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Wilsons Whisked To Kelso
To Avoid Mob At Vancouver
Vancouver, Wash., Apr. 5
U.R) Sheriff Earl Anderson
locked Turman and Utah Wil
lon, accused kidnap-slayers of
JoAnn Dewey, in the Cowlitz
county jail at Kelso for safe
keeping overnight after he re
ceived radioed warnings that a
large number of automobiles and
pedestrians were forming a
street blockade in Vancouver.
Cars were double parking on
the streets around the court
house and approximately 100
persons afoot were milling
around the jail when Sheriff An
derson arrived with the Wilsons
from Sacramento, Cal.
Trouble Feared
"There might have been se
rious injury to one or more per
sons if we had stopped in Van
couver," Sheriff Anderson said.
"The crowd probably was made
up mostly of curiosity-seekers,
but it only takes one crackpot to
set off trouble."
He disclosed that the Wilson
brothers were "very happy"
when they were informed that
they would be jailed in the Cow
litz county jail in Kelso instead
of Vancouver.
He estimated there were about
n or 100 cars cruising slowly
or double parked on the streets
near the Vancouver jail.
"I had been notified of the sit
uation in radio messages from
Vancouver which I received in
my automobile approaching Van
couver," Sheriff Anderson said.
Pasted Wilson Home
"When we reached Washougal,'
we turned north and hit the
farm-to-market roads until we
Sot to Vancouver, then we
jrned onto highway 8-A. the
Camas orchards highway. This
route took us directly past the
Wilson home on Green mountain.
"Utah Wilson heard the ex
change of messages on the car
radio. Then I told him that wc
were going to avoid Vancouver,
b was tickled.
"He authorized me to send a
radio message to the sheriff's
office. He wanted a deputy to
tell his mother, who was sup
posed to be waiting outside the
court house that he was being
treated all right and that he
was in good health and good
spirits."
Sheriff Anderson said that his
next moves with the Wilsons will
be "fast and precise." He
planned to hold the Wilsons in
the Cowlitz county jail for at
least another day "to avoid any
further mob contacts."
On Good as Another
He planned to meet with
Prosecutor Dewitt Jones and
Chief of Police Harry Diamond
at noon today to map further
strategy.
In Kelso, Utah Wilson told an
Interviewer that "one jail is as
good as another," and said it
made no difference to him
whether he was kept in a cell at
Kelso or in one at Vancouver
while awaiting trial.
Turman Wilson, interviewed
In his jail cell, reiterated his in
nocence and threatened legal ac
tion against those connected
with the case.
Sergeant Admits that
'Robbery' Was Hoax
Alden A. Marrs, an air force
sergeant, last night admitted to
state police that the holdup he
had reported yesterday morning
was a hoax. The district attor
ney's office will file a criminal
complaint charging Marrs with
falsely swearing to an affidavit
a felony carrying a possible
two-year jail sentence and a
maximum fine of S5.000.
Deputy District Attorney Paul
Haviland said Marrs would prob
ably be arraigned on the charge
In circuit court tomorrow.
Marrs had told police that a
man .in a sailor's uniform had
forced him, at the point of a gun,
to drive to a spot on Dark Hol
low road and had robbed him of
$75. Slate police officers and
deputy sheriffs had spent all day
attempting to apprehend thtf
"bandit" before Marrs finally ad
mitted he had made up the story.
He is at home on leave from
his station at Vallejo, Cal.
Fag Makers Asked to Halt
Misleading Advertising
Washineton. Anr ft flip)
The federal trade commission to
day told the makers of Camel
and Old Gold ciearettcs to stop
what the FTC called false and
misleading advertising.
The FTC ruled that all cigar
ettes contain various amounts of
nicotine and throat irritants, and
that there is no reliable basis
for advertising claims that one
brand is superior to another in
having less irritating qualities.
Lucky Strike Involved
The FTC issued cease and de
sist orders against R. J. Rey
nolds Tobacco company, Jersey
City. N. J., makers of Camel,
and P. Lorillard company. Jer
sey City, N. J., 'makers of Old
Gold.
At the same time an FTC trial
examiner recommended that the
commission decide that the
American Tobacco company.
New York, is misreDresenting
Lucky Strike cigarettes. The ex
aminer recommended a cease
and desist order against it also.
"I'm going to sue everybody
connected with this case when
I'm found innocent," Turman
shouted.
Turman was not a stranger to
the Cowlitz county jail. He
served a short term there in
September, 1949, for first degree
assault.
