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Nortll Korou. II look llko alien
letting set to buck Iter new com
niunliil liMiiia there lor wlutl mlnlit
M showdown In the Far Knot.
nilll.K squat suddenly mi ol ir ot
" Uix frigid Inland" tlutl Im Juki Hi In
tide of ilia wiulh polr, mill her
president says hull going lo rsUb
llull a MILITARY BAMK Ulnrs.
UrltKln U liitr-restcd. No If Ar
cullua. Wo ve broil lllrtliiK around
III Hint neighborhood.
Why Ihe rxritrinoni?
Uranium, maybe.
rK VAI.KHA lor out Ihlt iiiornluil
Ha premier ol Eire inllil In'liiiul
lo iiiualol u.) Whut happened uml
hy aren't ycl dclliilicly known,
olhrr Until Unit t)ie othrr Iillow
rjl too iimny voter.. A dispatch
liom Dublin says: "Principal op
jualllon seemed lo grow Iroin resent
turnl At ilr Valcia'a lonu In in in
nllltrp." i He hn been on Ihr Job
Id years
TEXAS aallouollirrs, luil'ng new
1 lyx ol cuuliuuciil much loo
technical lo br discussed hrir. take
lonu look al the pliinn Mats nuil
i-oitio lo Ihe conclusion Uml II
hiiihly unlikely hie exists there.
1 Hal put it bud crimp hi our old
tilrud, Uio Mnn from Mars
THE columiMllty markets me kill!
queasy itruuiid the motuitch, uud
New Yoik turekretieri rrort Uml
In upltc ol prlca mlucltum cm
louier dim I Mem lo bo uiobblnii
them lo curry lull iiwuy. iMuybc,
with prue alliiplim uf lutr, Wople
m brginnlim to KAT UUT ol their
lwkrr liwlrud ol kecpinit thrm
critiniurd to the lid.)
MOB I' of tu Hud Uiroe venUi in
Urenilnii even HKiilIlciinl. But
don'l mention them In Wnruiuitoit
thl nuiriiliiK nd exiiei I to net rle
out of nnjlxxly.
BIO newi U in the md Uicie.
In iecll election In llll
vrnit f III one ol New York Clly
etinvrrMloiiitl duirlcu, the cundl
dnlo ot Ihr Amerlcmi Utbor puny,
runnmil WITH IltNliY WAL
LACES BACKING AND BLriia
1NU, whu by Ulld.lldc.
Thr' nrwi Mid newi, but Uml i
HOT NKWH in Wa.hliml.nl. U. C.
Wlml It meuiu U Uml 1'rcoldeiil
'l'runmn and Um Demotrnllc parly
r Utkunt new look nt their hole
card.
AYBK you don't, keep up uu New
ball pollllca. In Uml event, Ihla will
llivr you a hint:
The Dally Worker. Uie official
communui newnpuper, rut lit the
victory under nunc headlines on Uie
front page, "lit a lundalldc." II
commrnta gleefully.
I'M. the Whni-!-lt of American
Jourimllim and Uie durllin of the
pmki, . aomcwhal more ponder
ously, of Uie American Labor parly
aweep:
"II la not only a Ireitiendoua booal
for Uie Wallace movement but con
alllulra a urnve Uncut lo Democratic
hopeit of currying pivotal New York
In next fnlla l're.ndentlul election.''
Its 11)4. KDIl curried New York
' alitie over Dewey by only 300.000
votei with nrurly oou.ooo American
Ijilxir party mrnibrra voting for him.
hut givea an Idea ot what Truman
is up agulml III the light of what has
hupencd.l
IIP lo the hour Una l written, no
Rrpubllciin bigwig has even
lrrprd for publlciillon. Presumably
they're, all loo busy putting euch
olhrr on Uie buck.
Fourth Set Of
Twins Born
WAKKHAM. Mum., Feb. IB it'i
,Vrs. Joseiili A. Lopes, Sfl-yenr-old
vfiie of a crunberry bog worker, has
l Riven birth to her fourth et of
JV twins In five years.
The latest a girl weighing sevrn
pounds uud a boy of six pounds, five
ounces were born two duys ago nt
Tobey hoiltiil. Mother and bublra
were reported doing well..
Five of the six othrr twins are
Mill living JoM-ph and Murlcnc, 3;
Dliino and Jnnu, 4; and Wnunllu, 6.
Olio twin Anlln-dlrd when she
wna a your old.
