NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949
ELEVEN
Budget Brake On
Air Force Plans
Creates Big Stir
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-UP)
President Truman's budget brake
on air Xorce expansion plans stir
reJ VK a congressional hornet's
nest Wednesday. Both Democrats
and Republicans joined in.
Mr. Truman recommended a
minimum 48-combat group air
force in his budget message yes
terday. Rep. Vinson (D.-Ga.), pro
gressive chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee, im
mediately disagreed.
"I am thoroughly convinced an
overwhelming majority of Con
gress will vole the funds to put
into being a 70-group air force
over a period of three or four
years," Vinson said. "It is the
minimum we must have for
security."
Senator Tydings (D.-Md.)
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, said he didn't
think the president's recommen
dations "ruled out" an ultimate 70
group force, but intended to study
the matter very closely.
Mr. Truman took the stand that
j the number and size of planes is a
"better way to measure aid force
strength than by the ni liber of
groups.
Secretary of the Air Force
Symington, in a report issued over
the weekend, reiterated air force
hopes for 70 groups. The last
congress authorized 66 groups and
the air force now has reached 60
group combat strength. (Syming
ton's report was written weeks
ago; he has said since he will go
along with the president's recom
mendations.) The air force also set a goal of
10,297 first and second line planes
by June 30. The president said
this would be cut back to 9,197.
known as the "Black Dahlia" be
cause of her fondness for sheer
black clothing. She was , the
daughter of Mrs. Phoebe Short
of Medford, Mass.
The girl's nude body, bisected
at the waist and otherwise grue
somely mutilated, was found in
a vacant lot Jan. 15, 1947. Police
have questioned hundreds of sus
pects and 50 or more have "con
fessed" the killing in various
parts of the nation, all their
stories being disproved later.
Horrall said Dillon contracted
Dr. J. Paul De River, police psy
chiatrist, six weeks ago, saying
he was interested in sadism. Sub
sequently he arranged to meet
Dr. De River, who said that for
the past week he had been dis
cussing the "Dahlia" killing with
Dillon.
Detectives kept surveillance on
Dillon and made the arrest.
Suspect He'd !n
'Black Dahlia' Case
' LOS ANGELES. Jan. ' 13 P)
A bellhop who the police say
knows minute details of the
mutilation killing two years ago
of the "Black Dahlia," Elizabeth
Short, is held incommunicado to
day as a suspect.
Booked on suspecion of murd
er, he gave his name as Leslie
Dillon, 27, Alias Jack Sands, J.
F. Dillon and other names. He is
a former sailor and intermittent
Los Angeles resident.
! Police chief C. B. Horrall, who
announced the arrest, said Dillon
knows numerous details of the
killing and mutilation "which
Could be known only to a person
with direct knowledge of the
murder itself."
. Dillon denied killing or even
knowing Miss Short, 22, a wait
ress with many boy friends and
Yoncalla City Hall
Being Remodeled
Remodeling of the City Hall at
Yoncalla has started. To make the
main room larger and to provide
space for the Public Library are
principal reasons for starting the
work.
The Library recently had to
move from its old quarters in the
Eagle Theater. Mrs. Golda Wool
man, owner of the theater, is re
modeling the old rooms into a
fountain and lunch room.
The City Hall is being made
completely over. The kitchen and
rest rooms will be moved. A do
nation of $25 was recently made
by the Yoncalla Civic Club to the
cit. to help finance the cost of re
wiring for an electric stove.
At the recent meeting of the
Civic Club, street signs and other
urgently needed improvements
were discussed. A building fund of
$150 has been started for a youth
recreation era er for Yoncalla.
A food sale will be held Satur
daw Jan. 15, for the benefit of the
polio fund.
County Committees For
Pclio Fund Completed
Ray G. Lamberson, Driln, has
accepted the chairmanship of
that town's Infantile Paralysis
fund campaign, County Chairman
Al Henninger announced.
With the appointment of Lam
berson the committees for the
various communities of Douglas
County are complete and the
local organizations, in the respec
tive towns are now in full prepar
edness, said Henninger.
The campaign officially gets
underway Friday. A number of
ideas are being worked out for
the purpose of topping last year's
516,000 goal. Included will be
various entertainments, sporting
events and dances, and the fa
miliar coin collectors will be out
in all the public places, accord
ing to Henninger.
Health Insurance
Plan Proposed By
Governor Warren
SACRAMENTO, CALIF., Jan.
13 (. Governor Warren,
seeking an alternative to pro
hibitive costs for medical care,
yesterday announced a health in
surance plan covering catastro
phic illness sickness serious
enough to require expensive hos
pitalization. "People are still dying," the
governor told a press conference,
"rather than obligate their
families for the cost of expensive
medical care."
He contended that his health
Insurance plan is no more com
pulsory than the public school
system and no More socialistic
than the workmen's compensa
tion and unemployment insur
ance systems to which both
major political parties have
pledged themselves.
The governor expressed the
hope that the Legisltture, now in
session, will "make a reasonable
start on some health plan."
He defended the principle of
payroll health insurance, which
opponents have called "socialism,
regimentation and compulsion."
If Congress should pass, at
President Truman's request, a
federal health insurance plan,
the governor suggested that the
state plan could readily be co
ordinated with it.
Tax Program Proposed To
Meet Deficit in Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 13 UP)
Governor Gruening proposed to n
special session of the Alaska
Legislature Tuesday a three
pronged basic tax program in the
face of an Alaska deficit which
he said exceeds $2,000,000.
He said in a message that rec
ommendations of taxation ex
perts are: a graduated net income
tax for corporations and individ
uals, a property tax, and an equi
table trade-license tax.
Youth Fellowship At
Yoncalla Seats Officers
The Methodist Youth Fellow- j
ship of Yoncalla recently elected
new officers for the coming year.
They were installed Sunday eve-:
ning at a candlelight service con-
ducted by Norval Ritchey, former !
president of the group, now a stu-!
dent at University of Oregon. j
New officers installed included
the president, Shirley Highley;
vice president, Paul Allen, secre-,
tary, Cloma Means; treasurer: '
Bobby Means; chairman of social
committee, Alice Case; chairman i
of world service, Glen Thompson.
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