Cowlitz County Sheriff C. W.
Reynolds said the Wilson broth
ers were "model prisoners." He
said he did not know when Clark
county officials would arrive to
take charge of the brothers, but
he assumed it would be some
time today.
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TAKEN TO KELSO JAIL Ex-convict Turman Wilson, left,
and his brother, Utah Wilson, shown above at the time of their
arrest in Sacramento, last night were taken to the Cowlitz county
jail in Kelso, Wash., to avoid possible mob reaction at the Van
couver, Wash., jail. The brothers are accused of the kidnap-slaying
of JoAnn Dewey, in Vancouver the week of March 18. A number
of persons had gathered outside the jail at Vancouver as the broth
ers were being returned from the south.
Councilmen May Set
Water Bond Election
City councilmen took no ac
tion last night on the board of
water commissioners proposal
that residents be asked to vote
on a $2,800,000 bond issue to
construct a second aqueduct
from Big Butte springs to Med
ford. It was reported, however, that
the legal department undoubted
ly will bring in legislation at
the next regular meeting calling
for the election. The regular ses
sion is scheduled April 18. Sug
gested date for the election is
May 19, day of the primary
election.
Fire Study Tentative
Findings of Acting Chief Leo
Weidner, Mcdford fire consult
ant, were spoken of only in gen
eralities. Paul Selby, chairman
of the council safety committee
said that reports from Weidner.
so far were only tentative and
made only for finance committee
and budget deliberations. He
stated that Weidner and the saf
ety committee were being rushed
to get the reports into entirety.
The acting chief and commit
tee are expected to recommend
acquisition of additional equip
ment and facilities needed be
cause of the growth of the city
and fire department. Selby last
Another trial examiner still is
considering a complaint against
Phillip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc..
New York. The complaint
charges it with false advertising
of Phillip Morris cigarettes. Still
another pending case involves
Pall Mall cigarettes made by
American Cigarette & Cigar
company, New York.
In the case of Camels and Old
Golds, the FTC found that their
smoke do not contain less nico
tine than other leading brands,
contrary to their advertising. It
said:
"The nicotine content of the
smoke of a cigarette is in direct
Proportion of the nicotine con
tent of the tobacco contained in
the cigarette itself."
For this reason, it said. Rey
nolds and Lorillard cannot truth
fully claim a lower nicotine con
tent because the tobaccos used
by makers of all leading brands
contain "nicotine in substantial
ly the same quantities and variations."
arrested in Sacramento on a kid
naping and first degree murder
warrant issued from Clark coun
ty in connection with the abduc
tion and subsequent slaying of
Miss Dewey, a Battlegound,
Wash., hospital worker.
Denies Knowledge
Asked what he thought the
outcome of the trial would be,
Utah Wilson said:
"I don't know, but 1 didn't
have a thing to do with it."
. He also said "I don't know"
when asked about the finger
printed beer bottle found near
the scene of the abduction, which
originally led to his arrest.
1
night spoke of the need for
"catching up fundamental im
provements delayed over a per
iod of years."
Conference Needed
Selby reported that his com
mittee believes another confer
ence with state fire authorities
necessary before the council goes
to the people with its program
for filling the requirements. The
consultants will help determine
what should be done now and
what should be added over a per
iod ot several years.
" City representatives probably
will be sent north soon. Mayor
Diamond Flynn mentioned the
possibility of insurance rates be
ing boosted here if the fire de
partment is not "caught up."
Truck Ordinance Passed
The ordinance preventing
heavy trucks to use the "loop"
formed by 12th, Franquette and
Mayette streets and Spencer ave
nue as a turn-around was passed
by the council. Trucks having
a gross weight of 10,000 pounds
or more are prevented from us
ing these streets surrounding
Block 2 in South Sea addition,
except to service homes in the
neighborhood. Residents of the
addition requested the restric
tion because of alleged wjoar on
the streets and dust and hazards
created hy the large vehicles.
Councilmen approved a zone
change that will permit con
struction of an eight-unit apart
ment house by Bill Barnes be
tween Whitman and Oakdale
avenues north of the senior high
school. ,
Contract Awarded
A contract was awarded to
Lambert and Miller. Mcdford, to
install the city swimming pool
scum gutters at a cost to the city
of not more than $000. The firm
was the only bidder for the
work.
The council heard a protest
from the local Girl scout council
on the projected move of a beer
parlor to the 400 block on East
Main street. It was stated that a
meeting of interested parties was
held with council committeemen
last week and the matter held
up. The business may occupy
another location. It was reported.
