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Comp. i lo) TOM . U. Of 0. Library ! Eugene, Oregon Ml CAN MM eV". JT. ' '-v s LAST PICTURE OF BILL ODOM Bill Odom, killed on the lecond lap of th Thompson Trophy Race at the National Air Races in Cleveland when hit dark green "Begulne" crashed, walks wing in stocking feet with plane owner, Jacqueline Cochran Odium (Sept. 3) after Odom won the open-class, closed course event. Mrs. Odium also is in stocking feet to protect finish. Actually Odom always flew with his shoes off. (AP wirephoto.) CAMDEN SLAYINGS RISE Thirteenth Victim Dies After Shooting By Beserk Veteran In Tragic Affair CAMDEN, N. J Sept. 7. The toll in Camden'i river road mass shooting rose to 13 today with the death of 10-year-old John Wilson. The youngster was the third member of his family claimed by the bullets of a stalking gunman who turned a city block into a place of terror yesterday. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS FOR weeks the papers have been full of this "five per center" business. Maybe you understand it, nd maybe you don't. Let's try taking it apart to see what makes Its wheels go around. A FIVE-PERCENTER Is a per ron, usually a resident of Washington, who will agree to help you get some business from the government if you will pay him a fee. The average fee is aro'ind live per cent Hence the term "five per center." ' The business Itself sprouted out of the growing complexity of our federal government in the New D.'al and the later and far more complex New-Deal-plus-the-war-effort days. In the beginning, it worked this way: You came to Washington be cause Washington was (and still is) the nation's county seat. Your (Continued on Page Four) Mother And Children Injured In Train Crash MILWAUKEE, Ore., Sept. 7 (IP) A small boy, his mother anJ two sisters were injured ycster dty when a truck in which they were riding was struck by a freight train engine at a crossing here. State police said Mrs. Arleta Cendania, 28, who operates a small vegetable farm east of here, was driving home with the children. Two-year-old David suffered a leg fracture and in ternal injuries. His mother and sisters, Darelene, 5, and Donna, 7, suffered cuts and briises. The northbound Southern Paci fic was not moving fast, police said. The engine ('hed the flatbed truck along the rail and then lipped it off the nght-of-vny. Turkey Prices Will Beat Support Prices, Predicts Roseburg Labor Day Visitor Turkey prices during the forthcoming holiday marketing season will "beat support prices," in the opinion of Herbert Beyers, Salt Lake, manager of the Norbest Turkey Growers association. Beyers, formerly of Roseburg and manager of the Oregon Tur key Growers association prior to assuming his present position, spent the Labor day weekend vis iting his mother, Mrs. Cora M. Beyers, Roseburg. and friends in this area. He left Tuesday for Portland to take the plane for Salt Lake. Consumption of turkevs is sur prisingly good at present. Bey ers reports. Storage holdings are about the same as last year at the same time, but are moving "- The boy's mother and grand mother were killed beside him as they sat In their car waiting for a traffic light. a Three other persons were wounded in the hail of gunire. Meanwhile, thousands of curi osity seekers flocked to the scene to examine at first hand the bul let holes and other mute evidence of the massacre described by po lice as the worst street shooting in the nation's history. While the stunned families of the victims prepared to bury their dead, police maintained a round-the-clock vigil at the hospital bed side of Howard Unruh, 28-year-old Bible-reading war veteran who collected guns as a hobby. Bullet Removed A bullet was removed from Un run's hip last night at Cooper hospital less than 12 hours after he had pumped 33 shots from a German luger automatic In a methodical door-to-door search for human targets. Captured when police tear gas bombs forced him from his own barricaded bedroom, Unruh later was found to have the hip wound. (Continued on Page Two Czech Claims Are Propaganda, Says U. S. Ambassador PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 7. P U. S. Ambassador Joseph Jacobs today termed undigm- fied" and a propaganda gesture a Czech note protesting the al leged kidnapping of 23 Czecho slovaks by American soldiers. The note claimed the Ameri cans kidnapped 22 Czech soldiers and a small boy at the border of Czechoslovakia and the U. S. zone of Germany on Aug. 27. Jacobs made his charges in a statement handed to correspond ents at an embassy news confer ence. The communist-led Czech gov ernment had protested the alleged incident in a sharply-worded note handed to the American embassy here last night. An hour and a half later the official Prague radio was broad casting the protest note. out at a faster pacej A drop in prices has resulted In much bet ter market demand, Beyers re ports. Net to grower prices locally now prevail at around 40-41 cents on grade A hens and 30-32 cents on toms. Bevers said, as com pared with support prices of 39 40 and 2S-J1 cents, varying by weights. He anticipates some (Continued on Page