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SANDERS JURY This newly-completed jury of nine Catholics and four Protestants includ
ing an alternate, will decide the fate of Dr. Hermann N. Sander in his mercy murder trial in Man
chester, N.H. The jury left to risht: (front row) Moise Z. Marcoux, Albert DcSfosses. Joseph McNeil,
O. Jolfi Fortin, George A. Wingate and Harry Wright. Rear row. left to right: Earl Isham, Leo
Harkeen, Arthur Edward Auger. Elexis Morin, Louis Cutter, Philemon D. Houde and Dana Clark.
Jury foreman is Louis Cutter with Earl Isham as alternate.
Body of Naval Attache Found
In Austria;
Vienna. Austria, Feb. 24 (U.R)
The mutilated body of Capt. Eu
gene F. Karpe, American naval
attache in Romania, was found
in a railroad tunnel near Salz
burg yesterday and reliable U. S.
Jury Exonerates
2 Talent Youths
On Rape Charges
A Jackson county grand jury
yesterday fully exonerated two
Talent youths of statutory rape
charges. The jury declared the
charges lodged against James
Ernest Lewis, 21, and Dan Rol
and Shugart, 19, on February 8,
were "not true bills."
In two other sex crimes cases,
the grand jury returned indict
ments against Rex joseph Coy,
28, of 839 Wabash avenue, and
Earl Gorman Edison, 51, of 1180
Crater Lake avenue. Coy is
charged with assault with intent
to commit rape on an 11-year-old
girl the evening of February 8.
District Attorney George Neil
snn said a conviction on that
charge carries ' a possible sen
tence of from one to 20 years or
life in the penitentiary.
Secret Bill
The indictment against Edi
son was a secret bill and the
case had not been made public
previously. Edison is charged
with statutory rape which the
indictment claims was commit
ted July 17, 1949. The man was
arrested last night after the sec
ret indictment was returned.
The grand jury wound up its
work with an investigation of
air and highway traffic fatalities
and of suicides. A new jury is
to be sworn in Monday and other
criminal cases not considered by
the old jury may go before it.
Load Limits OH Two
More Road Stretches
Reduced load limits have been
rvnoved to milcpost 42.58 on
Tiller-Trail - highway, James
Bromley, Grants Pass, resident
highway engineer, announced to
dav through state police.
The point is 2.8 miles past the
concrete bridge.
. Bromley said that restrictions
(n Crater lake highway will be
lifted effective Monday. Febru
ary 27 to milcpost 47.1, which is
a mile above Prospect.
Salem. Ore., Feb. 24 U.R)
Gerald (Jerry) Wade of Newport
today filed for reelection as
slate representative from Lin
coin county on the republican!
ticket.
GOP Committeewoman
Gives $2000 to Democrats
Denver, Colo.. Feb. 24 dl.R)
Democratic leaders today were
puzzled but pleased by a $2,000
gift from a republican commit
teewoman who said she "doesn't
understand about politics."
"I don't know much about it."
said Byron G. Rogers. Denver
county democratic chairman,
"but it sure was lovely."
The gift was mnde by Mrs.
David T. Chalmers.
"I was just trying to help
out." she explained.
"I like to help people. I help
the Red Cross. 1 help the Com
munity chest. Why shouldn't I
help the democrats and repub
licans? "I didn't realize people took
politics so seriously," she said.
Mrs. Chalmers said shi had
not even known that she was
the GOP coir.mitteefoman.
"I just took over some work
to help Mrs. Edgar McComb, who
k as the committeowoman." she
explained, "and I guess they de
cided I had replaced her "
When she was asked if she
were a republican, she replied;
Murder Suspected
army sources said today he ap
peared to have been slain.
Karpe, 50, of Washington,
D. C., was a close friend of Rob
ert A. Vogeler, the American
businessman who was sentenced
to 15 years imprisonment by a
Budapest court last Tuesday on
spy charges.
