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Charlei Bell (right), put on an act for hla benefit. (AP Wlrephoto)
Thousands To Attend Sunrise Services,
Throng Churches In Easter Celebration
By The Associated Preti
Christians throughout the United Stutra will celcbrato tomorrow their first peace time Eaatcr
since 1U41 in symbolic open-air and church ceremonies.
At the nnlluii'a cuiiltnl. 18 slalri are cxiiectcd to be represented at a progrom In the amphi
theater In Arlington Natlonnl
coln Heights, at Walter need
Worahippcra will gather on
Sergeant Gets
6-Month Jolt
LONDON, April 20 (fl) A
U. S. nriiiv court-martial today
convicted Staff Sgl. James M.
Jones of Muskogee, Ok In., on
three specification! churning
siinplo assuult on American
army prisoners at the, Lichfield
detention camp and sentenced
him to six mouth! at hard labor,
v lit' addition to tlio nix-month
llirm, Jones was ordered to for
feit $18 a month of his army
pay during the period of hii con
linrinent. The verdict acquitted Junes,
who was a guard lit Lichfield,
on five charges of simple assault
and assault with Intent to do
bodily harm.
The finding of tho fix-man
court was announced after two
and a-lialf hours' deliberation by
Its president, MuJ. Anthony Horn
of Loguitsport, I lid.
Tho court recommended clem
ency and announced that Jones,
22, would not be confined pend
ing review of his caso by Col.
Claude M. Thick', commanding
officer of the London area office.
Jones is Ihc second of the
Lichfield defendants to be tried.
Tho first man brought to trial,
Slit. Judson 11. Smith of Cumber
land, Ky., was convicted and sen
tenced to three years' Imprison
ment and dishonorable dis
charge. Smith's case also la
awaiting review.
Concluding testimony in the
second trial Involving cruelty
charges at Lichfield, Jones, 22,
acknowledged that he hit pris
oners with his fists and with
clubs and sold such practices by
the guards "happened every
day" on orders from superior
officer!.
France Faces
Grave Crisis
PARIS, April 20 (!) The
French cabinet faced a serious
crisis today following approval
by tho coimtltulciit assembly
last night of a new leftist-sponsored
constitution which would
establish a powerful one-chamber
legislature
The constitution for the fourth
republic was adopted by a vote
of 301) to 2'1, over tho objec
tion of rightist parties', Includ
ing tho strong popular republi
can movement (Mltl'l and tho
radical-socialists. It will bo sub
mitted to tho electorate at a
national referendum May 5 ,
Observers said tho assembly's
action was almost certain to
result In a bitter campaign over
France's organic law, and might
split tho coalition government at
a cabinet meeting next Wednes
day, when president Felix Goulil'
will ask his ministers to endorse
the constitution.
Truce Reached
In Dock Tie-Up
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April
20 (!') Gov. Ernest Gruelling
announced shortly beforo mid
night last night settlement of tho
ID-day-old longshore tie-up In
Alaska and promised that tho
freighter Taku would be unload'
cd hero today.
Gruening'g announcement fol
lowed a four-hour meeting be
tween the governor, waterfront
employers, longshore representa
tives and Federal Labor' Con
ciliator A. L. Peterson.
Formal announcement ot do
t(ails nf tho settlement ara ex
pected later today.
v.i , - .rT in i u
ccinclery, while other sunrise iicrvlce will be held at Fort Lin
hospital and on tho steps ot tno lieonc Washington Memorial.
seawall at Corpus Christl, Texas, and Seukers and choruses
win arrive oy ioai. .
The embankment of the huge
Denlson dam will be the scene
of services In that Texas city,
while Gen. Dwtght D. Eisen
hower will speak at Texas A.
and M. college at College Sta
tion. Fifteen miles northwest of
Lawton. Okla., in the Holy City
of tho Wichita mountains, 130,
000 persona are expected to
watch a sunrise pageant In
which a cast of more than 1000
will depict the life, cruciflxon,
and resurrection of Christ,
while another observance will
be held at the rim of the Grand
Canyon National park in Ari
zona at Bright Angel point.
