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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950
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Defense Indicates
Surprise Move In
Mercy Death Trial.
Disclosure Comes In
Cross-Examination
Manchester, N. H., Feb. 23
U.P.) The defense at Dr. Her
mann N. Sander's mercy murder
trial indicated today it will try
to prove that his cancer-doomed
patient already was dead when
he injected air into her veins
The startling disclosure came
during cross-examination of the
first prosecution witness, Dr.
Harold I. L. Loverud, an x-ray
specialist. He is staff president
ot HiusDorougn county hospital
where Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto,
59, died last December 4, alleg
edly after Dr. Sander administ
ered the air.
Begged By Husband
Attorney-General William L.
Phinney, in opening the prose
cution's case, had quoted the
41-year-old defendant as saying
he injected the lethal dose of air
to his dying patient only after
her husband had begged him to
do so to relieve her suffering
Dr. Sander also was quoted that
Mrs. Borroto "would have lived
two more days" if he had not
injected the air.
It was while white-haired
Chief Defense Counsel Louis E.
Wyman was cross -questioning
Dr. Loverud that the new theory
that Mrs. Borroto already was
dead when the air was injected
was disclosed.
New Nam In Case
"Have you ever heard of a Dr.
Snay?" asked Wyman.
(He was referring to Dr. Al
bert F. Snay of Goffstown, whose
name had not figured In the
case previously.)
"Yes," said Dr. Loverud.
"Would you say he is com
petent?" "Yes."
"Is he on the committee to ex
amine records at the hospital?"
"Yes."
"If Dr. Snay is a member of
that committee, and If he were
the doctor who saw Mrs. Borroto
at 11:10 (a.m.) or 11:15 (a.m.) on
December 4 just before Dr.
Sander entered the room, and
just before any air was injected
and if Dr. Snay made an ex
amination and pronounced her
dead, he would be able to give
pretty reliable information to
the committee, would you say?"
asked Wyman.
Attorney Objects
Phinney objected, saying:
"I assume you can produce
evidence that Dr. Snay said
that?"
"In due course we expect
that," said Wyman.
Superior Judge Harold E.
Wescott said the witness could
answer the question, and Dr.
Loverud replied,- "yes, sir."
Wyman then asked Dr. Love
rud if the term "pronouncing
her dead," would be the same as
saying "not then living."
Ties sir, replied Dr. Loverud.
In re-direct examination of
Dr. Loverud, Phinney asked:
"Can you tell us any reason
for injecting air into the veins
of a person who is dead?"
"No, sir," Dr. Loverud re
plied. ,
Wyman then rose and asked
Dr. Loverud whether he had any
Idea how much air it takes to
cause death. The doctor said he
had no idea.
It was in his opening state
ment that Phinney, a former
schoolmate of the defendant,
quoted Dr. Sander as saying Mrs.
Borroto's husband urged him to
hasten her death.
Phinney was recounting an al
leged conversation between Dr.
Sander and County Medical Re
feree Robert E. Biron last De
cember 29, the day of the de
fendant's arrest.
Dog Poisoning Plot
Told In Washington
Richland, Wash.. Feb. 23 (U.R)
A plot to poison 1000 dogs here
this summer was revealed today.
The Tri-City Herald received
a letter signed by "some shift
workers." It read:
"We understood the dogs
would be under control by Feb.
1, 1950. There are plans being
made for a dog poisoning cam
paign. Our goal is 1000. All we
want is peace and a nice yard
this summer. Yes, we are mean,
but so are the dogs."
A resolution to control atomic
city pooches was passed by the
Richland advisory council late in
1949 and sent to county com
missioners. However, no action
has been taken yet.
Norblad Files For
Re-Election To Post
Salem, Ore.. Feb. 23 !U.R
Congressman Walter Norblad of
the first Oregon congressional
district filed his candidacy here
today for re-election. He will
seek the republican nomination
at the May 19 primary election.
The first congressional district
is made up of Benton, Clacka
mas. Clatsop. Columbia. Lincoln,
Marion. Polk. Tillamook. Wash
ington and Yamnill counties.
Washington. Feb. 23 (U.R)
I House leaders said today they
v i 1 1 call up for house action
next Tuesday and Wednesday
bills to grant statehood to. Alas
ka and Hawaii.
