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Alaska Housing Fraud, Deception Charged in Suit Portland -(CPD- Two Oregon , business firms and three other defendants are being sued by the federal government for more than $6,000,000. The suit charges fraud and decep tion in construction of Aleu tian Homes, a housing project near Kodiak, Alaska. Defendants are Ray Wood bury, owner of the Columbia Supply Co., Portland,' and president of Aleutians Homes Inc., an Oregon corporation which is also a defendant; Alex B. Carlton of the Carlton Lumber Co., The Kodiak Con struction Co., and Donald M. Lehman, an employe of Aleu tian Homes. The complaint asks double the money allegedly paid by the federal housing and home financing agency. The amount was provided as interim fi nancing in several install ments for the project in 1953. The Kodiak Construction Co. was general contractor for the work, which was com pleted but is in the hands of a receiver. A foreclosure suit is pending by the federal gov ernment in Alaska. The defendants are accused of claiming that the Carlton Lumber Co. was supplying pre-fabricated homes for ship ment to, and erection in, Alaska. The complaint states, however, that only the shells were provided. Woodbury has also sued the government for $800,000 and ImmLmSL. -Mam - -tM IN INDEPENDENCE Members of the Ore gon Centennial commission hear Former President Harry Truman read a letter from the Jackson County Democratic committee inviting him to Medford. They are in the Truman Memorial library near Independ ence, Mo. From left, are Thomas Vaughan, Truman, Mrs. Lee Baumhover, Mrs. Monroe Sweetland, and Medford Mayor John Sni der, who presented Mr. Truman with a check for $100 for the library. -(Kirk Braun photo) TIME FOR LOYALTY New York - (LTD - Loyalty begins at home in this city. President Eisenhower pro claimed May 1 as National Loyalty Day. New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller proclaim ed May 2 as State Loyalty Day. But Mayor Wagner pro claimed yesterday as City Loyalty Day. INDUSTRIALIST DIES New York-&?B- Lester Mar tin, 53, industrialist, died Fri day. Martin was president and board chairman of Windsor Industries and also headed the Mojud Co., Inc., lingerie and hosiery makers, and Bates Manufacturing Co.; woolens producers. Ron Hale Named to Committee Post Ron A. Hale was elected president of the Jackson County Oil Information com mittee at a recent meeting. He succeeds Howard Lage. The committee is affiliated with the American Petroleum Institute. It is composed of local oil men whose objective is to keep the public informed on- progress of the petroleum industry. Other officers elected are Jim Firth, vice chairman of school education; Lage, vice chairman of special events; S. B. Mullins, vice chairman of vice chairman for press and radio. ' . Firth was named chairman of a committee to distribute visual aid training materials speeches; and R. S. Weaver, for various schools in the county, and another commit tee was appointed to assist the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in promoting dis tribution of tourist informa- Mfdford55Tribune 3 SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1959 tion during Oregon's Cente nial year. EDITOR DIES Birmingham.- Ala. - (UPD -Naylor Stone, 62, sports editor of the Birmingham Post-Herald for 19 years, died at his home Friday after a long illness. the government has filed a $400,000 counter suit against him. ROBBERY FOILED New York - (CPD - Police ar rested a former Earl Carroll Vanities showgirl Friday for attempting to hold up a bank with a threatening note. They identified her as Emilie No lan, 49, also known as Ritzee Raye, whose record showed narcotics arrests going back to 1928. VIOLINIST DIES New York - (UPD - David Mannes, 93, violinist, conduc tor and co-founder of the Man nes College of Music, died Fri day after a brief illness. 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