Lew W. Bates, operator of the
Bates Candy company, was nam
ed to the city budget committee
to succeed the late David Holmes
Sr.
tSee Story on pagt sixteen)
Medford
45th Year. 16 Pages
Bridges Places
'Frameup' Blame
In Perjury Case
Dave Beck Accused
Of Master-Minding
San Pedro, Cal., Apr. 5 (U.R)
Longshore union bos9 Harry
Bridges charged today that the
U. S. immigration department
and "certain elements in the
labor movement" got together
to "frame" him for perjury.
Bridges accused Teamsters
Union Leader Dave Beck, of
Seattle, of master-minding the
prosecution which may revoke
his American citizenship and re
sult in his deportation.
Beck Job Getter
Beck, whose teamsters union
has fought bitter jurisdictional
wars with the longshoremen, got
a job for a high immigration de
partment official who sat in on
the trial and now is assisting in
readying deportation proceed
ings. Bridges said.
"In my opinion, the west coast
ship operators were not part of
this deal," he said at a press con
ference before a union regional
caucus started here. "I think it
was the witnesses who were pro
duced as well as agents of the
immigration department and
certain elements in the labor
movement.
Lying Said Admitted
"Many witnesses admitted ly
ing and others were caught flat
footed. Any employer elements
that had any hand in this were
on a more national basis."
Bridges denied again that he
was or had been a communist. A
San Francisco jury ruled yester
day that he lied when he denied
a communist affiliation so he
could become a citizen.
Asked whether he thought
communists ought to be removed
from the state department and
important posts in labor unions,
Bridges hemmed and hawed be
fore saying:
"I haven't gone that far to
start joining the red-baiters and
the rats. If the price of getting
by is to get lined up with char
acters like McCarthy, it isn't
worth it."
Medford Schools Set
Reopening Tomorrow
Medford schools will reopen
Thursday after a three-day
spring vacation. Most other
schools in the county will be
starting or continuing their
spring holidays.
A number of Medford faculty
members will return to classes
and administrative posts after
having attended Oregon educa
tion associations in Portland
three days this week.
Students with excuses from
parents will be allowed to at
tend Good Friday church serv
ices. Schools will be dismissed
at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Importance of Lumbering
In County Told Rotarians
The sianificance of the lumber
industry in the future of Jack
son county was emphasized yes
terday by Arthur Priaulx, pub
lic relations director of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association,
in a talk to members of the Med
ford Rotary club yesterday noon
at the Jackson hotel.
Growth of the industry was
described by Priaulx. who said
that there are now 120 sawmills
in this county alone. The cut in
1940 was 126 million board feet
a year from 20 mills, he said;
now it is half a billion.
Value High
The total cash value of lumber
to Jackson county lumber firms
is now at a rate of $33,900,000
per year, representing a payroll
of some $17,628,000 to lumber In
dustry employees. Other indus
tries' stake in lumber were men
tioned by Priaulx, who said that
purchases of tires, gasoline, oil,
machinery and supplies in this
county alone by lumber firms
amounts to more than $10V4 mil
lion each year.
Stumpage payments total
nearly $3 million, he said, and
the Industry in the county was
responsible for payment of
freight bills totaling $13,130,000
last year.
The lumber Industry Is four
times as valuable in Its produc
tion and assets In the county
than is the fruit industry.
Priaulx said. Jackson county is
the fourth lumber county in the
state, he added, and only Lane,
Douglas and Coos have greater
yearly production.
Chang in Thinking
After outlining the importance
of the Industry to the economy
of Oregon, and this section of
the state in particular, the lum
ber promotion man went on to
describe a basic change in the
thinking of industry leaders.
The previous theory In the In
dustry, he said, was to cut sur
pluses and sell them u raw ma
MEDFORD, OREGON,
McCarthy Ignores
Report Deadline
Washington, Apr. 5 (U.R)
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today
ignored a noon deadline for turn
ing over to senate investigators
further information in support
of his charges that the state de
partment is loaded with communists-
But the Wisconsin republican
said he "undoubtedly" would be
able to arrange for the appear
ance before a senate subcommit
tee of "some, if not all" of the
anonymous witnesses ne says
Daylight Time Is
Okayed in Ashland
Starting April 30
Ashland, Apr. 5 Ashland
joined the list of Oregon cities
which will go on daylight saving
time April 30, as the result of
action taken by the city council
at a regular meeting here last
night.
Councilmen felt that despite
objections which have been
raised Ashland should conform
with other southern Oregon
cities, including Medford and
Klamath Falls.