The Lopes hnvn two olhrr chil
dren JeniincUc, Si and Phyllis, 7.'
Scientists Argue Question Of Men On
Mars As Plant Life Evidence Uncovered
By DAVi: CHKAVKNH
Mr DONALD OH.HKHVATORY,
FOKT DAVIS, Tex., Feb. 18 (!
The green spots on Mnrs may be
some lower form of plant life.
Hut they arc not plants like the
earlhs trees and grass.
Aslioiiomri'H al McDonald ob
servatory lust night fulled lo glvo a
flat answer lo tho Intriguing ques
tion of whether there Is life nil Mnrs
but Dr. tinrard P. Kulpcr, dlreclor
of Ihe observatory, listed several
known (actors for and against I ho
possibility.
For:
1. There Is some wulcr.
U. The temperatures are not too
cold.
AgalnsL:
So fur, It appears the deadly ill Ira
violet rays of the sun would kill any
form of plant growth,
He snld ho hoped hy Mulch 1 lie
(nil Id be more deflnllo on some
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Eamon De Valera Defeated
By Five Votes In Bid For
Reelection As Eire Head
Mill, IN. Klrr. Ih. IS hV
I. .im on dr Vlrm w drfritlrd
i
h '
llvr voIpb tmlmv tor rrrlrrlUm ft
prlnir mlnUlrr of Klrr.
Ill 10-ypnr rulr ot Ihr rrputillc
i brnkrn. tlin -lull (parllamrnt) flrrl-
rrl illvrr-hnlrrd John . 'olrllo
i of the fin .rl (unltrd Irith)
i party m hi nrw prlmr mlnUtrr.
j lp Vnlcm, 05-ymr-oUI hrro n
lirlnnd's lon flKhl fnr Indr
I iwndrnrr from Hrliuln. had rrfiinrd
to hrud a conlltlnn Rovcrnincnt,
Grains Lead
Price Slide
NKW YOHK. b. Id tA t.rln
Ird price tilde Uit brrame gen
rral In todny'i ronimtMllly markrU.
Ilrkrri reported Tery limited de
mand In the I'hlrago piU. Wheal
fell mm murh aa SS rent a buhrl.
OniM nrre S lo f-i renta loner. Corn
waa to l'i centa below yetrr
day 'a rluae.
A burst of wiling broke out mid
way through the trading aeiuMou.
ICurllrr corn rallied
but could not
hold lu gains.
The break came on the heels of an
agriculture, drparimeul statement
Uml the number of livestock on
farms January 1 was Uie lowest
line ID JO. Borne grain analysis
believed Uiere naturally would be
less demand for teed grains.
Hccrrtnry of Agriculture Andurson
reiterated a forecast In Washington
of an Improved world (rain situs.
Uon.
C orn Ktroni
While grains on Uie future mar
kets were down, traders said cash
corn was strong with buyers pay
ing as much as 11 cents a bushel
over some futures prices.
CsllJe prices were higher at Chi
cago. Bheep were down. Hogs
ranged steady lo about li cents a
hundred pounds below yesterday.
Blocks were uneven on Uie New
York exchange. Changes were nar
row and Uie market was quirt.
Cocoa and hides followed the
downward trend In Uie grains.
Wholrsule butler prices, which
rose as much as 4 cents a pound
yesterday, dropped 1 to 3 tenia a
pound today at Nrw York.
Htorckccpcra were complaining
Uiat despite retail price reductions
business dropped off more than Is
normal for Uie Lenten season.
Chinese Aid
Fund Asked
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 iT.
President Truman asked congress i
for $70.0O0.0O0 today for aid to t
China.
In a special message to the Irgis- I
lulors, Mr. Truman said that the aid
would be conditioned on China's
taking adequate measures to achieve
"economic stability and recovery."
The help would begin when con
gress voted It and would continue
until June 30, 1040 roughly a one
year program.
Mr. Truman said the economic
situation In China now Is getting
wnrso In spite of the aid the United
Slates has given the Chinese in the
past.
The Chinese government and pro
pic, he snld, "aro still laboring under
the double and Inter-related burden
of civil war and a rapidly deteriorat
ing economy,"
phaaca of the Immediate study
which started In October and which
Is now one-half complete.
The observations have been aided
LA Ponders On
Bar Lighting
LOS ANGF.LES, Feb. 18 wPi The
clly council has a member who at
38 suys he never has tasted liquor,
and It hns given him authority to
ninko the rounds of Ihe Los Angeles
bin s lo find out If they're well
lighted.
