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U, Of 0. Library Comp. i. Sene, Oregon Ml ca WHO DOES WHAT a,-r v 2. e v f M ' " ifW - WHEN KANSANS congregate they art sure, sooner or later, to mention sunflowers; but O. L Rota, pictured abeva, goes further ha growl 'am. Tha one en his desk ! luppetad fa preva it and it does. Big, too 20 inches in diameter. "Forty-nine yaan ago, whan my wife and I wara married," ha told ma, "we drova down a Una bordarad by sunflowers . , Wall, you know how it it. I guati whanavar ha taa sunflowers ha likely thinks of that flowar-bordarad Una and hit wadding day. Mr. Rote ii local agent for State Farm Mutual. Ha hat bean with this firm for 22 years. PASADENA BID DROPPED Local Chamber Declines To Finance High School Band's Trip To Big Parade Unless soma "angel" comet school band won't go to Pasadena't Tournament of Roses. Roseburg chamber of commerce directors, at a regular board meeting Tuesday night, voted against undertaking the fund-raising campaign required to provide the- band with money for travelling expenses, additional uniforms needed ttnd other coats incidental In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS OVER the three-day Labor day weekend,' some 500 Americans got themselves killed in violent accidents. Nearly 400 of them lost their lives in automobile mishaps. Looking over this somber rec ord in the cold, gray light of the morning after, Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, says it is "enough to make every decent American sick at heart and boiling mad." ' He adds bitterly: "A nation posing as civilized has just given one of the most shocking peacetime exhibitions of mass indifference and reckless craving to show oti the world has ever seen." WITH complete respect for his opinion and granting fully his right to express it, I'd like to dif fer with him. When 100-odd mil lion Americans cut loose .and PLAY for three dayt in the un inhibited way that Americans have always played, 500 violent deaths isn't anything particularly (Continued on Page Four) Robert Murphy Named Ambassador To Belgium 'WASHINGTON, Sept. H.-UP) Robert D. Murphy of Wisconsin, head of the German and Austrian affairs division of the state de partment, was nominated by President Truman today to be ambassador to Belgium. The President also nominated Lt. Gen. Howard Arnold Craig to be Inspector general of the U. S. air force. His permanent rank has been major general but today's appointment carries with it 'the predated rank of lieutenant general as of Oct. 1, 1947. MaJ. Gen. Kenneth Bonner Wolfe. U. S. air force, was nom inated to be deputy chief of staff for materiel, with the rank of lieutenant general. Moving Of Boeing Works To Wichita Protested At Meet With Symington SEATTLE, Sept. 8. (." "Nothing more than a 20th century retreat from Moscow." That was Alaska Governor Ernest Gruening't description of the air force proposal to move bomber production inland last night as members of the "Save Boeing" committee met with Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington. "It's much better to stay where w r. instead of eoine through the costlv experiment of mov-' ing Inland." Gruenlng asserted after Symington told the com- mittee: "Our potential enemy has heavy equipment which could hit Seattle harder than Wichita." Throughout the conference Symington preferred to use the F Jjsaa forward with $11,300, Roteburg't 1 to the proposed trip. The directors previouslv had considered the matter and had tentatively -agreed to attempt a $10,000 solicitation, but when it waa learned hat Roseburg would be required to enter a float In the Parade nt Rous, at a mini mum additional cost of $1,500, it was voted to- drop -the project. Directors contended that pub licity and advertising, to be gain ed from sending the band to Pas adena would not sufficiently jus tify the expense, and that local financial needs make it inadvis able to seek donations in the sum (Continued on Page Two) Miss America Contestants Vie le u u ror new nongn ATLANTIC CITY! N. J..' Sept. 8 (PI Hopeful, hard-working Miss America contestants face a busy time of it today In prepara tion for the second round of pre liminary contests. The 52 beauties culled from the cream of the nation's crop be gan their day with a breakfast conference with contest judges. They had to have .the sleep out of their ey