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TWO NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1949 Pension Plan For Veterans Facing House Hearing WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-UP) A veterans pension proposal with a multi-billion dollar price tag had the right of way today In the House Veterans Affairs Commit tee. Chairman Rankin (D.-MIss.) made it the first order of busi ness for tomorrow, with Gen. John Thomas Taylor, national legislative commander of the American Legion, as the first witness. The legislation, by estimate of Rankin and the American Legion, affects some 18,000,000 veterans of World Wars I and II. Its impact upon the national pocketbook has not yet been of ficially estimated, but Veterans Administration figures show that there are more than 3,500,000 vet erans who would reach the pen sion age within the next 10 years. On the basis of the bill's pen sion provisions, this could mean a possible bill of $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 a year by 1959 if all those veterans lived to the age Ul ou. The bill provides both for non service connected disabilities, and lur uia age. jn reacning 60, the veteran would receive $60 a month, whether disabled or not. At the age of 65, it would go to $90. That would be In addition to any dis ability payments he may have Deen receiving, or would later receive. Humanity Comes First In Mentally III Cases (Continued From Page One) peeled of a crime? Surely an im partial board including not one uui iwo Disinterested doctors is in a better position to conduct such an investigation. Oread Motlvfl &uanmr.tA Some people seem to be of the opinion that at the present time unscrupulous Individuals, who are greedily attempting to get posses- iuu ul an rsiaie, nave only to sign a complaint to have the rightful heir committed tn a menial inn. tution thus gaining possession of .iic y'KjKM iy. no ciount mere have been such miscarriages of justice in isolated cases, but I am assured that the state hospital is so over crowded that at the slightest sug gestion that a patient is normal or regaining normalcy every effort is made to fit him for, normal existence so that he may be dis charged promptly. There is cer tainly no evil design to keep pa tients under lock and key for ex tended periods when there is no need for it. To my completely unofficial way of thinking nolhing could be more cruel than to submit a men tally III person in need of modern scientific treatment for that Ill ness to the necessity of going through a public trial by a Jury of completely untrained individuals, and at the mercy of a clever cross examiner. Mental patients are not criminals; they are sick persons FISH DO TALK Talking fish, deep-iea divan and underwater microphones are featured in the natural-color sound film, "Voice f the Deep, recently pro duced by Moody Bible Insti tute of Chicago. The film will be shown at 7:30 p. m. Friday, Jan. 28, in the First Presbyterian Church. Greeting 'It I ' V ' (KEA Tiltphotol This mock Klansman. hanging in effigy, greeted 3000 masked Ku Klux Klon members as they Ini tiated 400 new members Into the organization at Macon, Oa. Government Of China Prepares To Move to Canton NANKING, Jan. 26 UP) The government will move to Canton immediately. The Chinese foreign office 10 day formally notified foreign em bassies and legations of the de cision. Some embassies planned to fol low. The United States embassy awaited Instructions from Wash ington. Others are expected to follow the U. S. lead, except the Russian bloc, whose attitude is unknown. There were renorts that hnfh Nanking and Shanghai would be surrendered to the Communists without a fight if peace talks on a national level collapsed. The new reports said a South China defense organization had been set up. Responsible sources saici it would be leu by Chiang Kai-shek, now In retirement in Fenghwa, his ancestral home in me souin. Highly placed sourecs said the government planned to abandon the whole Yangtze valley and set up defense lines further south if peace talks with the Commu nists fall. Both sides have said they were willing to talk peace on Red terms. The Red radio said the Deace talks would be held In Pelplng as soon as the ancient city "was completely liberated." And it em phasized the Red list of "war criminals," headed by Chiang