-gene, ureou
U. or o. LiLrdry
Eugene, Oregou
Jmp.
'4
CALIFORNIA GOLD
rrkiTtrMMiAi
SUTTER S MILL, COLOMA,
A-HERE JAMES W MARiHAUi
''Vf V STAPTEO RUSK
STAMP HONORS COLD DISCOVERY The centennial of the dis
covery of gold at Sutter's Mill, Coloma, Calif., will be honored
with a new 3-cent postage stamp, shown above. The stamp re
produces Sutter'r Mill, and will be purple in color. Its first-day
sale will be at Coloma, Jan. 24.
s
Plan to Enter Eisenhower In
Pennsylvania Primary May
Upset G. O. P. Calculations
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. UP) The daring young men on the
Elsenhower-for-Presldent political trapeze today threatened to upset
Republican party calculations with a flyer into the April 27 Penn
sylvania primary.
Bi-Partisan Accord
on
Farm Policy Nears
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. UP)
Republican and Democratic
congressional farm leaders ap
peared near agreement today on
major principles for a long-range
policy for agriculture, including
continued price props for some
commodities.
As the House Agriculture Com
mittee resumed its hearings de
signed to produce new farm legis
lation, Chairman Hope said lead
ers of both parties want: 1.
Abundant production: 2. price
supports; 3. an expanded soil con
servation program; 4. crop insur
ance, if a feasible program can
be devised; and 5. expansion of
rural electrification.
President Truman, In his bud
pet message to Congress yester
day, recommended a long range
program embracing these princi
pies, and Hope said "there is no
disagreement on his stating of
the problem."
In the Day's Mews
By FRANK JENKINS
1 MBASSADOR (to Britain)
A Lewis Douglas tells the senate
foreign relations committee that
the United States "may" reopver
through loan repayments up to
2 34 billions of the 6 34 billions
proposed for the first 15 months'
operation of the European recov
ery program (better known as
the Marshall plan).
e
HOW?
Well, if the Marshall plan
works the countries of western
Europe WILL HAVE SOME
THING TO PAY THEIR DEBTS
WITH.
That In a nushell Is what we
are trying to accomplish
through the "plan" .
BUT paste this in your hat:
The bulk of repayment (if
any) will come IN GOODS. That
is to say, the western Europeans
will swap what they have that
we want for what we have that
they want.
That is healthy trade.
rhave been isolationist in our
trade ideas. We've wanted to
sell always and buy never.
That was all well enough when
we were a little girl growing up.
But WE'RE A BIG GIRL NOW,
and have to face the ronlities of
life.
One of the prime realities of In
ternational business is that trade
(Continued on Page Two)
-Poultry Increase Desirable
If Feed Available, Douglas
Producers Told By Bennion
Because an acute feed shortage faces Oregon poultrymcn, the
government is asking for a 7 per cent reduction in production of
chicks and 12 per cent reduction in poults, Noel L. Bennion, exten
sion poultryman at Oregon State College, told a gathering of Doug
las County poultrymen at the Knights of Pythias hall yesterday.
The feed shortage, combined
with the state's greater popula
tion, has contributed toward the
high cost of production for poul
try and turkey producers gener
ally. "The most significant thing in
poultry," he pointed out, "is that
the state has changed from a
large exporting area to a large
from 10 to 15 years.
"This year, the Pacific Coast
consumed 30 per cent more eggs
than were produced and Oregon
consumed 15 per cent mire eggs
than were produced. There Is
generally a good outlook for
the poultry Industry here, and
room for expansion," he said.
Heed Federal Goals
Bennion pointed out that with
the state facing an "acute feed
shortage," poultrymen should
"keep In mind" the federal goals.
"If feed Is available." he said, "an
increase in production is desir
able." He said that poultry prices are
expected to rise above average
J.XV
TVi
' Iftftt
Unabashed by the general's
newest but second-hand disavowal
of political desires, the Pennsyl
vania Draft-Eisenhower League
announced at Harrisburg that a
slate ol delegates will be entered
for the retiring Army chief of
staff.
