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Increased Outlay Sought
Because of Income Drop,
Larger Items of Expense
The Roseburg school district,
which has called i special election
for the date of Monday, Juno 18,
to consider consolidation with
Edcnbower district, today an
nounced a second election, to be
held July !), at which time voters
will be asked to approve recom
mendations of the budiret commit
tee. The budget for 1945-4G calls
lor taxes amounting to Sii!l,339.(iS
above the six per cent limitation,
the sum being required, in the
budget committee's opinion, to
maintain eificient school opera
tion. Two factors, it is stated, con
tribute to the need for more
money than can be included in a
normal budget, one being a drop
In income and the other a require
ment for more teachers and
added supervisory, transportation
and maintenance costs due to in
creased enrollment.
The school district's tentative
budget as recommended bv the
committee, totals S229,3.'!0.21. In
come aside from district taxation
is estimated at $92,9(17.57. Esti
mating tax delinquencies of SG,
000, the budget will require a tax
levy of $142,362.61, of which $73,
022.76 is within the six per cent
limitation, while S69.339.88 is
above the legal budget limit and
must be approved by the voters
If the sum is to be Included:
State Funds to Aid
It Is anticipated, Paul S. Elliott,
city school superintendent re
ports, that it will not be necessary
to raise all of the extra-budget
money by direct taxation. It is es
timated that approximately S1S,
000 will be received through state
income tax offset. In the event
the cigaret tax proposal, being
voted upon at the special state
election June 22, is approved, an
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS.
IN four straight days of bombing
over the weekend, we destroyed
8 Jap planes at a cost of 10 of
our own. Throughout the four
days, we smashed at Jap plane
factories (destroying the nests
from which the Jap war birds are
hatched).
It may be taken for granted
that the job we'll complete first
will be destruction of the Jap ait
force. The lesson of Germany
tells us that.
GENERAL STILWELL (our for
mer commander In China;
now commander of U. S. ground
forces) is on Okinawa from an
inspection of the fighting at first
hand.
He says the Jap war COULD
last two years more. He thinks
the Japs are stubborner than the
Germans in either world war, and
adds that he can't see how, when
they are so tenacious individually,
we can expect their mass morale
to crack.
He doubts if bombing will do
the whole Job, and adds that we
may have to fight in Manchuria.
THAT is what the commander
of our ground forces SHOULD
.ythink. No mistake could be graver
than OFFICIAL underestimation
of Jap ability to go on fighting. It
will be far better, and less costly,
to expect the worst and find it
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Elliott Roosevelt Borrowed
$200,000, Settled for $4,000,
In Disastrous Radio Venture
NEW YORK, June 13. (AP) Caruthcrs Ewing, general coun
sel for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., says a $200,000 loan
to Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt from John Hartford, president of the
A. & P., was settled for $4,000.
Hartford yesterday termed "substantially correct" a story in
Westbrook Pegler's column, that the son of the late president bor
rowed the $200,000 in 1939. Roosevelt could not be reached for
comment.
Pegler's account "is not the
whole storv but it is substantially
correct." Hartford said, adding,
"I would not have made it public
myself and I regret very much
that it has been published."
Ewing said in Danville, 111., the
debt was settled three years later
"at the request of the Roosevelt
family" through the then secre
tary of commerce, Jesse Jones.
Ewing said Elliott Roosevelt,
then 29. secured the loan to fi
nance his Texas radio interests.
"They were losing money hand
over fist." Ewing added.
He said that in 1942 Jones told
him the Roosevelt family wanted
to compromise the debt and he
took young Roosevelt's note and
Stock collateral to Jones who
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fg 3 Conference Dated,
President Truman States
Time, Place r!-n I Bia Five Wins
Hot Divulged
By Executive
President Takes Note of
Russian Yielding, Asks
All to Keep Their Heads
WASHINGTON, June 13 (API
Announcement that a meeting
ol the Big Three had been ser an.l
discussion of a brightened Polish
situation highlighted President
Truman's weekly news confer
ence today.
