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PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS trftttitTff- U3 THURSDAY. MAY 7, 195! it if-Y American Legion Feted On Fortieth Birthday ST. LOUIS (AP) i The Amen-, spread the word that a meeling can Legion, its seed planted ii-1 would be held March IS, WW in France in the twilight of the First Paris. World War. is celebrating its 40th Some 1.000 officers and enlisted anniversary. men Hocked to Paris to a caucus, 'DENNIS THEiMENACE" Praised for service to veterans in the community, the Legion also has been criticized on charges ol ultra nationalism, governmental meddling and too much conven tion horseplay. But ils critics cannot deny the influence and power of the Legion with its 2.814.000 members. The U.S. Army high command provided the spur for the birth of the Legion. t After Germany had been defeat ed, discontent arose in the Amen can Expeditionary Force. The war was over and the doughboys want ed to go home. The Army high command, seek ing to rub out this- discontent. called 20 National Guard and He serve officers to a Paris meeting aimed at finding ways to end the soldiers' grumbling. There , was talk and some recommendations But some officers were thinking Inrther ahead. One was Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of the 26th President. Roosevelt had been thinking of a veterans' organiza tion long before the high com mand moved to still the foot sol diers' complaints. With Roosevelt the prime force, the 20 men formed a unit and 1 ( . MM I eammm4 i Ma n m HiiiNfy i l t'sADoublt Bmellul Of . High-Wide And KHUN - BOB RHONDA IIOFE-FLEnil.Gi ALIAS JESSE JAMES co-starrlnij WENDELL COREY . WKtyDfltlXE OKNS :4S March 15 17, and the Legion was on its way. In the United States, there fol lowed an intensive campaign to acquaint velerans with the pro iroscd organization. In St. Louis on May 6, 1U19 the advance com mittee of each state made plans lor a general caucus. On the afternoon of May 8th Roosevelt called the caucus to order. Immediately, there was a slam pede to elect him permanent chairman, against his wishes. He promptly resigned. Roosevelt was said to have felt !hat the Legion would be hurt by having a person with such a well known name as his at its helm Finally elected chairman was Henry D. Lindsley of Texas. I he Legion was chartered by Act of Congress and the charter convention was held in Minnea polis Nov. 10-12, 1919. i n is Saturday Legionnaires will return to downtown St. Louis to a plaque on a utility company wall formerly the site of a theater where the Legion was born and hold rededication ceremonies. Star To Shed Actor Mate SANTA MONICA, Calif. (API- Uncertainty over the fate of the three-year marriage of Anita Ek herg and British Actor Anthony Mccl has ended with her suing tor divorce. The Swedish actress charged him with extreme cruelty in her complaint, filed Wednesday. Miss Ekberg, 27, and Steel, 39, were married in Florence, Italy, in 1956, Thev have been anart since .Ian IS and she has been making films in Italy. When she returned to the United States recently she disclosed they were separated but she said she hartn t decided whether she would seek a divorce. The buxom blonde and Slccl held a conference last week to determine if there was any way of reconciling their differences. -Superior Court was asked to ap prove a property settlement, de tails of which were not disclosed. 'ACTRESS RECOVERING LAS VEGAS. Nev. (API-Act ress Debra Paget is recovering from what was described as lung congestion caused by exhaustion. -She Collapsed after a strenuous dance1 osutine at -the Flamingo holeK i uesday night.- h A spokesman said' she will be released from the hospital in a day or two but It isn t known whether she will ' be able to re sume her act. DCW W HAVE A HUSBAND WHO SHAKES HIS FIST AMD TURNS PURPtE WHM KIDS JUMP THROUGH HIS HEDGE ? All-White Grand Jury indicts Youths For Rape NOW PLAYING! 1 1 'JViff.g'UgBiH.r.LI ' OPENS 6:45 TRUE! FEARLESSLY TOLD1 - q J N a 4 ill p.m. If"" Th.sp'."