Identified By Papers
Austrian police announced dis
covery of the body this morn
ing. They said it had been
smashed beyond recognition
Dut that it was identitied dv
papers found in the pockets even
though Karpe's diplomatic pass
port was missing.
U. S. army authorities later
confirmed the identification and
said that Karpe's death "looked
like a planned job."
Austrian police also said they
suspected murder and were in
vestigating on the theory that "a
Klamath Negro Kills
Self After Battle
Klamath Falls. Ore., Feb. 24
(U.R) Robert Mclntire, 35. Klam
ath Falls Negro, killed himself
in a woodshed after a gun bat
tle with police who sought him
for a knife attack, authorities
said today.
Alma Day, 30, said Mclntire
broke into her house by break
ing windows with stovewood and
then attacked her with a knife.
She ran screaming toward the
door as Mclntire fired at her
twice but missed, she said.
Police called to the scene
chased him into a woodshed and
riddled the frail structure with
bullets after Mclntyre shot
through the door. Sgt. Odcl Ol
son of the Klamath Falls force
said they apparently missed.
A tear gas bomb was fired in
to the shack. Police said when
they went in after Mclntire he
shot himself.
A .38 calibre police revolver
was found by his side.
Radio Highlights
Radio Station KYJC (1230
kc) will broadcast the Paddy
Young-Tuio Portugues boxing
match from Madison Square
Garden tonight, starting at 7
o'clock.
At 8 p.m. KWIN (1400 kc)
will broadcast the Oregon
Oregon State basketball game
from Corvallis and at 9:30
p.m., by delayed broadcast,
will air the Medford-Eagle
Point game from Eagle Point.
Saturday at 8 p.m. KWIN
will broadcast the Oregon
Oregon State game from Eu
gene and at 9:30 p.m., by de
layed broadcast, will carry ih
Medford-Granti Pais game, to
ba played at Grants Pass.
"Maybe I am. I don't under
stand all these things about poli
tics." As for the S2.000 contribution
to the democrats. Mrs. Chalmers
said she didn't feel that it neces
sarily made her a democrat.
"I give contributions to Boys'
Town, a Catholic institution." she
said, "but that doesn't make me
a Catholic
"I also bought tickets to a Pi,
I'm dinner and attended, but 1 m
not a Hi Phi. I Just like to help
people out."
Contribution Urgtd
David Chalmers said he
"urged'' his mother to contrib
ute the money to the democrats.
"I knew she was doing some
work for the GOP." he said, "but
I didn't know what it was.
Count v Renuhliean Chairman
John H. Winchell said both Mrs. was Dr0Knj .
Chalmers and David are listed ' VIDEO REQUEST DENIED
as republicans on the party rcc- Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R)
ords. and that Mrs. Chalmer. j T h e federal communications
officially is a party committee- commission has rejected the ap
woman. j plication of Clatsop Video broad-
' She has not submitted a res-1 casters for an experimental tele
ignalion to me," Winchell said. 'vision station at Astoria, Ore.
crime has been committed.
They said they had "no definite
clues." '
Karpe was on his way home to
Washington for reassignment aft
er spending more than three
years in Bucharest. He arrived in
Vienna from Bucharest early this.
month and spent 15 days here
before leaving for Paris yester
day morning.
His mutilated body was found
by trackwalkers on the Arlberg
Orient express line in a tunnel
near Salzberg later in the day.
After identification it was taken
to the ninth U. S. army station
hospital in Salzburg.
Visited With Vogeler
Karpe visited Vogeler s home;
many times during Vogeler's!
quick four-day trial in Budapest.
Mis. Vogeler, who lives here with ;
her two sons and her f.iter, said ?
Karpe and her husband had been
close friends since they attend-
ed the U. S. naval academy at
Annapolis together. Last Wednes
day night Karpe escorted Mrs.
