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THE WEATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 61
Highest temperuture yesterday -17
lowest teineratttre last night 2'J
Precipitation for 2t hours 0
Proclp. since first of month 2.30
Prerlp. from Sept. 1, 193!) 13.23
Hcficiency since Sept. .1. 1M9 2.7S
Occasional Light Rain.
trip
TAXES
They're talking In congns about
Increasing levies to pay foi' p.opoa
ed extension of the defense pro
gram. If- they are voted, the lllllo
fellows' Incomes may be bit, Head
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By FKAXR JKXKI.S . .
11113 Hatflelds and the McCoys,
Kentucky and' West Virginia
feudist families, decided last year
to play baskelhull instead of ."lay
wuying" each other, according to
time-honored feudist custom. The
McCoys won, 37-35, and NO
SHOOTING followed.
This year they've decided to do
It ugnin.'
QUESTION :
'"C If the Hatflelds and the Mc
Coys can work off their rivalry
complexes in a peaceful bushotbull
Sumo, WHY CAN'T THE NA
TIONS OF UUliOPH IJO LIKE
WISE? The Inherited hatreds of Kuropc
can't he any more hitler than the
Inherited hatreds of the mountain
feud country.
IfJEniC is the answer to the epics-
lion just asked:
The Hatflelds and the McCoys
II AVE NO UIPLO.MATS AND NO
FOREIGN POLICIES, and so It is
(Continued on page 4.)
Fire Eats Business
ItEDDING, Calif., Jan. 13. (A P)
z-Klrc early today raxed six build
ings and threatened the entire
business district of this northern
California community of 3,000 per
sons. Vernon Jones, asleep In a room
ing house west of the Pioneer store.
Iteddlng's oldest business building,
saiil he was awakened at 2:30 a.
m.. by an explosion and saw the
three-story 63-yenr-old structure
engulfed in flames.
The flames spread rapidly nnd
soon consumed the two-story J. C.
Penney huiltling. Mode '() I lay dress
shop. K. V. Woolworth company
building, Medding Printing com
puny nod Motor Supply company.
Only the walls of some of these
brick anil concrete buildings ro
ninlned standing.
Iteddlng's four-piece fire depart
ment was hard pressed and a call
for help brought a piece of equip
ment and men from itcd Mull, 32
miles south 'of here.
Firemen feared Ihe damage
would run over $500,000.
Redding has only eight paid fire
men and 40 volunteers, but more
than 100 townspeople joined in
the fight to save thn remainder of
the business district. No injuries
were reported.
The buildings destroyed covered
a square block. Structures ncross
the street wore damaged by the
Intense heat. All front windows
In them were broken.
Oddities Off the Press Wire
(By the Associated Press)
Where's the Wife?
CUMBRRliA ND, Md. Court
house clerks are ns puzzled over
this letter as. apparently, the
young Pennsylvania miner who
wrote It. '
He asked them to check on a
marriage "that was to of taken
place, April 14. 1937." saying "I
have no knowledge of ever being
married, but If 1 am, please let me
know, and send me the marriage
license."
Clerks assured him he had taken
out a license and. furthermore,
had been married tho Bame day-
He Slipped Up
PITTSnrnc.il Nicholas C. O'
Data figured that because of slip
pery streets he should leave his
car at home.
He did but brakes on the park
ed car gave way, the machine roll
ed down a 375-foot hillside, smash
ing a half dozen trees.
O'Data's in the market for a new
car. t
Modernize
STRAWRF.RRY POINT. la.
This hangover of the "horse and
buggy" days really has become
streamlined.
The Strawberry Toint Horse
TWO U. S. NAVY AIRPLANES
One Aviator
Killed, Five
Others Safe
Tragedy Occurs Over Borego
Desert, California; Plane
Crash in Illinois Brings
Death to Four Persons.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 13
(AP) Two navy nirplanes collided
In mid-air over a southern Califor
nia desert, and early today one of
the wrecked shins wns found with
a filer's battered body Inside.
Five other aviators In the colli
sion were safe.
Ensign Walter G. names, Jr., 25,
of Denver, Colo., missing for sev
eral hours after the crash, tele
phoned today from the old mining
town of Julian, GO miles northeast
of here, that he was safe and un
hurt. Identified at the scene of the
wreck nfl the dead man was James
Aimisnn urnwson, z-i, raoio-man
first class.
r.'eputy Sheriff Krnest Cox re
turned to El Cnntro, 70 miles east
of here, to report that his party
had reached the wreckage of one
plane after sighting smoke, nnd
hail found a body in the charred
ship.
