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45th Year. 20 Pages
MEDFO'
JON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1950
NO. 32
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POLICE QUELL STRIKING STUDENTS Police, mounted and on foot,
keeping order among striking high school students who Invaded the City
low salaries paid their teachers.
Daylight Saving to
Begin Early Sunday
Though they may do some Most county communities nut.
grumbling, most Jackson county
residents, before they go to bed
Saturday niRht, will set their
clocks ahead one hour so that
they will have more time to play
Sunday evening. After that the
habit is expected to become m-
Rogue River Adopts
Daylight Saving Time
Rogue River. April 28 The
city council announced today
the city of Rogue River will
operate on daylight saving time
beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday,
April 30.
grained and few will know the
difference between standard
and daylight time until next fall
when the clocks are returned to
sun time.
The idea is to allow working
people to take better advantage
of long summer evenings by get
ting much of their day's work
done an hour earlier. Though
agricultural groups ardently pro
test the rearranging of farm
achedules that will be involved,
daylight saving time has become
a national custom that is now
taken for granted in most areas.
Few Exceptions
So far as is known, only trans-
KA.o4fnM nmnaniA(l Klia air QnH
lines, and the Jackson
county court, will stick with
"sun time" during the summer.
The city government, many
agencies of the county govern
ment, state offices, and federal
agencies will all observe day
light time here in conformity
with the action taken by the
Medford city council. Radio sta
tions, interurban bus lines, and
tven mill whistles, will adjust
to the new schedules. Medco's
whistle will go on DST Sunday.
It blows at 3 a.m., 7:45 a.m., 8
a.m., noon, 12:45 p.m., 1 p.m., 5
?.m., 5:45 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 pa,
0:45 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Radio network schedules are
being rearranged and local radio
stations will follow in line. The
recorded female voice that
squeaks out the time of day
every 10 seconds over the tele
phone circuits will be pushed
ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday.
Herbert Hoover Asks
UN Reorganization
New York. Apr. 28 U.R
Former President Herbert Hoov
er asks "God fearing nations" to
reorganize the United Nations
without the communist countries
and create a united front
"against red agnosticism.
Mr. Hoover told the American
Newspaper Publishers associa
tion conference last night that
the time has come to discard the
unrealistic "one world" ideal for
a practical plan of "total diplom
acy." The 75-year-old republican's
nationally broadcast speech
brought an immediate telephone
call from President Truman in
Washington.
A long distance operator call
ed the Waldorf-Astoria hotel to
say the White House wanted Mr.
Hoover to telephone "right
away." Mr. Hoover left the
AN'PA banquet to answer the
call in his suite.
Spokesmen for Mr. Hoover re
fused to comment on the call.
Vaey Firms File
Incorporation Papers
Salem. Ore, Apr. 28 4U.RI
Articles of incorporation were
filed here today for the Walton
Gray company of Medford, Ore.,
manufacturers of plastering ma
terials. Signing the articles were
Frank R. Walton. R. W. Gray
and Frank J. Van Dyke.
Salem. Ore.. Apr. 28 (U.R
The Jacksonville Community
Hall. Inc.. of Jacksonville. Ore.,
tiled articles of incorporation
licrc toriav. Signing the articles
were E. . Mclntyre. Merle L.
Tweedy and Clinton A. Smith.
Salem. Ore., Apr. 28 0J.R
Gov. Douglas McKay appointed
State Insurance Commissioner
Robert Taylor today to serve as
chief of the fire service division
of the Oregon civil defense
gency.
side Medford say they consider
fast time almost mandatory in
order to avoid confusion in their
business contacts with mhor
communities. Onlv a few auri.
cultural communiiies may hold
out against the action of the
vast majority of residents.
Among the Jackson county
communities which have already
approved the change to daylight
time are Ashland, Phoenix, Cen
tral Point and Jacksonville. The
clocks at the Camp White domi
ciliary center will also conform
to the majority.