Kai-shek, the retired president was still incomplete. ' Winter Deals Fresh Blows Across Nation (Continued from Page One) For Improved Stock and Hog Production See Your Watkins Dealer High Quality Minerals Low Prictd HENRY R. DAVIS Box H, 1 Mile East of Oakland and deserve every consideration and help. I am planning to visit the Stale Hospital as soon as a good chance arrives and I will inquire as to the number of Improper commitments which they feel have been made during recent years. Perhaps we need a heller method of conduct ing a hearing before commitment. but It seems to me that a Jury trial with all respect to Juries who make no claim to being composed of psychiatrists -Is not the solu tion. Perhaps I'll have another angle to discuss after I've looked at that side of the situation. CORRECTION Thi Sutherlln basketball game reported on today's sports page to be played with Myrtle Creek should read Myrtle Point. The game it scheduled Thurs day at 8 p.m. on the Roieburg High floor, with a preliminary game between Hod Turner's Roseburg Papooses and the Sutherlln B team starting at 6:30. HINT: VALENTINE'S DAY SOON! ... ond we suggest you present your Valentine with a distinctive gift . , . this NEW RCA Victor table model radio. ill i-O ea II If ! 1 m I r I ' fc.tj E37 k:) routp, at Kingman. Freezing rain and sleet which covered an extensive area was de scribed by the U. S. Weather Ru. reau as the "dirtiest weather." The wet celt, which In many sections brought glazing conditions, stretched from Dallas, Tex., to Chicago by way of St. Louis and eastward through Detroit to the Appalachians. More rain fell in the flooded por tions of Southern Illinois and throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Into Pennsylvania. Plains Region Coldest The coldest weather was In the central and northern plains, the nunnern nocKies and the plateau states. Low marks Included 25 be low zero at Melford, Utah, and Pembina, N. D.; -22 at Phillip, S. u.; ana -ii at salt Lake City. There also were a few sub-zero marks In Northern New England. Snow fell over the southern sec tion, some warming up from sub zero marks was reported in the Pacific Northwest. Flood refugees In anntharn Tl. llnois hufWled in makeshift shel ters. Some 200 at Mount Carmel, III., were In railroad boxcars, ga rages and an abandoned factory. More than 500 nthpre hnvo hn driven from their homes by the iiiii,nKiiig rivers in Illinois. neoraska Asks Help A stale of emergency was de clared for a large section of Ne braska by Gov. Val Peterson. It Included 20 northern counties and Parts of seven other counties. The Nebraska legislature moved to appropriate $500,000 for emergen cy blizzard relief and Peterson asked the federal government to maicn tne appropriation. Nebraska s emergency needs were cnietly heavy mechanized equipment bulldozers and army "weaspls" that would crack tnrough deep, heavllvnacked drifts that put many of' the big luiBiy snow piows out oi comml alon. The governor said Army Secre tary Royall told him In a tele phone conversation that the army numu innKe avananie io Nebraska as mucn equipment as it could. Reviewing his state's plight, the governor said 20 of the slate's 93 counties were In dire need of re lief. Lame in a 27.500 square mile area, me governor added, were weakening rapidly and the need for getting feed to them was critical. PROMOTED Mrs. Pat Jones, above, employed at Lowell's as sales clerk the last couple of years, has been promoted to the position of store manager of Lowell's Crants Pass store. Mrs. Jones, with her husband, Jack Jones, and son. Gene, are leav- ng this week for Crants Pass, where she will take over her new duties Feb. I. Proof i - f T " lil ' 't'l : J -V r ' i ' rvtfl- -I it- f , - 5 ess Von Papen Freed After Third Trial As Nazi Offender NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 26. (if) Franz von Papen, the Old Fox of diplomacy In Hitler's Reich, was set free today by a German denazification court. The court reversed his previous conviction as r major Nazi of fender, the worst type of Nazi, under which he was serving an eight-year sentence In a labor camp. It convicted him of being only an offender, the second cate gory of Nazism. Von Papen. Hitler s former am bassador to Austria and Turkey, has been imprisoned since the end of the war. The court, in order ing his immediate