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Harry Bridges Defense Rests
n Perjury -
San Francisco, Feb. 23 (U.R)
The defense rested today in the
perjury-conspiracy trial of Har
ry Bridges after the west coast
longshore union leaner testified
he did not think the world is
threatened now by "so-called
Russian imperialism,,"
Disbelieving
Bridges finished his marathon
stint on the witness stand by
saying he "didn't believe" the
statement made by President
Truman at Washington yester
day when the chief executive
said communism's chief danger
les in the fact that it is an
instrument of an armed imperial-
37 Lose Lives In
Northeastern Storm
Chicago, Feb. 23 (U.R) An
ice and snow storm took a mount
ing toll of aead in the north
east today, and national guards
men stepped up removal of flood-
threatened families in Louisiana.
The toll of dead from highway
accidents, fires and exposure
rose to 37 as the wintry storm
piled a mixture of snow, sleet
and freezing rain on the Atlan
tic seaboard from Pennsylvania
to Maine and westward to the
Great Lakes.
South of the storm area the
weather was mild in Virginia,
the Carolinas and the Gulf states,
and it was so balmy in the inter-
mountain west that golfers were
out at Salt Lake city.
Only on the northern plains
along the Canadian border did
the mercury dip below zero.
Transportation was snarled in
New York and New Jersey as
snow turned to freezing rain and
laid a growing crust of ice and
slush on rail lines, streets and
airports.
Boats Destroyed In
Blaze At Oswego
" Portland, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
Fire broke out today in the two
story Wally's Marine Sales &
Service building in Oswego, de
stroying several pleasure boats
and a 60-foot yacht left in the
plant for repairs.
The fire was brought under
control about 1 p.m., after it had
threatened to spread to the ad
joining Lake theater.
Furniture and furnishings
were carried across the street
from business firms in the thea
ter building. These included a
dress store, a beauty parlor and
a restaurant.
The Oswego fire department
battled to keep the blaze from
spreading, and the roof of the
theater was steaming from heat
when the fire was extinguished.
The Marine Service firm is
owned by Wally Worthington
and is situated on a lagoon of
Oswego lake.
Hungary Demands
Staff Reduction
Budapest, Feb. 23 (U.R) Hun
gary demanded tonight that the
United States and Great Britain
reduce their diplomatic staffs in
this country.
The demand was made in notes
delivered to the American and
British legations.
(Washington and London had
criticized the methods by which
Hungary convicted Robert A.
Vogeler, an American, and Ed
gar Sanders, a Briton, of espion
age and sabotage. Vogeler was
sentenced on Tuesday to 15
years imprisonment and Sanders
to 13 years.)
fin Diego. Feb. 23 (U.R) A
flash fire blackened the side and
caused minor damage to the
carrier Valley Forge while the
big ship was tied up to the dock
at North island today, the navy
reported.
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Minister Clement Attlee. labor nartv camDaiener for the parliamen
shakes hands with a chimney sweep
DCiween ine iwo.
Conspiracy
ism which seeks to extend its in-
fluence by force."
Bridges, president of the 75,-000-member
CIO International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's union, is on trial on a
charge of lying at his naturaliza
tion mearing in 1945 when he
denied he was or ever had been
a communist. J. R. Robertson and
Henry Schmidt. ILWU officers,
are co-defendants on the con
spiracy charge.
Speech Head
Prosecutor F. Joseph Douohue
ended 10 days of questioning
Bridges by reading in its en
tirety newspaper accounts of
President Truman's Washing
ton's birthday speech in which
he denounced communism as an
"armed threat" and said its
danger lies in the fact it is an
"instrument of an armed im
perialism which seeks to extend
its influence by force.'1
Then,Donohue asked Bridges,
"Do you endorse the president's
statement which states the chief
danger of Russia's program is its
imperialism?"
"I don't believe in that state
ment made by Truman or any
one else," Bridges replied.
"If the president means im
perialism of any sort, and that
he is against it, then I endorse
his- statement, Bridges said.