The Big Three meeting has
been set, Mr. Truman told re
porters, but he said he could not
announce the time or place until
his arrival there. He said he plan
ned to take Secretary of State
Stettinhis, former War Mobilize!
James F. Byrnes, Harry L. Hop
kins and Joseph E. Davies with
him but that Hopkins' anil Pa
vies' health might prevent their
going.
Hopkins and Davies have just
completed missions to Moscow
and Ixmdon respectively and Mr.
Truman said the results they ob
tained "have been completely sat
isfactory and gratifying."
On the Polish situation, Mr.
Truman said he expected the
meeting at Moscow this Friday to
produce results. As announced
last night, representatives of the
Big Three will meet with Pol's'n
representatives to work out a
unified Polish government on a
broad -base.
Keep Your Heads, He Asks
The chief executive cautioned
that all should keep their heads
on the Polish situation, reminded
reporters that Russia had done
some very pleasant yielding on
this and other questions and as
serted that the Russians are just
as anxious to get along with us
as we are with them. He said he
had no announcement at this time
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Oregon's Income Tax
Collections Doubled
SALEM, Ore., June 13 (API
State income tax collections dur
ing the first five months of 194")
totaled $13,221,683. twice the
amount collected in the similar
period of 1944, the state tax com
mission said today.
The increase was largely ac
counted for by the fact that t::e
30 per cent discount was less than
half the discount permitted last
year.
Up to May 31 this year, individ
uals had paid SIO.275,401 and cor
porations $2,091,002.
About 300.000 taxable returns
have been filed this year, slight
ly more than in the similar pe
riod of last year.
Two Firemen Injured at
$30,000 Portland Blaze
PORTLAND, June 13. (API
Two firemen were slightly in
jured today battling a two-alarm
fire which damaged a three-story
building in downtown Portland.
Damage was estimated by the
three firms occupying the build
ing at about $300,000. Cause of
the fire was not immediately de
termined. "gave me a check payable to John
Hartford 'or $4,000 which was all
Hartford ever received on the
loan and the whole thing was
closed."
"The loan." Ewing said, "was
written off by Mr. Hartford in his
1942 income tax report as a bad
debt."
Pegler said the A & P head at
first was reluciant to make the
loan on the basis it might embar
rass President Roosevelt.
"Elliott Immediately telephoned
to President Roosevelt ."
Pegler said, "and the president
spoke cordially to Mr. Hartford
. . . and thanked him for this fa
vor to his son. He also invited Mr.
Hartford to call on him."
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HEADS CHURCH New head
of the nation's Christian Scien
tists is Mrs. Myrtle Holm Smith,
above, of Waban, Mass., chosen
president of the Mother Church
at a recent meeting in Boston of
the First Church of Christ
(Scientist). She is chairman of
Christian Science War Relief
committee.
Cost-Plus Farm
Plan Scored, But
Author Stands Pat
WASHINGTON, Juno.13 (AP)
The cost-plus system for farm
production written into pending
OPA extension legislation was
termed bad today by President
Truman.
The chief execuive expressed
hope at a news conference that
the amendment, by Senator
Wherry (R.-Neb.), will be thrown
out by the house.
Wherry declared he will "fight
to the last ditch" for his amend
ment. He challenged a farm official's
declaration that the amendment,
adopted Monday by the senate,
was "a legislative fraud." That
criticism was voiced before the
house banking committee yester
day by James G. Patton, presi
dent of the National Farmers
Union. Edward A. O'Neal, Ameri
can Farm Bureau president, as
serted at the same hearing that
the amendment was unsound, un
workable and inflationary.
Wherry called reporters to his
office to make a categorical
denial of criticism, coming from
administration senators, to the
effect that he had slipped in his
amendment at the last minute
without due notice.
"The amendment was brought
to the attention of every senator,"
he said. 'Each senator could have
spoken 20 minutes on it if he had
desired to. There was nothing ir
regular about it."