Frederick Field
Denies Knowing
Lattimore as Red
Washington, Apr. 28 (U.R)
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
swore today that to the best of
his knowledge Prof. Owen Latti
more and three state department
officials about whom he was
questioned are not communists.
- But the alleged "millionaire
angel" of communist causes in
curred possible contempt action
by refusing to tell a senate for
eign relations subcommittee
whether he himself is or ever
was a communist,
Joins Browder
Field joined with ex-commu
nist boss Earl Browder and Dr.
Bella V. Dodd, a former party
member, in defense of Lattimore
against charges by Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) and Louis
F. Budenz.
McCarthy has called Latti
more a communist spy. Budenz.
ex-communist editor, testified
last week that the far eastern
expert officially was known as a
party member. Browder and Dr.
Dodd denied this before the sub
committee this week.
Field said Budenz' testimony
was "completely and utterly
false. In his statement and in
response to questions he denied
that he ever even hinted, as Bu
denz had testified, that Latti
more was a communist or a com
munist tool.
Refuses Answer
But when questioned about
his own affiliations and whether
he knew certain individuals.
among them ex-communist Whit-
taker Chambers. Field refused
to answer on constitutional
grounds that his answers might
incriminate him.
The subcommittee at the re
quest of Counsel Edward P. Mor
gan will decide later today
whether to charge Field with
contempt.
Orchard Heating Used
In North of County
Orchard- heating was exten
sive in the northern part of the
county last night where tempera
tures dropped to 26 degrees in
the coldest spots but a cloud
cover that rolled in over the val
ley from Medford south made
very little if any firing neces
sary to the south of here.
Where heating was necessary,
fires were lighted about 12:30
a.m. but in some orchards the
temperatures rose rapidly
enough to allow orchardists to
let the fires die out shortly after
they were started.
Brakeman Suffers Loss
Of Legs in Accident
Salem, Ore., Apr. 28 U.R)
L. N. Lange, Salem brakeman
for the Spokane, Portland and
Seattle railroad, lost both his
legs late yesterday under a
switch engine.
Lange; a brakeman-helper for
the railroad out of Salem, was
working with the switch engine
crew near the end of West Ow
ens street in South Salem, when
the accident happened. Other
crewmen were unable to explain
the accident, to which there were
no witnesses.
Philadelphia. Apr. 28 (U.R)
The New York Times was an
nounced today as winner of the
F. Wayland Ayer cup for news
paper excellence for tht second
consecutive year.
put in a strenuous few minutes
Hall area of New York to protest
Police Ordered
To Get Tough With
New York Students
New York, Apr. 28 (U.R) An
attempt by 1.000 high school
students to march on City hall,
scene of riotous demonstrations
by 10.000 teen-agers yesterday,
was broken up today by police
who had orders to get tough if
necessary.
Police diverted the demons
trators to Foley square, a few
blocks north of City hall, and
dispersed them into small
groups. Other police stood guard
at subway exits to City hall
plaza and turned back all stu
dents' groups.
Roadblocks Manned
It was the fifth day of de
monstrations to support teach
ers' demands' for salary increases
and the fourth time the students
had marched on City hall.
Police reported that groups of
students were gathering in other
boroughs to go to City hall but
they manned roadblocks to keep
them out of Manhattan.
One leader, a 14-year-old stu
dent, was seized and taken to
City hall for questioning.
Police dispersed the first
group to enter Foley square, sev
eral blocks north of City hall.
One mounted policeman chased
a group back Into a subway and
then stood euarrt at the entrance
Flo prevent them from coming out
again.
Youths Scream
Seven policemen broke up a
group gathered at the north end
of the square. The youths
screamed: "So this is democ
racy?" But, they offered no re
sistance. Doukhobors Disrobe
In Court Session
Nelson, B.C., Apr. 28 (U.R)
Doukhobors stripped in court
here today as 31 radicals were
each sentenced to three years in
prison on nudish charges.
Led by 74-year-old Annie Kof
tinoff, three women and five
men began taking off their
clothes in the crowded court
room when they were sentenced.
The three women took every
thing off, standing completely
nude, while the men got almost
everything off before police
guards restrained them.