seand be on their toes breakfast time is when the judges form opinions of personal ity qualities of the gorgeous gait. Personality is one of the four considerations in selecting final ists for the Saturday night show down. At 13:30 p.m. the girls report to Convention hall for an arduous rehearsal of tonight's second pre liminary in the bathing suit, tal ent, and evening gown divisions. By 8 p.m. the girls will return to ' Convention 'hall W'ith' their hearts pounding. They must wait half an hour for the show to be gin. Then, in one of three groups, each girl crosses her fingers and hopes she Is most devastating in an evening gown, most delicious ly curvaceous In a bathing suit, or most talented in singing, act ing, or entertaining. In the first preliminary last night, Miss Arizona and Miss Cal ifornia tied for first place in the bathing suit division. They are Jacque Mercer, 18. of Litchfield. Ariz., and 19-year-old Jone Ann Pederson of Santa Rosa. Calif. word "strategic" rather than "vul nerable" in reference to the Northwest When asked If the Boeing plant could be defended, he re died "We haven't said the Boeing plant is Indefensible." He continued, however, to ex plain that the air force did not (Continued on Pag Two) The Weather Same doudiaati taday, t light anal Friday with wiMf cattered skewers.' Caalee. Saute today 4:34 p. m. Searbe temerrew 1:49 a. m. . Ettablishad 1173 Three Railroads 30,000 Men Slated To Quit Missouri Line Four Roil Unions Are Involved In Walkout; Wages Said Nor Issut (By llw AmrUt4 FVsui Three of the nation's railroads were threatened with strikes to day, making possible the idling of more than 130,000 rail and steel workers. Some 30.000 workers are set to quit their jobs on the Mis souri Pacific railroad at 1 p.m. (PDT) tomorrow. Union officials who rejected an arbitration pro posal yesterday, went ahead with strike plans in the dispute over some 282 unsettled claims in volving about $5,000,000. In Pittsburgh, rail brotherhood officials have called strikes on two inter-plant connection car riers which serve scores of plant, principally In the steel Industry. One walkout is set for Saturday and the second for next Tues day. The work stoppages on the lines would make idle some 100, 000 ateelworker. Wages Nat Involved Wages are not Involved in anv of the rail disputes. In Washington, Frank Doug las, member of the mediation board, said the board has "given up entirely" In Its efforts to avert the strike against the Missouri Pacific line. The road reported in St. Louis that it had stopped accepting freight that cannot lie delivered before the strike dead line. Four rail unions are Involved in the dispute. They are the Loco motive Enginert, Enginemen and Firemen, Railroad Trainmen and Railway Conductors. in Cleveland yesterday brotherhood spokesmen said they had decided to make "no change whatsoever" in their strike plant. The strike calls in Pittsburgh by the brotherhood of railroad trainmen stemmed from disputes involving technical interpretation of various rules. Niw Strike Set Saturday The walkout of about 600 train- (Continued on Page Two) Briton Is Killed. Americans Hurt In China Shooting CANTON. Sept. 8. (At A Briton was killed and two Ameri cans, one explorer Leonard Clark of San Francisco, were wounded critically today in a mysterious shooting at a residence. The dead man is Harold Harris, Shanghai born manager of the International Suppliers' Corp. Wounded with Clark was Wil- lard Freeman of Brldgewater, Mass., vice president of the Inter national Suppliers Corp. The three were found on the floor of the Freeman home in the suburbs of Canton by Mrs. Maya fTeeman, roiisn-norn wife of Freeman. Mrs. Freeman, who was mar ried In Chungking four years ago today and was to celebrate her wedding anniversary end birth day at a party tonight, said she did not hear any shots. Clark recently completed an ex pedition to the Anne Machin mountains In western China in search of a peak higher than Mt. Everest. Results of his expedition have not been made nubile. It was said here that Life magazine naa purchased the rights to pub lication of his findings which were rumored to have resulted In the location of a mountain "manv thousands of feet higher hah Everest," which Is 29,002 feet high. Chinese police said all three men were shot with a .32 calibre pistol which was found on the floor of the Freeman living room where the triple ihootlm occurred. Governor McKay To Rim Tho Day Ho Allowed Fair Governor Douglas McKay will rue the day he "sanctioned a fair without the approval of Rose burg's Paul Bunyans" Wavne Crooch.