Two) The Weather Generally fair today and Thursday with morning fog I valleys. Sunset today 4:31 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:45 a. m. Established 1873 City Council Action On Airport Is COSt Estimate BU I1CCUCU DCIUIC Definite Plans Public Housing, Street Work, Garbage, Rett Rooms Art Considered What the council did: Heard discussion of proposed airport. Moved to request 100 new low rental housing units for the city. Discussed and acted on street widening and Improvements. Heard readings on garbage collection and garbage dump to pay August claims against the city. Postponed action on resolu tions requesting spraying of Roseburg as check on diseases and insects. Approved request for police car radio installations. The city council highlighted a three-hour meetine at the citv hall last night with a discussion of the proposed airport improve ment, wun aeniiue action post poned until more information is available. Council members felt they were unable to go ahead with specific planning until at least a tentative total cost estimate is submitted by the Civil Aeronau- Ics authority. The council is also awaiting the completion of the city engineer's survev. Considerable discussion was raised as to the most suitable site for the airport, with some council members viewing the' opinion (Continued on Page Twol Home Destroyed In Tyee Brush, Pasture Blaze Home of Will Damewood, near the Tyee bridge, about 20 miles north and west of here, was de stroyed in a brush and pasture fire yesterday, reported U. F. Mc Laughlin, dispatcher for the Douglas Forest Protective asso ciation. Full report on the fire had not yet been received here this morn ing, said McLaughlin. It is be lieved the fire may have started from a spark remaining from a 100-acre incendiary fire in that vicinity a few days ago. McLaughlin said another fire below the association's Elkton camp, between highway 38 and Elk creek, was extinguished yes terday. It was about half an acre in extent, and was believed started from a cigarette tossed from a passing car. Ray B. Hampton, fire control officer for the Umpqua National forest, said the fire on Little Taft creek is "Just about ready" to be placed on a patrol basis. About 40 men still remain on the scene, and are mopping up the north west corner, where the fire covers about three or four acres. Crews on the fire were cut down last night, said Hampton. The terrain is so rugged, that the men cannot hope to put out the fire completely, but will maintain a patrol around the outer peri meter for a few days more. Trucker To Test Law's Legality On Loading MEDFORD. SeDt. 7. IJPi A Southern Oregon Truckers' league member has decided to test the state highway weight formula for logging vehicles. John t. Sample. Talent. Dleaded Innocent yesterday on a charge of operating an overweight truck. He was arraigned before Justice of the Peace W. P. Tucker. Sample argued that the charge was niea under a misinlerpreta tlon of the formula. Deputy Dis trict Attorney raui riavlland agreed at the hearine that on the basis of his own reading of the formula. Sample's argument was correct. The hearing was ad journed pending additional infor mation from the state weigh master. Jack Shook Is Charged With Drunk Driving When Jack Rufus Shook, 25, of Roseburg crowded a state police car off a curve of the Pacific highway, two miles north of Roseburg, at 11:15 last night, he was arrested on a charge of drunken driving. Sgt. Lyle Harrell said Shook't 'erratic driving attracted the attention of the officer, who then investigated and arrested Shook, who is to be arraigned in jus tice court today. INVESTIGATE Report that the Tyee Lumber company store was Durglarized by ,statehpol'is'gt LyltT'liarrell reported this morning. ROSEBURG, Mosquito .Spray As Possible Disease Killer The city council last night voted to delay action on resolu tions endorsed by five Roseburg service and fraternal organiza tions asking the city to spray the area with a DDT mixture as a check against communicable di seases and insects. The resolution, presented by Avery Thompson, cited the recent "outbreak" of polio cases in Douglas county and the abund ance of mosquitoes in the city as tne neea ior tne spray treatment Cro posed. The move was endorsed y representatives of the Elks lodge. Rotary, Active, Jaycees and the Business and Professional Women's club. According to the resolution, an emergency was declared to exist in this area because of four polio cases discovered within the past montn. tiiecuveness oi tne spray was pointed out by citing the ex perience of Ontario, Ore., where polio has declined, incident with the application of the sprav treat ment. Such action is also reported ly underway In other Oregon cit ies. Estimated cost of the spray ing, to be done by plane, was ap proximately 1300. Upon recommendation of Mayor Albert Hegel, the coun cil voted to await further investi gation by the organizations spon soring the resolution, with City Manager Matt Slankard in structed to contact other cities where the project has been car ried out. Councilmen also sug gested that the county be con tacted as to its thought on the