"But I don't think the world is
threatened now by the so-called
Ashland Officials
In Public Dispute
Ashland, Feb. 23 A dispute
between one city councilman on i
one hand and the mayor and an-'
other councilman on the other
was made public here this week ,
at a regular session of the city j
council. The dispute, which in
volved alleged threats and at
tempts at intimidation, was
thought by observers here likely
to wind up in the courts.
Councilman Fred Homes, after
considerable previous discussion
at the meeting, read aloud a pre
pared statement in which he
claimed to have been threatened
with exposure of what he said
were non-existent past indiscre
tions unless he resigned from the
council.
Mayor Thomas Williams, ac
cused along with Councilman
Elmer Sheldon in Homes' state
ment, denied in part the allega
tions contained in the statement.
Sheldon made no comment, but
hinted that legal action may be
taken as a result of the public
reading of the statement, and its
subsequent publication in an
Ashland paper.
Flying Discs Said To
New York, Feb. 23 (U.R) A
navy commander who headed a
guided missiles research unit
said today that flying saucers,
although officially debunked.
really are "space ships from
another planet.
(Jmdr. Kobert B. McLaughlin,
now skipper of the destroyer
Bristol, indicated the visitors
from outer space seemed to de
light in zooming over the White
Sands proving ground In New
Mexico wnere a group of navy
experts and scientists were test
ing secret weapons.
McLaughlin said he saw one
of the discs in May, 1949, about
a month after five trained ob
servers, using precision instru
ments, tracked a strange object
"about 105 feet in diameter."
Those discs were "space ships
from another planet, operated
by animate, intelligent beings."
McLaughlin said in an article in
the March issue of True maga
zine. Bt McLaughlin's conclusions
were doubted by his former An
napolis classmate. Cmdr. H. H
(Swede) Larsen, executive of
ficer of the navy'i experiment
while making a tour of constitu
Trial
'Russian imperialism'."
Never Visited Russia
Bridges, who rose from an or
dinary seaman to head of the
most powerful waterfront union
on the Pacific coast, said he had
never visited any Russian colo
nies during his years at sea but
had been to British and Dutch
colonies and seen how "down
trodden" the people were.
Milder Weather
Boosts Building
With the return of milder
weather, the resunmlion o f
building activity in Medford is
being noted at the city building
inspector's office. Nine building
permits were asked Tuesday aft
ernoon and up until late 'this
morning.- The office was not
open yesterday.
Largest project reported was
a 513.000 residence to be built
at 2021 Westcrlund drive by
Rudy Larson. Two new homes,
each to cost $5,250, are being
built at 1221 and 1223 Withing
ton street one by L. J. Stewart
and one by Paul W. Elgin. D. C.
Dwyer will build a $4,000 resi
dence at 872 Taylor street and
H. Gordon will spend $6,000 to
put up a new service station at
700 Stewart avenue.
R. J. Crossman, owner of the
Medical Center building, 29
North Central avenue, has ask
ed for another permit to con
tinue the extensive remodelling
project in the four-story struc
ture. His latest application seeks
permission to spend $1,500 to
remodel three office suites.
Man Released After
False Imprisonment
Chicago. Feb. 23 (U.R) Ted
dy Marcinkiewicz, 39, was freed
today from the prison to which
he and a companion were sent
17 years ago for murder on tes
timony later found to be per
jured. Chief Justice Thomas J. Lynch
of the criminal court freed Mar
cinkiewicz on a habeas corpus
writ. His companion, Joseph
Majczek, was pardoned by Gov.
Dwight H. Green on Aug. 15,
1945, after the Chicago Times
campaigned to show that he had
been unjustly convicted for the
same crime.
Majczek and Marcinkiewicz
were found guilty and sentenced
to life terms in November, 1933,
after trial on charges of shoot
ing patrolman William D. Lundy
in a south side speakeasy.
al guided missile ship.
Larsen said McLaughlin was
in "all respects a very capable
and reputable" officer "not giv
en to wild statements" but
thought) nevertheless, that his
friend's statements needed fur
ther verification.
Larsen, now in San Francisco
aboard the USS Norton Sound,
said he thought one possible ex
planation of flying saucers lay
in the "skyhook" balloons used
by the Norton Sound and other
research centers in cosmic ray
studies.