- Paul Bunyans member, said today. His remarks preceded the group's leaving for Salem where they will give the governor "the works" before a crowd gathered at the stale fairgrounds race track. During the ceremony, schedul" ed for 3 p.m.. the governor will also he charged with "witnessing oca I ted horse races featuring some of the also-rans beaten at Roseburg recently," Crooch said. The seven-man Paul Bunyan Jury has already agreed that Govei nor McKay is guilty on all counts. Those making the trip are Chuck Williamson, Bill Tipton. Cecil Doty. Don Gum. Frank Moore, L. B. Hicks, and Crooch. KOSEBURG, LIGHTNING HITS Fires Started Ii) Timber Lands One fire was reported today by Douglas Forest Protective Asso ciation Dispatcher U. F. Mc Laughlin as a result of last night's display of lightning in the county's forest area. McLaughlin said a lightning strike near Dutchman Butte look out, reported at 8:57 p.m.. result ed in a half-acre blaze. Fire fight ers from Buck Springs state camp and the D. F. P. A. have controlled the fire spread and were felling hot snags, according to reports this morning. A second strike, thought to be approximately one mile from White Rock lookout, has not been definitely located, McLaughlin said, although fire personnel are searching lor it. He said other lightning strikes may have set some trees and tnags to smolder ing, but that they have not been discovered as yet. Very little rain aecompanieu the strikes. McLaughlin said, thus adding to the danger that (ire may break out at any time. He said reports from Lane county indicate the lightning display fol lowed the foothills of the Coat range, with at least four light ning fires set in lha( county. M. M. Nelson, supervisor for the Umpqua National forest, said that area seems to have been spared any lightning strikes, as none have been reported by look outs. However, Nelson said, the dan ger is not yet over as lightning is predicted for both today and tomorrow. . EUGENE, Sept. 8 UP)- At least nine strikes over territory protected by East and West. Lane fire patrols were reported to be burning Thursday morning after lightning and varying amounts at rain hit Lane county early Thurs tlav morning. '--r- . - East Lane reported five fires still going Thursday after a "fair ly severe" hit in the area from Linn to Douglas counties and on the Willamette and Row river ter ritory covered by the associa tion. Two Aro Charged With Driving While Drunk Two men were arrested yester day by local state police officers and charged with separate counts of drunk driving, Sgt. Lyle Har rell said today. William Wallace Dawson, 36, Huntington Park, Calif., was ar rested as a result of a telephoned hit-and-run complaint when he allegedly struck an nut of state car. When found, Dawson had stalled his car on an embankment off the road, Sgt. Harrell said. He pleaded guilty to the drunk driv ing charge and was fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days by Jus tice of the Peace A. J. Geddes. Dan Edwin Wells, 41, Myrtle Point, was arrested four miles north of Roseburg at midnight last night, Sgt. Harrell said. He was to appear before Justice SHRINES! DIES PITTSBURGH, Sept. 8. (.Pi Ear! Karl Hammers, 64, past Im perial potentate of North Amer ican Shriners, died today at his home. Hammers was elected head of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine In 1947. Pri or to that he served as chairman of the Shrine's public relations committee. w - . m if -j i m kXCh.v: ' li ' ? I-- A UTTLf LIGHT ON THI SUUECT Installation of the new directional lights which will form Roseburg't new street lighting system was well underway when this picture was taken. City Man ager Matt Slenliard it shown second from the right, watching Trowbridge and Flynn and city workers raise en of the 12 lights and poles ta go up Wednesday. The workmen plan to hare 31 lights, an two circuits, reeo'y far tha city's fall opening Sept. 21 (Picture by Paul Jenkins. I OREGON THURSDAY, SEPT. Threatened With Crime Motive Is Protested By Defense Vicky Sanders Lawyer Claims Corpus Delect) Is Not Yet Established Neighbors of Victoria