Councilman Kenneth lliilin will
be accompanied by tho clly health
officer, Dr. George M. Uhl and a
police officer carrying a light meter.
They'll report bark to the council
on whether It should adopt an
ordinance requiring bars to Install
brighter lights.
clr p-pltc pleadings by his supporters
among the Indetiendcnts.
The New York-born Irish Iradrr
mustered only four voUs outside
those of tils own flanna fall (sol
diers of destiny) party.
Costello, tiH. a Dublin lawyer, was
nominated for prime minister and
was siipimrlrd by five opiwsition
parties.
The vole for Co.stello was 75 lo
Sft
Six Voles Khorl
Planus fall Is six votes shorl of
the necessary 74-seal dull (parlia
ment majority, having lol lis
margin In the February 4 general
elections. De Valera hud expected
to recoup by getting a half dozen
national labor party and Inde
pendent votes.
But the gatitit. New York -born
pi line minister's hope were dashed
last night when five national labor
purty deputies suddenly switched 'o
Uie anU-De Vnirra coalition.
Principal opposition seemed lo grow
ftum resentment at he Valcra's
long term In office. He Valera up-
posed a coalition government In his
campaign speeches. He said then
he would resign If his psrtv did nnt
get a majority.
Political ob:ervcra were dubious
to how long the conservative fine
Cinel party would work In harness
with the sorlailst-lnrllnrd Inborltes
and republicans. Both of these
fr.tor drastic monetary reforms.
The Irish Press, government
newspaper, '-ailed the anil - De
Valera coalition "one ol the most
grotesque iMisitlnns ever reached In
pcrty politics."
Long lis 1 1 lr . .
New York-born and only half
Irish his father was a Spanish
st Idler De Valera battled through
many of his 08 years for Irish Inde
pendence from Britain.
He carried a rifle In the bloodv
F.utcr rebellion of 1016 and was the
last of Uie rebels to give up. Step
ping from his barricade, he told the
Brit Ish:
"I am De Valera. Shoot me. but
spare my men."
De Valera was condemned to
death, bul a question whether he
was an American citizen saved him
from the firing squad. A year later
a general amnesty brought his rc
lecse from a sentence of life Im
prisonment. He was Jailed many
times In the Irish cause.
His Intense nationalism was typi
fied by his decision to change his
ChrlsUan name. Edward, to Its
Onellc equivalent. Kamon. He ln-
I lined that Gaelic, the ancient
i langage of Ir-land. supplant Eng
lish In the Emerald Isle.
"The Dev." as the Irish know
him, kept Ills country out of World
' War II and protested when U. S.
soldiers landed 111 neighboring
'Ulster (Northern Ireland i, which
' was at war with the axis.
Canada Doubles
US Log Shipment
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (TV-The
Canadian government has Increased
Its shipments of logs to the Unltrd
States from 60.000.0(19 board feet to
100.000.000 board feet a year. Senator
Cain (R.-Wash.) snld today.
He told a reporter the slate de
partment Informed him It was noti
fied by Canada of Uie change. The
order Is retroactive to last Janu
ary 1.
The senator said 80 per cent of the
logs, all of which come from gov
ernment lnnds, arc pulp logs. Most
of them will be sent to Washington
state, he said,
by use of a new Infra-red spectro
meter which was not available until
the end of the war.
The conclusion thai the green
spots are neither seed plants nor
ferns ihe two highest forms of
plant life was reached by compar
ing Infra-red photographs of such
curl It plants with those of Ihe
vordnnt areas of Mara. Dr. Kulpcr
explained.
The discovery made this week at
McDonald that there Is prncllenlly
ho sulphur dioxide In Ihe annus
phero of Mars was listed as a factor
against tho possibility of plant life.
Dr. Kulpcr explained that Ihe
deadly ultra violet rnya of the sun
aro filtered out on the earth by
ozone. But Mars has no ozone, sul
p'..ur dioxide could act as a similar
filter but Mars has none.
"It would have been nice If we
had found It but we didn't," he said.
Mansfeldt Paroled
; . re
.K t '" -.'"J, asl HI
U r,sVa'Mrt -j I
' l Ul 1J iJt law ?,T 1
. -.i rxw mr t.v u I
;v,- urn in
Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt. 47, walks out of Tehachlpl (Calif.)
wonirn's prison on parole after serving 2ft months and 10 days for the
slaying of Vada Martin. Kan Francisco nurse whom she suspected of
Intimacies with her husband, the late Dr. John Mansfeldt. At rear is
! hrr attorney,
I slaving.