The 31 were sentenced for
nude parading. During the trial
when asked if they had any evi
dence, three women and one
man said, "this is our evidence"
and began taking off their
clothes. They were halted by
officers before getting very far.
One defendant, Bill Poznif
koff said, "we are not only
guilty of being nude, but we
fired the building before we
stripped."
Use of Hall Denied
For Talk by Bridges
Aberdeen, Wash., Apr. 28
(U.R) Longshoremen were seek
ing a meeting hall today for
west coast leader Harry Bridges
to use.
The Eagles hall here had been
first hired for Bridges' speech,
but a special meeting of the
board of directors refused to
give permission.
Bridges, convicted In a San
Francisco perjury trial last
month for denying under oath
he had ever been a member of
the communist party, is on a
northwest speaking tour.
Salem. Ore.. Apr. 28 (U.R)
Polly Pollock of Milwaukie,
Ore., winsome brunette senior,
was elected Thursday as May
queen for the annual campus
May week-end at Willamette
university.
Pilot Describes 'Cherry Red' Flying Disk
Kansas City, Mo., Apr. 28
(U.R) Capt. Robert Adickes,
TWA pilot officer, said today
that an object, "glowing cherry
red," flew alongside his plane
last night in the vicinity of
South Bend, Ind., for about five
minutes.
Adickes said it was the first
time he had seen one of the so-
called flying disks and that, af
ter watching lt operate for those
five minutes, he was convinced
it was a mechanical device and
not a machine from Mars or
torn ether planet.
Two Americans
Slain in Ambush
On Java Highway
Life Correspondent
Professor Murdered
Jakarta, Indonesia, Apr. 28
iU.R) Reports received here to
day said a Life Magazine corres
pondent and a Yale university
professor had been killed by ter
rorists in an ambush on the high
way between Bandoeng and
Cheribon.
The victims were identified as
Correspondent Robert Doyle and
Prof. Raymond Kennedy by Karl
W. Kigsen. senior military ob
server with the UN Indonesia
commission.
Based On Report
Higsen said his information
was based on a report from In
donesia armv headquarters and
British Lt. Col. F. Day of the
UN staff.
Higsen said the slayings oc-i
currcd either late yesterday or
early today as the two men were
en route from here to Jogjakarta
in a jeep. He said the victims
were traveling via Cheribon and
that the ambush occurred in the
vicinity of Tomo.
Jacob Bean, a member of the
United States embassy staff here,
left immediately for Bandoeng
to stage a first-hand investiga
tion. Returned Recently
Doyle covered the transfer of
sovereignty from The Nether
lands to Indonesia last December
and returned to Inodnesia only
10 days ago to cover the latest
developments.
His wife was believed to be
in Hong Kong, where he norm
ally is stationed.
Kennedy was one of America's
foremost experts on the Indo
nesia archipelago.
France Discharges
Atomic Director
Paris, Apr. 28 J (U.R) the
French cabinet decided today to
discharge Dr. Frederic Joliot-Cu-rie
as high commissioner of
France's atomic energy program
because of his communist lean
ings. Joliot-Curie said recently be
fore the communist party na
tional congress that no "progres
ive" scientist ever would permit
his work to be used against the
Soviet Union.
The decision to fire the bril
liant Nobel prize-winning scien
tist was taken in a cabinet meet
ing conducted by President Vin
cent Auriol, a former socialist
who supported Joliot-Curie when
the question of his dismissal was
brought up in previous cabinet
meetings.
Nationalists Launch
Attack Against Reds
Hong Kong. Apr. 28-U.R)
Nationalist warplanes and ships
took advantage of the first clear
weather in weeks today to launch
a furious sea-air bombardment
against a communist invasion
fleet assembled south of Shang
hai for an attack on the Chusan
islands.
Reports from Formosa said an
endless procession of bombers
and fighters began taking off
from Taipei field and other mili
tary airports this morning to at
tack the communist fleet in
Hangchow bay.