About 30,000 persons are ex
pected to climb Mount David
son, San Francisco's highest
peak, to attend daybreak serv
ices. The Easter program at huge
Hollywood Bowl is expected to
attract 33,000 persons, while
73,000 are expected at Forest
Lawn, Calif. The 34th annual
sunrise service will be held at
Ml. Rubidoux, In Riverside,
Calif.
In Colorado Springs, the
sunrise observance will be held
among the tall, red stone spires
of the Garden of the Gods.
Three open air programs at
Forest park, Tower Grove park
and the Soldiers' Memorial, are
planned for St, Louis.
Dr. William Ward Ayer of
New York City's Calvary Bap
tist church will deliver a ser
mon to 30,000 to 60,000 persons
expected to gather ot Soldier's
field In Chicago.
Four Tennessee towna have
been Invited to services In
Nashville, to be sponsored by
the Knights Templar.
No Trace Found
Of Missing Boy
No trace had been found of 13-year-old
Laurence Davis, re
ported missing since Wednesday,
Juvenile officials said today and
ihi search for the boy and a man
he may he with has been extend
ed over Oregon and into Wash
ington. The boy, a Fremont Junior
hluh school student, left the resi
dence of his aunt and guardian,
Dorothy Smith, at 303 Pine, Wed.
nesday morning and has not
been seen since.
The older man, a Southern
Pacific roundhouse employe, left
his hotel Wednesday. Ho and
the boy were acquainted, Miss
Smith said, and the man had
given Laurence presents and
talked of adopting him.
Japanese Plot To Regain
Power Disclosed In Probe
By FRANK L. WHITE
TOKYO, April 20 (!) Many
former Japanese army officers
are forming groups, some on
government-subsidized farm s,
and secreting supplies in the ob
vious hope of one day regaining
power.
This I learned from reliable
sources Japanese, allied nation
als and American occupation of
ficials during a careful investi
gation of more than two months.
American officials, rather than
looking upon it with undue
alarm,, see In the situation a nat
urally expected one. In many
Instances, the Identities and lo
cations of the groups arc known.
They are being watched.
"To date there has been no
evidence of any subversion on
any extensive scale," said nn au
thoritative source at General
MneArlhtir'a headquarters.
Former Major Robert D.
izm
Jewish Death
Toll Mounts
WARSAW. April 20 Ml Dr.
Joseph Tenenbaum, president of
the American and World Fed
eration of Polish Jews, said to
day that 800 Jews had been
slain in Poland since the libera
tion and thul Jews were being
murdered and intimidated dally,
although the- Polish government
la doing everything In its powr
to give them protection.
The federation president
charged In an interview that a
two-week study of the Jewish
situation had convinced him
that the Jews were being killed
mostly by bandits financed
abroad by agents of the former
exiled government In London.
Tenenbaum, who conferred
with President Boleslaw Bicrrut
ond Premier Edward Oka
Morawski, said the president
agreed to suggestions that "an
International agreement is
necessary to open frontiers of
neighboring countries and to
permit Jews to seek new homes
in Palestine, America and else
where" and that the Issue
"should be placed on the Unit
ed Nations agenda."
Bus Confabs
Fizzle Out
PORTLAND. April 20 (P)
First negotiations in the two
week Oregon Motor Stages tie
up apparently fizzled out last
night, when the meeting ad
journed with no indication that
it would be resumed.
Union and company officials
held conferences vesterdov with
Mayors Earl L. McNutt of Eu
gene and I. M. Doughton of
Salem, State Utilities Commis
sioner George Flagg, Salem,
and other officials.
City transportation In Salem
and Eugene os well as intercity
routes is tied up in the wage
dispute, aimed at an increase
from $1.05 and $1.15 to $1.40
an hour for drivers, $1.20 to
$1.30 far mechanics.