Thus Pennsylvania, with 73 na
tional convention votes, offers a
possible second testing ground
for those who think Dwight D.
Eisenhower ought to be the Re
publican nominee and Insist they
intend to proceed along that line,
come what may.
The fact that Eisenhower
passed up a chance yesterday
to kill off a similar move in New
Hampshire immediately subject
ed the general to suspicion in
both major political camps that,
if he isn't already a candidate,
he is not slamming the door on
the possibility.
Eisenhower Still Mum
The chief of staff himself de
clined comment But MaJ. Gen.
Floyd L. Parks, head of the
Army Public Information Divi
sion, responded to reporters'
prodding with this statement, is
sued through regular military
channels:
"General Elsenhowere will
make no statements with regard
to the New Hampshire primary
He has reiterated on many pre
vious occasions that he wants
nothing to do with politics. He
has not changed his mind."
A Democratic national commit
tee official who didn't want to
be identified by name said that
as a result of the Parks state
ment he thinks Eisenhower is
(Continued on Page Six)
Theft Loot Items
Returned by Mail
SEATTLE, Jan. 13. UP) Po
lice were confronted with a wierd
twist today in Seattle's recent
combined smoke shop-apartment
robbery as JR. 000 in government
bonds, a bank check for $6,950,
a bracelet, keys and papers which
were part of the loot turned up
at the terminal postoffiee.
The bunds and other articles
were in an envelope which also
contained a pencilled note saying
the total amount stolen from
the Turf Cigar Store safe was
"only about $15,000." The envel
ope was discovered In mail
brought to the postoffiee yester
day from downtown boxes.
The note was addressed to Os
car TJersland, owner of the cigar
store, and signed "Pete."
After being shown the note,
TJersland told detectives he knew
no one by that name and could
not account for the return of
the property.
TJersland and his wife were
held prisoner in their apartment
Saturday night by two of five
gunmen while the others went
to the smoke shop and looted the
safe. Valuables listed at $7,500
also were taken from the apart
ment. TJersland said that at most not
more than $50,000 was stolen.
egg ratio will be less favorable
to producers. The cost of feed
will be slightly higher.
Bennion suggested that poultry
men who have the equipment
should raise their usual number
of chicks, remembering the fed
eral goals, and he emphasized the
i ,L nf -niacins a larire
proportion of flocks each year
witn iresn rnicKs or pouus.
Dr. E. M. Dickinson, veteri
narian at the Oregon State Col
lege Experiment Station, spoke
on efforts of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture to control
Newcastle disease and other poul
try ailments.
"It Is hoped that the state's
program will prevent the disease
from becoming a serious econom
ic problem among Oregon poul
trymen," he said. "The control
of this and other diseases Is large
ly the responsibility of the poul
try producer, who must become
familiar with their essential
(Continued on Page Six).
Qommmen'CBSil
The Weather
Clear and warmer tonight
and Wednesday: fog In morn
Ing.
Established 1873
Truman Budget Slash of
$5 Billion Plan of G. O. P.
Gandhi Begins
New Fast In
Peace Effort
Prefers Death to Seeing
India Destroyed, He Tells
Hindus, Sinks, Moslems
NEW DELHI. India. Jan. 13
UP) Mohandas K. Gandhi started
a life-endangering fast lor com
munal peace in Delhi and India
today.
The Indian Datriot and Droohet
of non-violence, frail and 78. re
jected last-minute appeals from
Hindu, Eikh and Moslem delega
tions that he give the people IS
days to restore peace before be
ginning his fast. He received them
in the garden of a millionaire
friend's home here.
"You must prefer Gandhi or
lawlessness. You can't have both,"
delegation members said he told
them. Tnev added he asserted life
had no value nor attraction with
out peace and love.
Promptly at 11 a.m. Gandhi
pointed to the remnants of his
breafast of goat's milk and vege
tables, from which he had been
eating sparinglv, and said, 'Take
it away. It is time."
He timed the start of the fast
exactlv with his watch. He then
rinsed his mouth with water and
held a brief prayer service for his
assembled friends and others,
reading selections from the Mo
hammedan Koran, the Christian
Bible and the Hindu- Vedas on
reiigious tenets.
