats fa
vor the administration s new farm
plan.
The GOP farm chief told a 0n a dresser was a sign sny
news conference he is confident inKi " am ,jm Nyj,hboI. ,aj(
the bulk of the plan will become , tne c3-Vear-old Ilodcnheim some
law. It features controversial flex
ible price supports for major
crops, to replace Uie present man
datory high level price props.
Benson said information reach-
ing the department from farming
i areas indicates increasing support
for the program President Eisen.'
i hower laid before Congress last
i month. He said tho administration i
will give whatever help Congress
I "lay ask in drafting new farm
legislation, hut that it will not use
"high pressure methods" on the
'lawmakers
Ausmu
To Peace Treaty
Indict Onassis
For Fraud Deals
In Surplus Ships
WASHINGTON 11 - Joseph E.
Casey, former member of Con
gress, and Aristotelcs S. Onassis,
Greek-Argentine shipping m a g
nate, are accused of conspiring to
defrud the U.S. government in
multi-million dollar surplus ship
deals in an indictment opened in
U.S. District Court Monday.
' A grand jury returned the indict
ment last Oct. 13 but it was kept
sealed until Onassis was within
uic jm lauiuuuu ut uie cuun.
Fabulously wealthy and a world
power in shipping. Onassis is a
native of Greece but lives in Ar
gentina ana is a citizen of that
country. ,
Headquarters of his shipping
In'erests are at Monte Carlo.
n ,
Three years ago he bought the
, casino mere lor Business omces.
Promises to Surrender
I Onassis came to the United
Mate last week.. Apparently he
came knowing he would be con -
fronted with the indictment. It
was learned that soon after his ar
rival his attorneys telephoned the
Justice Department and said they
understood he was wanted.
Informed that was true, the at
torneys said 'Onassis would sur
render in court at any date ap
pointed. ';
(Continued on Page 5, Col,
4)
Demo Ticket
In California
FRESNO, Calif, t Richard
Graves for governor, and U. S.
Rep. Samuel W. Yorty for V. S.
Senator head the organization Dem
ocratic ticket in the 1954 state
elections.
The slate was selected with, an
eye to "electability" at a Veckend
convention of the California Demo
cratic Council, new campaign arm
of the party. It marked the second
time since 1909, when the direct
primary law came in. that the
Democrats have got together lo
make pre-primary endorsements.
The endorsements arc unofficial
; ard Jh effect serve as rocommenda-
lions to Democratic voters.
Graves, 47. of Lafayette, long
crat" and Yorty, 44, a second term
congressman from Los Angeles,
! overcame opposition that finally
j (ailed for lack of another candidate,
to oppose Republican Sen. Thomas
1 II. Kuchel.
! A Republican for many years,
Graves rc-regislcred as a Demo
! crat only last December.
Airforce Nominations
nnf f nCk Onnla
JCIII IU HlC JvllUlC
uiActnvr-ivw , i i .
,,Z1 11? . I ' "
tLlUL6
Senate, including selection of Gen.
Otto P. Wcyland lo be commander
of the Tactica' Air Command.
Eisenhower nominated Lt. Gen.
Earlc K. Partridge lo be com
mander of the Far Knst Air
Forces. He also recommended that
Partridge be promoted to the rank
of full general.
Partridge would succeed Wey
Innd in that post. He has been
serving as deputy lo Wcyland.
Weyland. as chief of the Tacti
cal Air Command, would succeed
Gen. John J. Cannon, who is re-
tiring,
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Mystery Veils Sayings
OfBodenheimandWife
NEW YORK il - Maxwell Ro
denheim. sensational writer of the
192i)'s who in his later days some-
limes had to beg lo eat, was found
slain Sunday with his third wife.
Their bodies were sprawled In
a dingy, furnished room on the
fringe of the Bowery, not far from
the Greenwich Village where he
lived most of his bizarre life.
times wore it on the streets.
Police sent out a 13-stntc "pick
up for Harold Weinberg. 25, de
scribed as a scar-faced "fast talk
er," for questioning in connection
...:,u I.:lt:...
' . . K
I olicc said they also were ques-
Honing persons in Greenwich Vil -
laK wnt participated in "sadistic
: orgies which Ilodcnheim attend -
which Ilodcnheim attend-1
ea.
Bodenhelm's death had none of
the. beauty which he foresaw in a
poem "kisses of death, like scented
mriitea bv Bia4
Dean Remains
Korean Peace
Special Envoy
Washington ii - The state
Department said Monday "there is
no basis in fact" for published re
ports that Arthur H. Dcan will 'c
replaced as special ambassador
for Korea peace talks.
A department spokesman read a
written statement to newsmen
when asked for comment on a dis
patch by The New York Herald
Tribune Monday saying that Dean
is being replaced.
The statement said:
"There is no basis in fact for the
report that Ambassador Artliur H.
Dcan s being withdrawn from his
'assignment
"Ambassador Dean is prepared
1 10 return to Panmuniom for a re
sumption of the negotiations to-
wara oeacc conference provided
that lhe eonditions which he has
, laid down for the rcsunrntion of
.
the conversations are met by the
communists
department holds the high-
I est regard for the exceptional
j ability Mc Dcan v demonstrated
during the negotiations at Pan-
1 munjom."
NAM Opposed .
T-H Proposals
WASHINGTON Wi The Nation
al Assn. of Manufacturers Mon
day opposed several of President
Kisenhower s proposals for chang
ing the Taft-Hartley law and asked
a secret strike vote only when one
of the parties specifically requests
it.