matter, with the view that the city and county cooperate if the project seems advisable. Tualatin River Polution Study Is Now Underway FOREST GROVE, Sept. T Pollution of thetTualatin river in a sector where fish life has been destroyed was being studied today by the State Game and Sanitary commission officials. Sportsmen here have also en tered the investigation seeking an explanation for the discolora tion of the water and death of countless trout, salmon and scrap fish. Sanitary Commission Engineer K. H. Spies reported the declin ing oxygen content of the stream at a point near Cornelius has been observed for a long period. Trout as large as IS inches have been killed. Some have been skimmed off the river for evi dence in any future legal action. Spies said the Stimson Lum ber company, which had been cited for polluting Scroggins creek earlier this year, had cor rected the mill situation. He said the mill was not suspected in the present pollution. Honolulu Bound Plane Turns Back After Fire MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 7. (!P A Northwest Airlines DC-4 landed here safely today after turning back on a Seattle-to-Hono-lulu flight when a warning light indicated fire in the baggage compartment. Fire extinguishers were used while the plane was returning here, and on landing, baggage was removed and no evidence could be found that there had been a fire, officials said. The plane carried 11 passengers and six crewmen. Capt. R. O. Pol hamus was In command. It turn ed back when about 31 hours out of Portland. Cargo consisted chiefly of baby chicks and perishables. All but a few of the chicks were killed by the fumes from the fire extin guishers. Included in the cargo was a box of fruit which had left here only yesterday for Portland. I. DEATH SCENE Tha iurv in w'r " bodV ef R'Ph Mojonnier w., found deed, Oct. 28. I highway 31. two miles west of Drain. OREGON WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1949 Murder Trial Jury To View Tragedy Scene Victoria Sanders Fate At Stake In Trial; Testimony Begins Today : Hve men and seven women will decide the guilt or inr.ocence of Victoria Sanders, in her mur der trial which opened In cir cuit court Tuesday. The Jury was selected late yes terday afternoon, after lengthy questioning of propsectlve jurors by both the state and the de fense. After court convened this morning, the jury departed by bus for Drain, to view the house where Ralph Mojonnier was found dead Oct. 28. 1947. Opening statements to the jury were to be made this afternoon, after the return of the court from Dr..ln. The Jury Includes Greta Cas kev. Marybelle Beckley, Roscoe Conn, Melba L. Smith. Hayden H. DeCamp, Ann Machen, Cleo Tipton, Greta Berrie. Conley C. Shelton. Winona P. Bailey, and Katherine E. Young, alternate, (see story on Page 11.) Idaho Girl Faces Murder Charges In Father's Death SANDPOINT, Idaho, Sept. 7. OP) First degree murder charees were filed today against Charlotte Burns, a ls-year-oia farm girl accused of killing her lather with a hammer. Charlotte was-confused and re morseful, Prosecutor Robert E. Mc-Farland said, and wondered "what the outside world will do to me. She said she had been to towns onlv twice before In her life. Her third trip led to Jail. "The girl is definitely remorse ful." McFarland said. "However, I must file the charges so that she may be held and then make a thorough Investigation." She and her 12-vear-old brother. Louis, were arrested near Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Sunday after Charles Burns, 67. was found beaten to death on a bed at his home. Admits Striking Father Officers In Coer D'Alene said she had admitted hlttlnff her fa ther with a three-pound hammer because he had failed to keep promises to take her on trips, had beaten her severely, and was threatening her Just before the Officers said Charlotte Is well versed In lore of the woods but is confused by towns arid Jails. She has heavy calluses on her hands which she said came from doing farm work at her home on Lake fend ureme. Her brother was held as a ma terial witness. Officers said she told him Louis watched the at tack on her father. Pilot Of Hellcat Plane I . , . . Killed In Strait rlunge I SEATTLE, Sept. 7. JPt The pnot of a navy F6F "Hellcat" Ifiixhtcr Diane, killed yesterday In I the crash of his craft Into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, was Iden tified as Lt. UG) Raymond E. Veith, 26, a Seattle navy reserve member. Searchers found only an oil slick where the plane crashed. It was one of five from the Sand Point naval air station par ticipating in high altitude train ing and bombing practice. The I group was under command of Lt Comdr. W. E. Flateboe of Everett. Victoria! Sandrt murdar trial wst WANTED IMMUNITY Kimball Testifies Worth Asked Protection If He Revealed Document Author WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. UP) Undersecretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball testified today that the author of the once-anonymous memo that touched off the B-36 bomber Investigation once asked him for immunity. Kimball said his suspended spe cial assistant, Cedric