Vogeler's sister, Pia Eykens, to .
the opera and returned to his I
quarters at the Bristol hotel ;
about midnight to pack for his 1
journey to Fans. He leu eany
yesterday.
Astoria Drenched
By Record Rainfall
Astoria, Ore., Feb. 24 (U.R)
Astoria was soaking today in
heaviest rainfall in the past 17
years and clom.s that hung low
over the lower Columbia river
threatened move rain.
Official weather records
showed that 4.41 inches of rain
fell in a 24-hour period from
6 p. m. Wednesday to 6 p. m.
Thursday. Heavy rains continued
to fall Thursday night and this
morning.
In the last 48 hours 5.43 inches
of rain fell on Astoria. At th.
Astor experiment station 5.73
inches of rain iell during the
past 29 hours.
No i eports of damage from
the heavy rains had been re
ceived at noon today but some
basements were flooded. Coast
guardsmen said there were no
ship distress calls.
Mormon Missionaries
Ousted By Czechs
Prague, Feb. 24 (U.R) Two
young American Mormon mis
sionaries were released from
prison and expelled from Czecho
slovakia today, the U. S. em
bassy announced.
Stanley E. Abbott, 23. of Le
hl, Utah, and C. Aldon Johnson,
22, of Idaho Falls, Ida., were re
leased at noon and an hour and
a half later were on a pi me to
Geneva, Switzerland.
An embassy spokesman laid
the Czech foreign office in
formed the embassy of the action
by telephone.
The two men had disappeared
early this month in the vicinity
of Olomouc, Moravia, while mak
ing regular visits to Mormon
converts in the area.
Power Toofs Stolen
From East Side Jobs
City police said today that
contractors have reported Dower
operated tools were stolen from
two construction locations on
the east side last night.
They said that the window of
a house under construction at
2217 Hillcrest road was forced
open and a Skill saw, jointer,
sniwter and set of bits valued at
J194 were taken. On Crown ave
nue a Skill saw and blades
valued at S169 were taken from
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44th Year 16 Pages
Doctor Realized
Law Being Broken,
Nurse Testifies
Hospital Librarian
On Witness Stand
Manchester, N. H., Feb. 24
(U.R) A nurse testified today that
Dr. Hermann N. Sander had said
in her presence "he did realize
he was breaking the law but he
thought the law should be
changed."
The witness was Miss Jo
sephine Connor, record librarian
at Hillsboro County hospital.
Dr. Sander is accused of mur
dering a cancer patient, Mrs.
Abbie C. Borroto, 59, as she lay
dying in the hospital Decem
ber 4.
No Particular Answer
Miss Connor, testifying for the
second day as a state witness at
Dr. Sander's mercy murder trial,
said County Medical Referee
Robert E. Biron said:
"Why didn't you change it
(the law) first before you did
this?"
"Did Dr. Sander answer?"
asked Atty. Gen. William L.
Phinney.
Miss. Connor said there was no
particular answer that she re
membered. She said that in the records
room of the hospital last De
cember 29 were Dr. Sander, Dr.
Biron, Miss Anita Ducharme, as
sistant record librarian, and her
self. Shortly before, Miss Connor
said, she had been going through
hospital records and had called
the attention of Dr. Harold I. L.
Loverud, President of the hos
pital staff, to Dr. Sander's nota
tion about Mrs. Borrolo's death.
Statement Dictated
Dr. Sander had dictated for
the record the statement that he
had given Mrs. Borroto. 10 cubic
centimeters of air four times and
that "she expired within 10 min
utes after this started."
However, Miss Connor said,
the cause of death was listed on
that same record as cancer. The
librarian said she typed in the
cause herself because Dr. San
der had listed cancer as the
death cause on the official death
certificate.
The official death certificate
had been made out by Dr. San
der December 5. the day after
Mrs. Borroto died, but he wait
ed a week to dictate the nota
tion about the air for the hos
pital records.