It lav In a. ravine nenr the top
of a hill. The other plane appar
ently fell a mile or more away,
Cox said.
One Pilot In Hosnltal
Bmtigh.,1 Jta.0iH. . Na)a.,K-un 27 J
Or Wril), l,OHI., pilUL WIIU. pmimou
a badly wrenched knee and severe
body brulscB. was In a hospital at
El Centro. The other survivors,
released after first aid treatment,
were :
Charles W. Post, 24, Troutdale,
Ore., radioman second class; El
mer Edwin Jackson. 22, Henderson
ville. N. C. radioman third class.
and Paul E. Dickson. 2. aviation
machinist s mnte, second class.
Tragedy Described
The torpedo bombing planes, ear
rvlnu three men each, were circling
over barren Bnrego valley. 87 miles
northeast of here. In reguinr lor
matlon ono nhovo and slightly
behind the other when shifting
currents, the frtnvlvors said.
(Continued on page 0)
Portland Fines 47 in
Roundup of Gamblers
nnnTf Avn Tnn 1.1 (API
Forty-seven persons, including Chi
nese gambling operators and play
ers, wore fined in municipal court
yesterday.
Operators were fined 520 and vis
itors. Jlu.
Police Chief Miles nnd Sheriff
Pratt denied receiving letters from
Governor Sprague instructing them
to rigidly enforce gambling and
morals laws.
Niles said this week's raids on
gambling establishments were rou
tine, Thief association expanded itH pro
tection service by offering a reward
of $25 for the capture of any one
stealing a member's automobile..
Formed before the days of mo
tor cars, the association hasn't been
trouhledwfth hose thefts of late.
Long and Short of It
M tLWA V K K R When Everett I.
Wiliinms, a taxi cab driver, told po
lice that two men hart held him
up. the best identification he could
give was that one was tall and one
was short.
Less than half an hour later dc
tcctfves picked up two suspects
nnd said one of them had Williams'
purse containing S6. One of the
suspects wns 6 feet 4 Inches tall,
the other 6 feet 4 inches.
Two-Way Complaints
JOI.IET. Ill Joliet residents are
taking their woter "straight" again.
Yesterday their tap water was
spiked with beer.
Water Commissioner Whalen
said beer probably leaked Into the
water mains from one of the city's
breweries.
A multitude of telephoned com
plaints nnd suggestions flowed into
tho commissioner's office before
the hper tanto disappeared.
"Make mine a little stronger,"
requested one caller. "There's no
collar on it."
Jail Preferred
To Strip Tease
Because she preferred jail to
strip tease, Patricia Winfrey, 27,
above, smashed a store window
in Los Angeles and was lodged
behind bars. She told police she
was penniless, behind in her rent
and the onlyi job she could get
was that of a strip-tease dancer.
She had gone to Hollywood from
New York in an effort to get In
the movies.
CIO Bid to Wheeler
Builds Political Puzzle
WASHINGTON, " Jan. 13. (AP)
John h. Lewis created a new po
litical puzzle today with an Invita
tion to Senator Wheeler fD-Mont.)
a potential candidate for the demo
cratic presidential nomination, to
address the golden anniversary
convention of the United Mine
Workers at Columbus, Ohio, Jan.
23.
Politicians recalled that the
mine workers supported President
Roosevelt In the l!i:l6 election us
the "greatest humanitarian of our
times" nnd made loans and contri
butions totaling almost $ti00,000 to
the democratic campaign organi
zations. .
They wondered whether Lewis'
invitation, in which ho called
Wheeler "one of the moRt eminent
of our contemporary statesmen"
and asked him to speak "upon hucI)
public questions as you may con
sider uermane," might menu that
the CIO chieftain would back the
westerner this year.
Bridges "Whitewashing"
Condemned by V. F. W.
PORTLAND, Jan. 13. (API
Portland Veterans of Foreign
Wars and American Icglon mem
bers adopted a Joint resolution yes
tenlay condemning Dean James
l.anilis and Labor Secretary Fran
ces Perkins for their actions In the
Harry Ilridges deportation henr-
111 IT.
The resolution charged them
with attempts to protect an alien
from the law.
Two Roads Added to
Oregon Forest Program
PORTLAND, Jan. 13. (API
V. If. Lynch. V. S. bureau of pub
lic roads, told the slate blghwav
'ommlsslnn yesterdnv two road
projects had lieen added to the for
est program this year In Oregnn
The Oregon coat hiphwov smith
of Port Orford will he graded and
surfaced at r cost of fioft.noo. he
said, and another tss.ono will he
spent on the Warm Springs highway.
