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1 Page 18 Albany Democrat-Herald Saturday, March 4, 1900 Denies 80 in to Dismiss Commie Charges LONDON, March 4. (U.P) -War Minister John Strachey, answering conservative press attacks, said today it was public knowledge he repudiated communist policies in 1940. Strachey in a detailed statement denied as "not true" charges made by Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard that he had never disavowed communist doctrine. Strachey, former minister of tood, was appointed war minister in the new cabinet formed 1 this week by Prime Minister Attlee. Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers criticized Strachey's appointment to the cabinet post on grounds his alleged communist sympathies might open the way for the Russians to obtain additional atomic and defense secrets from Britain.

"It has always been public knowledge that I supported the communist doctrine in the years which preceded the last war," Strachey's statement said. "Several widely-circulated books written by me set forth these views. Political critics naturally quoted from these textbooks on frequent occasions, and there is nothing new in such quotations. "The Evening Standard of March 3 repeats, however, the statement that I remain an avowed communist. This statement is not true.

Not only have I never been member of the communist party but it is also public knowledge that I repudiated communist policies in 1940: did so the specific issue of the communists' refusal to support the war effort (following the Hitter -Stalin first repudiation of their so-called 'revolutionary defeatist' policy in regard to the war was made in a letter to the New Statesman and the nation on April 27, 1940. "In it (the letter) I said that those controlling the Daily Worker are prepared, for the sake of what they consider. to be the interest of Soviet Union, to give way to Hitler to any extent and that they are utterly irresponsible aS to the consequences to the British people of such unlimited "I added that so long as that remained the case I could have nothing to do with them. "The breach over the specific issues of the war widened into a general repudiation by me of the communist standpoint." Stated Conclave Temple Commandry No. 3 K.

T. Tuesday Evening March 7, 1950 7:30 p.m, ORDER OF MALTA Full Form Fred H. Forster, Eminent Commander R. M. Russell.

Recorder PORTLAND, March 4 (U.P.) About 80 veterans administration employes in Oregon will be dismissed under a nationwide economy move, the agency's Portland office said today. But how many men would 1 be discharged where remained question until specific instructions are received. Manager Charles Langdon of the Portland regional office said 590 were employed by the VA in the state and that the staff reduction averaged from 35 to 40 per cent. Activities Planned For Orleans Women ORLEANS- A demonstration on the making of hooked rugs will be given by project leaders of the Orleans-Dixie home extension unit, next week. Those planning to participate in the project will contact the local leaders for the time and place, and what to bring: Mrs.

Melvin Roberts of the Dixie community and Mrs. Paul Bell of Orleans. Only those who actually do the project are to attend this meeting. Plans were made to make crocheted slippers for children of the Farm Home at the Western Star grange home economics club when it met at the hall Wednesday afternoon. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs.

Paul Patapoff, Mrs. Fred Pope, and Mrs. Erwin Christensen. Mr. and Mrs.

Glenn Ohling returned this week from their trip to California, Arizona' and northern Mexico. Mrs. Ohling, grange lecturer, attended the Lecturer's School held on the Oregon State college campus Thursday and Friday. In observance of National 4-H club week, local 4-H club members will put on the program for the Western Star when it meets Saturday evening, March 11. The display table will feature decorative ornaments which grange members are to bring.

Two Flee After Attempt To Break Into Cafe Two persons attempted to break into Vi's diner, Eighth and Hill streets early this morning, but were frightened away before police could arrive. According to a police report the two persons attempted to pry open the back door of the small cafe, but were unsuccessful. A nearby resident telephoned police, but the two had left by the time a patrol car had arrived. CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF PORTLAND, March (U.P)John J. Keegan, former chief of detectives in the Portland police bureau, filed for the Republican nomination of Multnomah.

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Senders Co. Inc! 435 West First Phone 48 Troop-Carrying Sub The USS Perch, one of the Navy's new troop-carrying submarines, is seen In Women's Bay, Kodiak, Alaska. This is the first photo released the Navy of the new underwater transport. 14-Inch Mummy Believed To Be Evidence Of Race Of Little Men NEW YORK, March 4. (U.P)-A noted scientist reported today he had made an "inconclusive" study of a 14-inch mummy, believed by its owner 'to 'be the body of a miniature prehistoric man.

Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, chairman of the' department of anthropology at the American museum of natural history, said the owner told him the mummy had been found in a cave near Casper, Wyo. He said an x-ray examination showed a skeletal structure and it appeared to be covered with dried skin, Examined For Month "If the mummy is that of an adult, it is smaller than dwarf types now known, such as midgets and pygmies," Shapiro said. "I would have to make further tests to determine the specimen's identity." The 48-year-old scientist said the owner, a.