A resolution was passed by
councilmen which will place on
the May 19 election ballot a pro
posed city charter amendment
which will permit the city to sell
Ashland canyon timberland to
the forest service.
Golf Leases
The council also approved
terms of a lease contract for the
city golf course, under which
the city will furnish water pipe
and materials and the new les
see will improve the property.
The city street department
has expended its appropriation
for the year, it was reported,
and a special council meeting
will be held tomorrow evening
to see what can be arranged to
finance future operations.
Consideration of proposed new
water rates was again postponed
pending clarification of ques
tions involving water users at
higher elevatioas who do not
have sufficient water pressure.
Drop Soot Plans
City Attorney Harry Skerry
Jr. suggested that plans for a
soot control ordinance be
dropped. He said other cities
have found it to be unenforce
able, and of questionable con
stitutionality, and added that
most effective soot and sawdust
control . has been achieved by
cooperative endeavors.
Eight councilmen and city of
ficials will attend a meeting of
the League of Oregon Cities in
Medford next week, it was re
ported. terials. But lumbermen now are
taking notice of encroaching
competition by other building
materials.
In 1945, the Industry began
countering this competition with
a campaign of institutional ad
vertising, working to create
markets for low grade, or econ
omy lumber. Cost factors in
construction were emphasized,
if proper selection of materials
were made, and the campaign
was begun with full-color page
advertisements in 20 national
magazines.
Biq Response
Response to this advertising
was big, Priaulx said, with 1,
100,000 letters and cards coming
from all over the country. Each
year since 1945 the production
of lumber on the west coast has
gone up while production of
other areas has declined.
A new type of thinking also Is
beginning to pervade the indus
try with regard to the manner
in which lumbering is done,
Priaulx said. Emphasis is now on
sustained yield, selective cutting
and approved silvicultural prac
tices which will make the forests
of Oregon and Washington a "re
newable resource." Fire protec
tion is a vital part of this pro
gram, he said.
Cites Greater Usa
Still another trend In lumber
industry thinking is the new em
phasis on increased utilization,
Priaulx explained. By this, he
said, is meant chemical utiliza
tion of wood wastes, as well as
remanufacturing on the local
level.
A good example of the latter
plan is at Grays Harbor, Wash.,
he said, where remanufacturing
of woods raw materials into fin
ished products now employs
three times as many men than
before for the same amount of
lumber cut.
Priaulx was introduced by B.
L. Nutting.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5,
can prove his charges that Owen
Lattimore is or has been a mem
ber of the communist party.
Would Fire Reds
McCarthy advised subcommit
tee chairman Millard E. Tyd
ings. (D. Md.), that he could do
so if Tydings will set a definite
date for the appearance some
time next week and "give me
your solemn promise that they
(the witnesses) will be heard on
such date as you set."
He sent Tydings the letter as
the state department's top in
vestigative officer told the sub
committee that he does not
know of any "card-carrying com
munists" in the department.
Donald L. Nicholson, chief of the
department's division of secur
ity, said that if he finds any they
will be fired "by noon."
Nicholson carefully outlined
the department's security proce
dures and presented the subcom
mittee with graphs and charts to
explain his points.
Board Uninformed
At the end of his formal testi
mony, Sen- Brien McMahon, (D.,
Conn.), asked:
"Are there 205 card-carrying
communists in the state depart
ment"?
"Senator, as far as we know,
there are no card-carrying com
munists in the state depart
ment," Nicholson replied earn
estly. "If there were and we
could find them, they would be
terminated by noon."
Brig. Gen. Conrad E. .Snow,
chairman of the department's
loyalty security board, told the
senators:
"If there are any communists
in the state department, the
loyalty security board is unin
formed of their existence."
Snow said that since the de
partment's present loyalty and
security program was launched
three years ago his board has
determined 246 actual "loyalty
cases, stemming directly from
mi information.
Iowa Collegian
Freed in Slaying
Iowa City, la., Apr. 5 !U.R)
Robert Bcdnasek, 24, was found
innocent nf strangling his cam
pus sweetheart today on the
basis of his own strange "truth
drug" story of her death at a for
bidden rendezvous by candle
light. Bednasck. handsome and pop
ular University of Iowa psychol
ogy senior, escaped a possible
death sentence and walked from
the courtroom to freedom amid
the cheers of his classmates and
fraternity brothers.