United States Expects
East Asia Cold War
Washington. Feb. 24 (U.R)
The United States is expecting
a major Soviet cold war offen
sive designed to bring rich and
strategic southeast Ascia under
Moscow's sway, it was -learned
today.
The United Press was told on
highest authority that the pos
sibility of any genuine Soviet
"peace talks" with the United
States has been ruled out by the
administration, at least until
this test of strength is decided.
Any "peace feelers" now, if
was said, would be only propa
ganda maneuvers designed to
create confusion and mask the
kremlin's real designs.
President Truman has rebuff
ed congressional demands for a
"bold new approach" to break
the east-west deadlock over
atomic controls and other prob
lems. He told his news confer
ence vesterdav the United States
is doing its 'best to reach an
atomic agreement, but that Rus
sia has shown no change of
heart.
New Traffic Light
Being Installed Today
The overhead traffic light be-1
ing Installed it Central avenue ;
and Jackson street should be j
ready for operation today but j
completion of the walk-wait ,
lights has been delayed because ;
the wrong brackets were sent j
here, according to J. A. Wolfe, I
citv electrical inspector.
He said that the overhead
light at Jackson and Riverside
avenue should be ready early
next week. Guides on the Cen
tral and Jackson signal will be
left off temporarily so that it
may be seen by pedestrians.
Griffin Creek, Oak
Grove Win Hoop Tilts
Griffin Creek defeated Elk
Trail 18 to 6 and Oak Grove
downed Wagner Creek 28 to 12
in basketball games of the Oak
Gruve school invitational tour
nament played this morning.
Hollywood, Feb. 24 (U.R)
Former "Dead End" Kid Leo
Gorcey and Evalene Bankston
received a final divorce decree
yesterday. She won the divorce
a year a so on testimony he was
still putting on his tough kid
act.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
UMmmi FACE
COURT MONDAY
Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R)
Federal Judge Richmond B.
Keech ruled' today that the
United Mine Workers union had
failed to "purge" itself of con
tempt charges by not getting
striking miners back to work,
and ordered the union tried
Monday on the contempt
charges.
The government charges the
union with both civil and crim
inal contempt for defying a
court order to end the strike of
372,000 soft coal miners.
Motion Turned Down
The judge turned down As
sistant Attorney General H.
Graham Morison's motion to hold
the trial tomorrow because of
the nation's critical coal situa
tion. Reports Given Of
Persons Seeking
Entry To Homes
Certain unidentified persons
are apparently going about the
county representing themselves
as appraisers for the county as
sessor's office but Assessor C. A.
Myers says he has no idea what
their "racket," if any, could be.
There have been several re
ports of persons gaining admit
tance to homes or businesses,
asking questions about valua
tions, furnishings, equipment
and buildings. Bellaire addiiton
in Ashland has been plagued by
men claiming they are "tax sur
veyors," and similar instances
have been reported in Medford.
Appraisers Identified
Myers pointed out that all au
thorized appraisers carry iden
tification cards from the asses
sor's office which they are will
ing to show at any time there is
a question whether they should
be allowed on the premises.
Their work consists mainly of
placing valuations for assessment
purposes on new buildings and
on some old buildings for which
there is no record. They do not
make lists of furniture or equip
ment nor do they ask personal
questions.
Myers asked that anyone both
ered by so-called appraisers or
surveyors without authorization
from his office notify him so that
the nuisance can be stopped. He
also asked the public to cooper
ate with the official appraisers
and to give them the information
they need to make a fair and
just appraisal.
It was also pointed out that
while the federal decennial cen
sus is to be taken this year, it
has not yet started. Other per
sons who have reason to enter
homes in their business, arc al
most invariably provided with
adequate identification.
Pear Marketing Order
Aired In California
Sacramento. Feb. 24 (U.R)
Producers and distributors of
fresh bartlctt pears were polled
today on the question of contin
uing the present state marketing
order governing the crop.
