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EIX MXSrOKD (OMSOOH) MAIL THIBUKB Tuesday. July 12. 19S5 ilepyb icarni lorito Capture Megro Vote Ma n Mews Woman Sends Jeweler Into Hands of Robbers New York U.R Mrs. Gr trad Davis told Jeweler Bor ris Rubinstein to go ahead and wait on two man in his shop Monday whila sba looked over some earrings. Rubenstein sadly walked back to the two roan and tin Ished the stickup that had been la progress when Mrs. Daries walked in. The two men made off with five rings. The woman didn't know what was going on until the men left, Oveross Defense In Second Day; Chemist Testifies Salem 01.10 The defense of Casper A. Qyeross against charges he snot to deatn nis su-verton-area neighbor, Ervin Ka ser, entered its second day to day. The state rested its case yesterday morning. Yesterday, B. Nealley Wood, Portland chemist, was permitted to testify over prosecution ob jections that in his experience as a chemist and corrosion ex pert the Winchester 30-30 rifle taken from the Pudding river May 8 had not been in the water since February. The state alleges the weapon was used in the Feb. 17 shoot ing. It was found by three boys and fished from the water. Another witness called by the defense was Mrs. Ethel Oveross, estranged wife of Casper A. Oveross, who had previously been called by the prosecution She testified that early on the night of Feb. 17, a car which she was positive did not belong to Oveross and with two men in it had followed the car in which she and Kaser were riding until they ditched it by pulling off onto a side road. Several witnesses were called by the defense to testify that Oveross was not seen around the Silverton area since April 18 or 17 when he told several rela tives he was going to Alaska to look for work. Sheriff Denver Young, who picked up Oveross in Alaska on May 28 after he had given him self up to territorial authorities, testified that Oveross told him he had arrived in Alaska about a month before May 26. Young said he had not checked Over oss' arrival time , with customs officials in Canada or Alaska. ' Defense attorneys then asked that the court be recessed while they attempted to subpoena the entry records designed to show that Oveross entered the terri tory openly and signed his own 'name. The defense claims he signed his own 'name after driv ing the Alcan highway on April 27. ISP- llgr i & San Pedro, Calif. U.R Coast Guardsmen were hesitant to doubt the veracity of a ra dioed report from a boatman that a flying saucer had zipped over his craft in the Santa Cats lina channel.. The report came from George 'Washington. . Vlaft ttT0 H BUY THE NEW G E AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer CEIEIAlOutCTIIC Water Heaters Harriman Among Demos Determined GOPVon'tSucceed By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.B The mighty Republican effort to break the Negro vote away from allegiance to the memory of FDR is begin ning to make some signifi cant political news. Stakes are big and both sides know it. Gov. Averell Harriman of LyU C. Wlkwa New York is among those Democrats who are determined the Republicans ' shall not succeed. Witness his ap pointment last week of a Negro to the state court Justice Harold A. Stevens be came the first member of his race to reach that high bench. President Eisenhower topped that notable first this week by adding a Negro to his official White House family. Everett Frederick Morrow of New Jersey was sworn Monday as an administrative officer in the President's executive office. That is the top drawer of White House service where no Negro has lodged before, not even in Roosevelt and Truman adminis trations, during both of which the equal rights issue was kept going at forced draft. Presidential Campaign Adviser Morrow came to the White House from the office of Secre tary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. He was an adviser in Mr. Eisenhower's 1952 presidential campaign and, doubtless, will be a widely circulated speaker in the campaign of 19S8. What Mor row will tell Negro voters next year will be about what he said Monday on taking the oath of of fice: "This singular occasion offers eloquent testimony to. the com plete sincerity and faith ox Presi dent Eisenhower's belief in the right of any loyal American in this land to rise as far as his ability, character and ambition will carry him." Counteroffensive Hampered . That s good campaign stuff. just as it -is. The Democratic counter-offensive to the Repub lican raid is hampered, of course, by those Southern partymen and women who resist the current trend toward racial equality. Mr. Eisenhower may be just as much of an equal rights man as, for ex ample, Adlai E. Stevenson. But the President wouldn't lose much by it in an election whereas Stevenson would in some areas. The ' Eisenhower administra tion is not making one spectacu lar appointment and stopping there. The office of register of the Treasury usually went to a Republican Negro between 1881 and 1913. That trend ended with the Democratic Wilson adminis tration and was not resumed un til September, 1953, when Mr. Eisenhower named a Negro to the post, Louis B. Toomer.. of Atlanta, Ga. Real and Earnest The play for the Negro vote is real and in earnest. Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon recently broke an engagement to address a Negro group in Atlantic City. He outlined a four point pro gram of objectives for Negroes: 1. Equality of employment op portunity. 2. Better housing for Negroes. 3. Removal of the last, small vestige of racial discrimination in the District of Columbia. 