These reports said the com
munist attack on the Chusans,
nationalist air-sea base for the
blockade of Shanghai and vital
outpost protecting Shanghai, was
expected to start within a week.
New Electrical Union
Gouges Left-Wingers
Pittsburgh, Apr. 28 (U.R)
The CIO's new electrical union
took a big bite out of the ranks
of the left-wing United Electrical
Workers in voting at Westing
house Electric corporation
plants, returns showed today.
But the outcome of the bitter
battle between the left and right
wing unions for top dog spot in
the industry still is highly in
doubt.
In the popular vote in yester
day's national labor relations
hoard balloting among the 57,
000 Westinghouse workers the
CIO's edge was 27,281 to 22.817.
"All my 19 passengers and
other members of the crew
watched this object," Adickes
said. The TWA plane was flight
117. Washington, D. C, to Kan
sas City.
"It came up from about 9
o'clock and flew alongside about
half a mile off my starboard
wing, at 2,000 feet.
"It appeared to be controlled
by repulse radar. As I'd turn
toward it. it would veer away,
keeping the same distance.
"When I turned directly
toward it, it took off, at a speed
Kansas City Steak
Men Irked Over Claim
Of Omaha Authorities
Kansas City, Mo.. Apr, 28
(U.R) Kansas City steak men
refused to fry today when
they learned that Omaha au
thorities had inferred the fa
mous K.C. steaks probably
originate in the Nebraska city.
"It's ridiculous," said Eddie
Williams, head of the Williams
Meat company, and president
of the Kansas City Hotel Sup
ply Meat Dealers association.
"I'd suggest," said Billy Bur
nett with a wink of an eye.
that maybe in Omaha they
don't know exactly what
they're talking about."
Their comments were
prompted by an Omaha Cham
ber of Commerce action, ask
ing business men in the Ne
braska city to affix outgoing
mail with a steak-shaped stick
er bearing the slogan: "Oma
ha, the nation's steak house."
Market Conditions
For Peaches Said
Good This year
Good market prospects for the
Jackson county peach industry,
the largest in the state, were re
vealed here today with word
that peach crops in many other
parts of the country have suf
fered severe winter and spring
cold damage.
The Oregon Slate college ex
tension service reports that
"freezing temperatures since
April 1 have further lowered
prospects for the 1950 peach
crop in southeastern states and
in Illinois." The service said it
is still too early to make a defi
nite forecast of production, but
the poorest crop since 1943
seems inevitable in the Caro
linas, Georgia and Alabama.
Production in 1943 was less than
a fourth of average there. The
Illinois crop was reduced sharp
ly by winter damage and pros
pects were further lowered by
the April 13 freeze. That cold
snap caught the southern - Illi
nois counties with peaches in
full bloom.
In the important peach state
of Georgia, only light crops in
some local areas are expected.
"Important Boost" Here
Though unfortunate for grow
ers in those areas, the situation
promises to give an important
boost to the commercially im
portant peach crop here. The
bulk of local production is ex
ported to California. Although
that state is the largest peach
producer in the nation, most of
its crop is shipped to the east
and California growers are sure
to find a better market there this
year with the principal competi
tors frozen out. This situation,
then, will create a more active
demand for Rogue valley
peaches for local consumption
in California.
Jackson county growers will
also find less competition from
other northwest peach-producing
areas. Winter cold has wiped
out this year's crop at Yakima
and The Dalles, and the Willam
ette valley crop has suffered
some damage. The prospects are
bright for a good crop of peaches
here this year.
Assault Case from
Ashland Transferred
An assault and battery case
against five Ashland men has
been transferred from the Jus
lice court of the Ashland district
to circuit court here on the rec
ommendation of Deputy District
Attorney Paul Haviland.
Andrew K. Peterson, Harvey,
Roy and Allan M. Kyriss and
Carl Moore are accused of beat
ing Norman and Bob Johnson.
Their mother, Mrs. Wilma John
son, has filed the complaint.