But McLoughlin said he was
"convinced" that what he saw
"were flying saucers," operated
by strangers from outer space.
In April, 1949, he said, ob
servers at White Sands sent a
weather balloon aloft and while
plotting its course with an in
strument called a theodolite,
they found themselves tracking
a saucer.
He said an accurate plot of
the object's course was recorded
for 60 seconds, and the data ob
tained showed the object to be
elliptical in shape. 105 feet in
diameter, flying at an altitude
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Record Turnout
Expected At Polls
In British Voting
Fate Of Socialism
Rests With Results
London, Feb. 23 (U.R) Ex
tremely heavy voting was re
ported today in London and oth
er cities in the first few hours
of a parliamentary election
which will decide the fate of
British socialism.
Disregarding their tradition of
voting in the evening, Britons
swarmed to the polls this morn
ing in record numbers to choose
between Winston Churchill's
Conservative party and the La
bor party's cradle-to-the-grave
welfare program.
May Pass Expectation
Observers said the heavy turn
out may send the ballots soaring
above the expected 26.000,000
mark. There are 34,000.000 reg
istered voters in Britain.
At stake were 622 seats in the
new 625-mcmber house of com
mons. The victorious party will
form a new government and rule
for the next five years.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
has promised to nationalize the
steel industry and carry on the
Labor party's welfare program
if labor wins.
Churchill's Conservative par
ty has promised to maintain the
socialist welfare program, keep
steel in the hands of private en
terprise and reduce taxes and
government expenses.
Weather Cool
The weather was crisp, cool
and dry when the voting opened
at 7 a. m. (2 a.m. EST) except
in some labor strongholds in the
west.
Rain' which started In Ireland
and swept eastward during the
night splashed heavily in the
streets of Swansea, in Wales.
Glasgow, in Scotland, was cov
ered with an early morning fog
which threatened to turn to rain.
Most London areas reported
extremely heavy polling in the
first three hours. Labor party
headquarters in the industrial
city of Birmingham said "it
looks like a record turnout."
Load Limits Off
7 County Roads
Normal loads can now be car
ried on seven county roads that
were placed on the restricted
limits list earlier this year be
cause of bad weather conditions,
County Commissioner L. G.
"Shy" Morthland announced to
day. Loads not exceeding the full
limits permitted by state law
can now be hauled on the West
Side Evans Creek road from
Rogue River to Fielder creek;
the entire lengths of the Foots
Creek, Savage Creek, and Old
Stage roads; Elk Creek road
from the Crater Lake highway to
Flat creek, and on the Butte
Falls road from the Crater Lake
highway to the top of Rocky
hill.
Morthland said those seven
roads are considered to be in
good enough condition to carry
normal traffic without undue
damage. Loads on a number of
other county roads are still re
stricted but will be freed of the
winter limits just as soon as con
ditions permit, Morthland said.
Daily inspections are made to
determine the loads the softened
road beds can carry.
Be Really Space Ships
of approximately 56 miles, at
about five miles a second.
He said the thing swerved so
abruptly that the occupants
must have experienced a force
of 20 Gs (20 times the pull of
gravity) which would have killed
an earlhman.
McLaughlin, who graduated
from the naval academy in 1941,
said he saw a smaller saucer the
following month, soaring slowly
overhead, but suddenly "it
spurted like a scalded cat" and
shot across the Organ mountains
of New Mexico.
On another occasion, in June,
navy men who fired an upper-atmosphere
missile, spotted two
small circular objects, "guessed
to be approximately 20 inches I
in diameter, appear from no
place" and start chasing upward
after the missile, he said.
They passed the missile at
more than "2.000 feet a second"
and "sailed off upward and east
ward." He said 11 men at five
points confirmed what had been
seen.
"It Is staggering to imagine
intelligent beings that small
in a 20-inch space ship, but we
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ARRAIGNED Comforted by his son. Donald (right), who appears to
be on the erge of tears. Long Island H. R. Engineer Jacob Kiefer tits
huddled up In courtroom at Mlneola. N. Y., where he was arraigned
on a second degree manslaughter charge In connection with the
headon collision of two commuter trains at Rockvllle Center, N. Y.
Twenty-nine persons were killed and over 100 Injured In the disaster.