Outlays For
Defense May
Be Increased
House Committer Chairman
Soys Proposed Expansion
of Navy Will Create Need
For Additional Taxes.
WASHINGTON, Jau. 13. (AP)
A possibility developed today
that "emergency" outlays for nu
tiopul defense, which President
Roosevelt has recommended be fi
nanced by additional taxes, might
exceed the $460,000,000 estimate
made in the president's budget.
Chairmnn Vinson nt f?a.) cf the
house naval committee said that,
if congress authorized the navy's
$1,300,000,000 expansion program In
time, funds would be sought to
start as many of tho 77 new war
ships involved as the nation's
building facilities would permit.
The president made no allow
ance for funds to start these ships
when he advised congresn that the
national defense bill would be In
creased S4(iO,0U0,Ot)0 as a result of
tho emergency created by the Eu
ropean war. Legislators conjectur
ed, therefore, whether the political
ly distasteful job of voting new
taxes In an election year might he
made even more difficult by the na
val expansion program.
Questionednbout the cost, Vin
son told reporters:
"Wd'vo JuHt got to have some ad
dtfionJl taxes." . wy:.i
appropriation Quiz Set 1
House and senate recessed until
Monday following house passage
yesterday of the first appropriation
bill of the session.
This was a deficiency measure
providing (2ti4,GU,252 for Increases
made during the current fiscal
year, which ends June 30, in the
army, navy, coast guard, nnti-spy
and neutrality patrol personnel.
These increases were ordered by
Mr. Itoosevelt under an emergency
proclamation issued after the war
broke out in Europe last Septem
ber. This bill will be considered by
the senate appropriations commit
tee next week.
About tho same time a senate ap
propriations subcommittee under
the chairmanship of - Senator
Kyrnos (IX, s. C.) will start nn in
quiry to determine whether the
navy is. spending existing funds
wisely, in tho light of experiences
in tho present conflict abroad.
Considerable opiosltlon to appro-
(Continued on page ft.
Snow Blocks West
Kansas Highways
GARDEN CITY. Kns .Inn in
(AP) A snow storm of near bliz
zard proportions swept far west
ern Kansas today.
f'ni-i-lnd Itv a hluh nn,-.h .tn.l
the snow was beginning to block
nignways over the area at noon.
three hours ntlnr thn Hlm-in elnt-t.
ed. if.
Mnlnrists were wnined to stay
off of the roads except in cases of
( xirenie emergency.
CLAYTON, N. M., Jan. 13.
(AP, Snow driven by n high wind
truck this area about 7 a. m. and
continued through Hip morning
The temperature dropped below
Ireezing.
PORTLAND. Jan. 13. ( AP)
The weather failed to play any
new tricks in Oregon today.
Highway conditions were un
changed and sub freezing tempera
tures continued east of the Cas
cades. Ilaker wns the coldest city,
with a minimum of eight degrees.
Prison Terms Meted to
Ex-Deputy Treasurers
PORT ANGKLKS, Wnsh., Jan.
13. (AP) Hugh Mrnwn and Al
fred Clark, former deputy treasur
ers of Clallam county, were sent
enced to the maximum term of
years each in the state penitentiary
for misappropriation of money hy
a public officer, by Judge Frnter
here tonav
Judce Frater said the court
would Join with Prosecuting Attor
ney R.ilph Smythe In recommend
ing that the stnte parole board set
the minimum term for each at
eighteen months.
Firown nnd Clark pleaded guiltv
December 9 to the charge, which
was connected with the county
treasury "looting" case here.
: COLLIDE
(lew Ponds To
Be Built For
Care of Fish
Two Locations on Calapooia
. Creek Await Commission
, Selection; Racks at Rock
Creek Will be Improved.
Construction of holding ponds by
the state fish commission on Calu
pooln creek, to bo used in connec
tion with the salmon hatchery at
Rock creek on the North Umpqua
near future, it was announced to
day. Lee McCarn, suporlnto'-'
river, Is expected to start In the
dent of the Rock creek sulmon
hatchery, has viewed several sites
and has two locations to submit to
oftlclals of tho commission, ex
pected to be here next week lo
make u definite decision.
The commission plans to build
ponds suitable for holding a large
number of sitverslde and chlnook
fry, thus greatly increasing the
capacity of the state owned nnd
operated Rock creek hatchery.