Sanders, who knew her when she lived with Ralph Mojonnier. testified on the witness stand this morn ing of her conversations with them concerning sex. As the murder trial of the at tractive 21 year-old moved Into Its third day. District Attorney Rob ert G. Davis asked the court to exclude all witnesses for the de fense, yesterday, the state's wit nesses were excluded, except when actually testifying. Mrs. Dale Farnsworth. under questioning of the district attor ney, admitted "certain conversa tions" about sexual subjects took place, when Miss Sanders visited at the Farnsworth home. Defense Attorney Paul Geddes objected to a question whether Miss Sanders ever told of "cer tain difficulties" with Ralph, on grounds that a corpus deleetl had not yet been established. That Is. the fact of Molonnier's death has not yet been estab lished In the trial by testimony of the coroner, physicians, or others who attended at the scene of his death. Until this Is done. Geddes ar gued, the state cannot Introduce motives for the alleged crime. Judge Carl E. Wimberly allowed the questioning to proceed how ever. Mrs. Farnsworth testified that Victoria told her that she had met Ralph while she was employed in a restaurant, and that she had made up her mind to get him. - Whan asked If she ever heaid of Victoria's "marital troubles" with Ralph, the replied hesitantly that she had. But in cross-examination, she admitted that Vic toria seemed "very much in love with Ralph." James Brownfleld, The Dalles, (Continued on Page Two) Lightning Bolt Hits Near City With Brief Storm Several Jlosenurg citizens were complaining today that their sleep was interrupted shortly aft er midnight when a lone bolt of lightning struck the city, ap parently Mt. Nebo, accompanied by a loud thunder clap and a downpour of rain. City firemen said they were informed by a resident living near Mt. Nebo that the light ning bolt had evidently struck there. The beacon was discovered to be out shortly after the light ning nit. Weather bureau officials said today that .03 of an inch of rain fell In approximately 15 minutes, shortly after 12:30. Al though the rain squall passed quickly. It was the first measur able amount to fall since May 1, except for traces. The brief lightning display was caused by the combination oflnear Ihe downtown district was an unstable moist air mass and I completely destroyed. Firemen warm weather, accompanied oy j fought the blaze for more than a large cumulus cloud, a weather! two hours before getting it under bureau spokesman said. control shortly after midnight. 8, 1949 EMERGENCY DECLARED National Drive Is Launched To Raise Infantile Paralysis Funds To Combat Epidemic NEW YORK. Sept. 8. UP) of one of the most severe polio gency drive opened today for funds to cope with an expected total of 40,000 cases. This is nearly double the number reported so far. Emergency Fund Polio Drive Is Slated For City An emergency fund drive for the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis opens In Doug las county today. The money la needed to underwrite the high cost of the 1949 polio outbreak and to pay for treatments tor last year's patlenta still needing care. A. G. Hennlnger, chairman tf the Douglas county chapter of the foundation, said there will l no door-to-door nor of fire lo-of-fice solicitation for funds. All persons are asked to mall their personal contributions to "Polio," in care of the postmas ter of the community in which they live. The funds will be for warded to the National founda tion. Mayor Albert G. Flegel Issued a proclamation, designating the week of Sept. 1217 as "Polio Emergency Week" and asking all citizens of the community to join in the crusade against In fantile paralysis. Hennlnger pointed out that the emergency campaign will not af fect the regular March of Dimes campaign, which win be held as usual next January, It is estimated that Xht Nation al Foundation for Infantile Pa ralysis must collect $14,300,000 in the emergency drive. No quota has been set for Douglas county. Persons art asked to give what they can. Crazed Man, Armed With Gun, Is Finally Subdued POINT COMFORT, . Quebec, Sept. 8 P) A crazed man arm ed with a ahotgun, who terror ized this tiny village for 24 hours, shooting at neighbors and past ing motorists, was captured by police late yesterday. Police said Nicholas Perrler of (his backwoods