He was charged with stran
gling pretty Margaret (Gee Gee)
Jackson in a jealous rage last
Dec. 11, but the jury ruled on
the basis of his own story that
the socially prominent coed's
death was an accident.
From the courtroom, Bcdnasek
hastened to the county jail to
pick up his belongings, and
while there the Rev- Harold Mc
Gee, Episcopalian minister of
Iowa City, came to greet him.
His lather, fcmll, 67, naa oeen
forced to return to the family
home at Cedar Rapids, la., yes
terday because of illness.
The girl's father, William
Jackson, was not available im
mediately for comment.
DA Orders Probe into
Death of Veteran
District Attorney George Neil-
son today ordered a full scale in
vestigation into the death of
Ernest S. Jodoin, domiciliary
center member who was found
Wing on a Medford street early
Monday morning.
Neilson said this morning tnat
II three law enforcement agen
cies, city, state and sheriffs
police, have been called Into the
case after an autopsy held over
the body of the 63-year-old vet
eran showed evidence of "sev
eral blows to the head."
County Health Officer Dr. A.
Erin Merkcl reported that the
cause nf the death was a frac
tured skull.
BULLETIN
A haarinq has been set for
3 p.m. Monday in circuit
court her whan Judge Orval
J. Millard, Grants Pais, will
be aiked by Kogap Lumbar In
dustries to istua a preliminary
injunction against tha Madford
Building and Construction
Trades council and others re
straining lham from placing
picktti at tha Kogap plants
south of Medford. Kogsp's at
torney, Frank J. Van Dyka,
this afternoon was notifying
in defendants of tha hearing
data.
Tribune
1950
NO. 12
Families Routed
By High Water in
Midwestern Region
Chicago, April 5 (U.R) Floods
drove 125 families from their
homes in the midwest and win
try weather routed spring tem
porarily from the Rockies to the
Appalachians today.
A cold front which sweot
down from Canada dipped into
the Gulf states and pushed east
ward toward the Atlantic sea
board, which basked in spring
like temperatures yesterday.
Freesinq In South
Freezing temperatures were
recorded as far south as New
Mexico and Kansas, and the mer
cury flirted with the zero mark
along the Canadian border.
Snow fell in Wisconsin, Michi
gan, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
the rampaging Red River of
the North forced more than 100
families to leave their lowland
homes at Moorhead, Minn., and
Fargo. N.D.
Twenty families were made
homeless by flooding Spring
creek at Herried, S.D., and a
flash flood put three families to
rout along Sugar creek at Toad
hop, near Terrehaute, Ind.
Al Considered
Ked Cross officials considered
a request (for army aid for 40
farm families isolated, but not
in distress, in rural areas near
Moorchead, Minn. The Red
river approached the 24-foot
mark today and was expected to
cest at 26feet Friday.
Spring creek threatened to
send two feet of water over Pol
lock, S.D., and the Cannon Ball
river flooded rural areas near
Breien in North Dakota.
The Wabash and White rivers
In Indiana overflowed for the
ninth time this year. But heavy
rains which touched off the
flooding stopped yesterday and
Meteorologist Paul A. Miller of
the Indianapolis weather bureau
said the floods would be much
less severe than In January.
Day's Committee
Proposes Single
Resources Bureau
Portland, Ore., April S U.R)
A legislative interim committee
headed by Rep. Ben Day of Gold
Hill today proposed creation of
a single state department of na
tural resources through reor
ganization of a group of state
agencies.
The committee suggested that
forestry, farmland, fishing, min
ing, water and natural history
agencies b molded into one de-
Sartment.
in Divisions
The program would set up
nine divisions within the de
partment. These would be for
estry, soil conservation, water
conservation and sanitation, fish
eries, wildlife, geology and min
erals, state lands and natural his
tory and research.
The committee contemplated a
board of nine members, whose
appointments would be made by
the governor with approval of
the senate.
Of the nine members, two
would come from coastal coun
ties, two from the rest of western
Oregon, two from the area of
Umatilla. Union, Baker, Grant
and Harney counties and two
from the remainder of eastern
Oregon. The ninth member
would be appointed from the
state at large.
FIREMEN CALLED
The Medford fire department
sent two Ln France pumpers to
34 North Holly street at 10:30
a.m. today to extinguish sparks
on the roof of the building. Fire
men said they were not sure
what caused the sparks but they
were put out with carbon diox
ide and there was no damage.
Bette Davis Asks Divorce
Following Studio 'Scene'
Hollywood. Apr. 5 (U.R) Big-
eyed Bette Davis, 41, decided to
day to go ahead with her divorce
from Artist William Grant Sher
ry, 35-year-old ex-pugilist, after
he muscled In on a studio party
honoring her birthday.