release, held this was enough punishment. The court also reduced his fine to 30,000 Deutsche marks ($9,000). In the first trial in April, 1947. his entire fortune except 5,000 marks was comtscatea. The courts ruling barred the internationally known diplomat from ever holding office, the right to vote, the right to Join a political party and from lobs In fluencing public opinion such as writing ana speaKlng. This was the third trial for von Papen, who Is 69. He first was tried by the Nuernberg interna tional military tribunal in 1945 46 and was acquitted of war crimes. He was Immediately ar rested by the Germans for trial before a denazification court. He appealed the sentence in that trial on Jan. 18. Von Papen was the second al leged top Nazi to be freed by the Germans. Hlalmar Schacht, former head of the Nazi banking system, was acquitted last September in a retrial. State Housing Probe Ordered by Legislature (Continued from Page One) (NEA TelephoU) Lillian Bchroeder (above), 20, smiles for good reason. Less than a year ago she was stricken with polio but now she Is completely re covered, thanks to the March of Dimes. Miss Schroeder, featured tn "Skating Vanities of 1949," Is proof that money expended to combat polio is well invested. ual of Oregon's state and local governments. Sen. Jack Lynch, Portland, in troduced a bill to let the liquor commission issue identification cards to persons so they can buy beer without bplng mistaken for being under 21 years of age. Lynch said the bill would elim inate the problem of minors buy ing beer. The House Agricultural Com mittee introduced a bill to in crease the vitamin and mineral content of bread. Fair Employment Bill Debated in Senate (Continued from Page One) Association, opposed the bill, as sorting il would become a racket. He said the Negro problem is so. clal, not economic. He said it would cost restaurant operators large amounts of money. Mrs. Louise Palmer Wphher Portland, bitterly assailed the bill. She said she wants to form an or ganization "for the advancement of the while race so we can get at least even with the Negro race." Mrs. Webber said in a democra cy "the rule is by majority and the minority has to live by the rules of the majority. I don't find fault with the Negro, but I do find fault with white people who are making them discontented by egging them on by bills like this. She said that down south, "where the Negroes are left alone, they are well off." Soviet Takes Billions In Goods From Germany BERLIN, Jan. 26.-() The German Socialist Party press said today the Russians had taken goods worth $7,000,000,000 out of Germany for reparations In the last three years. The Party Organ, Social Demo crat, based Its calculation upon German rail shipments to the Soviet Union in the past 39 months. It said it learned from rell- able sources that the Russians were now employing 900 Ger man train crews solelv for such traffic at a time when, by Soviet admission, rail transport in the Russian occupation zone is in a bad way. Radio Engineer For Two Forests Designated Appointment of Ted Hunter, formerly of Sheridan, Ore., as radio communications engineer for the Umpqua and Sluslaw Na tional Forests was announced by M. M. Nelson, forest supervisor A 'specialist In ra.lln and ml.. . ,W.hpn : making raisin pie, sprin- phonos, Hunter will supervise the 1 ,p"' JSS ,ns ' " a "me Kra,,d repair of such Instrument. .t "h .1 lpmon llnd a"d cinnamon. Dispute Leads to New Baptist Organization SALEM, Jan. 26. (Dele gates representing 56 Bantist churches of the state have organ- i?u ine conservative .Baptist As sociation. A constitutional convention was tentatively scheduled for Mav hv aeiegaies representing group of churches involved in dispute last year with the Ore gon baptist state convention. lish radio service for forest look outs, and assist in telephone line LiMi.sirucuon. Hunter will bo stationed in Kosoburg and establish a repair simp in ino roresi service ware house on the Dlxonville Road. former y emnloved bv I hp Post Office Department, Hunter was transferred to the Forest Service recently. He Is a member of the Naval Reserve. In which he Is a radio specialist. Newly high styled, available In Ivory, walnut or wood grain plastic. Famous "Golden Throat" tone. I Large 5" apeaker Full 5 tubes I U. L. approved t Automatic volume control Yes, it's a set by RCA VICTOR The ONLY radios with "Golden Throat" tone. Snowbound Friends of Dart and Martha West of Roseburg will be interested to know that it also snows in Arizona. A letter to the Haters at Tenmile told of roads closed by snow. The Wests plan to continue their trip to Ala mogordo. New Mex., as soon as the roads are open, and later In the spring will return to Roseburg. 