Andrew Eyman. Her
I
Anderson Hunts For Answer
To Grain Market Problem
WASHINGTON, Feb. II ( the deparirtdtit must start buying
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson Is
hunting an answer
market puzzler:
to this grain
When should he start buying
wheat again for shipment abroad? ;
His department got out of the i
market quickly week before last
when prices started tumbling. An-
derson Instructed government buy- j
era to spurn all offers until prices !
"stabilized."
They haven't done that yet. And
NY Election
In The Press
NEW YORK. Feb. 18 t71 The
victory of Leo Isacson. American
labor party candidate who wis
backed by Henry A. Walla'-- ' t
siieclal Bronx congressional elec
tion, was hailed in huge headlines
today by the Dally Worker, official
communist organ.
"Isacson wins by landslide." said
the Dally Worker In a large front
page headline.
Other New York newspapers said
these things about yesterday's elec
tion In their news stories:
New York Times "An upset with
definite naUonal political connota
tions." PM "Not only a tremendous
boost for the Wallace movement
but constituting a grave threat .o
democratic hopes of carrying plv
otnl New York state In next fall's
presidential election."
Dally News Isacson "pushed over
the applecart with a breath-taking
majority."
Dally Mirror "All overwhelming
victory."
Rent Free House
Offered By City
The city Is looking for a man, with
wife, to occupy a house, rent free.
In this day of housing shortages,
It looks like a bargain.
The line of applicants forms in
front of the desk of Police Chief
Orvllle Hamilton at the city hall.
There Is one catch to tho offer,
though. The occupant of the house
located on the Cumberland road
must also serve as dog pound opera
tor. He gets paid $235 a month for
that.
So If you're looking for a place to
live and don't mind going lo the
dogs, here's your chance.
Late Spud Bulletin
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 lAP
USDA) Potatoes: 16 broken, 17
unbroken cars on track: arrivals,
California 3, Idaho 4. Nevada 1,
Oregon 4, Florida 2, Minnesota 1;
innrkel about steady; Klamath Rus
sets, No. 1-A, $5 50: No. 2-A, $4.35:
U. 8. No. 1 six-ounce minimum,
$6.65.
LOS ANGELES, Fell. 18 (,!
i USDAi Potatoes: 31 broken, 30
unbroken cars on track; arrivals:
Nevada 1, California 4, Oregon 1,
Idaho 7. Utah 1, by truck B; carlot
sales, Idaho Russets, No. 1-A medi
um, mostly $9.25; Oregon White
Rose, unwashed, No. I, $5.50.
'.. I '
VISITOR
in,'
4 fKT" P.
hutband killed himself after the
I again soon. It needs at least 7o,
000,000 more bushels by June 30 to
meet the government's minimum
export goal of 450.000.000 bushels
Uiia crop year. President Truman
would like to ship 500.000,000 bush
els. What Is bothering Anderson is the
possibility that whatever he does
will cause a holler.
Usually, when the government
buys, prices go up. When it drops
out, they go down.
When prices go dow n, wheat grow
ers and other grain owners com
plain. When they go up, housewives
don't like It. because they know it
will mean higher prices.
Senator Taft of Ohio, a candidate
for the republican presidential nom
inaUon, has said Anderson wants to
keep prices high. The senator says
the democrats then could argue that
I the republican congress failed to
! grant the adminlstraUon power to
: control prices.
I On the other hand, Chairman
i Hope (R.-Kan.) of the house agri
culture committee, has said the de
partment should have bought wheat
during Uie market break to halt the
price drops.
Anderson denied Tail's claim. He
said he wished the two republican
lawmakers would get together.
The secretary's decision would
have been an easy one if the wheat
market had kept falling the limit
for several more days.
That would have pushed prices
down to the point at which the gov
ernment Is required by law to sup
port Uiem. That point is S2.08 a
bushel at Chicago and $2.03 at Kan
sas City.
But prices started fluctuating be
fore they dropped to the support
level.
Greyhound To
Take Over Run
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 (PI
Pacific Greyhound Bus company
will take over the Oregon-California
Nevada stage service between
Klamath Falls and Reno on Feb
ruary 24, Greyhound snld todny.