The state department of agri
culture said March 18 has been
set as the closing date for the
filing of ballots. Should a major
ity of those voting favor contin
uation, the marketing order
would remain in force for two
more years.
The order as it now stands
authorizes an advisory board to
recommend the establishment of
minimum grade and size regula
tions for bartlctt pears market
ed for fresh consumption within
the state. It was first made effec
tive Aug. 9. 1939, and was reac
tivated April 18, 1947 after a
five year lapse.
Australian Flight
Booked When Travel
Agent Recovers Poise
George Lewis, manager of
the Rogue Travel service, usu
ally hat to conduct quite a
selling campaign before he suc
ceeds in booking passengers
for long overseas flights. But
there are surprises in every
business like yesterday when
Lyle Pettit of Jacksonville
dropped in and laid, "Give me
a one-way ticket to Melbourne,
Australia, please."
Lewis didn't believe it for a
moment, but was soon con
vinced it wai not a gag. Then
the reservations were cleared
and a few hours later Pettit
was aboard a plane from Med
ford en route to the ijnd
"down under." He is going to
Auitralia under the common
wealth's arsisted passage plan
for American Git interested in
becoming Australian citiieos.
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, FEBRUARY 24,
Morison noted that there has
been no increase in soft coal pro
duction since Keech signed the
original back-to-work order Feb
ruary 11.
He said newspaper reports
show that many states tiave
initiated "emergency measures"
and "virtually all major cities
are confronted with a critical
problem."
He said the government want
ed court action "immediately" to
get the miners back to work and
"extricate the nation from the
tragedy that stalks it."
Union Objects
The union objected to the re
quest to speed up the trial on
the grounds that the justice de
partment had asked that the
union be cited for both civil and
criminal contempt.
A civil contempt charge is
brought to compel obedience of
a court order. A criminal charge
seeks punishment for disobedi
ence of a court order.
The union will be tried on
both charges.
On the criminal charges, the
union may ask for a jury trial.
There is no jury on the civil
charges.
Welly K. Hopkins, UMW at
torney, said he would "weigh full
aspects" of the case before de
ciding whether to ask for jury
trial of the criminal contempt
charge.
Strike Individually
Before ordered by Keech to
stand trial, the union told him
that its 372,000 coal miners are
striking "individually and of
their own volition." It main
tained that the miners indivi
dually had disobeyed two orders
by John L. Lewis and top UMW
officials to return to work.
Lewis, himself, was not named
in the.ordcr today to show cause
why the union should not be
tried for contempt, and he will
not be tried.
Board Created To
Stave Off Rail Strike
Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R)
President Truman today created
an emergency board to stave off
a strike threatened Monday by
the Brotherhoods of Railway
Conductors and Railroad Train
men on the nation's major rail
roads. The president's action will
have the effect of delaying the
strike for at least 60 days.
The board was ordered to re
port back to the president on
the dispute within 30 days. Mr
Truman's executive order speci
fied that management and labor
must continue to operate under
current rules and contracts.
The president has this power
under the railway labor act. He
acted on recommendation of the
national mediation board which
said the dispute threatened to
deprive the country of essential
transportation service.
The White .House probably
will announce the names of the
three board members late today
or early tomorrow.
The unions are seeking a 40
hour work - week and other
changes in their work rules.
Fresh Snowstorm
Moves Across North
Chicago, Feb. 24 (U.R) A
fresh snowstorm, followed close
ly by a cold front, moved across
the north today in the wake of
a wintry storm that claimed at
least 53 lives In the midwest and
northwest.
The new storm dumped snow
on streets and highways still
hazardous from the layer of ice,
sleet and snow with which they
were plastered earlier this week.
Early today the storm belt ex
tended about 200 miles in each
direction from Chicago, a U. S.
weather forecaster said.
Behind the snowstorm, a cold
wave pushed out of southern
Canada and across the great
plains. It was expected to shove
eastward across the Great Lakes
region and on into the North
Atlantic states by tomorrow.