-fesJ Wmm The Splendor. W the Exciting Story V- UV HI" of the legendary Arctic f 'j&&y 1 WHITE Iiii ru nFDNFSS W JlirjJi $hwn At 30 Onl TALLAHASSEE. Fla. (AP) - A grand jury of 18 white men in dieted four white youths Wednes day for raping a slender Negro co-ed. The jurors heard witnesses including the 19-year-old victim for nearly seven hours betore til ing into a hushed courtroom and handing their presentment to Cir cuit Judge W. May Walker., Only once before in Honda his tory has a rape case drawn such wide attention. That was in 1949 when four Negroes were accused of raping a 17-ycar-old married white girl. The courtroom gallery was al most filled with Negroes yester day many of whom had kept their segregated scats all day. but there was no demonstration when Walker announced the. in dictments had been returned. White spectators also were silent. The four will be arraigned Fri day and a trial date set. They are Patrick G. Scarborough, 20, Air Force man on leave from an Alaska base; Willion T. Collins- worth, 24, married telephone line man: David trvm Beagles, 18 high i school student; and Ollie Stoutamire, 16, a distant relative of Police Chief Frank Stoutamire of Tallahassee. They have confessed Jinding the victim, lior escort and another; Negro couple parked early Satur day morning after a college dance, taking her to a lonely spot at gunpoint and raping her by turns. Rape can bring the death penal ty but never in Florida history has a white man gone to the elec tric chair for assaulting a Negro, Several Negroes have died for raping white women. None of (he four Negroes ac cused in the 1949 case was execut ed although one was killed by a posse and a second was shot to death by a sheriff who said he tried to escape en route to his trial. A third was sentenced to life imprisonment alter a jury recom mended mercy because he was only 17. The fourth, Walter Lee Irvin, was convicted twice and sentenced to death but his sen tence was commuted to life im prisonment. Word that the four white men were indicted was received calm ly by students at Florida A. and M. University where the victim is enrolled. Earlier the student had boycotted classes and held mass rallies to protest the attack Officials at first had planned to lay the case before the June grand jury but mounting public interest led to reconvening the December jury so immediate ac-. tion could be taken. The victim, slight and apparent ly still shaken by her expedience, was attended by a nurse and was helped Irom a car to the court house by two companions. She looked straight ahead as she en tered the building. Under Florida law, sue may not be identified, Republican Senator Says Strauss Approval Seen WASHINGTON AP - A Re publican senator predicted today Lewis L. Strauss will win com mittee approval of his nomination to be secretary, of commerce de spite bitter opposition. Strauss, already serving in the Cabinet under a recess appoint ment, resumes before the Senate Commerce Committee Ih.s after noon his reply to charges made by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (U-NMl and others. The GOP senator, who asked that his name not be used, said he expects at least three or four of the committee's 11 Democrats lo vote along with all six Repub licans for Strauss confirmation. Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-lll), Minority Senate leader, told news men after a White House confer ence Wednesday he earnestly hoped the committee vote would be favorable. Dirksen echoed the hope ol Com mittee Chairman Warren G. Mag nuson D-Wash) that hearings would be completed this week Strauss' nomination, submitted by President Eisenhower Jan. 17, al ready has been before the com mittee for 110 days. Government records indicate that that period already is one day longer than the total required lor action on the nominations of ail 13 previous secretaries of com merce since the office was created in 1913. Anderson, chairman of the Sen ate-House Atomic Energy Commit tee, long has been at odds with Strauss. Strauss told the committee NM Tot Back With Mother After Kidnaping Episode ALBUQUERQUE, NM. (API- Sleepy little Mitchell Johnson snuggled into his mother's arms late Wednesday, tback home from a nigmmare pronably he won t re member much about. The 1'4-ycar-old son ef Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson was flown back from Dallas where his 16-year-old Dariy-sitter took him. It all started last Monday when the hahy sitter, Betty Smithey snub-nosed fugitive from the Girls Tuesday Rites Set By Eddie HOLLYWOOD (AP) Eddie Fisher plans lo marry Elizabeth Taylor in Las Vegas, Nev. next Tuesday the day after he gels Ins Nevada divorce from Debbie Reynolds. ( The singer changed his wedding day. originally set for Thursday. 