Local Youth Qualities
For Naval Training
Washington, Apr. 28 (U.R)
Twenty Oregon youths have
qualified for four-year naval re
serve officer training corps schol
arships, Rep. Homer Angr-ll (R.,
Ore.) said today.
Those named included Wayne
Carlos Annala, Hood River; Jim
mie Dale Grimm. Medford; Wil
liam Seven Rauber, Cave Junc
tion; Arnold Ruminski, Oregon
City, and Donald Emerson Wolf,
Redmond.
I Judged to be about 400 miles
an hour, twice my speed. It went
down to 1,500 feet and streaked
out of sight northward over
South Bend.
"It was hard to Judge Its size
at night. I estimate it was be
tween 20 and 50 feet In diam
eter and about 10 per cent as
thick as was its diameter."
Adickes. who has been flying
for 12 years, said the object
glowed a dull red. about the
same color as the collector ring
and exhaust assembly of a plane
gets. , The object threw no
flames.
Committee Okays
Tax Reduction on
Night Club Checks
Many Items Still
To Be Considered
Washington, Apr. 28 (U.R)
House tax writers voted ten
tatively today io cut federal
excise taxes on transportation
and on telephone bills and tel
egrams by $357 million.
Washington, Apr. 28 (U.R)
The house ways and means com
mittee changed its mind today
and voted tentatively to reduce
the excise tax on night club
checks from 20 per cent to 10
per cent.
The committee had agreed
only yesterday to leave the tax
on cabarets, roof gardens and
similar night spots at 20 per
cent. But today it was decided
to make a 10 per cent reduction,
with the loss of revenue to the
federal government estimated at
$19 million for the next fiscal
year.
Mora Cuts Considered
The house tax framers have
now agreed to a total cut in fed
eral excise taxes of more than
$600 million, with many Items
that are large revenue produc
ers still to be considered.
In addition to reconsidering
the cabaret tax and okaying a
reduction, the committee made
these other tentative decisions
today:
1. It agreed to exempt re
built, repaired and reconditioned
automobile parts from the 50 per
cent tax on automobile accesso
ries. 2. It agreed to exempt from
the cabaret tax dance halls
which sell only soft drinks on
the side. There have been con
flicting court decisions on the
applicability of the cabaret tax
to such establishments, and the
committee decided to exempt
them.
Radio Sets Exempt
3. It decided to exempt radio
receiving sets sold to the U, S.
government from the 10 per cent
.tax on radios.
. 4. It -reconsidered yesterday's
action eliminating the 10 per
cent tax on immersion electric
heaters. This tax was left at 10
per cent under today's decision,
but it was agreed that baby bot
tle warmers are to be exempt
from the taxes.
Oregon Woman Is
'Mother of 1950'
Portland, Ore., Apr. 28 (U.R)
Mrs. Henry Roe Cloud, named
"American Mother of 1950" by
the Golden Rule Foundation,
said today she was "both asto
ished and pleased" by the award.
Mrs. Roe Cloud is the daugh
ter of a Chippewa Indian and a
German homesteader and the
widow of Dr. Henry Roe Cloud,
nationally known leader in In
dian affairs. She is 59 years old
and lives at West Linn, Ore.,
south of Portland. She is the
mother of four daughters, all of
whom are college or university
graduates, gaining their educa
tion by winning scholarships and
through summer Jobs.
"It gives you a feeling of
great surprise and astonishment
to be selected for this national
honor," she said. "I thought it
was so wonderful being Oregon's
mother that the thought of be
ing named American mother
didn't enter my head."
Silvery Object Seen
Above Grants Pass
Grants Pass, Ore., Apr. 28
(U.R) A. G. Hayes, private pilot,
said he and about four or five
other persons saw a disk-shaped,
silvery object traveling through
the sky today above the Grants
Pass airport,
Hayes said they watched the
object for about 20 minutes be
fore it shot up and disappeared.
The group at the airport was
first attracted to the sky by a
four-engined bomber passing
overhead. Hayes said, when they
saw the disk-shaped, silvery ob
ject, which Hayes estimated was
four or five times higher than
the bomber.