Me asked the people, including
the Hindu, Sikh and Moslem dele
gations, to leave him then, and he
went indoors to follow his normal
routine of reading mail, dictating
messages to his followers ana
closely studying current tvents in
newspapers.
Death Means Slaughter
In undertaking his fast, Gandhi
said it "will end when and if I
am satisfied that there is a re
union of the hearts of all com
munities, brought about without
any outside pressure, but from
an awakened sense of duty."
Noting the mention of death in
Gandhi's public announcement of
his plan, some disciples said they
(Continued on Page Six)
44 Murders Told
By Doomed Negro
TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 13-4P)
The number of murders which
Jake Bird, the axe-swinglng tran
sient who Is scheduled to die on
the gallows Friday morning, con
fesses he committed or could
"clear up," Increased to 44 to
day 11 of them confirmed.
fierce County prosecuting At
torney Patrick M. Steele revealed
In a 176-page transcript and a
letter to Governor Wallgren the
46-year-old Negro's latest tale of
a trail of blood reaching from
New York to Los Angeles and
extending back to 1923.
The letter and the lengthy
manuscript revealed that:
1. Eleven of 12 murders previ
ously confessed by the doomed
man had been confirmed; he
claims direct part in or respon
sibility for 18 other slaylngs; that
there are 14 more murders he
can solve, but in which he did
not participate.
2. The twelfth original confes
sion given to Undersherlff Joseph
Karpach two weeks ago the
June, 1928, murder of Harvey
Boyd. 8, at East Omaha, Neb.
Is believed, on the basis of avail
able information, to be a false
hood. Clarence Lukehart has
served 19 years of a life sentence
in the Iowa state penitentiary
for this crime.
3. Steele has recommended to
Governor Wallgren that Bird's
execution at Walla Walla peni
tent iarv for the murder here last
Oct. 30 of Mrs. Bertha Kludt
should "be carried out as sched
uled" at 12:05 A. M. Friday. Bird
has frankly expressed the hojje
that his confessions would lead
to executive clemency.
The killer had one hope re
maining that his life would be
extended, however, as the Walla
Walla firm of Tuttle and Luce
yesterday petitioned the state's
supreme court to hear an appeal
and order a stay of execution.
Daniels Continues in
Coma; Death Impends
RALEIGH, N. C, Jan. 13 VP)
Joscphus Daniels, last survivor
of President Woodrow Wilson's
World War I cabinet, continued
In a coma today Induced by pneu
monia and other complications.
Dr. Hubert Haywood said the
85-yearold publisher of the Ra
leigh News and Observer, who
served as Secretary of the Navy
In the Wilson cabinet, has been
failing steadily and there is no
reason to expect him to rally.
Daniels has been critically ill
lot more than week.
Rosetauxpl
ROSEBURG. OREGON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1948
Funds Listed for Foreign Aid,
Universal Military Training
Principal Targets of Attack
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. UP) Republicans set out today to chop
some $5,000,000,000 out of President Truman's $39,669,000,000 budget
for the year starting July 1.
The foreign aid program appeared likely to be the main target
of the money saving drive.
AMERICA'S DOC Dr. Archer
C. Sudan, who gave up univer
sity teaching 21 years ago to
practice medicine in the moun
tains of Colorado, is the first
winner of the American Medical
Association's annual gold medal
for the "family doctor." Now
president of the Colorado State
Medical Society, he received
the award at the organization's
mid-winter session in Cleve
land, O.
Barge Going Down
After Hitting Rock
SEATTLE, Jan. 13. CP) A
self-propelled army barge, believ
ed to have nine crew members
aboard, sent its own urgent dis
tress call today after apparently
hitting a small Island south of the
Alaska peninsula while en route
to the rescue of crewmen of an
other grounded ship.
District Coast Guard headquar
ters announced the 86-foot BSP
1927 (barge, self-pronelled) had
radioed that it was slnkintr about
40 miles southwest of Cold Bay,
which is near the end of the Alas
ka peninsula.