George W. Armstrong, Jr., chair
man of the NAM'S industrial re
lations committee, said in a state
ment prepared for the Senate La
bor Committee:
i w .v, . t,iiM
(secret strike vote) should result fear, of a.n upr8 rebellious
from a request made by either of workers, it was reported today. , .
the parties, that it should not be Weapons possessed by hunters
mandatory unless one of the par- and even those of forestry officials
ties does make such a request." are being seized, Ibe anti-Commu-EJscnhower
asked Congress to I nist "Free Jurists Investigating
j write into the Taft-Hartley law
new provision compelling unions
submit lo a government-conducted other sources,
secret strike poll whenever a labor Advices from the Soviet Zone
dispute enters the strike stage. said tnat workers had started glow
r ailurc of a majority of employes down movements in factories in
to vote for the strike would make P.tt .,ino( ni m. ,
it an unprotected activity.
Reds Hit Near
Laos Capital
LUANG TRABANG, Laos U.R)
Communist spearheads today
struck lo within 15 miles of this
beleaguered capital of Laos. Mil
itary dispatches said the fast
moving Red columns had reached
the Mekong River north of the
city.
The Communist spearhead had
slashed 21 miles through the
rought jungle terrain since its
position last was reported late
yesterday. '
The advance indicated that the
important river junction strong
hold of Pakseng had been over
run or abandoned.
News of the rapid Red advance
waS received here as French De
fense Minister Rene Pleven was
flt.inff In InHn-f-htna f mm Pari
in an attempt to save the deter -
inraling situation.
The French position in Laos
became desperate after one arm
nf a three pronged Communist
attack suddenly swept tn Pak
seng, in a move apparently de
signed to outflank the right wing
of the French defense arc.
coming In him as he strolled
rain
down life's road
His body lay on the floor, a bul
let in the chest. His brunette wile,
the former Ruth Fagnn. .15. lay
nearby on a cheap cot, fatally
stabbed.
Both Bodenhcim's poetry and
his convention-defying novels.
brought him a spectacular, con
troversial career. By 193."), he was
on the skids, and led a hand of
hungry writers into relief head
quarters seeking money for food
and lodging.
Lately, he had taken lo making
the round of Greenwich Village
bars, peddling manuscripts of
poems for 50 cents or a dollar.
i Police said that Weinberg, the
mBn sought for questioning, was
1 onc ,,f t(,c ne'er-do-wells with
; w,om he spent his dnvs.
' chjrf of Detectives Thomas A.
Niclson said "this is definitely not
I a robbery murder" but did not dis -
j close what other motive might lo
' under investigation.
Parley
Figl Plans to
Come to Berlin
From Vienna
BERLIN UH - The Big Four
foreign ministers decided Monday
in secret session to invite Austria
for the opening of the Austrian in
dependence treaty discussions this
Friday at the latest.
The decision was announced aft
er a four-hour session of the min-
isters and their closest associates
behind tho locked doors of the Al
lied control authority building in
the American sector.
The foreign ministers also dis
cussed point 1 of the order of the
day. under which Russia had pro
posed a five-power conference in
cluding Red China and a general
world disarmament conference.
While it was not specifically
mentioned in the communique is
sued after the meeting, a spokes
man for the ministers said
France's Georges Bidault had been
authorized to invite Austrian rep
resentatives to sit with the Big
Four. The communique gave no
indication of any decision taken
any part of point 1 nor was there
any reference .to point 2, covering
discussion of the German ques
tion. Austria is point 3. .
It was expected that the pro
gram calling for discussion of the
German question Tuesday would
go on as usual in the semi-public
session. ;
(Continued on Page 5, Col 3)
Reds Seize All
Hunting Guns
BERLIN (UP) The East Gr
man Communists have ordered the
confiscation of hunting weapons in
a Committee"- said. The, committee
to i gets its reports from refugees and
,he Bi(, Four Koreign Ministers
Conference to keep them under the
j Communist yoke.
in uuuiiimi in previous reports
precautionary Soviet troop move
ments, it was. reported today that
Soviet tanks had been concentrated
near Fuorstemvnldc. 20 miles
southeast of Berlin. '
The slowdowns in factories were
reported by the West Berlin "fight
ing Group Against Inhumanity,"
which said the leaders were the
same men who led the anti-Communist
uprising last June.
Red Suspects
Found in Oslo
OSLO, Norway, (P) Norway'
government says It has rounded
up i group of spy suspects in the
Oslo area. The newspaper After)-
pnstcn reported today that 10 tn
20 persons were picked up on stiv
1 Pici!"l of !cllin ccrcV t0 ,ne
The government in November
arrested five farmers in the Arc
tic Finnmark province, near Nor
way's 130-mile border with the
Soviet union, on espionage
charges.
A communique last night said
the security police for some time
had suspected a "small group of
persons in the Oslo area of il
legal intelligence service for a
foreign power."
The announcement said a num
ber of arrests had been made
and added:
"As the investigations arc ex
pected to become very extensive
and require some time, further
information will not be given
out.
Shopping News
Discontinued
PORTLAND il - The Portland
Shopping News, a . free weekly
newspaper established in 1924. will
cease publication after its Feb. 25
issue.
In making this announcement,
Walter 1. Schade, general man
ager, said the suspension was the
result of "high publishing costs
and stiff competition from two fine
citv daily newspapers."
the Shopping News, with a clrcu-
lotion of more than 100,000, has IS
, fulltime employes and about 400
' carrier boys. It is printed at tha
: Vancouver. Wash., Columbian
1 plant, r