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Eugene, Oregon Mniiiw te m ir J! MSllM UUJ Penn. Railway Line in Ohio IS. ML SO mm i w Photo by Muter Studio TURKEY SHOW WINNERS The Bronx bretd carried off major honors at the Northwestern Turkey Show this week. At top are Mr. and Mn. Georoa Arnett of Shedd with the how'i grand champion, a 42 -pound torn. Leslie Schneider ot Newberg with the champion hen. oorrom pic ture ihowt the chamDion in the dressed division, entered by Ken neth Smith of Sunnyside, Wash. Holding it are George Brewster, left, and G. L. Routledge, the show's manager. Shedd Turkey Growers Win Shows Grand Championship For Second Successive Year For the second year In succession, the George Arnetts of Shedd have taken the grand championship of the Northwestern Turkey Show. Last year, Mrs. Arnett won the honors with a Bronze old hen. Tliis year, they entered a 425-pound Bronze torn to take the top award. In the dressed division, the grand championship was awarded to Kenneth Smith of Sunnyside, Wash., who entered a 38-pound Bronze torn. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Schneider. of Newberg took the reserve on young torn, one young hen. riianiiiuiimi m wi ...c . dressed divisions. They also took a number of lesser championships In the dressed division. Following yesterdav:s Judging, birds we on PHcVplav. the their cases marked with blue, red. or white stickers to show their placings. In a breeder display contest, the Arnetts and Schneiders were awarded prizes for the best dis play of one old torn, on old hen. It If J Middle photo how Mr. and Mrs. other awards follow: LIVE DIVISION Narrapansett champion Earl I 5lr?nJ;2l'ci?' ndd'hen "' I "m. young ndlsjn. Blacks George Arnett young hen and old hen; Verne D. Will iams, Shedd. Ore., old torn, and George Arnett, young torn. Bourbon Red Mrs. Lois Tob ias, Days Creek, Ore., young torn; .(Continued on Page Six). Established 1873 500 Driven F rom By Washington Town of Kent Cut Off From 2 Main Roads Highways Awash, Bridges Threatened; Some Oregon Traffic on 1-Way Basis ' SEATTLE. Dec. l3.-4JP-Ol- flcial estimates counted more than 500 persons evacuated from their homes today as the Pacific Northwest faced renewed devas tation from flood with a fore cast of intermittent rain con tinuing all day. At Kent, apparently hardest hit, the police department esti mated between dou and 4UU per sons had been removed from their White River Valley homes Into the city. me King county snerui s oi fiee said probably more than 100 persons were being harbored at Rcnton. Latest evacuation was of 150 persons from Arlington Flats in the inundated Green River Valley. Both main highways leading to Kent were closed, one being covered by six- fet of swirling water from tne ureen Kiver, its flood crest swollen by abnormal high tides backing in from Puget Sound. Willamette Not Rampant In Oregon, the Willamette River managed to carry off ad ditional burdens of water, and stream crests throughout North western Oregon were receding, at least temporarily. The 40-acre State Hospital dairy farm at Pendleton. In Eastern! Oregon, was Inumtvted in a flood worse than that of 1945. The flooding Walla Walla River threatened to carry away two bridges, and at Walla walla sanooags were pnea long Mill Creek's banks. Some of the worst flood condi tions in the past decade were re ported i rom bnonomisn county, nonh of Seattle. Slides blocked many roads. Refuaees Given Aid Several hundred were being fed at fat. James fcplscopal Church and at a Red Cross can teen set up in the Kent City Hall. Late yesterday, Don Ivor, grocer turned over his store keys to the Episcopal priest, the Rev. Harold T. Shav, and told him to use whatever he needed, without charge. Shay, his wife and two small daughters, worked around (Continued on Page Six) Elks Give $1,000 To Swim Pool Fund Rosebure Elks Lodee last nicht voted a donation of $1,000 to the swimming pool fund, it was an nounced today by W. J. Mess, fund campaign chairman. In addition to the Elks' gener ous contribution. Mess also said that employes of the Mabel Lewis Shop were the first to donate one day's wages to the fund. Carpen ters In the Roseburg area are to give their earnings from an ex tra day's work tomorrow to the swimming pool project. Mess has been contacting labor and employee groups throughout the city since the start of the swimming pool campaign, re ceiving financial contributions as well as pledges of