AFL Head
Coal Mine
Washington. Feb. 23 (U.R)
AFL President William Green
called today for government
seizure of the soft coal mines and
coal-famished stales exerted new
pressure on President Truman
for emergency action to end the
crisis.
Green said President Truman
has ''Inherent" seizure powers
when the public health and safe
ty are endangered. Mr. Truman
said recently he docs not have
such powers.
Production Needed
"What we need now is coal,"
Green told a senate judiciary
sub-committee. "We need the
miners at work producing coal,
and then they can sit down and
negotiate an agreement.
Green said he felt certain the
striking miners would go back
to work if the government took
over the mines, borne miners
have said they would return un
der a "bona fide" government
seizure one In which profits
would go into the U. S. treasury
instead of to the mine owners.
Seizure legislation Is being
prepared by Rep. Cleveland M.
Bailey (D., W. Va.), who said
he expects to introduce the
measure in the house today.
John L. Lewis and the coal
operators met for 90 minutes
this morning and recessed until
3 p. m. but there was no sign
300-Pound Woman
Rescued From Well
Ethel, Wash ' Feb. 23 (U,R)
A 300-pound woman, who
plunged through rotted planks
of a pump house floor, drop
ping 50 feet Into a well, was in
good condition in a hospital to
day following a heroic rescue
by a fireman.
The rescued woman, Mrs.
Charles Rosandcr. 59, spent two
hours In the well's icy waters
last night while a Chchalis,
Wash., fireman squeezed along
side and tried to throw a half
hitch around her.
Bud Nacht, the fireman, ar
rived at the well after neigh
bors, summoned by the wom
an's shouts, dropped a rope and
ladder to her.
must not disregard any possi
bilities," he said.
McLaughlin said the design,
construction and operation of the
saucers Indicate to me that a
very superior intelligence is at
work. Not only at work but pres
ent within the discs.
Santiago, Chile, Feb. 23 (U.R)
A Chilean naval officer said to
day that a group of Antarctic ex
plorers under his command ob
tained photographs of flying
saucers at the Chilean Antarctic
base of Arthur Prat.
Commander Augusto Vars Or
rego, head of the base, said on
several occasions during the
hrieht Antnrrtir niffht hp and hi
men saw flying saucers one
above the other turninr at tre
mendous speeds.
"Don't think that this was an
optical illusion," he said. "We
have corroboration of what we
saw from photographs taken of
the phenomena."
Orrego added that the pictures
were the property of the Chilean
navy. He said the navy would
decide whether or not to publish
them after careful study.
E FEP6 mil
Calls For
Seizure
that any progress has been made
in the contract talks.
Neither Side Comments
Lewis and the operators are
reported to be less than $1 apart
on money terms.
Neither side commented after
the morning session.
The White House said that no
presidential action seems like
ly today.
Green discussed the coal cri
sis during testimony on a bill
that would apply anti-trust laws
to labor unions.
Ten slates New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts,
Illinois, Michigan, Virginia,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa
invoked emergency conserva
tion measures to keep hospitals
and other vital services in oper
ation. Swanson To Oppose
Ellsworth On Ballot
Salem, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
Walter , Swanson of Spring
field today filed his candidacy
for congressman from the 4th
congressional district pomprising
Coos, Curry,- Douglas, Jackson,
Josephine, Lane and Linn
counties.
He will seek the democratic
nomination at the May 19 pri
mary for the post now held by
Congressman Harris Ellsworth of
Roseburg.
Swanson's platform Included
"endeavor to meet the problems
of the fourth district in Oregon
honestly and sensibly with a
view to the continued develop
ment of Oregon's power resourc
es, and flood control projects. I
will keep in mind that the pros
perity of the fourth district will
depend upon full employment,
and careful planning in the dis
tribution of commodities of
manufacture; namely lumber,
canned and frozen fruits, vege
tables, meat and fish."
His ballot slogan will be: "I'll
work fearlessly and aggressively
to develop the sadly neglected
fourth district."
Greta Garbo Voted
Best In 50 Years
Hollywood, Feb. 23 (U.R)
Greta Garbo was Hollywood's
greatest actress of the half-century,
200 movie oldtimers de
rided today. They placed Ingrid
Bergman second.