Armour Scion Tells
Of Kidnap Threats
Chicago. Frb. 24 UR Phil
ip D. Armo'ir Jr., member of
the wealthy meat packing fam
ily, notified i.olice today that he
had received a series of tele
phoned threats to kidnap his
three young children.
A heavy police guard was
posted by Dputy Chief of De
tectives William Touhy at the
Armour apartment on Chicago s
Laki.- Shore drive, and roving
squads cruised the neighborhood
scrutinizing any strangers who
sought entrance to the building
in wnich Armour's apa'T.ient is
located. The Armours live on the
22nd floor.
Tribune
1950
NO. 284
Four Men Killed
As Speeder Dives
Through Trestle
Weyerhaeuser Camp
Workers Victims
Longview, Wash , Feb. 24
(U.R) Four men were killed and
six others injured today when a
speeder carrying (hem to the
Weyerhaeuser Lumber com
pany's logging camp 9 plunged
about 75 feet through a rain
weakened trestle into the Toutle
river.
The accident occurred in the
Weyerhaeuser woods operation
area, about 18 miles north of
here.
Coroner Gordon Quarnstrom
identiifed the dead as Don Stew
art, 45, Castle Rock, Weyer
haeuser logging foreman; Al
Berg of Oregon; Levi Orman
and B. B. Grant.
Four ambulances, accompan
ied by Dr. C. V. Allen, were sent
to the scene. One returned short
ly before noon with four of the
injured. They were Chester Bow
ers. Rainier, Ore.; Robert Han
sen, Longview; B. W. Moorse,
Longview, and Donald Tollefson,
Castle Rock.
Bowers said the speeder was
taking the men to their work
when it suddenly plunged
through the trestle which had
been weakened by heavy rains.
Bowers could not estimate how
high the span was, but he said
none of the men fell into the
river.
3-Year-0ld Survives
Midnight Hike In Rain
Forest Grove, Ore., Feb. 24
(U.R) Three-year-old Rodney
"Butch" Pentico today was back
with his family apparently none
the worse for wear by his mid
night walk during a steady
downpour last night.
Butch, the son of Mr. and Mrs
Kenneth Pentico, was left Thurs
day night in the care of his
sister Barbara, 14, and a friend,
Norecn O'Rielly, 15, while his
father went to a lodge meeting.
His mother had been taken to
the Jones hospital Thursday
morning.
The girls put him to bed and
checked on him when they re
tired at 11 p.m.
Police Notified
When his father returned
shortly after midnight Butch was
missing from his room. Pentico
immediately called police.
City, county and state police
and even the Forest Grove volun
teer fire department joined in
the search.
About 1:30 a.m. Butch was
returned by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle
Townsend. He had wandered in
bare feet and pajamas nearly a
mile from his home finally curl
ing tin on the doorstep of Bob
Mitchell, a neighbor of Towns
end's. Mitchell brought him to
them thinking they might know
where he belonged.
Brother Of Lewis
Victim Of Suicide
Springfield, 111.. Feb. 24 (U.R)
Thomas Lewis. 69, brother of
United Mine Worker President
John L. Lewis, shot and killed
himself at his home here today,
Deputy Coroner Catherine Ruth
erford reported.
She said there was "no ques
tion" 'that he had shot himself.
She said his wife, Lenora, found
him fully clothed, except for his
shoes, sprawled in the bathtub.
Lewis was a retired immigra
tion service employe. His wife
told police and the coroner's of
fice that he had suffered a severe
heart attack late yesterday and
was seriously ill through the
night. .
Lewis was the second eldest of
eight children of Thomas and
Ann Louisa Lewis. The United
Mine Worker president is the
oldest of the children.
GM Workers Get Pay Cut
Prices of New Cars Lower
Detroit. Feb. 24 (U.R) Gen
eral Motors cut wages of its
290.000 production workers two
cents an hour today and simul
taneously reduced prices of Its
cars $10 to $40.