support. Members of Local 293. Culinary workers, and the Barbers imlon, Local 902, have given complete endorsement of the project and plan the contribution of an extra dav's earnings. Mess said. The American Federation of Musicians local In Roseburg Wednesday, with a donation of $100, were first to give to the fund. Police, on Way to Meet, Nab Car Thief Suspect GRANTS PASS. Ore., Dee. 13. P Three sergeants of the state Doike, on their way to staff meeting at Medford, Thurs day noon arrested a man on the Pacific highway, a few miles south of here, because the man ran Into the woods from beside a parked automobile when he saw the officers looking him over. The car proved to be the property of A. J. Riechle, Merlin, and had been stolen in Grants Pass a few moments earlier. Sergeant C. R. Borgman stated the suspect gave the name of William Giles Tretlnlck, 20, no ad dress, but admitted having been released from San Quentin prison In September. The three officers who made the arrest were Sergeanu, Irving ! -arson. Coquille, Dick Miles, Reedsport, and Paul Morgan, Roseburg. Tenement Disasler Dead Nay Beach 36; 21 Bodies Becovered NEW YORK, Dee. 1 Weary workers who dug up the bodies of 21 persona from the wreckage of a collapsed tene ment house In a slow, grim procession of death gave up hope today for the lives of 15 others believed buried under tons of rubble. The building at 2515 Amster dam Avenue in Upper Manhat tan which housed 22 families, was smashed early yesterday by a two-foot thick wall of an adjoin ing ice house which toppled on It after a fire in the Ice house. This blaze, which started at about 11 P. M. Wednesday night, was the second In the ice plant in lew nours. me earner one, oc curring around 5 P. M., was put out swiftly by firemen. two boys, josepn mccaoe, id, and Joseph Elio, 10, were arrested last night and held as Juvenile delinquents on arson charges In connection with the earlier fire. They, along with two other boys. naa Deen questionea oy Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet More Space, More Support Seen as Turkey Show Needs Nearly 300 persons attended the annual Northwestern Turkey snow oanquet at Kennedys Dutch Mill Thursday night, bring ing to a climax two days of tur key conferences, showmanship and display. Participants on the proei am -stated mat, "witnoui doubt" the nualitv of the birds exnioitea tnis year exceeded py Bir any other exhibits at previous Northwestern Turkey snows. Ueorpe Koutledee. snow mana ger, said that there is no doubt but what the 1947 show will be held In Roseburg. We have the backing of the county court ana it Is hoped that an appropriation can be obtained from the state to assist In construction of a per manent building to house the show for future years." Marshall Pengra acted as toast master for the banquet, introduc ing each speaker who was limited to a two-minute talk. Lawrence Roberts, president of the show, welcomed all to the banquet and thanked those who had helped make the show a success again in Is year. More 6pace Needed Show winners were announced by Mr. Routledge and Introduced to the audience. Merton Shook, of Medford. ludge In the dressed di vision, said that there were more dressed birds this year and the quality exceeded any previous show. He added that if the proper building could be offered for dressed birds the show would be come the best show in the nation In the field of poultry. Cold stor age facilities are needed In this division to keep the birds in prop er condition during snow days. Better Backing Urged H. P. Griffin, live division 1udee from Sonoma. Calif., sue gested that exhibitors show their own birds, as Is done In other live stork and poultry exhibits. In this way the bird can be posed to the best advantage and the exhibitor learn more about Judging. Griffin urged complete support of the show bv local business men. "If a show Is to go over 100 per cent, it must oe backed better than the show this year. Loral spirit was sadly lacking, he said Tradition and old friends help make p. show and mis Nortnwest ern Turkey Show is rich in tra ilt Ion of the past and bright In prosnects for the future and visitors this year are going home will full hearts." He added, how ever, that more Interest must be shown bv the community as whole when the possibility of re ceiving such national recognition for the show is at Southern Ore (Continued on Page Klxl Five Slav Nations Band To Nail 'Lies' on Soviet BELGRADE, Dee. 12. (De layed )OP) A new five-nation Slav alliance, urged to "fight against spreading lies against the Soviet Union." emerged today from the All-Slav Congress here The organization, set uo yester day as the four-day Congress closed, embraces RuMia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugo slavia and 12 component Slavic nationalities. By recommendation of the Soviet delegate Belgrade was chosen as the permanent seat as an "expression of deep respect for the Yugoslav peoples, who were the first vWIm of Fascist occupation to unite In tne xt-,i,.;' struggle against the eer.my." ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1946. Homes Floods Break Yith Spain Voted By U. It Group NEW YORK. Dec. 13. UP) The United Nations general as sembly today tossed one or its hottest issues Into the laps of Its 54 members by recommending withdrawal of diplomatic repre sentatives from Franco Spain and a British spokesman imme diately announced his country would "very shortly" recall Its ambassador from Madrid. A government source In Lon don said the ambassador vould be recalled In accordance with the U. N. resolution, declaring the Franco government to be a "Fascist regime." The embassy probably would be reduced to the status of a legation. In Madrid a Spanish foreign ministry spokesman said it was "too early" for comment on the U. N. assembly vote. Diplomats In Madrid who would be affected by the U. N. resolu tion Include ministers from the Dominican republic and El Salva dor, which voted against the U. N. resolution, and the Nether lands and Turkey, which abstain ed from voting. Ail other U. N. diplomatic missions In Spam are headed by charges d'affaires, some of whom have the personal rank of ministers but not of min isters plenipotentiary. ine united states nas nad no ambassador at Madrid since the return of Norman Armour. Action Demanded To strengthen Its recommenda tion for action, the Assembly In- ciuaea a clause asmng an mem bers to report what action they nad taken, it was tne assembly s first concrete action against the Falangist regime during its long and bitter debates over what to do with a man who once aligned himself with Hitler and Musso lini. The final resolution, a compro mise gleaned from a series of proposals ranging from outright (Continued on Page Six) UNRRA Fund Slash for China Faces Protest SHANGHAI. Dec. 13 tpV Dr. J. Heng Liu. chief medical officer of the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Association, told reporters today he would leave by plane tomorroy for Washington to protest a con templated $6,000,000 slash In UNKRA's $41,300,000 budget for China. He charged that UNRRA's medical supply program has been "very inefficiently handled by UNKKA Headquarters in wash Ington." Hit-Runster Suspected In Highway Tragedy PORTLAND, Dec. 13. (IPt The sheriff's office opened an In vestigation today In the death of Henry Albert Williams, 63, who was found lying on the highway lasi nigm wun a oeep ni gash. Williams, a millwright, died In a hospital this morning. Deputi sheriffs said he might have been struck by a driver who failed to stop. The Weather Light rain tonight and Satur day. Recreational Sife Transfer To Rod-Gu nClub Authorized Under Restrictive Provisos Directors of the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club, at a regular meeting Thursday night, authorized formal transfer of the club's recently purchased recreational site at Winchester to the club as soon as the restricted deed can be prepared. Purchased through loans se cured bv a loan certificate pro gram, the 105-acre tract Is still held by trustees, with George West as chairman. The deed will provide that the property can be neither sold nor mortgaged, that lease can be granted only for the benefit of the club, and that no lease or combined leases can Include con cessions Involving more than a fraction of the property. In the event the club should be rilssovled, or should fail to func tion for a period of one year, the property shall revert to Douglas County to be retained for public recreational purpose. COLUMBIAN MEMBERS CONFESS PLOT A Hitler-like scheme of the Columbians to take over the government of the United States it confessed to Profenor James H. Sheldon (left), admin istrative chairman of the non-sectarian Anti-Nazi League, by James Kalph Chiiders (second (right), in New York City. Mist tion. Childert, IS, who wears the hit part in reported flogging ot a biant plan