Casper businessman, brought the mummy to New York for examination but had. taken it back to Wyoming recently before microscopic and chemical tests of the tissue could be made. Shapiro said he had examined the mummy for a month. "The little thing was stiffened in squatting position on its heels, with its arms around its knees," Shapiro said. "It was nine inches high and would have been 14 inches high if it were in standing position." Smaller Than Tom Thumb He said the top of the head appeared to have been squashed down in some way so that the exact form of a skull could not be seen in the x-ray.

There was dark hair on the back and sides of the head, he said. Shapiro said he had seen pygmies in Malaya but "none nearly as small as this specimen." He said pygmies, who belong to an undersized race, average four feet in height, and dwarfs, who are undersized individuals, often Bishop Kennedy To Be Centennial Speaker The final two events on the week's observance of the First Methodist church's centennial will be the appearance of Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the Portland area of the church at Sunday's morning service at 11 o'clock and the youth banquet tonight at the church, with the theme "Looking Forward," it was announced today by the Rev. George H. Huber, pastor.

Sunday's sermon by Bishop Kennedy will be his first: in Albany since his appointment to this area following the death of Bishop Baxter, At tonight's banquet Dr. Roy Fedje, Salem area district superintendent, will be the main speaker. Sally Philips will be toastmistress. Others on the program will be the Rev. Huber, who will give the invocation, Bob Andrews leading a community sing, a talk, "Here We Are," by Russell Tripp, historical sketch, "1850-1950" by Ianthe Smith, and the Girls' chorus with David White director, and Mrs.

F. Mahr as accompanist. Dr. Fedje's topic will be "Looking Forward." More than 100 will attend tonight's banquet. The public is invited to tomorrow's morning service, the Rev.

Huber announced. Friendly ATMOSPHERE IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO COMFORT CONVENIENCE ECONOMY OLYMPIC HOTEL ENT TAILOR 81 ALL OUTSIDE ROOMS RATES TILE SHOWER, BATH FROM FREE RADIO MODERN $1.50 WIRE WRITE AHEAD' DOUBLE 1 Colorful Chicks From Dyed Eggs VINELAND, March 4 (U.P) -The Wene hatcheries advertised Easter chicks today which they said were born multi-colored and not made that way after hatching, Richard Ellis, manager of the said the were produced byinjecting dyes into some 100 eggs with hypodermic month before hatching time. He said the experiment 'was successful in about 50 per cent of the eggs. Ellis said he did not know howlong the chicks would retain their bright colors. Chicks colored by the old-fashioned spraying method lost their bright hues as they matured with only their feet retaining the color, he said.

Parole Work Told To Sweet Home Rotarians SWEET HOME, March 4 (Specdal)-Ed Harrison, field representative of the state parole board, explained details of processing and supervising of parolees and probationers at the weekly meeting of Rotarians here. "Paroling and probationing are really the acid tests of our penal code," Harrison explained. "The far-reaching aim of the code is rehabilitation, not punishment. And by the time we are called into the case, the punitive aspects of the conviction have been satisfied. "Our aim, when we receive control of a man or woman, is to insure his return to society as a useful citizen.

Many temptations from former environment which led him astray originally may still be in evidence. Also, he will have to live down his record. It is here that we can, and have consistently, helped mold good citizens." Harrison pointed out that probationing is a phase of the penal system little understood by the public. "When a judge is convinced that a convicted man is not a hardened criminal, that he has already suffered in shame, faced family and social censure, and really wants to get on the right road, then the punitive phase of the sentence may be suspended by the judge," he explained. "The remaining problem is one of careful guidance by our department to insure that he retains his desire to go straight." At the meeting, the club voted full cooperation with the Jaycees, who will be conducting the Frontier Days celebration in Sweet Home this summer.

Red Cross Officials Speak at Brownsville BROWNSVILLE, March 4 (Special)-Three Albany Red Cross executives explained to Chamber of Commerce members here the plans for the forthcoming Red Cross fund drive. The chapter officials also showed a film on the blood program. The trio of staff members who made the trip were Mrs. Virginia Faulkner, Linn Red Cross executive secretary, Mrs. John Hatfield, public information officer, and William Fitzpatrick, chapter board member.

The group spoke before the Harrisburg community club Friday night. Funeral Services Held For Dayton S. Holloway Funeral services were Held yesterday at 2 p.m, for Dayton Smyth Holloway, 62, retired merchant and farmer and lifelong Albany resident who died Wednesday. Last rites were held at the Fortmiller Fredericksen funeral chapel, with Rev. Carl Byrd, pasthe Newberg Quaker church, officiating.

Stanley Peterson was soloist with Mrs. Glenn Taylor, organist. Mrs. Glenn Junkin and Mrs. Russell Parker were the floral committee.

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OREGON FURNITURE Club Maps Charter Plans Final organization details preparatory to reception of its charter have been completed by, the Albany Exchange club, newest local service organization, which is meeting each Thursday noon in the Cascade room of the Albany hotel. At the club's meeting this week. President Arne Turnbull' announc-' ed appointment of major standing committee chairmen including Pat Hutchins and A. Vick, house; Preston Dickey, finance; Larry Roth, publicity; Vern King, attendance; Curt Kininmonth, fellowship; Jim Kern, program and Paul Brown, club aims. A youth committee chairman is yet to be named.

