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1 If Jflff ONLY BOATS CAN REACH many parts of Missouri River basin near Leavenworth, Kan. This bridge, which once spanned stream, now is Isolated in vast Inland sea ol Hood water. (International) Suit To Void Sale of Land Near Gold Beach Due May 13 Portland U.R) Trial of tovernment suit to void the sale S 800 acres of Indian-owned timberland near Gold Beach on charges of fraud will begin Tues day, May 13. Federal Judge Gus J. Solomon refused Monday to heed pleas of two deputy U. S. Attorneys that the FBI needs 30 more days to complete the investigation of the transaction, and that for this rea son the government was not ready to go to trial. Conferences Scheduled Meanwhile, pretrial confer ences were scheduled to continue next Monday. Judge Solomon also took un der advisement a motion to drop two defendants from the action. The two defendants, Fred M. Marsh, Lebanon timber buyer, and William F. Brenner, had an option to buy the timber for $300,000. Their attorneys argued that they permitted the option to lapse and therefore there was no basis for action against them. U. S. District Attorney Edward Twining objected strenuously. Said Aware of Value Twining said the defendants Marsh, Brenner, Mrs. Ernestine Siniscal, and her father, Elmer Reed, both of Cutler City and Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Taylor, The Dalles were aware the property was worth more than the $135,000 for which it was sold to Mrs. Siniscal. The Siletz Indian woman was represented as a bona fide buyer at the In dian office. The Indian bureau requires that its trust lands be sold only to another Indian. However, Twining charged, the same day Mrs. Siniscal bought the land, she sold it to the Taylors for $25,000 profit, and the Taylors In turn gave an option to Brenner and Marsh. . Portland (U.PJ The largest number of Chinook salmon to pass Bonneville dam in one day since the spring run began, 1,485, was counted yesterday by the Corps of Engineers. Medford United Pceu Full Leued Wit Tribune ItaiWft ptu full lAuve WUt Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1952 Pages 1-6 Russia Claimed Responsible (or Polish Massacres New York OJ.Rl Rep. Al vin E. O'Konski says there Is "irrefutable evidence" that the Russians were responsible for the Katyn Forest massacre of 12,000 Polish troops during World War II. "There Is not one scintilla of evidence, at present," the Wis consin Republican said, "to indi cate that anyone but the Rus sians did the job." Attended Europe Hearing! O'Konski, who is serving on a House committee investigating the slaughter, arrived from Europe after two weeks of hear ings in London and Frankfurt. The Germans charge the Rus sians were responsible for the slaughter, contending it oc curred in April, 1940. The Rus sians charge that the Germans massacred the Poles in the fall of 1941. Bodies Disinterred O'Konski said a German spon sored medical investigating team of leading pathologists irom many European countries disin terred 982 bodies and reported unanimously that the Polish troops were slain in April, 1940. before the Germans entered the Smolensk area where the mas sacre accurred. Church Heads Claim Gratifying Victory in Religious Instruction Mill of Corvaffi's Damaged by Flames . Corvallis (UK Flames de stroyed possibly one-third of the $1,000,000 Chapman Manufac turing company plant here Tues day as fire struck twice at the big hardboard concern. Washington OJ.R) Church leaders have claimed "grati fying" victory in the long legal battle over "released time" relig ious instruction lor public school students. ' The Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision Monday, sanctioned dismissal of children one day a week for religious instruction off the school grounds if. their par ents request it. Law Changed Two New York city parents had challenged a state law per mitting this "released time" pro gram on grounds that it violates the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. I Gerald E. Knoff. general di- rector of the Commission on 'Christian Education ol the Na tional Council of Churches, said in Chicago that church leaders are "greatly pleased at this de cision." He said the court had upheld precisely the system of "released time" religious instruction which the National Council has been advising Its affiliates to sponsor. Program Cooperation Urged Knoff said there are now about 3,000 communities- In the nation in which some such form of week-day religious instruction is being offered. He said the council will urge all participants ' to "make sure that their pro- j grams are so constructed as to be in accordance with both the spirit and letter" of the court decision. Msgr. John S. Middleton, sec retary for education of the Ro man Catholic Archdiocese of New York, said the court ruling was a "new vindication" ol par ents' rights to direct the educa tion of their children. Dr. J. M. Dawson, a leading Baptist clergyman, said he did not oppose the ruling, but had some serious questions about it. "Will the element of compul sion in the framework of the plan be pencraUy acceptable?" he asked. "If children can be dis missed one day, may they not also on other days, with possible disruption of the public school system?" Mother Throws Infant Off Bridge; Tot Saved Portland W.P.I Police Tues day questioned a woman who threw her month-old baby girl 50 feet off the Burnside bridge into the Willamette river and then jumped in herselt. Both the baby and mother were rescued by a passing tug. Witnesses said they saw the woman, identified by police as Mrs. Beatrice French, 34, kiss her baby before she threw the child oif the bridge Monday evening. The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, of which Daw son is executive director, took part in the celebrated McCollum case ol 1948. The committee op posed a "released time" program on Camhpalgn, 11. v which was declared unconstitutional. In, Monday's opinion, Justice William O. Douglas noted that In Champaign the classrooms were used for religious Instruction whereas in New York they were not. He said the McCollum case could not be expanded to cover tlie New York program "unless separation of church and state means that public institutions can make no adjustments to their schedules to accommodate the religious needs of the peo ple." The court also uphetS 5 to 4 the bitterly disputed Illinois "group libel" laws. The law prohibits publication of material which libels "any race, color, creed or religion." Our Special Spring Prices on Green Fir and Green Pine Slab Wood Will Be Discontinued May 10rh. Timber Products Company Phone 2-6123 SJabbing Victim Leaves Hospital Paul Blair, Shady Cove, who was severely stabbed April 20, was dismissed wl c tv d. a y at ter noort from Community hosptlat, where he had been since he suf tered the injury, the hospital re ported Tuesday. The three men involved in the Sunday mornimj brawl have been held In the county jail and were arraigned on April 22 on charges of assault 'with a danger ous weapon, according to Dis trict Attorney Paul rlavlland. Dee Stockton was released on $3,500 bail Monday, according to Kaviland, but Monte Stock ton ancf Donald E. Yule ate stilt in Jail. The original bait haot been set at S7.500 each, but was lowered to $3,500, he stated. "Washington JO.KI Rep. Reld F. Murray, R-Vf is., died Tuesday at the Naval Medical Center in nearby Bcthosda, Md. 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