Additional Ponds Needed
The Rock creek hatchery lins
been used exclusively for hatch
ing chinook salmon and this year
took more than nine million eggs,
the largest take in its history.
Due to lack of ponds for holding
the fish, it will be necessary to re
lease a great many of them earlier
than would ordinarily he the case.
It Is planned to construct poiftls
rtWr.tha. Coiapooia.., where, the. fry
can he held, thus rellovingthe con
gestion at tho Rock creek hatch
ery in future yeors and making it
possible to hatch both chlnook and
silverside epgs. Immediately aft
er hatching the fish would be plac
ed in the holding ponds to be kept
until conditions were right for
their release.
Racks to Be Improved
Improvements also are lit pros
poet for the racks at the existing
hatchery. For the com in season
it Is proposed to pluce a gate in
the head rack which will make
possible the release of steel
heads trapped above or below tho
racks at frequent intervals. At
the same time study Is being glv
(Continued on page 6)
Federal Corporation to
Buy Pacific Coast Eggs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (AP)
The federal surplus commodities
corporation said today it had been
authorized in buy surplus eggs In
Rocky mountain and Pacific coast
Htntes in n move to bolster produc
er prices.
The eggs would be distributed
among relief families in those
states.
During the past eight months,
the corporation has been buying
eggs at Chicago and New York
markets only. Officials said heavy
production of eggs in the west In
recent months had caused prices to
drop rather sharply. They would
make no estimate on the quantity
to be purchased.
Mother of Slain Girl
Collapses in Courtroom
MAUCH CHUNK. Pa.( Jan. 13.
(AP) Screaming "why did he kill
my little child?" the mother of
slain Joan Stevens collapsed in
court today us the case of a sus
pended state trooper uccused of
Kbooting the girl neared a jury aft
er a week's trial.
"My poor child oh, why did he
do It?" cried Mrs. Mnyme Stev
ens. "She didn't know any differ
ent. She was only 14."
Thn mother's outburst' wns In
the presence of a jury which had
just examined a small sedan in
which Corporal Benjamin Frank
lin, 30, shot tho scho(,'vlrl last
June 5.
He snys he fired In se.f-dcfensc
when Joan llrandlshed a "gun" he
later learned wur a tov..
Rights of Way to Kxtend
Mud Hollow Road Sought
Intention to secure additional
rights of way for extension of the
Mud hollow section of tho North
Umpqun road has been announced
by the county court. The court Is
cooperating with the state high
way cornmiKsion on the rond proj
ect nnd is securing rights of way
for construction work. Tbe state
has been applying approximately
f.'ts.uoo annually to building a new
rond In the Dtxonvflle area.
Sea Craft
Survey
Soviet Fliers
Stage Raid On
Finn Cities
Forty Bombs Strike Helsinki
Alone, Taking Heavy Toll
of Buildings; Land Armies
Reinforce for Big Battle.
IIKI.SINKI, Jan. 13. (AP) So
viot Kussiun hninborB raided south
ern Finland today, killing two per
sons and wounding four in Hel
sinki alone.
Some buildings were destroyed
and othora damaged In the south
western section of the capital,
which had escaped being bombed
In yesterday's raids.
Other cities struck included
Hyvinkaa, north of Helsinki,
where the Russian squadrons car
ried out two attacks.
(Hyvinkaa Is about 30 mllos air
line due north of Helsinki. It Is
nn a railroad line running inland
from tho capital.)
About 40 bombs fell on Hel
sinki. One of tho bombers was report-'
ed forced down.
The raiders took advantage of
peiTect weather for their purposa
excellent visibility and high-lid-lng
clouds which permitted .them
tu niipear and disappear almost at
V1 . . i-"
FINNS. RUSSIANS'P RttPA R E r
FOR MAJOR ENGAGEMENT
COPENHAGEN, 'Jan. 13. (AP)
Withdrawal of Russian troops
from part of Minnhamnrl, the Arc
tic port of Finland's Petsnmo dis
trict was reported today In Stock
holm dispatches, while Scandina
vian correspondents said reinforce
ment of Finns and Russians on the
Sfllla front indicated Imminence of
a major battle. ,
These dispatches said nil except
one Russian cruiser bad left Liina
hamnrl, and that the Finns had cut
the road to Salmljarvi, also in the
Actic area, thus complicating tho
Russian service of supply.