TIGERS WIN
CLEVELAND, AdHI 20 (Pi
Hal Newhouser held Cleveland
to two singles today as the De
troit Tlners defeated the Indians,
7 io 0. In a local season opener
before 42,775 fans.
Kirki.of Houston, Tex., a public
safety officer since deactivated
and back in oivilian life In the
United States as an attorney,
gave the information and the
contacts which started the sur
vey. Much of the evidence cannot
be divulged now for obvious
reasons. But hero arc some of
the findings:
On so-called "cooperative
forms," Japanese army officers
are well equipped with vehicles,
maintain formality of rank, are
well financed and are on guard
for snooping neighbors.
One such farm near Tokyo is
under close allied surveillance.
North of Tokyo, a Japanese for
mer major and a large staff live
in a shrine near a former arsen
al and, through connivance with
police, have obtained ample sup
plies of gasoline for their auto
Chinese Reds
Forge Ahead
In Manchuria
By The Associated Press
Chinese communists announced today they would occupy the
northern Manchurian city of Harbin when the Russians withdraw
next Thursday "if a state of civil war still prevails" then.
The communist determination to follow up the success in
occupying Changchun, Manchuria's capital, was announced in
Chungking by party spokesman.
Possession of C
hangchun gave
Lewis Talks
Coal Strike
With Chief
WASHINGTON, April 20 (VP)
John L. Lewi! and Secretary of
Labor Schwcllenbach talked 13
minutes with President Truman
today on the soft coal strike but
the White House said the conver
sation had "no conclusive re
sult." The labor secretary told re
porters that a resumption of
joint conferences between the
union chief and the mine opera
tors could not be arranged be
fore Tuesday at the earliest.
"And that not definite,
cither," Schwellenbach added.
Schwellcnbach said he planned
a conference later In. the day
with Ezra Van Horn, chairman
of the joint operators negotiating
committee.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters
that Lewis had come to the
White House at the request of
Schwellcnbach, who arranged
the conference with the presi
dent. Picks Up Lewis
Schwcllenbach picked ud
Lewis in his car at the United
Mine Workers union office and
drove the United Mine Workers
boss to the White House for the
meeting, occasioned by the stale
mated negotiation to the 20-day
soft coal walkout.
Ross said the object of the
presidential visit was to "fully
apprise the president on the sit
uation from Mr, Lewis' point of
view.
"It was a friendly conversa
tion on both sides, but there was
no conclusive result."
Ross said there were no fur
ther plans for the president to
meet with either Lewis or the
operators before Mr. Truman
leaves tomorrow on his week's
cruise.
Car-Bus Crash
Kills Ex-Sailor
SALEM, April 20 JP) A re
cently discharged sailor. Lester
Eugene Marynee, Salem', was
miiea in west saiem early today
when the car in which he was
riding crashed into a parked
bus.
State police said the car was
traveling at high snecd. The
bus was empty. Two other occu
pants of the car, Ann Kennedy
of Detroit and Douglas Brown
oi balcm, were cut and bruised.
State police said they did not
know who was the driver of
the car.
In an accident in Salem, Clar
ence A. Hunt, 29, was injured
critically when he rode his bi
cycle into the side of a moving
Southern Pacific freight train.
Soaring Food Costs
Close Geisha Houses
TOKYO, April 20 (P) Soar
ing food costs and public criti
cism of lavish spending caused
25 geisha houses and five high
class restaurants to close today.
The proprietress of one of lie
largest geisha houses said she
was giving her girls "a holiday
during which they will devote
themselves to improving their
talents."
Cartoon Movies For
Children Launched
CHICAGO, April 20 (P)
Some Chicago theatres, spurred
by a bus driver who believes
children should have their own
movies rather than adult pic
tures, have begun Saturday
morning matinees consisting en
tirely of 15 cartoon shorts.
An estimated 40 to SO houses
are running the cartoons, some
every Saturday, other! once a
month.
the Chinese communist! a firm
grip on central Manchuria, and
a government spokesman ad
mitted that the situation there
was "very grave."