4. Completion of the school in tegration program . Teddy Lunched Educator The Negro has come into his own, politically. You must go oack more -than SO years to match the significance of Mor row's addition to the White House official family.' On Oct. 18, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt had for a lunch guest Booker T. Washington, the great Negro educator. Historian Mark Sullivan called it "the most talk ed of lunch eaten in the United States." The urgency of the inter-party contest for -the political affec tions of Negro voters is not dif ficult to understand. There are many of them. For example, the 1950 Negro population of Cali fornia was 462,000; Illinois, 645,- 000; Indiana, 174,000; Michigan 442,000; New Jersey 318,000: New York 918,000; Ohio 513,000 and Pennsylvania 638,000. FRIDAY ARRESTS CROCKETT Los Angeles (U.R) I'm Ser geant Friday," said the police officer to the motorist he pulled over to the curb. "And I'm Davy Crocket," said the driver. After "getting the facts," police Sgt. Lester Friday handed a ticket for running a red light to Davy W. Crockett. 20. of Los Quadruplets Born To Australia Woman . Bundaberg, Queensland, Aus tralia (U.R) Quadruplets two boys and two girls were born to the wife of a local farmer in this sugar-producing area early today. The two boys were born first to Mrs. Agnes Lucke, followed by the girls. The mother and children were reported doing very well. The boys weighed 5 pounds 11 ounces and 5 pounds 5V ounces, and the girls 3 pounds 5 ounces and 4 pounds - ounces. 9,300,000 Persons Working on US Farms Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department said today about 9,300,000 persons were at work on farms' during the week of June 19-25. Of this total, 6,800,000 were farm operators and unpaid mem bers of their families and 2,500, 000 were hired hands. The num ber of family workers was two per cent less than a year earlier, and the number of hired hands was six per cent less. Compared with a month ago, the number of family workers was, down two per cent, while the number of hired hands was up about 25 per cent, or about 500, 000 persons. Both changes were about normal for the season. Farm wage rates on July 1 averaged one per cent more than a year earlier for the country as a. whole. Monthly rates were up $3,' weekly rates about $1, daily rates 10 cents, and hourly rates j one cent. Korean Girls Banned From Army Clubs in Order by General Stevenson Released From Illinois Hospital Lake Forest, HI. (U.R) Ad lai E. Stevenson has been releas ed from Lake Forest Hospital after a four-day siege of bron chial pneumonia. Hospital officials said Steven son's condition was never seri ous. The 1952 Democratic presi dential candidate returned to his Libert yville, 111., home yester day and planned to stay there for a week or 10 days. WRONG GUESS . Warwick, R. I. (U.R) Thirty one high school students from Bradenton, Fla., looked forward especially to seeing some snow while visiting Rhode Island. The weather was fine when they arrived. But snow fell in Florida. Seoul, Korea (U.R) Hundreds of U. S. Army officers were un happy today over a three-star general's order to keep their Korean girl friends out of Army clubs. Thousands of enlisted men feared thev were next in line for a similar ban. The verbal order was handed down in a staff meeting several days ago by Lt. Gen. John H. Collier, the Army's top com mander in Korea. Collier told his officers they had until the end of the month to stop bringing their Korean girls into Army clubs. In fact. he discouraged officers, from be ing seen at all with Korean girls. Order Unpopular The order by Collier who slapped a similar ban on frater nization when he was U. S. com mander in Stuttgart, Germany was not very popular. . However, when an Army spokesman was asked about the ban, he replied that "It is simply the general's wish to eliminate an undesirable situation." Further, the spokesman said, Collier "is just trying to have the officers set an example." But Brig. Gen. .Mercer Wal ter, head of the U. S. Army's Korean Civil Assistance Com mand, said his officers could continue to bring their girls into KCAC clubs, where business is booming along. About the only officers in favor of Collier's ban were chaplains. "It doesn't look good," one said, "to see our top officers married men, -even colonels going around openly with these women." Enlisted Men Seen Next "Collier is absolutely right," another chaplain said. "After all, most of these women who come to the clubs are just out-and-out prostitutes." It was generally believed that as soon as the ban takes full NAME CHANGED Detroit U.R) Eleftherios Kavounidis, 34, got court per mission to change his name to Larry Andrews Monday when he explained that "even my wife can't spell my name." effect, CoUier will tell his -officers to start enforcing the same restriction on enlisted men. "The enlisted men cry so much about the differences in privileges," one major said, "that you couldn't very well tell them first to stop having girls." Air Defense Filter Center Dedication Due Bend (U.R) Dedication of the new air defense filter center will be held here Thursday, the Air Force announced today. Gen. R. W. Puryear, commander of the 25th Air Division will speak at the ceremonies. TONSORIAL THIEF Rochester, N.Y. (U.R) The thief who broke into the barber shop of Carl De Prima appar ently had but one thought in mind to be well-groomed. He stole only a scalp vibrator and a bottle of hair cream, value $15. Hillsboro Naval Station Bids Will Be Invited Seattle (U.R) Bids for the $12,000,000 Naval Reserve train ing station at Hillsboro, Ore., will be invited within six months, Rear Adm. A. M. Bled soe, commandant of the 13th Na val District, said here today. . The Navy, Admiral Bledsoe said, plans to acquire 800 acres for runway extension and build ings as the first step in its con struction plans. He said the dist rict decided to begin work on the training station after a pub lic hearing at Hillsboro last June. Baltimore From lt to II per cent of all the deaths in the world are caused by cancer, tho National foundation estimates. . wefouwfj life Commander Glen Jsaobsen. 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