Actor Barry Sullivan was one
of those who tried to pacify the
hot-tempered Sherry at the par
ty Monday night on the RKO
movie lot.
No Blows Struck
The argument with Sherry
never got beyond the 'pushing
around' stage and no blows were
struck as far as I know," Sulli
van said.
But actions of her husband at
the party given ln honor of Miss
Davis birthday as well as for
others who had birthdays in the
cast so angered the blonde
actress that she retained famed
Hollywood Attorney Jerry Geis
ler to represent her In "litiga
tion involving a domestic affair."
you mean a divorce acuoni
Gleskr waa asked,
Starboard Engine
Explodes During
Flight Near Oahu ..
All Aboard Escape
In Rubber Life Rafts
Honolulu, Apr. 5 (U.R) The
navy's giant flying boat "Mar
shall Mars," made a forced land
ing at sea today, then exploded
and burned three miles off Oahu.
All eight crewmen aboard on
the test flight escaped ln life
rafts.
The navy said a burning star
board engine on the 72V4-ton
plane forced the plane com
mander, Lt. Cmdr. Glenn E- Sim
mons, to land in the open lea at
a lzo-mile an hour clip.
Take To Boats
As soon as the Mars slid to a
stop, the crewmen jumped into
lite Doats and rubber life rafts
moments before an explosion
racked the flying boat and it
burst into flames.
The navy rushed crash boats
and other emergency equiDment
to the scene in an effort to save
the Mars the largest flying
boat in the world.
The exDlosion sent a 2.000-
foot smoke column towering in
to the blue sky as crash boats,
two helicopters, patrol craft and
one submarine raced to the
scene to help save the erew.
Engine Explodes
John Klein of Honolulu, from
a vantage point near Diamond
Head, said he saw the starboard
engine of the Mars explode in
tugnt. A tnird of the wing imme
diately was wrapped in flame,
Klein said.
He said the giant sea plana
immediately banked steeply to
ward Pearl Harbor and glided
out of sight.
The Mars holds the world rec
ord for carrying the largest num
ber of passengers- On May 19,
1949, on a flight from Alameda
naval air station near San Fran
cisco to San Diego, the TOar
shall Mars" sister ship of the
one that burned today success
fully carried 301 passengers and
a crew of seven.
Grounded Briefly
The Mars-type flying boats,
normally used by the navy for
trans-Pacific flights, - were
grounded briefly last year after
several plans had minor engine
trouble.
The Mars is a 185.000-lb. sea
plane, with a wingspread of 200
feet, an overall length of a little
more than 120 feet. It can carry
a payload of 22,000 pounds for
3,550 miles. It has four engines
and a top speed of better than
250 miles per hour.
Priests Convicted
By Prague Court
Prague. Apr. 5 U.R) The
Prague state court convicted
nine ranking Catholic priests of
high treason today and sentenced
them to jail terms ranging from
life to nine years-
The tenth priest was found
innocent of high treason but
guilty of knowing about the
crimes of the others and was sen
tenced to two years. There were
no death sentences.
Dr. Jan Mastilak, 38, rector
of the redemotorist seminary in
Omorist, Moravia, was the only
defendant sentenced to life.
Abbot Augustine Machalka,
44, of the premonstrate monas
tery In Nova Rise, and Jesuit
Frantisek Silhen, 45, provisional
head of the Jesuit order here,
were sentenced to 25 years each.
The sentences climaxed a five-
day trial.
Corvallis, Ore., Apr. 8 U.R)
Margaret Muriel Field, 54, en
gineering librarian at Oregon
State college, died yesterday at
Good Samaritan hospital here.
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Miss Davis, working on a pic
ture which ironically is titled
"The Story of a Divorce," has
moved out of her home but ia
still in the city, Giesler said.
In her divorce action. Mist
Davis asked custody of their 3-year-old
daughter, Barbara, who
has some scenes In the picture
in which Miss Davis Is playing.
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The actress filed suit for di
vorce last October 21 at Santa
Ana, Cal., but action in the case
was postponed when the couple
reconciled. She had obtained a
court order restraining her
husky husband from harming
her. At the time, Sherry said he
had an "awful temper," but
agreed to take psychiatric treat
ment to curb It.
The studio party at the RKO
commissary was only for mem
bers of the cast and crew of "The
Storv of a Divorce," and no oth
ers, ware invited, Sullivan said.