For the next 30 days, while new
schedules and tariffs are being pre
pared and filed, service on the line
will continue as at present.
New Chevrolet
Plant Opens
VAN NUYS. Calif., Feb. 18 oP
The nation's newest automobile fac
tory, a Chevrolet assembly plant
north ot the Van Nuys business dis
trict opened Its doors to 1500 work
ers today.
When production hits Its peak a
car or truck will come off Uio as
sembly line every 1.2 minutes, of
ficials say.
The plant coicrs a million square
feet, comprises eight buildings.
A Uirce-day "open house" for pub
lic Inspection was arranged, begin
ning tomorrow.
7 ; Ai . A
Four More
In Line For
County Job
Dale Mattoon, a republican
and
deputy sheriff for 17 years.
this
morning became the eighth candi
date for sheriff and there Is every
indication that at least four more
hata will be tossed into the already
crowded ring before the week Is out.
This development In the multiple-
candidate sheriff handicap was
coupled with a legislative develop
ment candidacy of Tom Bustln to
highlight the day's local political
news.
Mattoon was the seventh repub
lican to file. Thus far only one
democrat has announced for that
party's nomination. Sid Herbert, but
last night's democratic central com
mittee meeting produced several
other possibilities.
- More on List
Among them are Mike Williams,
R. A. (Smiley) LaLonde, Vic Douglas
and Willis Pankey. Already the race
has developed an unprecedented
number of candidates. Other re
publicans who are getting mention
as likely entrants are sheriff's depu
Ues Jack Franey and Marlon Barnes.
Dale Mattoon. the latest candi
date, was six years civil deputy and
11 years criminal deputy under
Sheriff Lloyd Low before he re
signed last year to become co-owner
and operator of the Red Ball Stage
line. He is 48 years old and eame
here some 20 years ago from Drain,
Ore. He Is a member ot the Elks
lodge. Footprinters, Sheriffs Posse.
Another development today was
Uie announcement of Bustln, demo
crat, that he intends to be a can
didate for nomination to the house
of representatives. "Buatlu is the
second democrat to eye the legisla
ture. Uie first being Henry Semon.
incumbent. Two republicans, Ed
Ostendorf and Carl SteinseUer, have
announced.
Since Klamath county has two
seats In the legislature, there Is stilt
no contest In the primary election.
I Printer
BusUn is a printer for The Herald
and News, an ex-serviceman and
member of several fraternal organi
zations. He was an unsuccessful
candidate for the legislature four
years ago and for city councilman
two years ago.
Also on the legislative scene Is a
report that pressure is being put
on E. . Geary, prominent rancher,
to enter the race for representative
on the republican ticket. Geary has
never been in polities but Is a mem
ber of the state board of agriculture
and is prominent In farm and civic
affairs.
There has been coniderable specu
lation that Mrs. Rose Poole, present
republican legislator, may decide to
seek reelection, but it is believed
she will not oppose Geary ii he
enters. Geary has also been sug
gested as a possible candidate for
congress.
Members of the county democratic
central committee last night were
addressed by Byron Carney, state
central committee chairman, who Is
frequently mentioned as a party
nominee for governor. However,
Carney is believed to have decided
against running.
mmni iiaas uni'm ii a u .i i jmmimumnm ".wiusam.j m. a tjummnmmmvmmf tr-x'tjrtimmf
t , '4 of who wwyjiEv .
v;- XW??00
Three Klwanls elub officials are shown arranging a display at the U. S. National bank this morning,
publicising the club's project for raising money for the Ktwanla recreation park hi Mills addition. The
elub will place gumball vending machines In scores of local business places and hopes to get from $100
to $2000 annually for the park from this source. Left to right: John. Holsgang and Mike lloaaar, chair
men of gumball project, and Ted Reeves, president of the club.
a t
r . t
Kmon De Valera, who haa head
ed the government of Eire iince
1932, waa defeated today In bis bid
for reelection.
New Masses
Worker Held
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 W The
justice department today an
nounced the arrest for deportation
of Beatrice Johnson, described
promotion manager for the New
Masses, New York weekly publica
tion.
The department said Mrs. John.
son had long been active in the
communist party in this country,
and that she lacked citizenship.
8he was taken Into custody under
the Immigration laws providing for
the exclusion of aliens who belong
to groups advocating the violent
overthrow of the United States gov
ernment.