1,1 I.HHI.T.T .'l:iiW'MII,;iWI P0S8URS V 112 W. Cass Phone 814 LOXIDE HOMES Variety of Floor Plans Free Estimates So many people do noth ing but talk about it! But if you really want to own your home, consult me now. Personal attention. Economical terms. RALPH L. RUSSELL Loans and Insuronct Loan Representative Equitable Savings A Loan Assn. ATTENTION SPORTSMEN! A special meeting is being called Thursday eve ning at 7:30 in the K. P. Hall for the purpose of discussing spring salmon fishing regulations. All interested are most urgently requested to attend this meeting, ROD AND GUN CLUB KEN GILKESON, Pres. Biologist Explains Ban On Spring Angling for Chinooks "No one knows better than I," said Ross Newcomb, State Game Commission biologist, "that it was not necessary to tell fishermen that the salmon runs were low on the Umpqua River." Newcomb's remarks were ad dressed to members of the Rose burg Toastmasters Club Tuesday evening, and he explained reasons for the recent closure of the river to sports fishing for spring Chi nook salmon. Protests cgainst the closure, he reminded, are to be made by the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club when a large delegation is to appear be fore the State Game Commission at its meeting in Portland Saturday. "It was necessary for some fish-1 eries student. Newcomb con tinued, "to determine conditions in the river, such as loss of soil cover, silting, stream pollution, barriers, and poaching, which af fect fish life." 7 Newcomb pointed out that the fish count at Winchester Dam has been "very meagre" In the last two years. Excluding jack salmon, which make up 10 to 20 Der cent of the fish count, these numbers of chinook have been counted: North South I Umpqua Year Umpqua j 1.974 1946 70 2.993 1947 198 ! 2,239 1948 138 The known legal catch during the same three years, Newcomb i said, was 483 in 1946; 250 in 1947, i and 589 in 1948. Last year, anglers i took legally at least one-fifth of j the run. 1 Newcomb suggested a three-1 point program which would allow maximum escapement" for fish and involve "relf sacrifice" on the part of fishermen, offering (1) utmost protection against commer cial gear, (2) importation of eggs, and (3) best possible protection against anglers, until brood stocks can again be built up. DRIVER EXAMS DATED Driver's license examinations will be held in Roseburg Thurs day and Friday, Jan. 27 and 28, at the City Hall between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. Per sons wishing licenses to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled closing hour In order to assure completion of their ap plications with a minimum of de lay. All original applications should be made before 4 p. m. APPROPRIATE VIROQUA, Wis., Jan. 26. (&) Robert Graves Jr. bought the I local tombstone business yester- i day. I Misalignment Ruins Tires A BEARM m M WHKL ALIGMiNf I V S-W AXLC FRAME I Lf STRAIGHTEN INC I SERVICE I AVOID ACCIDENTS DRIVE SAFELY! STEPHENS 323 N. Main AUTO CO. Phone 352 PIONEERS FOR BEAR SERVICE IN ROSEBURG "We Know How to Do the Job RIGHT !" CORRECTION An advertisement for Modern Furniture Co. published Tuesday, Jan. 25, carried price of illustrated daveno at $249.50 less 20. This should have read 139.50 now 20 Off I- j. i mm. ,i in ill I i I m&immsgB&mm fiSit-ilL. 'Jam. -W : ; -' ' f ' H f J z-EVr liM- Jul 31 jf YOUR HOME IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS WATER SYSTEM Rural residents must hove F good water systems for the convenience, safety and health of their families. Wa will be closed Monday and Tues day, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 for Inventory. fA0lJ eD mu can't U re tot reiW aVtanged. J Coven Get a Duro water softener for use in hard water areas. Easily installed, a Duro water softener will soon pay for itself in savings on soap, pipes, water heaters and laundry appliances. UMPQUA VALLEY A Home Owned and Operated Store Downstairs Store: 112 W. Cast Phone 813 202 N. Jackson phon. 73
