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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
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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
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For Improved Stock
and Hog Production
See Your
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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!
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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.
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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
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tone.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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