Wherry said his amendment
was designed to do the very
thing advocated by O'Neal in
crease production.
House republicans meanwhile
opened a drive to give OPA only
a six-month extension.
Bargaining Vote Ordered
At Klamath Falls Plant
WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP)
The National Labor Relations
board today ordered Beatty Log
ging Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., to
hold a collective bargaing elec
tion by July 9.
Both the CIO International
Woodworkers of America, which
was selected as bargaining agent
in a 1943 election, and the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
seek to represent the workers.
The board, following a prece
dent set last week in the Coos
Bay lumber case, ruled that cer
tain employes with hiring power
should be included among the
voting group. Tlr? company had
asked that all three cat fore
man, truck foreman and bull
buck be excluded from the elec
tion. School Boys Make Device
To Aid Crippled Children
PORTLAND, June 13. (AP)
Ten Salem High school boys
presented the University of Ore
gon medical school today with
a machine to punch braces for
crippled children at the Doern
becher hospital.
The boys, member of the ma
chine shop Future Craftsmen
club at Salem, made the ma
chine from shipyard, steel. It
took 70 hours' work.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON,
Veto Power at
Peace Huddle
WASHINGTON, June 13 .
( AP) Senate officials heard
today that President Truman
plans to submit the San Fran
cisco treaty to the chamber
by June 25, with a request .
for ratification by July 15.
The President was reported
to be actinq on the assump
tion that the United Nation
conference will be concluded
June 20. He hopes, senate
sources said, that the United
States will be the first nation
to ratify the pact.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13
(AP) Defeat of an Australian
omendement cleared the way to
day for approval in the United
Nations conference committee of
the bie-five demand for total veto
control of pronosed machinery
for world security.
The amendment, which would
have removed the veto from steps
to settle international disputes
peacefully and limited It to use of
force, was voted down 20 to 10.
Fifteen nations abstained and
five were absent.
Simultaneously a new issue ap
peared to be gaining headway.
The small nations, whose split
over the veto issue assured the
big-power victory, were beglnlng
to rally behind a proposal that
they should be promised another
crack at the veto about 10 years
hence.
In other words, they are calling
for the right to amend the char
ter In future without any of the
big powers being able to exercise
a veto over the amendments. The
bip-five are dead set against this.
The committee scheduled two
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Farm Waqe Stabilization
Plan Set Up in Oregon
PORTLAND, June 13 fAP)
Oregon's farm wage stabilization
program was set up todav, with
three men in charge of furnish
ing information to farmers and
enforcing wage ceilings.
Farm work ceilings are $200 a
month or 85 cents an hour, ex
cept in cases where the 1943 late
was higher than that, or wheie
special exemption has been ob
tained. Edward T. Crawford, Merrill,
will direct southern Oregon oper
ations. Colombian Capital of
Bogota in State of Siege
BOGOTA, Jun 13 (AP)- -A
government decree yesterday de
clared a state of s'ege In Bogota
Colombian capital, because the
"public order has been disturbed."
Other decrees banned meetings
and demonstratioir) until further
orders, unless proviuosly author
ized by the governor of the
partmer.t. and established censor
ship by national rolice.
Town Prays for Rain, Gets it
Timely Shower, in Response
To an All-Out Appeal, Breaks
Drouth, Saves Parched Crops
METTER, Ga., June 13. (AP) There was rejoicing here today.
Many halleluiah's.
The devout said:
"The Lord saw fit to answer our prayers. We are humble."
The devout, Incidentally, includes all the 2,500 people In this
town.
Not since May 13 had this community, this rich agricultural
county, had a rain. The crops were ruined, or near ruin.
Yesterday was set aside as a
day of community-wide prayer
service. Stores and shops were
closed so people could go to the
service.
Then, before the end of the day,
the rains came drenching rains
which refreshed the hungry red
Georgia earth, gave life to the
wilted and burnt tobacco and corn
stalks.