The Coast Guard reported the
cutter Cedar had been diverted
to the barge's aid from Its rescue
mission to the Aleutian Mail,
which grounded early yesterday
on the southwest ton of Unimak
Island, the first in the Aleutian
chain.
Eleven crew members of the
Aleutian Mall were reported in
"no immediate danger."
The self-propelled barge, one of
the uelv ducklings of the mili
tary fleet, was en route to assist
in plckln" up the crewmen of the
Aleutian Mail when it ran Into
trouble.
Gov. Hall Urged to Save
Henderson From Death
PORTLAND, Jan. 13 (m
Governor Hall was asked today
to commute to life Imprisonment
the death sentence of Wardell H.
Henderson. 25, due to die In the
state's gas chamber Jan. 23.
Irvln Goodman, attorney here
for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, said 100 Portland attorneys
had signed the plea sent the gov
ernor. Henderson was convicted of
murdering Walter Poole, Van
port, on Christmas eve of 1945
and stealing Poole's automobile.
Ilenflcrson denied the slaying.
Attorney Ckxviman said Hen
derson's previous record was
good, that the Jury foreman had
recently urged clemency and that
the conviction was made on cir
cumstantial evidence.
Mrs. Claire. A. Argow, execu
tive secretary of the Oregon Pri
son Association, snld a number
of other organizations had peti
tioned the governor to commute
Henderson's sentence to Ufe in
prison.
One Killed, Five Injured
In Train-Auto Collision
MIDDI.ETON, Ind., Jan. 13
UP) A woman was killed, five
others were hurt and the loco
motive and six cars of a Pennsyl
vania Railroad train were de
railed as the train struck an auto
mobile here early todav.
Madeline Slmpklrm. 3H, of New
Castle. Ind., riding In the car
was killed. The driver. J. R. Lev
eridge, about 35, of New Castle,
was hurt as were four of the
train's passengers.
fcL -if
t si
?ad
A $5,000,000,000 slash was the
tentative goal set by Chairman
Taber (R-NY) pending a meeting
of the Senate-House Budget Com
mittee to go over details of the un
precedented peacetime spending
estimate Mr. Truman sent to
Congress yesterday.
While Taber declined to specl
fy Just what items most likely
would be singled out for cuts, he
noted that the President's esti
mate of actual foreign aid out
lay during the year and his re
quests for funds to finance other
projects not yet authorized by
law run well over $5,000,000,000.
Items 8lngled Out
For example, he said, the Prti
Ident wants half a billion dollars
to finance universal military
training legislation, which Con
gress has not enacted and which
some of its top leaders expect it
to put aside for at least another
year.
Taber pointed out that while
the Marshall plan for European
recovery contemplates a $6,800,
000.000 appropriation for the first
15 months, the budget savs onlv
$1,000,000,000 of that sum will
be spent during the 12 months
starting July 1.
Tax Cut Is GOP "Must"
And, Taber aded, "The Presi
dent's proposals for huge out
lays for education, social welfare
and housing, just to mention a
few, seem way out of line even if
Congress does authorize these
(Continued on Page Six).
; T. ra-
Fugstive Youth
Nabbed in Chase
BEND, Ore., Jan. 13 (.TV
Ieonard J. Michelson, 25, of Bly,
Ore., was held In Deschutes
County Jail here todav after his
capture bv state police In the
Squaw Creek area following a
chase from Lebanon to Sisters.
Police Sgt. L. L. Hlrtzel said
Michelson smashed through a
road blockade Just west of Sis
ters early yesterday morning, es
caped unhurt through a barrage
of shotgun fire, and then aban
doned the automobile near Sis
ters. Police said the Blv resident
was charged with breaking a Le
banon Jewelry store window Sun
day night, and fleeing when the
store owner appeared.
Micneison surrendered to po
lice In the woods north of Sis
ters. He was unarmed and did
not resist arrest, police said.
Sgt. Hlrtzel said the prisoner
was nein tor autnonties or Linn
and Multnomah counties. In the
latter ho was wanted on a car
tneit cnarge.