It was the third time GM has
cut car prices and reduced pay
of its employees under a history
making cost-of-living contract
signed with the CIO United Auto
Workers and Electrical Workers
unions 21 months ago.
Savings Passed Along
GM President C. E. Wilson
said the price reducnVjns passed
along to consumers "the savings
resulting from both the down
ward adjustment of wage and
salary payments and the lowered
cost of certain items, notwith
standing the increased prices
now being paid for steel and
some other commodities."
Ten dollars was lopped from
all Chevroicl models, SIS to $22
Skimpy Majority
Of Parliamentary
Seats Captured
Trend In Voting
Swung Toward Right
London, Feb. 24 (U.R) .The
labor party tonight won a skim
py majority of parliamentary
seats in a general election that
swung the British voting trend
toward the right.
With a few districts outstand
ing, labor hud won 313 seats, a
majority in the 625-seat house.
Winston Churchill's conserva
tives pounded hard on the heels
of the socialists, and the collaps
ing liberal patty won only a
handful of the more than 400
seats fought for.
Keds Beaten Badly
The standing of the parties
this evening when, just before
8:30 p. m. (11:30 a. m. PST) when
the laboritcs achieved their tech
nical majority, was:
Labor 313.
Conservatives 288.
Liberals seven.
Other parties (speaker) one.
The communists and fellow
travelers were beaten badly all
around.
The only two communists in
the old house lost their seats,
and none was elected to take
their places.
Labor's thin margin could
hardly be boosted enough by the
final returns to underwrite the
further socialization of the Unit
ed Kingdom. A reasonably safe
labor working majority in com
mons say 50 or 60 seats would
be required for that.
The laborites were flabber
gasted by the returns. Only a
dozen hours before they eked
out their narrow victory, they
thought they had the election
won hands down.
As it was. it turned out to be
close to a dead heat. The first
reaction among political sages
was that this might mean another
general election in the near fu
ture. Some quarters believed labor
might try to go it alone or make
a coalition deal with the liberals.
But they would have to abandon
some of the keystones of their
nationalization program If they
took the liberals in.
Still another possibility was
a caretaker government with a
representation of all three major
parties. That could last only a
few months at most, possibly
only until a budget had been
presented in April.
Then it could be turned out
by a vote of misconfidence,
which the precarious working
majority would make possible at
any time.
Truman Considering
'Whistle Stop' Trip
Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R)
President Truman may make
another trans continental
"whistle stop" train trip this
spring.
He told his news conference
yesterday he is considering a
west coast trip to dedicate the
Grand Coulee dam in Washing
ton. If he goes, he said, he would
make speeches both on the way
out and on the way back.
Although Mr. Truman has
said the trip would be non
political, it was understood he
would leave the capital well be
fore the end of May. This would
mean he would be passing
through states before democratic
nominees are chosen in pri
maries. Mr. Truman long has insisted
that he would keep hands off all
primaries except in his own
state of Missouri. But politicians
wondered how he could make
many "whistle stops" without
becoming involved to some ex
tent in intraparty races.
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on Buicks. $15 to $20 on Olds
mobiles, $25 to $40 on Cadillacs
and $15 on Pontiacs.
Today's quarterly adjustment
in pay will be the final one un
der the life of the union contract
which expires May 29, 1950.
Under terms of the agreement,
290.000 hourly-rated GM work
ers will receive a two-cent cut
and the corporation's 72,000 eli
gible salaried employees will
get a $10 quarterly reduction on
March 1.
Reqular Adjustment
Wages of GM employees are
adjusted every three months in
line with the rise and fall of the
consumer price index of the U.S.
bureau of labor statistics.
The BLS index for January
15. announced today, is 168 9,
compared with an index of 188 5
for October 15. when the cost-of-
! living allowance last was re
t viewed.