The arrest was made by immigra
tion officers and FBI agents in New
York Cltv about Ii.hl
Mrs. Johnson is one of a score of
alleged alien communists who have
been seized recently for deportation.
The department two days rjjo
took into custodv Ferdinand Chris-
tafer Smith, native of Jamaica, and
national secretary of the National
Maritime union.
The department said that Mrs.
Johnson is 45 years old, a native of
Poland and has a daughter, Jose
phine, who was bora in Chicago it)
July, 1943.
Search Off
ForNavyMen
ABOARD THE U. S. AIRCRAFT
CARRIER MIDWAY, off Hyeres
Roads, France, Feb. 18 UPt Search
for eight men missing from the U. S.
aircraft carrier Midway was aban
doned today because of snow, rain
and rough seas.
The men are believed to have lost
their lives when their shore-to-ship
launch was swamped 2500 yards off
shore Monday night No bodies have
been recovered. Instructions were
given to the French admiralty as to
disposition of any found.
Prayers for the men one officer,
six seamen and one marine were
said over the ship's loudspeaker. A
duty guard rendered honors.
The men were part of the big
carrier's 3500 - man complement.
They were returning from a farewell
party given at the small island of
Hyeres when the accident occurred.
Fifty-three other men of the Mid
way were rescued from the water off
the French Riviera.
SMART KIDS
FOREST GROVE, Ore., Feb. 18 UP)
Some Pacific university professors
talk too fast but students dont care
they have a wire recorder.
Started by six ex-GI students who
pooled their money to buy the re
corder, evening play-back classes are
held w'tti a charge of 50 cents ad
missic n.
Kiwanis Club Sponsors Park
Leaders
Plan For
Party Unity
WASHINGTON, reb. 18 lr)
Henry A. Wallace's successful raid
oi a democratic stronghold In New
York made grim news for party
leaders In the capital today.
Few of them were pretending to
laugh off the third party candidal
for president iny more.
To some Wallace has begun to
look like Ihe difference between
winning and losing New York's 47
electoral votes next November.
The White House had no com
ment. Press Secretary Charles Roai
was asked If President Truman
had "taken note" of the returns and
he replied, no. He added, however,
that the president read the morn
ing paper as usual.
Major Speech
Ross said Mr. Truman's speech
tomorrow night before the Jeffer
son -Jackson Day dinner at the
Mayflower hotel will be a "major
speech." Even those who discounted
Wallace's showing as a vote-puller
in yesterday's special congressional
election in the Bronx agreed on one
thing:
The situation calls for an all-oat
attempt to pall warring democratic
factions together, pins a supreme)
effort to get out the party vote In
the presidential election.
If the news from New York
means that Wallace Is going to get
a big piece of the American labor
party vote it is enough to give any
gcci democrat the chills.
In 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt
carried New York state over Got.
Thomas E. Dewey by only 300,000
odd votes with nearly 500,000 ALP
members voting for him. What If
most of these go to Wallace In 1948?
Rep. Klrwan of Ohio, chairman of
the democratic congressional cam
paign committee, admitted that the)
showing of Isacson was "surpris
ing." Another party leader here, who
asked not to be quoted by name,
said the democrats might as well
admit that Wallace can hurt them
In key states this fall,
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Slayer Gets r
10-Year Term
James Elza Wyatt, 31, was sen
tenced to a term of 10 years in the
Oregon state prison late yesterday
afternoon on his plea of guilty to
manslaughter.
Wyatt had been indicted for sec
ond degree murder In the death by
gunshot wound of Robert Theodora
Melaas, 46-year-old logger, during a
railroad jungle wine party January
23. But he offered to plead guilty
to manslaughter and District Attor
ney Clarence Humble agreed to tho
reduction.
The man probably will be deliv
ered to the penitentiary in Salem
this week.
Also up for sentence yesterday was
Robert Edward Kline, 24, who plead
ed guilty to a charge of failure to
support his wife and three children,
Kline was given two years proba
tion and a Job was found for him.
District Attorney Humble said
that cases of this type are becom
ing more common and that non
support Is a felony. A prison sen
tence could go with conviction.
Egan Named To
Housing Post
WASHINGTON. . Feb. 18 UP)
President Truman today nominated
John Taylor Egan of New York to
be public housing commissioner suc
ceeding DIUon S. Myer, resigned. .
Egan has been acting commis
sioner since December 22. He has
served about ten years with federal
housing agencies.
He is 57 years old and a New York
architect. '
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