Use Chains on Mountain
Roads, Motorists Advised
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 13. (.TV
All Oregon highways were open
loaay, witn mountain roads so
slippery that chains were advised
the State Highway Commission
sain tooay.
Temperatures took a nosedive
as the first sub-zero temperature
oi ine season was reported. It
was 3 degrees below zeio at Aus
tin, in Grant County on the
central Oregon Highway.
mere still were several sec
tions of one-way traffic on west
ern Oregon roads. They were
caused by slides In last week's
nooas and heavy rains.
mm ,m
TAKING CHILL OFF THE MILK Mrs. Barbara Woodhouie tit. an
ov.,ref on on e during a cold spall in Stoke Mande
ville, England. Mrs. Woodhouie claims if cows are properly dron
ed for the weather, they give more milk. When it rains, her ani
mals wear raincoats, and if it's cold, they wear specielly faihioned
ute and wool-lined coats like on above.
Plawns Launched!
Sports Fishing
Rules Up To Game
Board, Decision
PORTLAND, Jan. 13. UP) A
ruling of the state attorney-general
has left sports salmon fish
ing regulations in the hands of
the State Game Commission, the
Commission said yesterday.
The Commission, which Issued
tentative 1948 fishing regulations
last Saturday, said Attorney-General
Neuner ruled that a bill
passed by the last Legislature did
not give the State Fish Com
mission authority to regulate
sports salmon angling.
The bill mentioned gave the
Fish Commission authority to
regulate salmon angling with the
concurrence of the Game Com
mission. Its title, however, only author
ized the Fish Commission to re
gulate late commercial fishing,
and Neuner's opinion held that
the Fish Commission could not
regulate sports angling when
that was not stated in the title.
Sportsmen's groups, w h lc h
wanted salmon angling to remain
under the Game Commission, had
fought the measure during the
last legislature.
Budget Itemizes .
funds for Umpqua
Flood Control Jobs
Approval of a $116,000 budget
estimate of- the Army Engineers
tor uooa control projects on tne
Umpqua River and its tributaries,
was announced in Washington,
D. C, Monday by Rep. Engel (R
Mich.) chairman of the House
appropriations s u b co m mittee
handling funds for waterways
projects.
Engel emphasized that the es
timate is only a recommendation
and subject to revision by the
Appropriations Committee and
Congress. The Umpqua projects
were included in a list making
up the $547,060,000 budget esti
mate or the Army Engineers for
flood control and rivers and har
bors construction.
County Judge D. N. Busenbark
stiM today that the budget esti
mate would probably Include a
flood control project at Conti
Ford, where a small island would
be removed from the river, and
erosion control measures at Mel
rose, where revetments would be
built.
Other Army Engineer projects
have been surveyed in Garden
Valley, Dillard, and In the Cow
Creek Canyon, Judge Busenbark
said, beveral projects have been
discussed for the Lower Umpqua
area, he added.
For the projects at Conn Ford
and Melrose, the County Court
was asked to secure rights-of-way
over private property, so that
Army Engineer equipment could
fain access to tne project sites,
n the Lower Umpqua area, the
Port of Umpqua Commission was
requested to secure the Vlghts-of-
way.
A flood control project at Win
ston, south of Roseburg, was
abandoned because the County
Court could not secure from the
property owners a donation of
the right-of-way. Judge Busen
bark said.
Willamette Area Flood
Damage Is $11,800,000
CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 13 T
The recent Willamette valley
flood left damage totaling an es
timated $11,800,000 in Its wake,
Col. O. E. Walsh, district army
engineer, reported here.
The estimate was made at a ses
sion of the Benton County Wll
lamette hason project committee.
Col. Wash said the two com
pleted dams In the valley project
had prevented an estimate! l
017.000 In damage during the past
week's flood. He added that tri
plet ion of the 16-dam program
would reduce upper valley dam
age by 100 per rent. The urea be
low the mouth of the Long Tom
River would see flood damage re
duced by per cent, he suld.
10-48
Five Killed,
Four Hurt In
Airliner Crash
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-m-An
Eastern Airlines plane with
nine persons aboard crashed on
the outskirts of Washington dur
ing a rainstorm early today, kill
ing five and Injuring four.