Worth, au thor of the document, told him last Ma "he could find out who wrote it If I would promise im munity." That was before Worth ack nowledged in a congressional in vestigation that he was the au thor. Kimball, a witness in a special navy court investigation of the background of the paper said he couldn't offer immunity. He add ed that he didn't even know what the immunity would be from. Furthermore, Kimball said, he doesn't know anybody else in the navy who might have prepared the memo. He said if he had "I would have had them suspended or court martialed." The document suggested that frauds and politics surrounded development of the B-36 bomber by the Air Force, it reiiectea on Secretary of Defense Johnson and Secretary of Air Symington. Worth retracted all :he charges when grilled by the House Armed Services committee. The commit tee exonerated Johnson, Syming ton, and everybody else of any corruption. Now the navy is trying to find out whether anyone else in the navy helped Worth prepare tne anonymous memo. Cmdr. W. fc. Sweeney, now on the staff of the commander In (Continued on Paga Two! School Figures Show Enrollment Above Last Year At the end of the first day of registration for elementary stu dents, and the first day of classes for Junior and senior high school pupils, registration figures were running well over opening day figures set last vear, according to City School Sup't. Paul S. Elliott. As of Sept. 6, a total of 2701 nunils were enrolled In the city school system, an Increase of 219 over last year's first day figures. Largest gain was notea in tne elementary schools, with 114 more students registered than last year. Junior and senior high schools showed nearly Identical gains over last year's figures with 701 enrolled at the Junior high and 677 at senior high, represent ing gains of 53 and 32, re spectively. City school officials expect en rollment figures to keep climbing as late comers swell registration totals. Elliott said opening day figures had already topped the total" num ber of students anticipated for the entire year. Estimates of 675 were made for both the Junior and senior high schools. Northwest Pear Growers Ask Government Buying PORTLAND, Sept. 7.-4P) Northwest pear growers have asked for an extension of the government purchasing program. W. J. Broadhead, U. S. depart ment of agriculture branch chief here, said the growers want the government to buy an additional 300 cars of the fruit In the three week extension. He said the re quest had been relayed to Wash ington, D. C. Purchases by the government now total 258 cars from the two Pacific Northwest states, Broad, head reported. a view hit hau.a 1 004 v. It it I?47. Tha home it loc.t.d on 210-49 Delayed Shirley May Sure She Can Conquer Channel In Time DOVER. Eng.. Sept. 7-UP Shirley May Fiance, red eyed, string-haired and tired, said to day she will have another try at swimming the English Channel. "It beat me yesterday, but 1 am sure I can get across next ime," said the 17-year-old Som erset, Mass., schoolgirl. She does not l.now when "next time" will be, but it may be in a year or two. Shirley May was pulled out of the water yesterday afternoon after she had tried courageously lor 10 12 hours to swim from France to England. She was hauled out at a point estimated to be six miles ''om her goal, a very cold, but deter mined girl. She protested violently at this. Her shouts of "No, no," rang out over the waves, "I am very disappointed," Shirley May said after a warm bath and shampoo to take the grease out of her hair. "It was the Inst five hours of tne swim that beat me." "Those awful, chopping waves washed the grease from my shoulders and after that, of course, I got cold quickly." , .The temperature of the water was never above the low sixties and in some frigid currents might have been under 60 degrees, her handlers said. "I wonder what would have happened If I had had a good day," said Shirley May. "Any way, I am sure I can do it." State Fair Big Crowd Drawer SALEM, Sept. 7 iff) Salem closed up shop this after noon to go to the State Fair. And another record crowd was In prospect. Attendance yesterday, second day of the fair, was 25,544, about 1,000 more than the previous Tuesday mark set In 1948. And there wasn't any sign of a recession around here. The crowd was spending money as never Before, and It bet $48,402 on the horse races to set a new Tuesday high figure. That was douDie the betting total of the same day last year. An unusual feature yesterday was a two-way tie in the 4 H club cake baking contest between Shirley Page, 14. Salem, and Diane Loennlg. 