Hayes said the object moved
In a horizontal direction for a
time, then shot straight up and
out of sight.
"It wasn't anything wicrd,"
he said. "After seeing one and
knowing something about me
chanical equipment and aerody
namics, I can understand there
is something to these stories."
Adickes had one word for
"whoever" is building these
things the like of which he saw
last night.
"I think they're dangerous fly
ing around the airways," he said,
"If one got out of contrl, it
could cause an accident."
He conjectured that the ma
chine was run by a little jet and
steered by gyroscopes.
Two Trips Through
Same Store Window
Is Two Too Many
Philadelphia. Apr. 21 (U.R)
Two years ago Bernard Haines
parked his automobile In the
Germaniown section. The
brakes slipped, the car rolled
downgrade and crashed
through a shop display win
dow. Haines parked his car in the
same spot yesterday. The
brakes slipped and the car
crashed through the same win
dow. Haines promised the shop
owner ha would find new
parking spot.
Highway Stretch
At Prospect May
Get Maintenance
County Engineer Paul Ryn
ning returned from a trip to
Portland and eastern Oregon
yesterday with information from
the state highway department to
the effect that there may be in
creased expenditures for main
tenance of the Crater Lake high
way in the Prospect area.
Hynning was to report to the
board of directors of the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce at noon today that the im
portant economic factors Involv
ed in the use of the highway by
the lumber industry here have
apparently influenced the high
way department to give favor
able attention to the need for
more maintenance work on high
way 62.
No Official Word
Though no definite or official
announcement has been made
by the commission, Rynning was
given the impression that a pro
gram of heavy maintenance
would be undertaken on the
highway that would obviate the
need for any further paralyzing
load restrictions such as tnose
that were imposed last winter.
Funds are not available at this
time for reconstruction work.
but more adequate maintenance.
it la believed. . would keen the
important logging .artery opeTi
through all but the worst kinds
of weather. The Crater Lake
highway, particularly from Cas
cade Gorge north, is vital to
lumbering operations in much
of the valley.
Rynning also reported today
on the current repair, improve
ment and maintenance activities
of his department saying that
county crews are now at work
re-grading and re-olling portions
of Stewart avenue that became
badly broken up during the win
ter. That job should be complet
ed within a few days. As soon as
continuing good weather is reas
onably assured, the county will
begin its road-oiling program on
a number of county roads.
Betterment work on the Dead
Indian road has been started to
improve several bad curves and
grades; last fall's work on the
bridle in the Wimer area has
been resumed; contractors build-
ins the br dee across the Rogue
at the City of Rogue River will
be delayed about two monins
pending delivery of steel for
the main span, and nine bridges
across irrigation canals have
been repaired and improved
with concrete and metal pipe re
placing wooden portions of the
structures.
Rynning expects that con
tracts for the construction of a
new Bybee bridge should be let
by the state highway depart
ment within a month.
Flood Waters Cover
Canadian Border Town
Pembina, N. D., Apr. 28 (U.R)
Flood waters of the Red river
today covered every inch of this
Canadian border town except for
two bare spots of high ground
in one back yard.
The river hit an all-time high
crest of 50 feet here yesterday.
But the crest was moving
north to plague the Canadian
residents of Manitoba after it
drove 25,000 persons from their
homes and spread over millions
of acres of U. S. land.
The worst conditions were re
norted at the T-shaped intersec
tion of the North Dakota, Minne
sota and Manitoba border lines.
Most of Noycs and St. Vincent,
Minn., and Emerson, Manitoba,
were under water. ,
Czechs Ask America
To Cut Diplomats
Prague, Apr. 28 (U.R) A
The government demanded to
day that the United States re
duce the number of Its diplomats
in Czechoslovakia by two-thirds.
The Czech foreign office made
the demand in a mite broadcast
by the Prague radio.
The note said recent espionage
trials proved that American dip
lomats played an "important
role in activities aimed at the
security of the Czechoslovak
people's republic.''