In southern Finland, on the
Karelian isthmus, the Russians
were said to hnvo set up loud
speakers advising the Finnish de
fenders to "surrender within 48
(Continued on page fi)
Group Plans Living
On Tropical Island
PASADENA, Cnlir.. Jan. 13.
(AP) To get nway from civiliza
tion as It now operates for the
lesser-privllnged, seven families and
others totaling 211 persons are go
ing to an uninhabited tropical
island In efforts to work nut a new
life for all.
Thev r iect to depart next Tues
day en route to east Calcos Islund
In the Bahama group, east of Culm
and north of Haiti,
On tho Incompletely surveyed
Island of 15 to 21) miles length and
r-10 miles width, they plan to sup
port themselves nnd live under se
lected modern conditions.
They will move in with equip
ment for electric lighting and radio
for a temporary tent city.
Iater, they expect to build per
manent homes from the island's
hardwood forests und establish a
broadcasting station, while devel
oping Papaya plants for medical
use, catching sharks for their liver
oil, and cultivating slsul fiber, a
hempen product for ropes.
Energizing the project is R. C.
Irvine, who is to go with his wire
and four children.
He said persons selected for the
group from many anxious to he in
cluded felt there was little choice
In this country between tlje monled
classes and the vast nil alum "Just
ubove the WPA." '
Klamath Falls Youth
Gets 15 Year$tfor Theft
WALLA WALLA, Jul). 13. fAP)
Alfred Crumpacker, 21, of Klam
ath Falls was sentenced to 1.1
years in the stato penitentiary yes
terday after he pleaded guilty lo
second degree burKlnry.
1 1ts younger brother, Del Iter t,
19, was given a 15-year reforma
tory sentence which was suspend
ed on his promise to return home.
The youths were charged with
taking $H0 from vending devices at
u local madhouse.
Bombed,
Austria,
Congress Cautious in
; Finland Atd Proposal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.
(AP) Congress seemed dispos
ed today to approach Finnish aid
proposals with as much, if not
more caution thnn Is being dis
played with respect to huge de
fense expenditures.
- Fear of possible vlolutlon of
American neutrality dominated
the apparent reaction In both
parties to President Roosevelt's
suggestion that the law-makers
work out legislation, In a spirit
of non-parttsanship, to give the
little Hultlc republic flnanclnl
assistance.
Republicans contended It was
the responsibility of the chief
executive to initiate a specific
plan.
Ex-County Clerk
Given 18 Months
Parole for Coon Expected at
Grants Pass; Successor
in Office B. W. Coutant.
(WANTS PASS, Jan. 13. (AP)
Judge H. I). Norton sentenced P.
I.. Coon to not more thnn 18
months In state penitentiary today.
Then hinting at parole he dropped
the Judicial role and declared from
the bench that he "personally"
wunted to he "first" to donate
money to cover Coon's defalcations
as county clerk.
It was the second (line the veter
an 7(JttOMild. uileoi.'imiUitlie-naii
who was court clerk tor 111 years
met with the latter in the unusual
role of prisoner.
Coon rose Immediately to answer
the judge to declare that his con
tribution was welcome but unneces
sary; other friends had already do
nated sufficient money.
Ilccause Ihe ex-clerk was bond
ed for $10,000, courthouse observ
ers expected the emphasis on re
payment to mean thnt Coon would
bo paroled sometime during the
day. He haB been free on his own
recognizance.
Coon wrote out a check at the
direction of District Attorney Mil
lard, who had just told tho court
Unit his search of telegram com
pany records bnck to lli:i7 showed
at least JIHG.rJ had beon wrong
fully taken. Records of tho com
pany previous to thnt time had
boon discarded, Millard said.
W. T. Miller, former district at
torney, asked for leniency, pre
senting n petition which ho snid
was signed hy 250 persons, Includ
ing many businessmen.
The grand Jury which indicted
Coon wns still studying nn audit
and report on county official "Ir
regularities" prepared for the
court by Alfred VV. Mundt. Several
actions were suggested by the re
port us "deserving "legal" scru
tiny. New Clerk Named
Previous to Coon's appearance
for sentence, tho county court
swore In Hen W. Coutant, 50, ns
the new clerk for Josephine county.
Coutant is republican. He
wus educated at the Universities
of Michigan nnd Oklahoma and at
Slanrord. Ho has been a linotype
operntor here since 1111(1 except for
tho Interval of tho world war. He
Is a past commander of the Amori
can 1-eglon and was adjutant for
14 years of the local post. Ha
has been nctlve in grange nnd boy
scout work.
Thug's Blow May Cost
One Eye; Auto Is Stolen
VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 13.