village, 45 miles north of Ottawa, shot at his son when the boy tried to Interfere with him and forced his wife to help him chop down telephone poles to prevent a call to police. No one was injured In Per rler's wild shooting spree, which began after an argument with neighbors. Ice Cream Manufacturing riant Is Swept By Fire BELOIT. Wis.. Sept. 8. PW Fire swept through the main plant of an ice cream manufac turing plant late last night, caus ing damage estimated by a com pany official at $600,000. The two storv brick structure housing the Taylor Freezer Corp. 211-49 Strikes With the United States in the grip epidemic In its history, an emer The VS. Postofflce department is working with the National Foundation for Infantile Partly sis In the week-long emergency drive, with the goal set at $14,- 500.000. Announcing the appeal over the Columbia Kroadcastlng system last night, Foundation president Basil O'Connor said the agencv has just about run out of funds to care for victims .of the dis ease. Epidemic Half Ovar He said all signs art that the eD demlc It lutl about hall over, ai hough the public health tervice in Washington reported a down turn in Incidence of the disease for the second successive week. With all slates but Illinois re- norting. the week ended Sept. 3 had 2.915 cases. Officials said that after the Illinois figure is in, the total still probably will he less than the 3,214 new cases re ported fur the week ended Aug. 31. So far, the largest number of new cases reported waa in the week ended Aug. 24, when 3,422 were atrlcken. This is the first time the foun dation has ever called for con tributions In addition to those ob tained in its annual "March of Dimes" campaign. Funds Golna Fast O'Connor said the Foundation funda now are being spent at the (Continued on Page Two) Sanity Tests Are Being Made On Camden Slayer CAMDEN, N. J, Sept. 8 I.PV Howard B. Unruh, . the Bible reading gun collector who slaugh tered 13 persons in a preconceiv ed murder plot, began today a series of mental tests that may last two months. That was reported today by doctors at Ihe New Jersey State hospital for the Insane at Tren ton. Unruh Is held there under 24-hour guard in solitary confine ment. The 28-year-old hollow-cheeked killer a former army artillery man was taken to the hospital yesterday. Four psychiatrists who had examined him in Cam den's Cooper hospital recom mended more mental tests, and Unruh agreed to go. Camden Prosecutor Mitchell Cohen insisted Unruh "has not been declared Insane," Is only under observation. ' ' "That's the fairest thing lo do for all concerned," Cohen said, "though I would have liked to arraign him at once for murder." Funeral arrangements have been made for 12 of his victims. Ten will be burled tomorrow, two on Saturday. Separate services will be held. The 13(h victim will be burled at the earliest conven ience of the family. Air Force Pfr. Leonard Cohen. 18. whose father, mother and grandmother were slain, left To kyo by plane today on an emer gency furlough to attend burial services. Detectives disclosed that Un ruh, while a patient at Cooper hospital was threatened bv a rel ative of 10 year-old John H. Wil son whose death yesterday rais ed the toll In Tuesday's River road massacre to 13 who ao peared at his room. Unruh was under treatment for a bullet wound of the hip. Ciechs Award Writers Of Antl-U. S. Articles PRAGUE Czechoslovakia, Sept. 8. Pt-Czech newsmen disclosed today Iheir editors sre offering citations for the best stories de nouncing the United States, laud ing Russia, or praising Henry Wallace. The competition apparently is being run In connection with "Czechoslovak Press" day now being observed here. The day Is being celebrated un der such slogans as "Socialism (I.e. Communism) Is Truth It self." This motto, proclaimed by Ihe communist weekly, Svet Prare, la being echoed in similar forms by other papers. NINE POLIO CASES PORTLAND, Sept. 8-P The State Board of Health re ported there were nine new cases of Infantile paralysis In Ihe state last week. This rsised Ihe yesr': total to 104, compared with 65 In I the same period a year ago. Committee To Study Crisis Topic English Say Reserves Fast Dwindling; Speed Up Of Funds Is Needed WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. (PI The three-power conference on the British financial crisis today set up a