Reports reaching Peiping said
Chinese government officials in
Harbin had fled to government
held Mukden in South Man
churia by plane, fearing; cap
ture by communist troops ring
ing the city.
Seek American!
Meantime at Chungking, Gen
eral Marshall'! headquarter!
sought the removal of seven
Americans to leave Changchun,
whose fall to Chinese commun
ist forces after five days of
fighting was acknowledged by
the central government.
Marshall's headquarters said
a request had been made
through communist channels
for permission for the seven
Americana to leave Chanchun.
The group was comprised of
two army men and five news
correspondents, including one
woman,
(The Chungking, dispatch did
not make clear whether Mar
shall's action meant he had
word of .the safety of the Amer
icans. "
Portland Man
The seven Americans were
Maj. Robert Rigg of Chicago,
assistant military attache;
MSgt. Clayton Pond of Port
land, Ore., his pilot; Tom Mas
tcrson, Associated Press; Rey
nolds Packard, United Press;
Charlotte Ebencr, International
News service; George Welleiy
Chicago Daily News; and Henry
R. Licbcrman, New York Times.
' Simultaneously, an official
spokesman in Chungking -conceded
that the communists
could take Harbin without a
struggle after Russian troops
withdraw from that important
north Manchuria city next
Thursday. He said the govern
ment has no troops there. The
communists dominate north
Manchuria.
He also made the startling
acknowledgement that national
troops have not captured Szep
kingkai despite previous
claims.
Townsend Backs
New Deal Policy
Lamar Townsend, Klamath
Falls attorney and democratic
candidate for congress from Ore
gon! second district, told a
special meeting of the Eagles
lodge in Nyssa that if elected
to congress he would earnestly
strive to serve the people with
a view of their continued pros
rieritv and to broaden the social
gains they had obtained under
the late President Roosevelt.
Townsend is currently on a
speaking tour in eastern Oregon
and the Nyssa appearance was
his fifth address this weeK. ne
is travelling over the district
with A. C. Friescn, state presi
dent of the Eagles, and M. L,
Shepherd, state vice president.
Two other meetings, in Bend
and Burns, are scheduled be
fore Townsend completes this
tour of the district. He is unop
posed for the democratic nomina
tion in the May 17 primary and
will run against the incumbent.
Rep. Lowell Stockman, in the
November general election
Easter Observance
To Be Held In Japan
TOKYO, April 20 (Ameri
can and Japanese Christians will
Join in the singing of hymns at
sunrise services in Mciji Stadium
here tomorrow , as Japan ob
serves its first peaceful Easter
in nine years.
The stadium celebration Is
sponsored by the allied forces
and the Japan Christian associa
tion. Throughout the empire
other services Will be held.
Screen Siren Sets
Sights For Slicker
LOS ANGELES, April 20 (P)
Beauteous Hcdy Lamarr is more
dangerous than ever.'
The screen siren,' who lost
thousands of dollars worth of
Jewels and clothing to a burglar
two niahts aso. yesterday was
granted gun permit with her
husband, John Lodcr.
Easter 'Bunny7
This Australian kangaroo
seems a little confuted as he
playa the role of an Easter Bun
nr in Hollywood. The over-
sised "rabbit" was brought to
this country by Producer Wu
Utm - Cagney to appear-in a
movie. (AP Wirephoto)
Senator Sees
Hope For OPA
WASHINGTON, April 20 IJP)
Senator LaFollette (Prog.-Wis.)
today gave OPA a fighting
chance for its life, in the senate,
but only if the price agency
speedily corrects what he
termed its mistakes.
Pointing out that OPA has a
two-week breathing spell for
this purpose before the senate
takes up the legislation, La
Follette declared that the
agency's past tardiness in in
stituting reforms was responsi
ble for its present uncertain
plight.
The Wisconsin senator, who
said he wants to see OPA con
tinued with some "reasonable"
amendments, told a reporter he
is convinced that the house vote
ripping the lid off the agency's
controls bespoke pent up anger
at OPA slowness in adjusting
individual errors.