10 mane sure aiikg rood Jr., son of Miss Taylor's late husband. would be on hand as best man. Todd has to be in Spain next Thursday. Fisher, making a Las Vegas hotel appearance, expects to get a Nevada divorce Monday, the day his six-week legal residence ends. Miss Reynolds said she would not contest it. This will be Fisher's second marriage and Miss Taylor's fourth. The darkhaired actress was divorced from Hotel Heir Nick Hillon and Actor Michael Wilding. Her third husband, show man Mike Todd died in a plane crash last year. Chief Signs Jobless Bill SALEM (APt-Gov. Mark Hat field signed into law Wednesday the bill lo extend unemployment compensation coverage to employ ers of one person. It will bring about 10.000 employers under the law. The law now applies only to em loycrs of two or more persons. He also signed hills to require that (arm labor contractors be licensed, and to permit the use a drug called nalline lo detect narcotic addiction. The narcoiic bill also permits ive-;car probation periods during Inch treatment can be given ad dicts. I Welfare Home in Alhuauernue. wandered off with the little boy. one nao ocen sitting with him in the Johnson's home at Placitas, a mountain village northeast of Al-buquorque. I don't know why I did it," the orphaned teenager said in Dallas aller her arrest. Mrs. Johnson had been working as a psychologist at the girls- in stitution. She said she resigned Friday and received permission to lake Betty home with her. . Her attempts to give Mitchell to strangers in a drugstore in Dallas led to recovery of the baby. Betty was lound by police in a cafeteria in downtown Dallas. An airlines employe carried Mit chell from the plane in Albuaucr que to his mother. As he reached lor her, the little redhead mur mured, mama, mama." Mrs. Johnson, wan from worry. said, "1 knew he was safe." Then she said. "I'm so re lieved." As for the Smilhey girl, held in Dallas, Mrs. Johnson said, "I'm so gratelul she took good care of my baby." Indians Seek Work Halt YAKIMA (AP) A group of Indians seeks to halt construction on the huge John Day Dam on the grounds it would flood their an cestral hunting, fishing and food gathering grounds. An injunction against the proj ect on the Columbia River was sought in U.S. District Court Wed nesday by Chief Henry Thompson of the Mid-Columbia tribes, Chief Willie John Culpus of the Kah milt-pah tribe and 32 tribal mem bers. Named as defendants were the contractors, Morrison-Knudsen Co. and Le Boeuf & Dougherty, Inc.: Col. Allan F. Clark Jr.. divi sional head of the Army Engineers and others. The suit contends the Kah-milt- pah tribe has always fished, hunt ed game and gathered roots and berries along the shores of the Columbia between Bonneville Dam and Lake Roosevelt. Rights to these ancient Jishing grounds were respected by other members of the Mid-Columbia confedera tion and other Yakima Indian Nation tribes, the complaint said An 1855 treaty between the Yaki ma Nation and the United States did not cede these lands to the federal government but rather re ad veu exclusive nsn rignis and pasturing privileges lor the In dians, the suit contended. The fishing grounds were valued at $100,000 and the hunting, root ing and berrying areas at another stoo.ooo. 3 Indicted For Fraud DETROIT (AP) - Three more! indictments were returned Wed nesday by a federal grand jury which is investigating what ofli-i cials have said was a contest, fraud acainsl newspapers. The indictments dealt with al-i leged fraud against Tho Orcgonian! in Portland, Ore. The three in-1 dieted are Walter Rex Johnston III. 33. Detroit car salesman; Jo-: seph Dyson, 30, London, Ont.; and Harry Balk. 33. Detroit entertain ment booking agent. 