More than GOO townspeople
went to the red brick, white
columned Primitive Baptist
church for the prayers, led by
Elder V. F. Agan.
(The Primitive Baptist church
calls Its preachers "elders.")
They came, the merchant and
the bankrr, and the mayor, in
freshly pressed linen; (he
weather-beaien, leathery-tan
farmers in shirt sleeves.
"Revive our crops and grasses
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13,
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TEEN-AGE NAZI SHOT AS GERMAN SPY A Ninth U. S. army MP ties 17-year-old Josef
Schoner, German Hitler youth member, to a sta Ico after he and Heini Petry, 16, were convictod
of spying against U. S. troops on the western front. Both youngsters were tried and shot by firing
squad near Braunshweig, Germany. OUI photo.
Donald Nelson to
Head Movies Assn.
HOLLYWOOD. June 13 (AP)
lona!d M. Nelson will become
president of the Society of Inde
pendent Motion Picture Produc
ers on June 29.
rlie society did not divulge Nel
son's salary, but other sources re
ported it will be $50,000 per year.
Nelson, 5b, pre-war executive
vice president of Sears, Roebuck
and company, announced that Da
vid M. Noyes of New York would
serve as vice president of the so
ciaty.. Noyes, a former advertis
ing executive, was Nelson's assist
ant with WPB.
Nelson succeeds Loyd Wright,
president and general counsel of
the society since it was organized
three years ago. Wright will con
tinue as counsel and John C.
Flinn as executive secretary.
McKenzie Pass Highway
To Be Opened Late in June
SALEM, Ore., June 13 (AP) -McKenzie
pass, trans-Cascade
highway route Detween Eugene
and Bend, will be opened about
June 22, State Highway Engineer
Baldock said today.
Snow is almost cleared from
the route, he said, hut the road
must be allowed to dry for a week
or 10 days before being used.
The opening would be one of
the latest In history because of
the heavy snowfall during the
winter and spring.
Forestry Employes 100
Per Cent in Bond Buying
Employes of the Umpqua Na
tional forest applied 17.5 per cent
of trftal pavroll to the purchase
of war bonds during the month of
May, according to a report mane
by V. V. Harpham, supervisor, to
the county war savings staff. The
total payroll deductions, in which
100 per cent of the employes par
ticipated amounted to $1,553.75.
and trees and gardens," they
prayed.
"In asking a favor of God, as
we are doing, we must give some
thing In return," said Elder Agan.
"Repent."
In preparation for the service,
many townspeople had been fast
ing for several days.
Outside, a thunderhead gath
ered on the horizon. But the
sun still scorched the earth.
The day wore on. It had looked
like rain on other days, too.
The -thunderclouds, threaten
ing all day, became more omin
ous. Then, the roll of distant
thunder.
A few drops of rain at first,
not enough to settle the pow
dery dust. Then a hard shower
a 30-minute shower a good
shower.
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Yankees Scale Cliffs With
Flame-Spewing Hose Links
To Crack Okinawa Japs' Line
GUAM, June 13. (AP) Simultaneously American predawn
attacks on both flanks of Yaeju plateau caught the Japanese nap
ping and apparently cracked the enemy's last ditch defense line on
Okinawa, front dispatches reported today.
Heuner Rules on
Control of Rates
In Copco Project
SALEM, Ore., June 13. (AP)
The California Oregon Power
company, whicli has applied to
the state hydroelectric commis
sion for permission to appropriate
waters of the North Umpqua
river to generate power, would
continue to have Its rates regu
lated by the public utilities com
mission, rather than by the hy
droelectric commission, Attorney
General Neuner ruled today.
The hydroelectric commission
had asked whether ,if the appli
cation Is granted, It could regu
late the rates on power from the
proposed project. Neuner pointed
out tills would be Impossible,
since the power would be pooled
with power produced by other
generating plants, and thus the
North Umpqua power would lose
Its Identity.