"When OPA was first set
up," he said, "it established what
was called a 'defense in depth.'
It pushed its first lines far out
ahead of the area where final
decisions can be made.
"As a result, when an in
justice in price control is called
to its attention, tne case nas to
crawl upward through a series
of divisions and it takes months
to reach the decision point.
That's one way to hold the
line, but I don't think it's the
right way."
What's A Joke Son, Joke,
That Is-Broadway Ponders
By JACK O BRIAN
NEW YORK, April 20 (IP)
The gentleman named C. C.
Richardson in Huron, S. D., who
Bequeathed an estimated $5,000
to anyone best defining the word
"joke," has managed to arouse
the greatest head-scratching be
wilderment among Broadway
comics in the history of that
street's addiction to the dignified
works of Joe Miller.
Intentionally or not, C. C. has
succeeded in sending Broadway
skidding along -on its collective
funnybone. I took up his search
for an explanation among some
of the comedians. Next time I'm
going to start looking for Judge
Crater and Staff Faithful. Might
be easier, that is.
I fell happily upon the deli
cate neck of Rags Ragland,
whose funnyman background in
cludes 52nd street night clubs
dedicated to the glories of the
amusing minstrel, more recent
movies with MGM voudeville,
and a good many years in bur
lesque. Rags would, naturally,
be able to tell me what is a joke.
"A Joke? Sure, that's easy,"
said Rags. "Ah-er-now let's see
well, you take someone with
baggy pants and asbig nose. No
Self-Ration
Of Edibles
Called For
WASHINGTON. AdHI 20 fP)
The United States opened an in
tensive new attack on the global
food crisis today, ordering a 25
per cent slash in domestic flour
consumption and calling for even
more vigorous self-rationing of
food in American homes.
The emergency, President Tru
man revealed, has become so
acute that this country's already
low wheat reserves are going to
be cut even further to furnish
famine relief.
Mr. Truman somberly told the
nation it confronted "the great
est threat of mass starvation in
the history of mankind."
Many Will Die
"Millions will surely die un
less we eat less," he said in a
plea to "the warm heart of
America" for greater voluntary
food conservation by the people.
The flour consumption cut was
a direct step toward helping the
country supply famished over
seas areas with a million tons
of wheat monthly the target
set by the president for the next
three months. The reduction or
der is effective at midnight to
morrow and will continue in
effect until June 30.
Agriculture department offi
cials estimate that the flour cut
will yield the equivalent of
25,000,000 bushels of wheat in
the period.
Mr. Truman summoned the
nation to redoubled famine relirf
efforts in a nationwide all-net
work radio broadcast last night.
He was joined on the program
by former President Herbert
Hoover, speaking from Egypt,
UNRRA Director General Fio
rello LaGuardia, and Secretary
oi Agriculture Anderson.
It was Anderson who an
nounced the flour reduction or
der as part of a six-point ad
ministration program to provide
more food for export.
Camp White
Clamor Hot
GRANTS PASS. ADril 20 (JP
The Camp White hospital clamor
continued at fever heat today as
local veterans and civic organi
zations received answers to tele
grams they have been sending to
the members of the congressional
body and high veterans officials.
Throughout southern Oregon
fuel has been fed into the fire to
keep this pot boiling, said Hugh
W. Gould, county service officer1,
who was visited by Medford rep
resentatives of veterans groups
in Jackson county.
The flare-up resulted from the
recent surprise announcement
from the navy that it would
close the hospital which it took
over from the army last year,
on May 1, and that veterans now
being treated there would be
transferred to another facility.
The situation is aggravated by
the failure of the veterans ad
ministration to indicate that it
will continue the hospital under
its own supervision.
Let's take a man walking along
a street. No, that's just a joke,
it won't tell what one'is. But "
Rags pondered, at length. Not,
however, successfully,
Bert Lahr sat in the cub room
of the Stork club and pondered
the question.
"Call me tomorrow at home
and I'll have something figured
out." Henny Youngman, cafe
comic, wrinkled his brow into a
road map and came up with
approximately nothing.