Participating in the meeting also were Howard Jeffries, interclub relations committee chairman of the Corvallis club, and Oscar Specht, member of the 1949 Salem club board of directors. The local club will remain actively meeting henceforth, its officers said today. Date of chartering had not been determined late today. Mrs. Douglas Harlan, Former Resident, Dies CORVALLIS, Mar.

4. (Special) -Mrs. Douglas Florence Harlan, 45, Corvallis, a former Albany resident, died yesterday afternoon at a hospital here. Born at Cleburn, July 28, 1904, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Gatewood, Mrs. Harlan moved to Albany with her family when she was in her childhood. She was raised in Albany and received her early education there. She was married to Alfred Lloyd Harlan, Aug. 23, 1924, at Los Angeles, who survives.

The couple made their home at Los Angeles for eight years, and in 1932 moved to Corvallis where they had resided since, Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, Robert Harlan, Corvallis; two daughters, Mrs. Donna Jean Hess, Stockton, and Miss Mary Harlan, Corvallis; a brother, Joe Gatewood, Dallas; two half brothers, George Schmidt, Upper Darby, and Ludd Schmidt, Honolulu; and two half-sisters, Miss Bonnie Schmidt, and Mrs. Bessie Ellis, both of Eugene. Funeral services will be held at the DeMoss- Durdan funeral home here Monday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Donald Payne officiating.

Burial will be in Oak Lawn Memorial Park here. 'Satchmo' Claims Discrimination, But Spokane Hotel Denies Charges SPOKANE, March 4 (U.P) Jazz musician Louis Armstrong stormed out of town last night after charging that a hotel had "discriminated" against him by refusing to give him and several of his party rooms. James McClusky, manager of the Davenport hotel, said it was simply a matter of Armstrong "not having reservations." McClusky said that Mr. and Mrs. Arvil Shaw, Mr.

and Mrs. Barney Bigard and Pierre Tallerie, Armstrong's manager, were given rooms because they had reservations. Bigard and Graveside Services for Infant To Be Monday Graveside services will be held at the Brownsville Masonic cemetery Monday at 10 a.m: for Linda, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L.

Ingram of Brownsville, who died yesterday at the Willamette Osteopathic hospital shortly after birth. Surviving are the parents, a brother, and' Douglas, two sisters, Delores Charlotte; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L.

Johnson, Harrisburg and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Ingram. Arrangements are being made at the Fisher Funeral home.

Shaw are members of Armstrong's troupe. Armstrong had been booked to play at a dance at the Spokane armory tonight. But he boarded a train and headed back to Seattle, where he had played a similar engagement. "I tried to pacify him and cool him off," McClusky said. "But he was too mad.

He said we were discriminating. against colored people. "But that's not true. He wanted 10 rooms and we simply did not have them since he did not make reservations for the entire band." Tallerie described it as a "controversy over reservations." He said efforts were being made 'to bring "Satchmo" back for his engagement. Dr Lam Dr Chan DRS' CHAN-LAM Chinese Herbalists West 1st St.

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"There were many incongruities which only further study can explain," he said. "I can only say that if this little thing is a human adult, it would be the first evidence of a race of little men on this continent that I have seen." CASPER, March 4. (U.P.) -The owner of a 14-inch mummy which may be that of a member of a hitherto unknown race of dwarf humans said today he had no further plans for its scientific appraisal. A Casper automobile dealer who purchased the mummy five years ago from a Meteetse, drugstore owner said he had been informed by New York scientists that the mummy definitely was that of a human being. Ivan P.

Goodman said the mummy was found in 1934 in a hermetically sealed cave in a formation of solid granit, A group of CCC workers blasting in the formation made the discovery. Since then, Goodman said, the mummy has been the property of a half dozen persons. Five of them regarded it as a jinx and disposed of it after personal misfortunes, but Goodman said he didn't believe "in such things" as jinxes, Romania Asks U. S. To Close Bucharest Office BUCHAREST, Romania, March 4 (U.P.) The United States and Britain have been asked by Romania to close their information offices in Bucharest, the official news agency said today.

"The foreign ministry of the Romanian people's republic notified the United States legation in Bucharest of the request of Romanian government that the information offices working within the framework of the legation be c'osed and cease their activities," the agency said. "The same notification also has been handed 1 to the British legation, requesting it to close its legation information office and to cease its activities." TREE PLANTING RESUMED FOREST GROVE, March 4. (U.P)-District Warden Edward Schroeder said today that tree planting by the state resumed this week in the Tillamook burn. Schroeder said crews planned to complete 1200 acres of planting before dry weather halts the work. "IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME!" Oh-but it might! Disaster strikes when you least expect it.

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