The hydroelectric commission,
however, can provide for amorti
zation and depreciation of the
project by requiring that nil sur
pluses be used to reduce the in
vestment. The issuance of stocks and
bonds for the project must be
controlled jointly by the public
utilities commissioner and the
hydroelectric commission, Neuner
continued. The public utilities
commission and the Federal
Power commission have power
to prescribe the forms of accounts
and records of the utility, but the
nyurociectric commission may
mane aouiuonai requirements.
Deferred Payroll Tax
Payment Loses in Ruling
SALEM, Ore., June 13 (API
Attorney General Neuner ruled
today that the stale Industrial ac
cident commission acted properly
In refusing to credit a contribu
tion made by the Kaiser company
Inc., Portland, under the expe
rience rating law.
The contribution was the com
pany's payroll tax for last No
vember. It was due December 15,
but was not paid until Jan. IB,
1945.
The company claimed that this
contribution should have been
paid last year to give the com
pany a better experience rating
for this year, and thus a lower
tax rate for this year. Neuner
ruled, however, that the contri
bution could not be credited for
last year.
Minister Sentenced to
Prison on Morals Charge
COQUILLE, Ore.. June 13
(AP) Rev. R. D. Render, father
of three children and pastor of
North Bend PresbyteHan church
since May 1912. wa sentenced
yesterday to serve six years In
state prison on a morals charge.
The minister was returned here
from Portland and waived bottl
preliminary hearing and grand
lury appearance. Hcnder former
ly came to North Uend from Cen
tral Point.
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Cliff-scaling; Seventh division
infantrymen held the eastern an
chor of, the Nipponese,, suicide
lino. First division marines were
astride a ridge at the western an
chor, three miles awiiy. And from
me norm, American riold artil
lery unleashed one of the heaviest
barrages of the campaign against
two concentrations of the 10,000
to. 15,000 enemy troops dug Into
caves atop the plateau. .
Fighting was so fierce that In
36 hours battling for the slope of
one hill, 137 men In a single mar
ine company, Including all of Its
ofJcers, were killed or wounded.
That is more than half the com
pany's strength.
Japanese, including at least One
woman I n soldier's Uniform,
charged marine lines during the
night with satchel charges. They
blew up like firecrackers when
hit.
Toklyo Deserts Garrison
U. S. Infantrymen met counter
attacks with, machineguns and a
brand new flnmethrower tech-
nlque. Machineguns were packed
10 me top oi jno escarpment on
the backs of yanks scaling ropes,
hand over- hand. Tankmen
brought flame-snewimr 500-foot
hose extensions connected to their
tanks at the base of the cliff.
The Okinawa battle was so
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Coos Coal Supplies
Veterans Facility
T. O. Coon, Coos Ray, president
of the Coast Fuel corporation,
told members of lire Roseburg Kl
wants club at the regular lunch
eon meeting Tuesday, that con
tracts for 52,000 tons of Coos Bay
coal have been accepted by the
corporation engaged in aeveiop
ment of coast deposits.
Principal users, he stated, are
the various branches of the arm
ed forces and the Veterans admin
istration. Coal is being trucked to
the Veterans facility at Roseburg,
which will secure Its fuel supply
from Coos Bay sources.
Mr-. Toon urged cooperation be
tween Coos arid Douglas counties
In the development of port facili
ties and connecting transporta
tion routes to provide an outlet
for lumber and lumber products
and to develop imports by way of
water shlnments.
He highly praised the work of
U. S. Senator Guy Cordon and
Congressman Harris Ellsworth,
both of Roseburg, for their ac
complishments In aiding develop
ment of southern Oregon natural
resources.
11 Occupants of Lost
Bomber Believed Dead
VANCOUVER, R. C, June 13
(AP) Hope of finding alive nnv
of the 11 R. A. F. fliers mlsslne;
with a Liberator bomber In the
mountains near Chllllwack 85
miles southeast of hero has been
abandoned, western air command
sard last night.
R. C. A. F. planes will continue
to sweep the area where the plane
has been missing since June l,
but seven ground parties have
been recalled.