"I'll tell you 10,000 jokes, all
guaranteed, if you can sit that
long," said Henny. "But I'm
stuck as to why they're funny.
I guess it's just something you
set up and knock the props out
from under. That doesn't sound
so good, though, does it?"
No, it didn't.
The office dictionary lists these
under "joke":
1. Something said or done for
the purpose of exciting a laugh,
often at the expense of some par
ticular person or thing; especially
a witty or humorous remark or
paragraph.
2. A subject or object of merri
ment. 3. Something not in earnest or
real; sport.
That, son, It a Jokt. -
Ivan Leeper
Escapes Out
Of Solitary
Prisoner Makes Rope
From Bedding To
Scale Wall
SALEM, April 20 (AP)
Ivan Leeper, 22, who es
caped from solitary con
finement in the state peni
tentiary last night, was re
captured today in the
MacLeary district, about -eight
miles southwest of
here.
A desperate criminal from
Klamath county broke from
his solitary confinement cell
in the state prison at Salem
last night by picking the lock
of the cell and going over
the wall using a rope mode
from his bedding, Prison
Warden Alexander said at
Salem todoy.
The pmoner, Ivan Leeper,
22, was lentenced to serve 10
years for assault and rob
bery, armed with a dangerous
weapon, from Klamath coun
ty two years ago.
He pleaded guilty in circuit
court here to beating and rob
bing Lee M. Prouty, Klamath
Falls theatre projectionist, be
tween Klamath Falls and Bon
anza April 21, 1943. Leeper, a
ranch hand, had been given a
ride from Bonanza by Prouty
and on the way stuck a gun in
the theatre man's ribs, robbed
him of $7, forced him out of tho
car and drove away.
Leeper was picked up later
in Bly on a traffic charge and
was held for investigation when
he couldn't prove ownership of
the car.
Trouble-Maker
Since entering the prison on
April 26, 1943, Leeper has
spent much of his time in soli
tary for trouble-making.
Alexander said this morning
that he is a bad boy and a
habitual trouble maker. Ha
4 threatened many- times to stab;
and got in many other kinds oi
trouble, too."
The warden said that Leeper
picked the lock of his cell, took:
a bar off the top of the door,
and then went over the wall by
using a rope he had made, out
of hia bedding.
He was missed at breakfast
time this morning and it is not
known just when he escaped.
Leeper is the eighth man to
escape from the Oregon state
prison in the past month.
Klamath county law officials
had not been officially notified
of the prisoner's escape this
morning.
Pope Decries
Youth Morals
VATICAN CITY. April 20 (IP)
Pope Pius XII said today that
"divorce. Godless schools and
unbridled books and licentious
entertainment" were threats to
Christian morality.
The pontiff made the state
ment at a reception of 200 Ital
ian Catholic Action leaders, at
which he deplored that "much
youth is rotten and corrupt" and
expressed pity for "millions of
children exposed to famine.
He urged the leaders to "be
courageous, do not be taken by
fear or fright" in fighting against
Godless political theories.
He said Catholic action "is not
a political party," and added
that it was the urgent duty of
Catholic nations to defend the
church's doctrine and reconduct
to the church all those who have
left it.
"History teaches that people
who leave the church rarely re
turn to it in the same propor
tion," he said.
Balmy Weather
Seen For Easter
Portland women are invited
to bring their Easter bonnets
and come to Klamath Falls on
Sunday and leave their um
brellas at home.
Fair weather, warmer too, is
predicted for Klamath Falls for
Sunday, with a moderate north
westerly breeze to flutter the
veils in the Easter parade, while
clouds and showers are on tho
weather menu for Portland.
Sailor Drowns In
Willamette River
PORTLAND, April 20 W)
James S. Coughlin, 19-ycar-old
seaman first class, tumbled over
board from his ship to drown in.
the Willamette river early today.
A fellow -seaman, Vernon
Ronin, 20, was treated for shock.,
after he and another dived in ji
rescue attempt. f .
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