Celebrities Wo have worked
25 vears or more in movies chose
Charlie Chaplin as the best!
actor of the last 50 years, "Gone
with the Wind" as the best
movie, D. W. Griffith best direc
tor and Irving Thalberg top pro
ducer. Runners-up In the poll by
Daily Variety, a movie trade
paper, were Bctte Davis and
Olivia Dc llavilland in the act
ress' division; Ronald Coleman.
Laurence Olivier and Spencer
Tracy among the actors, and
Birth of a Nation and "Best
Years of Our Lives" among the
best movies.
BULLETIN
Washington. Feb. 23 U.R)
President Truman told a nw
conference today ha seas no
reason for making a new ap
proach to Soviet Russia on
control of atomic energy.
Truman Proposal
Rejected In Vote
On Racial Issue
All Enforcement
Stripped From Act
Washington, Feb. 23 (U.R)
The house today passed and sent
to the senate an FEPC bill strip
ped of all enforcement pro
visions. The roll call vote on passage
was 240 to 177.
The action was a blow to Prest-
Washington, Feb. 23 (U.R)
Here is the roll-call which in
house substituted tht McCon-;
nell FEPC bill for the admin
istration's Powell maaturei 1
For the substitute:
Republicans included! Ells
worth of Oregon. Stockman of
Oregon.
Against tha subslitutti
Republicans included: Angal
of Oregon.
dent Truman's controversial civil
rights program. Mr. Truman
wanted a mandatory ban on
racial discrimination in jobs.
Powers Limited
The house rejected tha presi
dent's proposal, voting to creata
instead a fair employment prac
tices commission with power
only to investigate, educate and
recommend.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell,
(D., N.Y.), sponsor of the presi
dent'! bill, called the house ver
sion "nothing but good advice."
Supporters of the watered
down version contended however
that race prejudice can not ba
eliminated by law. They said
education la the answer.
The bill as passed was the han
diwork of Rep. Samuel K. Mc
connell Jr., (R., Pa.). He offered
It as a substitute for the adminis
tration measure.
Amendments Added
In a hectic 15-hour sesaion
that ended at 3:20 a.m. members
chose McConnell's substitute and
added a few amendments.
Then, reconvening at noon,
bleary-eyed house members re
jected, 177 to 239, a move to send
the bill back to committee. And
then they passed it.
As passed by the house tha
FEPC bill:
1. Lays down national policy
against Job discrimination be
cause of race, creed, color, sex
or disability the latter two
points added by the house
during the night In a apree of
amendments.
2. Creates a five-member fair
employment practices commis
sion, members to be paid $12,000
a year.
Studies Ordered
3. Directs the commission to
end discrimination by conduct
ing studies, making plans, dis
tributing information and educa
tional matter, and through inves
tigations and recommendations
In individual cases of alleged
discrimination.
4. Directs the commission to
study discrimination in the fed
eral government, and to recom
mend to congress how it can be
stopped.
The bill's only penalty would
be a possible $500 fine for
"forcible" resistance to the com
mission or its agents in the
course of its investigations.
Norblad Asks Reason
For Warning System
Washington, Feb. 23 U.R
Rep. Walter Norblad (R., Ore.)
today asked Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson why he reacti
vated the west coast's air raid
warning system.
Norblad said he wrote John
son and the director of civilian
defense mobilization for an ex
planation of the order and an es
timate of its cost.
Norblad said he wants to know
how housewives with binoculars
can spot planes which now trav
el 700 miles an hour at 40,000
leet. Even if they were able to
detect enemy planes in Oregon,
Washington or cainornia, n
would be too late to do any
good, he said.
The time to spot enemy planes
is when they're over the Arctic,
Norblad explained,
Norblad served with air intel
ligence of the Eighth air force
during World War II.
PIONEER BANKED DIES
Portland. Ore.. Feb. 23 (U.R)
A. M. Wright, 82. former first
vice-president of the U. S. Na
tional bank and a pioneer Port
land banker, died in Providence
hospital early today after an ill
ness of about a year.
Salem, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
E. L. Rogers of Quinaby an
nounced today that he will run
for re-election as Marion county
commissioner.