to use hatred of the Negroet to gain white lupport and that they have ammunition enough to blow the Negroet out of (Jeorgia. State's Pressing Need of More Money Budget Director Geo. Aiken Recommendations of Commission For Tax Increase Based on Requests From Almost Every Department i By PATL, W. HAtlVEY. JR. t ALEHf, Ore:; Doc. '13. A1 recommendations for Increased taxes raised the question of why the state needs more money; and State Budget Director George Aiken supplied some of the answers today. Outfits Girl With Togs for His Sister, Then She Disappears PORTLAND. Dec. 13. W Samuel E. F.vrridge of the U. S. Navy is looking today lor a girl about the size of his sister. Not Just any girl that size. He wants the same one he picked uo yesterday as a model when he set out to buy Christmas clothes for the sister. Shopping being what It Is these days, Kverldge and the girl de cided $100 later that they had better stop off in a tavern. Then the girl, wearing the clothes be cause "they feel so fine," ex cused herself for a moment. The minute lasted three hours and Everidge finally called In the police. Slot Machines Target Of League of Citizens PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 13. WP) Citizens campaigning against slot machines in Umatilla County will meet here today with Sheriff R. E. Goad and District Attorney C. C. Proebstel. They are organized In a citi zens' law enforcement league headed by John Crow, master of the Pomona grange. Youth Dies of Injury After Shock Kills Mother SPOKANE, Dec. 13. (rtl Clyde E. Court, 21, of Clarkston, died yesterday, four days af.er his mother had dropped dead at learning of his Injury in a traf fic accident. The Rod and Gun Club has built roads into the property, has Installed two traps for trapsnoot ing, and has cleared a portion of the public picnic grounds. Bruce Yeager, sawmill opera tor, has donated sufficient lum ber to construct buildings at the trapshooting grounds, and ma terials are being obtained for a temporary clubhouse and shelter. A large clubhouse will be built when money Is available. Members of 1he club are asked to report at the grounds Sunday morning to aid in further clear ing, erection of shelters and other Improvement work. 7 '-ft w Horn right I and Lanier Waller Renee Forrest taket their dicta tociety't "Badge of Honor" for Negro, ttated that the Colum Explained by The Stale Tax Study Commission' Briefly, these reasons, which will give the legislature Its big gest neadache when It meets here January 13, are placing the retirement program for state em ployes Into effect, Increased com modity costs, Increased duties of state departments, higher sal aries, higher operating costs. In creased welfare needs, and the vnstlv bigger load being borne by tne state university ana colleges. Sitae activities which are de pendent upon legislative appropri ations ot STO.efll.OnO in appropri ations this biennlum, which ends next Julv 1. Thev say they need $49,000,000 for the next bien nlum. and Aiken is chewing his pencil trying to prune this amount down so the budget will balance. Welfare Costs Soar The state spent $15,500,000 for nubile welfare this biennlum, and the requested amount for the next biennlum Is $26,110,000. The reason Is that old age pensions must be Increased so the pension ers can keep body and soul to gether In these davs of Inflated rents and food prices, and that the number of pensioners Is ex pected to take a big Jumn as old people can't eet lobs as easily as thev did durinn the war. The State Board of Higher Ed ucation, which got $12,735,000 for the current biennlum. wants $17,- T20.369 for the 1H47-49 biennlum. It savs It needs the Increase be cause college and university en rollment In the state Is up 235 per cent from the wartime low point, and MX) more stall mem bers are needed. The state employes retirement system, which will go Into effect the next biennlum. requires the state to pungle uo 9 per cent of Its payroll, or $3,600,000 during the two years. Feed Costs Third Higher State officials think salaries must be Increased to keep state employes from looking for lobs In private Industries. The cost of food for state Institutions Is up 33 per cent from two years ago and the same goo for other sup piles needed Y- the Institutions. The state Intsltutlons. which p-nt $0,234,000 this biennlum, ask $13 4fl1 000 for the next one. The State Fish Commission got $165,000 this biennlum, and It wants to Inaugurate a