1 The government says these three were in on a plot to set up i a dummy newspaper lo buy puz zles and answers from two con-! lest agencies. Answers were sup plied to individuals who were re quired to share their winnings! with the plotters, the government said. fil'M ( HEWERS BUDAPEST, Hungary (API- Hungarian Communists, after years of poking lun at gum-chew ing Americans, arc going to start making their own chewing gum. A cookie factory in Gyoer will open a gum section to supply some of the local demand thai has been filled by American gill packages and official imports irom Communist China and Israel. BELL'S HARDWARE GARDEN HOSE SO-ft. 716" din, Reg Plastic HOSE Guaranteed! '3- 2.9S 88 3-PLY REINFORCED! Plastic Hoi. Full Vi" S.YEAR GUARANTEE dio., Reg. 9.9S 95 50-tt. Rubber HOSE Heavy Duty 10-YEAR GUARANTEE 7 SO fl. " dio., Reg. 7.95 Reinforced ! 88 Plastic HOSE 8-YEAR GUARANTEE 5 2 Lawn Soaker 25' Reg. 3.45 29 3-TUBE Plastic IIADDmARE 528 Main Wednesday he apparently had been . able to please all former chairmen of the committee except Anderson, and that Anderson's immediate predecessor, Rep. Carl Durham iD-NC). had offered to testify in his behalf. . .. Anderson has accused Strauss of telling the committee "unqualified falsehoods" and, as a former cnairman of the Atomic Energy commission, ol intlaling his con tribulions to atomic developments of misleading the public, and of withholding information from Con gress. . . , Strauss launched into his de tailed reply to Anderson after an earlier complaint that he was be- ing persecuted with false charges ana cruel accusations. Slrauss testified that, contrary to what Anderson had said, he had never intentionally withheld information as chairman of the AEC from the Senale-House Atom ic Committee . He also denied that he had tried to create any myths about his ac complishments in pushing devel opment ol the H-bomb or of a sys tem tor detecting boviet nuclear explosions. , Anderson, not a member of the Commerce Committee, was not permitted to ask Strauss any ques tions, but he sat beside Sen. Gale McGce D-Wyo), a committee member, and fed questions to him. mis led to one blow-up. Turn ing to Anderson, Strauss protest ed: "I didn't have the opportunity of cross-examining you during your testimony." v then, as he started to so on. he put his hands to his head and said Oh, forget it. kf Ww-i t mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmM gjjMJIUliHL w JtJfk - Mtettltttftfli JOHN MATHIS JAMES CHANCE New Principal To Take Over John Mathis, principal of Chil oquin High School for six years, has been named principal of Mer rill High School beginning at open ing of the fall term. Information on his transfer was given this week by Carrol Howe, .Klamath County school superintendent. Mathis will succeed James Chance, who js leaving the teach ing profession to go into another field of employment. The new Merrill administrator attended Pacific University, For est Grove, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, served as a lieu tenant in the Navy during World War II in the South Pacific, and upon his discharge from the serv ice, completed his college work at Pacific in 1947. He filled a post as teacher- coach at Independence for three years, served two years in the same capacity at Monmouth and for one year at Henley before be coming principal at Chiloquin. He received his masters at Oregon State College in M52 and admin istration credentials at the Uni versity of Oregon last year. Chance is completing his sixth year in education, in Klamath County, having keen at Bly and Merrill for three years in each post. His three-year term as chair man of the District 5 "B" Ath letic Committee expires this year. He begai teaching in 1937 in Pay ette, Idaho, served in the Army as staff sergeant, chief clerk of headquarters at Fort Bliss, Texas and was discharged as a ser geant major. Chance has held ad ministrative posts for 10 years. WHAT'S IN A NAME? STRATFORD-ON-AVON, Eng-l land ruPIl The council of this William Shakespeare shrine city decided Tuesday night to change the word lavatories on tourist directional, signs to "convenienc- 2 W lit Imigt of their noften look-alikes !a molher-daughfer pink no-iron coiions Slceytltss-, with flattering full skirts bindtd lr rick-rack and polks-dot embroidery , . , Six te 16 for Mother 10.98 3 to 6 4.98