BASEBALL
AMERICAN
Philadelphia .....1 0
Boston 4 0
Kellner and Tiptoaj Parnell
and TtMMta.
Pre-Dawn Debate
On Street Becomes
Shooting Duel
Sheriff Undetermined
On How Fight Started
Newport. Ore. Anr. 2H (IIP)
A pre-dawn argument between
two carloads of Newport and
Salem residents broke into a
shooting duel on the main street
of the city today, leaving three '
persons wounded, Sheriff Tim
othy P. Welp reported.
Orval Tull, 24, Salem, was in
critical condition with a bullet
wound in the abdomen. Mrs.
Lola Thomas. Newport, was in
serious condition with four bul
let wounds. Harry Thomas, New
port, ner divorced husband, was
in fair condition with one bullet
wound.
Taken Into Custody
James Orval Vogan, 26, Sa
lem, and Wanda Thnmii 23.
daughter of Harry Thomas, were
laxen into custody by the Lin-
coin county sheriff's office and
held as material witnesses.
bheriff Welp said he had not
yet determined who fired the
first shot or how the fight
started.
'When the shooting started.
some of them were still in cara
and others were on the street.
Two guns were used a .25 cali
ber pistol and a .22 caliber auto
matic rifle.
Triggermen Unknown
' "Harry Thomas was shot in
the chest by Tull's gun. Tull waa
shot by Thomas' gun. Lola
Thomas was shot in the back of
the head. We know which guns
fired the shots, but we're not vet
certain who pulled the triggers."
The sheriff said Mrs. Thomas
apparently was still in the auto
mobile when she was shot. She
had been riding with Tull when
tne two parties encountered.
Her former husband is a New
port taxicab driver. Physlciani
said he had only an even chance
to live.
Wanda Thomas was accomp
anied by Vogan at the time ot
the shooting.. .. .. j .
Ait tne wounaea. were unner
treatment in a Toledo hospital.
Tito Visions No
War Possibility
Belgrade. Yugoslavia. Anr. 21
U.R) Premier Marshal Tito to
day dismissed the possibility of
an early reconciliation with Rus
sia but predicted there was no
likelihood of war in the foresee
able future.
Tito made his statement at a
press conference for the entire
foreign press corps at the Belvt
Dvor (White Palace), the official
residence. It was the first time
he has received the entire for
eign press corps in more than two
years.
The conference was called one
day after Tito, In a speech be
fore the Yugoslav parliament,
proposed creation of a "good
neighbor" policy with Yugo
slavia's non-communist neigh
bors Greece, Italy and Austria.
Tito not only saw no possibil
ity of an attack upon Yugoslavia
In the foreseeable future.
Youths Detained After
17-Hour Police Chase
McMinnville, Ore., Apr. 28
(U.R) Victor Byron La Bonte,
18, and Eugene Russell La Bonte,
20, were held in the Yamhill
county jail today on a car theft
charge after they were captured,
at the end of a 17-hour chase
by state police.
The two brothers will be
turned over to Wasco county
authorities and returned to The
Dalles.
Officers began the pursuit
Wednesday morning when they
saw the La Bontes driving a car
reported stolen from The Dalles.
The youths ignored an order to
halt and speeded along highways
and side roads at a speed esti
mated up to 90 miles an hour.
At Grande Ronde they blew
out the front tires of the auto
mobile when they hit an abut
ment. They abandoned the car
and fled into the woods. State
troopers finally surrounded the
brothers in an open field and
took them Into custody.
Light Phenomenon
Recorded on Film
Seattle. Apr. 28 (U.R) The
sreen flash, a rare phenomenon
of the sun that has baffled sci
entists for centuries, has been
captured on film for the first
time.
The University of Washington
astronomy department announc
ed today that a spectrum of the
strange flash as the sun dropped
behind the horizon on the west
coast of Oahu, Hawaii, is record
ed on color motion picture film.
The green flash, observed by
astronomers and other scientific
observers In many parts of the
world for centuries, has been a
matter of controversy in scien
tific circlei lor more than 71
years.
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