16, Baker. First prize is a $100 college scholar ship given by the Oregon Wheat commission. But the commission voted yes terday to give each girl a scholarship. Both girls said they practiced on their parents Before the con test. Shirley baked 20 sponge caKes ana Diane i. Diane is the younger sister of i-lsie ioennlg, who won the con test a year ago. Both said their families are sick of eating sponge cake. More than 2,000 youths have entries In the 4-H club contests, which make up a big part of the fair. Klddleland, the new system of rides for the children, Is getting 3 big play. Another popular fea ture are tne exnimts By tne arm ed forces. Commission Asks Bids On Umpqua Road Project Grading and paving of. 5.32 miles of the Marks Ranch-Lone Rock creek section of the North Umpqua county road was one of five projects on which the stale highway commission asked for bids today, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Salem. Bids will be opened in Port land Sept. 20. Bids were also esked for projects In Baker, Jackson, Lane and Malheur and Harney counties. FIRE DESTROYS BUILDING LAMESA, Tex., Sept. 7. dV) Fire swept through a corru gated Iron national guard armory at the Dawson county fair grounds late last night. The struc ture housing an estimated $250, 000 in clothing, equipment, and training aids for troop C of "he 124th mechanised cavalry was valued at $8,000. Flames were controlled shortly after midnight. English Crisis Will Be Topic At Big Session Prime Minister Bevin ' Says U. S. And Canada ' Must Harmonize Economy By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHING TUN, Sept. 7.- The United States, Britain and Canada began momentous talks today on the financial disaster which threatens Britain. Before they closed the doors, they permitted newsreel camera- . men to record the opening, wel coming remarks. The chiefs of all three delega tions spoke hopefully of helpful and constructive results, but all shied away from forecasts of anv specific actions. rorelen Minister Bevin of Brit. ain said the United States, Brit ain and Canada must "harmo nize all our political, our finan cial and economic action." That is necessary, he said, to lay "the correct foundation for the future peace of the world." He called Britain's difficulties "the inev itable aftermath of two world wars." 8nyder Presides Secretary of the Treasury Sny der, presiding, said: "I feel sure that on this occa sion in an atmosphere of friend ly and constructive conversation and discussions we can find some ground on which to work out the problems that are- facing vt today not only in the United Kingdom, Canacia ana tne United States, but In the world." Douglas Abbott, the head of the Canadian delegation, said that he too felt sure "that these dis cussions will result in our find ing some helpful way ofmeet- ( Continued on Page Two) Throngs Witness Miss America Beauty Parade ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept 7. Some of the natlon'i most beautiful girls tonight begin an intense competition that win end Saturday in the selection of Miss America of 1949. For three days the 52 girls In the Miss America oageant wtU show off the way they look In a bathing suit, tne poise iney can muster- in an evening gown, arm their entertaining talents. Judeed on these three distinct contest phases, 15 lucky finalists will enter the homestretch on Saturday. From them the new queen of feminine pulchritude will De cnosen. The spectacular pageant began yesterday with a four-mile parade of entrants oeiore a jam-pacKea crowd estimated by police at 250,000. The retiring Miss America oi 1948, Bebe Shopp of Hopkins, Minn., led the parade perched on a huge, gold-flecked float. Strung out behind her on the boardwalk were dazzling beauties represent ing 45 states, four major cities. Hawaii, fuerio nico ana lanao. Four Are Hospitalized After Sunday Collision - An automobile pulling Into the highway from a private driveway was given by state police as the reason for a colllson which sent four people to Mercy hospital Sunday night. Sgt. Lyle Harrell said the acci dent occurred on the Coos Bay highway at 7 o'clock, when a car ooerated by Carol Stewart John son, Portland, crashed into a car driven by Cressy Elton Finch, Ten mile. Sgt. Harrell said Finch pulled Into the highway from a private driveway and was struck by the other car. Finch suffered broken ribs. His passenger. Bertha May Finch, was also shaken and bruised. Johnson, driver of the other car, received cuts and bruises, while his passenger, Francis W. Wilson of Portland, suffered a fractured wrist. Of the four accident victims, only Carl Johnson has been released from the hospital. Small Girl Dies Beside Casket Of Dead Father ATLANTA, Sept. 7. UP) "Daddy, I know you loved me very much and I know you know that I loved you, too. I want to go with you." With those words, a frail, grief stricken girl collapsed beside her father's casket last night and died. Nine-year-old Mary Long will get her dving wish. She and her father, Hi'ram B. Long, will have a double funeral tomorrow. Serv ices for Long were postponed one day so Mary's wish could be ful filled. Long, a 65-year-old ret 'red brass worker, died Monday. He had been in ill health for months. Survivors Include the widow, the mother of nine other children. Alleged Spotlighters Assessed Fines Of $150 Tti-rt allotroH fWr snntli0htpf ! nair1 firwa nf SI VI parh and their guns were confiscated, in the con t of Justice of the Peace "Vard C. Watson at Sutherlin Monday. They were arrested on the Hubbard creek road Sunday night. State Police Sgt. Lyle Har rell gave their names as Alfred Ishmo Sluder, 34, of Tyee. and Steve Leon Drew, 47, of Myrtle Creek.