special committee to go Into Britain s request for mora freedom In spending ECA dollars outside the United States. It was learned that Britain hat told the United atates that unlesa changes are made In present Marshall- plan operations they will have to spend several hun dred million more dollars out of their dwindling reserves. The decision of the American, British and Canadian cabinet ministers to make a special study of the whole question of the use of ECA funds was one of four de cisions made today. Assign Special Croups Special groups were also as signed to work on the following three problems: 1. Commodities and stockpiling: Britain has told the United States on this point that a speedup in Ihe use of American funds for stockpiling strategic materials tuch at rubber and tin would as sist the British government in Increasing its dollar earnings. Those materials are produced in areas which do their trading in the British pound sterling. 2. Customs procedure: Beth Britain and Canada have re peatedly complained to the Ameri can government that its customs procedures sre so cumbersome tnd old-fashioned that foreign ex porters are discouraged from try ing to get goods into this country for sale here, and that American buyers are discouraged from seek ing foreign goods. A solution to this problem, from the British viewpoint, would have the same effect at a solution to the stock piling problem (hat Is it would fit Into tha request of Sir Staf ford Crlppt that the United States open greater markets to British goods. 3. Overseas Investments: Brit ish and Canadian confereetara reported to have taken the posi tion that the United States, as the world's greatest creditor nation. musi una new ways to pur nouai s to work by encouraging heavier American investments in foreign countries. - Ttw-announrement of the work at lodav'a session the third meet Ing of the conference which opened yesterday was made by Secretary of the Treasury Sny der, the chief American delegate, In a news conference at the state department, where the meeting! are being held. Huge Hurricane Sweeps Near By Bermuda Islands (Rv Ths AnotlatMt Prmai The center of a huge Atlantic hurricane edged past Bermuda today, missing those honeymoon Isles just enough to spare them (earful beating by winds up to 140 miles an hour. Gfadv Norton, chief storm fore caster at Miami, said the great tropical storm's center wat 60 miles east of Bermuda at 9 a. m. (EST I. "This placet the islands on the weaker west tide of the ttorm," said Norton. "Heaviest w I n d t reached onlv 40 miles from the center on that side." A Mexican hurricane churning toward southern California Is tapering off In Intensity, the weather bureau reported. ' An advisory report at fi a. m. PST., placed Its center at 65 milei south of Guadalupe island, off Mala California, or 300 miles south of San Diego. The bureau said Its northwest movement away from Ihe coast Is expected to continue. It added, however, lhat heavy squalls and rough seas are ex pected to hit southern California coastal waters within the next 24 hours. Moist air from the storm brought scattered thunder showers over California moun tain areas during the night. Record breaking temperatures hit parts of California yesterday. Two heat deaths were reported. The mercury soared to 108 at Glendale, a suburb of Los An geles, which had a high of 103, The weather bureau reported a high of 81 at San Francisco, the hottest Sept. 7 since 1922. Warm weather also continued In tha southern states but it was cool aver most of the northern part of the country. Tempera, lures dipped Into the 30 s in Barta of - Minnesota and North akota early today. Rain fell over the lower Great Lakes and coastal sections of the middle Atlantic states. Charles ton. S. C, reported a rainfall of 4.47 Inches. Eagles And Elks Get Bottle Liquor License PORTLAND. Sept. 8. (.VI The State Liquor Control com mission granted master locker I permits to 18 more private cluns j yesterday. Such permits allow the 1 clubs to sell liquor by the bottle to their members. Among the clubs receiving the permits were Fraternal Order of Eagles' lodges at Salem. Klamath Falls, Pendleton, Roseburg and Grants Pass; the Veterans club of Pendleton Inc.; Elks club at Rose burg: American Legion Post No. 9. Salem: American Legion Port No. 8. Klamath Falls and tha Pendleton Country club.