The dead were identified by the
airlines as:
S. M. Warner of Clinton, 8.
C, who boarded at Greenville,
8. C, for Washington.
W. A. Morehead of Clinton,
Greenville for Boston.
L. A. Brandt (no address),
miinu Tor reewarK.
Cpt. Paul Saltanls, pilot
and Ralph B. Sansborne, Jr.,
co-pilot.
The plane, enroute from Hons.
ton, Tex., to Boston, plowed into
a grove of trees on the Maryland
side of the Potomac river a few
miles from the National Airport
shortly after reporting it was
coming in for a landing.
The twin-engine DC-3 was de
molished, but there was no fire.
Eastern airlines said the cause
had not been determined, adding
that the pilot checked with EAL
oy racuo ai t-.zi a. m., out failed
to make contact with the airport
control tower later as scheduled.
The dead were three passen-
ftera, the pilot and co-pllot Three
njured passengers and the flight
attendant were taken to Casualty
Hospital in wasnmgton.
Rain, slush, and muddy mads
in the area hampered police and
others in rescue work.
Jews Attack Arab
Sniping Posts
JERUSALEM. Jan. 13. (A
Jewish demolition squads attack
ed Arab sniDing posts on the out
skirts of Jerusalem today and a
Jewish spokesman hinted a dyns
mite assault may be staged in
Jerusalem's old city to lift an
Arab siege of 1,500 Jews.
The Jewish antl-snlpcr raid
centered on the Shlckh Jarrah
quarter, where Arab gunmen
have choked off traffic between
Jerusalem and Jewish institutions
on Mount Scopus. The Jews, at
tacking with gasoline bombs and
grenades, fired a three-story
house and damaged 16 others, aft
er warning occupants to flee.
New violence eruoted In the
area of the port city of Haifa,
where one Jew was killed when a
large partv of Arabs attacked
Jewish laborers. Police engaged
the attackers, who were believed
to have suffered casualties.
A Jewish Agency spokesman
said a "big bang would be the
logical outcome" if Arabs persist
In their siege of the 1.500 Jews
In Jerusalem's old city. The Jews
have been virtual prisoners since
New Year's Day.
Funds Allotted to Save
Columbia Salmon Runs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-;P
A $1,450,000 appropriation to start
a five-vear $13,000,000 salmon
preservation program for Lower
Columbia River tributaries was
listed in President Truman's riv
ers and harbors request to Con
gress. The fund would be transferred
to the Fish and Wildlife Service
for the program to be sponsored
Jointly by the federal government
and the states of Washington and
Oregon.
The plan would attempt to es
tablish and restore salmon runs
In the Columbia and tributaries
below the projected McNary dam
site.
Sex Murderer of Girl
Confesses His Crime
BALTIMORE, Jan. 13. (P) A
5-foot 4-Inch filling station at
tendant told Balltmore police last
night he killed eight-year-old
Sheila Ann Tuley with a klichcn
Icnlfo in Cleveland New Year's
day when she resisted his ad
vances, no was orwn-u umn iu
Cleveland today to face a murder
charge.
"She began to scream and I
Inst mv head." Harold Beach. Jr.,
23, recounted in a police headquar
tors room. .
Asked If he unnerstoon wnai ne
nan Hnn,v R.'arh shnipged his
shoulders, grinned wryly and re
plied:
The most I can Ect Is death
so what?"
Student "Most Likely to
Succeed" Admits Arson
SELINSCROVE, P., J""- H
P)A 8uquehinn fresh
msn, who had bern voted "most
likely to succeed" on his grad
uation from high school, Is
charged with twice setting firs
to the college administration
building to avoid attending cut-
"Vhe student. Joseph lidek,
Jr., ot Wildwood, N. J..
held for Snyder County Court
yesterday after pi. dlng guilty
to arson ohsroes before a Jus
tice ef the peace.
Reedsport,
Roseburg C. C.
