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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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pink no-iron coiions
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