Western air command said ex
act whereabouts of the missing
plane still was a mystery.
Australians'
Invasion is
Being Impeded
Wells Also Thought Due
For Torch; Suicide Stand
Of Defenders Expected
BRUNEI BAY, BORNEO. Junp
13 (AP) The Japanese . fired
West Borneo's rich Seria oil field
storage tanks last night even as
allied forces did before the Nip-i
poncso captured this island with
its vast stores of oil early In the
war.
Hundreds of thousands of eal-
Ions were destroyed last night a-
lone.
Seria Is GO miles south of the
noint where Australian troops
landed three days ago on the
Borneo mainland at Brunei Bay.
on tollman island In Brunei
Bay, where the largest Austral
Ian force Is involved, a drive push
ed two miles beyond the captur
ed airstrip.
Japanese In several strong poo.
kets are resisting mostly with
rifles and machineguns although
one artillery piece was captured
after It was knocked out.
There Is no road connection be.
tween the two areas, but the Jap
anese apparently are taking no
chances on having the rich oil
reservoirs captured by any sur
prise maneuver.
It is taken for granted that
thev also will destroy the oil wells
If that is not already done.
Real Fighting Ahead
Meanwhile Australian Infantry
pushed ahead steadily against on
ly light to moderate opposition
on two main fronts as Lt. Gen. R.
L. Morshead predicted that "the
real fighting Is yet to come."
He said the Borneo campaign
will b e impeded b y . rivers,
swamps, mountains and lack of
roads. He foresaw a "tedious and
arduous campaign" and said: "the
Jap will run with the best of them
but when trapped he will fight to
the death."
There were Indications the Jap
anese had made a planned with
drawal from the invasion sector.
They had strewn numerous booby
traps and left dummy wooden
guns In unoccupied pillboxes In
efforts to delay the Australians'
advance. ......
Chinese Gain and Loso 1
Chinese troops following up the.
Japanese withdrawal ' from the
Foochow area today recaptured
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Peacetime Draft
F.L.;
Grange Asks Delay
WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP)
The American Federation of
I nbor today advocated "a compre
hensive program of Improved ed
ucation and health service" for
the nation's youth as a substitute
for peacetime draft legislation.
The AFL views were presented
to the house postwar military
policy committee in a statement
prepared bv Lewis G. Hines, na
tional legislative representative.
Hines. recalled that the federa
tion's executive council last Feb
ruary adopted a resolution op
posing universal military train
lnf?. Noting that advocates of a post
war draft have emphasized the
necessity for future preparedness,
the AFL statement asked:
"Preparedness for what? If we
are on the brink of another war
should we not have the right to
demand to know with whom,
when and where?"
From a military standpoint, the
AFL contended, it would be more
important to provide adequate
nirciical care for children "in or
der that they mav be fit to serve
their nation's need upon reaching
the age of maturity."
Grange Urges Delay
Postponement of action on the
proposal also was urged in a state
ment filed by Fred Bailey, legisla
tive counsel, on behalf of the na
tional grange.
"The men who are fightlnp Ihls
war will be largely tnoso who will
bo responsible for keeping the
peace in the years to come," the
grange said. "Their experience
qualifies them to render sounder
ludgment on this question than
any others and no hasty action
w hich will r.revent the expression
of their will on a question so vi
tal" should be taken now.
War Bond Sales Within
25 Pet. of National Goal .
WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP)
War hond sales to individuals
In the 7th war loan drive totaled
$5,280,000,000 todav or 75.4 per
cent of the S7,000,000,000 quota.
E bond sales have reached $2,
377.000.000 or 59.4 per cent of the
$4,000,000,000 goal for these
bonds.
LvItyFCTRtnt
ST L f, Matnaula
Emperor Hirohito, Son of
Heaven, proclaims to Japan's
herrenvoik that this Is a "holy"
war, a statement that may have
been suggested by the "holes"
being punched In the Nipponese
homeland by B-29.
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