Groups Confer
County Court Will Join '
In Report to be Given
Legislative Committee
Plans for a coordinated report
covering proposals for develop,
ment of a commercial road be
tween Roseburg and Reedsport
were discussed today at a meet
ing of a Reedsport Chamber of
Commerce delegation with mem
bers of the county court and rep
resentatives of the Roseburg
Chamber of Commerce. A report
will be presented at a meeting
to be held at Coqullle Jan. 22,
at which time the legislative in
terim committee studying state
highway needs will entertain
studies and recommendations
from county courts, cities, ant)
interested groups and persons.
Agreement was reached at to
day's conference on salient fea
tures of the report, which will
recommend raising standards of
the Sutherlin-Elkton route, by
way of Dodge Canyon, and Im
provement of the Scottsburg
Reedsport section of the Drain
Reedsport highway to provide a
water grade commercial road to
tidewater.
The Sutherlin-Elkton road al
ready is on the state secondary
highway route, and authorization
has been given for Improvements
totaling approximately $400,000.
The report will ask that the State
Higtway Department consider the
roaa irom sutneriln to Keedsport
as a whole, for developments as
a commercial route, and that im
provement be integrated with the
purpose of providing a road capa
ble of handling heavy truck traf
fic. Reedsport Is asking immediate
Improvement of the Reedsport
Scottsburg section, where many
danger spots exist. It is pointed
out that the road, much of which
Is carved from solid rock, is so
narrow, and has so many over
hanging points, that buses and
freight trucks are forced out of
their proper lanes of traffic. The
sum of $150,000 has been author
ized, it was reported, to eliminate
some of the more critical hazards,
but It is estimated another $100.-
000 will be required to complete
me joo.
The report to be submitted
Jointly by the Reedsport Chamber
of Commerce and county court.
Witn approval Dy tne rtoseDurg
ahambcr, is expected to urge im
provement of the Reedsport-Elk-ton
section of the Drain-Reeds-port
highway on plans made In
1934. Estimated cost Is $1,250,000.
The county court will urge inv
mediate Improvement of the Sutherlin-Elkton
section to primary
standards. The highway depart
ment will be asked to consider re
location of the Bullock Bridge
Elkton section by way of the
Mehl canyon route, which, it is
claimed, would make a water
grade possible throughout the en
tire distance, eliminating virtually
all adverse grades.
Traffio Heavily Upped
The Reedsport delegation,
which Included Alden Paull, presi
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce; John Skaaluren, W. A.
Burdick. and Jack Diehl. report
ed that traffic on the Drain-
Reeds port road has increased
nearly five times since the 1934
survey was made and that the
bulk of this Increase is in truck
and bus traffic.
The great number of logging
trucks, freight trucks, tankers
and buses makes the road danger
ous for travel, it was explained.
(Continued on Page 3)
Slaying of Missioners
Starts Exodus in China
HANKOW, China, Jan. 13. OP)
The wanton slaying of two
American women missionaries
and a Finnish medical mission
ary by "bandits" 150 miles north
east of this Centra) China city last
week has set off a mass evacua
tion of foreign religious workers.
The movement is similar to
that of 1927, when 6.000 mission
aries left the Interior of China to
escape a wave of anti-foreign vio
lence. Various mission officials here
are completing plans to remove
by plane about 200 members of
missionary families from areas
most closely threatened by Com
munist troops.
Other missionaries In areas less
Immediately threatened are being
urged to seek safety in Hankow.
Survivors of Burned
Funeral Transport Saved
NEW YORK, J.m. 13.t.Tn
All 46 stirvivmi who abandoned
the Armv's fl.ime-jew tit funeral
transport Joseph V. Connolly
were safe today alward two other
vessels after a dramatic rescue
from lifeboats in which they had
tossed fnr 11 hours In raging
North Atlantic sens.
Rescue of Ihe 4rt the Connol
ly's 45 crewmen and lis lone as
gpnpor was completed lat night
aftrr an all-l.iy air and sea
search for the survivors who
abandoned their blazing ship In
a nnrthcait pale sumo 900 miles
east of New York.
Levity f act JJanf
7 U r. RetaanstaUi
With apologies to Shake
speare: That which we call
ROSE-burg "by any ether nam
woulJ smell as sweat."