big re search and develonment program. So It ak for St. 072.000. The State Military Department wants WM1.000, compared with the $348,000 It Is now getting That's because of the new Na tional Guard program. More Asked Fer Veterans The ptnte Department "f lfe. erans Affairs wants S179R2fi enmnared with $110,000 this bien nlum. Thnt's because of Increased duties with more veterans dis charged than there were two vesrs nm. Recstise of emsnded activities. Including the nlanned acniilsltlon of Klamath Marine barracks for use as a vocational school, the (Continued on Page Six) Tragedy Scene Passenger Train, Laden . With Troops, Plows Into Pile-Up of Freight Cars MANSFIELD, O., Dec. 13.-4P) -An official of the Pennsylvania Railroad estimated today that at least 15 persons were killed and 50 injured when the railroad's "Golden Triangle" passenger train ? lowed Into the wreckage of two reight trains early this morn Inc. The rail official, who declined to be Identified by name, told newsmen at the wreck scene he felt that was a "conservative estimate" after looking over the . wreckage left by the pi leu p which occured about 2:45 A. M. near Coulter, 12 miles southeast of here. Five of the known dead were . . soldiers and three were train men. A railroad spokesman said the soldiers killed were among an Army movement of about 100 of ficers and men riding on tne first two coaches of the "Golden Tri angle." He added that the soldiers were en route from Fort Dlx, N. J., to Chicago on 12-day fur loughs before departing for Japan. Wreck Scene One of Havoo As five railroad wrecking . crews headed toward the scene, this was the condition of the passenger train: Two locomotives overturned; first coach resting on a freight car; second coach derailed and overturned; the next car, a com bination baggage car and coach, derailed and leaning; a coach, diner and one sleeper derailed but upright; seven sleepers up right on the tracks. Pvt. Chester Harp, 17, or Kenosha, Wis., who received back injuries, said that steam rushing into the first coach back of the engine was "a most terrible thing" and burned many of the 75 soldiers in the car. Hope Ebbs for Lost Plane With 32 Men SEATTLE. Dee. 13. (" Hopes waned today for the 33 u murines aboard a marine corpse transport plane when It disap peared Tuesday afternoon en route here from San Diego, Calif. While official sources were silent, searchers, chafing tinder Inactivity enforced by some of the worst storm conditions In a decade, expressed fears there can be no survivors of the missing; plane. They were based on Mount Rainier, to begin a search of it slopes, particularly on Nlsqually glacier, aoove tne ,uuu-ioot alti tude as soon as the weather per mits. The plane last reported herself south of Toledo, Wash., at 4:13 P.M. Tuesday. Toledo is some 40 miles southwest ot the moun tain. Search turned to ML Rainier after Park Supt. John C Preston reported hearing a plane over head about 4:15 P.M., Tuesday during a heavy downpour, and a ranger at Paradise Valley, near the glacier, also told of hearing the plane. freston said that if tne plane struck the mountain, it would have been buried In the deep snow, and it may be some time before It can be located even after the weather clear. Former Mayor Escapes Indictment in Kilting MUSCATINE, la., Dec. 13. (JP) A district court grand Jury yesterday refused to Indict George Brown. 77-year-old former Cone, vllle, la, mayor In the shotgun slaying of Dr. Ady R. McKeown, former Seattle physician. Dr. McKeown died last Oct 19 of wounds suffered when he was struck by a shotgun blast while riding horseback on his farm near here. Dr. McKeown named Brown as his assailant but Brown steadfastly maintained his Inno cence. AWOL Youth Jailed for Hunting Sans License PORTLAND, Dec. 13. William Kuhn, Jr., the handcuf fed vouth who escaped from po lice in a b'.izard last month, la serving 90 days for hunting with out a license. He pleaded guilty to the charge, on which police originally arrest ed him near La Pine in Novem ber. He escaiied Into the snow and was re-arrested at Madras Mon day. Police said he admitted living In an Isolated cabin near La Pine since going AWOL from Camp Roberts, Calif., In 1944. Army au thorities have been notified. The recent wove of holocausts Indicates that despite rh les sons of 'Fire rreBtloa Week.' the qeneral situation may still bo Headlined, 'Fire Prevention WEAK.' L-vftyFc!ngi r u r. usisismsti OT7 tt'iv..-- ir.. It v.