'Al'l I'liyslclans at a Vancouver
hospital struggled today to save
the alrht of Al Johnson's left eye.
Injured Inst night by an unidenti
fied assailant. ,
Johnson. 57, told Sheriff Lelnnd
.Morrow he returned to his home
14 miles north of Vancouver lute
nnd. ns ho stepped from his nuto
mobile in the garage, someone
struck him in the fnce, shattering
Ills eye.glasses.
The Injured man ran Into his
house and neighbors took him to
the hospital. The sheriff later
found Johnson's car missing, pre
sumably stolen by the assailant.
Folger Johnson Will Be
Oregon FHA Head, Claim
PORTLAND, Jan. 1:1. (AP)
The Oregon Journal said today It
had recofved Information from
Washington, D. C, that Folger
Johnson, Portland architect, would
succeed the late Jamleson Parker
ns state
FHA.
administrator fur tho
Flights
Bohemia
Foes Raider
Over Firth of
Forth Downed
German Planes, For Fifth Day,
Continue Attacks on Trade
Ships, Trawlers; Acts Of
Sabotage Worry London.
LONDON. Jan. 13. (AP) Brit
ish fliers In "the greatest wartime
survey flights" penetrated Bohe
mia and Austria during the night,
carried on the North Beu warfare
by attacking nnl destroyers anil
todny destroyed a German air raid
er over the Firth of Forth, the air
ministry announced.
The exploit of scouting over tho
southeastern parts of grenter Car
many was the first of the war to ho
reported In thnt region. (
A Urltlsh war correspondent In
Franca reported the British oper
ated from French bases and flew
over Vienna and Prague. . ' .
Fliers starting from their home
Boll would hnve had to cover the
equivalent of the distance over the
Atlantic from Newfoundland to
Ireland for the reconnaissance. 1
As German planes roared along
the east coast of Britain for the
fifth successive day, the war of
words kept pace with the aecelerat?
lng war In the skies as the air min
istry called "untrue" a Mini high
royal nlr force, plane wore shot
flown, v "f. "'i w ...,j.?
'' Saboteurs Busy. "".
At the same time fears of snbo
tago were expressed as sentriea
fired on prowlers at Hendon air
drome, northeast London. An at
tempt apparently was made to cut
the Scotland-northern Ireland cable
at Honnghadee, northern Ireland,
nnd fire routed northern Ireland's
governor, the duke of Abercorn,
and his household from 300-year-old
Ilnronscourt castle.
Explosions and fire swept a ship
building plant at Northwlch, Ches
hire, In western Kngland. Offi
cials said sabotage was not In
volved. The air ministry said a fighter
patrol shot down a nazl raider off
the southeast const of Scotland this
morning.
Later threo German. planes flew
over a Norfolk port and n pinna be
hoved to ha a Clormim craft was
seen flying off a southeast coast
port In the afternoon. .
Three royal air force fighters
roared In pursuit but the invader
fled toward the English channel.
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Steamboat CCC
Unit Increased
The Steamboat CCC company
will he Increased over the week
end by arrival of GN men from the
4th army corps area, comprising
the southeastern states. Forty men
arrived In Roseburg this after
noon by train and 28 are to bo
brought from Clrunts Pass Sunday
hit pnuiMHl Tltn nurlnnl nt (IB nnn
with the Urns of only 26 hy expira
tion of enlistment periods, in
creases the strength of the com
pnny by 42 and gives a total en
rollment of 235 men.
Tom Harber, project superintend
ent at Stenmbnnt, was in Koseburg
today to direct the transportation
of the men to camp and also to
bend the transport unit which will
go to (irants Pass tonight to bring
recruits to Htenmboat Sunday.
Good progress Is being made til
the camp's work program ns a ro
suit of the open weather of the fnll
season, Mr. Harber reports. It is
planned to utilize large crews dur
lng the winter senson in shoot! ntf
rock points and doing other rock:
work where the. wet weather does
not seriously Interfere with opera
Hons.
Attackers of Girl Face
Imprisonment for Lifd
SEATTLE. Jan. IS. (AP) Eif
gene Weaver, 19, and Raymond
Pruchn, 24. were convicted of flrot
degree kidnaping yesterday for thn
abductlon nttack of a 16-year-ohl
Seattle high school girl from her
escort's automobile. The jury dis
regarded prosecution pleas for
death sentences and recommended
life Imprisonment for each.
Witnesses had testified the pa ft
had lugged the girl's CBcort, - t